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Deal with the Devil.

Raven returned to her room fighting back the tears. Memories of that dreadful place had consumed her. She knew that she NEEDED to mediated right away. But first the girl found herself pulling up the edge of her quilts to get to an old shoe box she kept hidden under her bed. Inside were items she thought to precious to display upon her shelves. Underneath a pile of old photos and a pair of golden earrings was that which she was craving for. Her beloved Harriet. Through the dolls dress was fading and one of her button eyes had fallen off, that didn't matter to Raven, who hugged her extremely tight. She hadn't seen the dear thing in years. Temptation to keep it out loomed, but Raven could feel her emotions beginning to surge. Carefully she laid the toy back into the box, telling herself that it was silly for a girl of her age to still have a doll. She should have thrown it out years ago. But deep down inside of her Raven knew she never would. It meant to much to her.

Raven breathed deeply. She then sat herself down crossed legged upon her neat and tidy bed. Little by little her mind drifted away as she muttered her chant softly.

"Azarath Metriion Zinthos,"

Bang.

"Azarath Metriion Zinthos,"

Bang. Bang.

"Azarath Metrii…Metri.. WHAT?"

Raven's door flew open. The girl folded her arms, eyes glowing red. "Beast Boy this is the second time you've disturbed me today. This had, for your sake, better be important!" A vase on Raven's top shelf turned black and flunk it's self across the room, smashing against the other wall. Beast Boy gulped.

"Well.." he started, but couldn't find the words to go on.

Raven's eyebrow began to twitch.

"Um…I.." Sweat dripped across his forehead.

A dark flame emerged around her.

"Ahh! I mean Robin wants you in the den!.. Yeah that's right…Robin…den…now…" With that the green boy rushed off.

Shrugging to herself, Raven hopped off her bed and floated out of her room, shutting the door behind her.

The lights were off in the den. Even through Raven was accustomed to the dark, not even she could see properly. With one hand she carefully began to search in vain for the light switch. "Dam," she thought as she couldn't locate it.

"Robin?" she called out. "You wanted to see me?"

The lights flicked on. Raven found the sudden brightness painful on her eyes.

"SURPRISE!!"

Cyborg, Robin and Starfire stood in the middle of an over decorated room. There were balloons and streamers hanging out of every nuke and cranny. As well as a banner saying 'Happy Birthday,' hung over their heads. In front of them was a large table, full of taste treats and a beautiful chocolate cake in the centre with sixteen candles upon it. It was also surrounded by a brightly wrapped present. It was clear that a lot of time and effort had gone into this, yet the idea of being grateful, even flattered wasn't the first thought in Raven's mind.

"BEAST BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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It hadn't been hard to track the fun alien girl. Not when the giant T tower stuck out like a big thumb. Scarlet found herself thinking that maybe it wasn't sure a good idea to advertise your home like that. What would stop someone from dropping a bomb on it or something?

Curiosity had overpowered the girl. She wanted to see Starfire again. She also wanted to see the other Titans, but perhaps more importantly she wanted to see Raven. Scarlet shut her eyes as she drifted across the water. What would Raven be like? Probably exactly like her. Well they were clones after all. So it would only stand to reason for them to be identical, right?

The building was covered in glass windows, so it was easy for Scarlet to see and hear everything that was happening. But also she had to remind herself to keep out of sight. The last thing she wanted was to be seen.

"YOU PROMISE ME!" Raven roared. The room shook. Beast Boy held up his hands in defence.

"I'm sorry Rae, it was an accident," He looked truly sorry, Scarlet observed. She felt pity for him.

Starfire tried to speak with her friend, but was tossed aside. Scarlet felt a sudden bust of rage. How dare she hurt Starfire! The fridge levitated above the green creature threatening to crush him. Cyborg had to shove him out the way. Then the half robot caught the article with his mighty arms. Scarlet looked impressed. Plonking it to the ground, Cyborg gave Robin a desperate look. The Titan leader step forward, assessed the situation and spoke calmly to Raven in the hopes of appealing to her rational side. Scarlet felt her heart flutter within her chest. That boy was really handsome.

Meanwhile Raven had stopped having her 'fit', but she felt the need to give Beast Boy her most dirtiest of looks. As if to say, I know where you sleep! He gulped.

"Come friend and open your present. It is from us all," Starfire cheered.

"But mostly Star," Cyborg pointed out.

"And we have the receipt if you don't like the colour!" added Robin.

Starfire flashed both of then an angry glare as Raven cautiously undid the parcel. "Of course she will like it! She picked it!" Starfire hissed.

From where Scarlet was sat she could see every feature on Raven's face. Upon opening the present, she expected the girls face to light up with joy, as hers would if she was ever given such a present. But strangely quite the opposite happened.

"Pink?" Raven questioned. "Is this some sort of joke?"

Starfire looked confused. "But Raven this is the dress that you picked?"

Raven shut her eyes. She could feel the rage brewing. First Beast Boy had gone against her wishes, now Starfire seemed to have her confused with a Barbie doll. How had they expected her to react from this? Did they think that she would happy about it? Did her so call friends know nothing about her? And whose fault is that? She thought.

"Raven is something the matter?" Starfire asked.

Raven glared at her. At all of them. The cake explored.

"I need to mediate," With that the girl walked through the wall to her room. Upon her bed lay that dam card that had started all of this. Raven stomped up to and ripped it in to a thousand pieces.

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As the night began to set in, the streets became colder. Scarlet shivered. Maybe being free wasn't all it was crack up to be. Her mind drifted back to the T tower, and to the Titans.

"I bet it's warm there," she whispered.

A loud crash from behind her caused the girl to whirl round in surprise. A figure all in black leapt out from the shadows at her. She dodged it easily. Another appeared. It too made an attempt to grab her, but was distracted by a flying car.

"Hey," she called as a third figure wrapped their arms around her body. "Personal space!" she swung her legs with all her might. The figure let go off. Quickly she knocked him off his feet, and aimed a blast at his head.

"Who are you?" she demanded, ripping off his mask to reveal a series of wires.

"Hey you're a robot?!" The first one had picked himself up by now and was preparing to charge her. However Scarlet' senses gave her the advantage. With one mental hold, he was stopped dead in his tracks and thrown against the nearest wall.

Scarlet floated into the air. "Who's ever behind this has some explaining to do!"

As Slade tried to attack her with his pole, she brought up her energy field. It was impenetrable.

"Another robot I suppose," the girl hurled him away.

"No. I'm human," Slade got to his feet. "But then again so are you, my dear,"

Scarlet narrowed her eyes. "Have we met before?"

"Yes, indeed we have. I'm impressed. I would have though you to young to remember,"

Scarlet landed on the ground. "What do you want from me?" A lamp post bend out of shape behind her. It hovered above her head, twisting on it's self, threatening to strike the man down if he approached her.

"Ah, dear Scarlet so powerful, and yet such a disappointment,"

The post gained a friend.

"That ridiculous cult thought you were the answer to their prays. But remember you were only ever second choice," Slade hissed.

"What do you want?" she repeated.

"Child, do you know why you are so powerful? Do you know why you can do so much more then what Raven can do?"

"Huh?" Scarlet blinked. "What are you talking about?"

Slade lowered his pole. "Raven's demon is what holds her back. If she were to enforced her full power she would also have to enforced her darker side. Something she would never do. You, however have no demon and therefore can hold nothing back. You have access to un limitless power,"

Scarlet looked down at her hands. She shook her head. "What's the point of power, if I'm all alone…"

Slade gave a sly chuck. "Why that's why I'm here. You could have it all, young lady. You could have it all, friends, a home. All you would have to do is to eliminate everything in your path…"

"Raven!" Scarlet's mind flicked back to the shopping trip with Star. How wrong she had been. "We're to different. They'd find out…"

"I'll teach you to suppress your emotions. To think and act like Raven. No one would ever know,"

Scarlet thought about it. The two posts dropped to the ground.

"Wait, what do you want out of this?" she asked.

Slade narrowed his eye. "Lets just say, you would owe me…"

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