Chapter 8: Silence

"X!" She breathed, "Wh-what are you doing here!" Raven asked, shielding herself with the blankets.

"Let's just say I was checking in on you." His computer programmed voice gave a hollow laugh.

"My friends will be here soon." Raven observed, not taking her eyes off the masked villain. "They'll be coming for you."

"Too bad there won't be anything to find." He replied, and having said that he vanished, leaving a thin trail of black and red smoke in his wake.

Raven looked at the spot where Red-X just stood. Why would he break in and just leave like that! He didn't even take anything! Raven was brought out of her thoughts as a loud knock erupted from outside her door.

"Raven!" She could hear Robin call frantically. Oh now he cares. She instantly regretted her thoughts as she quickly walked to her door. After all, he had come to apologize earlier, I think. She opened her door slightly and peeked out. Robin, Beastboy, Cyborg, and Starfire all stood outside her door with there game faces on.

"Are you all right Raven!" Robin said, resting his hand on her door to open it a little wider.

"I'm fine." Raven monotoned, though she was far from it.

"Well what set off the alarms then?" He asked her, now annoyed that he was woken up from a deep slumber.

Raven glanced at Cyborg with pleading eyes. Out of all the titans Cyborg had to be the most perceptive, other than Robin, please let him see this!

"I-it must be the alarm system, must have a glitch or something." Cyborg responded as Raven breathed a silent sigh of relief.

Robin eyed Raven for a moment before giving in. "All right, but your sure no ones in their Raven?" He double checked as Raven held the door open wider, knowing that he would not take her word for it. After a moment of searching Raven's room Robin finally give up. "All right team, false alarm, everyone can go back to bed." Starfire, Beastboy, and Cyborg practically ran back to their rooms, thank full that they didn't have to fight any villains at two in the morning. Robin began to retreat when he turned back to Raven. "Raven," he stopped, choosing his words carefully, "I'm sorry about earlier, about what I said, I would never kick you out of the titans no matter how mad I was. I'm sorry." He finished, bowing his head in sincerity.

Now it was Raven's turn to feel sorry, he had just apologized and she was still standing there, lying through her teeth. "It's ok Robin, sometimes people emotions get the better of them." She chose to reply, speaking through experience as she gave Robin the smallest hint of a smile.

"So…Friends again?" He asked her.

"We never stopped being friends, Robin." Raven reminded him, and with that shut her door slowly. She heard Robin's footsteps as they slowly quieted, until the echo stopped all together.

Raven sat on the edge of her bed; she knew she wouldn't be able to get back to sleep, no matter how hard she tried. She was wide awake thanks to a certain visitor. She sat on her bed thinking of what to do, and in the end she decided to go up to the roof and meditate to try and clear her head of thoughts of Red-X.

She teleported upwards towards the roof of the tower, finally reaching her destination she found it to be a little chilly, but meditation was all about blocking psychical feelings so she had no problem with it. She levitated a few feet in the air, closed her eyes, and began chanting her mantra quietly. There was something about the night that she liked, it wasn't just because it was dark, it was because it was silent. It irked her slightly to know that she was disrupting this silence. However, she knew it had to be done; she didn't want her emotions to get the best of her like they had Robin. Then her thoughts unwillingly drifted to the Boy Wonder. He had apologized to her, but she still lied to him. She wanted to tell him the truth desperately, but knew what the consequences would be. But was it worth lying if Red-X keeps stalking her? Maybe if I just told Robin, then we could figure it out together, maybe he wouldn't become so obsessed like he tends to do when he's defeated. She thought to herself. She opened her eyes and glanced out onto the moon lit waters of the Jump City Bay. I'm going to tell him, he has a right to know, I mean, he did design the costume, it's rightfully his. She decided.

After about a half hour of meditating, she decided that she could no longer push the thoughts of Red-X from her mind. So she decided that she would go and make herself some tea and perhaps entrance her mind in one of her thousand books. She made a quick stop to her room to grab one of her Edgar Allan Poe books and resumed her walk to the kitchen. She arrived quickly and as the doors swooshed open, her breath caught in her throat. Robin! She stood there looking at him for a few moments. He sat on one of the bar stools, looking out the window. His appearance gave off the impression that he had hit rock bottom, but Raven knew that it was only because he was sleeping earlier. He looked tired enough to fall asleep right there, and his hair reminded Raven of a character from one of her numerous horror novels, but she chose to ignore his appearance, after all she was sure that she looked similar to him.

"R-Robin," She started, making Robin snap his head towards her. "I need to tell you something…" Where should she begin!

END OF CHAPTER 8!

Ok so I know that it's a little short..but I thought that it would be a good place to end it, so there! If you don't like it, you can go fudge yourself, lol just messin, I love chef from south park so yeah, that's him saying it not me! Oh and if you want this to be Rae/Redx/Rob just tell me, if I get enough people I shall grant your requests! Thanks for reviewing!