Chapter two

Title: Talking about the past

Author: Angee

Rating: M

A/N hello...yawnssss...I'm half awake and the other half i'm in a zombie like state. I'm really starting to hate growing up and having to do so much shit in order to live a happy life. Don't mind me i'm just ranting here...Anyways...I've been so touched with everyone's wishes for me not to take this down and I hope that you all like this new installment. I'm not too proud of it, but I had to give you guys something . I love this story and hope to keep writting more of it soon. Later.

Raven shifted in her sleep, the light in her room making her close her eyes tightly. She felt a heavy weight around her middle and wondered what was doing it. Letting one eye open she saw one of the walls in her room. Lifting a hand she proceeded to place near her waist to feel the warmth of another limb that wasn't hers. Turning on her side she came face to face with a man with intense blue eyes. The first thing that registered in her head was the sudden scream she let out at being surprised. Jumping away from the man and landing on her ass Raven heard him chuckle "good morning love" he said as he yawned.

Remembering the night before she sat up on the floor and looked at 'robin' scratching his head. The others knocked on her door "are you alright Raven?" that was the other robin. Momentarily forgetting the 'robin' in her bed, Raven stood up and walked over to the door.

The gang stood crowding the doorway and she rolled her eyes "so it wasn't a dream?" she half asked and half stated. The others nodded and pushed passed her to go into her room where it had been forbidden, but curiosity was something that the titans always embraced.

Richard was standing by the time they entered and he was making his way towards the bathroom in her room, but stopped as he saw them standing there "hello everyone" Robin glared at the older man and the two forgot the presence of the others.

Raven was really getting annoyed with every single one of them being in her room and of the obvious animosity between the two leaders. She walked over to the bathroom door and opened it "get out of my room and finish your evil eye duel in the livingroom. The rest of you may go and watch them, I'm tired and need to take a shower" not waiting for a response she entered the bathroom and closed the door behind her.

Richard chuckled lightly at his wife, he knew she wasn't a morning person. He walked over to the others "look, I'm not your enemy and I don't want to fight with any of you. So just calm down and wait until I get dressed so that we can all talk" this was directed more at Robin than the others.

The warm water was soothing to her skin. It made her feel real good and stress free. Considering what she had experience the night before and just a few minutes ago, Raven was in dire need of a soothing bath and some meditation.

What would have made that man think that she was his wife? In what world would she ever decide that she wanted to marry? To raven this was beyond weird. All her life, well most of her young adult life she had believe that she was going to be alone. Barely 18 and here was this man claiming that she...er... they would someday marry. Sighing in exasperation Raven threw her head back to let the water run down her face and neck.

Richard had quietly entered the bathroom and was now watching her bathe. It seemed as if it had been so long since he could honestly stop and watch her. She was graceful in everything she did and even bathing was one of them. It was an accident traveling back all the way to the year 2005, his intention had been to travel to the year when they decided to get married. Both were twenty eight at the time that he had proposed. But here he was almost thirty-one and there she was just eighteen.

The sight of her naked body was working a number on him and he had to touch her. Stripping off his clothes as quietly as possible, Richard made his way towards the shower. It seemed that she was deep in thought.

Why would a man such as Robin would want to marry someone like her? She couldn't for the life of her understand why he would chose her and not Starfire. They were practically married in a sense. True Raven did at some point feel jealous of their closeness and obvious attraction, but it was just a fleeting moment or two. But here was this man who she undoubtedly knew was Robin claiming to be her husband. So, the question now remains...What happened with Robin and Starfire?

She would have dwindled more on that subject had it not been for the fact that she felt something wrap around her middle. Opening her eyes quickly and turning around, Raven found herself face to face with the smirking man. She would have screamed...strike that...would have blown the entire tower had it not been for his lips capturing hers the moment she was going to utter whatever it was. Scream or not, he was in her personal space and that was a no no.

But how could she deny that his lips were soft and sensual. How it made the heat rise between her legs. Or that there was a moan trying to come out of her mouth. All those things made her mind shut down and her body respond. Wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him tighter to her naked body, raven made a whimpering noise when her nipples brushed against his muscular chest.

Richard took the opportunity to let his hands go down to her rear end and lift her so that her legs now wrapped around his middle, her head was thrown back while he nipped at her neck, bitting occasionally. Everything would have been fine and dandy had it not been for his member poking her, that's when she realized what she was doing or almost going to do. She pulled away from his mouth and then proceeded to push her body away from his. His eyes searched hers. Raven covered her breasts with her arms and knelt down on the tub "get out" was the low demand.

"Raven"

"I. said. get. out." She barked out.

Sighing Richard stepped out to let her relax. He should have taken it slowly, but seeing her there just a few inches away did nothing to stop him from holding her, kissing her. She was his everything from the moment that he confessed to himself how he truly felt for the dark queen.

Robin was pacing back and forth. His strides long and fast. What were they doing in there? There being Raven's room. The others just watched as their leader grumbled and mumbled and stumbled. Yeah they were rhyming to Robin's pace. Beast boy was also not in the best of moods. He very well knows that he has no chance to win Raven, but that didn't stop him from trying. But now he had to deal with a husband from the future and their current leader? Why does he have to?

Cyborg just thought the entire thing was hilarious. Robin was jealous although he didn't admit it to himself or the others, and Beast boy was devastated.

"What's taking them so long?"

Cyborg snickered while Beast boy slumped his shoulders more. There were two things that Raven and her 'husband' could be doing in her room...and neither were too promising for both young men "well if you ask me I think that they are..." Robin turned around sharply and leveled a glare at the half machine man, who in turn paled and back off.

"No body asked you" was the only reply the leader supplied. Starfire sulked by a corner. It was evident that her boy robin was really upset about Raven and the other Robin...er...Richard. But they were supposed to be dating, and soon doing the marrying thing.

"Sorry man. Anyways, I only said or attempted to say that Raven hasn't lost control of her powers so they might be talking"

He gritted his teeth as his fists clenched. Yeah talking his ass...he knew there was more. He was itching to go to the room and find out...as a matter of fact. He took three steps towards the hallway leading to the rooms when Cyborg and BB stopped him.

Robin looked down to see two sets of arms holding him by his waist and legs, growling lowly he kept on glaring at the arms as if by doing so they would disentangle from his body. He needed to get to Raven and soon "let go of me" he pulled and pulled but they didn't let go.

"Will you just wait. What if they are in the middle of something important?" wrong choice of words. He pulled harder.

"Then I should stop that, what kind of a team are we if we let some man come into our tower and pretend like he owns it"

"We are the kind of team that realizes that you are going crazy Robin. He obviously is you in the future, what's so hard to believe about that?"

"You are idiots" all three of the guys looked towards the hallway to see Richard smirking down at them and Raven floating towards the livingroom. Robin visibly relaxed and Richard's smirk grew. So his younger self was showing signs that he is in love with the dark beauty.

Robin and Richard both took steps towards the couches where Raven sat and immediately stopped to regard each other and resumed their walk just a bit faster. Sensing that there was going to be a confrontation BB grinned and turned into a leopard and made his way fast towards the beauty.

Raven rolled her eyes and didn't say anything to Beast Boy sitting next to her. It was sort of a relief to know that she didn't have to sit next to either boy blunders "well aren't you going to tell us why you are here?" everyone turned to Robin and looked at the young man who was trying to keep his cool.

Richard sighed, this was going to take long. He began his tale "first let me start by saying that this, everything I tell you has occurred. I don't know what the consequences of my coming here will be, but I don't regret any of it. I wanted to come and see Raven once more and I wanted to be with her, I risked it all for her" at this point he was looking at Raven and she hid underneath her hood. The way his blue eyes pierced her soul, her very core was too much for her. A lightbulb exploded and the others looked her way.

"Sorry" she whispered slowly.

Flashback.

Robin scouted the streets for signs of the bombers, they were rumored to be housed in an abandoned warehouse. All he had to do was enter the abandoned building and capture them. Creeping quietly inside the building he could hear noises. As he neared an entrance he realized that indeed the bombers were getting their equipment ready.

"About time I found you" three men turned to him and looked him up and down.

"What cha want kid?" a gruff one asked.

Robin's eyebrow rose "excuse me?"

He dropped something in his hands and turned to Robin fully "listen kid go back to playing costume with your little friends. This is for the big men"

He was furious, beyond it exactly "Do you know who I am?"

"You are some snot kid in a weird costume. Ain't cha too big and old for that kid?" the others laughed as they loaded a car with boxes.

"I'm not a kid and you are getting on my last nerves" the other two men dropped their boxes and joined the other. Cracking their knuckles each took steps towards the titan's leader. "That's it you are going to pay for calling me that"

to say the fight was hard was stupid. None of them knew who they were messing with. With a loud thud the last of the men fell to the ground and the sirens of police cars approaching could be heard "that's for calling me a kid"

The other titans entered the building with the police right behind them "Robin" he turned to his friends and team mates "hey dude you found them fast"

"Yeah" the police commissioner approached the team while the other police officers arrested the men and secured the bombs.

"Good work kid, that was really great"

Robin growled and out of impulse punched the commissioner out as well "I'm not a fucking kid old man" everyone gasped and Raven shook her head.

Walking up to him she pulled him by one arm "that was uncalled for Robin"

The commissioner stood up dusting himself "I'm going to let this one go because you are always protecting the city, but next time I wont be too easy on you KID" Robin grumbled a few choice words while Raven and the others pulled him away.

That wasn't the only incident. As days passed he began to realize that he was still being treated like the fourteen year old he used to be. He was a grown man of eighteen and it was a bad thing to be treated like a kid.

"Stop sulking" his head turned sharply towards his door entrance and found Raven leaning against the door frame..

He frowned "I'm not sulking" she rolled her eyes, he obviously was not going to admit to that. She walked into his room and watched as he began to sketch "is there anything that I can help you with Raven?"

Her eyes looked around his room. Old paper clippings still hang on his wall, all about Slade. Honestly when was he going to get a clue and let that topic go? "Actually the others were too chicken to come here and drag you out of the room. You have been on a very bad mood all week since that warehouse incident"

Robin dropped his pencil and turned on his chair to look at her "and they nominated you?"

"I nominated myself. Richard when will you let it go?"

He stood "I've come to a decision Raven" her eyebrows rose and then knitted together.

"And that would be?"

He walked passed her and reached out to close his door, he need privacy for what he was going to say "I...how can I say this easy"

"Look just say it" her patience was leaving her body.

"I'm going to leave this team" he took a few steps back and waited for her reaction, whatever that may be. To his disappointment her poker face didn't change and he felt crushed. He had thought that she would at least show signs that she cared about his choice.

Nodding ever so slowly "I see. Well, what do you plan on doing then?"

Walking back to his desk and sketch pad "I've decided to live a normal life during the day and fight crime during the night. As a new crime fighter that is" grinning he pushed the sketch pad towards her and then waited to see if this time she would actually give a reaction, any.

She had the urge to frown, to be angry, to strangle him but most importantly to love him more and more. He was a very important person in her life and ever since Starfire returned to her home planet the two had been getting along better than ever. They spent hours doing research together, watching movies, meditating, watching the sun rise or set...but here he was telling her that he was going to leave for good "I see"

He was really starting to hate that...I see...what did she see? Because he didn't see anything but a friend, someone he loved...yes loved just stand there and say I see. Come on what did a guy have to do here to get a reaction out of her? "Is that all you are going to say?"

Running a finger down the drawing on the sketch pad Raven let out a tired sigh "what do you want me to say Richard? I've...we've been here for you, supporting your decisions. I guess this is going to be one more decision we will have to support you on" I've given you my heart yet you do not want to take it.

Damn it, that wasn't exactly what he was expecting her to say "oh. You will be the leader now"

Not even a flinch "actually I think that beast boy and cyborg might be feeling the same way as you. I found college applications in cyborg's room and I heard BB talking about wanting to work at a zoo"

"What about you?"

She sat down on his bed and folded her legs "I don't know. I guess I'll stay here until I find what to do, protect the city as much as I can" that did not settled well with him. She wasn't meant to be alone.

"Really?" he stood up once more and made his way to the bed and sat next to her. Their arms brushed each other and she shivered slightly. His own body reacted to her and he wanted so badly to take her in his arms. They had become real good friends after meeting when they were fourteen, and now at the age of twenty both were even closer. He could picture himself with her and children, but did she feel the same? She respected his wish not to get involved with another ever since Star had left, but that had become harder by the minute the more he spent time with Raven. She was multifaceted and smart, vibrant in her own way and charming. He even found that she could flirt as easily as any other girl but she chose to be more reserved.

"Why do you ask?"

He leaned towards her "wont you get lonely here?"

"I don't think..." his lips descended upon hers and she watched wide eyed. This was not happening, this was really happening and she couldn't be happier. Closing her eyes and not caring about anything else but the feel of his lips on hers, raven found herself returning the kiss so much passion. Moments later each pulled away breathing heavy and locked in a very heated gaze "why...why are you leaving me?" he leaned forward so their foreheads were touching.

"Come with me" he whispered.

"Is it alright?"

He chuckled and kissed her forehead as his hand went to her shoulder massaging it "more than alright, I was hoping you would agree"

"Robin I don't know about this" placing a finger to her lips he smiled.

"Nightwing"

"What?"

Robin took in a deep breath inhaling her scent "my new identity. And there is nothing to worry about. We can be us for once during the day and then at night we can help the city. We have a right as other people to have a normal life"

She understood his point but "we are not normal Robin, well at least I'm not and what would I do? Sit at home during the day while you do your 'normal things'?"

"We will know what to do when the time comes"

So for the next five years Nightwing and The Raven were known for their crime fighting and keeping the city safe, during the day both were Richard Wayne and Clara Johansson. They went to school under these names and both were able to keep their identities as crime fighters safe. There were times when both were walking around town and people would stop and ask if they were the once famous members of Teen Titans. Both would always deny it saying that they just looked like the heroes. It was really easy to fool people. Cyborg kept in touch with them as he went to school for the first four years and then left for Europe on the fifth year. Beast boy visited the birds at their apartment during the day and thanks to a special appearance suppresser he was able to look like a normal young man.

Bruce had done everything in his power to make sure that they were all happy and taken care off. Robin and Raven had a very passionate relationship and although they fought a lot of the times, they knew that they couldn't live without the other. Nightwing (Robin) always made sure that if they weren't together on a case, that they knew where each were and if in danger to call out the bat signal as soon as possible.

Three years after that Robin decided that he wanted to be with Raven for the rest of his life.

End Some of the Flash...

He smiled at the wide eyed members of the team "I proposed to her when she turned twenty eight. It was in our home, a quiet evening just the two of us reading when I just couldn't take it and asked her. She thankfully said yes"

Raven took it all in, was this real? Could this actually have happened? All her life she was known by nothing more than a demon, someone who would be alone for the rest of her life, but here was this man...this someone...telling her that in her future she would be in love with her best friend and that she would marry "I don't understand this" everyone else turned to her as she stood "I don't understand anything at all. Robin would never stop loving S...I refuse to believe it" with that she disappeared from the livingroom.

Both Robins were wondering why she stopped what she was going to say? The younger Robin cleared his throat "you didn't tell us about Slade"

Richard wanted to wrap his strong arms around Robin's neck and squeeze it tightly. This was no time to be thinking about Slade, Raven was very confused at the moment and needed someone to be with her. Standing up "I will tell the rest of my tale after I've checked on my wife. She is very confused at the moment and I choose not to waste any more time with you" with that he left.

Beast Boy sniggered while cyborg shook his head "man, that was something else. I wonder what else is there to know"

Cyborg laughed "I know. I wonder if my future self becomes someone rich?" the two boys engaged in trading stories about how they turn out like in the future and Robin just sat there looking at the same spot where Raven had sat.

It wasn't like he didn't care about her or anything, it was just that he couldn't see himself with her. She wasn't his type per se and Star was the love of his life. So all of it could just be a mistake. Yeah a mistake...okay so he was being stupid, but who was to say that what his future self told him could end up being true once more? Star was still with them and from what he gathered in the story was that Star would have left right around this present time.

Speaking of star, where was she? He turned around and found her no where. Sighing he stood up and decided that he needed to spend time with his girlfriend, with his true love.

Star was quietly watching as Richard and Raven sat on the roof. Both were just sitting there not saying anything or even looking at each other. She had followed Richard right after his departure only because she was curious to see what would happen. Part of her was insanely jealous of Raven and the potential of she taking away her boy, but another part was also saddened. She had never seen raven so confused or mortified since the incident with her father, and that was saying a lot.

Raven bit her lower lip and Richard couldn't help but chuckle. Her eyes turned to him "what's so funny?"

He turned his gaze to the ocean and inhaled deeply "nothing, just that I remember always telling you how cute you looked whenever you bit your lip. You then would stop and would throw pillows at me for calling you childish"

Despite herself she laughed and brought her legs up to her chest resting her chin on her knees "what was it like?"

"What exactly?"

Her gaze followed a few seagulls as they plummeted towards the ocean "being together with me, marrying someone like me" before she knew what was going on she found herself in an embrace of warm arms.

"You are someone especial Raven, I don't understand why you want to isolate yourself from the rest of us. You are not different from me or from anyone else"

She pulled away from him "but I'm different. How can you and I have managed to have a life together? We are so different from each other"

"Do we have to be similar in order to be together?"

Her body turned away from him and she continued to gaze at the ocean and in a quiet voice she continued "I'm a demon whose purpose in life was to be the end of humanity. We managed to fight my father, but for how long? He is still alive, in every evil heart he resides. Who say's I'm not going to still be used as his means for destruction? So again, how could you have married someone like me?"

"Damn it Raven, we managed okay, that's all that mattered. Listen we have to do many..." the alarm went off and both turned to the door leading back into the tower. Star who still was hiding by a near wall jumped to her feet and took off "was that Star?"

Raven levitated "we don't have time for this" she pressed her communicator button "what's going on?"

Robin's voice came on "we have a red alert down town. Titan's lets go" she began to float towards the stairs when a hand to hers stopped her. She looked back to see Richard smiling at her "be careful alright?"

She rolled her eyes "so you're not coming with us oh fearless leader?"

Richard chuckled at her humor "of course, just old habit I guess" sheepishly he let go of her hand and ran towards the stairs, knowing full well that she would probably beat him at the entrance anyways. Not seeing the smile that spread across her lovely face.

Ten minutes later a very tired robin who was still fighting Slade's drones searched for his team mates. Everyone one of them were scattered around and he only could see both Raven and Starfire. They each were giving their all, but that wasn't even helping. This time Slade had sent them more than a thousand of his robot armies and he only wished he could be able to get rid of them at once.

Starfire was growing tire each passing minute and her fingers ached. Having to use so much of her powers had its draw backs. For instance this meant that she would have to rest for about five hours straight if she wanted to get back to her normal state. Fighting these machines were not too easy.

Raven too was being drained. She wondered where the others were. She looked to her left and saw Starfire panting heavily and lowering her arms. She knew that this could be bad for her team mate, so without another thought she surrounded Star in a protective Shield with one hand while she kept slamming robots with the others.

Robin watched as Starfire dropped to her knees in front of the robots and horror seeped through his body. They were going to hurt her or possibly kill her if he didn't get her out of the way. As he made his mad dash towards his girlfriend, he noticed a black shield come up and stopped to look at Raven who was slamming robots after robots and still keeping Starfire safe.

Raven was panting now, her body was aching and she wanted to lay on her bed. Where were the others? She wanted someone to take Star of to at least help her. Her eyes caught some movement heading towards star and she realized that it was more robots and Robin. Chanting she managed to keep some robots at bay while she moved Star closer to her, it would be the easiest way to help Star get better.

Robin destroyed as many robots as he could, but there seem to be more coming. They were getting near star and Star was getting closer to Raven. It was crazy, the others still were nowhere to be seen and he had to protect Star at all cost, even his life. Robin decided that it was better to forget about the robots and make a run for Star. His plan was simple and it would be better to have her out of the way, however he didn't anticipate what would happen next.

Raven saw Robin running towards Star and sighed in relief. At least someone would make sure she was okay. The problem though was that Robin was being chased by about ten robots and they were aiming at him. Making a rash decision, raven forgot about slamming the robots coming towards her and decided to encase Robin in the same shield and help him get to Star.

Big mistake.

Robin took star and ran as fast as he could "are you alright Star?"

"Yes" she panted out "just very tired"

"I'm going to get you out of here" he evaded robots after robots while the shield protected him. Once he was able to get into an alley way the shield was gone and he placed Star down "you will be safe here"

Raven could feel herself being drained. Having to shield two people at a time while keeping herself from being hurt was too much. Her leg muscles hurt and without warning they gave out. She dropped to her knees and hands panting as her hood came forward covering her face. Sweat was trickling down her face and neck, but at least she was able to get Star out of harms way. She felt a swift kick to her stomach that sent her flying into the building nearest her. She gave out a shrill cry spitting out blood and saliva. That Robin heard.

"Stay here" he told star and ran out of the alley way searching for Raven.

Her body trembled and her breathing was shallow. If she could just teleport herself to somewhere safer she would be okay, but her powers were drained and her body was too sore to even move "arrrr" she hissed as another kick was delivered to her.

Robin saw the robots encircling Raven and he didn't think twice before rushing to his team mate. The minute he was close enough he could see Raven was holding her sides in pain "Raven!" he yelled and leapt into action destroying as many robots as he could.

Richard was helping beast boy and cyborg. He couldn't believe that he was separated from the rest of them, from Raven. Where had Slade gotten so many robots from this time? He felt a dull pain in his chest and automatically he knew something was wrong with Raven "BB, Cyborg there is enough for you guys to handle. I'm going to check on the others" both nodded as he leapt onto buildings.

Raven sat as best she could and began to heal herself. There were too many and Robin couldn't handle it alone. Taking deep breaths she began to chant, but stopped as Robin was knocked into the wall as well. He fell on the ground with a sickening sound and she quickly crawled towards him "Robin are you alright?"

He groaned in pain but sat up quickly and regretted it. His leg was killing him and he knew without a doubt that it was broken."there's too many of them"

Without giving indication of what she was going to do Raven stood on shaky legs and began to chant as loud as she could. When the robots came to attack they were pushed back by her force field. Robin watched amazed as she protected him "Raven you can't hold on for too long"

"I. Can. Try" she gritted out.

Nightwing dropped on them and began to fight the robots. Raven was glad to see him and Richard could feel it through their bond "I'll get you out of this Raven I promise" robin grinded his teeth in annoyance and watched as the hero took care of the robots that were left.

When none were standing Raven let go of the shield. Quickly Richard and Robin began to argue about who had everything under control "I could have finished them off"

Richard rolled his eyes "yeah like you were doing a minute ago?"

"You just came when I was knocked into the wall. I was handling everything"

"No, Rave was and you just sat there"

"Why you bastard. I was doing a great..." both heard a loud thud and turned to see Raven passed out on the floor "RAVEN!" both yelled and rushed to her "I got her"

"No I got her"

"And I said, I got her"

"I'm her husband"

"I'm her best friend"

"I'm still her husband so I got her"

"And I said I got her. Let her go"

"Stop being such a kid"

"You are the one being a kid, give her back to me" That's how the others found them. One pulling Raven the other pulling back. Cyborg knew that this could go on forever, but decided that Raven probably had a whole lot to deal with in one day. He strolled towards the fighting duo and snatched Raven from them.

"No I got her. Now you two move it or I will lose it and really kick your assess" with that he turned around and walked towards his baby. Not seeing Slade watching the team from his spot withing the shadows.

"Interesting developments" and watched the titans make their way back home. New plans forming in his head.

A/N...what do you think? I hope you guys liked this one. Later i have to go to sleep.