"We need you… your father is back."
That phrase. It had me stunned.
I had taken care of my father as a teenager, how can he possibly be back now that I am grown? I was his portal, and now… now he was supposed to be gone forever.
"Raven! Are you still there?" I heard Beast Boy, or the man formally known as Beast Boy, shout into the phone.
"Who is we?" I had to ask. If everyone was back and they were just now calling me about this it would be aggravating.
"Those of us who are still alive." He seemed broken and that was when I knew something happened.
"Where?" I asked already summoning a portal back to earth.
"The tower." He said and I heard someone shouting in the background. No doubt Robin.
"I'm coming." I said right away. I couldn't handle my father destroying what used to be my planet.
I finished the portal and walked right through, and was hugged by everyone immediately.
Many of them made comments about my outfit, about my hair, and then someone noticed.
"Where is your jewel?" I looked up surprised not to see the green red and yellow, but a simple black fit suit.
"You take it off when you hit a certain age." I said not looking him in the eye, I couldn't even if I wanted to. It was Robin, but not Robin.
"It's good to see you Rae." He said hugging me close as well as Cyborg and Beast Boy. But one person was missing.
"Where's Star?" I asked and everyone's mood seemed to change.
"How dare you!" Robin seethed pulling away from me roughly and basically stalking to the couch.
"Rae?" I heard Bee call. She still sounded the same, they all did.
"What?" I asked turning to see her with her wings down and her face downcast.
"Blackfire was the one who brought your father back. But to get the marks, she had to kill." She whispered and I just shook my head.
"That doesn't make sense. I was his portal! I destroyed him! He shouldn't even be able to come back!" I shouted and looked around the room again.
Speedy and Mas Y Menos were by Robin. Cy and BB were talking to each other and glancing between Bee and I and Robin.
"I take it you are Raven?" I heard a deep voice from behind me as the doors opened.
"You must be Batman." I said noticing the symbol on his chest.
"You are smart. Nightwing!" He shouted making Robin stand up. Nightwing? Seriously?
I rolled my eyes as he started to ignore my presence.
"If you are going to be a dick I can always leave and let you handle this on your own." I told him when he asked not to speak in front of 'certain' people.
"Rae!" I heard BB and Cy's shouts of protest and Robin turned to face me.
"I don't think this concerns you anyways! Go back to where ever you have been hiding for the past 8 years!" He shouted and I felt rage.
"Fine." I said absolutely set on doing just that. "And you know as well as I do that if Trigon gets to his full power like last time he has learned. He won't let any of you live." I said as I pulled up the portal.
I walked though leaving my old life behind once again.
My communicator rang again but this time I crushed it. Terminating any interference again.
I had left once, I can do it again. After all Trigon only wants earth… he won't come here.
I have changed a lot in the past 8 years. My hair is longer. My leotard and cape aren't the same color; it's white, like when I did defeat my father. Exactly like that. Except my cape had two gems holding it to my leotard and my leotard had hand pieces. The only thing bare now were my legs, and that wasn't most of the time, unless I am home.
I went into my room only to hear my son's feet running right for my legs.
He, Jay, is not really my son. He is 6, and well, he looks like me and Robin. He has Robin's hair. It didn't grow longer than a few inches and when he hit 4 her never let me do di hair again. He also had my purple eyes. I found him, with no one round and he was in bushes and was so cold. I picked him up and brought him here.
Azarath.
He has my powers, I can sense it.
He was the answer to my prayers. I wanted something to remind me of my past, something I could hold every night, and Jay is that thing.
"Mommy?" He said giggling and hugging onto my left leg.
"What my little blue jay?" I asked getting onto his level.
"Look!" He said pointing behind me, and when I looked I saw Blackfire with the marks, the ones that had adorned my body at one time.
"Blackfire." I breathed in and she smiled.
"Raven." She shouted running over and hugging me. "I have a game to play Raven… and I want you both to play." She said pulling away and I knew we had to, or something bad would happen.
I picked up Jay and held him on my hip, tight hold and made sure to watch her every step.
"But first… can I hold him?" She asked looking so happy.
I was going to say he didn't like being held by others but he ruined it by reaching out for her. "He's a little heavy." I said handing him over. She wouldn't do something to harm him.
"He's darling, sort of reminds me of Nightwing." She said sadly and I watched as she said something in his ear and then like a she had thrown him, he was gone.
"What did you do to him!" I shouted looking around for him.
"He's with his grandfather." She smiled and right then and there I knew where she meant.
Earth!
I grabbed her by her neck and called the portal easily and I started hovering before going full force into the portal. When we went through we were right back to the old tower. "Show me!" I shouted throwing her and going right to her.
"Now Raven, why do you care?" She said and I saw a bit of blood on her face already. So she wasn't invincible.
"He is mine!" I shouted again throwing her at the break proof glass.
I heard footsteps and then door opened.
"Raven!" I didn't care. I went right for Blackfire again, getting a hold of her neck and pressing her against the glass, choking her.
"Where is he?" I had a deathly calm tone to my voice and I knew she heard it because she froze, but then made the biggest mistake of her life. She spit blood at me.
AGH!
I made a grunt as I threw her across the room again. "Give him back!" I shouted at her and that's when I saw Cyborgs arms grab her. I felt many people grab at me but I went down into the floor only to reappear right in front of her and punch her right in the face. "Where did you put him!" I shouted at her and she just cracked a smile before I hit her again.
"Get off of me!" She shouted as her eyes started glowing the purple and I knew she was going to try and beam me so I took hold of her face and pushed my thumbs right into her eyes making her scream out in agony.
"NOW tell me where my son is!" I shouted and the whole room was so quiet that I could hear a needle drop if I tried. She smiled and tried to spit at me again before her head fell forward.
"Raven? You need to calm down." I heard Bee telling me and her warm hand went to my shoulder and I backed off seeing as Blackfire had passed out.
"I see you came back." I heard Robin scoff and I raised my eyes to his mask.
"I came back because that bitch stole my son and said he was with his grandfather!" I shouted and started to walk away when I felt something on my ankle.
I looked down and saw a chain.
"I'll get it." Beast Boy said automatically when I looked back and saw Speedy and BB just standing there.
"Why?" Was all I asked.
"We were going to hold you back so Cy could put her in the jail." Speedy said and I just glared.
"You have a son?" I heard Batman and turned to see him near Bee.
"Yeah…" I looked around and saw a few people worried and a few others shocked.
"What's his name?" He asked and I knew he was trying to calm me down.
"Jay." I said simply.
"Where is his dad?" He was trying to make me forget.
"He doesn't have one. I found him. He is still my son!" I shouted and started to walk out of there when he caught me. "Let me go!" I shouted and he just held on tighter.
"Nightwing get her a room now!" He shouted and I saw Robin make a move.
"He doesn't need to do anything for me! I know where my old one is and I will just go there!" I broke free walking right out of the library and noticing for the first time that it was the library.
I walked down the hall and where my room used to be I saw my face. It had my birthday 1992 and an empty space near a digit thing.
Did they think I was dead?
I opened it with the same unlock code I used before and it opened to reveal lots of dust and even a few spiders.
I swept them away with a simple spell I had learned over the years with Jay and went right to my bed not noticing my door was still opened.
"Rae?" I heard BB and I turned to face him.
"What's up?" I asked and he seemed taken back at my words. "I do have a kid." It seemed like an explanation.
"I was coming to tell you that Rich has been like that with everyone when we first got here. He blames everyone for not being around to save her." He said coming in a little bit. By now I was used to people come into my room.
"You can come in and explain everything to me." I said and he nodded.
"It was a few weeks ago when Blackfire took her, Rich was sleeping in the next room to her and didn't even know she was gone until he woke up and tried to get her to come out of her room. Yesterday we got a call. To come get her body; Rich went berserk. We just thought that she left because she went to find you. The night before she had begged all of us to try and call you so we waited for you two to show up. Rich went to the place Blackfire told him to and she was there. Bloody and had your markings. We have been trying to contact you ever since." He said and that was what was confusing.
Star and I had talked plenty of times after I left. More than I talked to Bee.
"She knew how to contact me." I told him and he seemed to be confused.
"She always asked to talk to you, like she needed permission. We didn't know how to talk to you. We don't even know why you left." He said and I bit my lip. I wasn't going to tell them if Rich didn't.
"I had to." I defended and I saw he pushed it away, he wasn't really going to ask.
"We ordered some pizza after you left. I take it you are staying until you get your son back, come down and eat." He was ordering me with some playfulness in histone, but it was serious as well.
"It's here?" I asked and he shook his head.
"But the more you shout at Rich the funnier it is for the rest of us. We all sort of took the blame and now it is his turn to get it back. It's not our fault we didn't hear anything. And it sure as hell isn't your fault because you weren't here." He said seriously and I saw how much he has grown up in the last 8 years.
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