Raven blinked, unsure of what exactly had happened. One moment she was looking at the damage around the room, the next she was on the floor, with Beast Boy on top of her. Since she had blocked back her emotions, she could trust that she wouldn't be blushing… too furiously.

"Y-you oaf," she stammered, mustering up her best glare at him. Her glare was half-assed at best.

Beast Boy was blushing profusely. He stumbled up, then held out his hand for Raven. She took it and allowed him to help her up. The sound of chuckles came from the doorway. Raven looked over to see Nightwing and Cyborg standing there, holding back laughter. She knew she wasn't as… intimidating as she had been a few years ago, so she simply sighed and rolled her eyes at them.

"Did you want something?" she asked.

Nightwing cleared his throat and looked at her seriously. "I want you to go out into the city and search for any supers. We could use all the recruits we can get."

Raven nodded and flew off, fazing through the wall.

United Evils Tower was quiet. But that was to be expected. The only people that lived there full time were ElectroJinx and Eclipse. The rest of X's recruits were off on international business, mainly in Greece at the moment.

ElectroJinx stood in her skimpy pajamas – short shorts and an off-the-shoulder belly shirt – in the kitchen, rummaging around in the fridge for her home-made energy drinks. She finally found her last can and made a mental note to make some more. Eclipse was sitting at the counter behind her, eating a bowl of cereal.

"Think we'll have to do much today?" EJ asked lazily.

"Just the usual," Eclipse said in his 'I-don't-really-care' tone.

EJ sighed. Her job was so boring.

"The sooner we get it done, the sooner you can go and do something else," Eclipse said in response to her sigh.

"There's nothing fun to do in this city," she complained as she joined him at the counter.

Eclipse paused. "They say the Teen Titans are back," he said nonchalantly.

EJ raised an eyebrow at this. If the Teen Titans were in Jump City, she might actually get to use her combat skills.

Eclipse read her expression and frowned. "Don't go getting any ideas. We stay away from the Titans unless X says otherwise," he chastised.

EJ gave him a sarcastic smile. "Since when are you a stickler for the rules?"

Eclipse glared at her but said nothing.

Raven landed in front of what had been her favorite place in Jump City before she had left: the bookstore. She smiled to herself and went in. one of the older clerks stared at her as she walked to the historical section.

No sooner had she picked out a promising-looking book titled 'The Most Infamous Heroes in History' than she noticed she was not alone… and someone was staring at her. She looked around until she found the source of the stare: an attractive young man in his early twenties. He had dark hair and a medium skin tone. He had toned muscles, but wasn't like an overly muscular body builder. He looked to be about six foot two. His grey eyes held hers and seemed to glimmer with silver in the light. As he noticed her staring back at him, his lips parted to reveal a gorgeous, perfect smile.

After what seemed like an eternity, Raven regained her senses. She looked back at the book in her hands, then at another book on the shelf titled 'The Complete History of Magic, Vol. 1" and pulled that one off the shelf as well. She was so distracted in trying to select a book that she jumped when she heard a voice behind her.

"You couldn't possibly be the real Raven, could you?" a baritone voice asked from behind her.

Raven whirled around to find herself looking at the man that had been staring at her not too long ago. "Um… yes… I am. Who else could I be?" she stammered.

He smiled again, this one more apologetic. "You'd be surprised how many fake Titans there are in this city. It seems like everyone wants to dress up as a Teen Titan nowadays," he explained.

"That's a little odd," Raven commented.

The man nodded. "Well, I know who you are. My name is Damion," he said holding out his hand to her. She took his hand – which was warm compared to her own skin – and shook it. "This may seem forward, but would you like to get tea with me sometime? I know of a great place that has poetry slams on Wednesday nights and live music on Friday nights."

Raven smiled now. It sounded like exactly her kind of place. "That sounds good, actually. Sounds like this city finally got some good places besides the bookstore.

Damion returned her smile. "Indeed, they did."

Nightwing was pacing. Again. He'd been doing it all day, and quite frankly it made Terra nervous. She, Starfire and Dove had returned with food and other supplies a little over an hour ago, and even walking to the kitchen, Terra could feel the tension coming off of Nightwing. It was weird to be back in the Tower for her. She wanted to explore, go see her old room, but she felt like she should be sitting in one place not doing anything before she begged Nightwing to let her rejoin the team.

Finally, Nightwing stopped moving. His eyes – well, mask – fell on Terra's and his face changed to a look of confusion. "Did you need something, Terra?" he asked.

Terra swallowed. "Um. Not really. Just, um, sitting. Here," she stammered nervously.

Nightwing's confusion seemed to grow. "Well, okay then…" he mumbled as he went off in the direction of his room.

Terra breathed out as the tension fizzled out. She leaned her chin in her palm on the counter and lost herself in her thoughts.

She wasn't sure how long she had been sitting there thinking, but after a while she heard someone open the pantry and plop on the stool next to her.

"You look glum," said a very happy voice that Terra now knew to identify as Dove.

Terra jumped a little, not really expecting to be spoken to. When she came back down to Earth, she replied, "Oh… not really. Just thinking about… things."

"What Raven said bothered you." It wasn't a question.

Terra blushed a little, thinking back to what Raven had said yesterday. "Oh. Um. A bit."

Dove blinked. "She really doesn't like you."

Terra grimaced. "Yeah, tell me something I don't know," she mumbled.

"She's a little jealous of you."

Terra gave Dove her full attention now. "What?" she asked, thoroughly confused.

Dove shrugged and slid off the stool, disappearing into the hallway that Nightwing had gone down.

As Terra sat there trying to figure out what Dove had meant, Beast Boy entered the room. When Terra noticed him, she grinned and waved at him. She heart sank when he glanced at her, rubbed his neck, and left through a broken window. She pressed her lips together and built up her nerve, then followed after him.

Beast Boy, who had been in bird-mode – a sparrow, to be exact – landed on the rocky shore of the Tower's island. This had once been his favorite spot in all of Jump City. It was quiet enough that you could think, but there was still background noise, which he enjoyed; just knowing that people were out there living their dreams without any inhibition.

He was staring at the horizon when Terra landed next to him. He kept a blank face as she stood there.

"May I sit with you?" she asked quietly.

Beast Boy inclined his head slightly. Out of the corner of his eye, he watched her sit on a rock near him, but not next to him.

After a few minutes of silence that was probably very awkward for Terra, she said, "I'm not really sure what Raven meant this morning… but whatever I did, I'm sorry. And I'm really sorry that I ever sided with Slade. That was the biggest mistake of my entire life."

'Ladies and gents, the understatement of the century!' Beast Boy's angry side thought. He suppressed that side of him and listened to what she had to say.

"You probably hate me. If you don't, you should. I hate me," she continued.

Beast Boy blinked. After another silence, he said, "People will never forgive you if you don't forgive yourself."

Terra stared at him. "I was a monster. I can still feel that angry monster inside of me, waiting to bubble up and take over again."

"Good. Having that monster isn't what makes you a bad person. It's knowing when to use it that makes you good," he said, paraphrasing what Raven had once said to him.

Terra blinked at him, then looked out at the horizon and remained quiet.

ElectroJinx was wandering the United Evils Tower, as she usually did when she had nothing better to do. She and Eclipse had finished their work hours ago. Eclipse had gone off to the library to read about something or other. She didn't really care.

As she walked down the hall to her room, she noticed something off – her door was open. She narrowed her eyes and prepared a ball of electricity to attack whoever was in her room. She entered her room and stopped dead in her tracks.

Leaning against a wall on the opposite side of the room was a villainous legend. Slade Wilson was in her room. Her electric ball fizzled out.

"Hello, ElectroJinx. So kind of you to finally show up," he said.

"What are you doing in my room?" she asked, a little awestruck.

"Your employer has hired me to train you and your partner," he paused and tilted his head to the side, as if listening for something. "It sounds like I will be meeting him very soon.

No sooner had Slade said that than Eclipse walked into her room. He stopped in the doorway and stared at EJ, then at Slade, then EJ again.

"I will be training you both in the case that you have a run-in with a Teen Titan. You need me, but quite frankly, I don't need you. If not for your employer I wouldn't be here. You children will listen to me or you will be punished like you've never felt pain before."

Eclipse and EJ shared a slightly nervous look. Things were about to get interesting at United Evils Tower.