Hey people! My beta reader is still busy so here's another un-betad story. Thanks for reading.

The colors of daylight crept into the city as they did every morning. Buildings stood mostly alone with out the company of their creators. Streets were vacant. This was the most peaceful time of day to Raven. There were, of course, a couple faces here and there. They were probably getting an early start on the day or just heading home from a third shift. But mostly it was just her zipping through the man made maze on her motorcycle. Her serenity was suddenly cut short. A flash of something she couldn't make out replaced her vision for an instant. It happened as she passed the mall and looked at a young blond woman. The woman had smiled at Raven and Raven, trying not to be rude, returned a faint one while struggling to uncover the reason behind this warning. She pulled her bike to a stop in front of the mall while taking in her surroundings. She could see nothing out of the ordinary.

Again and again her eyes scoured the area but she couldn't see anything exept the blond woman now walking into the mall. Raven had only had this sensation a couple times in her young life and each time it preceded some major calamity. Last time she was unable to make sense of the warning in time to do anything about it. That time had been about Tera's betrayl. Yet this time there was no one to set off the warning. Sighing, she parked her bike around the side of the building and walked into the mall. Thoughts were still in a spin cycle as she entered.

She sat in the closet seat which happened to be part of the Mr. C's food court. The place was almost vacant but she could hear the sounds of shutters opening and dollies toting goods in the distance. The blond woman was sitting there at another round white table with coffee before her and a news paper in hand. For seven minutes Raven sat there analyzing what little she could make out from the image that had just visited her thoughts. At this point the blond woman had abandoned her news paper and was now standing next to Raven's table.

"Hi," the woman greeted.

"Uh, hey," Raven said.

"May I sit with you?"

Raven blinked and nodded almost absentmindedly.

"Aw. Thanks," The woman said sitting and looking directly into Raven's eyes. "I had always wanted to write a paper in college about wether or not it is becoming more and more difficult to make friends of complete strangers in our society. Never got around to it. I suspect Americans as a whole are becoming more divided than ever."

"Oh . . ." Raven said still a bit dazed by the woman's sudden presence.

"I'm Randy Kandel. She said reaching a hand over to Raven. The instant Raven touched her hand she saw the flash again. That same image from earlier. But it was gone in a nanosecond.

"Um . . . Rhonda Ella Roth." Raven lied while shaking the strangers hand.

"How's life Rhonda?" the woman asked with interest. Raven could see this was a smart woman. Her interest was indeed an attempt to strike back at man's current obsession with isolation as she saw it.

"I can't complain. I work. Been considering what classes I want to take next semester."

"And riding your motorcycle. It's a nice bike."

"So was the guy who gave it to me."

"Well that's great. Was it a special occasion?"

"My eighteenth birthday," Raven lied again. She was actually seventeen. "It was . . . nice."

"Nice huh?" Randy said seeming humored at Raven's dead pan level of enthusiasm.

"Yeah. Sorry. I don't do that valley girl-near-orgasm-pitch excitement level when I talk no matter how happy I am. Maybe I could assign a number from one to ten with my comments though. The bike was an eight." Raven stated.

Randy laughed heartily. "Understood Rhonda. You know I should have probably pointed out that I will only be Randy Kandel for another month," Randy then showed Raven what had to be and engagement ring. In that instant, the flash stuck her again. She didn't even pay attention. Her mood had suddenly gone awfully sour and strangely enough she knew it was directed at Randy's fiancee. What sense did that make? She knew nothing of this man. Raven commented on the ring and tried analyze this irrational train of thought.

'How do you dislike someone you've never meet?' she kept asking herself. Is this a warning? Is he a threat to her?' Raven figured unless he strolled in right now she'd never know so her eyes focused on Randy for a time. A gorgeous, intelligent, well figured woman. Blond and blue eyed like you imagined and angel. It was too bad she was engaged. 'A good girl like her obviously wouldn't drop him for a me . . .'

Raven took a sharp intake of breath. Shock painted on her pale face. Who had said that? Someone had whispered something in her ear hadn't then? Something like . . . oh Randy has a nice ass. It was some single-minded, male, adolescent that had walked by right? Raven whipped around but the place was as scarce of people as it had been when she first walked in.

"Rhonda are you alright?" Randy was asking.

"I-I- yeah." Raven said settling.

"Are you sure?" Randy asked.

"Yeah. Please. Continue. You were saying. About urban sociology?"

"Well. Ok. But if you ever really want to tell me what's happening-" Randy offered sympathetically.

"Sorry. Don't worry about it ok?"

Randy shook her head with a smile. "No. I'm going to worry until I know what it is."

'That makes two of us,' Raven thought.

Raven stood up then regained her air of confident indifference. She could see that Randy had already taken a shine to this aspect of her personality. That glowing look in the other woman's eyes, however, was actually chipping at it now. Those shining blue orbs were making Raven almost bashful.

"Time is getting away from me," Raven said stealing a glance at a large clock on a pillar. Those eyes were still on her. Her insides were changing from a mostly solid state to a more jelly like one. Damn it.

"Oh. I'm sorry. Did I keep you too long?"

"Oh. I should be ok. I'll see your around ok?" Raven said grabbing her keys from the table and beginning to stride away.

"Sure." Randy said with a nod. Raven then made a hasty exit.

Next morning.

She was surround by darkness. Black in all directions. It was comforting. There was nothing there and there fore nothing to cause her trouble. Nothing to vex her mind. But suddenly a pressure hit her shoulder all at once. She moaned. The pressure was taken away but returned in an instant. It struck her two more time before a wail accompanied it.

"Rav'n! Rav'n! Get uuuup!" Raven moaned and turned over in her blanket. Standing beside her slumbering form was a four year old. She turned and dropped all of her weight onto Raven's back. The girl, Melvin, rose in spot and prepared to do it again but Raven shot up to a sitting position and through her blanket over the child. Raven then dug her fingers into what she assumed were Melvin's sides and tickled the blue form sitting in her lap.

"No haha hah ah fa-r! R-n!" The little girl cried between laughter.

"You need to expect anything if your going to attack someone," Raven, said flatly.

Later Raven was sitting on the Titans couch watching over the tot Titans. They were watching a Disney movie right now. Raven's concentration constantly drifted back to Randy and her new problem. How could this have happened with out her knowing? Was she really attracted to Randy? She really should consult the counsel of emotions in her head. Could any one or more of them have had any knowledge of this? She should have gone as soon as she got home yesterday. She should go right now! but she was scared.

"Hey," Jinx said almost tonelessly as kid flash walked up to her. She was sitting at an outdoor food court.

"Hey," kid flash greeted back with a small smile. Upon further inspection he noted that Jinx looked troubled. It seemed like the wind was blowing now and though it wasn't it seemed like the air was telling him something. Telling him what was about to go down before it did. They called this sort of thing premonition, didn't they? Jinx wasn't even meeting his gaze now. This was not good. In fact he knew what she was about to say. Some how it was so obvious. What wasn't nearly as clear was why it had come to this.

"So . . . " Flash said watching her for reaction. She still wasn't ready to look at him and he still did hope that he was wrong about what he would ask next. "You wanna call it off?"

Jinx went stiff. Her head snapped up and her eyes locked with his. He had basically read her mind. She didn't think it would come out like this. She could see the hurt and disappointment in his eyes. It was strange. After all the bad things she had done in her young life she didn't believe she had ever hurt someone this bad or would ever regret it this much.

"I'm sorry," she all but croaked and wanted to smack herself. That was all she could say? That would make it better? Sorry was what you said when you knocked over someone's drink. She had someone's heart firmly pressed with the point of one of her high healed boots to the concrete street. Sorry wouldn't cut it.

"Hey." Kid Flash cut in lifting his arms thoughtlessly not seeming to know what to do with them. "It's cool. I-I could- see it wasn't going anywhere," his voice broke on several words and it was an effort to finish the sentence. Jinx was hating this situation more and more by the second.

"It's not just that. I'm gay," she blurted out. She had no idea how that was suppose to help the situation. Kid Flash's lips parted slightly and he stood staring silently until Jinx tore her gaze from him.

"Hey. . . " he said finally.

"You can hate me if you want," Jinx offered, "I think I could handle that. Just-"

"Hey." Kid Flash said stepping toward her and wrapping his arms around her, "I could never hate you," he said soothingly. At this point the tears began to spill from Jinx's eyes. This was the last thing she allowed herself to expect after her big revelation.

Kid Flash pulled away to look her in the eyes.

"You just caught be by surprise with that last part but it's cool. It doesn't change anything. You're still a good person and that's why I wanted to help you in the first place. Remember?"

"I don't feel like a good person right now-" Jinx muttered looking away. Kid Flash actually chuckled.

"Come on Jinx," Kid Flash said sitting her down at the table. His friend was in trouble and he had to keep her from sinking in it. These thoughts were like a freight train in his mind now. He had wanted her of course. but he realized earlier it didn't seem to be working and now, knowing that she was a lesbian, he realized it had been over long before it started.

"It's ok Jinx. Really." Kid Flash said holding her had.

"I don't deserve you," Jinx said wanting to bury her head in her hands. She was sure she hadn't cried since she was about three. She had now broken her twelve year streak.

"Well if you don't, who does? Brother Blood? Slade? Should I be giving them hugs and pep talks?" He grinned and she did too though she tried not to.

In further effort to avoid facing a looming life changing truth, Raven joined Cyborg on one of his treasure hunts.

"Ooooooooo look at that! Do you know what I could do with that?" the metal man wailed.

Raven didn't bother to answer as she watched him dart from one old junk car to another pointing at things and squealing like a big, oversized, cybernetically enhanced child.

"I can't believe somebody would through this away!" Cyborg said. In his arms were piles of car parts. "They are crazy!"

"This from the guy carting a sheer ton in his arms like pillows," Raven quipped.

Cyborg laughed. Raven smirked but her eyes were distant. Would he still laugh if he knew she was probably gay? Would things be the same?

"But look Raven. I got a starter that is perfect for the Mustang. And I finally found a good alternator for my 63."

"Great." Raven said smiling faintly.

"What's wrong?" Cyborg said.

The question caught her off guard. Cyborg with both his mind and body in his little mechanics paradise was about the last person she thought would pick up un her troubles.

"N-nothing." she said turning away pretending to take interest in a rusty old Volvo.

"Come on Raven." Cyborg prompted.

"Did I tell you why I like coming here?"

"Uh huh." Cyborg said nodding.

"They look like lost potential. Junk to the eyes of most. But people like you can bring them back to life. Revitalize them," Raven said looking upon the rows of rusty cars standing on their rims in order to make stripping them easier.

"Sure can word it Raven," Cyborg said nodding thoughtfully, "So . . . how does this tie into what's bothering you?"

"It doesn't really," Raven said walking away. "I was just distracting you and changing the subject."

"Aw hey. . . " Cyborg said preparing to follow her.

He would not get his chance to ask what ailed her again. An explosion sent a door less Toyota Camry flying in the general direction of his head. Cyborg dropped the parts he was carrying to catch it. He laid it to the side and saw that Raven was already running towards their attacker.

"HA HA HA HA HA Titans! Did you really think you had seen the last of me?" a portly young man asked standing on top of a dodge pick up.

"Not at all Control Freak. We see you every night on America's dumbest criminals," Raven said closing in and preparing to strike with a haymaker, but Control Freak rolled off the car and started to run. As Raven chased him he turned and pointed his tv remote in her direction. One click and the car next to her formed arms out of it's doors and grabbed her.

"Autobots Transform! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Control Freak howled with laughter and began brining all the cars around him to life.

"How the hell is he doing this?" Cyborg wondered as he charged shoulder first into the one holding Raven. It released her as it went flaying into the distance.

"Thanks." Raven said as she got to her feet.

"Thank me when we're done,"Cyborg said looking around as the army of "autobots" surrounded them.

Raven smirked and raised her arms above her head. Her eyes flared white as she chanted her spell. Half of the enemy army turned pitch black. She had merged with them just enough to control them for a moment. A moment it which she would fling them together all at once.

"Azarath Metrion . . ."

Control Freak looked a bit perplexed.

"That's more than I thought she could grab at once. Must update my data base. This may get harder than I thought." he thought out loud.

"Zynthos!" she screamed and ten robot-cars became one massive scrap pile.

Cyborg by now was attacking the others. He blasted and traded blows with two as more circled him. He ran behind the one he was currently beating on and blasted it's head clean off. It fell on one of the approaching mechanized monsters.

Raven had moved in to help assist Cyborg.

"Damn it! They are doing to much damage to fast," Control Freak panicked, "I don't know If I'm going to be able to pull this off," he shook his head doubtfully, "Oh, how I hate to repeat myself! Forgive me cliche hating gods and my otaku brothers!" he said covering his eyes and bringing even more cars too life.

"I better do this quick," he said and began tip-toeing towards Raven while her back was turned.

"Give me a sec will you Raven?" Cyborg asked his comrade.

"You got ten," Raven said making a bird out of her dark energy and sending it through the chest of an attacker.

"Yo Robin. We could use some back up here," Cyborg said into his communicator.

"I'll see what I can do. My hands are kinda tied right now." Robin said quickly searching his computer for Titans close to Cyborg's location.

"Why? What's going on?" Cyborg asked.

"I'm getting multiple reports off attacks all around the city. It looks to me like they are likely distractions but what I don't know is which ones might be real targets.

That's Robin. Cyborg thought. Always at least three steps ahead.

Just then a blur of red and yellow tore past him faster than lighting. It then shot up and zipped back and forth between a giant car-robot and the ground. Each time it touched the ground another chunk of the machine was laid there until there was just a display of car parts and Kid Flash. Standing next to him was Jinx.

"Damn!" Control Freak cried, " Now or never. He dived off a bus and onto Raven's back. As they fell he slapped her hard on the center of her collar bone with a small vial. It smashed releasing a lavender mist that she couldn't help but inhale. The too hit the ground then. Control Freak got up and began kicking Raven who was now slipping into unconsciousness. He stopped to scream into his communicator as the other Titans noticed him.

"Get me out of here you hack magician!" Control Freak demanded. The other Titans were now headed straight for him. Just before Kid Flash reached him a door appeared and Control Freak was pulled through. It closed and disappeared.

Kid Flash blinked at the space the villain once occupied for a second then turned his attention to his fallen comrade.

"Hey! Raven? You there?" Cyborg said leaning down and raising her head and back with one hand.

Slowly her eyes fluttered open.

"What hit me?"

"You might be happier if I didn't tell you," Cyborg said thinking of the portly Control Freak. Who would want to know they had been taking out by that geek? "You ok?"

"Yeah," She said rubbing her eyes,"Just blacked out."

"Any idea what brought this on?" Kid Flash asked Cyborg.

"No. He just attacked us out of the blue."

Raven looked at the sky almost drunkenly. The voices she heard were starting to sound farther and farther away. She felt like she was in her body and at the same time above it. Floating away from it. She then slipped back into unconsciousness.