The gulls flew playing around in the sea fog, and one by one the dived down to the dark ocean to catch a fish. The ocean was also the one, who could take things away without a trace. It could destroy so much, but without it life on Earth would be lost.
She had been sitting there in the window since the first light had waked her up. Now the sun shined thought her window and reveal the ruined room. It wasn't the first time it had happened, but this one had been the worst. It had all just been too much for her, so the job had just been the last straw.
If it hadn't been for Beast Boy, then… She was afraid of thinking what could have happened, but on the other hand it had been him, who had got her the job. No, she couldn't blame him for it. It hat been her own choice. In addition he had been there for her. She had been so afraid, that her powers would hurt him that she had sent him away. He had left her, but it was reluctantly. He had felt it was his fault. She had now gained control over herself again, and only the big bruise on her back indicated, that something had happened.
A big bird of prey forced one the gulls down in an attempt to get the gull's catch. The gull tried to escape, but in the end the big bird forced it down so low, that the waves caught the gull and it disappeared. Dead was a natural thing.
Her stomach began rumbled and broke the line of thoughts. She therefore went down to the kitchen. She saw him at once. He was sitting by the table and ate some of his tofu waffles. She wanted just to run away, but they needed to talk about it.
"Hey."
He turned around and saw her.
"Hey, I was about to wonder about when you were going to show up. Was it hard to match black with black?"
She sighted. Maybe it just had been…then she saw his eyes. They were dark.
"BB, we have to talk."
He looked down.
"Sorry, I shouldn't have done it, but…"
"Thanks!"
He looked up.
"But…"
"You were there when really I needed you."
She could see a change in him as the words sank in.
"Do you want a tofu waffle?"
First she was about to turn him down, but then she began to think. What could it harm to try something new?
"Okay."
He gave her one and she tasted it. It wasn't her cup of tea, but she ate it.
"Do you want another one?"
"Don't push it!"
The door flung open and Cyborg ran into the kitchen.
"BB, RAVEN! THERE IS A LET…"
He stopped as he saw them.
"…Oh, Raven, you are eaten tofu!?!"
She put the waffle down.
"What were you shouting about?"
Cyborg shook his head and gave her an envelope. It was a letter to Robin.
"But…"
"Look at the sender!"
"Slade!"
Cyborg nodded.
"What should we do?"
Beast Boy, who had begun to eat another waffle, pulled the letter out of her hands.
"Let us open it!"
Quickly she took it back.
"I do it."
She opened it and began to read. As she read the letter it all began to spin around her. It could not be true. The papers felt out of her hands and down on the floor.
"Raven, what is it?"
"It has to be a trick! It has to be."
Cyborg pick one of the papers up and began to read it out loud.
"Dear Robin, did you really think you could fool me that easy. It was just a matter of matching your DNA with…"
He stopped
Beast Boy was irritated. He wanted to know what the letter said.
"What???"
Raven pulled herself together.
"It says, that the body wasn't Robin, but a guy called Edward Steinbeck."
"But that mean…"
"Yeah, that means Robin still can be alive."
She gathered the rest of the papers from the floor.
"Or it could just be a trick!"
"Either way, we have to check it out. Robin could be out there somewhere…alive."
The silence lay around them as a blanket of questions. Beast Boy was the one, who broke it.
"But if it was him, the Steinbeck guy, who got killed in the explosion. Where is Robin then?"
Raven walked over to the window.
"I don't know. Some place out there."
"But why haven't he contacted us then?"
"I don't know, but that's what we going to find out."
She walked over to the computer and began the searching, but stopped and turned to the two other titans.
"We shouldn't tell Starfire about this before we are sure about what happened. I don't think she can bear to lose him again."
The other two others agreed.
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"Have you seen Elmer?"
Jake looked up from his paintjob.
"Nice seeing you too, Gary. And no, I haven't seen him since he left for his doctor appointment. Why?"
"He didn't show up for the appointment. We have look everywhere for him."
Jake dropped the paintbrush and stood up.
"I go and get Sam."
Gary stopped him.
"No, don't do it. It's probably nothing. You know how Elmer is. It's better, that you just concentrate about the play."
"Gary, I know Elmer. He would never do anything without telling me first. You are just as nervous as I am. Please, let me get Sam so we can find him."
Gary looked down in the boy's seriously eyes and recognized the resolution in them.
"Okay!"