Knock Knock Knock

"Raven, you in there?"

Beastboy's voice awoke Raven from her slumber, and she blinked twice as the sunlight filtering in from the window momentarily blinded her. Sitting up, she looked over to her clock, which read 3:23. Stretching and yawning, Raven called back, "What is it?" She stood and walked over to her door, but didn't open it.

"Uh… you haven't come out of your room at all today. Or the past month, really. We were just, you know… wondering what was up." He said, the door muffling his voice.

Ever since she sealed her happiness away, Raven had been sort of… well, depressed. That's what happens when you take the bright part of your personality and send it to a dark void where it can't affect you. Luckily, just as she'd hoped, her anger was acting up less and less since Happy wasn't there to sidetrack her. Since Happy was gone and Anger was quiet, Raven had barely been leaving her room, and if she did it was to use the bathroom or get food or perform some other small, meaningless task.

She'd been skipping meals with the other Titans, waiting till they'd gone to bed before heating up her leftovers. The only time she saw Robin or Starfire was when they were training together in the gym or running the obstacle course. Even so, she didn't focus on them. Raven simply went about her business and returned to her room. Starfire had long since stopped coming to her room to meditate with her, even before Tokyo, so up until today no one had been bothering her.

"Nothing's up, Beastboy. Just a little tired." Raven didn't say anything else while she waited for Beastboy to continue.

"Um… that's what you told Cyborg, like a gajillion years ago. When you first started missing meals." Beastboy responded. "I mean, I can turn into a sloth, but even I don't sleep for a month straight." There was a pause, and Raven could hear some shuffling before he spoke up again. "Are you sure you don't wanna talk about whatever it is that's bothering you?"

"For the last time Beastboy, nothing is bothering me." Damn boy didn't know when to quit.

"Liar." Raven was about to open the door and tell him off, but he kept talking. "I'm an animal, and all animals know when people are upset… Okay, maybe not all of them, but dogs and cats definitely know when their owner is upset about something!"

"What is your point?" Raven rolled her eyes, cutting Beastboy off to stop him from ranting.

"Just that I know something's bothering you." Raven could hear plastic wrap crinkling. "Well, I'm gonna leave something here for you. If you don't want to talk to anyone, we can't make you. But you shouldn't bottle up whatever your feeling."

It grew quiet, and Raven felt Beastboy's presence fade away. After a moment, she opened the door confirming that there was no one in the hallway. Looking down, she saw that there was a book on the ground. She picked it up and opened it, brow furrowing as she saw the print on the first page.

This diary belongs to:_

"A diary? What kind of girl does he think I am?" She muttered as she closed the door, walking back over to her bed. She flipped through the pages, which each had 14 lines. The diary's cover itself was made of a soft, brown leather. The price tag was still on the back, and Raven saw that it had cost him $25.

"It's thoughtful, but I'll probably never use it. Writing my feelings down isn't going to change them." She thought to herself, setting the book on her nightstand, behind the alarm clock. Raven lay back down, intending on going back to sleep. At least her dreams were of a quiet, tranquil darkness where she could exist free of the world around her.

~Hollow~

Knock Knock Knock

"Mmmm…" Debating whether or not to respond to Beastboy again, Raven looked up at her clock. It read 6:48. The sun was setting behind the skyline of Jump City, so her eyes didn't have to adjust to the lighting this time around.

"Hey Raven, we brought dinner back!" It wasn't Beastboy this time, but Robin instead. "Are you gonna eat with us?"

"I'm not-"

Groooooowl

"I'll be there in a second." Standing, Raven shifted her cloak so it was more resting more comfortably on her shoulders, and then raised a hand to her head. It only took a moment for her to push back a few locks of hair that were out of place. Not one to spend a lot of time on her appearance, she headed out of her room.

Arriving at the common room, she saw that the others had ordered in chinese food and everyone was sitting at the dining area. Her place had been set for her, to the left of Cyborg and Robin and across from Starfire and Beastboy.

"Hey, Raven." Robin greeted casually.

The others followed suit and she greeted them back, pulling out her chair and sitting down. She grabbed a fork and watched as steam rose from the rice and vegetables, blowing gently on it to cool the food down before she took a bite.

"Raven, guess what happened to Cyborg yesterday!" Beastboy spoke up between bites of food.

Raven didn't look up. "What?"

"Dude slipped on a banana peel!" Beastboy laughed, and Cyborg groaned.

"Well if someone would actually make sure their trash got into the trashcan, other people wouldn't go slipping on them!" Cyborg defended himself. "My tailbone still hurts!"

"It was soooo funny. He tried grabbing something on the way down, but he accidentally pulled the fruitbowl down and started slipping on all of those as well!" Beastboy started to crack up, and Robin chuckled. "You should've seen the look on his face; it was like this…" She could hear Beastboy contorting his face, but she still didn't look up.

"Hmm."

The others watched as Raven twirled her fork in the center of her food, seemingly uninterested in actually eating it. Everyone exchanged a confused glance, but didn't say anything. It was silent for a few more minutes, until Starfire spoke up.

"Raven, I was at the mall of shopping yesterday. I saw a shirt that I thought you would like."

"..."

Starfire frowned, but continued. "Perhaps we could go together sometime and see if you would be interested in purchasing it!" She smiled at Raven, but Raven just shrugged her shoulders.

"Maybe." Raven took her second bite in five minutes.

The room grew quiet again, the sound of chinese food being munched on and the occasional squeak of plastic fork on plastic container bottom being the only thing to break the otherwise heavy silence.

"Oh yeah!" Robin set his fork down and wiped his mouth a napkin, leaning back so he could look at Raven. "We're all going on a picnic tomorrow, you wanna come with?" He asked, and everyone turned to look at Raven, who'd just swallowed her third bite of food.

"No." She stated bluntly.

"Come on Raven, what have you got to lose?" Cyborg pleaded with her.

He was seriously getting worried about Raven, everyone was. She was barely eating, she left her room even less than normal, and now she was flat out refusing to socialize with them.

"My peace of mind." She muttered as she took another bite of food.

"Please, Raven?" Robin asked.

Standing, Raven used her powers to float her food over to the fridge. "I'm going to bed." She called out over her shoulder. She started walking towards the door.

"You're going to bed this early? At least stay and… watch some… T.V…." Beastboy called after her, but faltered as Raven ignored him and disappeared through the doorway.

"What's wrong with her?" Robin asked. The others all turned to look at him, and he said, "It's like she's gone back to the way she was when we first started crime-fighting."

"Dunno." Cyborg said. "If only she would talk to us… what changed?"

Starfire looked over to Robin, and they shrugged their shoulders in unison.