*COMES OUT FROM UNDER THE TABLE* WE'RE GOOD? NOBODY THROWING THINGS ANYMORE? OKAY, GOOD. HELLO, FRIENDS, SORRY, SORRY, MILLLIONS OF SORRIES TO GO AROUND, BUT I SHOULD PROBABLY SAY I HAVE BEEN LIVING MY OWN BEAST BOY AND RAVEN EXPERIENCE. FIRSTLY, I QUIT MY JOB OF SEVEN YEARS…..THEN IN AUGUST, I GOT A NEW ONE, BECAUSE I'M STILL A STUDENT WHO DOESN'T WANT DEBT. SECONDLY, I HAD WRITTEN MOST OF THIS BY JUNE, BUT THINGS CAME UP.

THE LAST PAST YEAR, I'VE MET A BOY FROM ONE OF MY GEEKY CONVENTIONS, AND WE HAVE COMMUNICATED THROUGH FACEBOOK AND THE CONVENTION WEBSITE, NOT TO MENTION THE LONG HOURS ON SKYPE, BECAUSE HE LEAVES FAR AWAY, BUT SURELY AND SLOWLY (MORE SLOWLY ON MY PART, I'M SUCH A RAVEN) WE'VE KIND OF HOOKED UP. WELL, PRETTY MUCH, WE HAVE. WE SPENT A MONTH TOGETHER IN JULY, HIM COMING TO AMERICA TO MEET MY FAMILY, ME GOING TO AUSTRALIA TO MEET HIS….AND TO SEE ADORABLE KOALA'S. WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO GO BACK TO THE STATES AND HIM TO STAY IN AUSSIELAND, WE BOTH CRIED THE FIRST TIME ABOUT THE ACTUAL FACT THAT WE LEAVE VERY FAR FROM EACH OTHER.

SO, IN AUGUST, I WAS IN NO MOOD TO DO ANYTHING, I WAS UPSET BEING BACK AT THE BORING STATES, BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO SPEND TOO MUCH MONEY GOING OUT BEFORE SCHOOL STARTED, SO I ONLY HAD MY THOUGHTS WITH ME. BOTH MY FALL SHOWS AND SUMMER ONE'S WERE NOT ON EITHER. SO, WITH NOTHING BUT TIME NOW SINCE I DIDN'T HAVE A JOB, I ENROLLED MYSELF IN 10 UNITS, TAKING ON STATISTICS AS MY MATH. AND FOR SOME STUPID REASON, I WAS SO SCARED OF LOSING MONEY, I GOT A JOB JUST AS SOON AS SCHOOL STARTED BECAUSE I'M STUPID. IT'S NOT AN AWFUL JOB REALLY, IT'S JUST THAT IT TAKES UP MY TIME, AND SOMETIMES THE PUBLIC REALLY STRESSES ME OUT.

HOWEVER, I AM CURRENTLY WRITING ON THE LAST CHAPTER, HERE AND THERE WHEN I HAVE THE TIME.

"Bruce took a-away my elephant. So, I wanted it back. B-b-but I know he would cry if I took i-it away from him. So I used my powers to get it back." She said. "I-I-I didn't hurt him or anything, he just started crying when he saw th-that he didn't have it anymore. A-and then I saw the fire. I don't know how that happened. I-I-I was so careful, Daddy."

"—It seems that I am not making myself clear." Starfire interrupted. "While I applaud Lydia in her life achievements, I will not let her endanger my child again!"

"You don't want Lydia to play with Bruce….period?" Garfield asked.

Tears rolled down her tan face as she had put down the communicator. She had just finished talking to Robin about the situation and he wasn't happy, to say the least. However, he was just as upset with her as well. Why wasn't Starfire there? Why wasn't there anyone babysitting the kids? How did Lydia burn that Barbie?

Starfire didn't want to get in a fight and she was tired. Tired of defending someone or being on the offense, she just wanted to travel to wherever Robin was and hold him tightly again in her arms. She knew this marked the end of the original Teen Titans, even though they were no longer teens, but she just hoped they could stay friends forever afterwards. If they were an Earth TV show, she wished they would have a happy ending episode, showing it to those who watched that they would be a team forever. But they weren't and forever is a long time to constantly stay happy.

All those years. I remember when Raven taught me how to meditate; when Cyborg showed me the ways in which Earthlings eat; when Beast Boy showed me his kitten form and the first time Robin touched me. She thought to herself, looking down at Bruce. And when you were brought into my life.

She kneeled down and picked him up. His narrow brown eyes looked into her wide green ones. She knew that one day he would ask why he didn't look like either her or Robin, but she hoped it would be a long time before he asked those questions. She didn't want him to know that he was adopted until he was eight or nine. Any earlier, she would believe he wouldn't understand what the word meant. Robin wanted Bruce to know as soon as he learned to talk, believing that the more he hears the word, the more Bruce understands it does not mean anything bad. But that was another disagreement the two were working on and if she was going to raise Bruce equality with Robin, she had better start packing, quit feeling sorry for herself, because Robin wasn't coming back.

She kissed Bruce and put him down, and started going through her clothes, books, jewelry, pictures, etc. Anything that had value to her. She had to judge what was worthy enough to come with her and what was going to be left behind, because she couldn't pack heavy. She knew Robin and her were going to travel the world, roaming from place to place, fighting crime wherever they would end up. It sounded like a dream, to go around this magnificent world known as Earth, but it meant leaving behind her past.

"Mommy! Mommy! Look!" Bruce squealed, but when Starfire looked over to where Bruce was, he was holding one of Lydia's toys, which he must have stolen when she wasn't looking. It was a Barbie, and Starfire recognized that it was probably Lydia's first Barbie she had ever gotten. She remembered Lydia called it Christie, with a darker skin tone then Barbie normally was shown. Its brown hair was greasy and began to peel off, but Starfire remember playing with Lydia and Bruce for hours at a time with it.

She made a mental note to give that back to Lydia and went back to packing.


"But why?!" Lydia screeched in her room, which had been repainted a couple of days ago to a light yellow color, as she had expressed that was her favorite color. As she pouted, most of her toys floated up in the air before crashing down from her fury.

"Lydia, listen to me." Garfield said, trying to calm her down. He kneeled before her. "Aunt Starfire is moving. And she has to take Bruce with her because he is her son."

"But I want them to stay!" She pouted, stomping her feet.

"I do too, but it's not up to me or you—"

"You or I." Interject Raven's muffled voice, from behind the closed door. Raven believed Garfield could handle this situation better and Lydia was better well manage with only one parent at a time. However, she still listened in.

"—You or I, it's up to Aunt Starfire." Garfield corrected.

"But why? I-I don't understand." She said, sniffing.

Oh, man, your teenage years are not going to be easy. He thought as he looked into her forest green eyes. "I don't know." He lied. "Maybe Uncle Robin found something better for them to help raise Bruce. You know Bruce doesn't have any powers, right?"

She nodded.

"Well, think about this way, if Bruce grows up here, he'll become jealous about not having any powers. So, I think Starfire and Robin have found a home where he will be more comfortable living in."

"Why would he be jealous? Uncle Robin doesn't—"

"Shhh, don't let Uncle Robin hear you say that. He believes he has powers." He lied quickly.

"Really? But Uncle Robin said himself—"

"—He pretends that he doesn't, but he truly believes that he does."

"How do you know?"

"Because….because…" He muttered, trying to come up with another quick lie.

"Because that's why he went away." Raven said from the other side of the door.

"Exactly! That's the real reason why he went away." Garfield said. "One day, we let it slip that he didn't have any powers, and he got really angry. He is very sensitive about being just an ordinary human….W-we didn't realized how bad it was until he left…..So, now, he doesn't want the same thing for his son. He wants his son not to be jealous of all of us. But don't worry, we can visit them on holidays and during the summer."

Lydia stared at her father, feeling like she was being lied to for some odd reason. Maybe it was the way he came up with an answer really quick. Maybe it was the way he kept pausing on certain sentences. Or maybe it was in his eyes. But all she could say was, "I don't want them to go."

"I know. But sometimes in life, people move away, and it doesn't have anything to do with me or you…"

"—You or I."

"Whatever, it's about something completely different. Okay?"

"No, it's not okay….but I have no choice, so okay." She said. Garfield gave her a hug and allowed her to wipe her nose on his shirt.


Raven was behind the closed door, with Austin in her arms. He had grown really big within the last few months. He was almost a toddler now, who would walk and jump, causing Raven headaches because she didn't know when he would make that first run, but she had to be prepared. She wished he didn't have this weird light lavender silver hair, she just knew he would be made fun of, because it was such a girl's color for a young boy. On top of that, she had enough to worry about his pointed ears. He wouldn't be able to go to normal school, even though he didn't have any known powers, he would have to go to a special school. Away from all the normal looking kids. She looked down at him. Austin still had blue eyes and it seemed to be that Garfield was going to be right after all.

"What troubles you, child?" A voice called out.

Raven turned her head slightly and saw that slender old woman in a white robe. The same one that had lavender streaks in her mostly grey, straw-like hair, with those bright violet eyes.

"You're not real." Raven replied to the ghostly woman. She was tired of this image of Arella popping up during the most inappropriate times. "Stop bothering me." After the first few times Arella's image appeared before her, Raven thought she was somehow dreaming all of it, but now she knew some kind of old magic was being practice outside of Azarath.

"My child, I do not visit you to displease you." Arella calmly said.

"If you wish to not 'displease' me, then don't visit me."

"Your baby is healthy, your young daughter is growing stronger everyday with her magic, so why are you unhappy?"

"Are you trying to make a joke? Our team is being split apart—friendships that I have had for ages are being torn."

"Why?"

"The Boy Wonder family is convinced my children are monsters." Raven said, holding onto Austin a little more tightly.

"Hmm. You know, when you were born, people thought that you were a monster."

Raven wanted to slap her. "And you wonder why I stopped visiting."

"Let me finish, they thought you were a monster because of whom your father was and why the Monks of Azarath had recruited me. However, there were enough people to stand against those that thought you were a monster and protect you. They believed in the person and their way of peace; they didn't believe in killing an innocent child to maintain peace though."

"So, what would they say if they saw me now? That I was weak with lust or that I am sinful for getting married when they told me not too?"

"My child, they didn't expect you to live past your seventeenth birthday."

Raven didn't say anything, but glare at this decaying woman who claimed she was her mother. Austin was pulling on her hair and she had to pry his fingers off of her locks. "What did they expect?"

"They expected that you would save humankind by sacrificing yourself when Trigon came."

"And they didn't think to tell me?!"

"They were going to tell you before you turned sixteen, however you went to Earth before such a time could happen. And when you did come to see me, it was only Trigon's illusion, that was not the real me."

Raven was done talking about the past. "What are you doing here?"

"Are you talking to me?" Ask a voice from behind her.

She turned her head and saw the door had opened, with Garfield and Lydia walking out. Raven looked back to where Arella had been, but there wasn't anybody there. She now believed that she was slowly losing her mind, but that was for another day to worry about, right now, she wanted to make sure Lydia didn't hurt Bruce or Starfire when she would say her goodbyes.

"Who were you talking too?" Garfield asked.

"I'll tell you later." She said, looking down at Lydia to signal that she didn't want to talk about in front of her.

"Okay." He said, nodding.

"Are we all ready?" She asked.

"Lydia?" He asked, looking down.

Her eyes were red, but the crying had stopped. She held onto her brown blanket that Garfield had gotten her when she was baby. It was a majestic scene of Africa, in all it's glory, with a lion sleeping on top of a rock, as elephants and zebra's both drink from the nearby pond, one of them keeping an eye out for that lion, in case he wakes up, with the sun setting in the background. She hadn't asked for her blanket in such a long time, Rae almost forgotten she still had it.

"I'm ready." Lydia said softly, as she held onto her blanket with one hand and held onto Garfield's in the other.

At that moment, they could all hear a loud piercing noise coming up from the top of the Tower. At first it was soft, but then gradually became louder as it was approaching the Tower and they could all hear it land, with the landing gear grinding on the hard surface of the cement roof. Garfield looked up to Raven.

"He's here." She said.

"Come on, let's get this over with." He said.


Starfire couldn't believe her eyes, Robin. He was finally here. She was waiting on the roof, with her suitcases off to one side and Bruce in her arms, when she saw the helicopter she couldn't stop smiling after she recognize the pilot. After he landed, with Starfire covering Bruce from the sudden wind blowing around the Tower, she wanted nothing more than to hug him before he came out, but she had to wait for him to stop the propellers.

Finally, he opened the door and she saw his new uniform. A black spandex cat suit, with armor built into it, with a blue bird of some kind stretching its wings across his chest. His eyes were covered over a new mask that covered more of his nose and eyes. It was strange to her that he had still worn the same uniform she had seen in the future, the fact that she had tamper with time hadn't changed what he would eventually wear. But his hair was still the same spiky mess that she knew and loved.

She ran up to him, with Bruce in her arms, and greeted him with a long, passionate kiss.

"God dammit!" Cyborg cried out, as he just then walked in front of them at that moment. Many months was Robin gone, and Cyborg of all people had to be the one to still witness their sickly displays of affection. And he had just gotten over Jinx too!

Starfire stopped kissing, to look over to Cyborg and blushed.

"I missed you too, Cy." Robin said.

"Oh, man, come here!" Cyborg said, they both embraced in a bromance hug. "So, you're taking a helicopter?"

"Well, I didn't want to bring the jet, didn't want Bruce to get sick. So, I thought about stopping off at Hawaii to trade it in for a plane ticket to where I'm currently staying."

"Can you find a buyer over in Hawaii?"

"Last I heard, Gizmo was tinkering around on the Big Island."

"You think he'll trade with you?"

"Why not? Jinx converted him, I'm sure he can lend me a hand, especially when he sees I have a young one to look after."

Robin was catching up with both Starfire and Cyborg, having a conversation that felt like five minutes, but really was well over half an hour about his travels and what he experienced. There were a few tears, a few laughs, and a in no time, it felt as though he had never left and was just explaining a long vacation he had in the past before. Cyborg had also gone into detail for both Titans about how he was going to recruit some fresh blood into the group and how he would slowly transform it into a shelter for people who had powers and didn't have a place they could call home. As scientist continue to mess around with newborn gene's, as well as super heroes having children with other super heroes, kids with powers were not as rare as it used to be back then.

Everything seemed to be fine and Robin almost forgot why he had left in the first place, that is until he saw the Logan's closing the roof door behind them. Starfire and Cyborg saw Robin looking behind them and turned around themselves. The only sound that anybody could hear was the waves circulating in the ocean, to the shore and the gentle wind in the air. Both Robin and the Logan's made their way to each other, until they had met in the middle. There weren't any smiles or friendly faces looking back at him, except for maybe Lydia, but she seemed more scared then happy.

"I am not happy about what happened." He said.

"We aren't either." Raven said in monotone. She didn't know what he was talking about, whether it was about the whole situation, Raven destroying the Tower, or Lydia causing a fire to a Barbie. She didn't care.

"I think it would be safer if Bruce and Starfire came with me."

"As you have stated before." She said.

Robin looked over from Raven's cold stare to Garfield's disappointed expression. "I'll—I mean—we will miss you." Garfield said. "But good luck to you." He then poked Raven with his shoulder.

"Yes, yes, we had some good times together. So—in the end—I can tell you good luck too." Raven forced herself to say. She then looked down at Austin, as she did not want to look up to Robin anymore.

Lydia had been watching the adults talk for some time, not understanding at all what anybody was saying, and after a few boring minutes, she was getting emotional again. "Why are you leaving Uncle?" She asked him, looking up.

Robin could see the tears were at the very corner of her eyes, but she was trying to suppress them. He kneeled down and opened up his arms. She slowly walked into them and he picked her up and sat in his arms.

"Aunt Starfire and I are moving. We found a better job and we are taking this opportunity to move."

"But, you work here." She said.

"Yes, but we found a better job. The Tower is not big enough for us anymore."

"It's not?"

"No, it isn't." He laughed.

She was hesitant for a while to speak. "Wh-why can't Bruce stay?"

"Because he's my son. It wouldn't be fair to take you away from your Mommy and Daddy now, would it?"

"…no…." She said softly.

"So, we need to take him."

"But, I'm going to miss you. And Aunt Starry and Bruce."

"I know, I know. That's the one thing I hate about moving." He said as he hugged her. "But you still have Austin. And he can just as easily entertain you as Bruce has done."

"Will you visit?" She asked, as she pulled apart from the hug.

He looked into her eyes, but didn't know what to say. He knew this wouldn't be his last time seeing Lydia, but he didn't feel he was being honest if he had said 'yes'. Instead, he said, "I don't know, yet."

"Please, please, come and visit!" She yelled, before squeezing her arms around his head.

"Tell you what, you can reach me anytime on the communicator. And maybe, one day, I'll let you know when it is good time to visit." He said, as he reach inside his suit to get out his own communicator and handed it to her. "Here."

"But this is yours."

"Correction, it's yours now. I have a spare one back at my camp."

She turned the circular yellow device and opened it up with her hand. "So….this really is goodbye? You're really leaving? Like forever?"

"No, not forever…just not for a short while. Hey, cheer up, you can reach me anytime on that thing. And Bruce and Starfire too. You'll be fine Lydia."

Starfire, while holding Bruce, decided to walk up to the Logan's as Robin was finishing his goodbye's with Lydia.

"Do not say that I did not try to not let this happen—!" She began.

"Don't start, Star." Garfield said smiling. She was perplexed why he seemed to be in a good mood, but before she could ask to explain himself, he transformed into an adorable kitten with green and black spots. She didn't know what to say.

"Kitty!" Bruce squealed. Starfire let Bruce jump down and grab the kitten with all his little might.

"But I don't understand…" Starfire said, she looked up to Raven, who sighed.

"I think he wants us to stop fighting for a minute and just say goodbye."

"Oh." She said, moving closer. "How do Earthlings say goodbye to a long friend?"

"Like any species." Raven said. Starfire saw Austin in her arms. "You've said goodbye to people before."

"Yes, but not like this. Can I hold him?" She asked, pointing to Austin. "Have I ever held him before? I do not remember."

"I'm sure you have, but you can hold now if you want."

Starfire took him in her arms and saw the deep blue eyes for herself. He was in a green long-sleeve T-shirt that said 'Trouble' and had on grey pants. When the odd child looked up at her, he smiled and made bubbles with his mouth.

"Do you remember when you were afraid to hold Lydia? It's funny how time changes." Starfire said.

"Well," Raven said, moving closer to her. "I-I-I never did thank you for taking charge at that time when I wasn't ready to be a mother." Starfire looked up to her. "Thank you." They both smiled, before Raven got closer, embracing her with a hug.

"Okay, I don't want Austin to get squeeze by you two." Garfield said from behind them, back to his human form, right before he took Austin from Starfire so she could properly hug back. "Hey, Bruce, you want to say goodbye to Austin?" Garfiled asked the small the toddler underneath him, peaking from behind his legs. Garfield kneeled down so Bruce could see Austin up close.

"Baby? Goodbye baby, be good baby!" Bruce said, waving his hand in front of Austin's face, and Austin took that as a challenge and grabbed his finger in mid-air and giggled.

Garfield then pulled Austin away so he could let go of Bruce's finger, and Bruce wanted to see what was taking his Mom so long. He saw his Mom hugging Aunt Raven and patted Starfire's leg for attention.

"Oh, Bruce, hold on a second." Star said, but she saw Raven locked eyes with Bruce and decided to walk away at the moment.

"Mommy?" Bruce asked.

"Do you remember what I said about your future?" Raven said, kneeling down to his level.

"I do!" Bruce said, quickly forgetting about Starfire.

"You do know that I am not a fortune teller, right? It was just a silly game we were playing."

"Oh! I get it! It's like wishes, you're not allowed to tells people!"

"No, I really am not a fortune teller."

"I know, Aunt Raywen. Keep it secret! Or it won't come true!"

She exhaled, it wasn't her kid, and so what harm could he have in believing their little silly game? She one time believed in a prophecy, why couldn't he? Granted, his was not about destroying the world.

"Goodbye Bruce." She said, showing the smallest hint of a smile. Bruce ran up to her still body and asked to lift up by her magic. Raven complied and used her energy to let him float in the air for a minute or two.

"Whee!" Bruce squealed.

As Raven was concentrating on Bruce's anatomy to impossibly stay up in the air with her mind, Raven had felt something she hadn't felt before around Bruce. She could physically feel her powers constraining a separate energy within Bruce's blood, a different one other than the normal human kind. It wasn't doing anything, but just sitting within him, evolving every second as he was floating in the air. It wasn't a strong energy, it could easily be restrain, but given enough, it could well be out of Bruce's control. The fact that this energy existed at all, when she hadn't felt it before, was unsettling. A million questions were raised in her head, but at least one was answered; Lydia didn't start that fire.

They don't know, she thought as she looked over to where Robin and Starfire standing, continuing to talk about their plans of traveling the world with the team. Should I say something? I mean, it's dangerous to not know.

What could she do without ending in an argument? Would they even believe her, seeing as both families had a vicious opinion on each other? Would Raven even believe herself if she were in Starfire's shoes? Yet, the Boy Wonder and his bride were about to leave, and who knows when she would see them again.

"Raven?!" Starfire asked, poking Raven's shoulder.

Should I tell her?

"It's just that Bruce might get sick if he's too high up." Star said calmly, pointing to his chubby small body floating five feet above them.

Raven slowly lowered him down in his mother's arms, the smile on his face suggesting that he didn't suffer acrophobia at all. Starfire hugged Bruce to make sure he was alright anyway.

"Do not worry, sweety, I can still fly." She told him.

"Down." He commanded.

"Down, what?"

"Down, pwease."

"Okay, there you go." She gently put him down.

He ran over to where Lydia was standing and they began to play some type of hand clapping game.

Starfire sighed, looking around. "To think, young adolescence minds will live here and become the new Teen Titans."

"Yes, it is weird to think about yourself growing older." I should tell her. "You will keep in touch, correct?"

"Why, of course! You are still our friends!" She said, surprised at Raven's tone.

Before she had a chance to stop herself, Raven blurted out, "I wish he could say the same for us—"

"—Raven—"

"—Sorry, sorry. I didn't mean too." She apologized.


The long goodbye turned into an invitation to dinner, which then turned into a long night with the original Titans hanging out in the living room, drinking their wine's, coffee's, or in Raven's case, tea. Lydia was put to bed, Starfire would take Bruce with her and hoped he would sleep through most of the trip as well. They shared stories about the 'old days', back when nobody was married and Jinx was still struggling between being a villain or a hero, and people barely gave the Titans much credit other than to rid the streets of petty crime.

It was all settled; Cybrog would become the new leader, with Bumblebee joining the group in a few weeks. Afterwards, they would then seek out reports of 'supernatural' or 'phenomenal' activities involving a young person in need of a home for them to recruit new members. At least, that was the initial ground work for the new Teen Titans. It wasn't everyday an alien would crash in the middle of a street and cause four independent teens to stop an open war with an alien police force.

In the end, Raven decided not to tell the two about Bruce, at least at that moment, but slipped away after dinner to write a quick letter. She wasn't Jane Austen and she was writing down some hard facts, so didn't even try to sugar coat the letter with 'my dearest' or 'dreadfully', for that would have made it sound like she believed Bruce was cursed with something. Quite the contrary, in her mind, so she made sure to give them insight into something they should look into about Bruce's particular background. She slipped the note into one of Starfire's suitcases when she wasn't looking.


As the helicopter began to lift up in the air, with Robin and Starfire looking down on their old friends, two Titans and one little girl all had tears in their eyes as they waved goodbye. Raven, however, turned her head away to try and conceal herself while she held onto little Austin. She didn't want to be rude, but she knew it did look rude, it was just too much bear to see the family that she has known for since coming to Earth just disappear.

She cradled her child. "What should I do?" She whispered to her silvered-hair boy. Although he did not reply, she acted like she did indeed hear something, and her hand became engross with her black energy.

"What's wrong with Raven?" Starfire asked Robin over the headset as she tried to calm down Bruce. He started to cry as soon as they took off.

Robin looked down to see Raven's whole body turned. He twist his eyebrows. "I can't believe she's acting so childish—"

"Look!" Starfire almost shouted.

There, among the rumble of the outside training grounds on the back end of the Tower, rocks, covered in black energy, were hovering around the area. The pebbles and boulders floated around for a bit before they made a neat pattern and spelled out the words:

'Farewell'

Both of the Star and Robin wanted to smile, as they knew Raven was probably very emotional, and therefore was trying to control it. They wanted to smile because it meant that they had all left on a clean slate. However, they couldn't, for they were leaving their home, and even if they wanted to change their minds, they couldn't nor shouldn't, for they wanted some new adventures to themselves, and the Tower was no longer the place for them. Maybe in time, it will no longer be the place for the Logan's and their family, but for the moment, they seem suited to the Tower.

That is, until Lydia and Austin would grow up…

TO BE CONTINUED