Chapter 8: Remember Me
A/N* Thanks mucho to Tomboy for giving me the idea of Raven going evil!!!
Thanks mucho! This chapter and the 7th chapter is dedicated to you!
Sorry for making you wait for this chapter. I couldn't really get on all
that much for the last two days... ^^;;
After another week of sleeping, eating, searching, training and molding the tower back into a T, they've found Slade's hide out. They flew in together, thinking that Raven and Jinx were there together. Sadly, the found out that they didn't even step foot inside the hideout since after the control of Raven.
"Where is she?!" Robin grabbed a fist full of Slade's jacket. Slade just smiled.
"You can't find her here. She went to find new recruits for me!" Slade was dropped down with the police busting in. They took Slade in hand cuffs, because he was like all regular humans, not like his henchmen. He just laughed at them while the news reporters were huddle around asking all sorts of question.
Slade still continued to laugh, "Jinx! I know this will show when you watch TV, you and Raven! Get me out of jail and I will pay both of you with 150 million dollars each!" The police just shook their heads and threw him in the back seat of the car where he just grinned at the reporter. After the police left with them, the reporters turned their attention to the Teen Titans.
"Wow, so you finally got Slade in jail, how does that feel?" were being slurred in with, "Raven? Isn't that your team mate? And what're you going to do about Jinx?" With that, the four team mates took on two reporters each. After they were done answering enough questions, they all headed back to the T-tower. Robin headed for his room.
'I don't understand. How did Jinx get control over Raven?' He thought. He sat at the end of his bed, face in hands, elbows on knees. 'I can't give in like this. I have to find her.' Robin stood up and walked by his table, banging his fist on it, to the window. He watched the planes go to the airport and the cars run across the bridge. He noticed two figures on the very top of the bridge though. One was cloaked and one had horns on its head.
"RAVEN!" Robin gaped. He rushed out to their jet that Bruce provided for them and warmed up the engine.
"Aye, Robin! Where're you goin' with our jet?" Cyborg questioned.
"I saw raven on the bridge," Robin claimed from the seat of the jet. Cyborg climbed in. "What're you doing?!"
"I'm going with you! Duh," Cyborg told. Robin just shrugged. Once it was warmed up, he opened the gate with a button and flew out.
Meanwhile_________________
"We'll bail out Slade and get our 150 mill and go spend the rest of our lives in Tahiti, got that?" Jinx proclaimed to Raven. Raven just nodded in agreement. "Look, here comes Prince Charming to your rescue, well, show 'em who's gonna get rescued!" Jinx pointed. The winter wind bittered the boys' chances of finding them through the thick snow. Raven landed on the nose of the jet. She looked Cyborg in the eye then Robin. She smirked at them. With a few swivels of her wrists, the right wing of the jet curled making the jet hurtle towards the ground. Raven jumped off and flew off, holding Jinx with her mind.
As Raven and Jinx set down in front of the prison, Raven blew down the walls. Most of the prisoners escaped while the others were caught by the guards. They ventured into the wing where Slade was locked up. With a simple mind reading gesture, Raven found the code to open the technical lock. After inserting the correct cryptogram in, steel doors open and Slade was sitting in the middle of the chamber, locked in chains. He grinned.
"Hello there, girls," his face was looking down but his eyes were staring at them. Jinx nodded at Raven, who in turn broke the chains that held Slade down. "Very good, guard me over to my new hideout and I'll be giving your reward there."
As Slade drove off in his arranged car with Jinx and Raven, Cyborg and Robin were recovering from their crash. They had put on parachutes and jumped out just in time, landing on the bridge.
"Great going, genius, now what're going to do?" Cyborg cried out, blaming Robin. Robin just looked at the accusing finger.
"Cool down, Cyborg, we're still searching for her-them!" Robin covered up his act of care for Raven. After all, who would believe that such a normal looking boy would fall for one of the scariest girls living on earth? Cyborg always suspected that the leader liked (possibly more than like) the spawn of a devil.
"How much do you care about her?" Cyborg asked, tilting his head upwards while looking down at Robin. Robin glanced at his face then looked to his right at the cars stopping to the side for police to drive and run by, searching for the loose prisoners. He was sitting at the edge with his feet dangling high above the water. Cyborg put his hand on Robin's shoulders, waiting for an answer. He didn't see them kiss for he was unconscious from the blows to his body.
"Who? Starfire? I guess you could-" Robin started a lie.
"No, you know who I mean. Raven!" Cyborg impeded, scrunching up his face. Robin glanced up again, but then down to his feet.
"Raven." Robin whispered in the cold December air. He smiled at the sound of her name. He remembered, it had been two days after Halloween that they went to the amusement park, and hours later they had been attacked. It was now two weeks before Christmas and it already started to snow. "She's just a friend, nothing more."
"I know you're lying," Cyborg mumbled and sat next to him. "C'mon, you can tell me, anything. ANYTHING." Cyborg smiled at him.
"Ok, but you promise not to tell anyone, not even Beastboy," Robin told. Cyborg reassured him with a 'yeah, yeah' and was waiting for the answer to fly out of his mouth. "Raven- I think she's- my friend!" Robin grinned. Cyborg was pretty annoyed.
"It can't be just that," Cyborg said. Those words, Raven spoke those words, and it pained Robin to be reminded that she thought he didn't care about her.
Flashback
"She came in my room and we kissed! That's it!" Robin said, not telling the whole truth.
"It can't be just that!" Raven sneered.
"She told me she liked me and she was worried for you, and then without knowing it, we kissed!" Robin finally let it out. Raven looked at him with the same sad eyes.
End Flashback
"I-" Robin started out. "Well, I guess you could say that I lo-"
"Hey! We could use your help, here!" one of the police tapped their shoulders. They followed him with a 'right' and it took a few hours to round them all back to the jail. Although, now the police had to stand shoulder to shoulder in a circle, making sure that they didn't escape. Robin and Cyborg were close to make sure if one did, they'd catch him. Robin was relieved that Cyborg forgot all about the question.
"Thanks for your help, we really appreciated it!" The chief police spoke up. "Finally, they're here. Round up the men and put them in the back. Don't forget to lock the door in and out. Let's go!" 20 buses appeared with a car just for Slade. After rounding them up and transporting the jailers to another location of prison, someone had called the two teen titans and the chief police.
"Slade's missing! Put up warrants and send out the letter, let's go guys!" the chief yelled to the non-busy police. He seemed to end his statement with a 'let's go'. It really bothered Cyborg.
"Remember when he was being taken away, he told Jinx that he would pay her if she got him out?" Robin asked.
"Now we know who released him. We have to find them," Cyborg nodded. After calling up the rest, they searched the city.
"There is no sign of Raven anywhere!" Starfire gasped.
"It's ok, Star, we'll probably find them, soon," Beastboy hoped while walking along the river back, transforming into a hound dog, sniffing here and there. Little did they know, Slade's hideout was under water and one of the entrances was near them.
Later_________________
"Here's your reward money as promised," Slade told, handing them the suitcases. Jinx opened both of them searched it for any tracking devices or bombs or such like that. She checked with Raven to make sure. She shook her head, telling her that the whole thing was safe.
Jinx stared Slade in the eye. "No funny business, eh?" She picked up the suit cases and headed to the door with Raven. When they reached it, Slade pressed a button on his pen inside his jacket. Once the button was pushed, the bombs exploded around them.
"Just a last warning: if you do something I don't like, I'll personally hunt you down and kill you. Ahhaahah! And don't forget to kill the Teen Titans, just don't kill Robin, I want to kill him myself," he instructed the two girls. They nodded. Raven took Jinx with her and together they flew off.
"Take me down there! I feel like eating," Jinx commanded. They went into a place where it was pretty much empty, save for the usual daily goers and the one-woman waitress + cashier. They sat down in the darkest corner where one would have to squint or shine a flashlight at them to actually see them. But Millie turned the corner lights on and ha-rumph-ed over there.
"Welcome to Millie's Diner, I'm Millie. What can I getcha' sweet cheeks?" Millie offered in her husky, burned-by-cigarettes-vocal chords voice. She was an old (somewhere in her 60's), short, plump woman with a frizzy orangey hair. Her eyes were very tiny, but she smiled a lot, improving her appearance. She had a one inch pencil with the eraser gone in one hand and a pad of papers in the other. She wore a white apron over a much worn out dress that looked baby orange but used to be pink. Millie smiled at them again.
"Uh.. I'll have uh-er- a puppy lettuce burger with a sprite," Jinx ordered with one eyebrow raised.
"And what about you?" Millie asked Raven after writing down the order. Raven looked at under her hood.
"One cheese burger with coffee," Raven ordered. Coffee. Robin never really liked coffee. But she remembered that he'd always drink it.
"Raven," Jinx called. The controlled Raven was still pondering about Robin. Why did she like him again? No, she felt more than a like, but more of a love. Real love. Not the love you give to relatives. The One. He was the one to her. Jinx had enough of her spacing out. "HEY RAVEN!"
"Yes?" Raven shot her head up.
"Do you want anything else, love?" Millie asked Raven, putting one hand on her behind Raven on her chair. Raven shook her head. The waitress nodded and smiled again and left to the kitchen. After two minutes she brought their drinks.
"Thanks," Jinx mumbled. Raven was still wondering about Robin. When someone was controlling you wouldn't remember who you were attacking. You wouldn't know if they were good or bad or if they were your loved ones or not. But somehow Robin stayed afloat in her mind as others sank.
A/N* Thanks mucho to Tomboy for giving me the idea of Raven going evil!!!
Thanks mucho! This chapter and the 7th chapter is dedicated to you!
Sorry for making you wait for this chapter. I couldn't really get on all
that much for the last two days... ^^;;
After another week of sleeping, eating, searching, training and molding the tower back into a T, they've found Slade's hide out. They flew in together, thinking that Raven and Jinx were there together. Sadly, the found out that they didn't even step foot inside the hideout since after the control of Raven.
"Where is she?!" Robin grabbed a fist full of Slade's jacket. Slade just smiled.
"You can't find her here. She went to find new recruits for me!" Slade was dropped down with the police busting in. They took Slade in hand cuffs, because he was like all regular humans, not like his henchmen. He just laughed at them while the news reporters were huddle around asking all sorts of question.
Slade still continued to laugh, "Jinx! I know this will show when you watch TV, you and Raven! Get me out of jail and I will pay both of you with 150 million dollars each!" The police just shook their heads and threw him in the back seat of the car where he just grinned at the reporter. After the police left with them, the reporters turned their attention to the Teen Titans.
"Wow, so you finally got Slade in jail, how does that feel?" were being slurred in with, "Raven? Isn't that your team mate? And what're you going to do about Jinx?" With that, the four team mates took on two reporters each. After they were done answering enough questions, they all headed back to the T-tower. Robin headed for his room.
'I don't understand. How did Jinx get control over Raven?' He thought. He sat at the end of his bed, face in hands, elbows on knees. 'I can't give in like this. I have to find her.' Robin stood up and walked by his table, banging his fist on it, to the window. He watched the planes go to the airport and the cars run across the bridge. He noticed two figures on the very top of the bridge though. One was cloaked and one had horns on its head.
"RAVEN!" Robin gaped. He rushed out to their jet that Bruce provided for them and warmed up the engine.
"Aye, Robin! Where're you goin' with our jet?" Cyborg questioned.
"I saw raven on the bridge," Robin claimed from the seat of the jet. Cyborg climbed in. "What're you doing?!"
"I'm going with you! Duh," Cyborg told. Robin just shrugged. Once it was warmed up, he opened the gate with a button and flew out.
Meanwhile_________________
"We'll bail out Slade and get our 150 mill and go spend the rest of our lives in Tahiti, got that?" Jinx proclaimed to Raven. Raven just nodded in agreement. "Look, here comes Prince Charming to your rescue, well, show 'em who's gonna get rescued!" Jinx pointed. The winter wind bittered the boys' chances of finding them through the thick snow. Raven landed on the nose of the jet. She looked Cyborg in the eye then Robin. She smirked at them. With a few swivels of her wrists, the right wing of the jet curled making the jet hurtle towards the ground. Raven jumped off and flew off, holding Jinx with her mind.
As Raven and Jinx set down in front of the prison, Raven blew down the walls. Most of the prisoners escaped while the others were caught by the guards. They ventured into the wing where Slade was locked up. With a simple mind reading gesture, Raven found the code to open the technical lock. After inserting the correct cryptogram in, steel doors open and Slade was sitting in the middle of the chamber, locked in chains. He grinned.
"Hello there, girls," his face was looking down but his eyes were staring at them. Jinx nodded at Raven, who in turn broke the chains that held Slade down. "Very good, guard me over to my new hideout and I'll be giving your reward there."
As Slade drove off in his arranged car with Jinx and Raven, Cyborg and Robin were recovering from their crash. They had put on parachutes and jumped out just in time, landing on the bridge.
"Great going, genius, now what're going to do?" Cyborg cried out, blaming Robin. Robin just looked at the accusing finger.
"Cool down, Cyborg, we're still searching for her-them!" Robin covered up his act of care for Raven. After all, who would believe that such a normal looking boy would fall for one of the scariest girls living on earth? Cyborg always suspected that the leader liked (possibly more than like) the spawn of a devil.
"How much do you care about her?" Cyborg asked, tilting his head upwards while looking down at Robin. Robin glanced at his face then looked to his right at the cars stopping to the side for police to drive and run by, searching for the loose prisoners. He was sitting at the edge with his feet dangling high above the water. Cyborg put his hand on Robin's shoulders, waiting for an answer. He didn't see them kiss for he was unconscious from the blows to his body.
"Who? Starfire? I guess you could-" Robin started a lie.
"No, you know who I mean. Raven!" Cyborg impeded, scrunching up his face. Robin glanced up again, but then down to his feet.
"Raven." Robin whispered in the cold December air. He smiled at the sound of her name. He remembered, it had been two days after Halloween that they went to the amusement park, and hours later they had been attacked. It was now two weeks before Christmas and it already started to snow. "She's just a friend, nothing more."
"I know you're lying," Cyborg mumbled and sat next to him. "C'mon, you can tell me, anything. ANYTHING." Cyborg smiled at him.
"Ok, but you promise not to tell anyone, not even Beastboy," Robin told. Cyborg reassured him with a 'yeah, yeah' and was waiting for the answer to fly out of his mouth. "Raven- I think she's- my friend!" Robin grinned. Cyborg was pretty annoyed.
"It can't be just that," Cyborg said. Those words, Raven spoke those words, and it pained Robin to be reminded that she thought he didn't care about her.
Flashback
"She came in my room and we kissed! That's it!" Robin said, not telling the whole truth.
"It can't be just that!" Raven sneered.
"She told me she liked me and she was worried for you, and then without knowing it, we kissed!" Robin finally let it out. Raven looked at him with the same sad eyes.
End Flashback
"I-" Robin started out. "Well, I guess you could say that I lo-"
"Hey! We could use your help, here!" one of the police tapped their shoulders. They followed him with a 'right' and it took a few hours to round them all back to the jail. Although, now the police had to stand shoulder to shoulder in a circle, making sure that they didn't escape. Robin and Cyborg were close to make sure if one did, they'd catch him. Robin was relieved that Cyborg forgot all about the question.
"Thanks for your help, we really appreciated it!" The chief police spoke up. "Finally, they're here. Round up the men and put them in the back. Don't forget to lock the door in and out. Let's go!" 20 buses appeared with a car just for Slade. After rounding them up and transporting the jailers to another location of prison, someone had called the two teen titans and the chief police.
"Slade's missing! Put up warrants and send out the letter, let's go guys!" the chief yelled to the non-busy police. He seemed to end his statement with a 'let's go'. It really bothered Cyborg.
"Remember when he was being taken away, he told Jinx that he would pay her if she got him out?" Robin asked.
"Now we know who released him. We have to find them," Cyborg nodded. After calling up the rest, they searched the city.
"There is no sign of Raven anywhere!" Starfire gasped.
"It's ok, Star, we'll probably find them, soon," Beastboy hoped while walking along the river back, transforming into a hound dog, sniffing here and there. Little did they know, Slade's hideout was under water and one of the entrances was near them.
Later_________________
"Here's your reward money as promised," Slade told, handing them the suitcases. Jinx opened both of them searched it for any tracking devices or bombs or such like that. She checked with Raven to make sure. She shook her head, telling her that the whole thing was safe.
Jinx stared Slade in the eye. "No funny business, eh?" She picked up the suit cases and headed to the door with Raven. When they reached it, Slade pressed a button on his pen inside his jacket. Once the button was pushed, the bombs exploded around them.
"Just a last warning: if you do something I don't like, I'll personally hunt you down and kill you. Ahhaahah! And don't forget to kill the Teen Titans, just don't kill Robin, I want to kill him myself," he instructed the two girls. They nodded. Raven took Jinx with her and together they flew off.
"Take me down there! I feel like eating," Jinx commanded. They went into a place where it was pretty much empty, save for the usual daily goers and the one-woman waitress + cashier. They sat down in the darkest corner where one would have to squint or shine a flashlight at them to actually see them. But Millie turned the corner lights on and ha-rumph-ed over there.
"Welcome to Millie's Diner, I'm Millie. What can I getcha' sweet cheeks?" Millie offered in her husky, burned-by-cigarettes-vocal chords voice. She was an old (somewhere in her 60's), short, plump woman with a frizzy orangey hair. Her eyes were very tiny, but she smiled a lot, improving her appearance. She had a one inch pencil with the eraser gone in one hand and a pad of papers in the other. She wore a white apron over a much worn out dress that looked baby orange but used to be pink. Millie smiled at them again.
"Uh.. I'll have uh-er- a puppy lettuce burger with a sprite," Jinx ordered with one eyebrow raised.
"And what about you?" Millie asked Raven after writing down the order. Raven looked at under her hood.
"One cheese burger with coffee," Raven ordered. Coffee. Robin never really liked coffee. But she remembered that he'd always drink it.
"Raven," Jinx called. The controlled Raven was still pondering about Robin. Why did she like him again? No, she felt more than a like, but more of a love. Real love. Not the love you give to relatives. The One. He was the one to her. Jinx had enough of her spacing out. "HEY RAVEN!"
"Yes?" Raven shot her head up.
"Do you want anything else, love?" Millie asked Raven, putting one hand on her behind Raven on her chair. Raven shook her head. The waitress nodded and smiled again and left to the kitchen. After two minutes she brought their drinks.
"Thanks," Jinx mumbled. Raven was still wondering about Robin. When someone was controlling you wouldn't remember who you were attacking. You wouldn't know if they were good or bad or if they were your loved ones or not. But somehow Robin stayed afloat in her mind as others sank.