They broke apart after a few seconds, both parties panting heavily as they stared at each other. It wasn't really much of a wow-that-was-absolutely-brilliant stare from Raven, but more of an oh-fuck-I-just-made-out-with-our-team-leader kind of stare.

It was pretty much a stare of horror and disbelief.

"You know, at the way you're looking now, you are starting to make me feel like some sort of freak," Robin said carefully, looking away to avoid Raven's horrified gaze. "Does my breath smell bad or something?"

Raven fought to regain her composure. It was harder than usual, much to her annoyance. When she opened her mouth, she realised her voice was still slightly shaky. "Um, no. Of course not."

Robin raised an eyebrow at her. "Then?"

"I'm still trying to process how I ended up kissing you." The words flew out of her mouth before she could even think. There was an awkward silence between her and the leader as she mentally kicked herself for her stupidity. Now if she could just find a hole somewhere to crawl in and die...

"Are we honestly going to have the post-kiss rationalization talk?" Robin groaned as if she hadn't said anything that stupid, running a hand through his hair.

Raven smiled faintly. This was the old Robin again, the one who knew how to get out of difficult situations in the easiest way possible. "Why? Feel hurt?"

"Ouch," Robin affirmed, putting a fist to his heart exaggeratedly. "Right here."

"Shut up," Raven replied monotonously, trying to keep the amusement out of her voice. "Don't play cute with me."

Robin dropped his fist and waggled a finger at her. "I'm sorry, you're not allowed to use that word on me. It insults my male dignity."

Raven scoffed at his arrogance, relaxing as the awkward situation diffused. "I don't really need to care when your male dignity is concerned, since I've seen nearly everyth - "

"Raven!" Both Raven and Robin flinched as Beast Boy's voice wafted towards them from the crowds. Cursing inwardly, Raven turned to find the green changeling strolling towards them with Starfire in tow. He seemed to have sobered up a bit, although he was still flushed. This is not good. Raven watched nervously as the duo make their way across the room towards them, a multitude of excuses for their presence running through her head. She could somehow tell Robin was doing the same too, at the way he stiffened and pursed his lips. The very lips she made contact with just now. Oh my god. I can't believe I'm actually replaying some romcom scene in my head when we are in so much trouble.

Beast Boy stopped short at the sight of Robin, paling visibly. "Uh, Rob?"

Momentarily surprised at Beast Boy's tone, Robin exchanged questioning glances with Raven before answering, "Yes?"

"W-What are you doing here?" Beast Boy stammered. His eyes widened in realization as he turned around to look at Raven accusingly. "You ratted on me! Even after I told you not to! Rae, I can't believe you betrayed me - "

"What?" Raven asked, confused. At the way Robin stiffened again, she could tell he knew what Beast Boy was talking about. Unfortunately, she was clueless. "I have no idea what you're talking ab - "

" - I thought you were my best friend, you evil demon - "

" - out, I didn't even know you were here - "

" - you brought Starfire too, didn't you? I can't believe it - "

"Friend Beast Boy? I came with Robin - "

"OKAY, SHUT UP!" Robin yelled, glaring at the three of them. Raven closed her eyes resignedly. Here we go. It was about time he resumed his leadership duties.

"You," Robin pointed at BB. "Are in big shit. I know you planned this behind my back, and no, Raven didn't say anything, I happen to have sudden telepathic powers, okay? Yes, I'm telling the truth. I even know you nearly brought Cyborg along on this merry date. Don't ask me how."

"How?"

Robin refused to answer the question. "And you," he turned to Starfire. "Shouldn't be in a place like this. It looks fun but it's not. Trust me. And what you saw in me, it's all fake. I was putting up a show, but I can't go on anymore. Not this way."

Starfire's face registered a nearly non-existent form of understanding.

Beast Boy's face brightened. "So you're really gay?"

"No," Robin seethed. "For the record, I'm not gay." He shot a glare at Raven, who quickly ignored it.

"Now, we're all going home. Raven and I need to tell you guys something." As Robin stalked past them towards the door, he muttered to Raven under his breath, "LGBT? Seriously? You didn't think of dragging her away?"

Raven shrugged her shoulders, following him as he walked out of the club. Now was the time to face the titans.

"This better be good, Rob," Cyborg grumbled, shifting restlessly on the couch. "My baby needs fixing."

The titans were gathered in the living room, with Beast Boy, Starfire, and Cyborg seated on the couch. Robin was standing in front of them, his arms crossed as he leaned against the wall behind him.

"Your baby?" Starfire asked Cyborg, her eyes brightening.

"Car," Cyborg replied patiently, raising his hands as if turning an invisible steering wheel. "Baby equals car, car equals baby."

"Stop teaching her wrong things, Cy," Robin said tiredly. He looked pointedly at Raven, who was trying to blend into the back of the couch where she was standing. Feeling a bit guilty, she gave him a small encouraging smile, hoping he would be able to cover everything with as little collateral damage as possible without her help.

Her lousy attempt at a smile didn't work. "You might want to come up here to help me out a bit," Robin said sarcastically.

Sighing inwardly, Raven trudged to the front of the couch, positioning herself just next to Robin. She felt awkward standing in the middle of the expectant stares the other titans were giving her, and she forced herself not to pull her hood up. She had to help Robin in this.

"Okay," Robin took a deep breath. "Rae and I have had a little... problem recently, and we just managed to, uh, resolve it. We don't think it's fair to keep you guys in the dark about it, so we're going to tell you now. And what I'm going to say is all true, so please try to believe me. No, BB, I'm not going to announce that I'm gay, because I'm not."

Beast Boy slumped considerably.

"Approximately eight days ago, we had a body switch. We don't know how it happened or why it happened. All we know is that both of us were doing our own things in the Tower, and we were forced out of our bodies in a split second. I was in the training room and Raven was on the roof at the time of the incident. We met up in the training room after the switch and tried figuring things out from there. Hence, the messed up room. It was my fault, Cy. I'm sorry."

Cyborg seemed too stunned to accept the apology. His face reminded Raven unpleasantly of the moment when she had to grope Robin.

Robin went on, undeterred by the titans' confused silence. "We've been trying to live as each other for the past few days. Star confessed to the Raven version of me, and by the way I still have no idea why you two were in that god forsaken club. Beast Boy dragged the me version of Raven to that same club." Beast Boy flinched, his face showing some nervousness. Raven realized Robin had conveniently left out the part about her telling Starfire he was gay. He probably didn't want the trouble.

Raven finished it for him. "We just got back our own bodies in the club. We don't know how." She didn't want to risk him telling the titans about the kiss. She wanted to keep it her own little secret. Even though that made her sound like a love sick teenage girl. And Starfire was probably still dealing with the revelation that she had just confessed to a girl.

Robin didn't question Raven's hasty conclusion to the explanation. "So that's what happened. Any questions?"

The titans were still staring at them slack-jawed. It was a while before anyone spoke up, and that was Cyborg. "Fuck me, you guys should have worn name-tags."

"Eight days?" Beast Boy choked. "That was like thirty one, no wait, thirty two times I asked the Raebin hybrid if he was gay!"

"You can address me as Robin, thank you very much," Robin scowled.

"Thirty two?" Raven raised an eyebrow at Robin.

The leader's scowl got deeper. "Four times a day. I'm not kidding."

"Ouch." Raven suppressed a laugh, which she knew was the last thing she should do given the situation.

Starfire looked at the two, her mouth opening and closing as if she was going to say something. Raven felt a deep sense of guilt at having confused the poor alien, who had no clue what was going on at all. In fact, she had been played for a fool. Without thinking, she walked over to Starfire and laid a hand hesitantly on her shoulder. It wasn't something she would do at all, but she felt that she owed it to her. The alien deserved this much. "I'm sorry, Starfire. I didn't mean to trick you in that way."

The alien smiled weakly. "Do not worry, friend Raven. I do not feel sad at all. Is that strange?"

Any sane person would have said no. Saying it wasn't strange would have made everything more light-hearted, and any normal human being would have tried to comfort the alien by saying that no, she wasn't weird, in fact, she was doing the right thing.

But Raven, being the demoness she was, didn't have human thoughts like that. She replied truthfully, "Yes, actually."

Cyborg and Robin glared at her. Only Starfire laughed at that, her face relaxing into a happy expression. "I thought so too!" With that, she glided away happily towards her room, leaving four very dumbfounded titans behind.

There was another long silence.

"Okay, someone explain to me what just happened?" Beast Boy complained. "I thought we were talking about some body switch thing! Why the whole unnecessarily confusing and pointless conversation?"

Cyborg shrugged. "No idea." He rubbed his chin pensively. "Rob, do you really not know why you switched bodies with Raven and not anyone of us?"

The leader sighed. "No clue. I don't even know how we switched, much less - " He froze. "Oh."

Raven perked up at his change of tone. "Figured out something?"

"Rain." He turned around to face her. Looking full into his face nearly threw her back into her fangirlish memories of kissing him. Throwing the thought away, she focused on the topic at hand. Rain? What does rain have to do with all of this?

And then it came to her. The rain when she was meditating on the rooftop eight days ago. The raindrops pattering on the window of the toilet in the club.

Robin laughed helplessly then, leaning back against the wall. "I can't believe it. And we spent hours in your room reading about supernatural fairy tales."

"Fairy tales?" Raven felt slightly insulted. "When you see Trigon again, remind me how fairy-like he must be."

"Excuse me?" Beast Boy cut in. "Can someone explain to me what's going on? Were we supposed to get the answer to the world just by hearing the word 'rain'?"

"The rain made us switch," Robin said. "We switched back because it rained again."

"You still don't know who changed you guys?" Cyborg asked doubtfully.

"Not that we know of," Robin replied resignedly. "We thought it might have been Puppet Master, but he's as good as dead from what I know."

"That's it," Beast Boy threw his hands up in the air frustratedly. "I've had enough of this mindfuckery. I'm going to sleep, and when I wake up tomorrow, you guys better be wearing name-tags."

When the titans retired for the night after that, Raven went back to her room, sinking into the pillows gratefully. Relishing at the feel of her own body again, she quickly crossed her legs and held her hands in the meditating position. This was something she missed so dearly.

As she allowed herself to sink into her thoughts, a sharp knocking on her door snapped her out of her peace. She glared daggers at the door. Why couldn't people just leave her alone? Especially when she just got her own body back!

Stalking to the door, she pressed the button, preparing her most unfriendly look to whoever was on the other side. Until the door swished open to reveal Robin.

Whatever Raven was prepared to say got stuck in her throat. Looking at him just kept reminding her of the kiss, and the more she remembered it, the more she wanted to relive it. Swallowing nervously, she poked her head out of the corridor to see if anyone was passing by before allowing the leader in.

Robin walked into the room, collapsing onto the chair in the corner as if it was his room. Well, it did use to be his room. For eight days. "You're not afraid Cy's going to walk into your room since he probably knows the code anyway?"

It wasn't a very smart question, but Raven answered it anyway. Anything to make the mood less tense. "You know he doesn't dare to enter my room. It's still a living nightmare for BB and him."

A small smile touched Robin's lips. It disappeared in a flash. "Okay. I just thought I'd come by and get some things straightened out."

Raven found herself holding her breath. Was this the part where he said the kiss was an absolute mistake? That he couldn't muster the courage to tell her he was sorry for leading her on? She kept her face emotionless. The very thing she was excellent at.

"I'm sorry," Robin started, his tone hesitant. Something heavy seemed to settle into Raven's chest. She knew it. This had to happen anyway. How could she even consider kissing him just because she knew so much more about him in a span of eight days? It was embarrassing.

"That's okay," she said quickly, maintaining her neutral tone. "We can forget it."

"Forget it? I don't think this is something we can just forget."

"Then?"

"Actually, I was going for something more like 'I'm sorry but I really want to kiss you again'."

Raven's heart skipped a beat. Yes, her demoness heart skipped a beat. "Oh."

"'Oh'? Is that all you can say?" Robin held up his fist and opened it, revealing a crumpled piece of paper. "I wrote a little script, but it turned out to be pretty useless." He flung the ball of paper into the waste bin with his normal impeccable precision.

Raven suppressed a laugh. "A script? Are you joking?"

"No," Robin said, looking a little offended. His face lightened up slightly, his mouth widening to show her one of his trademark smirks. "But I'm guessing you're not going to say no."

In a flash, he was in front of her, his face so close she could feel his breath on her nose. It's going to happen again. I'm going to repeat the mistake of my life again. "I'm not going to say yes," she muttered, unable to tear her eyes away from his mask.

"But you're not going to say no," came his reply before his lips came crashing down on hers.

It felt simply amazing. Raven didn't really know how to describe the next few seconds. It started with feeling the warmth of his lips, then his tongue, and then she just couldn't remember what she felt anymore. She was lost in the moment, lost in him.

And then the sound came. Raven wasn't sure if she heard it right, but at the way Robin jerked away from her, she was sure she wasn't imagining things.

It was, unmistakably, a thunder clap.

Robin glanced out of the window and then back at her, his arms still around her waist. When he spoke, his voice had a tone of finality and resignation in it. Raven's emotions mirrored his exactly. "Raven, you're going to have to promise not to use the toilet without me."

"You can tell me that later."

"It's less awkward to say it now. When you go back into my room, don't wear that pair of jeans you made me wear to the club. It's a sponsor's gift, I've never worn it before."

"It looks nice on you," Raven protested mildly. "Better than that traffic light suit you love oh so much." She could feel the pressure of the soul change on her mind, but she fought it, refusing to give in that fast.

She decided to keep talking to focus on him. "Don't make a mess of my room. Don't touch the mirror."

"I'm going to kiss you again."

Before Raven could ask why, they were doing it again. And then the blackness came, but also with the reassurance that they would have each other again anyway.

The rain would come again.

Eventually.