Killing Two Birds with One Stone
Over the next week Raven remains dependent on Dick. It's time now she reasons as she feels him stirring beside her. She moans and thrashes about pretending to be having a nightmare.
Dick sits up quickly and pulls Raven up into his arms. He removes her gag as he shakes her trying to get her to wake up.
"Stop it or I'm going to be sick."
"Are you okay, love?"
"What do you care?"
"I never wanted things to happen this way. Raven."
"What I'm just supposed to believe that?"
"What's wrong with you?"
"You know what's going to happen to me once all of this is over don't you?"
"Raven-"
"-My father isn't going to keep me around and give me the chance to stop him again."
"That's what you were dream-"
"-I'm half human. All those other demons aren't going to care that I'm the daughter of a powerful demon from the eighth level of hell. I'll just be some half-breed plaything to them...but I guess that's really all I've been to you this whole time."
There is nothing that Dick can say that.
Raven pulls away from him kicking the covers part way off her, purposely leaving her feet tangled in them. She can hear him get up and make his way to the bathroom. It is now or never she realizes if she's going to distract him from giving her an injection. She scoots over to the edge of the bed and sits up. Her feet are still tangled in the covers as she tries to stand up and stretch.
Dick turns around quickly when he hears Raven cry out as she falls. He rushes back to her quickly, but not in time to keep her from crashing to the floor. "Are you okay?"
"It's not me you really care about is it?"
"What were you doing?"
"I just needed to get up for awhile. It's not like I can see what I'm doing."
It may not have been a serious fall but Dick has to protect the child at all costs. He untangles the cover from her feet and sets her back up on the bed. "Stay there."
Raven sets there for several tense minutes as he leaves her alone. When he comes back he removes the wax covering her eyes. He then removes one of her hands from the cuffs to make it easier to check on a nasty looking bruise already forming on her arm.
"Just so you know I was concerned about you."
"Then why don't you try acting a little more like you are?"
"I can't let you-"
"-Don't tell me you think that I would do anything to harm this baby. It's still my child no matter what my father's intentions are."
Dick looks up at her seemingly surprised by that comment. He stares at her for some time seeming to be searching for the truth within her eyes.
"If you thought anything else for even a second then I guess you don't know me as well as you thought."
"Then why won't you eat?"
"It's not like you've given me the chance to, and being pregnant isn't going to change the fact that my metabolism is slower. This baby is part demon as well in case you haven't realized that."
Dick gets up and paces around clearly agitated. Finally he comes back to Raven. "We both just need to calm down. Getting upset isn't going to help anything."
"I think we can both agree on that."
"Okay then." Dick pulls on some clothes then comes back to Raven and releases the chain from the bed. He takes her down to the galley with him. He lets her make some tea while he gets some breakfast for himself.
Raven gets a cup for herself, but she stops turning back to him before she closes the cabinet. "You're awfully tense. Some tea might help you relax."
Dick doesn't say anything to agree with Raven or object so she gets a second cup and begins grating enough ginger for two cups of tea. She makes a tiny cut on her finger with the grater letting several drops of her blood fall into his cup. She quickly grabs a dish towel to hide the bleeding until it stops as she transfers the grated ginger into the heating water on the stove. Raven waits for the tea to boil for several minutes before she strains it into the cups. He is already seated eating. She makes sure to give him the right cup as she sits across from him. She hopes this will work, she only remembers hearing the monks whispering about such abilities of demons as she grew up.
He makes a face when he takes a sip of the tea, but he manages to finish most of it as he eats.
Raven looks up at him as she finishes the last of her tea. As he tries to avoid looking at her, she realizes what his problem is. "You still look tense." Raven gets up and stands in front of him forcing him to look at her as he starts to stand up. She pushes him back down as she begins messaging his shoulders.
Dick likes the way she seems to be teasing him with her breasts. Finally he can't take it anymore he stands up and greedily captures her lips with his own making up for lost time. He holds her close as he stands up and carries her back to bed. He lays her down straddling her as he attaches the chain back to the bed. "Damn it! I want you so bad, love."
"So that is what's wrong with you. It's okay. I'll take care of you."
"Looks like I'm not the only one in need, love."
"Only in your dreams asshole...I hate you, but you're so much more tolerable when you're in a good mood. Now just lay back, be a good boy for once, and relax." Raven pulls herself up on her knees in front of him and begins a long slow oral stimulation. She needs to draw this out as long as possible for her plan to work-at least she hopes it will. She has never tried to control anyone before and for all she knows it could just be a myth. Part of her screams demanding to know what in the hell she's thinking after he raped her so brutally numerous times and betrayed her to her father.
"You have no idea how much I've longed to see this side of you, love."
Raven pulls back momentarily to look up at him. "Hush, now and relax." She gets a moan of pleasure from Dick as she lightly nibbles on his tip before taking him fully into her mouth. She sucks gently drawing further moans from him.
He sounds very sleepy as he speaks again. "I know I never taught you anything like that."
Raven pulls back to study him. "That is it, just relax." Raven watches as he struggles to keep his eyes open now. "Sleep now."
Dick tries to say something further but succeeds only in yawning before falling asleep.
Raven sits there waiting nervously for sometime before she dares to get up. She slips off the bed and struggles to reach the dresser to find the key. She feels all along the surface that she can reach, but her hand never touches the key. She remembers that she never saw him put it back so it must still be in pants pocket. She gets close as she can get to them for the chain. She has to strain to reach them. In trying to trick him she was a little too hasty the pants now lay just out of her reach. She nearly chokes as she stretches to reach them. Finally she grabs onto one leg just short of passing out from lack of air. Raven pulls them to her and quickly takes the key from the pocket. She removes the chain from the choker and then walks over to where the knife is kept. She takes it from the drawer and gets her mirror as well. She sits there leaning against the dresser for sometime before she looks back up at him. She can feel her powers coming back, but they're not that strong yet and she doesn't know how long he is going to stay asleep. She turns back to look at him trembling as she remembers how he tricked her the last time. Raven quickly wraps the chain around his waist and secures it. She backs away from him quickly breathing heavily now, but he shows no signs of waking up yet. Raven removes the handcuffs from her other wrist, and the choker from her neck. She watches him for a few moments before she heads up to the wheel house. Looking for away to call for help. Everything is protected by finger print scanners and there is no way she can drag him up here without her powers.
It is nearing dark now and he still hasn't woken up. Raven is starting to get scared now that she messed up. She gets back up on the bed and sits beside him. "Wake up, please Robin!" Raven holds her breath as he begins to stir.
"Rae, do it quick. He's strong. I'm not sure how long I can hold him back."
"Robin is it really you?"
Robin realizes what she's really asking for then-he remembers giving her the code word.
"Orion"
Raven picks up the knife and places it in his hand and quickly repeats the spell originally used to trap Robin. When he sits up and looks confused by the chain and not angered she knows that she's trapped the right one this time.
"I got scared."
"It's okay. That was a good idea."
Raven gets the key and releases Robin. He gets up and quickly pulls on the discarded pants. He picks up the t-shirt from the floor and drapes it over Raven's naked form. She hasn't worn clothes since she's been here so it feels strange to her at first as the t-shirt makes a mini-dress on her short frame.
"Are you okay?"
She just shakes her head and buries herself in his arms as she begins sobbing.
He holds her until she starts to calm down.
"I'm sorry. I just realized that it's finally over."
Before Robin can reply there is a fierce clap of thunder and lightning flashes outside as the storm that seems to have been following the ship for weeks now suddenly intensifies.
Raven grabs her abdomen clearly in pain. "No!"
"Raven?" She is unable to answer for the pain.
He gets all the answer he needs when the mark on his wrist begins to burn. Rough waves pound the yacht tossing it about. Raven grabs her mirror before it falls from the bed. Robin grabs up the knife knowing that he needs to keep it now just like she does her mirror. He picks Raven up. He has to find someplace where they will be safe from the waves. He gets out just before a wave smashes the glass doors of the master suite. The yacht begins listing dangerously as waves sweep over the deck. He is knocked over losing Raven as water pours inside. He grabs her hand but only briefly before the water tears them apart.