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Who is he?
"Help! Someone help me!"
Beast Boy came running into the Titans Tower and hided behind Raven, who was meditating in the living room.
"BB, I don't have time for this."
"Raven, you need to help me. He is after me!"
She was about to turn him down again, when she saw his eyes. Beast Boy had always had a hard time keeping a straight face when he was joking, but this time he looked really scared.
"Okay, where is he then?"
"He is here."
Beast Boy hided behind Raven again. She looked around in the room without seen anything.
"BB, are you sure that you…?"
Beast Boy popped up from behind Raven and pointed in the direction of the front door.
"He…he is right there!"
Then Raven saw him. A skinny boy with long legs stood in the door. She was about to go in to defence mode, when she sensed a strange feeling of peace. Somehow she just knew, that they had nothing to fear from that boy. First then she really looked at the boy and had to shake her head. He looked so harmless, that she pushed the feeling of something else away.
The boy began to walk over to them, but felt over his long legs. He landed on the floor with a bang and began to cry.
Without thinking went Raven over to him and comforted him. After some minutes he stopped crying and Raven led him over to the sofa.
"BB, stay with him while I find Cyborg."
Beast Boy, who had hided himself behind a table, popped up with a scary look on his face.
"I NOT being alone with him."
Raven sighed.
"Okay, then you go after Cyborg."
"I NOT letting you alone with him. He could kill you."
Raven sighed again. She was absolutely not in the mood for this.
"Okay, then we go together."
Beast Boy agreed, and they went after Cyborg after Raven had tried to make it as comforted for the boy as she could.
They found Cyborg in the workshop. They told him about the boy as they walked back to the living room, but as they came into the room was it empty.
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She had no more tears, but still she wanted to cry more. Her eyes bore the trace of sleeplessness, and her hair was a mess, but she didn't care. She just lay there on her round bed squeezing the picture of him between her hands. There had been so much she had wanted to say to him, but now it was to late. She couldn't stop thinking about him.
The others had told her, that he would have wanted her to get on with her life, but somehow she just couldn't. A part of her didn't want to believe, that he was gone, even though there was so much proof of that. She had spent the first couple of weeks searching for him every minute. She didn't even stop to eat or sleep, but then had Raven told her about the cape. It had hit her like an arrow in the heat. She had then retreated to her room and hadn't left it since.
She heard a noise and raised her head so she could see. Then she saw him. She jumped up of the bed and the picture of Robin landed in front of the boy. He picked it up.
"Jake!"
The anger grew in Starfire. He shouldn't come here and soil her memory of Robin. She went over to him a tug it out of his hands. He just smiled.
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They had been looking for the boy everywhere in the Titans Tower. Only one room was left, but Raven didn't think he could be in there. It was Starfire's room.
Maybe the boy had just left the tower, but Raven had the feeling that he still was there. She was about to go away from Starfire's door, when she heard laughter coming from the room. Just some months ago would it have been normal, but after Robin's dead had Starfire changed.
Raven laid a hand on the door handle, but stopped herself before pressing down. What if she had heard wrong? What if…? She heard the laughter again and opened the door.
"Hi, Raven friend"
Starfire and the boy were sitting on her bed playing card. Raven went over to them. She could immediately see the change in Starfire. The anger had left her and she was almost her normally self again, but still could Raven see the grief in her eyes.
"Raven, this is Elmer."
"I know, Starfire. He is listed as missing from a children's home called St. Johns."
"Oh! Is that right, Elmer friend?"
Elmer nod keenly.
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They droved up the driveway to the big house in the end of it. As they came closer to the house began Elmer to jump around in his seat.
"Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake."
They stopped at the house and were greeted by a man and an elderly woman. Elmer jumped into the woman's arms. Raven would have swore, that she saw a tear fall down from the woman's eye. After some minutes broke Elmer the hug and ran into the house calling after Jake.
"Thank you so much for bringing him home. I'm Gary McCoy."
They shook hands.
"Well, it's okay. I'm glad…"
Raven got interrupted by a red sports car, which came speeding up the driveway. It stop just centimetres from hitting the T-car. A man in a blue suit tripped over to them.
"What a awful place this is!"
He tried to get some mud from his shoes.
"Oh, my name is Ben Draco."
He gave Gary the hand.
"Welcome, I'm Gary McCoy. What can we do for you?"
Ben preformed a little dance as he once more tried to get to mud of his shoes.
"The faster this terrible place can get demolish…"
He remembered where he was and corrected his tie.
"Oh! Well, this letter should explain it."
He gave Gary a white envelope.
"Well, I have to go. Adieu!"
He tripped over to his car again and droved away after he had wiped his shoes with his handkerchief, which he then just throw in the driveway.
Gary opened the envelope and read the letter. He eyes went dark as he read it.
"No, it can't be true. They have bought our loan. If we not pay them $175.000 before five day have gone, then they are going to take our home away."
He suddenly remembered the two titans.
"Oh, I shouldn't press our worries over to you. Thanks again for bringing Elmer home."
"That's okay. We ought to go home now. Cyborg is waiting for us with the dinner."
"Oh, that's okay."
Starfire, who had stood behind Raven the whole time, came forward.
"Can I say goodbye to Elmer?"
Gary smiled.
"Yeah, I think he ran up to his room. Mrs. Williams can show you up."
The elderly woman, Mrs. Williams, took Starfire into the house and up the stairs. Raven had turned the offer to join her down as she said she had a headache. They stopped at a door and Mrs. Williams knocked a little before going in. The room wasn't big, but large enough for two beds. Elmer was sitting on one of them. Starfire went over to him.
"Hi, Elmer friend. I have come to say goodbye to you."
Elmer didn't say anything, but throw himself into Starfire's arms. They hugged. A tear went down her cheek and for the first time in weeks was it not in grief. They ended the hug and Mrs. Williams took Starfire down again. Starfire stopped just as they were about to go out to the others.
"Mrs. Williams, who is Jake?"
"Jake, he is Elmer's best friend. Why?"
"Elmer just kept mentioning him."
Mrs. Williams smiled and they walked out to the others.
