Hello faithful readers. so sorry for the delay in updating...ive been trying to think of a good plot for this story, as it needs to have a good one from following my best sotry so far, 'A Change In The Winds'...alhough my cowboy bebeop fic im writing has a good plot to come...anyway, into the world of teen titans...the plot is now sorted, i have it clearly in my mind...there's only a glimpse of the mark re-haunting raven in this one, just like it was at the end of the last chapter. it comes into play in latter chapters...these first few chapters will be about re-uniting people, and just getting the team rolling...so anywho, i wont delay you anymore...ooo before i forget, dont worry about the title for this one, it was just refering to the first scene and Raven's first glimpse at the 'mark'.

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, if i did, i would not be writing this, nor would i be having to write this fanfiction as my plans for teen titans would have been made! duh!

" Smile Like You mean it "

- The Killers

Chapter 3: Saw Red

She gasped and felt the colour drain from her face. Everything span around her, the mark she had feared 5 years earlier, burning so brightly into her vision. She couldn't take it anymore. She blinked away the tears of fear forming. Again, she shut her eyes, scrunching them hard to block it out.

She felt a hand on her shoulder. Her eyes shot open and she turned around to see Richard standing behind her. "Everything okay?" He asked.

Had it just happened? Had she really just seen the mark or was it her mind playing tricks on her and trying to scare her? She realised she had been standing there looking like an idiot, silent and mouth slightly open. She shook it off and smiled faintly at Richard, "Yea I'm fine. Just a dizzy spell."

"If you say so…as long as you're ok." He held her hand. She nodded, feeling safe with him.

"So let's go find BB and Terra then." She said as they went on the mission to find the two.

Blue energy; that's what they all saw before being sent into the world of darkness before re-awakening in a jail cell, somewhere in Jump City. It was his job, to hunt down the villains and lock them up. But having to do it alone was the hardest part of it all. Sure he had her, but she was with others, trying to set up this team again.

He had been offered to join, right at the beginning. He was going to say yes, the Teen Titans back together again, united with Titans East and ex HIVE members, and of course, the odd ex villain like the masked one named 'X'. Yet, when he found out the team was not complete, not fully ready, he declined. Things wouldn't be the same if they weren't there standing along side him. He needed those two most of all. Sure there was Starfire, Beast Boy and Terra, half of the Titans already joined, yet the two most vital parts of the team were not there.

Sure, Starfire could take down any criminal, using both her outer appearance and the power that surged within her. Beast Boy could change into any animal and provide both protection and attack skills. Terra, well, she could move the earth from beneath her, she was the one that brought Slade down the first time. Yet without Raven and Robin, there was no rhythm, no organisation, no co-ordination, and most importantly, no titans.

The tin man sighed heavily at the thought of his former friends and picked the criminal he had just taken down, over his shoulder and dumped him in the boot of the T-car. He slammed the boot door shut and trudged round to the front seat. Slamming the door after he sat down, he started up the engine and drove off down to the police station to chuck in this pointless criminal. He wasn't a major deal. Sure he had robbed a lot of banks, but nothing too serious, nothing the lazy bunch of policemen that Jump City called their protection couldn't handle. But no, being the lazy-asses they were, they rang him and made him to their work.

Suddenly a dark silhouette appeared further down the road. Cyborg only managed to slam his foot on the breaks just in time. He seethed out a breath of relief and anger at the idiot that had endangered both their life and his. He turned the engine off and opened the door, stepping out into the road to give the idiot a good yelling at for their stupidity.

"Raven, there is something which I must ask of you." Starfire said to her friend. "I know you have just arrived and I am sure you are most tired." They were walking along the many hallways of the underground hide-out, catching up on things, well at least they were, until this moment when Starfire had asked of a favour from Raven. "I need you to track down Cyborg."

Raven stopped and looked at the alien girl, aged and blossomed into something more beautiful from when they were teenagers. "You mean, Cyborg isn't apart of this whole organisation you could call it?"

"No." Starfire stopped when her friend did and bowed her head. "He did not wish to join unless the Titans had been fully reunited. He did not to join basically until you and Robin had." Starfire turned so that she was facing Raven and smiled slightly, hope painted all over her face. "But now that you and Robin are here, he will join. We need him Raven, you know perfectly well things wouldn't be the same without him."

Raven nodded. "So basically, you want me to find him and bring him back here to be apart of this team." Starfire nodded, pleased that Raven looked as though she was accepting Starfire's request. "But why me? Why not Robin or you or Beast Boy or Terra, or even Bumblebee?" Raven inquired.

"Because he will not believe that you and Robin have truly returned unless one of you goes to tell him. and as to why it isn't Robin, well I just feel that coming from you, it will be easier for him to accept. You were always regarded as his little sister Raven. I know you might think that he thought of me as well like that, true, he did, but you and him have a special bond of understanding that he needs to be reminded of. And that is why I asked you and not Robin."

Raven was silent. True, they needed Cyborg. But how on earth was she going to find him anyway? She had no clue of how to find him. She could ask Bumblebee but she wasn't at the hide-out at the moment, and Raven was sure Starfire wanted her to go right away to find him. She sighed heavily. All the shock from today of the things unveiled, reuniting with lost friends and making new friends from past enemies. She looked up at the red-headed beauty before her. "Fine. I'll go find him. Do you happen to know where he may be?" Starfire beamed and hugged her friend in one of those bone-crunching hugs, trademark of Starfire. "We have reason to believe that he was tracking a criminal down, which means that he will most likely be near Jump City police station. That is your best bet. But you must hurry Raven, or you may lose his position." With that Raven smirked and disappeared into the black underneath her.

Cyborg walked closer to the figure, their identity hidden by the fog that had settled on Jump City. He could make out it was a woman of some sort, a very attractive woman judging by the curves carved perfectly into her body. "Look lady, I dunno where you just popped from, but its dangerous just walking out into the road without looking. You could get yourself kill- " He stood still. He couldn't believe the sight he was seeing. It couldn't be. A hand placed on her hip, the certain grace she always held still radiating from her. She wasn't in the uniform he remembered her so clearly wearing 5 years ago. She was in a black wife-beater hugging her body in the right places, with skinny jeans, clinging to her legs and stopping at her ankles. She had one of those trademark jewels of hers as the buckle of her belt. "Raven." He whispered.

"Yo Cyborg." She said. She took her hand off of her hip and walked over to him. He still towered over her. She gazed up at him and smiled, then something Raven had only been known to do rarely when she as younger, she hugged him. "It's so good to see you."

"You to Rae." He said hugging her back, his hand resting on her still short violet hair.

"You know why I'm here, don't you." She said, looking up at him.

"I have a suspicion." He said.

"Well." She said half chuckling.

"So everyone else is there? Star, BB, Terra, you AND Robin?" She nodded, her smile still beaming at her. "I guess I'm in then."

"Well let's go then." She said taking his arm and starting to flare up her magic.

"What? Back to the tower?" Cyborg asked.

"No, to the new place. It's more snazzy that the tower."

"Hey, I made that tower what it was so don't you go dissing it! But what about the T-car?" He said, glancing back at his beloved baby.

She grunted and dragged him with her to the car. She opened the boot and chucked the pointless criminal somewhere in the lake which happened to be near by. She placed one hand on the car while the other on Cyborg's arm. "Happy?" He nodded with a smile plastered on his face. She smirked and within a second, they had sunk into the ground and re-appeared into the underground mansion. "Welcome to your new home and new family." She said, almost like an air hostess. He smiled and repeated that word he had long missed and never been able to call somewhere. "Home"