(( A/N: I'm very sorry for the long long wait. I was vacationing in Canada
(a lovely place by the way) and you try finding a computer in there between
various tourist attractions. Well, it wasn't easy. But, now I'm back, for
those who are very very mad at me, I'm sorry. Hope it was worth the wait.))
Pain had always made Raven shiver. Seldom did she run across the miserable emotion in Nevermore, but when she did there was always bound to be trouble. The emotion resented Raven's hiding of them (though it usually kept them safe) and was very powerful when it came to the rank scale of Raven's thoughts. But Pain was not always just an ailing emotion, with pain always come a clever muse to escape it, and there in Pain developed her acute sense for everything she could do to ruin Raven.
As the door slid open in front of Starfire she was confronted by two things. One was a very nervous looking Beast Boy, eyes flitting back into the dark room every so often. Beast Boy had always kept the ability to see into dark from his animal forms, but Starfire couldn't see a thing in the inky darkness of Raven's lair. She decided not to push things anyhow, she had gotten a hold of Raven and she wasn't about to lose it. Or, at least she thought it was Raven.
The second thing that faced her was Pain, standing beside flighty Beast Boy. She had a hollow smile on, her eyes glinting with unexpected pleasure. Her black cloak was different from Raven's, but Starfire didn't even realize it over her surprise of actually finding Raven. Amazed at her own luck of being the Raven closest to the door at Starfire's arrival Pain steeped up to the plate with the precision of a surgeon. She was ready to take her chance, and now she had a means, and a motive.
"Friend Raven!" Starfire exclaimed. She usually would have took Raven up in a bone crunching hug, but even Starfire realized not to push anything right now. "You are done with your sorrow? You may now rejoice, for we have decided to watch a moo-vie, and you are invited" she seemed to have stumbled on the word movie, but otherwise Starfire was cheerful and beaming. "Come now!" she cried, grabbing Pain's hand and whisking her down the stairs," You will be pleased!"
Beast Boy gave a fleeting glance at the dark corner gain, hesitating visibly. "Go!" hissed a voice from the corner," She'll suspect something. They will already!" Raven's voice was strained, and BB could tell she was resisting the urge to fly down and choke the living daylights out of Pain, but that probably wouldn't help. It might have made Raven feel better though.
As soon as Beast Boy left the door to Raven's room clicked shut, cutting her off from the outside world. The candles bust to life, struck by Raven's thoughts. As the room lit up it was visible to see Raven, roughly keeping the rest of her escaped selves pressed against the ex-dark corner. Raven herself was there to spitting out a few curses in a tongue that few would understand. She straightened up, letting out a defeated sigh.
"Well, at least she left us alone." Sarcasm spit, not seeming very worried on the subject. The rest of them were carrying out what they did best. Pity was staring at Raven, her eyes practically brimming with tears for Raven's sake. Pity had been Pain's right hand man for so long now. Raven hardly regarded the crocodile tears. Happy didn't seem that affected, she was to busy chatting animatedly now to the uncaring Sarcasm. Intelligence, how ever, seemed most affected of all. She was pacing back and forth in Raven's room, once in a while stopping to glance at the box, the Praeteritum Memoria Arca, the Memory Containment Box.
"I think we have a problem." She concurred at last. Intelligence sounded so superior, ejecting this bit of knowledge as if she was the only one in the world with half a brain. The other turned to stare at her in turn, last of all Raven who still looked slightly livid. "Well, congratulations, you're a genius." Sarcasm spit, her lip curling in disgust.
"What were you two doing in Raven's room?" Starfire asked for the second time. Beast Boy was writhing with panic, trying to search for a believable answer to why he had been in Raven's room, with Raven, and not gotten his insides rearranged. Pain seemed to be enjoying his discomfort, a fanged smile gleaming in the corner of her thin mouth.
"I was.... Erm.... Trying to get Raven to uh.... Forgive me for.... Some stuff." He finished lamely, looking down at his feet miserably. Pain smiled in full now, her face looking more and more like a skull with only a paper thin layer of skin pulled taut over it. Starfire, deciding once again to play it safe and having her owns thoughts to the subject shrugged, apparently accepting the answer.... For now.
The Robin and Cyborg looked up as the three entered. The large bowl of popcorn almost fell from Cyborg's lap, caught just in time by his theory of hunger over surprise. Robin just blinked, cool and calm as ever. Beast Boy could almost imagine the questions that curled around their insides.
"I have found our friends." Starfire exclaimed joyously, flying up into the air with out stretched arms. "And friend Raven has agreed to watch the moo-vie with us." With that she flew over to their couch, landing almost inconspicuously next to Robin.... Almost. This left two spots on the couches, which were occupied by Pain and himself. Beast Boy resented being near her, resented it when her leg accidentally brushed against him. He wanted to gag.
"Yah, alright whatever." Cyborg said after a moment, shrugging nonchalantly as he took up their Remote of All That Is and flicked the movie on. A scene of a women running across the screen screaming her lungs off flashed, Beast Boy felt Pain stir, and heard her laugh in a very soft whisper. The laugh (only heard by Beast Boy) made him begin to quiver. It was low and dreadful, like the laugh of a mad man and a dying child in one. Beast Boy too wanted to choke the living daylights out of her.
'She's going to do something horrible.' His brain registered,' And Raven is going to be blamed. You can't let that happen, Raven might have to leave. You don't want that to happen do you.' Beast Boy decided he didn't very quickly, and began to come up with something to do a voice registered in his ear.
"Take her to the kitchen." Raven's voice was strained and exhausted, but it was Raven's voice alright. Beast Boy turned inconspicuously to find a small mouse, apparently fighting all control Raven had over it standing next to the couch. As soon as Raven's voice faded the mouse let out a high pitched squeak that only Beast Boy's sensitive ears could pick up and slunk away, tottering slightly as if it were drunk. Beast Boy had no idea Raven could do that, but then again he probably didn't know a lot about her. At any rate, she probably had a good reason for doing this. A really good reason.
Beast Boy looked around slowly, to make sure no one had heard, but even Pain was staring at the movie, her eyes far away in deep macabre thoughts. How was he going to get Pain to the kitchen, it was like trying to get the tiger into the china shop. He glanced over at Cyborg thoughtfully, who was shoveling popcorn down his open mouth at a startling rate. It was then inspiration struck.
"Cyborg you popcorn tyrant," Beast Boy growled," You're hogging all the popcorn. I'm going to go make some more." He smiled, turning to Pain. "Would you like to come with me Raven?" Smooth. Pain glared at him. If looks could kill he would have been slashed in half. "You have to act like Raven," he hissed only audible to Pain," Do you really want to risk you're only chance?" Pain gave him another look before standing slowly. The other Titans hardly seem to notice as they stood. Cyborg had his popcorn, and Robin and Starfire had each other.
Pain followed Beast Boy, her breath hissing dire threats as she entered the kitchen. Raven was standing there, looking as pleased with herself as she could possibly be. Of course, Raven couldn't look much of anything. Pain stood across from her, which put Beast her teeth bared in an almost animal way as she narrowed her devilish eyes at Raven.
"You have no right to do this. Go now, or we all die." Raven hissed her voice barely audible. Beast Boy could only imagine one way all the Raven's would leave, and it involved the original Raven dieing as well. This same thought had apparently entered Pain's mind as well, and she growled," Fine, but don't expect it to be this easy.
With that Pain turned with a flourish, disappearing up the nearby staircase. Raven didn't look smug or triumphant; in fact she looked more worried then ever. "I can only wonder what kind of horrible cure for her discomfort she will think of next." She sighed, not looking to Beast Boy.
"By the way, that mouse, I didn't know we had mice in the Tower." Beast Boy said, looking around the kitchen thoughtfully.
"Yes, we really do." She replied. She still hadn't even cast her glance at him.
"I didn't know you could do that, you know, talk through it and such." He said, now staring at her. She still refused to look over at him.
"It takes a lot of effort." She said, staring hard at a spot on the kitchenette wall.
"Did you hurt it?" he asked.
"Forget the mouse!" she growled. "Start making that popcorn! Do you want me to end up choking you?" She seemed to grasp a hold of herself the next moment. Looking finally at Beast Boy she mumbled," Sorry."
"That's okay," he replied, throwing a bag of popcorn seed into the microwave, jabbing the buttons with an experience of millions of popcorn bags. "You're pretty stressed out anyhow. I don't blame you."
He poured the popcorn into a bowl, hardly concentrating on what he was doing. The popcorn was half in the bowl and half on the floor by the time he was done. Looking at it reproachfully he sighed and went to fetch the broom. The popcorn morsels were suddenly surrounded by a black aura. They floated in the air, a sea of black popcorn hovering 3 feet off the ground. Collecting together they poured into the bowl.
"Five second rule." Raven remarked, almost smiling as she controlled the popcorn kernels," And if not we can just give the top half of the bowl to Cyborg. He doesn't care. It's like when you feed the dog old meat."
Beast boy smiled, following her out to the living room. The movie screamed on, countless running scenes. Raven sat down where Pain had sat. No one looked up, too enraptured in the movie. In that case they didn't notice Raven's sudden change of robes. Starfire actually did, but she decided that it must have been an earth custom, and she quickly forgot about it. 'She's just sitting next to you because that's the only spot, and she's only watching the movie because it would look funny if she didn't come back.' Beast Boy reminded himself.
The movie ended, letters in mock blood sliding down the screen. 'To Be Continued?' most likely. Robin flicked on the lights, stretching his arms over his head. All of the Titan's were restless, not only because they had just watched a two hour movie, but because nothing had gone wrong in the city for a few days now. It made for a very boring superheroes life.
A jagged thunking echoed down into the room. Raven looked up in surprise, unaccustomed fear fleeting through her eyes. Her glance was registered at the top of the stairs. All the Titans, Beast boy included, turned to see what the noise was. At the top of the stairs were all the Ravens. In front of them was Pain, a look of pure triumph and pleasure spread across her maw. She was smiling her wicked smile, and Beast Boy could almost hear her demonic laughter. Behind her the rest of the emotions stood, each in different positions of horror. Happy seemed to have lost herself, her eyes wide and stunned. She was ripping at the edge of her bubblegum pink cloak, which was beginning to become frayed and tattered. Beside Happy stood Sarcasm, her lips forming words so soft that only she could hear them. Beast Boy tried to think of a sarcastic remark she could have said, but failed miserably. Intelligence was blinking rapidly, her wide, round glasses sliding to the tip of her nose. She shook her head, diving her nose into a book that she had pulled from the folds of her robe and apparently searching for an answer. Pity looked worst of all. Both hands were clamped to her mouth, and her face had gone horribly pale. She gave Raven a look that matched her namesake to a tee, and then looked over at the victorious Pain. As the Memoria Arca bounced down the stairs Pity saw truly Pain for the first time, it made her sick.
The box hit the last step with the vigor of two flights of stairs and bounced right in front of the couch. The latch on the top flung open, allowing the cover to fall back. A blur of processing color sprang from the open box. All of the Titans were staring at it, their gaze switched from the Raven's on top of the stairs, in wonder and curiosity, save Beast Boy and Raven. Beast Boy was staring at it with the face of the frog at the heron's feet. He knew what was coming next, or at least he thought it he did.
'Their going to see that memory of when you and Raven were sitting on the rocks.' His brain chided,' they're all going to know.'
Raven was just staring straight at it, feeling neither pain nor shock. She was just staring at it. Her brain had registered what was going to happen before her body had, and she had gone into mental meltdown, she was feeling nothing.
"See Raven, your powers were meant to do such things. You killed those construction men without a second thought. Does it not make you feel better?" said the memory, now reassembled to form Slade. Standing across from him was Raven, blurred at the edges in her own memory. The Titans all froze, and beside Beast Boy the real Raven made a sound like a beached fish.
"Sure." the Raven in the memory replied after a pause, sounding like it was no big deal. Her face was hid by her hood, but if it had been visible the other Titans watching the memory would have seen her face twist into a grimace, but her hood still hid that.
"But enough talk; let us discuss our next move." Slade replied after another pause, his only visible eye narrowing at her in distaste.
Before the memory could continue Beast Boy regained control of his limp limbs. Standing up quickly he stooped over and picked up the box, snapping it shut with a click that echoed through the silent room. The images blurred, the color springing into the box just before it closed. Sighing in defeat he put the box very gently on Raven's lap. He stole a glance the stairs, but they were now empty. He looked back along Raven's face, but it was blank and pale.
"What was that?" Robin's voice commanded behind him. He had stood up now, facing Raven and Beast Boy, he rather suspected Beast Boy knew as well. Starfire and Cyborg nodded, looking at the pair.
Raven paused for a few moments, staring straight ahead of her as if in a trance. She was wringing her hands, cutting off most of the circulation as if trying to strangle them. "Only the beginning," Raven finally replied, staring down at the box in her hand.
((A/N: Wow, you guys must be wondering -what's- going to happen??? I guess it was worth the wait though, right? It was a really long chapter. I was inspired with a new ending for this story anyhow. I really hope to be more active from now on. Curse the seduction of Canada. Oh well. Anyhow, the next chapter should be up soon. Make sure to make a review, flamers are allowed, tell me what you think. I'd also like to give a special thanks to a reviewer of my first story, chubbymonkey (the reviewer) opened up a light to me. Thank you. I'd like to respond to his review by telling you that Conversion was a prelude to Submission. While Conversion was a story within itself it really sets you up for the mental and physical toils of Submission. P.S. The rating WILL NOT change. It is going to STAY PG-13 because anywhere up from there is just plain creepy fan fiction. Sorry you guys.))
Pain had always made Raven shiver. Seldom did she run across the miserable emotion in Nevermore, but when she did there was always bound to be trouble. The emotion resented Raven's hiding of them (though it usually kept them safe) and was very powerful when it came to the rank scale of Raven's thoughts. But Pain was not always just an ailing emotion, with pain always come a clever muse to escape it, and there in Pain developed her acute sense for everything she could do to ruin Raven.
As the door slid open in front of Starfire she was confronted by two things. One was a very nervous looking Beast Boy, eyes flitting back into the dark room every so often. Beast Boy had always kept the ability to see into dark from his animal forms, but Starfire couldn't see a thing in the inky darkness of Raven's lair. She decided not to push things anyhow, she had gotten a hold of Raven and she wasn't about to lose it. Or, at least she thought it was Raven.
The second thing that faced her was Pain, standing beside flighty Beast Boy. She had a hollow smile on, her eyes glinting with unexpected pleasure. Her black cloak was different from Raven's, but Starfire didn't even realize it over her surprise of actually finding Raven. Amazed at her own luck of being the Raven closest to the door at Starfire's arrival Pain steeped up to the plate with the precision of a surgeon. She was ready to take her chance, and now she had a means, and a motive.
"Friend Raven!" Starfire exclaimed. She usually would have took Raven up in a bone crunching hug, but even Starfire realized not to push anything right now. "You are done with your sorrow? You may now rejoice, for we have decided to watch a moo-vie, and you are invited" she seemed to have stumbled on the word movie, but otherwise Starfire was cheerful and beaming. "Come now!" she cried, grabbing Pain's hand and whisking her down the stairs," You will be pleased!"
Beast Boy gave a fleeting glance at the dark corner gain, hesitating visibly. "Go!" hissed a voice from the corner," She'll suspect something. They will already!" Raven's voice was strained, and BB could tell she was resisting the urge to fly down and choke the living daylights out of Pain, but that probably wouldn't help. It might have made Raven feel better though.
As soon as Beast Boy left the door to Raven's room clicked shut, cutting her off from the outside world. The candles bust to life, struck by Raven's thoughts. As the room lit up it was visible to see Raven, roughly keeping the rest of her escaped selves pressed against the ex-dark corner. Raven herself was there to spitting out a few curses in a tongue that few would understand. She straightened up, letting out a defeated sigh.
"Well, at least she left us alone." Sarcasm spit, not seeming very worried on the subject. The rest of them were carrying out what they did best. Pity was staring at Raven, her eyes practically brimming with tears for Raven's sake. Pity had been Pain's right hand man for so long now. Raven hardly regarded the crocodile tears. Happy didn't seem that affected, she was to busy chatting animatedly now to the uncaring Sarcasm. Intelligence, how ever, seemed most affected of all. She was pacing back and forth in Raven's room, once in a while stopping to glance at the box, the Praeteritum Memoria Arca, the Memory Containment Box.
"I think we have a problem." She concurred at last. Intelligence sounded so superior, ejecting this bit of knowledge as if she was the only one in the world with half a brain. The other turned to stare at her in turn, last of all Raven who still looked slightly livid. "Well, congratulations, you're a genius." Sarcasm spit, her lip curling in disgust.
"What were you two doing in Raven's room?" Starfire asked for the second time. Beast Boy was writhing with panic, trying to search for a believable answer to why he had been in Raven's room, with Raven, and not gotten his insides rearranged. Pain seemed to be enjoying his discomfort, a fanged smile gleaming in the corner of her thin mouth.
"I was.... Erm.... Trying to get Raven to uh.... Forgive me for.... Some stuff." He finished lamely, looking down at his feet miserably. Pain smiled in full now, her face looking more and more like a skull with only a paper thin layer of skin pulled taut over it. Starfire, deciding once again to play it safe and having her owns thoughts to the subject shrugged, apparently accepting the answer.... For now.
The Robin and Cyborg looked up as the three entered. The large bowl of popcorn almost fell from Cyborg's lap, caught just in time by his theory of hunger over surprise. Robin just blinked, cool and calm as ever. Beast Boy could almost imagine the questions that curled around their insides.
"I have found our friends." Starfire exclaimed joyously, flying up into the air with out stretched arms. "And friend Raven has agreed to watch the moo-vie with us." With that she flew over to their couch, landing almost inconspicuously next to Robin.... Almost. This left two spots on the couches, which were occupied by Pain and himself. Beast Boy resented being near her, resented it when her leg accidentally brushed against him. He wanted to gag.
"Yah, alright whatever." Cyborg said after a moment, shrugging nonchalantly as he took up their Remote of All That Is and flicked the movie on. A scene of a women running across the screen screaming her lungs off flashed, Beast Boy felt Pain stir, and heard her laugh in a very soft whisper. The laugh (only heard by Beast Boy) made him begin to quiver. It was low and dreadful, like the laugh of a mad man and a dying child in one. Beast Boy too wanted to choke the living daylights out of her.
'She's going to do something horrible.' His brain registered,' And Raven is going to be blamed. You can't let that happen, Raven might have to leave. You don't want that to happen do you.' Beast Boy decided he didn't very quickly, and began to come up with something to do a voice registered in his ear.
"Take her to the kitchen." Raven's voice was strained and exhausted, but it was Raven's voice alright. Beast Boy turned inconspicuously to find a small mouse, apparently fighting all control Raven had over it standing next to the couch. As soon as Raven's voice faded the mouse let out a high pitched squeak that only Beast Boy's sensitive ears could pick up and slunk away, tottering slightly as if it were drunk. Beast Boy had no idea Raven could do that, but then again he probably didn't know a lot about her. At any rate, she probably had a good reason for doing this. A really good reason.
Beast Boy looked around slowly, to make sure no one had heard, but even Pain was staring at the movie, her eyes far away in deep macabre thoughts. How was he going to get Pain to the kitchen, it was like trying to get the tiger into the china shop. He glanced over at Cyborg thoughtfully, who was shoveling popcorn down his open mouth at a startling rate. It was then inspiration struck.
"Cyborg you popcorn tyrant," Beast Boy growled," You're hogging all the popcorn. I'm going to go make some more." He smiled, turning to Pain. "Would you like to come with me Raven?" Smooth. Pain glared at him. If looks could kill he would have been slashed in half. "You have to act like Raven," he hissed only audible to Pain," Do you really want to risk you're only chance?" Pain gave him another look before standing slowly. The other Titans hardly seem to notice as they stood. Cyborg had his popcorn, and Robin and Starfire had each other.
Pain followed Beast Boy, her breath hissing dire threats as she entered the kitchen. Raven was standing there, looking as pleased with herself as she could possibly be. Of course, Raven couldn't look much of anything. Pain stood across from her, which put Beast her teeth bared in an almost animal way as she narrowed her devilish eyes at Raven.
"You have no right to do this. Go now, or we all die." Raven hissed her voice barely audible. Beast Boy could only imagine one way all the Raven's would leave, and it involved the original Raven dieing as well. This same thought had apparently entered Pain's mind as well, and she growled," Fine, but don't expect it to be this easy.
With that Pain turned with a flourish, disappearing up the nearby staircase. Raven didn't look smug or triumphant; in fact she looked more worried then ever. "I can only wonder what kind of horrible cure for her discomfort she will think of next." She sighed, not looking to Beast Boy.
"By the way, that mouse, I didn't know we had mice in the Tower." Beast Boy said, looking around the kitchen thoughtfully.
"Yes, we really do." She replied. She still hadn't even cast her glance at him.
"I didn't know you could do that, you know, talk through it and such." He said, now staring at her. She still refused to look over at him.
"It takes a lot of effort." She said, staring hard at a spot on the kitchenette wall.
"Did you hurt it?" he asked.
"Forget the mouse!" she growled. "Start making that popcorn! Do you want me to end up choking you?" She seemed to grasp a hold of herself the next moment. Looking finally at Beast Boy she mumbled," Sorry."
"That's okay," he replied, throwing a bag of popcorn seed into the microwave, jabbing the buttons with an experience of millions of popcorn bags. "You're pretty stressed out anyhow. I don't blame you."
He poured the popcorn into a bowl, hardly concentrating on what he was doing. The popcorn was half in the bowl and half on the floor by the time he was done. Looking at it reproachfully he sighed and went to fetch the broom. The popcorn morsels were suddenly surrounded by a black aura. They floated in the air, a sea of black popcorn hovering 3 feet off the ground. Collecting together they poured into the bowl.
"Five second rule." Raven remarked, almost smiling as she controlled the popcorn kernels," And if not we can just give the top half of the bowl to Cyborg. He doesn't care. It's like when you feed the dog old meat."
Beast boy smiled, following her out to the living room. The movie screamed on, countless running scenes. Raven sat down where Pain had sat. No one looked up, too enraptured in the movie. In that case they didn't notice Raven's sudden change of robes. Starfire actually did, but she decided that it must have been an earth custom, and she quickly forgot about it. 'She's just sitting next to you because that's the only spot, and she's only watching the movie because it would look funny if she didn't come back.' Beast Boy reminded himself.
The movie ended, letters in mock blood sliding down the screen. 'To Be Continued?' most likely. Robin flicked on the lights, stretching his arms over his head. All of the Titan's were restless, not only because they had just watched a two hour movie, but because nothing had gone wrong in the city for a few days now. It made for a very boring superheroes life.
A jagged thunking echoed down into the room. Raven looked up in surprise, unaccustomed fear fleeting through her eyes. Her glance was registered at the top of the stairs. All the Titans, Beast boy included, turned to see what the noise was. At the top of the stairs were all the Ravens. In front of them was Pain, a look of pure triumph and pleasure spread across her maw. She was smiling her wicked smile, and Beast Boy could almost hear her demonic laughter. Behind her the rest of the emotions stood, each in different positions of horror. Happy seemed to have lost herself, her eyes wide and stunned. She was ripping at the edge of her bubblegum pink cloak, which was beginning to become frayed and tattered. Beside Happy stood Sarcasm, her lips forming words so soft that only she could hear them. Beast Boy tried to think of a sarcastic remark she could have said, but failed miserably. Intelligence was blinking rapidly, her wide, round glasses sliding to the tip of her nose. She shook her head, diving her nose into a book that she had pulled from the folds of her robe and apparently searching for an answer. Pity looked worst of all. Both hands were clamped to her mouth, and her face had gone horribly pale. She gave Raven a look that matched her namesake to a tee, and then looked over at the victorious Pain. As the Memoria Arca bounced down the stairs Pity saw truly Pain for the first time, it made her sick.
The box hit the last step with the vigor of two flights of stairs and bounced right in front of the couch. The latch on the top flung open, allowing the cover to fall back. A blur of processing color sprang from the open box. All of the Titans were staring at it, their gaze switched from the Raven's on top of the stairs, in wonder and curiosity, save Beast Boy and Raven. Beast Boy was staring at it with the face of the frog at the heron's feet. He knew what was coming next, or at least he thought it he did.
'Their going to see that memory of when you and Raven were sitting on the rocks.' His brain chided,' they're all going to know.'
Raven was just staring straight at it, feeling neither pain nor shock. She was just staring at it. Her brain had registered what was going to happen before her body had, and she had gone into mental meltdown, she was feeling nothing.
"See Raven, your powers were meant to do such things. You killed those construction men without a second thought. Does it not make you feel better?" said the memory, now reassembled to form Slade. Standing across from him was Raven, blurred at the edges in her own memory. The Titans all froze, and beside Beast Boy the real Raven made a sound like a beached fish.
"Sure." the Raven in the memory replied after a pause, sounding like it was no big deal. Her face was hid by her hood, but if it had been visible the other Titans watching the memory would have seen her face twist into a grimace, but her hood still hid that.
"But enough talk; let us discuss our next move." Slade replied after another pause, his only visible eye narrowing at her in distaste.
Before the memory could continue Beast Boy regained control of his limp limbs. Standing up quickly he stooped over and picked up the box, snapping it shut with a click that echoed through the silent room. The images blurred, the color springing into the box just before it closed. Sighing in defeat he put the box very gently on Raven's lap. He stole a glance the stairs, but they were now empty. He looked back along Raven's face, but it was blank and pale.
"What was that?" Robin's voice commanded behind him. He had stood up now, facing Raven and Beast Boy, he rather suspected Beast Boy knew as well. Starfire and Cyborg nodded, looking at the pair.
Raven paused for a few moments, staring straight ahead of her as if in a trance. She was wringing her hands, cutting off most of the circulation as if trying to strangle them. "Only the beginning," Raven finally replied, staring down at the box in her hand.
((A/N: Wow, you guys must be wondering -what's- going to happen??? I guess it was worth the wait though, right? It was a really long chapter. I was inspired with a new ending for this story anyhow. I really hope to be more active from now on. Curse the seduction of Canada. Oh well. Anyhow, the next chapter should be up soon. Make sure to make a review, flamers are allowed, tell me what you think. I'd also like to give a special thanks to a reviewer of my first story, chubbymonkey (the reviewer) opened up a light to me. Thank you. I'd like to respond to his review by telling you that Conversion was a prelude to Submission. While Conversion was a story within itself it really sets you up for the mental and physical toils of Submission. P.S. The rating WILL NOT change. It is going to STAY PG-13 because anywhere up from there is just plain creepy fan fiction. Sorry you guys.))