Author notes: I was inspired to write this after reading another FF story (sorry but i dont remember its name, but thanks to the author), also the characters appearing are heavilly inspired by Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Words in Italic, are thoughts.

Disclaimer: I dont own anything, DC Comics does.

Previously:

"Put down the girl, Bane, and take two steps back."

Now:

"You can put me down now Bane, I just needed a moment." Bane gently steadies her before she turns with a serious look on her face.

The Titan's eyes go wide; it's their Raven, with a bloody smile carved into her face.

"What?"

"Raven, what happened to you? Are you ok? Do you know who's standing behind you?" Dick knew she would never in her right mind, side with villains and the three behind her certainly fit that bill.

"I've been locked up in Arkham for three weeks, only remembering the last two days, learning that I have been everything from insolent to a raging beast and that Robin dropped me off her like a common loon. And to top it all off Joker and Scarecrow throws a party in my honor, just because they knew who I was, and they were over half of the people here who believed me when I said who I was." She could see the guilt washing off the Titans and the smaller Robin."Come one guys, we better head back to our holes before the guards show up and club us to the ground." Moving forwards Raven passed the four the wide eyed Titans, ending up staring into the cowl of Batman who didn't budge. "There's a whole room full of people back there to attest I'm not in a good mood right now. Go help them, or join them." Harvey stopped flipping his coin to stare at this, the much smaller girl getting the better off a staring contest with the Dark Knight. Batman only grunted and let them pass.

"And I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes. "

The quartet made it back to their cells, leaving the doors open, they were content with not getting clubbed to the ground and thrown into them. It didn't take long before Batman came down the corridor, dragging Joker behind him, followed by the two Robins carrying Crane. The other Titans soon followed Starfire with Ivy, and Beastboy with Arnold. Raven tried to ignore their passing, knowing what was to come she guessed Cyborg was tending to Harley. Staring into the ceiling, she soon enough felt five pairs of eyes staring at her through the window, none of them actually daring to set foot inside.

"Petting zoo is down the corridor to the left."

"Hey!" Croc sounded offended.

"Not you Croc." She retorted.

"Rae, please look at us."

"I'm not sure I want to Robin, three of you set me on the road to this place, one actually handed me in, and the last of you is eyeing me like I'm a freak because I could stare him down. These last two day's have been the most violent emotional rollercoaster of my life, and I'm not ready to have it continue." Robin (Dick) motioned for the others to move on, grabbing a fold out chair he sat down inside her cell for what he felt would be a very important conversation. Yet he didn't really know how to start it.

"Rae, can you forgive us?"

"I don't know, I only remembered what happened back at the Tower, the moment the Joker began carving. Right now one pain is nullifying another."

"You didn't remember?"

"I woke up yesterday, only remembering the instant before I looked over Cyborg's shoulder. I woke up in the middle of the night in here, I didn't know where I was, I dint even know how I got here. And there's something in the walls that block's my powers. The morning came, and I found out where I was and who I was sharing table with."

"That's us!" Croc bellowed like it was a mark of pride to be mentioned.

"I can imagine it must have been, intimidating."

"They had to drag me out of the cell. They day only got better when I first had to share shower with Hayley and Ivy, they are still evening out the pipes. Some guard must have used a taser on me, as I woke up here again, in a straightjacket I couldn't break out of. Only to have a disbelieve shrink analyze me, she called me the 5th personality, she told me that the first days I was here I was either sitting in a corner or hiding under the bed. After that I turned into a beast, I didn't talk, I attacked everyone that came close, I even tried to steal food out of Croc's mouth. After receiving a knock on the head during the morning brawl with the guards I changed again, now I was just rude to everyone, a few days after that emerged it disappeared. Now I changed into a giggling maniac and became best buds with Joker and Harley. That ended when I slipped in the shower landing on my head. And the worst part is, I don't remember a damn thing of it. The nail of the day was placed when the shrink didn't believe me when I screamed at her who I was, claiming I was found screaming in panic running half naked around Gotham. The nail was hammered in when she told me it was Robin who landed me here, and in a none too friendly manner. You have no idea how devastating that was to me, I thought "How could Robin, my best friend, the one person who understood and respected me, leave me in the most infamous psycho-ward in the country knowing what that could do to me?"" Robin is guilt ridden, he knew landing the empath's mind here would be like a piece of red meat in a shark tank.

"I'm sorry Rae, I can't imagine how this must have been for you." The following silence seems deafening. "Rae is there anywhere around here we can talk in private."

"The gardens, if they let us."

"You saved a dozen people in there, I'm sure they will." Robin wanders off to find someone who can permit the field trip.

"You didn't call him?" Bane sounds concerned.

"I did, but something inside me kicked the rational side of me out of the way. Did you know there is more than one Robin?"

"No, I have been in here for over three months now, and Batman was alone when we last fought."

"It appears the Dark Knight needs to have a Robin at his side." Harvey's first indication that he listened in. "He had been growing more violent with us over the last couple of months; I heard rumors about him almost beating a mugger to death."

"Him and the Robin I know haven't been on speaking terms for some time, Robin haven't displayed any of those tendencies."

"He's had you and your friends to take care of him. Batman has been alone in his darkness."

"You know it's not nice to swap journals when the person in question isn't there, Harvey." Robin makes his appearance. "We can go Rae, they have given the all clear."

"Robin, hurt her. And I will break you." Bane's statement has a finality to it that told Robin he was sincere.

"Can I have the scraps?" Croc's call was the last they heard as the moved out, Robin was definitely going to find out how Raven befriended that pair.

"Hold on Robin, no patient goes anywhere in this asylum without supervision." Cash must be feeling better, Robin only sigh's he had preferred to do this under four eyes.

Making their way to the Botanical Garden, Cash turns on the artificial light.

"I just need to know where you two are going to be, other than that I'll be around." Raven gives the location of the bench she had visited twice.

"You know I've not seen this place without it trying to eat me." Robin starts with making the conversation light as they sat down.

"I guess it loses its charm if Ivy enters it. So what's on your mind that couldn't be spoken back there?"

"Rae, please don't make us return to Jump without you. At least don't let us leave you here." Raven knew Robin would never have made a plea like that with anyone listening, least of all Bane, Croc and Two-face.

"I'm not sure the staff will let you walk off with me."

"You know I could have you out within an hour."

"I do." Robin knew better than to try and force Raven to come, she was probably the most stubborn person he knew and he knew a few. A change of subject was needed.

"Soo, how did you end up with Croc, Bane and Two-Face?"

"Croc told me his story, saying it was easier for him to talk to me about his past than with the doctors. I have something in common with Bane, our unhappy childhoods. Harvey just tagged along tonight after coin toss."

"So you became the shoulder to lean on again? The doctors here aren't doing a good job it seems."

"Dr. Young looks at us like bugs in a jar. There to further her studies into the mind, she isn't here to help anyone, except herself."

"You know she would disagree with that." Cash again pops up out of nowhere, the glares he receives make's him continue. "I'm just here to make sure you haven't bled out and Croc left something in the fountain." Robin looks quizzing at the last part.

"He uses it as a bathtub. But that's not all, is it Cash?"

"No, I am trying to digest everything I've seen tonight. And mostly I'm trying to figure you out, I've been here for a number of years and I've seen strange things before, but you take first second and third place. First of all is the personality changes, it's not new in itself, but the changes in you were. You go from arriving completely terrified of everyone and everything to assaulting Croc because he's got a bigger bowl than yours; some of the guards still have bruises from fighting you. After that you go into being extremely rude to everyone only to switch completely again into the second Harley Quinn. And tonight you prove you could have broken out anytime you wished, and that you can be colder than Victor Fries. I've seen enough of Joker to know he was rattled by your lack of response to his work, and you threw him completely off when you taunted him afterwards."

"It's going to take some explaining." Cash takes a seat while listening to Raven talk about how her head is put together and why. Looking to Robin occasionally for confirmations, had the girl had any other company, he would have thought the whole thing came out of a bad horror movie. Most of all he was surprised that he believed her sane, even after the life she had led. "You're making my head spin and had I not seen you tonight, I would have thrown you into a padded cell."

"But it's true Aaron, I know it's messed up on so many levels, but it's my life and how I have to live it."

"So why wasn't stuff getting blown up before yesterday?"

"I leaned at an early age how to completely suppress my powers, in case one of my emotions took full control. You have met my Timid, Anger, Rude and Happy side's and those four are in for a stern beating when I get my hands on them. For my powers to work my emotions have to be in equilibrium, if the balance is tilted I loose of control them, if the balance is completely lost they shut down."

"And you perform those magic tricks on a daily basis?" Cash's question made Robin interrupt. Robin knew Raven was mostly known for her fighting abilities, but to the rest of the Titans and him especially, she was so much more, he needed to tell her.

"And she is a key part of our team, the glue that keeps us together. She is always in the calm center, I am obsessive, Starfire appears naïve, Cyborg butts heads with everyone and Beastboy is annoying but Raven is always at the center making sure we stay in balance. I heard Harvey say earlier that Batman needed a Robin, but the Titans need their Raven."

"You should have thought of that, before you chose to laugh at my hopes and dreams." Both raven and Robin knew this would come up sooner or later.

"Raven, I swear to you, I didn't know what that book was before I picked up the remains of the cover. And I am so sorry about hurting you." Raven knew she couldn't stay angry at him, when he was radiating the truth and grief.

"So what was it that was so funny back then?"

"Your initial description of the rest of us. Star was actually proud of your perception of her radiance of happiness."

"That was written two days after we moved into the Tower."

"We never got any further into it before you turned it into confetti."

"They weren't laughing at me, they were laughing at themselves..." For some reason she find the whole miserable situation hilarious, and that Robin takes cover behind a large potted plant when she begins to laugh only makes it better. Cash just stares in wonder.

"Any of you want to tell me what is going on?" Composing herself again, killing the laughter.

"I'm sorry, I caught them laughing at my diary, I thought they were laughing at me, it caused me to run from Jump City to Gotham to end up here. And now I learn they never read past page one." Aaron Cash has two teenage kids, and he knew how girls treated their diaries.

"So all of this madness you have been going through, comes from that?"

"Yes, I'm sorry Cash but I think I am ready to return home now."

"Raven, I would be more than happy to sign those papers. And I will make sure Dr. Young agrees." Cash heads off to get the paperwork done; it has always been a mark of pride to him whenever someone could leave Arkham with the doctor's blessings. Robin breaks out of his cover, with the danger passed and the realization that Raven was coming with them.

"Do you think they will let me keep the shirt?" Now it was Robins turn to laugh.

"Rae, you once again prove how an amazing person you are. You get locked up, for weeks, in a hell on earth for you, only to make friends, rattle the worst demon here, come out sane and now you want a souvenir? Actually since you arrived here in your underwear, I guess they will let you keep the pants as well." Raven rewarded him with a disturbing double smile. "So are you going to heal that?"

"It has a purpose, involving a Robin, a Beastboy and a certain doctor."

30 minutes later Raven is staring at two boys, who both look like school kids in front of the headmaster.

"I want you both to take a good look at this face, because you are both partially responsible for it." The pair looks up, taking it in, the cuts and the blood that had not been wiped off. "Robin, I don't blame you for leaving me here, in the state you found me in. But you need to read up on your bad guys, I was acting like that because Scarecrow had sprayed me with his chemicals. Also you need to file all your encounters, had you filed me, Batman might have recognized the description. And I would not have been hidden in this city for three weeks known as Jane Doe under his nose." Robin nodded then looked at his feet, he was embarrassed that his first solo catch was one of the Teen Titans, and that he really should have filed it, his first catch.

"And you, Beastboy, I want you to remember what your prying has caused. Because of you, I can't remember three weeks of my life. Just remember just because you have a curiosity, doesn't mean you have any right to look into things your friends keep from you. Our Robin knows this and he respects it, why can't you?" Beastboy doesn't reply he does the only thing he can, he turns into a kitten with large eyes. Raven sigh's he was going to need something stronger. She picks him up and heads back towards her cell block, Robin silently following.

Beastboy felt like she had forgiven him, he just snuggled up her arms. Before she gently shook him, looking up he was staring into the reptilian eyes of Croc. "Beastboy, this is Killer Croc. Croc this is lunch if he lands me in a place like this again." Beastboy immediately jumps over her shoulder, reverting to his normal from.

"I'm sorry Rae! Don't kill me!" Beastboy drops to his knees in pleading fasion.

"I won't, but do anything like this again and I swear by the nine pits of hell I will feed you to Croc myself!"

"Hehe… the green one would make an interesting study." Crane had regained consciousness, leaning weakly against the glass of his cell. "STAY AWAY!" Raven had opened her second set of eyes, all glowing red, making Crane jump into a corner of his cell.

"Aren't you going to leave me with a goodbye pressie as well?"

" Joe I am leaving you with the memory of me being one of the few people you couldn't break." The Joker's smile is turned into a scowl.

Turning around Raven can see both Croc and Bane, as their cells where next to each other. "Thank you, both of you, I have a feeling that without you, I would really have lost my mind here."

"No sweat it kid, just promise you will come visit, and bring some food along will you?" Croc, as always, thinking with his stomach.

"Farewell, Chika Diablos, I hope I will meet you again someday."

"I'm sure we will Bane, I'm sure we will." In a touching moment Raven place's her hands on the pieces of glass, the two inmates putting their hands out as well. Simulating the handshake they couldn't give. "Farewell friends." Raven fought to hold back the tears; it hurt her to part with the pair, even if she had only really known them for two days.

Walking down the corridor the Raven followed, by Beastboy and the second Robin, they spot Batman walking towards them, as if he had been waiting.

"120 cases of wet pants, 73 minor injuries, 45 that's still unconscious, and one Harley Quinn that's going to spend at least a month in a cast, I want an explanation."

"The Joker was about to stab me in the chest, my powers retuned in time to prevent it. I cast the mess hall in shadows, guiding Bane and Croc around, I just pacified the inmates in a way that didn't harm what was already broken." Batman didn't ask any more questions.

"Dr. Young wants to talk to you in private. Her office is down the hall to the right." Raven walked off without saying anything, this was going to be the tough one to convince.

"Come in, Raven." Young motioned her inside and into a chair in front of her large wooden desk.

"You wanted to see me, Dr. Young?"

"Yes, I have had Cash, a Robin and Batman pestering me about you, apparently they believe you are who you say you are."

"You still have doubts?"

"No, I believe you are who you say you are. But I would strongly urge you to stay here, you are obviously troubled. The multiple personalities you have shown here are proof of that. I believe I can help you." Raven had expected something like this; Young didn't want to lose a prime specimen.

"You can't, it is my problem to deal with, as I have done so for years. The only reason the first four versions of me appeared was because Crane sprayed me with his chemicals."

"We have seen many victims of Crane come here, and none of them had split personalities because of it."

"None of them where half demons, with enough power to erase this planet from existence, either."

"You can't be serious, if you are, you are only convincing me that you really need to be here. Many of the inmates here have abusive parents and often demonized them to cope with their actions." Young only manages to finish her sentence, before she finds herself in a burning wasteland. The immense bellow she heard after finding herself outside the mess hall, draws her gaze to a gigantic red skinned demon struggling against blazing white chains holding him to a mountain only slightly bigger than him. Young hears it scream a name before she finds herself back in her office, smelling of brimstone. Looking up at the girl in front of her, she sees the family resemblance, four red eyes. "That…"

"Was real, the fiend you saw was my father. Do you still doubt me, or do I have to grow pointed teeth and red skin?"

Young couldn't think of anything, other than getting the papers signed. "Y-you are free to go." She stammered.

"Thank you, can I keep the suit? Since I arrived in my underwear?" Young frantically nods a scared look in her eyes. Raven heads for the door, thinking of something before she exits. "One last thing doctor, stop looking at your patients like they are there for your studies alone, some may not look or act like it, but they are all human beings, they need help." Before Young can reply Raven closes the door behind her.

Meeting up with the Titans and the new Dynamic Duo, who is standing outside the office. "Well I'm free to go." A loud sigh, is exhaled by the Titans. Batman had told them that Young had the final authority over Raven, and that she never had yet let anyone leave the Asylum.

"Guess, Young can learn to let go after all." Tim sounds cheerful.

"I had to make her visit a certain place before she would."

"So Rea, are you going to heal that, or am I getting the pleasure of stitching you up for once?" Ravens only reply to Cyborg is closing up the bloody grin, leaving only the blood stains behind.

"So where do they keep your stuff? Bet you want to get out of that thing." Beastboy was eyeing the grey suit with the Arkham logo on the back.

"I am staying in this until we get home, unless you brought some of my clothes. I am not going to run around in my underwear again in public, and especially not in front of him." Raven throws a thumb at the reddening Tim behind her.

Nearing the long awaited exit, Raven spots Cash cleaning out a room and he spots her as well.

"Hey Raven, catch." He tosses her an unmarked disc, she looks at him quizzing. "Surveillance tapes, figured you would like to see how you behaved the other weeks. In case you didn't believe the rest of us here."

"Thank you, I think I will, take care Aaron."

"You too Raven." With that Raven exited the Asylum, a free girl, being watched silently by a ghost who was overjoyed to see her leave his Asylum with her faculties intact.