Fooling Yourself

Written By: IGAF

Summary: He's gone and she couldn't have saved him. Why did she feel this way? She always claimed that he meant nothing to her. That he was the very person that made her unhappy. But deep down she knew that she was just fooling herself...

Disclaimer: I don't own the Titans or Slade. I just own the explosives... Well, not anymore.

Author's note: This is a one-shot story to break my writer's block, but if you like it, I'll continue the story. (I have a complete idea thought out, but I don't know if it's any good.) So if you want it to be more than a one-shot, please review and tell me.

It's been three days since it happened. Three days since the last corny joke. Three days since the last 'tofu vs. meat' breakfast feud. Three days since the attack... Three long days... Raven stood just outside the closed door of his room. Her pale face stared ahead emotionlessly under the blue hood, her eyes blocked from view. She stretched out her right hand and traced the letters that were engraved on the metal.

"Wasn't there another way?"

Though it happened three days ago, it seemed like only a few minutes had passed to her since she was knocked out. The cuts, burns, and bruises that littered her body were now completely gone, thanks to her demon half, but she couldn't care less. That didn't matter at all. Her hand slowly retreated from the door as her sight focused on the carpet at her feet and her mind replayed that fateful day.

"You've got to be kidding me." Towering before the Titans was an enormous bomb over ten feet wide and fifteen feet tall. Robin, while holding an injured little 6yr old boy, turned to his metal companion. "Cy, think you can disarm it?"

"Won't know till I try." Cyborg cracked his knuckles and carefully opened the front panel. His eyes went wide. "Um, that would be a no."

"Why?" Cyborg stepped aside.

00:00:10

"Oh God..."

"Let me handle it." Raven raised her hands, encasing the rather large explosive in an inky black shield. Inside, the timer continued its countdown, its number growing ever closer to zero. "Get back. I don't know if I can contain it or not."

"But Raven..."

00:00:05

"No buts, now go."


00:00:04

"Raven!"

00:00:03

"Now!"

00:00:02

The four Titans, with no other argument, dashed for cover behind several fallen supports and bookcases in the once brand new library.

00:00:01

Raven closed her eyes.

00:00:00 BEEP BEEP

A loud explosion rocked the tower causing everything around the young empath to crash to the ground. A moment later her communicator went off, which she reluctantly answered. Cyborg's angry image appeared on the screen. "Yo Rae! What're you trying to do here? Knock over the tower?"

"No." Her voice was laced with ice as her grip tightened on the tiny device.

"Well, chill girl. You gettin' all worked up over it aint gonna help us get Slade!"

"Shut up ... I know that." She growled

"Hey." His face softened as he continued to speak. "It's okay to miss him. I know I do." After getting no response, he spoke strongly and encouraging, "I gotta get back to work, but don't you worry. We'll get Slade for BB."

"Yeah..." As the screen went blank, Raven leaned her back against the door and slid slowly to the ground. "But that won't bring him back."