Everyone waits for one tense week as Raven only gets worse. Her fever is up to 107.5°F and still climbing. She isn't responding to the antibiotics at all. She's well passed the point at which brain damage can occur from a high fever in a normal human. A doctor was consulted yesterday-who ordered a switch from penicillin to erythromycin. And an alternating regimen of ibuprofen and acetaminophen to help break her fever. They know she is only half human and realize that medicine may not work for her. She may have to pull through this on her own. Her fever climbs all the way to 109.3T. It's late at night and the others are in bed. Robin gives her the latest dose of medicine to break her fever. He disposes of the injection needle as Raven begins to stir mumbling inaudibly.

Robin lifts Raven up into his arms-sits there on the bed with her. "Rae...please hang on."

Raven finds herself surrounded by white light. She's shocked by the weight on her back-she hasn't felt it in so long but her attention is quickly drawn to the winged figures gathering around her. Their feelings are all to clear to her. She has been a hero the last several years but that doesn't change the fact that she is half demon...and this is no place for a demon. Her eternity must be spent elsewhere. That elsewhere she is unmeasurably worse than the fire she's felt within over the last week. Here the daughter of Trigon would be welcomed with open arms if not for the fact she is a hero...and heroes do not belong here. Raven is caught in the middle as the two sides argue over which place she belongs.

Robin holds her tighter as he focuses on their bond, which he feels slipping. "I'm not letting you go Roe."

The proclamation from Robin is sensed by all. Since neither side wants her-they send her back—the hero's reward is to live the same as the demon's punishment.

Robin looks up at the sudden yet short beep of one of the machines tracking Raven's vital signs. Her temperature now sits at 109.1°F. He continues to hold her close as she begins to sweat it out as her fever finally breaks.

By early morning her fever is down to 103.5°F. Raven moans as she finally begins to wake up. She looks up at Robin who's still holding her as if his life, or more accurately hers, depended on it.

"Rae..." Robin watches as a single tear falls from her eyes.

Raven is so weak she can barely speak. "You sa...saved me a...again."

Robin doesn't ask what she means he just holds her close.

Raven rests in Robin's arms-too weak to speak anything further and just glad to still be alive.

*****

By morning Raven's temperature is down to 101.3°F. She's still very weak so Robin gets her cleaned up. When the others call Robin lets them know he has a surprise for them. He steps back to let them see Raven awake. He slips away to get cleaned up himself. He knows just how close they came to losing her last night and that has left him very shaken. And her statement that he had saved her-that un-nerves him most. There had been many times that he had considered asking her to break that bond they share. He had woken up many times, before she had defeated her father, with nightmares that he knew were not his own. That was not what bothered him-it was her sharing his nightmares-his dreams. If he had asked her to do so he realizes now that they would have lost her.