Oh em gee. (Golly I hate it when people do that. Hee hee, I said golly.) I am so sorry for the long wait, but I have an excuse.

I contracted a disease I like to call Teen Titan Burnout. I wanted nothing to do with Teen Titans. Nothing. At all. Consequently, this prevented me from working on this story/chapter. Thankfully, I'm better now. But it sucks worse than my vacuum. (We have an Oreck at my house. It's great! Best vacuums ever!)

In order to prevent this from happening to you, take a break from Teen Titans and don't obsess to much. I learned that the hard way.

And I'm even making it up to you! Aren't I great!?! I found a one/two-shot (I'm not sure how long yet. Probably a one-shot 'cause I haven't done one of those yet.) It's called Jokes VS Insults. Yes, its a BBXRAE. Duh!! Try and guess what it's about! Guess! Guess!

On another bright side, I have two new obsessions! Danny Phantom and NCIS! In that order. If you haven't watch one or either of those shows go watch them. Now! No wait. Read this chapter first, then go check them out. In that order. It won't be long now untill I start a DP or NCIS fanfiction. They're liable to come up sometime.

DISCLAIMER: I LOVE ALL CAPS!!! THEY'RE SO FUN!!! F IS FRIENDS WHO DO STUFF TOGETHER! U IS FOR YOU AND ME! N IS ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME AT ALL, WHICH IS WHEN I DON'T OWN TEEN TITANS!!!

"Robin, do you think we are close to finding them?" Starfire asked innocently. She, Robin, and Cyborg had been roaming the galaxy, searching for their missing friends. It had been at least two and a half days since they realized Raven and Beast Boy were missing and went out to search for them in the T-ship.

"Maybe, I'm not sure how to know." Robin replied. Then he dived deep into thought. A strange silence hung over the T-ship. If anyone could figure this out, it was Robin. He was nearly a professional detective, courtesy of working with Batman.

Cyborg was also deep in thought, but he certainly wasn't thinking the same as Robin. You see his and Robin's minds run on completely different tracks. Robin thinks more about the actual crime, while Cyborg thinks about the mechanics and such. In a normal situation, put their heads together, add Raven's to the mix and you've got yourself one solved mystery. But Raven wasn't here, and Robin and Cyborg just weren't feeling the teamwork vibe.

Starfire didn't have much to do. She wasn't exactly an expert at solving mysteries, so she settled for thinking about her friends gone AWOL and keeping out of her friends' ears.

The silence was broken by Cyborg. "This just doesn't make sense!" He shouted into his headset. "Spacemen don't just come, kidnap your friends, and then disappear from existence!"

"Wait, Cyborg, that's it! We have to find clues! We didn't even check out the crime scene! I'm such an idiot!" Robin said.

"That had absolutely nothing to do with what I just said."

"I know. Starfire help us think of clues. We've got to start at the very beginning: the fight with Dr. Light."

Starfire agreed that she would help and immediately began searching her memories for clues. "Well they did burst through a wall." She concluded.

"Yeah, but we do that all the time." Cyborg commented.

"They didn't have any weapons on them, and they blew up the opposite wall seconds before that." Robin noted. "If they had a bomb on the other side, you would have detected it when you scanned the warehouse before we busted in on Dr. Light."

"True… So you're saying they're super strong and super fast?"

"It's possible. At least one of them was probably stronger and faster than the norm. I think most clues are at the scene of the crime."

"Raven's room?" Starfire asked.

"Yes. What do you remember?"

"Well, there was… a dent in the wall, and… her bed was messy… and there was something else… her window was broken!"

"So she was sleeping. He busts in through the window, rips her up out of bed, and pins her against the wall. Then leaps out the window with her. She was probably unconscious."

"But that doesn't explain the busted down door and why BB is missing." Cyborg said.

"Hmm…" Robin thought for a moment. "He must have heard her shout or something, busted in, and got kidnapped too."

Cyborg agreed. "That makes sense. We should get back to the tower and see if we can find any traces of DNA, confirm our theory."

Starfire spoke up. "How did he hear her and we did not?"

"!"It doesn't matter. He has heightened senses. We have to get back to the Tower now

"Jeez… pushy." Cyborg mumbled.

"Initiate light speed." Robin ordered the machine, and soon they were flying back to Earth at the speed of light.

With Raven and Beast Boy

When Raven woke up, she didn't open her eyes right away. She hoped all that had happened in the last two and a half days was all simply a terrible, horrible nightmare. Sadly, the room that eventually greeted her vision was not a dream. The people that now inhabited it were not imaginary. 'This is real.' Raven sighed. 'This really happening to me.'

A few seconds later, after becoming fully awake, Raven felt something that really shouldn't be there. Beast Boy's arms were wrapped around her waist. His chest was pressed up against her back. His face dug into the back of her neck, in a comfortable sort of way. 'How does this even happen?' Thought Raven.

She gently removed his arms and eased up away from his. Beast Boy mumbled something incoherently and rolled over onto his back - arms and legs all stretched out. A hint of a smile danced across her features as Raven stared down at him.

Dual laughter erupted behind her. "Pahahaha!!!" The voices laughed. Turning towards the sound, Raven had an odd feeling that they were laughing at her. Sure enough, she turned to find Falon and Ember looking her way, laughing their guts out.

"What?" Raven asked accusingly.

"You!" Falon gasped through her laughter.

"And him!" Ember added, pointing at the still sleeping changeling.

Raven crossed her arms and moved to go see what the guys were doing. Talon was using some kind of mystical power to move the rubble to one gigantic pile, where Sebastian seemed to have transformed into a sort of wolf-like beast and was pounding it to tiny pebbles. Raven was slightly taken aback by Sebastian's new look, but quickly got over it.

Her eyes then moved to Zephyre who was taking the pebbles and melting them and molding them into bricks as Autumn formed a cloud over each of Zephyre's finished molds and cooled them. The rain water from the cloud would cool and harden the bricks into whatever shape Zephyre had molded them.

It was quite an impressive process, really. This was the kind of teamwork Robin drooled over in his sleep.

Autumn, seeing as how she had caught up with Zephyre, noticed Raven was up and skipped over to chat. "'Sup," Autumn said cheerily.

"Annoying cell mates." Raven mumbled.

Autumn, confused momentarily, looked over at Ember and Falon - just getting over their long fit of laughter. "Whoa," she said, surprise evident in her tone. Her eyes went wide as well. "I have never in my whole life ever seen them actually agree on something. What were they laughing at?"

When Raven didn't respond, Autumn searched the room for her answer. It didn't take long for her to figure it out. "Oh," she said, desperately trying to hold back her laughter, "I noticed that when I woke up, but decided that it was too cute for me to wake you up."

"So you let them," Raven pointed at Ember and Falon, "wake up first and laugh at me! Err… us."

"Actually, I thought you would wake up first. Sorry." Autumn replied, sincerely apologetic.

There was a moment of silence after that. Well, if you don't count the pounding of rubble and hiss of melting rock, not to mention grunts and growls from Sebastian. Raven uncharacteristically broke the silence. "Um, how many days have I, we, been here?"

"Uh, about… two or three. Maybe. Why?"

"Just wondering. Beast Boy is starting to really stink. Not that he smells good on a usual basis."

Autumn snickered. "What ever you say..."

Raven glared back, but her expression immediately changed to one of horror. "Oh please tell me they have showers here."

Autumn laughed loudly, drawing a few strange looks as well. "Yes, they have showers. No, they're not exactly safe, and no, they're not separated boys and girls, but that's why we have Falon and Ember. Falon makes fast friends and Ember will give you third degree burns if you look at her funny." Raven raised an eyebrow. "Short story: someone always guards the door for you. Not all the people here are heartless you know. Not all the prisoners, anyways."

At that exact moment, Beast Boy awakened. He yawned and stretched out his sore muscles before standing up. "Oh man," he said, "I feel great! What happened?" Ember and Falon choked back a chortle, and the some of the boys coughed a little. Autumn bit her lip to keep from laughing, and Raven went extremely red in the face. "What?" He still received no answer. "Whoa, Raven, you're as red as Robin was when I put pink dye in his shampoo."

Of course, this only made her blush even harder, and everyone else had to try that much harder not to laugh. Ember strode up to the confused changeling and smiled, shaking her head and laughing lightly. "Dude," she threw and arm around his shoulder, "you really don't want to know."

Before anyone could formulate a reply, an ear-shattering alarm erupted throughout the room. "WHAT THE HECK?!?!" Beast Boy yelled to be heard over the screeching siren. "WHAT IS THAT?!?!"

"It's the signal that we can go out in the courtyard," Autumn shouted.

"WHAT!?!"

"Just hold on a sec."

"WHAT!?!"

"Shut up!!" Raven yelled.

"WHAT!?!"

All of a sudden the alarm cut off, but it was too late for Raven to stop herself. "SHUT UP!!!" She screamed, and then realized her mistake. "Oops."

"Jeez Raven, no need to yell." Beast Boy called over his shoulder as he followed the others out the door.

Raven growled and mumbled not so nice things under her breath and followed soon after, along with the echoes of Falon's laughter.

"Well, amigos, this is the courtyard," Ember introduced with a dramatic wave of her arms and a twirl. She stopped twirling just shy of Zephyre.

Autumn looked at Falon sternly. "Alright, what did you do."

"Why are you looking at me? I didn't do that!" Falon shrieked in defense. "I'm just as freaked as you are!"

"Does she not usually act like this?" Talon questioned. Autumn and Falon both gave him a "you've got to be joking" look. "Sorry I asked…" Talon mumbled.

Ember giggled and tugged on Autumn and Falon's arms. "Come on!" She whined. "I want them to meet Bo and Roman!"

"Whoa!" They shouted in unison as they were dragged up the hall, down the stairs, and into a very large, open room about the size of a high school gymnasium.

As far as Beast Boy could tell, it was no different looking than their cell or the hallways. However, it was filled with an assortment of different people. Not one looked the same as another. Beast Boy couldn't help but notice that they were arranged into small circles- clearly indicating who's with whom.

'I bet this is what lunch at high school looks like.' He thought. He couldn't say exactly what it was like, having been home schooled in Africa – where he grew up – and with the Doom Patrol, he had never been to an actual high school before, but this had to be what one looked like. I mean, he had seen the movies, he wasn't ignorant. In fact, he thought he knew quite a lot about high school social life. He knew the Preps, and the Jocks, and the Goths, and the Emo kids- he knew them all. Even if he often did have trouble distinguishing between the Goths and Emo kids, but then again, that sounded really stupid. I mean, who can't – OW!

Beast Boy's random ponderings were interrupted by a sharp pain in his side. Raven had elbowed him hard when she noticed that dazed, far off look in his eyes. It took him a second or two to remember what was going on.

"-and that's how I got my name, Bo." Beast Boy shook his head to clear it as he caught the end of a statement.

"That's fascinating," Sebastian commented, smiling politely, "really."

Zephyre, Raven, and Talon nodded accordingly – only Talon didn't smile. Nobody really expected him to anyway. "Isn't he great!?" Ember squealed. "Has anyone seen Roman?" The girls (minus Raven) shook their heads. "Oh there he his!" Ember half squealed-half shouted. "Hey Roman, wait up!"

They all raised an eyebrow as they watched Ember race towards brown-haired young man. The boys all exchanged looks of confusion and shrugged. Raven rolled her eyes, Autumn sighed, and Falon smiled and giggled. But all of them were surprised with what his front looked like.

The said "Roman" turned at his name being called and smiled when he realized it was Ember. "Oh, hello Ember." He took her hand in his and kissed it lightly. She grinned back, without blushing at the contact. Obviously, she was exceedingly comfortable with him. "Hello Falon, Autumn." He nodded at them, never dropping his sparkling smile. Falon beamed and waved, but Autumn grimaced and looked away. "And this is…" Roman trailed off, suggesting introductions should be made.

"Allow me." Sebastian stuck out his hand, and Roman took it and shook it warmly. "I'm Sebastian, and this is Zephyre, Talon, Beast Boy and Raven." Each nodded at their name, some waved, except for Raven. She didn't respond at all. The grass-colored changeling beside her gave her a side glance that said: "That better not be the look I think it is." 'What are you thinking, Raven? I see that look in your eyes. Just because I've never seen it in your eyes before doesn't mean I don't know what it looks like.'

"I'm guessing you are Raven." Roman nearly purred, as he reached for her hand.

Beast Boy instinctively growled and smacked Roman's hand away, as he stepped in front of Raven. "Hey, let's not get too grabby here." Roman raised his eyebrows and dropped his smile in surprise.

A scowl automatically darkened Raven's features. "Will you quit doing that?!" She cried.

The green teen spun around to face her. "Doing what?!" He nearly yelled.

"Stepping in front of me, blocking any semi-human contact, growling at everyone who comes near me! Quit it!"

"What are you talking about? I'm your friend. I'm just trying to help!"

"Well you're not! I can take care of myself."

The others looked back and forth between the two bickering teammates, unsure of whether they should intervene or not.

"Apparently you can't, because if you could, we wouldn't even be here!!" Beast Boy screamed.

Raven was ready to let something (or someone) explode when Roman intervened. "Okay, I think we should just calm down and think this through." He said, looking from Raven to Beast Boy and back.

Falon laughed. "Yeah, I don't think blowing up Beasty here would be the best solution." Raven shot her a glare, telling her to stay out of her mind. Falon responded with a mouthed "sorry."

Out of the blue, Ember exclaimed: "Well, now that's over, Roman could you tell them about your powers?"

Embarrassed, Roman scratched the back of his head like BB does. But it wasn't nearly as cute as when he does it. "Ah, well-"

"Roman can see your dreams." Ember blurted out.

"Well, kind of." Roman corrected. "I can see people's dreams, but I have to have skin-to-skin contact. And it's not only dreams I can see, its memories, life stories, that kind of stuff too."

'And he was about to touch Raven.' Beast Boy thought. 'Wait, whoa, that sounded way wrong.'

"Wow…" Raven said quietly.

"May I?" Roman smiled charmingly and held out his hand.

"Um, sure," She took in his figure- average brown-colored hair, not at all greasy, most of the other boys', but seemingly styled to a windblown look, not too messy of course. He wasn't big and muscular, but not as small and wiry as her green companion. He wasn't tall, wasn't short. Everything about him was average. Everything but his eyes. The color… she couldn't quite place it. It looked like they changed every time she looked at them.

And she had trouble looking away, as she placed her hand in Roman's.

Closing his eyes and breathing deeply and slowly, he loosened up and prepared himself for the images.

First there were just colors: dark green, orange, bright red, gray, and solid black. The colors morphed into doors. The doors opened and each revealed a gruesome scene. Behind the green one was a cloaked figure fighting Lucius. The orange one revealed the same cloaked figure screaming at a strange looking, tall, red-haired girl. Behind the red was a boy laying on the ground at the cloaked one's feet, bleeding out fast. The gray one, he couldn't quite make out. He saw some figure in a corner, shaking hard, but he couldn't see much of it other than a young woman shaped blur. The only door that didn't open was the black one. It simply refused to open. Then it all got dark.

Waiting for another dream or maybe some memories, he guessed that that was the most recent dream she remembered. Before he could get any farther with his interpretation, flashes of other dreams flooded in. The first was a giant, red-skinned demon with long hair and horns. He had striking yellow eyes that phased to red as he smiled and bellowed a laugh that shook Roman's being. Then the image shattered.

Before the next image came, Roman felt something warm. He had never been able to feel anything from another person's dream or memory before. The warm spread from his hands to the rest of the body and began heating up. Soon, he began to feel as if he was on fire, but he didn't scream. He didn't pull away. He this girl obviously has very horrible nightmares, and he intended to find out why.

The fire snapped away, quickly and painlessly. But he had a feeling the nightmares weren't over. The same demon from earlier suddenly appeared - red skin and all. He had a girl chained to a wall before him; her body was shackled to the wall by unbreakable chains. Roman strained to get a better look at the girl… it was Raven! Of course it was her; it was her nightmare. A red light shot out of the demon's eyes and struck Raven with such force, Roman almost let go of her hand. She burned intensely under the beam, her clothes turning to tattered rags, but she refused to scream.

The demon stopped and reached forward to touch her. If Roman could have cried out, he would have, but he can't interfere. Its index claw pierced her stomach and scraped upwards, leaving a long gash in its wake. Blood didn't gush out as it should have, though. The crimson liquid oozed out slowly and made bleeding out an impossible way to die. Still, she refused to scream.

Since the demon was three or four times her size, he stood towering over her as he bellowed another horrible laugh. "Why do you not scream daughter?" I have done the least painful things I can do to you, yet you refuse. Why? I only want to hear you lovely voice. You have the most… enticing scream."

'Daughter!?!' Roman thought, as he looked to the dream Raven. 'How could she have a demon for a father? How can she be part demon?'

Raven didn't even respond at all to her father. The only response he got was her breathing, making her chest heavily rise and fall in uneven, labored breaths.

"At least talk to me, insult me. I know how you love to do that. I would so like to hear your voice before you-"

"No," Her voice cracked as it clawed its way out. "I won't… do it." She squeezed her eyes shut tighter against the pain speaking caused.

Her father smiled. "That's all I wanted to hear. A scream would have been better I suppose."

"Why… do you… do this… to me." She croaked out, lifting her head just enough to look him in his striking yellow eyes. "You're… supposed to be… my father."

"I created you. You were conceived and born only to my bidding. I can treat you however I please."

"You know… nothing… about being… a father."

"At least you have a father." The demon's words echoed even as the image faded and gave way to a memory.

The cloaked figure from the first dream was standing on a rooftop. She had her legs folded under her and was chanting a strange mantra he hadn't ever heard before. "Azarath… Metrion… Zinthos…" She repeated over and over. She looked peaceful and relaxed. The sun was just setting over behind the city line, throwing beautiful shades of orange, red, pink, and purple into the gray, mildly cloudy sky.

"Raaaaaven!" A voice from behind her called. Her memory told him it was a girl named Starfire, even though the image didn't show her. "It is time for dinner. Robin sent me up here to fetch you."

'So the cloaked figure is Raven…' Roman thought.

Raven didn't respond, but some suppressed anger and irritation tingled Roman's senses. The emotions of the memories were always his least favorite parts. He didn't get emotions from dreams… or nightmares.

"Please Raven, please eat with us this time. We know you need to meditate often, but can it wait for a later time, perhaps?"

"Tell Robin I'll be right down." Raven spoke.

An excited clapping of one pair of hands was heard and a rush of wind was felt as the memory told him Starfire flew back downstairs and into the building.

Confused, Roman wondered why that memory was shown, of all the memories she must have.

Another one quickly came up. It was in Raven's room, the memory told him. A voice, Beast Boy's was heard first. "I'm sorry that… he broke your heart." There was a pause. "But that doesn't mean you have to stay locked up in your room. You think you're alone Raven, but you're not."

After another moments pause (about 5 seconds) Raven slid the door open to face him. She looked downright sad. Beast Boy had an apologetic expression covering his face. Unexpectedly, Raven sprang forward and threw her arms around him. Beast Boy's apologetic expression gave way to complete and utter surprise as he stiffened and forgot to hug back. She pulled away and he couldn't find any words - only "uh…"

Before either of them could speak a flying wad of dirty and disgusting smelling clothes flew into the scene and smacked BB in the head, toppling him to the floor. A half-robot the memory said was Cyborg rounded the corner. "STANKBALL!!!" He shouted. Raven smirked evilly as she held up the "stankball" with her powers. Surrounding it in flame-shaped dark energy. "Whoa, now Raven let's not get- OW!!" Cyborg said as the memory faded.

The next one had a completely different atmosphere and feel to it. It was on top of the Jump City sky needle. The memory didn't have to tell him that. Roman knew that building from the last time he went to Jump City - a year before he was captured. The people in the streets had frozen in time, as well as everything else.

There was a man - Slade - on top of the building along with Raven. She was running to try and get away from him, but didn't get far before he grasped her cloak and yanked it off her, throwing her down to the ground in the process. "What you have concealed, you shall become. You have no other choice." Slade said, standing over her.

"No!" Raven yelled/growled as she sprang up, surrounding her body with dark energy as she charged straight at him. Unfortunately, he caught her wrist before she could do any damage.

"The message will be delivered." Slade said. Her other fist made a beeline for his masked face, but he caught that one to. "Your destiny shall be fulfilled." Her futile struggling was cut off by pain surging throughout her whole body. Bright red beams of light exploded from her eyes and the sleeves, stomach, and back of her leotard were torn off by an invisible force. She moaned through clenched teeth as her hair grew so that it ran down the length of her back. Slade must have been smiling under his mask, because Roman could see that his eyes were.

Finally, Raven's mouth opened in a full-out scream as blood red inscriptions in a language Roman could not read drew themselves on every bit of her bare skin. Only her face wasn't covered in the markings. The only marking on her face was an S on her forehead, right on the gem on her charka.

Slade dropped her wrists and she fell to her knees onto the floor. He stared at her as she held her self, as if her arms were the only thing keeping her from breaking into a hundred pieces. Opening her eyes and staring at her hands, Raven was horrified. She stood up and turned as Slade moved towards her, but the image went black before he got far enough.

'What?' Roman thought. 'That's it? Why is her mind only showing me bits and pieces? I have to find out more' Delving as deep as Raven's mind would allow, Roman found what he was looking for.

A dark room faded into view as he dived deeper into the memory. The memory had been locked away tightly. Beating on the shield with all his might, Roman couldn't pierce it and fully enter, but he didn't give up. He sensed there was something extremely important about this one.

Four figures approached Raven, and she turned around to face them, pulling her hood down. Her mouth moved, but Roman couldn't hear it. Her eyes closed, but Roman wasn't told why. One of the figures, a boy with spiky black hair and a mask over his eyes stepped forward first. The boy mouth moved and his hands gestured to punctuate whatever he said. Raven responded. He said something back, narrowing the eyes of his mask and pointing at her. Then her mouth moved in a long speech of some sort.

'Maybe this isn't the right one.' Roman thought. 'It seems awfully boring.' The boy stepped forward and took her hands in his. 'No, this has to be it.' Suddenly, Raven pulled away and said something very quickly, obviously in a rush. A wave of black energy swept between her and the four figures with a wave of her hand. Stones rose from the ground to meet Raven's feet as she turned and ascended on them towards the gargantuan stone hand in the middle of the room.

The spiky haired boy and the other four figures pounded and attacked the shield, none having any luck of getting through. Neither was Roman having any luck at getting through the memory's shield. Roman squinted at the figures, trying to identify them. Finally, he succeeded in something! He realized that they were the ones from the other memories. He identified the robot - Cyborg - and the redhead - Starfire. The green one who had just rammed the black shield as a tyrannosaurus rex must be Beast Boy. However, the black-haired boy with the mask and cape couldn't be identified until he broke through the memory's lock on itself.

At last, Roman got through. The lock and shield gave way and allowed him to feel and hear everything. Yet he had been so caught up in trying to break through, he had lost track of what was going on. Clearly, he hadn't missed much though.

Raven had reached the stone hand and assumed the lotus position, hovering just above the hand's palm. Her hood had been brought up and her normally violet eyes had been replaced by shining white ones with no pupils. The eyes held nothing.

"The gem was born of evils fire; the gem shall be his portal. He comes to claim; he comes to sire, the end of all things mortal." The familiar scarlet inscriptions engraved on her skin again as she spoke. But just as soon as they appeared, Raven straightened out and thrust them off herself. They, instead rotated around her in three circles. Roman saw that she no longer had control.

"Raven!" Starfire called desperately, on the verge of tears. She spun and fell into Robin's arms. 'That's his name.' Roman thought. Robin himself was too strong to cry, however badly he wanted to.

Behind him, Cyborg was too shocked to feel anything at all. That left Beast Boy. His eyes the size of saucers, and his mouth agape at what was to come, he allowed blinked back tears. 'Why are they all so sad?' Roman thought and turned his attention to Raven.

A sphere shaped white light appeared at her middle; it worked to envelope her entire being. Squinting again, Roman strained to see what was in her clenched fist. As if on cue, it opened and a lone penny fell slowly to the ground. 'This must have some great importance if she held onto it even in this moment.' He reasoned.

Without warning, pain hit him. Pain so intense, he himself felt like screaming. 'How does she do it?' He thought abstractly, for Raven wasn't screaming and this was her pain. The picture began to blur, and fade in and out. 'What… is… happening?' Roman tried not to physically gasp. 'She's dying!'

He mentally screamed. At least, he thought it was mentally. Everything abruptly shattered and he felt himself physically blown away from whomever he was touching. All his thoughts were foggy and mushy like a Tameranean dessert. How did he know that? What's a Tameranean dessert? He pondered this thoroughly in his last two seconds of consciousness.

Both Raven and Roman gasped and flew backwards away from each other. "What did you do?!" Ember screamed at Raven as she and Zephyre caught the insentient Roman. (Discreetly, Autumn and Falon sighed a breath of relief, seeing as Ember was back to normal.) Beast Boy and Falon steadied Raven and made sure she could stand on her own.

"What happened?" Falon asked softly.

"He found… a memory… that he wasn't supposed to." Raven struggled to clear her head and remember.

"What was it?" Falon asked at the same time that Beast Boy asked what she meant by "he wasn't supposed to."

One statement was all it would take to answer both of their questions. "It was… the end of the world. When…I died."

Beast Boy responded with an knowing "oh," but the others weren't so accepting.

"What do you mean you DIED!?!" They all seemed to ask at the same time, whether in their thoughts or out loud. "You're alive and… kind of well right here!" Falon freaked.

"Shh… Falon. Everyone just calm down and let her explain." Sebastian's palliative, yet powerful voice pronounced. He made his way over to Raven, who was standing on her own now (still holding her head), and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Would you mind explaining?" He asked gently.

She looked to Beast Boy, her eyes asking him if it's okay to tell. He nodded subtly. "Um… no, I guess not." She took a deep breath and began to tell her story. "Well, for starters, my mother is human and my father is an inter-dimensional demon they call Scath to protect his real identity. My father is Trigon." She paused and heard a few gasps from people (even those that were just passing by and overheard) who knew his name.

"When my mother was pregnant with me, she fled to Azarath, a different dimension. There, I was born and spent my whole childhood. They looked into my future and found out my destiny: to destroy the Earth." A few more gasps escaped.

"I was born to be his portal to our world. His 'gem,' as I was called. Anyways, I was taught by a woman named Azar to suppress my emotions and control my powers. After Azar died, and they realized they could do nothing else for me, I was sent to Earth. Once I was there, I lived on and off the streets. But it wasn't but a few weeks before I met the Titans and joined the team.

"On my sixteenth birthday, Slade, one of our worst enemies, came and delivered a message from my father. The time that I fulfilled my destiny was approaching. Not long after that, the time came and even though my friends tried to protect me, they couldn't stop the inevitable. So I went with Slade when he came for me and prepared.

"Just like I knew they would, my friends found me and tried to stop me yet again, but they couldn't. So I 'died' in a sense and became the portal just like my father wanted me to. But he let me live. Some semblance of me was still alive down in the depths of his hell. Robin, one of the Titans, and one of my best friends, teamed up with Slade to come and save me. The me he found was a child, stripped of her powers.

"After he saved me, we met up with the rest of the Titans and defeated my father. As a result, the Earth was returned to normal, and somehow, only the Titans and I remembered what happened." Raven finished. "That's it."

It took a minute or two for it to sink in. "Wow…" Falon said.

"We had no idea…" Zephyre nearly whispered. Raven looked down in embarrassment.

During the story, Beast Boy had found the showers and proceeded to take one. He returned just as she finished. "You done?" He asked Raven, his hair dripping wet. The only clothing he had on was a pair of purple shorts that reached his knees. They were just a size or two too big for him.

"Um… yeah." Raven said.

"Good, 'cause I found the showers." He said cheerily. "I'll show you." He looked around at everyone else. "Anyone else taking a shower, or do I have to wait on her alone?"

"You guys go ahead." Talon said, surprising most of them but his sister. "We'll be catch up."

"Uh… okay, sure." Beast Boy replied, raising an eyebrow at him before turning and leading Raven towards the showers. "That was weird." He whispered. "I haven't ever heard him say that much in one setting! In fact, I don't think I'd heard him talk at all!"

"Yeah…" Raven replied, her voice distant.

"You okay?" He peered at her.

"Um, yeah, just leave me alone."

"Ha, here? Not on your life, Raven." He laughed, then pointed to the girls showers. "That's the girls. There's probably toilets in there too if you really need to go."

Raven rolled her eyes as she stepped into the shower room. There was around ten showers lining the walls of the room, which added up to around thirty-two showers. (One wall was smaller than the rest) Most of the showers weren't being used, so she stepped in the nearest one. After removing the remains of her mutilated leotard, turning on the warm water, she remembered how good showers felt. 'I am never taking advantage of indoor pluming again.' She told herself.

When she was done, she found a black tank and shorts laid just outside her shower stall. 'It feels good to be clean again.' She thought as she put them on. 'Beast Boy must have set these out.' Under the set of clothes, she was surprised to see a dark blue cloak, so dark it was nearly black. A corner of her mouth turned up in a true smile as she tied it on and walked out. Just as she expected, Beast Boy was leaning against the nearest wall, waiting on her.

"Hey," She said.

"Oh, hey," He replied. "You scared me… again."

A laugh almost escaped, but a smile did. "Where are the others?"

"They already left for the room. I told them I'd stay and wait for you."

"Touching." She stated, sarcasm evident though her smile showed him its joking manner. "Thanks."

"For what? Waiting?"

"And the clothes."

"Yeah, it took me a while to find something that you might actually wear. This place actually has a really big closet."

Raven raised an eyebrow.

"Okay, so it was a big pile, but still, I mean, come on!" He flailed his arms dramatically and turned to see if Raven found it funny - or even amusing in the least. More surprised than ever, he found her smiling at him. "What? Do I have something on my face? In my teeth?"

She laughed. "No. I'm just… happy."

The green bean's jaw dropped to the floor, and his eyes grew the size of dinner plates. "You? Happy?" He put a hand to her forehead. "Are you sick? Wow, this place is affecting you worse than I thought. First you smile. Then you laugh. And now you're telling me that you're… happy?! I didn't even think that word was in your vocabulary!"

"Oh look who's talking Mr. 'I Know Big Words Now.'" Her smile dropped a little.

"Hey! Oh! Yeah, keep that up! You have to get rid of that smile soon or I think I'm gonna have a heart attack."

"Oh shut up." She punched him lightly on the arm.

"Someone needs to take a little trip to Nevermore, very soon." BB whispered.

"I heard that!" Raven accused as she slid open the door to their cell. The moment they walked in, they were attacked by a barrage of sounds. Low whispers of awe and shock fought with angry, argumentative shouts. Loud, heavy, exasperated sighs occasionally joined the bunch.

"Hey!" Beast Boy shouted over the noise. "HEY!!" Everyone instantly hushed. "What the heck is going on?!" Falon's panicked expression instantly clued him in. "What happened? Is someone hurt?" He moved forward to join the group, huddled around the nearest corner.

"Yeah, you could say that." Talon deadpanned, despite the chaos.

"Who…" Beast Boy started but trailed off as he tried to push through.

Raven suddenly gasped loudly. "Move!!" She nearly screamed, causing everyone to jump back out of sheer astonishment. Raven sprinted to the figure they were huddled around. It was Sadie. Her long silver hair still managed to hide her face, but she was clearly unconscious. Raven pushed Sadie's hair out of the way so she could get a good look at her face. "No…" she whispered under her breath.

Written on Sadie's face was a series of symbols Raven could easily read. A symbols Raven had hoped she would never see again.

I don't really have much to say here... This was really kinda more of a sort of maybe laid back chapter type. A little. And I tried to make it good and long to make up for the update's absence. Hehe, I bet your eyes hurt now.

I THINK I SHOULD TALK IN ALL CAPS AGAIN! DOES THIS GET YOUR ATTENTION?! HOW 'BOUT THE EXCLAMATION POINTS?! ALL CAPS JUST AREN'T THE SAME WITHOUT EXCLAMATION POINTS!

I ALSO THINK YOU SHOULD REVIEW NOW! OR I MIGHT JUST HAVE TO STOP DOING ALL CAPS!

SIKE!! YOU GUYS WOULD PROBABLY LIKE THAT! ... I'M GONNA SHUT UP.... RIIIIGHT...

NOW!