Title: A Deeper Kind of Sickness

Genre: Romance/Action/Adventure

Rating: PG-13

Summary: Things heat up between Raven and Cyborg, but what happens when Raven finds out she's in no condition to fight? Trigon is out to destroy the threat, and Raven (and the only hope for the world) might not make it. CyRae Read and Review please!

Author's Note: This is a Cyborg and Raven romance fic. Please enjoy! It starts out light and kind of funny, but it gets darker and more serious toward the end. But who knows? Happy beginnings can come from the saddest of endings.

Chapter 1: Sunday

Robin tapped his foot impatiently.

"C'mon, Beast Boy, we're already twenty minutes late!"

Starfire, Cyborg, and Robin stood at the door of Titans Tower, each with a bag stuffed full of the necessities needed for a week long vacation from their "jobs." Bruce Wayne, Robin's former mentor and foster parent, had invited the team to take a break from their duties in Jump City and stay with him. Beast Boy was currently shoving things into a suitcase, and, to the annoyance of Robin, causing them to be behind schedule.

"Hold your horses, dude, I'm coming!" Beast Boy exclaimed. He crammed his clothes into the bag along with a pair of shoes. He straightened up, put his hands on his hips and looked around his room.

"I'm forgetting something, I know it…" The green changeling muttered to himself, and he spotted a small glass bottle of cologne on a shelf. He snatched it and placed it in his bag. "Ah-ha! Perfect. The ladies will be all over me with a spray of this stuff."

He caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror and waggled his eyebrows at his reflection.

"Beast Boy, my man, you are one sexy beast." He said with satisfaction, tipping his sunglasses with a finger to wink at his mirror image. His self-admiration time was cut short as Robin irritably called his name a second time.

"Dude! What's your deal?" Beast Boy yelled at Robin, but did hasten his pace, slamming the suitcase shut and skidding down the hallway, promptly running into Raven and accidentally shoving her off of the stairs. With a surprised yell, she fell through the air and landed in Cyborg's outstretched metallic arms.

"Uhh, fancy seeing you here, Raven." Cyborg laughed at the enchantress in his arms.

"Put me down." Raven growled as Robin tried to hide his laughs.

"Whoa, sorry, Rae." Cyborg laughed, setting her upright. She glared at him, and he stopped laughing mid-chuckle and grinned sheepishly.

"Raven, are you sure you don't want to come? Bruce sent the invitation to all the Titans." Robin said, stepping out of her way to stand next to Beast Boy (who had managed to make it down the steps and had gushed, "Sorry, Raven, really!" before being scorched by Raven's death-glare). "And Cyborg, sorry you couldn't come, but I understand that you need to visit your grandparents."

"Yeah, tell him that it was appreciated though." Cyborg answered, clapping a hand on the spiky-haired leader's shoulder.

"I don't do get-togethers." Raven said icily.

"Alright then, we're off and you've got the Tower to yourself this week, Raven." Beast Boy said. "Try not to throw any radical parties without me, 'kay?" He joked, nudging her.

"I'll try to hold back," Raven said sarcastically, pushing Beast Boy away from her.

"We will be home again soon, Raven!" Starfire said happily to her friend. "Be not unhappy or saddened as we depart, friend!"

"Have a good time, Starfire." Raven said obligingly. "I'm going to my room. Lock the door when you leave." She walked away without another word to her fellow Titans, and none of them noticed when she looked back one last time at, curiously enough, Cyborg.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go already!" Beast Boy said enthusiastically to Starfire and Robin as the four of them exited Titans Tower. "I've got babes to mingle with."

Robin grinned and waved goodbye to Cyborg, and the Titans parted ways to enjoy well-deserved vacations.

"Azarath. Metrion. Zinthos."

Raven floated cross-legged above the floor in front of the huge window in the living room, her cloak trailing gently on the ground. She was bathed in the orange glow of the sunset that shone through the glass of the living room wall. The beautiful view of a sunset offered by the wall of glass was blocked out by the calm darkness she meditated in as she chanted.

"Azarath. Metrion. Zinthos. Azarath. Metri –"

The entrance to Titans Tower burst open and a deep voice bellowed,

"Honey, I'm home!"

"YAHHH!!" Raven cried, and fell from her suspension, shaken rudely from her reverie. She turned to see her half-robot friend doubled over in laughter as she shakily stood, brushing herself off and fuming.

"Ah," – gasp – "you should have," – gasp – "seen the look," –gasp –"on your face!" Cyborg managed to say through a fit of hysterics.

"You aren't funny, Cyborg." Raven said angrily. "I was meditating! Besides, you aren't even supposed to be here! Didn't you leave with everyone else this morning?"

"Yeah, about that," Cyborg said, the smile sliding off his face. "My grandparents couldn't have me this week, they'd planned for next week and hadn't changed the date. They have other company and no room right now, so I'm back here."

Raven scowled.

"Looks like it's you and me, Rae." Cyborg said good-naturedly. He jumped over the back of the couch and reclined with the remote in his hand, flipping channels.

Raven blew a piece of hair out of her face.

"This is going to be a looong week." She muttered, but somewhere inside her she knew she was going to like it.

Author's Note: There it is, the first short chapter of this fic. I've already started chapter two. Please review (since I assume you've read)!