X Marks the Spot

Chapter 8: Nightwing

After releasing Robin from jail, Raven waited for word with baited breath. She wanted to know that he was okay. Days passed, and then months, and then years, till all too soon, she was 25. It had been eight years since she had seen Robin. The Teen Titans had disbanded since then for different reasons.

Starfire was always thought of as a ditz among the team members, but was actually very smart. She was given a scholarship to Yale and gladly seized the opportunity. Since then, she had joined a group of Superheroes that research for the good of human kind.

Cyborg had always had a dream of playing for the Redskins and when they were scouting in the Titan's city, he was discovered and now has led them to 3 Superbowls(hopefully this will happen soon enough) as their quarterback.

Beast Boy fell in love with a young girl from a team of Superheroes named W.I.T.C.H. Him and Hay Lin have been happily married with a child for six years now.

And as for Raven, well she's heart broken and barley hanging on at this point.

The only thing that keeps her going is the hero business. She still does freelance work in different cities. She travels the country looking for trouble.

One night, she happened to cross trouble on a subway in a dark city. She was just trying to get through this city to her next destination, when a man dressed in all black entered the subway. He seemed a little anxious about something and since Raven wasn't dumb, she could put two and two together. He eased his way down to a seat across from her and sat next to an elderly woman. Raven pretended to ignore him to lead him into false sense of security when she actually was feeling the emotions around her. She could tell by the man's emotions that he was going to do something bad. She had felt these emotions way too much not to know what they meant.

"Give me your purse," she heard the man hiss at the lady.

"Wa….what…" the lady stammered.

"You heard me. Now give me your fucking purse," he commanded. He pushed the lady over and grabbed her purse sprinting for the back of the subway. Raven acted so quick, nobody saw it coming. She shot a blast of black magic at the man's feet knocking him to the ground. But the man merely scrambled t his feet and kept going. Raven sprinted after him to the back of the subway. The man threw open the back door to the subway and looked nervously at the moving ground beneath him.

"Don't do it!" Raven shouted behind him. The man gave her one last glance before jumping. "Shit!" Raven levitated out the back door searching for the criminal. He was nowhere to be seen. She stepped off the track and onto the loading station. There seemed to be no one in sight. Obviously, this place wasn't very popular among the citizens of this city. All of a sudden, she felt a gun pressed to her head.

"Don't you dare pull any of that black shit on my again," a voice hissed behind her.

Raven closed her eyes waiting for the click of a trigger being pulled, but none came.

"What the hell?" the man exclaimed. "No, no please no!"

The barrel was lifted from her head and Raven turned to see the man on the ground out cold. She looked around trying to find her savior. She saw a figure disappear into the shadows. She quietly followed it. The figure took out a grappling hook once out of the subway station and flew to the top of a nearby building. She teleported to the top of this building.

"Hey, wait!" she called after the mysterious figure.

"Go away," the figure responded.

"I wish to see the face of my savior," she told him making her way to him.

"If you knew the truth, you wouldn't call me a savior," he replied trying to run away but Raven enclosed him a shield of black magic. She approached him carefully putting a hand on his shoulder. She slowly turned him around and was faced with a different costume, but a familiar face.

"You," she hissed.

"What did I tell you?" Robin said hanging his head.

"You fucking bastard! You have the dignity to do what you've done! I waited eight fucking years for you! And now here you are in your entire mother fucking glory! Why didn't you call me or write me? Why didn't you even tell me you were alive?" she yelled.

"I was scared," he replied still not looking at her.

"Scared of what?" she asked angrily.

"Scared to find out if you had moved on," he responded.

"How could I move on from you? How could I ever move on?" she asked a little more calmly.

"That was what I was afraid of," he said. The shield around him fell and he ran off.

Raven stood there looking at her long lost love.