Hello everyone! I've been a little indecisive about what I was going to do about this chapter. The last chapter kind of wrote itself and wasn't in my plan for the story. I really don't want to bump up the rating on this to M so I won't be going into much detail regarding the vivisection. If I get enough people asking me for a detailed version of it, I might write a one-shot about it.
I STILL OWN NOTHING!
Raven stared dumbly at the door.
"I'll ask again. Are you sure you want to enter?" Danny asked, taking notice of her silence.
'Can I really do this?' Raven thought to herself. 'Can I really watch the torture of somebody who I've become so familiar with, somebody who has earned my complete respect?'
"Raven?" Danny asked.
"I'll go in. Alone." Raven responded. "I can't ask you to live through your most terrible memory."
Danny nodded, albeit reluctantly.
Raven then pushed open the door and stepped inside.
-Linebreak-
Raven had looked in all but two of the doors in Danny's dreamscape, but this one felt different.
As soon a she stepped inside Raven regretted her decision.
This memory in particular had an atmosphere about it.
'How…unsettling." Raven thought as the memory began to play before her.
Raven sighed and settled in to the memory.
She saw men in white suits dragging a barely clothed Danny into what looked like a torture chamber.
She watched as they tortured him, not for information, but for fun.
"What's wrong ghost freak?" The agent on the left said as Danny flickered between his human and his ghost form.
"What do you want to know?" Danny forced out, teeth clenched.
"Nothing, we've learned all we care to know from you, except one thing. Are you up for a little biology lesson, freak?" The agent on the right said, a sadistic smile forming on his lips as he pulled out a knife with a glowing green blade.
"No…" Raven breathed as she watched the vivisection begin.
-Linebreak-
After what seemed like hours Raven finally reached what seemed like the end of the memory, the final images forever engraved inside of her mind.
Danny was waiting for her as she stepped from the door, her hood obscuring most of her face.
"Raven, are you okay?" Danny asked, only to see her drop to her knees, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"I'm so sorry." Danny said solemnly as he kneeled beside her, only to be pulled into a hug by the sobbing girl. "I should have stopped you from entering."
"N-No." Raven said, more tears streaming down her face. "It was my choice to enter the door."
"Let's get back to the real world. Your friends are probably worried about you, and after what you just saw; you should probably get some rest. You've learned more about me than anybody ever has, and I know that it's a lot to take in, so you need to rest and think over eveything." Danny said trying to reason with her.
"But what about the last door?" Raven asked, drying her tears.
"It isn't that important, and after what you just saw I think you should get some rest to set your mind straight." Danny responded, pulling away from Raven's hug.
"O-Okay." She said before finally transporting herself out of Danny's mindscape.
-Linebreak-
Danny opened his eyes, to see all of the Titans except for Raven crowded around the hallway.
"What's wrong?" Danny asked, slowly getting to his feet.
"What. Did. You. Do. To. Her?" Robin asked glaring at Danny.
"You mean Raven? I showed her my story. My whole story, from the beginning." Danny said, his expression hardening into an unreadable mask.
"How could you make Raven cry?" Beastboy yelled. "I never thought I'd see anybody do that!"
"My life hasn't been easy, and I just showed her all of it. She just became the person who knows me better than anybody else. She became familiar with me, and then she saw me suffer both emotionally and physically. She saw me lose everything. Tell me, how would any of you react if you saw a friend get vivisected?" Danny asked.
"That happened to you?" Cyborg asked, clearly concerned.
"Yes." Danny replied, without a hint of emotion in his voice. "Look guys I just relived almost my entire life through my memories and I'm exhausted. If you guys want to know my story, you can talk to Raven whenever she comes out of her room. Now could you spare me an extra room or a bed?"
"We can't just eave you unattended in a room without having heard your story. So until we get it from Raven we're going to have to keep watching you. We haven't forgotten the disappearing act you pulled last time we took our eyes off of you." Robin said.
"Fine, if I wanted to disappear I would've done it already. You took your eyes off me when you watched Raven retreat to her room, that would've been the perfect opportunity for me to leave." Danny said, clearly to tired to care about being watched.
"I will keep an eye on friend Danny while he rests." Volunteered Starfire.
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Raven sat in the darkness of her room, staring at the ceiling as her questions ran wild in her head.
'Why did he trust me? Why are ghosts persecuted? What should I tell everybody? What would he want me to tell them? How could he lose everything and still remain sane? What do I consider him?' Raven thought, dwelling on the last one especially.
'He decided to trust me with every secret he has. I know everything about him, but can I really call him a friend when he knows nothing about me?'
Raven sighed and sat up on her bed.
'I need to meditate, to get my thoughts in order before I can make sense of what I saw today.' She thought to herself as she began chanting her incantation.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"
That's it for this chapter everyone. To be honest it took me quite a few revisions to be satisfied with this one. Tell me what you think. I'm still taking pairing suggestions, though everyone seems to be leaning towards the DannyXRaven idea. Reviews are appreciated!
