A/N: And so, a year and a half later, may I present to you – without further comment – chapter seven!

"So, what do you think?" The voice was loud, bordering on obnoxious, and the little girl's nose crinkled in distaste as it prattled on above, oblivious to her displeasure with its ramblings. "I made it just for you – with all kinds of toys and games and nice, warm blankets! You love it, don't you? I know you do!"

As hard as it was to ignore the voice, Margo found it even harder when she was suddenly whisked into the air and spun around, giggling despite herself. She remembered someone else who used to do this to her – someone decidedly more green and less... annoying. Of course, she wasn't able to express this in words, merely gargling nonsense as her new self-proclaimed "father" held her close to his chest.

"Isn't this better than sharing a tower with those smelly teenagers?" He cooed, tucking a blanket around her that seemed to have come from nowhere. "Now we can be together forever, and you'll never have to worry about those loser Titans ever again!"

Oblivious still, Margo nuzzled into his chest, and within a few more minutes had drifted off into an easy sleep, dreaming of women in purple and green puppy dogs and spinning around and around and around, all day...

"She was here!" Back in the abandoned warehouse, Beast Boy clutched the pink blanket close to his own chest, a hopeful look in his eyes for the first time in days. "This is where she's being kept! We found it!"

"Easy," Raven held up a hand, frowning despite herself. "Don't get too excited, we can't be sure of anything." She turned and walked back to the middle of the room, taking in everything from the dusty old furniture to the brand-new store-bought crib. "It doesn't make any sense..."

"At least now we know that she was kidnapped," Starfire spoke up after a moment, reminding the others of her presence with a small start. "No true parent would keep their child in a place like this."

"I would hope not," Raven was carefully watching Beast Boy now, and he shook his head.

"We already knew she was kidnapped," he said evenly, "but are we any close to finding out why? Who? Where!?"

"Easy," Raven said again, holding a hand towards him to keep him from going on, "let me see that blanket." She took it from him before he had a chance to argue, turning it over and confirming that it really was Margo's before she made her next move. "It's still warm," she handed it back to Beast Boy, certain the changeling would want to keep it near. "Whoever it was hasn't been gone long." Glancing towards the ground, she spotted something she hadn't picked up on in the earlier darkness – a trail of disturbances in the dust, leading into the room from the outside, then all around and near the window, and... well, it was hard to tell if they'd gone out again. The Titans' footprints had certainly destroyed any real proof of where the kidnapper could have gone, but Raven knew there were only so many ways out.

"Well, what are we waiting for, then?!" Pumped yet again, Beast Boy tucked the blanket into his belt and raced to the window, "I'm going to do an aerial search!"

"Good idea," Raven nodded, "I'll double back through the building and look for anything suspicious."

"And what might I do to help?" Starfire wanted to know.

"Go back and find Robin and Cyborg," Raven said. "Tell them what we've found, and tell them to meet us back here in ten minutes." She glanced towards Beast Boy to confirm he'd understood. "Just be careful," she added as an afterthought. "Something about this doesn't feel right... we could be walking into a trap." She left the room without another word, and heard wings flapping moments later, followed by what she assumed was Starfire jumping out the window. That was probably faster anyway – and Raven knew ten minutes was far more than they were going to need. She'd be able to find anyone in the building merely by passing their aura; it would be a cinch if the kidnapper – or Margo, for that matter – were anywhere in the vicinity. Unfortunately, Raven doubted that was the case.

She wasn't going to waste any time dwelling on it, though, and instead she did one last sweep of the room. There was absolutely nothing in here – the only trace of life had been the blanket Beast Boy had taken with him. Now that she thought about it, that could've been a plant – but she wasn't going to dwell on that either. This was the only lead they'd found since Margo had gone missing; it was all they had to go on. If it was a trap, or meant to distract them, so be it. Sooner or later, they would get to the bottom of it.

Raven left the room. She was careful to levitate now, so that she wouldn't disturb any prints they hadn't already destroyed, but soon realized there was no point in even trying. Every room in the warehouse was empty. Most were covered in a thick layer of dust, likely not occupied for years. This was Old Jump City, she reminded herself. Unoccupied.

By the last of them, Raven was feeling more than a little discouraged, and as she exited the building through the front door, she found quickly that she wasn't the only one.

"Any luck?" She asked the sullen teen in front of her.

"Nothing," Beast Boy said. He was sitting on the ground, cross-legged with the tiny blanket in his lap. "You either?"

"Nope," Raven held in a sigh and sank to the ground to join him. She tried to keep the disappointment from showing on her face, but somehow knew he could see it nonetheless.

"I can't even find her scent," Beast Boy raised a clawed hand to his forehead, his brow creased. "I don't get it!"

"The blanket doesn't smell like her?"

"Of course it does," his other hand was caressing it, not wanting to let go of the last remnant he had of his little girl. "But that's just it. Nothing else does."

"Hm," Raven didn't have an answer for that, so instead she sat back and forced herself to relax. She hadn't had a chance to meditate properly recently, and the stress of their situation was really starting to get to her. It was impressive, really, how well she'd been able to hide it up to this point, but she would have to take a break soon, or she knew she was going to blow up at someone who didn't deserve it. And that wouldn't solve anything.

She closed her eyes, pretending she didn't hear Beast Boy's sigh as she forced herself silently into her happy place. Well, not happy, exactly, but as close as she could get. Margo was there, of course – in fact it consisted almost entirely of the girl. The strange warmth she'd felt looking at her after their first night together; faking ill so she could babysit while Beast Boy covered with the others; taking her out on the town; watching her stumble around as she tried to walk for the first time...

Her impromptu meditation was cut suddenly short by a loud ringing that filled the area, echoing through the empty streets in a way that made the simple tone almost ominous. She opened her eyes just as Beast Boy answered the call, his communicator flicking to life to reveal the familiar masked visage of their brilliant leader.

"Beast Boy," Robin said without preamble. "Is Raven with you?"

"I'm here," she stood to come around behind the changeling, so they could watch together. Robin was frowning, and Raven could practically feel the tension in the air as he spoke again.

"You two need to get back to the Tower," he glanced over his shoulder at something unseen, his frown deepening. "We've had a break in."

"What?" A frown appeared on Beast Boy's face too, "now? Robin, we're trying to-"

"It's about Margo."

"What?"

There was almost a full minute of silence, and then Robin sighed.

"Just come," he said, and the line went dead. Raven didn't speak again, her mouth a firm line of worry as Beast Boy tucked the communicator away again and stood up.

"Well?" They locked eyes, and her only response was a half-hearted shrug. There was a strange hesitation now; neither was sure they could take more disappointment at this point. If they showed up at the Tower and they'd found some evidence of the kidnapping that turned into another dead end... Raven didn't know if she could take that. Once was enough – what they really needed was concrete information. Fingers crossed.

Muttering her mantra, she moved effortlessly into the air, the familiar sound behind her signalling Beast Boy's transformation to join her. He couldn't speak in animal form, and she wasn't one for overtalking things, so the trip was completed in silence.

It was obvious the moment they reached their tiny island that something was wrong. The front door of the Tower was wide open – and Cyborg was standing guard in the middle of it, arms folded across his chest.

"Prepare yourselves," he said in a low voice, "it isn't pretty." Beast Boy and Raven exchanged a worried look, then the younger teen pushed past his friend and led the way inside. Raven followed at a slower pace, not wanting to rush the inevitable, and within a minute she found herself standing in the middle of their living room. Or, what had once been their living room.

"It's all wrong!" Beast Boy exclaimed after a minute, and Raven could only nod her agreement, bewildered.

The living room had been entirely inverted. The kitchen was on the opposite side of the room than usual, and the couch and the TV as well. Everything was backwards, and Raven couldn't wrap her head around it.

"...why would someone break in just to-?"

"They didn't," Robin's answer cut her off, and they looked up to see him standing in the doorway leading to the hall. It had been propped open with one of his bo staffs, leading Raven to believe there was also some sort of power out going on, on top of everything else. "There's more." He nodded for them to follow, and moved further into the building.

"Great," came Raven's reply as she did what was asked of her. Beast Boy trailed behind, still confused at the strange state of the living room. He couldn't wrap his head around why someone would do that; where was the benefit? What was the point? He was totally blown away, and when Robin stopped at the door to his own room, he was suddenly even more so.

The door to Beast Boy's room had been forced open as well – "We thought we heard something," a shrugging Robin explained – and beyond the door there was... nothing. A wall. As if the door had been built as an afterthought and put into place simply to make the hallway look complete.

"But," Beast Boy managed after a second, staring at the door with a look of serious confusion. "My room was... there this... morning?"

"Every room in the Tower," Robin said. "All of them have been tampered with." He glanced over at Raven, slightly worried about what he had to say next. "We, uh, were checking everything out and we... went into yours..." She didn't react in the slightest, instead raising one eyebrow in a look that merely said go on. "...erm," Robin cleared his throat. "It's... well, you should probably see for yourself."

There was a moment of silence, and before anyone had a chance to speak Raven had melted into the floor.

"I thought you said this was about Margo," Beast Boy spoke up after she left, figuring he'd give her a minute to come to grips with what had been done to her haven. He was still reeling from his own – but it took a backseat to his worry for the little girl who was still missing.

"It is," Robin glanced down the hall in the direction of Raven's room, still frowning. "Whoever was in here took all the baby stuff you guys had hidden around, and in Raven's room..." Before he could finish the sentence Raven was back, materializing behind them and scaring Beast Boy half to death without even giving him a moment to recover.

"You should see this," she said, the tone in her voice somehow darker than usual. Beast Boy turned to look at her, suddenly as nervous as Robin had been when he'd first brought up the empath's room.

"Do I want to?"

"No," Raven and Robin replied as one, and the masked hero stepped aside to let her lead him down the hallway to her bedroom door. It was, unsurprisingly, wide open, and even before he entered Beast Boy could see the place had been completely taken apart. It became that much more apparent when he stepped fully inside. The room was in shambles. Her wallpaper had been torn off the walls; the bedspread looked as if it had been set on fire; all the furniture was in pieces and scattered around the floor. Pillows had been ripped open and there were pages of various book lying all over the place. It was a disaster, and Beast Boy was so caught up in the mess that Raven had to nudge him in the arm before he even noticed the writing.

Big red letters sprawled across the back wall. Uneven in someone's crappy handwriting – he couldn't believe he'd even missed it, and found it even harder to believe what he was reading.

STOP LOOKING, read the warning, and there was no doubt in his mind what it was talking about. All the things they'd bought for Margo was gone, as Robin had said – this was no random act of violence.

"If it makes you feel any better," Robin, who had been silently trailing them up to this point, piped up. "Starfire's room is entirely upside-down."

"How would that-"

Raven cut off Beast Boy's tone of annoyance with another, more pressing question of her own: "How is any of this even possible?"

"Huh?" The boys looked her way, and she glanced once more around her ruined room before heading for the door.

"Where's Cyborg?" She asked without waiting for an answer. He was probably still downstairs; and she felt confident he could provide her with the answers the others were missing.

Sure enough, when she made it back to the main room, Cyborg was sitting on the couch staring at the blank television. It took her a moment to readjust to the backwards room, but before long she was sitting next to him, locking eyes and pursing her lips as she tried to puzzle through exactly what was going on here.

"I know what you're thinking," Cyborg spoke up, "And I know that I don't know what to tell you about any of it." He leaned back, the same frown appearing on his face that seemed to grace everyone's these days. "I just don't understand why someone would wanna do this... but even if they did, the how is just beyond me."

"Magic," Raven figured. "It's the only logical assumption. If the alarms weren't triggered" – and Cyborg's expression told her that they hadn't been – "then whoever it was got in through a different method. They shut down the security system and all the doors, then set about wreaking havoc on the Tower." Cyborg was nodding, and nobody else spoke as Beast Boy and Robin came back up behind them.

"They left a message in my room and messed with everyone else's..." she raised her fingers to her temples and closed her eyes, running through a list of possible enemies in her head.

"I guess your rooms got trashed too?" Beast Boy glanced towards the others, and they both nodded.

"One word:" Cyborg said, careful not to be too loud so as to disturb the muttering teen beside him on the couch, "Aquarium."

"Mine had a bit of redecorating done," Robin said solemnly, and from the look on his face, Beast Boy decided he didn't want to know.

"And you said Starfire's wa-" For what felt like the hundredth time that day he didn't get to end the thought before Raven was speaking again.

"Starfire," she said blankly. "...where's Starfire?"

The boys exchanged a look.

"I thought she was with you," Robin managed.

"...uh oh," Beast Boy said after a second. "We sent her after you guys!"

"Something's wrong," Raven stood up, and it wasn't a second later that the power came back on and the security kicked in – sending loud sirens and flashing red lights throughout the entirety of the Tower. Robin was at the computer in seconds, and the others were quick to crowd behind him.

"Security breach," he pointed at the flashing screen, "there's someone... in the Tower?"

"Top floor!" Cyborg bolted for the door without hesitation, with Robin hot on his heels, and Beast Boy and Raven found themselves alone once again.

"Think it's our guy?" He said.

"Could be," came her reply as she started towards the door after their teammates. "Guess there's only one way to find out."

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