Raven landed lightly on the concrete and looked around. A startled tramp stared up at her before trying to grab her ankle but she was already walking away.

Raven emerged onto a deserted high street. Something cold touched her cheek. She looked up and saw... Snow? At that moment, she began to shiver.

Walking up to a posh looking fashion store, Raven walked through the glass and looked around the darkened room. She ripped off her cloak and threw it into a corner. After pulling on skinny black jeans, a black coat and leather gloves, she walked out of the store and made her way towards Titans Tower.

XxX

Wrapped in a thick green blanket, Beastboy sat crossed legged on the counter, nursing a cup of herbal tea in his hands. Starfire sat on the sofa, hugging her slender body tightly. She sniffed suddenly and turned to Beastboy. She stared at the cup of herbal tea in his hands.

"That's Raven's..." She said absently.

"So? It's not like she's gonna use it any time soon is it?" Beastboy snapped, taking a defiant swig. "Where is Cyborg?" Starfire asked suddenly. Beastboy shrugged indifferently.

XxX

The doors burst open and a cold wind rushed in. Cyborg, dressed in a thick coat and an even thicker scarf, whipped around to stare at the dark figure that walked through the open doors.

The figure, a woman dressed in all black so only her incredibly pale face could be seen, pulled off one of her leather gloves. As she approached Cyborg, she lifted a hand.

"Raven?" The woman brushed the hand over his shoulder and two pale fingers reached up to touch the dark skin on Cyborg's face, aside from the machinery that made up the rest of his face.

"Rae-?" One pale blue eye rolled backward and Cyborg hit the ground with a deafening crunch.

Raven crouched down beside the massive teenager and ran her pale fingers up his chest and across his cheek. "I'm sorry..." She said under her breath before standing up and pulling on her glove again.

As she walked away, a strong hand closed over her thin ankle. She whipped around, her dark hair flying. "Cy-?!"

"If you are sorry... then why do these sorts of things?"

"What?"

"Rae..." Cyborg pushed himself onto his knees. Raven fell to her knees beside him and put her hands on his shoulders. "You realise this is the first time we've spoken in two years?"

"Two years?" Cyborg reached up to clasp Raven's hands with both of his own.

"Why did you leave?"

"It's complicated..."

"Complicated? Fine. But what did you do to me?" Raven closed her eyes.

"Sorry..." She stood up but Cyborg still held her hands. "You have to let me go."

"Rae-."

"Please, just leave me be!"

"Raven!" Someone screamed. Raven stood up and turned. Cyborg collapsed against the floor, his breathing laboured and harsh.

XxX

In his room, Rob was staring at a picture of Raven. He wanted to tear it to shreds and stamp on them and burn them until Raven was nothing more than ash...

But another part of him wanted to keep the photo on his bedside cabinet. Suddenly, he heard a loud crash. Robin sprang up from his bed, grabbed his staff and ran down the stairs. He slammed hard into the wall before rounding the corner. He froze.

He saw Raven crouching over Cyborg. "Raven!" She gasped and stood up. "What the hell did you do to him?!" Robin screamed. Raven glared at him.

She reached into her pocket and with drew a very small pole. She swung it out so it elongated. It was a long thin cane that was as long as Raven's body but on the end was an eerie, sharp axe like blade. Raven twirled it in her hand, grinning at the look of fear and amazement on Robin's face.

She stopped twirling it and held it defiantly, the blade behind her. "A lot of things have changed in the past few years, Robin."

"Yea, I see that you have forgotten all of our training lessons. Leaving your body defenceless like that. Tut, tut, Raven."

"Oh the contrary, my skills have improved." Robin grabbed his own staff and ran forward. Raven grinned and lifted her cane. Metal clashed against metal. The sharp blade of Raven's staff was inches from Robin's eyes.

He pushed Raven away and glared at her. "If I could have saved you, I would have!" He suddenly yelled.

"Robin, I chose to be this way... Love is not me. Friendship and compassion are such meaningless things..."

"But we all loved you and you were happy," Raven rolled her eyes. "So clearly it meant something to you!

"How I missed these empty little speeches." Robin threw his staff away from him and spread his arms wide.

"Attack me now... as long as it gets all that anger out of your system, hit me!" Raven's hand tightened on her staff, the leather gloves creaking. "Come on Raven! Isn't this what your trained for all these years? Revenge on the people who put you into all that anger and hate..."

And in that moment when Raven's eyes widened, Robin knew she understood.

She stared at him, the hand holding her staff falling to her side. "Robin..." Suddenly, she felt a hand slam down on her shoulder. Another hand grabbed the staff in her hand.

"I told you not to use this yet!" Slade hissed in her ear. Raven stood there, hardly moving, her eyes wide. Suddenly, she whipped around and punched Slade hard in his face. He staggered backwards.

Raven lifted her staff and pointed the blade right against Slade's chin. "You wouldn't..." He muttered. She pushed the blade hard against him, glaring at him.

Suddenly, hot searing pain ripped through Raven's gut. She gasped loudly before looking down at her stomach. "RAVEN!"

She only just saw the tip of sharp, gnarled branch before it was wrenched out of her flesh. "You have no idea who long I've waited for this moment..." Terra breathed in Raven's ear.

Raven staggered backwards before reasserting her grip and whirling on Terra. The sharp axe on her blade cut deep into Terra's stomach. Without waiting to watch Terra fall to the ground, Raven turned on Slade.

She drove the blade deep, hard into Slade's chest. Blood splattered across her face but she didn't care. She turned to Robin, closed her eyes and shook her head. Then she took off into the snow, her feet pounding the frozen ground.

"RAVEN!"