Hello, people. As always, thank you for the reviews! The date in this chapter is Monday, July 31, 2022. Also, I found the French translations at Dictionary (dot) com's translator. And... yeah, that's pretty much it. Read on!
---Jaime
Disclaimer: I don't own a lot of things, one of them being the show "Teen Titans".
Ch. 21: Healing
Raven and Logan took a day off from work so that they could spend another night with the Titans. Currently, the couple were sitting in the main room, along with everyone else in the Tower. Kimi and Starfire were in the kitchen cooking lunch, Sebastian and Andrew were watching their dads play a video game, and Rune was by the window reading. James was by the window looking out at the bay, Raven and Logan were sitting on the couch doing nothing, and Selina was watching Kimi and Starfire cook. Covyll and Changeling were on the ground behind the couch, playing with Yuho.
Rune inconspicuously looked over the top of her book at James, who was simply staring absently, seemingly deep in thought.
'I wonder why he doesn't speak? Do you think he's mute?'
No, I think that Nightwing and the others would have toldyou if he was. Maybe he just...doesn't have anything to say?
'Maybe, but what about yesterday, when we went to the movies and Covyll kept hitting on his sister? James looked ready to kill, at that point. Shouldn't he have, you know, started yelling at Covyll to back off?'
True, but maybe it's a personal thing. Don't worry about it so much; you'll figure it out eventually. So, you've got a mantra, right?
'Yeah, I do. "Nalthos Solen Lyrisnor". My mom won't tell me what it means, though. She said I have to figure it out on my own.'
Cool mantra. You should meditate, later today.
'How the hell do you meditate, and why should I?'
Because meditating will help you control your powers, so you should get used to it. Besides, it can help calm you down. And it passes the time. You should try it!
'You sound like you're speaking from experience. Wait- How can you know about meditating, when I don't?'
Um... I was just making some lucky guesses.
After a moment, Rune noticed that she was still staring at James. And he was staring back at her, one eyebrow raised in question.
'Ah! Stop staring, Rune, and just keep reading!' She yelled at herself. She looked away and hid behind her book once more. James continued to stare at her for a moment, then looked back out at the bay.
Over on the couch, Nightwing just lost a race to Cyborg, who was currently doing his victory dance with Andrew.
"So, Nightwing," Raven started, standing up and facing the leader of the team, "who's idea was it to use my daughter as bait on a mission, hm?" Her glowing white eyes glared at Nightwing, while her hands become surrounded with black energy.
"Changeling! It was all Changeling's idea!" Nightwing said, looking nothing less than freaked.
Changeling, having heard his name, stood up to see who was talking about him. But then he caught sight of an angry Raven, and decided that itwould bebetter if he ran for his life.
"GAH! No, Raven don't be mad! We brought her back safe and sound, didn't we?" He yelled, while his former team mate tried to attack him. Everyone looked on in interest, not bothering to help Changeling or stop Raven.
"'Safe and sound', you say? She could've been raped, you idiot! You better hope I never catch you, 'cause if I do, I swear I'll-!"
"But it wasn't my fault!" he argued, running in circles around the couch. "I just said, 'Let's use someone for bait', then Nightwing said, 'Let's use Rune'. Cyborg and Starfire agreed! I tried to tell them that you would kill us, but they didn't listen!"
Raven was now glaring at each one of the adult Titans in turn. "Is that true?"
"Yes! It's the truth! Don't kill me!" Changeling said, turning into a parakeet and flying over to hide behind Rune.
Raven's hands were covered in black energy, which resembled fire in the way that it was moving, and she was smirking sinisterly at her former team mates.
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Raven sat back down on the couch next to Logan, a satisfied smile playing on her lips. Sebastian, Covyll, Andrew, Kimi, and Selina were all staring at her in horror, shocked at what she could do. Rune and James, however, decided to hide their suprise, as well as to never get on Raven's bad side.
"Don't you think that was a little...harsh?" Logan asked, though not really caring; it was fun to watch.
"You wanna be next?" Raven threatened.
Logan immediately hugged her tightly and said, "Have I told you how much I love you recently? Because I am your kind, loving husband, whom you would never want to maim or injure in any way...right?" Raven laughed.
A few minutes later, Nightwing, Starfire, Cyborg, and Changeling all walked back into the main room, sporting bruises and cuts, as well as being sore all over. Raven had taught them their lesson, and made them promise to never use Rune as bait without her consent ever again.
"You guys done learning?" Raven asked. They all nodded. "Good. Now come here, Starfire first." They all watched in amazement as Raven's hands began to glow a shimmering light blue color, then as she healed the wounds she had inflicted one by one.
A few minutes later, she was done with all of them.
"Wait. First you try to kill them, then you heal them? Why does that not make any sense?" Sebastian asked.
"I healed them because if the Titan alarm goes off today or tomorrow, and they're still beaten up by me, then it's my responsibility to go beat the bad guy. I don't want to do that by myself, so I healed them. Besides, it's cruel to leave them in pain like that," Raven explained.
"Oh."
Half an hour later, everyone sat down at the table to eat lunch. The seating was as follows: Nightwing, Starfire, Cyborg, Sebastian, Andrew, Kimi, Covyll, Raven, Logan, James, Selina, and Rune. Everyone began eating the carefully prepared chicken and rice soup (Changeling's was made speacial, with tofu instead of real chicken). Everyone except James, who looked at Selina first. She nodded to him with a small smile, and he began eating.
What was that all about?
'I have no idea.'
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After lunch, Kimi and Andrew began annoying Covyll and Sebastian in French again. Raven and Logan went into the meeting room with the other adults to talk about a few things in private. Rune was having a conversation with Selina, who was steadily getting over her shyness. James wasn't anywhere to be seen, so everyone assumed he had gone to his room.
"Gah! Just tell us what you are saying! Speak English already!" Covyll yelled.
"Plllllleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaassse?" Sebastian begged.
"Au cas où nous?" (Should we?) Kimi asked Andrew. The two smirked at each other. "Non!" (No!) They said simultaneously.
"Covyll est un vrai âne de cric, n'est-ce pas?" (Covyll is a real jack ass, isn't he?) Andrew said. Kimi laughed.
"Ah! What did you say about me?" Covyll demanded.
"Rien! Rien! Rien du tout! Eh he he," (Nothing! Nothing! Nothing at all!) Kimi said, holding her hands up defensively.
Sebastian sighed. "Fine, fine. I give up. It's obvious you don't want us to listen in on your conversation, so, I give up."
"I will never give up! Fight the power! Down with Andrew!" Covyll yelled. "Ah, bloody hell! I will find out what you're saying if it kills me!"
"...I pensent qu'il lui est perdu," (I think he's lost it) Andrew said. Kimi nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile, with the sane people...
"So, how old are you, Selina?" Rune asked. Selina and her were sitting on the couch in the main room, the former petting Yuho gently.
"I'm fifteen," she replied. "How old are you?"
"Seventeen. And what about your brother?"
"He's sixteen. Um... do you have any powers?"
"Not that I'm aware of, but my mom says I should get them soon, if I have any. What about you and your brother? What can you guys do?"
"Well... I... I can..." Suddenly, Selina faded away into nothing, and Rune could no longer see her.
"Ah!" Rune looked around for a minute, then she felt a hand on hers.
"It's okay. I did it on purpose." Selina reappeared, a small smile on her face. "See?"
"...Woah. That was...really cool," Rune said, still shocked that Selina could be invisible.
"I can also do other things..."
"Like what?"
"Well... I can defy the laws of gravity," Selina said softly, "a-and I can cut things with my claws." She held up her hand for emphasis, and Rune inspected her razor-sharp claws in awe.
"Awesome. Is yellow your real eye color, or are those contacts?"
"Yes. I was born with these eyes, and James's are also natural. Um... Did you dye your hair?"
"Nope. Did James?" Selina shook her head. "Cool. Oh! You never told me what powers he has."
Selina looked a little nervous. "U-um... James doesn't really... I don't think he would like... He doesn't..."
"It's okay. You don't have to say anything; if he doesn't want us to know yet, then that's fine." Selina nodded, and smiled a shy smile.
Back with the crazy people, Covyll was fighting with Andrew, while Kimi and Sebastian watched, laughing their heads off.
"Je ne veux pas vous blesser," (I don't want to hurt you) Andrew said warningly, a small smirk on his face.
"Oh yeah? Well right back at you, buddy! I'm going to hurt you so badly-!"
Andrew sighed. "Peut-être vous devriez prendre une classe française?" (Maybe you should take a French class?) He suggested.
"What'd you just call me?" Covyll demanded. Kimi cracked up laughing. "That's it, I've had it!"
Covyll held out his hand, and a small river of water floated around his fist. He then directed the water so that it was floating around Andrew. When Andrew was completely surrounded by water, he froze it into an egg shape.
"Heh. That should hold him for a while," Covyll said, smirking triuphantly. Andrew was banging on the ice, yelling something that no one could hear. After a few minutes, he started shivering and, his breath could be seen clearly.
"Hey, Covyll? How cold is it in there?" Kimi asked.
"Um, about fourty-nine degrees Fahrenheit. Why?"
"What?" Kimi exclaimed. She quickly walked over to the ice prison and placed her hands on it. "Hold on, this'll just take a second." In the blink of an eye, her hands lit on fire and began melting the ice. A minute later, there was a large puddle on the floor, and an equally large hole in the ice. Kimi and Sebastian pulled Andrew out, and the former helped him warm up.
"T-th-that-t w-was-s r-rre-reall-ly c-col-d," Andrew said, hugging Kimi for warmth.
"Yes! You're speaking in English! I win!" Covyll cried out, doing a victory dance in joy.
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Later that night, after Mr. and Mrs. Falle left for home and everyone went to sleep, Sebastian went to the main room to get a drink. He didn't bother turning on the lights, because he didn't want to wake anyone up. Besides, he could see well enough.He opened the refrigerator door and got himself a glass of orange juice, then closed it and faced the counter.
"Meow!"
"Ah!"
SPLOSH! SHATTER!
Sebastian sighed, then glared at Yuho, who was sitting innocently on the counter top.
"Don't sneak up on people like that!" He said. Yuho just jumped to the ground and began rubbing against Sebastian's legs, purring happily. "Okay, give me a minute and I'll take you back to Rune," he said, walking away to get the broom.
After the mess was cleaned up, Sebastian grabbed Yuho and went off to Rune's room. He was about to knock, when he heard her talking.
"-quiet and let me try it out, then we'd know... No, I am not! ...Yes, it will hurt, but that doesn't matter. I just want to test- Uhg. Stop talking! Sadness, this isn't your or anyone else's fault. Fear, shut up! It'll hurt, but so what? And Smarty, I know it's not a good thing to do to myself, but I want to try it. Okay? Good! Geeze..."
Instead of knocking, Sebastian simply opened the door to see who Rune was talking to. But rather than seeing other people, he saw Rune sitting on her bed with a knife, about to cut her right arm.
"Ah! Rune, wait!" She turned and saw Sebastian drop Yuho and run into her room, taking the knife away from her.
"What are you doing?" She asked monotonously.
"That's my line! What are you doing with a knife? Are you a cutter or something? What's gotten into you? When did this start? Why are you doing this? Was it something I said? Is it my fault? Talk to me, Rune!" He said very quickly.
Rune blinked a couple of times, then smirked. "I never knew you though so lowly of me."
"Wha-?"
"I am not a cutter. I never have been, I never will be. Nothing has 'gotten into' me, you didn't say anything, and it's not your 'fault'."
"Then what the hell are you doing?"
"I'm testing something."
"What, your blood?"
Rune held her hand out for the knife, waiting patiently. Sebastian narrowed his eyes at her suspiciously for a moment, then reluctantly let her have it back. She held the knife over her arm again and cut. A second later, blood began seeping out of it. She put the knife down and held herleft hand over the wound she inflicted. Sebastian watched as she closed her eyes and began to concentrate. He wasn't sure what she was doing, but he had to admit, her hand looked really cool covered in shimmering silver energy.
"Woah! Rune, how did you do that?" Rune opened her eyes and saw exactly what she had expected; the cut was gone.
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---Later!