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By the way: Bold is flashback.

Now onto CHAPTER EIGHT!


8…

I glare out my window, watching the sun sink into the water. Part of me is happy to be back at the tower, another part wants to leap out of the window again. I turn around to my room. Empty. Black, and empty.

Nightwing was staying in Superman's old bedroom, Superman had decided to move in with Wonderwoman. Neither of them are ever here, they are always at a different camp fighting Slade. We just stay here watching Jump City for any signs of future attack. It's 'safer' for the 'younger generation' if we stay 'out of harms way.'

I begin to wonder if it's better that I'm alone.

Xx Flashback Xx

I stare at the shards of my mirror wonder if I should just end it. Going to back to the Titans would be useless to all of us… he has left me. They don't want me. I don't want me… I shake my head. No. I will not give into this! I have to stay strongBut putting myself through the torture of knowing you weren't needed was harder than I had thought it would be at the beginning of the year. I find myself lightly grazing my arm with the shard of glass wonder if I should… No Raven, don't.

Xx Flashback End Xx

I don't want to remember those nights… the nights where I felt I wasn't needed. The nights were being alone finally caught up to me. But I've made it this far, and there isn't any turning back. I wish I could just stay uneeded… by Slade at least. I shuddered.

Zz Flashback Zz

"You will be a wonderful apprentice Raven!" Slade's cruel, mocking voice rang out across the room I was being held in. I had been in this posistion before, and I was not going to relive it.

"Never. I am above you, and I refuse to sink to your level."

"You are forgetting you already have."

"But I escaped your weak powers." I glared at him, a resentment in my eyes, willing him to say something.

"Only with the help of your robotic friend Cyborg. Without him you would still be here. You are weak Raven." He said after a small pause. "Very weak."

I felt the knife press against my skin again. Cutting across my stomach, digging… pulling across, pushing down into my skin. Blood forced its way out of the wound. Slade laughed and pushed down harder.

I refused to scream.

"This doesn't hurt Raven? Then this will!" Slade took a burning stick of metal and stuck it into my wound. A sharp pain dug through me as the strip of metal cut and burned my already torn flesh. I bit back a cry of pain, biting so hard my lip began to bleed.

Slade let a small smile show on his face.

"Go to sleep Raven."

I gasped. "Not under your watch!"

"Fine." He pushed a button and an electric shock shattered through me. "This one opens old wounds."

I felt the scars on my arms tear open, the ones he had given me six years ago. The ones from last night, the scabs from earlier today. Slade thought he had won… but I remained awake. I wasn't about to be found by the Titans like this. They will never see me vulnerable.

Zz Flashback End Zz

I shivered at the thought of Slade… amazed at how I had escaped him. It had involved a strong control over my powers, his cuffs that held me to the wall had the defect of letting slips of my powers out at a time, so over the days I had gotten the cuffs lose enough to escape. I had watched the Titans arrive a day later, of course to find a robot Slade, the real man long gone. I had hidden in the shadows and watched them defeat the drone and search for me. No trace of me was to be found. I always left before them, and arrived after. No matter what.

I turn back to the window, the last rays of sun have faded out of the sky, leaving a weak grey. Behind the grey black draped over the city, curtaining us from the sun.

"Raven?"

Robin knocked on my door.

"Yes?" I say.

"Do you want to come out for a little while?"

It's more of a command then a question, so I decide to obldige, just to make them happy. "Fine."

I step out of my room.

"So I hear you went out with somone by the name of Mike. A civillian. That you met."

I smile. "Yes." My smile turns into a frown. "He was working for Slade." Mike was who had led me to Slade, me foolishly thinking he could replace Robin.

"Oh… er… right. Sorry."

"You were jealous weren't you?"

"No. Nope. Not at all. No way. I'm NOT jealous that you went out with another boy because you left and you wanted to see someone because you were lonely… NOT AT ALL!"

"You were. It's ok, I understand. We didn't go out for very long if that makes you happy."

"You broke up with him when you found out he was working for Slade?"

"We'll just go with that." I said.

"Raven, what have you been doing for the past year?"

"You don't need to know, nor want to know. So don't ask." Oh challenging my self worth… wondering if I should die… being tortured, saving you, not being found by you, the usual.

"Raven, we are your team members, we should know."

"No, you shouldn't. And I'm not going to tell you, not yet at least. So don't press it. Or I'll leave and you'll never find out."

That shut him up.

"Don't… not again."

I looked at his masked eyes. "I won't. I couldn't do that to you or… me."

"What do you mean?"

I put a finger to his lips. "You don't want to know. I've told you this. Just trust me."


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