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Chapter Twenty-One: Angry Is a Curse

Raven continued to stare up at the ceiling, there was a silence between them and the only noise that was heard was the sound of the heavy rain falling from the sky.

"Oh hey Rae, I've got another call, I'll call you later?"

"Oh… I'm tired Gar I think I'll pack and head to bed."

"Oh, alright… I'll pick you up at nine tomorrow. Night Rae."

"Night Gar." She said softly before hanging up the phone.

She sighed letting the phone slide out of her grasp, she was planning on packing but she couldn't find the energy to move. She wanted to stop feeling numb, she wanted to go back to that brief moment when she was happy… with Garfield, and he made all the pain she was feeling disappear.

Suddenly her door opened and a moment later there was a collapse just next to her and Charm was cuddled up beside her. She didn't say anything she just snuggled up against her. Raven turned her head slightly to look in her direction. "… You alright?"

"I've never stay in my bed alone for this long." She whispered. "Not since I was… not since before I met Irie… And Rich… And Gar."

Raven pulled the silk doona cover up over them so it came up to their chins. She pulled her sister into a hug, wrapping her arms around her. "Want to talk about it…?"

Charm titled her head back to look at her, she could barely see her face, Raven's night light gave off little light and it had the faintest purple tinge. "… You want to listen?"

"Yes."

"I don't remember much of my fake dad… now that I know he wasn't my real I guess I can kinda' understand why he didn't bother with me-"

"That's no excuse for him to have treated you the way he did." Raven snapped, tone irritated.

"Maybe." Charm said softly. "I miss having people around me… It's been a security thing even since I can remember… that's why Iris and Richard would always stay with me… back when I was ten it was Richard and Garfield… It wasn't a want to be the centre of attention… it was just feeling the warmth of others… I enjoyed it…"

Raven glanced down at her phone which was just behind Charm on the pillow, she reached out and took the phone into her hands while trying not to move Charm too much. "What was it like… with your dad?" She asked softly; while she quickly wrote a text message to Garfield which read, 'I know it might be hard but Charm needs us… both of us, can you come? Key is under the frog to the left of the door.'

"… I don't remember too much… I remember being hungry a lot… cold… The only thing that I could do besides sit in my room alone was play my mothers piano…He hated that…" She paused. "I remember walking in on his suicide…" Raven's grip on her sister tightened, without really meaning too. She didn't know she walked in on her father's suicide. "I had never seen so much blood… and all I could manage to do was scream." She glanced over towards the bookshelf that sat at the back wall of Raven's room, it was filled completely with books. "It was a neighbour that heard my screams and called the police." She balled her first around Raven's loose tank top. "The only good person in my life then was Iris. And when I was taken away from her and Arella took me in… The only people I had was Richard and Garfield."

"Were you and Garfield close?" Raven asked softly, feeling the need to change the subject because she felt tear drops on her arm.

She gave a small smile which fell in the darkness. "He's like my big brother, we fought a lot at times, especially when it came to Roy and Rich… But he always apologised, or I did. He's someone I never want to loose in my life."

"I don't think you will." Raven said softly.

"I thought the same about Isaiah and … Richard.." She sighed. "But look what happened there…"Raven stayed quiet at that, she didn't know what to say or if she could say anything at all. She was, on some level, right. They were both naive enough to think that nothing could ever come between them; fact is there were some things in life that could rip them apart.

"You know." She started with a whisper. "Garfield was always there for me even when he was mad at me and in the beginning sometimes I was really mean to him, I took him for granted. I hate myself for that…"

"No you didn't." Raven's door slide open, Garfield slipped into the room pulling off his shoes and jacket before climbing into the bed, wrapping his arms around Charm while Raven still had her in her arms. "You had your spats but so did I, I never took them seriously."

"Gar…" Charm said softly putting a hand on his arm, his skin felt like ice. "You're freezing…"

He chuckled lightly and pulled her closer to him so that her back was against his chest. "Well its cold out there. Not every day you get a call to come over at midnight."

"Its midnight?" Raven asked in a surprised tone, she didn't even bother looking at the time when she messaged him. "I'm sorry Gar."

"It's alright."

They had continued talking for a good half hour until Charm had fallen asleep between them, each still holding her securely. Raven looked across her and towards Garfield, a soft smile came to her lips. "Thank you for coming, Gar." She whispered.

"It's no problem at all." He answered giving her his lopsided grin.

"She really does think of you as her big brother." She whispered. "She speaks fondly of you."

"I love her too." Garfield chuckled lightly. Although Raven knew he meant in a family way she could help feeling the tiniest sting of jealously, Garfield must have caught on because he chuckled again before adding, "If I get my way, she'll be my sister in law."

Raven couldn't stop the blush and cursed silently to herself before mumbling. "Shut up."

Garfield laughed once again which cause Raven to shake her head at him. Charm groaned out in her sleep and both Garfield and Raven froze, she rolled over, although difficult, before cuddling up to Garfield's chest and returning to her deep slumber.

Raven waited for a moment longer, making sure Charm was defiantly asleep, before whispering. "Were your parents mad you left in the middle of the night?"

"I left a note." Garfield replied with a shrug.

"Gar-""Rae… It's fine." He cut her off quickly, his voice was low and seemed to have a dangerous edge to it. He moved his hand up and gently brushed Charm's hair out of her face. "I don't want to talk about me right now, my home problems aren't nearly as important as everything else."

Raven stayed silent but nodded her head, she figured Garfield's family was dysfunctional but she had never actually seen his parents, ever. She recalled that they didn't have any family photos on the wall, just spaces and nails where they once did hang.

"Rae." Garfield called softly. She lifted her head off the pillow slightly as if questioning a yes? "Did… did anything happen… between you and Malchior… that… that night?"

Raven was struck with fear, she was so glad that she had the cover of darkness otherwise he would have been able to read her like a book. And that wasn't a position Raven liked to be in, ever. She shut her eyes as tightly as she could and spoke slowly. "No. Nothing happened."

"Nothing?" She could hear the relief that came with that one word and she instantly hated herself for lying.

"Nothing…" She repeated softly. 'Slut' Malchior's voice sounded through her head.

"Night Rae." He yawned out, snuggling into a comfortable position.

"…Night Gar…" She whispered, moments later she hear heavy breathing, he was asleep already. "I'm so sorry…"

Raven shot awake in a heated sweat, gripping onto the sheets, her breathing was ridged and sweat fell from her brow. She looked to her right and saw Charm and Garfield fast asleep, cuddling up to each other and she gave a sigh of relief.

Sleep had come after a long battle with herself and once it had finally come to her, it was haunted with dreams of her father. She wiped at her brow with the back of her hand, swallowing hard.

"Shit." She growled out in frustration throwing her fists down onto the sheets, she had forgotten she was on the edge of the bed and accidentally threw her fist onto the wooden bed frame, setting off a loud bang.

Charm screamed as she sat up in a panic, trying to back away from the sound hysterically. Garfield awoke in a panic but still half asleep as he reached for Charm to calm her down. "Get away from me!" She screamed in a panic, her eyes were shut tightly as tears streamed down her cheeks.

Raven ignored the throbbing pain in her hand and scrambled to Charm, she reached for her hands. "Charm! It was just me I'm sorry!" She tried to yell over the screaming, it broke her heart seeing her sister this petrified, backing into the bed head the way she did. Raven grasped onto her hands pulling down on them. "Open your eyes! It's me, it's Raven!"

Charm worked up the courage to open her eyes, tears still streaming down her cheeks. Her eyes landed on Raven and Garfield and a few moments after that she realised she was in Raven's room. She pulled her hands from Raven before bringing her knees to her chest and wrapping her arms around her legs, crying uncontrollable into her knees.

Garfield gave a worried look towards Raven who returned his worry. "I'm so sorry." Raven whispered.

Charm shook her head, almost in a violent manner. "Ju… just leave me… for a minute." She said in between cries.

Raven moved forward to grab a hold of Charm's hands but Garfield grabbed onto her arm gently. "We'll go get some breakfast, we'll be back in five minutes."

She wanted to snap at him to keep out of it, but she couldn't. He gently pulled her off the bed and led her out of the door. Once her bedroom door had shut she pulled her arm from his grip. "What the hell do you think your doing?" She snapped.

"She needs a moment. Being around her will only set her off more." He kept his voice calm and collected. Somewhere during this whole thing Garfield had lost his comedic side; he hardly ever made jokes anymore and although sometimes they were annoying or lame, it was missed.

Raven's hands balled into a fist, she was angry… frustrated… upset. Suddenly she felt warmth around her left hand, her head snapped up to look at him. "You've hurt yourself, come on we'll get you healed up. We need to pack soon as well, I know you don't feel up to it but trust me okay."

Raven simply nodded, too emotionally drained to fight with him again. Garfield had made her and Charm eat some toast, once Charm had calmed down. Raven noticed Garfield stop and grab onto his shoulder or lean on something in pain, his wounds still hurt him. Raven had showered and dressed herself before making Charm do the same thing while she packed.

By nine past nine they had loaded their bags into Garfield's car and climbed into the car, Charm sat silently in the back, facing out the window with her sunglasses on. Raven sat in the front while Garfield got into the drivers seat. "You sure you're okay to drive?" She asked looking at him.

"Yeah I'm fine." Garfield answered as he pulled on his seatbelt. "We're a little behind so we'll just go okay?"

Raven rolled her eyes in irritation, she was just asking after all. "Yeah. Okay."

The car journey to Garth's was silent, Garfield didn't know that silence could be so deafening. Although his focus was on drive, he found himself glances at the two girls every now and then. Raven was reading a book with her feet propped up on the dashboard, chair leaned back slightly. Where as Charm stared out the window with her headphones in her ears. He mentally sighed, was this going to work?

Garfield pulled up to Garth's house to see someone waiting out the front, Raven lowered her book and looked out the window. "Is… is that Garth?" She deadpanned.

"I.. think… so." Garfield said slowly, he pulled the keys out of the ignition and opened the car door.

Garth was on the porch just out front of his house, he rested on his suitcase and from what they could see he was asleep. His hair had gotten longer, almost shoulder blade length now instead of his normal shaggy hair, he had let his facial hair grow too, his beard almost long enough to be called a beard.

The three of them walked up to him with confused looks on their faces, Garfield leaned forward and gently shook the teen. "Garth?"

Garth jumped awake, eyes flickering open in an instant. "Wooh." He groaned rubbing his eyes. "It's been awhile, guys."

Raven noticed the anger that flickered across Charm's face, she walked up to him in a determined way before whacking him across the shoulder. "It's been awhile, guys?" She repeated his words in a yell before hitting him once again, he flinched at her touch but other then that he didn't react. "You just cut me off! Hell you were the only person I actually texted and you just ignored me!"

He turned away from her. "I didn't want to talk to you."

The pain was clear on her face. "Why not?"

He shrugged lifelessly before rising to his feet, he grabbed onto his suitcase and made his way towards Garfield's car pushing passed Charm and Raven. Raven frowned as she turned to watch him walk the rest of the way. Charm started to cry but quickly covered her eyes with her arm, walking slowly to the car.

Raven turned slightly to look at Garfield. "Plans going great so far." She said coldly. She didn't want a reply, she just quickly walked after Charm.

Garfield groaned, slamming his palm into his forehead before sliding it down his face in frustration. If this didn't work out the way he had planned it in his head, Raven was surely going to blame him for making up the idea. He muttered to himself, making his way back towards the car.

He climbed back into the car and stuck the keys in the ignition, he took a glance around the car, Garth was in the front and Raven was in the back with Charm crying in her lap. Raven shot him a cold look before turning away and softly stroking Charm's hair.

Suddenly Garfield felt his phone vibrate in his pocket, he quickly dug down in and pulled it out, flipping it open. "Hello?" Raven watched as he groaned and put his head against the chair in annoyance. "Where are you? Yeah alright. Yeah I'm coming now." He hung up the phone and shoved it back into his pocket.

"What's wrong?" Raven deadpanned.

Garfield turned the keys as the engine roared to life. "Everything." He muttered putting the car into gear.

Raven decided to leave it for now, part of her was mad at him for doing this, but another part of her knew he was just trying to help. She glanced down at her sister who had buried herself into her lap, she could tell she was still crying by her irregular breathing. She hated seeing her sister this sad, she'd been through so much, was as strong as she could be, but life still screwed her over. She gently ran her hand along the back of her head and down her back, before re-doing it continuously.

She turned to look out the window, houses, cars, people, fences, they all passed by in a flash and she felt herself numb as her mind wondered towards her stomach; this had to be a secret she took to her grave. They'd all hate her if they found out, that much she knew.

She didn't want to keep thinking about the baby she'd lost but things just kept reminding her of what could have been. It had started off with movies on television or ads that had babies in them. She normally hated anything like that but now, once she saw one of those 'stupid movies' or ads she couldn't turn away; she simply fell into depression.

Suddenly Charm turned to look up from her through her tear filled eyes. "Are you alright?" She whispered, it was barley audible but Raven heard just fine.

Raven simply nodded. She couldn't tell. She wouldn't tell.

After a good twenty minutes of driving through streets the car came to a stop. "Stay here." Garfield muttered tugging his seatbelt undone. He opened the door and slammed it shut before making his way towards a house. Charm sat up and looked at the house, her colour had drained and Raven noticed. "What's wrong?"

She simply stared at the house silently, tears falling from her eyes. "It's Isaiah's house." Garth grunted from the front seat, his eyes were shut and the chair was tilted back slightly.

"Is it?" Raven asked moving into Charm's vision.

Charm slowly nodded her head. "It's his."

"Have you spoken to him at all?" She asked softly.

She looked away from the house sadly. "Once… he messaged me after Iris'…" She paused and shut her eyes tightly.

"Her funeral." Garth grunted once more. "She's dead, Charm. It was her funeral."

"I know that!" Charm yelled, her hands balled into fists. "If you blame me, Garth, by all means, don't hold back!"

"You want to get me started?" Garth growled turning around in the chair to face her.

"I don't see why not." Charm spat back.

"I blame you. You. Killed. Her." His tone was harsh and cold. "If she didn't care about you she'd still be alive!"

"I was shot, asshole! What about you? You left us. You walked out of the building! She couldn't have done anything with two wounded people!"

"You should have told her to give you up! He took you anyway! She didn't need to die! Why are you so selfish?"Charm stared at him with angry eyes. She pushed open the door and climbed out of the car in a huff. "Charm." Raven sighed quickly climbing out of the car.

Garth followed instantly, climbing out of the car and following her. "That's right, run off!"

She spun around and pointed her finger in front of his face. "Don't you dare! I beg her to leave me! I begged her to hide! She refused to listen to me!" She pushed into his chest, tears falling from her eyes. "I hate myself for letting her die!" She yelled before turning around quickly and running off.

"Real good, asshole, do you feel better now?" Raven scoffed, her arms were across her chest as she lent against the car.

"I told you to wait in the car!" Garfield yelled from Isaiah's doorway, he had Roy's arms behind his back as he held him out of the house.

"That would have been good if Garth wasn't such an ass!" Raven growled in reply, pushing off the car with her foot which had been propped up against it.

"Back off bitch, all this is really your fault." Garth muttered.

"That's it!" Garfield yelled pushing Roy into the front yard. "You get into Victor's car!" He growled pointing at Garth who shrugged and made his way towards Victor's car, he turned to look at Roy but he was already walking off. "Where are you going?"

"To get Charm." He grunted in reply without looking back.

Raven felt the sting from Garth's words, her father even said the same thing, none of them needed to get hurt if she had just given herself up like she was supposed too. Iris deserved to be here, not her. She was a disgusting person.

Garfield placed his hands on either side of her arms which caused her to jump in surprise. "Don't listen to Garth, he's just sad."

"He's right though." Raven said, her tone distant. "If I had just dealt with my problems, Iris wouldn't have died." She didn't want to hear an answer, she pulled out of his grasp and opened the car door, slamming it shut behind her.

Garfield sighed heavily, this was starting to feel like the worst idea he'd ever had. He had been shot, too. He had almost died, too. He had a tougher recovery then most. But the thought of his friends made him never want to give up. The thought of these people made him push himself into doing things that he would have found too difficult.

But it was Raven that made it worth getting out of bed for since they all started hating each other. She gave his life purpose. He couldn't imagine living if he had lost her that day, he couldn't imagine being in Garth's situation. He loved Raven. He loved her from the moment he crashed into her. She was beautiful, smart, had a harsh wit to her and her eyes were breath taking.

"Yo' man, you take Roy, I'll take Isaiah and Richard and put one in the front of the car, one in the back." Victor called out bringing Garfield back to reality.

"Yeah. Sure." Garfield sighed rubbing his temples with his index fingers. "You've got Garth too, he's not coming back into this car."

"Right." Victor nodded making his way towards his car, keys in hand.

Roy ran towards her as soon as she came into his view, she was sitting on the ground hunched over herself, clearly crying. He crashed to his knees once he reached her and pulled her into a hug.

"I'm so sorry." Charm cried gripping onto Roy's arms tightly. The chilly wind had picked up once again, blowing leaves around them.

"Nothing to be sorry for." Roy replied softly, he stroked her hair gently as he held her for as long as she needed.

"I… I killed Irie…" She cried. "She trusted… she trusted me and…"

"Hey…" Roy whispered as she broke down hard, his grip on her tightened. "That's not true and you know it." He pulled her back so he could get a good look at her. "I'm always here if you need me. But right now we need to get back into the car and out of the wind."

"Why…"

"Because you'll catch a col-"

"Why do you still love me?" She interrupted looking into his eyes through her tear-filled ones.

He stared at her, her face had gone all puffy from crying and her hair was a mess but he still smiled. "Come on." He said softly pulling her into his arms.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her face into his chest, it hurt his wound to carry her, but she needed it and he'd do anything for her. It was true that Terra had been his first love, hell he even still did love her, she was special to him but there was something about Charm that made him love her more.

But he knew that she would always love Isaiah and him, her; even if things between them was strained. That was mostly his fault. He started this in hopes he could be with her instead, but that was selfish of him. He hated his self for that.

Garfield was standing at the car waiting for them to come back, Raven had stayed in the car, book in front of her face. "You okay?" He called out as soon as Charm and Roy came into view.

"Yeah." Roy answered hoisting Charm up more in his arms to get her into a better position. "Open the door."

Garfield nodded and did what was asked. "Thanks for going after her." He said softly.

Roy gently placed Charm in the car next to Raven, he then shut the door and turned to look at Garfield. "I'm just glad I can say she's not as light as she was when she stopped eating."

"We need to make this better, Roy." Garfield sighed, leaning against his car in exhaustion.

"I know." Roy replied. "I'm over all this fighting."

"If I don't make this work, Rae will blame me for it…" He paused and pulled open his car door. "I'll be two seconds, girls." He said before shutting the door and pulling Roy away from the car.

Roy was confused as Garfield led him away from the car. "You right mate?"

"Yeah. I need this to work because…" He dug into his pocket before pulling out a small felt box.

"Whoa man, you popin' the question to Rae?" Roy asked in shock, eyes widening at the small box.

Garfield nodded goofily pulling open the box to reveal a lovely ring, it had a silver band, and a large diamond in the middle before many tiny diamonds along the sides of the ring until it stopped half way. The pattern along the side of the ring was veins until the pattern seemed to come off the ring make four veins along the middle of the ring. It had Raven's style written all over it.

"Mate congratulations." Roy grinned holding out his hand for Garfield.

Garfield closed the box before placing it back into his pocket, he then took Roy's hand and shook it firmly. "Thanks." He said, relief all over his tone. "I've been wanting to tell someone for ages now! But we're all so screwed up right now that I haven't been able too."

"It's a good thing, mate. You should go with your heart." He smiled, releasing his hand.

"Come on, we have a long drive ahead of us." Garfield grinned turning towards the car.

The car ride had been silent, Charm slept on Raven's lap while she read her book. Roy flicked through the radio stations and looked out the window while Garfield drove. After two hours Roy drove for a bit before Garfield continued two hours after that. The house wasn't far off now and Garfield was praying that this all worked out in the end because he needed this to work out for him.

He loved Raven and he wanted to make her his. Life was too short to screw away, Iris taught him that. More then anything he wanted them to stop fighting for Iris' sake, she couldn't live anymore so it was up to them to live for her.

"We're here." Garfield sighed pulling into his holiday house.

Victor and Karen's cars sat out front of the log-built house, it was large but also incredibly cute. It sat on a slight hill, surrounded by trees and down below was a large lake; not too far away was the local shops but other than that there wasn't much else around.

The sun was starting to set for the night giving off an orange tinge in the remaining light. It had taken almost all day to drive here and Garfield was tired. He parked the car and then pushed open his door to stretch his legs, the others following his lead.

"Let the fun begin." Raven muttered as she stood up and stretched.

"Little less sarcasm please." Garfield groaned hitting his head lightly on the top of his car.

"Whatever." She replied moving for her bag.

Charm and Roy were already waiting for the boot to be popped so they could get their bags, Garfield pushed the button and the boot flew open. They each grabbed their bags and made their way for the house.

The house seemed quiet as Garfield reached for the door handle, he was hoping this was the start of some good progress to fixing 'them'. But as soon as he pushed open the door he could hear yelling. He sighed and threw his bag next to the door before entering.

"Forget it." Richard growled moving away from Kori. "I'll stop trying to talk to you." He made his way towards the door in a huff but as soon as his eyes landed on Charm he backed up instantly. "Shit." He muttered turning sharply and heading for the other direction.

Charm frowned and threw her bag near Garfield's. "I'm not going to god dam die if you touch me Richard!" She yelled, she reached to grasp onto his hand but he moved it too quickly.

"Don't." He said sharply.

"You don't have the touch of death." Isaiah scoffed towards Richard.

"Don't yell at him, he's allowed to feel cautious." Terra got to her feet to yell. "So leave him alone!"

"Oh like you were really there Terra." Charm growled.

"Shut up bitch." Terra hissed. "Yeah maybe I wasn't there when you let your father shoot your best friend to death."

"Iris did what she did, don't blame Charm for that." Isaiah spoke.

Raven lent against the wall with her arms folded firmly across her chest, head down and eyes shut, although that didn't stop her from hearing the yelling match that had broken out. All that built up angry had just exploded… again.

"You have no right, none!" Garth yelled at Isaiah, moving towards him to get in his face.

"Don't start." Charm growled giving a pull on Isaiah's arm.

Isaiah pulled his arm out of her grasp harshly. "You don't get to tell me what to do." He hissed.

"Back to being an ass to her are you?" Roy growled, defending her instantly.

"Shut the hell up, Roy." He shot back instantly.

"Why don't you make me?" Roy retorted.

"Real mature." Richard growled, making his way furthest away from Charm.

"And you can talk about 'maturity' can you, Richard?" Charm spat.

"Ya'll need to calm down." Victor said quietly.

"Oh shut up! You weren't even at school so of course you can be laid back!" Terra yelled once more, her hands were balled into fist and her face was red.

"Yelling isn't going to help." Garfield spoke up from his seated position on the lounge.

"Garfield's right." Karen added softly, using her index fingers to rub her temples.

"Yelling sure as hell makes it a little easier to feel bloody human." Richard leant up against the wall with his arms folded. "You can't force us together after everything we've been through and expect everything to be fine."

"Shouldn't that make us closer together?" Charm murmured.

"Like you need to get closer to anyone else, slut." Terra hissed from her position back on the lounge, legs up against her chest as she hugged them.

"This coming from the queen of sluts." Charm growled. "I know about you and Garth so get off your high horse."

"You slept together?" Roy practically yelled, turning towards his ex-girlfriend.

"Who told you that?" Terra yelled getting up from her seat.

"…" The words were there but it hurt. "…Iris." She strained.

"Don't you go judging me, Roy." Terra said. "You slept with her." She sneered pointing at Charm. "But the difference is, Roy, I'm not in love with Garth. You are so hopelessly in love with her your still hoping she'll love you back."

"Go to hell, Terra." Roy retorted.

She smirked at this. "You didn't even get to be her first."

Charm moved in front of her in seconds, lifting her hand up before throwing it down and slapping the blonde. "Shut up!"

"How do you even know that?" Roy asked through gritted teeth.

She lowered her hand which had cupped her throbbing cheek and placed it onto her hip. "Jinx accidentally let it slip one day that Charm and Richard got together for a very long weekend.

Charm released a harsh breath, tears welled up in her eyes, dam it, again a secret of hers came to the surface. She turned to look at Kori who stood behind them, her hands were in tight fists and tears were visible. "Kori… It was ages ago." Charm spoke, her tone was both disheartened and desperate.

"It was before we were together." Richard added in a small voice.

"I'm so… I'm sorry." Charm whispered moving towards her.

Kori pushed her away from her instinctively, she stumbled backwards, slipping and crashing down onto the glass table, and the sound of it shattering filled the room as it smashed into pieces. "I wish it was you that had died instead of Iris!"

Everyone froze at that, Kori's hands instantly went up to cover her mouth and her eyes went wide. Charm stared up at Kori, the tears visible in her eyes. No one spoke while they stared at the situation, too shocked to do anything. Charm balled her hands into fists, feeling the glass crunch into her skin, she pushed off the ground and ran for the door, slamming it shut behind her.

And even through all the fighting that had happened, Richard, Garth and Roy each gave a look to one another before turning to look towards Isaiah; he simply nodded and followed after her.

"Mistakes happen, Kori, the past is the past. I'm sorry that it hurts you now, but you shouldn't have said that." Richard spoke with a solemn shake of his head.

"I didn't…" Kori's head dropped and she stared at the ground, tears streaming down her cheeks; fists balled. "You always pick her over me!" She suddenly yelled before running out of the room.

"Kori!" Richard sighed following after her instantly.

"You can go to hell and stay there, Terra." Roy muttered as he passed the blonde to head for the door.

"Where are you going?" Raven finally spoke up after staying completely silent.

"Out." He muttered once again, pulling open the door.

"You can all go to hell." Terra spat exiting the room.

"I need air." Garth sighed, heading for the back door.

"So far so good, hey Gar." Raven said sarcastically.

"Would you just stop!" Garfield yelled getting to his feet. "You have done nothing but say smart ass remarks about everything I've been trying to do! At least I've tried to do something. You! You on the other hand have done nothing useful! Besides bitch and complain! I mean my god Raven! Haven't you tired of being heartless?" He saw the look that crossed her features and he knew he'd accidentally gone too far. "Rae, I'm-"

"Save it, Garfield." She snapped turning sharply on her heels and exiting the room without another thought.

"Little harsh man." Victor sighed from his seated position on the lounge.

"Oh shut up." He growled leaving in another direction.

Karen sat on Victor's lap a little blankly, the glass from the table was in thousands of pieces on the floor, blood splatters here and there, from Charm's hands they were guessing. She turned to look back at Victor. "You have no idea… how much… no how grateful I am, you weren't there when this happened. I don't think I could have handled loosing you. Hell I don't know what I'd do if you lost some of your sanity like they have. You're my everything, Victor, I love you so much. Thank you. Thank you for staying with me that day."

Victor smiled, he lifted his hand and gently ran it down her cheek; he loved this woman. "Thank you, for asking me."

She moved towards down towards him, closing the gap between them before her lips gently touched his. He put his arm around her neck, pulling her closer to deepen the kiss.

Raven ran a hand through her loose hair, last night had been difficult, to say the least. She hadn't spoke to anyone, locked herself in a room and tried to sleep. She needed a cup of herbal tea to sooth the headache she had received from all the yelling, well at least they were talking… sort of.

She lazily flicked the switch on the kettle before leaning on the bench and sighing heavily. She wasn't sure if she was at the point of regretting this whole idea, but it was sure getting close. She reached up and clenched a handful of her hair in frustration, these people could be so stubborn when they wanted to be. She wasn't even sure where half of them were at this current time.

Knock knock.

Raven lifted her head in surprise, was that the door? It was six thirty five in the morning. She slowly released her hair letting it fall back before heading for the door. She slowly turned the door knob and pulled open the door,

She sighed in frustration, was she hearing things? No one was there. She turned to shut the door before something caught her attention, a piece of paper was stuck to the door. She pulled it off and turned it over to read it; her eyes went wide and her grasp on the paper faltered as it slowly floated to the ground.

"No…"