Oh my gosh! I am SO sorry y'all! I SO did not mean to leave you hanging I swear! Please don't hurt me! (ducks the thrown shoes) I so wanted to get another chapter out before I left for New York, but my internet just bombed the night before and I've just been so tired from the awesomeness of that trip! (I fricken LOVE NY!) So, anyway, without further ado, I shall get on with it!

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Savvy: Girl! Thank you for reviewing once again! I know it's hard for you to find good "comp" time. Thank you for saying that I have a good grasp on the characters. I really do try hard to pay attention to who they are on the show and work with that. I don't like to see them out of character. I hope that even in THIS chapter, they will stay in character. And yeah, I THOUGHT about putting Mas y Menos with Star, but I just KNEW that no one in Titans East would ever let them go alone. And I know you love Rob/Star –who doesn't?- but I just wanted to do a little bit of something else. You know me, I always like to shake things up. So, I guess you'll see. ;)
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--And you are welcome everyone! I'm so glad that my interpretations helped. There is one more chapter in which they talk so I shall interpret there too. But NOT this one! This one is dedicated to the Island dwellers. You shall see what I mean if you continue reading…which you better! (hehehe)

Disclaimer: Blah de blah de blech! …we all know what this is about. Let's just get to the story shall we?

When Did THIS Happen?

Robin felt heated sand beneath his fingers and groggily opened his eyes, "Where am I?" He looked up and saw palm trees, coconuts, and other island vegetation. "Ooh, this must be a dream, but I don't remember ever having one this vivid before." He rose to his knees and looked around once more. Behind and to the right of him, lay a dark blue bump. Once he realized what it was, everything came flooding back into his head, "This isn't a dream. Oh, no! Raven!" He quickly crawled to her and rolled her over onto her back, "Raven!" he shook her, "Raven!"

She cringed and brought an arm up to cover her eyes from the blinding light, "Robin?" she questioned only half seeing his face. She sat up and turned away from the blistering heat, "What the heck is going on?"

Robin shook his head, "I have no idea. All I know is that we were dropped out of the sky after fighting with Chang and ended up here."

Finally having time to think over the situation, Raven turned her head to him and raised an eyebrow, "But Robin, those were singularities. We should be dead. Why would we be here? And where are the others?"

He put his hand out to place it on her shoulder, but changed his mind and pulled it back allowing his fingers to curl into his palm, "This must be a side effect of that "special blend" stuff that Chang mentioned. Maybe somehow something shifted and we got sent here. At least we're still alive," he said hopefully, "and as for the others, they were sucked into a different singularity so they hopefully –most likely- ended up somewhere else." 'And not sent to a crushing oblivion, which I know is what we're both thinking.'

He stood up and held his hand out to her, "Well I guess we should take a look around and find some shelter or something."

Raven glared up at him, "I'm going to get us out of here right now." She crossed her legs in the sand and breathed in deeply while joining her middle fingers with her thumbs. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos," she chanted, fully expecting to levitate before casting her spell. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos," she chanted again still feeling the grains of sand pressing into her calves. She was becoming aggravated by this and tried once more, concentrating exceedingly hard on levitating this time, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She opened one eye and saw that she was still firmly on the ground. "It's not working! I've dried completely since the last time I tried using my powers and yet I still can't make them work!" She stood angrily and stomped off inland looking thoroughly frustrated.

"Raven!" Robin ran after her. "Raven!" he yelled once more grasping her arm and turning her around. "It's okay. We'll do our best at finding somewhere safe to stay for now and you can try again later."

"No, Robin. Trying again isn't going to do any good," she hung her head in despair, "I was afraid to admit this, but my powers are gone."

Robin smiled at her to calm her down, "Raven you've lost your powers before and they've come back. I'm sure it's just the stress of the situation that's causing this to happen."

Raven exhaled the breath she had been holding, "No. They're not coming back. When we dropped through that black hole we ended up in an alternate dimension and my powers just don't work here."

Robin ran his hands down over his face slowly, "So…there really is nothing we can do but try to make the best of this."

"Hopefully the others will be able to figure something out, or maybe a plan will present itself, but yes." They looked each other in the eye and she spoke again, "So, I guess now we check this place out?" She started to walk away, but Robin didn't join her. Instead he keeled over and placed his hands on his knees and laughed maddeningly. "What the heck is so funny?" Raven asked thoroughly confused.

"It's just that…there is nothing that either of us can do," he stood straight once more and wiped a tear from his eye, "which I guess is really not that funny, but there is one ironic upside..."

"Oh yeah? What's that?"

He stared straight at her trying to suppress a smile, "At least you can show how you feel about it."

Raven's body shook from the startling realization she experienced. 'I can show emotion! This is not going to be good.' In defense she put on an emotionless face, flipped up her hood, and started to walk off once more, "At the moment, I'm less than thrilled. Let's go."

Robin stopped her before she got too far, "Raven, hold on…" he whipped out a "Swiss Army" type knife and stuck it into a nearby tree, marking it with a big "R" then a "1".

"What's that for?" Raven asked genuinely wondering.

"This place may be bigger than it appears and we don't want to be going in circles. If I mark some trees, it will be easier for us not to get lost," he said explaining his deductive reasoning, "Plus this will help me secure a visual map of this place in my mind."

Raven shrugged, "Fine, just don't mark every single one. I would really like to make some progress here."

Robin responded by sheathing his blade and trudging ahead of her. He marked a tree about every 1500 feet and after an hour or so had marked 20. They knew by then that they were on an island, as on this first go round they tried to stay as close to the shore as possible.

After walking the entire circumference, they came upon R1 and both stopped to rest. Robin wiped off his blade. After marking 52 trees it had garnered a few layers of debris. Raven lay back in the sand, "I know it's almost sundown and I was hoping it would have cooled off by now, but it is still very hot here."

Robin copied her, putting his hands behind his head and crossing one leg over his bent knee, "Oh, I hear ya. I know we need to find somewhere to stay, but I don't think I can do anymore searching dressed like this."

She turned her head to him, "What do you propose?"

He sat up and whipped out his knife again, this time flipping to a different blade, "We need to update our wardrobes. -If you'll promise to not turn around, I'll be right back." He got up and ambled inland.

Raven heard some ripping noises and her eyes widened, 'What is he doing?' A few moments later she saw an arm hanging over her shoulder. It was dangling the blade in front of her, but what she didn't see was the glove that normally covered that hand. It looked unusually naked to her. When she turned around to take the knife, she saw an even more unusual sight. Robin was standing before her with bare feet, arms, and mostly bare legs. He had cut his leggings off at mid thigh; he had also torn off his sleeves at the seams, and had taken off his cape revealing a deep open V on his chest. She looked closer and noticed that he was also bare faced. Raven held an intake of breath and tried with every muscle in her body to stop herself from smiling and letting out the loud, "Daaaamn!" that was welling up inside her lungs. He had gorgeous, almost ice blue eyes that contrasted greatly with the stark ebony of his hair.

Robin held his hands out to the side, one of which was holding his shoes, gloves and other discarded clothing in his now neatly bundled cape, "So, how do I look? Not exactly what I would've picked to lounge about a beach in, but I don't think I did too bad with what I had to work with. Do you?"

In truth, Raven couldn't say what she was actually thinking: 'You look good. Damn good. It especially shows off the fact that you work out everyday. And my gosh, you really need to not wear that mask more often!' but she caught herself, 'Raven. You should not be thinking like this. He is your leader and further more, he is in love or at least infatuated with Starfire. He has no interest in you and you should have no interest in him…even though every bone in your body wants to… No! No! NO! Stop it!' So what finally came out was a deadpanned, "You look fine. Thoroughly ready for this kind of heat, but what's up with the mask?"

Robin felt his face on instinct even though he had only just taken it off, "Oh, right. The sweat was getting in my eyes and it was becoming hard to even see anything," He rubbed the back of his neck with his hand several times before continuing, "Besides, it's just you and me and you've pretty much seen everything I'm trying to hide behind anyway."

Her mind snapped to attention at this, and she felt her cheeks flush. She was almost flattered by the specific way he had said that. So much so, that she couldn't think of anything else to say. "Well okay then. I guess it's my turn," she finally grabbed the knife from his hand and walked off inland.

Now, it was Robin's time to look away. He listened intently as Raven echoed the ripping sounds he had made minutes earlier. Only, compared to him, she sounded like an overachiever. "You were right. This is much better," he heard as she approached him from behind and dropped the folded knife in his lap.

He swiveled around and looked up. Like him, she had removed her boots, her sleeves, and her cape, but unlike him she had cut into her leotard leaving the skin which encircled her abdomen, about an inch above and below her bellybutton, bare. She had ripped her cape into several pieces, one of which was wrapped around her hips creating a short, wispy, half-skirt. Robin's head tipped to the side of its own accord and all breath escaped him. With her cape enshrouding her, she always looked so closed off, so secretive –even with the hood down. Now, Raven looked very normal. Very open. With her hand on her hip, her stance accentuated every curve that she possessed. 'Wow! I've never really noticed how beautiful she actually is before. Her legs seem longer than I remember, but she is still very proportionate.' He scanned her frame and rested his eyes on her face, 'How could I have missed how her eyes just pull you into them, and how enticing her lips… Whoa, whoa, whoa. Robin what the hell are you doing? For months now you've set your sights on Starfire. She likes you already. You know this. You remember how beautiful she is right? How her hair just shines in the bright sunlight? Raven has almost never seen the sun, much less utilizes it like Star. Yeah, that's right…remember how beautiful her eyes are, how…' At that moment, Raven's hair fell over one eye and she half-smiled before brushing it aside. 'Ooookaaay. This is going to be much harder than I thought. Think Starfire. Think Starfire. Think Starfire…'

Raven just passed his dazed look off as the heat getting to him and spoke again, "Like you said, not as good as I would've hoped, but I think it'll get the job done." She pulled out four smaller pieces of cloth that she had cut from her cloak, "Here. Keep a hold of these."

"What are they for?" he asked, holding one out in front of him like it was made of glass.

"Two are for you and two for me. Well tie them on and they'll be padding for our feet, at least when we're walking around in the dark. I really don't want you to have a cut, infected foot when I'm not able to use my powers to heal," Raven looked at him sternly.

His eyes widened, "Yes ma'am."

Raven put what was left of her outfit into Robin's bundled cape and tied its corners together. She picked it up and flung it over her shoulder, "Now, let's find a place to stay before it gets too dark to see."

"I agree. Exposure to the elements is really low on my list of fun things to do right now," but before they started walking, Robin relieved Raven of the pack and slung it over his shoulder instead.

Watch 'Batman Begins' I command you!

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