A/N: I hope you're right, maybe I'll hit my stride next story, thanks for careing enough to write something, unlike the rest of you…who am I kidding? I am really just writing this story for the two of you and myself, so enjoy!
Disclaimer: dis·claim·er (dĭs-klāmər)
n.
1.A repudiation or denial of responsibility or connection.
2.Law. A renunciation of one's right or claim.
Oh, I mean… I do not own Teen Titans.
Robin turned off the street and into an abandoned warehouse, which were unusually common in Jump City.
'Where is he going?' She thought noticing the completely random nature of what Robin had just done. Robin stopped the car, put it in park and got out. He produced a very large revolver from his backpack and opened the driver side back door and pointed the gun inside.
"Become visible and exit very slowly."
'Shit. They don't call him the 'Boy Wonder' for nothing.' The girl thought, weighing her options. She had no choice but to comply, and she phased back into the visible spectrum of light and held her hands up.
"Robin…" She had never gotten a good look at him without his mask off, trying to keep a safe distance lately. His eyes held so much, from his darkest sorrow to his greatest triumph, all his joy greatly overshadowed by all his horror, no wonder he kept them hidden, anyone who had any understanding of true emotions would see through the wall he put when his mask was off, trying to keep others from noticing, it worked on the untrained, but not her.
"Raven?" Robin was stunned, he had thought her dead, she was dead, but…he had never seen her body, and it was never recovered. There was a tear in her leotard where a blade had gone in, between her ribs, but there was no wound or scar due to her healing powers.
"Get out of the car Raven, slowly." Robin may have been stunned but he had not lost his sense. He kept the gun trained on her.
"But Robin?" Now it was Raven's turn to be stunned. She hadn't expected him to be so paranoid, but given what had happened in the short course of a few days it was understandable. She got out of the car slowly, with her arms still outstretched slightly as not to provoke him.
"No, Raven, no. You can't just expect me to welcome you back with open arms. No, not after you died and then turn up, invisible, following me around."
"Robin, I know how it looks, but you have to understand, I didn't know who I could trust, I didn't know you were alive until today, I just had to watch you, find out what happened. I couldn't just put all my trust in you with out an knowledge of what happened, not with when it could get me killed." She was panting, and tears we starting to form at the corners of her eyes.
Robin was unrelenting, and with the gun still trained on her "So tell me Raven, how did you manage to escape the surprise attack that claimed the lives of Cyborg, Beast Boy and Starfire, our friends, all as good of fighters as you, that was meant to kill you as well?"
He continued "You got hit, but you survived, led us all to believe you were dead, no one would search for a dead person, wouldn't be looking for them. Makes you a good insurance policy right? Lets you keep an eye on me if something went wrong. Well something did got wrong, and I out smarted their plan, they underestimated me. I haven't won yet but I'm close, and that scares them, doesn't it? They're afraid." He was almost laughing at this.
"No, no Robin, no. I got hurt, bad, they left me for dead but I wasn't, I crawled away in the confusion of the moment and hid, I hid for almost three day while I healed slowly…"
"I'm just supposed to take all that bullshit at face value?" Robin was laughing now, almost hysterically, not at all in a good way. "Out of everyone you're they only one who gets a wound that just happens to not be fatal. How nice for you."
"And what about you?" She was screaming and pleading at the same time, it was her turn to get angry. Tears were streaming down her face. "You, a normal human survive without a scratch on you, and you call my story BS?"
"I was the target for the frame Raven, but you already knew that, didn't you? You set us all up, you got the others killed and you let me take the fall. Why Raven, why would you sell your soul to our enemies?" A single tear had crept out from behind his mask, just one.
"No, I didn't! I swear! I just…got lucky." Robin scoffed at this "I helped you! You'd be dead right now if it weren't for me, and you'd have never gotten this far." She was desperately trying to convince him, she had too.
Their lives depended on it. She was making progress she saw he had lowered the gun slightly.
Robin was thinking everything over "You mean, the bus? That trash can? The cough is what made me stop. Well, thanks I guess." He lowered the gun, and smiled slightly "you laughed at my joke."
"Uh…" Raven blushed; she had gotten through to him, now they could do this together. "Yeah, well don't mention the other stuff, it's all in a day's work."
Robin fell upon her, embracing he as though it was his only connection to life.
"Oh, god Raven, I'm sorry." He was crying, she knew it, only people who lived with him would be able to tell, but he was. She hugged him back both sharing the sorrow.
"They're dead, Raven, they're all dead. It's all my fault, I could have done something, anything, goddamnit I could have done something!" he needed to say all of this and she was going to let him, but she did her best to console him.
"It's not your fault Robin, someone paid a lot of money for it, and those guys had the jump on us, you couldn't have done anything about it." This was the best she could do; he just had to vent it all.
"I could have fought for them, died for them, I should have died there, with them."
"What good would that be? You'd be dead, I'd be alone, and whoever did this would have gotten away with it. You're alive for a reason, just like me."
This had done it Robin had regained his composer. The gun was lying on the ground; he picked it up and put it back in the bag.
"A gun, that's very different for you." Raven said, now that she was no longer on the business end of it.
"Desperate times call for desperate measures." Robin quipped. "You don't know what's been going on? You didn't see what I've found?"
"No, I haven't had a chance to look at your research yet.
"Well, let's sit and I'll fill you in…"
Ten minuets later and Raven was up to speed. Robin had filled her in on all the facts and all of his speculations; she came to many of the same conclusions as he had.
"They've got to be stopped." Raven said, once Robin had indicated he was done.
"I know, that's what I've been working on. I guess I'll tell you that too, but…"
"What is it Robin."
"It will probably get us both killed, so if you want to leave now I won't hold it against you, you'll always be my friend."
"No Robin, I'm in it with you to the end, I'm not going to go hide under a rock and do nothing, I want revenge. We're going to make them pay."
"Alright, here it is…"
An old, distinguished looking man, driving an even older limousine, drove past him, pulling into the parking garage and disappearing from view, but Robin didn't notice. He and Raven were about to put the last plan of the Teen Titans into action.
Everything was ready.
Robin had made a third and final log entry and put all the tapes in a safe place, and their copies in an envelope to every major new channel. Robin had lost the use for the suit but liked the way it looked on him, so he stored it away after changing back into his uniform, fully intent on retrieving it.
Together he and Raven walked towards the front door of the world headquarters of Vandex International. They were going to end all of this right here right now, win or lose.
And they didn't lose.
A/N: More suspense than ever! 2 for the price of one! There are probably two more chapters left, but I can't be sure how I'll write it all out. With the Raven coming back…did you see that coming? Was I too obvious? Too subtle? Tell me in a review, I'd really like to know. Any guesses as to what's going to happen. You don't know if he'll win or not, it was an e-mail thing, but judging by the number of reviews you can make an educated guess sigh. Well thanks again to those who keep reading this, however few and far between you may be.
