Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans.

Author's Comments: First of all I want to give a belated shout out to the 100th reviewer of this story, raven lover. I'm going to try to update once a month to make up for the fact that I didn't update for four years. Sorry again about that…Thanks to all of you who have stuck with me through these last four years.

Chapter 12 – For Better or Worse

"So," Kid Flash caressed his girlfriend's face. "How are you feeling?" Jinx was recovering from her ordeal in the Med Wing of Titan's West.

"Better," she smiled at him. "If Raven hadn't let me go, I would've been in trouble."

"How likely do you think is it that she will remember who she is?" Kid Flash asker, kissing her hand.

"Hard to say," Jinx replied. "She seemed really confused the last time I saw her. She almost seemed like Raven again."

"For Changeling's sake I hope she does," the speedster admitted. "I don't know what I would do if I were in his shoes."

"It's really too bad," Jinx mused. "They would make the cutest couple."

"You think so too?" Kid Flash was surprised.

"I think everyone's secretly hoping that they'll get together," Jinx smirked. Kid Flash nodded in agreement. Jinx's communicator beeped. The speedster opened it with a flourish.

"Jinx's communicator, may I help you?" he asked.

"How is she doing?" Pantha asked.

"I'm alright Pantha," Jinx leaned in beside Kid Flash.

"Rosabelle," the wrestler corrected kindly.

"Now if you are feeling better my friends," Red Star's face came into view beside her. "We are having a meeting in the common room to discuss our next move."

"Be there in a flash," Red Star and Pantha groaned in unison at the speedster's awful pun. He picked up Jinx, and moments later placed her down in the common room next to Argent.

"Before anyone else asks, I'm fine." The sorceress insisted.

"Good to have you back," Argent smiled. "We're going to need all the help we can get if we're going to take on Slade and Terra."

"Let us discuss what we know," Red Star suggested.

"Slade is the Titans' arch-nemesis," Red X replied. "Nightwing hates him, and is afraid of turning into him. He's bad. A true villain."

"I'm actually more worried about Terra then Slade," Jinx admitted. "The last time I saw her, she seemed extremely unstable. She also has her powers back, so that can't be good news."

"We should get the Titan's East to help us," Kid Flash suggested. Pantha went over to the main screen, and typed on the keyboard. The screen crackled to life, and Bumble Bee's face came into focus.

"This is Titan's West calling Titan's East, come in Titan's East." Pantha adjusted the screen's definition.

"This is Bumble Bee," the leader of Titan's East replied. "What can I do for you Pantha?"

"The Titans have put us in charge of defeating Slade and Terra while they defeat Raven," the wrestler explained. "We could really use your help."

"You can count on us," Bumble Bee affirmed. "What's the plan?"

"We need to get Slade away from Raven," Jinx realized. "If he's not there to bark orders at her, I think the Titan's will have an easier time getting her to remember who she is."

"If you take Slade, then we'll take Terra." Bumble Bee suggested. "It'll probably be best if we separate the three of them. Minimize the damage."

"Sounds good," Pantha agreed.

"Any idea when this is all going to go down?" Bumble Bee asked.

"Not sure," Pantha admitted. "Stand by your communicators, we'll be in touch."

- Scene Break -

"This isn't good," Terra stood with her arms crossed. Raven lay on the ground, still unconscious from the rock that Terra had thrown at her. "She's remembering who she is too fast."

"I did tell you my dear," Slade said, lazily leaning against the wall.

"Without Jinx, it's all but guaranteed that she'll remember who she is." Terra grumbled.

"True," Slade shrugged. "However, the Titans don't know that. They'll destroy her."

"Then everything will go back to normal," Terra grinned. "With Raven gone, I can finally take back what's rightfully mine." Slade blinked at her.

"You can't think that after everything you've done that he'd return to you," his tone was mocking.

"If the Titans destroy her, he won't want anything to do with them." Terra was confident.

"Still," Slade leaned closer to her. "What makes you think that he would choose you after everything that you've done?"

"I will have him back!" Terra's fists clenched. "He belongs with me!"

"I'm sorry to say this my dear," Slade actually sounded sorry. "You will never have him. You will never be together." Terra looked up at him, tears in her eyes. Slade took her in his arms and held her to his chest. The blonde broke down, and sobbed into his chest. "There, there, my dear." He soothed her softly. "It won't hurt forever." Terra looked up at him, her eyes red from crying. Slade cupped one of his hands under her chin. "I'll destroy them all for you." He leaned down, face to face with her, and his single eye narrowed. "I promise…"

- Scene Break -

"We still don't have a plan," Changeling grumbled. "Do we?" He sat, cross-legged on the floor. Violet sat on his lap, purring softly as he absentmindedly scratched her head.

"No," Starfire smiled sadly. All the Titans were sitting in a circle on the floor in the control room.

"All great battles deserve planning," Sarasim sighed. "Only this battle is one that I think we don't really want to happen."

"We can't do this unless everyone here is 100% on board," Nightwing crossed his arms across his chest.

"That's easier said than done," Cyborg harrumphed, his massive shoulders hunched.

"If you have but the tiniest doubt," Nightwing started.

"Dude!" Changeling flailed his arms, ungracefully sending Violet flying across the room with a squeak of terror. "Of course we have doubts. We know Raven's memory is coming back."

"Did you just say 'dude'?" Cyborg asked excitedly. Changeling blinked, then scowled at the robotic Titan.

"I agree with Garfield," Starfire shot a withering look at Cyborg as well. "I think we need to buy some time to allow for Raven's memory to return."

"How long are we supposed to wait?" Nightwing bellowed. "Do we just allow the city to be destroyed?"

"Actually Raven hasn't participated in a lot of property damage," Sarasim pointed out.

"Besides the wedding," Starfire grumbled. Changeling flinched.

"Most of the damage she's done is to us," Sarasim continued, ignoring the alien princess. "For whatever that's worth."

"Only because that's what Slade told her to do," Changeling defended the woman he loved. "We have evidence that she's starting to defy him. We have to give her a chance!"

"She's working for Slade!" Nightwing stated, as though it was the only thing that mattered.

"When you were working for Slade, did we give up on you?" Changeling growled. "Even when Terra was working for Slade, you still gave her a chance. How come Raven doesn't get one?"

"We have to protect the city!" Nightwing did not seem to be listening to anything anyone was saying.

"You're only saying that because she hurt me," Starfire's voice was soft. "You have to let that go. If we have a chance to get Raven back, we have to take it. Remember the trouble you went to in order to get her back after she became The Portal?"

"That was different," Nightwing muttered.

"She's still our friend," Sarasim insisted. "No Titan left behind!"

"Well said dude!" Changeling crowed, holding his hand up for her to high-five. Sarasim raised an eyebrow at him. "Dudette?" Changeling attempted, but she still didn't high-five him. Changeling grumbled, and crossed his arms back over his chest.

"It is good to hear you say 'dude' again," Starfire smiled at the shape-shifter.

"We need to stop wasting time," Nightwing insisted. "We need a plan if we're going to take on Raven, and not be destroyed in the process."

"Full frontal assault?" suggested Cyborg, he didn't sound entirely sure of his own idea.

"I think Garfield probably has the best chance of all of us to get through to Raven," Starfire ignored the robotic Titan.

"Why me?" the shape-shifter blinked. Starfire rolled her eyes.

"Let's just say I know something you don't," she replied. Changeling leapt to his feet, and was staring down at her in a split second.

"What do you mean?" he pleaded.

"You knew what to say to get Terra to turn on Slade," Starfire lied. "I'm confident that you will know what to say to Raven when the time comes." Changeling's ears drooped, and he shuffled over to where Violet had landed in a heap. Muttering, he slid down the wall and wrapped his arms around his knees. The small purple crocodilian creature crawled onto his head, and promptly fell asleep.

While the other Titans continued to argue, Changeling considered what he would say to Raven given the chance. Obviously he needed to get her to remember who she was. It was pointless to try to get her to remember him when she didn't even know who she was. He wondered what Nightwing had said to her when he had brought her back from becoming The Portal. The Titans leader was always better with words than the shape-shifter.

Maybe if he could get her to remember her other emotions he could get through to her. Convince her that she was made of more than Rage. However, he had no inkling as of how to go about this…All he knew was that he desperately needed her to remember. If she didn't, he felt that he would probably die. His life just wasn't worth living without her by his side.

- Scene Break -

Raven slowly opened her eyes. Her head was spinning. She couldn't remember what had happened. She had talked back to Slade, and then everything went black. Terra must have hit her over the head with a rock. The idea really annoyed her. Her hatred for Terra boiling in her stomach, causing an acrid taste to build up in her throat. She didn't even recall why she hated the blonde so much, she just did.

'Maybe it's because of what she did to Garfield,' a voice floated through her mind. Raven looked all around but didn't see anyone. 'In here.' Raven realized that the voice was actually coming from her mind. She closed her eyes and concentrated, and withdrew into her mind. When she opened her eyes again, she still didn't see anyone. She wasn't in the lair anymore though. She was standing on a rock in the middle of a black sky with red stars splattered here and there like blood spurts.

"Hello?" her dual voices echoed terribly in the dreary landscape.

"Look at you," Raven spun on heal, and stared. Standing with her hands on her hips was herself, but not herself. It certainly looked like Raven, but she only had one set of eyes. Dark eyes, but still normal. She wore a green cloak, green wristbands, and green slipper-like shoes. Her leotard underneath was dark, and her cloak was fastened with a raven broach. Around her slim waist was a jewelled belt, made with multiple broaches of various sizes. As Raven stared at her doppelganger she couldn't help but wonder. Hadn't she worn the same thing, but with a blue cloak?

"Brave?" the name escaped her lips before she knew what had happened. The emotion, she didn't know how she knew that it was an emotion, nodded. "How…" She trailed off, not knowing what to say.

'I only had the strength to show up within the last few days,' Brave explained. "And only the strength to speak to you today."

"Where are the others?" how did she know there were others? Besides the obvious that bravery couldn't be her only emotion, Raven somehow felt as though she knew her emotions personally.

"They haven't been as lucky," Brave's eyes filled with tears. "There are only a few of us that even exist right now, but none of them have enough strength to contact you."

"Take me to them," Raven demanded.

"Traveling through Nevermore is dangerous," Brave shook her head. "We are always being watched." As if on cue, the caw of a crow caught Raven's attention. She turned her head to see a tree full of motley looking birds. Each with four glowing red eyes. "You need to go!" Brave insisted.

"Didn't expect you to be timid," Raven crossed her arms over her chest. Hadn't Timid had a grey cloak?

"If we're found out we'll be destroyed!" Brave rebuked, not appreciating being compared to the grey-cloaked emotion.

"By what?" Raven was confused, all though deep down inside she knew what would drive even Brave to be afraid. The green cloaked emotion dragged her into a nearby rock crevice.

"Rage shall consume all!" it was Trigon. The ultimate manifestation of all her evilness crashing through her mindscape. Raven remembered defeating him…but it felt like a dream. An impossible dream.

"Those of us who managed to survive have been hiding in a cave just over there," Brave hissed in her ear. "We're gathering our strength so that when the time is right we can take Rage down." Raven frowned. Hadn't she defeated Rage before? How could she have? Rage was all she was. Evil incarnate. Wasn't she? Brave grabbed her by the hand, and darted out of the crevice. Raven was pulled along behind the determined emotion to the aforementioned cave. Raven could see no entrance, but the emotion simply phased through the rock face. After a moment of hesitation, Raven followed.

"Wh-who's there?" whispered a voice in the dark.

"It's Brave," hissed Brave. "Can someone please turn on a light?"

"Okay, okay, one moment," the voice replied. There was a moment of silence, and then light flooded the cave. Raven blinked and looked around. Casting the light was a yellow-cloaked emotion with glasses.

"Knowledge?" the yellow-cloaked emotion recoiled slightly away from Raven. "Is this everyone?"

"Everyone who made it," Brave sighed.

"We're the core emotions," Knowledge explained. "The others are extras."

"There are only two of you?" Raven didn't believe it.

"Th-three," squeaked the first voice who had spoken. From behind Knowledge, a grey-cloaked emotion poked her head out.

"My core emotions are Brave, Knowledge, and Timid?" Raven wasn't impressed.

"And Rage," muttered Brave.

"Well that goes without saying," said Raven bitterly.

"R-Rage shouldn't be in control," Timid quavered. "B-but there aren't enough of us to keep her in check."

"Her?" Raven blinked.

"Of course, her!" Knowledge rolled her eyes. "You're a woman, so are your emotions."

"Then why is Rage taking the form of Trigon?" Raven asked.

"Because you let her!" Brave bellowed. There was a lengthy amount of silence following this accusation. Timid kept looking from Raven, to Brave, to Knowledge. Eventually she let out a tiny whimper.

Raven looked at her emotions. There used to be so many of them. Only these three remained, of the vast number she had before. Knowledge she could understand, she had always been smart. She was a spell-caster after all, and fluent in many different languages. Brave she could understand. It had taken courage to go against what Slade had told her to do. Even though her heart had said it was the right thing, that didn't make it easy. Timid? She didn't understand Timid. Then she thought harder. Maybe Timid represented her confusion, her fear that she shouldn't be doing what she was doing. Her fear that she truly was evil. She didn't want to be evil, but did she have a choice? Hadn't she always been evil? She was half-demon after all. Didn't that mean that she was doomed to be evil?

"K-keep fighting," the grey-cloaked emotion broke the awkward silence. "The m-more you fight against Slade, the stronger w-we get."

"You also give us the chance of receiving more emotions," Knowledge explained. "I was the first to arrive here. Then Brave arrived, and finally Timid. Try to allow yourself to feel different things. The more of us there are, the better chance we have of controlling Rage."

"You can't control Rage," Raven spat.

"Yes we can!" the three emotions replied in unison.

"You have to allow yourself to realize that you are more than your Rage," Knowledge encouraged.

"Apprentice!" Slade's voice broke Raven from her trance. "Time to go. Make sure to listen to me this time, or there will be consequences." Raven followed after her dark master, but her thoughts drifted back to her emotions.

"I am more than my Rage," she whispered. Now if only she could believe it. If only there was someone who could prove to her that she was more than her Rage.