DISCLAIMER: Sadly I'm just a poor little girl wishing to own Teen Titans . ::tears:: But I do own my sexy Michael and his too freaky for words sister: Emily

Hello!!!!! I know you missed me!! Its been like a full 5 hours since I last updated. Anywho.... (lol I love that word) I'm sorry for this chapter's shortness but the next chapter is going to be extremely long and full of stuff so I just wanted to post this so you have something to read while I on and off work on the next chapter.

enjoy,

CHAPTER 8

The Return

"Raven...Raven...Raven?" called Robin softly. "Huh?" groaned Raven as she sat up. She was sitting on the floor of the kitchen. Light flooded through the windows, Raven guessed it was around 8 or something. Robin was kneeling beside her and had a hand on her shoulders; a shutter ran through Raven's body as she noticed this. "Everything alright?" he asked as Raven stood up, "Uh... yeah, I must have been sleepwalking," Raven quickly walked out of the room her face completely red. Raven almost ran down the hallway to the bathroom, she ran the water in the sink and splashed water on her face. Something caught Raven's attention; there was a bruise on Raven's neck. It looked like someone was trying to strangle her, Raven tenderly touched it. It stung like fire, that's when Raven knew she didn't dream what happened in the kitchen last night.

Raven spun around, half expecting Emily to be there, standing in her bloody white dress. But no one was there, just the wall.

Emily stood there, blood dripping out of her pale bony cut finger...slow and painfully she finished the message..."Kill Starfire" the message was inscribed in a bloody frenzy. Emily turned slow as dripping water, her face burnt and blistered from the fire from last night. She smiled sinisterly and waved. Blood oozing onto the floor...

Raven closed her eyes and screamed. When she opened her eyes, Emily and the message was gone. Raven ran out the room and slammed the door shut, panting heavily. "What happened?" asked Robin as he ran out of the kitchen, Raven looked up and quickly covered up her fright. She exhaled and gave a cold stare to Robin; as much as it pained her to act this way to her heart throb she narrowed her eyes and replied, "None of your business."

When Raven saw the look on his face Raven was tempted to apologize and hug him but resisted. Raven bit her lip and looked down, slowly she started to turn and walk towards the living room, Robin followed her.

The two of them entered the living room where Starfire and Cyborg were hanging out. More like, Cyborg playing a video game and Starfire watching with her eyes glued to the screen, occasionally clapping her hands and giggling when Cyborg blasted a monster.

Raven took her usual place in the couch by the wall. She picked up the horror book she left there a few days ago. She found she couldn't really get into the book; she was too freaked out by what was happening around her on the outside than that of this stupid little book seemed more boring than scary (plus the cheers of Starfire and Robin didn't help her concentrate either).

The doors of the living room slide open and Beast Boy walked in, "Hello ladies," he said in a sexy voice. He was wearing a hat with a spring on it and at the end of the slightly drooping spring was mistletoe. Beast Boy stood in the middle of the room flexing his muscles. Starfire came over and gave him a kiss on the cheek, Beast Boy blushed and his knees went weak. Starfire giggled softly and went over to continue to watch Cyborg.

Raven looked up from her book; Beast Boy was still blushing some. His eyes wandered over to Starfire and looked at her longingly as Starfire was slowly inching over to Robin. He sighed and sat down beside Cyborg and grabbed the controller laughing and started to play as if nothing was wrong. It's amazing what you see when your completely ignored and forgotten, Raven thought to herself bitterly also watching Starfire and Robin.

The alarm went off, the room was flooded with red flashing light. The titans rushed over and crowded around the computer, "What the-?" asked Cyborg, "I thought he was dead!" Beast Boy groaned, "I guess Slade's not dead then," Robin said quietly not believing what he saw either. The titans all started running towards the door, except Raven. "Are you coming or what?" asked Cyborg when he noticed Raven heading towards the hallway, "Yeah, one minute..." Raven took off, running down the hallway until she got to her room. She pushed in the code and the door opened. She ran over to her desk and pulled the drawer right out and threw in on the bed looking through it, finally she found what she was looking for. She placed it in her robe and ran out of the room.

It's not as short as some as the chapters I had in my last story but this story I've been doing pretty good and writting longer so this is short for me....

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