[Back with the Titans]

Beastboy collapses onto the couch. His eyelids heavy from all the searching done around campus. Starfire had gone to and from the campus to help making sure to look into every possible person she could have stayed with and it all came down to one person. Jason. Starfire sits next to the changling letting him catch a moment of rest before Robin comes back from his own searching. Cyborg types away at their super computer going through every inch of footage they have from the campus. The Dean was nice enough to give them access to even the privet feeds, which are in the halls of all the dorm buildings. He see's her and Jason going into his dorm, while Jason goes in first. Then Raven follows closing the door and he can't see anything else. He speeds up the footage slightly then stopping when he see's the group of seven guys swarming around the door. One in front that looks like he could bulldoze a brick wall. He analyzes every ounce of that footage until he see's them carry Raven off over the shoulder of another guy while four guys who came in never come back out. They drag Jason out, blood soaking through the front of his shirt.

Robin slams through the door throwing his bow staff to the side and angrily forcing out another breath.

"Anything?" He asks Cyborg gestures to Starfire as she stands to face Robin handing over the Cell phone left by Raven in the bedroom. A couple cracks cover the screen but it works. Robin holds it to his chest and squeezes it. "Is this all we have?"

"No, I have been going over the footage the Dean sent over. Conner took her. No doubt. He dragged Jason along with him as well. He doesn't look too good. They must have had someone delete the rest of the footage because I can't see where they went from there" Cyborg says turning away from the computer. Robin nods and looks down to the phone seeing the home screen display all of the missed calls and texts from them.

"Well we need to find out where they do their business then. I don't think they would be able to sell her in less than 24 hours of having her. They need time to contact their person and the person needs time to get the cash ready. If they have her she hasn't been moved yet" He says. Cyborg nods. He fees like they have finally hit a break in the hours and hours they have been putting in to find any scrape of evidence. Even Robin feels like they finally have something they could use. He looks over to Star, she is pulling a throw blanket on top of Beastboy as he snores on the couch. He has been turning into all sort of animals to get the information we need. He hasn't slept since yesterday.

"Star, we need to talk" Robin says, she nods and follows him upstairs into his room. She looks around the room feeling somewhat uncomfortable. He gestures for her to sit down on the bed, she does so and he paces in front of her.

"Friend Robin, is everything the Okay?" She asks Robin shakes his head, guilt has been bubbling up in his gut for quite some time now, making him feel sick and irritable.

"When we find her...we need to tell her what is going between us, she deserves to know. I think the guilt of what we did has made me...not the best boyfriend to her. We shouldn't have been sleeping together while her and I were together, it was wrong. The guilt of everything has been piling up and I don't think I can handle finding her and letting her come back if she doesn't know the truth about everything" Robin explains, Starfire nods, she has her hands folded polity in her lap. Even she felt guilty about what happened in this very spot multiple times, countless. They both knew it was wrong.

"What else do you feel the guilty about?" She asks he chews on the already raw spot in his cheek. He has been chewing the hell out out of it for a while now, it's sore and the metallic taste in his mouth tells him that it's bleeding.

"I sent Raven in there with that glamour on purpose. I needed her to get the attention of Conner. I knew he would try to sell her. I just didn't know when and I didn't know that she would already be this close to Red X when he did. I sent her in as bait and the whole breakup and her getting attacked that set the whole plan back" Robin explains, Starfire doesn't say anything just stares down at her hands, her thumbs rubbing together as she thinks.

"Friend Raven should have been made aware of that plan. Is that why you were mad at her when she was attacked?" she asks Robin shakes his head

"No I am mad at myself for not doing anything about it. Even though I watched it happen" He reveals. Starfire creases her brow and lifts a hand delicately covering her mouth as her eyes search Robin's for the meaning. All she can see is the pain and the guilt behind them.

"You saw them hurt her?" Starfire asks Robin shakes his head.

"I saw them grab her and bring her into that building. I knew what they could be doing, I knew it was Timothy leading the pack. I thought she would have used her powers to get out of there. I thought she would protect herself. I didn't think that she was going to listen to me to the T." Robin explains, Starfire releases a forced breath and looks to the floor. She couldn't quite find the English word for what she is feeling but she knows it's not anything good. Robin is allowed to feel guilty about all of this, but it doesn't make how he treated her any less wrong. Even if most of it was out of shock.

"She needed the boyfriend Robin. Not the leader Robin" Starfire says, she stands up walking to the door letting it open before her with a hiss. She turns back to see Robin moving slowly towards his bed a hand on his forehead. She doesn't need to be an empath to know how he is feeling. She exits and let's the door close behind her.


[Back with Raven]

My eyes flutter open but they still feel heavy, as if I am far too tired to be waking myself up at this time, but I have to. I can't let myself sleep for too long knowing who else is in this beautiful house with me. I turn around to see Jason still asleep on the couch. The sweat that dripped down his forehead is gone and he seems to have gotten some color back into his face. I see his ring on the floor, I must have dropped it. I grab it off of the floor and hide it away in my pocket. I can hear him sleeping from this close, a soft snore escapes his nose. How did I let him fool me for this long? Because he helped me? More than once? That shouldn't have been something I used to trick myself into thinking he couldn't be Red X.

He stirs on the couch his eyes opening but he squints and looks around, probably trying to remember the events of today and the past day. His hand flings to his side frantically. He doesn't feel the wound anymore. His eyes shoot over to me, looking me up and down.

"How long have I been out?" He asks I shrug looking for anything that could tell time in this room, there isn't anything.

"I don't know. It looks like it's almost evening so maybe about eight hours or so. I just woke up too" I say he nods and sits up rubbing what I could guess is sleep out of his eyes. I can feel the confusion coming off of him, the fear. I wonder what he could be confused about, he took me here without really telling me where here is. He could be worried that I know more than I am letting one, which would be accurate. His emotions are just too strong for me to know one solid answer to why they are there.

"I thought you would have left" He admits, I scoff and shake my head.

"Go where? I don't even know where we really are." I admit he nods as if to say "Good point"

"You know it's my turn to ask questions now right?" He asks I nod and make myself comfortable in the seat next to him. After everything we went through today I can still smell the cologne on him, he still smells like his room. Which by now is probably taken over by police and the Titans.

"How did you get out of the room they kept you in?" he asks, I think about what I could tell him, I have no idea what all he already suspects of me. He could know who I am by now.

"I tricked them into loosening them for my wrist. They didn't want me anymore hurt because it would take more of the price off of me" I lie, well it's a half lie. That's not how I got out but they didn't want me anymore hurt than I was. Conner made that clear.

"How did you fight them off?" He asks

"I do know how to fight, my adrenaline was up, all I could think about was getting to you and getting out of there, I didn't let anything else stop me" I admit. He seems pleased with this answer, I fumble with the bracelet on my wrist carefully. This conversation is nerve wracking now that I know who he is.

"How did you know who I am?" He asks that one is a lot harder to explain, I look down in my lap and think about what would happen if I showed him who I am, had a different conversation. Who knows maybe I could get some answers from him. He see's my hesitation and puts a hand on my shoulder.

"I can tell you are hiding something from me, perhaps the same thing I hid from you?" He asks, my eyes shoot to him, how the hell would he be able to guess that? I knew he already suspected something. There are too many conflicting feelings right now. Too many possible outcomes if I show him who I am. He could kill me right here. All of this could mean nothing to him when he finds out I am a Titan.

"What do you already know?" I ask he exhales.

We both stay quiet, one waiting for the other to answer questions or to even show the other who we are. Neither of us do. Just sit there in silence, I study his face, his real face. I reach up and touch the white streak in his hair, he is way too young for it to be from age. When Robin showed me pictures of him when Batman first brought him in he didn't tell me how he could still be alive, just that they thought he would be. They don't know how he could still be alive after what the joker did to him.

"I want to tell you...but I know you won't like it" I admit, he looks pleased, that is isn't the one who had to break the silence at least. But I can feel a different emotion in him. Something I can't quite put my finger on.

"You can tell me anything, I think we have made that obvious by now Rachel" He says, I shake my head and put my wrist with the bracelet in his hand.

"My name isn't Rachel" I say gesturing to the bracelet. He understands what I mean almost instantly, letting his fingers trace the bracelet. He slips it off my wrist and I can feel myself going back to normal. I can feel my hair growing shorter. Finally too, long hair is heavy. His eyes widen and looks the bracelet over his hands. He doesn't say anything, just stares between the bracelet and me. He feels hurt. That's what surprises me. He isn't scared. Just hurt.

"How long have you known who I am?" He asks

"I got a text from Cy right before Conner's men came in that they suspected you. I didn't care. I just felt safe with you. I knew who you were because Robin showed me your pictures and I have been in his memory. In his head. Your face is there a lot. I used my powers to get out of the room. To find you." I admit, it feel lighter now that he knows who I am, I keep my eyes on his hands trying to be sure if he attacks me I have some time to protect myself. He just nods and looks down at the bracelet.

"This is going to sound...rude but I need to know. Why didn't you use your powers on Timothy?" he asks I should have known this question was coming up.

"Robin told me not to use my powers for any reason. He didn't want to risk ruining the mission. Which was to find you. Timothy was on our list of possible suspects. If I used my powers and the real Red X saw...you would have known. He would have been so mad at me if I ruined the mission" I admit. He scoffs and stands up pacing around the room in front of me, I see him and Robin share one thing, it must be how Batman reacts when something bothers him. He shakes his head and turns me his cheeks beginning to turn red.

"The mission should not have been more important than your fucking safety" He says it shocks me, takes me off guard but I don't react. Mostly because I agree with him. "Was the rest true? He blamed you?"

"Yes, Cyborg thinks he was just in shock" I say, he shakes his head and presses his lips together.

"He wasn't. This isn't the first time he has reacted this way to something like that" Jason spits. All I feel now is rage, just rolling from him in waves. It's a lot to handle it makes it almost hard to breath. Why is he feeling so much right now.

"What do you mean?" I ask he stops and looks at me, his eyes staring into mine. I never would have though Red X would have this much...humanity in him.

"We called him in...about six months before I- we called him in on a mission. We were having trouble with a gang in town at Gotham. We sent him and Batgirl in...god the things they did to her were awful. They beat Robin and left him in an alley and grabbed her. She fought like hell but they were stronger. There were six of them. They dumped her in the river and she swam to the other side. We found her. She made it. But Robin was pissed that she allowed them to grab her. He has always thought that strong women that has that happen...he thinks they want it to happen. That they let it happen." He explains, hearing it breaks my heart. Mostly for Batgirl.

"Wait...we met him about five months before you died...I was there when he got the news" I say he nods.

"He was mad at Batman for not sending Batgirl back into battle right away. Said medically she was fine. She should be able to fight. She wasn't okay mentally though. She was fighting with herself mentally not to give up. So Batman told him if he thinks he could run a team any better to go find one. So he left" Jason says

"Then he found us" I finish staring at the floor, he never told me the whole story behind why he left. Just that Batman wasn't running the team how he thought it should be run. Jason's face is red with anger, I can still feel it off of him. I guess even good guys have bad mentalities and bad guys can have good ones. I never stopped to think about what each bad guy could stand for in things like this. My only thought was they wanted to hurt people or do bad things which means they probably didn't draw the line anywhere. Boy was I wrong.

"He shouldn't have treated you like that. After that happened he should have pulled you from the mission." Jason says "You are...too important to be treated like that"

"That wasn't his only mission...Cy said he was supposed to tell me that they already knew Conner wasn't Red X. Which is who I was there to find. Why would Robin not tell me?" I ask Jason's face turns reader. He looks around and I can only tell he is trying not to hit something.

"You were bait" He growls. I wouldn't have said it quite like that but, I guess there is no reason to sugar coat it. That must be why nothing about his course of action made sense. Why I knew of like a thousand other ways find out who Red X was without having to send me in. "How does he send his girlfriend on a mission like that? Putting her in a danger he knows could be more than you could handle?"

"I could have handled it fine if I knew what was really happening" I say he shakes his head

"The moment they knew you had powers you would have collard" He spits

"Collard?"

"They have collars that sense what you can do and then they prevent you from doing it. If you seemed human they wouldn't have put one on you. I just...there were a lot of ways he could have done this mission that wouldn't have put you in such danger. I have to think he didn't know all of the dangers. I have to think he wouldn't have been willing to risk you" Jason says. I don't know why but I stand up and grab his hand pulling him close to me. He faces me, I put a hand on the side of his cheek.

"You weren't willing to risk me...that's all that matters. I am here. I am alive. I am safe. " I say he closes his eyes and leans into my hand. I wonder how long it has been since he has been able to talk freely about this stuff with someone, with anyone who would understand. Obviously it's been far too long. I can feel the anger leave him but I feel a different emotion rise, one that I wasn't expecting. He opens his eyes and grabs my face with his hands planting his lips on mine.

I kiss back, letting the heat between us build. Even though the house itself is freezing I don't feel that. He grabs the small of my back pulling me closer to him until there is no distance. I can feel his kisses pulling out feelings in me I didn't know I had. He puts a hand on the hem of my leather jacket, as if to ask permission. I grant it to him by helping take the jacket off. We throw it to the side as he backs me up into the couch. I let myself fall onto it, looking up at Jason. I different type of darkness escapes from his eyes. A darkness I want. I take off my tshirt and watch as he takes his shirt off. He is built...no sculpted. Nicely. I can feel his hands running over my body as his lips connect with mine once again. He kisses a line down to my breasts, he unbuckles the back of my bra and throws it to the side he begins rubbing my nipples while they harden. He kisses over to one letting my nipple into his mouth and sucking on it. Hard. It releases a new type of pleasure I didn't get with Robin. I let a little moan escape my lips. He wraps an arm around me while he sucks. He pulls his mouth back and turns me over in one motion. My hands grab at the back of the couch as he get's behind me and pulls down my jeans. I hear him groan as he runs a hand down my back to my ass.

"Damn Raven" He says I can tell he is admiring my shape, his lust is growing with every passing second he stares me down. I don't hear him unbuckle his pants or drop them but I feel his member when he pressing it against me. I moan escapes me with anticipation.

"I need to make sure you are nice and wet...don't want to hurt you" He says, I nod and grip the couch as I feel his tongue press against my slit. I gasp and put a hand on the wall in front of me. What he can do with his tongue seems to cause more pleasure than what I am used to. He stops and stands, he grabs my hips with his hands and I feel it...every inch of him as he pushes into me. We both moan at the same time as he begins his thrusting.

"Fuck" He whispers as he thrusts faster with a rhythm. It feels like he is in my stomach as he pushes in deeper and faster. One of his hands lets go of my hip and grabs my shoulder as if to press me further into him. I moan loudly as I feel myself climbing, I get higher and higher until it explodes. I moan hard with my orgasm putting one of my hands on Jason's arm and squeezing tightly. Every thrust after my orgasm feels like another orgasm. It's a lot of pleasure I am not used to. I try to move forward a little bit to put some space between the feeling but he holds me tightly as he thrusts once more. We both stop, catching our breath. He pulls out and puts his underwear and pants back over his still hard member. I turn over sitting down on the couch trying to wrap my brain around what just happened. Sex has never been that intense before. It could be the knowledge of who he is, knowing he is last person in the world I should be letting rail me. Jason seems to be feeling conflicted as well, he disappears into the kitchen, I hear the fridge close and he comes back with a cold water bottle, he hands it to me.

"You should drink this. I'll get your clothes" He says as I grab it from it unscrewing the cap. He picks up my clothes, as I set the water bottle down allowing myself to stand up only to pull up my own bottoms that are still wrapped around my knees.

"That was...intense" I admit, he nods and allows himself to fall onto the couch next to me as I get dressed the rest of the way.

"It was indeed...that shouldn't happen again though, not with who we are" He says I nod in agreement, it shouldn't have happened but we both wanted it. I don't even know why I did, when did I make that choice that I wanted him? I just kind of did.

"I think we need food" I say looking at him. All he does is nod.