Chapter Two
Beast Boy opened his eyes, slowly. He sat up from his bed and looked around. Everyone was surrounding him...Robin, Starfire, Cyborg...Raven. They were all asleep, of course, except for Raven. She was sitting around, reading her book as usual.
"Rave?" Beast Boy said weakly.
Raven looked up from her book and brought her finger to her lips, telling him to be quiet. She closed the book and set it down beside her, "Follow me," she whispered. She got up from the chair and started to walk to the door.
Beast Boy swung back his covers, shaking off his nausea. He followed Raven out the door and towards the stairs on the other side of the hallway. They quickly ran up the stairs, towards the roof of the tower.
"Where exactly are we going?" Beast Boy asked.
"I don't want the others to see us doing this," she said over her shoulder.
"Doing what?"
"Just quickly follow me," she said, "And stop dragging your feet, you'll wake them all up, for heaven's sake!"
She reached the door to the roof of the tower and with a wave of her hand, the door swung open. She and Beast Boy ran out, closing the door behind them.
"Now what is it you wanted to say...er...do?"
"This..." she grabbed Beast Boy by his shoulders and pulled him close to her, catching him in a kiss. And this wasn't just a simple kiss. It was a long, embracing kiss. Beast Boy quickly pushed her away.
"What are you doing?"
"I want you to know something," she said in almost a whisper, "I love you, yes, but I cannot allow you to love me back until my father is destroyed. Do you here me?"
"But...but why wait?"
"I cannot risk you. You are important to me and if father Trigon finds that out he'll want to kill you. I will never forgive myself for that. I would grow so sad, I'll just waste away until I die, and I mean it. I just never wanted to show Trigon any weaknesses. He knows I have one, but he can't find out what it is. You are my weakness, you are the one I care for the most. We are not to be seen together..."
"Raven..."
"Beast Boy..." they grabbed each other and embraced. Raven rested her head onto his shoulder. She almost cried, she was so happy to finally let her good, light side take control over her.
"If it will keep you and I safe...then I'll respect your wish."
"Thank you..." she said. She lifted herself from the embrace. She pulled her hood over her face and smiled, "We should head back in...take precautions in case he sees us."
"I already have..." the two whirled around and faced the masked Slade, "Raven...I have finally found your weakness."
She pushed Beast Boy behind her, "Don't you dare touch him! If you lay even a finger on his body, a single strand of hair on his head...I'll..."
"What? Kill me?" Slade laughed, "Please! You're so predictable! Fight me, my Raven. I wanna see how tough you really are."
"No...I will not fight my father. As much as I hate you, I still have respect for you."
"I'm sorry...did I not say it clearly...maybe you need some more anger," he clapped his hands together and Jinx appeared behind Beast Boy. She tapped him lightly on the shoulder and he turned around. Like lightening, she wrapped her arms around his neck and forced him into a kiss. Raven immediately was angered.
"You little witch!" she screamed. She ran over to Jinx, and swung her hand towards her. But instead, she went right through her, making her vanish, and hit Beast Boy square in the jaw. Beast Boy grabbed the side of his face.
"Raven...what'd you do that for?"
"I...I didn't..." she knitted her eyebrows as she slowly turned to Slade, "You...you made that illusion...you're playing tricks with me again!"
"Raven, my, my...you've hurt your one and only love."
"Stop talking this bull like it was all me!"
"Fight me!"
"Never! But...if you're so eager to fight me than go ahead...I never start."
"I can't because I'd win too fast."
"Let's see how fast you'd win...try me..."
Slade nodded and brought his finger up to his face into a snapping position, "You know quite well what would happened if I snap my fingers...don't you?" Raven growled with anger, "You wouldn't want that, would you?"
"What would happen?" Beast Boy asked Raven, "Tell me, what would happen!"
Raven looked at the ground, "If I let you, will you let my friends go?"
"I guess that could make a fair deal."
She smiled softly, "Then you, under my consent, can do it...hurry..."
"Gladly," he snapped his fingers and Raven collapsed onto the ground.
She turned her tired, weakening eyes to the unlikely ones of her father, "Bastard!" she mumbled and she fell limp, her eyes closed.
Robin shot up from the chair he was sitting on. He had heard something, something from above...the roof, perhaps? It sounded like a body falling, something falling. What, though?
Looking around more he noticed Beast Boy and Raven were gone. No! He thought. Where could they be right now? What could they be doing? He looked at Cyborg and Starfire, snoozing away, Cyborg lounged comfortably on the chair and Starfire, her head on his lap.
Robin got up from the chair and walked over to the both of them. He shook them both, "Guys, where's Beast Boy and Raven? Did either of you see them leave?"
Starfire rubbed her large eyes, "I've been asleep all this time. I don't remember anything."
Cyborg rubbed his eyes as well, "How long have we've been asleep, anyway?"
Robin shook his head and turned to the door, "Pretty long, my best guess. A few minutes ago I heard something on the roof...I don't know be them. Titans...go!"
Cyborg and Starfire got up wobbly from their positions and followed Robin out the door and down the hallway. They rushed up the stairs, towards the door to that lead to the roof. Robin swung open the door, gasping what he saw.
The three titans saw Raven first, lying on the ground, a large X fading on her forehead, her eyes tightly closed. They could see she was no longer breathing, probably dead. Next they saw Slade, hovering in the air over the ledge, holding Beast Boy by his neck, ready to drop him.
"Look...we've finally met again, Robin," Slade said with a sneer, "Only this time you can't weaken my grip. Your little Raven is lying there dead on the ground, as I have your precious Beast Boy an inch from death. One wrong move and I'll drop him, and you'll loose yet another Teen Titan."
Robin clenched his fists, "Slade...you little..."
"Uh-uh, Robin," Slade interrupted, "Even a wrong word will flame me."
"What do you want?"
"I want your partnership again, my Robin. Accept? Or reject?"
Robin's eyes flamed with furry, with anger. He couldn't believe Slade was doing this...again, "I reject."
"No, Robin!" Starfire yelled, grabbing Robin's shoulders her forcing him to look her in the eye, "We've lost Raven, yes, but we cannot loose another Teen Titan. Do not let Beast Boy die. We can figure a way to befeat Slade as of later."
Slade shook his head, "You're wasting your time, little girl. Your little Robin has just sealed this boy's fate," he pulled Beast Boy close to his face, "I'll see you in hell, my boy," he outstretched the arm he held Beast Boy and laughed, "Say goodbye to your friend."
"No!" Cyborg screamed at the top of his lungs.
Slade, finishing his evil laugh, let Beast Boy slip from his ice-cold hands. Everyone practically stopped at that point...everyone...everything...seemed to go slower than normal.
Beast Boy's POV
The moment those icy fingers released my throat, for a split second I felt like I was floating. I have heard once if you feel like you're floating before your entire life flashes, it means you will be going to heaven. It didn't feel like heaven.
Raven was gone, she's dead. Her stupid, evil father was her murderer. I cannot believe how a person can be such a wench to his own daughter...killing her...tormenting her from her inside out. It must have been a hell to grow up like her, with a monster in her own house following her every move.
It came as a shock to me that Slade is actually Trigon in disguise. But what really gets to me is if he wants Robin, then why does he want to bring harm to Raven?
But it doesn't matter as I suddenly stop floating, Raven's dead. And I have actually told Cyborg, if she was to die, I would kill myself and join her. But at least I didn't kill myself, and neither did she. So we were both going to heaven, together.
Well...at least one of us are...
Normal POV
"Beast Boy!" Starfire screamed as she watched the last of him disappear over the ledge. The three titans ran towards Slade, attacks at definite ready.
"Uh-uh, titans," Slade said with a smile, "Go on, attack me...see what happens...I'm waiting..."
The three kept gaining towards him, but then stopped at the sudden sight of a fast streak of black flesh disappear behind Slade, then, without any glimpse of who it was, dipped below, they stopped. They heard Beast Boy stop screaming.
Did he finally land? Was he gone?
Slade looked down below and his eyes widened at the sight, "No! It's impossible...no!"
A hooded figure appeared over the ledge. Her eyes gleaming a piercing white at the fading sunset. She hovered above Slade, holding with all her strength, under his slender arms, was Beast Boy, looking down below him with amazement, and at one time, looking above him to see the face of his rescuer.
Who was this girl? She wore a long, white, hooded cloak over her head, so no one could see her face. She floated down towards the sandy top of the roof where she released Beast Boy and turned to Slade.
"You are unforgivable!" she said, her eyes gleaming a slightly red color, "I will never associate with you any longer!"
"Y-you're supposed to be dead!" Slade stammered, "My curse was supposes to kill you...how...how could you survive?"
The figure pulled back her hood, revealing her face. Raven smiled for the first time in her life at Slade, "You think your little curses and spells would work on me? Let me tell you one thing, Slade..." her eyes now gleamed even redder than before and her voice was a lot deeper and sinister, "...Nobody touches my Beast Boy! Now you wanted to fight me...you've got your fight!"
"Raven...you..." he clenched his fists, "Listen, to me, Raven...your eyes are glowing...you don't want to really hurt me, right? Come on, now!"
"No!" she pulled her hood back over her face, "I have dreamed of the one day that I would be able to fight you without biting back anything...and finally I have that chance to do so..." she rose over, her red eyes glowing as the moon was pushing into the nightly sky. Large, black tentacles came out from underneath her and grabbed Slade by both his legs, wrapping so tightly, it almost cut off his circulation.
"Raven...stop this, now!"
"What's the matter, Slade? Afraid of the dark? Afraid of a little bit of hell?" she laughed evilly and the tentacles began to drag him under her cloak, "I'll give you hell!"
"Raven, stop!" Beast Boy said at the top of his lungs, "Stop, I'm okay, now...let him go!"
Raven wanted to continue...but the cries of Beast Boy made her stop. She had to respect his wishes. The tentacles released Slade, making him plop down onto the solid roof. The redness to her eyes faded as she fell to her knees to the ground. Her cloak turned back to its normal bluish color.
"Beast Boy..." she said, turning to him. He ran to her and kneeled down to her side, his arms covering her body. She buried her face into his warm chest, "I can't beat him...I hate him for doing this to me! I hate him!"
"Shhh," Beast Boy said, rubbing her back, "We've got him...it's okay. Calm down, please."
She cried into his shirt. She has never been so emotional before as she was now. Beast Boy was okay, "I couldn't let him hurt you...if you died, I don't know what I'd become of myself."
Robin shook his head, disgusted at the pain Slade was afflicting upon Raven and Beast Boy. He walked over to Slade and grabbed him by his collar, pulling him close to his face, "Is this what you like, Slade? Is this what you want? You want to make your own daughter, someone who respects you so much, feel so much pain. Let me tell you something, Slade, I have never seen Raven shed one tear the entire time I've ever known her, nothing ever seemed to make her cry. But you...her own father, is what caused her heartbreak. She is right, you are unforgivable! You don't deserve to be in prison for this, you deserve to be chained in hell, that's what you deserve! And you call yourself her father!"
Slade looked up at Robin, smiling, "I'm not!" he said slowly.
Robin stumbled back, still holding Slade's collar, "What do you mean you're not!"
"I mean I am not her father!" he said, "She's lied to you...I am not her father, Trigon is, who I am not. Do I look like Trigon? Trigon's a monster! You should know that!"
Robin's jaw dropped as he looked over at Raven, who was looking back at him, a guilty look on her face. He knitted his eyebrows, angered by this.
"You call her your friend? Fools! She's betrayed you, just as you, Robin, have betrayed them before!" he grabbed Robin's wrist, twisting it, "NOW LET ME GO!!!!" Robin felt an extreme pain shoot up his arm and let go of Slade's collar. Slade flipped up from the ground and ran to the ledge, "I'll make sure we shall meet again."
He jumped down the ledge and landed on the city ground like a spider. Robin slowly approached Raven, who was still grasping tight to Beast Boy, still crying a little, "Beast Boy, get away from her!"
Beast Boy let go of Raven, astonished, "But, Robin..."
"I said get away from her!" he grabbed Beast Boy by his shirt and pulled him away from her. Her tears gleamed as she hugged her knees tightly to her chest and buried her face into her knees, "Tell me, Raven...is what Slade said true?" Raven only stood in the same position.
Starfire placed her soft hand on Robin's shoulder, "Please, Robin. Calm down, take some time to breathe for a minute."
Robin shook her hand off his shoulder, "No...I want to know the truth. Did you lie to us, Raven?" she only sat there. Robin took both hands and grabbed her shoulders, hoisting her up from the ground, forcing her to look him in the eyes. He shook her a little, "Speak to me...now!"
More tears rolled down her cheeks, "I did lie to you...but I promise...it was for a purpose. Trigon..."
"I don't want to hear it!" Robin screamed, "You betrayed us...after all we've done for you...you spat in our faces! We helped keep you alive, we've saved your life from a suicide attempt, and you still lie to us? You...you are just like your father."
"No! I'm nothing like him, I swear!"
"You went behind our backs and lied."
"Robin, we forgave you when you lied and betrayed us as well."
"It is because I had a reason," Robin said, letting go of Raven.
"And so do I..."
"No, you don't," Robin said. He looked at the ground and sighed, "It's hard too believe I actually trusted you, Raven. Well, what's done is done," he reached to Raven's chest, where he ripped her eRing from her cloak and threw it to the ground, smashing it, "You are no longer a Teen Titan."
Cyborg's eyes widened, "Whoa, Robin, my man! You can't go too fast at once. You hardly let Raven talk."
"She's said enough lies," Robin said, "It's time we finally cut the string. Take the rest of the night to pack your things and at dawn, you will leave, Raven...do you understand me?"
Raven nodded in defeat, "I understand..." she slowly walked over to the door and opened it. She walked in, closing the door behind her.
"No, Raven!" Beast Boy yelled. He ran towards the door, but Robin grabbed both his arms, stopping him, "Let me go! Raven...please, stop!"
"Let her go, Beast Boy," Robin said calmly, "She was a liar...I had to cut her loose."
Beast Boy yanked with all his might, letting himself fall to the floor, "I hate you, Robin," he said in a low voice, "I hate all of you...every last one of the Teen Titans! I wish you were all dead!"
"Beast Boy..." Starfire said, approaching him.
"No...all of you...the one time Raven's finally felt the same way towards me as I did to her, you pushed her away from me! I hate you all and wish I'd never knew you! Leave me alone!" he got up from the ground and ran to the door, swinging it open, and walking inside.
Cyborg slowly shook his head, following Beast Boy. Starfire, close behind him, leaving Robin alone on the roof.
"Why, Raven?" he asked the dark sky.
Beast Boy opened his eyes, slowly. He sat up from his bed and looked around. Everyone was surrounding him...Robin, Starfire, Cyborg...Raven. They were all asleep, of course, except for Raven. She was sitting around, reading her book as usual.
"Rave?" Beast Boy said weakly.
Raven looked up from her book and brought her finger to her lips, telling him to be quiet. She closed the book and set it down beside her, "Follow me," she whispered. She got up from the chair and started to walk to the door.
Beast Boy swung back his covers, shaking off his nausea. He followed Raven out the door and towards the stairs on the other side of the hallway. They quickly ran up the stairs, towards the roof of the tower.
"Where exactly are we going?" Beast Boy asked.
"I don't want the others to see us doing this," she said over her shoulder.
"Doing what?"
"Just quickly follow me," she said, "And stop dragging your feet, you'll wake them all up, for heaven's sake!"
She reached the door to the roof of the tower and with a wave of her hand, the door swung open. She and Beast Boy ran out, closing the door behind them.
"Now what is it you wanted to say...er...do?"
"This..." she grabbed Beast Boy by his shoulders and pulled him close to her, catching him in a kiss. And this wasn't just a simple kiss. It was a long, embracing kiss. Beast Boy quickly pushed her away.
"What are you doing?"
"I want you to know something," she said in almost a whisper, "I love you, yes, but I cannot allow you to love me back until my father is destroyed. Do you here me?"
"But...but why wait?"
"I cannot risk you. You are important to me and if father Trigon finds that out he'll want to kill you. I will never forgive myself for that. I would grow so sad, I'll just waste away until I die, and I mean it. I just never wanted to show Trigon any weaknesses. He knows I have one, but he can't find out what it is. You are my weakness, you are the one I care for the most. We are not to be seen together..."
"Raven..."
"Beast Boy..." they grabbed each other and embraced. Raven rested her head onto his shoulder. She almost cried, she was so happy to finally let her good, light side take control over her.
"If it will keep you and I safe...then I'll respect your wish."
"Thank you..." she said. She lifted herself from the embrace. She pulled her hood over her face and smiled, "We should head back in...take precautions in case he sees us."
"I already have..." the two whirled around and faced the masked Slade, "Raven...I have finally found your weakness."
She pushed Beast Boy behind her, "Don't you dare touch him! If you lay even a finger on his body, a single strand of hair on his head...I'll..."
"What? Kill me?" Slade laughed, "Please! You're so predictable! Fight me, my Raven. I wanna see how tough you really are."
"No...I will not fight my father. As much as I hate you, I still have respect for you."
"I'm sorry...did I not say it clearly...maybe you need some more anger," he clapped his hands together and Jinx appeared behind Beast Boy. She tapped him lightly on the shoulder and he turned around. Like lightening, she wrapped her arms around his neck and forced him into a kiss. Raven immediately was angered.
"You little witch!" she screamed. She ran over to Jinx, and swung her hand towards her. But instead, she went right through her, making her vanish, and hit Beast Boy square in the jaw. Beast Boy grabbed the side of his face.
"Raven...what'd you do that for?"
"I...I didn't..." she knitted her eyebrows as she slowly turned to Slade, "You...you made that illusion...you're playing tricks with me again!"
"Raven, my, my...you've hurt your one and only love."
"Stop talking this bull like it was all me!"
"Fight me!"
"Never! But...if you're so eager to fight me than go ahead...I never start."
"I can't because I'd win too fast."
"Let's see how fast you'd win...try me..."
Slade nodded and brought his finger up to his face into a snapping position, "You know quite well what would happened if I snap my fingers...don't you?" Raven growled with anger, "You wouldn't want that, would you?"
"What would happen?" Beast Boy asked Raven, "Tell me, what would happen!"
Raven looked at the ground, "If I let you, will you let my friends go?"
"I guess that could make a fair deal."
She smiled softly, "Then you, under my consent, can do it...hurry..."
"Gladly," he snapped his fingers and Raven collapsed onto the ground.
She turned her tired, weakening eyes to the unlikely ones of her father, "Bastard!" she mumbled and she fell limp, her eyes closed.
Robin shot up from the chair he was sitting on. He had heard something, something from above...the roof, perhaps? It sounded like a body falling, something falling. What, though?
Looking around more he noticed Beast Boy and Raven were gone. No! He thought. Where could they be right now? What could they be doing? He looked at Cyborg and Starfire, snoozing away, Cyborg lounged comfortably on the chair and Starfire, her head on his lap.
Robin got up from the chair and walked over to the both of them. He shook them both, "Guys, where's Beast Boy and Raven? Did either of you see them leave?"
Starfire rubbed her large eyes, "I've been asleep all this time. I don't remember anything."
Cyborg rubbed his eyes as well, "How long have we've been asleep, anyway?"
Robin shook his head and turned to the door, "Pretty long, my best guess. A few minutes ago I heard something on the roof...I don't know be them. Titans...go!"
Cyborg and Starfire got up wobbly from their positions and followed Robin out the door and down the hallway. They rushed up the stairs, towards the door to that lead to the roof. Robin swung open the door, gasping what he saw.
The three titans saw Raven first, lying on the ground, a large X fading on her forehead, her eyes tightly closed. They could see she was no longer breathing, probably dead. Next they saw Slade, hovering in the air over the ledge, holding Beast Boy by his neck, ready to drop him.
"Look...we've finally met again, Robin," Slade said with a sneer, "Only this time you can't weaken my grip. Your little Raven is lying there dead on the ground, as I have your precious Beast Boy an inch from death. One wrong move and I'll drop him, and you'll loose yet another Teen Titan."
Robin clenched his fists, "Slade...you little..."
"Uh-uh, Robin," Slade interrupted, "Even a wrong word will flame me."
"What do you want?"
"I want your partnership again, my Robin. Accept? Or reject?"
Robin's eyes flamed with furry, with anger. He couldn't believe Slade was doing this...again, "I reject."
"No, Robin!" Starfire yelled, grabbing Robin's shoulders her forcing him to look her in the eye, "We've lost Raven, yes, but we cannot loose another Teen Titan. Do not let Beast Boy die. We can figure a way to befeat Slade as of later."
Slade shook his head, "You're wasting your time, little girl. Your little Robin has just sealed this boy's fate," he pulled Beast Boy close to his face, "I'll see you in hell, my boy," he outstretched the arm he held Beast Boy and laughed, "Say goodbye to your friend."
"No!" Cyborg screamed at the top of his lungs.
Slade, finishing his evil laugh, let Beast Boy slip from his ice-cold hands. Everyone practically stopped at that point...everyone...everything...seemed to go slower than normal.
Beast Boy's POV
The moment those icy fingers released my throat, for a split second I felt like I was floating. I have heard once if you feel like you're floating before your entire life flashes, it means you will be going to heaven. It didn't feel like heaven.
Raven was gone, she's dead. Her stupid, evil father was her murderer. I cannot believe how a person can be such a wench to his own daughter...killing her...tormenting her from her inside out. It must have been a hell to grow up like her, with a monster in her own house following her every move.
It came as a shock to me that Slade is actually Trigon in disguise. But what really gets to me is if he wants Robin, then why does he want to bring harm to Raven?
But it doesn't matter as I suddenly stop floating, Raven's dead. And I have actually told Cyborg, if she was to die, I would kill myself and join her. But at least I didn't kill myself, and neither did she. So we were both going to heaven, together.
Well...at least one of us are...
Normal POV
"Beast Boy!" Starfire screamed as she watched the last of him disappear over the ledge. The three titans ran towards Slade, attacks at definite ready.
"Uh-uh, titans," Slade said with a smile, "Go on, attack me...see what happens...I'm waiting..."
The three kept gaining towards him, but then stopped at the sudden sight of a fast streak of black flesh disappear behind Slade, then, without any glimpse of who it was, dipped below, they stopped. They heard Beast Boy stop screaming.
Did he finally land? Was he gone?
Slade looked down below and his eyes widened at the sight, "No! It's impossible...no!"
A hooded figure appeared over the ledge. Her eyes gleaming a piercing white at the fading sunset. She hovered above Slade, holding with all her strength, under his slender arms, was Beast Boy, looking down below him with amazement, and at one time, looking above him to see the face of his rescuer.
Who was this girl? She wore a long, white, hooded cloak over her head, so no one could see her face. She floated down towards the sandy top of the roof where she released Beast Boy and turned to Slade.
"You are unforgivable!" she said, her eyes gleaming a slightly red color, "I will never associate with you any longer!"
"Y-you're supposed to be dead!" Slade stammered, "My curse was supposes to kill you...how...how could you survive?"
The figure pulled back her hood, revealing her face. Raven smiled for the first time in her life at Slade, "You think your little curses and spells would work on me? Let me tell you one thing, Slade..." her eyes now gleamed even redder than before and her voice was a lot deeper and sinister, "...Nobody touches my Beast Boy! Now you wanted to fight me...you've got your fight!"
"Raven...you..." he clenched his fists, "Listen, to me, Raven...your eyes are glowing...you don't want to really hurt me, right? Come on, now!"
"No!" she pulled her hood back over her face, "I have dreamed of the one day that I would be able to fight you without biting back anything...and finally I have that chance to do so..." she rose over, her red eyes glowing as the moon was pushing into the nightly sky. Large, black tentacles came out from underneath her and grabbed Slade by both his legs, wrapping so tightly, it almost cut off his circulation.
"Raven...stop this, now!"
"What's the matter, Slade? Afraid of the dark? Afraid of a little bit of hell?" she laughed evilly and the tentacles began to drag him under her cloak, "I'll give you hell!"
"Raven, stop!" Beast Boy said at the top of his lungs, "Stop, I'm okay, now...let him go!"
Raven wanted to continue...but the cries of Beast Boy made her stop. She had to respect his wishes. The tentacles released Slade, making him plop down onto the solid roof. The redness to her eyes faded as she fell to her knees to the ground. Her cloak turned back to its normal bluish color.
"Beast Boy..." she said, turning to him. He ran to her and kneeled down to her side, his arms covering her body. She buried her face into his warm chest, "I can't beat him...I hate him for doing this to me! I hate him!"
"Shhh," Beast Boy said, rubbing her back, "We've got him...it's okay. Calm down, please."
She cried into his shirt. She has never been so emotional before as she was now. Beast Boy was okay, "I couldn't let him hurt you...if you died, I don't know what I'd become of myself."
Robin shook his head, disgusted at the pain Slade was afflicting upon Raven and Beast Boy. He walked over to Slade and grabbed him by his collar, pulling him close to his face, "Is this what you like, Slade? Is this what you want? You want to make your own daughter, someone who respects you so much, feel so much pain. Let me tell you something, Slade, I have never seen Raven shed one tear the entire time I've ever known her, nothing ever seemed to make her cry. But you...her own father, is what caused her heartbreak. She is right, you are unforgivable! You don't deserve to be in prison for this, you deserve to be chained in hell, that's what you deserve! And you call yourself her father!"
Slade looked up at Robin, smiling, "I'm not!" he said slowly.
Robin stumbled back, still holding Slade's collar, "What do you mean you're not!"
"I mean I am not her father!" he said, "She's lied to you...I am not her father, Trigon is, who I am not. Do I look like Trigon? Trigon's a monster! You should know that!"
Robin's jaw dropped as he looked over at Raven, who was looking back at him, a guilty look on her face. He knitted his eyebrows, angered by this.
"You call her your friend? Fools! She's betrayed you, just as you, Robin, have betrayed them before!" he grabbed Robin's wrist, twisting it, "NOW LET ME GO!!!!" Robin felt an extreme pain shoot up his arm and let go of Slade's collar. Slade flipped up from the ground and ran to the ledge, "I'll make sure we shall meet again."
He jumped down the ledge and landed on the city ground like a spider. Robin slowly approached Raven, who was still grasping tight to Beast Boy, still crying a little, "Beast Boy, get away from her!"
Beast Boy let go of Raven, astonished, "But, Robin..."
"I said get away from her!" he grabbed Beast Boy by his shirt and pulled him away from her. Her tears gleamed as she hugged her knees tightly to her chest and buried her face into her knees, "Tell me, Raven...is what Slade said true?" Raven only stood in the same position.
Starfire placed her soft hand on Robin's shoulder, "Please, Robin. Calm down, take some time to breathe for a minute."
Robin shook her hand off his shoulder, "No...I want to know the truth. Did you lie to us, Raven?" she only sat there. Robin took both hands and grabbed her shoulders, hoisting her up from the ground, forcing her to look him in the eyes. He shook her a little, "Speak to me...now!"
More tears rolled down her cheeks, "I did lie to you...but I promise...it was for a purpose. Trigon..."
"I don't want to hear it!" Robin screamed, "You betrayed us...after all we've done for you...you spat in our faces! We helped keep you alive, we've saved your life from a suicide attempt, and you still lie to us? You...you are just like your father."
"No! I'm nothing like him, I swear!"
"You went behind our backs and lied."
"Robin, we forgave you when you lied and betrayed us as well."
"It is because I had a reason," Robin said, letting go of Raven.
"And so do I..."
"No, you don't," Robin said. He looked at the ground and sighed, "It's hard too believe I actually trusted you, Raven. Well, what's done is done," he reached to Raven's chest, where he ripped her eRing from her cloak and threw it to the ground, smashing it, "You are no longer a Teen Titan."
Cyborg's eyes widened, "Whoa, Robin, my man! You can't go too fast at once. You hardly let Raven talk."
"She's said enough lies," Robin said, "It's time we finally cut the string. Take the rest of the night to pack your things and at dawn, you will leave, Raven...do you understand me?"
Raven nodded in defeat, "I understand..." she slowly walked over to the door and opened it. She walked in, closing the door behind her.
"No, Raven!" Beast Boy yelled. He ran towards the door, but Robin grabbed both his arms, stopping him, "Let me go! Raven...please, stop!"
"Let her go, Beast Boy," Robin said calmly, "She was a liar...I had to cut her loose."
Beast Boy yanked with all his might, letting himself fall to the floor, "I hate you, Robin," he said in a low voice, "I hate all of you...every last one of the Teen Titans! I wish you were all dead!"
"Beast Boy..." Starfire said, approaching him.
"No...all of you...the one time Raven's finally felt the same way towards me as I did to her, you pushed her away from me! I hate you all and wish I'd never knew you! Leave me alone!" he got up from the ground and ran to the door, swinging it open, and walking inside.
Cyborg slowly shook his head, following Beast Boy. Starfire, close behind him, leaving Robin alone on the roof.
"Why, Raven?" he asked the dark sky.