Despite turning the lights off and getting into bed almost three hours ago, Robin found that sleep eluded him, as it often did on slow days like today had been. For once, it wasn't just the excess energy that hadn't worked off that was keeping him awake, it was the same thought that had been on his mind for weeks that was keeping him up. He stood up and paced the length of his room, something he only did when Raven was on his mind, in the vain hope that if he paced long enough he would burn through some energy and he'd fall asleep easier. Unlikely, as his heart pounded in his chest and the simple, repeated desire in his mind to see her again kept him from focusing on anything around him as he stared at the ground.

It didn't take very long for him to put on his uniform and go to the common room to get a glass of water. It was going to dip below freezing tonight, but despite that Robin found himself hot from how worked up he was getting as he kept thinking about the witch he hadn't seen in so long. Downing a large portion of the nearly full glass, he glanced at the monitors and moved automatically to the couch.

It took less than ten minutes for Robin to highlight all the places Raven had been seen in her career on the map, along with the distances from the now destroyed HIVE base to them. Printing out a map and heading downstairs, he probably should've had some reservations about what he was about to do, but he was only filled with determination as he headed out into the city on his own. As he drove, he kept glancing down alleyways to make sure he wasn't missing her on the off chance he drove past her. When he reached the first of many areas where Raven had been, he got off his motorcycle and began to search around. When he found nothing, he got back on his bike and went to the next area and began the search again.

For hours he did this, until he found himself on the complete opposite side of the city from Titans Tower at nearly four in the morning, exhausted from all the driving and searching around he had done.

As he was on his way back home to come up with a new plan to find Raven, he drove past a park and sitting on a bench beneath the orange glow of a lamplight, he saw the familiar blue cloak and his heart skipped a beat. Quickly pulling to the curb and throwing his helmet down, he ran over to where Raven was sitting. She looked up when he approached, and he slowed to a stop, raising his hands. "I didn't come here to fight." He said quickly, hoping that she wouldn't run away now that he'd finally found her. Raven's gaze lingered on him for a moment before she turned her gaze out in front of her. Robin slowly walked over and sat beside her on the bench, noticing the stains on her cloak and leotard, the greasy shine to her hair, and the holes in her shoes, as well as the scratches all along her legs. "What are you doing here?" He asked as his gaze lifted to her face.

"Sitting." Came the sarcastic, tired, hoarse response that made Robin's shoulders slump from just how exhausted she sounded. There were so many questions he wanted to ask her, but before he could decide on anything Raven spoke up again. "Why? Is that a crime now?" She sounded annoyed, though not because she was angry at him, and he had the sneaking suspicion that it was because she probably hadn't eaten anything in a few days.

"No, no." He assured her, rubbing his hands together to keep them warm. Gritting his teeth, he took a breath and decided not to beat around the bush. "Are you okay?"

"Peachy." Raven muttered. "It's cold, I have a headache, and now you're here, asking me questions. I'm doing great."

Robin sighed. As much as he hated to admit it, if Raven had stuck to her life of crime, she would be better off. Neither Jinx or the other former members of HIVE had ever looked this down. "Do you- want any help?" He caught himself and opted to ask if she wanted his help instead of if she needed his help; clearly she did, but if there was one thing he knew for sure about Raven it was that she was prideful and wouldn't admit to needing help.

She scoffed and closed her eyes. "And why would you help me?"

"Why wouldn't I help you?" Robin asked.

"Why would you care about what happens to some villain?" She responded bitterly.

"Because you're not 'some villain'. I don't know everything about you, or how and why you ended up like this, but you're not a villain. When's the last time you stole anything, or destroyed something just because you could?" Before she could respond, Robin continued. "You may have ran with a bad crowd and done bad things, but you aren't a villain. Not like the others."

Raven turned to look at him as he spoke, and for a moment silence hung in the air as they stared at each other. After a few moments, Raven rolled her eyes and turned away. "You don't know anything about me, not really." She muttered. "If you knew the truth-" Raven stopped and mentally cursed herself for letting even that much slip, blaming her exhaustion and standing up to leave.

"You have a choice."

She stopped mid stride as Robin called out to her, and surprised him by laughing. "No, I don't." Turning around to face him, Raven shook her head. "I don't have a choice any more than the sun has a choice to rise in the morning, or the seasons have a choice to come or go. I'm not being pessimistic, I'm telling the truth. You may choose to use your abilities a certain way, your friends may choose to fight alongside you and the bad guys who were at HIVE may have chosen to live that way, but I… I never had a choice." It was what the monks of Azarath had told her time and time again: hurt people or contain your powers, there is no other choice. Stay in Azarath or go to Earth, either way your life will end on your eighteenth birthday. And then when she'd arrived on Earth and the HIVE had found her, it was join them or be targeted by them. Nothing in her life had ever been up to her.

"Raven!" He called out to her and took a couple of steps closer, and thankfully she stopped before she escaped into the portal of shadows that she'd created. "Even if you don't think you have a choice, and no matter what you've done in the past… if you need help, all you have to do is ask." He said softly, as honestly as he could.

She kept her back to him, and Robin saw her hands twitch before she walked forward and disappeared, leaving him to hang his head. The cold didn't help the pit opening up in his stomach; he thought that once he'd finally found Raven he would feel better, but now he felt even worse than before. At least before there had been the hope that Raven was getting along somewhat alright now that HIVE was no more, but now that he knew she wasn't… once again, all he wanted to do was chase after her, and hope that he'd find her once again.