A/N (09.10.14): This chapter has been edited and altered as of today.

And it's time for season 2 now! Sorry if it took longer then expected but it was hard for me to figure out how to organize this chapter with so much stuff I changed. Sorry if it's a bit…scattered or weird…whatever term you want to use but I did my best.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Titans, Warp, or Nightwing.

Chapter 19: How long is Forever?

"AHHHH!" Raven sprang up from bed, screaming and sweating. She sat up shaking now after having a not-so-uncommon nightmare. She slowly settled her breathing back to normal and looked at the clock beside her bed. 7:00 a.m.

"Not when I wanted to wake up…" Raven told herself with a sigh as she got out of bed anyways. She walked over to her closet, taking out a fresh uniform to put on. She looked at the books on her shelf and conjured one to her hand, needing something to do when she got to the Main Room. Finally, she flew out of her door and to her destination.

Once Raven walked into the Main Room, she regretted walking down the steps. Cyborg and Beast Boy were playing videos loudly and arguing, a normal thing, yet terribly annoying, especially given the early time of day. Robin was in the kitchen being no better with the stereo on high, blasting music so to drone out the other boy's bickering Raven assumed. She could feel the Tower reverberating and could feel a migraine coming on already. Even so, she took a deep breath and strolled into the Main Room, prepared to read her book and tune out everything else around her.

Once Robin spotted Raven as she walked past him, he looked away from the files on his laptop and at her.

"Morning Raven, how are you?" he asked. She continued walking, not wanting to speak to him at the moment. She was still hurt from the whole 'Robin becoming Slade's apprentice' thing and could only envision how he'd attack the team and broken her trust. She wasn't ready to fully talk to him just yet, let alone forgive.

So she settled down on a small leather chair beside a table to the left of the room, away from all of the boys where she could curl up and merely read. As quickly as she began her book though is how suddenly Starfire burst in with tons of gifts in her hand. She walked to the center of the room and began to speak above all the noise.

"Friends, we must frolic and mingle in celebration because today is Blorthog, the Tamarainian festival of friendship!" Starfire started, smiling sweetly. Raven sighed. She watched as Starfire attempted to approach both Cyborg and Beast Boy, but both kept struggling with each other that neither even fully noticed her. Starfire gave up and approached Raven instead.

"Hello dear friend! Warm greetings! I wish you sunshine, happiness, and bunnies…" Starfire started, but then quieted when she saw the look of irritation on Raven's face. She backed away from the dark girl sheepishly. Raven gave her a small 'sorry' smile. Starfire knew none of that was her thing, and she wasn't in the mood to pretend. Before she could tell that to Starfire though, Robin's music got even louder, making Raven's forehead throb.

"Robin… could the music be a little louder? I can still hear myself think," she snapped at him across the room, a grimace on her face.

Robin turned around to face her partially and shot her a look, annoyed with how when she did end up speaking to him these days, it was always sarcastic comments.

'Uh oh…' Raven thought as she saw Starfire walking towards him. 'Not the best time, I wish she could pick up on our body language cues.'

"I only turned the music up to drown out all the yelling!" he shouted right as Starfire stood beside him. The alien princess' eyes began to get watery, realizing that no one wished to participate. Raven saw a tear steak down her cheek and finally slammed her book shut, standing up from the comfortable chair, eyes dead set on Robin.

"If you're frustrated, take it out on someone else, but don't hurt Starfire's feelings," Raven stated, coming to the defense of her friend.

"I'm not taking it out on her! I'm peeved two other Titans that won't let up on all the noise, and a certain other teammate for not giving me the time of day," he shouted back.

"Good idea, Robin. More yelling with definitely stop all the yelling," Raven muttered to him sarcastically, ignoring his jab at her and keeping a monotone expression still on her face. Robin glared at her and she shot him a glare back.

"Oh friends, do not fight like this, especially not on today of all days…" Starfire whispered as she threw her hands over her face to hide her sadness, the pearl necklaces she'd been holding falling to the ground. Raven picked the one up beside her and walked closer to Robin, holding them in front of him.

"Why couldn't you have just taken these?" Raven questioned, defensive still. Robin reached out to grab the necklace, attempting to yank them from her grip.

"Why can't things just go back to the way they were?" he demanded back. He tugged at it so hard that finally the necklace broke and the beads flew off, falling onto the ground everywhere. Starfire stepped in finally, making everybody fall silent with her unusually harsh tone.

"Friends must never behave this way, especially today. Do you want us to drift away like on my planet?" she asked. "There, this means friends begin to drift apart… and their friendship begins to die."

"Oh come on, Star," Cyborg tried to comforting her.

"Yeah, we're not gonna drift…" Beast Boy put in.

"We're just… getting on each other's nerves a little. Big deal," Raven added.

"Yeah Star, we'll be friends forever, I promise," Robin told her.

"Forever?" Raven repeated, looking at him quesetioningly. Robin nodded and Starfire smiled. Even though the mood was lightened, Raven's frown didn't falter. Just then Robin's communicator went off and he took it out. It was flashing red.

"Titans, trouble!"

With that the Titans took off. Everybody but Raven quickly followed Robin. She looked back down at the beads that had been pulled from the necklace and sighed once more. Would their friendship really never break unlike that necklace had? Raven pushed the question aside as she quickly took off after her friends.

"Ah… the clock of eternity," a man with black hair and an all gold suit on said, staring at the artifact he'd gotten past museum security to steal. "Valuable in the past… priceless in the future."

"But for the present," Robin's voice suddenly said, "you'll keep your filty hands off of it." The villain looked up to see the Titans above him on the next floor.

"The Teen Titans… this is a treat," the man said with a smile. "I've read all about you in historical archives. And now you're all history!" He shot laser beams out from his shoulders at them and they quickly dispearsed, jumping down and out of the way.

"Titans, GO!" Robin called.

After numerous attempts though, he practically had the Titans beat. Everybody was down but Robin.

"You cannot defeat Warp, I am from the future," he said calmly as he deflected another set of Robin's disks. The Boy Wonder gritted his teeth in frustration. "And you relics are 100 years out of date," Warp commented further. He approached the clock and took it out of the glass container it was in, pressing a button on his chest plate, a portal appearing. "Goodbye, Titans. I have enjoyed our time together, but I've got a very bright future ahead of me."

Raven opened her eyes and stood up slowly, seeing Warp about to escape. Her eyes turned white as she rose off the ground and flew towards him. She accidentally pushed him too hard and both were sucked into the vortex. Robin sprang after her a second too late, ending up kneeling on the spot the portal had been.

"RAVEN!" he cried out.

Raven hung onto Warp's wrists as she tried to get the clock back from him. Neither seemed to realize what trouble they would be in if they tampered with their space-time traveling, but needless to say, Raven was thinking of her friends alone and trying to stop the villain. She finally managed in taking the circular white button in the middle of his suit off instead of trying for the clock.

"No! You shouldn't have done that! Now I won't be able to get back to my time eraaaaaaaa!" Warp yelled as a blinding white light was seen behind him and he was sucked somewhere into a different time period. Raven floated there and watched in awe but that was soon cut short when one enveloped her and she came crashing down out of the vortex, landing back on Earth in a heap of snow.

She shivered once she stuck her head up from it and stood up slowly, brushing it off her cloak and legs. She rubbed her arms up and down, looking around to see if she could figure out where she was.

"… Why is it so cold? What's going on and where are…" Raven stopped herself, eyes widening when she looked straight up in front of her. There was the Tower, looking gray, dull and outdated, and… empty. "the Titans..."

Raven quickly flew up to it and went through the door. She couldn't believe how run down it had become. There were gapping holes through windows and wires hanging from holes in ceilings. She walked up the stairs slowly, wondering how far in time could she already be if the Titans had…vanished?

"Hello? Is anybody here?" she asked before walking through the rusted Main Room doors. She stood at the landing for a moment, taking everything in. She quickly flew down the red carpeted aisle, looking at all of the dusty and old things. She saw her book on the ground from just that morning, the stereo in the corner, and the giant TV screen with a large gash in it.

Her eyes suddenly caught on something round on the floor her boot had brushed against and she paused, kneeling down. She felt her chest tighten as she realized it was a pearly bead from one of Starfire's friendship necklace's just that morning. She scooped one up gently, only for it to crack in her hand. She bit her lip, only looking up when she saw a red light from the shadows.

"Cyborg…?" before the dark girl could look further, multiple random bots were around her. She gasped and threw some projectiles out at them before they could attack her. She then heard a noise from the doors and turned to the side, still in her fighting stance.

"YO! Who's up here blasting my -" Cyborg froze upon seeing Raven. Both of their eyes widened at seeing the other. "R-Rae? I can't believe it… you haven't aged a day," he whispered when he got closer, touching her shoulder. Raven looked up to meet his weary eyes and saw them gleam. She put her hood down.

"Cyborg… what's happened?" she asked in the same soft tone, glad to see her big brother. She cocked her head to the side slightly, raising an eyebrow as she looked at him. His once blue and white tech as a dull gray, his face wrinkled. "Why are you so…"

"Old?" he improvised for her. She nodded. "Well, that's what happens to folks when people go away for 20 years." Raven heard herself gasp.

"20 years?" she whispered, following him as he walked over to the old sofas, pushing them aside.

"You disappeared, Rae. That battle with Warp was along time ago. You fell through a worm hole and… well, welcome to the future," he explained.

"The future," Raven stated, looking down at the object she had taken from Warp. She had put it on her belt and carefully took it off, showing it to Cyborg. "Is it because of this? I should have stopped him at least."

"Warp was planning to jump 100 years right? Looks like you stopped him at 20," he told her.

"But… I still don't understand. Cyborg… why aren't you repaired?" she asked him. He looked at himself in the large, bay window and sighed.

"Let's just say things haven't been so well since you left."

Raven flew over to stand beside him. "Where are the rest of the Titans? Where's our friends?"

"The Titans are history, Rae. Your 'friends' aren't friends anymore," he said. Raven gaze went from his face to out the window, hand clenching to a fist as she glanced down.

"No… this has to be wrong," she told herself. "How could something be changed like that…" she stopped herself, looking down at the time object in her hands again. "Warp. His interference with the past must have changed the future."

"Rae, I don't think that -" Cyborg tried to tell her as she interrupted, not wanting to hear it.

"No," she almost hissed. "He caused this to happen. He is the one that made the technology and came to our time, he can make it right again. We have to find Warp. You'll help me?"

He sighed. "I really wish I could, but my last power cell burnt out years ago," he explained, and she followed his gaze to the giant machine in the corner that he was attached to. "I tried to fix it but… I just couldn't. I can't leave the Tower, Rae. I'm obsolete... but maybe one of the other Titans can help," he offered. "I can tell you where to find BB and Star."

"What about… Robin," she asked, curiosity consuming her.

"… We lost touch a long time ago. If you're looking for him, you'll have to do that on your own," he said. She nodded and gave him a small smile before transofmring into her soul self and going through the Tower wall, off to find Beast Boy.

"Stupid pig!" Raven heard being called and quickly made her way over to a cage where two boys were throwing snowballs at a sad looking green pig that whined in protest. She glared at them, swiftly approaching.

"Leave, now," she demanded. The two quickly ran off immediately and she looked back into the cage. She knelt down to the ground in the snow and gripped the bars that separated her from him. The pig transformed into a fatter looking Beast Boy.

"No way," he marveled upon seeing her. "It's you. But how?"

"I need your help," she told him.

"What kind of help?" he questioned.

"The future… this isn't right. You shouldn't be here," she told him. As much as she'd hated his jokes and threatened sending him to another dimension repeatedly, she didn't want this. "We have to find Warp. I'll get you out of this cage, " she started, her hands surrounded by her aura. Beast Boy began panicking.

"NO! This cage isn't to keep me in. It's to keep those maniacs out," he told her. Raven slowly let her power fade and she looked at him conused, not understanding. "Look, after the Titans broke up, I tried the whole 'solo-hero' thing and got my butt kicked a lot without the team. So now I'm in the show biz," he told her, attempting a smile. She frowned at him and sighed.

"Goodbye, Beast Boy," she whispered before leaving him be, disappearing.

Raven walked through a dark hallway with a single, flickering light that appeared before a door. She opened it, eyes widening when she peered inside.

There she saw Starfire sitting in the corner, her knees up to her chest and her arms wrapped around them. Instead of a smile on her face, it was dark and a frown replaced it, her old purple suit replaced with her all black and silver one she'd originally come here in. Raven slowly approached her.

"Starfire… Star. It's me, Raven," she tried at first, kneeling in front of her.

"No… that is not true," she said slowly. "You left… they all left…"

"Star I…" Raven couldn't even find the words to say to the alien. She was so depressed, and Raven felt another emotion radiating off her in heaps. Pure anger.

"Just go…like last time…leave as they all did…" Starfire whispered, before her eyes suddenly opened slowly at last to reveal pure, glowing green orbs. "Leave!"

Raven swiftly levitating backwards away from the girl and sadly obliged her wishes, phasing out of the room, her mind flustered at what she'd just seen.

Raven walked down the dark, snowy and gloomy city streets once more, trying to find help from anybody at this point. While lost in thought, she suddenly was blasted back by familiar red beams, falling into the snow. She looked up to see Warp.

"What's the matter, dear? Have I come at a bad time?" he mocked her, continuing his fire. She quickly got back up and put a shield around herself. As soon as he began to cease fire she came out of it and threw some rusted bikes at him, but he put up his own shield and blocked her attacks as well. He was finally done playing games with her and waved his hand in front of her charging form, stopping her completely and throwing her backwards as she fell to the street below, crashing on her back and laying there.

She felt hurt and defeated in all ways. All she wanted were her friends back as it should be; to save her future. But now it seemed as if all hope was lost, and she would never return home. Once she heard footsteps in front of her, she quickly opened her eyes and forced herself to move into a crouched position, Warp now before her.

"I see you've grown old also," she observed.

"Well that's what happens when someone steals your time vortex," he told her, extending his hand. "Now, the regulator please. I really must get back to my future."

Raven stood up and backed away from him, holding what he wanted close to her.

"If you ever want to see your future, you'll fix what you have done to my past," she demanded as her eyes turned white, making her powers surround the regulator.

"Fix it? Silly girl, there isn't anything wrong with your past. One cannot damage history, because history cannot be changed," he told her, showing her the clock he had stolen. "I went back in time to steal this because history said it disappeared. And history said it disappeared because I went back to steal it. Past, present, future. It's all written in stone my dear."

Raven's power faded around the object slowly, her eyes returning to normal as his words sunk in. If anyone knew about having a future written in stone, it was her. She stared at him silently and held the object out for him to take. He smiled once he had it.

"Nothing you do will ever change that," he mocked, about to leave. Before he could, a dark figure flew on top of him and punched Warp backwards into an alley. The man jumped high into the air and was about to punch the villain once more when he disappeared into the ground, the man standing alone now. Raven slowly approached whoever it was in the alley, drawing her hood down to get a better look.

"It's really good to see you again," the back of the black suited man told her. Raven's eyes widened, immediately recognizing that smooth voice.

"Robin?" she gasped in amazement. He chuckled as he finally turned around for her to see him, a bright blue bird splayed across his chest.

"I haven't been called that in a long time. They call me Nightwing."

The now Nightwing had led her to his hideout and home, but while they had been on their way there, Raven had taken into account everything that had changed about him. His old spiked hair was now naturally down and shaggy. He had a narrower mask then before, and his costume was all black with a blue bird across the chest. Raven could hardly believe his transformation.

She now stood in his hideout, looking up at his old costume that she knew and remembered being held in a case. She wrapped her arms across her chest, hugging herself partially from the cold, and the other half from the familiar feeling of emptiness inside.

Without warning, Nightwing came from behind and put his arms around her waist, pulling her into an unexpected hug. Raven almost gasped at the unexpected action but held back, simply listening to their quiet and in tandem breathing.

"I didn't think the future would be like this," he quietly told her. "Without the team, a family… without you."

She felt his face press lightly into her hair and she shut her eyes, knowing her voice would betray her right now if she spoke.

"I wished this had all been a nightmare," he continued, his arms around her suddenly tightening as his voice lowered. "I thought I'd never see you again."

Her eyes shot open and grew wide at his words, the feelings behind them as she truly realized the gravity of all that was lost between her and her friends. The last memory he had of her was their argument that morning. Raven's eyes watered as she weakly fell to her knees on the ground, Nightwing allowing her as he followed, not taking his arms out from around her.

"Raven, it's okay. I heard you needed help, and I'm here."

"There isn't anything you can do," she whispered, trying to keep her tone even as she looked at the ground. "There isn't anything anyone can do. The past can't be repaired, the future can't be altered, no matter how wrong it seems."

"So… it's impossible?" he whispered in her ear, lightly resting a gloved hand on her chin and tilting her face back gently to look at him. Their eyes met, Raven wishing his mask wasn't there. Her breathing hitched at his forwardness. "If memory serves, we've done the impossible before." He smiled at her slightly and she tried to mimic it, although her hope was low.

Nightwing stood up and took her hands, helping her up as well as he led her over to his control panel.

"I've been hanging onto this just in case," he told her, pressing a button that made a small compartment open. She gasped when she saw the Titans communicator. He picked it up and pressed the button. Raven looked down at the gem that kept her cloak together and grasped it tightly in her hand, her chest swelling with excitement. If the other Titans got this, then maybe they'd know what to do. She looked up at Nightwing, a smile on her face now. Her hope was restored.

Warp stood inside the Metro Art Technologies building that had once been the museum, fixing his time traveling gadget.

"Soon it will be time for me to get back to my time in the future…" he was telling himself. Just then a disk flew through the air and blasted the device out of his hands. He looked up from what he was doing to see Nightwing standing there, Raven floating beside him.

"The future will have to wait, you just ran out of time," Nightwing said slyly. Warp glared at them and began blasting at them once more. The two jumped out of the way, attacking him with disks and projectile blasts, but he put his shield up too quickly for either to make contact. Nightwing quickly rebounded himself and jumped at Warp fast enough to take out one of the lasers on his shoulder with a single punch. Warp turned around to face him, giving Raven the chance to lift up an artifact and throw it at his back. The villain halted and turned around to face her now, but she flew out of his reach as Nightwing took his bo-staff out, running to slap him back with it. They went at it for quite a while until Nightwing finally slapped him back and Raven and him stood in front of him. Before they could try to take the device back, Warp blasted the roof above Raven. It fell atop her quickly before she could move, Nightwing's eyes widening as he quickly tried running to her aid.

"Raven!" he shouted, only to be blasted back by Warp. He went to pick up his fixing tool again but was blasted back by a light blue laser. As soon as Nightwing helped Raven out, they both looked over to see Cyborg.

"Booya," he said calmly. Raven smiled.

"Cyborg, you fixed yourself!" Raven found herself calling in delight as she flew up to him, putting a hand on his arm.

"Glad you could make it," Nightwing told him, approaching as well.

"Glad I didn't miss it. Now who said y'all could start without me?" he joked. Warp stood up once more just then.

"So sorry, perhaps I should break up this reunion and finish this first!" he yelled out. But before he could move a green tiger slashed him down with it's claws before running over to stand beside Raven, Nightwing and Cyborg. They all looked to Beast Boy gratefully. Warp growled at them, but before he could even talk this time he was hit with a barrage of starbolts. Everybody turned to look upward to see Starfire.

"Nobody hurts my friends," she said coldly, flying behind Raven now.

They finally looked like a team.

"It seems my time has come, so sorry you're too late," Warp told the former team as he stood up, the time vortex having appeared once more before him. Nightwing threw a disk at him, which he attempted to block, but it hit him square in the chest where the regulator was. After a bit of struggling, they saw he was reduced to just a baby lying on the ground surrounded by the huge uniform. The team gathered around him, averting their attention to the vortex, watching as it began to slowly shrink.

Cyborg looked at Raven. "We gotta get you back home, Rae."

He took the regulator and attached it to his cannon, aiming it at the vortex, his blaster opening it up.

"I'm redirecting the wormhole, Raven, GO!" he told her. Raven walked up to it before turning back to look at all of them one last time, her hood flying down as wind gathered around the room, swaying her cloak.

"Is this really going to be our future? Is there anything else I can do to change it?" she asked them. Nightwing approached her then, his face mere inches away from hers. Raven's breathing hitched as she felt him grab her hand and squeeze it, the two unwavering in their gaze.

"I'm sorry Raven, there just isn't time," he said sadly, pulling his hand away and placing the clock Warp had stolen in it instead. Raven looked down at it before staring at his face once more.

"Thank you," she whispered. "You've regained my trust."

Nightwing smiled at her as she went into the vortex, traveling back to the present.

"Where did she…" Beast Boy tried saying when he was suddenly cut off as the vortex appeared behind him. Everybody turned to see Raven roll out of it and fall to her knees, clutching her stomach.

"Dude!" Beast Boy said instead.

"Raven, what happened?" Robin said, approaching her quickly, panic in his voice. She lifted her head up finally and held out the clock to him, eyes shining when she saw all of them.

"History was wrong," she simply said.

"Then Nightwing handed me the clock, and I walked through the vortex," Raven finished. Everybody was staring at her in awe.

"Oh my," Starfire said finally, covering her mouth with her hands. "I cannot believe it!"

"You're telling me I'm going to be bald!?" Beast Boy cried, freaking out.

"I guess Starfire was right about all the drifting stuff…" Cyborg put in.

"I don't understand," Robin said though. "I don't want us to drift apart, does it have to happen? Will it?"

"Our friendship already changed Warp's past, I think that it'll be able to change our future," Raven said reassuringly.

"So dear friends, may we now celebrate friendship day?" Starfire asked innocently, picking up some of her necklaces that had fallen to the ground earlier, a smile on her face. Everyone smiled back.

"I'm in," Beast Boy said enthusiastically, taking one from the now happy Starfire. Raven picked a couple off the ground with her aura and put them around hers, Robin's, and Cyborg's necks. She sighed in contentment, watching them begin to partake Starfire's traditional fun. How glad she was to be back in the present.

"Raven?" Robin called her name from beside her. She turned her head to see him standing to her left, twiddling with his necklace. "So are we… we're good now, right?"

Raven smile at him, something she was doing a lot of today.

"Yes," she said. "Your future self proved to be… more then a trustworthy man." She blushed softly, happy her hood hid it from him.

Robin grinned back at her, showing his perfec tsmile. "So…Nightwing, huh?" he brought up, leaning against a table next to them. Raven surpressed a laugh at his curiosity and floated up onto the table across from him, totally content that everything was right once again, and ready to tell him whatever he wanted to know.

End Chapter

Yeah, that was a lot different then the one in the show really because Rae went in this time instead…and then what Nightwing told her…I thought it was cute. :) So please do tell me if you think Rae is getting a bit OOC in this story. I think she's ok…but I'm not sure. She's a bit more…sociable if you ask me.

Next time…

A strange green alien dog comes to Earth with a mysterious flying saucer in pursuit. When the alien dog bumps into green dog Beast Boy (who's hanging out at the dog park, looking for attention), the flying saucer accidentally abducts the wrong pooch. Will the team be able to get him back?

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