Teen Titans: Wild, Wild West

Chapter Eight


twobirdslover: Yeah, wasn't it a good thing I stopped there? Look how much you get now! Hope you enjoy reading it, because I had a lot of fun writing it!

Mujitsu Yume: Damn girl! Climatic? Haha funny word... Sorry, but that word has so much meaning when it comes to you. Tee hee. Hope you like, because I wrote it while talking to you!

Seishi Sairensuno: Hehe Robin really hurried, See! Glad you were impressed, hope you like this latest installment too!

The Wings of a Raven: Yeah, I guess it is a little screwed, isn't it? Glad you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoy this one too.

Techna: Umm, well I don't know if it could be considered a happy ending just yet, so just read on and find out for yourself!

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Just Me and Myself: Sorry this wasn't as ASAP as you would have liked it, but here it is, so enjoy!

Lee21323: You know I thought about doing the waterfall out take, but I decided against it. I do enough smut, just ask Muj-y up there, she knows? ;-) Anyhoo, hope you really like this chapter. And no more skipping homework! Stay in school too!

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DarkoftheNight: Thanx. Here ya go!

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JPElles: Sorry it wasn't sooner. Stupid school!

Lain the Fluff-Masta!: Yay! I miss you! Sorry this took so long, you know how school can be tho. Sucks a left nut for sure. And yeah, I know they prolly didn't have halter tops back then, but this is an alternate world that Slade created, so I took a little leeway. Oops. Haha, you're a poet and you don't know it! Oh wait, you said something, so yes you do. My bad. Glad you liked it and I hope you really like this one too. It took me a REALLY long time! You better update yourself soon too!

Xaphrin: Thanks again for the shout-out. This story is dedicated to you and my Fluff Masta and My Raven (you know who you are;-)). Sorry this took so long, but I think it was worth it, seeing as how this is somewhere around 13 pages on my Word program. So, hope y'all enjoy it and have a great time with it!


Raven walked out of her room sullenly, half dragging her feet, half being pushed/pulled by Wilson's bodyguard. Finally after a few minutes of struggling with her, Mammoth just stopped and picked her up, slinging her over his shoulder.

"Put me down!" she yelled at him, beating her fist on his large back. "If Wilson wants to do this at the spur of the moment, then I'm going to take my own damn time! Let me go!"

She continued to pound on his back as he merely chuckled, knowing soon enough she would be back to her quiet and quelling demeanor once the Sheriff had his way with her and put her in her place. He took her all the way down to the parlor of the bar, glaring at the feisty bartender who was giving him the evil eye. Wilson and Deputy Jekyll were waiting by the stage, which had been set up to look like a makeshift altar, with the town priest presiding, and looking rather nervous and disgusted. A few of the town's most prominent citizens were seated in chairs, waiting for the ceremony, but everyone knew they were no friends of Wilson's; they were there only to be of witness to the union and the official signing over of Jump Town from the young heiress to the disliked, and somewhat despicable, Sheriff.

"I said put me down you asshole!" Raven screamed yet again, using her feet this time and knocking Mammoth in the jaw. "I can walk on my own!"

"Fine then, have it your way," he grunted, rubbing his jaw and tossing her onto the ground, effectively shutting her up and bruising her tailbone.

Wilson simply looked down at his new trophy wife and smirked. "Get up Whore. It's time to sign your life over to me, forever."

Raven just glared at him, not moving an inch, wanting nothing more than to just kill him with her bare hands, not to mention take down that damned deputy of his. She sat there in silence for quite awhile, her sad eyes narrowed in distaste at him, her crumpled form hurting on the dusty floor. Terra only watched from behind the bar with sorrowful eyes, trying her hardest not to butt in and do something drastic; after all, once she got out of here, she would probably be Slade's anyway, seeing as how her friends had all apparently been wiped out.

"Why are you in such a rush?" she questioned, a lump forming in her throat. "Every obstacle has been wiped out and you no longer have any competition... Why even bother marrying me now? I'll still be broken and dead inside tomorrow."

Slade narrowed his gaze at her, looking at her as if she were merely a fly buzzing around his head that he wanted to swat.

"Because My Raven," he sneered. "By tomorrow you might be dead literally. I'm not taking any chances with your broken heart. We do this now."

With that he rushed across the floor and picked the young woman up by her hair, yanking so hard she actually cried real tears as the pain was immense. Even Terra squeaked behind the bar and hid her face behind her dishrag, crying inside for the pain her dearest friend was going through. Wilson forced her to stand next to him and let go of her hair, but only to grip her arm so tightly she felt as though her circulation were being cut off.

"Let me go!" she half-sobbed, half-yelled, struggling to break free of his iron grip. "I'm here! What more do you want from me?"

"Everything," he whispered death-like. "Now that you're up here I believe we can start now. Reverend?"

The Reverend looked nervous as he shifted and fidgeted to find his place. "Y-y-you are ready, S-sheriff Wilson?"

"No!" Raven screamed, glaring daggers at Wilson, trying to get away yet again. "I am not ready, I refuse to marry this bastard! I don't care if my entire life has gone down the drain. I don't care if you've killed the only man I've ever loved! I don't care anymore!" She pauses as the tears stream down her face and she starts to run away but is blocked by Mammoth. "Leave me alone! Just let me go! Please!"

Wilson merely shook his head at her actions and nodded to Mammoth to block her at all costs. "I don't think that is possible Ms. Roth. You will marry me or I will make your life miserable."

Raven just scoffed amidst her sobs. "How can you make it any more miserable? You've already destroyed everyone I've ever cared for. Including my parents. What more can you possibly take from me?"

Wilson regarded her cooly as her tears cascaded onto the floor and in one swift motion he pulled a gun out of his jacket and aimed it behind her. "I can take anything I want from you... including your only link to any semblance of happiness."

Raven merely stared at him as he cocked the gun and it took her a second to turn around and when she did, she nearly lost everything as she saw Terra standing there, wide-eyed, the gun aimed directly at her head. She whipped around, her pale face looking somewhat grey and ashen as she stared at him. She looked down in defeat, looking at her hands, somewhat disturbed by the color as her mind briefly flashed to the scene from her balcony.

"No, please," she choked out as she tore her mind away from the vision, but kept her head down. "Don't, don't hurt her. Please she's all I have left anymore. I promise I won't do anything."

Wilson narrowed his eyes at her and lowered his gun. "That's what I thought. Now, get your worthless self up here so I can get my town already."

Mammoth pushed her and she fell onto her knees in front of Wilson, the tears unable to stop as she weakly raised herself up, dooming her life with every inch she stood up. She felt sick to her stomach as she slouched near Wilson, her vision blurry and painful from the crying. As far as she was concerned, her heart was nonexistent now, her future fated to be nothing more than a numbing experience; she would move through life like a zombie, never caring for anyone or anything for it would hurt too much to ever feel again.

The reverend began his spiel as she tuned everything out, not wanting to listen as he practically sealed her death with every word spewing from his mouth. She stared off into space, not wanting to hear or see anything that would remind her of what had happened to her in such a short amount of time. The tears fell forth even more as she remembered her last and only night with her cowboy in shining spurs. A little half-smile graced her face as she recalled the words he told her, the touches that were exchanged, the vows that were made.

She was shaken from her reverie as Wilson grabbed her arm yet again, bringing her back to her broken reality, only to find out it was already her turn to sign her life over.

"Well?" Wilson huffed impatiently, his Deputy smirking from nearby. "What do you have to say?"

Raven just blinked at him, the fog in her brain not lifting entirely. "W-w-what do you mean? What do I have to say to what?"

"It's your turn to respond my dear," the reverend interjected, looking at her sadly.

"Respond to what?" she asked innocently, her sad eyes pooling with tears and fearing the answer.

"Just say 'I do' already," Wilson grunted through gritted teeth, squeezing her arm even more and making a point to show her the pistol he held in his jacket. "Say you'll be my wife and give me full control of this town."

Raven just looked lost as she glanced back and forth between the reverend and Wilson, not wanting to say yes ever, but knowing if she didn't, then she would lose the last piece to her heart. She hung her head low and let the cold numb feeling take over as she sobbed once and accepted her fate.

"I-I-I," she sniffled, almost spitting the words out. "I...do..."

Wilson smiled triumphantly as the reverend continued on to make the union legal, but he wasn't just happy that the town was now his; he had finally managed to break the young woman's spirit and he had done it in less than a few days. How glorious life could be sometimes. A small sob and the sound of a breaking glass floated from the area of the bar as Terra could no longer hold her emotions in and she just stood there stoically behind the counter, staring down at her hands.

Wilson looked over to his new bride and tried to pull her away so he could go to his office and get the papers for her to sign so he could finally run this town officially like he had been wanting for years. As he touched her arm, she suddenly crumpled to the ground and began silently sobbing into the floor, burying her face into her pale arms. Wilson barked at her to get up but she would not listen as she continued to release her pain out to the world, her tears staining the dusty, dirt covered floor as they spilled from her exotic eyes.

Mammoth stepped over at his boss' command and lifted the fragile woman up and forced her to stand, bruising her arm in the process. Her face was still scrunched up as she continued to cry, unable to stop the flood from escaping her eyes. Terra was now also crying behind the bar, trying her best to clean up the mess as his faithful deputy stood watch over her. As he watched the young blonde, he could have sworn her hands glowed yellow for a flash as the dirt floor seemed to move slightly. He shook his head at the thought; he knew some things were more than they appeared to be here, but he thought that started and ended with his own sidekick. He didn't fully understand her so-called 'powers' but they helped him get rid of those nosy do-gooders and so he didn't question them, so long as they did their job.

"Come now my dear," Wilson cooed, heading to the door. "We have papers to sign and lives to ruin."

Mammoth shoved Raven to get her moving as she chanced one last look at Terra, begging her to just kill her already since her life was as good as over. Terra turned away as they walked outside and Deputy Jekyll smirked at her before leaving, muttering something about filthy rock whores knowing their place.

Terra just glared at her and got rid of the broken glass, "Bitch."


Wilson exited the saloon with the sun setting on the faraway horizon, giving the sky a pinky red hue, as if someone had been slain atop the sun. Raven hung her head down low as Deputy Jekyll came up beside her, positively beaming at the withering woman. She closed her eyes as the carriage could be seen coming down the road and wished for death at any cost. Wilson merely gazed at their transportation strangely as something didn't seem quite right; the carriage was barreling towards them at a frightening speed and there didn't seem to be a driver either.

His eyes grew large as the carriage drew nearer and he had to dive out of the way to avoid being trampled by a runaway horse. Mammoth left Raven by herself as he went to see if the Sheriff was okay and Deputy Jekyll fired her pink hexes at the runaway vehicle, hitting it square on the wheels and making it skid to a stop behind the exhausted horse, which seemed to be looking at her quite menacingly for ruining his ride. Raven seemed to be in a trance as she slowly slid to the ground, the darkness taking over her mind and vision and all she could do was stare at the dirt.

Wilson got up and narrowed his eyes at the now broken carriage, surveying the seemingly empty buggy with a suspicious eye. He nodded towards his deputy who let out a flurry of hexes at the carriage, making the horse move off to the side and effectively charring the remainder of the carriage. Everyone waited for someone or something to come out of the burning wreck but after a few minutes they calmed down a bit as nothing was moving amidst the flames.

"Hmph," Wilson growled, dusting himself off. "Must have been a runaway. Now, where's my ride?"

Mammoth shrugged his gigantic shoulders and pointed to the burning pile. "I don't know. But where did that horse go? Wasn't it just there a second ago?"

He scratched his head and even Wilson looked perturbed, his eyes darting around to see where the animal had gotten to. The only thing he could see, though, was a small rat running towards his bodyguard. The sheriff harumphed at the small creature and turned to his deputy.

"Did you see anything?" he asked.

She shook her head, her eyes ablaze with the dying light of the smoldering carriage. "No sir. But this seems awfully suspicious if I may say so myself."

"No you may not say so," Wilson glared, not wanting to think anything could be afoot. After all, he had already destroyed his biggest obstacle. "Now let's find a way to get to my office. Now! And would someone please get that pitiful creature out of the dirt and on her feet? I can't have everyone thinking my new bride is incompetent now, can I!"

He stormed off to look for another carriage as his minions look pissed, to say the least. Deputy Jekyll merely scowled at the sheriff and went to go find Raven and wrench her off of the ground. She was no more than two feet from her when, all of a sudden, a green bolt came flying out of nowhere and knocked her on her butt. She whipped around and her eyes grew wide before she regained her senses and glared menacingly at the people who stood before her. Wilson whipped around at the noise and simply stood there in shock as the leader of that group smirked at him and waved a little.

"You!" Wilson grunted, not completely believing his eyes. "I thought I killed you."

"Sorry there Sheriff," Richard responded, whipping out his bo-staff and crouching low. "But we had other plans."

Deputy Jekyll pushed herself off the ground, narrowing her eyes at the rogue superhero. Mammoth went to go and defend the sheriff but suddenly a large bear appeared from beneath his feet and knocked him off his feet. Everyone was caught off guard, save for the deputy, as Mammoth dealt with this new occurrence and struggled against the bear, which was rapidly turning into other animals every few seconds. Meanwhile, on the ground Raven never moved a muscle as the commotion escalated around her, still lost in her sorrow. That is, until something finally registered itself deep in her brain.

Deputy Jekyll, who was still close to the ground rose up quickly, spitting in disgust at the heroes. "You're going down Nightwing. And this time, I'm going to make sure of it."

She let out a snarl and leapt into the fray, intent on kicking some serious good guy butt. As she left, though, the young woman on the ground slightly stirred at her words but still didn't acknowledge her surroundings as another memory flooded her vision.


She stormed into the living room and slammed the paper down on the table in front of his large feet, knocking his coffee over and startling the large man. He sat upright and glared at her, but quickly shrank down as her death-stare bore into him and made him uncomfortable.

"H-hey Raven," he said uneasily. "Whatcha got there?"

"You knew," she spat, pointing accusingly at the newspaper.

Cyborg picked it up and scanned the headlines, quickly realizing what she was upset about.

"You knew all along what he's been doing," she hissed once he looked back up at her. "You lied to me. You said you didn't know a damn thing about where he was. You knew and you lied."

"Raven, now calm down," Cy replied, setting the paper back down and holding her gaze. "There was a reason I didn't tell you."

"What?" she demanded, refusing to let the tears show. "What reason could you possibly have to keep this from me? I thought you were my friend!"

Cyborg sighed, standing up and placing a hand on her shoulder. "I am your friend, Raven. And I had a damn good reason too."

She snatched the paper from his hands and read out loud, her fingers and voice trembling. " 'Shadowy hero gets thumbs-up from new Titan leader.'" She slammed her fist back down, but kept the paper curled tightly in her hand and glared at him. "Apparently you went to Gotham City last week and told the press that this new superhero guy was really there to help them and nothing else."

Cy regarded the fiery young woman as she crossed her arms over her chest, not wanting to seem like the broken-hearted teenager she really was inside. He placed his remaining hand on her other shoulder and looked down at her, carefully regarding her stature.

"Rae," he breathed. "Rae he asked me to promise him I wouldn't tell anyone. The city was giving him a hard time and he needed a vocal referral. He couldn't get the Bat to do it, so he called me up and I agreed. I didn't exactly voluntarily agree to do it, but he said it was the best for everyone and I couldn't change his mind."

She turned around, shaking off his hands and dropping the newspaper on the floor, as Cyborg regarded the picture that took of the majority of the front page.

Raven hung her head as she paused by the door not wanting to look at him. "Neither could I."

A lone, dark figure was caught in mid-jump atop some buildings with the caption underneath reading, 'New local Gotham City hero, Nightwing, greatly resembles the Dark Knight, but apparently has high connections to many more superheroes, including the likes of Titan leader Cyborg of Jump City.'


Raven's head lifted up a bit as her lips traced the ghost word that she had never uttered before and, yet, it seemed so familiar as though she had been speaking that name for years. The world seemed to be muted around her as she sat there her head only slightly inclined to the fight in front of her.

"Nightwing..." she whispered suddenly, shaking her head as the mysterious stranger Richard flew through her mind. "Richard..." She paused as her eyes widened a little bit and murmured unconsciously. "Richard....is....Nightwing..."


Wilson fought hard against the young hero who had miraculously survived the accident, fending off his incredible arrows and engaging the poor boy in hand-to-hand combat; unfortunately for Roy, Wilson was winning and it didn't take too long for the malevolent sheriff to take the young man down, tossing him off to the side. He cracked his neck as he saw his ticket to fortune looking rather dazed on the ground and he would have just left her there, if he had not turned ever-so-slightly to see her rogue hero running through the fight to try and find her.

Wilson quickly found his bodyguard as he threw the young shape-shifter off into an alleyway between the bank and the barber shop. Mammoth dusted off his hands to find his boss running towards him, an evil grimace on his face, angry that his plan was being foiled yet again.

"Take her," he ordered, pointing over by Raven. "And keep her away at all costs. I'll deal with Mr. Grayson over there."

Mammoth only nodded as he ran through the dust and quickly scooped the tiny woman over his shoulder and carried her off, only barely hearing the desperate shouts of Dick as he was almost there.


"Raven!" Dick screamed, his heart pounding in his chest as he watched Mammoth scoop her up and run into the saloon. "Dammit Raven hold on. I'm coming!"

He ran towards the saloon and wasn't paying any attention as one second he was headed towards the swinging doors and the next second he was traveling fast and hard into the dirt ground beneath him. He landed with a thud and looked up just in time to see the sheriff's boot coming straight down on his head. He rolled to the side, the boot barely missing his face as he felt the air whoosh by him and he leapt up into the air, glaring at Wilson.

Dick furnished his bo staff and spun it dangerously at the sheriff; Wilson merely scowled at the young man and his hand itched to grab the gun at his side.

"I thought you would be the ticket to my success," Wilson snarled. "Apparently you are going to just get in the way. But you should just give up anyway, I've already won."

"What do you mean?" Dick growled, not moving an inch.

Wilson smirked. "Raven is already mine. I've already killed her..." He pauses to chuckle. "Well, I've killed her spirit anyway. There's no way you can ever get her back now."

"You bastard!" Dick screamed, stepping forward a little and gripping tighter onto his staff. "You can never take her away from me! You can't have what was never yours to begin with! I love her and there's nothing you can do to keep her from me!"


Raven finally started coming to her senses as Mammoth carried her up the stairs and away from all of the hustle. She suddenly began squirming and shouting and kicking strongly on his back that he almost dropped her. He gripped her even tighter, bruising her ankles, and holds her steady as they walk out onto the roof. Raven looks over to the side and her heart flutters as she sees Wilson and Richard fighting, thinking she had lost him back at the Inn.

"RICHARD!" she screamed as Mammoth threw her down, but held her arms back tightly, keeping her from running away.

Dick looked up at the sound of his name being screamed and he grinned as he saw Raven looking down at him with tears streaming down her face and a smile etched into her beautiful face. He shook himself out of his happy reverie just in time to move out of the way of Wilson's hard-hitting fist. He quickly gets back into battle mode as he combats Wilson, who is surprisingly agile for one of Slade's crazy creations, actually getting some good hits in that the real Slade might not even be able to do.

Raven tears her eyes away from the battle and stares strangely at the people she called her friends as they fight, all equipped with some type of 'power' she had never seen before. But it wasn't the powers that irked her, it was the fact that they all looked...different...somehow. She wasn't exactly sure what it was, but as she watched her cousin fly around shooting green bolts from her eyes and hands, and her cousin's husband running around shooting out some very strange arrows, she felt the strange urge to be fighting along side them. She shook her head of these thoughts as she watched an incredibly strong Victor Stone run across the ground and pummel one of Wilson's cronies that had come out of the bar. She looks away and sees her childhood friend Gar Logan as he magically changes into various animals and charges at Wilson's Deputy, her eyes wide with amazement.

She fights the headaches that consume her mind as she closes her eyes and tries to crouch low in Mammoth's grasp but fails miserably. She struggles briefly as her arms start to hurt from Mammoth's grip and she finally gives into the pain, stopping and panting as she looks back over the edge. Her gaze is suddenly drawn as she watches Garfield get blasted away by the Deputy, but he isn't what catches her eye. It's the ton of dirt and pebbles being blasted at the Deputy as she yelps in pain and tries to find something to hide behind. Raven searches around for the source and her eyes rest upon a petite blonde with yellow glowing eyes and hands walking out of the bar.

She could only sit there and stare as Terra ran over to Garfield and helped him up, the rocks dropping and the ground no longer under her control. She watched them with awe as if they have known each other for such a long time when she knows they have only been courting for a few months. She feels the pounding in her head increase even more as, slowly but surely, all of her friends fall down and it is only Wilson and Richard left. As they fight alone in the street a strange beeping noise sounds and she looks up to see a weird colored swirl appear from nowhere and Wilson's Deputy running towards it.

She stood there in a complete stupor as Deputy Jekyll seemed to taunt the fallen friends before she jumped into the portal, disappearing entirely. Victor was the first to get up and he quickly helped Kory and Roy into the portal as well as Terra and Garfield.

No, she thought as the headaches got steadily worse. Please don't leave me! I can't stay here alone, I'll die! Please, come back for me! Please!


Victor ran back to help Dick, but he shooed him away as Wilson knocked him back a few paces. Victor seemed to try and pull him away but Dick wouldn't leave as he pushed his friend off and ran back into the fight.

"She's a lost cause Man!" Victor cried, his voice choking on his own words. "We got to go; we only have ten minutes or so until we're both stuck here!"

"I don't care," Dick grunted as he knocked Wilson back and glared at Victor. "I'm staying here with her then. I won't risk all of you. Now just go and I'll get Raven."

"But you heard what Slade said," Victor argued. "If she doesn't get her memory back then she can't cross the borders. Rob, man, as much faith as I have in you, I don't think you can bring her back. I'm sorry, but this hurts me just as much as it does you."


Raven gasped up on the roof as the hammers in her head got louder and heavier as she wrenched her arms from Mammoth and clutched her head, screaming painfully as it seemed like everything in her head exploded and that one word kept repeating in her head as another vision swept through her neurons.
Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin, Robin...

"ROBIN!" she screamed as she flew up in bed, the sweat pouring off of her body in small rivers.

She closed her eyes and silently sobbed as her nightmare plagued her night after night after night. She looked around at the dingy walls surrounding her and felt so alone, thinking that no one could ever love her, that she was doomed to be alone forever. She looked over at the bright illuminating numbers on her clock and sighed heavily at the early morning hours she had awoken to. She opened her night stand and pulled out a torn and tattered photo from her book, lightly running her fingers over it as she looked dreamily at it.

"I guess I'm stuck here now, aren't I?" she sighed as she looked at the faces of all her friends smiling back at her from the picture taken just before he had left. "Why couldn't you just love me back? Was I so horrid that the very notion shook you to the core? That I was so awful and unlovable that you had to leave?"

She choked back tears as she shoved the photo back into the drawer and slammed it shut, wiping the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand.

"I changed," she whispered into the darkness. "I changed Robin, so much, and all for you! Am I still so horrible?"

"Yes, because you are not normal, my dear," a smooth, cold voice echoed from the shadows, startling her as a strong hand wrapped around her mouth with a rag, pouring gas into her mouth. "Starfire was normal, but you are not. You could never be. He could never love you."

Raven struggled in her bed, thrashing about wildy as she could feel her consciousness slipping from her as she tried to pry away Slade's cold hands. He cackled inhumanly in her ears as she felt her breath dying away and the fog taking over her brain. She thought about his hurtful words as his drones and Jinx stepped out of the shadows, smirking at her, loving every minute of her despair. The black oblivion started to converge on her vision and her mind as she slowly fell into a deep sleep, her mind fogging over completely as she knew she truly was alone and that no one would be coming to her aid, not her neighbors, not her new co-workers, not her old friends, not him... never him...


Raven's eyes burned as she opened them, tears streaming down her face, as she heaved in the dry air around her, her voice choking on her sobs and the pain coursing through her. Mammoth had given up with her and was just watching her on the ground, smirking at her situation. She looked down at her hands and her clothes and stared at all the cuts and bruises and dried blood that adorned her body. She jerked her head back up and stood up to look over the edge to see what had happened, to see how long she had blacked out for.

Her eyes scanned the dusty floor beneath her and she saw Cyborg was no longer there and, where was he? Ah, there was Robin, standing mere feet from the portal as the sheriff stood there before him, his hand raised, with something she could not see, pointed at him. She narrowed her eyes to see better as she saw Robin holding his arm, blood dripping freely from a nasty cut and a discarded knife at his feet. She looked back to Slade and focused her vision on his hand, gasping loudly as she finally realized he had a gun aimed at Robin, keeping him from moving anywhere. Keeping him from leaving... keeping him from saving her...

She sat there and watched as the portal steadily grew smaller, as Slade cocked his gun back at Robin, as Robin closed his eyes, waiting for the quick and painless death that was to come.

No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! Her brain screamed at her as she watched everything, the world seeming to go in slow motion as the trigger was pulled and the bullet lodged from it's metal tomb straight at Robin's heart. Her eyes seemed to glow as she watched in horror, her lips spitting out three little ghost words, the only thing she could think of at the moment.

Mammoth didn't even know what had happened as one second Raven was in front of him on the very verge of death it seemed like, and the next she was over the railing and no longer in his reach. He ran to the side and his eyes widened at the sight: the sight no one, not even the sheriff whose eyes were just as wide, could have seen coming.


Robin opened his eyes as the darkness descended over him and the coldness seemed to penetrate the very sun. He sat there stunned for a minute as the darkness vanished and he heard a multitude of gasps surrounding him, including one right on front of him. He looked down when he could not feel the numbness he associated with being shot and his eyes welled up with tears as he reached his arms out to capture a falling bird.

Raven fell, still in slow motion, as the bullet penetrated her chest, feeling it sear her flesh as it passed through her rib cage and lodged itself near her spine, coming dangerously close to her heart. She gasped in pain as the fire spread throughout her body, her eyes wide as she was thrown back into his surprised arms. She dazedly looked up at Slade and saw his smile fall as he had killed her, that version of Slade's only chance at ever owning the town. She could hear Robin cooing in her ear but she couldn't discern what the words were through the haze that had crossed her vision and her ears.

She could barely feel his strong hands around her body, could barely feel him dragging her through the portal, him wounded and her dying, her blood spilling forth from her chest, leaking out onto the floor. She could barely hear him as he told her she would be fine, could barely hear him and the others rushing towards her when they fell out of the portal, could barely hear him telling her that he loved her, that he really loved her.

She barely felt her lips curve into a smile as she relived the events from the other night, when their true selves finally united in a feeling of love and desire. She could barely feel the remembered touches, the never-to-be-forgotten kisses, the irreplaceable vows that were made that night in the lake. She could feel the coldness of the floor as he placed one last kiss on her temple and laid her down before running off into the darkness to capture Slade and take him down for good, so he could never hurt any of them anymore.

She didn't even realize that she had been crying until Terra come over and wiped them away as Cyborg and Starfire quickly ripped off pieces of her dress and pressed them against her to stop the bleeding. She sobbed as the blood started dribbling out of her mouth and onto the floor as her move ran off without her yet again. She had scared him off once more and he had left her all alone. She no longer cared if she lived anymore, didn't bother trying to breathe anymore as her old friends told her to breathe, to keep her alive.

It didn't matter anymore, she was dead anyhow. She had changed, oh how she had changed for him! It had taken a homicidal maniac to completely change her into something she could never be, something she only dreamed of being, for him to finally fall in love with her. That Raven he had told he loved? She wasn't real and she never could be either. She remembered everything as she lay there dying and it hurt that much more when she thought about it.

She could no longer feel anything from that day, couldn't feel the bullet or the blood, her collapsing lungs, her dying body. All she could feel was her physically unscathed heart breaking into pieces and bleeding to death right there in her chest at the thought that he did love her, the impossible her, and now that she was gone, he no longer wished to be a part of her anymore. She continued to cry and bleed as she gave up on life as her old friends frantically moved her to try and save her, to keep her alive. She closed her eyes and gave into the darkness as they tried desperately to save the broken and already dead young woman.


Woah, what a nice long one, huh? Figured you guys deserved it, seeing as how I haven't updated in a HELLA long time. Well, review and let me know what you think! L8R Daze...

Next/Last chapter: Epilogue. A few months later. What has fared with the Titans? Have they come out of this ordeal somewhat okay?