I don't own the Teen Titans.

I had accepted who I was a long time ago. It wasn't in till she made me want to change, to be a better person, that I started to question myself. When my children ask me in the future of what had changed my mind, I will answer in two words, her eyes. The purple orbs that could stare into my very soul, could send someone to another dimension, and yet make them want to stay. Those eyes... those eyes made me want to change and be a better person. It all started on the day that I saw those eyes.

It was in the middle of the summer, and the dawn was warm. I knew that they would be coming, they always did. The difference between me and other bad guys was I didn't embrace that fact, didn't milk it for every thing that it was worth, didn't enjoy the anticipation, the waiting, before in the end I would get caught. It was just another part of life, an annoyance, that I had to live through.

Sure I appreciate the fact that it was Robin that made my suit for me to steal. Yes, I admit it Cyborg was a genius when it came to technology and computers, Beast Boy was easy going and not afraid to laugh at his mistakes, something that I lacked. Starfire was just plain annoying with her naive personality and who's only contribution to the group was her powers. Raven, however, remained a mystery. Every single Titan had a file in my apartment with every detail of their lives on them, that is except for her. I knew her team mates limits, strengths and weaknesses, but hers I was unaware of.

She was dangerous, a threat to my operation, and yet the only weakness I had been able to find was to close her mouth when she was saying a spell. Something I knew she could easily overcome if she so desired and yet, here we were. With me frustrated and her as mysterious and aloof as ever.

On that day I was prepared for every single one of them, but her.

The sun was just beginning to rise and I knew that it was going to be a hot day. I was in the middle of Star Labs stealing the thing that they held closest to them, the Titans DNA. It was to be the greatest heist that I have pulled off, and it was key to my operation. Slade wanted to end the Teen Titans but I knew that they weren't the important ones, my targets was higher, way higher. The only thing in my way was the Titans, they weren't my goal, they were my stepping stone.

No one had ever infiltrated Star Labs, but then again, no one had ever had the guts to go into one of Robin's safes. I looked over my plan for the very last time in my apartment before slipping the mask over my face. I jumped over each of the buildings and ran on the roofs. There was something about running on a roof, feeling the wind through the mask, feeling as though no one can touch you. I smiled despite myself, there was so little pleasure in life, and I always indulged in this one.

I picked the perfect time to do this, Star Labs was hosting a small ball, making the security more lax. I watched as the guards let people in fancy clothing go into the building. The Justice League couldn't make it tonight and so their loyal sidekicks, the Teen Titans, were there to take their place. It meant that they were right under my nose, but then again I was under theirs as well.

Reluctantly I took off my mask and costume, revealing the tuxedo underneath.

"Good morning Sir. May I please see your invitation?" I gave him my fake invite with my fake name. "All right Mr. Smith you may enter, the ballroom is to the left." I nodded at him and made my way through the plush carpeting that they had put in for the occasion. My plan was to stay almost invisible in till the Titans had left the hall way where they were greeting guests.

The ballroom held socialites and their husbands all gossiping about why the ball was held in the morning instead of the typical evening. My favorite theory was that Raven was the opposite of a vampire in the way that they couldn't be in the sun, while she couldn't be in the dark. Typically Raven did in fact avoid nightfall like the plague, the reason I had yet to discover.

As I was thinking this someone behind me cleared their throat. "Excuse me sir but you are blocking the emergency exit, I will have to ask you to please find another spot to stand. It's just a safety precaution, sir." I turned around when the low gravelly voice had finished and was surprised to see Raven there. As usual she was wearing her leotard and hood, unlike the rest of her team who were dressed up to the occasion.

"I am sorry, I didn't know. You are Raven, correct?" She looked up at me and yet I couldn't see her face, even her eyes had slight shadows over them, but I could tell that they were uncaring.

"Some people call me that, have a good morning, sir." With that abrupt answer she hurried off to the front of the room, leaving behind angry people that she had simply pushed past. I watched as she walked away and wondered about the information that was missing on all files of her. I may have a mission and the Titans may just be a stepping stone but I couldn't help but wonder about her. She was the mystery that I would never get to solve but couldn't help but hope that someday I would get the chance.

Carefully I snuck back into the background of the crowd, doing mindless mingling to avoid suspicion. When people stopped coming in the Titans started coming into the ballroom, one by one. They each gave Raven a nod as they came in and when Robin finally came in she instead whisked away from the ballroom.

For a few minutes I allowed myself to watch the Titans, they seemed prepared for me. Instead of all five of them playing host and hostess they had made sure that one of them was ready for battle. But only one, all five of them may be able to stop me but one, one would just make a little bit of a scene.

I didn't come all this way to cower at the last second, so when Robin was making the toast I quietly slipped out the back towards the actual lab section of the building. I knew the designs to this building inside and out in just a few minutes I had reached the safe in which I knew they kept their most important files and discoveries.

I walked across the room with an X already prepared in my hand to crack the safe. "Why hello there, Mr. Matthew Smith was it? Before you waste your time what you are looking for isn't in there."

I looked up and saw Raven sitting cross-legged on the beams in the ceiling, no emotion showing through the shadows of her hood.

"Why hello there little bird, why are you all alone? Where is the rest of your team?"

"You know perfectly well where they are Mr. Smith. That isn't what is important at the moment. The thing that is important is that you chose Matthew Smith as you alias, seriously? Can you get a more generic name than that? And they say you are smart."

"Yeah well not everyone can have an education in….. where did you go to school exactly? That's right, nobody knows. But how about we skip this idle chit chat and get to business. You saw the DNA isn't there and I bet you know where it is, yet you haven't attacked me. So the question remains are you going to help me or fight me?"

"Neither. You are just going to leave without causing a fuss or giving us attention."

"Now why exactly would I do that, Raven?"

"I never said that you had a choice, X."

The dark energy had picked me up before I even had the chance to think of a response. Before I knew it I was in the back of the T-Car shivering from the teleportation. I was unable to speak, unable to think, the energy was cold, so cold. When it finally stopped we were in front of an alley in the middle of the bad part of town.

"Okay, X so this is how it is going to work. Lie to me, you see a different dimension, mess with me, you see a different dimension, no tricks, trust me you don't want to mess with me right now."

"It seems sweetheart that you only have one threat. There are multiple things that you have banned me from doing and yet you only listed one threat. Is a different dimension the worst you can do? I know that heroes don't kill or torture so there is really not that many options available to you."

The only thing that happened in response of my outburst was the door to the T-Car opening. "You know what? You are in my way; sweetheart and I unlike you have no morals. So I think that I am just going to go now."

The dark energy was back and when it stopped again we were in a shady motel room.

"That's where you are wrong X, I don't have morals. Not about this, most certainly not about this. The world is in danger X, and that affects you to."

I didn't reply.