Author's Note: This story will be finished. I might have to drag it kicking and screaming, but it will be finished. Read and Review guys!

The morning brought a new set of problems for them. There were some low level calls to deal with, which led to Beast Boy and Robin being placed in the dubbed "safe room", which was the room Raven used during the end of the world, and placing a chaperon with them. Aqualad decided to stay, since most fights happened inland, and with one less person in the air the team needed someone who could scale buildings to some sort. The second problem was that the criminal population seemed to notice a shift in the usual lineup of heroes in Jump.

The defenses were doubled at the tower, they threw themselves into research, and refused to think of any other option. The public didn't know about what happened, and to some extent neither did the criminals, with the exception of Red-X and the ass who took them in the beginning, who they still hadn't caught.

The two boys were asleep when they got back. Aqualad, who had been acting as a pillow for the better part of an hour, seemed slightly concerned with the steely expression on everyone's face.

"Did everything go well? I was gonna stream the fight," Aqualad started but he glanced down to the two sleeping boys then back at them. "But I didn't want them to see anything and decide that they want to help."

Raven was glad he thought of that at least. The two boys were curious, but the idea that either of them could be outside of the tower was more than a bit concerning. Starfire easily picked up Robin, but Beast Boy, already a light sleeper, didn't want to be carried and chose to walk along side with Cyborg, to his amusement. Having broken into teams, Raven went back to researching the tablet.

By this point Raven had figured out that the power came from the tablet, but she hadn't found a reverse spell to counteract the deaging problem. Once again, the fear that they wouldn't be able to fix this crept in. While they might be able to keep it a secret for a little while longer, eventually people would find out and then they would lose Robin and Beast Boy. Batman may decide to take Robin back to Gotham, Beast Boy might be whisked away to some country on the other side of the world. Raven's terror didn't leave her alone.

She didn't know her powers were affecting the room until someone tapped her shoulder. Raven barely suppressed her urge to lash out, her instincts hardwired to defend. Speedy held up his hands in surrender.

"Wow, easy there quick draw," Speedy said. Raven sighed and sat back down, putting her face in her hands.

"Sorry, I'm just a little tense right now," Raven murmured. Speedy moved to the other chair. He put his feet on the table and examined one of his arrows.

"You know that's a normal reaction. If it was me I'd be flipping out right now," Speedy replied. Raven looked up at the comment.

"None of this is normal. None of us can afford to be freaking out right now. If we mess up, we're gonna lose both of them," Raven hissed. Her mind instantly went back to those hours when they didn't know where the boys were. "And there are some really horrible people that would do anything to get their hands on them right now."

Speedy nodded and swung his feet down so he could lean forward. He pointed his arrow at her.

"Listen, you are doing the best you can with what you have, Raven. But I do know that two people in this tower are pretty confused as to why they haven't seen you in a while. The answer to fixing this is in here, but you won't be doing anyone any good if you're too burned out to figure it out."

Raven swallowed hard after the archer's speech. Her mouth moved without her permission.

"They were talking about race cars," Raven spluttered. Speedy frowned. "Before the mission…and everything else, they were talking about the types of race cars. Which ones were the best? It was so," Raven fumbled, her throat tight," like them."

It had been a normal day, nothing out of the ordinary. And then it was gone; two of her closest friends were gone.

"Well, you still have them," Speedy said as he got up, "And they're both asking for you, wondering where you went. I'm not saying to stop searching, I'm just saying that they still exist, just in mini form. Just keep that in mind, ok?" Speedy finished. He headed for the door, sticking his head back in the room.

"Also, Starfire is in charge of picking dinner tonight, so you could help with that, if you so choose."

Robin was bored. He and Gar had been kept in the common room for the majority of the day after getting out of the even more boring room. Aqualad had been fun, at least for a little while, but his tales of fish got dull and Robin wanted to explore. Gar was sitting with Starfire, talking about something, and Cyborg was typing away at the computer. Sliding off the couch, Robin made his way over to the android.

"What're you doing?" Robin asked trying to make sense of the numbers running across the screen. Cyborg looked down at him.

"I'm double checking some of our scans," Cyborg said as he closed out of the screen. Robin frowned as he tried to go onto the older boys lap.

"I wanna see," Robin announced as he reached for the mouse, "I'm leader, you said so, I wanna see."

Cyborg laughed and picked him up and away from the computer. Robin huffed but settled; maybe if he was lucky he could get a piggy back ride. Earlier, he asked Gar if they could go flying, but Raven said no since they didn't know if Gar's powers were affected too. So no flying.

Cyborg put him down at the table and Robin continued to sulk until Gar sat next to him. The other boy was smiling, which was good.

"I wanna do something fun!" Robin complained. Cyborg raised an eyebrow.

"Well, what's your idea of fun?" Cyborg asked as he poured himself a glass of water; he placed two smaller ones in front of the two little boys. Robin grinned.

"Flying, please, please, can we go flying?" Robin begged. Cyborg drained his glass and put it in the sink.

"No flying, bud," Cyborg told him. Robin groaned again.

"She gets to fly though!" Robin argued. Cyborg leaned down in front of him and tipped his chin up with a metal finger.

"Starfire gets to fly because she knows how to, and wasn't affected by a freaky tablet," Cyborg reasoned. Robin pouted and slid down his chair a bit. Cyborg rubbed his head and Gar tried to console him; from the glares Cyborg was getting it didn't seem to be working.

"They need to get out," Aqualad said. Starfire looked at him sharply.

"They won't be going anywhere until this matter is fixed," Starfire retorted. Cyborg held up his hands between the arguing pair.

"Look, maybe both of you are right on this. Aqualad, not to sound like a jerk, but you didn't experience it when they got taken after this whole mess started. Letting them out there now would be like flashing a sign over their heads saying 'come get me'." Cyborg turned to his red haired teammate. "On the other hand, we can't keep them inside forever. We're dealing with two kids trained by other superheroes, they're gonna escape if we don't do anything."

Starfire bit her lip as her arms wrapped around her waist.

"I won't stand for them getting hurt." Starfire said softly. Cyborg glanced at the two boys at the table, who were watching the scene with wide eyes. Cyborg looked at both of them before walking over to the table.

"We're putting this discussion on hold until I get back," Cyborg said firmly. Taking one boy in each hand he walked out. He almost ran into Raven in the hall.

"Could you take them for a bit?" Cyborg asked. Beast Boy was already scrambling down and he wrapped his arms around her legs. Robin did the same.

"Yes, is everything ok?" Raven replied as she hugged the boys. Beast Boy opened his mouth to tell her but Cyborg beat him to it.

"A little dispute in the other room, but if you could keep these two mischief makers busy that would be helpful," Cyborg told her and he headed back into the common room. The dull thrum of voices came through before being cut off by the door.

"Well, I guess we should find something to do," Raven said. Robin tugged on her hand.

"Flying, Raven, we could go flying!" Robin said and grabbed his foot when Beast Boy kicked it.

"You know we can't, dummy," Gar said. Raven separated them before a fight could break out.

"Ok, how about we hold off on the flying part for a bit," Raven said. "Now, I have something fun we could do, but if you guys aren't interested I guess I could do it all by myself."

The two boys began to plead to know what it was, and Raven smirked. Like normal kids, they had to know everything. She took them both by the hands again and led them down the hall.

"Come on, I think you guys will really like this," Raven mused. Time to have some fun.

"Ok, before we get into this, don't make it a habit to argue in front of them. Those two are a lot more perceptive than we give them credit for, and I don't want any more runaway attempts," Cyborg hissed as he walked back into the room. Starfire frowned as she glared at Aqualad. The other boy shook his head.

"They're kids, they need to run around play. You can't treat them like the heroes you know," He said. Starfire spoke up before Cyborg could get a word in.

"You were not there when they were taken," Starfire argued. "What would you know about losing people you care about after something awful like this happened?" Cyborg knew that this could go on for a while and tried to intervene.

"Look, both of you guys are bringing up good points but there isn't just one answer here. Maybe we could let them play on the roof or something, but," And Cyborg paused knowing how this was gonna go over, "But maybe we should ask them."

And holy crap, could those two yell when they put their mind to it.

"What sort of idea is that?"

"Are you thinking straight, Cyborg?" Starfire screeched. Cyborg winced and Starfire mumbled an apology.

"I am, but you guys seem to forget that we can't keep them locked up all the time. And how knows how many people know about them; the more suspicious we look, the worse it could be." Cyborg explained.

"And your point?" Aqualad pressed. Cyborg leaned against the counted.

"We get a cover story; the press is already noticing that we're down two people. Tell them Rob and B are on a mission overseas. The second is that we let them out. Raven could set perimeters, but they need some air."

In the end, they came to an agreement; the next time the press asked about the two absent titans, Cyborg would feed them a story about some mission out of the country. Starfire and Aqualad seemed to finally relax on the idea of the kids getting out more, so long as Raven had put up every magic spell possible.

As Cyborg headed out of the room to find out where Raven and the boys had gotten, he didn't catch the small video bug in the corner of the ceiling. If he had, maybe they all could have prepared for what was about to happen.