It had been five years since the Titans left the tower. They were still a team, and they would always fight together, but now they all had their own lives, and their own homes. Robin and Starfire had gotten married, the former working as a karate instructor, the latter as a daycare worker. Beast Boy had gotten himself a job as an actor. Cyborg was occupying a job as a technology maintenance worker.

And Raven? She ran a gothic book store, writing books on the side.

But they still had to make time every night to go on patrol, and scour the city for any evil that may need to be brought to justice. They set up a system: one member of the team goes out on a specific night of the week to search the city for crime.

And on this night, it happened to be Raven's turn.

At this time, Raven was levitating over a part of the city as she searched for anyone committing a crime. "Doesn't look like anything suspicious is going on tonight." Raven said to herself in her normal monotone voice as she lazily glided about ten feet off the ground.

She was about to turn around and return to her home...when a terrible sound cut through the night. She snapped her head in the direction the sound came from. It sounded like a screaming child...What could be happening? Not wanting to dwell on it, the purple-skinned young woman flew in the direction the scream came from, intent on bringing whatever was causing it to justice.

She eventually found her way top the source of the screaming, which was a hotel in downtown Jump City. She levitated to each of the windows to see if she could locate the rooms where the screams came from. She spent a lot of time looking through rooms that were completely empty. There was one that was in use, but the occupants were too busy doing their... activities... 'Going to take a while to get THAT out of my head...' Raven thought with a shiver as she made it to the last window of the hotel.

Vernon Dursley was on business in Jump City... but he didn't want to leave his favourite punching bag behind. Viciously, the large man rained a series of increasingly vicious blows on a much, MUCH smaller little boy, who was cowering in a ball, trying to shield himself from the blows the best he could.

They were both unaware of the cloaked woman floating outside their motel window...

"This has to be the one." Raven said to herself as she stopped at the window. "Let's see what's in curtain...number..." Raven said before trailing off as her eyes widened as what she was seeing. She had found the source of the screaming. Tt was an obese man beating up a small child.

The titan's eyes narrowed dangerously. This was no supervillain...This was just a disgusting excuse for a human being abusing an innocent child. As a superhero, it was her job to prevent such awful things from happening. And so, she decided that there was only one logical thing to do: Rip the wall of the room clean off.

Channelling her magic, an aura of black magic engulfed the wall, and without any effort, she ripped the wall from the rest of the building. The sounds of the wall being removed caused Vernon to stop what he was doing and look at the wall in panic.

"THE BLASTED HELL IS GOING ON!?" Vernon yelled as the wall was tossed to the side and the Dark woman levitated in, showing signs that she was not amused with Vernon.

Her eyes were glowing white, her fists were clenched at her sides, and she was visibly shaking. She was looking Vernon in the eyes. The obese man yelped, and scooted away. Then, Raven spoke.

"What...are you...DOING?!" She demanded. Vernon couldn't form words, only sputter incomprehensibly.

Eventually, he managed to find his voice.

"YOU ARE A BLOODY DEMON FROM HELL!" He roared.

Raven felt a vein pulsating in anger after he called her that. Being called a demon was a sore spot for Raven due to her being the daughter of Trigon the Terrible, a god like demon that sired her with her mother, Arella. Raven's eyes became covered by the shadow of her cowl. "You have no idea...HOW RIGHT YOU ARE!" Raven said as she looked up at Vernon, revealing not her regular pair of Violet eyes, but two pairs of red, demonic eyes.

Vernon let out a fearful squeak, then yelped as he felt himself levitated off of his feet. He thrashed and struggled in the air...but it was fruitless, as Raven turned and launched the obese man out the window. Miraculously, he survived, but he was knocked unconscious.

Raven panted heavily as she regained control of her emotions. She took a deep breath, spat out the window onto the unconscious man, then turned to Harry.

Harry's eyes widened in horror at the hooded woman standing in the room with him. With a series of soft whimpers, he scooted back against the nearest wall, curled up and shook with fear.

'Great, I overdid it...Now he's afraid of me...' Raven thought sadly after finally calmed down enough to change her appearance back to normal. Raven walked over slowly to him and crouched down to his level so that her face was a little less than two feet from him.

"Are you okay?" Raven asked him as politely and calm as she could.

Harry cringed slightly at the sound of her voice, but he eventually recognized that she had no malicious undertones in her voice. He looked up at the purple woman, and opened his mouth to speak...but fear and shyness got the better of him, and all he could manage to get out was a soft whimper.

Raven couldn't help but feel sympathy for him. 'That beast must have really did a number on him.' Raven thought. She lifted up her arm and slowly placed her hand on his cheek, then started to rub it with her fingers.

Harry flinched at the contact, until he felt that she was stroking him, not hurting him. The little boy was starving for affection, so he subconsciously leaned closer into the touch. Raven smiled softly, glad he was at least warming up relatively quickly...then she frowned as he realized what was happening and flinched away from her.

Without a word of warning, Raven scooped him up and wrapped him in a hug. Her cape ended up wrapping around him as a result of Raven's sudden action, leaving only his head visible. Harry was to shocked by her hugging him that he didn't even twitch in an attempt to struggle from her grasp.

'She's hugging me...? It feels...nice and warm...' The little boy thought as he relaxed.

Raven began to stroke his back, and he looked up at her with huge, confused eyes, baffled as to why she was treating him so kindly. Raven smiled.

"There's nothing to be afraid of, little guy." She said coolly. "I'm good. I'm going to take you away from that evil man." Harry stared in childlike awe and wonder.

"Y-You're a superhero...?" He breathed. Raven nodded.

"Yes. And of course, as a hero, it's my job to punish people like him." Harry looked down sadly.

"...You have to punish me too, right?" Raven raised a brow.

"Why would I do that? You're the victim here." Harry shivered.

"I-I'm a freak...Everyone hates me, so I must be bad..."

Raven just looked at him for a few moments, eyes widened in surprise. 'What did that man do to him?' She thought.

"Why would you call yourself a freak?" Raven asked him seriously.

"B-Because Uncle Vernon said I was a freak..." Raven tightened her grip on him.

"You're no freak, kid. Besides...there's nothing wrong with being a little freaky. Look at me, I have purple skin." Harry looked down.

"But...Uncle Vernon says I'm so freaky, other freaks think I'm a freak too..." Raven scowled.

"Well he was wrong. I don't think you're a freak. You're a normal child, and there's nothing abnormal about you."

Harry was stunned by her words. 'She doesn't think I'm a freak...?' Harry thought to himself as his eyes widened and filled with tears. He then buried his head in her chest and let out a few stifled sobs.

Raven's eyes widened, and her eyes shifted back and forth. Awkwardly, she rubbed the little boy's head, trying to calm him down.

There was a brief silence...then Raven heard it. Soft sobbing, just barely audible, coming from the little boy in her arms. She looked down to see that his face was buried into her chest, and his little shoulders were shaking slightly to go with his sobs.

Her expression softened as she continued to rub his head and let him sob on her for as long as he needed to. 'Poor little thing...You've suffered so much pain and torment...' Raven stated in her mind. The room was silent except for Harry's sobbing. After a few minutes, Harry's sobbing subsided, and he calmed down.

Raven smiled and gave him a pat on the back.

"...Let's go take that man down to the police, okay kid?"

Harry, his face still buried in the woman's chest, nodded absently, relieved she hadn't heard him crying. If she had, she definitely would have hit him. Freaks weren't allowed to cry.

"Alright then." Raven said as she readjusted Harry in her arm and stood, cradling Harry in her arm. She turned towards the hole she made in the wall and walked through it. '...Hope I don't get sued...' Raven thought with worry. She looked over to where Vernon was laying unconscious and scowled.

'You'll get what you deserve.' She thought dangerously. She spat on the man once more, then levitated him using magic, and flew off in the direction of the police station.

As they flew, Raven looked down at Harry and smiled when she saw that he was snuggled up into her and smiling as he fell asleep.

'What a cute kid." Raven said out loud. She was silent the rest of the way to the police station.