After Ahri had left with Elizabeth, I got around to finishing up the last few things I had been assigned at work.

Technically, I would be on-call for the next few days until my two weeks were up, but I didn't have to come in thanks to my stocked up vacation days.

All that I had left was finishing up a project that I was in charge of, making sure the document that the intern working under me put together was accurate before it was packed up and ready to be shipped out to the client.

I was reading through it as Raven entered the room, the portal frame automatically engaging to stabilize the wormhole.

"Hey!" I called out, not looking up.

Raven collapsed on the couch next to me, "Hey, I guess."

I finished up the section I was on before turning to her, "So, how are things?"

"The titans are being sort of weird." Raven admitted, "Well, except Beast Boy, he's more than happy to help me with my training, but Cyborg and Robin seem to be avoiding me."

"Huh," I pause, "I'm assuming that you haven't just tried talking to them about it?"

Raven blushed, "Er… I kinda wanted some advice first?"

"Don't worry about it." I said casually, "They're your friends, just talk to them."

"I've only known them a couple of months though…" Raven seemed worried.

I pulled her close and wrapped my hand around her, "Eh, f I know them, they should understand it if you talk to them. Even if you don't Beastboy and Starfire should still understand."

She nodded, "You sure?"

I shrugged, "I can't say for sure, I don't know them as well as you do, but tell me. Would either of them think badly of someone who is starting to take care of their mental health? Would they turn away anyone who needed help?"

She smiled weakly, "I guess not."

"Then there's nothing to worry about!" I cheered her on.

She leaned in and looked at my screen, "So, what's this?"

"Oh, just some documentation for an app." I said, "My intern wrote it up while I finished the programming last week, so I'm just making sure he didn't miss anything."

Raven nodded, "What do you have planned for the rest of the day?"

"Well, Elizabeth should be able to open up the portal to Ahri's home later today, so I'm going along to grab a couple of destinations for the portal projectors, and then after that, I'll be seeing about getting the bribes deployed in Niger."

Raven nodded along, "Mind if I come with you to see Ahri off?"

"If she's okay with it, then it shouldn't be a problem." I offered.

Raven nodded.

We sat in companionable silence as my fingers flew over the keyboard for a minute.

"What was that?" She asked.

I shrugged, "I just didn't like the wording on that. A little too technical for documentation. Things like this might be read by someone other than system engineers at some point, so I like to have reference notes and the like in there."

The rest of the documentation passed quickly with Raven occasionally asking what something or the other did.

By the time lunch came around, I had wrapped up the documentation and sent it off.

Raven had decided to join me in the kitchen, helping me prep the pizzas that I had planned.

Well, the ingredients and the bases at least. I had added a pizza oven to the plans here, and after picking up the right bricks, it wasn't too hard to put it together.

As it heated up, the others started filtering in.

I took orders and prepared the pies as Raven handed them out.

Eventually, I came to the last one, a classical Neapolitan pizza for Elizabeth.

I walked over to where she was sitting at the end of the table, "here you go."

She groaned, "Oh, thanks."

"Do you want some water?" I asked.

Elizabeth looked at me questioningly.

"For your headache," I explained, to which she grunted an acceptance.

I grabbed a carafe and poured it out, "Looking for Ahri's world took a bit out of you, didn't it?"

Elizabeth nodded, "I might have rushed it a bit."

"Are you sure you still want to open the portal later?" I asked.

Elizabeth waved me off, "No, I know where to go now, opening the portal won't be a problem."

"Still…" I offered.

"I'll take a nap first and it will be fine," Elizabeth assured me.

I nodded, "Just tell me if there's anything you need."

Elizabeth nodded and picked up a slice.

I wandered around the garden after that, chatting with the various girls.

I saw off Lena and Emily near the end of the meal and walked over to where Raven and Ahri were sitting.

"Elizabeth is taking a nap right now, so it will be about an hour or so before we leave. Anything you want to do before then?"

Ahri shrugged, "Maybe some shopping?"

I turned to Raven, who shrugged.

I sighed, "Well, hopefully having you dressed up and looking good should help people worry less."

"I guess if we need a reason." Ahri offered.

I activated the portal projector and three of us headed to a mall.

Elizabeth had found this one in her travels, full of various boutique shops that sold all sorts of different clothes, hand made by the owners. Perfect for picking up unique pieces.

Raven and I followed Ahri from shop to shop, chatting with each other as Ahri tried a myriad of different outfits. Occasionally we would give our input on various clothes, but Ahri mostly did her own thing.

Eventually, though, we had to cut things short.

Paying for Ahri's new outfit, we headed back.

Elizabeth had woken up and was drinking some of the tea that I had left her.

As we came in she stretched, "So, you ready?"

Ahri nodded excitedly.

We headed into the transfer room and Elizabeth settled in.

After a moment, the actinic white of a portal forming. In a flash, a large apartment of some kind appeared.

Ahri gasped, "That's my place!"

As colour bled into the portal, Ahri raced into the flat.

I turned to Elizabeth, "How did you manage to find the house?"

"Well, with one person it was harder to find the universe, but I think that's because one person only matches little bits of a universe," Elizabeth explained, "With more people, you get the feeling for the whole universe, but if I've only got one, it sort of only matches in certain places? I just picked the one that matched the best."

I nodded, "Good job Elizabeth."

Elizabeth smiled widely as we passed through the portal.

Ahri had found a phone and was searching through the contacts.

"We'll just get the portal locations then," I said as I registered Ahri's living room to my portal projector.

She nodded as she called a number and put the phone to her ear.

I shrugged and turned to Raven, who revealed her sprit shape and encapsulated Elizabeth and me.

We travelled quickly throughout the city and even the surrounding areas, finding various secluded spots for us to step out of the shadows and add to the list of destinations for the portal projector.

We returned to the flat after about an hour and found Ahri still on the phone. She put the person on the other end on hold for a minute before telling us to come back in a week or so, when the chaos of her disappearance had died down.

Digging through her drawers, we grabbed one of her spare phones and promised to call and see when a good time would be.