A/N: I finally have chapter 5 posted. I know it's been like checks last update FOUR MONTHS? Gosh I should cut the chitchat and skip right to the story. Here ya go guys.

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans. DC does. Ok? Good.

Chapter 5: Another Day Another Problem

"Of all the dirty things that jerk could say, or even imply."

Rachel was mad, no boiling mad, and people could tell as she practically stomped her way down the sidewalk. Her face was red with anger and embarrassment but she couldn't tell which she was feeling more at the moment.

"I heard high school was bad, but I never thought it would be this bad. I mean, why would teachers even allow her to carry those disgusting things around like that? And why on earth would she even have those-" Just thinking about it made her cringe, "Ok, forget I asked."

From across the street, a robbery was taking place inside a jewelry store. Rachel wasn't aware of it until the alarm went off. She scowled and covered her ears, not wanting to deal with yet another problem. But no amount of pouting and defiance would automatically put the criminals behind bars and make everything all hunky-dory. With a heavy sigh she looked around for a place to quickly change into her crime-fighting persona. Seeing a heavily shadowed alleyway, she tightened her grip on her school bag and dashed into the alleyway. Within seconds Raven flew out and started for the store.

"Lady, I'm not going to ask you again. Unlock the damn door and hand me the jewels so that we can get out of here and you can go back to your pathetic little life."

Mammoth was getting impatient as the woman struggled to open the lock, considering the thing kept shaking in her hands. While Mammoth was handling the front counter, Kyd Wykkyd, Billy Numerous, Gizmo, and See-More was clearing out the rest of the supplies.

"Billy, lookie here. I got me a real beauty." One of the Billy clones dropped what they were looking at and came over to see what he had in his hands.

"Well slap my head and call me silly, that ought to be the most daggum prettiest thing I've ever set my eyes on."

A few more had dropped what they were looking at to see what all the commotion was about.

"Whoo-wee, let me take a look-see Billy."

"Hey! I saw it first!"

"How much is that worth Billy?"

"Would you keep your paws off it Billy!"

"I want to see it partner!"

"Will you idiots knock it off!" Gizmo hollered from across the room. All the Billys stopped for a second before pointing at each other and proclaiming all at once, "He started it."

"Yeah man, you're giving me a major headache." See-More replied as he stuffed a whole rack full of gems inside the velvet stack.

Kyd Wykkyd said nothing, continuing to inspect a large diamond enclosed behind a glass case.

"So what is it this time? Need to look "fabulous" for your little tea party?" Everyone in the room turned around to see none other than Raven standing in front of the entrance with an amused look.

"Did Jinx refuse to lend you anymore of her jewelry?"

"Naw, pink clashes with my uniform." Billy replied confidently, earning a swift jab in the rib by his clone.

"You dummy. Don't be going girly on me now." He growled.

"Hold on, aren't there suppose to be more of you?" See-More questioned, as he searched around the area for the other missing Titans.

"I'm sure they'll be here soon, but in the meantime I think I'll just beat you guys around a little." The Hive looked at each other with confused looks before breaking out in a roar of laughter.

"I think she's a brick short of a full load. You do realize that you're outnumbered five to one?" Raven looked unmoved.

"And do you know that I have the kind of powers to put you all in the hospital for an entire month?" Her hands crackled with dark energy to emphasize her point. Everyone stopped laughing and sweatdropped.

"I say she's bluffin', a good guy wouldn't do that." Billy said nervously. Just then he, and the rest of his group of twins were encased in black energy and thrown into a wall. They yelped in pain from the impact.

"Need any more proof?"

The Titans had arrived shortly after the police had, watching as they struggled to fit mammoth into the crowded van.

"Wow, that was easy. Does that mean we can all go out for pizza now?" Beast Boy chirped, his mouth beginning to drool just by imagining his long awaited veggie pizza.

"Not yet," Robin replied, causing Beast Boy to cut the long stream of drool and pout.

"We should find out who put a stop to the robbery."

"I did."

Raven walked up behind the group of teens and gave them her usual monotonous expression. They all stared at her dumbfounded.

"You took on an entire group of superpowered baddies? ALL BY YOURSELF?" Beast Boy exclaimed. Raven nodded. "I told you we should've gotten here sooner! That way we could've seen Raven beat the crap out of them."

Cyborg glared at him, "We would've been here sooner if it wasn't for us having to pry your head out of the laundry shoot, again. Man, that's the third time this week you've gotten yourself stuck."

"Can we focus here?" Robin replied sternly.

"Well, actually I didn't really fight them. I just reminded them that I have enough power to put them in a body cast." Raven shrugged, she wasn't the type to brag.

The police had finally managed to push the giant beast inside the armored car and in no time, they were on their way towards the Jump City Prison.

"Wow Raven, I should start thinking twice before messing with you."

Raven shook her head, "You barely think at all Beast Boy."

"That's not true!" The green changeling argued.

"Give it up, she got ya beat on that one Beast Boy." Beast Boy pouted again and mumbled under his breath. It seemed that everyone was ganging up on him.

"But seriously, it's no big deal. Let's just go back to the tower so I can finish my homewor- uh, I mean meditation." Cursing herself for letting that word slip, she could only hope that no one had caught on.

"Raven's right," Thank Azar, "we shouldn't have to reward ourselves every time we do a good deed. Helping something is something we're expected to do. So we'll just head back."

Most of the Titans agreed with Robin, except Beast Boy.

"But dude! It's practically tradition that we go out for pizza every time we beat the bad guys. You…you can't break tradition, it's just un-American!" He whined.

"We'll make some pizza at home."

"It's not the same! Robbbiiiiinnn, c'mon dude."

Beast Boy's persistent bugging was starting to get on Robin's nerves, along with everyone else's, but the fearless leader knew how to shut him up.

"Beast Boy if you don't stop your complaining, you'll be forced to go to your quarters without anything to eat. Now, get in the car." He was right. Immediately, the green changeling's mouth closed. He looked at Robin with a puppy-dog face before reluctantly dragging his feet towards the cyber-car. He had lost the battle, but not the war.

"Yes, mom." Beast Boy grumbled before shutting the car door behind him.

As the rest of the Titans got in the car, Raven felt a hand rest on her shoulder. A strange feeling started to stir in the pit of her stomach, knowing whose hand it was.

"I'd be scared too if I had to fight you. You got an amazing ability Raven, and that power is what makes you special. I'm glad I have you as a teammate and as a friend." Robin smiled warmly at her, causing her more discomfort and embarrassment. Slowly and gently, she removed his gloved hand from her shoulder before climbing inside the car.

"I'll keep that in mind." She deadpanned as she closed the car door. Stunned and confused, Robin walked around and took his seat up front.

"Go ahead Cyborg."

With that the car was heading home.

Raven smiled in triumph as she viewed her twelve-paged history report. Yeah, it was a pain in the neck to do, and it did cost her a couple hours of her meditation time, but Raven couldn't be happier with the results. She was sure her teacher was going to give her an A+. She noticed that she forgot to put her name and the topic name on the front page, so taking her pen she wrote,

Greek Mythology by Rave-

Crap! Stupid pen. It was starting to get annoying how she would always mix up her two identities at school. Maybe she should start wearing a nametag as a reminder that she was Rachel Roth at school not Raven Roth. Carefully she wrote a 'ch' over the 've' and just like that, it was complete.

A loud knock at her door caused her to drop the twelve-paged essay all over the floor. Panic started to well up inside her. She tried to get all of the papers back in one stack but they kept falling out of her trembling hands. Irritated, she enveloped everything including her papers, textbooks, notebooks, and book bag and shoved it all inside her closet. With a relieved sigh, she answered the door.

"What?" She asks harshly.

Starfire is taken back by her friend's icy tone.

"Am I intruding?"

Feeling bad, Raven responded in a much calmer voice, "No, sorry I was…uh…just a little clumsy and hit my elbow against my dresser." She's never going to buy it.

Starfire gazed at her confused, making Raven sweat drop.

She's not going to buy it. She's not going to buy it.

Her friend grinned. "Oh so that was why I heard a lot of noises coming from your room. Oh my, are you hurting friend. May I be of assistance?"

Raven started to panic again. Usually the only assistance that Starfire provided was a bowl full of raunchy tasting gloop, if you could call it that.

"No thanks Starfire, my elbow if feeling fine now." Raven tried to muster up the best smile that she could, but somehow it didn't feel right.

"Oh, I am glad that you are ok."

Phew!

"So was there something you wanted?"

"Excuse me?"

"You knocked on my door to ask me something?"

Placing her finger on her chin, the Tamaranean thought hard about the original reason she came here for. After what felt like an hour to Raven, Starfire's face lit up with excitement.

"Ah yes. I was wondering if you would like to accompany me on a journey to the mall of shopping."

Well, seeing that all of her homework was caught up and that she had nothing better to do, she decided that going to the mall wouldn't be such a bad idea.

"Sure, why not?"

Her friend's jaw dropped in astonishment, "Are you dislocating my leg?"

"Pulling your leg and no, I'm not."

Before she knew it, her friend had her in a bone-crushing hug causing her supply of oxygen to rapidly decline.

"Oh Raven, thankyouthankyouthankyou! You will not be doubtful by your decision." Starfire squealed in joy.

Feeling that she was just about out of air, she barely squeaked out, "If…you hug me any longer…you'll have to drag…my corpse…with you to the…mall."

Quickly realizing that she was practically killing her friend she let go, catching Raven before she hit the floor.

"I apologize, I keep forgetting that my friends have a limited supply of oxygen that they need to intake."

"It's alright, let's just try to get there in one piece ok?"

Starfire nodded, "Ok."

"And so I told him, that's not a Klorfa it's a Zanbar!" Raven arched an eyebrow as her friend went into an uncontrollable fit of laughter, pounding the table with her fist, which created a group of people nearby to stop eating and stare blankly at the two girls.

When her laughter had finally ceased, she grabbed her fourth large bottle of mustard and slurped it down in delight. The people who were watching them gave them disgusted looks, but Raven paid no mind to them. She was already use to the weird expressions that were given and her friend's strange taste of beverages. So she nonchalantly sipped at her iced tea and watched in amazement as she finished her "drink".

"Raven?"

"Hmm?"

"Why are those people staring at me?"

"Just ignore them Starfire."

She heard the alien gasp as her hands flew to her face.

"Do I have the zit?"

"There is nothing wrong with y-"

Raven didn't manage to finish her sentence as Starfire made a mad dash across the cafeteria and rushed into the lady's restroom. Sighing, she takes another sip from her drink. As she looks around, she notices that the people are still staring at her. Irritated, she glares back at them and just like that, they go back to what they were doing.

"So I was like "You and your boyfriend should wear protection if you plan on doing it" and I gave her a condom."

You have got to be kidding me.

"Hey B, look, it's that Raven girl."

"Where?"

"Over there! By the sub place."

Brianna grinned finally noticing the Titan girl.

"Why don't you find us a place to sit. I'll be there in just a minute."

Her friend nodded and motioned the group to follow her to the far end of the cafeteria where they shooed a group of preteens away, taking their table.

"Raven, it is such a pleasure of mine to finally meet you in person."

Wish I could say the same.

Turning around to look directly at the preppy girl, she scowled and asked, "What do you want?"

"And I love your attitude. Can I just say that you've been such an inspiration to me?" This girl was a major brown noser.

"Seriously, what do you want?"

"Well…Ok. Just between us girls, I have this thing for a certain someone."

"Good for you. So why should I care?" Raven replied uninterested, finishing up the last of her iced tea.

"Well actually, he's on your team." What she said made Raven do a major spit take. Brianna looked alarmed, offering a napkin that Raven gladly accepted.

"Is it Beast Boy?" She asked skeptically, dabbing at the last bit of tea on her chin.

"Oh god n- I mean…not him."

"Cyborg?"

"No."

Well if it wasn't Beast Boy or Cyborg then that left…

"-Robin?"

Brianna's eyes lit up almost instantly just by the mention of his name.

"Yeah him."

Raven looked almost horrified, "You have a crush on boy wonder?"

"Who wouldn't, I mean don't you think he's sweet, dashing, brave, smart, and hot?" Raven lost her after that as she started to stare dreamily at the ceiling.

"I don't like him like that. He's my friend and it's going to stay that way." Brianna looked at her like she was crazy, but continued nonetheless.

"Anyway, I was wondering, if it isn't too much, do you think you could set something up for me. As a favor for a friend?" It was almost pathetic seeing the hopeful expression on Brianna's face.

You're definitely not my friend.

"I don't know. Robin's a very busy guy. I don't think he has time to go on dates."

"Well then can I at least meet him? Just to talk?"

This girl was really starting to be a major pain in her-

"I'll see what I can do." Raven admitted tiredly. She really wanted this girl to go away and leave her alone.

"Oh my gosh, really? Thank you so much. I appreciate it." She couldn't contain herself as she attempted to hug the dark sorceress.

Raven held up her hand before Brianna could rap her arms around her. "Don't mention it."

The girl shrugged, turning around as she headed towards her group of friends.

Starfire had come back just as Brianna left. She noticed Raven's troubled expression and immediately asked, "Who was it that you were talking to?"

"Nobody Star." Raven tried to hide the arrogance in her voice but it didn't work, "Lets just finish up our shopping and head home."

Starfire was a bit worried about her but being an understanding friend, she nodded and replied, "Ok Raven."

A/N: Ok, this is probably the longest chapter I have ever written. Hopefully there weren't too many grammar and spelling mistakes. Hope you guys liked it and again I apologize for the long wait. It was very irresponsible of me (thought I'd play the teacher roll since they're not here). So let me know if it was good or bad, but don't go overboard on the bad part. Or at least try to keep it PG rated. So with that said, I want to wish you guys a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (even though Christmas was three days ago).