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Chapter 4: Problems

Raven was breathing rapidly, she was nervous and confused. She closed her eyes and mentally chanted her three magic words, she needed to calm down.

'Why am I so angry... damn, it's like when I think of that demon, I can't control myself.' She thought as the pain slowly dissipated.

As she opened her eyes, she noticed Beast Boy sitting on the edge of her bed. 'Damn it, just leave me alone!' Her wound then started heating up again, getting hotter and hotter, burning almost. She shut her eyes, this time, softly chanting her mantra out loud.

It took a while for her to realize that it was actually useless for her to do so, it seemed to have no effect on how long the pain lasted. At that moment, she also started feeling the effects of the battle, she had used too much energy in that fight and was now very exhausted. Just then, she felt a hand on her left shoulder, she opened her eyes to see Beast boy carefully moving her cloak out of the way.

"Wha... what are-" She tried to say, but a soft "Shh" interrupted her.

He carefully took her right hand off the wound, it was covered in blood. Then, he placed a wet cloth on the still bleeding claw marks. Raven let out a sigh, the cooling sensation had completely neutralized the burning, then he started wiping off the excess blood and cleaning the wound. Raven didn't say a word, didn't make a noise, she just watched the quite meticulous changeling work. After he was satisfied with his job, he grabbed some bandages and carefully wrapped it around the empath's damaged arm.

"Good as new" he said smiling at her.

"Thanks Beast Boy" she said, looking down.

"Listen, let's make a deal, I'll let you rest in peace, but you tell me what happened, later, ok?" Said a grinning Beast Boy. In his mind, he won on both accounts, he wanted her to rest and get better, and he wanted to know what was wrong with her, also, he had no bargaining power, she could easily tell him that his presence here just made it worse, and that would force him to leave her alone anyway, but hey, it was worth a shot.

"Fine" she stated, getting up and heading to her room, Beast Boy wondered if she needed help getting there... He had just made progress, she would tell him what happened, but he had to let her rest... he clenched his fists and watched her turn the corner. He calmed himself with some out of character logic, analyzing the situation, she would have seen him helping her, as an insult, and it would probably do her more good to talk about what happened, versus keeping it bottled up inside, than just getting a little help to walk.

In reality, Raven probably would have needed help, were she not so damn prideful. She finally made it back to her room and immediately laid down on her bed.

As for Beast Boy, he retreated to the main room, finally, this time, he felt he could relax on the couch. He closed his eye lids, and slowly surrendered to slumber.

A few hours passed, and he awoke. All that moving around hadn't helped his fever, and once again he felt a huge head ache. He got up and headed to the infirmary, where to his surprise, he saw Raven. She was leaning her back on the wall, her head was down and she was holding an ice pack to her arm. Beast Boy started noticing many things, first off, she hadn't even noticed him! then she was panting heavily, finally, she was shaking and looked like she was going to pass out. He heard dripping, he looked down and saw a puddle of blood on her left side.

'I could have sworn that I patched it up right...'

"Herm,..." Beast Boy cleared his throat to make his presence known.

Raven's body crisped, this wasn't the time for anyone to see her. She couldn't hide anything, she was too 'weak' for that. Damn she hated this. She tilted her head up and looked at Beast Boy, then back down.

"Raven, what happened?" Said Beast Boy while slowly walking over to her.

"I... tried to heal it again, I just made it worse..." Responded a weary Raven.

Before she knew it, Beast Boy, who was now right in front of her, had ripped her away from the wall she had been leaning on to bring her close to him, finally he gently wrapped his arms around her.

She blushed and tried to push him away, but unfortunately, one of her arms was too hurt, the other was holding an ice pack, and to top it off, she didn't have much strength left.

"What are you doing, let me go!" She demanded, but he refused, he just said: "Don't worry Rae, you'll be fine" She hated the fact that she was so transparent, he could see right through her, she needed to hear that.

The hug lasted probably a little too long, so finally she said: "Umm I get it, I'll be fine," sarcastically of course.

This time it was Beast Boy who blushed, but thankfully for him, his green skin hid that pretty well.

"Uhnnn" Groaned Robin who was still half asleep.

"Dude, about time you got up." Said a smiling Beast Boy.

Robin sat up and shouted "Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, are they-"

"Starfire is right next to you, Cyborg is... still regenerating, I plugged him in, and Raven is..."

"Fine." Said Raven as she left the room. Although her wounds and where hidden by her cloak, Robin could right away tell something was wrong. He quickly spotted the blood on the floor.

"What happened?" He asked Beast Boy.

"She can't seem to heal herself" Replied Beast Boy, honestly, there was a lot more going on, but he preferred to leave out some of the more... gruesome details.

Just then, Robin seemed to recall the last thing that he remembered, which was Raven, alone, going to face that monster that none of them had been able to phase.

"How, err, did Raven win?" Robin questioned.

"Well, she beat him..." Said Beast Boy, carefully choosing his words.

Robin was about to continue his interrogation but a groan interrupted him.

Slowly sitting up, rubbing one of her eyes, Starfire asked: "I was... as you would say, 'out in the cold' yes?"

"Yeah, well, you were out cold." Tried to explain Robin, unfortunately Starfire didn't really see the difference.

"Where are friends Cyborg and Raven?" Inquired Starfire.

As if on cue, Cyborg dragged himself in, and from the look on his face, he was not happy. "What the hell? Who put me there, I could have short circuited!" Shouted an enraged Cyborg.

All heads turned to Beast Boy, who let out an embarrassed chuckle while scratching the back of his head.

They all kind of felt uneasy at that moment, one of them was missing. True Raven was often alone, but in serious times like these, she was always there.

"Beast Boy" said Robin in a very serious tone, "what happened?"

"I... she... erm, I'll be right back." With that statement, Beast Boy walked out and headed to Raven's room.

Should he tell them what he had seen Raven do, was that even really her? No! It couldn't be, she was under a spell or something, she... it was her though... and now she couldn't heal herself, had she lost control? Was it her fault... there was too many things he didn't know, and he wasn't about say anything about something he knew nothing about.

Still deep in thought, he realized that he was in front of her room, he took a deep breath and knocked three times on the door. There was no response.

"Raven, it's me, Beast boy."

"It's open." he heard her say.

He opened the door and entered her room. She was sitting on her bed, back to the wall, still holding up the ice pack. He had a slight 'deja vu' feeling. He could faintly smell the incense that, from all appearances, hadn't calmed her at all.

Raven was actually glad Beast Boy was here, she hated owing him something, why did she even accept that stupid deal? She should have just told him to leave her alone, 'or else'... He was probably so freaked out anyway, he would expect anything from her now, right?

As for him, he wasn't about to tip toe around it, he had to know certain things "Rae, what happened, when I got there... you...well..." he hoped he wouldn't have to finish that sentence.

"Yeah, I... I don't know why... or..." Said Raven, not quite sure herself at what had happened herself.

Beast Boy walked towards her and sat next to her, also putting his back to the wall. "Well, what do you remember?"

She hesitated for a moment, then started to speak "Well, I got there, and Robin was almost dead, then I saw Cyborg go down..." she paused, as if gathering her thoughts, "Then I saw the demon that had done this, he was holding Starfire, who was also unconscious. After I started fighting him, I got angry, I... remember attacking him several times, he kept smiling at me, that's when I realized he was probably trying to make me get mad, so I started to control myself, then he attacked me in mid air, and it's like, all I could think of, was the strategical advantage that I had in the air, then my anger, that had returned, turned into satisfaction, as I... hurt him." She paused again, but quickly resumed " heh, 'hurt', quite an understatement don't you think? It was more like some kind of torture session... I knew what he was trying to do but I still gave in, I'm the sole responsible of what happened today, to everyone."

Beast Boy was in shock, before he could say anything, she concluded: "Oh, and, thanks... I would... I'd have done it you know, I would have-"

"You don't know that, besides what's important is that you didn't, next time you'll be ready." Beast Boy said, interrupting her.

"I knew" she gritted her teeth, " I knew what he was doing, and well, I guess he succeeded, I wouldn't have stopped, and next time I'll be ready you say? I should have been ready that time, I knew what he was doing but that didn't seem to make a difference." She said.

"AH!" Just then Raven clutched her arm even harder, it hurt so much that this time she found herself pushing back tears. The worse part, it that it seemed, no not completely random, but almost, it came when she was mad, but also when she had tried to relax, unfortunately, the only constance this pain had, was coming back stronger every time.

Like the other times, the pain started to become less intense and slowly faded away... Gasping for air she could still fell the pulsations in her arm, this time, the 'attack' had almost paralyzed her whole body.

It seems it had paralyzed her, since when she opened her eyes, she was face up, in Beast Boy's arms. She immediately sat up, which only intensified the pain in her arm. She was so tired that she actually felt like falling right back to her previous position... Suddenly a vase got encased in black energy and exploded!

'Oh sure, figures that that power would work.' She thought to herself, seems that, at the exception of anger, all of her other emotions had now become very sensitive.

"Maybe you should let Cyborg check that out." Said Beast Boy, who's worry was now growing.

"I'm ok, it's getting better actually." Replied Raven.

"Rae, I have a fever..." Said Beast Boy, who's head was down. He had a look of sadness in his eyes.

"So go rest." Said Raven who was caught by surprise at the changeling's statement, why bring that up now? He who had wanted to fight when he was in no shape to... did he blame her for making it worse?

"No, see..." He paused, "You're burning up, well, I feel you burning up, and I know for a fact that I have a fever... yet to me... you..."

"No, don't even think about it, I don't get sick, I already told you!" Retorted Raven, who immediately began an inner debate with herself, was she sick? Could she even get sick? Maybe her powers had always protected her but now, she was vulnerable since they were... what were they anyway? She could heal others, but not herself, her emotions were over sensitive, except for anger which seemed to trigger a sharp burning pain in her whole left side... because of a simple cut?

"Ever heard of 'better safe than sorry'" Said a smiling Beast Boy, trying his hardest not to show a proud grin, he could tell that even Raven felt that he was right.

"I already know that I'm fine, so-" Raven was interrupted by her communicator, it was Robin.

"Raven, is Beast Boy there?" Asked Robin.

"Yeah he's here." Replied Raven.

"Ok, both of you report to the main room" Ordered Robin, "Cyborg just finished his repairs and well, we'd kind of like to know what happened."

"Uhh, yeah... right." Said Raven, who glanced over at Beast Boy. She really hadn't expected that from him. How could he keep something like that to himself, him who was usually an open book?

Raven got up and headed to the living room but was stopped by Beast Boy who ran out in front of her. She looked at him annoyed, he had better not bring up her condition or anything like that.

"Listen, Raven, I don't understand much of what happened but I do know one thing, and it's the only thing I am truly certain of... This was not your fault ok?" He said to her, looking right in her eyes, unfortunately, the look she gave him was filled with skepticism and defiance.

"Hmpf,"

She simply walked around him and headed to the main room. He quickly caught up and truly hoped that she at least believed that he believed it was not her fault.

Finally they got there, all eyes turned to Raven who made her way to the couch.

Robin wondered how to delicately ask about what had happened, without offending raven and, at the same time, getting the maximum information possible... unfortunately, his thoughts were cut short by Starfire who almost shouted:

"Friend Raven! Tell us, how were you able to defeat the mighty demon all by yourself!"

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Heh, well, that was quite a long chapter (for me at least.) If I hadn't made a serious fic, I would have been tempted to insert a humoristic scene here, soo just picture it: Starfire comes to hug raven, but BB (knowing she is hurt) jumps in the way (in slow motion, like the president's body guards who are supposed to take a bullet for their boss) and gets hit at full force by the mighty embrace! Then Raven would have yelled: "NO! Beast Boy, why! WHY!" as he would have laid there, on the ground, she would have gotten down, taken him in her arms, and declared her love for him! After which they would have, Ironically, hugged :D!

Anyhow, do not despair, I know that plot is lingering there... but do not worry, I know where I am going, (I just don't like it when things go too fast.)

On a personal note, in 2 days... (just 2 days) I will earn my Drivers license! allowing me to drive... A-L-O-N-E ! Muhahaha!

Herm... forgive me... er... yeah... did I mention.. ALL ALONE!

-CHristina