Just for the record, this is the first time I've EVER published anything via fanfiction, and I am, without a doubt, anxious to see how this goes. I've watched Teen Titans for as long as I can remember, and I've always had an obsession with Raven. Somehow that obsession developed into this fanfic. It will be BBxRae later on, and there will also be Terra-bashing, so if you don't like either of those, this story isn't for you. I have high hopes for this story, and I would love it if someone were to review it! I can handle flames as long as they aren't too rude, but I really prefer constructive criticism, *wink wink*. The summary is also very cryptic, so please bear with me!
Summary: Sometimes you make mistakes. Sometimes you can fix them. And sometimes, you never get the chance to redeem yourself.
Disclaimer: Really, if I owned Teen Titans, do you really think you'd be reading this right now? No. You'd be watching it. I've made my point.
Now, without further ado, I proudly present...
Redemption Impossible, Chapter 1
Raven dropped the book she'd been reading and grasped her head as pain lanced through it like lightning. The seconds that followed seemed like hours as the lightning struck again and again, in time with her heartbeat. Black fog swamped over her vision, disorienting her further. A scream found its way to her lips, but died there as a low garbled groan. Just as suddenly as the pain had come, it vanished. The fog dispersed slowly, starting in the center and working its way outward until her sight was once again unhindered. Luckily, she'd been in her room, so no one had noticed. She picked her book up again, but she'd lost her place when she'd dropped it. Grumbling to herself, Raven opened it and started flipping pages, searching for where she'd left off.
A knock on the door kept her from finding it. She slid off of her bed and tugged on her cloth boots before opening the door.
"We're all meeting downstairs in ten minutes for an afternoon training session." Robin informed her, bo-staff in hand.
"Okay, I'll be down in a minute." She replied. She closed her door again before Robin could say anything else, determined to find the right page again.
As Raven flipped through the pages for the second time, she came to the realization that she had no idea where she'd left off. If that wasn't enough, she'd also just forgotten all she'd read in the two hours she'd been in her room. Scrambling to remember, she dove into her recollection of the past two hours, but it was like trying to retrieve hot shards of broken glass, or putting together the fractured bits of a dream she'd had the night before; useless.
Raven let out a hiss of frustration, going back to place her bookmark where she'd left off reading the night before, rather than five minutes ago. Biting her lip to quell her anger so as to keep anything nearby from blowing up, she teleported herself down to the commons room.
Cyborg, Starfire, and Robin were already there, Cyborg saying something about beating Robin's course record, Robin scoffing, and Starfire trying to be a mediator, but failing, as usual.
"You're not even gonna stand a chance against my new upgrade!" Cyborg exclaimed.
Beast Boy appeared in the doorway a few seconds later. "Raven, do you mind teleporting us out to the obstacle course?" Robin asked, completely ignoring the gauntlet that Cyborg had just thrown down with a smirk on his face.
Raven shook her head and engulfed herself and her friends in black energy.
Just as everyone disappeared into the floor, a coffee mug sitting on the kitchen counter spontaneously combusted into a cloud of dust and sparks.
"Yes!" Beast Boy shouted, jumping into the air. "I've finally beaten my obstacle course record!"
Raven couldn't help but give the faintest of smiles at his outburst. No matter how much she enjoyed annoying him, he was one of her favorite people in the tower. Whenever she was near him, an unfamiliar emotion welled up in her (quickly controlled of course). She had assumed this was what it felt like to have a best friend, considering that she could hardly remember what it felt like to have one. She knew what it was like to have friends, of course, but the last time she'd really had a best friend seemed like another life time ago. She trusted him, would trust him with her life, and had before, but there was something else about him that she couldn't put her finger on. Of course she'd never told him any of this.
"Alright Raven, your turn. Try not to destroy the course." Robin said, smirking.
Raven let out a huff of air at his statement and nodded, rubbing her hands together softly, although the gesture was hidden by her cloak. She stepped up to the starting line, ready for a challenge.
A loud buzzing informed her that her time was starting, and she sprinted forward before levitating upwards and over an unseen but not unnoticed landmine.
Before she could blink, the air around her was sliced with the whirring of drones, all of them holding shock-sticks in their robotic hands. Trying not to jump as one of the shock-sticks zapped her in the shoulder, she encircled them all in bubbles of black energy and clenched her fists, turning the drones to dust.
She moved onward, swooping over a chasm that had suddenly opened up as lasers shot out with the ease of practice.
Raven glanced at the clock for a split second, knowing that she'd have to either speed up or risk getting stuck with dish duty. She preferred the former of course, and doubled her speed, completing the third section of the obstacle course in record time.
The fourth section required her to slow down and rely on her feet to carry her through. It was an expanse of electric wire spreading out in a maze of tangled lines, like a three dimensional spider web. Raven had to navigate the maze without touching the wire, otherwise it would shock her. Robin seemed to like utilizing the power of electricity lately. Without skipping a beat, she wove her way through the first few feet of the maze. As she got farther, the openings between the wires got smaller and smaller. The wires snaking along the ground twined together in a jumbled mess, so that Raven had to be careful of where she put her feet as well as how she'd gotten them there.
She glanced up again, smiling when she realized that she was ahead by about twenty seconds.
Raven stopped dead as every muscle in her body seemed to cramp up. The lightning like pain from before followed and she gasped, wishing there was some way to just make it stop. The only difference from before was that this time it felt ten times worse, as if someone was pounding a nail directly into her brain. Shadows closed in on her eyesight again, like a black satin curtain being dropped from the sky.
Raven struggled to keep from screaming, as was her instinct to hold in her emotions, and succeeded, although she collapsed in the same moment. She never felt herself hit the ground.
I have more of this written, it's just that I have to type it all up, so I hope to update soon! I might update sooner if someone were to review though, haha! Actually, I'd be happy to find out that someone's actually read it, but reviews are good too!
