Okay, this is written for before she shows up in his room and has the talk, not too sure how good it is, but it was a quick idea that I basically jotted it down rough.
The city was much the same as any other city at night. Dark, dirty and full of crime. Even with Nightwing on constant patrol, Bludhaven was infested with the criminal element.
She stood in the shadows above the alleyway and watched him in action, he hadn't changed all that much. The costume was different and the boy she had known was now a man, darker and more dangerous than ever before.
She felt the hitch in her heart that had always come when he was near, something she hadn't felt for nearly ten years. Raven wished love was a sickness, one that could simply be healed with time and medicine. That didn't seem to be the case, at least not this love; it was more like a cancer. It spread and killed any other chance she had to find someone else.
The simple fact was she wanted no one else, had never wanted anyone else. Even when she had come across him and Star entwined in a hormone induced make out session, she had always wanted him.
She had known even then though, that such a thing was impossible. For one, she was no where near ready to be rejected by the boy she loved and for another; she would never break her best friend's heart by such a careless act.
She smiled slightly as she thought of the innocent alien girl who had wormed her way through the barriers she had erected and offered a friendship that couldn't be refused. They all had, the Titans, whom she had thought were only necessary to possibly defeat her father, had through time and a great deal of effort, caused her to create lasting bonds of love and friendship that even ten years of time spent mostly apart couldn't seem to erase.
As she watched him beat and subdue this evening's criminal element, she realized that she needed to see him. Not like this, but someplace quiet, someplace private, where perhaps she could unburden her heart and move on finally.
He seemed to sense her watching him and looked up; she moved further back in the shadows and melted away before he could come to investigate. She smiled as she watched him thoroughly search the area where she had been hiding; yes he was the same as always, ever paranoid, ever watchful. How she had missed him.
She turned away and slowly headed north, she knew he kept an apartment there and would return sometime before dawn. As long as he still lived alone it would be the best place to await him and talk.
