Pain

RAVEN'S POV

I can't believe it. It's three a.m. and I can't sleep. It's just this strange feeling in my stomach. I don't know what it is; I still don't get these feelings. Since Trigon was defeated I could feel. I know what happiness is, I know what anger is, what peace is. But this feeling, it is different.

I stood up from my bed and searched for my cape. Where can it be? Raven you're so silly. I just used my powers and it came to me. I need to get out. I need to go out for some air.

I got out of my room and went to the elevator.

Where could I go? I have nothing to do, nowhere to go. Maybe I can go to the park or to the pier but I don't have anything to do there. Or maybe... I enter into the elevator and searched for the button up.

The roof is so peaceful. I can think here, watch the stars and let the air hit my face. Everything is so calm but I still have that sensation, this lump in my throat, this cold in my stomach and something in my heart, something I've never known before.

I can just stare at the stars. The stars are so beautiful, so brilliant. Even if I'm enjoying this, I still have this sensation, but why? I listen to everything around me, it seems all so peaceful, I wish the city could be always like that.

Suddenly I hear something behind me. What can it be?

I turn around and searched in the dark. I see a familiar shadow to me.

-What are you doing here, Rae?

-Hello Robin. I could ask you the same. –You always scare me Robin. You're such a mysterious person. Sometimes I wonder who's behind the mask and why do you know me so much.

-I couldn't sleep.

-Me neither... Robin...

-Yeah? What is it?

-I... –I don't know how to explain this. Robin would think I'm an idiot if I ask him –Forget it...

-Something's wrong?

-Nothing...

-Come on. You can tell me.

-I have this... feeling... It's like a lump in my throat and cold in my stomach... but there's also something else... in my heart...

-Something like what?

-I don't know how to explain it... It... It hurts... like when we fight and someone makes you a wound –Great he'll laugh at me.

-It's named pain. You feel it when you're hurt

-But... I don't have any wound

-There are many kinds of wounds, not only the physical ones

-But why am I in...Pain?

-I don't know, maybe because of your father.

-But he's not here anymore!

-Maybe he's not here but it hurt you not to have a father that cares about you, and takes care of you.

-I never thought about it

-I did, and a lot. Since my parents died... –Robin couldn't continue. He's hurt just like me? I know his story because of our bond and I'm really sorry about it. It was like if I sensed what he did when I entered his mind.

-You miss them

-A lot but then Bruce appeared. Maybe he wasn't my real father but he acted like one and I'm really thankful to him. He cared about me as if he really was my father.

-So you could be my...Father?

-Ha ha I don't think so ha ha. We are must like...

-Like?

-Well I don't know... –I had this impulse of hug him and tell him how much I cared about him. I should do something for him. I stared at his eyes, well his mask. I wondered who was behind that mask that hid those eyes. I knew he was someone special, someone different. I approached to him and took his hand. He was surprised at first but then he turned around to me and smiled. I got nearer to him until I felt his breathing in my face. He approached more to me until our lips touched. I felt happy but sad, all at the same time, my emotions exploded in me but I felt so right.

Finally, the pain was gone.