Raven finally turned away from the table and let out a deep sigh. She felt like she had been holding her breath for the past hour as she and Cyborg had carried out the autopsy on Terra's tiny body. She had done most of it-Cyborg had had to keep leaving the room but Raven couldn't blame him. She knew she would have done the same if she didn't feel so numb inside. She felt like her body was just automatically doing things like a robot would whilst her mind was still reeling. She could still recall how hurt she had been, how hurt they had all been by Terra's betrayal, how painful it had been to let somebody get that close and then find out they were your enemy. Honestly she had never fully forgiven Terra for that but looking down at her smooth face that now looked so innocent, it was easy to forget all that and see only the face of a little girl.

She pulled the white shroud over Terra's calm face, feeling like she should say something but finding the words clogged in her throat. She turned away, cleaned her hands and walked briskly from the harsh white room that she knew would be forever haunted by what she had just had to do. In a way, she almost felt responsible. How many times had she felt bitter when Beast Boy had mentioned her name and had silently wished that she would just disappear? And now she was gone.

Outside she found all the other Titans waiting. The four members of her team were standing closest to the door whilst the others held back from them, allowing them space to grieve. Raven realised with a start that most of them hadn't known Terra or perhaps only heard her mentioned by Beast Boy. They still looked shocked at the murder of a young girl but she could see how it had devastated her teammates. Cyborg was standing up but his huge body seemed shaky like one touch could knock him over. Both his eyes were dull and she could tell he was reliving every moment of that autopsy. Robin was next to him, trying to be the strong one but his shoulders were sagging and he appeared to be at a loss over what to do. Starfire was crying, large pearly tears pouring down her face but the only noise she made was a small whimper like a kicked puppy when Raven entered the room and they all caught a glimpse of the table veiled in white.

Beast Boy was sat a little distance from the group. Raven looked at him and could feel how destroyed he was, his emotions like a punch in her stomach. His body was slumped over almost to the point of toppling over and his glassy eyes were dripping tears straight onto the floor. She could see him trembling with the effort of keeping all his emotions in and she wanted to go over and hold him but she had a job to do first.

She sighed and shook her head. "It's definitely Terra," She said. "The DNA matched her almost instantly. And the officers were right; this wasn't any regular killing, it was planned and it was precise, more like a prolonged assassination."

Robin nodded stiffly as their fears were cemented. Raven knew they had been holding out some hope that she hadn't been targeted but now it had been confirmed.

Raven went on hurriedly in her most deadpan voice, trying to get this horrid job over and done with. "She was killed at some point last evening between the hours of six and twelve. There are several deep wounds on her torso and she suffered a lot of blood loss. The deepest one from her throat is the one that killed her."

"Would it have been…quick?" Starfire softly asked but when Raven shook her head, her body racked with a large sob and she buried her head in her hands. Robin pulled her close to him and she smothered a choking cry in his chest and for a second he looked like he wanted to break down too.

"Do you have any other DNA? Anything that might point to the killer?" he asked her.

"They were too good for that." Raven said sadly. "There's no other traces of DNA, fingerprints, anything."

"So we have nothing?" Beast Boy stood up and looked at her. There was so much pain twisted in his face, it took all she had not to break herself.

"I'm sorry but…"

"There must be something!" Beast Boy said half-angry, half-pleading with her. "There can't be nothing for us to go on… You must have missed something!"

"I didn't miss anything." Raven snapped keeping her voice under control. "I'm only here to state the facts, I'm not a miracle worker."

She regretted saying it the second she saw the sting she had made in his eyes. He looked into her face like he was really studying it and then turned away. Starfire stepped towards him and gave him a hug as he cried on her shoulder. Raven felt a strange ache in her heart like she wanted to be the one to hold him.

"I'm sorry." She whispered. "I didn't mean…"

"Shut up!" Beast Boy threw his head back and spat out. "I don't know why you'd care anyway, you hated her, you didn't like her from the start! You don't care that she's dead just like you don't care about anyone!"

Starfire tried to put her arms around him but he shrugged them off and stormed from the room so nobody would see him crying again. Raven stared at his departing back and felt tears pricking the backs of her eyes. It was like he had physically stabbed her and a groan escaped her lips as she squeezed her eyes shut. If only he knew how much she did care, she thought as she bowed her head.

"Oh friend Raven." She heard a soft voice say as Starfire stepped over to her and wrapped her up in her arms. "Friend Beast Boy did not mean what he said. We all know how you too grieve for our lost friend Terra. We will find who was behind this."

Raven let her tears fall but she felt unworthy of Starfire's comfort. Only she knew she wasn't crying over Terra, she was crying because Beast Boy would never care for her as much as she had only just realised she cared for him.

A couple of hours later, Aqualad was perched outside on the rocks overlooking the ocean where he felt most at home. He watched its smooth surface as from this distance it barely seemed to ripple and he sighed. It was so ironic that the sea was so calm on a day when everything had turned upside down. Last night felt like it had happened last year and although he had barely known Terra, though he could remember how Beast Boy had talked of her, he still mourned for the loss of a young life cut short. Whatever she had done, nobody deserved to die like that.

He sighed again as he hunched over his knees and tried to think of something, anything else that wasn't the huge black cloud that had the Tower in its thrall. Everyone in there was acting like they were slowly waking up from a great trance, moving around slowly and glumly and making no noise, and he had had to get away from the claustrophobic atmosphere. It had felt like he was being suffocated when he was so used to being free in the waters of the ocean that couldn't block you in. He was trying to imagine that he was far away in his old home when he heard a voice behind him that he knew all too well and his face instantly went into a frown.

"Hey fish paste! Enjoying the view?"

Aqualad groaned. "Go away Speedy, I'm really not in the mood."

He didn't look around at his teammate who recently hadn't been leaving him alone. He had been acting like a limpet, constantly hanging around him and pestering him with his presence and non-stop talking. They had been bickering a lot because of it and even though Aqualad knew they were driving Bee up the wall, he couldn't stop himself being drawn into them. Speedy had that way about him; he just couldn't be ignored.

Aqualad heard no reply from him but then felt something crash down next to him. He opened his eyes and was surprised to see the archer sitting next to him with an almost apologetic expression on his face. He saw Aqualad's look and held his hands up.

"Hey, I'm not trying to annoy you," he said. "You just looked depressed, that's all, I wanted to cheer you up. Sorry Garth."

Aqualad was really surprised by that. Firstly, Speedy never said sorry, even when people were really upset with him. He still hadn't apologised for the fish taco incident. Secondly, he had used his real name. Although they all knew each other's real names, they rarely got used and Speedy was never short of other names to call him. He stared at him in astonishment and Speedy looked back at him and gave a little laugh.

"If you keep your mouth open like that, flies will get in." He said with humour in his voice and he reached out a hand and gently pushed his chin upwards, closing his mouth that he hadn't realised was gaping open. Aqualad felt himself flush at the unexpected yet intimate gesture and Speedy seemed suddenly embarrassed by it as he quickly pulled his hand away. They both looked into the distance as the sun started to dip until Speedy spoke again.

"What's eating at you?"

"The same thing that's eating at everyone." Aqualad answered, unfurling his limbs so he sat up straight. "That poor girl. It's just not right-she was so young and an ex-Titan."

"I know what you mean." Speedy looked down and kicked at the ground. "It feels like we should be above that kind of thing, invincible almost. I guess we forget sometimes what a dangerous job we do."

"I know what you mean." Aqualad nodded. He then looked at him and a smile crept onto his face. "Since when did you get so deep?"

Speedy looked at him with a smile of his own. "You suggesting I'm shallow?" he said, with some of his old arrogance back.

"I'm suggesting you spend an awful lot of time in the bathroom for someone who isn't."

"Hey!" Speedy looked at him with indignation. "Just because I want to look good doesn't mean I'm not deep! I'm as deep as that big blue sea you love so much!"

"Oh really?" Aqualad's lip curled in a smirk. "Then you'll have no problem if I were to do…this!"

He shot out a hand and started ruffling Speedy's perfectly flat carroty hair like he was making a fuss of a dog. It went up in big spikes almost identical to Robin's and Speedy shrieked and wriggled in protest.

"Gerroff!" He cried out as he leapt to his feet, just out of reach of Aqualad who took one look at his new spiked hairdo and burst out laughing. He clutched his stomach as Speedy frowned and frantically started flattening it back down. "Not funny." He grumbled.

"On the contrary, I thought it was hilarious." Aqualad grinned up at him, still spluttering with laughter and Speedy smiled back.

"Well, at least you're not depressed anymore. Sadness doesn't suit you Garth." He said warmly before he coughed loudly and said "We best get back to the Tower before it gets dark and Robin blows a circuit."

He held out his hand and Aqualad took it. Speedy hauled him up quickly and with more force than he was expecting and he almost toppled into him, managing just in time to stop them both hurtling back to the ground by grabbing hold of his other arm. For a second he had been pressed against Speedy's chest and he felt how taut and rigid with muscle it was. His face went hot and as he looked at Speedy he saw a similar pink flush appear just under his mask and suddenly it seemed like they were standing way too close with their arms locked.

He hurriedly let go and stepped back, missing the little glance of disappointment Speedy gave him then quickly hid. "We should…err…be getting back."

"Yeah. Course." Speedy answered as they both turned to walk back to the Tower, their hands burning as they avoided looking each other in the eyes.