A/N: Sorry this took so long to write but I have another story and classes now. Please don't be mad.

Aevy: sorry for the spelling and it's rated mature for latter chapters.

Dearka's Bro, Reviewer, StarSapphire904, ray1, luhism, yumechan03 and Sonic 1: thank you for your review and I will try to update sooner.

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Chapter 2: Inner decisions

Kitchen

As Robin's teakettle started to whistle with the hot contents. He poured the tea into his mug and sat down at the bar style table when Raven walked in. As she walked to the kitchen she looked at Robin who didn't seem to be paying attention to her so she thought ' maybe I will give him a little shock,' but that thought was crushed when he opened his mouth.

" Something you want Rae?" he asked not taking his eyes off his mug.

" …No just need some tea. What makes you think I needed something?"

" Because you were walking over here like you were going to scare me…or try." He added smiling.

Blushing slightly at being found out she found her resolve she walked to the kitchen and poured herself a cup of his tea and sat down next to him.

" Robin I've been meaning to talk to you about something that you put in your letter that you sent me."

" Yes what about it?"

" Well you said that," she quickly looked around to make sure no one was around before she continued, " That you missed me the most while you were gone. And I was just wondering what you meant by it?"

" Just that. Out of all the Titans we have the most things in common, We both know just how bad things can get and are prepared to deal with it. Not that the others aren't it's just that we know what it is to be truly alone in the world." At his words she could tell that he was remembering something terrible that happened to him in the past.

" What do you mean 'truly alone' Robin?" she asked.

" Well I know about your little 'family problems' and why you fight so hard to do the right thing, and if your wondering about me. Well lets just say that life's' done me no favors." He said returning to his tea.

Raven was paler than usual at his comment. ' How does he know about my father, I never told anyone about it. I didn't even know if anyone besides me and the people of Azarath knew.'

Looking at her shocked face he set down his mug and explained, " Your wondering how I know about you," all she could do is nod dumbly as he continued, " did you ever wonder why I asked you to join the Titans considering that I asked you to join first?" she shuck her head, " Well it was because I knew that you could be trusted despite what your heritage was, or rather because of it." When she interrupted.

" What do you mean by that?"

" Well when I fist found out about you and your abilities I was curious about you so I decided to learn everything about you. I must admit that when I found out about your father I was considering not approaching you with the offer," he paused to take another sip of tea then he continued, " So I decided to observe you, the way you behaved, little habits that you have, now before you start thinking that I'm some creepy stalker I did that you everyone before I picked them. Now after watching you for two months I found out what your views were about your father and how much you hated him. And there you have it now as there anything else you want to know?"

" Yeah you really haven't answered my first question so would you please give me an answer?" she said raising her right eyebrow.

" I suppose I didn't, but in a way I did. So think about it as you will." And then he left leaving Raven to ponder what he told her.

Raven's Room

' What does he mean told me, he didn't tell me anything. What the hell was he talking about?' Raven thought to herself. As she reached for a book that was lying on her bedside table she sat down on her bed.

After about 20 minutes she slammed the book down in frustration, 'all he told me is that that we were we know just how bad things can get and what it means to truly be alone, but all I can get on of that is that we share a dark feel about us. That we are just different. So how does he mean that he answered my question.' Not understanding what Robin meant by his comment she paced her room around in frustration.

The next day Raven's mood didn't improve towards Robin for not giving her a straight answer that her anger was coming off in waves even though she didn't look like she was mad. She made her way to the main room and sat on the couch reading her book when Beast Boy and Cyborg were in the kitchen having their usual Meat vs. Tofu fight.

" Dude, why don't you ever respect my choice to eat Tofu?"

" Because tofu is not food and it's discussing beyond anything imaginable." The machine man replied.

" No way man tofu is totally food, I mean I'm not the only one who eats this stuff you know." The changeling yelled at the top of his lungs. When a jar of jelly exploded in black energy. At which point the two occupants turned slowly to look at Raven sitting on the couch giving each of them a death glare as both Cy and BB sank below the counter. " What is her deal?"

" Don't know but I think it would be smart to stay low around her today."

" Yeah I mean Star and Rob are the only ones who can get close to her when she's like this, Why do you think that is?"

" I don't know about Star but with Robin the only thing that get to him is Slade, that and he and Rae have that whole dark and brooding attitude going on."

" You think it has something to do with Robin do you?"

" Na, she would never get worked up over anything that Robin would do, I mean yeah they act the same sometimes but how often have you seen them talk and stuff?"

" Point well taken grass stain." Cy said, " but didn't Raven want to ask him something when he came back?"

" Yeah now that I think of it. What do you suppose she wanted to talk to him about?" BB asked.

" Maybe something he put in her letter? He did say everything was of personal nature, so maybe he put something in her letter that got under her skin?"

At that point the toaster exploded and Beast Boy and Cyborg decided that they should talk about it someplace else fearing for their lives.

Training Room

As Robin was hitting his favorite punching bag in the far back right corner of the room he heard a small series of explosions coming from the kitchen, ' those two should know better than to keep having that argument around her.' He thought, ' oh well their fault not mine.' And then he returned his attention to his bag finishing up his training session for the morning.

After his shower he decided that he would spend some time in town today. It had been just over three months since he was it the city and he wanted to make sure he still knew his way around town. So as he hopped on the R-cycle he speeded towards town.

Back at the tower Raven was still racking her brain about what Robin had said to her. " GGEEERRRRRR I just don't get it. He didn't answer my question at all. Hell I can't even meditate for long because I keep coming back to what he said." She yelled. When she heard a knock at her door.

" Friend Raven, is everything all right?" Starfire asked.

Opening the door to see only the left side of her face she looked at the young Tamarnian princess, " Everything is fine Star. What do you want?" she asked coldly.

" I was wondering if you would like to accompany me to the wonderful mall of shopping. It is conceivable that we could have much fun shopping in windows and trying on shoes."

" I don't feel like going out today." Raven said monotone.

" But we could get some of the creamed ice that you like."

Damn Raven's one weakness. Her craving for ice cream. After her birthday she had gotten a weakness for almost all forms and flavors of ice cream. " Fine but only if we get ice cream got it." At this response Starfire jumped in the room and gave Raven a full bear hug that would snap most people in two, before skipping off to her own room to change into some civilian cloths. Raven did the same, as the Goth girl opened her closet she found the only normal cloths that she had were a pair of black hip hugger jeans, a black T-shirt that had the phrase ' as you read this shirt you are giving me brief control of your mind' in white letters and a pair of black sneakers. ' Maybe I do need some new cloths.' She thought as she donned the all black attire before she met Starfire in the main room then they headed out to town.

In Town

After parking the R-cycle in a secret garage Robin decided to do a little bit of patrolling just to get the feeling back. So as he walked by a couple of bars even through it was about 2:30 in the afternoon a couple of rowdy customers were being thrown out a bar right in front of him. " Well getting a little plastered this early in the day boys?" he asked the two men lying on the ground. One of the men started to get up.

" Shut up you s-s-s-tupid kid," he said obviously drunk, " before I kick your ass, punk," he said just before falling back down.

" Ha you guys aren't worth my time, just get home save and don't drive." Robin said before leaving to continue his rounds.

At the Mall

" Oh Raven you should see this, they have the cutest little dresses here." Beckoned Starfire while Raven slowly licked her ice cream cone.

" I'm sure they do Star but don't you think that we've been here a little long?" the violet haired titan asked.

" Well it is getting late and we have been here for a little over three hours. But I think we can look at a couple more stores, don't you?" the red head asked with sad puppy dog eyes.

" Oh fine just not to much longer ok." Raven said in defeat as she sat down on a bench and opened her bag from a bookstore they visited earlier that afternoon as Starfire ran into the next store enthusiastically. ' God she can be such a space case.' Raven thought as she saw something out of the corner of her eye. A young man in his late teens with shoulder length black hair wearing a pair of blue carpenter jeans, black combat boots, and a olive green T-shirt. ' Robin?' she wondered as the figure disappeared from view. ' That reminds me I still need to talk to him about the letter.'

The Tower

Robin had just gotten back from his patrolling and a little trip to the mall to pick up some manga that he had ordered from his trip to Japan. " Well I guess it's time I got to my afternoon training session," he said before heading to the training room.

" Ha Rob wait up," Cyborg said as he ran to catch up to the titans leader, " what's up?" the metal man asked.

" Nothing, just going to the training room for a little work out. What did you want?" the masked boy asked.

" How did you know I wanted to ask you something? Those new tricks of your wouldn't include mind reading would it?"

" No it's just obvious that you wanted something. Now what is it?"

" Well the grass stain and I were wondering what she was so upset about this morning. And we think that it has something to do with the letter you gave us. So tell me what did you put in her letter." Cyborg said leaning in on Robin's face.

" I'm not going to tell you what was is her letter that's a privet matter between her and me. I mean would you want me to talk about what was in your letter?" Robin said giving him an evil grin. Cyborg back up when he mentioned his letter but Robin went on, " As for her behavior this morning I thought that it was because of you and BB's usual meal fight."

" Well that's what we thought of at first but after we mentioned the letter she nuked the toaster, so it wasn't just out fight she was mad about." Cy said pointing at him.

" Well I don't know about that. Hay you want to spar a bit?" Robin said with a smirk plastered on his face.

" Uh maybe later I have a few diagnostics to run." He said sounding worried and ran to the garage.

" Well I guess he didn't want to spar." Robin said looking into the wake of dust that Cyborg left. Turning as he headed to the training room when he ran into Raven.

She was standing at the door the door to the training room in the same cloths that she was in at the mall. When Robin reached the door and Raven didn't get out of the way he just stood there with his arms crossed waiting for her to get out of his way before he spoke.

" What is it Rae, I just want to do some training before dinner, now what do you want?"

" I want an answer to the question that I asked yesterday. Now what did you mean you answered my question with that stupid 'we know what it is to be truly alone' what did you mean!"

" I'm not going to tell you if you can't figure it out Rae, but you can ask for help if you want. Why don't you ask Starfire about your little 'problem' and see if she can shed some light on the situation." He said before he pushed his way into the training room.

Starfire's Room

As the young Tamarainan was putting her new cloths away in her closet she heard a knock at her door, being the up beat person she is she skipped over to the door to find Raven on the other end looking worried about something.

" Why hello friend Raven what is it that I can help you with?" the Getty red head asked with her ever so broad smile on her face.

" Well I was wondering if you could help me with something?" the pale titan asked looking down at the floor.

" Of course what is it that you need assistance with friend?" she said pulling Raven into the pink room.

" Well I'm having trouble with a…riddle and I was wondering if you would help me with it?"

" Of course but I'm afraid I'm not very good at riddles, perhaps Robin would be of more assistance. Should I call for him?" she asked.

" NO. I mean no he's actually the one who gave me the riddle. Let's just say that there is a girl and that she thinks a boy likes her, " Rae paused looking at Starfire who's eyes were plastered all over what Raven was saying, " and this boy said that they had a something in common that everyone out of the group didn't have. What do you think he means by that?" Raven finished fearing that Starfire would suspect that the hypothetical question was about her. But luck was on her side when Star answered.

" Well if these two people are all ready close friends that the boy said that they have something in common that everyone else doesn't have. I think he's saying that they share a very special bond and can be closer to each other than anyone else." Star said, " Now who is this girl that you are talking about? I would very much like to meat a friend of yours."

" Never mind that Star it doesn't matter now," Raven said before leaving the room, " oh and thank you for your help."

'Ok so he means that we have a special bond but dose that mean he likes me? What when did I care about someone liking me? I mean sure he's cute and looks great with out his shirt on but…wait what am I saying he's my leader I can't afford to have feelings for him. What would happen to the team if we had a relationship? But he cares about us so much. I think I need take a little trip to nevermore and talk this out with myself.' So Raven headed to her room to meditate on the matter.

Raven's Head: Nevermore

" Alright time for the meeting, Intelligence what is your take on this?" Real Raven asked her yellow-clocked wearing counterpart.

" Well there is a 95 percent chance that Starfire's theory is correct, that Robin and 'we' have a special bond above what the others have. So I think that there is a good chance that Robin has the same feelings that we do for him." Intelligence said readjusting her glasses.

" Well I thought that you were against getting two close to him since he's our leader?" Courage said joining the conversation.

" I never said that he didn't feel the same way, I just said he wouldn't act upon those feelings because of the position that he's in." she replied.

" Well I'm scared that he would reject us if we approached him at all about this," Timid said from behind courage.

" You're scared of everything so it's a mute point." Courage spat back.

" Hey what did I tell you about being nice to her." Real Raven snapped.

" Sorry, I've been on edge with her following me around lately."

" Fine, but I think that we need to sort out our next course of action. So what do we do?"

" Well," Intelligence said, " we have two choices we can either confront him about it, or but in subtle hints that we like him, being as smart as he is he'll figure it our."

" I think that we should put it all out on the line and confront him about it right away." Courage said striking a dramatic pose.

" But in doing that it most likely cause problems for the rest of the team. I believe the wisest course of action it to let him know in subtle gestures like maybe spending more time with him." Intelligent said.

" Well since it would seem that we can't reach a decision and the other aren't here we'll have to go with Intelligent's idea." Real Raven said before ending her meditation for the night.

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A/N: Well I think that this chapter went rather well. Will Raven and Robin hook up? Will I introduce another character to interfere with Raven's plans? Will I ever end a story? These are the questions that I will answer in the next chapter (Maybe). Please R&R.