A/N: I love you!

Disclaimer: I own neither Teen Titans nor Panic! At The Disco.

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I Write Sins, Not Tragedies

Starfire danced well into the night with her newfound friend. She had cantered over to Raven and pronounced her love for the Earthly custom of dancing, and all Raven did was smile and nod. Keith took his twenty minute break to have a dance with Raven and they sidled up next to Starfire and Dan who were deep into the music, moving in sync. Kori had a small smile upon her face and Dan looked as if he were absolutely bursting with happiness to have such a vixen in his arms. Starfire looked to Raven and gave a little wink, just as a new song began to play. Raven vaguely knew it as 'Everytime We Touch', by who, she did not know.

They were dancing close, halfway through the song when Starfire let out a little gasp. "S-Kori?" Raven began, catching her mistake quickly. "What's wrong?"

"R-R-Richard," she stumbled through her words. Raven knew who she was talking about as she threw her head to the side. She was motioning to a figure standing near the entrance. Said figure had his head bowed, tufts of black hair falling over a pair of dark sunglasses, leaned up against a wall with his arms over his chest and one foot against the wall behind him. A utility belt was well-concealed to the human eye under a black tee-shirt and a black jacket.

"What's he doing here?" Raven hissed back at her, continuing to dance with Keith as if nothing was wrong.

"He must have realized I was not there," she responded, biting her lip. "How did he find me here?"

"He's tracking you," Raven whispered when their partners had led them so they were back to back. Raven turned back to Keith who concealed the fact that he was also watching the figure in the corner.

The two girls tried to ignore the fact that they were being watched, inadvertently. "Keith, can you make me and Kor a drink?" she asked, hoping that going through a crowd would make Robin lose sight of them. "We're kind of thirsty."

"Anything for you, babe," he responded. Keith took her hand and pulled her through the crowd, unnecessarily weaving in and out of people. Starfire and Dan were following behind her, Starfire dragging Dan along by the hand. Keith ducked behind the bar and the other three took seats in front of him. Starfire turned to see that the shadow by the corner was now interested in searching through the group of people on the dance floor.

"He lost us," she whispered to Raven. Raven sighed.

"Two Strawberry Daquiris please," she asked of him. He easily began to prepare them and Starfire fell into conversation with her new dance partner. Raven turned and looked at Dan, who was smiling broadly. It wasn't long before two drinks were slid in front of her and Starfire. "Thanks." Starfire nursed hers gently, as Keith slid a drink towards Dan. He was about to pick it up before someone had bumped him and sent him towards Starfire.

"Oh, sorry, man," the person who had bumped him responded, and proceeded to lean over the bar. He gave Keith a good once-over before tapping the glass of the bar and placing his order. "A White Russian, no ice."

"Comin' up," Keith responded. He looked up towards the figure who Raven had now identified as Robin. She tried to hide her face by cupping her cheek and turning away from him, but he wasn't even looking her way. He was watching Keith intently, his every move, his every twitch. Keith slid the glass towards him, and Robin pulled out a few folded singles. But what was concealed inside was much more than all the money in the world.

Keith turned towards the sink and faked washing his hands, but instead opening up the piece of paper this stranger gave him.

I know who you are. The alleyway, five minutes.

Keith ripped up the paper and sent it down the drain, hoping no one would ever see it again. "I'll be right back, Rae," Keith told her, before stealing away towards the rooftop entrance. He easily climbed up the stairs and once he hit the top he began pulling off articles of clothing to reveal the costume that had become second skin. He pulled out his mask from his utility belt and slid it over his blonde hair.

With ease and agility he ran to the edge of the rooftop and was able to free-fall until five feet from the ground. He used a grappling hook to land safely down on the pavement below. "Where are you?" he began to yell, looking all around. "Come out and fight like a man!"

He heard the slightest whip and he jerked to the side just in time to avoid a foot to his ear. He landed gracefully and was up in seconds to retaliate against his multi-colored foe. "Stop!" He yelled, still assuming the defensive stance. "Why were you tracking me? I wasn't doing anyone harm. I wasn't doing anything wrong!"

"You're the biggest threat to us at the moment. Any second you're not in jail is wasted time. I know you're in the same league as Slade. Don't deny it," the masked hero snarled. "I've been following you and Slade all over the city, and I've finally been able to track you to this exact location."

"I'm not working with Slade!" he exclaimed incredulously. "I'm trying to get rid of Slade!" They circled each other. "He's trying to do away with the people I care about! Believe it or not, I actually have feelings, bird boy."

His muscles relaxed a bit and they stopped circling each other. Both of them had already sized up the fight before them. "How do I know you're telling the truth?"

The bird-boy's foe darted forward and with ease ripped off the right sleeve of his uniform. It revealed the small, almost indecipherable tattoo of Slade, a souvenir from Robin's apprenticeship. Red X ripped off his own right sleeve to show that there was nothing there. "Before I joined leagues with him he would have branded me. I swear on my life I would never help Slade."

Robin's eyes slitted. "What can you tell me?"

"He's planning an attack on the Northwestern Imprisonment Facility, to let out some of the city's most dangerous criminals. If you can stop it, you can delay his plans, maybe long enough to do away with him for good." Red X circled him. Behind them, a door snapped open and Raven came sliding out.

"Raven!" Robin shouted, alarmed at seeing her looking normal, and at seeing her somewhere where she should not be. "Wait, Rachael?" He knew very well her alias.

"Raven?!" Red X let slip. His voice was not surprised, only insistent.

Raven put together the pieces of the puzzle. "Oh my...Keith?!"

Robin snapped around to look at Red X. "Keith?! Who's Keith?!"

Starfire slid up behind Raven and looked out into the alleyway in front of them. "Robin!" She started, then looked to Red X. She gasped. "He is...He is..." Starfire's eyes went wide. "Oh... I feel..." She fell backwards and Raven reacted just quickly enough to catch her and set her down. Robin darted forward to pick her up and examine her quickly.

"Raven., I want you home, now!" Robin demanded in a snarl, taking Starfire out into the alleyway and disappearing into the dark. Once he disappeared from sight she turned back to Keith...Gabe...Red X, whatever you wanted to call him at the moment. She cantered forward and ripped off his mask, throwing it onto the ground. The eyes that met her were the soft blue of Gabe's.

"G-Gabe?" she started unsurely.

"It's been me all along," he spoke. "I lead a triple life. Gabe by day, Red X by night, and Keith when I need to get away from the suspecting eyes of people like Robin."

"How do you change your appearance?" Raven asked, looking up at him with her brows furrowed.

"The Xynothium in my blood can allow me to do anything my mind wills. From changing appearance, to appearing out of thin air," he lied. "I figured you would discover me out. I knew I would somehow let slip that I knew it was you."

"You knew it was me?" she asked, pulling off her pinky ring and instantly forming into Raven of the Teen Titans. "How did you know?"

"Your ring, whatever it does to you, came off last night while you were sleeping. I saw you, then saw the ring off your finger. I put two and two together, then slipped it back on to prove my assumption. I realized I was an idiot for not figuring it out." There was a silence in which he sighed. "Please don't be mad at me."

Raven furrowed her brow, turned on her heel, and began to fly towards the brightly lit T in the sky.

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Robin and Starfire were arguing when Raven arrived home. She stood outside the open living room door, pressed against the wall so no one would see her. The gothic girl was silent as night as she listened in to their heated conversation.

"She's been seeing the enemy, Star!" Robin yelled with anger rising in his tone. "Something needs to be done about that! We can't just let her become susceptible to the world around her!" You could hear his metal boots on the floor as he paced back and forth.

"He cares about her, Robin. I have seen them together, and he is the most loving person. He could be just the thing she needs right now to pull out of her slump. He could make her forget about Beast Boy," Starfire retaliated. "He may be a bad person, but he has a heart of gold. Let them be together, Robin."

"He does not have a heart of gold! He's using her! I wish someone in this tower would see that! He's using her to get to the rest of us! He's working with Slade!" Though Robin had been disproved, he would not let his theory go.

"Robin," her tone got softer. Raven peeked around the door to see she had taken his hands and was now looking him straight in the eye. "I did not lose faith in you when you were working for Slade. If these accusations are indeed true, let us not lose faith."

"But-" Robin began to protest.

"Have faith, Robin," she whispered. Starfire leaned forward and pressed her lips to his, and Raven knew this was sort of a bribe. If she could buy more time by bribing Robin with her love, Raven would be able to show them how good Red X really could be. Starfire would die to help her friend.

"Haven't you people ever heard of closing a goddamn door!?" Raven began to shout, walking through the doorway with a quick stride. "I've been listening to you two go on and on, without me even having a say in it!"

She came up to rest her hands against the back of the couch. "Raven, do you have something you need to say?" Robin asked antagonizing-ly.

"It's not fair," she began to cry in exasperation. "It's not fair that I get someone special taken away so harshly and then you forbid me from seeing the next best thing? It would be like me not allowing you to see Starfire, then telling you never to love again." Robin promptly turned pink in the cheeks. "Would you just take that from me without a fight."

"No I would not," he replied stolidly. "But that is much different."

"You know what?" Raven began. "Save it. I don't want to hear this from you." Raven went to the door and stopped for just a second. "Where's Cyborg?"

"I sent him to retrieve the back-up T-Car. We got a lock on it and he's on his way now," Robin responded, deflated.

"Raven, do not do this," Starfire started desperately, starting after her best friend. She turned on Robin, scowling like no one had ever seen her scowl before. "Robin, what is your malfunctioning?"

Robin choked on air. "Excuse me?"

"Raven is happy. Can you not see this? It does not matter if he is good or bad, he treats her like she should be treated. He makes her smile. Have you seen her smile like it is contagious the past few days?" Starfire asked, taking on a defensive stance. "Robin, do not do this to yourself and the others around you. You do this, and I shall have no choice but to stop seeing you. If you do this, I have no idea what else you may believe that I oppose."

Raven severely wanted to clap at that moment, but she held back.

"Starfire, no..." he protested weakly, staring blankly at her through his dark sunglasses.

"Robin, decide what is more important to you, me or those criminals you constantly obsess about," Starfire told him softly, turning and floating from the room. No one could see the tears she was wiping away.

"She's right," Raven began, looking Robin in the eye. "You take life too seriously that you're beginning to shut people out. And one of those people, who cares about you the most, can't take it anymore. Think about what you're doing to the people around you when you do the things you do."

Robin watched Raven's retreating back, as he was left alone in the living room.

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