AN: I FRICK FRAKING FINALLY DID IT. Here's the (probably) anti-climactic ending that took me like 4 years to write :)

15 Fathoms, Counting

Raven stood at the side of the couch in the common room, watching the sleeping form of Alex, a small smirk forming on her lips at the sound of her slight snore. If Raven were to be honest with herself, she knew she wouldn't mind staying in that moment for a while, simply content with the calm serenity of the scene.

After a few moments of silent debate, Raven finally decided to wake the sleeping brunette. There were people waiting, after all.

"Alex." Raven said softly, reaching a hand out to shake the girl lightly. Alex immediately squeezed her eyes shut tighter, burying her head deeper into the pillow.

"Mmh." Was all she managed.

"Alex, come on. Wake up." Raven continued, amusement clear in her voice.

"Why?" Alex asked tiredly, keeping her eyes closed.

"I have a surprise for you." Raven answered.

Alex groaned, turning to her side, now facing Raven, "I thought we already established how I feel about surprises."

"We've established that you love them."

"Lies."

Raven lifted a brow, waiting for Alex to show some sort of sign that she was actually going to get up. After a couple moments passed with no movement, she sighed, "Alright, I'm serious now. Get up," And all though Raven was trying to sound serious, there was still a distinct hint of mirth in her tone.

Alex groaned again, before repeating her earlier question with a bit more exasperation, "Why?"

"I told you why."

"Can't the 'surprise' wait until it's not so freaking early?"

"It's already 11."

"Some people consider that early."

"Alex."

"Raven."

Raven merely narrowed her eyes on the brunette, who hadn't even opened her eyes yet, and was clearly not planning on getting up any time soon.

She decided it was time to break out the big guns.

"If you don't get up, I'm not going to let you kiss me for a week."

At that, Alex finally cracked open her eyes, letting her gaze fall to Raven, "Okay, first of all, 'let' me?" She asked with a raised brow, indicating her amusement at the somewhat immature blackmail, "Second of all," She continued as she shut her eyes again with a small sigh, "You're bluffing."

"Yes, let you. And what makes you think I'm bluffing?" Raven asked. She was totally bluffing, but Alex didn't need to know that.

Alex merely grinned, "I'm too irresistible."

"More like arrogant." Raven retorted.

"I can't help it. It's too early for modesty to kick in."

"Again, it's already 11."

"Details," Alex mumbled, "Besides, what's the surprise even for, anyway?" Before Raven had a chance to answer, a thought occurred to Alex, making her sit up immediately, eyes suddenly wide with worry, "Oh, my god, has it been a month already? Is this some sort of month-a-versary thing? Holy crap. Oh, my god! I need to—"

"Calm down," Raven interrupted with a grin before continuing, "I didn't even know you were into the month-a-versary thing."

Alex blushed lightly, embarrassed by her outburst, "Well, what's the surprise for, then?"

"Well…when I said, 'I have a surprise for you', I might have meant 'we have a surprise for you." Raven clarified.

"Whose 'we'? And you still aren't answering what the surprise is for."

"Us," Raven answered before continuing, "And can't we have a surprise for you without there being some sort of occasion?"

Alex gave Raven a half-hearted glare, "It is way too early for this." As Raven opened her mouth to speak, Alex cut her off, "It's only 11. Yeah, I got it." She sighed, "Can I at least brush my teeth and stuff first?"

Raven rolled her eyes with a smile, "Fine. Just hurry up, will you? Everyone is waiting."

"Yeah, yeah…" Alex mumbled as she finally got up from the bed and shuffled her way to the bathroom with a tired yawn.

After Alex was (finally) ready, she let Raven lead the way, "Ladies' first." She grinned brightly. After a few moments, she let her curiosity get the best of her, "So…where are we going?"

"Surprise. Remember?"

Alex sighed again, but it ended up sounding more like a laugh, "You are seriously impossible."

"And you're grumpy in the mornings." Raven retaliated with a sidelong glance and a smirk.

Alex laughed, "Okay, you know what? It's not my fault that you can run on like two hours of sleep. I need at least eight."

"You're the one who made us watch all those movies." Raven reminded.

"That can hardly be considered my fault. I mean, really? You never saw Pocahontas before? Or Mulan? Or The Lion King? Seriously, Raven, it's The Lion King! We really need to get you educated in Disney movies."

"Sounds intriguing." Raven deadpanned, before pulling Alex to a stop in front of a door that was just down the hall from Raven's room.

Alex raised a curious brow, "A door."

Raven shook her head with amusement, "We've been over this before. It's what's behind the door."

"Right," Alex chuckled as she opened the door and looked into the room, which was too dark for her to even see anything, "Oh. A dark room. I'm thoroughly surprised."

Raven rolled her eyes, "Stop being so difficult," She said as she grabbed Alex's hand and dragged her in.

"Jesus Christ, Alex. We've only been waiting for over a half hour here. Way to take your time."

"Er…Dan? Is that you?"

The question was answered by a flurry of nervous chuckles before she heard a chorus of, "Surprise!" And the lights were switched on.

Standing in the room Alex saw the rest of the Titans, accompanied by Justin, Andrew, Becca, Stacey, Dan, and their son Mikey. And while Alex was surprised (and happy) to see all of her friends in one place, she couldn't help but take notice of the room itself.

The layout seemed to resemble the Titan's bedrooms (from what Alex had seen of them), with two doors she could see, one she assumed leading to a bathroom and another for a closet. The walls were painted a dark gray, with a mural of the view of Jump City at night on the back wall. A queen sized bed sat against one of the walls, accompanied by a desk to the side, where Alex saw what she thought could have been a small stack of books or movies.

Raven grinned at Alex as she took in the sight of the room, "Welcome to your room."

Alex did a double-take, "Wait, what? My room? As in, like, I have my own room here?" She asked, slightly unbelieving.

Raven merely nodded, her grin turning into one of her rare full-blown smiles, "There's also this…" She said, showing Alex what she had in the palm of her hand.

Alex gasped at the sight of the communicator in Raven's hand, tentatively reaching out to take it before she paused and searched Raven's eyes for approval. At the violet-haired girls muted nod, Alex carefully grabbed the device,

Raven nodded again, "I've already told you, you're one of us. This just makes it official," She said, still smiling, "You're kind of stuck with us now."

Alex was struck speechless. Looking from the communicator to, to the room and her friends, and back to Raven, she felt her eyes begin to water. She couldn't remember the last time she'd felt like she belonged, was accepted, and all around loved by those around her.

"Raven…" Was all she could manage, unable to come up with words for how truly appreciative she was.

Without another thought, she pulled Raven into a passionate, sweet kiss, trying to show her how much it all meant to her. Raven immediately leaned into the kiss, linking her arms around Alex's neck as she reciprocated with just as much passion.

Someone cleared their throat loudly, "I'd like to take this moment to remind everyone that there is a toddler in the room…"

The two girls quickly separated, but kept close enough so that Raven still had her arms linked around Alex's neck.

Alex blushed a crimson red and cleared her throat awkwardly as she turned to everyone else (whom she might have momentarily forgotten was there), "Uh…sorry."

Raven was blushing just as deeply as she grinned, "I'll take it that means you like everything?"

"You have no idea." Alex smiled back, before leaning in for another quick kiss. "This is too amazing for words."

"It's not like it was all Raven's idea," Beast Boy commented, "We helped too, ya know."

"Yeah," Cyborg added with a playful smirk, "Does this mean we all get kisses, too?"

Alex rolled her eyes.

"Raise your hand if you want a kiss from Alex!" Becca exclaimed with a grin, immediately raising her hand into the air.

A pause.

Justin sighed, "Andrew, put your hand down." Andrew pouted, but complied.

Alex couldn't keep the smile off her face as she looked at all her friends, "Thanks, you guys. Really, this means the world to me."

Mikey walked up to Alex, "'Lex kiss." He said, smiling as he held up his hands, asking to be picked up.

"Awww," Alex chuckled as she picked him up and gave him a kiss on the forehead, "I missed you, too, kid." She said before turning to his parents as she set him back down, "And not that I'm not happy to see you, but what are you doing here?"

"What, we can't visit a friend?" Stacey asked.

"You know that's not what I meant," Alex rolled her eyes playfully.

"Yeah, well," Stacey started before she mumbled, "Maybe we decided to move here."

"Ah, and by 'we decided' she means 'she decided' and 'Dan has no say in this'." Dan added.

"Shut up, stop making me look bad. This was your idea."

"Yeah, well," Dan repeated his wife's earlier words, "They didn't need to know that."

"You're moving here?" Alex asked with a renewed smile, now even happier if it were possible, "Why?"

Stacey shrugged, "Kinda tired of that old town. Want Mikey to have more opportunities and stuff, you know? Also I was thinking of opening a martial arts class again. And Dan wanted to branch out for his restaurant, too."

Alex squealed and ran over to Stacey, giving her a big hug, which she returned with a laugh before Alex said, "I'm so excited! This is so cool!"

"And, actually, speaking of moving, we have an appointment to go look at houses so if you'd excuse us…" Dan added quickly, gathering his son up in his arms, "But uh…congratulations." Alex smiled at him and gave him a friendly punch on the arm, to which he exaggeratedly said 'ow'. He turned to the rest of the Titans, "And thanks for inviting us." Stacey nodded in agreement and waved goodbye before following her husband to the door. Dan hesitantly turned around and looked Alex in the eye, "And Alex? Your, uh…your parents would be very proud of you. I know I am."

Alex didn't know how to express her gratitude for that statement. Her eyes glistened with unshed tears as she walked up to Dan and gave him a hug. He made sure to look uncomfortable but accepted it warmly.

Dan cleared his throat, trying to convey that the hug was long enough and she could let go now, "Yeah, you're welcome. Please let go."

Alex gave a watery smile up at him, "Thanks, Dan. I guess you're pretty cool."

"Of course I am. But seriously, we're running late because you showed up late to the party, so we'll see you later."

"Bye, then. Have fun looking at houses!"

"Yes, it's going to be a bucket full of fun." He said as he turned back around and headed out the door.

Stacey grinned and followed him, saying low enough for Alex not to hear, "I knew you loved her."

"Ugh. Stop."

Stacey's grin widened.

As they left Raven saw Alex's emotional state and went up to her, "Are you alright?" Alex smiled and nodded.

"Yeah, this is just a lot. And way too cool. And I don't know how to thank you guys."

"Being an active member of this team is thanks enough," Robin said.

She nodded, "No problem with that one. I don't plan on leaving anytime soon."

"Good." Raven said, linking their arms together.

"This is so neat!" Becca exclaimed, "Who wants to celebrate! Pizza? Anyone?"

"Ah, you know us too well," Cyborg smiled, "We're always down for pizza."

"Pizza: the breakfast of champions." Alex added.

"It wouldn't be breakfast if you woke up earlier." Raven kindly informed.

"I wasn't complaining; pizza is the best breakfast."

"Well let's go then!" Andrew said, "I'm starving!"

XXX

Everyone sat around a table, each filling themselves with the delicious pizza and talking over each other. Alex laughed to herself, taking In the scene before her.

Cyborg, Beast Boy and Becca were all arguing over something trivial while Robin tried to calm them down. Starfire and Andrew were talking animatedly to each other about something or another, while Raven and Justin were content to just listen, every once in a while putting in their own two cents.

As she watched them, Alex briefly thought of her parents, and the words Dan had said before. Would they be proud of her? She had her doubts, but accepted Dan's words nonetheless. She thought of how many mistakes she's made, how many times she'd failed, and all the thing's she'd regretted.

But she also thought of the people she'd helped, the times she treasured, and how looking back at it now, she wouldn't change anything if it meant she couldn't have what she now had.

Of course she wasn't perfect, but she was hell-bent on doing her best for the rest of her life. And if her parents' weren't proud of that, then she didn't know what they would be proud of.

"Alex?" Raven asked, breaking the girl out of her revere, "You're awfully quiet. Are you okay?"

Alex smiled, a true smile that reached her eyes, and nodded, "Yeah, I was just thinking."

"About what?" Justin asked.

"How great you guys all are." Alex kept her smile, "And how much I'm looking forward to whatever life has in store. You guys are the best."

"Aw, you're too cute." Becca replied, "But yes. I agree. We are the best."

Raven linked her hand with Alex's, "I'm glad you're back."

"Me, too." She agreed, "Remind me to never leave again."

"I'll hold you to it." Raven grinned, leaning her head on Alex's shoulder.

Alex was still smiling, enjoying the moment she was in and the company she kept.

She loved her new family.

AN: Thank you guys for reading! I really appreciate it. I'm sorry if its not what you expected; I'm a little rusty when it comes to the writing. I seriously love you guys for reading though! Anyway, I'm going to try and write a sequel if I can decide which idea I want to stick with. Maybe a crossover with Buffy? Hmm. Demons, yes, maybe the reappearance of Raven's Father? Hmmm. Maybe. If anyone wants to help with a sequel just PM me and lemme know :)

But yeah. For the final song I decided to go with 15 Fathoms, Counting by Bring Me The Horizon because it's chill and laid back and it makes me happy haha.