The stolen car purred down the highway as Dark inspected his hands curiously, looking over the dried blood and throat matter. Robin would occasionally glance at the hand and shake his almots laughing due to how fast his world had been torn apart. Titan's Tower east was coming into view near the horizon and the pair in the car st back as Robin pressed on the gas, getting anxious to be near safety. It would be the forst time Robin had seen his team mates since Raven's accident and he wanted to see how she was feeling. As the car pulled up, Cyborg came out to greet them and, after the usual questions and pleasantries, showe dthem to the rest of the team. Dark concealed his missing hand under his long sleeve. Robin remaind scilent about the past day and the events that had taken place with Slade. Raven was sitting near a window when Robin came ot greet her. He clasped her shoulders, pulling her into a hug that she did not resist.

Dark stared from the corner of the room, surveying the others as they mombled about him in hushed tones. Aqualad was to loud and mentioned something about Dark being tto much like Raven for his own taste and then accidentaly insulting Dark with a crude comment. Having heard enough, Dark stood and left the room, looking for a quiet place to hide and lie down. He needed quiet for a moment. Unwittingly raven wandered into the room and saw Dark, his eyes closed, resting on a cot. She began to turn around when he asked her to stop. She went ridged with fear.

"I'm never going back am I?" Dark asked.

"I haven't been able-"

"Don't gimme that crap! Just give it to me straight so I can start learning to live in this life and forget my other one."

Raven inhaled and shuttered begining to cry, not something Dark had ever heard of her doing. He looked at her and pulled her near as she buried her head in his houlder, breaking down.

"I'm sorry. I dodn't mean it like that. I,... I had a life in another world and I just wanted to know if I would ever see it again."

She apologised, her voice muffled, as her sobs continued. Robin ran to the door looking for Raven when he saw the scene before him. He leaned against the door as he and Dark waited for her patiently.

The ordeal was over by the time dinner was started and Raven refused to make eye contact with Dark, try as he might. Robin would go to bed and stay up all night, paranoid that every little noise ws Slade. Dark was fully aware of Sladwe at every moment and would suffer the nbight through as well, although he passed out from exauhstion and lack of blood nearing one in the morning. A crash resounded in the hallway and Robin bolted out of bed following the sound. Slade was unconcious in the entryway, a bottle of beer in his right hand. Robin backed away and ran.