Raven sat in her room, floating a yard from the floor. She was meditating on the visitor's of the Tower. Robin's mixed feelings were at odds with her own. Robin was not very helpful in helping with the understanding. Where he found M'gann's friendly disposition towards everyone endearing, as Raven found Starfire's, she found the martian irritating. She sensed that she was hiding something from the rest of them, including the other team. SHe had gained an affinity ins seeing that people were hiding things after perfecting her ability to hide secrets and herself, despite her pale complection and purple hair. She had hidden her powers from the world, including her own friends.

She expected the teams to be trying to kill each other for many different reasons. For starters, the Team's refusal to accept the fact that Robin was their leader. He had left for his own reasons and wasn't going to come back to them. Secondly, the Titans refusal to accept that the Team couldn't stay with them. Third, the kryptonian and the archer were aggressive towards everyone there. Superboy was even unfriendly with Robin, something Raven didn't expect. He was better company than Artemis, though. He showed an interest in her magic that she didn't expect. While Connor had no knowledge of magic, he was able to grasp concepts that other magicians hadn't, like the inability of magic to bend the laws fo physics. Magic couldn't make more space in an area than possible normally, but could create a portal leading to a pocket dimension. She enjoyed explaining it to him, something she wouldn't tell anyone except Robin, or Beast boy under certain conditions. Those conditions weren't in place. Of course, she was shadowed by Artemis whenever the girl wasn't in the training room.

The archer was rude, seemingly going out of her way to offend Raven. The magician was as step away from ripping her to shreds with a simple phrase, something she hadn't felt when in Mumbo's head. She was afraid of that power, the power to slay thousand with a few words. It wasn't something she was proud of beign able to do. In fact, these powers were a curse. She only used a few of them because the power wasnt' the type that corrupted. The reason she was reserved was her that the supression of emotions kept her from being tempted by the power. She had released them once before, in London, but she wouldn't do it again. Ever.

Beast Boy flew in as a falcon, landed on the floor two feet in front of her. Turning back into a human, he said, "Dinner's done. Hey, could you grab Artemis and Cyborge for me? I'm going to get Zatanna and Kid from the Infirmary. She seemed to be doing a lot better from the battle."

"Yeah, sure. I'll be in soon," said Raven. She got up and left the room, turning towards the training room. Finding the door locked, she went to the observation deck and watched as Artemis was beating down their trainer and engineer. She was impressed. Her fists stung more than her mouth did. As she went to speak to Artemis, raven saw the archer exit the showers, putting on her leather jacket with a smirk on her face. Raven told her, then went ot check on Cyborge. He was battered and bruised quite a bit. Artemis had done a number on him that she didn't expect. He had multiple dent marks in his right arm and a sheepish expression that made her worried.

She gave him the same message she did Artemis, then asked, "Are you sure you're alright? You look ready to fall down?"

"I'm fine. You said there was pizza?" asked Cyborge. He obviously wanted to leave the subject behind, so she dropped it.

Raven and Cyborge were joined by Robin. He seemed rather uptight since the return of Kid Flash and his other team members. Raven was worried about him. He hadn't acted this way when Kid originally came. He was friendly, a word rarely associated with Robin during the Brotherhood of Evil incident. It worried her more than her birthday used to. At least that was inevitable. The problem might not be, making the search for a solution all the harder.

Dinner was basically another social event with food, as usual, until Zatanna spoke up. "Robin, we want you back. We want you on the team. Nobody blames you for what happened to Red Arrow, nobody ever did. We miss you Dick. I miss you and..." she trailed off, as if waiting for an answer.

Robin's features hardened. Raven recognized it as his stubborn look, but there was a hint of guilt as well. "You may not blame me, but I do. Nothing you say will change the fact that Cheshire killed Red Arrow."

"Cheshire killed him? That's not possible. She wasn't even there," said Artemis. she seemed more vicious than before the fight. Her lips formed a snarl, and her eyes were like steel orbs, her nose crunched in fury. Her defence of Cheshire was strange on many levels. It ws irritating listening to her say something so strange about someone so violent that would kill anyone for a price.

"I saw her with my own eyes. She was the only one there that was a villian, and she is an assassin. You can't trust her, no matter who she is," said Robin. Now Raven was interested. What did he mean, no matter who it is?

"She was dating him! Besides, why would she suddenly come back on the grid to kill her boyfriend?" yelled Artemis. The room was stunned into silence. Nobody could believe what she had said, and nobody could believe the words that came out next. "She's my sister. I know she wouldn't kill him."

"We'll talk about this later. For now, we need to address the issue at hand. Robin, will you join us? Please?" asked Zatanna. Her eyes pleaded just as much as her voice did. Raven felt pity for her, but suspected that pity would not be welcome. It wasn't welcome when she had given it to the magician for her friends death, and was not likely to be welcome now.

"Why not just join us? You'll still have contact with him, and you will have more poeple to help you if you need it," said Raven. It was as if she had set off a bomb. Zatanna jumped at the idea as if it was a lifeline, while Kid flash and Beast boy lept between Starfire and Zatanna to keep them from tearing each other apart. Cyborge and Superboy were in a shouting match and M'gann seemed to be concentrating on Raven.

Please , help me keep thsi from getting out of hand. She thought at Raven. The touch startled her beyond anything she could describe. Only the Titans were allowed in her mind, and they were only seldom allowed in. The invasion made her freak out.

GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT GETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETO UT! she screamed back mentally. The blow shook Miss Martian physically as well as mentally. She was grasping her head from the pain of it.

Starfire had Zatanna by the hair and was in the process of slamming her head into the table when Robin yelled "Enough! If You are going to act this way, then there is no point in me joining either group. I might as well leave the Titans, and give up being a hero." as he walk away, everyone bowed their heads in shame. This was not what they wanted Robin to think of them.