Chapter 13: Her awaking from a long slumber
Oh my god!!! This is so sad!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!! It's chapter 13... the turning point in the story. Sobs uncontrollably NOOOOOOOO!!!! I'm sad. Anyway wipes away a tear I'll see if I can recover. Takes deep breath There I feel better already. Well almost.
Anyway. Like I said this is the turning chapter. It now goes from Raven being in a coma to her... well you'll just have to read to find out. Anyway in this chapter you start to get a better idea of what Slade's plan is, so for all the smart cookies out there you'll probably figure this out fairly quickly. Well, actually you'll have a good guess. But chances on it being right are pretty slim.
Guess What??? I GOT 13 REVIEWS!!! So look out for the unveiling of part of Slades plan in the chapter. ((Note: It's Robin who comes to the quick conclusion.))
Anyway as I write this I have to make a quick dedication, to my new baby cousin Christina. She came into this world on November 10th 2004 as a healthy 7 pound blond hair, blue eyed girl!! So although she can't read and will never know this is dedicated, to her I'm dedicating it to her anyway. Even though she looks like Terra. Who for those who know me well... know I do not like Terra. But that's my opinion and I have my reasons. Anyway on with the story...
P.S Before you star to read this you may want to read the last little part of the last chapter. Just to refresh your memory and all, because in this chapter I literally start off where I left off.
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The Real Disclaimer- All right. That was a lie. I don't own Teen Titans... or anything for that matter. But the rest was true. Well almost. Okay there was only one part that was true, because I really am evil!!
Anyway let us continue!!
Raven felt cold at first; as though she was lying on a stone floor. But slowly and surely she felt herself drifting into a soft mattress and warm hand intertwined with hers. She groggily opened her eyes to see two evergreen eyes looking down at her hand, tears streaming down his cheeks.
"I love you too," she whispered softly.
Beast Boy's eyes grew the size of plates when he heard the voice that he had been longing to hear for what had seemed like forever. He looked up at Raven's face to see her two beautiful violet eyes dancing with small tears that wer being held back. For the first time since that dreadful night he felt entirely overcome with joy. It wasn't a fake smile that he wore; it was 100 original.
"YOU'RE AWAKE!!" he said as he grabbed her in an embrace that was almost more painful then Starfire's. But although it hurt Raven, she didn't stop him; she had longed to hug him throughout all her time wandering the hospital, and now that she was finally getting that hug, she wanted it to last for an eternity.
"Yes, I am. I wanted to thank you for something too," she said as she pulled back and away from the warm embrace.
"For what?" he asked, as his face drew up in a confused way.
"I wanted to thank you for helping me find my way back." She moved closer and closer to his face.
"But-"Before he finished his sentence, he felt Raven's warm, soft lips meet his, making him instantly forget the rest of his sentence.
Although the kiss was short, it was the most wonderful thing Beast Boy had ever felt. It was nothing like the kiss they shared on their first date. This kiss was like the perfect, brilliant, clear, beautiful day after a destructive storm, like nothing Beast Boy had ever imagined. This kiss made all his pain that had built up while Raven was in the hospital wash away with the single touch of her lips. This kiss was his savoir from a misery that had built up inside him over the past week. This kiss was amazing.
As Raven pulled back she smiled weakly. "You were saying?"
"Nothing of any importance." He gave her a huge cheesy grin, forcing Raven to suppress a chuckle that was close to escaping.
"Beast Boy." Starfire said as her head popped into the room. "Robin has bought us all the delicious delicacies that can be found-"her mouthed dropped as she caught sight of Raven with her eyes open, sitting up straight and looking at her. "RAVEN!! YOU HAVE AWOKEN!" she exclaimed as she flew up to Raven and grabbed her in a huge hug.
Robin and Cyborg then looked in the room after Starfire's sudden outburst of joy. They both smiled and walked in and found their places near the bed.
"Hey look who finally decided to wake up!" Cyborg said merrily as he went over and messed up her hair with his enormous robotic hand.
"Welcome back!" Robin said as he crossed his arms and watched as the Tamaranian tried to hug the poor girl to death.
After a few desperate gasps for air by Raven, Beast Boy finally tapped Star on the shoulder. "Star, I think you may be hugging her a little too hard."
"Oh, I am sorry Raven! I did not mean to hurt you!!"
Raven inhaled long and hard before she replied, "I know you didn't mean to, Starfire. It's okay."
Suddenly two other people popped their heads into the room. "What's all the kafuffle? We could hear Star scream all the way down on the 6th floor!! " said the girl with the medium length brown hair.
Cyborg turned and smiled at the sight of Kara. "Raven woke up!" he said as he gestured with his hand for them to both come in.
"Raven, this is Kara and Emily. They've been helping you recover." Cyborg said as he pointed to the girls as they walked up beside him. The two girls waved at Raven, who replied with a simple and icy, "Hello."
"Don't take it personally," whispered Cyborg, "She's like this with everyone at some point. She'll warm up to you eventually. She's just not good with strangers."
Emily nodded and went closer to where everyone else stood around the bed talking with Raven, leaving Kara and Cyborg to talk alone, for pretty much the first time ever.
"So- uh- Do you wanna- Now that Raven is better, and everything-"Cyborg scratched the back of his head nervously as a small blush crawled up his face. "Do you wanna go to a movie with me tonight? Or something like that?"
A smile grew across Kara's face. "That would be great!" she exclaimed. They both exchanged grins and then walked forward a bit more to join the group.
"So, what was it that you dreamt about while you slumbered?" asked Starfire.
Raven looked nervously at the floor, wondering whether or not to tell her friends what exactly happened. They'd either think she'd gone totally nuts, or believe her. "Well- I'm not quite sure if it was all a dream," she said quietly, while twitching her hands nervously.
"What do you mean, you aren't sure it was all a dream?" questioned Robin.
"Well, it all started when I arrived at the hospital." She began to tell the tale of how she met Alley and Denis, how she spent countless hours searching for her body, how they finally found Alley's body and how her sister had been the one who hurt her. But before she could explain anything more about why Alley's sister was set up to hurt her, Starfire interrupted.
"Why would she do such a thing?!"
Raven looked at Starfire for a second before her eyes drifted off towards the floor yet again.
"Well, it wasn't entirely her fault. She was trying to protect her sister."
"From who?" Robin asked as curiosity kicked in.
Raven hesitated on telling them for a few seconds. Knowing what their reactions would be, she closed her eyes, not wanting to see it, and then said the name, "Slade."
When Raven opened her eyes she saw the shocked expressions that had shot across every face in the room, and those shocked eyes were all staring at Raven in disbelief.
It took them all a couple minutes to completely register the fact that it was the Slade they were all thinking of.
"But, what would Slade want with you being hurt!? I thought he was obsessed with hurting Robin!" Beast Boy exclaimed as he broke the silence.
Robin glared at Beast Boy for a few seconds before slouching into a thinking pose while leaning up against a table. "He wanted you dead?" he asked Raven.
Raven nodded in response.
Everyone looked at Robin waiting for him to say something. "My best guess is that he wanted one of the most powerful members dead, and then one of the other most powerful members," he nodded in Beast Boy's direction, "would be in such grief that he wouldn't be able to fight. Leaving 3 members to protect the city. Which leaves the odds against us. And it also means that I have to find out how exactly he's planning on doing that."
Everyone stared in astonishment at Robin's guess. 'Is it true?' they all thought.
"I have to go find out how he plans to do that. See you guys later." Robin stood up and walked out the door, leaving a frowning Starfire to look on after him. "I am going to go aid Robin in his search for a answer," she said as she slowly flew out the door, pursuing Robin down the hallway.
Then Cyborg looked up at a clock in the corner of the room. "We better get going too. It's almost six o'clock, and this one," he said as he ruffled Emily's blonde hair, "has to be home by 6:30 for supper. So I'll see you guys later." He, Kara and Emily walked out the door, all giving a small wave as they left.
That left Beast Boy and Raven, once again, alone in the hospital room.
Silence surrounded them as they both gazed aimlessly around the room, trying to avoid contact with the other's eyes. After a few minutes of a long peace Beast Boy broke the silence. "Are you sure about Slade?"
Before Raven could reply, a voice came from the entrance. "Yes."
They both looked back in surprise at the new voice, and there, standing in the doorway, was both Alley and Cammie.
Cammie was wearing the attire Raven had seen her in earlier, but Alley was in hospital clothes and pushing around an IV with a stuffed animal hanging off of it. Her skin was paler than usual, and her eyes seemed to be less vibrant then normal. But she still looked like the Alley Raven remembered.
"Hi," Alley whispered in a tired voice.
"H,." Raven replied as they both looked at the state the other was in.
"Uh- Hi?" Beast Boy said, still confused by who these people were. Then he noticed the girl who hadn't said anything. She looked familiar, and after thinking for a few seconds he realized it was the same girl who had punched him in the nose on the beach the day he and Raven went on their first date.
"Hey, I remember you! You punched me in the face!" he said as he stood up and started to walk towards her, making the girl's eyes widen in shock. But before he could move forward anymore, he felt a hand slither onto his arm and hold him back from going any further. "Beast Boy, this is Alley and Cammie," Raven said as she pointed towards the two girls.
Beast Boy's eyes widened in surprise. "So you told the whole story, but yet you didn't tell me that the girl who punched me in the face was the same one who was... Uh- Your name's Alley, right?" he asked, as he looked over at the girl with red hair.
"Yes, that's right," Alley said, trying to stay very quiet and keep her voice no more then a soft whisper.
"Okay. Thanks." He turned back towards Raven. "You told the whole story and didn't tell me that the girl who punched me was Alley's sister!?!" Beast Boy exclaimed finishing his paragraph.
"I was going to tell you, but Starfire cut me off," Raven said in her usual monotone voice.
"Oh, sorry," he said apologetically as he frowned and looked down at the white floor tiles in shame.
"That's all right." She looked over to where the two girls stood. "How are you guys?" she asked.
"Not the greatest," Alley replied looking down at the floor as she gave a short sigh, her face suddenly falling from a sad look to depressed.
"Why, what happened?" Raven asked as she looked at the girls with a concerned face.
Alley continued to stare at the floor when tears started silently roll down her fair cheeks. "Denis-"she started as she tried to swallow back the constant stream of sobs that were destined to run freely down her face sometime or another. "Denis has a concussion."
Raven's mouth dropped as she continued to stare at the two girls. Before she could manage to say anything else Alley cut her off. "They say he's going to die."
Raven covered her mouth in complete shock. Her eyes drifted around the room aimlessly as she fell into deep thought. She couldn't think of what to do or say. She didn't even think she could say something if she wanted to because of the lump that had formed in her throat, preventing any words from escaping.
She barely managed a small, "Oh," before her eyes were fixed out the window, where she could see off into the distance. The rugged landscape was scattered with green trees and cloud cover that blocked any view of the sun. As she looked closely she could see two large birds taking off and heading in direction of the hospital. "I see," she finally said breaking the silence that had enveloped the room. Her gaze then moved away from the birds that were gradually growing bigger as they came closer.
Everyone was silent. It was like they all had something to say but couldn't bring themselves to say it, when suddenly Beast Boy's communicator went off with Cyborg's voice. "BB, get your green butt down to the East Side NOW!!! We have Slade's guys down here!!"
Beast Boy quickly took the communicator off his belt but before he could respond. Cammie let out a long shriek as she pointed towards the window.
Raven turned just in time to see the birds she had seen earlier. But they weren't birds at all... they were Slade minions. The window broke into a thousand pieces causing everyone to fling up their arms in order to protect their faces as two minions broke in. As the glass fell, Raven peered out just in time to see both minions throwing two disks at the four people in the room. "Azarath Metri-"she started when something suddenly hit her head and caused her to scream in pain as a sudden jolt of energy surged through her body. Almost as soon as she was shocked she found herself , for the second time in two weeks, falling into darkness. But as her eyes closed she caught sight of Beast Boy falling as well.
"No," she slowly whispered, as her head hit the bed.
Eep!! I'm so sorry for being lazy and not updating in a month! Please forgive me!!! I really didn't mean to!! I promised myself each week I would get it done soon, but each time I promised I'd have a new test that would come up. So I had to slowly piece everything together over time. But lucky for you all I'm going on a very long car ride today and am dedicating every second of it to this story!! In total it'll be about eight hours of steady story writing! So if you're all lucky and review lots for me before I get back... I may update next week. If I have time that is.
But guess what? I hear that working under pressure helps get stuff done. So I swear on the bible that if I'm not done by January, 1st 2005 then I will have at least 5 new chapters. But I'm sure that I will be finished by then so no need to fret. Anyway from now on it's going to be action packed. But the end is going to be fluff filled. Anyway... I have to do homework so I don't have to do it today in the car. I don't want any interference with my writing time!!
Lot's of Love,
Mlz