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"No" Ravenie said sharply.

"Huh?" Jake turned to look at her like she was crazy.

"What do you mean?" Nightwing asked his daughter firmly.

"I meant no, there is no time to make another plan, all this while I'm sure Lise is scared and weak and her son could be dying, no...we'll just have to go as it is- we can't risk more time."

"We can't risk getting OURSELVES caught." Jake told her, grabbing her wrists firmly.

"Jake is right." Nightwing told his daughter firmly "If you get caught it'll just make it more difficult for us."

The titans all nodded in agreement. Even Jinx and Kid Flash.

With Creak and Allison...

"Who- who are you?" Lise asked scared, she'd just woken up from the unconciousness Creak's torture had left her in.

"You don't want to know..." Creak told her with a cruel smile.

"Wh-where is my son?" Lise asked, scared more than ever now.

"Right beside you." Allison said lazily, playing with a remote.

"What's that for?" Lise asked fearfully, her eyes falling on the remote.

"Pity you asked." Creak told her softly, dangerously.

With that, Allison pressed the button on the remote, Lise began to toss and turn and roll on the floor with pain, her whole inside felt like it was on fire.

"Stop it! Stop it!" she screamed "Please stop it! Please!"

"Well..." said Creak, still with a cruel smile on his face "Since you said please..."

The pain ended. Lise layed sprawled on the floor, panting, trying to catch her breath while aching all over.

Just then, she heard other rasping noises beside her and a faint cry.

She glanced, horrified at her son, who seemed unable to breath, who was choking before her very eyes.

"Please!" she yelled at her captors desperately "Please! He's just a baby! Just a baby! He needs the hospital! Please! Let him go free!"

"Ah...I don't think so..." Creak said softly, cruelly.

Lise, desperate, threw herself at Creak's feet imploring.

"Please!" she said "Take me! Kill me! Torture me! Do anything you want to me! Just- just please- please- let my son live."

"Get away filth" he spat at her, with a nod in Allison's direction, Allison punched the button and Lise began to get the unbearable pain once again.

The pain was so much it overwhelmed her, and, once again, she sank into a deep, troubled, unconciousness, leaving her son totally alone and unprotected...

Back with Jake and Ravenie...

"Ravenie, we can't go!" Jake told her anxiously.

"Yes we can, Jake" she told him shortly.

"It's too dangerous!" he pleaded with her.

"Look Jake, I'm sixteen, you're seventeen, we've been on the Justice League's program for five months now, I think we're ready." Ravenie told him.

"Yes Ravenie" he said furiously "We've been in the program for five months now and look where that's got us! Nobody knows but you and I but you know what Creak did to you, and no matter how hard I've fought him over the last few months, Creak has always overpowered me."

"What did Creak do to you?" Nightwing asked his daughter, concerned. Ravenie ignored her father.

"Are you suggesting, Jake, that I can't look after myself?" she asked him sharply.

"Ravenie, what I mean is that we already know you're vulnerable to his powers, and I can't even defend myself against him, let alone manage to defend you, Lise, the baby, and myself." Jake told her.

Ravenie stayed quiet.

"What if he uses you?" Jake told her softly, while caressing her face.

"What do you mean?" she asked him with tears in her eyes because, of course, by now, she knew what he meant, she also knew that he was right, and that Lise would have to wait.

"What if he puts you against me?" Jake asked her "Would you like me to die, Ravenie?"

"No!" Ravenie screamed, agitated from just thinking about it.

"Precisely." Jake nodded "Because Creak knows my weakness, he KNOWS I'd rather die myself than harm you Ravenie, he also knows I would die in order to protectyou, Ravenie, my love, and he's planning it all well, he wants me out."

"Listen to Jake, dear" Starfire told her daughter soothingly " He knows what he's talking about."

Ravenie embraced her mother.

Nightwing beckoned Jake to come forward to him.

Jake tensed, it would be the first time he would be alone wih Nightwing since he and Ravenie had had the first fight.

"Thank you" Nightwing told Jake quietly.

Jake was startled.

"What for?" he asked Nightwing.

"For making sure she stays safe."

"That's nothing, I love her, I want her to stay safe." Jake told Nightwing honestly.

"Yes, I know that." Nightwing told him seriously "And I'm glad my daugther has found such a good boyfriend in you."

"Thanks" Jake said, rather flattered by Nightwing's compliment.

"If there's anything I can ever do to repay you...just say it." Nightwing told him.

"Well..." Jake began "You don't really have to, but there's just one thing I do want to do, probably as soon as possible, and I'm going to need you and Aunt Starfire to approve first.

"Oh, Just say it dear," Starfire replied "Anything for you, anything."

Jake sighed, he'd thought about this over and over, some people might say they were too young but personally, he felt ready.

"I want to marry her." he told Nightwing and Starfire firmly, without a doubt in his voice or expression. He said this softly, careful so that Ravenie would not overhear him.

Then he winced, waiting for their outburst.

I didn't come.

"Yes," Nightwing said.

"Yes?" Jake asked amazed, he'd expected anything, ANYTHING, for them to yell, to scream, to say NEVER, but definitely not THIS.

"Yes I think you should." Nightwing told him "After all, she'll never find someone better for her than you,when this is all over, you are free to plan how you'll do this- of course, you'll need to wait at least a year- 'till Ravenie is of age."

"Of course sir," Jake replied automatically. He knew he was seventeen as well, he knew he still had six months to go before he was of age and Ravenie was one year younger than him, which meant he'd still have to wait about a year and a half to get married. Plus, he hadn't spoken to his parents about marrying her yet. He'd sort of expected Ravenie's parents to put up a bit more of a fight, convince them at the end, and THEN tell his parents.

"There's another thing Jake," Nightwing told him.

"Yes?" Jake asked his soon-to-be, father-in-law.

"What did you mean when you said Creak did something to Ravenie?" Nightwing asked him.

Jake sighed, it was a long and unpleasant story and he REALLY didn't want to think about it now.

"Would you mind if I told you that story another day, once Lise is back with us?" He asked Nightwing.

"Of course," Nightwing replied "That can wait, certainly."

"How's Kid Flash doing?" Jake asked his father once yrsaw him and walked over to him.

"Not good." Changeling said sadly.

"I expected as much, go on." Jake told his father

"Well, he and Jinx have fought so hard to stay together Jake, much like your mother and I, and then their sixteen-year-old daughter turns pregnant from a boyfriend they never approved of, and he dumped her as well, next the news about The Flash's death-"

Out of the corner of his eye, Jake saw Ravenie wince at that.

"-and now this" his father was saying "No, it's been too much on poor Wally..."

"So..." Jake asked "Have you caught the- person- who killed The Flash?"

"No" his father answered seriously "Although the Justice League say they're very close to finding who it is..."

"When I find who did that to my father I'll- I'll- I'll tear them to pieces, break those pieces apart and then set them on fire and dance round the fire!" Wally exclaimed.

Jake saw Ravenie retreat several steps from Kid Flash, her face a mixture of fear, guilt, and revulsion. Jake moved to stand beside her and hugged her comfortingly.

The chaos was only beginning though.

The moitors attatched to Starlight bega beeping furiously, faster than they'd ever beeped, everyone tensed, doctors and nurses rushed to help Starlight but the beeping carried on.

Suddenly, Jake began to get dizzy and his head began aching horribly.

He sat down on the hospital floor and closed his eyes, his hands in his forehead, and it was as though he'd closed everything else up too.

Suddenly, he was looking inside of Starlight's room, he could see the doctors and nurses all trying their very best to stabilize her but further on he could feel Starlight's pain, he could hear his sister's silent screams of agony.

It was all very strange seeing as he could still feel himself, sitting on the cold hospital floor. But at the same time he was connected to her, to Starlight.

'Jake help me!' she screamed 'Jake, make it end! I don't want to fight anymore! Make it end! My chest! It hurts too badly!'

The pain ended as suddenly as it had come and, with a gasp, he rushed back to reality.

Starligth's monitors had stopped altogether. The doctors stood around her looking dejected.

Raven threw herself on the hospital floor cryingas

"My baby! My poor, poor daughter!" and as others began to soothe her, as his father stroked her, tears falling down his normally dry eyes, as Ravenie grasped his hand firmly, Jake was only aware of one thing...

He had lost her. They all had. He'd lost his little sister...

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