A/N: I never feel right unless I've got at least three active stories, so I've upped my deadline on this one, and I'm going to start uploading it now. I hope we all enjoy.

Title: Has Anybody Seen My Baby?

Summary: Yes, a Rolling Stones title, but it doesn't mean anything. Just the song I was listening to at the time. This story is AU, in that it's set a few years after the finale, and is generally based on the incident in the comic books, a plot called "The Future Is Now"...except I'm evil, and I'm twisting this into a being of my own CREATION.

Couples: Beaven (ROFL), and Starobin (ROFLMAO)...yes, I made those up.

Most of the people on Earth are oblivious to one of the key elements of the universe...time. To Raven, time was as tangible as the ground beneath her feet and as foreseeable as the sun at dawn. It wasn't a mystery to her, it was a puzzle. She knew what it was, what it could be, and when it would be, but she didn't know the big picture. She'd spent much of her childhood with time hovering over her, counting down to some big event, and when said event came, it surprised her. Time passed so quickly, and things change so much, yet it's so unexpected when you look around and realize.

Two years after she defeated her father and freed herself from his influence, for at least a while, Raven had a sense of déjà vu overtake her. She woke as usual, and dressed for breakfast. So early in the morning, having just been dawn, she was the only person awake. She made some tea, as usual, and sat down near the wall of windows overlooking San Francisco Bay. It was all so normal, so routine, but something was nagging at her, weighing her mind down. Such peace in the building, yet her mind tore at her with worry.

Raven turned and looked around, almost sure that she'd just felt a presence behind her. Nothing and no one was about, just shadows and memories. Raven started to turn back to the view, when out of the corner of her eye she caught a fleeting glimpse of someone running through the room. She froze, and didn't move. The figure running was almost shadow, but not quite. Details fuzzy and transparent, almost ghost-like, but not. Raven turned her senses outward and knew immediately that no one was there, but what was this image that even now played on the edges of her sight?

She set her tea down, and prepared to turn and fully stare at the apparition, when a bright green blur walked through it, and effectively caused it to disappear. A muffled moan of irritation wasn't heard, or rather was ignored, by the green blur, who actually was Beast Boy. He smiled at Raven, who, satisfied that the 'ghost' wasn't coming back, had turned back to her view and her thoughts.

Beast Boy, Garfield Logan, Gar for short, had never truly been the same since Terra had disappeared. Not when she was a stone statue, understand, but when he'd went looking for her and couldn't find her. Neither stone or hair. Even the Titans had been confused as to where she'd went. Gar, by far the most attached to her, had taken it hard. In subsequent months, he'd stayed with the Titans, but it was like his heart wasn't in it anymore.

Raven didn't blame him for his feelings, having long felt the urge to get out and be alone. To grow into someone else, without the Titans there to define her. She doubted she'd ever actually do it, being a Titan was so much integral to her. It was all she'd ever known. Beast Boy, on the other hand, could be many things, and had been. Titan was just among the list.

Gar continued to smile at her, keeping silent lest she throw something at him like she had several days ago when he'd interrupted her morning meditation with a rousing rendition of "Livin' La Vida Loca". He didn't really know why he'd wanted to irritate her so much, just knew that he enjoyed it when she glared at him and threatened him. She was so much prettier, and human-looking, when she was angry. Not that he could really talk about human-looking. How many humans do you know who are green? Everywhere. Yes. Everywhere.

He started a pot of coffee, idly washing out the kettle she'd used for her tea. He also started some oatmeal for breakfast, a copious amount given how much he and Cyborg alone would eat of it. Raven wouldn't eat any, though. Gar doubted that he'd seen her eat a dozen times in the long time he'd known her. Her lack of appetite was probably why she was always so small and frail looking. He'd only noticed just how petite she was when he himself had experienced a growth spurt (if one could call growing a foot a "spurt"). Sometimes he found himself wanting to feed her, if only to see her a bit healthier looking. It wasn't anything a good teammate wouldn't want to do, though.

"Something is going to happen."

Gar turned when Raven spoke from where she'd gone to stand near the window, slowly caressing the glass with her small fingers. "What?"

"Something is going to happen today."

"What do you mean?" He asked, wiping his hands on a clean dish towel nearby and wandering over.

"I can feel it. On the edge of my senses. Something is waiting."

"Like what?"

"Time."

"Time?"

"I saw a ghost just now."

"A ghost?"

Raven smiled, but her eyes were far away, staring into dimensions of thought he could never even hope to grasp. Gar settled for leaning on the window and taking her hand as it smooth over a non-existent ripple in the glass. "A ghost?" He repeated.

"I think it was a ghost," she answered, looking him in the eyes. None of the other Titans could make him feel this way with just a look. Like he was better than he was, like he could do things he couldn't even begin to imagine. "It moved, ran through the room, but when I looked at it, it wasn't there."

Gar raised his eyebrows and smiled. "Yeah?"

Raven yanked her hand from his. "You don't need to mock me."

He continued to smile. "I didn't."

She seethed. "You did."

"Didn't."

"Did."

"Didn't."

"Did!" Before he could reply again, she lightly tapped him on the chest. "See to your oatmeal. I'll figure this out on my own." She started to storm away, and he watched with some amusement as she did so.

"Okay, but if this strange invisible person shows up again, let's hope you're not in the shower!" He called behind her (though the thought of Raven in the shower was intriguing).

Gar shook his head, and turned back to his rapidly burning oatmeal, not giving another thought to the strange sayings of the strange Raven.