Hey, This fic is a rewrite of another story on here that I fell in love with and, since it stopped updating 5 years ago, I decided to pick it up and give it an ending. You can find the original story here ( fanfiction dot net/s/6025102/1/The-Rumor). The author is amazing and you should deff give (Thorn on a Rose) super big props. Anyhow without further, here we go.

The Rumor

The tower was blissfully quite as the Half-Demon resident was enjoying her book. The night had come in all its tranquil splendor. She had the tower to herself as the others went out on the town and she was put on watch duty. She never minded it though, the city though beating and bursting with life never offered her as much comfort as a good book and some alone time. Though, "A History of Krug the Kingmaker" was not a page turner by an length, it was very informative. And as her teachers have taught her, information is the strongest asset she could hope to get. She continued on in her studies when she felt some unsteady emotions on the edge of her empathic senses. Whoever it was was excited. As the presence neared she felt undertones of lust too. As the source got closer she was able to determine it was the teams resident green shape changer who was causing these emotions.

Raven sighed heavily inside. She had hoped for a nice evening. Cyborg was out at some Tech Conference, Garfield was, well, doing whatever he did to the town when he was alone, and Starfire and Robin had gone a date. Actually they were having a pretty serious date if Richard's feelings of dread and anticipation where to be trusted. At the Memory she felt a familiar sense of her stomach dropping at what it could mean. She didn't think it was possible, but the martial crime fighter must have finally gained enough courage to pop THE question to alien princess. Stop feeling sorry for yourself, you knew this day was coming. Raven chastised herself. Times where changing and Raven was wary of the future. But before she could allow herself to indulge in future what-if speculation Garfield barged into the common room and spotted her.

She hadn't even been given a chance to make a sarcastic comment about him being back early when he morphed into sparrow and flew past her, morphing into his humanoid shape just in time to clumsily land on the table in front of her staring at her intently. The intensity of his stare made Raven feel slightly unnerved even if the empath refused to show it. Instead she merely raised an eyebrow to him as a motion to just spit out what he had to say so she could get back to her book.

Garfield took a deep breath and burst out "Starfire and Richard broke up!".

Raven was not prepared for that line. She felt her eyes open more in shock while processing the news.

"I was downtown by that ritzy place to pick up a to-go order when I happened to see Richard and Star on the bench by the park" Beastboy said continuing his story.

"Wait, why did you get food there, I thought you said it was too pricey for you?" Raven asked, her mind grasping at the question as a chance to get her thoughts back on track.

"Oh, well y'know, stretching my wings for a bit." Garfield gave a forced chuckled. "Anyway that was when I overheard Robin tell Star he thinks they need some time apart and wants to break-up!"

Raven finally was able to get her mind around what was happening. The teams green trouble maker apparently decided to follow the two after seeing them on the street. However anything that he told her must be taken with a grain of salt. If anything He probably misheard and Richard was popping the question telling star he no longer wanted to be boyfriend and girlfriend, rather he wanted more. Raven looked back down at her book and began to pick up where she left off. no use in feeding the green leech in front of her. He usually leaves after a few minutes of ranting before he noticed she stopped listening.

Beastboy meanwhile was waving his arms excitedly and hopping around the living room in front of Raven as she sat on the couch trying to read, Beast Boy continued babbling and Raven did her best to ignore him deciding that he must have heard wrong. Her plan succeeded for the most part and Raven settled back into her calm sphere of relaxation, paying no attention to the bombardment of energy from her unwanted her calm was shattered when she heard a hormone charged exclamation from the pointy eared hero.

"Hey! Maybe now I'll get a chance to take Star out on a date! You know, show off the party monsters moves..."

SLAM

The loud thump of her book closing startled Beast Boy enough that he jumped and looked towards Raven, wondering what in the world he said to tick her off this time. As soon as he met her gaze Beastboy felt a chill in his veins. With her calm completely shattered after that last excited exclamation, the empath threw a death glare at Garfield that raised the hair on his neck and almost had him running out of the room in an instinctual bid to survive her wrath. Coldly, Raven rose from her cross-legged seated position and slipped the book under her left arm as she released some of her pent up irritation and loathing upon the clueless young man in front of her.

"First of all, you were not 'stretching your wings', you were snooping around for gossip by eavesdropping on private conversations. Second, I doubt you heard enough of the entire dialog between Richard and Koriand'r to draw such a farfetched conclusion. Third..." Here, unbeknownst to Raven, but all too apparent to Garfield, the half-demon's voice got slightly deeper and, well, demonic as she growled out her last point.

"Third, even if you heard correctly, you will not, under pain of dismemberment, attack Koriand'r with your hormone-driven attempts to woo her until she decides she is ready to date again."

The Half-Demons command startled Garfield enough to morph into a tortoise in a instinctual reaction to weather her wrath was quaking in his shell. Garfield was somehow able to get enough courage to put up a token of resistance.

"But, but what if the other guys try to ask her before I get a shot?"

Raven's snarl revealed very sharp teeth and her usual deep blue eyes began to show signs of red not at all attributed to a lack of sleep. Garfield's head retreated quickly and he stayed in his shell even as a pale hand picked him up gently and brought him eye level with her.

"Rest assured Garfield, they will not." Ravens tone was cool, crisp, and rung of finality.

Releasing him to bounce upon the cushions of the couch she had previously sat on she strode out of the living room and towards her private quarters. The empath struggled to control the sudden riot of emotions that had surfaced too quickly for her to suppress. As she entered her room, Raven took a quick glance down the hall that led to Starfire's chambers and her eyes settled on nothing but a fools hope. She was baffled by the little coil of excitement that wound its way around her heart and pressed painfully against her chest. When the mechanical door finally slid shut the only remainder of her presence in the hallway was a rapidly fading prayer that floated down the deserted wing.

"Oh Azar, I hope for both her sake and mine that Garfield is just making rumors again."