(A/N) Didn't really intend for this to be multi-chapter, maybe one or two chappies. But if I get enough requests, I will continue it. I think now I might add some plot. Yes...I will.

WARNING! SPOILERS FOR BIRTHMARK!

Chapter 2

Was it purely coincedence that on the same night Raven decides she will tell Robin about her birthday, Slade returned yet again? What it some cruel twist of fate that left Robin in the infirmary, deep in a coma?

These things Raven pondered dejectedly as she stared at the Boy Wonder's motionless body. 'Could I have saved him? Maybe if I'd just stayed next to him during the whole battle, he wouldn't have hit his head...wouldn't have gotten hurt so badly...'

Raven slipped into the memory of the battle the night before.

FLASHBACK

"It's nice to see you, Titans." A familiar, haunting voice spoke from somewhere above the Titan's heads.

"No, not again...not so soon after..." Raven's voice broke off. The voice started laughing, and Raven clutched the sides of her head. The strange symbols of her father, Trigon, burned all over her once again. Slade jumped, catlike, down from the rafters, walked over to Raven, and heaved her upward by her arm. She was dangling, lifted off the ground, and writhing in pain.

"Put her down, Slade!" Robin screamed. Never before had he felt such fury consume him. Not only was his arch-nemesis present, but he was hurting the one who mattered most to him.

Slade looked up, as if considering complying with Robin's request, then answered simply, "No."

Robin gritted his teeth. He knew Slade wouldn't let go. "Hiyaahhh!" he shouted, and leaped forward, extending his bo staff. Slade knocked him away like a mosquito. "Really Robin, such impatience. I'd expect better from you. Ah, I doesn't really matter. My expectations of you were, perhaps, to high."

Raven took advantage of his distraction to blast him with black energy. Slade promptly dropped her and did a couple of backflips. Once he was fifty feet away, he said, "Hate the message, not the messenger. Your father just wanted me to tell you that on the next full moon, he will come. The portal must be opened. Rage shall consume you, and hatred shall rule."

"Yeah, yeah, we've heard it all before. Give a rest, Slade!" Beast Boy said.

Slade just laughed, and stood there watching the Titans try to decide how to attack.

Robin rushed over to where Raven lay, in a crumpled heap on the floor. Suddenly a huge pillar of fire crashed into him, and bashed him into the wall.

"Robin!" Raven cried, her arm stretched out towards him from where she was, on her hands and knees. She raced over to where he was, and kneeled next to him. She held his head in her hands and ran her fingers through his hair.

In his infuriatingly calm voice, Slade said, "What are you so sad about? It's not like a demon can care for anyone. Or did you really think he cared for you?"

Raven sat very still. Her eyes glowed red and her teeth sharpened. She heard Slade approaching, and she said in a deathly low whisper, "Don't take another step."

Slade waited for five seconds, then stepped loudly forward.

Raven spun around to face him, and suddenly she was floating 10 feet above him, her cloak rippling beneath her and tentacles of darkness reaching out towards Slade.

"Yessss," he hissed. "Let rage fill you, let your anger feed your powers."

Suddenly Raven's eyes cleared, and she reverted to her normal state. "I will NOT give in to my demon side. Leave. Leave now, Slade."

Slade laughed again, and disappeared in a vortex of fire.

END FLASHBACK

Raven sighed. She'd been sitting in the infirmary all morning, watching Robin. Suddenly she remember a book she'd read, where they said that sometimes people in comas can hear you speaking even if they can't respond. "I'll give it a shot," Raven decided.

Raven leaned back in her chair, and closed her eyes. She kept them shut the whole time she talked.

"Robin. I don't know if you can hear me...damn, that sounds cheesy. Ok, I suppose I promised I'd tell you what the deal with my birthday was, so here it is. Before Slade pushed me off the tower, he showed me a vision of what my future was to look like. Jump City was torn and broken, and all of you were turned to stone. You...you had little ghouls crawling up you, trying to take you down. And you weren't wearing your mask. Anyway, I saw my father rise up from the rubble of the city, and the sight filled me with such terror that I, I was frozen. I couldn't move. This was an offering, Robin. My father is offering me a world of chaos and death. I don't want it, Robin! I want this world! I want life! I want...you. And," Raven stopped, and a tear leaked out from between her shut eyelids,"I don't know if I can stop it from happening."

She opened her eyes, and noticed with a shock that Robin had his eyes open and he was looking at her. "Ro...Robin? How much did you hear?"

He brushed away the tear that had fallen down her cheek, and said, "All of it. I remember hearing your voice in the darkness, and it drew me back. Don't worry, Raven. We'll find a way to stop your father. We'll prevent the chaos. Remember how Starfire went into the future? And history said that clock disappeared, but history was wrong. That means that the future can be wrong, too. We'll fix this together. I'll be here for you."

Raven smiled sincerely at him. "Don't leave me."

Robin answered, "As you promised before; I won't. I'll never leave you. I'd give my life for you." He didn't speak the three little words. The words that mean so much. He didn't need to. He and Raven sat there in a comfortable silence. No words were needed. They both heard his unspoken words:

"I love you."