A/N: Cool, here I thought that last chapter sucked and I got three more reviews, go figure. Thank you!

Oh, and gab4eva, thank you for being my first reviewer, even though your reviews make me kinda tired, especially when I picture someone trying to say them out loud.

And would I seriously be thanking any of you for anything if I owned any of this? No, I would pay people to do it for me.

Chapter 5

"How much trouble do you think he was in," Beast Boy asked, he'd been laughing his proverbial tail off since they'd hung up with the three senior heroes.

"Dude I think he's still in trouble," Cyborg snickered. They were all still in a good mood. After endless searching it was hard not to be. Seeing the look on Superman's face when Batman walked up to him certainly did nothing to dampen the mood.

"You do not think the Batman would actually hurt the Superman, do you?" Starfire looked at Raven anxiously. She was a bit concerned that the only other thing the Dark Knight said to Superman was," We'll settle this later."

"Only his pride," Raven mumbled distantly, she wasn't paying that much attention. She had another problem on her mind.

"Okay, guys," Cyborg said finally, after his and BB's laughing fit was over," I think we should at least make a path through the living room before they get here."

The league members were coming back to Tower to devise some sort of plan of action. Cyborg was referring to the piles of paper, files, take out, pizza boxes (some with the pizza still in them), and other general teenage garbage that had somehow accumulated into the floor, again.

They had all figured out a way to navigate through it, sometimes without even flying, but they doubted company would see it as "that lived in feeling". So they started in on the catastrophe.

About half way through, and after seeing Raven bump into more than a few things, Starfire crossed the room to stand beside her and said kindly," I will pay exactly one Earth cent for what is on your mind Raven."

Raven stared at her, then realized," Oh, you mean, penny for your thoughts," man, who had taught her that one?

"Yes, although I do not have any money with me, if you will give me a moment I can go to my room and find some. . ." Starfire stopped as Raven cut her off.



"No, Star, it's just a dumb saying, you don't really have to pay anything," She explained," I was just thinking about when Beast Boy confronted Terra."

Beast Boy heard his name and looked up," What about it?"

"Well, by the way you described it, she didn't exactly take to kindly to you," Raven went on in her normal unemotional tone.

"Well, whatever he said to her couldn't have sounded sane," Cyborg raised an eyebrow," So?"

"So, can any of you make it sound sane when we repeat it to Robin?" Raven crossed her arms.

Cyborg face scrunched up for a second as he said," I thought about that to, and I can't think of anything that sounds less crazy than the truth."

"Not to mention if Terra sees me again she'll probably run for the hills," Beast Boy said miserably, shoving things off the coffee table into a garbage bag.

"Here's an easier question," Cyborg said after a moment," Where can we find them?"

"And what exactly were you thinking, not telling me. I mean, it doesn't take that much gray matter to know I would see the news report that aired on about fourteen different channels!" Bruce was still chewing Clark and Diana out.

He had taken a minute to get started back at the Watch Tower. Really, after they'd hung up with the Titans, he hadn't said anything. Not even as they walked out the door to get to the ship that would take them to Titan's Tower (since they hadn't installed a transporter there). Clark even had a fleeting hope that Bruce was happy enough over finding Robin that he wasn't really that mad.

Yeah, right. As Soon as they were inside the shuttle Bruce blew.

"I just needed to figure out the easiest way to break it to you," Clark said, trying to sound confident.

Bruce wheeled around so fast it made Diana squirm a little. He scoffed, "Break it to me easy? Easy! Clark, when have I ever needed someone to hold my hand? I don't know if you've noticed, flyboy, but I'm not exactly on the verge of a mental breakdown!"

"Told you," Diana muttered from her side of the controls.

"And you," Bruce turned again to face the Amazonian, and she wondered when he'd gotten so tall," You let him. What was that about?! I figured you would have had the initiative to see where this was headed."

She had no answer to that, so, she just said the next best thing," Look, Bruce we were stupid, okay, but you don't have any excuse for flying off the handle."



"Oh, dear woman, I have more than enough excuse to go flying off the handle," Batman said in the calmest, most indignant voice he could muster.

"What if I said I'm sorry? Would that help my case at all?" Clark asked quietly," I mean, you know I would have told you. I didn't deliberately try to hurt you, Bruce."

Bruce stared at the Kryptonian for a minute. Of course he knew Clark would have told him, so why did get so mad?

Because your kid is in trouble, and it scares you to death to think you won't be able to do anything, said that little voice in the back of his mind, and you don't want that to be because you're the one who missed something.

Bruce ran a hand over his face and looked back out the window," Yes, Clark, I know, just don't do it again or I will have some sort of meltdown."

Clark grinned and Diana relaxed a little as they entered the earth's atmosphere.

"But don't think either one of you are completely off the hook," Batman mumbled, after all it would be no fun if he didn't let them squirm a while longer.

And so they did.

The Titans had decided to answer the where before the how. At least they already had some clue as to where to find Robin, rather than how to confront him.

They had a name from the Hospital he'd stayed at, courtesy of Superman, Sean Martin, and they knew he lived in Jump City and assumed he attended the same High School as Terra, or Jessica Martin, had when Beast Boy found her.

They started with the school.

"We need his address, um, because he's a witness in one of our investigations," Cyborg had talked to three people already to try and get an address, and they'd finally just connected him directly to the Superintendent.

"Look, I'm very sorry, but you're going to have to get a warrant before I can release that information to you," he said.

Cyborg sighed, it was the same answer he'd gotten all the other times, " Okay, well, thanks anyway." He hung up, it looked like they would just have to wait and follow Robin home. He stopped a second to think about how stalkerish that sounded.

"No luck?" Beast Boy asked. Cyborg shook his head.



With some relief he heard the beginnings of an aircraft landing on the roof.

"Their ba—aack," Beast Boy drawled, and ran for the door. The others followed at his heels and got outside in time to see a slightly uncomfortable looking Superman and Wonder Woman come out of a small shuttle. Then Batman walked out and saw the tiny smiles the Titans exchanged at his team members expense.

He could live with that.

". . . so, I figure the only thing to do is wait for school to let out and follow him home," Cyborg finished briefing them and looked around.

Superman, sitting at the kitchen table, smirked at that," You do know how stalkerish that sounds, right?"

Cyborg ground his teeth," Yeah, I got that, thanks."

"When does school end?" Batman asked in his usual to-the-point manner.

"In about an hour," Beast Boy said casually. They all looked at him.

"What? I did a little stalking of my own remember?"

"Never mind," Raven said from her perch on the counter," the school is a ways across town, so we may want to get going."

Across town- Jump City Academy

Always, always, before you go looking for someone in a private school that is bigger than the town it's sitting in and with more of a population than Rhode Island, get a map. Or at least the schedule of the person you're looking for. Also, make sure you know how to get past campus security.

And, especially make sure that you don't get lost because you listened to a little green shape-shifter who assured you he knew where he was going. This was Raven's current dilemma and she was quickly losing patience with it. Not that she had much patience with Beast Boy in the first place.

All they were supposed to do was hack one of the computers and find Robin's schedule. That went successfully enough, they'd gotten the schedule (after many shouted instructions from Cyborg through their earpieces on hacking) and he was supposed to be in room G106 Advanced World History.

Hopefully the school counselor wouldn't notice anything amiss when she got back, like the coffee cup Beast Boy knocked off the desk.

Finding the actual room was a different matter. Especially, when you had Indiana Green as your tour guide.



"Beast Boy, you have no more idea where we are than I do," Raven whispered harshly, after they dove into another broom closet hiding from security," let's just go outside and look for him when he. . . "

"Just one more try Raven I'm sure of it this time," Beast Boy pleaded as he looked around for more guards.

She sighed, there was no point in arguing with him when he's determined," Fine, one more try, then we're out of here."

And can you believe it he found building G. Raven passed it off as luck.

"Now all we have to do is find room 106 and . . ., " Beast Boy was cut off by the bell. Crud they'd forgotten to keep up with the time, school was letting out.

Raven quickly looked up at the closest room number, 105. Okay, Beast Boy had some serious luck on his side today. She grabbed him and pulled him into a shadowy corner as the students began pouring out of their classrooms; it was Friday after all, get to the weekend as fast as you can.

"Can you see him?" Raven asked from the corner she'd dragged him to. Only a few students spared a passing glance at them, but mostly shrugged it off.

"I think that's him there. Yeah, see he's limping a little," Beast Boy pointed to the back of a dark headed boy.

"I think your right, let's go," Raven started dragging him, again. They stopped when the boy veered off and went to his locker, thankfully they could get a good look at his face now. Yep, that was Robin, all right.

Raven opened her communicator," Hey, Cyborg, we found him. Get ready."

"Where should we meet you?" Cyborg asked. He had wanted a limited number of people going inside so he, Starfire, and the three members of the League stayed across the street from the school, much to Batman's frustration. But, Raven was pretty sure a giant bat standing in the hallway would attract a bit more attention.

"Start following from the East Wing, we'll be the ones who stick out like sore thumbs," Raven said. All the students were basically in the same uniform, white button up shirt, blue pants or skirt, and a tie of some sort or another.

As she hung up beast Boy pulled her a little closer to their target, but still in the shadows, and pointed. Terra had walked up to Robin as he put his books away.

They were close enough they heard her say," I have to go over to Emma's to work on that science project, will you be okay walking home by yourself?"

He smiled as he said," You worry too much, Jess, I'll be fine."



She looked skeptical for a second, then shrugged and said," Fine, see you at home," she waved her hand and walked right by the two watching super heroes.

"Should we follow her to?" Beast Boy asked hopefully.

Raven shook her head and said gently," Robin's going to the same place she'll be, we stick with the plan."

They looked up and saw Robin was walking out the door. They followed him out into the cold, where there were already patches of snow sticking to the ground. Raven looked up and saw Starfire overhead, and the alien waved at her to show she'd seen them. She banked off to the right, probably to tell the others.

When Raven looked back Robin had pulled on a black coat that went to almost his knees, and went to get on the side-walk. She realized there were fewer people to muffle their footsteps so she began to levitate and fell back a little more. Beast Boy picked up on it and morphed into a cat and started springing from shadow to shadow. Soon, they saw the others begin to follow from across the street not daring to get too close and blow cover.

Raven thought about how it would look if Robin, or Sean, turned around right then and saw the parade following him. Of course this was a busy section of town, there were people bustling everywhere, and he never bothered to turn around.

Unfortunately, Sean didn't want to go straight home. He walked slowly, mostly because of the icy walk, and stopped every once in a while to look in a store window.

Whatever doctor had bandaged him up after that wreck must have had the brain of an engineer. From what Raven could make out there looked to be some sort of brace around his leg underneath his pants, and it didn't seem to bother him much, if any, and meant he didn't need crutches.

Trailing him was still taking way too long. And as noted before, Raven never had that much patience.

"Okay, Cyborg," Raven said into the communicator after about an hour of following," this is taking forever. Mind if I try something?"

"As long as it doesn't involve anything to drastic, go for it," he said," just be careful."

"Roger," Raven deadpanned.

Sean had stopped at another store window, this time a book store, and Raven had noticed he was carrying a shoulder bag. One that didn't look too brand new. So, it wouldn't be weird if the bottom ripped open and a few books spilled out.

Raven aimed carefully with her mind, then . . . rrrriiiipp. Several large school books and supplies spilled out onto the sidewalk. She had another idea, she made one of the books seem to scitter across the icy walk towards her.



Sean looked down, startled, and realized what had happened, and sighed. He bent down to start picking things up and storing them in undamaged pockets of the bag, but most of the books he had to carry in his arms. It looked like bending his leg still fairly hurt.

Raven picked up the book at her feet as beast boy whispered," What happened to sticking to the plan?"

She ignored him, and Cyborg squawking in her ear, you're not going to talk to him are you?!, and walked right up to Sean. He was looking at the sidewalk around him, with his back to her.

"Looking for this?" Raven held out the book labeled Calculus. He jumped and turned. He blinked a couple times when he saw her and she remembered how out of place she must look against the rest of the people crowding the street.

"Um, yes," he said, and took the book, then he smiled," not many people do that anymore."

"Do what?" Raven asked.

"Stop and help," he shrugged," Thank you," he stood there for a minute more, then began to walk away.

"Oh, wait," Raven called, she remembered why she'd pulled that stunt, and caught up to him," While I'm doing my good deed for the day, I might as well do it all the way," she took half the books from the his arms," Come on, I'll walk you home."

He hesitated, "You don't need to be anywhere?"

"I'm just making sure I'm thorough," she smiled though her voice lacked emotion.

"Oh," he looked down for a second, his blue eyes troubled.

"Is something wrong?" Raven tried to get him to look at her, thinking she must have scared him. She wasn't exactly Ms. Happy Spring Day," Was it something I said?"

"No, no, it's not you it's just that . . . I don't think it's a good idea for you to follow me home," he said, she could tell he was trying not to offend her," See, my dad gets really weird about people he doesn't know, I don't want to get you in trouble."

"Oh," she bit her lip, this wasn't going well," All right, but I hate to leave you with all this stuff to carry. I know, how about I only walk with you part of the way, then your dad would never see me."

He stared at her for a minute," You're really set on this whole good deed thing aren't you?"

"Yep."

"Fine," he said slowly," but only part way."

"What is she thinking?" Cyborg looked at the rest of them, indignant. They were all gathered in a dark alley across the street.

"Wait," Batman said," She may be on to something, just let her follow through."

They'd walked to the more well off part of town. She wasn't sure if it was where the rich people lived, but it was defiantly well above middle class.

Confronting Sean certainly made the trip much faster. As Raven had hoped, he was too much of a gentleman to drag another person around with him while he doddled. Especially when that person was carrying most of his books.

She hadn't counted on him being so friendly about it. He seemed to actually enjoy her company. Except for when she tried to slip in any probing questions that might help explain why they were in this situation at all.

He just gave short, clipped answers that gave her nothing to work with, then he'd change the subject.

After a while she just gave up," So, calculus, advanced history, a library book bigger than my head, what are you a computer on feet?" she asked, naming off the books in her arms.

He laughed at that," My dad signed me up for all those, says he's doing the world a favor, whatever that means. I don't mind, really, it's not like I have anything better to do than study."

"Don't you have any friends to hang out with?" Raven thought Terra, or Jessie, was doing pretty well.

"I've only been going to this school for a few weeks," he stopped abruptly, like he'd let something slip.

He stopped, looking a little less open than he had a moment ago," I think this is as far as we should go, my house is just around the corner."

"Are you sure? I could walk a little further with you," Raven knew she'd touched a nerve, and so did he.

He looked regretful of his next words," No, you've been great, thank you," he reached out and took his books from her, and began to walk away again.

"Wait!" Raven called and he turned. She floundered for something to say, she wasn't sure why. Great now he was going to think she was just crazy. He stared at her, waiting, his cerulean eyes glowing in the afternoon light.

Then an idea came to her, she smiled," Have you got a pen and paper?"

He blinked," Um, sure," and with much shifting of his heavy bundle, he pulled out a scrap of paper and an old pencil.



She took it from him and said," If you ever get sick of studying, and decide you need a friend, just come here," using one of his hardbacks she scribbled the address of the Tower," I have a few friends to spare."

She held it out for him to take. He hesitated," I don't know . . ." for a second she thought she'd blown it, but then," But I guess I'll find out," he said it so low she thought he was talking to himself. He took the scrap of paper and smiled," You're setting a whole new standard for good deeds aren't you?"

She didn't answer, she just smiled and watched him walk away and disappear around the corner.

A/N: I had some serious writer's block in this chapter, so if it sounds a little scattered in places I'm sorry. It's sort of a transitional chapter and I've never been good at that. Also, I understand if you think Raven's a bit out of character, but I wracked my brains and she was the only one suitable for the job. Please review anyway; you've all been great so far.