Okay here's chapter 12! If anyone was wondering how long this fic is going to be, I don't exactly know, but I'm trying to drag it out to 20 chapters at least. It'll be my longest running fic eva!! I like the amount of attention this fic is getting compared to my other ones; this is my highest review fic! Oh, and in case any of you love the Rae/Rob pairing to death, like me, I have a fic entitled Feeble Fortitude. Read it if you like, but I sort of abandoned it to work on this one, SORRY! so yes, on with chapter 12!

Chapter 12: Running

"Raven?!" Robin uttered.

"Robin, what are you doing here?" Raven asked, changing the subject as both her and X jumped to their feet.

"What am I doing here? What are you doing here?! What is he doing here? And what were you two doing?!!" He sent a barrage of questions at her, as he whipped out his birdarang, ready for action.

"We heard you scream, are you not in danger?" Starfire asked, searching up and down Raven's body for injuries.

"I'm fine Starfire, thanks." Raven replied, eager for a change of subject. After Raven spoke there was silence, no one was sure what should be said, and Robin was too angry and surprised to speak.

"Well," Red-X shattered the silence. "I think I ought to be going." He continued as he began to back away slowly.

"YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!" Robin yelled, jumping at X.

Robin threw a bird-a-rand at high speed, planting it into a beam, inches away from X's head. He turned to look at it a moment before also leaping into action himself. However, his actions were more in defense of himself. It almost seemed like he was trying to escape. Robin would never allow it though. He completely let loose on the thief, punching, kicking, and coming at him with everything he had. X's stolen suit quickly became ripped, torn, and bloodied up as Robin beat the thief into submission.

Raven could do nothing but look on, she was frozen in terror. Robin had never behaved this way, not even with Slade. She had to do something, but what?! It looked as if X wasn't even fighting to begin with. Why won't he fight?! Robin will kill him if he doesn't do something…or I don't. She pondered, but was broken from her thoughts by her team mates, or former team mates according to her.

"Robin stop!" Cyborg yelled, but did nothing to physically stop the fight. Starfire look frightened, how could Robin be so cruel? Even to the Red-X? Beastboy stood behind Cyborg, apparently also frightened of Robin's actions. Raven turned back to see Robin pinning X down, punching his face furiously.

She suddenly became enraged. Even though X was a villain they had fought many times before, and even though he had hurt her before, he had just tried to comfort her and be her friend when she had no one. And now he was getting beat up for that! She couldn't, she wouldn't allow it anymore.

"STOP!" She yelled, her eyes turning an eerie white. "Leave him alone." She muttered to Robin, threateningly collecting black energy around her clenched fists.

Robin held back his punch in the air to turn and gaze at a frightening Raven, this was just the opportunity X needed to escape. He roughly shoved Robin off his bruised and battered body and pressed a button on his black belt, allowing him to disappear from this moment forever.

"Why did you do that?!" Robin jumped up, realizing that X got away. He was not sure that he should be arguing with Raven when she was like this, but he couldn't help himself, he didn't have the kind of secure control over his emotions that Raven normally had.

"I could ask you the same thing, he didn't even hurt me!" Raven responded, lower herself to the ground and releasing her powers from her hands. "He didn't do anything, and you still beat him up, aren't you supposed to be a superhero?" She didn't mean to accuse Robin of anything, but it's just how it came out.

"Don't turn this around on me; you were the one who was with him!" Robin yelled back, slightly hurt at what Raven had accused him of.

"I-I..." Raven stumbled over her words. She always knew what to say to him, but this time she had no clue. She turned around to see the other titans, who also had questioning looks on their faces. "I- need to go." She decided to reply and she phased through the floor quickly, turning to see a hurt look on Robin's face before she dropped to the floor below her.

She ran through the floor of what seemed to be a vacant machine shop. She ran quickly knocking down cans of oil and buckets of scrap metal as she went, not bothering to make her presence unknown.

She skidded to a stop when she heard a low toned grunt. She looked around the room trying to figure out where it came from. She heard a loud metal clank and ran over behind an over sized machine, hiding from who she thought were the titans. She poked half of her head in between two slits in the machine, giving her a perfect view of the room. She watched as an unknown figure stumbled to gain his footing. He grasped the wall to support himself, but continued to stumble down the hall. X! Raven thought and before she could think things through, she ran out from her hiding spot and to the injured masked man.

"X!" She exclaimed out loud, getting his attention.

"Hey." He replied, grasping his side, he removed his hand and she saw through the black costume a deep bleeding gash, sucking the life from him.

"Why didn't you fight back?!" She asked him, waiting for a reply that would satisfy her.

"Because, you wouldn't want to see Robin hurt." He said through clenched teeth, telling her the honest truth.

Raven was taken aback, did she hear right? He had taken punches for her? She shook her head; she needed to focus on him right now, not herself. "Here, let me help." She offered softly, watching her hands become surrounded in a soft blue glow. She touched X's wounded body and the cuts healed miraculously, bringing life back into him.

He glanced confused at where his injuries used to be and heaved a sigh of relief. He brought his hands up and took one of hers in his.

She pulled her hand back from his grasp, though she longed to be in his embrace again. "X, we can't, the titans." She explained.

He chuckled slightly as he got to his feet slowly. "Thought you said you left them?" He said back, making Raven think.

Well I did, but I still feel a connection to them. Why?! They have done nothing but hurt me today. "I did." She said still thinking about what X had said.

"Go back to them if you want." He offered, turning to leave.

Although some part of her actually wanted to go with X, she knew where she truly belonged, with the titans. They had given her a home when she knew no one from earth. They were her friends, her only friends. She would just explain to them that she was irrational when she first left, because, honestly she was, and Robin would understand.

"But Raven," X paused, but did not turn around. That's the first time he actually called me by my name. "Just remember that you don't owe them anything." Having said that, he vanished into the night.

She thought long and hard about his last statement. "But I do." She said aloud, turning to go back to titan's tower and her only friends.

END OF CHAPTER 12!!!!!

Okay so it wasn't as long as chapter 11, but I wasn't planning on having it be that long. I hoped that everyone liked it! REVIEW!! Also, good news! I already have chapter 13 planned out! Hooray!