A/N: Hey guys! So...Against my better judgement, I am now writing this story and another one,completely unrelated to the TT...it's a Big Time Rush fic, if any of you by some random chance also like BTR you're welcomed to read, though, it's a yaoi fic so...yeah...

Anyways, don't despair, this story is still my #1 priority

That said, thank you to all those who reviewed last chapter...

SHOUTS OUT!

-kadienewberg

-NicoleR

-NicolethePenguin

-music16

-Rosealyn 'Flinx' Roth

Cheers,

Franshes

BTW, kadienewberg this chapter is especially for you, who wanted to know what was going on with Rebecca.

DISCLAIMER: I (TRAGICALLY) DO NOT OWN THE TT, I OWN ONLY THE CHILDREN (AND GRANDCHILDREN) AND THE OVERALL PLOT...

WARNING: Mentions of an overall dark theme...

Over the course of the next few days Jinx was allowed to return home, and so were Raven and Changeling.

The tower DID feel very crowded, but, for safety's sake, the adult titans managed to keep it all under control.

The same thing, however, could not be said for the kid titans.

"Will you just shut it, already?" Rebecca shouted enraged at Dash who had his stereo up at full volume "Some of us are ACTUALLY trying to study in here!"

"None of us are nerds like you Rebecca!" Dash snapped back at her.

"Guys, drop it!" Summer commanded "Dash, turn the volume down, Rebecca's right, she and I have SAT's in a few weeks and Rebecca's applying for Harvard at the end of the school year, she needs good grades and so do I..."

"Nerds," Dash said in an undertone.

"Oh, you are SO gonna get it this time!" Rebecca snapped, reaching out for Dash who moved swiftly out of the way before Summer stepped between the two of them to prevent them from getting physical with each other.

"It's true," Dash said "What else do you call a girl who's eighteen, almost nineteen years old and has very few girl friends, has never had a guy friend and even less a boyfriend?"

"I plan on having a good future, Dash!" Rebecca snapped, her eyes starting to tear. She left the room before either Dash or Summer could see her cry.

She slammed the door to the room she shared with the West girls (Speranza and Valerie), grateful that they were not currently there.

She threw herself on the bed, crying miserably.

She hated Dash! Hated him! What did he know? He was just a stupid thirteen year old kid who didn't have the slightest clue on how bad life could be! For him, it was all very easy to say. He, Kyle, and Scott (and sometimes even Dylan) always took life as a joke...how could they be so irresponsible!

And yet, the comments he'd made about her social life (or lack of) had really hurt her. Rebecca was very conscious that, asides from the other Titan children (specifically Lise, Ravenie, and Summer) she had zero friends.

She'd lost Jake when he died. Lise and Ravenie were now too busy being mothers themselves to really have time to hang out with her anymore. Summer was busy protecting the others from crumbling down that Rebecca couldn't bring herself to give Summer an extra burden. And to top it all, there was a psycho boy who still held a grudge over the time she'd managed to shoot him. Yeah, life for her was great.

With trembling hands, she opened her desk drawer, taking out a small, broken shard of a mirror she'd accidentally shattered right around the time Jake had been killed and then taking a dee breath rolled up her long-sleeved shirt.

Her left arm showed several, tiny healed scars, all left by the same thing.

Taking another deep breath, Rebecca pressed the blade to her skin, sighing with relief as she felt a small ut sharp twinge of pain and looking down to see a couple droplets of blood seeping from the freshly made wound. She then wiped her arm, cleaning the wound, before rubbing a cotton ball with alcohol with it. The stinging pain felt almost gratifying to Rebecca and after making sure her cut was well dressed, she began washing the shard of mirror, cutting her fingers in the process, not minding the pain, and later washing the wounds on her fingers as well.

Rebecca sighed and returned to her studying, no longer caring about Dash's loud music. She felt so much better now...

With Ravenie...

Ravenie was putting Alex on his crib. He'd miraculously fallen asleep while she was rocking him, singing softly to him and she did not want to waste this opportunity for her son to get the sleep he so desperately needed.

Summer came into the room, having finally managed to make Dash turn down the volume so Alex would not be disrupted and so she could study.

"Everything alright?" Ravenie asked Summer softly.

Summer nodded, smiling down at her nephew.

"Rebecca and Dash were fighting again, but I managed to make them settle down..." she said quietly.

"Where are the others?" Ravenie asked softly.

"The Wilson's are all out, they went to get new shoes for Ken and Mikayla tagged along, saying she wanted some new cover for her cellphone. The Wests are all-scattered. Kyle and Scott are outside playing soccer, Lise is with- you know who and she took Daniel with her- Ben's outside, you know he gets depressed when she goes out with Bryce. Speranza and Valerie are, I think, over at a friend's house and well, your brother went with my sister and parents to see some stuff about her birthday party and well, let's just say everyone's busy doing something else," Summer said with a laugh.

Ravenie smiled. Things had been tough, for all of them, but they were finally starting to settle back down.

Or at least that's what she thought until she saw Lise enter the room red-eyed and seemingly very altered.

She set Daniel carefully on the floor (Daniel being asleep in his basket) before collapsing on the bed, crying hysterically.

Summer and Ravenie looked at each other, puzzled by Lise's sudden break down.

"What's wrong Lise, tell us please, we'll help you," Ravenie said, attempting to soothe her friend.

Lise shook her head.

"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" she kept repeating while banging her head on her pillow.

"What? No! Lise, you are NOT stupid!" Ravenie said.

"No...Bryce is stupid." Lise said "And so am I, for believing in him again!"

"What did he do this time?" Summer asked, eyebrows raised.

"I-I found him...in bed...with someone else...some girl he met at- at a bar or something!" Lise exclaimed "I swear! I'd been gone for only 10 min. and I went back because I'd forgotten my hairbrush and he was there, screwing some other girl like I didn't even exist!"

"What a jerk!" Summer said "Don't cry over him Lise, he's SO not worth your tears..."

"She's right, Lise," Ravenie said quietly.

"I know..." Lise mumbled miserably "And I told him I never wanted to see him again and that he'd better stay away from me and Daniel, but, it just feels so unfair! I really did think he'd changed this time. I blew up everything I had with Ben to be with him, give him another chance..."

"You did not," Summer said gently "Ben's still here, isn't he? That means you did NOT blow everything up with him...he just needs a little time to be alone, but he'll forgive you eventually, because he loves you..."

Unconsciously, she looked at Ravenie, who then felt a pang of guilt in her stomach.

Because that's exactly what Jake had done for her, time and time again.

Forgiven her mistakes, overlooked all her flaws, all because he loved her.

And what had she given him in return?

More betrayal and heartbreak.

Ravenie felt the tears well up in her eyes again, as they always did when she was reminded of Jake.

However, she wasn't able to act on her messed up emotions, and nor was Lise able to continue her self-pity because the alarm chose to sound at that same moment, and it was followed by a loud noise, just outside the Tower.

Summer's eyes widened.

They were under attack.

A/N: And that's it for now. I'll post more up hopefully in the next couple of days.

Keep reviewing!

Cheers,

Franshes