I'm a shipper, I admit it. Raven and Robin isn't my absolute favorite. That would be Raven and Slade. I personally find it harder to write for Slade than I do for Robin, which is why I don't have any Raven and Slade pairings. Notes were made by Raven Lynn Morrigan before she decided that she wasn't going to fix this one that it was to be Raven and Aqualad. After reading my cousin's Terror Falls story, the Raven and Aqualad pairing is growing on me. The original version of this story left you scratching your head wondering WTF? An attempt at a rewrite was started by my cousin before she decided to abandon it. It was good but still had that head scratching WTF aspect to it. A third attempt was written out in an outline but never written before she decided to trash it. With her permission it is those third attempt notes along with the best parts of the first and second versions that I'm going to use to finish the story my cousin abandoned. This is set before Season 3 happened.
Waterbird
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Even with all their high tech surveillance equipment in the city, Robin still insists on nightly patrols. This time its Raven's turn. She sighs as she comes to rest on the docks for a look around-thinking that this is pointless. Nothing seems to be out of order here, just like every place else she has been tonight. She freezes suddenly as she is about to take off again when she hears a splash in the water. It could be anything, some sea animal most likely but she goes to investigate. Its easier to do that than suffer the third degree from Robin over why she didn't check it out later. She finds nothing but gentle abating ripples in the water from what ever it was jumping in. Raven checks the area just to make sure its nothing. As she searches around some crates she cries out in pain as something stings her arm. She looks down to find its a hypo-dart. Raven looks up as the powerful sedative drags her down into unconsciousness. She blinks trying to make out the figure that looms over her but one seems to turn into two as she her vision fades to blackness.
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Raven awakens to an intensely painful feeling all over her scalp. She tries to move her hands to her head only to realize that her hands have been restrained. Its so cold. As she finally manages to open her eyes Raven sees that she is naked and strapped down to a metal table. She looks up as a shadow falls over her but she can't make out any features against the glare of the bright overhead lighting. She stares as the figure reaches out and grabs her hair. Raven is amazed and a little frightened as the strand of hair held out stretches out past her normal length and all the way down to her waist. "What are you doing to me?"
The figure pays little attention to Raven's question and continues its work.
She closes her eyes against the bright lights as the figure moves out of her field of vision. Raven looks to her left at the bank of computers that seem to be monitoring her vital signs. For what she has no idea. As the figure moves to her legs Raven realizes just how numb they and that her legs are not restrained to the table. She tries to move them but can't. Raven panics as the figure picks up a large knife. They may be numb but she can feel it as the knife is dragged down the inside of one leg splitting it open to the bone from pelvic area to the knee and then repeated down the other as well. She wants to look away but can't as her legs below the knees are turned with with her feet facing outward and cuts made from the back of her knees to the ankles. She cries out more in fear than pain as her legs are lined up and bound tight together with the bones touching between the split open skin. The sight of so much blood make her feel faint as the metal table she is strapped to begins to tilt up.
Once the table is perpendicular to the floor the figure presses a button that lowers it into a vat of mutagen chemicals that it is suspended over.
Raven looks down fearfully as she is lowered into the glowing chemicals. She screams at the searing pain as her cut flesh touches the chemicals. It is immense.
The figure looks over at the computers monitoring the girl's vital signs. Her heart rate spikes but as of right now it is nothing to that will hurt her. It continues to lower the table until the girl is immersed to the waist.
The numbness does nothing to dull the pain as the chemicals seep into her wounds. Raven screams louder as it feels like her very bones are breaking, reforming, and fusing together. She doesn't want to look but can't stop herself as she grows too hoarse to scream. Raven watches as her skin knits smoothly together along her reformed bones. The pain slowly begins to fade as the wounds close.
The figure presses another button raising Raven up enough for the bonds that held her legs in alignment to be cut away. It leaves her there pressing a button that dumps out the chemicals in the vat that have done their job. Another button is pressed that pulls Raven away from the table-leaving her hanging by her arms up above her head as a valve is released that dumps more chemicals into the vat.
There is more pain this time but less intense now like a tingling pinprick feeling as Raven is lowered into the chemicals from the waist down. It is harder to see what's happening this time as the chemicals are tinted the same color as her hair. She is weak from the amount of blood lost as her legs were split open and she drifts into unconsciouness.
Finally the figure presses the button raising Raven up so that only her feet are in the vat and adds one final chemical into the mix.