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Chapter 13 was too long, so I decided to split them when I upload it. So now it's two chapters!

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The Titans were having dinner when the dishes started to rattle. The whole building was trembling. Robin, without thinking much, jumped to his feet.

'Trouble!' was what he thought. He wasn't so sure why something in his head nudged him to go check on Raven. He was ready to rush out to get the villains but he couldn't think of any villain in the city who was capable of this. He looked up to see if the team was ready - but the other three Titans were still in their seats, seemingly reluctant to go out and find the source. He frowned. Cyborg saw it and sighed.

"It's Raven."

Robin's insides turned in a strange way. He recalled a moment of Raven in fear, turning the tower into a horror movie.

"It is strange..Dear friend Raven has not been this upset in many years."

Then they were silent, all three pairs of eyes on Robin. He took a step back.

"…What?"

No one gave him a verbal answer. But Robin knew they were telling him to check on her.

"Why me?"

"Uh.. Cuz you always do..?"

Beastboy's answer took him aback. It was a perfect explanation of why his first instinct was to go check on Raven, but it didn't explain why he was so attentive to her.

"And dude, you're the only one who can calm her down. You guys have that same dark and serious thing going on."

He put stress on the words 'dark' and 'serious' in a jokingly way. Robin agreed with a surprising note of pride. Beastboy's oblivious and playful ways of reactions only irritated Raven, and Starfire's energy was too joyful to let Raven feel understood. His only question was Cyborg. Although he couldn't remember how the two got so close, he knew Cyborg was the only other one who could talk to Raven about feelings. But his eyes were on him rather sternly, as if to remind him of their little talk a few days ago. Robin sighed and made his way to Raven's room.

The moment he punched in the overriding code to open her door was when he realized something was very wrong. It wasn't Raven - at least yet, because she was nowhere to be seen. Her room was dark as if it was swallowed by the night. It was only 7 pm, and the sun was still up. The sunlight, however, was completely blocked, and nothing in the room was visible. Robin took a deep breath and stepped into her forbidden room.

"Raven? Are you there?"

The darkness seemed to stir as if it was alive. Robin started to make his way to the bed. For some reason, he knew that she'd be curled up hugging her knees in the corner of her bed. He tried to reach out to the bond they had to see if she was safe. There was nothing. Robin stopped dead in his tracks. Where did the bond go? He couldn't feel anything. Not a single emotion or a sense of existence from the other side… Was it always this empty?

"..Richard.."

There was a soft whisper, so faint that it was almost like the sound of the wind. He looked up, immediately meeting a pair of dazzling purple eyes from the direction of her bed. They were so clear but unfocused and empty.

"Raven?"

The eyes started to come alive, drawing him in.

"..Richard!"

She ran to him and hugged him. He froze. He wasn't sure who she was.

"You came! I missed you SO much! You came! You remembered!"

"…Happy?"

Robin wasn't sure why he said that. He remembered Cyborg and Beastboy telling him briefly about Raven's emoticlons. He never met any of them, but he knew he was right when she giggled.

"Yup! I sneaked out when I heard your voice because I had to see you! I mean, we can't see anything right now, but I can still hug you, right?"

"Uh… What's going on? Where's Raven?"

"Oh, she's uh.. She's in a trance…? She was going dark and we wanted to stop her but we couldn't win and Rage started to take over so they started to battle and uh.. that's how I sneaked out!"

"..And why is it so dark in this room?"

"It's Raven! All of this is her powers leaking and protecting the tower from exploding!"

She added 'Unconsciously! Isn't that amazing?' with another giggle. Robin was confused as hell and Happy Raven wasn't really helping him to clear his head. Cyborg said that there were others, so he decided to give the idea a try.

"Happy? Can you get someone who can explain everything in details?"

"Sure love! Anything for you!"

He felt a soft plump kiss on his cheek. Raven was silent for a second, then her hands fell from his shoulders. She took a step back. He didn't have time to ponder why it felt so natural for them to rest there.

"Raven's busy. Her emotions started to split, and Rage is overpowering all of us right now. I'm Knowledge by the way."

He wasn't sure if he had to say hi. He did, but the knew Raven didn't answer him. So he went on.

"What do you mean, her emotions split? Weren't you always like that?"

He could see the eyes of Knowledge searching him. They were still Raven's.. but different. Something was gone, a light was missing..

"We were split for easier control. It's simpler to control one emotion at a time when we are mere fractions in her head. She learned to be more balanced over the past years. You helped her with that, remember?"

He knew she already knew he didn't remember. There was a ring of bitterness in her tone.

"If Raven fails to put Rage in its cage, it's going to be the devil you'll face next time. And I mean it quite literally."

She turned her back to him, heading back to the bed. He tried to reach her but he couldn't hold her. She faced him again, with a crooked smile.

"How do you like Raven's room?"

It was so casual in a 'oh by the way' kind of voice. Was it some kind of trick question?

"Uh, I'm not sure. I've never been in here before, and it's too dark to see anything anyways.."

"Oh, of course. Strange, I wonder how you navigated yourself so well if this was the first time in her room?"

The sarcastic tone in her voice sounded oddly sad and painful. For a second Robin thought she was screaming for help instead.

But wait... How did he know she curling up in bed? How did he even know which direction her bed was?

"Well, Raven's back. Hopefully, she'll 'explain' better than I do."

He couldn't even say 'wait'. The eyes closed shut. The darkness started to lift. It was still dark, but it was enough to see the traces of exhaustion on her face. Then the familiar eyes came back looking into him.

"..What are you doing here? This is my room."