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"Probably. I don't think there are very many of those just strutting around Jump." Griffin shrugged, wedging a hand into his hair. He frowned slightly as he continued to talk, his voice growing calm from the frantic yelling it had been when he was outside. "I think for now I'm probably fine. I'll go home and get all the locks changed, probably keep some of my stuff with the neighbors. They already think I'm paranoid, it probably wouldn't be any different."

He froze at the sound of a familiar voice. Oh, my... He slowly turned as they were joined by two others. "My God, Rena?" His jaw dropped. He hadn't seen her since, well, since they had thought she had gotten herself killed. She still seemed the same to him, from what he remembered, but there was something almost harder about her appearance now. Pehaps it was the hair? He doubted it, it was almost a sort of confidence. Still, there was a part of him that couldn't resist a smirk. "You... Gosh... When did you get back?"

He hadn't learned yet of the current situation between Rena and the rest of the Titans, especially Athena.

He had been about to say something to Serenity to introduce himself, but he paused. She evidently knew who he was, and the smirk slipped from his face. From her introduction, he assumed they had never met. "Hi there," he muttered, his cheeks blazing. He knew most of the people in room, but it was this new girl who made him feel awkward. Maybe it was the way she already had the security camera footage. It was almost ironic that he seemed more weirded out by this blonde than the girl whose eyes showed no emotion. He quickly took a couple of steps to pick up the disc.

"Foresight?" he asked after a moment as his finger carried the disc to his face. He frowned slightly at it before glancing around to peer individually at each person in the room.

[Athena 'Shift' Logan]

"Serenity's a precog.", Shift volunteered, thinking herself forgotten as Rena and then Serenity walked in the room, and confirming Griffin's guess. Of course, it was fun to see Griffin thrown out of whack, since he was much more the kind to roll with the punches than to even raise an eyebrow at, say, floating pink elephants. The shape shifters' expression shifted almost as fast as her body could, from slightly amused and worried to annoyed. And worried too, of course.

"And Rena", Athena stated, voice as chilly as her narrowed green-brown eyes. "- got back a few months ago. She's a teleporter now.", the Titan added, for Griffin's benefit - he wouldn't know of her new power, if he hadn't even known she was back from hat everyone had presumed was her rather firey death. "And she also knows she isn't welcome here." Athena shifted her weight from one foot to both feet, ready to attack.

She hung back, however - mostly because Rena wasn't doing anything yet, except trespassing and being vague as usual. Besides, the dark haired teleporter might know something about the recent theft; she knew alot of things in advance, much to the annoyance of the peirced green female standing by the control center of the Titans Tower.

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Yeah I am" Rena said shrugging, disappearing to reappear to lean on a wall maybe 10 feet away to prove that she was. "I've got powers now" she said smiling, at Griffin, nodding to Serenity in a friendly greeting, and then as she turned to Shift, she turned a bit more somber, rather than happy. "And I"m here on a different matter I'm afraid" she said, getting up off the wall, and walked back to where she was. "but for now, you're matter seems more important, a communicator gone and one could hack into the frequencies rather easily" She said, holding up Shift's communicator, having pick-pocketed a second time.

Serenity sighed and glared at the two other teenage girls in the room, "Ok let's just not do this again. I'm really not in the mood." She said with an eye roll. What had gone down in the training room was bad enough she didn't want a repeat. She would have gone over and gotten the comunicator from Rena herself but Athena was oh so good at it.

She turned to Griffin instead, "Thena left out a few things," She sighed and continued on, she wasn't going to deal with Athena and Rena right now, and he seemed like the most reasonable person in the room at the moment. "Rena is also a precog," she said not realizing that she was using the term everyone used to describe her that she usually avoided using, "She only has about a five second time on it though, oh and they could start killing each other at any moment." she said as an after thought.

That was beginning to get on her nerves, yes Rena did want to cause trouble but she really wasn't that big of a problem just an annoyance if you let her be. Serenity never really noticed it as she usually was more annoying than most people.

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Griffin nodded to the mention of Serenity's powers. That probably came in handy, but then again, so did most of their powers. Athena could be stealthy and strong, this Serenity girl could see things before they happened, and now Rena- well. His head tilted to one side as they mentioned that. He was conflicted between being glad or upset. He hadn't remembered anything particularly bad about her, but it was obvious that Shift was working to keep it cool, and Serenity had seen something bad go down between the two of them.

He, however, could not wipe the smug smirk off of his face as Rena held up a communicator. He assumed it wasn't hers', after all, if she wasn't welcome, she wouldn't have one. "It could have just been some kid looking for a cheap thrill, but having that stolen from a locked box doesn't seem normal." Griffin shrugged, glancing at the security disk once more. For the time being, he didn't comment on the obvious tension that was building in the room. "It could just be my old paranoia kicking in."

The smirk faded slightly for a moment. He glanced at Rena. "That seems like a drastic change," he responded. He still seemed optimistic, but there was something hesitant about his tone of voice. The sight glance he shot at Athena didn't help matters. It was obvious that he hadn't been combing the Super rumor mill as well as he thought. First, his apartment had gotten broken into. Now, it appeared that he didn't know Rena had been back for a couple of months, or that she had powers.

[Athena 'Shift' Logan]

"I'm not going to try and kill Rena.", Shift stated, protesting quietly, her voice mildly offended. Then the green girl ammended her statement. "Not right now at least. I'd have to clean up the bloodstains." Her eyes flashed a little in anger as she noticed Rena holding up a communicator. The thought flashed through her mind - was the Griffin's stolen one, maybe? - before a quick check on the desk, where the shape shifter had left hers, revealed that that was the one the teleporter was holding.

Again.

A sigh escaped the heroines' peirced lips as her arms folded across her chest. "Serenity, can you get Sorina to...?", the Titan leaded asked her blonde freind quietly, thinking of Sorina diving at Rena the way she had in the training room, and hoping the honorary Titan would 'see' her message. It had helped last time, at least a bit; maybe it would this time, without her having to chase after the long haired villianess and make Griffin think she was nuts or something.

Speaking of Griffin... The green teenagers' eyes flickered to her male former teammates' figure. "It could be your paranoia, but it's better to be safe. The team will help you check it out.", Athena said, being her usual bossy, decision-making self. Sitting around and doing nothing was defineatly not her style.

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"Easy Athena, I told you I'm not here to cause trouble" she said, teleporting back to the table and set it down in approximately the same spot. "Besides, if a communicator was my target, I'd just use MY old one" She added, and turned to Griffin. "I don't think it was any Petty thief if you ask me, it was one of them new-fangled super villains" she said, offering her piece, before stepping back, willing to let the debate between the Titans go. This was not her debate, she had chosen a different path.

Serenity smirked slightly at Rena's comment, that really did answer a question she had had, 'why didn't Rena have a plan.' it was something that had only halfway bugged her. She really did understand why the other girl was considered a villain but the odd thing was she wasn't that evil. People like Things like Canas were evil, and they were evil to the core, Rena was different.

"I agree with Rena this person is too good, their not planning anything out like most villains used to. It's really annoying because I can't see anything," she said with a grumble. She hated being blind, it really was one of her biggest fears, not being able to be useful to those who needed her because all of her powers revolved around sight, if she couldn't see, well that wouldn't be good.

Griffin simply stood there for a while. After all, it was all he could do. Apparently, dynamics between Athena and Rena had changed dramatically, in a way that he hadn't quite been expecting. Rena was apparently no longer wanted, and Athena seemed ready to lunge at her at any given time. Serenity seemed calm with the situation, maybe even amused by the distaste between the pair. He crossed his arms, listening to the banter and comments before finally responding with a nod.

"Alright, thanks, Shift." He winced slightly at the codename, but hey, he was in the Tower. He had left the Titans before. He figured he mine as well call her what the news programs did. His eyes quickly averted to Rena, who was apparently using her powers, and then Serenity, who supported the dark-haired girl. He nodded once more, slowly. "So it's someone who knows not to make decisions, who can easily navigate through my house. Or. It's just some moron who was messing around and has no idea where to do."

The first would be more exciting, he thought.

Griffin shrugged before wedging a hand in that messy mop of hair. He glanced once more at the blonde honorary Titan. "So you can only see decisions? Like, if someone decides which direction to walk to the store, you could see them walking that route?" It sounded like a foolish question, but to him it made sense.

[Athena 'Shift' Logan]

The look of annoyance on the green teenagers' face, she was sure, was pobably going to stick like that, what with Rena being around all the time and randomly popping up where she wasn't wanted. Reaching forward, the bTitan snatched up her communicator and hooked it firmly onto her belt, where it hung and clashed like a beacon of a large yellow T. After doing so, the Titan leader glanced from one ex-Titan to the other, then to Serenity, who looked frustrated and rather worried - or was that her?

Hearing Griffin's questions and his musings, the shape shifter felt her own brain start to whirl. "We don't have any villians who are specifically after us - the Titan team.", she stated aloud, pausing. "None that I've run into or heard about, anyway. And I don't think Nero would steal your communicator - he could easily just hack into the frequency, if he really wanted to.", Shift added, biting her peirced bottom lip as she tried to recall anyone who had a particular grudge against the superhero team.

Her eyes fell of theshaggy haired Griffin. "Do you have any enemies - someone from when you were a Titan who's still bugging you or something?", she asked, hoping that whoever the theif was would make some kind of decision quickly.

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