I have no idea where this one came from and I am not too terribly sure that it is going to be any good ( that it even is at this point lol) but I wanted to post it and get your take on it. So Read and Review...and please be kind :) And yes this will eventually be Raven/Nightwing, just not sure when.

Disclaimer: Nope, Nada, Not Mine...but like I have said I have sturdy bedposts to chain Nightwing too if I ever get the opportunity :P

Raven understood the magnitude of Starfire's trip to the future far better than the others. She knew, after she survived her prophecy, what had to be done. No matter the pain and helplessness it caused in the others, she had to be there when the time came or everything would fall. She would do her best to make amends after the fact, but if she did not act then there would be no future for the Titans.

Even if things did not follow the same path as the original future, their destination would be the same. If they were not all in the places that they should be, there would be no Nightwing and there would be no one there when Star appeared for the help that she would so desperately need. These things were worth the sacrifice that Raven felt she had to make.

Warp may have been a criminal, but he spoke the truth when he said that history could not be changed and every future was another generation's history. So she left the Titans, she disappeared without word or trace and her heart broke at the family she had left behind.

She kept track of them over the years, silently watching them age. Starfire had returned to Tamaran to lead her people instead of disappearing. Cyborg stayed with the tower and helped to coordinate the new and younger group of Titans with Beastboy; Robin had become Nightwing, just as he was supposed to. None of them had ever found Raven, although they had looked long and hard for her. Some of them still did.

They never looked in the place that they should have though, she hid in plain sight at an asylum. No, she hadn't given into madness, but she knew when Star came for help that this is where she would look. So she sat in her white room meditating and remembering what used to be.

"Raven?" The voice was older, but it was still as childlike as it had always been, hopeful and hesitating in matters she was unsure of.

"So, it is time." Raven replied, her heart thankful that the wait was over. It had only been fifteen years, not the twenty originally set down, but it had still been an interminable long wait.

"You are not outside your mind?" Starfire's voice revealed her shock

"Not yet anyway." Raven said turning to her old friend. "You look good Starfire; the years have been kind to you."

"In some ways they have my friend, but not in others." Starfire's mind thought rapidly over the situation, this had not been the encounter she had prepared for. "You are here on purpose." It wasn't really a question.

"I have been here waiting for you to come." Raven answered anyway. "It didn't take as long as I expected." She shrugged and took down the hood of her white cloak and started to walk out of the room. "Are you coming? You can tell me what you need while we look for the others."

"Why did you leave Raven?" Starfire's voice was quiet as she followed Raven down the dark hallway of the asylum and she tried to ignore the screams of the insane that echoed all around her.

"Because you needed me now Star." With a wave of her hand, she opened a portal through the wall and they headed out into the snowy evening to look for the rest of their team.

"I do not think I understand."

"How did you know where to find me Star?" Raven asked the question softly as she turned her head to look at her old friend and she saw the implication of it hit its mark.

"You knew? How did you know?"

"I don't know what you need, only that you need me." She paused, hovering over the buildings of her old city, "That was all I knew then as well. It was all I needed to know."

"You left the past, to be here in this future…for me?" Starfire shook her head as the complexity of the concept fought its way to being understood.

"Pretty much," Raven sent out a small amount of her empathetic power, glad she had used the last fifteen years to hone her abilities and not lose her mind. "I know where Beastboy and Cyborg are, Robin will be slightly harder to find. We should search for him first."

"You gave us up then…to help me now?" Finally the labyrinth of her thoughts had reached their conclusion and Starfire felt infinitely sad as she understood everything that her friend had given up to be here in this moment now. "I still do not fully understand why you had to leave us, but I thank you deeply for what you do now."

"If I hadn't left something worse would have happened to put us in these positions or you would be without the help you need now," She sighed and paused in midair again to look at Star. "I cared for you all too much to let that happen; the others may not be as understanding or as welcoming as you are Star, so be prepared."

"You are our friend, they will greet you with open arms or I shall open those arms for them." Starfire's response was typical and heartwarming, Raven felt some of the cracks that she had put in her heart begin to heal.

"We shall see." Raven replied with a turn of her lips that could almost be classified a smile.

"Let us go and find Friend Robin, it has been too long since we have been together as a team and I have much need of your help." Starfire encouraged warmly.