note- for this chapter and for practically the rest of the story I will be using only the character's "real" names. The reason for this i cannot explain without giving anything away so you will just have to read and find out. but FYI:
Raven: Raven Roth (is Roth right...?)
Beast Boy: Garfield Logan
Robin: Dick (Richard) Grayson
Cyborg: Victor Stone
Starfire: Kori Anderson (hehe... i'm very original. lol)
Bumble Bee: Betty Eddens (umm, i had no clue so I made one up, sort of copying others though. :-p)

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Chapter Two

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As John, a waiter who had been working at the wireless cafe for nearly seven months now, saw Winter seated at a stool without a laptop to be ferociously typing at, he was shocked. Every Wednesday night from nine till two in the morning the girl had always been seated at the table doing something or another. Tonight, though, she was seated with only a pencil and a notebook.
During the night he continued to bring her waters, as usual, until his curiosity got the better of him.
"What happened to your laptop?" he asked a bit hesitantly as he took her dollar for the bottle of fresh water, "I've never seen you here without it."
The girl responded by simply shrugging and saying, "It's at home. I got grounded."
This was odd. The waiter had expected her to say something like, 'It's broken,' or 'my pet illegal day-night snapping iguana ate it,' but that was it. Grounding.
"You were grounded from your computer but not from coming here?" John asked.
To this, Winter did not reply. She only looked up at him after taking a long swig of her water and asked innocently, "What the heck is the difference between an ACC and an OC? Am I even saying that right? Speaking of which, what do they stand for? I've been on since before the schism, and when I say schism I mean before they separated original fiction into and I've never seen them until they came up just about a year ago or so and I just can't figure it out!"
If this were an anime and not the beginning of a fanfiction FOR an anime, a huge sweatdrop would appear on John's head or he would possibly fall over comically. Personally I prefer the falling over. So, um, he fell over comically.
"I...um..." Winter watched John consistantly as he stuttered. "...Would you like another water?"
With a look at her half empty bottle from judging eyes, Winter nodded approvingly.
"Yes, thank you, good sir. You certainly are a remarkable boy. I hope you get a raise. By the way, do you think you could tell me what AU stands for?" (insert crickets chirping and more falling over)

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Raven awoke from the the consistant beeping of her roommate's alarm clock. She allowed it to continue on like this for a few moments until it gained volume and she could stand it no more.

"Will you just shut that thing up?" she whined slightly through her monotone. Her roommate groaned loudly (just load enough to be heard over the alarm) and labourously pulled herself out of bed and over to her desk to shut it off. After doing so she sat down on the chair in front of the desk and heaved a yawn-like sigh.

"Nothing like the second day of school. Eh, love?" The girl drawled this in a slightly british accent. When she had first moved to America to go to school it had been so thick that people often had to ask her to repeat things so that they might understand, but now the edge of it had sort of rubbed off and most people had no problems.

The violet haired girl, who had still not yet gotten out of bed replied, more into her pillow than directly at her roommate, "Winter, go die somewhere."

The girl, whose name we all now know as Winter (I knew of course, and a few people who caught on knew, but now everyone does so get over it) pulled her feet onto the chair, wrapping her arms around her legs, and placed her chin on top of her knees thoughtfully. "You know, I hear Rome's nice this time of year. Would you care to accompany me?"

Raven pushed herself up with her forearms and gradually her hands from the position she held lying on her belly on her bed, into a sort of push-up position(known to my gym teacher as 'the plank'), before she was all the way up on her knees. "Hence me telling you to go die somewhere - as opposed to staying here and dying - I really don't feel like watching your guts disintegrate."

Stretching out her folded form and yawning once more, unfazed, Winter replied, "Oh. Best-mates forever and all that lovely junk, aye?"

Raven rolled her eyes and got out of bed, moving towards the wardrobe (which was, by the way, provided by the school) in which her clothes resided, and began to dig through them in order to find something to wear. Winter, on the other hand, moved towards the other side of the room, to the refrigerater, and pulled out a water bottle. She then moved back to the desk and pulled out a notebook and a pencil, writing furiously in big, sloppy handwriting.

With the desired objects in hand, Raven headed out to the hallway. "I'm going to go take a shower," was all she said before exiting. Her roommate barely "Hm"ed in responce.

Once Winter was sure that Raven was gone and she had written all she'd wanted to in her big notebook, she returned it and began to hum a song which would seem very familiar if you associated yourself with orignial arcade games. It was the background music for level two in the original Mario Brother's game - the level where you go underground and it sounds sneaky enough to be in a spy movie.

And Winter began to spy. There was only a little bit of information that she needed to gather, but the key word there was that she needed it, and Raven would only be gone for so long.

In the dark girl's book bag Winter found a cell phone, which she turned on and checked the phone number list. On it listed about ten names, four of which, thankfully, were ones belonging to her other fellow titans.

Good, she thought, still digging through Raven's personal stuff, That's one less thing I have to worry about in the longrun.

Next to check was Raven's diary. Yes, yes, this is an invasion of privacy, but Winter had to figure out some things that could not be explained otherwise.

The book which she found to contain the writings of Raven's diary proved to be very helpful, if not slightly disappointing.

Aw, shucks, the red tipped blonde thought jokingly, Now I'll have to make this a BB-Rae with no prior help. They barely know each other!

Yes, it was true, the former green boy and empath were not very close here. Garfied Logan went to a different school and was pen-pal's with Raven Roth, but mostly the only time they ever spoke to each other personally was when he came to campus to play video games with his parter in crime: Victor Stone. (Aparently the two used to go to school together, but Victor was transferred into this school with a scholership earned by playing football)

Winter did not have much time so she did her best to rearrange everything back in order to the best of her ability before moving to her own wardrobe and fishing out some clothes to wear for the day. She settled quickly for a light orange tee-shirt displaying a picture of Kagome and InuYasha kissing across the front and a pair of old black jeans. Unlike her roommate who wore black eyeliner, mascara, light coverup/foundation, and purple lipstick every day, Winter was happy with a bit of coverup and lippy.

After dressing she grabbed the notebook she had been writing in before and slumped over to her still unmade bed (which would, mind you, remain unmade) and wrote again. She did not write for long before Raven returned, hair a bit wet and dressed in a purple hoodie and black slacks, a towel draped around her shoulders to keep the drip from her hair off of her clothing.

"It's beginning to ra-a-a-ain," Winter sang the old hymn slowly and softly under her breath.

Raven just raised her eyebrows, throwing a questioning but still an 'I really don't want to know' glance at Winter, and, after putting her towel on one of the hooks on the back of their door and grabbing her backpack (thankfully not realizing it had been tampered with) she stated:

"It's time to go."

and only waited a few moments for Winter to collect her own things before heading out of the room to the cafeteria for breakfast.

The two walked without words exchanged across the cobblestone campus, fit with large, old-looking buildings which seemed to come out of a rennaisance (sp?) scene. It was not a long walk to the cafeteria, which was built right next door to the dorms for convenience, and they soon found themselves walking into the large division of it known as the breakfast hall, and through the buffet lines before locating the table they and their friends shared.

Winter had allowed her dark haired friend (black with a purple tone to it to be exact) steer them towards the table they would sit at, as she was not sure were they would sit, and soon realized, with relief, that Raven was just as good friends with the titans here as they were before. "Hi." was all that Raven said to the others, setting her bag on the floor beside her chair. Winter did the same, save the greeting, which she substituted with a nod to each of her table companions.

Seated at their table were as follows: Victor Stone, who was tall, muscular, and very dark. In front of him on his breakfast plate was heaped plenty of food - nearly all of it meat, and he took as little time as possible to shove it into his mouth. Betty Eddens, no where near as buff or tall as the teen who sat next to her (though you can't blame her - she's a girl and he's a boy. end of story there) but dark like him. Her hair was in two buns on the sides of her head, and she wore a bright yellow shirt. Next to her was Kori Anderson, a tall girl with long red hair held up with a scruncie to make a pony tail on the back of her head, who was laughing a tinkly laugh at something the boys at the table had said, and lastly Dick Grayson, whose black hair was spiked up slightly toward the back of his head and his eyes were covered with tinted glasses. He had hardly touched the food in front of him, which was much less laiden with meat than Victor's, and did not seem to plan to, by the looks of it.

Kori replied to their greeting with a huge smile and a wave, even though they were seated right in front of her. "Hello! How was your night of sleeping?"

Winter, doing her best Ace Ventura impersonation, replied, "Well I had a great night! The question is, how was yours? Alrighty then!"

The redhead, who was truly a redhead and not the fake streaked-redhead that Winter was did not seem to comprehend the joke which went along with the girl's speach. She answered truthfully.

"Well I slept well too! Did friend Winter do all of her homework?"

Raven seemed to be choking on her english muffin. (if I need to explain this to someone then they direly need to move into a less advanced section of this site. lol)

Concerned, Kori immediately turned her attention to Raven. "Are you alright!"

"I'm fine," said she, "I just got something stuck in my throat."

"Well if you need my help getting it - 'unstuck' - I will help you at any time!" Kori seemed determined to help out any friends in need.

"Don't sweat it, girl," Betty intervened as the other two boys sniggered a big in between themselves, "She'll be alright."

Those two other boys cleared their own throats and Dick began, "Well, we may as well get going, classes are going to start soon." He picked up his plate, and, with her clearance, Kori's as well. "See you guys later."

Kori and Victor followed Dick to hand their plates into the kitchen and out of the dining halls after various goodbyes, and almost immediately, Raven's cell phone rang.

Pulling it out of her bag, Raven looked at the name on the screen and picked it up.

"Hi, Gar," she said, as always in her monotone, "No...No...Did you grow a tail?...Then no...Did you die?...Do I have to repeat myself?...No...What time?...Fine...I have to get to class...Bye."

With this she hung up the phone, and without a word to her two companions, Winter and Betty, she threw it in her bag and headed out the door, just leaving her dirty plate where it was. After exchanging quick glances, the girls followed after her, wondering what that was all about.

"Well that was weird," Winter said slightly hesitantly, quiet enough that her roommate could not hear from her pace ahead of them.

"You're tellin' me?" Betty said, "That's the first time I've ever seen her hang up on that guy peacefully!"

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note- oh dear. i put off writing this for SO LONG! When I have a deadline I usually have everything finished way before I have to (for anything not related to school) but this time I wrote this one Wednesday... the day right before I said I'd update. So, um, I'm going to a Taking Back Sunday/Jimmy Eat World concert on April 19! (yay. and there was much rejoicing) I will get backstage... we WILL meet them... creates plan including the dollar store, crackers, a camera, wrapping paper, and a map muhahaha. All righty guys! That's all till MARCH 17! (when i shall update next)