"Who attacks that early in the morning!" Changeling wailed as the Titans walked back into the tower.

"It's ten o'clock, it's your fault you slept in late." Chided Raven as she tried once again in vain to get all the dirt off of her clothing, mumbling something along the lines of 'never had this problem with blue.'

"On the plus side, the team is doing better than ever. Kory, nice new techniques you learned." Commented their leader and the purple clad alien blushed in response.

"Kory?" Asked a perplexed changeling. "Who? What? Her?" He said, pointing to Starfire.

"No, he's talking about Batgirl." Sarcasm dripped from Raven's voice. "Koriand'r is Starfire's real name, you've known her how long?"

"It's not my fault!" Defended the green man. "We've always gone by our aliases!"

"Hate to say it, but he's right." Cyborg said. "But that doesn't mean we can't start using our real names around each other. It's getting confusing, and I nearly called Nightwing Robin a few times." The team nodded.

"So…" Trailed Cyborg. "I'm Victor Stone, night bird over there is Dick, and we all know Star is Kory. BB, you're Gar… and.. Raven is.. Raven?" He questioned, hoping he was right.

"Just Raven for me." She confirmed as she walked towards the hallway leading to the Titan's rooms. "I'm going to get changed, leotard isn't the most comfortable thing in the world, you know."

"Sounds like a plan." Agreed Dick as he followed after, the rest of the team following suit.

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Starfire looked fondly at her room as it was illuminated by blinding, yet welcoming, sunlight. Examining her bed spread and walls Kory realized she needed she needed to get rid of all traces of pink. It wasn't that she didn't like the colour.. it was that she hated it in abundance. The princess frowned as she saw Silkie's empty bed. She should have realized that the moth creature would not be able to stand Tamaran's climate, but at the time all she cared was that her pet would be coming home with her. But at least Silkie wasn't killed during the invasion, his death was much more peaceful than some. Shaking her head Starfire walked over to her dressed and picked out a casual outfit for the day. She smiled as she thought about dragging Dick to the park with her. It was, after all, a beautiful day.

Dressed in a lavender sleeveless top and black capris the alien walked into the common room where she saw Vic helping Raven trying to cook something decent for lunch and Gar heckling them for eating meat. Kory giggled at the many memories she had of when she would implore her teammates to try some of her Tamaranian recipes. She would only confide to the former Robin that she was considered a horrible cook even by Tamaran's standards.

"Glorious day, is it not?" Her teammates looked up at her and laughed at her old habits.

"Want lunch? I promise it's not burnt." Smiled Raven as she brang over a sandwich and Starfire gratefully accepted it.

The four of them sat down at the table ready to eat lunch before Star spoke up.

"Where's Dick?" She asked innocently eyeing the dark hallway and, speak of the devil, there he came.

"Right here Kory," Smiled her best friend as he sat next to her.

It took all of her will power not to pounce on Dick Grayson the second he walked into the room. His hair laid flat on his head as water weighed it down. Drops of water seemed to sit on his skin and taunt the princess, she could almost imagine the water saying things like 'we're closer to Dick than you'll ever be, Nya ha!' And, damn him, she thought, his outfit also added to her best friend's drool worthiness as he was dressed in a dark green button down t-shirt where he so cleverly left two buttons undone giving whoever cared to look a peek of the top of his chest. For pants he wore black shorts and he wore shoes that Kory couldn't quite identify, but that didn't matter. But still, she wondered if he kept his mask on out of spite. Little did she know similar thoughts about her went through Dick's head as he gazed at her, causing an awkward silence for everyone who wasn't Dick or Kory. Simultaneously they both snapped out of their fantasies as changeling finished his tofu dog and challenge Cy to a round of Monkey Smash 2009.

After eating lunch and watching an exciting match between Vic and Gar; Raven and Kory got bored and decided to go meditate together, but found that to grow boring after an hour as well.

"I was thinking of going to the park," suggested the red head hopefully looking at her teammate's bored expressions.

"The park? I haven't been to the park in ages." Smiled Nightwing.
"Aw, yeah, we can play Frisbee grass-stain." The cyborg grinned and Gar grinned right back, accepting the silent challenge to see who could catch or throw the most Frisbees.

"Just let me get my book." Said Raven, and with that, a plan was set.

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"Ahhh! Dick!" The alien pleaded as the air left her lungs when the dark haired man tickled her viciously.

"What's the magic word?" He taunted as she struggled, obviously trying to escape.

"Pleeeeaaaasssseeeee?" She looked up at him with big green eyes that were filled with tears of laughter.

The super hero paused for a moment, contemplating his options.

"Hmm…Nah!" He exclaimed but was caught off guard as Kory jumped up and ran away. "Oh no you don't!" He called and ran after the princess who merely laughed and pumped her legs in a desperate attempt to evade her tickler, but didn't use her powers so the chase would be fair.

Starfire tumbled down a hill that she failed to see because she was looking behind her seeing how much of a lead she had on the boy wonder. As she reached the bottom of the hill a little out of breath she stood up quickly to see Richard standing imposingly on top of the hill.

"I'm gunna get you Kory!" He shouted, amazed at how his whole life fun was a luxury he couldn't afford, and then, this amazingly wonderful girl comes along and unlocks this whole new side of him as if he always had it.

Kory looked around and spotted Raven in the distance sitting against a tree reading. Figuring this would be a safe haven Koriand'r ran faster until she reached her target.

"Raven! You got-"

"Shh." Raven silenced her friend and pointed at Cyborg, who's head was resting in her lap, and the green hound dog at her feet who had rolled onto his back, causing his tongue to loll out of his mouth. Kory smiled and sat down on the grass beside her friend.

"They fell asleep after Gar won the challenge." Explained Raven who used her powers to flip the page of her book. "Who were you running from, anyways?"

"I was running fro-" she gasped, realizing the boy wonder wasn't with her. "Where's Dick?" She jumped up and looked around frantically.

"Right HERE." Came Dick's voice as he jumped out the tree causing Kory to let out a tiny shriek and even Raven jumped a bit.

"Hm? What's goin' on?" Questioned the drowsy changeling as he changed back to his human form.

"I dun wanna go to school mommy." Groaned Cyborg as he sat up and stretched. Star couldn't help but find their drowsiness contagious and soon a yawn escaped her lips.

"Think we should go home now?" Raven directed the question to Dick, who seemed to be the only other one not affected by the amount of energy he had exerted. Together they all walked back to the T-car and R-cycle where they separated into two groups; Kory and Dick on the R-cycle, and the remaining three in the car.

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"Goodnight Kory." Said Dick as they parted at her bedroom door after movie night.

"Goodnight Dick." She smiled and was glad her blush could not be seen as she leaned up slightly to kiss him on the cheek before closing her door and walking over to her bed. A huge smile plastered on her face as she waited until finally Nightwing's footsteps were heard walking away in the direction of his room. Everything seemed perfect, she had her friends back, she had a home, and life was finally falling back into place.

But how come she had this deep foreboding feeling in the pit of her stomach?