Prologue
After the death of Slade, the Titans mourned the loss of the bravest Titan they had ever known. Terra was 15 at the time of her supposed death. Terra sacrificed herself in order to defeat Slade and save the city from total destruction. Her death was in vain, as Slade was resurrected by Trigon to capture Raven to make her his portal to enter the world of the living on her 16th birthday. When Trigon had betrayed Slade, Slade formed a new partnership with the Titans in order to defeat the demon King. After Raven found her spark, she was able to defeat her demon father and turn the world back to normal. Slade had broken the Alliance and disappeared into the shadows of the night, never to be seen again. (This is where I start to change the story) Terra remained in her stone slumber after Trigon was defeated, the Titans tried many things, but nothing seemed to work.
Two years after the events of Ravens 16th birthday, the Titans began to grow apart. After Slade had disappeared, the crime rate dropped to the lowest it had ever been. Most of the villains remained imprisoned in high security prisons and all of the greater threats had been stopped. They constantly would fight about trying to find ways to bring Terra back, eventually they started blaming each other for not being able to stop it all. Raven remained estranged to the situation, she didn't want to partake in such pointless fights and waste energy on trying to screw everyone's heads on straight. She became more distant from the team as she sat back and watched them drift further apart. Shortly before her 19th birthday, they held one last team meeting. Robin had discussed with each Titan individually what they thought about splitting up, no one imposed, especially Raven.
After the break up, Robin returned to Gotham City to start a new chapter with Bruce Wayne. He had repulsed the idea at first, but as he gave it more thought, he really needed to see Bruce again. He needed to train and be better than he ever could be. Beast Boy decided to travel the world looking for his soul mate and life the vegan lifestyle to its fullest. Cyborg moved into the Titans East tower in order to pursue his relationship with Bumblebee. Starfire reconciled with her sister Blackfire. The two got a small apartment together outside of the city and spent most of their time chasing boys and shopping. Raven stayed in Jump City, the place where she spent most of teen and adult years, she had the tower all to herself and much preferred it that way. She was never the type to change things up, but she still felt the pain of losing her friends, particularly one, Terra. She decided that it would be best if she stayed in the city to help protect it from what possible threats that may come.
Raven had grown to be the strongest out of all of the Titans. She spent much of her alone time training and meditating relentlessly. She had mastered all sorts of spells and perfected her martial arts. She really didn't have much of anything else going on in her life. She spent most of her time as her alter ego Rachel Roth, but when crime had arose, she once again put on her cloak and answered the call.
Begin Story
Raven lived a very quiet life, often involving many promiscuous nights out at the bar. She discovered that she was into girls the older she got, as she never had time for relationships in her younger years. She never could really click with anyone but after Raven had turned 20, she had met a woman that changed her life, it was her first true love and her most painful heartbreak.
Raven sat down and thanks to her superhuman ears, had heard a young girl talking amongst her friends 4 tables in front of her. Raven looked up from her pizza and locked eyes with the girl. She was pretty, short, skinny, and very developed for a young woman of her age. Raven had guessed her to be about 18. The girl also had locked eyes with the blue eyed demon; her face had turned several shades of red as she continued to lock eyes with the dark haired beauty sitting in front of her.
Raven took the hint quite easily. She knew exactly what the strange girl was thinking just by her body language. Raven had noted that the strange girl had told her friends to go on without her. When they were alone, Raven made her way over to the lonely girl sitting down in front of her.
"Hey, I'm Rachel." She said with a smile.
"I'm Serenity." The girl said in return, cheeks as red as a tomato.
"What's a cute girl like you, doing in a place like this?" Raven asked curiously.
"Just grabbing a bite to eat with my friends, why are you here alone?"
"Just enjoying a slice of pizza, I'm more of a lone wolf."
"What do you do for a living?"
"I'm a bartender." Raven said politely.
"So I have seen you before." The girl sparked up as she recognized the strange pale beauty.
"So what do you do for a living?" Raven asked curiously.
"I like to write poetry, I sing, and I am quite a bookworm."
"I too like poetry, are you into the dark stuff?"
"Yes, actually here's one I've been working on." The young girl said as she slipped a piece of paper towards Raven.
Raven read over the poem and at the end was a phone number with a small note that read… 'text me sometime.'
"Wow, that was depressing." Raven said
"Too much?"
"No, it's perfect."
Raven looked at the girl, she had no intentions of getting to know her, only to get her in bed, but the longer they talked, the more attracted she became to the tiny brunette.
From that moment on Rachel and Serenity had begun talking and hanging out all the time. Raven didn't mind it at all, she found the girl to have similar tastes as her and that excited her, not to mention she was a very beautiful lady. Raven was now 22 years old, her relationship with Serenity was closer than ever her friend had openly admitted to being in love with her several times over the course of their friendship. Raven grew to have feelings for her friend as well, they began to spend more and more time together until one day Raven had finally mustered up enough courage to ask Serenity out.
It was a match made in heaven, they spent much time together reading, writing dark poems, and hanging out. Raven was happier than she had ever been in her entire life, but as goes life their relationship did not remain perfect forever. They began to argue a lot about pointless things and about other girls. The depression that ate away at Raven each day had also caused a strain in their relationship. One part that kept weighing on Raven's mind was her memories of a girl that she had once known. Her girlfriend had strangely reminded her of her former teammate Terra. Raven thought about Terra a lot over the time that she had been turned to stone. She was reminded about Terra daily, when her and her girlfriend had gotten along, she had strongly resembled Terra, but Serenity was different in her own way. This had led Raven to the thought of guilt. She didn't know why, but she decided that she wanted to try to help the girl. She seemed to miss her and the few memories that they had shared together. She had missed how outgoing Terra was and how happy she was, Raven always thought Terra was a good influence to her because she brought her genuine happiness.
She waited for 6 years for the cold girl to be free of her slumber, but never did her wish come true. When Raven was 24, she decided that it was time to fix something that had been eating away at her for a very long time. She had spent those 6 years learning dark magic and powerful reanimation spells. She was working very hard towards being able to free the fallen Titan.
Raven never really did trust Terra in the beginning, but her feelings had changed over the course of their time together. She had also put herself in Terra's shoes, Raven would have done that same thing had she been in Terra's situation, so she couldn't really blame the young Titan for her actions, everybody makes mistakes. She knew Terra had a good heart and in the end wanted to help herself, so that she could help other people. Raven was a very understanding person, and tried to see both sides to the story when she could, she did not waste time jumping to conclusions, she knew Terra had reasons for doing the things that she did, and for that, she could forgive her for all of her wrong doing.
She knew her relationship with Serenity was failing because her mind wasn't in the right spot. Something about the situation wasn't right, was Terra the one she had been after all these years? Their relationship as friends had ended so suddenly but very noble, Raven could not stop think of the sleeping girl.
One day, Serenity had left to go on a business trip for a couple months, and being alone made Raven muster up the strength to go visit Terra, she had finally found a spell to break her free of her stone slumber.
She walked up to the stone pillar that was her former team mate, she looked it over a few times. "Terra, if you can hear me… I'm sorry I've lost all this time, I hope this works, I need you to be okay… "
She looked down at her hand and gently placed one hand on Terra and one hand on her head. She began to chant the spell that would hopefully break her free of her stone slumber. She had put all of her energy and all of her should into the chant. She chanted the spell and Terra slowly started to turn back to her warm, normal self. Raven could not believe that all of her hard work and dedication had finally paid off.
When Terra's body had started to turn from cold to warm Raven was there to catch her. She had taken her hand and gently laid her on the cold ground in the cave that she had called her home for many years. Terra had opened up her eyes and looked at Raven with disbelief.
"R…Raven.." She said weakly.
"Good morning sleeping Beauty." Raven had said in return with a grin on her face.
Terra was cold, colder than words could describe, Raven had lay on the floor beside her with her arms tightly wrapped around the cold, stiff body before her. She had closely examined Terra's features, she had noted that while in her stone slumber she had still been aging. Raven had thought hard about how this could be possible, but she couldn't think of a logical explanation other than she was never completely turned to stone, as if it was just an outer shell that had contained her, maybe it was her dark magic that she had used, as she wasn't sure of the side effects. She had looked much older, she had small wrinkles in her face, she looked tired.
Raven had spent much time taking care of Terra, trying to get her back up to her normal self. Raven had fed, bathed, and done anything for the young girl she could. As time went by she began rehabilitation to try to get Terra's body to move properly and grow, since she had been in a stone shell for many years, Terra's body needed to adjust. Over the course of their time together, with everything that Raven had done for Terra, they had grown to become close friends. Raven didn't mind of course, being with Terra had eased her mind of her failing relationship, she could seek shelter in her newly re-formed friendship.
Terra's body was under a massive strain, with that, she was always in pain, her body was attempting to grow faster than it should due to her body not being able to grow in her stone slumber. Raven had been there every step of the way to rub her sore body, use her healing spells, and put her through gentle physical therapy to help ease the girl's pain. As time went on Terra's body had finally caught up to her age, she had grown a couple inches and developed a well-defined body as well. She still remained a few inches shorter than her older friend, Raven always made fun of her for being shorter than she was. Terra didn't mind, she knew it was all joking. Terra was forever thankful that Raven had decided to forgive her and help her through a long painful process of rehabilitation, but she also knew Raven was a patient person and enjoyed helping others.
Terra broke free of Raven's constant care two months later and moved into her own apartment on the other side of Jump City. Terra struggled at first, as her body still had incredible pain that surged through it, but she dealt with it so she didn't have to bother Raven with it anymore.
Raven had grown accustomed to visiting Terra a few times a week. When Serenity came home, she seemed to have grown distant from Raven. When Raven was happy to finally have her home, Serenity seemed the exact opposite. Raven was not clingy at all, so she often gave Serenity the space she wanted. Raven would go visit Terra several times a week often leaving for days at a time, it made her forget how things were back at the tower. Terra would try to give her advice and be there to console her friend whenever she needed it.
One day Raven had walked into the tower at 3am smelling of booze and Serenity was up waiting for her.
"So who is she?" She asked in a angry tone.
"What are you talking about? I've been at the bar all night like I told you." Raven retorted.
"Don't bullshit me, I know you were with someone, this is unbelievable."
"Hey, listen to me, I was at the bar, doing my job, I took a few shots my Co workers to celebrate my 1 year there, I cane straight home from there."
"I don't believe you."
"When you're gone for weeks at a time do I question who you've been with and what you have been doing?" Raven was starting to raise her voice.
"Just get out."
"This is MY HOME" Raven yelled back.
"But fine I'll be gone tonight. Not like you care if I have a place to sleep anymore." Raven said as she turned and walked out the door. She fumbled with her jacket trying to find her phone. She pulled it out and sent a text to Terra.
"Can I come over?"
"You bet you can. "
Raven got in her car and drove straight to Terra's apartment. She was welcomed with a hug.
"What's wrong?" Terra said
"She thinks I'm unfaithful."
"Well are you?"
"No I've been faithful to her this whole time. She thinks because I was a hour late and smell of booze that I was with someone. I told you about the celebration, you knew I'd be there. I told her two weeks ago about it. She didn't want to hear it then and she didn't want to hear it now. I can't even look at her anymore, she just looks for trouble. She doesn't want to spend any time with me anymore. I feel like I am failing. I am really trying I've been with her for so many years, so I just don't want to give up so easily." Raven explained to Terra.
"Have you tried to sit down and talk to her, I think it will do you two good to just talk and get out all of your frustrations, tell her how you really feel, try to see if you can work something out." Terra said to Raven with a hint of concern for her closest friend.
"Maybe you're right, Thank you, I am going to go talk to her." Raven said with a gentle smile.
She leaned in and wrapped her thin arms around Terra for a moment before leaving.
Raven drove back to the tower. She took a moment to get her composure and think of what to say. She took a deep breath and opened the door to the tower. She heard some noise but wasn't sure what it was, she ignored it for now and proceeded to go to the living room. The noises got louder as she went further into the tower. She opened the door to her bed room and saw a sight that broke her completely in half.
"No" Her girlfriend screamed. "Rachel, please…." She pleaded with Raven.
"What are you doing with her in our bed?" She asked completely shocked, tears began to flow from her broken eyes.
"Rachel..I'm so sorry, please forgive me, I love you." She pleaded.
Raven stormed over to her girlfriend, picked her up, and pushed her up against the wall.
"YOU'RE WITH ANOTHER GIRL IN OUR BED! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?! HOW COULD YOU FUCKING DO THIS TO ME?!" Raven screamed with anger. She was so mad that she couldn't even see straight. Her heart was pounding, her hands were shaking, and her body was trembling.
"Please baby, I'm so sorry…" the girl cried to her now former lover.
"Raven released her grip on the girl as she sunk down to the ground, Raven put her fist through the wall where the girl's head once was. This caused the girl to jump. Her emotions went out of control and shattered the light bulb that was lighting the room.
"Please Rachel, calm down, can we talk about this?" the girl begged.
"There's nothing to talk about. You're a liar, a cheater, and you are nothing to me. I want all of your things gone by tomorrow." Raven calmly explained as she began to weep uncontrollably. She fell to the ground and passed out from all the rage going through her body.
When she had woken up it was 2am, she looked around to see where she was. She was alone, the room was empty, and all of her ex-girlfriends belongings were gone. The reality of the situation had finally hit her like a ton of bricks. She shook her head and got up from the cold floor. She needed to clear her head, so she went back out to the bar.
Raven had had five drinks already in the short hour she was at the bar, a short, slender woman approached her.
"You look terrible. I kinda figured you'd be here." The strange girl said to her.
Raven turned around to see that it was Terra.
"Hey you." Raven said in a low slurred voice.
"Are you old enough to be here?" Raven asked dumbfounded.
"Raven hun, you're really drunk, I'm 23, do you know where you are?" Terra asked.
Raven looked around, but couldn't piece together the events of the night. She shook her head.
"What happened?" Terra was very concerned for her best friend.
"That bitch fucked someone else, I saw it. I saw her inside another girl. I….I don't know what's going on…" She grabbed her head and began to sob.
Terra took her hand and pulled Raven's hair away from her face.
"I'm so sorry.." Terra said in a low voice.
Terra put her hands around Raven and brought her in for a hug. Raven embraced her back. She felt safe in her arms.
"Come on, let's get you out of here, you can barely talk let alone stand." Terra said to Raven.
Terra helped Raven to her house.
"Can you walk?" Terra asked Raven.
Raven took a step forward and began to fall to the ground. Terra was there to catch her. Terra led Raven to Terra's king sized bed. Terra lay Raven on the bed, she unbuttoned her shirt and took off her pants. Terra went to her closet and pulled out a pair of shorts for Raven. She slipped the shorts on Raven's slender body. She covered her up and looked at her friend laying passed out in her bed.
"You poor thing…I'm so sorry this had to happen to you. I won't ever let someone hurt you like that again. I promise you." Terra whispered. Terra didn't even bother to change her clothes, she crawled into bed with her friend and wrapped her arms around Raven's lifeless body, just like Raven had done to her so many years ago when she freed her from her cold slumber. Terra had never forgotten about the feeling of warmth and security that she felt when she was in Raven's arms. Terra pulled Raven into her warm body. She was very close to Raven, this was the closest she had ever been to her. She enjoyed every physical contact she had with Raven, she always was so soft and she smelled amazing. The subtle scent of her shampoo filled Terra's nose. She could also smell the delicate perfume Raven was wearing. She smelled so amazing. Terra smiled at how innocent Raven looked laying unconscious in her bed.
Terra knew she would need time to recover, but she needed to be there for Raven right now when she needed it the most, the last thing Raven needed was to be alone. She pulled her closer to her body and began to drift off to sleep.
