(glances around the computer screen) OK, no ones here. Well I thought I'd just apologize for my extreme absence. I bet you all hate me now. I hate me too. Like I said I apologize and I won't have that long of an absence again. I hope this is a good chapter to make up for my lateness. (Looks behind her and sees readers standing behind her) HEY guys! How's it been going? Sorry for not updating….and….um….what are the pitchforks for? Are we having a cookout! I really am sorry and (watches as readers get closer) your starting to invade personal bubble. Um…..(walks SLOWLY away from computer as readers pull out torches and lots of duct tape) to all you readers I have just one thing to say. MOMMY!

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Raven stood in the shower letting the water hit her back in a soothing rhythm trying to get all the kinks out of her back. That fight with Kyzein had really tired her out. She smiled thinking of her childhood friend, making sure not to get too happy with the memories. After washing herself she turned off the water and stepped out of the shower. Wrapping up in a robe and putting her hair up in a towel Raven walked over to her closet and opened it, only to see all her leotards and capes weren't there.

She looked all around the small space and found that all her outfits were gone then with a sigh she remembered it was the third Wednesday of the month. All the Titans clothes got taken to the cleaners to get the full treatment and to fix any tears and rips the outfit may have and Kyzein had caused her to create a giant rip in her last leotard and had completely burned her last cloak. She was going to murder him. She was about to shudder go ask Starfire if she had any normal clothes that she could borrow for the time being when a piece of cloth caught her eye. In the very back of her closet where cobwebs were beginning to collect were two hangers that seemed to have been left in the gathering of her clothing. She reached her small hand into the depths of her closet and came out with an outfit that would suit her needs. She looked down at the ensemble and quickly got dressed in it before she froze from the water still slightly dripping off her. Once she was done she glanced at her self in the mirror and cocked her head to the side. She was dressed in dark blue jeans, almost black, and a black off the shoulder sweater. She still wore her boots, since an extra pair had been under her bed, and her belt hung loosely off her waist giving the outfit a slightly quirky look. She didn't even know she owned this stuff. Sighing slightly she brushed her hair and let it fall loosely around her shoulders, raising one last eyebrow at her appearance she walked out of her room and started down towards the living room.

She had just turned the first corner of the hall when she ran into a soft wall. Wait, since when were walls soft? Looking up she found herself gazing into the bottomless pit that was Robin's mask. He himself was dressed in a blue jeans and a red shirt with a giant red 'R'. Typical Robin. Rubbing her now sore nose she spoke her apologies.

"It's alright Raven. I wasn't really looking where I was going." Nodding she moved to the side as to side step him and continue on her way when she heard footsteps following her. Turning she saw Robin walking behind her.

"Is there a reason as to why you're following me?" She asked not caring she sounded slightly rude. The boy wonder grinned.

"Cy told me to come and get you but seeing as your already heading towards the living room I figured I'd just follow." He smirked at her as he added "Do you mind?"

Rolling her eyes at the cocky teen she replied "Whatever floats your boat" and resumed walking once more. They both arrived in the living room at the same time but Robin headed to the couch while Raven steered toward the kitchen to fix her self a cup of tea. Only to find one sitting on the counter for her in her favorite cup. Glancing around she spotted Kyzein sitting at the end of the couch in front of Cyborg sipping a mug of what appeared to be tea. Smirking she looked around at the rest of the team. It wasn't often you got to see them out of their uniforms. Starfire was in a bright pink shirt that said 'Hugs for you!' and a green skirt. Beastboy was in a dark green sweater and jeans. Kyzein and Cyborg's wardrobe were the same (considering Cyborg has no wardrobe). Levitating off the ground, cup in hand, Raven flew over to where Kyzein was sitting and sat down on the couch next to him taking a sip out of her tea.

"Oh there you are Rae" Cyborg said noticing the girl enter the room "Well I was just telling everybody that we all get to go to the mall and go shopping." Raven raised an eyebrow at her friend wondering if he had lost his mind. He just grinned "Apparently there was a problem at the dry cleaners. We won't be able to get our clothes back for a good two months-" Beastboy's game station, which had been lying on the floor, blew into a thousand pieces.

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!" Cried BB as he ran over to his treasure. Tears were streaming down his face as he kept wailing "She was so young!" Not even sparing a glance at the changeling Raven focused all her attention on her robotic friend.

"Could you repeat that?" Cyborg laughed nervously at the girl.

"Well you see, apparently there was some strange mix up. The FBI has a truck which looks shockingly familiar to the dry cleaners and they were sitting side by side in a Wal-mart parking lot. Well both drivers had left the doors to the trucks open with the keys inside and when the FBI agent came out he just got into the wrong vehicle. But the thing is, as soon as he got into that truck he went under cover and only the top agents know what his false identity is and it would be risking the mission if he were to send the Teen Titan uniforms to the FBI headquarters. So looks like were kinda stuck, sucks to be us."

Raven's eye twitched slightly as she absorbed the news. TWO MONTHS! Now she was not a big fashion person to say the least but she had her outfit the way it was for a reason. Just wait until she found out who this FBI agent and dry cleaner man were. She would hunt them down, tie them to a chair and tell them of all the ways she was gonna torture them. First she'd make them-

"RAVEN!" The sorceress looked up from her spot on the couch and saw the whole team was standing in the doorway looking at her. She blinked slowly and raised an eyebrow at the group. Starfire flew over to her and felt her forehead for a fever.

"Are you OK friend? We were calling you for the longest time and you did not answer. Are you sick? Is it the flu? The arthritis? Have you the Glrfkama?" She said all this terribly fast and all the while poked Raven in various places kept, checking to see if she had a fever, opening her mouth to see if there were blisters, and elevating her hair so she did not throw up Glorfworms. "Oh my dear friend how can you have fallen so ill so quickly? Did I have it and was unaware? Is it our friends fault. Will you die? I do not want you to die friend Raven! Oh no no no no n-" Raven had silenced her with a hand and was looking at the girl as if she was from a different planet. (A.N. Well teeeeechincally………)

Starfire, breathe. I'm fine, I just wasn't paying attention." Removing her hand from the Tamaranian's mouth and casting a glance at Robin she asked "What were you saying before?"

"We're going to the mall. And unless your playing on not wearing anything for the next two months I suggest you come along." He raised a suggestive eyebrow at his last statement. This of course caused him to be thrown head first into the nearest wall and to be held there by several black tendrils. He was upside down. Raven's eyes ceased their glow and she turned to the rest.

"Shall we?" She proceeded to walk towards the door despite all of the boys laughing and Starfire's attempts to rescue Robin. She waited til all the "available" Titan's were in the elevator before she turned back to the boy wonder. "Oh and Robin, those tendrils will wear out in about forty five minutes." With that she turned on her heel and headed to the elevator.

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The team arrived at the mall shortly after the incident and they all stood in the middle of the metal palace staring at one another. Raven sighed.

"Well, I guess we should all split up and go our different ways. I of course will stick with Starfire. BB and Cyborg you take Kyzein with you. Don't spend more than necessary." She looked pointedly at Beastboy.

"Oh sure," He muttered "You spend all the Titan's money on a awesomely cool video game that just so ends up sending us into debt. Then causing the lights, water, and heat to go out ONE time and they never let you live it down……" Raven rolled her eyes and continued.

"We can meet back in the food court in what? Two hours?" The rest of the team nodded and went off their separate ways.

Raven decided to get the worst part of the trip over with first. So slowly, oh so slowly, she walked to the scariest place of all the scary places. Old Navy. (A.N. I personally have nothing against Old Navy. I just thought of Raven's personality and from her perspective this place would seem extremely scary. Please feel free to correct me if you feel the need.) The Tamaranian princess was overjoyed with the idea of going shopping with another girl. It wasn't often Raven went anywhere with her. Let alone shopping. As they headed over to the rack that contained skirts she decided to strike up conversation.

"So friend Raven……you are happy that new friend Kyzein is here?" She looked over innocently at the goth girl and grinned. She sensed something was going on between the two and if there wasn't anything, then there soon would be. At least if she had anything to say about it. Starfire wasn't near as naïve as everyone thought her to be.

Raven quirked an eyebrow at the girl but decided she could trust her. "Yeah, I guess I am. Why do you ask?"

"Oh no reason. I was just killing the curiosity cat." She picked up an aqua skirt and held it to her "Is this OK?" Raven looked over and realized that skirt actually looked good against the orange skinned girl. She nodded. Pleased Starfire grabbed her hand, more items off the shelves and the twenty items in her hand and headed off to the dressing rooms. As various items were being tried on and tossed over the stall door Starfire decided to keep up the past conversation.

"So you and friend Kyzein are close yes?"

"Well yeah." Raven dodged a pair of shoes that were thrown at her. "I really don't think there's a lot he doesn't know about me." Starfire walked out of the stall and went in front of the mirror examining herself.

"What do you think friend Raven?" Raven looked up from her spot on the worn out couch in front of the dressing rooms. Starfire was dressed in a white sleevless shirt with a v-neck and a mini jean skirt. To complete it she wore black boots with half inch heels that went as high on her legs as her usual ones did. Raven thought it was an odd look for the girl but it accented her ok. She nodded her approval. Overjoyed with the fact she had accepted Starfire flew into the air and grabbing Raven's arm took her around the shop. Finally deciding on all the items she was to buy the two headed up to the cashier, a twenty year old girl blowing a bubble. They paid for the items and left.

They toured the mall for about five minutes before heading over to Hot Topic so Raven could buy all her clothes. As they walked between the aisled and racks of clothing the ever hyper Starfire continued to pester Raven about her friend.

"Do you like friend Kyzein Raven?" Raven stared at her team mate for a while before answering while picking up a pair of fishnets she found.

"Well yeah Star. You kinda have to like people in order for them to be your friends." She guided Star over to a soft chair in front of the dressing rooms and walked into the stall carrying a mountain of clothes. Starfire sared at the closed door a smirk on her face as she responded.

"Not that kind of like. I mean-" she caught a fair of jeans that were thrown over the stall door. "Do you think of him as more than a friend?" Raven stopped midway through opening the stall door and blinked. Then she stepped out of the confined space and twirled slightly viewing herself in the mirror. She was wearing a black v-neck with a design of a huge spider web on the front and it's sleeves flares slightly from the elbows down. She wore a simple black skirt a few chains dangling from the belt loop. To top it all off she had a pair of black knee high boots. Starfire, who was not too fond of the wardrobe color, grinned at her friends appearance.

"Oh friend Raven you look marvelous!" Raven blushed slightly, not too used to compliments, and gave a rare appreciative smile. They continued trying on clothes for the next half hour (it took SF a good hour and fifteen minutes) before heading to another bubble gum blowing cashier and paying for the items. They carried teir own bags, which pleased Raven for she had several less bags them her alien friend. But what did not please her was the constant rambling Starfire did. Just talk and talk. Blah Blah Blah. Together they walked over to the food court only to see the boys already there waiting with Robin chatting along with them. He glared when he saw Raven but all he got in return was a smirk.

Starfire zoomed over to the table they were all at and plopped the bags she was holding on the ground before facing her friends.

"Oh it is most wonderful to see you again friends! I have missed you in our time of absence. Tell me, did you infoy yourselves at the mall of shopping?" Cyborg chuckled at the girls happiness while moving over so Raven could seat herself down. She did so in a rather loud fashion and dropped her head to the diners table.

"Everything OK Rae?" Kyzein asked. Now while he had been on Earth only a short time, he highly doubted it was a normal earthly custom to bang ones head against the dining table repeatedly. Raven stopped pounding her head upon the table once hearing Kyzeins's question. She looked up into his eyes and glared at him. "Peachy."

The group stayed and ate for about a half hour before getting up and heading back to the tower. When they arrived they stored their piles of clothes into their closets. Everyone, except Raven, returned to the living room once they were done and were trying to decide what to do for the remainder of the day.

"We should play video games!" BB insisted for the fifth time "We can all play." Robin blinked at the boy before stating.

"BB, we only have two controllers. Besides I say we should train, there's no telling when a new foe could appear."

"No way Robin" BB declared "We trained earlier and were not scheduled for another two days." Starfire began jumping up and down and squealing with joy.

"Friends I gave bounce decided upon bounce what would bounce be most bounce pleasurable for bounce the time bounce of fun!" She quit bouncing but a smile remained on her face. "We will partake in the decorating of each others hair using hair ornaments!" From within a hidden compartment behind the couch Starfire pulled out ten pounds of barrettes, hair clips, and pony tail holders. The boys faces froze as they realized the drasticness of the if the situation. They started slowly to back away from the deranged girl but she was too quick for them. She tackled BB to the ground. There was a slight scuffle but the winner of the battle was Starfire, she giggled at the look her friend now had. BB emerged from behind the couch hair "decorated" with various barrettes and clips in the shapes fo butterfly's and birds and one was even a cute little hippo.

The three remaining boys took one glance at BB and burst out laughing. Starfire giggled also. But their joy was short lived for they soon realized Starfire was coming towards them with clips and a blow dryer in hand.
"Friend Kyzein your hair would look most magnificent with butter-the-fly ornaments also." Kyzeins eyes widened with fear and all the barrettes in Starfire's hand started to burn and melt. Starfire shrieked and threw the clips into the sink and ran cold water on them. Robin and Cyborg were on the floor feeling as though their sides would split from all their laughter.

After settling down some Cyborg suggested "Why don't we just play monopoly? There was a murmur of agreement and Cyborg started to explain the game to an adorably confused Kyzein.

"Some one needs to get Raven." Tobin amounted while setting up the game pieces.

"Not me" BB said while tugging at an unusually large hippo barrette in his hair "She'll bite my head off." He pulled some more on the clip "You go get her Kyzein, She hasn't yelled at you once." He grabbed a chainsaw from under the sink and revved it up. "Hippo, you're going down!"

Kyzein looked at his newly acquired friend Cyborg who just shrugged. Kyzein proceeded to get up from his spot on the couch and headed to the hallway to retrieve Raven. He stopped outside her door and knocked firmly upon the metal door. He only had to wait a moment before the door was open enough just to see Raven's violet left eye.

"Yeah?" Kyzein blinked

"Well um… were getting ready to play some sort of game. I just came up to get you." He grinned, his eyes sparkling. She watched him grin and almost gave into his carefree expression but she stood hard as a stone.

"Thanks, but no thanks." She stepped back to close the door but found she couldn't. Glancing down she saw a black shoed foot wedged firmly between her door and the door frame. She glared up into sparkling green eyes and gad to quickly force herself not to stare.

"Why not? You used to love games."

"I just don't feel like it." He started to manually open the door his fingers inside her room, she frowned but let him fully open her door, it's not like she could stop him, and took a step back.

"Now I don't mean to pry," I just bet you don't "But are you always this reclusive?"

"Only when you're around" He chuckled and stepped forward so his nose was only an inch from hers and she could feel his breath upon her lips. She shivered slightly and tried to take a step back but only felt the end of her bed against her legs.

"Why won't you come Rae?" Kyzein breathed, she could feel every syllable across her lips "give me one reason and I'll leave well enough alone." He leaned over her shoulder and whispered "Just tell me." Raven gulped while starting to chant in her head. Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos. Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos. She opened her mouth but found it difficult to form words, several objects in the room started to float as she became more nervous. Kyzein stepped back to look at her and raise one eyebrow. She scrambled for her words and was trying desperately not to look into his eyes when……..

"Yo Raven!" Cyborg stuck his head around her door frame, "You playing or what? We're all waiting." She just nodded her head. Cy grinned and motioned to Kyzein, "Let's go man." Kyzein looked quickly back at Raven before exiting her room with a wave and a small chuckle.

Raven blinked once the two had left and let out a breath she hadn't known she'd been holding. What was that about? She'd have to have a talk in Nevermore here pretty soon. Deciding not to further investigate the situation Raved sighed and walked out her bedroom door towards the living room. And she had felt so good this morning.

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A.N.

That was fun. Sorry if Raven seems a bit OOC but yeah….. I hope that turned out ok. Do you know what happened? I got inspiration at two in the morning. TWO! So for as late as I stayed up for all you people you all better like it. Please? And remember, at least eight, or I don't update.

Love,

TheAngelsShadow