Helllo! I haven't updated in so long, sorry guys, I've been sooo busy with school stuff and family stuff, haven't had much time for writing. Wellll on to chapter12!

Disclaimer: I do not own JTHM or Teen Titans.

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Chapter 12

Raven found herself shrouded in darkness. She struggled to remember how she had gotten there but couldn't. She heard some voices calling her name, they were familiar voices. When she looked in the direction from which the voices were coming from, she saw it was from Robin, Starfire, Cyborg and Beastboy all standing together with happy looks on their faces. Raven now noticed that the darkness now was replaced with what seemed to be a park. She looked up to see a bright blue sky and then looked down on the soft green grass that she was now sitting on.

"Yo Rave are ya coming or what?" She heard Beast boy yell.

Raven couldn't believe this, she felt like she was going to break out in tears. She stood up and started walking toward her friends. The scenery changed abruptly. It was black again and now, Raven found she couldn't move. Then to her horror, a figure dressed in a black cloak came slowly behind her still happy looking friends, a silver blade clutched in each of the figure's hands.

Raven desperately tried calling out to her friends but no sound could escape her, the figure plunged one of the blades through Cyborg, electric sparks mixed with blood spurted from his body and he collapsed to the ground. The figure then slaughtered Robin and Starfire, dismembering them in the process. Lastly it went for Beast boy and after stabbing him through his chest, began slowly making its way towards her.

Raven was shaking. She wanted to run, but at the same time wanted to kill this monster for what it had done to her friends, but she was still paralyzed by an invisible force. When the figure was only a few inches from Raven, it lowered it's hood. Raven's eyes widened in horror and she let out a silent scream. This dark figure, this monster that had slaughtered her friends, was her.

Raven's mind went blank as this replica of herself stared at her with bright red eyes, a evil smirk spread wide across it's face. Then, another figure began to form from the shadows; it was a skinny, almost skeletal form. When it came closer she recognized this form to be Johnny. Johnny then stood next to her replica and then spoke in a cold voice.

"Hmmm…Well you've at least saved one for me I see." They both let out maniacal laughter.

"Yessss well what can I say? I was having so much fun, I couldn't quite control myself." The replica responded.

Raven felt a gasp in her chest but couldn't make the sound. She couldn't believe how identical that "thing's" voice was to her own.

Johnny then locked eyes with Raven, his eyes blacker and colder then she had ever seen before. He then spoke again to her clone,

"heh, well my dear, let's finish this one together."

They both raised their knives high above raven, both laughing psychotically and then sharply thrust them down.

"NOOOOOO!" Raven Shouted letting out a burst of black light.

Raven opened her eyes and saw that she was in a blue room and that she was sitting straight up in a bed panting heavily. She finally collected her thoughts together and remembered. She was in Johnny's room. She looked out her window to see a bright beam of light shining through. It was morning. She heard groaning from across the room and crawled to the edge of her bed to see Johnny sitting next to the wall by the door rubbing the back of his head.

"Owwww Damn, do you always let out beams like that when you're dreaming?"

Raven realized that when she dreamt she shot out a blast of dark light, she must have really done it in reality.

"I'm so sorry Johnny!" She said as she glided over to him and helped him up. "You're not hurt are you?

He chuckled to himself. "Nah, you surprised me more then anything. I just came by to see if you were awake yet and heard through the door you making noises like you were in pain and after I knocked a couple times and you didn't answer, I went inside and next thing I knew I was being thrown against the wall.."

Raven blushed a deep red "I really am sorry, that hasn't happened in years. The last time it happened Beast boy had come into my room while I was sleeping and-" Raven stopped immediately, memories of Beast boy's broken body flooding her mind. She looked down at the ground and tried to think of something to change the subject, she noticed a brown box by Johnny's feet.

"What's that?" She asked trying to change the subject.

Johnny looked down at the box and picked it up. "Oh this? Well seeing as how you are going to want to keep your identity hidden if you don't want your friends to find you, I picked some new clothes for you while I was…."shopping" last night." He handed the box to her.

"…shopping? Should I assume these clothes are…used?" Raven held the box out in front of her as if it was covered in filth.

Johnny rolled his eyes "No, I grabbed these off a rack after dismembering the cashier, it was the only clothes rack that didn't have blood on it so-" He stopped and looked at Raven who had a slight look of disturbance on her face. "Look nobody was wearing them, they're brand new. If you don't like them then throw them away."

Raven sighed "Well guess I'll go try them on." She went into her room and closed the door.

She set the box on the bed and opened it up to reveal a shoulder less black dress with long sleeves that covered her hands. The length was just above the knee and was lined with white cobweb style lacing at the bottom and around the edge of the sleeves. The box also had a pair of knee high combat boots and white tights. When she put the outfit on she was amazed at how good she looked in them. She looked noticeably different however there was still the matter about her hair.

"Hmm" She took a lock of her hair and began playing with it in between her fingers. "I suppose I could try having long hair." She sat on the floor cross legged, closed her eyes and took in a deep breath; a red aura surrounded her and her short purple hair began to grow longer until it was about half way down her back. She opened her eyes and the aura vanished. She took another look in the mirror. "Not bad I guess. I should probably have bangs to hide this though" She said touching her forehead gem. She ran around the room hoping to find a pair of scissors. She finally found some in an old cardboard box in the corner. She cut out some thick bangs that covered her gem.

She walked out of the room in her new clothes and her new hairstyle and found Johnny sitting on the coach in the living room grinning to himself while watching a news report on a massacre in a local mall that had happened last night.

Johnny finally noticed her standing there and quickly turned off the TV. His eyes widened when he got a good look at her and a slight shade of red tinted his face, he hardly recognized her. He turned away quickly and stared at the floor. "So do you like them?" He said quickly

Raven was confused by his odd behavior but shrugged it off "Yeah, actually they're really great. I can't believe you had time to pick out an outfit like this all while slaughtering the store clerks at the same time."

Johnny chuckled "Well, I've had years of practice." Raven smirked and then sighed at that.

He stood up from the couch "…Well if you excuse me I have some "business" to attend to in the basement."

Raven didn't want to think of what that business might be. "I think I'm going to go out for a bit. I'll be back in a little while."

Johnny nodded and started walking towards the direction of the basement but just before he passed raven, he muttered quietly "…you really do look beautiful in that dress."

Raven froze. "He couldn't have really said that just now could he?" She blushed slightly and turned around to say something but he was already gone. She sighed

"Ah well, might as well go out." She walked out the door and started walking down the street.

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Starfire had finally tracked down the city that Johnny was supposedly residing in and was searching for anything that might give her a clue as to where he lived. She coughed as the heavily polluted air filled her lungs and burned her eyes.

"Maybe it's best if I walk for now." She said to herself and glided gracefully down to the sidewalk.

"This city is so horrible. I can't believe that such a place exists." She noticed that most the people here seemed to be just as filthy as the polluted air.

"Raven…how could you want to come to such a place? I have to find you and get you out of here." Starfire knew that when she had found Raven she would have to treat her as a criminal and not as a friend but she could not bring herself to completely believe Raven helped in the murder of Beastboy. She still considered Raven a close comrade. Tears began to swell up in her bright green eyes. "Raven…you couldn't have been any part of this, you couldn't have." She wiped away the tears and looked up at the sky. It was sunset now.

Starfire let out an exhausted sigh. "I might as well return home before it grows too dark." She lifted off and flew back towards Titan Tower.

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Raven had been roaming the city streets for what seemed like hours, the cloudy sky was dark now, the street lights were beginning to turn on and people were slowly disappearing off the streets. Raven continued walking at a slow steady pace, unsure of where her feet were taking her. Her thoughts roamed to pleasant thoughts of her and Nny and to unpleasant ones of her betrayal of her friends and the death, no, murder of one of them. Murder. That word seemed to flash in red in her head over and over. She shook her head and tried to concentrate on other things like the sounds of the city. That is when she noticed there seemed to be footsteps following behind her.

"…is someone following me?" She looked behind her to find a group of three thuggish looking guys following her and didn't seem like they were planning on leaving her alone. Raven wasn't naïve, she knew all too well what those guys were after. "Well, they are in for a hell of a surprise." She smirked to her self and purposefully turned into a dark alleyway so she would be cornered.

As she suspected, they followed her, two staying more towards the entrance, blocking anyway out and the middle one, most likely the leader came towards Raven. "Hey there baby, whad'ya doin in a place like this? Hows about ya come with us?" The leader's lackeys laughed and began to approach her.

"As if I'd want anything to do with scum like you." Raven glared.

"Heh, maybe this will change your mind…" The leader pulled out a switchblade and his followers did the same.

Raven smiled "I'm afraid I have something a bit more powerful then those" Raven's eyes glowed brightly and she began to lift a couple inches from the ground. The three thug's jaws dropped and hardly had time to react before a large burst of energy sent the leader flying and the other two slamming into the alleyways walls.

Raven floated back down quite pleased with herself. She looked down at the two thugs on the ground, they were moaning in pain. She was just about to leave when she heard a deep menacing sounding voice growl in her head "Kill theemmm." She thought she had just been hearing things but the voice spoke again. " I said, KILL them!! These bastards deserve to die for what they do…besides…you've already murdered one person, why not three more?"

Raven shook her head "Stop it, I didn't want to kill him and these people are bad but they don't deserve to die…"

There was a pause, and then the voice responded again. "…Fine…I see I must show you how foolish your silly morals are…" The voice disappeared and Raven contemplated what the voice had meant what the voice had meant but shrugged it off as nothing and focused her attention on the current situation

The leader who was now on the other side of the street from the alley entrance shakily stood up. "Y-you little b-bitch. What the hell are you? We were going to go easy on you but you've pissed me off. Get her!"

One of the thugs from behind her unexpectedly stood up and grabbed Raven from behind and pressed his switch blade firmly against her throat.

"I didn't expect him to get up so fast…oh well, doesn't matter." Raven closed her eyes and began to summon up her powers again; however, she found that she couldn't get anything to surface. Her eyes flew open in shock.

"W-what? What's wrong with me? Why can't I use my power? She started to panic as she found no matter what she did, her powers wouldn't return and the leader began to slowly make his way towards her.

The leader laughed "What's the matter little witch? Can't use any of your hexes?" He brought out his blade and quickly slashed her right arm. Raven winced. "Oh yeah, I'm gonna enjoy this…"

The other thug on the ground finally rose and the leader directed each of the thugs to take one of her wrists and pin them against the alley way. The leader then began ruthlessly slashing at her, making shallow cuts on her face arms, legs and torso. He occasionally threw in some punches and kicks to her stomach. Her cries only seemed to please her tormentors all the more. This torture continued until Raven was dyed red with her own blood.

Raven's vision began to blur, she was shaking and breathing heavily and her body stung all over. She could barely make out the cruel leader's voice.

"Alright boys, enough of that, we don't want her to die yet, whad'ya say we see what's under these clothes eh?" The thugs hooted vulgarly as The leader stuck the blade at the neck of her dress and began slashing downwards.

Raven closed her eyes, awaiting the humiliating fate about to befall her when she heard the leader make a gasp and then make a pained cry. She looked up to see the leader wide eyed with a blade sticking out of his stomach. The blade was pulled out and the leader fell to reveal Johnny C. standing behind him with a look of outraged anger on his face. The two other thugs quickly released Raven and she collapsed to the ground, her eyes closed. They began to runaway, completely terrified of the man that stood before them.

"Cowardly Bastards" Johnny muttered before throwing one of his blades sharply into the back of one of the thugs heads and then ran towards the other, blade in hand and tackled him to the ground, stabbing him multiple times in the back until he stopped moving completely.

Johnny stood up, covered in the thug's blood and rushed over to Raven.

He took off his trench coat and wrapped her in it. He gently picked her up supporting her back and legs carrying her close to his chest. He walked at a steady but quick pace. She slowly turned her head up to look at her rescuers face.

"…Nn…Nny?" Her voice was barely a whisper.

"Shhh, Don't talk, its okay now. Just relax and don't move. I know it hurts, just hold on, we're almost home." His voice sounded full of concern and worry and she noticed his pace quickened. She turned her head towards the side again and felt her eyes grow heavy and her body grow numb. She let her eyes close and fell into a deep sleep.

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And that's chapter 12! Whad'ya think? I haven't written in a loooong time so I hope it was ok. Reviews as always are loved, until next time!!!