Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans, but if I did, I'd keep them in a miniature replica of their former habitat. Except for Robin and Raven. I'd take them out and play with them.

A/N: Ok, so humor isn't fully back from vacation, so she and romance co-wrote this chapter. But humor will be back full time next chapter, I promise!

To my wonderful reviewers: (HOLY CRAP, I ACTUALLY HAVE REVIEWERS!) Thank you all so much! This is the greatest response I've ever gotten for anything I've written, and I'm absolutely thrilled to have pleased you all! I only hope this chapter doesn't disappoint!


Masquerade

Raven was experiencing déjà vu.

Once again, she was seated on the edge of Robin's bed watching him pace back and forth across his room in frustration. There were differences in the situation, though, Raven realized with a carefully muted grin. Absentmindedly, she began humming softly to herself.

After a few moments, the humming sunk into Robin's consciousness and he stopped pacing to sit back down close to Raven. "What's that from? The song sounds a little familiar."

Raven looked slightly embarrassed at having been caught humming. "Um, it's from a musical. You've probably just heard something like it before."

Robin looked thoughtful. "I don't know, it really does sound familiar. What's the name of it?"

"Masquerade," Raven said. "It came to mind when you mentioned Mardi Gras."

"This is going to bother me now, until I figure out where I've heard it," Robin muttered, narrowing his eyes in thought. "Why don't you sing some of it? Maybe that'll help."

Raven's eyes widened in alarm. "Robin, I don't sing." She stated flatly.

"Oh?" Robin's eyebrow arched. "Come on, just a little bit." Raven shook her head. After staring at her for a few moments, Robin smirked. Raven had a moment to look alarmed before he pounced.

"Robin!" Raven squealed in surprise.

"I'm not stopping until you start singing! Come on, Raven," Robin laughed, attacking Raven's sides with his fingers. "I never knew you were ticklish."

Raven continued shaking her head and playfully trying to push Robin off her. Suddenly a wave of shadow shot across the room, cutting through a leg of Robin's desk, and collapsing the desk and spilling all of its contents onto the floor of Robin's room. Robin immediately stopped his assault, freezing in his position— laying halfway on top of Raven's body, his hands gripping her waist. He realized how he was laying at the same time as Raven did, and their eyes both widened at the same moment. Robin quickly scrambled off, shooting a slightly apologetic smile at Raven.

Raven sat up nearly as quickly, coughed, and smoothed her hair in an attempt to regain her dignity. "All right, you win. But only because I just ruined your desk," Raven added belligerently. "Although that only happened because you started tickling me..."

Nervously, Raven took a deep breath, and surprised Robin with the quiet soprano quality of her voice. "Masquerade, paper faces on parade. Masquerade, hide your face so the world will never find you." She hummed a few more notes and then trailed off, looking down and blushing horribly. Mastering herself again, Raven looked back up at Robin. "Have you heard it?"

"No, I don't think I have."

Raven face-faulted.

"Heh, sorry?" Robin rubbed the back of his head with one hand sheepishly.

Recovering, Raven glared at the Boy Wonder. "You mean I sang that for nothing?"

"Not for nothing. I wouldn't say that. You have a pretty good voice." He paused as Raven shook her head in denial. "Since we're not getting anywhere in the prank department, why don't you tell me about the song?"

Raven realized his point, and cleared her throat lightly. "Well, in the musical, it's originally sung by the cast at a masked ball, but the part that I just sang was also at the end. The main character is alone, listening to his music box play the music, and he's singing along with it."

"Music box?"

She nodded. "A music box, and on top of it is a monkey playing the cymbals while the music plays."

"A monkey, huh? That reminds me of that monkey...we found...in Beast Boy's room..." Robin trailed off as their two minds reached the same conclusion at once.

"The monkey!"


Ok, so there was more talking than I planned for, but now we know what the plot will center upon! I feel bad because these are getting shorter, and this one was almost just filler...but next chapter should be longer, and there will probably just be a couple left. Now I just have to figure out what they're going to do with the monkey...please ignore how wrong that sounds... O.O;;

Masquerade, by the way, is from Phantom of the Opera, which I absolutely worship. Go see the movie! Watch the musical! Listen to the music :coughs: Anyway...