Alrighty then. Eww what a disgusting word. Also since I'm bored out of my skull anyone who knows of a really good author tell me there pen name so I can read it and soothe my aching boredom pains. Feeling good by Michael Buble is a great song.

Disclaimer: Oh yes I own teen titans that's why I spend all my time sitting in front of my computer. Fermenting. Of course not.

Chapter 15: Get where we're going

Raven stood, arms crossed in the middle of the Titans living room, watching Cyborgs' fingers dance across the keys on his computer. Beast boy hovered in the background his hands caught in an elastic band. "I dunno Rae. My scanners can't pick up any trace of them. Not their communicators, Not there energy signals. Nothing. I'm all out of ideas" Raven looked up at Cyborg, a comment about the work ethic of computers these days jumping around on her tongue, but when she saw the helpless, frustrated look smeared across the half robots face she let it die. Anger coursed through her as the full futility of their efforts hit her. She saw out of the corner of her eye the bangs resting on her shoulders begin to rise as her frustration did.

An image of Robin, smiling at her from behind his mask jumped unbidden into her minds eye. Every detail remembered with stark clarity. Anger flowed out of her as fast as it had come. Letting a weak sigh escape from between her lips. "I'm going to meditate for awhile Ok?" she asked Cyborg who had turned back to the keyboard. The bionic teen nodded slowly. As she turned towards the doors his voice followed her. "Rae are you gonna be Ok" turning around Raven saw her teammates concern clearly in his one organic eye. "I'm just worried about…" "Robin?" Beastboys' voice cut in from his place on the couch where his elastic band had somehow been stretched to bind itself around both his arms and one leg.

Raven flushed at the inference in his words but didn't reply. It just fueled the million watt grin growing on the changelings face. "Come on Rae we have eyes you know. It's so obvious that you like him" he said impishly his mirth spreading to his robotic buddy whose exhausted face lit up with evil glee at the topic change. Ravens eyes narrowed while dumb and dumber where levitated into the air, surrounded in a corona of black flames. She glided up to Beastboy who cringed as he saw a smirk slowly spread across the enchantress face. "You're right Garfield." She said incorporating the hated real name of the titans green shape shifter. "We do have eyes. And with the eyes of mine I have noticed that you're not spending nearly as much time in Terra' room lately. You seem to be orbiting towards Starfire's instead"

Beastboys jaw dropped and his faced paled before a hot red flush spread across his cheeks. Raven glided over the Cyborg whose mechanical arms where shaking slightly. "As for you Sparky I seem to notice our phone bill has gone up." Most of Cyborgs face stayed impassive but the frantic motion of his one eye and the bead of sweat which appeared on his forehead where indications enough. "It seems someone has been calling the titans in steel city a lot lately. More specifically Bumblebees communicator."

Raven floated gracefully to rest on the black tilled floor and walked smoothly towards the doors. Halfway across the threshold she turned around and the two Titan boys where granted the rare sight of a full Raven smile. " But I'm sure I'm just imagining things". Turning she left the room in a swirl of midnight blue robe. Beastboy turned his head to look at Cyborg when Raven was fully out of sight. "Uhh dude…how do we get down." The robot looked away with a sigh as his companion began to desperately flap his arms. "Might as well get comfortable" he thought as he heard the gasping sounds that indicated Beastboy was now trying to blow his way across the room.

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As the dark iron doors clanged shut behind her Raven spent a moment cherishing the smile on her face. This place, her friends, they were her world. She never felt happier then she had these years spent with them. Thinking of her team mates brought back the serious issues the moment of levity had pushed from her mind. Walking the corridors towards the safe haven of her room she barley noticed her feet thoughtlessly leaving the ground as her thoughts ran free. Searching for any oversight, no matter how minor, she could have missed in her search for a solution.

As the doors swung open revealing the calming, familiar colors of her room, it hit her. There was one thing she still hadn't tried. She had over ruled it earlier because it would be too risky for herself, but now… As fear began to claw its way into her stomach she conjured the image of her friends into her mind. The new team picture they had taken outside the tower a few days ago. Shar had insisted on spending half an hour to figure out just how she wanted to pose. Beastboy had perched with one arm around Cyborgs neck and the other elbow on Stars Shoulder. As the camera began to beep, signaling that it was going to take soon, Robin had suddenly grabbed her around the waist and pulled her closer to him. When the snap shot had come out Shar had been lying on the air at waist hight with a pouty face in front of the others and Raven and Robin had been pressed very close together her eyes slightly glazed and the Boy Blunder with a triumphant smirk pasted to his face. She beat back the fear with the image and took a deep breath. It's time.

Ten minutes later she had the one item that was all she needed sitting in front of her cross legged form on her floor. A pure white bowl filled with clean cool water. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos, Azarath Metrion Zinthos" As her chant died away her eyes opened and rested on the note sealed in a white envelope and signed with her swirling signature on the front. "Just in case" she thought to herself solemnly. The spell was a simply one, all she needed to do was lay her hands in the water and open herself. "And then I'll feel everything felt in the city" she thought with a bit of the old fear back in her mind. All the emotions of every one in the city would course through her. She just needed to sift through them and hope that her connection to the two missing titans was strong enough for her to recognize which were theirs and where they came from.

Breathing deeply she slowly lowered her hands into the frigid water before her. Letting each muscle in her body relax one at a time she let her empathetic powers flow from her and into the water where they grew, and grew, rising into a great wave of power which continued to rise in her sending her hair and cloak billowing around her and calling a swirling breeze fly around her room . As the magickal ecstasy reached its height she let it out with a deep exhalation. The wave rolled off of her and out towards the city, the power probing every mind it hit as it sped away from Raven s still form.

At first she only felt a few. The feelings of her teammates still floating in the living room, some fishermen out on the lake. But then it spread. Person after person, their feelings flooded her, joy, boredom, sorrow, pain. They all reached up to pull her under. She gasped as the feeling escalated again every nerve in her body on fire. There was happiness in there but there was also pain, so much pain. It coursed through her like a thousand hot pokers, burning her body and mind. She groaned as it grew again and felt herself slipping farther and farther from herself, pulled into the hopeless darkness that rose to overcome her. She let out a gasp that neared a scream as her eyes rolled back into her head and the world went dark.

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"So when do you think she's going to come back down" Beastboy drawled to Cyborgs still form. The robotic teen had fallen asleep not long after they had been placed up here but that didn't discourage the green boy from continuing their conversation. The sound of the doors swooshing open roused Cyborg from his mid-flight sleep. "Hey Rae" he said groggily. His sleepy smile slowly slid off his face as his jaw dropped in horror. Raven stood hunched over in the doorway, her hair hanging limp, purple rings surrounding her eyes, her skin ,usually pale, was bleached white and covered in minute drops of sweat, and her legs looked like they would buckle under her at any moment.

Even though her body was pain raked and she was close to blacking out, Raven looked defiantly up at the two astonished titans. Her eyes blazing white power.

"I know where they are."

Ha! What do you think of them apples? Ok remind me never to say that again. Anyway I thought it was Ok. Just in case you were wondering time is not necessarily moving in a linear path here as you probably guessed from the scene that happened with the photo. Some of the chapters are a few days apart. Sorry for any confusion.

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