Chapter 3

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans. If I did the episode 'Stranded' would never have been aired.

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Raven leaned against the closed door and sighed. She wished that she could have told him everything but she couldn't, not now. Nobody her secret.

"Hey honey, how was your night?" her mother asked not looking up from the tv.

"Fine. I'm going to bed now. Night Mom."

"Night."

In her bedroom, Raven changed into her pajamas and crawled into bed. She closed her eyes and thought about Dick. He was so sweet and understanding. That was her last thought before going to sleep.

The Next Morning

Raven woke up to the alarm clock blaring. 'Stupid alarm clock, stupid school. Stupid mornings,' she thought shutting the alarm clock off. She got dressed then walked downstairs and got a bowl of cereal. She walked out to the living room and turned on the news. She finished her cereal and was about to turn off the tv when a mews alert came on.

"An convict residing at 'Jump City Prison Faculties' has escaped. This person is considered a highly dangerous man who has been arrested for rape, attempted murder, child abuse and assault. He is the leader of a Satan worshiping colt. His name is Craig Roth and is know within his colt as 'Deathstroke.' We will keep you posted as more reports come in," said the news reporter.

Raven stood transfixed. He got out. That was not good. He was her dad. Trigon was merely her stepfather. Her mother had remarried after Craig tried to kill her. Raven knew that he was going to come back seeking revenge. That was not good. She was seriously considering not going to school today. If he was out then he would want her since she was the 'key' in bringing the devil himself back to their world. To put it in simple terms. She was scared to death. She was about to call Terra and tell her that she wasn't going to go to school but then the doorbell rang. Raven cautiously walked to the door and looked through the glass hole in the door. She let out a gust of breath that she didn't know that she'd been holding when she saw that it was only Terra.

"Hey Ter. What's up?" she asked opening the door.

"Nothing really," Terra replied. "Just waiting for you to come out. We're going to be late for school."

"Ok. Just let me grab my bag," Raven said then ran to her room and grabbed her bag. "Ready."

"Finally," Terra said and rolled her eyes while Raven laughed.

On the way to school, Raven was continuously casting quick glances over her shoulder.

"What's the matter Rae?" Terra asked after finally getting fed up with Raven looking back and not hearing what she was saying. "Are you looking for someone or what?"

"What! Oh, no I was just...never mind."

"What ever you say girl what ever you say," Terra muttered getting the hint that Raven wanted to drop the topic. "you left with that Dick dude last night. What did you do?"

"Well, we just talked and he walked me home that's all."

"Sure," Terra said smirking. "Well we're at school now. Meet you at lunch outside by the bleachers."

"Sure."

They both went their separate ways as the first bell rang.

Raven walked into her home room. Her teacher was Mr. Mod, or as the kids liked to call him, 'Mad' Mod. Her first class was American History(A/N: I'm not American so I don't know anything about it so I'll just skip the actual lesson thing) but he taught them British History.

"Can't he teach us one thing that he's supposed to teach us. Who cares about British history(I don't have anything against British people I'm just using that in the fic) Mod is a crazy lunatic who shouldn't be teaching at all because no matter what he's teaching he starts ranting on about Great Britain," Raven continued muttering like this until she was interrupted.

"I agree with you completely Rae," Dick said coming up behind her. She jumped and turned around.

"Don't...ever...do...that...again," she gasped in between breaths.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. I just heard you having a go at Mod so I thought that I'd join in. Is there anything wrong?" he asked, his face showed genuine concern.

"No I'm fine. You just startled me that's all. What class are you going to now?" she asked.

"I just got transferred to American History for this term. So I guess that we're in the same class now. You know if you to tell me anything you can."

"Thanks. But I'm fine."

"If you're sure."

"I am," she tried to assure him but she could tell by the look on his face that he wasn't convinced. "We'd better get to class now. Mod gives us a fifteen minute lecture on proper school behavior if you're late," she said rolling her eyes as the second bell rang.

"Ok," Dick replied and hurried through the crowd of students after Raven.

"And welcome to 'American History,'" she said, quoting with her fingers. Dick laughed and took a spare seat that was conveniently right next to Raven right in the back. Mr Mod came in and started lecturing the class on British history and saying why the British should have won the American Revolution War. After about five minutes of listening to him Raven pulled out a spare notebook and started writing in it. Dick looked over at her thinking that she was taking notes until he saw her write something totally different then what Mod was saying.

"What are you writing?" he asked.

"Stories."

"What kind?" he asked

"Aie! Now what's this? Hello me duckies, talking in class are we," Mod said grinning coming to the back of the classroom and standing in front of their desks. "We'll see if you were listening. Raven, who should have won the war?"

"Great Britain."

"Correct. You there. Who won the war?"

"Um..." Dick looked over at Raven and she held up the corner of her notebook. It said 'The French A.K.A. America(I think this is it). "The French then they started calling themselves Americans?" he said but it sounded more like a question.

"Right," Mod said but eyed him. "Let me see that notebook duckie," Raven handed him her notebook and he looked through it. "Now everybody should take a page from Miss Raven's book and take notes. What are you all staring at me for, start taking notes," he shouted.

"When did you take those notes?" Dick asked Raven.

"Easy, I took them first class. He goes over the same thing every class," she said taking out her story notebook and starting to write in it again.

"So can I borrow your notes, I'm not very good at taking notes while the teacher is talking," he asked.

"Help yourself."

"Thanks."

"Whatever."

"Yo Rae!" Terra shouted.

"Yo Ter. How was your morning?" Raven asked walking over to Terra.

"Fine. We had Mod. If you ask me he's getting loonier by the day."

"You've never been too right Terra. Never."

"Hey, do you mind if we cut in?" someone asked. Terra and Raven spun around and saw Dick, Bee, Vic, Kori, Roy, and Gar.

"Sure. Why not," Terra said shrugging. Dick took a seat by Raven, Roy sat by Kori, Bee and Vic sat together and Gar took a seat by Terra. Soon everyone was engaged in their own private conversations. Roy and Kori were talking about cheerleading and track. Bee and Vic were talking about this year's football season. Gar was making Terra laugh then they started making faces at each other(like in the episode Terra). And Raven and Dick were talking about whatever.

"You know, I'm think of just going on the trapeze in gymnastics now," Dick told Raven.

"Why? You're one of the best people on the team!" she said surprised.

"No I'm not, it's just that I really like the trapeze better then anything else that I'm doing now and I tried it today and the coach said that I'm pretty good on them."

"Well I guess if you're sure and you enjoy them then you should go out for it."

"Thanks. I guess that I can count on you for support. Another thing that I'm thinking about going in for is martial arts..."

"Really. I think that you would be pretty good at that too," Raven said then looked at him. She could tell that there was something else that was bothering him that he wanted to talk about so she stopped and waited for him to continue.

"The problem is that my language mark is really low and if it gets much lower I'll have to quit the team and I won't be able to join anything else until my marks come up. I just don't get language. I really don't like writing and I get different ideas then what the teacher wants when I answer questions on poems. I really don't want to quit anything," he finished sighing and looking at Raven.

"I can help you. I get pretty good marks in language. I'm not going to pretend that I know it all but I can show you some of my tricks. Language is fun when you put your mind to it," she said.

"Really, you'd help me out. Oh God Raven thank you so much!" he said and he looked about ready to hug her.

"Yes I'll help you but you have to do the work yourself and don't you dare try and hug me right now," she said and added the last part as he was about to jump up and hug her. "When do you want to start?"

"I'm free later tonight and-" he was cut ff when the bell rang. "See ya, I got math now," he said and got up and walked off.

"Ya, I got language."

"Rae, you got study hall off right," Terra asked.

"Ya. Why?" Raven answered looking back at Terra.

"Meet you at Pop's during study hall then."

"Sounds good to me. See you then."

After language, Raven walked to Pop's. It was a popular hangout for kids. It was just across the street from the school so at lunchtime a lot of people would go there. Raven went over to the window seat that her and Terra would always take. Usually some of their other friends like Jynx would come over and sit down. Raven sat down and a few minutes later Terra walked in.

"You order anything yet?" she asked Raven.

"No I was waiting for you," she said as Terra sat down. A waiter came over and took their order and soon Raven was sipping a cup of herbal tea and Terra was gulping down a coke.

"You don't need to choke yourself you know. There's plenty of time to drink and there's bound to be more in the storeroom," Raven commented.

"How could you drink that stuff?" Terra asked, ignoring Raven's comment.

"You have to acquire a taste for it and it calms the nerves," she said taking another sip.

"Since when do you need to be calmed down?" Terra asked.

"Since I started hanging out with you," she muttered and Terra laughed.

"Oh, Rae. Look who's coming," Terra smirked. "There's your boyfriend."

"He's not my boyfriend," Raven said. She watched as he looked around and not spotting any spare seats started to walk over to Raven's table.

"Mind if I sit here?" he asked.

"No it's fine," Terra said and her smirk widened as Dick took a place next to Raven. Dick ordered a Pepsi and sipped it.

"So what are you doing tonight Raven?" Terra asked.

"I'm helping Dick with his language," she muttered blushing, already knowing what Terra would make out of that.

"Oh I see," she said winking at Raven and smirking as Raven put her head in her hands.

"Ya," said Dick.

"Well I got to go now so I'll be seeing you around," Terra said getting up after checking her watch.

"Annoying little brat. Tell me why the heck I'm friends with her," Raven muttered looking ready to kill Terra as she went on ranting.

"Hey, Raven. What are you doing now," Dick asked.

"Right now I'm drinking my tea," she said and took another sip.

"You know what I mean," he chuckled. "After school. Do you want to do something with me?"

"Sure. I'm not doing anything else tonight," she said. "What do you want to do?"

"How about we go to dinner then the movies, my treat."

"I couldn't let you pay for it all," she said rasing her head and looking alarmed.

"It's fine. I want to," he assured her.

"Ok."

"What movie do you want to see?" he asked her.

"Well there's a horror movie out that I want to see."

"What one is it?"

"Seed Of Chucky."

"Ok. We'll go see that one then. And where do you want to go for dinner to?"

"I'm fine with pizza really."

"Ok," he said making a mental note of what to do. "Can I pick you up around four then?"

"Sounds good to me. I've got to go get ready. See you at four," she said getting up and laying the money for her tea on the table.

"See you then Raven," he said and smiled. She looked back at him and smiled then went out the door.

At four Raven was ready. She had a tight black T-shirt that showed off her curves and low hip hugging black pants that flared at the ankles. She had blue sneakers on and a necklace with a black raven on it. She thought that casual dress was more comfortable then formal. The doorbell rang and she went to open it.

"Hey. You look nice," Dick said. He was wearing a red tank top that fitted tight on him and outlined his muscles. He also had on baggy black pants and dark blue sneakers that looked really worn in.

"So do you," Raven said.

"Well, are you ready to go?" he asked.

"Ya," she said and followed him down to the street where he'd parked his bike. He hopped on and handed her a helmet.

"Here."

"We're going on that," she said eyeing the bike nervously.

"Ya. Come on. I won't drive to fast," he said.

"..."

"Don't you trust me?" he said faking a hurt look on his face.

"Yes but-" she said.

"See. I won't do anything that Gar wouldn't do," he said smiling.

"Oh that's real comforting," she said sarcastically grabbing the helmet and getting on behind him.

"You have to hold on you know."

"I'll be fine."

"Your choice," he said and took off. Since the bike lurched forward, Raven had no choice but to grab him around the waist so she wouldn't fall off the bike and become personal friends with the pavement.

They got to the pizza parlor and Raven was more then a little winded. Her hair was wind blown. She got off the bike unsteadily with the help of Dick.

"Now that wasn't too bad no was it," he laughed but shut up when he receive a death glare from Raven. "So are you ready to eat now?" he asked and laughed nervously.

"Yes," she said once she had finally caught her breath.

"What kind of pizza do you want? And herbal tea to drink right?" he asked when they got to the front desk.

"Double pepperoni with extra cheese. And actually I think I'll have a glass pineapple crush," she said.

"Fine by me," he ordered the pizza, a pineapple crush and Pepsi. They went and sat down and didn't get time to talk before the pizza came. They ate their pizza, occasionally saying something made no sense what so ever.

After they had finished their pizza they walked across the street and saw their movie. Raven didn't get freaked out like most of the other people in the theater including Dick. After the movie Dick gave her a ride home and Raven held on tightly from the beginning this time. They said good bye and went their separate ways, but little did they know that they were being watched.

A/N: Cliffy. If you can guess who's watching them, well I don't really have anything to give you but you get bragging rights. R&R.