Bueno, por miedo a Tanar'ri

The third week of Tir'ier's presence came and went without much incident. Things would have been calm except Tear seemed to be in a darker and more withdrawn mood then the team had ever seen Raven. Raven for her part kept to her room as well since she really didn't want to be near Tear and the only place he wouldn't follow her to was her room save for when he brought her meals.

Just the other day Tear had brought in her breakfast right as she was changing. Having gotten up late that day Raven had forgotten that Tear ran like a machine, always on time. And thus he had walked in on a near stark naked Raven. Clad in just a pair of pink panties Raven had crossed her arms over her chest and screamed at Tear to leave. Her yelling certainly didn't help his mood towards her but she didn't care. She didn't want him to see her nude. Despite all the screaming, which did attracted the rest of the team who came and went very quickly, Tear only gave Raven an unimpressed glance and asked in a casual tone if she wanted the news paper. Raven had yelled at him again before he made a very calm exit, totally unphased by what had transpired.

Today Raven had an extra reason to stay in bed. She woke with a blinding headache, looked over at her calendar and saw the little red mark before rolling back into the relative comfort of her blankets. The very embarrassing incident yesterday plus the stomach craps along with the headache made Raven feel like she couldn't face the world. She just wanted to curl up into a ball and be left alone.

Of course Tear brought in her breakfast but today he brought it to her bedside table.

"Di'Candra?" Tear said giving the ball of blanket a shake.

Raven mumbled incoherently "Go away."

"Is something the matter Di'Candra?" Tear asked. In the back of his mind Tir'eir was only slightly worried. If she was sick he would nurse he as his duty called him to.

He shook Raven again and got a louder mumble but still sounding like jibberish to Tear. Tear grew impatient. He could sense that something was different about the Di'Candra but he couldn't place it. Tear shook Raven once again and this time she yelled at him to go away as she wriggled her way across her bed to get some distance between them. Tear just glared at Raven. She wasn't making it easy to figure what the problem was. However in glaring at Raven Tear noticed a small red spot on the bed sheet. It didn't take him very long to figure out what the spot was and were it had come from.

Tear reached over to Raven, placed an arm around her waist and hauled her over to the side of the bed he was on.

"I said to leave me alone!" Raven yelled as Tear placed her on his lap. Raven turned around so that she could slap him again but Tear caught her hand.

"Slap me once, shame on me. Slap me twice, shame on me. Never a third time, Di'Candra." Tear told Raven who struggled against his grip to no avail.

"Just leave me be!" Raven yelled at Tear. Her demon guardian just looked her totally not caring of what Raven wanted, threw off the blanket that was covering Raven's lower body, and abruptly threw Raven on her back. The resulting bouncing plus the fact the Raven's shirt had been traveled up during her little wriggling spree meant that she was laying flat on her back, the wind knocked out of her, clad in only her underwear and exposed to Tear.

Raven blushed a deep red as she tried to cover herself but found that she couldn't at all.

Tear noticed Raven struggling to move and just looked her in the eyes. He could see the embarrassment and fear coupled with anger and rage that Raven was feeling.

"Angels, Devils and Humans all roamed without clothes in the dawn of time. One should not be embarrassed about their body. Modern culture teaches all the wrong things." Tear said in his normal monotone before leaning down Raven's ear and saying, "You have a nice body, you should not be ashamed as you are now."

The only thing that Raven could think of was that she would kill Tir'eir after this for embarrassing her so and if he… Raven didn't even want to open that door. She just prayed that that would not happen.

"For one so young you have so much anger and hate. And believe me, we are not going down that road." Tear told Raven looking her in the eye again. "Don't look surprised Di'Candra. One doesn't need to read your mind to know what you are thinking. One simply has to look into your eyes. But you know that don't you. Your eyes give so much away and so you chose to remain hooded and shield your beautiful eyes." Tear told the immobilized girl with a knowing twinkle to his own eyes.

Raven's eyes grew larger with each word. If Tear had figured that much about her, what else could he have figured out? Raven knew that people had a tendency to know what she was feeling and thinking by looking in her eyes so she had a hood as part of her costume, to hide her eyes and thus the only weak spot in her defensive wall against the world.

Tear had also told her that she had a nice body that embarrassed Raven to no end since she could do nothing about covering herself up. Fortunately her shirt still covered her chest but it was riding up near the bottom of her breasts leaving her stomach and everything below open for him to look at. That made Raven feel vulnerable and weak, exactly what she hated to be; helpless. However Tear had never lowered his eyes to wonder her petite body. Why Raven didn't know nor did she care but in a way she was thankful that he was just keeping eye contact with her. The comment about "not going down that road" had hurt Raven a little. It only reinforced her feeling that no one would ever love her and ever make love to her but then again it relived Raven immensely. She didn't want to have her first time to be with Tear.

"I am going to allow you to speak. Answer my questions with just yes or no or else I will gag you once more." Tear told Raven. " You're menstruating are you not?"

Raven was too taken back by the bluntness of the question that she didn't notice that she could talk again.

Tear waited patiently for Raven to notice that her jaw was flapping open and close and that she could speak.

"What's" Raven began.

Tear covered her mouth with his hand. "Yes or no only." Tear said with a cold anger that made Raven wish he had yelled at her instead of spoken softly.

"Yes." Raven mumbled. She was the most embarrassed she had ever been in her life and she really was going to make Tear pay dearly for this little game of his.

"As I thought. The blood stain on your bed suggested as much." Tear said casually.

Raven blushed several shades of red and wished that she could just go into a corner, curl up and die from embarrassment.

"Cramping and headache?" Tear asked keeping his eye contact with Raven.

Raven tried her best not to look Tear in the eye and nodded yes to both.

"I see." Tear said plainly. He kept his eye contact with Raven as he slowly raised his hands up to her chest. Raven's eyes grew wide before she shut them tight and much to her own disgust whimpered. All the fear had come rushing back and Raven couldn't help but let a sob escape accompanied with a few tears.

"Shh… Di'Candra. If I was going to take advantage of you I would have a long time ago. I'm just going to pull down your shirt. Alright?" Tear said in a soothing voice.

Raven still didn't trust him and sobbed more even as he drew down her shirt and drew near to her pubic area. Only once his hands had past her private area and let go of the T-shirt did Raven begin to regain her composure.

"So much anger and hate yet you give up so easily. I released you from paralysis when I asked you about the cramping. I should make you earn your name as all others do." Tear said.

Raven found that she could indeed move but was too ashamed and humiliated for having broken down so quickly that she didn't even bother to retort Tear in any way.

"Please, leave me alone." Raven whispered hoarsely.

"In a bit Di'Candra, in a bit." Tear whispered back. He sat down on the bed at her head, placed Raven's head in his lap and began to slowly massage her scalp.

At first Raven was fearful and just waiting for Tear to try something like begin to do something to her but he never did. Little by little Raven let her guard down and before she knew it she had drifted off to sleep.

When Raven awoke neatly tucked under a blanket. Jolting upwards Raven checked herself over, found that there was no large amount of blood on the bed, and noticed that Tear was gone along with her headache. Raven layback feeling relieved, angry and humiliated. For several quiet minutes Raven just lay there thinking of how powerless Tear had made her feel, how vulnerable she was under his power. He had told her once that she should fear the Tanar'ri and though Tear had actually helped her by taking away her headache, Raven did have a fear of Tear and out of that fear was a grudging respect of his might. Raven may not have liked to admit it to herself nor would she show it but she was afraid of Tir'eir.

A/N: Okay so I didn't get to the girl talk but that will happen next. I felt that this was a good place to put this and to add a bit more mystery to Tir'eir/Tear. For those of you asking all the questions about him just wait for a few more chapters. He'll have an explanatory chapter about all the weird things he's done.

The Spanish Titles Translations

Mira Look

Una Lucha A Fight

Nueva New

Divertido Fun

Información Information

Abominable Abominable

Bonita Pretty/cute

La noche muy loca de Starfire y Robin The very crazy night of Starfire and Robin

Olvida Forget

Espalda Sword

Solomente dos en una pareja Only two in a pair

Bueno, por miedo a Tanar'ri Well, for fear of Tanar'ri