"You two are not leaving the Tower without permission ever again, do you two understand?" Kori snapped at both Damian and Raven as they returned to the Tower where Victor, Garfield and Jaime were waiting. Kori was not at all happy with the situation at the police station. Stealing a car. Getting arrested. Getting into a fight in prison. And she had to spend 3 hours filling out the release form for both of them. It was absolutely aggravating for her. And what was worse was that Damian wasn't even apologizing. At least Raven said they were sorry for the 8ooth time on the way home but Kori did not receive one apology from Damian. He just sat silently in the backseat looking out the window as if he didn't have anything to say. "The two of you are grounded. No TV for a week. And you will not be going out alone again. Do you two understand?"
Raven nodded fearfully and shamefully. She had never seen Kori so angry with them. "Yes, Kori. And we're really sorry. We promise it won't happen again."
"Why should we be sorry?" Damian then spoke up after a long time of silence. Victor, Garfield and Jaime were staring in disbelief. Damian simply gritted his teeth with his arms crossed. "We didn't do anything wrong."
Silence fell. It was awkward for everyone in the room. Kori glared at him and Damian glared back. The only thing standing between them was Raven, something many should be glad in order to avoid a physical fight.
"You stole my car, Damian," Kori snapped, "You left the Tower without permission and in the middle of the night when you know that it was dangerous out there after dark. What if something happened to you? To both of you? Didn't you think of that, Damian? What about Raven? Did you ever think of her safety?"
"She was safe. Nothing bad happened and we would have been fine if that stupid cop hadn't showed up and arrested us," Damian growled.
"You were lucky that the police called me or you would have to spend the entire night in the isolation chamber."
Victor looked at the three in shock. "Isolation chamber?"
Raven had to explain it to him. The thought of it made her shudder. "Damian fought some of the inmates that got too close to mean. He broke a few bones and unfortunately, the cops had to take him to an isolation chamber till he calmed down." She then turned to Kori, trying to defend Damian, "But it wasn't fault. It's mine —."
Damian put a hand on her shoulder. "Stop blaming yourself. It's not yourself."
"For once, I agree with Damian. You did nothing wrong, Raven." Her expression softened as she said that but it hardened again when talking to Damian. "But that doesn't give an excuse for neither one of you. You are still grounded, for negligence, endangerment and irresponsibility."
"You're not my mother, Kori!" Damian snapped. Raven could sense suppressed anger boiling up in his body and his fists were shaking violently.
"You're lucky that I'm not your mother, Damian. She would be very disappointed of you if she ever found out that you got yourself into trouble —."
"MY MOTHER IS DEAD UNDER WATER, BITCH!" Damian screamed in fury but immediately covered his mouth with his hands when those words automatically came out of his mouth. He looked at everyone wide-eyed. Everyone was staring at him in shock, including Raven. "I —." He immediately bolted out of the living room and ran back to his room.
Raven called back to him. "Damian!" But he was already gone.
"Dios mio," Jaime expressed. "I've never seen him this angry before."
"This is not good," Garfield said.
"I'm calling Dick about this," Kori sighed, "Maybe he can help. He knows how to handle Damian better than I do."
"Give him time, Kori," Victor assured. "I'm sure Damian didn't mean to snap like that. Give him time to calm down."
Kori was now talking to Dick about what happened with Damian through Skype. She was still trying to figure out Skype since she wasn't used to human technology and their customs. She told him everything, about the stolen car, the sneaking out, the arrest and Damian's behavior. Dick was left stunned, especially over the obscene word Damian called her. Kori explained that he was already pissed off even before getting home.
"Do you think we should tell Batman about this?"
"Oh heck no," Dick said, his eyes popping out, "You're lucky that you called me, Kori. If Batman finds out about this first, he's going to throw a fit."
"What do you think we should do then?" Kori asked while brushing down her red hair.
"Listen, I'll head over there tomorrow and talk to him," Dick assured her, "Maybe seeing me might lighten up things for him."
"Oh, I doubt. He's been very attached to Raven these past few weeks. It's difficult to separate him from her," she said. Kori was actually glad that Damian would hang around Raven. It helped him socialize. Of course, he was socializing a little too well. He was growing too attached to Raven, to a point that he wouldn't stop hovering. Kori had to find ways to get him stop hovering like a hawk, making him help around the house or insist to hang out with Jaime and Garfield instead. But it had proved difficult to keep them both apart.
"Something tells me he's in love with her," Dick said.
"There is a possibility of it. But his affections for her have proven to be quite fatal. He's becoming impatient and aggressive." She was worried how Damian's attachment towards Raven was affecting him. Was it doing him good? Or was it doing him worse? Kori was worried because she didn't know which was which.
"Again, I'm heading over there tomorrow and get him to calm down, okay? I'll see you around, Kori."
"Okay. Um, Dick, maybe once you get here, we could —." Dick already turned off Skype before Kori could say anything. She was feeling bad how she casted him aside every time he was asking her on a date. Of course, he cancelled their dates more than twice. But it wasn't his fault. They both knew the consequences of dating while being a superhero. Being a superhero was full of compromises and dedication to protect the cities they live in. They no longer had time to date with criminals escaping jail again and again, and then having to stop them over and over again. It was too much for them both.
She hoped things would get better. She wanted to keep the team together at the same time keep her relationship with Dick but how could she keep her life under control when she can't even control Damian?
"Damian?" Raven was sitting in front of Damian's bedroom door. It was locked. And she could hear angry noises from inside. She kept knocking on his door. "Please open the door. It's me."
Finally getting impatient, Raven phased through the door and immediately ducked her head when a blade came at her. It jammed onto the door above her head. Raven gasped and looked over at Damian in shock. He looked shocked as well, aside from being red in the face. The walls had a lot of knives stuck on them. How long has he been doing this?
"Are you crazy?" she snapped at him.
"I'm sorry. I didn't know you were there," he apologized. He still wouldn't look at her in the eyes. He was still pissed off.
"Damian, you yelled at Kori. You called her bad things. She was worried about us and you yelled at her. Why would you do that?"
"…I don't know."
"If you don't know, then why —?"
"I said I don't know, Raven!" The way Damian was talking to her. He was so angry right now. It too difficult for Raven to break through. It was like a steel wall. Layers upon layers of steel hiding all that anger in his head. Raven wanted to help but she knew that she couldn't help unless she found out the source of what was making him angry nor could she do it without his consent. It pained her seeing him like this.
"Talk to me, Damian," she said with her eyes shining and arms crossed. "Tell me what's wrong."
"It's nothing," Damian gritted his teeth at her.
"You didn't know what you were doing," she said, "I know that you're angry at something. You have a lot of things in your head and it's making you angry for many days. Is that why you wanted me to go with you to the fair? To keep your mind away from whatever is disturbing you?"
Damian didn't say anything but crossed his arms and looked down at his feet. Raven knew that Damian wasn't willing to talk to her right now. He was still pissed off. Of course, she didn't know if he was angry with Kori or with himself.
"Fine," she sighed, "If you don't want to talk about this right now, I understand. But get this straight into your skull." She now spoke to him sternly and he looked at her with a surprised expression. "Once you walk out of this room, you will go straight to Kori and you will apologize to her. And you will never talk to her like that again. Do you understand?"
"Raven, I —."
"Do you understand?" she snapped at him.
Damian slowly nodded. "Yes."
She gave him a small peck on the cheek though, much to his surprise and making his face turn crimson. "Thank you," she said, "for what you did for me at the station."
She turned to leave his bedroom but turned back to say: "You know, I'm still mad at you. But I'm still here for you no matter what. I just want you to know that."
With that, Raven left his bedroom and returned to her own bedroom where she curled up in her bed and began to tear up. I'm not giving up on you, Damian. I'm not giving up on you. She knew there was something wrong. She wanted to help. She saw a terrifying part of his future and didn't want it to come true. If she could do anything to help, maybe his future would change.
She then felt a soft breeze coming from her window. I didn't leave the window open.
Eyes widening, she looked over to the window and let out a piercing scream.
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