A/N: Had to delete the story once. Trying to fix something! But it's still the same and sorry to the one good review I got, I did read it and appreciated it. Any way here we go!


Chapter 2: The Forgiven and Forgotten

By the time the rest of the Titans had showed up Slade had already disappeared, as well as Terra. Police were screaming at Raven for damaging the school, a student car, and one of their police squad cars, despite the fact that it was technically Slade who had thrown her into the windshield.

There was the usual police procedure which always took longer than necessary of questions and reports. Raven was still coughing up blood by the time they got back to the tower, the least the police could've done was let her heal herself, she was glad to finally have that chance.

"But did she say anything, did she leave any clue as to where she went?" The green changeling had been bombarding Raven with questions ever since she had told them all about Terra.

"God damn it Garfield! I already told you everything" she only ever used his name when she got really pissed off at him. Her throat hurt even more as she yelled at him, she wasn't sure how bad her wounds were but she knew it was going to take a few hours. She was betting she had a cracked sternum and badly crushed throat, the police had allowed Cyborg to remove glass from her back during the questioning, but she hadn't seen how badly it was slashed up.

Raven slowly made her way to the medical bay with the rest of her teammates annoyingly behind her.

"Did either of them say anything to you Raven?" Robin asked persistently over and over.

The thought of Slade calling her his favorite Titan still swam around in her confused and rattled brain.

"Nothing from Terra," Raven answered thankful that they had finally reached the medical bay. "And the same old monologue from Slade, destroy the Titans," she added with heavy resentment.

"Why would Terra suddenly choose- or remember -to use her powers; and why would Slade attack Raven out in public when she was by herself?" Robin pondered through his detective brain.

"He wasn't trying to attack me," Raven grunted sitting on the rest bed. "He was trying to kill me."

Starfire inhaled sharply at the thought, "But why? Why now after all this time?"

"Well it's not like he's been totally gone after all these years," Cyborg said trying to help Raven lay down comfortably and her swatting him away. He continued to help her anyway and said, "There have still been his look-a-like robots, and the false threats that have led us on countless dead ends."

It was true, every now and then they defeated a robot designed to look and speak like him, there had been video hacks into their main computer claiming that there were bombs or explosives hidden all over the city; all a bunch of fake cowardly traps that Slade seemed to pull for mere entertainment.

Physically though Slade had been more involved with the Justice League, he seemed to have grown tired of the Titans and needed more of a challenge. Batman had informed them of his involvement with crime groups in Gotham: Espionage and kill contracts.

Slade liked to remind the Titans that he still had it in for them, but he hadn't acted on his intentions towards them for years.

"This time he's actually back," Robin said scrunching his face in concentration. "He's seeking to kill us this time, so we need to be careful."

"But what about Terra!" Beastboy whined again. "Am I the only one who cares about what's going on with her? What if Slade tries to go after her again?"

Raven finally rested her head back and closed her eyes in a painful grunt. "Then let's just hope she doesn't team up with him again and join in the next attack."

"That's not funny Raven!" snapped Beastboy angrily.

"I didn't say it to be funny," she remarked seriously. "Obviously she lied about not remembering anything, how do you know she won't turn on us again now that she's using her powers."

Beastboy was going to start arguing with her when Robin put a hand on his shoulder to stop the conflict. "Alright everyone that's enough," he demanded sternly. "We all have a lot of questions and a lot of work to follow up on, but for now I need you to heal yourself Raven. We all need to think clearly and calmly about this and be ready for whatever comes next."

Everyone nodded in unison to their leader and started to leave the room to let Raven go into her meditative trance for healing. Before Robin left he said one last thing to her. "And I don't want you going anywhere by yourself Raven."

She lifted her head to look him in the eye to see if he was serious, he was.

Robin was quick to explain himself before she protested. "For whatever reason Slade targeted you first, he made sure you were on your own and in public, completely caught off guard. It's better if we're all together until we can take him down."

Raven sighed and rested her head back on the pillow, not having the energy to argue with him. That meant she would have to cancel her classes and make up a mountain of homework and tests. Nothing irritated her more than the thought of falling back in school, she took pride in being a good student and Slade had just ruined that.

But that's what Slade excelled in…ruining people.

Robin left without another word, Raven cursed under her breath and kicked the railing of the bed hard.

Let that anger rise.

Rage was having fun in her head. Her emotions were running more rampant than they had in a while. She needed to be mindful of her reactions and responses for the next few days.

Raven was about to go into her recovery trance when she noticed a slight bulge in her pocket. Most of Raven's street clothes had been torn and damaged in the fight, she had cleaned up as much as possible, but at what point did something get lodged in her pant pocket?

Raven reached for the object hidden in her pocket and nearly dismissed it for a random rock until she realized that there were words engraved in the stone.

GRAVE

COME ALONE


She had to be careful. Right now the Titans assumed she was asleep in her room when really she was several hundred feet underground. They would go into a panic if they figured out she was missing, and Robin would be beyond angry with her. Not that it mattered right now, what mattered was meeting Terra.

The message had been short and curt with little clues, but enough for Raven to know what it meant. She didn't know when, but somehow Terra had managed to sneak a message to Raven.

The grave was Terra's resting spot when she had still been stone, and the reasons why she had to come alone were still a mystery to Raven.

She was guessing a large part of it was not wanting to be confronted by all the Titans, or worst case scenario she really was working for Slade again and it was an ambush. But despite the cruel jab she had taken at Terra's loyalty earlier, she didn't truly believe Terra would do something like that again.

Raven chose to go in her regular uniform or rather what she considered to be her real clothes, her leotard, cloak and hood. When it came to someone as unpredictable as Terra is was best to come dressed for a fight.

She had to maneuver her way carefully around the passages, they were vast and maze like when Terra had first created them, some were collapsed in from the volcano and others were miles long with dead ends at every corner. Admittedly Raven had not come down here much to visit Terra's stone body, so she could hardly remember which way to go without getting lost or sidetracked.

She finally reached the location in over an hour and saw the familiar blonde sitting in her old resting spot.

"Glad you finally made it," Terra said tossing a rock in the air with her powers.

Raven made a huffing sound and regarded her coldly, hardly taking a step closer. Terra didn't seem to care either way as she continued to make little pebbles dance around in the air. "Figured you'd have a little trouble finding your way back down here, but I knew you'd come either way. You're stubborn that way I guess."

"And you're deceptive in the way you go about meeting people, glad to see that hasn't changed," Raven countered back suspiciously.

Terra rolled her eyes at her and stood with her hand on her hips. "Look at me, does it really look like I'm about to deceive you." Terra was dressed in a regular white shirt and black pants with a pair of hiking boots. "I did save your life earlier didn't I? How about a little gratitude?"

"Why did you save my life by the way?" Raven asked with a raised eyebrow.

Terra sneered, offended by her. "Gee, I guess I just didn't feel like letting Slade kill you or something. Believe it or not I'm not the same person I use to be."

"Well you can say that again," Raven sneered back. "Why have you been trying to hide who you use to be? The city knows you sacrificed your life in the end, Beastboy still thinks you're a good person and we've all forgiven you."

"Really? You've all forgiven me for what I did, and the city would be so thrilled to know I was back?" Terra asked condescendingly before shaking her head sadly. "No you guys might have forgiven me, but you all look at me differently, Beastboy only wants to believe I was good because he was in love with me and as for the rest of the world…" She paused to look long and hard at Raven who continued to stand there mutely.

"How did the world look at you when it discovered your dark side?" Terra didn't ask for an answer, she already knew. She just wanted Raven to understand why it was she decided not to become a superhero again, why she didn't try reuniting with the Titans.

Raven tried to say something but soon felt defeated empathizing with Terra's situation. "It takes a while, but after some time it goes back to normal."

Again Terra only shook her head. "You changed the laws, the way heroes operate, the way villains get put away. The world might forgive you for messing up once or twice, but it never forgets." Terra sighed once before explaining, "I thought it'd be a lot easier for people to forget me if they thought I was still dead. That's why I've been hiding out, that's why I convinced Beastboy I didn't remember anything. I know it's selfish to want to feel normal, but I would never be able to be that if I came back as my old self."

Raven took in a slow breath and exhaled, understanding fully why Terra did what she did. "No it's not selfish to want to feel normal Terra. I'm sorry you couldn't come back to us."

Terra smiled at her. "Well my cover is blown now that I had to save your sorry ass," she said jokingly.

Raven rolled her eyes but smiled all the same. "So why did you bring me down here?"

"It was the only secure place I could think of. Knowing Slade, he had cameras and eyes all over the city. There's nothing down here that I wouldn't be able to detect," she said proudly.

"Won't he figure out that you might be hiding down here though?"

Terra looked at her with a glint of glee in her eye. "That's why we need to act fast."