Whoa, took me a while to update…sorry guys!

A/Ns: Once again, thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter! I really appreciate it!

Also, sorry for the lack of updates, I've been really ill lately so I haven't had much time to write. So sorry again!

Anyway, on with the details! Oh don't be like that, you love them, really!

Disclaimer: Nope. Don't own 'em. Full stop. End of story. Bye, bye.

Dedication: I dedicate this to…JK Rowling! Why? Because her Harry Potter books kept me from boredom the full week and a half I've been off frikken school XP and BBxRae Shippers, of course!

Chapter 4: The Truth Hurts

It was early in the morning in the Titans Tower. All were drifting in and out of restless sleeps. The lounge was in an eerie silence, only disturbed by the occasional cry coming from the Titan on the far end of the room.

Starfire sat at her computer, deep in sleep. If you could call it that.

Her eyes watered with tears as she dreamt of her two missing friends.

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"Robin! Robin we've found them!" She shouted, rising from her computer and running to the exhausted leader of the group.

"Star, you sure it's them?"

"Of course! Look, look!" She pointed at her screen. Robin smiled slightly.

"Nice work, Star! Cy, Star found them! Both of you in the T-ship, quick!"

"I've got their co-ordinates!" Stated Cyborg, running into his compartment.

In no time at all they were in the middle of the ocean. Trailing in circles trying to find any trace of their friends.

"Where are they, Cy?" Asked Robin, steering the T-Ship to the co-ordinates shown on the map Cyborg had given him.

"No idea, man…I mean, they should be somewhere around here…"

"Are you sure you got the right co-ordinates? We didn't get them confused or anything?"

"No, no! I'm sure they're right! Star had them on the screen and everything!" Said Cyborg, pointing at the flashing X on his map.

Then, after convincing his leader they had the correct co-ordinates, he looked up. Starfire saw his eyes widen as screamed:

"NO!"

"Cy what is it?" Panicked Robin.

"It's-it's…" Shaking his head in disbelief, Cyborg pointed towards one of the far windows. Reluctantly, Starfire turned her head to face the direction in which Cyborg was pointing.

There, two still figures floated nothing but metres above their ship. Their bodies bobbing up and down with the fierce waves, their hair sprawled across their faces. Scars everywhere imaginable, their clothes ragged, blank eyes wide and staring, their mouths gaping, faces pale. Raven and Beast Boy.

"AHHH!"

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"AHHH!"

Starfire was awoken by her own scream.

"STAR! What's wrong? What happened?" Demanded Robin rushing over to the weeping Starfire. "Star…?"

"Robin…"

Holding the crying young alien princess in his arms, Robin tried his best to calm her down.

"Star…what happened?"

"It was awful…truly, terribly, horribly awful…"

Robin didn't need to say any more. He too had been having dreadful nightmares about his two lost companions. And although he had made it rather subtle, he still felt terrified. Terrified of the "what ifs" and consequences. Scared of what may happen to them…

Then, a flash of light and Kid Flash appeared.

"SosorryIdidn'tcomestraightawayIheardascreamthenwentbacktosleepthenwokeupagaincuzIrealizedsomeonereallydidscreamsoiseveryoneokay?"

Robin stared at him.

"What…?"

Kid Flash frowned. He hated it when he talked too fast. But it was obvious everyone was fine, and so he dismissed himself.

"I'll go get the mail." He said, pointing towards the entrance then running towards it, reappearing nothing but a second later.

Robin merely turned back to Starfire, who, by this point, had stopped crying, and was just sniffing into Robin's chest.

"Star, you okay?"

She sniffed.

Robin held her close, placing his chin atop of her head. How he hated it when she cried.

In the distance, Robin heard Cyborg's yawn.

"Morning, Cyborg."

Truthfully, he was expecting a "Morning, Robin" but none came.

"I feel asleep! I was supposed to be looking for Rae and BB! But I fell ASLEEP!" Boomed Cyborg, banging his head on his desk.

Starfire screamed again, crying harder than before.

"Cyborg!"

Cyborg looked round, spotting the weeping princess.

"Man…Star, you okay?"

She sobbed.

Cyborg's eyes softened.

Kid Flash, who had seen everything, tried to change the subject.

"Hey, how about we all take a little break and see what's on TV?"

The two boys nodded.

Kid Flash switched onto a documentary on fungus, which he knew Starfire liked, hoping it would cheer her up a little.

"And so the fungus is really—"

"—We interrupt this programme to give you the latest breaking news. The streets of San Fran Cisco today are filled with frantic and upset fans, holding up banners and signs as a dedication to the super heroes, Raven and Beast Boy. Over to Simon Dislodden for a full story."

The screen changed to show a young man in his early twenties, wearing a formal suit and a microphone on his left.

"Yes. As you can see there are thousands of people gathered here today, marching up and down the streets, desperate to hear anything of the heroes that have saved this city so many times. Here with me is Alex Sincor. Alex, what is your motivation for parading, today?"

Starfire's eyes were welling up with tears, but she didn't cry, merely listened hard to what was said. But just in case, Robin held her close.

"Well, as you said before, I really want to hear some news on Beast Boy and Raven, but also, I think I speak for many here when I say, I'm worried about them, and one things for sure, I know that however hard we're finding this, the other Titans are finding it ten times harder—"

By this time, Jinx, Kole, Jericho, Argent, and Gnark had walked in and were also listening to the TV.

"—And I just want to Titans to know that they're not alone in this. We'll get the right equipment, the right people, and we will find BB and Rae, no matter what it takes."

"Is everyone thinking the same as you or are they doing it because they want to know if their heroes are okay?"

"Well, probably most, if not all, of us have had our lives saved by the Titans, we all owe them, and I'm sure a lot of people would like to repay them by trying to help out."

"So do you guys have any plans to help the Titans out or are you gonna just do anything that comes up?"

"If the Titans ever mention they need help with something, we'll jump straight to it, at the moment we're all trying to raise money to buy equipment for the Titans and authorities to use to help the Titans find them. And we're also doing anything we can find to do to help out."

"How are the charities doing so far?"

"Well, they've only been out for, like, a day, so each of them has around a hundred dollars. Not really sure though."

"Is there anything else that you are doing to help?"

"Yeah, we're getting in touch with other countries to make them aware, and see if they can help out. We've also been writing fan letters to show our concern. We know the Titans probably won't read them, but it's just a token to show that we care, and we're here for them, just like they were there for us. But hopefully Kid Flash, Jinx, Argent, Jericho, Gnark…Kole? Yeah, Kole, and the Titans-East will help the Titans through this."

"Very well said, Alex. Is there anything else you'd like to say, like, a shout-out to the Titans?"

"No, but my daughter does."

The light-haired young boy reached down and picked up a little girl, who looked around four, had ringlets in her shoulder length light brown hair, rosy cheeks, had big bluey greeny eyes, a shy smile on her face, and was wearing a lovely rose-coloured dress.

And then, in a cute, quiet voice, she said:

"We love you, Teen Titans; you're our her-os. Raven and Beast Boy, we want ya back, you're the best."

And with that, the screen changed back to the anchorman. The Titans turned to face each other. They weren't alone.

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Far, far away, a figure crouched over a body, frantically pulling big chunks of metal off the unconscious girl's torso and legs. Tears threatening to fall from his emerald eyes.

"C'mon Rae, you gotta be—" he heaved another bit of ship off her, revealing her bruised and bloody legs. "—okay…please, Rae, wake up!"

He wiped his brow, only to find that blood smeared across his forehead.

He paused and looked at his gloveless hands. They were dripping with crimson liquid.

He clenched his eyes shut and resumed what he was doing.

"Wait...an ape can do a better job than me!" He smiled and tried to morph into the giant monkey as he had done so many times before.

Nothing happened.

The green teenagers eyes widened.

"NO! My powers…what—"

"Mmm…"

Beast Boy's attention was diverted to the stirring girl in front of him.

"Rae!"

Slowly, her eyes began to open.

"Rae are you okay? I've been here for an hour trying to get the metal off—"

"AHHHH!" She wailed.

"Raven!"

Frantically, he began to dig to poor girl out, pulling big chunks of heavy metal off her, while she screamed in pure agony.

'Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god…' His mind raced. His heart pounded. Worry spread across his entire body. Was she okay? Was she going to be okay? Was he going to get her out of there? Did her powers work?

"Rae, your powers! Try your powers!"

Trembling in pain, she closed her eyes and tried to use her telekinesis.

"Aza-rath…m-metrion…ZINTHOS!"

Nothing.

She screamed again.

Beast Boy panicked.

"Oh god…"

Hysterically, Beast Boy started digging around Ravens body, once he thought the hole was deep enough, he yanked Raven's arm in attempt to pull her from underneath the tons of metal atop of her.

She cried out more as the parts of the shattered ship pierced her skin.

"AHHHH!"

"It's okay Rae, I—" He heaved again, this time Raven came from beneath the wreak and onto the warm sand. "—got cha!"

Beast Boy's eyes widened.

She was covered in blood. Gashes deep and agonizing. Tears streamed from her amethyst eyes, scratches and bruises covered her arms and legs, yet nothing blew up…

"Rae—Rae I'll be right back!"

Eyes flickering everywhere in desperate hope to find something to bandage her wounds, he finally spotted it. Raven's cloak.

He ran at it, skidding the last part of the way and tore the hood off.

"Oh god what do I do now…" Beast Boy muttered, his voice a much higher pitch than normal. He wasn't used to thinking on his feet. He smiled. "Water!"

He sprinted back to the edge of the beach, soaking the hood in the sea water, then ran back to the screaming girl on the sand.

Beast Boy cleaned her injuries, then paused when he got to the biggest gash in her leg.

"Okay, Rae, this is gonna hurt, so bite hard…" he told her, she nodded and braced herself.

Beast Boy began to wipe up the blood. The salt water stung her, she whimpered, but didn't scream.

Beast Boy looked at her with sorry eyes, then tightly wrapped the cloth around the gash.

"AHHHH!"

And with that, she wept her heart out in agony.

Beast Boy looked as if he was going to cry too. He had never seen her like this. Raven, the girl who didn't show emotion, the girl that never cried, that never screamed…

'I can't just leave her like that…' he thought, watching Raven wail in pain.

He couldn't bare to watch her in agony any longer.

He reached forward, taking her in his arms and rocking her back and forth. Not caring about how she would react. Not caring about what her powers would do.

'Wait…her powers…does she…?' He looked down at her, sobbing on his shoulder. 'No…' He thought. 'Something would have happened by now if she still had them…' But he decided to push the matter out of his head. Right now, all that mattered at the moment was the girl laying in his arms…

Well, what cha think? This chapter was a lot longer than I thought it would be…eight pages and over two thousand words…woah…

I'm not sure if this was any good, but hopefully you guys enjoyed it.

Well, read and review!

- FDH