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Hi it's me again...don't hurt me whimpers and hides behind a very small rock. I'm so sorry I haven't been updating, my dad has been on his deadline and I have been busy playing Fatal Frame and Soul Calibur 2. In other words, what little time I could have been on the computer I was playing video games...I BET I COULD BEAT YOU!!!! I'm also going to Hawaii on Wednesday, September 1st. I am just sooooooo excited about this.

Chapter 8 : Brimstone

Cri continued to stare out the window until Cyborg came over to her and tapped her on the shoulder. Cri tore her gaze from the star flecked sky and the city lights to look at the half robot. "Hey Cri, is there somthin' wrong? Maybe you would like to talk about it." he asks with a concerned look on his face. "I'm fine Cyborg I am just remembering something that I wish I could go back and change. Maybe even, if I could, do all over again..." Cyborg nodded and left her alone knowing that look of pain. It would most defiantly not be a good idea to try and get her to talk about it.

Cri turned back to the window and stood there watching for another 10 minutes until the figure on the roof disappeared. She sighed deeply and shook her head wishing she could enjoy the party a little more. She knew the party was for her but her heart just wasn't in it right now. The young girl closed her eyes and rested her forehead against the cool glass for a minute trying to clear her mind.

Cri turned around and scanned the room. She raised an eyebrow as she watched Beastboy try to do the limbo and fail miserably at it every time. Cri chuckled lightly to herself. 'I still don't see why Brimstone wants me here...still even if I still had to do it, it would have been a lot easier to keep an eye on my target if I could just do it from a distance. It wouldn't have brought back so many sad memories but noooooo that idiotic Red Dragon Army loves to get on my nerves. So they decided they just had to take one of their fancy little radar proof submarines and sink my ship with those new "drill torpedoes" humph, idiots.'

Raven looked towards Cri from where she was sitting. Her glazed eyes and seemingly uninterested expression just didn't seem to fit in with her personality and defiantly not the occasion. A cold chill ran up the empath's spine. She had the weirdest feeling that the girl was hiding something of great importance from the team. And when Raven had a weird feeling like this it was always right. Well almost always.

Raven hated invading others privacy, especially their final sanctuary, their mind, but Raven knew that it would probably be better if she did. She established a small telekinetic link with the strange new Titan and entered her mind. The second she had taken 2 steps she ran face first into a wall. Every mind wall "looks" different and Cri's could be described as a 20 foot high 5 foot thick reinforced stone with spikes and gargoyles lining the top.

The sorceress knew there was absolutely NO WAY she could get through to read her mind but just as she was exiting her mind a single thought escaped the barrier and Raven saw it was of a huge scorched and burning battlefield with a much younger looking Cri kneeling in the center of it all sobbing her heart out. In her arms was the charred body a dying man. And what Cri said would haunt her mind for the rest of the night. "Please...Please don't leave me...I need you daddy! I love you..."

Cri played the memory through her head one last time and looked around at all of her new friends. She was so happy and very surprised she was accepted into the Teen Titans. 'Beastboy you try so hard to be funny, yet you fail so badly its hard not feeling bad for you. Robin your so cool and confident...The perfect leader. Starfire, you may be naive but you know how to make someone feel welcomed.' All this crossed Cri's mind as she looked at each Titan in turn. 'Then of course there is Cyborg...Im sorry if it seems I don't like or trust you like friends should, but its so hard to talk to you...You remind me so very much of my father, Xenon. And how he died saving me. And last but not least Raven. You may be half demon but you isolate yourself even though your heart and soul are so amazingly pure and your intentions are true. What happened to you that makes you so scared to just tell someone about your feelings even if you don't have to feel them?'

As Cri's eyes stare at Raven, she looks up and her lavender eyes lock with Cri's ice blue ones. It was only for a few seconds but in that time span Raven could almost literally see all of the pain Cri must have gone through in her past. That one memory that revealed itself to her was not Cri's only pain filled moment. Raven quickly tore her gaze from Cri's, actually feeling sorry for the girl.

Raven laid back and tried to rest her eyes, but it was not the music that disturbed her every second, it was that one memory of Cri and her father. She started thinking about the memory, trying with all her might to find out why her highly trained mind couldn't block it out. Something about Cri, other than the fact that she was younger, was very different. She just couldn't put her finger on it.

Realization suddenly hit Raven. Cri's skin was paler and her eyes had a slight luminescence to them. Her ears were of course slightly pointed but now that Raven had a chance to study them she noticed they were not as prominent as an elf's. Now with new information Raven struggles to think what Cri could possibly be, but she didn't have much time to think. The nearby window, the one Cri was staring out of, shattered raining glass everywhere.

I know it's not the best cliffhanger but it will just have to do for now cuz I'm having writers block. Please, when you review could you give me some suggestions for the next chapter? I promise I will credit you. DO NOT give Cri away or it will ruin my plot.