By the time the rest of the team got home, Robin and Raven were dressed and sitting in the living room. Everything seemed to be back to normal between them, except for the fact that they both sat much closer to each other than before. There was also an intangible link between them; they were like two parts of one whole. Their connection emanated from them like an aura.

Raven looked at Robin, his mask the only thing that truly seemed to separate them, as the titan's came closer to walking through the door. In a few seconds, their solitude would be broken. Robin reached out and took her hand, telling her silently that it would all turn out fine. Then, they all piled into the room and Raven turned to smile at them. They froze in shock for a moment before surging forward again with whoops and shouts of surprise and happiness.

"RAVEN!" they all cried at once, running across the space between them. Cyborg, reaching her first, picked her up from where she sat and gave her a huge bear hug. "Where have you been?" he exclaimed.

"I... it's hard to explain!" Raven gasped as his huge arms squeezed the breath from her lungs. He set her down again, grinning. "It's so good to know that you're safe!"

She smiled back, touched by his genuine happiness.

"Raven, we were so worried! How did you just turn up after all this time?" said Beastboy, peering around Cy's bulk.

"I asked... well... it was time to come home." She answered evasively.

"But where did you go? What happened to you, friend Raven?" asked Starfire.

"Look, I know this will be hard for you to understand, but I can't tell you. I can't and I won't. So please just accept that I'm back now, and we can just forget about it, ok?" she said firmly.

They all stared at her in silence. "Forget about it?" said Cyborg incredulously after a moment. "But, Rae, you were gone for two and a half months! How do you expect us to forget about it? We've all been worried sick! Robin hasn't had a good nights' sleep since you've been gone! Don't we deserve at least some questions answered?"

Raven sighed. "I guess you do." She said quietly. "Okay, all I can tell you is... well, put it this way; I was taken away against my will..."

"You mean you were kidnapped." Beastboy interrupted.

"Yes. But I was well treated and I didn't even have to escape; he let me come home."

"He?" Robin spoke for the first time since the titans arrived. "And who exactly is 'he'?"

"Robin," she said softly, "You already know that I can't tell you that." He frowned, crossing his arms over his chest.

"But why were you kidnapped?" Beast Boy demanded.

"I'm sorry, but please don't ask me to say anymore. I'm home safe and sound and it's in the past now. I'm no worse for wear." She said, holding up her arms to indicate that she was unscathed.

"What is that around your wrist?" Starfire asked.

Raven's hand shot to cover the metal band that neutralised her powers. "It's... it's nothing, just a bracelet."

They all fell into silence, no one knowing what to say.

"Well, since we're all gathered, I might as well tell you our news." Robin said after a moment. He took a step forward and slid his hand into Raven's. "Raven and I, from now on are... more than friends. We are a couple."

For a moment, they just stared at the both of them holding hands. Starfire's mouth fell open in shock. But, once Cy and Beastboy recovered, they started to grin. "Well, it's about time." Cy said, smiling hugely. "I always knew there was something between you two." He slapped Robin heartily on the back.

"Yeah, I was waiting for this to happen." Seconded Beastboy.

"No you didn't! You should have seen your face!" Cy laughed. "You were like -!" he did a crude imitation of Beastboy's look of utter astonishment. "You were 'waiting for this to happen' my ass!"

"Shut up!" Cy continued to laugh as Beastboy went red in the face.

Robin and Raven looked at each other with relief as the two guys carried on bickering good-naturedly. Robin slipped an arm around her slim waist and she leant against him, smiling softly up at him.

"NO!"

The room went abruptly silent as Starfire screamed. Her eyes hadn't left the two lovers from the moment they had announced themselves as such. But now, it was not shock that coloured her face, but black fury. Her hands were clenched and shaking, her eyes glowing green in her red face which was contorted into a mask of rage. She took a step toward the embracing couple. Instinctively, Robin's arm tightened protectively around Raven.

"Starfire..." he said soothingly.

"No, no, NO! You cannot go with her! You have to go with me!" she yelled. "I'm the one you want, not her! You said - you said that you wanted me!"

"That's a lie!" Robin said, getting angry too.

"What do you want with her? She is nothing special. I'm the one that is special!" she cried at the top of her voice. "Do you understand me?! She is just a little demon-girl looking for the attention!" she tossed her fiery hair furiously.

"I won't have you speaking about Raven that way, Starfire. Stop this now; I never said anything to you to make you see things this way and you know it."

"But Robin..." she was almost pleading now.

"Enough!" he cut her off.

For a second, she looked like a hurt little girl, but suddenly, she drew herself back into the mask of fury. "You will regret this, Robin. Mark my words." She said softly, ominously. But her glowing eyes were not on him.

I'm sorry about how I made Starfire but she will not become a villain she will be friends with them once again

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