Chapter 4-Past

"Jace?! Jace, what happened?" Raven's eyes were wide with shock as she gazed at a jet black and silver wolf.

"Don't tell! Please? Don't tell? Promise me you won't tell?" the wolf form of Jace spoke (Note to Self: Two quotes popped into my head right now: "That's int'resting."-Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean and "...Well that's not suspicious."-Raven, episode 19 "Date with Destiny".)

"Jace? Jace, what happened? What's going on? Why are you—"
"If I tell you, will you promise never to tell a single soul as long as you live?"

Raven sighed, defeated. "All right. Talk, and I won't."

"Okay. See, I can't...well, I don't...I'll start from the beginning. A long time ago—when I was just a little kid, barely even old enough to fend for myself, I was abandoned by my parents somewhere in the countryside of some sleepy town near the Nebraska border. I've been wandering around ever since, searching for someone who'd take me in. I found many homes, but as soon as they found out—what was wrong with me...I was on my own again. Living on the streets, begging and stealing in order to survive.

"My journey brought me here, and I found a news paper—read about you guys...I couldn't believe it...people like me, with powers that set you apart, make you different from everyone else—and yet, not rejected and left for death on the streets. And when I saw you guys today I knew I just had to meet you—and I did! And then—and then I knew you could never, ever find out about this. I can't help it. It's a part of my powers."

"But can't you control it, if it's one of your powers?" Raven queried.

"That's the thing. I can't control my powers. I knew if you found out, then you'd never accept me. I knew—"

"That's what Terra told Beast Boy..." Raven abruptly zoned out, staring blankly out the window, past the starry sky, and the waxing gibbous moon (Note to Self: This is the phase of the moon right before a full moon.), staring into the depths of deep blue nowhere, remembering the night she sat by her open window, watching Terra skip rocks. Listening to the repetitive plunk as the rock skipped out to the horizon and disappeared, one after another. Hearing her tell her problems to Beast Boy, and Beast Boy's promise...Beast Boy never told—Beast Boy, true to his word?—wondering if, despite this problem, perhaps she was in fact a friend. The voice in her mind telling her she was bad news, and her casting it away...It was returning now, as she sat, distantly listening to the waves crashing onto the shore of the isle...the waves crashing...the only thing shattering the silence—not shattering, harmonizing. The only thing harmonizing with the silence...such a soothing melody...Jace's voice suddenly shattered her thoughts.

"Raven?" Through the darkness she could tell he was trembling.

"What's wrong, Jace?"

"Tomorrow night...it's a full moon, isn't it?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Don't let me out of my room tomorrow night. And don't let anyone in. Just trust me..."

"Jace, what are you talking about? I'm not going to let anyone find out, if that's what you're worried about."

"No, it's not that...it's...just trust me, okay? If you or anyone else comes in or I get out..." Jace's mind faded away into the distance, thinking about the many chaotic disasters that could finish the sentence.

"Don't worry, Jace. No one's coming in. I won't let you out. I promise. Now you get some rest. You need it."

"Okay. And thanks, Raven. Thank you so much."

"No problem," Raven walked to Jace's door. She started to say something, something that was burning in her chest like a fire inside of her, but instead remained silent as she closed the door as she walked out of Jace's room, leaving with a heavy heart and distracted mind full of distant thoughts, and memories of Terra as she first met the Titans.

Author's Note: Oh I was sooo excited to write this chapter! I love the part where Raven's mind wanders away...so fun to type! It was really hard to write this part because I was trying to explain what Jace means where you can comprehend it. Easier said than done! Chapter...6 or 7 should reveal the importance of Terra's sickness—no Jace does not get sick! That is so anticlimactic. Let me know what you think!!!! I'm so desperate that I'm preparing to ask for Flames! I want your opinions and any suggestions. I'm not giving spoilers to anyone except my buddy Kelly because she squeezes it out of me with her puppy face—works better than BB's Kitty Face (episode 4, "Forces of Nature")! Email me too at I accept anonymous reviews, although I prefer Signed (if you want to do an anonymous review, please give me your FanFiction name or your email at least. I'd like to read some of your writing too! Oh, and I'm REEEEEEEAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLY desperate for any feedback I can get so...yeah! As soon as I get to it I'm going to scan my drawing of Jace and put it on my website as well as his profile containing information on it (My website is hassling me again). And the chap title is just "Past" because it's all I could think of (It's 10:20PM, so I'm a little tired and in pain because my shoulders and front and back of neck are sunburned to a crisp!) New chap soon! I'll leave you with a quote that's stuck in my head: Skulker: reading text "I have to go to the library—check out a book on a gorilla. Again!" jets come from back flies off, phasing through ceiling. ("Bitter Reunions" is the episode name, in case you're wondering.)