Disclaimer: Yeps, I guess I'll write one this time around...lol. I don't own the Titans, only Acelin. Oh, and the babysitter, but she's not really a Titan now is she? Oh well... And to everyone who has reviewed, thank you so much, I really appreciate it, and I'll try to update as often as possible, but I'm in the process of moving (AGH!) so it may be a while between chapters...Oh, and Black-Hearted-Fool, thank you for my new spoon! clutches it happily and dances around singing about the fork she will soon have My Dearest Lady SMo...of course there shall be wenis (though maybe not in this chapter), what do you think I am?! Now...onto the story...

CHAPTER 8 Daddy-Daughter Relationships As Opposed To Mommy-Daughter Ones

Raven burst through the door, hair flying out of it pins. "Acelin!" she screamed, panicked, seeing the babysitter in a pool of blood by the door. "Monique! Where's my baby?! Where is she?!"

Monique looked up through her pain and gave a half smile at BB as he bent to wrap her shattered leg. "Don't bother BB, it's definitely too late for me. I'm a Med major, I know the damage is too great to fix...He has her Raven." Monique's hazel eyes opened wide. "You better hurry. You said your dad was...Well GO! No time to talk..." She lay back and closed her eyes. "And Raven, be careful." Monique's eye fluttered, and her breath died on her lips.

Raven's eyes filled with tears and she screamed angrily as she tore up the stairs to find her father, the other Titans hot on her heels. "Ace!" she screamed, seeing her father sitting on the floor with the baby nearby.

"Raven," he rumbled, eyes glowing dangerously. "You didn't tell me you had a baby."

"You know, there's a reason for that." She retorted as Robin rushed forward to scoop up the baby he loved as his own.

"Ah ah ah," Raven's father tsked, sending a bolt of energy that knocked Robin back into the far wall. Starfire rushed to his aid.

"That was NOT NICE!" she admonished, sending her starbolts at Trigon. "You should not pick on those smaller than you!" He stood, head brushing the vaulted ceiling.

"Well that just would not be any fun at all, tiny one." With one massive hand he knocked her out of the air to where Robin had lay stunned moments before.

"STOOOOOOOOOP!" screamed Raven angrily. "Trigon, why? Can you not stand my happiness so much? You took away my mother, tried to kill me. And now you've come to kill my baby. WHY?! What did I ever do? What did SHE do?" Raven waved her hand at the spot where Acelin sat, amber eyes full of confusion and fear. "You think I will just stand aside and let you have her? I will NOT allow you to do to her what you did to me, she will not grow up without her mother, and she will not grow up missing part of herself. You will not kill anyone tonight, Father. Hate is how you live, but love will be your undoing." By now Raven's deep amethyst eyes were a dangerous shade of red. She rose from where she had been crouched in a feral position on the floor. "Leave Titans. This is my problem." She held up a graceful but firm hand to Cyborg's loud protests.

Raven turned her eyes up to her father's face. "This ends tonight." She murmured.

Raising her hands, she gave all she had. Blocks, and attacks ensued in a fierce battle between Raven and her demons, and her demon father. Sweat poured down Raven's face, and blood poured down her arms and from rapidly opening wounds all over her body. Suddenly a loud sonic boom sounded, and Raven fell, unaware of her darling daughter's screams, or of the floor rushing up to catch her and all was black.

"RAVEN!" Robin yelled in anguish, clutching her limp form to him. "You said you weren't leaving! You said you'd stay for Ace, she needs you. I need you...please don't go Rae. I love you, don't leave me," he keened, tears pouring down his face and making streaks down Raven's dirty, bloody face as they fell onto her. The other Titans stood around the pair, tears running in silence down their faces.

Suddenly, a tiny sob was heard, and heads turned to Acelin, and the Teen Titans looked on as Acelin crawled over to where Robin held Raven. Tears rolled down her tiny face as she looked from Robin to her mother. "Mama, up? Mama?" Screamed the tiny little girl as she tugged with growing insistence on her mother's tattered skirt. "MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAAAAAAAAA!"