Raven awoke looking around her. She was in the kitchen of Titans Tower; it figured that this is where her soul would gravitate to after her death. The place of so many memories, the place where her friends had spent so much time, her home.
The promise of the prophesy was absolute, even if she wasn't alive her soul was all that was necessary to bring him. She was still the gem. Raven curled up into a ball and began to cry. All her friends were dead now, she had failed them. She was truly alone, a soul doomed to bring the apocalypse with no power to help. No way to, in some little way, makeup for the evil she would bring to this world. She stayed like that for a few hours silently sobbing and thinking about her friends, and the times they used to have. She would never hear one of Beastboy's annoying jokes, listen to Starfire's incessant questions, roll her eyes at Cyborg's macho bravado, or sigh at Robin's obsessive behavior. What she wouldn't give to just hear their voices just once more, just once.
She stopped when she heard the screams. She didn't know whose screams they were but they were reverberating through her soul. Someone she knew was in pain. Did one of the Titans survive? Raven didn't hesitate as her ghostly form traveled as fast as she could towards the sound. She could sense it getting stronger; the voice was coming from bellow the city! She dived, going down towards the source and stopped as she saw the figures in front of her. This was not what she wanted.
Terra laid on the ground clad in her mettle suit begging Slade for mercy, doing all she could to try to convince him she could obey. Raven looked at her and anger filled her being. It was her fault the Titans were dead! She killed them all, after everything they did for her she killed them. She killed me. She deserved this; this was punishment for what she did. She should have known this is what Slade was, what Slade would do. Raven gave a small smirk as Terra begged and then Slade knelt down and whispered something into her ear. Raven couldn't hear what it was but Terra's face froze in shock. Raven got closer and tried to listen as the traitor spoke, "From the beginning?"
Raven tried to understand what that meant when she flew back in surprise as a deafening scream came from Terra. Raven looked at her writhing in pain, screaming so loud. Raven closed her eyes and began to think. Raven tried to convince herself that Terra deserved this. She was a murder, an heartless killer who slaughtered the only people that ever cared about her. She deserved this.
She opened her eyes and Terra was still screaming. How long has she been screaming? How long did Slade plan on doing this to her? Why isn't he stopping? That's enough! Damn it Slade stop it! STOP IT!
Raven covered her ears trying to block out the screams. She couldn't take this. She had to get out of there. The empath flew up and out of the lair away from Terra, away from that horrible place. She rose up and looked at the deserted streets empty of all life, the movements of patrolling robots the only sounds to be heard. The once bright streets seemed dark and hopeless and Raven shivered at its view. She likes the quiet and the darkness but this, this darkness seemed hungry and this quiet seemed suffocating. She still felt that Terra was in pain. She flew over to a building and sat with her back against the wall looking at the empty streets. Terra's screams had finally stopped but she knew they would be back. They would be back and she wouldn't be able to do anything to help her friend.