Well, I certainly am pleased. For some odd reason the server eliminated all of the 'hits' counters on all of my stories... I remember that this one had somewhere around twenty something... Well, after actually posting my first chapter it went far beyond that. Thirty-eight I believe... Anyway, for those of you who read these little blurbs before the chapters I just wanna thank you all. I'd thank the others but they don't read my babbling.
Enjoy.
Oh, P.S. if you find any errors, e-mail me and I'll try to change them, and of course give you credit for catching it.

Back at the tower the titans began wondering where Timothy would sleep but as Raven took the initiative and got one of the spare beds from storage and brought it to her room the question seemed to be answered. That is until Robin asked, "Are you sure you want him in your room?"

"Yes." Raven replied continuing to levitate the bed up to her room.

"But you have so many delicate things that could be broken." Robin objected. "And won't some of the decoration frighten him?"

"No, he is in there right now, and he hasn't touched anything." Raven replied as she opened the stairwell door that led to the floor with their rooms on it. The bed passed through the door followed by Raven and then Robin. As they entered her room Robin realized what she meant. Timothy was looking at her decorations with the utmost interest, but as Robin entered the room Timothy moved away from him and towards the back.

"Why is he so frightened of the rest of us?" Robin asked watching Timothy move away his wide eyes locked onto Robin.

"I don't know, but I would like to find out."

"Have you been able to get him to talk?"

"Not yet, but I am going to try."

"When you do..."

"I know, tell you." Raven said turning to face Robin, a cross look darkening her face.

Robin left the room and Raven placed the bed in an open spot. Timothy walked over to her and clutched onto her cape. She reached her hand down and held Timothy's hand; then she picked him up and held him in her arms looking around her room. Timothy put his arms around her neck and clung to her in a hug.

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That night after Raven put Timothy to bed and went to sleep she found herself in a strange dream. Everywhere around her were clouds of various colors. The clouds swam around her and puffed into and out of existence as she watched. She quickly noticed that she was floating and couldn't move closer to or further away from the clouds but as a change came over them she realized why. Slowly an image appeared in front of her; a young man, just slightly older than herself had 'walked' into existence about five feet ahead.

The man had long blond hair and was wearing a long white cape that had leafy green shade of gold trim around it. As the cape moved she could see reflections of light bouncing off of symbols sown into the cape. Beneath the cape the man wore a long cloak with similar symbols and beneath that he wore a one piece outfit similar to hers but with legs, all of which was also white.

"Hello Raven." The man said.

"Who are you?" Raven asked. "And how do you know who I am?"

The man laughed gently, "Well, this is your dream so it isn't like I wouldn't know who you are, even if I pretended not to..."

"So then this is just a dream?" Raven asked, a little unsure.

"No... Well, yes, but it is far more than just a dream." The man said. "You are seeing me and I am seeing you. We are in your mind but I am able to control what we see around us... I do not control you and you do not control me." here the man paused for a second and waved his hand. A small patch of cloud rippled and changed into a chair which then moved over to Raven. "You can sit if you wish."

"Who are you?" Raven asked again not sitting.

The man sighed and started, "This is difficult to explain. I can't tell you," he said simply. "I can't tell you because I am a different person in the dream world. I can remember nearly everything here, but in the physical world I have completely lost my memories. If I were to tell you who I am, who I truly am and you were to tell me in the waking world then something bad would happen."

"Something bad?" Raven repeated. "What?"

"My energies have been scattered across the world, and probably part of the universe. If you were to tell me, even accidentally, in the waking world who I was all of that energy would return to me. The reason this is bad is because if my energies return to me all at once it will create a reverse shockwave and that will react something like a black hole or an explosion."

"Whoare you?" Raven asked again. "You keep talking as though I know you..."

The man's image shifted slightly and he began to shrink his hair and cloths becoming darker and dirty. The man's eyes shifted and his irises became two different colors, finally he wasn't a man anymore but a young boy, no older than seven. Raven gasped as she realized who he was. "Timothy?"

Yes, you finally understand. The man's voice reverberated all around her. I am Timothy, the boy who you kindly took in, and for that I am indebted to you.

Questions ran through Raven's mind, many questions and she began to feel light headed. Her mind was swimming, this was becoming too much for her. The little boy she had taken home with her was, as she had expected, not all that he appeared. But there was so much she wanted to ask now, so many questions that she needed to have answers to.

Timothy shifted again and he became his young adult self. He stepped forward towards the confused Raven and gently reached out his hand. Raven was startled when she noticed that he had gently placed his hands on her shoulders and she was even more so when he leaned down, because he was slightly taller than she was, and kissed her on the forehead. Slowly Raven put her hand up to where he had kissed and realized that she had woken up.

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When the other titans woke up they found Raven and Timothy already awake. Raven had apparently tried to make Timothy breakfast because Timothy had a plate of semi-burnt pancakes in front of him. Timothy seemed to be enjoying them though and that made Raven happy, though it confused the others. As the other titans sat at the table to eat Timothy moved further and further away from them, apparently still frightened by them.

"I just don't get it," Beast Boy said. "Why is he still afraid of us?"

"A green boy who only looks slightly human, a tall girl with very long red hair and bright green eyes, a kid wearing a mask and cape, and a half human half robot... yeah, what's not to be afraid of?" Cyborg replied.

"But Raven is the darkest and most frightening of all of us." Starfire said. "Why does he like her so much?"

Raven glanced over at Starfire, fire in her eyes but she let it go and looked back at Timothy as he crunched through another blackened pancake.

"What I am worried about is the next time there is trouble." Robin said. "It isn't like we can bring him with us..."

"I agree." Raven said turning to look at the others. "But it isn't like we can leave him here alone either..."

"So what do you propose we do then?" Robin asked.

"Ooh, we could get him a nanny." Beast Boy said. "Or Cyborg could make him a nanny..."

Cyborg glanced at Beast Boy, considering whether or not to say anything. Finally he said, "We have him go to school."

Everyone considered that for a moment, but after a minute they looked at each other and began laughing. "Never mind," Cyborg said still laughing.

"I still say we can't bring him with us." Robin said. "It isn't so much that he would get in the way..."

"It's just that we wouldn't want him to get hurt." Raven finished. "I understand, but what can we do about it?"

The alarm went off and everyone jumped up. "Well we will have to decide fast." Robin said over the alarm.

Raven turned to face Timothy and got his attention. He looked at her attentively, his eyes wide in innocence. "Timothy, I want you to stay here. Stay in this room, ok?"

Timothy nodded and Raven was only slightly surprised but they were in to much of a hurry for her to really think about it. Quickly she ran after the others leaving Timothy alone in the living room. As she got into the T-Car she thought about it for a second but Robin interrupted her thoughts by saying, "A bank is being robbed, the criminals haven't been identified yet."

"Is it possible that it isn't a super-villain this time?" Beast Boy asked. "There hasn't been a simple burglary for a while."

In the city Beast Boy's theory was being disproved as a gang of five people walked out of the bank that was being robbed. The first was a huge, muscular man wielding two high-tech rocket launchers. The man had a slight five o' clock shadow and was wearing an army-camouflage shirt and baggy army pants. On his back was an equally huge backpack full of ammunition. The second person was a woman slightly shorter than the first man holding C4 triggers and a backpack full of C4. She was wearing next to nothing but a thin black tank top and black shorts; around her neck was a small black pendant. The third was a short round man holding two comically large semi-machine guns. The machine guns were about half the size of the man and their clips extended into his backpack. He was wearing sunglasses, a t-shirt, and grey sweatpants. The fourth was a kid holding a red-golden baseball bat. The kid was wearing a blue baseball cap with a logo that looked like an 'L', a sweatshirt and baggy sweatpants; he was riding on blood red rollerblades. And the final one was a tall thin man wearing a white suit stepped out of the bank. He was holding a tall thin cane that had a rather large crystal on it. There were a number of terrified civilians carrying money bags that were following them towards an armored car.

The T-Car came to a halt a short distance away and the Teen Titans jumped out of it, each in their fighting stance. The gang of five stopped ushering the civilians with money bags to their armored car and turned to face the titans. They sneered as they saw the children in their costumes standing in their fighting stances looking serious.

"Hey boss, I think these here children wanna try and stop us." The man carrying the rocket launchers said pointing one at the titans.

"We will stop you." Robin said. "Titans GO!"

The titans rushed the criminals and the fight began. Robin started for the man with the rocket launchers but the kid with the bat moved between them and said, "Oh no, why don't you fight me."

"You're on." Robin said and started a jump kick.

The kid disappeared abruptly as Robin moved through he air but reappeared next to him and swung the bat into Robin's side. Startled Robin didn't try to block the bat and was knocked off balance and he flew into a wall. The kid moved, quickly, over to the wall and swung his bat down onto Robin, who caught it this time and ducked out from under the swing. Robin yanked the bat and pulled the kid towards him and as soon as the kid was close enough he grabbed the kids arm and threw him into the same wall he had hit.

Meanwhile Beast Boy had morphed into a raptor and was circling the short man with machine guns. The fat man sneered and cocked the gun at Beast Boy; one shot sent Beast Boy flying with a small scale explosion. Stunned Beast Boy shook his head and jumped back up, this time morphing into a triceratops. He charged the squat man and was hit with a barrage of small explosive bullets. The short man cocked his other gun at Beast Boy and a lick of flame flew into his charging face. The flame stuck and Beast Boy continued into the wall of a near buy building.

Cyborg had been chosen by the rocket launcher man and was currently exploding the missiles with his sonic blast. The tall man smiled and loaded a blue rocket into one of the launchers and fired it. This time as Cyborg shot it an electromagnetic wave pulsed through the air and somehow Cyborg was able to dodge it before his circuits were fried. Angry at the dirty trick Cyborg rushed the man and grabbed one of the launchers but just as he was about to break it a pendant around the man's neck began to glow and Cyborg found himself flying backward.

Starfire had taken on the woman and had quickly discovered that C4 could be very painful. As the woman threw the packages at her she threw her starbolts at the packages and the woman. They collided and a small explosion rippled from where they had been. The woman was flying upward in the air, apparently unharmed but Starfire was already through a wall of the building behind where the woman had been. Dazed she shook her head and looked up at the woman and the five packages of C4 that were coming at her. Startled she flew up as fast as she could and just missed the explosion, but was hit by the collapsing building...

The leader, who was the man in white, had decided to take on Raven. He tapped his cane on the ground and a light flew along the ground towards Raven. Not knowing what to expect Raven didn't move but when the light hit her she felt an electric burning sensation ripple through her body. When the feeling subsided she noticed another line of light heading her way and jumped into the air.

"Let's see you get me now." She called down at the man.

"Very well them, my dear." The man replied and tapped his came on the ground again.

The man passed the cane from his right hand to his left and a ball of brilliant white light appeared in his right hand. This he aimed at Raven and she quickly pulled up her shadow shield. The light flew at her and hit her shadow dispersing it and continuing again she felt the burning electrical shock as the light flew across her body and she fell from the air...