Chapter 3: I'll never tell.

Disclaimer: I don't own the teen titans? Happy? I said it!

Alright, Alright, I didn't mean to take so long to finish this chapter, and it isn't even that long! I'm sorry! You're reviews were absolutely WONDERFUL though! I feel so appreciated! Cheers to you all!

I was going to ramble on more, but I guess that isn't very interesting, I'll ramble a little more at the end of the chapter.

ONWARD WE GO!

Sunlight poured into the poorly lit room as a new day dawned. Shadows of the four distressed titans flickered onto the walls of Robin's colorful room. Yet it didn't feel very colorful today. Drowsy eyes drifted shut, and snapped back open in response to any moan or murmur that was most likely the furnace buzzing or pipes flowing above their exhausted heads.

"Maybe one person should wait for Raven to wake up, she might not even appreciate all the attention," Cyborg yawned and positioned his head on his large left hand in fatigue. His dreamy eyes began to drift down steadily before sparking open again and falling out of his chair from Starfire's unexpectedly quiet tone.

"No, if Raven awakens, I think everyone should be here so she knows that we care very much for her," Starfire's voice was soft and drained; She looked around the room with vacant eyes, confused, hurt, and run-down.

Beast boy cracked an irritated eye open to look up at Starfire from his position draped over Robin's dresser drawers. He rolled over in frustration, mumbling incomprehensible words to himself all the while dragging a pair of Robin's torn ebony capes with him.

"What do you think, Robin…?" Starfire looked through Robin's mysterious mask to his naturally bright eyes; searching for an answer for to an undistinguished question.

Robin stared back at Starfire's shimmering sage eyes, yet he didn't SEE her. The voices of his friends were echoing through his head, yet he didn't HEAR them. Starfire had touched his icy cold cheek out of perplexity, yet he didn't FEEL her.

"Robin…?" Starfire's grip on Robin tightened; his typical guidance of the titans had vanished. In fact, it was almost as if Robin himself had disappeared all together. All that was left was a quickly crumbling body.

Raven stirred in her sleep, grunting quietly; causing Robin to spring to his feet and scramble out of the room into the kitchen for tea without one word.

"Talk about mood swings" Beast boy's humor had returned surprisingly as well as he chuckled to himself before standing up and following Robin at a much slower pace to the kitchen before the tower was on fire.

"I AM SO SORRY, RAVEN!" Starfire had already begun apologizing to the semi-conscious Raven, tears spilling down her cheeks. "If you do not want to go, no one shall make you do anything ever agaaaainnnnn!" Starfire had managed to wake up at least five other apartment buildings through her apologies.

"Could you keep it down?" Raven grumbled, opening her eyes to four pairs of extremely concerned eyes, blurry with distraught tears. She immediately furrowed her brow, sat up and crossed her arms across her breasts. "What's the problem?"

"YOU ARE OKAAAAAYYYYYY!" Starfire was the first to jump into action and wrap her arms around Raven's bruised profile. Beast boy's energy had come back in heaps; bouncing off the walls and knocking down all of Robin's collectables off their stands. Cyborg smiled at Raven with relief, quickly wiping the tears off his distressed face. Standing in the doorway, was Robin, frozen in place and not quite sure how to react. Whether he should jump for joy and scream, or run over and hug Raven as tight as he could, or burst into tears and fall to his knees. But all Robin could manage out was…

"How are you feeling Raven?" What a disappointment, no hugs, or tears, or waking up the entire city as Starfire had a few moments ago.

Raven winced painfully in return to Starfire squeezing her lungs into playdoh. "I've been better," she uttered, combing a bruised hand through her silky hair idly. Turning about the room, her eyes widened; all the tears, and the hugs and the excitement…were over her.

"You had us worried sick! Where were you!?" Cyborg instantly began throwing fastballs in Raven's unsuspecting direction.

Raven looked at her friends vacantly and then averted her gaze to her pale hands clenching the blanket protectively. "That's my business…" she paused mid-sentence and hobbled out of bed, gripping at the wooden bed post to claw at the glass in the window and examine the ground floor closely then turn back towards her friends' curious expressions. "I..uhh thought I heard something.." Raven whispered quietly, and sat on the windowsill, her spine as straight as a pole to ensure she wasn't feeling as weak as she was.

"So Raven…are you feeling well enough to go to the masquerade?" Starfire smiled innocently, and clutched her chest and fell over when Cyborg elbowed her in the ribcage.

Raven's head jerked up in alarm and her eyes softened at her comrades' concerned reactions. "I--…Yes, we are going…" Raven nodded and gave them a weak smile before grasping her arm in pain and leaning back against the icy coolness of the window on her burning hot skin.

Robin raised an eyebrow in return to Raven's alert reaction to the question; what was it about her that seemed more anxious, aware of danger perhaps.

Starfire threw her arms up and romped around the room excitedly, knocking down more various items off Robin's dresser. "WE CAN DO THE SHOPPING TOGETHER!" She grinned broadly at Raven who gave her a crooked smile and turned back towards the window.

Robin stared intensely at Raven, deep in thought, Raven smiling was so..unlike Raven, eerie almost, something was going on, And he intended to find out.

The day had approached and departed quickly, most of the day spent sleeping by the wounded and exhausted titans. Robin being the only one that couldn't sleep, had arisen from his bed and crept silently down the corridor and glanced into Raven's room.

Robin rubbed his eyes in astonishment…could he really being seeing this?

Sorry this took so long everyone! I'll make sure to make the next chapter uploaded quicker and be longer AND more exciting! Whooo! Because next chapter should be a more exciting one! W00t! Thank you to all those who reviewed and read my story! It's people like you who keep me writing and trying to improve!

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