Authors Note - Hello again. I've classified Ice Queen as a short story so the chapters aren't going to be very long but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. The Title character will finally make an appearance this chapter. For all you that've reviewed, Thanks! I know I haven't updated in a while but I'm aiming for at leastan update a week for one of any of the stories I've got going from now on.

Disclaimer - I absolutely, completely and utterly do not own anythingto do with the Teen Titnas. Noram Ibeing paid for this... although I wouldn't say no to any donations if you insist...

Atop of a tower a sorceress gently sighed, the sea breeze lifting her short violet hair as it hushed by. Raven opened her eyes to look out at the slowly rising moon. Today she'd arranged a party for over thirty hormonal teenagers, including catering which since Titans Tower was on an island, was a lot harder to arrange than it sounded. She'd saved an alien princess from further depression, enduring seemingly unending amounts of pink clothes and make up to do so, she'd tidied the common room, with Beast Boy present that was a Herculean task if she'd ever heard of one. She'd also made sure the criminal underlife was not going to interrupt the celebration. Being a half demon could be useful.

A wry smile twisted her lips.

'Yep, I'm a hero all right. Practically a fairytale classic,'

The smirk relaxed into a genuine smile as Raven closed her eyes against the nights glow and stretched her senses slightly towards the noise downstairs. Everyone was genuinely having a good time. The fans she'd semi-randomly chosen off the street to invite were ecstatic at being in Titans Tower and as always Titans East were happy to have an excuse to party… and flirt with everything in sight. Which in the males of the teams case, seemed to be mainly Starfire. Raven mentally shrugged, Starfire was enjoying the attention and Titans East would grow out of it eventually. As for her other teammates… Cyborg and Beast Boy had somehow managed to enlist a group of similar minded morons to play stankball with them and their leader was indulging in an old habit.

"You can't sneak up on me Robin," stated the sorceress as the presence behind her drew closer.

"I've never been good at giving up," remarked the brightly clothed teen as he stood next to his teammate. For a moment the two merely watched as the moon rose above the sea, their silence offsetting the din of the party.

Finally the dark haired youth broke the silence, half turning to face the sorceress next to him.

"So why aren't you downstairs?"

"It was getting a bit loud,"

Robin nodded, satisfied for now. When he'd first met her that question would've been met with a glare before she made a sarcastic response. Now she sounded almost… content? Not precisely happy, but she was far more comfortable around him and the others. Abruptly he realised he'd been staring at Raven for the last five minutes. With a small smile at his stupidity, the teenager turned back to the now fully risen moon, glad that the empath hadn't caught him admiring her.

Raven however was in her own contemplation. She was wondering why her monotone answer, which from anyone else would be a mere excuse, had caused a wave of happiness to almost wash away her defences. It wasn't like their fearless leader to lose control over his emotions for such a small thing. Nor was it like him to then lose focus and stare at her. It was times like these that she wished she was telepathic instead of empathic. Although thoughts were probably just as chaotic as emotions, and she wouldn't violate peoples minds anyway… and this is why she wished she didn't have a conscience.

So the two teenagers stood. Both lost in their own thoughts of the other, their normally acute senses failing to register that they were standing far closer to each other than they were a quarter of an hour ago.

Risking exposure, the supposedly fearless leader of the Titans glanced back at his companion.

"Raven…"

As the sorceress turned towards her friend, before either teen could say another word, screaming reached their ears. With a mere glance towards her companion as warning, Raven extended her powers and the two phased through the floor. Towards the chaos the party had become.

For a moment after appearing in the common room Robin thought he was hallucinating. The entire room was covered in ice, tables were frozen in midair as if the very air had frozen around them as they were tossed to one side and it looked suspiciously like it was snowing. Standing in the middle of the room, stood a tall woman so pale that it was hard to make her out against the ice on the walls. Surrounding her were the entire of Titans East as well as Jump City's guardians, excluding their leader and sorceress. With moves Robin was intimately familiar with the two teams merged together in perfect synchronism to attack the figure.

The ice maiden looked bored. With an elegant flick of her left hand the heroes were sent flying away from her, startling Robin into action. The intruder silently accepted his challenge, a gleam in her eyes as the Boy Wonder raced towards her, staff outstretched.

"Stop,"

It really was amazing, thought the young warrior as his body instinctually obeyed the command without bothering to inform his mind, causing the usually graceful youth to stumble as gravity took hold. She never said much but when she did everyone took notice. The ice maiden dismissed the young warrior, turning her attention behind him, towards the voice that had halted all movement in the room.

"Raven?"