A/N: I'm back! I had to take the chance that today I had absolutely no exams to study for, and the fact that I'm going to Florida on Thursday and won't be back until Sunday to write this chapter now. Audie, your totally right, I vow to never again criticize when an author writes a short chapter, it takes an awful lot of writing and time to make a reasonably long chapter! But I'll try really hard to make them more normal sized. Ok, on to chapter three!

Raven ran into the main room. "What's the prob…"

She let the rest of her sentence die away. Her eyes were seeing, but she couldn't register it. The other Titans minus Beast Boy were standing in front of the huge T.V. screen, staring with their mouths open wide.

The image on the screen was mostly made up of Beast Boy's face, eye's lit up, grinning from ear to ear. And visible behind him was Terra, human once more, hugging her knees as she sat on the ground. Her eyes averted the screen.

"Guys! Can you believe it?! Terra's back, she's okay!" shouted Beast Boy, pointing wildly behind him with one hand as he held the communicator with the other.

The Titans remained dumbfounded.

"How, how did this happen?" asked Robin, incredulous.

"I don't know, I figured I'd let Terra try and explain back at the tower" said Beast Boy, his smile fading a bit as he gestured toward the forlorn Terra. "She's pretty wiped out right now."

"Understood," exclaimed Robin. "Beast Boy, stay where you are with Terra. Raven," he said, turning toward her, "go find them and teleport them here."

The expression on the hooded figure's face was unreadable. Without a word, she was enshrouded in black energy, morphing into a giant raven. With a fiercer than normal caw, the Raven seeped upward through the roof and disappeared. Robin switched off the screen.

"Oh, what a most joyous occasion! Friend Terra is alive and well!" cheered Starfire, as she flew around the room, twirling and making figure eights in the air.

"Booyah! I knew that chic had what it took to hang in there!" exclaimed Cyborg, raising a hand to slap Robin a high five. He was shocked to find that the Boy Wonder wasn't joining in the celebration.

"Hey man, what's up with you?" he asked, staring at Robin. "Aren't you glad Terra's okay?"

Robin looked up suddenly, startled, as if he had been in deep thought.

"What? I mean, yeah, I'm glad she's okay, it's just…" Robin paused, obviously uncomfortable.

"It's just what?" pressed Cyborg, hands on his hips.

Starfire, clearly oblivious to the conversation going on between her two companions, happily stated, "Terra will undoubtedly be hungry upon her arrival. If I recall, she much enjoyed my recipe for homemade glorg. I shall proceed to make some, freshly squeezed, for her!" And with that, she flew off.

Now that they were alone, Robin felt more comfortable speaking. "I'm afraid things will get…complicated, around here," he commented in a low voice to Cyborg. "After all, even though she did save the city, she very well damn near destroyed it, too. Terra became Slade's apprentice and nearly killed us."

"I'm not saying we should throw her out straight away," Robin added hastily. He of all people knew being Slade's apprentice was not something to be taken lightly. "But, well…lets just say there are going to be opposing votes if it ever came to that."

Cyborg sighed and rubbed his head. He knew Robin was talking about Raven.

"Well, I guess your right. I gotta admit, I'm surprised Raven went off to get them without even protesting. I don't know what went down between the two of them, but things might get ugly when they get here."

"And if it does, I'm sure Beast Boy will only fan the fire," stated Robin. "I think the best thing we can do when they get here is to first make sure Terra's okay, physically at least. I'll talk to Raven. We can sort the rest out later. Terra didn't look like she was up to giving a lot of explanations for the moment."

Cyborg sat down on the couch, a frown tugging at his face.

"Man, you sure know how to trash a good mood" he told the Titan leader, staring at his huge shoes.

"I'm sorry if you feel that way," Robin replied sternly, "but there's a lot at stake here."

Suddenly, he sighed, and sat down on the couch next to Cyborg.

"Besides," he continued, picking up the remote and turning the T.V. on, "it's not like I'm enjoying this any more than you are".

A roar of thunder, like a bad omen, rumbled outside the tower.

A cloaked figure glided through the streets of the city. Night had fallen, and the sky was cloudy, threatening rain. The figure showed no hesitation as it made it's way silently through the streets and dark alleys.

Suddenly, black electricity bristled through the figure, lashing out and destroying random objects. The figure stopped abruptly.

"No" it whispered. Control. Regain control.

Another tendril of black energy shot out and turned an empty garbage can into rubble.

Anger is pointless, don't waste your…

"And what about hurt?" whispered the figure. "Can't I feel hurt? Or am I denied that, too?"

Unseen, under the hood, Raven's lips trembled. Hot tears streaked down her face, and she didn't bother to brush them aside.

What was she doing? Was she really going to bring back the person who betrayed them, who made her feel like a naïve child?

"No!" cried Raven, falling to her knees, hood falling back, clapping her hands over her ears in a vain attempt to stop the torrent of unanswered questions. Her shoulders shook as she struggled to suppress the sobs racking through her body. "She's just a traitor, she just…"

Finally, Raven stopped lying to herself. She wasn't just a traitor, she thought to herself. She hurt me. I put my trust in her, and she stomped on it like a clump of dirt.

As if on cue, the heavens opened and rain began to fall. It wasn't long before she was soaked to the bone. Raven couldn't really remember the last time she had felt so dismal. And that was saying something.

Forks of lightning flashed across the sky.

Slowly, Raven stood up. She replaced her hood over her head.

No, she couldn't break down now. Not now. She had to be strong, for her teammates…and for herself.

Furiously and vainly wiping at the tears mingled with rain on her face, she looked up through the downpour and sighed deeply. It seemed as if all the sorrow in the world was expelled in that sigh.

Collecting herself, Raven narrowed her eyes. Quickly, she continued on her way.

The rain washes everything away, and it wasn't long before it seemed as if nothing had ever happened on that dark street. And the hooded figure continued on toward the place she had never wanted to see again.

A/N: Yes, I know! Still too short! I guess I just write better in bits and pieces, but I'll keep trying to make the chapters longer anyway.