Chapter Three

Mabsburgh is just a town I made up. Oh, and I don't think I put one in earlier, so here is the disclaimer: I don't own Artemis Fowl, Teen Titans, or Harry Potter or anything except the plot of this fanfic. Yadda yadda yadda. On with the story.

"Please! Stop!"

"Not yet."

Starfire was screaming on the floor, her body convulsing and jerking.

Then she was in small space, wincing as someone pointed a wand at her, smirking. And then she was in a much larger space, although everything was rather blurry. A tall figure was pointing a wand at her once more.

Raven started to scream, an unimaginable pain coursing through her body. She had never felt anything so horrendous before.

"You will be my weapon, Harry."

"Fuck…you."

"Smart mouth," the male voice continued. "Crucio!"

The pain started again. A thousand knives were stabbing her body, her bones were being crushed, and each nerve in her body was being burned and soaked in acid. She was screaming so loud her throat was going raw. It wouldn't stop-

Raven awoke screaming and thrashing in the bed. She was aware of a crash and a shattering noise. Someone grabbed her arm and Raven flung her fist out with a shriek. A hard hand grabbed her fist in mid blow and twisted her arm slightly.

"LET ME GO!" screamed Raven, as another lamp went flying across the room toward her attacker.

"RAVEN!" Juliet was standing there, holding onto Raven's arm. She had sidestepped at the last second and the lamp had sailed harmlessly past, clattering to the floor, shattering the bulb.

Raven was breathing heavily, the dream still flashing through her mind. The small nightstand that had been on the right of the bed had flown across the room and crashed into the wall. A floor lamp had crashed into the back of the door and was broken now.

Juliet released Raven who scrambled backwards into her pillows. The dream had felt so real toward the last bit.

"N-nightmare," said Raven, trying to calm her pounding heart.

"You nearly punched me in the face," said Juliet.

"What's going on?"

Holly, Artemis, and Butler were standing in the doorway, peering in. Behind them, Raven could see Harry. Great, now she had audience.

"Hang on, I can hear Coral crying." Holly walked off.

"I got it Butler," said Juliet, looking at her big brother.

"Okay."

Artemis stepped in. "We heard screaming-"

"It was just a bad dream," snapped Raven.

Artemis took in the damaged lamps, and the bedside table, which had managed to crack the wall and scrape some paint off.

"I'm sorry," said Raven. "I'll pay for all the damage-"

Artemis waved a hand. "It's okay, don't worry about it. It was an accident. If you knew how many comforters Harry has ruined…"

Harry shot a mock glare at Artemis.

"Well, it's true," said Artemis.

Raven could feel fear emanating slightly from Harry.

"Are you okay?" Artemis asked Raven. "Did you sleep walk or something?"

"I'm fine," muttered Raven. "I just-if I lose control for some reason, my powers can go kind of haywire-and the dream…"

The dream had felt so real though. The pain, she had felt it. And Starfire had been in it, and she had been screaming like someone was torturing her. And the man-

The man had called her Harry…

"I'm going to go get some tea if that's okay," said Raven sliding out of the bed.

Everyone else stepped out into the hallway. Raven opened up the dresser looking for a purple bathrobe she had put away earlier. She could hear Harry and Artemis talking in the hallway.

"I was having one of my usual nightmares," Harry was saying heavily. "I heard the screaming and thought something was happening. Freaked me out."

"Well, go downstairs with her,"

"I just want to be alone."

"Harry, don't let her go downstairs by herself."

"Why don't you go downstairs and keep her company?"

"Because Holly and I had been busy, and she probably wouldn't be happy if I disappeared downstairs."

"Oh, uh, never mind."

Raven blushed a bit, knowing what Artemis and Holly had been doing. Like she really needed that information…

She pulled the bathrobe snugly around her and went downstairs where Harry was sitting glumly at the island. A teakettle was on the stove and Harry was nibbling on a cookie from a tin.

"You don't have to stay with me," said Raven, getting a mug.

Harry shrugged. "I won't be sleeping the rest of the night anyway."

"Sorry I woke you."

Harry took another small bite of his cookie. "I only sleep like four hours or so a night."

Raven raised an eyebrow. "Really?"

"I don't need as much," said Harry. "With my abilities, my body regenerates quicker, so I don't sleep as much."

The kettle boiled and Raven poured them both a mug of hot water and added tea bags.

"So what do you do all night, if you're not sleeping?"

Harry added sugar to his tea. "I watch a lot of TV. Adult Swim is a life saver."

Raven sighed lightly. She remembered Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy had all loved Adult Swim. Even Starfire had gotten into it. She had particularly enjoyed what she called the "Mechanical Chicken."

"I read too," said Harry. "Or I play on my laptop."

"Oh." Raven sipped her tea. "Sorry about the screaming and waking you up. I heard what you said in the hall…"

Harry glanced at her, his face tightening slightly. He poked at his half eaten cookie. He then raised his hand and a blade slid out. "My comforter is getting to be more than hole than cloth."

Raven eyed the blade, which was glinting in the light. "I remember you said your blades come out in your sleep. Can't you control them?"

"Of course," said Harry, making the other ones slide out slowly. "But not really in my sleep. I used to have to sleep with special guards that went over my hand. So I wouldn't stab Ginny by accident."

She had heard enough to know that Ginny had been Harry's wife, but apparently they were divorced.

"I feel about breaking the lamps and the slamming the dresser into the wall."

Harry shrugged. "He knows you didn't do it on purpose. He's not some jerk that would make you pay for it. Sheesh, if he charged me for the all the pillows, sheets, and comforters I've poked holes into, I'd be in debt." He withdrew the blades and sparks healed up the slit.

They were silent a moment.

"You okay?" asked Harry. "You're not going to accidentally kill one of us in our sleep one night are you?"

"No!" said Raven indignantly.

"Just checking. Must've been a really bad nightmare."

Raven got quiet, thinking about it. "Starfire was in it."

"Starfire?"

"She was my friend, one of my team mates," said Raven, staring into her tea. "She was from Tamaran, a faraway planet. We got pretty close, even though she made me go to the mall with her more than I liked." She didn't want to get to into the dream too much, but something was bothering her, and she thought maybe if she talked about it a little, it would help. Since the incident with her team mates, she hadn't had really anyone to talk too. Before, if something was bothering, she could talk to the others. Sometimes it took a few days, but being with the same people for so many years, she had gotten pretty close to all of them. Here, everyone was pretty nice to her, but she didn't really know them, and there were some things she just couldn't tell them.

She wanted to know something.

"Listen, I'm an empath, which means I can detect others people's feelings sometimes and pick up on their thoughts and such. I think…I think was dreaming something else and then I somehow picked up on your nightmare."

Harry was trying to keep his face neutral, but Raven could feel anxiety coming from him. "Oh?"

Raven took another breath. "There was a guy, pointing a wand at me, and I was in a lot of pain. Like, agonizing pain. And he called me Harry. He said I would be his weapon and then he used some kind of spell on me-." She stopped, not wanting to describe how horrible the pain had been.

Harry was very still, staring at her.

"What the hell?"

Raven's eyes widened a little. Well, she must have been right. She had picked up his nightmare.

"You-you got into my dream!?"

"I didn't do it on purpose! You must have been having a strong dream, and with me, I just ended up sharing it, sort of."

Harry was glaring at her. "The stuff I dream about-it's none of your business!"

Raven drew her bathrobe tighter around her. "Yelling at me isn't going to make it better!"

Harry stood up. "Keep your powers away from me!" He walked out of the room.

Raven remained in her seat, getting angry. How dare he? It wasn't like she did it on purpose! If strong emotions of fear were coming from him, it was only natural she'd end up picking it up, especially with the problems she'd had with her powers lately.

She didn't sleep much the rest of the night.

In the morning, breakfast seemed tense. Holly had left early to go report some stuff to her boss, Trouble, in Haven. Butler and Juliet had eaten early and gone to the gym for training, so it was just Artemis, Coral, Harry, and Raven at the table.

Harry ignored Raven, who in turn ignored him. Two could play at that game. Artemis tried talking to them, while feeding Coral, who was determined to get as much oatmeal into her hair as possible. All he got was mostly grunts and single word answers.

Raven excused herself quickly and went upstairs to meditate.

"All right, Harry, what happened?" asked Artemis, wiping oatmeal off Corals face and head. "You two both seem weird. What, are you not speaking to her for some reason?"

"Hmph." Harry drained his coffee.

"Harry, come on."

Harry glowered at his half finished food. "She got into my dream."

"What does that mean?"

"She's an empath. She picks up on feelings or some bull crap and she ended up having the same nightmare I was having."

"Oh," said Artemis. "She told you what she dreamt?"

"Yeah." Harry ran a hand through his hair. "It was just one of my usual nightmares. Aeron was torturing me saying some things and she dreamt the same thing apparently. Pissed me off."

"Why?"

"I don't want people, like-ending up in my head!" Harry sputtered. "If she'd saw the wrong thing, what would she assume!?"

"I don't understand."

"Well, once in a while I dream that I killed that little girl, remember I thought I had, but then it turned out she'd gotten away before the building blew up? What if she'd ended up seeing that, and then thought I was a murderer!"

"Obviously, you're not, or you wouldn't be working for The Order."

"Yeah, but what if I had killed her and no one knew of it? And Raven wouldn't know the whole story either way." Harry scowled at his empty cup. "I don't like people just knowing stuff like that about my life. It was a horrible time in my life. It's why I ended up with these powers. I don't want people in my head, or knowing what I think. Next thing we'll find out is that she's a mind reader and spying on us or something."

Artemis's phone rang.

Holly's voice emitted from it. "Artemis, three rogue trolls have escaped the Lower Elements and are heading toward Mabsburgh, fifty miles north of here. I'm on my way already, but it'll be a bit before I can get there or before a team can get up there. Harry and Raven need to get surveillance and only interfere if it becomes necessary."

Harry pushed his chair back. "Shit."

He went upstairs and knocked on Raven's door. The door creaked open after a minute and her violet eyes peered out. She looked a bit mad. "What?"

"Let's go," snapped Harry. "We got trolls."

A raised eyebrow. "Oh, wow, trolls already, " she said in her usual monotone.

"Come on, we got to fly, get surveillance and onlyinterfere if the trolls threaten someone, which is very likely, as they are near a town. We can fly, I'll lead."

"Fine."

Raven could tell Harry was still mad at her, but she didn't really care. She was more worried about dealing with trolls, seeing as she had never seen one before.

Harry let his wings out and Raven levitated as they flew north to Mabsburgh.

When they got close to Mabsburgh, it was easy to spot the trolls. They were the only, huge, ugly, smelly beasts lumbering around, with giant tusks.

"If we have to interfere, stay away from the tusks, they're poisonous, and the nasty curved claws can gut you in a second. The light drives them crazy, after being underground in the dark."

"Good to know."

Harry had his cell phone out, taking video that was being sent to Holly's helmet and also to the LEP.

"A team should be here soon, to help get rid of them, and to make any humans that happened to see them forget."

"Okay."

Harry ignored her for the rest of the time, while they filmed the trolls, who were roaring and smacking aside small trees. They were dangerously close to a small farm that was right on the edge of the town.

"Crap," muttered Harry as they flew closer.

The farm only had a couple of cows and a couple of goats, while a few hens squawked and flapped around. There was a small barn and a modest house.

A man was outside his house, staring at the three huge beasts coming onto his land.

A stray chicken was snatched up and made into an on the spot snack.

The man ran into his house and came out with a shotgun.

"This idiot is going to get himself killed," said Harry swooping down.

The man aimed the shotgun at Harry, seeing him flying toward.

"Get out of here!" snapped Harry. "That shotgun ain't gonna do crap against those trolls!"

"What is this!" the man was yelling. "Monsters and you! Some weirdo!"

The two remaining trolls were getting closer, roaring. The man pissed himself and ran back into his house.

Raven flew down and used her powers to lift a giant rock out of the ground and send it hurtling toward one of the trolls. It clonked the beast on the head, who roared and stumbled, looking around. It's mean eyes fixed on Raven and it rushed forward. Raven darted to one side.

"Azareth Metrion Zinthos!" several more rocks were lifted up. Harry was flying around another one, trying to go for the head with his blades, but it kept flailing its huge arms up.

The third one, chicken blood splattered around its mouth, came running toward Harry and he had to fight both of them at the same time. Raven was throwing rocks at her troll, who kept batting most of them away.

Suddenly the door opened and the man poked his head out. He had his shotgun.

"You led these things onto my property!"

Harry wasn't paying attention and his back was to the door, trying to deal with two trolls.

There was a loud bang.

Harry hesitated in the air, having just been shot through the back. Raven could see the hole through his clothing as blood blossomed suddenly.

Harry felt the pain. The bullet had gone right through his heart. What the hell? He was trying to keep this guy from being turned into a troll's lunch.

Seeing the advantage, a troll lashed out at him and the blow sent him sprawling into the yard, the claws having opened up giant gashes in his chest. Blood splattered everywhere. He landed hard in the dirt, blood bubbling in his throat and trickling out of his mouth. The bullets had massively damaged his heart and the claws had broken his ribs and punctured his lungs.

Raven's troll was angrily hurling rocks around. One was hurtling toward his head. He closed his eyes. If that hit his head…Raven would be on her own for sure until LEP got there.

Harry braced for the blow, but suddenly a shield appeared above him, and it deflected the rock. Raven had cast it while fighting.

Raven had just managed to knock out her troll with a well aimed rock and she darted over to the door.

"WHAT THE HELL! WE'RE TRYING TO HELP YOU!"

She used her powers to bend the barrel of the shotgun back onto itself. The old man stared in shock, dropped it outside and then quickly slammed the door.

Raven whirled to face the last two trolls.

She dodged as the trolls attempted to slash at her.

"Shit." She snatched up some wooden posts from the ground and sent them like missiles at her opponents. One hit its mark and impaled the unfortunate troll through its eye and into its brain.

Harry was trying to get to his feet, despite not being healed enough.

The last troll lashed out and managed to snatch Raven's leg and it yanked down, taking her to the ground so hard it knocked the wind out of her. She could see the tusks gleaming, ready to gut her.

Suddenly the troll roared and something flew onto its face.

Harry had used his wings to propel himself onto the monsters face and was gouging his claws deep into his eyes. Raven, getting her breathe back, sent a wooden stake into the beasts throat. A jet of blood sprayed out. Harry yanked his claws out and fell backwards, landing in the dirt next to Raven as the monster fell backwards with a thump.

"Fuck," muttered Harry, clutching his chest, where sparks where still healing his wounds. "My heart isn't even done yet."

Raven looked at him wide eyed. "You're still moving?"

"Yeah…barely," Harry wheezed. He still had blood in his lungs.

Raven got to her feet wincing while Harry staggered to a tree stump and sat on it, wincing.

"Um, thanks," said Raven, just as suddenly a large shape materialized next to her.

Raven raised her hand, encased in her power, but a small person hopped out of the pod looking thing.

"It's just me!" said Holly. "Took a shuttle. LEP should be here to dispose soon. Harry are you okay?"

Harry grunted.

"The old guy in there saw it all," said Raven. "He shot Harry."

Holly's eyes narrowed. "He'll be mind wiped. But there isn't much else we can do."

By the time the mess was being cleaned up, Harry had healed enough and they flew back to Fowl Manor.

` They landed on the front lawn.

Harry straightened his tattered shirt. "Um, thanks for making that shield thing before the rock hit my head. If you hadn't, it would have taken me a lot longer to heal.

"Oh, it's fine."

"And…sorry for yelling at you last night. That was uncalled for. I guess when you're sleeping, you can't always control things."

Raven was surprised. "It's okay."

"You can't read minds can you?" asked Harry, narrowing his eyes at her."

"Yes, but only if I touch you, preferably your head, or if I have a particularly strong mental bond with someone. Robin, our team leader, and I had one."

"Oh," said Harry.

Bringing Robin up made her eyes smart with tears and she quickly turned toward the house without a backward glance. She shut herself in her room.

She missed them all so much, even that loser Beast Boy.

She meditated for awhile, until loud knocking sounded on the door.

Raven opened it and Juliet was standing there.

"Listen, now that your back from troll killing, we should go shopping!"

"Uhhh," Raven winced at the word "shopping."

"Come on, Artemis gave me his credit card. He'll probably regret it, but you need more clothes."

Raven hesitated. She did need some more clothes, preferably all in black, blue, purple, and more black. She could even buy some sweat pants for sleeping in that didn't have the words "spank me" on the back, like the pair Juliet had given her.

"I guess," mumbled Raven.

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