-1I'm sorry for the extra few days over my week and a half. I had it all planned out in my head the night before I was going to write and then the next day my parents decide to get me a new bed. It turns out they couldn't find one that was decent for cheap at mattress giant so I had to wait an extra day for it and I usually write at night when I'm lying down so that sort of messed me up. I know what you're thinking, 'Why didn't he just write it in the day time on the couch or something?'. Because I'm a stubborn little punk and there's nothing you can do about it. Unless you throw an apple at me. I don't like apples.

Did anybody notice how much 'Things Change' sucked? Seriously, it leaves every loose end in that episode untied. The developers better make a sixth season. But I guess that's just my opinion, isn't it?

Dedication: RoseMage. Once again, I needed a hand out of the burning hole called writer's block. Everybody thank her, or I'll hit you with an apple! Apples hurt! And if you don't, just go here. www . zippyvideos . com / 8466361493383746 / apple0001 /

Disclaimer: Teen Titans is property of the Turner Broadcasting Network with which I have no affiliation.

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Rachel walked along the sidewalk, breathing in the fresh night air. She loved the night. The air seemed fresher, all the annoying people were either getting drunk in a bar or going to bed, and the sun wasn't out.

She turned a corner, surprised to find a cafe there, and open nonetheless. She let out a long breath, relaxing. Some tea sounded good right about now. She walked up to the door and walked in. It had tacky tile along with some black metal chairs and wood tables. (The one Kori and Rich were at earlier. This is the same day, just informing you. Just at about 10 pm instead of four o clockish. Don't quote me on that though. For all I know I could've put the exact time they were there in the last chapter, I don't have the best memory at times and at times I have a great one.)

She looked to see a boy with green hair about her age putting the black metal chairs up on top of the tables, flipped upside down. Apparently he was closing the cafe down.

"Isn't this place supposed to be open for another fifty four minutes or so?" Rachel asked, raising an eyebrow.

"What? Oh yeah, I usually close down early because I've never actually seen anybody come here later than 9 pm. The manager insists we stay open this late." He said.

"Where would you like to sit? Or is your order to go?" He asked politely.

"Wherever." Rachel said. He nodded and pulled one of the chairs off of a two person table nearest the counter.

"What do you want?" He asked her.

"Tea." Rachel said plainly in her monotone. He nodded and vaulted over the counter, shifting his body horizontal and using one hand to support himself. He poured a cup of hot water and put a tea bag into it. Rachel walked up to the counter as he handed it to her.

"How much'll that be?" She asked, taking her wallet out of her violet purse on her shoulder.

"Consider it a tax refund, my boss'll never know." He said, letting out a chuckle.

"Umm… thanks." Rachel replied, eyeing him a little suspiciously as she slowly put away her wallet. She walked over to the chair and sat down, setting her tea down on the table, waiting for it to cool off a little. He hopped up onto the counter and sat down on it, facing her.

"So, what's your name?" He asked, attempting to start a conversation.

"Rachel, if you call me anything else you won't have a tongue to talk with." She said, menacingly. He let out a nervous chuckle.

"Right, I'm Garfield, Gar for short." Gar said, sticking his hand out for her to shake. She gave it an odd look before taking a sip of her tea.

"So, what're you doing here this late?" Gar asked.

"Tea relaxes me, so does the lack of people and the sun." Rachel stated plainly, taking a few more sips of her tea.

"I see." Gar said, attempting to sound semi intelligent. Neither of them said anything after that. Rachel sipped her tea and Gar just sat there watching.

"Well, Gar, maybe I'll see you around." Rachel said, getting up and throwing her cup away. From the lack of response she looked over to where he was sitting on the counter. He had fallen asleep on the cash register. She chuckled to herself. He'd have a rude awakening tomorrow when his boss or a customer found him. She walked out the door and retraced her steps back to her house.

'Ugh, I shouldn't have had that tea, no matter how tempting.' Rachel thought. Caffeine didn't have much effect on her, but it was still an effect. 'And I have work tomorrow too. Perfect.' Rachel thought. At least a job at the book store wasn't too hard to do, or require too much energy for that matter.

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Victor placed his hand on Gar's shoulder, shaking him roughly.

"Get up ya little grass stain." He shouted. Gar immediately sat up, his eyes wide open.

"I'm up, I'm up. Wha'd I miss?" Gar shouted., looking around quickly to see where he was and what was going on.

"You probably fell asleep here last night." Vic explained.

"Seriously though ya little booger, we're surrounded by caffeinated drinks and you fall asleep?" Vic asked, crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow.

"Ya well there was this girl and I sort of fell asleep while sitting here." Gar said, trying to explain.

"Ya right, like we had a customer that late, get some responsibility Gar." Vic said walking towards the door to go back into the kitchen.

"I'll have you know I have plenty responsibility and I wasn't lieing!" Gar shouted after him, waving a fist.

"Suuure you weren't." Vic called after him, as he went through the door. Gar got off the counter mumbling a few things as he walked out the door and started walking in the direction of his apartment building.

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All done. Ya, it was short. I have an excuse though! Well… it's not a good one, but it's an excuse. I had this chapter all written, and it was much longer, last night, and then when I was half way through the final author note, my laptop shut down on me. So, there ya go, my excuse. A couple things to address.

Everybody walks everywhere cause it's a city and I have them all in the same general area… well, besides Rich anyway.

I'm just getting the last Titans introduced before I start some of the plots and stuff. This is a RobStar story, therefore they will be the focus of attention. And I won't make chapters without them in it, other then this one and maybe the one after this. But, I suck at keeping promises, so who knows what'll happen? Well, you won't anyway.

I'm mean to everybody because I can be, and you should know better than to think I'm actually being mean. It's just harmless fun that I don't actually mean. Kind of like firecrackers… yeah… harmless.

If you don't thank RoseMage, then copy and paste that url into your address bar and remove the spaces. You can get hit with a cyber apple there. Claimer: That video was drawn and made by me, please don't steal it without my permission. And if you do have my permission, then you can even go as far as claiming it as your own. But the only person that has permission to do that knows who they are.

Well, my various rants are over. Those are just kiddie rants compared to some people. If you want a real rant, go hunt down a guy named Ankhsith. I bet you can't find him though. If you do, I'll make another video with me giving you a cookie. Ya, I'd bet you like that.

Review or I will hit you with another apple!