A/N - First off once again thanks for all the views, the fact that what started out as a little curiosity habit has gotten a fair number of views now is actually a really good feeling and secondly i do apologize for the delay in getting this chapter sorted, college has started up again and life has just been chaotic as ever. Finally i would like to give a rather cheesy shout out/ recommendation to a fan fiction for Loki and Darcy from Marvel written by lokiXdarcy. she's the one who got me into this stuff and has been very nice reviewing and grammar checking my chapters for me so, yeah. If you wanna read something by somebody who actually knows what their doing check out lokiXdarcys fan fiction " Across Star Riddled Skies" - now on with the show!

Chapter 6

Raven had to admit- she was intrigued by this mysterious man. The man who washed up on their shore, the man who died in front of her… The man she had saved. It had been two weeks since the events of that night and raven had taken to spending a couple of hours here and there in the infirmary reading, it was in the basement so it was dark and quiet enough, nobody ever came down here, and again she was fascinated by their mysterious guest. She could already hear Robin now if he found out where she had been disappearing to this past fortnight…

"What the hell are you doing Raven?!"

"We have no idea who he is!"
"He could be dangerous…"

Robin was beyond paranoid about their guest; he had run facial scans, blood tests, fingerprints scans, the works on him and run it through the criminal database and it had come up with nothing, which meant one of two things. Either he was presumed dead in whatever accident he was clearly in and had his record removed or… Much more likely… he wasn't a criminal. Besides; even if he was dangerous what could he do?! He was comatose! Not to mention recovering from a past death experience… besides what exactly is a weakened, wounded cripple going to do to harm her? She wasn't exactly defenceless… She pushed robin's paranoia to the back of her mind and continued to flick through her book, not really taking anything in.

It must have been the middle of the night when the beeping from Cyborgs custom made life support machines started to beep faster than usual, indicating something was up, and to hell it was. Several days ahead of what Raven had scheduled the man was awake and looking around the room, taking in his new surroundings… Odd; even a man as heavily sedated as the one in front of her waking up after being dead for a while to find himself in completely alien surrounding should… rightfully, be terrified out of his wits, but this man seemed completely at ease with his situation, almost bored. So instead of calling for the others or raising the alarm like she should, she remained in her seat in the darkened little alcove in the corner of the room and watched the man regain his senses.

What happened next all happened very fast, the man went to sit up and let out a gasp of pain and for that split second Raven saw everything she was expecting from the man. Pain, confusion, realisation and shock … "Still no fear? Interesting" mused Raven as the man started to unravel the bandage to his new prosthetic hand Cyborg fished out for him in his spares box, Cyborg reasoned there was no point making him a proper one until he was awake and able to co-operate in helping him calibrate it. The man lifted the metal framework of his new hand, his face a blank mask once more, blank… but obviously just as intrigued in the hand as Raven was in this strange person.

The IV in the man's arm started to pump more fluids into him and Raven got ready to get up in case he started panicking and ripped it out of his arm, but… Unsurprisingly he didn't, he just lay back down, got himself comfortable and bade her goodnight! … Shit! He knew she was there the whole time?! She didn't know whether to start worrying like Robin or be amused at the fact the man noticed she was there where barely anybody would have seen her. She stopped herself for a moment and realised the scale of the whirlwind of questions floating around her mind…
"Who is this man?"
"Where did he come from?"
"Why did he wake up so early?"

"Why was he so calm?"

Amongst all these questions Raven couldn't help but notice in the back of her mind how refreshingly aloof his voice was.

It was settled, she was going to turn the sedating machine off and wait for him to come round again.

Raven stayed at the side of man's bed waiting for him to awaken and 4 hours later ("again 2 hours ahead of the minimum caused by that dose of sedative, what is going on?!") She was jolted from her meditation by a sharp, clinical voice with a slight Gotham accent

"Didn't anybody ever tell you it's rude to spy on people while they're in a coma?" said the Gothamnite with a really annoying one sided smile, the kind of smile that made you feel inferior just looking at it. He opened his eyes and for the first time Raven saw them for the pale form of icy blue they were, which she had to confess looked really nice with his complexion and his jet black ( if completely weather beaten) hair.

Raven quickly recovered from her daze and realised he was joking so, uncharacteristically, she decided to retort "No, didn't anybody ever tell you to knock before just barging into somebody's home?" This made the other side of man's mouth rise up into a now symmetrical and genuinely warm smile. "Somebody was laughing at one of her jokes?" Raven decided instantly she liked this guy, speaking of which… "So you got a name, or are we going to have to just keep calling you "the mysterious stranger who woke us up?"
Crane new better than to use his real name, he had a feeling all this hospitality would come to an end if they knew he was a super villain, maybe time to employ a trick that ridiculous clown uses…

"Jack – Jack White. And to who do I owe the pleasure of my life and this mechanical wonder?" indicating to his arm

"That would be Cyborg, but as for bringing you back from the dead… I'm Raven, it's nice to meet you."
"And the same to you …Raven. Now I do not wish to intrude further on your hospitality but I feel like I haven't eaten for a week and wait… Did you just say you brought me back from the dead?!"

"It's more like two weeks actually, to be honest we didn't expect you to wake up for at least another, and as for the back from the dead thing… Follow me up to the kitchen, I'll explain everything and you can meet the rest of us"

And as Crane slowly and very unsteadily got to his feet it was his turn to have questions flying around his skull, the major one of which that ended up articulated was "the rest of us?"

"Yeah, Gotham has Batman, but over here we're the ones saving the world and all that crap, we call ourselves the Teen Titans"

And as Crane walked out of the room, stumbling here and there, he was glad he had the initiative to hide his real name from whoever this Girl Scout was… Teen Titans? Please!