(Raven's Room)
Meanwhile last night, Kurt and Raven were mesmerized by each other. They exchanged various personal secrets and hidden interests that they felt they couldn't talk about to anyone else, and felt as if they truly understood each other.
"Well... I come from this mystical place called Azarath..." Raven explained. She sighed sadly, looking down onto her covers. "I was banished from it because my father was a powerful leader of the Netherrealm..."
"Where's that?"
"Most people call it Hell," she said.
"Oh...What about this father of yours?"
"His name is... Trigon," Raven winced as she recalled it. "He wants to use me as a gateway to getting into this world, since holy forces currently keep him from reigning terror..."
Kurt empathetically took Raven's hand. "I abandoned all belief of dogmatic good and evil forces long ago, but I, too, still have my personal demons..."
Raven looked away sadly. "Yours may not have been able to bring armaggeddon..."
"To my beliefs, perhaps, for my life anyways... Look at me," Kurt said softly as he put his fingers under Raven's chin and gently moved her teary-eyed face parallel to his. "You might have heard this before, but it's not your fault... If you feel guilty because you are his spawn and he intends to manipulate your potential for his gain, you don't have to... I can tell you are unwilling to do so, that you have no bad intentions, but you can't help but bring about misery for your biological nature..."
Raven was entranced by Kurt's wisdom and understanding of her life's situation.
"You may feel hopeless, you may want to give in and never bother in fear that every effort will always turn on you, but with enough perseverance, you can control your fate... I can tell it must be agonizing to great limits... I can only imagine how much it hurts to carry a burden that not only lives to hurt you restlessly, spending endless nights awake wondering how you can stop it, but I believe that you can do it... I will be here for you, whenever you need it..."
Raven started to sob. She shakily took a deep breath and hugged her new friend tightly close to her "Oh, Kurt... You have no idea how much this means to me..." Kurt soothingly rubbed her back, nodding in sympathy, saddened by her pain. "Every time I try to talk to Robin or anyone else about it they think that it's not going to happen..." She said, wiping away her tears. "They don't take it seriously, they don't understand... And they try to cheer me up with stupid things, like throwing me parties or taking me places, stupid, fake, happy things... They do it when they don't even understand how I feel..."
Raven kept sobbing on Kurt's shoulder so much that it dampened his clothes. "And when I try to explain... When I get mad and say that's not what I want or need, they talk about how they're trying to be such great friends, that I should at least appreciate that they went through all the effort to do what they did... And then I feel worse..." Raven's face, sticky with her warm tears pressing against Kurt shook as she sniffled between sobs.
Kurt patted her back softly. "They may have good intentions, but you truly don't know someone until you listen... They're all so focused on thinking about what they would do when they don't even know how it would feel... Even if they're in the same situation, you could be feeling hopeless and guilty and misunderstood and burdened and they could be feeling something completely different..."
Raven hugged Kurt closer to her, her chest pressing against his. Kurt blushed a little, his would-be flushed cheeks shielded by his blue pigment. His eyes resting on Raven's shaky body that heaved whenever she inhaled to sob some more. "I don't feel alone anymore... You're truly the only person who's ever cared, who's ever understood or even tried to listen... Yet in the past, whenever I cried out for help, whenever I was upset and really needed someone they all left me in the dark... I don't know what I would do or what would even happen to me right now if I never found you, Kurt..."
She moved back a little and stared up at Kurt's face, sniffling. They gazed deep into each other's eyes. Raven's heart, warmed with affection coursed it's sensation throughout her entire body as her hands embraced Kurt, welcoming their friendship and what she hoped would be a loving future. Kurt could feel her appreciative feelings surging to him, and they held each other and stared into their eyes trapped in intimacy. They kept gently stroking each other, silent in close relation, but neither gathering the courage to admit their feelings or steal the first kiss.
