Chapter 7
"Manipulative and Deadly"
Ella smiled back and everyone came into the room, "Alright let's go, it's 9 O'clock and I don't want to be out to late." Robin said.
Ella rolled her eyes, "I told you! No one is going to attack tonight."
Raven stepped out from behind Robin, "Can we go now?" She asked bored.
"Yeah, I wanna go to the party!" Beast Boy grinned.
Ella raised her eyebrow at him, the smile still on her face, "How do you know were going to a party?"
"Where else would you take us?" He retorted boldly.
"Good point, everyone get your behinds into the car and park it. We're going to have fun tonight whether you like it or not."
"Not." Raven muttered as they were all ushered into the car.
Once they arrived at the place where Ella had given Cyborg directions to the whole time, they all got out. "Oh no." Raven sighed in irritation.
"Oh yes! I've always wanted to come here!" Beast Boy shouted, having the exact opposite effect as Raven did.
"I thought we should have some more fun." Then Ella ushered Starfire, Robin, and Cyborg inside, leaving Raven and Beast Boy still outside.
Beast Boy looked at her, "You know you don't have to come in if you want to."
Raven looked back at him, "Are you trying to get rid of me?"
"No! Not at all!" Beast Boy said quickly, "I'm just saying that you don't have to do anything you don't want to. Plus, to prove I'm not trying to get rid of you by dancing with you tonight."
"What!?" Raven had only been teasing and now she had to dance with him for a song some time tonight, "Beast Boy I was only-!"
"Hey!" Ella stuck her head back out the door, "Are you guys coming in or am I gonna have to drag you in?"
"We're coming!" Beast Boy grabbed Raven's arm and pulled her inside, "Come on, one song won't kill ya' and it can be any time you want."
Ella watched all there outfits sparkle a bit in the flashing lights. Hers a bit more then the rest of them because it was pretty much all metal. "Come on guys!" Ella said pulling leading them all in to the middle of the dance floor. "Open mike doesn't start for another few minutes so either go get in the microscopic line or get to the front of the stage so we can properly humiliate the ones who do go on stage."
Raven, Starfire, and Robin ended up being the only people who stayed at the end of the stage to watch. Ella had dragged Cyborg, who in turned grabbed Beast Boy.
"What song do we pick?" Beast Boy asked, flipping through the songs that they knew, Cyborg and he were doing duet.
"How 'bout that one?" Ella asked, pointing to one of her favorite 'oldies' songs. "That one still get's a party started in the future."
"Alright people! Are you ready to cheer on the people who are brave enough to sing in front of an audience?" A man on the stage with a microphone shouted, in response the crowd started cheering, "Then let's welcome our first karaoke-er!"
Nine people when in front of them, 4 of them guys. They sand Church of Hot Addiction, What I've Done, Next Contestant, and Low. The five girls sang; Halo, Listen To Your Heart, Just Dance, and Emergency.
"Okay, we're up BB! Let's get this party started." Cyborg said, grabbing the microphone from the last girl.
"We'll work up the crowd for you." Beast Boy said cockily, winking and Ella.
"Good luck!" She called to her friends
The music wasn't supposed to be for two guys singing, but Beast Boy and Cyborg shared the lines anyway.
The music began and 'This Ain't A Scene. Its An Arm Race' began playing. Ella along with there friends at the front began bopping there head to the music. Ella dance a little bit and somehow Starfire managed to get Robin to dance with her. Raven smirked watching them, Cyborg and Beast Boy along with Ella noticed and Ella used her 'feminine charm' to get the spotlight guy to shine it on them. Starfire was too into the dance to notice but Robin turned bright red.
After there song was done it was Ella's turn. She took the mike nervously and breathed out to calm herself.
"Welcoming a special guest, a friend of the Titans, Ella Lenora!" The man shouted
"Lenora?" Cyborg asked her as he handed her the microphone.
"Well I can't very well say my REAL last name." She smirked at him grabbing the microphone, "I guess I'll have to show you how to warm up a crowd the right way."
Before either of them could respond, Ella snatched the microphone away, "Track 64." She told the girl working the music.
The two joined Raven at the front of the stage along with Robin and Starfire.
A strange little popping and tinkling noises with some circus sounds started the song and Raven remembered it from something Starfire had played over the radio.
Ella began humming in a high voice, then she began to sing:
"Did I wake you?
Were you sleeping?
Girl you're stealing the bed
Or reasons, I may, keeping you up instead?
Oh baby, are you feeling guilty for what you did?
If you think you hurtin' you ain't scene nothing yet!
Was it really worth it?
Was she everything that you were looking for?
Feel like a man
I hope you know that, you can't come back
Cause all we had, is broken like shattered glass!"
Ella through out this time was dancing a bit and having different facial expressions. The song went over the course of repeating the words a few times and then Ella dance again a bit better.
"Are you having' trouble focusing through out the day?
Do you find yourself still calling my name?
Do you wish you could be on time, and take it back?
I bet you realized that she ain't half the woman I am!"
And then the chorus started back up again. Raven tried to remember the singer's name and finally thought of it, she was pretty sure it was Britney Spears. Ella finished the song dancing fluidly through out it and the crowd was practically in frenzy mode.
Ella handed the mike to the now very nervous teen behind her and the hopped off the edge of the stage, landing next to her friends, "That wasn't even a very up-beat song, and the crowd still like me better.
Raven wasn't exactly paying attention, dreading the dance she had to have with the little green changeling arguing. Suddenly Ella stopped arguing and stared at her, "What?"
All eyes turned to her, "I didn't say anything."
"You're telepathic, I read minds. I heard what you just thought." Suddenly she grabbed Raven's hand and pulled her away from their friends, "Okay, how's Beast Boy get you to dance with him tonight?" She demanded curiously.
Raven sighed, "I accused him of trying to get rid of me, teasing. And to make it up to me he said he was going to dance with me."
Ella grinned, "When?"
"Anytime tonight that I want."
Ella's grinned widened, "By the 5th song or I take matters into my own hands." She said before pulling Raven back to her friends, "Sorry, future thing.
Her friends shrugged, not really caring that much. Ella was asked to do a few encores of different songs every once in a while and never said no. It was the 4th song after the main karaoke was done. Every once in a while someone would come back up. The end of the song was nearing and Ella looked at Raven expectantly.
"Alright we have a request once again for Miss Lenora, except the request from this young gentleman is that you do a duet with him."
"Gladly!" Ella called from the crowd, they made a clear path for her to the stage but before she left she winked at Raven, "You're gonna get it for waiting till last minute."
Raven shivered in worry at those words. Ella could probably persuade the guy to pick whatever song she wanted. The metal covered girl now stood at the front of the stage and took the hand of the boy who had requested her presence for the duet. He pulled her onto the stage and with a quick glance at Raven, whispered something in his ear.
"Can you do me a favor?" She giggled
The boy grinned and nodded, "Sure, my name's Kyle by the way, hey you kind of look like Raven on the Titans, are you-?"
"Related? Yeah, we're uh cousins." She said quickly, better automatically state they were related rather then have rumors in the press get out. "So about that favor, can I just dance with you while you sing? I'm trying to get a couple of friends hooked up and the song that I wanna play is a guy's only song."
He was too into her begging eyes to do anything but nod, "Thanks!" She said quickly, she purposefully made her hand brush his hand as she went to go get the song that Raven would destroy the club rather then dance to.
She found the track to the song and told the DJ to play it after they'd made the announcement.
Raven became a little confused as Ella refused a microphone but saw then that the other boy took one. "This song is dedicated to a friend of Ella's." The boy said, Raven shot Ella a dark look but Ella looked anywhere but her with a smirk on her face.
'Ask now or I'll get the spotlight on you.' A voice said in her head, somehow Raven just knew it was Ella.
She turned to her left where Beast Boy waited in anticipation to see what the song Ella had picked was. The rest of her friends had gone to dance or get refreshments.
The song started and Raven paled, she recognized this song. Beast Boy laughed at Ella's choice and the dance began between her and the boy.
He circled around her before he began singing 'Sexyback' and dancing with Ella. Somehow after a few seconds when he spun her Ella managed to glare at Raven.
Raven sighed in defeat; there was no helping this one. But then again she could always wait till the end of the song-.
'No chance Rae.' The voice said and suddenly her hand nudged Beast Boy's shoulder against her will.
He turned to look at her as she got her hand back under control, "Yeah Rae?"
She ignored the nickname and sighed, "Do you want to dance Beast Boy?"
He looked at her confused, "During this song?"
Raven glared at Ella, Beast Boy followed her gaze, "I don't think she's going to let me pass this song."
"How'd she find out?" He asked
"Remember when you three were arguing and suddenly she turned to me and said, 'When?'" He nodded, "That's what I was thinking about."
"Oh," He bit his lip then shrugged, the smile replastered itself to his face, "Okay then Raven, let's dance." He grabbed her hand and pulled her onto the dance floor. With a last glance to see if Ella was satisfied, he saw a suggestive smile on her face, eyeing him, then Raven before she was twirled again.
Beast Boy, like Raven, wasn't a very good dancer. "Do you know how to dance?" He asked her, she shook her head, "Crap, me neither."
"Really? I thought you did though, you brag about it with Cyborg enough." She said sarcastically. Her hood was still covering her face and they were in the back where not a lot of people could see them.
"That's just me and Cyborg harassing each other. Truth is I only know one dance."
"And what's that?"
"Ballroom dancing."
Raven stared in amazement at him and stifled a laugh, "Pardon me?"
He saw her tiny little smile and frowned, "Don't laugh at me okay? My brothers taught me how to dance when I was on the doom patrol. We got bored and they said if I ever met a special lady I ought to know how to dance. But then my other brother said 'who's he gonna meet? He's green!'" Beast Boy's frowned deepened as he recalled the words.
Raven didn't exactly like the feeling she got off of his frown so she changed the subjects, "Alright, since that's the only one you or I know, you can teach me."
He snapped out of his darkened mood and stared at her, "What? But . . . I'm not a very good teacher Raven, in fact I kind of suck at it."
Raven shrugged. Beast Boy warily looked at her for a few seconds before very light -so lightly a feather would weigh about as much as 2 ton boulder compared to this- he placed a hand on her waist. His other hand connected with her right hand and she place her own hand on his shoulder. "Alright, go ahead."
Beast Boy began to twirl in a very slow circle before showing her how to spin out and then back in. They figured out that it they did the movements a bit differently, it could look like some of the moves Ella and the boy were doing on stage. They thought no one but Ella knew they were there, but they were wrong.
"How did he DO that?" Robin gasped, staring at his two friends.
"Robin, I do not understand. Are our friends not merely dancing?" Starfire asked as the Boy Wonder and metallic man gaped at the two Titans dancing in the corner.
"They are Star, but Raven doesn't dance with ANYBODY, let alone Beast Boy." Robin explained.
Starfire still seemed to not get it but did not ask anymore questions. None of the five Titans noticed when the song stopped and Ella got off the stage to stand behind the three staring ones.
"God, could you guys BE anymore stalker-ish?" Ella teased.
They all turned around embarrassed to be caught staring. "Uh . . ." Cyborg began.
"Just stop staring before I have to blind-fold you." She sneered, "They deserve some private time. Both of them haven't ever really danced before."
"How do you know that?" Robin asked her
"I will say this many times while I'm here. I know everything." She said before walking away, a few guys following her. She ignored them.
Beast Boy and Raven meanwhile still hadn't noticed the song change. They were too focused on getting the dance right.
"Wow Rae, you're doing way better then I did on my first lesson." Beast Boy complimented her graceful moves.
"Who did you even dance with when they were teaching you? Your brothers?" She asked, honestly curious.
"No!" Beast Boy said defensively, but more quietly he added, "I danced with my mom."
Raven smiled a bit, but didn't laugh or tease him. She danced about an inch closer, neither of them noticed. Ella was glancing at the two every few seconds to make sure neither of them ruined the moment.
"You're such a hypocrite." Cyborg teased, finally noticing her glances
"What? At least I have good reason to make sure she's having fun, she's my mother for god sakes." Ella retorted grumpily
"Oh right," Robin said sarcastically, and then to Cyborg he muttered, "Hypocrite."
"I heard that!" Ella snapped, "And I'm not-." Ella didn't finish. Suddenly her eyes turned a bit glazed over and she was staring at something far away.
"Ella?" Starfire touched her friends shoulder gently but the only result she got was her friend collapsing. "Raven! Beast Boy!"
Raven and Beast Boy stopped dancing and broke apart immediately; they searched the crowd to find where Starfire was and found a large crowd around them. Both Titans gasped when they saw Ella in Starfire's arms unconscious. "What happened?" She demanded.
"Friend Raven, I do not know. Ella merely stopped talking suddenly and then when I put my hand on her shoulder to wake my friend, she simply passed out." Starfire said in a slight panic.
"We need to get her back to the medical bay before her condition becomes worse." Robin cut in. "Beast Boy, Raven, you take her back to the Tower. We'll meet you there."
"I can take her by myself." Raven said in her usual bored voice, but everyone could tell she was straining to keep her emotions under control.
"But you can't carry her to the medical bay, Beast Boy is stronger then you. Now stop arguing and go, we'll be there soon." Robin ordered them.
Raven seemed irritated but did not argue. Beast Boy took Ella from Starfire gently and carefully, placing one hand under her legs and the other around her shoulders. Raven placed her hand on Beast Boy's shoulder and all three were gone in a matter of seconds, surrounded by Raven's black aura.
The rest of the Titan's quickly filed out the door, into the T-car, and drove away. The crowd of late-night-clubbers staring after them.
Cyborg cursed under his breath as they caught up to traffic almost immediately, though it was almost midnight. He sighed in defeat, "I hope Ella's okay."
"As do I." Starfire added sadly.
Raven and Beast Boy appeared with Ella in the common room. Raven would never admit it, but Robin had been right, the transport had really pooped her out and it would have been a strain on her powers and her body to carry her or move her. She removed her hand from Beast Boy's shoulder and followed him into the medical bay.
He placed the limp and cold girl on the bed, she seemed to be sleeping but there was something painful to her look, the way a child might look the fractional second in between time when there fantasy turns into a nightmare. He placed a hand on her cheek and the girl winced, "She doesn't look to good."
"You think?" Raven replied dryly, hooking some of the precautionary equipment up.
Beast Boy ignored her jibe, "What do you think is wrong with her?"
"We won't know for sure until we set up this equipment, mind giving me a hand?"
"Oh right sorry!" Beast Boy jumped up from his kneeling position next to Ella, it had seemed so natural to just stay next to her, "You're probably wiped out Raven, why don't you sit down and I'll do it?" He offered
Raven would have liked nothing more then to accept his offer, but she would feel bad about it later to her dismay, "No thank you Beast Boy. I'm perfectly fine thank you very much."
He shrugged, "You're full of it, but alright."
Raven struggled to keep from back-handing him for his last comment the whole few seconds in time it took for both of them to set up the equipment. How had he known that she wasn't quite herself? Why did he feel the need to point it out in the first place? When the equipment read the heart beat of the pale girl lying on the bed, both gaped at the reading it gave them.
Ella's heart beat was racing, yet on her outer appearance she seemed only a bit troubled. She snapped out of her shock when the little green changeling next to her ran out and grabbed Ella's hand. "Ella can you hear me?" His voice was surprisingly calm.
Apparently this had a bit of an affect on Ella. Her face visibly turned into a more pained expression, which would have worried Raven had she not soon realized that if she was reacting physically to his call then she would mentally follow. Ella's heart beat continued to race on.
Beast Boy turned to her, "She's your daughter Raven." He stated plainly, but the fear was still in his eyes.
Raven realized her nails had been digging into her hands, the indents were only slightly noticed by her but clearly by the boy next to her.
"Raven are you-?"
"I'm fine." She interrupted; she could feel the hurt emanating off of him, but then quickly found it replaced by understanding. "I don't know what's wrong with her," She exclaimed, changing the subject, "Healing would do her no good. It's for physical injuries and there's nothing wrong with her, so whatever is causing her pain is from something that's in her mind."
Beast Boy nodded, "So what can we do?"
Raven bit her lip, trying to decide. Before she could answer though a visible wince came from the girl in front of her, a sharp intake of breath came from her mouth. "I don't think we can do anything." Raven sighed, she looked down in shame.
"She'll be alright Raven. She's your daughter, so she's strong enough to get through anything." He smiled at her. His gloved hand found its way to her shoulder.
Thankfully Raven's hood was still over her head so the tiny blush that found its way across her cheeks went unnoticed. Then both registered the tiny gasp that came from Ella as soon as Beast Boy touched Raven and turned to look at her. Her heart slowly slowed down but then Raven registered something.
"Beast Boy?" She stated calmly.
"Yeah?"
"Is Ella . . . glowing, slightly, or is it just me?"
Both of there eyes stared a bit more intently at the girl and they stared, she was. Ella then morphed into a whole new appearance. She still looked the same, but not really.
Her hair was the same color and length, but now two long stands at the side of her head had been braided and pulled back to the middle and let fall into a ponytail. Her eyes were still closed so the new make-up (which was easily noticed as Ella had yet to wear make-up in front of them) was very noticeable. Her eyes now had ice blue eye shadow on them that seemed to be twinkling a bit though no glitter could be seen. Here mouth was now a bit pink from some lip-gloss that had been placed on her. But the more pronounced change was her outfit. Ella's old outfit had been replaced into a white leotard much like Raven's, but a skirt that was limp and went down a few centimeters past mid thigh was attached to it. Her shoes were like Raven's and white as well as the rest of her new outfit.
"What . . . happened?" Beast Boy stuttered in shock.
Raven didn't respond, she merely got up and walked to the other side of the bed, having a deep fear of the suspicion she had of what had happened. She lifted the blankets on that side and then dropped them immediately, her face a mask of horror. Before he could ask her anything she covered her mouth and held her stomach like she was going to throw up and ran out of the room.
"Raven!" He called after her, but she was already gone. He turned back to the now peaceful Ella, the readings said her heart rate was normal again and she was perfectly healthy. "What would make Raven do something like that?" He said to himself.
Slowly he walked back towards the bed and placed his hand on the blanket that covered Ella. He lifted it up and gasped stumbling backwards until his back and hands met the wall. Then he heard the T-car squeal up into the garage and he turned back to Ella, she was glowing again, and then Ella's old outfit was there again.
Ella sat up and rubbed her head before she registered where she was and who was there, "Beast Boy?"
"H-Hey Ella, h-how are you?" He smiled weakly, trying to keep his voice under control and hide the horror in her eyes.
Ella eyed him suspiciously before her own eyes filled with horror, "Oh god, what did Raven see?" She whispered, then they both snapped out of it as they heard the footsteps running towards the room.
Beast Boy darted to her side, "How are you?"
Ella said nothing, but stared at him. "Where are the others?"
Then the door swung open and the two stared at the now open door. Starfire was next to Ella in an instant, "Ella, friend! I am most happy to see you are unharmed!"
"I'm fine Starfire," Her voice was still a bit shaky, "Where's my m- Raven?"
Starfire then looked confused, "She took you here with friend Beast Boy." She turned to him then. "Tell me Beast Boy, what happened to Raven?"
"Yes Beast Boy, what happened to Raven?" Ella's voice was weak, the other Titan's wondered why Ella seemed so strange.
Beast Boy looked away from her scared and confused eyes to his friends, "She was with me for a few minutes before she left the room. Things got a bit emotional for her because of Ella's current state at the time." Nobody but him noticed Ella's hand clench into a fearful little fist, it was so tight that even the already paleness of her hand would look healthy next to her now almost paste color of her hand.
"Then I shall go and tell her of your now healthy state." Starfire said cheerfully, secretly though she was just eager to get out of the tense atmosphere of the room.
After Starfire had left, Ella got up, "I'm going to bed." She announced, before there could be any protests she walked outside and down the hallway.
Ella waited in the dark room by herself. Her arms were tightly wrapped around her body by herself and cried uncontrollably. It hurt! She wasn't even sure what exactly 'it' was. Glancing at her body drew another smothering amount of tears.
"Ella?" A voice called, "Ella where are you?"
Ella tried to keep quiet. She didn't want to be found, not looking like this. Like afreak. But her sobs gave away her position, to her dismay, and she heard the footsteps coming towards her.
"Ella?"
"Go away!" She cried angrily, "Leave me!"
The footsteps stopped and then walked away, and then a few seconds later 2 came back.
"I heard the princess crying, something has upset her again. I would have gotten her mother but since you were the first one I saw-."
Ella got up and ran, her feet making no sound on the floor. But then she realized she had run the wrong way in her confusion and blurred vision and had run to the hallway the two people were walking towards her from.
Starfire stared at her, "Ella?"
Ella pulled her cloak tighter around herself and began running the other way, the servant behind the two stood there respectfully. Starfire had a good vision of Ella but was losing it quickly, despite being only 7 years old Ella was fast and agile, like her mother. Ella could hear Starfire's thoughts and ran faster, Starfire suddenly was right in front of Ella and she skidded to a halt.
'You're such an idiot!' She mentally scolded herself, 'It's her castle! Of course she knows the ways around it!'
"Ella what is wrong?" Starfire went to hold the little girl but Ella jerked back
"I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU!" She screamed four other people rounded the corner behind Starfire.
"Ella?" Beast Boy asked confused. He stepped past Starfire and went to touch her as well, but again she jerked away.
In her desperation she waved her hand from inside her cloak and the wall split, forming another one in front of the five companions. She sighed in relief before a black aura appeared in the center, her mother walked out with her own cape, by herself.
"Ella! What is wrong with you?" Raven scolded.
Ella's tears fell from her face and to the floor, nobody had noticed them before because of her hood but now her mother did, "Sweetheart why are you crying?"
Ella hesitantly stepped forward, the wall was moved back by Starfire and the rest of them stepped forward. Instantly Ella felt some weird pain and tingle inside of her, she felt her legs buckle and her knees hit the ground. Her head was down and her mother took a step towards her.
Then to there surprise she, growled at them, "Don't . . . come . . . near . . . me."
"Ella? What's gotten into you?" Her father asked he walked towards her from behind the rest of the Titans. She didn't see him but could hear his footsteps.
Ella stood up and they all gasped as the cloak fell off. Her body was covered in strange red marking that covered her whole body and her there was one on her forehead. Instead of her normal two, purple eyes, she had four red ones that looked somehow frightened, "What's happening to me?"
Ella sat straight up, someone was banging on her door, apparently in mid-sentence, "-Or we're opening up the door!"
She was too frightened of her dream to respond to the threat meant for the imaginary intruder so she decided to pretend to be asleep. When she closed her eyes she shuddered, seeing the same vision of her distorted body over and over, the panic in her eyes at that age. When she had been seven, the Titan's had taken her to see Starfire's old home. She had met the Grand Ruler who was a friend of Starfire's, and had liked her very much. At first she had been very shy towards him until she heard him laugh.
But shortly after her stay there she'd had a terrible nightmare of red eyes and a man with a mask on. When she had told her mother of the man with the mask (refusing to remember the hateful eyes) she had been told of a man named 'Slade'. Ella only dreamed of him that one time only because he was with the eyes. The rest of the time she dreamed of fire, and a sign that looked like an 'S' with some other lines.
The door opened and Ella shuddered again. Immediately hands were on her, shaking her, "Come on Ella! Wake up! Are you okay?" Beast Boy's frantic voice gasped.
She gasped 'awake' and stared at the five people around her. Raven was staring at her intently, her eyes serious. Ella returned the stare as a silent message was passed between the two, one of secrecy.
"Why are you in my room?" She asked confused, she honestly didn't know why.
They all turned confused as well, "We heard something break in your room a few times and then you screamed." Cyborg explained.
Raven noted Ella's sincerely confused emotions and expression and looked around the room to see what she had subconsciously broken. A vase, a few windows were cracked, and a broken and unidentifiable objects lay everywhere. "I guess more then a few." Raven pointed out sarcastically.
Everyone then as well noticed how Ella had trashed her room in her sleep, when they finally tore there gaze back to Ella, she looked shocked. "I didn't mean to . . . I never meant . . ."
Robin put a hand on her shoulder so her attention would go back to him, it worked as she stared in horror at him "What happened Ella?"
Ella's gaze flicked to Raven so fast only she barely noticed. "I . . . had a . . . nightmare."
Beast Boy looked around the room again, "Are you sure it wasn't a panic attack?" He muttered.
Robin ignored him, "About?"
Ella looked away, "I don't want to talk about it."
After a few seconds everyone understood she wanted to be alone and left. Raven remained after everyone left though, standing in front of the door. "When?" She stated
Ella looked up at her, the intent and serious gaze replaced her former expression, "We don't know."
Raven nodded and left.
Okay so, both Beast Boy AND Raven know Ella's dirty little secret. How fascinating. Okay so, good news! If you recall, in the second or first chapter or something, I mentioned that I couldn't find the original Microsoft Word document that I had of this story. Guess what? I found it! So the chapters will be coming up a lot quicker soon, and I will have some BBxRae stuff in the next chapter.
And, one last thing, if you didn't do the vote in the last chapter, I encourage you greatly to because I'm REALLY confused as whether or not to put Nevermore in and I REALLY need that birthday thing. So, till next chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Shattered Glass by Britney Spears (the song that Ella sang) or This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race. Or Teen Titans.
