Author's Notes: Title based on a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode… yes I am a huge vampire fan. =)
Back to the present…
The Titan's stared at the beast in human form through the screen in the living room. It was locked in the containment cell, biting at the cell bars trying to get out. Nightwing and Cyborg had not been successful capturing the last one that escaped, but since the sun had come up they decided to start looking again as the sun went back down.
"How is Gar?" asked their leader concerned.
Starfire and Raven looked at each other unsure of what to say, until the empath finally answered deflated. "He has a fever. I think he might have caught an infection from the bite."
"Is that possible?"
"I don't know… that has never happened when Mika has bitten me."
"That has happened several times?" inquired Nightwing.
"Just once actually…" Raven blushed as everyone stared at her. "We kind of got carried away…"
"Maybe these vampires have rabies or something." mentioned Cyborg, trying to get the conversation back on track. He didn't really want to know about Raven's kinky night sessions. "Maybe they are sick and that's why they are acting so savage."
"Can they get sick? Aren't they dead?" asked Starfire. As far as she knew from her conversations with the vampire, the undead did not suffer from mortal ailments.
"Maybe they are young vampires." commented Raven, also remembering some of her girlfriend's words. "Mika said accidents happened with young ones."
"That was no accident; that was a massacre." replied Richard. "Besides, that would imply somebody is turning people and letting them run loose in the city."
"Why don't we just ask Mika for some insight?" suggested Cyborg.
Everyone turned to look at Raven. They knew Mika had gone out of town; but she hadn't admitted she had also practically disappeared on her. "I… haven't really spoken to her in a while…"
"Raven, you know we respect your privacy as much as it's humanly possible but, did something happen between you two?" finally inquired the metal man.
"Yeah, I mean, she disappeared right after she became the local hero. I would think she would take advantage of it to rub it on our faces." suggested their leader.
Raven knew he was trying to get information from her. He was looking for any excuse to antagonize the vampire; but she was not giving him the satisfaction. Besides, she still felt some responsibility about her abrupt departure. "I… I actually did something that might have scared her off."
"Oook… since Mika might be our only link to what's going on, would you care to elaborate?"
"I might have let my demonic side running loose on her…and she got scared and hurt… Luckily she's not human, so it's wasn't so serious."
Richard analyzed her words carefully. Raven's ambiguousness made him look at her with suspicion. "You must have gotten really mad at her. Did she do something that bothered you?"
"No! Ehmm no… Not only anger can wake up my demonic side." explained the demoness quickly knowing where he was trying to get. "Any strong emotion can. And… well, with Mika emotions tend to run high."
"So she freaked and took the first bus out of town?" tried to clarify Cyborg.
"Actually I was the one who freaked and just left her there… and I think she felt hurt and confused… and then she left town."
A heavy silence fell on the room. Speaking about emotions and relationships was always an uncomfortable topic between them. But when it came to the resident empath in particular, talking about emotions not only was uncomfortable, sometimes it was even dangerous.
Nightwing sighed. "Have you spoken to her in her absence?"
"Just once." replied Raven. "She said she would be home as soon as she finished whatever it was she was doing in Las Vegas."
The Titan's leader turned around and walked to the screen that displayed their prisoner. He examined him carefully until he finally spoke again. "Raven, I know you are walking on eggshells with your girlfriend right now, but Gar is sick. We'll call some doctors to come over to the Tower, but maybe you should contact her just in case."
Raven sighed resigned. She took out her phone and dialed the vampire's number. It rang several times until the answering machine came up. "Mika I know you must be sleeping right now, but I need you to contact me as soon as you can. Something's happened. Please call me."
"Guess we'll have to wait until nightfall."
The big screen in the living room began flashing red, signaling an important incoming call. Nightwing immediately took it and the Mayor appeared on the screen.
/ Morning Titans /
"Mayor, what can the Titans do for you?"
/ I'm calling regarding the unfortunate incident that transpired last night at the movie theater. /
"You've already heard of it?"
/ It's all over the news. People are demanding to know who was responsible and if something could have been done to prevent it. Many lives were brutally ended. /
"We are aware of that, and we are already working on it mayor."
/ Did you manage to capture the culprits? /
"We have one of them in our containment cell. We regret to say the other one escaped."
/ It was only 2 creatures? /
"Creatures?"
/ I saw the security tapes. /
"The third one met an unfortunate end." explained Nightwing. "We had no choice, he attacked Changeling and he is unconscious as we speak."
/ I'll send a team to retrieve your prisoner. /
"I would advise against it until we know what we are dealing with here, Mayor."
/ The Titans failed to prevent a massacre, and allowed a dangerous beast to roam our streets. I think everyone would feel safer if the appropriate authorities handled the situation. /
Nightwing had to make a colossal effort to keep his tone as polite as possible. "With all due respect sir, this crime actually falls into Titan's jurisdiction. We can retain our prisoner for the next 48 hours before handing him over."
/ Very well Nightwing. You have 48 hours to clean this mess. /
The mayor hung up and the four Titans stood there, staring at each other.
"That was not very polite." commented Starfire, breaking the silence.
"Yeah, what's gotten up his ass now?" sneered Raven. "Reelection season?"
"Regardless of that, he's right. We have to handle it and find our escaped creepy crawler." Richard affirmed and began handing out orders. "Raven, see if you can come up with information on vampires; it might come in handy. Cyborg, please tend to Gar; make sure he gets the best doctors. Star, keep an eye out for any reports that might relate to our escaped vamp. Meanwhile, I'll investigate who our prisoner is and try to dig information from him. We are going to be busy tonight, so make sure to make yourselves time to rest during the day."
With that everyone got to work on their assignments and prepared for a long night.
She entered the Vampire Bar. Not many people had arrived since it was still early on a Wednesday night. She sat at a little table near the stage. It was open mic night; and a pale, skinny guy was bleeding his heart out with some dark poetry.
She stared at him until he sensed her eyes upon him. He turned to look at her and he smiled knowingly.
When Goth Boy walked down from stage he sat next to her on her table. "Long time no see."
She grinned at his words. "Not really in the mood to chat… want to get out of here?"
Like all good teenage boys he just couldn't say no to such proposition. So he stood up eagerly. She grabbed his hand and led him to the back alley. The gothic music in the background muted as the door closed behind them.
The night was pitch black, and the alley was very poorly lit. After a few steps she turned around and pinned him to the wall. She took in his scent and began licking his neck in a most primal way.
Goth Boy's ragged breath was the only sound that could be heard in the alley. And when she sensed his arousal through his pants she grabbed his head forcefully with both hands and opened her mouth to reveal her fangs.
The boy gasped, but before he could yell in horror she sank her teeth in his tender flesh. Time stopped for him as she drank his life force, and he fell to the ground.
"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!"
Raven woke up startled. She was alone in her dark room. Sweat dripped down her chest and her forehead. The empath's heart was beating hard in her chest and she was breathing like it was the last gulp of air she would ever take. It had been another nightmare.
"It's not real… just calm down… Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos…"
Raven looked out the window and it was night already. She overslept. She got dressed in her combat uniform and got as fast as she could to the communications room. Nightwing and Cyborg were already there.
"Sorry to be late! I overslept." apologized Raven.
"It's ok. It's still early. We are still gathering information on what we can. Star is out patrolling." informed Richard.
"She's out alone?"
"She has instructions to not engage in combat. She will call us in case something comes up." reassured her leader.
"How is Gar?" asked the empath worried.
"The same… we can't lower his fever." replied Cyborg with concern in his voice "Did you find anything on vampire bites?"
"Nothing really. Everything about them, both in books or internet, is just legend stuff; like they can't cross running water, or that crosses repel them, or that they can't be seen in a mirror… Mika has proven all of those to be myths."
"Keep trying to contact Mika then."
At that moment the big screen beeped signaling a call from Starfire's communicator. They turned it on to see the image of their fellow Titan.
"Yes Star, did you find anything?"
/ I am not certain. /
"What do you mean?"
/ Somebody was found unconscious in the back alley outside the Vampire Bar. /
"What!? Do you know who it was?" immediately asked Raven. Fear crawled up her spine.
/ Yes. I am sorry to say this Raven, but it was you friend Goth Boy. He doesn't remember anything that happened, he is weak, but he is alive. I called because I don't know if that is important, considering we are dealing with vampires. /
"Star, just keep an eye out for anyone familiar." petitioned the empath.
"Do you know what's going on Raven?" asked her leader.
"I think I know who did that?" replied the demoness somberly. "I think that was Mika… I dreamed about this just now."
"What?"
"I've been having these dreams since Mika left. At first I thought it was my imagination, but I've come to think I might actually be seeing her actions."
"How is that possible?" inquired Cyborg.
"Am an empath… maybe I established some sort of connection with her."
"Alright Titans, guess we have another vampire to hunt for." said Nightwing getting in business mode.
Raven overflew the city trying to sense her girlfriend's presence. The challenging part about it was that Mika transmitted her emotions on a different wavelength that most of the time was hard to read, even in close range. Trying to find her like this was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
"Let's see, if I was a vampire who just got out of town and recently fed, what would I be doing right now?"
What about chillin out at my favorite place?
Far in the distance, the lighthouse tower appeared. It stood out in the bay in all its somber glory, and it was one of Mika's favorite places. Raven teleported inside, and from the shadows she could make out the vampire staring out the horizon.
The empath froze realizing it was the first time she would speak to her face to face in a month. There were so many things she had to ask, it was hard to know where to begin. "So you are really here."
Mika jumped startled as Raven stepped out from the shadows. She looked like a wild animal ready to snap at the trespasser. "Mika it's me, Raven."
"Raven?"
"Yeah, as in your girlfriend." answered the empath in her characteristic sarcastic tone as she walked closer. "How many Ravens do you know?"
Mika seemed to relax and lowered her stance. On closer inspection, the demoness realized she looked different; her hair was hidden inside a green fedora hat and her usual leather clothes were replaced by washed out jeans and a green blouse.
"Right, sorry. You scared the shit out of me baby. On the upside, I found you."
"If you wanted to find me you could have come straight to the Tower." retorted the empath.
"Of course, the Tower…" the vampire fidgeted on her place, she seemed uncertain of what to say. "So, what's up?"
"What's up?" exclaimed the Titan outraged. "You disappear for one month and all you ask is what's up!?"
Mika looked back at her confused; but quickly changed her demeanor and walked closer to her and grabbed her hands. "You are right! I am sorry. I've missed you baby, will you forgive me? You know it wasn't my intension to just leave like that."
"Why did you leave anyway?"
"I had stuff to do." replied the vampire nonchalantly.
"What stuff? What have you been doing?" asked Raven. "And why didn't you return my message? I told you something really wrong is happening, yet you are out here doing Azar knows what, and I'm starting to believe you've been doing something awful!"
"Look, I don't know what else to say besides I'm sorry."
"Are you really sorry? I know you usually play I'm the bad-ass-vamp-everything's-cool tune, but do you really have to act so indifferent right now?"
The empath was usually controlled and cold in her emotions. But after everything that had happened she was acting like a wounded animal, and lashed at the minimal provocation.
The vampire seemed at a loss for words and backed away instinctively. "You are totally right! But you know how much I suck at expressing my feelings. That doesn't mean I don't care. And I don't know why you are worried about what I've been doing anyway..."
"You don't know why I'm worried!? Your eyes are crimson like when you drink blood!" yelled Raven at her, making a crate behind Mika blow up with her powers.
The vampire flinched and opened her eyes wide like saucers. The empath realized then she was losing her temper in a dangerous way and mentally chanted her mantra to calm down. "Look, I know I screwed up last time we saw, but please tell me you haven't gone and done something stupid because of it."
"I… Look, I know you are totally right about being mad, but I don't want to argue, not now anyway… Why don't you better tell me what was so urgent that's got you so worked up?"
"You are right. It's not a good time to be arguing. There's something we need you to figure out. Let's go to the Tower and I'll explain."
"Sure… lead the way…"
On their way to the Tower the vampire didn't really say anything. Raven was confused; Mika felt distant, guarded even. As they arrived, the empath analyzed her girlfriend; she hadn't made any attempt at any physical contact, she just admired the view through the big window in the living room and played nervously with her hat as she waited for the other to take the initiative.
"You cut your hair…" mentioned Raven to break the ice. Noticing her long, black hair was now short and spiky.
"Yeah… I did."
"It looks… different."
"Thanks, I guess." answered the vamp. "Actually all of you looks different."
The vampire smirked knowingly as she turned to look at her. Even though Mika was wearing way more feminine clothes than what she was used to, the demoness felt a chill run up her spine; as if she was in the presence of a predator. "I wanted to try a new look."
Before Raven could ask anything else, the rest of the team walked in.
"So you are really back." said Nightwing with a hint of disdain.
"Yeah, I am." replied Mika coolly. "Missed me?"
"Yes friend, we have missed you very much!" answered the Tamaranean running to hug the vampire.
"Ugh! You are stronger than you look." groaned Mika as she was bear hugged by the alien.
"Oh, sorry."
Starfire released her and an uncomfortable silence sat in. They all turned to look at each other before the vampire finally spoke. "Sooo… what's up guys?"
The leader of the Titans took the initiative. "We have a situation we need you in order to figure out. But before that, we have to ask you something… and we need the entire truth."
"Oook."
"There is really no easy way to break it, so I'll just go for it." the Titan's leader waited for her to nod. "Mika, did you attack Goth Boy tonight?"
"Goth Boy?" asked the vamp a little confused "Oh, right at the bar. Yeah he's alright, I was just goofing around."
They were all surprised by her blunt admission of guilt. They had at least expected her to try to cover her ass with a big fat lie.
"I'm sorry, what?" asked Raven dumfounded. "You never hunt! And he's my friend and you knew that! How could you leave him unconscious in the back of an alley!?"
"If he's such a good friend, how come he made a move on me?" sneered the vampire.
"He made a move on you?" questioned the empath. "Is that why you attacked him?"
"I thought: hey, if this jerk is willing to feel me up in a dark alley, how long will it take for him to try that on my girl?" concluded the brunette nonchalantly. "I got jealous."
"You got jealous and attacked someone?" gasped Nightwing baffled.
"I'm emotional…"
They all stared at her perplexed. Mika had always been blunt and unashamedly amoral. But this just seemed wrong even from her.
"Ok, you are making me wonder how many times that has happened before." noted Richard worriedly.
Cyborg got close to his leader and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Dick, I understand how you must feel. But considering Goth boy is unharmed, why don't we move to a more pressing matter? I don't know; maybe Gar's health…"
"You are right… we can deal with our resident vampire's lack of morality later." agreed Nightwing. "Mika, Gar got a bite from a vampire and he fell sick. Do you have any idea why?"
"A vampire bite? I thought there were no other vampires in Jump City."
"Well we encountered 3 unexpected visitors last night causing mayhem." explained the Titan's leader. "And now Gar has an infection from the battle."
"An infection?" the vampire turned to look at him confused. "Our bite is not supposed to do that. We are not snakes."
"Maybe if you see him you might think of something? He's in the infirmary."
"Sure, I'll go see him." The vampire turned decisively to head to the elevator.
"Mika the infirmary is the other way." corrected Raven estranged.
"Right! Where is my head tonight…" she turned to look at Nightwing. "Say handsome, why don't you take me there? In such a big Tower I might get lost."
"Handsome?" Richard quirked an eyebrow as he was pulled by the arm by the vampire.
Raven was going to say something when she got interrupted by her ringing phone. She picked it up wondering who it might be; very few people had her number, and almost all of them were in the room. She answered the call and her expression grew somber as she listened intently. Cyborg noted this and approached her worriedly, for all she said before hanging up was: "Hurry please."
Suddenly, dark energy erupted from Raven and shadow tendrils engulfed the vampire pulling her away from her friends. The brunette's legs and arms got immobilized by the demoness' powers. Everyone jumped back, shocked by the empath's outburst.
"Ok, who are you!? I knew you were acting too strange." the dark Titan was furious and walked menacingly towards the vamp, lowering her to her knees with her powers. "I should have known; even the way your hips sway its wrong."
"What are you talking about!? It's me baby!" chirped her prisoner.
"Really?" Raven's eyes turned red. "You never call me baby…"
"Honey?"
"Wrong answer…" replied the demon in a raspy voice as she tightened the hold on her. The shadows began bruising her arms and legs and crushing her ribs.
"Friend Raven what is going on?" finally asked Starfire mortified.
"My girlfriend just called to say she just got back in town, and that she's on her way to the Tower." she took the doppelgangers chin in her hand to make her look at her. "What do you have to say to that?"
"Ups?"
Raven growled outraged. But before she could snap at the intruder the elevator doors opened. The real Mika came running out and almost stumbled on her own feet as she froze in place taking in the scene before her. Her girlfriend stood towering over her subdued doppelganger in the middle of the room, while the other Titan's surrounded her in fighting stance.
Everyone remained quiet as Raven walked to the second Mika and inspected her closely. "Your hair is long and your eyes are chocolate brown…"
"Aren't they usually?"
"Ok, Mika what is my name? My human name?"
"Are we going to play 50 questions luv?" replied the vampire. "Cause seriously Rachel, I knew you might be mad at me for disappearing on you, but this is not the welcoming committee I expected."
Ok, 3 things right: looks, pet name, human name. Raven relaxed a little but was still looking at her suspiciously. "Where you at the vamp bar tonight?"
"No… I came straight here…"
"You didn't see Goth Boy tonight?" kept asking the empath.
"Why would I want to see your yucky ex-boyfriend?" snorted the brunette. "And don't play innocent; I am most certain you dated him!"
Raven smiled at Mika's offended reply. Only she could answer like that. Still, she needed to be sure. "Did you go out hunting tonight?"
"No. You know I don't do that."
The empath took a deep breath. "Ok, last question: what do you think of Nightwing?"
"You really think this is an appropriate moment for me to say what I think of the Boy Blunder?"
Raven smiled wider for her undead lover and gave her a quick hug, before turning to the imposter. "Ok, evil clone over here is going down."
"No, wait! Don't hurt her!" Mika ran to her side and stood in front of her double. "Just let her go, please!"
"Why? She pretended to be you to get inside Titan's Tower!"
"Typical…" Mika just rolled her eyes. "She is not an evil clone, she's my twin sister."
"What?!" everyone blurted out confused.
The dark energy encaging the twin vanished. Mika turned to look at her sister with furious eyes. "Caroline why are you here? What were you thinking paroling as me?"
"She confused me with you! I was just having a little fun… plus it's your entire fault!" accused her twin.
"What?!"
"You didn't tell me about her! I just wanted to figure out more about your life here."
"I did tell you I was dating someone." replied Mika offended.
"Oh, and you just missed the tiny piece of fun fact that she is a Teen Titan!?" sassed her sister. "I feel like I don't know who you are anymore!"
"That makes two of us." quipped in Raven. "You never said anything about having a twin sister. You never said anything about having a sister at all."
Mika stood in the middle between her sister and her girlfriend. Both were glaring at her with arms crossed over their chests in identical expressions waiting for her to explain herself.
"I said nothing because…" The vampire just looked from one to the other unable to utter a reasonable response that would appease them. "There is a really good reason, and you both deserve a lengthy explanation, but right now is not the time. You said something about an emergency."
"Finally someone with her priorities straight!" yelled Cyborg "Even though we love the gossip about your family drama, Changeling needs us, now!"
"What happened to Gar?" asked Mika concerned, just noticing that he was the only one missing.
"He is sick from a vampire bite… do you know of something that could help him?" asked Richard.
"From a vampire bite? How did that happened?"
"We fought 3 vampires last night at the movie drive in. One bit Gar and he is feverish in the infirmary."
"Our bite is not infectious." objected Mika. "How do you know it was a vampire?"
"One of the attackers is in the containment cell on the lower levels."
"Take me to see him…"
"No wonder you don't want to go back home, you have a very interesting life here…" noted Caroline as she turned to address her sister.
"Not now sis."
They were all looking at the vampire in the containment cell through the security cameras displayed in the big screen of the communications room. They had put Mika and Caroline (who had decided to tag along) up to date on the recent events.
"So, let me get this straight… The creepy crawler in your basement is supposed to be a vampire?"
"It has the physical characteristics of a vampire." began explaining the Titan's leader. "It has inhuman strength, speed, drinks blood using its fangs, gets burned by UV light, was a human being, crawled out from a grave…"
"Wait… it crawled out from a grave!?" exclaimed Mika.
"Yes, we found out the identity of our prisoner. He was Edward James, died a few days ago from cancer. When I checked his tomb, it was opened from the inside out, hence the state of his clothing."
"Wicked!"
"Caroline shush… ehm we don't usually crawl out from graves, that sounds awful and terrifying… although that would explain why he's all savage and stuff… like he lost all humanity in the process…" clarified the vampire.
"Mika, you once told me young vampires tend to… ehm… well kill people…" commented Raven.
"Yes, because the thirst is too great, the beast is too close to the skin, and they don't really know what they are doing." explained Caroline as she jumped in the conversation. "When they take enough blood into their systems they finally calm down and realize what they have done, and that puts the leash back on."
Everyone turned to look at Mika. "Yeah, what she said."
"Are there vampires that don't put the leash back on?" asked Starfire.
"Yes. There's always the possibility that the process of siring was so brutal it destroyed their humanity. Although those individuals don't usually live for too long; they are put down like rabid dogs."
"By whom?" asked Raven.
"By us… by vampires I mean." added Mika. "Our laws are very strict… and when one is found guilty there's only one sentence: final death."
"Isn't that a little extreme?" Cyborg was a little shocked "I know killing a human being is a horrible action, but when another human does it, we don't immediately put it in death row."
"Killing a human being is not against our laws." corrected Caroline. "If a farmer kills a chicken to feed his family, the act itself it's cruel, but it's not against the law."
"Ok, is anyone else disturbed by the fact she's comparing us to a chicken?" Cyborg couldn't believe the tranquility in the words he was hearing.
Mika helped her sister's point. "Well it's cruel, but it's the truth. Maybe now you will have more sympathy for Gar's vegetarian diet."
"Ok, but that doesn't explain why you sentence to death the ones of you who do so." asked Nightwing.
"We don't sentence to death other vampires for killing a human. We sentence them to death for making it public. Hence breaking our most sacred law in the process." continued the explanation Mika.
"Which is?"
"Breaking the masquerade… We are never to reveal our true nature to humans…" finished Caroline. Both twins seemed to complete each other's sentences. "It places us in danger."
"But that would make Mika an outlaw…" guessed Raven.
"Yes. My point exactly as to why I never introduced you two." stated the vampire sourly. "And the reason why I left like that. Our sire was not very happy to see me on TV, and sent some of his lackeys to retrieve me."
"You mean you were taken?" Raven suddenly felt very guilty, if she had stayed with her maybe they wouldn't have taken her. She would have stopped them.
"Yes… good thing I've always been a good childe. Took me a while, but I managed to get away with it."
"Yeah, good thing you've always been daddy's little girl… or else you would be toast by now." teased her twin.
Mika rolled her eyes as she playfully poked her twin. Raven couldn't help analyze that silent interaction between them. It hit her as odd how close they looked to each other; despise the fact that her girlfriend never even mentioned her. It made her wonder what else she was hiding.
Her thoughts were interrupted as Cyborg pulled them back on track. "Ok, that's all very interesting… but what about Gar's infection? What's up with that?"
"I don't know… I've never heard of something like that." replied Mika. "Doesn't his shape shifting ability help him regenerate?"
"The doctors say it's pretty bad; he's not healing… at this rate he might die…"
Everyone kept quiet for a while. The possibility of death amongst them was always present in their line of work, but they had never felt it so close before.
Caroline looked back and forth between them. She didn't know who this Gar guy was, but felt he was important to them. "Mika, why don't we call our own doctor?"
"I don't think that's a good idea…" disagreed her sister. "We are breaking many rules as it is…"
"Yeah, but Gar might die." alleged her sister.
"You don't even know him."
"That doesn't mean I cannot care. I'm a sensitive person. Just look at them, they look like hush puppies." replied Caroline pointing at the rest of the Titans; Cyborg in particular looked heartbroken. "It's worth the try. And she won't talk; she's like your best friend, as far as I remember. Plus she owns you one. And you are both into alternative lifestyles…"
"Your doctor is a lesbian?" asked Raven.
"No. She's a vegan vamp." replied the twin with a cheeky grin. There was a lot of Mika in that smile.
Cyborg stood up excited. "That sounds great! Who better to heal a vampire bite infection, than a vampire doctor?"
"Guess we could give it a try to help Gar." conceded Mika noticing Cyborg's enthusiasm. After all, she did like the green guy and would regret his death. He had always been a good friend and very supportive of her relationship with Raven.
In that moment the alarm of Titan's Tower began to holler around them. Nightwing turned on the screen and in it appeared 4 new vampires wrecking chaos in the city.
"Titan's we have to stop another massacre from happening. Let's GO!"
At their leader's command everyone ran to the T-Car. Raven stopped in her tracks and turned to look at her girlfriend. "Aren't you coming to help us?"
"We can't…" interrupted Caroline before her sister could answer. "They are vampires like us. By our people's laws we would be required to aid them escape, not help you catch them."
"We'll stay here out of the way and try and get help for Garfield. Besides I suck at being a superhero." finally answered Mika. "Please be careful."
"Don't worry." said Rae as she gave her a kiss on the cheek. "You'll have your girlfriend in one piece by the end of the night. After all, we still have lots to talk about…"
And with that she created a portal and left to reunite with her team.
"I was afraid she would say that." whined Mika.
"Is she going to spank you?"
"She's Raven of the Titans… she can do worse than that."
"How did that happen exactly?" wondered Caroline finding it odd how her sister had ended up paired to a super heroine.
"It's a long story."
They both stared at the screen as the action unfolded. The 4 rogue vampires separated in different directions as the heroes arrived. "I think we have plenty of time."
To be continued…