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I'm confused:

No, I'm Confused!:

Recap:

A sharp flash of light burst from the center of the circle. Intel squinted her eyes closed, turning her face from the blazing flare as the rest of the Emotions scrambled backwards.

Furiously rubbing her amethyst orbs back into focus, Maternal blinked the black spots dancing from her vision. She immediately stepped back to Relief and Suffer-

The Emotions of Nevermore released a collective gasp.

"Well." Lust paused, eyes widening in surprise at the tie-dyed cloaked figure lying on the grass. "This is….Different…"

Somewhere in the background, Delirium let loose a manic cackle.

Nevermore:

"What the hell is that?" Curiosity sputtered, eyes widening considerably at the taupe/carmine swirled Raven, curled on the ground, before shooting a glance at Intelligence.

"I-It's a Mu-Mutant!" Timidity shrieked, pressing her face into the folds of Maternal's cape. The bun-haired Raven, wrapped a comforting arm around the shivering grey shoulders.

"It's not a mutant, Tim, now shush." Maternal tsked.

"Y-Yes it is!" The grey Raven insisted, nodding fervently. Hysteria stumbled forward, pushing aside a variety of colored cloaks in her struggle to get to the front of the huddled Emotions. She let out a wail, pointing an accusing finger at what was once two Emotions, now one.

"KILL THE MUT-" The rest of her scream muffled by an irritated Deception.

"That's enough of that." The olive cloaked Raven mumbled, ignoring the way Hysteria clawed at her hand. "What's up?" She looked over at Intel, seemingly non-plussed by Hysteria's struggles to get free.

The yellow-cloaked Emotion met her sister's inquisitive glare with a rattled shrug. "I don't know."

"You know, you keep saying that." Lust quipped with a jaunty brow raise, "It's getting really annoying."

"Yes?" The thistle Raven's head popped up as she halted mid-twirl, her eye's glistening with unnerving joy.

"What?"

"You called on me, oh whorish one?" Some where in the foreground, Maternal snickered.

"No..." The crimson Emotion growled with an unamused glare at Maternal then reallocating it to her smaller sister.

"Yes, you did." Annoy nodded fervently.

"No, I didn't." Both taking steps closer to one another.

"Yes, you did."

"No, I didn't."

"Yes you di-id." Annoy, admonished in a sing-song voice waving her finger with a crooked smile.

"Not the noun you, Annoying," Lust rolled her eyes pinching the bridge of her nose, "The non-capitalized, adjective, annoying."

"Wait, I'm confused." Impulsive's brow furrowed, her hands tugging at her mint green stole.

"No, I'm Confused." Another Raven raised her hand.

"What?" Deception did a double take at the steel blue Emotion, adjusting her hold on Hysteria. "You're Confusion. How can you be the past-tense of yourself?"

"Oh." Confusion looked down and away. "Wait, what?"

The surrounding Emotions palm-faced themselves.

-Twenty Minutes Later-

"You. Are. Annoying." Lust stated slowly at the thistle Raven who nodded in acquiesce.

"Yes."

Lust then turned to Confusion.

"You. Are. Confusion."

"Okay." The steel blue Emotion nodded hesitantly.

"And you...." Lust swiveled to Maternal who raised a brow.

"I know who I am, thank you." Lust smirked cocking out her hip.

"Oh, so you're well aware that you're a bitch..."

-Another Ten Minutes Later-

Lust prodded her soon-to-be-black eye tenderly, the compact mirror in her hand snapping closed.

"Some people can't take a joke." Lust huffed. Maternal tightened her bun, smiling predatorily at Lust as she dusted off her cloak. "Goddess I hate you, you annoying-"

"Yes?"

Lust and the surrounding Raven's groaned. "No, not you Annoying! The other annoying!"

"What?" The thistle Emotion wrinkled her nose in confusion.

-Yet Another Ten Minutes Go By-

Lust threw up her hands. "I give up."

"My brain-hurts." Annoying whined, fisting her hands in her hair, pulling at the purple roots.

"I find that doubtful." Rude snorted.

"Uh?" Annoying looked up.

"You don't have the required equipment for brain pain." Rude whispered conspiratorially, tapping the side of her head. Annoying frowned,

"I wish a herd of piranha on you." The thistle Raven murmured darkly, before smiling brightly and returning to her non-sensical humming. Rude drew back a tad unnerved.

"We're getting nowhere." Impatience growled from the behind Intel, tapping her foot ardently upon the carpet of lush grass.

"I agree."

"You agree with everyone, Acceptance."

"I do, don't I." She said with a small frown.

"That's it. I'm going to kill someone." Disgust snarled. All Emotions surrounding the frothing Raven promptly took a large step back.

"KILL THE MUTAN-"

"Oops!" Deception slapped her hand back over Hysteria's face. "Sorry about that. Apparently she's not above biting." The olive Emotion stated with a pointed glare at her more unstable sister.

"Nobody's killing anybody." Maternal promised with an unnerving scowl. "To even think it is deplorable, I'm very disappointed in you. On the other hand," She paused with a thoughtful shrug, "Lust doesn't actually qualify as a person, so if you have to kill something, I'm more than willing to let her sacrifice be-"

"Hey!" Said 'non-person' Lust cut in, shocked. "I'm standing right here, you know."

"Shut up, and you won't be for very much longer." Maternal gave her a tight-lipped smiled.

"It's m-moving!" Timidity squeaked stepping behind the matronly Emotion, holding the mahogany cloak in front of her like a shield.

All chatter ceased, countless pairs of amethyst eyes falling to the now stirring tie-dyed Emotion.

"Hppmmmm...." The 'mutant' moaned, a pale hand lifting to cradle the lingering residue of a headache. Glazed eyes squinted up from the ground, hood falling back to reveal a familiar shade of purple hair. "What's up guys?"

~~~~~~*~~~~~~

Titan Tower:

"Dude, did anyone catch the number of that train?" Beast Boy groaned, sitting up in the T-Tower's medic/lab. The starchy sheets scratching his bruise-spotted, green skin. His eyes immediately flew to the sound of the automatic doors swishing open.

"Oh good, you're up." Robin walked in, a small smile of relief curling at the corners of his mouth. "I'm going to debrief you guys up in the living room, so lets go."

"Friend Robin?! Why is it my mouth feels the copperness of pennies pressed within it?" Starfire clicked her tongue heavily, grimacing at the lingering taste. She jumped off her bed, swaying slightly before finding her center and floating over to Robin's side. "Did we manage to apprehend the fiendish X and stop his thefting of the jewels?" The Titan leader's grin melted, his brow marring.

"No." Robin groused, irately turning and leaving with an angry snap of his cape. Starfire's beautiful face crumpled, her feet finding the ground as her wide eyes fell on BB.

"Did I say the words wrong?"

"Nah," BB rolled off the gurney, wincing as he jostled some pain-pounded muscles. "Ah Man! My hair!" The changeling whined, running his hands over the tacky clumps of red and green dripping down the sides of his face. "Do you know how long this takes to wash out!"

~~~~~~*~~~~~~

Nevermore:

"Well, she looks normal." Hope whispered to an antsy Anticipation.

"Give it a second and I bet her head will explode or an alien will pop out of her chest." The Amber Emotion's eyes held within them a fevered gleam, leg bounicing.

"How do you feel?" Maternal pulled out of Timidity's crushing grip, kneeling down beside the confused Raven. She reached out and placed a warm palm on the puzzled Emotions shoulder.

"Fine." The new Raven answered slowly, eyeing Maternal with unease. "Why? Should I be feeling bad or somet-" Before she could finish her question, a certain Emotion off to the side stopped turning, her hum coming to a halt as she collapsed to her knees with a squeal.

"Owowowowowowowowowow!"

"Oh dear." Maternal jumped up running over to Annoying's side, as the thistle Raven clutched her stomach in pain.

"My Liver...." Annoying moaned.

"Is on the other side, idiot." Rude lamented, rolling her eyes. Annoying stuck out her tongue juvenilely before curling into a ball.

"Wait! What's going on?" The tie-dye Raven demanded, watching a kind of panic fill everyone's eyes as they began to shift their attention to Annoying.

"I'll explain later." Intelligence said simply, taking a few calculated steps towards Annoy. Lust snorted, helping the new Raven to her feet.

"Translation: She has no damn clue." Lust ignored the glasses-covered eyes burning into the back of her head, flipping a bang out of her face. "Between you and me, whoever you are," A hand flippantly waved down to her sister's swirled covering, "I think all those thick books she carts around are just for show."

"I'm Sufflief."

"Uh?" Lust sniffed pretensiously hands running down the streamline of her narrow hips. She smiled at the way her waist cut in before flaring ou-

"My name, it's Sufflief."

Intel and Lust froze turning back to the tie-dyed Raven, faces identical in stupor. Lust grimaced, shaking her head and turning to her 'smarter' sister.

"Did she just say-"

"Yeah." Intel finished.

"Then that would mean she's both-"

"Yeah."

"And what's happening to Annoyi-"

This time, instead of being cut off by Intel's monotone agreement, and spiced with a sense of de je vu, another piercing scream cut in over the rainbow field of Emotions.

~~~~~~*~~~~~~

Titan Tower: Ravens Room

"How is she?"

Cyborg turned from the sorceress slumbering on the oval bed of purple and black sheets to the figure hovering in the doorway.

"The same. Are you sure it was just a flash bomb?" The mechanically enhanced teen asked, scratching his head. His night vision caught the scowl on his leaders face.

"I'm sure."

-Flashback-

Red-X shot Raven one last glance before pressing down on the detonator to the small flash bomb he had placed next to her.

"X! DON'T-" Robin screamed, twirling around and racing to Raven's side. His glove hand ghosted over her face, twisting into the fabric of her hood and dragging her against his body and jumping away from th-

Beep….Beep….BANG!

When the dust settled and the spots in his vision finally faded away, Robin opened his eyes. White masked eyes scanned the large circular showroom, taking in the aftermath.

Naturally, X was gone. But the thing that confused the leader most was the necklace of jadeite beads laying among the destruction. If it wasn't jewels Red-X was after, what was the point of breaking into the Jump City Museum?

-End of Flashback-

"Why?"

"Well," Cyborg tsked, "It's just that she would've woken up by now. Did she bump her head?"

"Maybe. She was already knocked out when I caught X with her...." He trailed off, his mind pulling out the image of Red-X bent over Raven, cradling her in his lap while he whispered against her flushed cheek,

Don't make me kiss you conscious.... The Titan growled eyes narrowing behind the mask.

Robins eyes drifted over Cyborg's shoulder to Raven, her face pale and serene in the moonlight pouring in from the large window. He couldn't shake the recurring memory of her body fitted against his; the feel of her lips pressed into the hollow of his throat as he shielded her from the blast; the sweet scent of sweat and chrysanthemums that permeated his every other thought. A shiver worked it's way down Robin's spine, leaving his fingers itching for the touch of her alabaster skin.

"You okay, Rob?" Cyborg eyed him uneasily, running a quick visual scan of Robin's vitals. The leader shook his head sighing away his not-so-professional-thoughts.

"Fine. I'm debriefing BB and Starfire on the mission downstairs. Call me the moment she wakes up."

"Sure thing." Cyborg nodded, retaking his seat next to Raven. A knowing smile began stretching across his bionic face as he gazed down at his team-mate. "Man Rae, has he got it bad for you." But instead of chuckling, his face turned dark with a brotherly protectiveness. "Of course if he hurts you, I'll break his legs."

A/N: Not one of my best chapters, but this one is mostly a filler. I wrote it just to inform you that the Titans made it back to the tower, everyone's alive and well, Red-X escaped, and Robin's beginning to realize his feelings towards his quite and detached comrade. Alrighty, prepare for a time-skip in the next chapter, because it's about damn time Raven visited Nevermore! Wouldn't you say so!? Also, X feels guilty and decides to change his Raven wooing strategy......

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