A/N: Okay, I finally got my head on straight, here's the next chapter. Brace yourselves this one's long.

I don't own anything.

Saturday Morning – Titan's Tower

Raven could not look at another never-translated scroll or ancient handwritten document. She'd been up until one in the morning, fell asleep over her infinite collection of books for about an hour, woke up, took one look at all of it and went to bed.

Her alarm rang at six, and was promptly smashed at six o' one by a dark aura. But she couldn't get back to sleep with all the information in her head. She'd found some old stories and legends that described mind-readers and crazy voodoo, but nothing about the kind of mind-control she saw in Jessie and Sean.

What finally drew her from her room was the morning ritual of Cyborg and Beast Boy's. There was yelling emitting from the kitchen, along with what sounded like a fifty car pile-up

She got to the door of the kitchen and found Wonder Woman standing outside of it, an uncertain look her face.

WW looked up and saw her," What's going on in there?" she pointed to the door.

Raven's expression didn't change, nor did her voice, as she said," Breakfast," and walked past her into the room. WW followed, and looked relieved to find the other two members of her team seated at the table along with Starfire.

She walked up to Batman as Raven went to the cupboard, avoiding Cyborg's spatula wielding hand as he hoisted it away from BB," This is for real food only, grass stain!"

While BB morphed into a monkey and clung to Cy's head reaching for the tool, Raven heard Wonder Woman speak," What are they . . ."

"Don't," Batman interrupted.

"I was just gonna ask . . ."

"Just watch," Superman that time.

Raven grabbed her tea package and began to fill the kettle.

"Listen, tin man, you don't give me that and I'm going ape on ya'," Beast Boy had already apprehended the frying pan and had obviously been in the middle of mixing batter for his tofu waffles. Now she guessed he was going for some sort of tofu bacon.

Cyborg of course was making something a little more traditional; real everything- bacon, eggs, and something in a bowl she couldn't identify yet.

Wonder Woman spoke again as Cyborg tackled BB," So, their making . . . breakfast?"



"Yep," Superman continued to watch.

Raven was actually kind of enjoying the League's confusion over their morning ritual, until she heard a clang and a splash behind her from the direction of the stove.

She turned as the two boys continued to wrestle and saw the tea kettle on the floor, spilled all over.

Alright, enough was enough. A black aura surrounded the spatula and it shot towards the opposite wall, sticking into it.

"Just. Make. Both," Raven said, eyes glowing. She was too tired to deal with this insanity today.

The boys looked at each other and said," We can do that," and set to work, Beast Boy retrieving the spatula from the wall.

12:00 p.m. Saturday

Cyborg really didn't think anything would come of Raven's little stunt yesterday. Who would accept an invitation to some one's house they'd just met. That's, like, one of the first thing your parents teach you when you're little; never, never, never go with strangers.

It was crazy to think otherwise.

So, with that thought in mind he was in the middle of searching for more information on this Carlisle Martin, weirdo.

After breakfast (which went unusually smooth after Raven's outburst) and after Raven had her tea and calmed down, she explained that the good doctor may have done a little mixing and matching in that lab of his. Meaning that, even though he may have some inherited mind power, it may not have been strong enough to produce the results they'd seen in Terra and Robin, or, until they could reverse it, Jessie and Sean Martin.

Dr. Martin may have played around with his chemistry set and found a way to strengthen it.

"Along with a little magical help," Raven had said. She was back in her room, stocked up with herbal tea and book marks, searching her precious collection; she'd only gotten a quarter of the way through last night.

Cyborg wasn't having any more luck than his gothic teammate. Starfire, Beast Boy, and the League members had gone out to the library and brought back old newspapers and science journals, and began looking for any of Martin's discoveries or whatever they could find really.

Cyborg worked on the internet but only found more of what they' already seen. The others didn't seem to be having any more luck than him.



"It's like he just wiped himself off the face of the earth, until now," Wonder Woman said after they'd finished going through all the information. It didn't take long for them to finish, there was nothing to see. Martin wasn't in any of it.

"Much the same here," Cyborg said pointing at the computer; he was really starting to get sick of the thing," Since the report of his getting out of the loony bin there's nothing."

Raven came in then looking haggard and grouchy," I hate books. What made me get so many? I can't remember anymore," she said walking over and sat down on the couch next to Beast Boy.

"I'm starting to feel the same about the internet," Cyborg said," I haven't found out anything, except that there's gonna be a snow storm sometime this afternoon."

"How did you find that looking for information on Dr. Martin?" Superman asked.

"I missed the news this morning, I like to make sure," Cyborg replied, a little defensive.

"I haven't even gotten all the way through," Raven put her elbows on her knees and rested her chin on her hands," We found Robin but now we're just back at square one."

"I vote we take a break!" Beast Boy suddenly burst out.

"You would vote that, B," Cyborg rolled his single human eye.

But, still, that's what they did. They were just cleaning up the last of the library stuff when the Tower's alarm went off, flashing red and blaring. The League members had pretty much gotten used to it on their last stay there, but it still scared the living daylights out of someone who wasn't expecting it.

Cyborg turned it off and clicked to see the problem. It wasn't an alert from the city, but a warning that a craft was landing on the island the Tower sat on. Cy turned on the cameras that were plugged into the outside of the tower, for times such as these.

"No, way," Cyborg almost slapped himself.

"Told you so," Raven had a rather smug look on her face even though her voice didn't change.

The camera showed Sean Martin stepping out of the ferry from the main land and pausing to look up at the intimidating structure. He didn't start to walk up to it immediately. By the way he nodded to himself, it seemed he'd finally reached his resolve, plus the ferry was pulling away so it was knock or swim back.

He slowly made his way to the door, stepping carefully, for there was no walkway, and a rather thick layer of snow was on the ground.

"Should we not go and let him in?" Starfire asked from the back of the group watching the television.

Her saying this snapped everyone out of their trances and sent them down to the entrance hall. Before Starfire could fling open the door, though, Raven stopped her.



"Let's at least give him time to knock," she said calmly," And maybe I should open the door."

Star nodded and backed away letting Raven take her place. As she did this a timid knock sounded through the hall, loud to the silent watchers.

Raven pressed the button to open it, and it did so with a swish and a blast of freezing air came with it. As Raven's eyes adjusted to the light she made out Sean standing a few feet from her, dressed in his black coat, a deep blue sweater, jeans and tennis shoes. Looking like every other kid in the world. He still had that shoulder bag, now taped up with what looked like electrical tape.

"Hi," he said awkwardly, and she realized she'd been staring," you didn't tell me there was a boat involved."

She smiled as best she could," I wasn't sure you'd take you'd actually take up my offer."

"Oh, don't worry there's an alternative reason for my being here," he said and smiled.

She was about to ask what it was, but then caught a glimpse of the sky and noticed him shiver a little," Why don't we talk about it inside?"

He shivered again and nodded. She moved aside and he walked over the threshold, but stopped before she even had the door closed. She turned and saw why, there was quite the reception waiting for him.

"Um, the Tower has an alarm system, your arrival sort of sent us into a frenzy," she explained lamely.

"Oh."

Sean's P.O.V.

"Oh," this may get a little more complicated than he thought. Sean found himself standing in a large entrance hall, with chairs lining both walls on either side. There were quite a few people in this hall too. And they were all staring at him.

These must be the friends Raven was talking about yesterday.

Sean had been imagining coming here ever since Raven had invited him, but he knew his dad wouldn't let him, not after what happened with Jessie when she came. To Sean it didn't seem that bad, but then he knew how much his sister could exaggerate. He was sure it was some big misunderstanding. Jessie wasn't that good a listener either. And Father had forbidden them to come near this place again. That was before Sean moved here to live with his father.

Although now, he was thinking she maybe wasn't exaggerating as much as he thought.

Just stay calm, he thought, as long as your home by your normal curfew Father will never know.

"Let me introduce you," Raven said to him as if it finally dawned on her he would need introducing.



"Sure," Sean said warily, he wasn't too sure about being here in the first place. She took his wrist in her hand and led him up to the waiting group.

She walked up to a younger group of people first, the one's he thought he recognized from somewhere, the papers maybe," This is my team, the Titans, this is Cyborg," she pointed to a huge teenager mostly covered in blue and white body armor, who reached out to shake his hand.

Sean shook it a little afraid the big teen would crush his hand.

"Nice to meet you, Sean," he said with the strangest grin on his face, like he really was happy to see him.

Sean didn't have time to answer for Raven pulling him towards another individual, this time a very small boy . . . who was completely green," This is Beast Boy," she said," Feel free to ignore him, if you want."

Beast Boy shot a glare at Raven but grinned ear to ear at Sean," Dude, what's up?"

Sean didn't answer, not sure how. Raven pulled him again, this time he almost gasped. A beautiful red-headed girl stood in front of him, smiling," And this is Starfire," Raven said simply.

Sean suddenly found himself in the tightest hug he ever experienced, he could feel his ribs bending as Starfire said," Oh, it is wonderful to meet Raven's –new--friend!" she released him and suddenly looked like she'd forgotten something, "Oh, no, I was not expecting your visit!" she suddenly jumped in the air and flew off saying something about "the traditional Tameranian pudding of friendship".

"Ah, Beast Boy could you . . .?" Raven said and the little green one ran after Starfire saying," I'm on it."

"Sorry about that," Raven said to Sean," She can be a little impulsive," she turned back and led him over to someone he definitely recognized.

"I believe you've already met Superman," she said.

"Yes, I have," Sean said as he should hands with the man of steel.

Superman smiled just as wide as the others," How's your leg?"

"Forty-two stitches and a brace," Sean said with a grimace.

"Well, it could have been worse, I suppose," Superman frowned too, really looking concerned.

"This is Wonder Woman, you may already know she's a part of the Justice League, too," Raven gained his attention again; she seemed to be getting very anxious about something.

He shook hands with the tall beautiful woman, who smiled as well, and Raven moved on to the last person.

"And this is . . . Batman," she said it slowly, as if anticipating something. It was starting to creep him out.



But not nearly as much as Batman creeped him out. He was tall, dressed in all black, and was pretty much what Sean imagined the grim reaper looked like, only with more muscle and no giant blade. That belt was pretty intimidating though.

Then Batman gave him a tiny smile, it was guarded and cautious, but seemed kind and understanding.

"It's good to finally meet you, Sean," Batman said quietly, and reached out to shake his hand.

Without taking his eyes off the cowl, Sean took his hand, at a loss for words.

Then something very strange happened. As soon as Sean's hand was covered in Batman's, he relaxed for the first time since he decided to come here. He actually smiled at him, a real smile, not like when he was just trying to be friendly, but really smiled.

"Nice to meet you too, sir."

Batman let go and Sean looked back at Raven . . . and saw that she was staring at him. The hairs on the back of neck told him the others were too.

He looked around at them and he was right. They all looked away awkwardly, and no one said anything for a while, just an awkward silence.

What is with these people? Sean thought.

Then a crash was heard from somewhere in the massive building that made them all jump.

"I think we should go check on them now," the one called Cyborg said.

"Then we can talk about your alternative reasons," Raven said as she led Sea through the many halls.

Sean thought he'd walked into a battleground, but with more goop everywhere.

Raven said it was the kitchen, and that Starfire probably had a . . . surprise waiting for them. This was quite a surprise.

There was a layer of some orange substance covering every surface-- and Beast Boy and Starfire.

"What in world were you making?" Wonder Woman asked, side- stepping a puddle of whatever it was.

"Beast Boy said instead of the traditional Tameranian dessert, I might try to make a cake," Starfire said sheepishly, wiping the stuff off her face," I must have done something wrong."

"How did it turn orange?" Cyborg asked.

"I have no idea," Beast Boy said, then morphed into a dog and gave his whole body a good shake.



"I am very sorry," Starfire said miserably," I hope you won't be offended by this." She looked at Sean with tears in her eyes.

Sean looked at the counter where what looked like a pan was underneath the orange goop. He ran a finger-tip through it and stuck it in his mouth, not bad, he thought.

"Why would I be, it tastes fine," he looked up at her and she beamed at him, giggling.

"Seriously?" Beast Boy walked up and did the same," Huh, what do ya know. He's right."

"So, what exactly was your alternative reason for coming here?" Raven asked after the cake incident was over.

Sean had almost forgotten," My sister," he said simply.

At that they all looked at him, Beast Boy even looked a little guilty. They were sitting in a large common room now, on the couch. Batman stood next to the far wall, which was made of nothing but glass, overlooking the ocean.

"So, you heard about that," Beast Boy said it like a statement not a question.

"Yeah," Sean nodded," She kept trying to talk me out of coming here, but I wanted to hear your side of the story."

"She knows you're here?" Cyborg asked, he seemed a little alarmed.

"Well, I had to tell somebody," Sean said, confused.

"What he means is," Raven interrupted," is that I told him about our conversation yesterday and it sounded like your dad wouldn't let you come."

"Jessie won't say anything," Sean said quickly, then turned back to Beast Boy," I just need to ask your side of the story, and I don't think it's just a coincidence that you found me, too," he turned back to Raven," Is it?"

There was a pause, while they all thought, and he watch as Raven bit her bottom lip.

Finally Batman spoke up," You might as well get it over with," he muttered.

Cyborg sighed and said simply," Guess so," and he launched into the story," Get comfortable this may take a while. Okay, this all began about a year ago when a teammate of ours, Terra, had an accident, don't ask me how but she was basically turned into a stone statue. We assumed she was dead, but then Beast Boy, found that her body had been moved, we don't know if she did it herself or if it was someone else. If that wasn't weird enough, BB saw her, your sister I mean, alive and well, but with no memory of us at all," Cyborg paused to take a breath and Beast Boy took it up.



"I kinda freaked her out. I didn't mean to I just wanted her to remember, but she pretty much ran from me after that, and I haven't spoken to her since. That was about three or so months ago," Beast Boy looked like he wasn't sure what to say next, so Raven spoke.

"After Beast Boy came back and told us about his encounter we responded to an emergency call that night at the docks. Another teammate, Robin, was thrown into the water and a crate fell on top of him. We searched everywhere but found no trace of him, it was like he just vanished. Three months passed with no clue as to where he is . . . then you show up," she looked straight at him and said," to put it bluntly Sean we're pretty sure you're Robin, and that your sister is Terra."

Raven sat back in the couch and watched him. It was quiet for a very long time. No one even noticed the wind outside. Then Sean walked over to his taped up bag.

"What are you doing?" Beast Boy asked timidly.

"I have to go," Sean said simply.

"Why?" Starfire asked, very upset.

"Because my sister was right," Sean started walking towards the door," I thought she was just exaggerating like she always does, but no, she was right-- your all crazy," he was out in the hallway now, and no one was following him yet.

He checked his watch. He had just enough time to get home. He pulled out his cell phone intending on calling the ferry, like the man had told him to do when he was ready to leave, and he was so ready to leave.

"You can't leave now," said a deep voice from behind him, and Sean dropped his phone in shock. It was Batman; he was the only one who followed.

"Yes, I can, watch me," Sean said and turned to find the button to open the door. He found it and pressed it.

But, too late he realized what Batman meant by "can't leave". The snow storm the news promised had come and it nearly knocked Sean off his feet, had it not been for the black clad figure behind him.

Batman caught him before he hit the ground, pulling him close," Sorry," he said over the wind," I should have been more specific." He punched in the code to close and lock the door, locked so that it wouldn't spring open from the wind again, and so Sean wouldn't try anything stupid.

Sean noticed that Batman still had his arm around his shoulders and Sean had accidently twisted so that he was leaning forward, and he was leaning on Batman. His immediate instinct was to yank himself out of his arms and stumble to the other side of the room, however rude it might be.

But something made him stop from pulling away.



Something in the back of his mind made him pull in a deep breath through his nose, let it out, and then do it again.

Suddenly, he realized what he was doing and looked up. Batman was staring at him.

"Are you all right?" he asked, pretending to ignore Sean's odd display.

Now Sean did pull away," Yes, fine," he stuttered. He tried to think of some explanation, but found none. Then the other crazies began to file in. He really didn't want to deal with any of this right now.

He had to get home, now. Father would already be wondering where he was.

He looked at Batman," How am I gonna get home?" he pointed at the door. He was not going to panic; he was going to be calm and rational.

"There's no way you're going out in that," Batman told him firmly, the wind howled outside as if to emphasize his point. Okay, still not panicking.

"Well, when will the storm let up?" Sean asked, as calmly as he could.

"I don't know, but when it does then you go home, not before," Batman's tone left no room for argument. Sean looked at his watch, and it nearly sent him into that horrifying panic he was trying to avoid, it was almost seven. And his curfew was eight.

He'd always thought that his and Jessie's curfew was ridicules, but Father was not the man to reason with.

He looked again at Batman, pleading," My curfew's at eight, my dad will kill me if I'm not home on time."

"Would your dad prefer you to be late getting home, or safe," Batman said kindly. Sean looked at the floor and listened to the wind.

"Hey," Sean turned to look at Beast Boy standing next to him," We won't bug you anymore with our crazy ideas, just stay and you can go when the storms over," he smiled.

Sean stared at him and sighed," No more crazy? I mean, you treating me like I'm just some random person off the street. No more talk about your missing friends or anything?"

"Exactly, you're just our guest for the afternoon," he smiled wider.

Sean looked at Batman again," Fine, but just till it blows over."

9:00 p.m. - Titans Tower

Now Sean was panicking. The storm did not let up, now it was worse than ever. It would probably last all night, and the thought of staying here that long made his stomach turn.

He'd just excused himself to the bathroom so he could panic privately for a minute. When he came out again, not much calmer, but more stable, Raven was waiting for him.

"Hey," she said awkwardly," Look, this storm isn't letting up anytime soon. Why don't you just stay here tonight? I'm afraid the phones aren't working, though, so you'll have to wait till morning to call your dad," when he didn't answer (because he was trying not to throw-up) she went on," I already set up a room for you, if you want to go settle in."

He was afraid to open his mouth so he just nodded.

She led him down a few more hallways and stopped at a door, and opened it.

His shoulder bag was sitting on the bed along with some towels.

"There's a bathroom down the hall to the right with a shower in it, if you want to clean up, and I even found some clothes you can sleep in, if they fit you."

"Um, thank you. You didn't have to . . ." he started.

"You're our guest and we want you to be comfortable," Raven shrugged," No matter how crazy you think we are."

He smiled as she walked away. If he was honest with himself he really kind of liked it here. He felt more relaxed here than at home. Of course he felt the same way if he got to go anywhere Father wasn't.

He stifled that thought, Father just worries, he loves you, he gets angry when you do stupid things, that's all.

There was definitely no calling home though; his cell wasn't getting reception either. Forget Father having a fit Jess would strangle him.

This isn't worth it, he thought, I'll worry about it in the morning, right now I just want to go to bed.

He hadn't been sleeping well as it was, and there was nothing he could do about his situation, so why worry. He picked up the towel and the clothes and started looking for the bathroom.

His shower felt good, even though he did still have to keep the brace from getting too wet. He just cleaned around it and slipped on the clothes Raven left him. They fit perfectly.

He walked back to the room and pulled his taped-up bag to him. He had to rewrap his cut every night to avoid an infection. Usually Jess or Father helped him with it, but tonight he was on his own.

The gash ran from about his mid-thigh all the way past his knee. The brace started about where the cut ended. He started taking off the old bandage and rubbing the medicine on it like the doctor told him to. That was the easy part; the hard part was getting the new bandage on by himself.

Father had made him and Jessie start carrying a first-aid kit since the accident, not that Sean knew what he would do with it if something like that ever happened again. But it had the necessary roll of gauze he needed, so it was worth it.

Right now though he was thinking about giving up on it all together. He couldn't get the bandage to stay while he taped it into place, it kept falling.

"Need some help?" Sean jumped and realized he'd left the door open, Batman was watching him," Sorry, I couldn't help but notice."

"You're, like, everywhere, all the time," Sean said in disbelief," Of course you noticed."

Batman actually chuckled at that, and Sean felt that calm feeling again. Maybe insanity was contagious.

"So do you need help?" Batman pointed to Sean's leg.

"Yeah, I guess I really do," Sean said hesitantly. Batman walked up to him and wrapped it around his leg while Sean held it in place. Batman got it taped up for him and Sean finally got to sit down.

"You okay?" Batman asked, watching him.

"No," Sean just put his head on the pillow," And I'm too tired to think about it right now, so just drop it," with that he buried his face into the pillow and stayed like that.

Until he felt Batman's hand on his shoulder," It'll be all right," he gave his shoulder a little squeeze and started out of the room.

"Batman?" Sean called suddenly. He actually surprised himself.

"Yes?" Batman paused at the door, looking back.

"Do you where cologne?"

That definetly gave Batman pause," Yes, sometimes, why?"

"What kind?" Sean asked instead of answering the why. He really didn't know anyway, that's just how this whole horrible day was going.

"Atmins," Batman said slowly," Why do you ask?"

Sean thought for a minute," No reason," he whispered," Just curious."

Batman looked like he wanted to ask something else but instead just said," Good night, Sean. Sleep well." And closed the door behind him.

Sean fell asleep listening to the wind howl outside.

A/N: Ya'll I totally pulled that "Atmins" out of absolutely no where. Don't say anything unless you absolutely feel the need to.

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