Hi everyone!!! And MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! If you believe in political correctness, go somewhere else for it after you read my story, of course. Thanks again to reviewers, you make me HAPPEE!!! I decided to type up chapter 4 for your entertainment at about 8:30 Christmas night, 1)because my mom won't let me get online to read everyone else's great stories. 2) my mom and sister are watching the Brady Bunch ( >. ) 3)there isn't even anything on tv anyways…but enough of my rambling, and on to everything else!!!

Nighthawk-mallow: thanks for reviewing, and maybe or maybe not Karigan will join the team…she hasn't any powers…but maybe she will…!

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, and not really Jake anymore. (except when he was 16) but anywho…. goes and cries none of you saw that… oh, and I don't own Kelly Clarkson's "Behind these Hazel Eyes" though it is a spiffilicious song.

Forgotten Memory

Chapter Four: Uncovered Secret

Now I can't breathe, no I can't sleep, I'm barely hangin' on.

Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces,
Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one.
Broken up, deep inside,
But you won't get to see the tears I cried,
Behind these hazel eyes.

I told you everything, opened up and let you in,
You made me feel alright, for once in my life.
Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be,
So together, but so broken up inside.
'Cuz I cant breathe, no I can't sleep, I'm barely hanging on.

Swallow me then spit me out.
For hating you I blame myself.
Seeing you it kills me now,
No, I don't cry, on the outside, anymore!

"Well if killing my mother was, 'anyway possible', all you succeeded in doing was pissing me off!" Karigan spat angrily. The sides of Jake's mouth lifted a little, and he advanced towards her. Karigan slowly backed away until she was almost up against the front door. Her eyes widened as the intruder stepped closer. She raised her hand, poised for attack; but before she could, Jake grabbed her by the wrist and pushed her against the oak door. He looked a moment in her eyes and glanced anger and fear, before her tore from her gaze and kissed her forcefully. Karigan's eyes flickered shut. She knew she shouldn't be doing this. Fraternizing with the enemy…faded into nothingness as Jake continued to kiss her passionately. Enemy…her mind whispered weakly. ENEMY! It screamed with renewed ire.

Karigan planted her right hand on the doorknob and turned it. The door swung outward taking Karigan and Jake with it. (AN: yeah, I know, not a lot off doors swing outward, but this one does. I had to make it fit somehow!) The surprise movement caught Jake off guard and threw him to the ground; just as the T-car zoomed up.

Then Karigan's eyes began to glow a blood red, and an aura the same color surrounded her figure, and next to her, a chair wobbled uncertainly. "Bastard!!" Karigan screamed, "You even had the nerve to come back here after what you did to me!!"

Two years of anger and pain reflected in her incandescent eyes. If Jake hadn't slipped into the shadows, he would've either been target practice or toast, literally. Robin and the rest of the Titans rushed up to her, having just witnessed her anger almost being unleashed.

"Shit, are you ok?" Robin asked a normal looking Karigan. She collapsed into his arms from lack of energy. It was almost as he had imagined it, only under worse circumstances. Slade had gotten away, again, and Karigan almost went postal. The Boy Wonder grunted a little under her weight and quickly and gently laid her down on the porch.

"Dude, is she ok?" a worried Beast Boy asked.

"I think so…" Robin replied. Then he leaned over an unconscious Karigan and gently shook her shoulder. "Karigan, wake up. Slade's gone—" Karigan's hand slowly grasped Robins wrist and she opened her eyes.

"I thought I told you to call me Kari." She scolded softly. "And why did you call Jake Slade?" Robin looked up at Cyborg, and then helped Karigan to her feet.

"Friend, who is this Jake of which you speak?" Starfire asked innocently.

"He's the guy that made the robot I drew for him. Those sketches were actual replicas of what came after me and killed my mom." She replied solemnly.

"Dude, your mom died?" the green changeling asked.

"But I thought she was gettin' better." Cyborg added.

Karigan shook her head. "She just woke up, that's it. Her right lung was filling with fluids, her left one collapsed, and she had a blood clot blocking the blood flow to her heart. She knew she wasn't going to make it." The doctor had told Karigan Andrea's prognosis after she had been admitted.

Raven, who usually wasn't affected by death, shuddered involuntarily. Slade had killed someone, indirectly, but nevertheless, killed someone. And for what? For some sick male desire that had been laying, storming, beneath the surface? Just the thought made Raven's stomach lurch.

The dark girl turned to an exhausted looking Karigan, "Why did you glow?" She asked bluntly. Karigan looked at her, expecting the question sooner or later.

"I began to glow because my anger almost got out of my control; which hasn't happened in years." She replied.

"And why did the chair begin to move?" Raven questioned.

Karigan sighed, "I suppose that comes along with the fire." Everyone looked confused.

She sighed again. "If my anger grew any more than it did, anything or everything around me could've been burnt crisp. You see, before I was able to control my anger, it would control me and things around me would start to burn; curtains, plants, furniture, even my friends' hair once." Starfire's eyes widened and she clutched her hair defensively.

Karigan chuckled. "Don't worry, I haven't completely lost control in years. But if I hadn't been so tired today, I could've killed Jake, and believe me, that would've made me feel worlds better." She explained wistfully. "But back to my original question, why did you call Jake Slade?"

Everyone looked at everyone before looking back at Karigan. Robin was the first to answer. "Because that's who we know him as. Slade has been annoying, evading, and leading us on wild goose chases for a good year now. We really don't know what he's planning, until he chooses to reveal it. The only conclusion we can come up with is that he wants us out of the way for some greater future plan." Karigan looked even more exhausted at this information.

"So he hasn't hesitated to kill you." She concluded; and by the look on their faces, he had tried, many times.

Karigan sighed and ran her fingers through her coal black hair. "He wasn't always like this, you know." She started, turning towards the street lamp across the road.

"Who? Slade?" Asked Cyborg.

"Slade, Jake, whatever. He was different before all of this." Karigan waved her hand at the hole in her house. Then she let out a large yawn.

"You're tired, and Slade now knows where you live. Come and stay with us, I don't think he would be foolish enough to attack with all of us together." Robin offered. The weary girl nodded, smiled,and followed everyone else to the T-car.

Meanwhile, at Slade's hideout. (I don't even know where it is…yet)

The thick, steel doors slid apart as Slade entered his 'lair'. The Teen Titans were treading on thin ice. This was between Karigan and himself. He wad surprised she had gone to them, but then again, she was secretly brilliant. But what surprised him even more was Karigan's newly divulged power. Another secret, another lie, another obstacle. Slade would overcome these like all the others. He would learn her strengths, weaknesses, and her style. Judo and self-defense, Slade thought to himself, Good. He then walked over to a larger steel cabinet, opened the doors, and looked inside. This is where he kept his spare out-fittings. Gloves, armor, masks, and almost anything else he might need.

One of his greatest fears, (AN: yes, even a soulless git like Slade has fears) was the Titans finding out his true identity, realizing all that was behind the mask was a power-hungry, 18 year old outcast that was slowly seeking revenge and absolutely alone in this world. The only thing he had left were his robots and his male desires for Karigan. But he knew she would never take him back, no one ever did.

Slade mentally slapped himself as his façade came back and a stony, emotionless expression crept back over his face. He grabbed a new mask, placed it onto his face, and clipped it on. His only visible eye had shown fear earlier with his encounter with Karigan's ire; but the cloudy gray let on no emotion. Slade saw great, raw power in Karigan. Power, that when turned against him could be his breaking. Her power must be controlled, and if he could succeed in that, she would be of great use to him.

He then turned around, a malicious glint in his eye, and said into the darkness, "It's time for a new approach. Teen Titans, beware. Karigan, be aware; your new master just walked back into your life. I am a hidden memory no more."

hmm? You likey? Well that's good, now go review after you finish reading this message of course. The title of the story is now going to be, or already is, "Hidden Memory" I just couldn't change it until now cuz you people wouldn't get it. Well, maybe you would, but too bad. And now on to the little part from the next chappie!!

'Karigan blindly made a mad dash for the door and ended up running head-long into Robin, knocking them both to the floor.' OoO why was she running? And why was Robin in her doorway? OoO

wow, I just looked at the next chappie, and I've got, (counts pages) 6 pages written, and I'm still not done…not a lot happens, but you and I find out some very interesting information about what Karigan likes. (cough) tofu and Stars goop (cough) you didn't read that…!