Raven just laid there, gasping from the recent discovery. No…can't be! ...But those were Rose's memories…Raven tensed as a she heard a different set of feet make a light impact with the ground. Oh, shit. Really? Raven rolled her eyes in her frustration. Raven sighed then turned to face Rose. "Yes?"
"You saw didn't you?" Rose bluntly said, her eyes not usual. It was a lonely, dark look with a slight pained expression to go with it. It sent shivers down Raven's back.
She gets to the point rather fast now, doesn't she? Raven thought sarcastically before speaking. "Yes."
"Thought so." Rose looks down. Awkward silence erupts and Raven strained to break it but Rose beat her to it. "It wasn't a coincidence…that I knew Terra. I know every hero out there, some I just talked to briefly, some I'm close friends with…but it was all planned." Rose looks up to meet Raven's gaze. Her eyes pleading to be trusted and to be acknowledged. "But this really was a coincidence! It wasn't really planned…but I did meet you guys before, multiple times. You guys just don't remember."
"…I believe you." Raven replied slowly, Rose's eyes threatened to spark to life, "But can you tell me how we met? " Rose's eyes turn to fear and she shakes a bit. "It's okay-"
"I don't think you'll like it. I'm warning you." Raven nodded a bit hesitatingly, Rose closed her eyes. "The first time was when you were little. You were one of the first one's a met, considering I just got captured by him." Raven felt herself being sucked in, watching from the sidelines. Raven sees a little girl cloaked in white…it was her.
The little girl smiled at her and Raven backed up a bit and fear spread throughout her body. "Roses." Little Raven spoke quietly, shocking and tensing Raven.
"What?" Raven spoke with a more childish, weak voice that was so fragile and so unlike her own. Little Raven gives a small smile and points to Raven.
"I smell roses." Little Raven tilted her head, staring curiously at Raven. Confusion spread over little Raven's face. "Why are you crying girl?" Raven, on impulse, toughed her cheek and feels a wet sensation. She falls to her knees and more tears spill. Little Raven looks around then skips over to her and pats her head soothingly. She smiles bigly and Raven's mouth opens a bit and her mouth spread a bit awkwardly into a sort of smile. "It's okay. You can cry." Raven closes her eyes in distress and scrunches her eyebrows together in sorrow. She makes a choking noise and little Raven kept patting Raven, making her cry even more.
"Next was when you were in battle with Trigon…" Rose echoed to Raven in her mind. The memory swirled and next came to a destroyed Jump City.
Everything was destroyed, lava everywhere. A huge red Satan was smirking at the fallen Titans. A little Raven was watching in dismay and looked around at the titans who were hurt badly. Little Raven soon emerges to a big Raven with long hair below the shoulder, cloaked in white. Raven watches herself stand up to Trigon with no emotion.
Raven walks toward the two and sees Raven about to shoot white power at Trigon. Rose/Raven raise her hand and when the beam of blinding white light shoots, a blinding light also enters the beam, making it bigger and stronger. With that Trigon was defeated almost immediately. Raven walks away from the real Raven as she finishes Trigon off. Raven smirks sideways. It was a cruel uncaring smirk.
Raven gasps and falls to her knees, she breathes heavily. She looks up at Rose in horror, seeing that she's not out of breathe or tired. She…helped me…defeat…him? "Y-you…h-how?" Rose has a lonely broken look in her eyes as she looks up to the sky.
"What's wrong with giving a helping hand to someone who needs it?" Rose answers calmly.
"NO! I defeated him by myself! Y-you! T-that didn't happen!" Raven erupts, stuttering. Rose sighs and Raven glares at her. Rose's hair danced in the wind and Raven seemed angry and ashamed. For what? For not defeating him myself? Or that I'm inferior to her?
"I warned you…the reason I wiped your memories is because I knew this would happen. I just added a bit of power to your light, nothing major." Raven grits her teeth. "That's what you want me to say…isn't it?" Raven's eyes widen as she looks Rose in disbelief. "I know it was major and I didn't care, I didn't care about anything. I wouldn't even care if I died right there and then. But that doesn't change what I did. Orders are orders and I followed it. That's my life." Rose looks down to Raven. "I've meet the others too…I could've helped some of them…taken the scars and pain of losing people they loved…but I couldn't." Rose's eyes showed true sorrow and grief, making Raven loosen up.
"…I'm not really good at talking to someone…so…just know it isn't your fault…and if you did intervene then the Teen Titans wouldn't exist." Raven frowned a bit at the thought. Never meeting the others? Raven jumped at what she thought was the last thing she would hear Rose do. She was…smiling. A thought occurred to her and before she knew it, she was saying it out loud. "Isn't your power like a black darkness? How'd you do light?" Raven asked, raising an eyebrow in suspicion.
"I have two elements. The two opposites. One light, one darkness. One always outweighs the other. My light is low while my darkness is outweighing it. It changes with the true voice of the heart." Rose answers calmly. "But I can use light if I wanted but it just wouldn't be as powerful."
"….Did you really meet the others?" Raven said slowly. Rose nodded and formed a sideways smirk. It sent shivers down Raven's spine. The Raven.
"Who would you like to see first?" Rose's words were cruel and uncaring.
This isn't Rose. Can't be. Raven gulped a bit then decided on one of her teammates, "Robin-" Raven began to be sucked in strongly. Is she doing this with her own power?