Raven walked into the common room, intent on eating before she went to meditate. She'd slept through breakfast, and if she skipped through lunch to meditate, she'd be unable to focus properly with the hunger pangs distracting her. The others were all assembled in the common room, in various places.

"How'd you lose the remote again?" Cyborg asked as he picked up the couch, shaking it around in hopes it would fall out somewhere. "This happens at least once a week."

"Don't blame me." Beastboy mumbled as he looked around the common room. "You were the one who lost it."

"How'd either one of you lose all of the remotes we have?" Raven asked. She walked into the kitchen where Robin was leaning against the counter looking at Beastboy and Cyborg with an amused smile. She filled a kettle with water and put it on the stove, waiting for it to heat up before making herself a meal. She nodded to Starfire, who was sitting at the counters on the opposite side of Raven and Robin, idly playing with Silkie.

Robin tapped the counter to get Raven's attention. She looked at him, and he opened a couple of utility belt compartments, where the remotes were stuffed into. He smirked at her, then turned back to the other two. Raven shook her head, just barely suppressing a smile. "Of course." She thought to herself. Raven had done the same thing once before to get Beastboy and Cyborg out of the common room so she could read in peace. She didn't always want to read in her room, after all.

The two searching for the remote continued to bicker. Raven's kettle began to whistle, and she moved it to a different burner, grabbing a mug and a teabag. She let it steep as she pushed Robin out of the way of the fridge, grabbing the sliced ham and closing the door and grabbing the bread off the counter and making a sandwich.

"Raven, can you help us out here?" Cyborg asked, clearly exasperated with the searching. Beside her, Robin snickered.

"I've told you a hundred times to stand up and changed the channel." She said.

"And I've told you a hundred times to stop joking like that!" He moaned, holding one hand to his face. "Why can't I just watch the newest episode of Monster Truck Monsters?!" He fell to his knees in despair. Robin grinned, but straightened his face when Cyborg looked up at him.

"I don't know, but why don't you- ow!" Raven gasped when Silkie bit down on the sandwich she was partway through making. He'd crawled across the counter while they were arguing amongst themselves. Raven shook her hand, and Starfire leaned over the counter, grabbing Silkie and pulling him off of Raven's hand. His teeth tore her leotard and left thin red lines along her hand.

"Oh Raven, I am so sorry!" Starfire exclaimed, glaring down at her pet. "That is a bad Silkie!" She told the larvae, gliding out of the room to take him away. "What happened to the table manners we have taught you?"

Raven healed the cuts, grabbing a paper towel and wiping the spit away. "Great. I'm out of sewing needles too, so now I have to…" Raven trailed off, mumbling curses under breath as she looked at the torn fabric falling at her wrist.

"How'd you lose your sewing needles?" Robin asked.

"Someone other than me is going into my stuff and taking them. I put them back where they belong when I'm done." Raven said. She glared at Beastboy, though in reality it was Starfire and Cyborg who were taking her needles without permission.

Just as Beastboy was about to speak up and defend himself, Cyborg interrupted him (to cover his hide). "So Robin, your one year anniversary with Starfire is coming up soon. Got any special plans?" He asked, rubbing his hands together.

Robin looked towards the door to make sure Starfire wasn't about to come back in. The others leaned in. "I'm taking her to Haly's Circus in Gotham." He said with a smile, crossing his arms over his chest.

Cyborg and Beastboy looked completely and utterly confused. "The circus? Really? For something so important?" Cyborg asked, scratching his head. It was obvious a circuit had been blown somewhere in his brain.

"Yeah dude, you should take her back to Tokyo; you know, to reminisce about how far you've come together!" Beastboy chimed in.

He shook his head. "Starfire will understand when we get there." Robin said. He watched as Cyborg and Beastboy exchanged a confused glance, then shrugged their shoulders in unison. He turned to Raven. She looked shocked, and she hadn't spoken up yet. "...You okay?" He asked, turning to face her.

Raven straightened her face into it's usual apathy. "I'm fine." She put the bread away and walked away, her hunger completely forgotten. She made it through the doors and was halfway back to her room before Robin's voice stopped her in her tracks.

"Raven, what's wrong?" He asked. She could feel the concern and confusion coming off him.

"Nothing." She muttered, eyes on the ground.

"It's not nothing. You've closed yourself off from me; I can't feel anything through our bond. Tell me what's going on." He asked, walking up behind her so there was only a few feet of space between them.

Raven turned around to face him. "You told me you didn't want to talk about your past." She took a step towards him. "You told me not to tell the others what I'd seen." Another step. "Why are you telling Starfire?" She asked. "I felt everything you felt. I saw everything you saw. Why?"

Robin looked stunned. "Because Starfire doesn't know about me, not really." He said after a moment. "I haven't told her everything about my past, even after all this time. I thought it would be a good idea to help us grow closer…" He explained.

"If you wanted to talk to someone about it, why not me? Aren't we close?" Raven asked, and the only thing that stopped her voice from sounding pleading was the years she'd spent hiding her true emotions.

"We are close, Raven." He affirmed, putting a hand on her shoulder. "It's just different from the way Starfire is." He tried explaining. Robin jumped when the lights above them shattered.

"I need to meditate." She told him, brushing his hand away and walking down the hall. "Is this my fault?" Raven asked herself. "Did I miss my chance somewhere along the line? Would he be with me if I had asked for his love instead of assuming I had it?" Robin jogged and got in front of her, and she stopped again.

"Raven-" He started.

"I still haven't told you." She cut him off. He tilted his head slightly. "What's been going on with me, why I've been so distant lately. I figured it out." She closed her eyes and looked down at the ground.

Robin swallowed. He remembered their conversation in the monitor room, about how Raven had cried because she'd become so distant without really wanting to. "What is it?" He asked, his voice barely above a whisper.

Raven looked up at him, eyes firm and resolute. "Not now." She shook her head. "I'm too upset." She finally admitted to him after months of hiding from her feelings.

He hesitated, then nodded. "When you're ready." He said. Robin stepped to the side, watching as Raven walked down the hall to her room.

~Hollow~

Beastboy watched as Robin went after Raven, the latter clearly upset over something. Despite the fact that Robin had returned the remotes to him and Cyborg, he couldn't focus on the TV. Something was nagging at him.

Raven had been upset when they returned from Tokyo. No one could figure out why. She hid from them, barely talked to them when she was in the same room as them, and seemed almost unable to look at Robin. Then, the two had fought, and she'd almost gotten into a fight with Starfire. After that, she'd been kinda like a zombie, moving without purpose or emotion. A little while later, she'd just… returned to normal. Apparently, she and Robin and Starfire had all made up in the middle of the night.

But there was still something missing. And some small part of him, his animal senses most likely, had it figured out. But for whatever reason, the human part still couldn't figure it out. What had happened in Tokyo, or even before?

Beastboy blinked. "When Robin mentioned that circus place, Raven's scent almost seemed depressed… and then she'd left suddenly…" He frowned, eyes staring ahead but not focused on anything. "Come on brain, think! Raven's been sad since Tokyo, angry with Robin and Starfire… Tokyo, Robin, Starfire..."

Cyborg looked over as Beastboy stood up suddenly.

"No way. It couldn't be what I'm thinking! Does Raven…" Beastboy turned to the door when it opened and Robin walked through. "Is she okay?" Beastboy asked as Robin walked over and sat down on the couch alongside them.

"She said she'd talk to me later." Was all he said, crossing his arms and looking down at the coffee table. "I'm a little worried about what she is going to say."

~Hollow~

A/N

This chapter is short (I think the shortest of all) and honestly I think it's the worst so far, but I wanted it to be kind of straight to the point. Adding extra scenes wouldn't have benefited the feeling of the chapter, it would've been distracting, I feel.

The important part is Raven finally deciding to tell Robin how she feels, so anything that wasn't that would've felt tacked on and out of place. Oh well. Everyone seems to be enjoying the rest of the story so far, so one bad chapter can be excused.

Right? (;~;)