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"Robin?" He looked up to the girl who called his name, standing in the doorway. He motioned her to come in, as he was staring at articles of Slade.

"... I came to ask..." She said hesitantly, figeting with her hands. "If... friend Raven has regained her memory as of yet." When he said nothing, she asked again. "Has she?"

He merely stared at the articles, his arms crossed. He gulped, emotions running through his mind.

"Robin?" She came closer and went to put a hand on his shoulder, but he flinched before she could do so.

She bit her lip, and being behind him she wiped away the tears that were ready to fall.

She knew why he was so... unwilling, to let her touch him.

"Robin... I believe we must have... the talk."

He said nothing.

"Ever since I... I chose to... to lie about who had brought you to get help, you have been farther away from me." She frowned when he gave no reply. "We do not talk about it! We merely sit here and do nothing! Why? WHY?" Tears streamed down her face.

He sighed audibly, making sure she heard him. "Starfire, now's not the time-"

"When is Robin?" He noticed she had left out "friend". "Must we leave this and let our friendship crumble to nothing? This is the right time! Now!"

"Starfire!" He said shouting, turning around to face her. "I've going through too much right now!"

"So am I! And it won't go away until I know the truth!"

"Of what? Huh?"

"Of your feelings Robin, I want to help!"

"You can't!" He shouted, and he bowed his head down. "You're not the person I want to talk to right now, because the person I do want to talk to left me to talk to Red X!"

Starfire stayed silent, a look of realization on her face.

"You mean... you... you..." She couldn't finish the sentence for some reason.

Robin didn't look at her, only kept his gaze on the ground.

"You... have feelings for Raven, don't you?" He didn't reply, but it was obvious to her that he did.

"I see..." She said. She walked out of the room quietly, and only looked back once to see if Robin would stop her.

He didn't.

She left the room, crying, and the door shut behind her.

He ruffled his hair and sighed, then dropped down to the floor, sitting as he cursed Red X for starting this all.

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Raven teleported herself into her room, she and X were the only people allowed to do so.

I'm here... now what? She walked herself out of her... the room, and walked into the hallway.

She usually didn't come out of her... the room, since she merely teleported herself here and there because the possiblity that she would get lost was... a lot.

She walked down the hallway, chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, evenly spread apart, with a red rug on the floor over a white carpet. A brown railing was on the side to prevent herself from falling, and if you looked over the railing, you would see marble tiles on the ground way down below, with a very large chandelier made of gold and silver on the top, with candles hanging from it as well as lights. The ceiling was glass, allowing Raven to see the blue sky with clouds hovering in the air, shades of pink and orange signaling the time of day.

Raven walked down the stairs, she had made sure to have a bedroom on the side of the mansion where the stairs were normal, two sets of them being on each side and leading up to a narrow yet wide hallway, other than the other side where there were spiral glass stairs leading towards one big hallway, the master bedroom being on top.

That's where X stayed.

Walking down the stairs took her a while, so she stopped in the middle and began to teleport when his voice caught her attention.

"I never knew you were so lazy beauty. Maybe I should call you Sleeping Beauty."

Raven rolled her eyes and stayed where she was, the stairs being large enough to stand on without the fear of falling off. She watched as he climbed up the stairs slowly enough to make her want to tear her hair out.

"So princess..." He said, finally coming up to her. "Looking for me?"

"No, I'm looking for the other person living here in a costume."

"Heh, funny."

"I know."

"Seriously, what?"

Raven took a deep breath and looked straight into his mask.

"We... need to talk."

If the mask had not been there, Raven would have seen the raised eyebrow.

"Bout what beauty?" He came closer to her, from behind her, and put his arms around her shoulders. "If you want to take me now-"

"No." She said, turning away from him. She rolled her eyes at his behavior.

"It's about..." She suddenly couldn't say it. She didn't want him to find out that she knew the truth and her memory was regained.

Did she want to stay here or something? If he knew the truth, she wouldn't be able to stay here anymore.

And... she would miss him.

Did she love him? Or was it a bit more of friendship? Or in between? She couldn't find the truth in herself for some reason.

"I... know who you are." She couldn't believe how hard it was to say that.

"So you figured it out?"

She nodded.

He shrugged and leaned on the railing. (The glass railing, to be exact; Raven thought he had some sort of fetish at this point.)

"You would have to had figured it out eventually beauty. So, what now, gonna run back to your little Titans and tell them where I am? Maybe my identity or real name?"

Raven scoffed. "You liar, you never showed me your identity, and your real name is probably not Shawn, it's probably something really simple or completely unique."

"Well aren't you smart? Maybe I should call you-"

"Don't even think about it."

He chuckled, and then regained his seriousness and looked at her.

"So... go ahead. I'll start packing." He began to walk downstairs, and he was almost down when Raven called him.

"You bastard, I'm not gonna tell."

He raised an eyebrow, and then turned around to stare at her; Raven didn't even need for him to take off his mask to see the smirk that was playing on his face.

"I knew you secretly loved me beauty. So how about-"

"Stop."

He chuckled again, and Raven couldn't help but let out a small grin. It didn't last for long though, but it lasted long enough for Red X to see.

"Is that a smile? God forbid that you smiled!"

"Shut up." She said playfully, but soon the seriousness of the situation kicked in.

"So, whaddya gonna do when Robin asks you where you've been all this time? You know he's gonna ask it."

"Duh." She had become more playful around him. She shrugged. "I'll... figure something out eventually."

Silence ensued between the two.

"I guess this is goodbye." He said, trying to cover his emotions.

Raven frowned. "X, don't try to deny that you're gonna miss me." She walked closer to him, her arms crossed. "Empath, remember? I know I do."

X sighed. "Whatever." He didn't expect the hug from Raven that came right after that, but he welcomed it and hugged her back.

"So, why did you lie?" She asked, still in his embrace.

He removed himself from the hug and turned around, a smirk evident in his voice.

"You're an empath remember? Figure it out." He walked away and gave her one last glance. A small smile was directed to him, and he blew her a kiss and teleported before Raven could do anything about it.

She picked up a red rose that fell on the floor once he teleported. She stared at the paper wrapped around the stem, and didn't hesitate to read the note.

Gonna miss ya beauty.

She let out a small smile, and whispered to herself.

"I'll miss you too."

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Raven teleported herself onto the roof, but didn't say anything when Robin looked at her.

"So? How'd it go?" He asked, a bit sarcastic.

Rolling her eyes, she replied. "Well. Everything's over." She refrained herself from sighing at the truth, since she knew Robin would question it.

"... And you're okay with this?" Honestly, the way how he was taking it so well began to scare her. This is Robin she's talking about. Shouldn't he have overreacted by now? Just a little bit?

He shrugged, and turned around. "...It wasn't your fault."

"Um... okay then." She turned around and began walking away, celebrating a bit at his silence, when his question stopped her.

"I just want to know a few things."

Hold the party... She thought, a bit annoyed.

"Okay. What?"

"Why'd he kidnap you?"

She stayed silent for a few moments, unsure of how to answer a question that she didn't even know the answer to.

"I... I don't know."

There was that uneasy feeling again.

"Revenge? Ransom? Anything?"

"No... Not a clue."

He sighed audibly. "I guess that's reasonable, seeing as you didn't have your memory..."

"Yeah."

He didn't say anything after that, simply staring at the fading sunset sky.

"... Aren't you going to ask me why I didn't capture him?"

He shook his head. "No, you must be tired."

Raven stared at the back of Robin's head, confusion sketched onto her face.

"Right... okay then. I'll be going now."

"Okay."

Once she left, Robin looked at the crumpled piece of paper balled up in his fist. He smoothed it out, and read the note once more.

You better take good care of her.

He didn't need to question who wrote the note; it was fairly obvious.

He knew why X took her, at least, now he did. He only wanted to see if Raven knew.

Either she didn't, or she did and wanted to cover for him. Which... actually was reasonable, seeing as she saw a different side of X when she lost her memory...

He had thought about it a lot, and it took him a while before he had the guts to admit that Raven might have loved X... and not him. She might have welcomed X's feelings for her...

And I guess I have to live with that.

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Honestly, the conversation between Red X and Raven was nothing like I thought it would be. There was something about him loving her or something and she couldn't return his feelings, and he had to let her go. But I like this ending too.

I didn't even know I was going to add a Star and Robin talk, but I suppose it had to happen eventually.

This isn't the end. Well, it kinda is, but there's an epilogue... it might be short, it might not be. I don't know. I haven't written it yet...

Great, now I have a billion ideas in my head and my mom wants me out of my room where the computer is. Damn her.

... AND I know I said no Red X/Raven in the end, but I HAD to have it in here! I don't know which pairing it'll end with... maybe both..., maybe none..., or maybe one...

I like the way I ended this chapter. Originally, there was no scene with Robin and Raven in the end, but I felt it needed to be added.

Please review. You're all awesome. I'll try to update ASAP.

Love,

Ivy