The first rays of the morning's golden sunshine streamed into the room through a broken window and cast soft shadows on the wreckage around the room. The cool mist sent a chill down her spine finally rousing her from her peaceful slumber. Sleep clouded eyes slowly cracked open to take in the morning sun. She had not slept like that in such a long time, truly, she hadn't realized how much she missed such deep sleep. And surprisingly enough she could not feel the constant build up of energy, that was her rage, trying to escape. In fact she felt spent!

With that thought, her eyes snapped open and she sat bolt upright in bed, as the memory of the previous nights activities came rushing back to her like a nuclear powered steamroller.

She needed to go, she needed to leave now! Before the thought could even be processed her powers had latched on to a duffel bag hidden in what was left of her amour and she was stuffing the chest inside. She would need to get out of town as quickly as possible while conserving energy, she would need it to get off the planet, which meant she would have to take public transportation. She flew quickly to the shore and touched down on the pavement.

Though it was still the wee hours of the morning Jump City was already jumping with activity.

Joggers, commuters, shoppers and everyone else were already out and about and they all recognized their local hero. The stares she was drawing put her on edge, this was not going to work. She couldn't slip quietly from the city if every one recognized her.

She slipped into the nearest shopping plaza and got a change of clothes. She didn't want anything revealing and she definitely wanted something with a hood to hide her face. Unfortunately she needed to save her money for other supplies which left her little to choose from. She made her purchases and ducked into a shadowed alcove. A moment later a figure emerged cheap blue tennis shoes squeaked against the tiles and too long jeans dragged the floor.

A far to large black hoodie hid both her face and her figure and her black duffel was slung across her back. She drew no stares this time as she slipped quietly up the streets of the city.

She arrived at the south side of the city with relative ease, this was the seeder side of town. Though this was probably the first place the Titans would look for her it would also be the easiest to get away in.

There were villains on every corner out here and the Titans would have a hard time finding her in the chaos their very presence would ensue. She slipped into the Greyhound station unnoticed and got a bus schedule. She had just missed the last bus to Gotham about and hour ago and another one wouldn't be leaving until tomorrow afternoon but if she took the one to Fairport, leaving in six hours, it would put her only about a hundred miles from Gotham and she could hitchhike the rest of the way. If she remembered right there was a grocers down the street, she could kill time getting supplies, and as long as she kept her head down and stayed out of trouble the Titans weren't likely to find her. With her plan in mind she purchased her ticket and set back out.

The grocers had been right where she remembered. As she crossed the parking lot seven familiar voices with even more familiar shapes were hurled from the front doors by a burly man with a vest that clearly said security across the back. What were they doing here? Couldn't they stay out of trouble for ten minutes, preferably the ten minutes it would have taken her to get in and out of that store. She could see Jinx trying to reason with the large man. Raven kept her distance, pulled her hood lower and watched for a moment of distraction so she could slip inside. The guard dipped his head in one sharp motion indicating he had agreed to something the bad luck witch had said, and she gave a happy bounce. She walked back over to the rest of her teem to share the news.

"Ok, he's agreed to let me go in and get the groceries, but I go in alone, and if you five even think about doing something to the store or one of the staff and he'll have the Titans on us like butter on hot pancakes," she explained. This day was not shaping up to be a good one. First no food and now she had to conduct negotiations to use the grocers. Her teammates angry voices rang in her ears, giving her a massive headache, and she was sure that vein in her forehead was beginning to pulse. "Of course they can," she cut them off, "we're criminals, and were lucky they didn't call the cops when you broke that shelf. Hell, we're luck they didn't call the Titans, and if you don't straiten up they still may."

"Like you said we're criminals, we don't have to act right. They should be afraid of us, not he other way around!" See-More added.

"Yea, those crud-munchers should be thankful that all we decided to brake was that shelf," Gizmo piped in.

"Hungry!" Mammoth called in agreement.

"Can it!" Jinx snapped. Raven had taken the tense conversation as her cue to slip in unnoticed, unfortunately her luck had run out. "Who's that?"

"He's gonna call the cops!" Kyd Wykkyd shouted.

"Get him," no sooner had the words left Jinxes mouth, and Billy Numerous had her surrounded. Jinx pusher her way inside the circle and sized up what appeared to be a young boy, the hoodie he wore was far to large for him and she couldn't tell how strong he was or even if he might be concealing weapons. The hood was drawn low as if not to be recognized, He was probably some punk kid who had committed his first crime and was trying to lay low so-to-speak. Most likely not a threat , but with her luck better safe than sorry. "Who are you?" she demanded.

Raven was contemplating what to do, if she took off into the air she would instantly be recognized, if not as a Titan, at least as a threat, and she didn't think she could take down all seven of them without garnering unwanted attention. On the other hand she doubted she could talk them into just letting her go, but it seemed to be her best option right now. If it didn't work she could fend them off later. "No one... No one important."

Jinx snorted, so it was a girl under all that. There was something fishy going on here and for once the smell wasn't coming from one of her teammates. She repeated herself, "Who are you?"

"No one..." Raven began again, and Jinx took a menacing step forward, "just a traveler... traveling," by Azar when she was nervous her English was as bad as Star's. Jinx took another step forward and Raven took one back. She had spotted the real Billy, if she could get close enough, plan b was to clock him and she might be able to make a break for it. "I don't want trouble,"she told the pink girl, "just let me go and we can both forget we ever saw each other," she offered taking another step back.

"what makes you thing we trust you not to call the po po on us," Gizmo added as he squeezed his way into the circle, "We don't even know who you are!"

Her gray hand instantly came up to pull on her hood and Jinx's eyes lit up with recognition. Raven ever the empath picked up on it instantly and took another step toward the real Billy. Jinx took in her civilian clothes and the bag slung over her shoulder again. "You're running away?" she wandered aloud, Raven snarled under her hood.

"It's none of you're business what I'm doing just leave me alone." Jinx could tell her teammates were confused but she didn't have time to explain to them, Raven had inched her way all they way over to the real Billy Numerous and Jinx new that if pushed she would be gone before they could blink an eye. She had to do this carefully.

The very though of a Titan running away intrigued her, and her curiosity would not rest until she knew the whole story. The fact that it was her rival leaving made it a priority, and the question of where she would go sealed the deal.

"I'll make you a deal," she offered putting on her most trusting face, "we'll let you and swear not to let it slip that we ever saw you hell we'll even distract them for you..." she trailed off an ominous smile spread across her face.

"And I assume you'll want something in return," Raven ground out. She was waiting for the other shoe to drop the Hive didn't just do things for people.

"Of course, in return you'll take me with you!" she told her happily The boys looked on to their leader in shock and Raven snarled.

This was not what she had planned. "And if I refuse?" she said through clenched teeth.

Jinx whipped out her cell phone and dialed the number for the Titans emergency line, "I'll call the Titans now and we'll detain you until they arrive." Jinx stood there waiting for an answer thumb poised over the send key.

The deal was on the table, Raven stood up straiter and squared her shoulders, there was still a chance she could talk her out of this crazy idea before they left Earth, "You're not really giving me much of a choice here are you?" Raven deadpanned and Jinx just smiled at her. "Well, if your coming with me you'll need to get a few things, I'm going very... very far away." Jinx raised an eyebrow.

"How far away is far away?" she asked a little more hesitant this time. Something terrible must have happened, she could just feel it, for Raven to be desperate enough to leave... and take her with her? A wicked smile crossed the former Titans face.

"To my home planet, it's a very long journey. Six Earth months to four Earth years depending on your luck!"

Unfortunately for Raven, Jinx took her statement a a personal challenge.

A.N. Sorry this has taken so very, very long guys, I've had this and the next couple chapters written and rewritten for almost two months now, but I just hadn't been able to decide which version I liked better or had the umph to sit down and type them up. So the compromise was to blend the two, and here you have the monster that has become Chapter 7. If you hadn't figured out already I'm not exactly sticking to cannon, I'm throwing out most of the Azarath stuff in the Birthmark series, because I either didn't see them or forgot what had happened in them. I've also thrown out the Titans origins episode, you know the one where they all meet for the first time; I thought it was very corny, and I'm not just talking about BB's jokes. I'll have to do the same blending thing with the next few chapters, so that may take a while and then who knows what. Hopefully my muse will strike me over the head with a bat again and I'll have some fresh drive to work on this again. I feel it prudent that I let you know I really hope to finish this one. Unlike my other half baked ideas sitting on my account that haven't been updated in years. This one may take me a while but I'm not giving up yet. What I really need is someone I can bounce ideas off of... Anyone know a friendly forum for that kind of thing?

Anyway before I make the notes longer that the chapter; As always thank you for reading, please leave me a review and if you see somewhere I've goofed put it in a review so I can go back and fix it.