A/N: Woah! I made it to the second chapter! Thanks so much for all ya'll who read chapter 1. I added more specific thank yous at the bottom. I hope this chapter hits everyone's standards!

Chapter 2

"Robin! Robin, I'm over here," came a voice out of the shadows.

"St… Starfire?" Robin choked, searching around him. He looked at his surroundings. There was a large wooden staircase to his left. Cobwebs hung heavily to the walls, a strong layer of dust dragging them downwards. The floorboards creaked under his shoes.

"Where are you?" Robin called into the darkness.

"I'm right here! I would so ever love it if you would join me. Oh, please, Robin, hurry!"

Her voice seemed to echo around Robin, restricting his capability of finding where she was. Searching around the room, he saw no signs of anyone, let alone Starfire. He decided to climb the eerie staircase, hoping she was upstairs.

"I'm coming! I'm coming as fast as I can!"

"But it's just not fast enough," Starfire echoed through Robin's head. She sounded so angry, Robin quickened his pace. At the top of the staircase there was another room identical to the one he had just been in, staircase and all. He decided to climb up this second staircase and quickened to a run.

"I don't know where you are, Starfire! I can't see you in here!"

"That is because I am not here. I am out of your grasp. I am somewhere you cannot get to."

Robin jerked to a halt on his fifth staircase. "Why? Why can't I get you?"

"Because you don't want to."

"Are you okay? You tossed and turned all last night. I could barely get any sleep myself," Raven turned to Robin as she saw him open his eyes. She lifted her hand and brought the tray of pancakes and orange juice from the table across the room to their bed.

Robin wiped the cold sweat off his forehead. A dream. It had all been merely a dream.

"Robin?"

"Oh, nothing. I'm fine. Just a nightmare, I suppose," he mumbled, leaning toward Raven to kiss her on the cheek. It had been 5 years since Starfire's disappearance, and still she haunted his dreams. He couldn't remember exactly how he had gotten together with Raven, but it almost seemed natural. Like destiny.

"Well, eat your pancakes and enjoy breakfast in bed. I have to go get some reading done," Raven announced, standing up and walking toward the door.

Staring at her back, Robin felt a pang of something he couldn't quite describe. The hood of her cape was down, letting her delightful purple hair glisten slightly in the low lit room. At that very moment, she was perfection. Robin wanted to reach out to Raven and tell her all of his wants and dreams and aspirations, but something held him back. Without another word, Raven left the room and Robin slowly slumped into the warmth of the sheets around him.

He loved her. That's what he had figured out with careful analysis and calculations. It had become the only thing that made sense.

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos… Azarath, Metrion…" Raven quietly meditated. She was in her old room which the team had converted into a sort of study area, though Raven was generally the only one to use it. However professional she might have looked on the outside didn't come close to her thoughts on the inside.

You're kidding yourself, Raven. You're in a relationship that's going nowhere with a man who loves someone else.

This hadn't been the first night she had heard Robin screaming her name. Over and over as if she was the solution to all problems. What's your favorite color? Starfire. What's two plus two? Starfire. What's the meaning of life? Starfire. Who do you love? Starfire.

She hadn't dared asked him about it. That would be suicide. If he hadn't gotten mad at her, he'd be angry at himself, which was almost worse.

She tried to concentrate on meditating. Ever since the accident with Starfire, the remaining four Titans had been honing their skills, trying to become more powerful to compensate for the lack of a member. Cyborg had developed an upgrade to increase his performance. Beast Boy ran numerous obstacle courses, developing a keener sense of when to use each animal. Robin worked out almost constantly. Raven spent much of her time studying and meditating, slowly increasing her powers.

Robin always insisted that when Starfire came back (and he always emphasized the "when"), they would need to be ready to fight off Warp and whoever might join him. She fueled his want to be better. She was the reason for everything.

And I'm just his plaything, holding her place at his side until she can most triumphantly return.

"With this new chip in me, I can do anything, man. Limitations? I don't think so. I just have to buff up the human half of me and I'll be invincible," Cyborg announced, lifting more weights than Beast Boy could ever hope to be able to move.

"Dude, that's pretty awesome. I wish I could have a magic thingamajig that would take all my limitations away," Beast Boy said in between morphs. He was standing in a sort of cell where random things would suddenly be thrown at him. Effortlessly, BB changed into a cheetah to dodge an axe, then a hawk to avoid a low flying chainsaw. He returned to human every once in a while to continue his conversation with Cyborg.

"Eh, it wasn't exactly magic. Five years in the making to get all the kinks out. But its about time I got an advancement. It stunk fighting the same way ever since you're a teenager."

"Hey, shut up man! Some of us are still in our late teens," grumbled Beast Boy.

Cyborg laughed. "That's right, isn't it? But that won't be for much longer. Soon little BB'll be 20. You know what that means?"

"Huh?" Beast Boy asked, stepping out of the cell.

"Par-tay time!"

A/N: Sorry for making this chapter a little shorter! There might be some age differences than what I thought up and the normal ideas. I was basically going with Beast Boy being 14 in the show, Cyborg and Robin 16 (since they both drive), and Raven and Star 15. That would make BB 19, Cy and Rob 21, and the girls 20 in this chapter. That also put them all around 35 when the actual episode commenced, which I think fit all of them except BB, who we'll just say ages quickly!

Here are some thank you's to all you awesome people that reviewed me:

raeandrob4eva – Thanks for being my first ever reviewer! I have to warn you that there's gonna be some Raven and Beast Boy stuff later on, but I'm definitely gonna try to keep the Raven Robin fans happy!

Faded Nights – Who woulda thunk poll and pole mean different things? Hehe, thanks for pointing that out! And I can't thank you enough for saying that the OOCness was okay, I kept worrying about that while writing and feeling like no one would like my story because of it!

dark16angel – Was this chapter a good dose of Robin Raven togetherness? There's gonna definitely be some more, filled with controversy and misguided love and scandals, etc, etc!

YoungAndHopeless91 – Episode extensions are definitely cool! I like this one sense I have a filled in beginning and a filled in end and all I have to do is write about these 20 years in between!

Strixvaria and blaze-firestorm – I hope my update was soon enough! I'm sorry if I take a while with things, what with school and all I hardly ever have time to write. Luckily I'm a senior in high school and I've already been accepted to my college of choice, so I really don't have to worry too much with homework!

nala456 – X-Men is awesome! Gambit's whole cards thing was always the coolest power in my opinion. When I was trying to come up with a bad guy, cards were the only thing I could think to easily write about!

Darkest flame – Don't know anything about The Flash, but that sounds really cool! I'll look into it. Thanks for thinking my story has potential, I'll try to do my best!

Neko-Miya – Mimi (in voice like in Seinfeld to Newman). Hehe, thanks for not making fun of me no matter how dorky I am!

Nevermoretheraven – Hehe, thanks for including me in your 300 reviews! You must read a whole lot!