By myself
Dis: STOP ASKING ME TO SAY THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Side note: I have to thank the one person who person who has reviewed all my stories, listened to all my ideas, given her honest opinion of them, and has just plain been a friend, Thank you, Raven. Also, if you haven't read Something Wicked this way Comes, then you need to read that before you read this.
Titans Tower, afternoon.
"Raven..." Beast Boy pleaded, for the hundredth time, as Raven waited for Vampyre to change. Raven turned to BB, annoyed.
"I chose Vampyre over you. Do I have to explain why?" Raven asked.
"It'd help. 'Cause I don't understand why you did."
"Because, he's everything your not. He knows the pain I feel." Raven simply said, not looking at Beast Boy. The door slid open. Beast Boy looked as if he was about to say something, but was silenced with a look from Raven. Vampyre cocked his head from one side, looking from Raven to Beast Boy. He shrugged his shoulders, and he Raven started to walk towards the elevator. Beast Boy followed them, deciding to see if he could do anything about this.
Streets of Jump City.
Raven and Vampyre had been walking around, with no real direction. Raven wanted to just walk around, get some air. But then she wanted to go to her favorite café, The Black Rose (I got that idea from TTGO! #4, where Rave gets a date with Goth.). Beast Boy had been doing a great job of hiding, but he slipped up, once. He saw Raven slip her hand over to Vampyre's, and he accepted her hand. He felt a sudden wave of fury, which Vampyre felt, but Raven didn't. He whispered in her ear: "Beast Boy is trailing us. We'll go to that spot I showed you. Then, he's gonna face the music."
But, of course, Beast Boy hadn't been to that particular spot, and hadn't heard what Vamp had said. So, he was in the dark, and followed the two blindly. They continued on their meandering course, until they reached the outskirts of the city. This made Beast Boy think...uhh...things. So, he continued on, and they finally came to the one spot, which Raven had only been to once. Then, Vampyre disappeared, and reappeared behind Beast Boy, scaring the piss outta him.
"Okay Beast Boy, end of the line. Why have you been following us?" Vampyre asked, his voice full of spite.
"Because, I want Raven. I need Raven." Beast Boy tried to plead. But Vampyre could truly have a cold heart, when he wanted to.
"You want her, then let's fight for her. If she means this much to you, then you won't back down." Vampyre erased the chicken look from Beast Boy's face, with the last remark. Beast Boy changed into a bull, and charged at Vampyre. He dodged this easily, by jumping up, and then expelling much of his anger on the bull directly below him. The effect sent Beast Boy flying into a rock. Vampyre walked over to him, and grabbed his leg. He showed Beast Boy his worst nightmare... Then he dropped Beast Boy and walked back to Raven.
"What did you do to him?" Raven asked, looking at Beast Boy, who was whimpering.
"His worst fear. It'll wear off in about an hour. Then he won't remember what I showed him." The vampire-demon hybrid responded.
"Can we just get to the café? I just feel..."
"Stressed?"
"Yeah, how'd you know?"
"Again, tell you later."
"Goth" street. Named for the Goth stores there.
They had walked for a while, neither bothering to keep track of the time. Raven had seen a side of Vampyre she thought he had locked away from when he really did loose control. I wonder what's going on inside his head? Raven asked herself. Raven couldn't resist the temptation to listen to Vampyre's thoughts; besides, he knows how to push me out.
Vampyre's thoughts
Vampyre felt Raven silently push her way into his mind. He knew she was just wondering what had happened, so he felt no need to push her out. Why don't you just ask me? Vampyre asked Raven telepathically.
"Okay, so, what's on your mind?" Raven asked, still listening to his thoughts. Odd, she thought, he must know how have been trained to not think when someone's listening.
"I thought everyone understood. Much as I hate to admit it, I'm emotionally unstable. Raven, I do need you." Vampyre admitted, looking at Raven. "It may sound like I'm too dependent. But, sometimes, I have to use you as my crutch, to keep my head straight"
"I never knew... Underneath that calm exterior, I don't think none of us knew." Raven was starting to break down, again.
"Underneath the calm exterior, I have to fight to keep control. I just want to sometimes die, and at last have peace. You're the only reason I get up. If I could just die and leave everything, I would..."
"I just never knew..." Raven was openly crying now.
"I don't want you to feel the pain I do. Sometimes, it's just too much to bear sometimes. Without you, Raven, I would be by myself, a way I never want to be again." Vampyre was sobbing into Raven's shoulder, who didn't seem to know what to do.
"I never thought, never knew..."
"I need you sometimes, to just be with you, it calms me. Just being around you, seeing you, it's the only thing I want to do. I only want to be with you Raven."
"Don't worry, I'm here." The Goth seemed at a loss for words. Here Vampyre was pouring his heart out, and she couldn't find anything to say, nothing to comfort him.
"I just want to stay with you, hold you, and never let go. I never want to let you go, because I'm afraid you'll turn your back on me, just like everyone else."
"I'll never turn my back on you, because, in a way, I need you too. When I liked Beast Boy, it wasn't anything real. Vampyre, I love you with all of my heart. I need to ask you one question."
"Yeah?"
"Do you love me too? I mean, with all your heart."
"Of course I do. Which is why I brought you to the Black Rose. There's a surprise, just for you. I wasn't thinking about anyone, but you when I set this up."
"Really?" Raven looked at him with hopeful eyes. They seemed to have regained their postures after spilling everything.
"Yeah. We're here, close your eyes, and just let me lead you in..." Vampyre said, waiting for Raven to close her eyes. He took her hand, and led her into the Black Rose...
Inside the Black Rose.....
"Okay, you can open your eyes now." Raven opened her eyes and couldn't believe them. All of her favorite writers, poets, and some friends were there. Vampyre pulled a book out of his cape and handed it to her. It read: The book of Raven poetry.
Isaac Romanov walked up to her and shook her hand. He was her favorite poet, aside from Edgar Allen Poe (seeing as how he wasn't alive, he wasn't there).
"How did you get all of these people here? Especially Isaac Romanov?" Raven asked, her face flushed.
"Well, I've done each of them a few favors. Plus, when I told about how close you came to death, they agreed to come."
"He's right. We would gladly come, even if you hadn't come so close to death." Isaac said, looking Raven straight in the eye. "And if you're wondering about the book," He said, gesturing to the book. "It's a collection of all the poems we've written, just for you. It has a poem by all of us, dedicated to you. The rest are by Vampyre, and let me say, I'm a fan of his poetry." Raven blushed, and looked at Vampyre
"I had no idea you wrote poetry."
"Of course. We might spend every waking moment together, but you don't sleep in my room. So you wouldn't know." Vampyre said, trying to hide something in his hand. Raven didn't seem to notice.
"That would explain why you sometimes wake me up at 3:00 in the morning." Raven said, flipping through the book.
"And, since you usually read my Necromancy books, I have an offering." Vampyre said, now getting Raven's full attention.
"Okay... what is it?"
"Would you be my apprentice?" He said, holding a kris out that looked like his. (kris is a dagger with a jagged blade) Raven blushed about as red as possible, considering she was pale.
"It would be great to finally understand it... But what's that for?" She asked, puzzled
"It's customary for Necromancy apprentices to receive their own krises, until they make their own. Unless you want to keep this one." Vampyre explained.
"I don't know what to say..." Raven couldn't believe Vampyre had done all this for her. Isaac interrupted.
"Would you like to hear us read any poems?"
"...Yeah... uhhh, which one are you going to read?"
"That's the thing, you pick which poem and who reads it."
"Okay... Vampyre, read... And the world got shot to Hell."
"You got it." Vampyre got up, and jumped up to the stool that was set up. He just realized, as he was about halfway through the poem, that Raven wasn't paying attention to her surroundings. As he was reading, he saw a hand grab Raven's mouth and hold both hands. Vampyre leapt over to where the would-be assassin stood.
"One step closer, and she gets it." He said, pulling out a knife, and putting it to her heart.
"FOOL! Do you realize what I will do to you, if you do stab her?" Vampyre said, his red eyes blazing blood red with fury. But this only panicked the wanna-be into plunging the knife into Raven's heart. It all happened in slow motion for Raven and Vampyre. Judging by where he stabbed her, he is an amateur, Vampyre thought. He barely got her heart, but it's enough to put her in mortal danger.
It was too much for Vampyre, and he flew into a fury, which he had never felt before. A physical manifestation of Vampyre's anger came in the form of a scythe, with a wicked blade, and black handle. The amateur dropped Raven, and ran, but to no avail. Vampyre had already thrust the blade through the assassin's back. He dragged him backwards, towards him, and pulled another identical scythe, and proceeded in taking the head off the would-be assassin.
Raven's world was fading into darkness, but she saw Vampyre take out her assassin. The last thing she remembered was Vampyre dropping the scythes and running over to her, slowly pulling the knife out, and then... a black endless void.
As soon as Vampyre had disposed of Raven's stalker, he rushed over to take the knife out and get her to the hospital.
Jump City Hospital
It was a normal day at the Jump City Hospital. That is, until, one certain pale figure burst in carrying another pale figure. Everyone froze where they stood.
"She needs help NOW!" He yelled, making everyone jump. Although it took awhile for a nurse to react, one eventually did. She beckoned Vampyre to follow her, down a corridor, to a room labeled A796. She motioned for him to lay Raven down on the bed.
"You must leave now. I am very sorry to have to inform you of it, but those are the rules." The nurse told him, giving him a sympathetic look.
"I will do no such thing. Until Raven is able to personally check herself out of the hospital, I will leave her side for nothing. Nothing." Vampyre said, his eyes blazing in defiance of what the nurse had said, daring her to question what he had said.
"I guess in this case, I can make an exception. But only because you're a Teen Titan, and so is she."
About an hour later....
Raven had been hooked up to an IV drip, and was moaning softly in her sleep. Vampyre was sitting beside her bed, holding her hand. The doctors had said she wouldn't make it, that she would die. He wouldn't let her die. Even if he had to use the last of his carefully prepared Necromancy potion, so be it. He just hoped it worked quick enough.
YAY! Sequel! What be on your mind? Did it suck? Rock?
Dis: STOP ASKING ME TO SAY THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Side note: I have to thank the one person who person who has reviewed all my stories, listened to all my ideas, given her honest opinion of them, and has just plain been a friend, Thank you, Raven. Also, if you haven't read Something Wicked this way Comes, then you need to read that before you read this.
Titans Tower, afternoon.
"Raven..." Beast Boy pleaded, for the hundredth time, as Raven waited for Vampyre to change. Raven turned to BB, annoyed.
"I chose Vampyre over you. Do I have to explain why?" Raven asked.
"It'd help. 'Cause I don't understand why you did."
"Because, he's everything your not. He knows the pain I feel." Raven simply said, not looking at Beast Boy. The door slid open. Beast Boy looked as if he was about to say something, but was silenced with a look from Raven. Vampyre cocked his head from one side, looking from Raven to Beast Boy. He shrugged his shoulders, and he Raven started to walk towards the elevator. Beast Boy followed them, deciding to see if he could do anything about this.
Streets of Jump City.
Raven and Vampyre had been walking around, with no real direction. Raven wanted to just walk around, get some air. But then she wanted to go to her favorite café, The Black Rose (I got that idea from TTGO! #4, where Rave gets a date with Goth.). Beast Boy had been doing a great job of hiding, but he slipped up, once. He saw Raven slip her hand over to Vampyre's, and he accepted her hand. He felt a sudden wave of fury, which Vampyre felt, but Raven didn't. He whispered in her ear: "Beast Boy is trailing us. We'll go to that spot I showed you. Then, he's gonna face the music."
But, of course, Beast Boy hadn't been to that particular spot, and hadn't heard what Vamp had said. So, he was in the dark, and followed the two blindly. They continued on their meandering course, until they reached the outskirts of the city. This made Beast Boy think...uhh...things. So, he continued on, and they finally came to the one spot, which Raven had only been to once. Then, Vampyre disappeared, and reappeared behind Beast Boy, scaring the piss outta him.
"Okay Beast Boy, end of the line. Why have you been following us?" Vampyre asked, his voice full of spite.
"Because, I want Raven. I need Raven." Beast Boy tried to plead. But Vampyre could truly have a cold heart, when he wanted to.
"You want her, then let's fight for her. If she means this much to you, then you won't back down." Vampyre erased the chicken look from Beast Boy's face, with the last remark. Beast Boy changed into a bull, and charged at Vampyre. He dodged this easily, by jumping up, and then expelling much of his anger on the bull directly below him. The effect sent Beast Boy flying into a rock. Vampyre walked over to him, and grabbed his leg. He showed Beast Boy his worst nightmare... Then he dropped Beast Boy and walked back to Raven.
"What did you do to him?" Raven asked, looking at Beast Boy, who was whimpering.
"His worst fear. It'll wear off in about an hour. Then he won't remember what I showed him." The vampire-demon hybrid responded.
"Can we just get to the café? I just feel..."
"Stressed?"
"Yeah, how'd you know?"
"Again, tell you later."
"Goth" street. Named for the Goth stores there.
They had walked for a while, neither bothering to keep track of the time. Raven had seen a side of Vampyre she thought he had locked away from when he really did loose control. I wonder what's going on inside his head? Raven asked herself. Raven couldn't resist the temptation to listen to Vampyre's thoughts; besides, he knows how to push me out.
Vampyre's thoughts
Vampyre felt Raven silently push her way into his mind. He knew she was just wondering what had happened, so he felt no need to push her out. Why don't you just ask me? Vampyre asked Raven telepathically.
"Okay, so, what's on your mind?" Raven asked, still listening to his thoughts. Odd, she thought, he must know how have been trained to not think when someone's listening.
"I thought everyone understood. Much as I hate to admit it, I'm emotionally unstable. Raven, I do need you." Vampyre admitted, looking at Raven. "It may sound like I'm too dependent. But, sometimes, I have to use you as my crutch, to keep my head straight"
"I never knew... Underneath that calm exterior, I don't think none of us knew." Raven was starting to break down, again.
"Underneath the calm exterior, I have to fight to keep control. I just want to sometimes die, and at last have peace. You're the only reason I get up. If I could just die and leave everything, I would..."
"I just never knew..." Raven was openly crying now.
"I don't want you to feel the pain I do. Sometimes, it's just too much to bear sometimes. Without you, Raven, I would be by myself, a way I never want to be again." Vampyre was sobbing into Raven's shoulder, who didn't seem to know what to do.
"I never thought, never knew..."
"I need you sometimes, to just be with you, it calms me. Just being around you, seeing you, it's the only thing I want to do. I only want to be with you Raven."
"Don't worry, I'm here." The Goth seemed at a loss for words. Here Vampyre was pouring his heart out, and she couldn't find anything to say, nothing to comfort him.
"I just want to stay with you, hold you, and never let go. I never want to let you go, because I'm afraid you'll turn your back on me, just like everyone else."
"I'll never turn my back on you, because, in a way, I need you too. When I liked Beast Boy, it wasn't anything real. Vampyre, I love you with all of my heart. I need to ask you one question."
"Yeah?"
"Do you love me too? I mean, with all your heart."
"Of course I do. Which is why I brought you to the Black Rose. There's a surprise, just for you. I wasn't thinking about anyone, but you when I set this up."
"Really?" Raven looked at him with hopeful eyes. They seemed to have regained their postures after spilling everything.
"Yeah. We're here, close your eyes, and just let me lead you in..." Vampyre said, waiting for Raven to close her eyes. He took her hand, and led her into the Black Rose...
Inside the Black Rose.....
"Okay, you can open your eyes now." Raven opened her eyes and couldn't believe them. All of her favorite writers, poets, and some friends were there. Vampyre pulled a book out of his cape and handed it to her. It read: The book of Raven poetry.
Isaac Romanov walked up to her and shook her hand. He was her favorite poet, aside from Edgar Allen Poe (seeing as how he wasn't alive, he wasn't there).
"How did you get all of these people here? Especially Isaac Romanov?" Raven asked, her face flushed.
"Well, I've done each of them a few favors. Plus, when I told about how close you came to death, they agreed to come."
"He's right. We would gladly come, even if you hadn't come so close to death." Isaac said, looking Raven straight in the eye. "And if you're wondering about the book," He said, gesturing to the book. "It's a collection of all the poems we've written, just for you. It has a poem by all of us, dedicated to you. The rest are by Vampyre, and let me say, I'm a fan of his poetry." Raven blushed, and looked at Vampyre
"I had no idea you wrote poetry."
"Of course. We might spend every waking moment together, but you don't sleep in my room. So you wouldn't know." Vampyre said, trying to hide something in his hand. Raven didn't seem to notice.
"That would explain why you sometimes wake me up at 3:00 in the morning." Raven said, flipping through the book.
"And, since you usually read my Necromancy books, I have an offering." Vampyre said, now getting Raven's full attention.
"Okay... what is it?"
"Would you be my apprentice?" He said, holding a kris out that looked like his. (kris is a dagger with a jagged blade) Raven blushed about as red as possible, considering she was pale.
"It would be great to finally understand it... But what's that for?" She asked, puzzled
"It's customary for Necromancy apprentices to receive their own krises, until they make their own. Unless you want to keep this one." Vampyre explained.
"I don't know what to say..." Raven couldn't believe Vampyre had done all this for her. Isaac interrupted.
"Would you like to hear us read any poems?"
"...Yeah... uhhh, which one are you going to read?"
"That's the thing, you pick which poem and who reads it."
"Okay... Vampyre, read... And the world got shot to Hell."
"You got it." Vampyre got up, and jumped up to the stool that was set up. He just realized, as he was about halfway through the poem, that Raven wasn't paying attention to her surroundings. As he was reading, he saw a hand grab Raven's mouth and hold both hands. Vampyre leapt over to where the would-be assassin stood.
"One step closer, and she gets it." He said, pulling out a knife, and putting it to her heart.
"FOOL! Do you realize what I will do to you, if you do stab her?" Vampyre said, his red eyes blazing blood red with fury. But this only panicked the wanna-be into plunging the knife into Raven's heart. It all happened in slow motion for Raven and Vampyre. Judging by where he stabbed her, he is an amateur, Vampyre thought. He barely got her heart, but it's enough to put her in mortal danger.
It was too much for Vampyre, and he flew into a fury, which he had never felt before. A physical manifestation of Vampyre's anger came in the form of a scythe, with a wicked blade, and black handle. The amateur dropped Raven, and ran, but to no avail. Vampyre had already thrust the blade through the assassin's back. He dragged him backwards, towards him, and pulled another identical scythe, and proceeded in taking the head off the would-be assassin.
Raven's world was fading into darkness, but she saw Vampyre take out her assassin. The last thing she remembered was Vampyre dropping the scythes and running over to her, slowly pulling the knife out, and then... a black endless void.
As soon as Vampyre had disposed of Raven's stalker, he rushed over to take the knife out and get her to the hospital.
Jump City Hospital
It was a normal day at the Jump City Hospital. That is, until, one certain pale figure burst in carrying another pale figure. Everyone froze where they stood.
"She needs help NOW!" He yelled, making everyone jump. Although it took awhile for a nurse to react, one eventually did. She beckoned Vampyre to follow her, down a corridor, to a room labeled A796. She motioned for him to lay Raven down on the bed.
"You must leave now. I am very sorry to have to inform you of it, but those are the rules." The nurse told him, giving him a sympathetic look.
"I will do no such thing. Until Raven is able to personally check herself out of the hospital, I will leave her side for nothing. Nothing." Vampyre said, his eyes blazing in defiance of what the nurse had said, daring her to question what he had said.
"I guess in this case, I can make an exception. But only because you're a Teen Titan, and so is she."
About an hour later....
Raven had been hooked up to an IV drip, and was moaning softly in her sleep. Vampyre was sitting beside her bed, holding her hand. The doctors had said she wouldn't make it, that she would die. He wouldn't let her die. Even if he had to use the last of his carefully prepared Necromancy potion, so be it. He just hoped it worked quick enough.
YAY! Sequel! What be on your mind? Did it suck? Rock?