Only three chapters after this one. By the way, I know this is bad but if you have any suggestions I will gladly re-write it. For some reason I just couldn't get this to come out the way I saw it.
Together the Titans stood around the makeshift hospital bed in the training room where Seleena was lying.
"What's happening to her?" Beastboy was the first one to speak up.
"Well, she's human…or she was at one point, right?" Cyborg answered question for question.
"According to my books on the subject." Raven answered.
"Right, so it stands to reason that hemoglobin in the red blood cell is what she runs off of," Robin continued.
"But my blood has no hemoglobin!" Starfire injected. "My blood has base of copper, not iron! It is completely different."
"Whatever is in Starfire's blood is a toxin to Seleena. She can't die so she's the closest thing to it," Raven said, piecing things together slightly quicker than everyone else.
"Rea—Raven…" a mere echo of what Seleena's voice was in reality sounded in the young telepath's head. So faint she hardly noticed it.
"She's awake." Raven informed the group, slightly surprised. "Yes?" she responded to the thought message.
"St—star…" Even thought was almost too difficult for Seleena and she was slipping quickly.
"Her blood—it's poison, we figured that much out. How do we fix it?" Raven asked practically.
"What's she saying?" Beastboy broke in. The rest of the group saw the concentration on Raven's face and shushed him. "Ok, ok, all right." BB submitted quietly.
"Dray—drain me e—eh…" Her thoughts flickered like static over the radio.
"Empty?" Raven asked.
"Yea—but reme…" the link fell silent. Seleena was gone again.
Raven opened her eyes to the waiting teens. "What did she say?" they demanded.
"She said to drain her, get the poison out of her veins," The half blood replied.
Cyborg took one step over to the water tumbler they kept for training in case someone got dehydrated and smashed it with one hand. "Rea -- catch!" He tossed a sliver of razor sharp glass in the air and Raven's black energy snagged it. She brought it speeding over to Seleena…without hesitation raised the glass and sliced straight through the vampire's wrist.
Most of the Titans were expecting blood to come running out. It didn't. What had poured out of Starfire as a brilliant emerald liquid now oozed out of Seleena's arm. It was thick and roughly the color of a turtle shell.
"Oh gross!" Beastboy backed up a step.
"That's Star's blood?" Robin asked and it looked like he was going to be sick.
"That's MY blood?" Starfire asked curiously and leaned a bit closer.
Ignoring the boys, Raven calmly left the room and was back in less than a minute. She placed the bucket she'd gotten under Seleena's wrist.
--Several hours later—
Raven sat alone at Seleena's side. All the others, even Beastboy, had gone to bed. There wasn't much to do except wait for the dark green sludge to seep out of Seleena. The bucket was half full but Raven figured that that was probably about all that was going to come out. The blood was getting thicker, and without Seleena awake to make her heart beat, the blood was congealing. Raven sat alone with her book open on her lap but the girl herself was lost in thought.
She didn't particularly like Seleena, but she liked Beastboy, kind of, and Beastboy liked Seleena. Therefore she had to find some way to help the vampire. With her head full of thoughts of blood and cures her eyes got heavy and she drifted off to sleep.
"Raven!" Seleena was standing on the rock bridge in front of her.
"What are you doing her?" Raven asked shocked.
"Yeah, what am I doing here? I mean kudos on waking me up and all, but you brought me into a dream?" the coma patient asked confused.
"This isn't a dream, it's my mind, and you haven't answered my question. What are you doing here?" then she thought for a moment. "Your mind must be just strong enough to contact an unconscious mind. My barriers are down because I'm sleeping."
"I can see that." Seleena nodded. "How'm I doing with the whole coma thing?"
"Uh," Raven hesitated. "I can't…I don't know."
"Don't know? How can you not know?" Seleena asked confused.
"Well, you're bleeding really slowly, and if we don't get all the blood out then…" Raven left the implied danger.
Seleena thought about the problem. "In my room…there's the number of the butcher I get my blood form. Call him when you wake up, tell him you need about four times my weekly order," she instructed. "Please don't tell Beastboy I go to a butcher," she begged.
"What? Where does he think you get your blood? He can't be that stupid." Raven said. Seleena just gave her a look that said 'its Beastboy.' "Right." She got back to the point. "Ok, how do we…" she stopped unsure if 'feed' was the right word.
Seleena caught on. "On the floor of my closet there are three IV's. You can use them."
"And you have them why?" Raven's eyebrow shot up.
"I used them when I was on the road. IV's leave smaller holes than fangs." Seleena explained. "Just keep refilling till I wake up I guess."