Okay, when I watched Teen Titans, Raven was so much like an OC of mine that I HAD to write this fic.

Raven's past is completely AU. If you have a problem with that, you have been warned.

Reviews are nice. Constructive criticism is appreciated more.

Any character you recognize doesn't belong to me.

On to the fic!

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Prologue: A New Start

With a soft creak, the door of a house just like all the other ones on the street opened. It was pitch black, but the figure that emerged had no trouble seeing. The figure's name was Deirdre.

She adjusted her shoulder bag and silently shut the door behind her. Then she began walking toward City Spaceport, the only spaceport on the planet. Her planet was much more magically advanced then technologically.

It was funny, she thought, all during her adventure she had never thought about what she would do afterwards. Her friends would return to their families, but Deirdre didn't have a family. She was quite sure that if her friends knew, one of them would invite her to stay with them. But Deirdre didn't want that. She would make a life for herself somewhere else.

Also, she was sure that her problem was one she would have to work out on her own.

When she reached the spaceport, Deirdre looked at the posters of different planets and moons. One smallish blue-green planet caught her eye. She walked over and grabbed one of the information booklets below it.

"Earth," it read, "a small planet mostly covered by water. People intelligent, but neither very magically nor technologically advanced. Good vacation spot. Must see sites:"

Deirdre shut the booklet. That sounded good. And it was probably the last place her friends would look for her. Shame on you, she thought, your first act alone and your friends are still ruling your decisions. Shaking her head, she walked over to the ticket master's desk.

"I'd like to buy a one way ticket to earth, please," she asked the man, her voice taking the cold monotone it usually had with strangers.

"Name, please?" the man asked, peering down his nose at her. She matched him stare for stare.

"Raven," she lied, not missing a beat. "And your last name?"

"I don't have one," Deirdre replied, still with no emotion.

"One of Jorryn's orphans, eh?" he asked, referring to her as one of the many children whose parent's had been killed by The Evil One.

"Yes," Deirdre said, still cold, but inside she was leaping for joy, that was the perfect lie! Hundreds of Jorryn's orphans had been leaving the planet to look for a new life elsewhere in the universe.

"Sorry to hear that," the man said, "Platform nine, leaves in one hour. That'll be six golds."

Deirdre handed him the money and walked toward platform nine. Her new life was about to begin, and this time, it would go right.