You and Only You
Chapter 4
The rest of the day passed by quietly and everyone had long since retired to their room. Robin was the only thing moving through the tower as he went to get a drink from the kitchen. Opening the fridge door he grabbed a bottled water and saw something. Armed Sladebots were standing on and around all the counters in the kitchen. Dropping his water Robin attacked trying to get to the door to wake the others. Robin reached the door only to find more on the other side of it. Unknown to Robin the rest of the team was awake and fighting as well. Robin got in the elevator breathing heavy having already taken down a minimum of 80 robots. Pulling out his communicator he sent out a message to everyone. "Titans, meet me in the training room ASAP!" Hearing the message everyone redirected their fighting routs.
Raven's POV
I woke up with a start. "Raven, long time no see" I looked around my pitch black room. There was a glint by the door. "What not happy to see me?" my thoughts scattered the second he stepped into the moonlight from my window. "Slade, what are you doing here?" I demanded attempting to put some force behind it. Honestly I was terrified. "I came to finish what I started." He slowly started walking towards my bed. "I'm here to finish you" I shook my head, my voice wavering slightly. "No, Robin will stop you. He won't let you hurt me" I whimpered. "He can't stop me" I looked in the direction of the voice. Slade! How is that possible? He was over by my open window. I looked back to the door. He was still there. I looked at my window again, more Slade's were pouring in. How is this even possible? I was scared and confused. One Slade grabbed my wrists, holding my hands over my head. Another held my kicking feet still. And a third stood in front of me with a knife in hand. More were still coming in my window. I screamed hoping that Robin would hear me since he was just a few doors down the hall. "Scream all you want, he's not coming" they all chorused. "Yes he will" I shouted. "No. He's gone. Robin. Is. Dead." they all said emphasizing each word. I wanted to cry as one of the Slades with the knife raised it to my cheek and made a nice deep, two inch long cut. After that they all took turns punching and cutting me. The whole time they were chanting 'Robin is dead! Robin is dead!' I finally remembered my powers after over an hour of torture and threw them all off me. Backing up into a corner I threw up a black shield around myself. They pounded on the shield trying to get to me but thankfully couldn't get through.
Normal POV
Luckily for Robin the elevator let out right into the training room with nothing in between. Cyborg, Starfire, and Beastboy arrived shortly after trying to keep the intruders from following them in. "Where's Raven" Robin asked frantically. "We thought that she was with you" Starfire said beginning to panic. "She must still be fighting by her room" Beastboy said something smart for one of the first times in his life. "What I want to know is how a thousand ARMED robots got past MY security system!" Cyborg said with more anger than any of them had ever seen before.
The all got in the elevator they rode up to Raven's floor and stepped out ready to fight. And fight they did. There must have been 300 robots in just this hallway. They all fought harder when they thought about Raven fighting on her own somewhere up there. Cyborg was finally able to reset the security and when it was fixed the Titans let the tower finish what they had started almost two hours ago.
The walls around Ravens door was covered in laser holes and burn marks. Her door itself had been reduced to mere scrap metal. They entered her room, it was completely trashed. Everything was broken and burned; the floor was littered with robot parts, leaving barely any room to walk. Robin led the way in; spotting a black dome in the corner they made their way to it. "Raven" his voice was laced with relief that she was ok. She looked up with tears that were threatening to spill over. Letting down her shield she threw herself into Robins arms. He lowered them to the floor and held her tight. "S-so m-many" She cried into his shoulder. "Uh dudes, you might wanna see this" Beastboy held up the head of a robot, it looked just like Slade! Looking around they realized that all the robots in her room had looked like this. Raven was hysterical. "They said you were dead" Robin kissed the top of her head. "It's ok Rae, I'm here now. I'm here" Robin told her quietly. "Please don't leave me" she managed through sobs. Beastboy and Starfire watched disbelievingly, as Robin kissed the top of her head again and rocked her in his lap. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm not letting you go." he said into her hair. Robin had never acted like this in front of them before, not even when he had been with Starfire. "Cyborg run a scan of the tower then initiate total lockdown, I don't want any more trouble tonight" Robin said keeping his voice light so he wouldn't frighten Raven any more than she already was. "You got it, come on ya'll lets go clean ourselves up" Cyborg said walking out the door. Beastboy followed without a sound whereas Starfire seemed rooted to the spot as she watched Robin comfort Raven a little more before lifting her in his arms. Starfire left quickly unable to watch any longer.
Robin walked into the med lab to see Cyborg tending to the other two. He set Raven down on one of the beds and looked at her. She had a lot of bruises and cuts covering her body. It looked like the old ones had been reopened and fresh ones had been made. Robin got a wet towel and sat down next to her on the bed. Raven was holding herself and whispered "I thought you were gone, they said you were" Robin shook his head slowly and smiled "I will never leave you" He hugged her before picking up the towel again to start cleaning her cuts. Robin never noticed when Starfire left silently weeping. Cyborg finished Beastboy who turned into a kitten and slept on one of the chairs, too sore to move. "Ok you guys" Cyborg came over. "Who's first?" he asked rubbing his hands together. "Raven, I'm not going until she's checked" Robin said. "Ok Raven, I guess you're up" Cyborg said grabbing some more bandages and wipes for her cuts. "I-I'm fine Robin did me" Raven said. "Raven, this will be easier if you don't try to fight me" Cyborg told her, taking a step closer. Raven started trembling again.
Flashback:
"Raven, this will be easier if you don't try to fight me" Slade said as he pulled the knife out. "But it will be more fun for me if you do because I will enjoy killing every one of your little teammates before your eyes, including your precious little Robin." She started struggling again. "No! Leave me alone" Raven screamed. Slade laughed manically. "What do you even want with me?" She asked. "You hold your team together and without you I can crush them, so here ends the life of the creepy little freak Raven, now hold still" Slade grinned evilly behind his mask, and even unable to see it Raven knew he was as he started drawing the knife across her body.
End Flashback
Robin glared at Cyborg. "What did I say?" He asked confused. Robins gaze softened when he looked at Raven who had freaked out. "D-don't touch me" Raven stuttered in a higher voice than she had planned. She had shuffled back on the bed away from Cyborg. "Don't hurt me" Raven muttered. Beastboy woke up and changed into his normal form to come over and see what was going on. "Raven its ok; I won't touch you if you don't want me to. See I'm backing up" Cyborg said in a calming voice, taking several slow steps away from the frightened girl. Robin moved closer to her and she whimpered as he covered her hand with his. "You're safe here; no one would ever want to hurt you." Robin said using his thumb to stroke the back of her hand. She nodded a little. "Why don't you let Cyborg take a look at you" she gave another tiny nod and moved so she could sit next to Robin again. Robin wrapped his arm around her shoulders, giving them a reassuring squeeze. Cyborg examined her just as he had done the other two muttering "God Slade must really love torturing us and making our lives miserable" he grabbed some ointment to gently apply it where it was needed. Raven tensed when she heard Cyborg. Robin pulled her into his lap when Cyborg turned away to grab the ointment and Raven relaxed again as Robins arms encircled her. Cyborg turned back to the two birds surprised to see Raven in his lap but noticed she seemed a bit more willing to let him help her so didn't say anything.
Raven fell asleep leaning against Robins chest when Cyborg had finished with her. Beastboy had long since gone back to bed for his 'beauty sleep.' "What are we going to do with her, her room is completely trashed" Cyborg commented quietly while checking the few wounds on Robin. "She can sleep in my room, I'll take the couch. And if I'm fine I will be going" Robin said picking up Raven in his arms. He brought her to his room and laid her on the bed. Unable to bring himself to leave her alone after the scare Slade had put her through, Robin grabbed an extra pillow and blanket out of the closet and lay on the floor to sleep.
Raven woke up in the middle of the night. She looked around realizing she wasn't in her bed or even in her own room. Her fear from earlier was coming back and she didn't want to be alone. Hearing breathing she looked over the side of the bed to see Robin. She sighed and slid out of the bed, lying next to him on the floor. Robins arm wrapped around her; pulling her closer to him. Raven smiled as she fell back asleep.
Robin woke up and felt something next to him. Opening his eyes he saw a frowning Raven. He stroked her cheek. "Why are you frowning?" Robin asked her worried. "I just remembered I don't have a room anymore" he was glad that was all that was bothering her. "We'll fix it, I promise. How long have you been up?" Robin asked hoping she had gotten some rest after last night. "I don't know" Raven pulled the blanket up to her chin. Robin propped himself up on one elbow when he realized something, "What are you doing on the floor? I tucked you in bed last night." He didn't know why she would want to be on the floor "I didn't want to be alone" Raven looked up at him. "You aren't and never will be again" Robin pulled her on top of him in a passionate kiss, trying to help her forget all her problems.
A few hours later after breakfast Robin and Raven went up to her room. She didn't want the rest of the team to come, she didn't want them there as her and Robin looked for anything that may have survived the attack. "Are you sure you want to do this" Robin asked. They were outside her door. Or where the door should have been. "Let's go" she breathed leading the way in. Robin gave her shoulders a quick squeeze before going off to begin cleaning up robot parts and looking for anything wasn't ruined. Raven went over to her book case. Last night she had stacks that there wasn't room for, now all those stacks had been reduced to shreds. She collected the few books that weren't destroyed in a pile out in the hall. She moved on to her trunk of spell ingredients. The trunk was beat up but its contents were fine. Raven continued this way making her way around the edge of what used to be her room. She wandered over to her bathroom flicking on the light as she went. It wasn't as bad as the rest of her room had been, but then again only her and Robin knew that she had her own private one like him. The few things in there were fine so she turned around and went over to her jewelry box, on her dresser. The small wooden box was on the ground broken. Crouching down she sifted through the splintered wood. There was the silver heart. Raven sighed as she picked it up seeing that the chain was broken. "Hey, what do you have there?" Robin asked. He had watched her crouch down and heard her sigh. Raven looked over her shoulder at him. "It's my…locket" Raven went and sat against the wall, her mattress was slashed in dozens of places with springs sticking out of it. Robin went and sat next to her asking "What's up" she stroked the heart with her thumb. "The chain's broken" he held out his hand "Let me see" Raven let it slip from her fingers and into his. After taking a close look at it he said "I can fix it. How long have you had this, I've never seen it on you?" She slowly got to her feet as a slight blush crept into her cheeks and went back to sifting through her things. "A while." she replied vaguely. "Look can we be finished in here for the day; I can't bear to be in here any longer." Her back was still to him as Robin stood up, slipping the locket into his belt. "Of course, I think I'm going to go train for a bit ok?" Raven kissed his cheek with a nod before disappearing up to the roof.