Hey all! Sorry for the wait, had to really work on this particular chapter, as I wanted to get it just right. Just to clarify something, in case no one knew, but Rose is not my OC. She is a copyright of DC comics, and was a favorite character of mine from the comic series. She played a brief role in the Teen Titans Go! Comic series, which was the comic based off the show, but I don't see her used much.

Now that we're done with that, on to the story!
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The aching in his head had not ceased, as Beast Boy started to regain consciousness. Although not quite as severe as before, it still throbbed with some ferocity.

Tiredly, he tried to open his eyes to pick himself up from the floor. He was still confused about what had happened, the dull ache in his head that seemed to wash over the rest of his body doing nothing to help the matters any. If it weren't so bright maybe the pain would subside a little.

Wait a minute, He thought, Since when has Ravens room been bright? In fact, it was very bright, almost like there was a giant window that had opened.

Speaking of giant, the room seemed much larger than usual. In fact, it was huge, the roof being at least twenty five to thirty feet above him. Then when his eyes adjusted fully, he realized he wasn't on the floor in Ravens' room; he was on the floor in the common room.

He stood shakily, the headache ratcheting in intensity the higher he stood. He began to feel a wave of vertigo sweep over him, clouding his vision as he sank back down onto one knee.

He tried to think through what had happened; he was in Ravens room, looked out the window, saw her mirror on her dresser…

The mirror.

That's what happened. He had looked into her mirror, somehow it knocked him out, Cyborg and Rose found him and were administering first aid.

In the common room… lying on the floor… with them no where in sight.

Ok, so maybe there were some flaws in that conclusion. That still begged the question, what was he doing in the common room?

" Gar, what are you doing?"

That voice… It couldn't be, that oh so familiar voice. It wasn't possible! He turned, and through a haze he could see a small figure, sitting on the common room couch. As of yet, all he could see was the outline; short stature, blue cloak, something in hand. As his vision cleared, he saw what he hadn't seen in two long years.

Ravens' puzzled and annoyed face.
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Files and research papers were all around the room, most neatly stacked, others strewn about on the desk to the right hand side.

"Judas" sat at this desk, feet propped up as he smoked a fine cigar. Usually, he avoided smoking, but the recent events called for a celebration of sorts. Along with the cigar he now smoked, he had a bottle of brandy sitting up on the desk, a small glass beside it.

The assassination went perfectly. When the guards changed shifts an hour after the shot was fired, they found the body and called it in like he expected. The Russian authorities, lacking in resources to spare, called in their very own hero: Red Star.

He knew the Russian was a lab rat of the soviet army, and a way to get the upper-hand on their American counterparts. Unfortunately, he was unstable at the time, leaking his radioactive energy and destroying a small city with it. For years, he was shunned by his own, then a radioactive monster began to terrorize the people, and thus he was forced out of hiding to combat it with the help of his new allies, the Teen Titans.

That was his real prize.

He had no quarrel with the Russian, as far as he was concerned he was a soldier, nothing more or less. He deserved a certain amount of respect, and thus was why he had hired Andre to start robbing banks in Siberia. The distraction would keep him busy, and he knew the first people he would call would be those he was most familiar with. He personally had distaste for the burglar, anyway, and hoped that the Russian would imprison him eventually.

But not before he was done with his job.

As he took another puff of his cigar, he began to contemplate how this would be accomplished. Not that he hadn't thought everything through, mind you. He thought of every move, counter move, and contingency to hundreds of possible scenarios as to how this could play out.

What he wanted was to find the perfect way to end it all. Should he kill them all slowly, making each one watch? Or should he pick them off one by one, showing them how truly powerless they were?

He was half finished with his cigar as he closed his eyes and leaned his head back into his chair. Sometimes, the business of killing could be a very taxing job, he knew. All the time he had spent working on this plan, all the time he had decided to go through with this, was all starting to come together. It had been a painstaking process, years of contemplating and moving the pieces to align just right.

When he finally finished his cigar, he unscrewed the cap to the brandy and poured a small amount into his glass. This was a special drink, one he had made a personal vow to only drink a glass of in the event of something monumental to celebrate. As he had filled it to his desired amount, he finally came to a conclusion as to what it was that would be celebrated.

The vision of the titans, being carried away in body bags.
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For a moment, Beast Boy couldn't even act, couldn't even comprehend what he was seeing.

There was Raven, sitting on the couch with a book in hand, staring at him with her trademark you idiot look.

Beast Boys' confusion was replaced by extreme excitement. He temporarily forgot his head ache and nausea as he lunged forward, intent on giving her the biggest bear hug he had ever given anyone in their lives. Actually, he had transformed into a bear to do so.

He never noticed Ravens expression did not change as he charged forward.

He reached forward, intent on swooping her up. However, to his surprise all he felt was air, and before he could realize it, he was rolling hard along the floor. His wind knocked out of him, he continued rolling until he finally stopped about twenty feet.

Behind the couch.

How did he get here? Maybe Raven teleported him directly behind herself, so as to avoid the hug he was about to give. Seemed Ravenish, to be sure. But he never saw a portal, nor heard her mantra, so that was unlikely.

Confused as he was, he was about become even more so.

" Well?" He heard Raven ask, still facing where he was. That was odd, as if she didn't even…

In shock, he got right on his feet to look where Raven was staring. Something was behind the TV, messing with the cables in the back. Beast Boy had done that once, he remembered. He was trying to hook up an HDMI cable for their Gamestation 3 so he could play his new game, zombie monkeys from space. There was something that happened that he couldn't really remember now, just that it didn't end well.

…

Wait a second, who was behind the TV?

" Well, what?" The one behind the TV said, peering his head from behind it. Even from here, he could tell who it was.

" Well, what are you doing?" Raven repeated, annoyance seeping into her voice. She hated repeating herself in conversation.

" What does it look like?" The changeling behind the TV asked in kind, as if it should be obvious.

" A bad idea, for starters."

All things considered, it was one of the weirdest things he had ever seen as he tried desperately to figure out the scene in front of him. Ok, let me sort this out: I wake up in front of the couch, I try to tackle Raven. Now I am standing behind the couch after I tried to tackle Raven but somehow I didn't. I get up, Raven is talking to me, only it's not me me but it's him me. Wait, that doesn't make sense… Ugh!, he thought as he clutched his head. This made his head hurt! Nothing made any sense, he was here but somehow not here and seeing himself. Could this possibly get any weirder?

" Listen to the sands, to each grain within the hand." A voice whispered. It caught him by surprise, as he did not recognize it. It was soft, almost motherly in tone, but completely un-familiar.

" What?" He asked the voice.

" Listen to the sands, to each grain within the hand." The voice repeated.

So now there was a voice in his head. Super, that didn't complicate matters any further, did it? Everything here was so confusing but now that some random voice had told him to listen to sand, everything was just completely fine now, right?

Finally, he sighed. Whatever was going on, panic wasn't going to solve it, no matter how bad he wanted to do so. He wanted desperately to scream to Raven and tell her how much he missed her. But for now, he couldn't. For reasons beyond him, his reason triumphed over his emotions.

He had no idea what it was talking about, but it said to listen to the sands. There wasn't any sand around, so he decided to do the next best thing; listen to them.
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" And furthermore, should you really be tampering with our TV?" Raven asked her usual monotone, here expression neutral but her eyes said everything.

" A better question is, why shouldn't I?" Beast boy asked, earning a raised brow from Raven.

" A good answer is that the last time you tampered with electronics, you infected Cyborg with a virus." She answered," As I recall, it ended in Cyborg devouring nine stop signs, three tires, and a transmission block." As she said it, her tone remained the same but a small half smile crossed her lips.

"It was only half a transmission block!" He whined in defense." And we fixed it, didn't we?"

" Yes, and we made sure to never let you near a computer again." The empath replied.

" And this isn't a computer." He said, patting the TV," It's a TV, so not the same thing."

Before Raven could retort, the sound of the automatic doors opening behind them caught their attention. They both turned to see both Robin and Starfire walking into the room. Naturally, Starfire was the first to greet them.

" Greetings, friends Raven and Beast Boy!" She greeted in her usual bright and cheery tone of voice.

" Hiya guys!" Beast boy replied, still fiddling with the wires on the TV.

Robin noticed this immediately, and looked at Raven. She simply shrugged, as she really wasn't as concerned as she had let on. Her and the changeling shared a unique bond, and that bond somehow meant useless arguments over minor issues. In truth, it did not concern her what Beast Boy was doing to the TV, as she despised the thing anyway.

Seeing that Raven was not concerned, he figured things were under control," Anyone seen Cyborg?" Robin asked.

" Well, it's T-car Tuesday, so he is probably giving the car a complete wash down." Raven replied. Cyborg spent an almost unhealthy amount of time with the car any day of the week. However, on every Tuesday, he would do nothing but wash, work with, and stare at his car. People tended to avoid him today, because he would often take anyone who so much walked by the garage and make them stare at the car with him.

Robin looked a little nervous all of a sudden, and turned his head back to the door." I forgot about that, hope she avoids him."

Raven raised a brow." Who?"

Robin looked back at Raven." I was going to announce this with the whole team, but I guess it'll be alright with you guys for now." He walked a little closer to the couch," Team, as of today, there will be one more Titan living in Titans tower."

Beast Boy directed his attention away from his work to give an amazed look at Robin." Sweet!" He exclaimed in excitement," Who are we adding? Argent? Jericho?" He began to ask as he went back to working on the wires.

" Ravager." Robin replied. It was in such a matter of fact tone, no amusement or deceit. That was what shocked them the most.

Beast boy quickly jerked his head up to Robin." What?" He shouted in surprised, not paying attention where the cable was going. The wire touched the wrong input on the TV, and all of a sudden Beast Boys body stiffened at the sudden flow of electricity coursing through his body.

Raven, too was surprised. Surprised enough, in fact, that she didn't even notice Beast Boy convulsing as electricity coursed through him or Starfire flying over to him, trying to aid him in his predicament." Ravager? Didn't she… you know, try to kill us all a while back?"

When they had first met Ravager, there were a series of attacks around the city. Professor Chang had Slade-bots stolen from him, some reports of a very agile criminal in the city. As the tracked the leads down, they originally thought Slade had come back, as he had fallen off the grid after the incident with Trigon. Beast Boy had fought an android of him a few months back, so maybe this was his return.

However, after tracking for so far, Rose finally revealed herself, launching a vicious sally to them as she fought for revenge against the Titans and what they did to her father.

Robin reacted, but not in violence. He challenged why she worked for one who had left her, and who still had not returned to her. The titans quickly found that Ravager, Rose Wilson, was not an evil mastermind at all. She was just a girl, dealt a wrong hand in her life and brought up in a loveless environment. He then did what seemed to go against all logic and sense: he offered her family.

In all her time of training with the best instructors available in various combat techniques, all the informants she had met, she never truly had a family. That it had been offered to her, by those she had despised and hated of all people, stunned her. It was that fact, her consuming loneliness and her underlying desire for family, that won her over.

Even so, Raven was skeptical. People who had been brought up in rough environments tended to retain an amount of that old nature. That was why she had not become a Titan then and there. People may change what they want to do, but changing what they actually do is where the challenge comes in. Still, maybe that was unfair considering her own past, she thought.

Robin nodded." Yes she did, and as I recall she pretty much did a full one eighty from that." He replied." She's spent the last year getting herself cleaned up, and I really think she could be useful here." Robin and the Titans were actually assisting her with that, retraining her out of her previous lifestyle, though usually it was Robin and Starfire who did the most, hence the skepticism by the others who had not really seen her progress.

At this moment, Starfire finally unplugged the TV and Beast Boy stopped convulsing and fell on the floor. Taking a deep breath, he raised his head up and looked at Robin, hair sticking up and bursting with sparks of electricity." Dude, she tried to kill us!"

Robin ignored him, still looking at Raven." I think being part of a team would be good for her. Considering her previous environment, I think this is what she needs." He explained." She's looking for a second chance, and a chance to use her skills to contribute. How is she supposed to do that if all we do is push her away?"

The room went completely silent at that question. They knew he was right, and who in the room hadn't made a mistake that endangered the team? Beast Boy had been exposed to his inner beast, Raven had nearly lost control of rage. Robin became obsessed with Slade and created Red X at the expense of his team, and Cyborg had nearly destroyed himself because of his chip upgrade.

The point was, everyone on the team had made a big mistake in their lives, and the Titans still gave them a second chance. The question now wasn't why, but why not?

Raven sighed, and in her monotone asked," All right, where is she?"

With that, they heard the main room doors open, and looked to see that Cyborg and Ravager entering the room. Ravagers boots were muddy, while Cyborg was almost completely covered in the stuff.

" You said it handled well off the road." Ravager said, pointing a finger at the cybernetic.

" That wasn't permission to take it muddin'!" He replied angrily, the vein in his head beginning to throb.

" Ah, it'll come out with a good wash. Besides," She said, taking off her boots, "we wouldn't have got stuck if it had better tires."

Robin raised a brow as Raven and the others quickly went to his side." I assume she's getting acquainted with Cyborg."