It had been three years since Raven's father Trigon tried to take over the world by using her as a portal to get in. That fight has ended but still haunts her, knowing that her father would try and escape shard he is trapped in that now lies on her forehead. Every day she wakes up and sees it, it is a constant reminder of what could have been. Damian is the only person she allows into her mind and talks about what she is feeling. Damian decided not to return to the Batcave with Bruce and Nightwing shortly after joining the titans.

He wants to be with his new team at Titans Tower with Beetle, Cyborg, Starfire, Beastboy and Raven. He has grown tremendously from his experience with his new team physically, mentally and emotionally. He is now 16 and has grown about a foot taller, toner muscles, thicker hair, and a slightly deeper voice. He has also gained emotions such as worry, happiness, trust and faith, not like his stoic behavior he had when he was younger. All of them have grown up, Raven was now 17, Beastboy is 15, and Beetle is 18. Raven has grown into a beautiful young woman. Her hair was longer, she grew a little taller and had a toned body with slightly bigger breasts. Jaime Reyes has learned to gain almost full control of the scarab on his back. He has also grown a little taller and toner and keeps his hair in a shaven Mohawk. Garfield has mastered his animal shapeshifting abilities. He has also learned that when the team travels to a new world that he is able to morph into not just animals of Earth, but animals of the planet they are on as well. But with Trigon out of the way, new villains emerge. There is a new villain that keeps coming back to the city and then disappearing as soon as the team gets close to taking him down. Damian and Bruce have worked together to try and figure out who he is but the newspapers have already given him a name, Deadshot.

March 03 3:19am

Smoke filled the room, there's no way you would be able to see even ten feet in front of you. Assassins cornered Damian from every direction you could look. They were all completely covered in black, black masks, body suits, and footwear. Every single assassin was equipped with a large silver bracelet that went from their wrist to their elbow and it held a weapon of some sort along with a belt on their waists that held a sword and cherry bombs. Damian pulls out his blade and begins to go to work taking them down one by one. It seemed for every one he took down, three would take their place. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted Raven and Starfire in the air trying to take them all down. Then out of nowhere the smoke had cleared. It revealed Cyborg, who was taken apart piece by piece and Beastboy's lifeless body on the ground closest to Deadshot. He then crouched down and hid within the masses of assassins, disappearing from sight. Beetle appeared hurt on the ground next to Damian.

"How are we supposed to take all these guys down, there's too many of them." Beetle mentioned to Damian.

"We will find a way, just keep—" Damian was cut off just as Deadshot fired a shot straight at Starfire hitting her in the middle of her stomach and exiting her back in 7 different spots from 7 tiny shards that were once the whole bullet.

She went down. Damian and Beetle stared in complete shock and Raven was screaming. Their team leader down, but Damian refused to stand down even with three titans dead and only three were left. Gripping his sword tighter he started taking down the assassins again one by one. Beetle and Raven were blasting them as quick as they could but Deadshot was faster and fired another shot at Beetle this time. The bullet hit the scarab on his back, paralyzing Jaime Reyes instantly as he went down.

"Four titans down, two to go. You can't stop me Damian." Deadshot said

"Raven, we have to find him and take him down, he is hiding somewhere in this crowd of assassins." Damian looked at Raven who was hovering above him desperately searching and fighting off the sword attacks and mini bombs.

As Damian starts dismembering the assassins he catches a glimpse of a red eye in the crowd. Just as he goes to yell to Raven that he has spotted Deadshot he hears a single shot go off. He turns up toward her just to see her holding her left side right above her hip bone. When she pulls her hand away blood instantly starts pouring out onto the ground below her next to Damian. She starts to lose consciousness and begins to fall. Damian was able to catch her just to see the life leave her eyes. He brushes back her hair and tears begin to fall in anger. He looks up to notice all the assassins have disappeared and it is just Deadshot holding a single handgun in front of Damian aimed between his eyes. He lets his head fall; he had lost and given up. He continued to hold Raven tighter as he knew his fate had been sealed.

"I told you, you couldn't stop me. You should have pulled back the team while you had the chance to save some of them. You failed." he said. Just as he starts to pull the trigger, Damian's eyes shoot open.

Damian sat on his bed with his feet over the edge holding his head in his hands. He had realized it was a dream but it felt too real. His head was pounding to the point when he stood up to head for the kitchen he nearly lost his footing and went tumbling to the ground. Once in the kitchen he walked to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water and sat down at the island and held the cold water bottle to his head. It took him about 30 seconds sitting in the kitchen to realize he wasn't alone. He stood up quickly and looked around spotting Raven meditating above the couch.

"What the hell Raven! I could have killed you." Damian said.

"That would have been kind of hard to do considering you have nothing to hurt me with besides your fists and I would have sensed you long before that. So, what are you doing up at 3:30am? Couldn't sleep?" she replied.

"Something like that, what are you doing up? Couldn't sleep?" he mocked.

"It's not that I can't sleep, I just don't want to. I keep having the same dream over and over and it is almost too real. It feels more like a memory then it does a dream." She responded.

"I feel the same way, the same thing has been happening to me. It's hard to explain I guess." He said.

"Then let me see it for myself, come here." She said

"Trust me Raven you don't want to see what I have seen. I know we have done this a few times before but I can't risk hurting you again." He said

"Just let me try and help you, please. You can't fool me I know when something is bothering you, I'm an empath remember?" she replied

"Alright, you win but I warned you." He said

Damian moved from his standing position in the kitchen and walked to the living room. He walked around the couch just as Raven gently floated down sitting on the couch sideways. She then patted the couch cushion in front of her motioning him to take a seat facing her. She didn't notice until he was in front of her that he was shirtless and wearing pajama black pajama pants. She blushed slightly as he bent over to take a seat showing off his incredibly sculpted arms and abs. He looked like a smaller, younger version of Nightwing. Once in front of her she began to glow with a black purple haze around her and her eyes began to glow white.

"Just relax and close your eyes." She said to him

He complied with her request and closed his eyes. She gently grabbed the sides of his head and they both began to levitate. It didn't take her long to be shown flashing images of his dream. She caught glimpses of her teammates being tortured by assassins and slowly being picked off by Deadshot. She was when shown then entire clip from her death to Damian's. Just as quickly as this process began it ended with her being thrown halfway across the room being completely shut out of Damian's mind. He fell straight down on the couch and his eyes shot open with the same pain in his head from before. He then noticed raven half way across the room holding her left side. Damian leaped off the couch and grabbed Raven into his arms.

"Raven, what happened? Please look at me snap out of it." He said holding her.

"Ahhhh, hmm." She said in pain

"Come on Raven snap out of it, please!" he said grabbing the side of her face with one hand.

Her eyes closed and the black purple haze started to go away and her body began to go limp. The color returned to her and her eyes opened and were no longer glowing white. The episode had finally passed. She sat up from his hands holding her head.

"Thanks for the headache." She said

Damian let out a small laugh before helping her to her feet with an arm around her waist and another holding her arm over his shoulder to balance her.

"Well, what did you see?" he asked

"Damian, can we talk about this in the morning. Please don't ask why or what I saw, I need time to process it all. Could you walk me to my room? Doing that kind of drained me, I feel a little light headed." She said

"I won't ask I promise, and I can do better than that. Now you know why I can't sleep and why I wake up from my dreams feeling like you do right now. " He said as he picked her up into his arms and began the walk to her room.

"I don't understand how you can deal with it every night." she said as she wrapped her other arm around Damian's shoulder and rested her head on his opposite shoulder.

Once they reached Ravens room Damian entered it and laid her down in her bed. She thanked him for carrying her to her room and they exchanged good nights with each other before Damian stopped at her door and looked back at her.

"Thank you Raven." He said quietly as he walked out and shut her door behind him.