Disclaimer: I don't own any character except for Cara Carpenter.

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Requiem, Chpt2

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Raven looked out the window, gazing at the night sky. What was once so peaceful and calming her seemed to torture her. She couldn't help to think that, maybe, just maybe, Beastboy was watching her from the stars. Maybe he was talking to her.

'Well, I'm still waiting for the message,' she thought bitterly, eyes looking at her hands. Her blood, the blood of that damn bitch Ria, the fucker that took Beastboy away from her, was still there even after countless scrubbings. 'DAMNIT! WHY BEASTBOY, WHY?!' Raven thought, her bed, which was already torn and broken, flying into the wall. 'Why did you have to save me, you stupid ignorant fool...' Raven pulled her knees close to her chest, crying into them.

The other titans looked up being started by the loud crash that came from her room. "Raven, friend, are you okay?" Starfire yelled. "That's not going to do any good, Starfire," Cyborg said meekly, staring at the hole he made in the wall earlier.

'I can't take this anymore...'

Robin, Star, and Cyborg heard another crash emitting from her room and they looked at each other. That was it. Robin and Starfire moved out of the way of the door, and Cyborg busted it in.

Starfire flicked the light switch, but it didn't turn on because all the light bulbs were busted. Robin tried turning on a lamp, but it was so dark that he couldn't find any in the rubble. Cyborg turned on a very bright flashlight in her arm and he scanned the room with it.

"What the fuck?!" Cyborg commented at the mess and the rubble that was Raven's room. He took a step forward, and stepped in a plate of food. "Shit, gross," he commented, shaking his foot.

Robin and Starfire looked around the room. "Raven?" Robin called out, walking around the room looking for her. "Raven, companion, friend!" Starfire shouted. Cyborg had started to search for her too, but their attempts were to of no avail.

"She's gone..."

"Don't say that Cyborg!" Robin snapped, looking at him fiercely. Not a word came out of Starfire, until...

"NO ROBIN! YOU ARE WRONG! SHE IS GONE!"

She choked up, tears welling in her eyes. Robin stepped back, shocked at the sudden outburst. He tried to think of something to say. "Starfire, she'll come back, don't worry about that," Robin said, raising up his hand to put it on her shoulder for reassurance. He glanced over at Cyborg, and already Robin knew what he was thinking.

How could he be so sure about that?

She hadn't even left a note. Raven felt guilty about this, but she couldn't risk them following her and trying to stop her from what she was doing. The street lights, so bright to her, hummed above her head as she wandered through the streets of an unknown city. It was called the Great Willows, on account of all the willow trees that were in the city. Raven had stayed here for a while before she had joined with the titans. It was, though very far from the tower, one of her homes.

The teleportation there, in her weak state, left her with a migraine. Her legs were wobbly whenever she took a step. Her eyes, filled with sadness and angst, looked around for something.

There it was.

Raven walked into the store, getting a couple of odd looks as she walked in, like they were expecting her to rob the store. Wrapping her cloak more tightly around her, she strolled around the shop, gathering a couple of things; a dagger, amethyst, and some herbs. Raven walked up to the counter and placed them all on top of it. The store owner gave her the eye and rang her up.

'Sorry about that, Robin.'

Raven paid a total of more than five hundred dollars, even if it was only ten things, courtesy of Robin. He really should learn to not hide his money in obvious places, like under the bed.

She took the bag of her supplies and nodded, walking out of the store. Raven needed to make a couple more stops before she could do this.

"Ummm..."

Raven turned around quickly. Although it was dark, she could clearly make out the features of the girl that stood behind her. Light brown, almost reddish hair, and brown eyes. She was wearing a yellow jacket, a white buttoned shirt, and blue jeans. But Raven mostly noticed the yellow.

Ugh, yellow.

It reminded her of... Terra, and how Terra had betrayed them years ago. It also reminded her of Beastboy, and how Beastboy had this infatuation with Terra in that time period.

Anyways, right now, she just didn't like that color.

"I saw you in the store," the girl said quietly, but loud enough to hear. "So what?" Raven hissed, turning away from her. "It's none of your business."

"Well, those are some weird things you got... What are you trying to do, raise the dead?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

Fuck, right on target.

"You know that's some pretty dark magic you're getting yourself into..." She continued.

"Shut up. You don't know anything about dark, or magic," Raven replied, walking away.

"Yes, I do," the girl said plainly, "this person... you must have really liked this person if you're risking losing yourself to dark magic."

Raven stopped dead in her tracks, and turned around to look at the girl with a look that could kill. "LIKED HIM?" the half demoness shouted. "I DIDN'T MERELY... LIKE HIM. I LOVED HIM, VERY MUCH!" Raven continued, "...and I still love him."

The girl wasn't taken aback by her shouting, but calmly said, "Doesn't give you a reason to do what you're about to do."

'Bitch, what the hell is she thinking? It's none of her damn business.' Raven thought sourly.

"Fine," Raven said, dropping her bags and taking the dagger out. "If I can't bring him back to life, I don't want to live!" She placed the dagger in front of her heart, hoping that this would scare the girl off. If it didn't, Raven would have to do some serious head bashing.

To her surprise, the girl muttered something, and the dagger whizzed into the girl's hand. She looked it over, and then looked at Raven. A burst of dark energy emitted from Raven's hand, and suddenly, the dagger was back in her hand.

"You're not bad."

Ugh, whatever. Raven was in no mood to chat with this wannabe sorceress thing. She turned around to leave again.

"Wait!"

Fuck, what now? This girl was an irritating. Raven shook her head and continued walking. "You've-"the girl paused as if unsure she should say what she was about to say. She sighed and continued, "you've got the wrong dagger. That one is merely a copy of the one you need, made of steel."

Raven looked at the dagger. So it was made of metal. Who the fuck cares?

Scratch that. Apparently, Raven did. "How would you know?"

The girl stepped towards her and smiled weakly. "I have the actual dagger. Rumor has it, it has touched the blood of Persephone, Greek goddess of the underworld. It's the only dagger in the world that has enough power to raise the dead."

What. The. Hell.

Raven glared at her, not knowing what to say. Fuck, she didn't know anything about this raising the dead shit, only the things she read in her books, but all she cared about was getting Beastboy back, so she just wandered into the magic shop to get some expensive crap that she THOUGHT would help.

"Um... I can help you."

This surprised Raven. "Why would you want to help me when a few minutes ago all you wanted to do was stop me from doing this?" She inquired suspiciously.

"Because, it's too dangerous to do by yourself. There's much power within you, and combined with the experience that I have, maybe, just maybe, we can pull this off."

We? Since when was there a we?

"What's in it for you?" Raven asked her, still suspicious.

"Well... I know how you feel," the girl said, "about loss. I know how you feel about loss. I've lost my family, my dad was the biggest asshole to cross my path, and I basically have nothing to live for..." she looked back at the magic shop. "I grew up around magic, which I didn't really like, but my family, minus daddy dearest, said I would grow up to be a powerful witch. I'm still committed to that. In honor of the ones I love."

Raven looked bored.

"That doesn't answer it," She said simply. The girl raised both her eyebrows and said, "Well all right then, how about this. You love this boy, no?"

"Yes," Raven said through gritted teeth.

"And you want him back?"

"Yes."

"You're willing to lose yourself to darkness to get him back?"

"YES!" Raven growled.

"Well then that practically answers your question. Without me, you're lost, and without you, I have no power for this," the girl said, summing it all up.

Raven looked at her gravely through slitted eyes. She was caught in the corner with no way out, unless she got help.

But she didn't need help.

Raven looked down at the things she bought from the magic store.

Yep, she needed help.

"...Fine..." Raven muttered.

The girl smiled and walked over to her, picking up the bag and looking inside of it. "Great. We're going to make magic history with this!" she said excitedly. Raven said meekly, "Woopee."

"So, I'm Cara..." she said, holding out her hand.

Raven looked at it like it was poisonous, and continued looking until Cara slowly put it away.

"I'm Raven."

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Um, that's it for the second chapter, sorry about it being so crappy because I did it in half an hour... =D

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-Tanya