Sorry for the long update. Um...I was debating deleting this fic. I had such a great story in my head for this, but it's just not transitioning right. (sigh) Still, I finally decided that y'all were too invested to just come in and delete it. Plus, I was already almost done. LOL. I WAS TORN. Now, onto the chapter.

Chapter Twelve

While Changeling and Beast Boy literally flew to the incapacitated Raven's side, the other Heroes of the room mobilized and waited for instructions. Starfire and Cyborg were chasing after the "invisible" boy, and Robin was trying his best to help the others see him.

"He's next to Star, getting his face punched by Cyborg."

Nightwing threw a batarang in that general direction, lodging it in the wall just inches from Cyborg's face. "Did I hit him?"

Robin eyed him suspiciously. "Am I an idiot in the future? No, you didn't."

"Why not?"

Robin shrugged, pulling a batarang from his belt and throwing it into the same space, where it proceeded to disappear. He grinned. "I don't know, but I did."

Raven studied what'd happened and sighed as it dawned on her. "Not only can we not see him, we can't affect him either."

Arsenal, gun at hand and looking like he was ready to kill, glared at her. "What do you mean?"

"He's shielding himself in the radiation, that's why we could never see him. However, it now also seems that the same radiation makes him intangible to our time. We literally can't touch him as long as he's invisible."

Roy sighed. "So what? We stand here and watch as our younger selves kick Time booty?"

Raven grinned at his lovely use of words. "Basically."

Starfire and Cyborg, out of the loop, continued to fight the boy, who looked oddly familiar. Starfire, too close to him and Cyborg to use starbolts, glared threateningly as she pulled back her fist to hit him again. Even as she did so, it dawned on her and she froze. Cyborg watched as she stopped and stopped himself.

"Oh dear X'hal."

"What is it, Star?"

"Look closer, Cy. Look at his face!"

He did so, and squinted his eyes a bit. "Oh, man. This sucks. You're a villain?"

The boy, now recognized as Kid Flash, grinned. "At the moment, but it can change."

Nightwing and Kory stared at the now frozen couple. "What's wrong?" Nightwing asked, his thoughts spinning as he triangulated what they would do if they realized just who and why Father Time was.

Starfire took a few steps back, automatically taking Robin's hand as he stepped close. "We can't fight him. He is Kid Flash."

Older Raven stepped forward. "He's not. Knock him out."

"Dude, I can't do that. He's my bud."

Nightwing glared. "I knew you wouldn't be able to do it. At your age, we were blinded by our emotions, and we let so much shit pass us by. Things we should have noticed."

"What are you talking about?" Robin asked, using his boot to keep Kid Flash on the floor.

Nightwing smiled bitterly. "Kid Flash is dating Jinx in your time. In a few months, she'll return to the bad side of the equation, and she'll take him with her. Together, they become one of the worst criminal couples ever known. A year ago, a fellow Titan, Superboy tracked them down and took out Kid Flash. He was expelled from our group for it. Then, when he was on the verge of taking out more "criminals" we went in and stopped him, and in an extraordinary feat of bad luck," he emphasized bad luck, "Starfire hit him in precisely the wrong spot and he died."

"What does this have to do with Father Time?" Cyborg asked, helping Kid Flash up and at the same time, imposing a stage five security field around him. Enemies are enemies, and Raven as still unconscious.

"Father Time is an amalgam of people in our time line who died who weren't supposed to. They couldn't pass on because it wasn't their time, so they remained and took shape in Father Time. A year ago, when Kid died, they formed in his image. They weren't real though, it was only an image. So...they brought the real Kid, just after he went bad, to our time. Using him, they planned to reshape the timeline. We destroyed the shell before they could do that. Father Time Jr., also know as bad Kid Flash, remained, confused by the trip through time." Raven sighed, struggling to put the truth to words. "It's because of the ripples in the Time, created by errors. Kid Flash wasn't supposed to be evil, in the same way Jinx was never supposed to be good. Things are altering in the timeline, and we brought you here because..." Raven stopped, her hand flying to her stomach and her eyes shutting. When they opened again, they were determined. "...because we've found out that the origin of the ripples disturbing Time starts in your time. In the very day we took you from."

"What do we do with him?" Cyborg asked, holding "Father Time" by the scrap of his neck. Kid Flash pouted as he eyed the people surrounding him.

"Nothing," Raven replied. The electricity keeping the boy captive also made him visible. She threw out a piece of her soul self, piercing his psychic armor and unraveling the many parts of him. He faded from Time and suddenly Cyborg was left holding nothing. He shivered from the creepiness of it.

Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg stood there, decidedly at a loss for what to do. Victor walked over and clapped his younger self on the shoulder. "Great job."

"Um, what happens now?" Starfire asked, still holding Robin's hand.

"I think we got bigger problems!" Beast Boy called from Raven's side. "She's not breathing."

The teens ran to their friends' sides, and watched as Raven lay there, crumpled by the wall, a dent where she hit, and most certainly did not breathe.

"She needs mouth to mouth," Changeling said as he laid her flat and started to dip towards her mouth.

Beast Boy hit his shoulder. "I'll do it."

"Why?"

"Why should you?"

"Um...guys..." Robin tried to intervene.

"Because I'm older and know what I'm doing."

"You just want to kiss her."

"Ha, like you don't?"

"Um...she's not breathing..."

"I don't. I have."

"You haven't, because I haven't."

"Well, I guess we're different that way!"

"You wanna fight, boy?!"

"Bring it on!"

Robin pushed the two green beings out of his way and pressed his mouth against Raven's, forcing air into her lungs. Changeling was pushed out of his way, and he started to pump her heart. He repeated the process as Changeling and Beast Boy slumped against the wall, shamed by their actions.

A few feet away, Nightwing, Kory, and Victor watched as the scenario played out. In their heads, the same thought kept repeating, "This was not part of the plan."

Another few feet away, Roy watched Raven as she clutched her stomach. "What's wrong?"

Sweat beaded on Raven's forehead and she brought her hand to his face, and showed him what was causing her so much pain. Half her hand was gone. Not blown away, not taken in any way, but faded. She could still feel it, like phantom limbs, but it wasn't there. She was fading.

Roy grabbed the part of her hand he could see and studied it. "What do we do?"

"We send them home," Raven said, hoping that it would stop the process.

"If she's really dead, how will that..."

"She's not," Raven explained, her breath coming out in gasps as she concentrated on keeping herself intact. "We've deviated, but it's fixed. When we send them back it will be to an entirely pure timeline. This will never have happened, ergo, she'll never have died."

Roy shook his head. "That makes no sense."

Raven smiled. "It never does."

"How do we get them back? Do we need Flash?"

"No," she shook her head, "I send them back just how I sent Father Time back."

Raven turned to the five Titans, Roy moving behind her to wrap his arms around her waist and hold her up. Calling up the small kernel of her that actually still existed in this timeline, she sent her soul self out, striking at the stays placed on the Teen Titans, to keep them their. She'd placed them there herself, so she knew just where to hit.

The five Titans froze...okay, the four Titans froze, and Raven stayed just as she had been. Slowly, but not too slowly, they began to fade. Nightwing grasped Kory's arm because the sight of it made her rush forward to try to help. Victor looked somber and more his age as he watched it. He pushed a button on his arm and drew out a small microchip. On it was the disclosure of Father Time's, nee Kid Flash, grave. It was what the boy had been looking for. Proof that he wasn't supposed to exist.

The six of them stood there for a few moments. Raven was corporeal again, still held by Roy. Nightwing had Kory's hand, Victor was stoic, and Changeling was as much of an outsider as ever. For a few minutes, though, they remembered how it used to be.

Finally, Nightwing turned to Raven. "How long until the wave?" He asked, referring to the wave of distortion that would change the timeline and return it to the pure form it was intended to be.

"Minutes. Little else."

Pulling Changeling to his feet, he smiled. "We'll spend these last minutes together again."

Taking various seats around the couch in their living room, the Titans waited for it to end.