Well, I'm back! Thanks to everyone for the awesome feedback. I really appreciated hearing your ideas and constructive criticisms. For those of you who thought the scene between Rae and Gar was too rushed after reading it back I kinda agree. Part of me wanted to get her to trust him quickly so that she can begin her recovery, but the realistic side of me agrees that Raven wouldn't have opened up so quickly.

I do not, as far as I know, own the Teen Titans.

This chapter will focus more with Victor and Garfield. (Just in case you wanted to know)

ON WITH THE STORY!

Raven sat in the silence of her room thinking of her conversation with Garfield. 'I couldn't possibly have a crush on him could I?' she asked herself.

Garfield was doing similar things in his own, loud, room. He could barely keep the smile off of his face. He couldn't believe that Raven had trusted him enough to share such personal information. He found himself almost glad that he left her house so quickly; for now that he knew she could sense emotion he didn't want her knowing that he had a crush on her. Not yet anyway. He couldn't help but wonder about the birth control .Raven didn't seem like the girl who would just go looking for sex. Hell, she didn't look like the type of person who would go looking for a relationship. This thought made him wonder if she would ever like him back. For the few days that he had known her she didn't seem to show much emotion at all.

Garfield, needing a distraction from the violet haired girl decided to text victor.

Hey whatcha doin Vic?

Nothin, just cookin up some steaks ;)

You mean cookin a poor defenseless cow! :\

Meat is meat, my stupid nonmeat-eating friend

How woud u feel if I slaughtered u and served u as a dinner

Aww mann why u gotta go ther!

Garfield chuckled to himself. But, even with the distraction, he couldn't get his mind off of the pale beauty.

Hey Vic, How is Rae so comfortable around u

I guess it's cause my emotions are a lot calmer than urs. It's easier for her to deal with

HOW DID U KNOW ABOUT HER DISORDER?!

Crap I slipped… WAIT HOW DO U KNOW ABOUT HER DISORDER?!

I asked u 1st

Thers no way out of this is ther?

No!

Garfield was dumbfounded with his best friend. How come he and Rae were so stinkin close with each other? Why did she tell Vic before him? Garfield was about to scream in frustration with the pale girl.

'Oh my gosh, if she were here right now she'd feel how jealous I am. I really need to get that under control' he thought to himself, making a mental not to try not to make his emotions so apparent.

Look, this wud prob b better if I told u in person… meet you in 10?

Whatev see yah

Garfield found himself anxious about Victor coming over. Endless amounts of scenarios were running though his mind. They could be secretly dating and Vic could be cheating on Karen and what if they're planning on going to Vegas to get hitched. Garfield was beginning to give himself a head ache when Victor knocked on his front door.

Garfield let him in and the two headed for Garfield's basement.

"So, how do you know about Raven's disorder?" Victor asked, breaking the awkward silence.

"Well , she told me today. But, only because some bully spilled all her pills out on the floor" Garfield explained.

"So, you know about all of it?" Victor questioned

"Depression, anxiety and empathy," Garfield specified, purposefully leaving out birth-control because he had a feeling that even Victor didn't know anything about that.

"How about you? Tell me how YOU know about everything…" Garfield demanded jealousy still running through his veins.

"OK, so I guess a good place to start is t say that I didn't just meet Raven three days ago." Victor said, and then paused waiting for Garfield's reaction.

"What do you mean?!" Garfield's eyes were bugging out of his head and the confusion he had earlier was nothing compared to the bafflement he held now.

"Well, do you remember two years ago? I was a sophomore and you were a freshman."

"Yeah how could I forget? That was the year of the accident…" Garfield stopped himself not wanting to make his friend upset at the mention of the fateful event.

"Yeah, the accident." Victor said looking down to his prosthetic leg.

It was the night of the big game. The one between the Jump City Dragons and the Gotham Gorillas. Star quarterback Victor Stone was ready for the game of his life. He looked to the bleachers across the fields and noticed scouts from colleges that were already begging him to commit to their school, even if he still had three years of high school left. He saw they were talking to his coach, looking in his direction. 'I've got to make this game good' he thought to himself. For, if he did, he could almost guarantee an acceptance to his favorite school. He looked opposite of himself and then examined his opposing force. His eyes landed on Gotham's star player, Gregor Mallah. He was muscular to a t and had quite the reputation. He was suspended all last season for 'un-sportsmanship-like conduct' or breaking the legs of seven players.

Victor wasn't worried, though. He had quite the confidence in himself. Soon, the whistle blew and the two teams began to line up. [A/N note that I have watched football like once so if I got any details wrong don't hate me] Victor blanked out and soon found his hands on the ball. He winded up to make the throw of his life, but alas an outside force prevented this. Mallah attacked the sophomore with immeasurable force. Blotches of black interrupted Victor's vision. The last thing he heard before he lost consciousness was a loud crack.

He blinked a few times to try to focus on his new surroundings. He found himself in a bright white hospital room.

"What the…" He said, sitting up. He started to get out of the uncomfortable bed. But stopped immediately when he felt a certain lightness with his right leg. Victor removed the blanket and gasped at what he found underneath—or what he didn't find underneath that is… From the knee down his leg was missing.

"After the accident my parents had done everything they could to help me, since I would never play football again. That included finding the best prosthetic leg, and uh counseling that they could…" Victor explained.

"You never told me that you went to counseling… But, what does this have to do with Raven?" Garfield questioned.

"Yah see, my folks did some research and found this dude Azar I think her name was, and apparently she was known as an extremely profound therapist in Europe. So, my folks decided to take me there. We got there and it turns out mah folks signed me up for some kind of support group thing.

"And well I wasn't feelin that, yah know. I didn't want to talk about my problems with some crusty old person let alone some teenage weirdoes… But, when I got there, it was different. This Azar chick was pretty amazing and so were the kids in the group. Yah see Rae was in that group, learning to cope with her disorder stuff.

Rae and Azar were like extremely close, almost like Azar was a part of her family. We were assigned as partners, and after a week, we were super close. Once I left we stayed in touch. When I heard she was coming to Jump we decided to pretend to not know each other. She didn't want people to know about her problems and I didn't want anyone to find out about mine."

Throughout Victor's entire explanation, Garfield managed to stay completely silent. He was mildly upset that Victor never told him that he had gone to therapy. It's not like Garfield wouldn't understand. Garfield too had at one point gone to therapy himself.

"So that was where you went that summer?" Garfield asked quietly

"Yeah, I never did go to visit my mother's family. I know it was stupid of me to keep a secret, but I didn't want people to think I'm broken. Like, less than a person I guess. But, after Azar I've come to terms with my accident. It seems that Raven to has come to accept her own demons."

Garfield knew that he couldn't really be mad at either of the two, for he understood their reasons. It made him think about how he never told anyone about his past. Not even Kori knows about what happened to his parents.

"Yeah, I guess I understand. I don't know why I was ever jealous—" Garfield put his hands over his mouth as he realized what he just said. Victor simply raised an eyebrow.

"I- I not that I –uh li-like her or anything…" Garfield stuttered, his cheeks turning a deep shade of pink.

"Does someone have a crush on a certain purple-haired girl?" Victor teased.

"What- what? I- I don't- ha-have a cr-crush on Ra-raven. I mean not that I don't think that that's not possible because she's really pretty and funny not that she realizes she's funny and that little smile she gives is adorable and it's not like she'll ever actually like me back and and—"

"Gar, you're babbling…." Victor told him with an amused look on his face. Once again Garfield's cheeks reddened.

"Ok so maybe I do like her, but she doesn't exactly appear to like me back…" Garfield began to become extremely shy.

"Dude, she told you about the pills… That means she trusts you. Raven isn't one of those 'love at first sight' kind of girls. You've gotta let her get to know you before you can even think about getting 'romantic with her." Victor told him trying to get his sprirts up… only to crush them

"But I swear if you hurt her, I won't care how long I've known you I will castrate you with my pocket knife"

Garfield gulped and chuckled quietly.

'What have I gotten myself into?'

Raven sat on a swing in the park quietly drawing a picture of her surroundings. Children were enjoying life with their model parents. She felt slightly jealous of how happy everyone around her was.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Raven turned her head and saw Richard approaching her.

"I could ask you the same thing," she said looking back down to her drawing. Richard sat down on the swing next to her.

"I like to come here sometimes to clear my mind." He noticed her studying the happy families around them

"You can't help but feel jealous right. Like, why do they get model families but we don't?"

Raven's eyes widened "What do you mean?!"
Richard corrected himself,

"You live with just your dad right? You don't have to explain anything. I was just saying that I understand. Actually all of us would understand, really. None of us have had exactly the 'model life'."

Raven nodded her head slowly

"Just know, if you want to talk I'm always here"

Wellllllll there it was! I hope you enjoyed. PRETTY PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP REVIEW. Like even if you don't like my story at all review so that I know what to improve upon.

~DFTBA