Chapter 2
Damian stood with arms crossed before the screen. A medley of people stood in the room with him. His father, Grayson, Zatanna Zatara. Jon and his father as well. Victor Stone stood at a computer screen monitor keeping an eye on her. Applying various tests on her.
"99% match with DNA, only some epigenetic differences," the half-robotic man stated. "She's about 15 years old. Physical features are almost 80% match with some height differences. All in all...it is her. It is Raven."
Damian watched as Dicks face became a swirl of emotions. Grief, regret, relief and many others.
He knew the story of Raven. He read it in the Titans database files and he had asked Dick himself on multiple occasions.
They had been tricked into isolating her by a fake hero who went by Silvercross. She had used psychological tactics to make everyone become bitter towards Ravens darkness. Eventually everyone began to distance her and then she went missing.
The team had broken up after she had gone missing because of Dicks unbeatable grief. They hadn't actually found out about Silvercross until Jynx and The Flash had called saying she had tried to distance the speedster from the pink haired witch. Jynx had forced her to come clean. Dick put two and two together after that. Still, the woman claimed to not be the cause of Raven's disappearance .
No one believed her but in the end there was no evidence. Raven had never been found and Silvercross had gotten away scot free, no consequences.
Dick had resigned himself to the fact that Raven was gone. She had never been found. Not a single trace of her had even been found.
Well, that is until now.
When Damian walked out of the building with her in his arms, Nightwing , Batman, Superman and Zatara and Constantine had been waiting with him.
The moment Dick saw the purple hair, he sprinted into action. He was shocked but he wasted no time getting her to safety. That's where they were now.
Safe.
"She has a scar on her belly and back," Victor continued. "Entrance and exit scars. She was shot...that was the cause of death."
Dicks face continued to fall. His guilt became stronger.
"What are we to do with her?" Zatanna asked.
Damian knew the fight was about to start. Zatana was completely against raven. She always had been. The woman wasn't convinced that the girl sleeping on the hospital bed wasn't an evil entity. She was convinced it was Raven but she was adamant her revival was a signal of doom.
Dick knew this and had really wanted to not involve her but he was advised against it by his father.
"We are going to wake her up and see what she remembers," Victor said looking directly at the magician. "Signal of doom or not, she's still our friend. She is still our Raven."
Damian ignored the room as the adults began to argue. He was pretty sure something sinister had indeed revived her but he was also sure that she was not sinister or dark.
He couldn't explain it but he knew she was still a good person.
"Even you admit that you can't feel any hint of trigon influence!" Dick yelled. "So why are you so adamant about keeping her comatose? "
Damian looked back at Zatara. He wondered the same.
"She's still a demon spawn," she said looking directly at Dick. "You've always been distracted by your friendship with her and you ignore her heritage. Demons are demons but I know it's futile to try and stop you. When this explodes in your face, don't say I didn't warn you."
She left in a huff, Constantine behind her.
Damian rolled his eyes. Zatana Zatarra was a prissy goody two shoes. She didn't like him either because of his Al Ghul blood. So much so she refused to let Zachary join his team. Not his loss but it was still annoying.
"I'm gonna stop the drip," Victor announced as he stopped the medications, keeping her unconscious.
Dick was getting more anxious as the minutes passed.
"It's gonna be okay," Victor told the first of the Robins. " Once she wakes up we can talk to her. See what she does remember. She's going to be okay."
Damian hoped she had regained some memories but he sincerely doubted she would. He just had a feeling.
Damian looked at the girl as she began to stir.
She looked like the picture in Dicks database but she did look younger. Smaller and underweight but it was hair. Her hair was longer too and he felt that it suited her. She was very pretty, Damian had to admit. Purple hair, pale almost grey skin. Her eyes had been a cross between blue and purple. They were mystical.
Soon those very eyes started fluttering and she was coming back into consciousness.
Dick and Victor were at her side immediately which Damian knew right away was not going to be a good idea.
...
The first thing she saw when she woke up was the lights and then it was two men standing above her.
She knew that the normal reaction should have been fear but she was mostly just weary. Nothing in the room screamed danger to her. It just seemed unfamiliar. Different.
Everything was unfamiliar and different now that she thought about.
"Raven," the handsome blue eyed one said looking directly at her.
Raven?
Yes, Raven. She recognized it as her name.
She slowly sat up and looked around. She wanted to find something familiar in the strange settings. She looked past the blue eyed one. She looked past the metallic one. There were more. A pale large man who actually did scare her. Another large man that looked like the pale one but seemed nicer. A mini version of the aforementioned large man, his son she guessed.
And then there was him.
The boy from the building. The one who helped her calm her powers down. He was familiar.
She knew that no one in this room would hurt her, that no one was bad. But they were unfamiliar, she didn't know who they were but that young boy, he had saved her.
"Rae," The metallic one said to her. "Can you talk?"
Hm, Rae. That was a nickname, she could tell.
Friends gave nicknames. Were these her friends?
Did she even have friends?
She felt anxiety start to bubble up in her chest.
"You two are freaking her out," the familiar one said to the two men before her.
The metallic one nodded and pulled back the other one.
"Sorry," the handsome one said. "Raven...can you tell us what you last remember?"
Remembered? What could she remember?
She thought hard and looked deep into her mind for memories. She came back empty. A dull ache forming in her temple.
"Can you tell us about your father?" It was the scary pale man.
"Father," the familiar boy said warningly.
Father?
Her father?
The dull ache suddenly turned into agonizing pain. She felt that same energy that she felt when she first woke up, bubbled up and escaped. Everything became encased in the black power that seemed to emanate from her very soul.
She grabbed her head in pain, she didn't like this.
All the people around her, they made her worried. No, they scared her.
She was afraid.
Suddenly she felt a pair of warm hands on her shoulders which she just realized were very ,very cold.
"You need to calm down," it was the familiar boy. "It's okay, no one's going to hurt you. Just breathe and say those words."
She nodded and said the three words.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos."
Suddenly all the power seemed to return to her and the headache subsided.
He was looking at her with a face of worry. She noticed that the handsome one was looking at her very worriedly. Hell, she was worried.
A room full of strangers. Two she could tell were weary of her, she felt it. The two older men were very distrusting and weary of her. The other one her age and the metallic one were worried for her. The metallic one seemed familiar with her as well. The handsome one was worried and guilty which confused her.
And him, the familiar one. He was curious.
But she trusted the familiar one, she knew he would be an ally.
"Are you okay?" He asked her.
"Yes," she said with a nod. "But I can't answer any of their questions."
She motioned at everyone around them.
"Can you try to answer mine?" He asked.
SHe shook her head. She didn't really think she could.
"My name is Damian," he said as he sat down next to her.
She nodded.
"And my name is Raven," she said naturally. "Like they keep calling me."
She looked around at the two younger men before her.
"Yeah," the handsome one said. "My name is Dick."
"Victor," the metallic one said.
She could tell that they also seemed sad.
She wondered if it was normal to be able to feel people like she did. She guessed not but to her it just seemed normal.
"Can we talk alone?" Victor said to her. " Just me, you and Dick?"
"Victor I don't think that is a good idea," the other older man said.
She could feel the distrust again and it made her feel uncomfortable.
"Let them be Clark," the scary one said. "Come Damian, Jon. This matter is in the hands of Richard and Victor."
She felt everyone bend to the authority of the scary one. Well except Damian, he just casually agreed.
She didn't really want him to leave but if he trusted those two then she guessed they wouldn't hurt her.
Everyone but the two younger men left.
"Don't worry," Victor said to her with a smile. "We aren't going to grill you or anything. We're just here to talk."
She nodded.
"You really don't remember anything, huh," Dick said to her with worry in his eyes.
She nodded and Dick gave her a sad smile.
Dick seemed just so sad. It was making her sad.
"Well," he said. "I don't really know how to go about this but i think with your powers, it might just be best to start at the beginning."
Victor nodded at the suggestion and then Dick began the story.
The story of Raven.
...
"That is a bad idea Damian," his father said to him.
Damian rolled his eyes.
He knew his father would be opposed to the idea of having Raven stay with them.
But to be frank, he didn't care.
Damian was not stupid. He knew that her being brought back to life was a sign of something bad to come. Something was probably after her for her powers. Powers which she could not control. That put her in even more danger and therefore she needed to learn how to protect herself but be protected in the meantime.
"She is not a pet project for you to work on," his father scolded. "SHe is a half demon with unstable powers."
Damian quirked his eyebrow.
THey were in his room in the tower. Damian was casually longing, his father was pacing the room angrily.
His father was worried but Damian just felt he was being a nuisance in his home.
Jon and him, known by many as the supersons, had made titans tower their headquarters.
He had wanted a team, he had wanted to reform his own group of Teen Titans but it never came about. Some of it was due to his attitude (according to Jon) but most of it was due to there not being many teens their age.
They had tried to get Zachary Zatara to join in but his cousin, the ever so prissy Zatanna, had convinced him not to. It was Zachary's loss.
If he could get Raven on his team, it would be a step closer to having a team of young heroes. The world needed the teen titans.
It really did.
"She's going to need a home," he said adamantly to his father. "And we both know she cant go back with VIctor to the Space station, Zatara would make sure of that. Dick has his own family and duties he needs to take care of. YOU scare her and Kent cant handle magic. She's safest with us."
His father scowled and Damian knew he had won.
"You're going to train her then?" His father said, annoyed. " She was trained by pacifist monks on a dimension that is unknown to even Dr. Fate. You are being arrogant Damian."
Damian rolled his eyes.
"She may not have memories right now but I don't think her training has fully disappeared ," he said. "She knew her mantra and has been able to reign in her power. She doesn't need training on how to use her powers , she needs to learn to control them again. ANd even Zatara admitted that she had no connection to Trigon."
"She is still a half demon Damian!" He said. "She may not be influenced by her father but that doesn't mean she isn't influenced by her heritage. Her powers have always been dangerous and demons lose control. Something brought her back for a reason and if that reason is to use her powers, then we will have even bigger problems on our hands."
"Raven has always done what is right," he argued back. "That's why Grayson trusts her. And obviously something is after her, I'm not stupid. That just cements my reasoning for wanting her to stay with us."
His father shook his head.
"There is no arguing with you Damian," he frowned. "There never is."
Damian shrugged and walked away.
He had won.
As he exited the room, he was met by Jon.
"You just wanna see her naked again, don't you," he said hitting his shoulder.
Damian looked at his companion with plain and unfiltered annoyance and then punched didn't hurt Jon at all (but did hurt him) but Jon got the point. Jon could be a typical teenager at times.
Damian on the other hand was always serious and right now he was serious about helping Raven. He was going to help her and then when whatever was after reared its ugly head, they would all be prepared.
...
A few hours later when everyone else was asleep, Raven was looking up at the white ceiling.
She wasn't sure if it was such a good idea to tell her her life's story because now it was all she could think about.
She felt a bit detached from the story but at the same time, she knew it was true. She knew it was her.
It was unexplainable but she felt connected to the story.
The fact that she had died and come back was also a strange concept.
She wondered why she was back. Both Vic and Dick agreed that it was probably for nefarious reasons and she didn't disagree. Her powers were...they were strong. She knew this. SHe felt this. It scared her, if she was being honest.
They had told her that they were emotion based. That in the past having to many emotions put her at risk of being controlled or influenced by her evil father.
She knew she didn't want that. They had told her that she was no longer connected to him, her father, but it still scared her.
Her powers scared her.
She didn't want to hurt people. She wasn't sure what she wanted to do at all.
Why was she back? What happened to her memories? Would they ever come back?
The questions swirled around in her head so she tried to quiet them down. It was time to sleep now.
Sleep would be good.
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