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Thirteen Hour Horrors

Chapter 9: 7 PM

7:00 pm

They ran.

Cyborg had quickly picked up the still unconscious Raven, and Starfire had grabbed Beast Boy.

They had turned back around to try and get back to the living room, Cyborg could quickly mix up an antidote for the poison, they just had to get to the medic lab.

Robin held tight onto his arm, trying to slow the toxic blood in the wound. Even as they ran, he felt it too late, his fingers and toes had grown numb, cold.

But they all ran, with every ounce of strength they had. Fear burned deep into their beings.

Down and down they wound, stairs clapping under their feet.

Robin was huffing the loudest when they met the stairs, his heart beat burned in his ears.

Cyborg wretched out for the handle, pulling it forward towards him quickly and balancing Raven in his other arm.

Except, it didn't move. The door stayed in its hinges. He cursed and looked for Starfire.

She was dragging Beast Boy down the last of the stairs, and went for the door upon instinct. Both hands on the knob, she pulled. The door groaned, but stayed.

Angered, she battered at it. It bowed slightly, but held its ground. Next came the star bolts. Green flashes began to eat at the door. This time it gave away, but slowly.

Pieces began to crumble as she heaved at it with righteous fury. The whole grew and grew until it was a suitable size.

But the time had been passing. Robin leaned against the wall, his breathing coming shallow, and sweat breaking out across his brow.

Cyborg still carrying Raven went through first, followed by Robin being ushered by Starfire. She had to go back to grab a dazed Beast Boy and pull him through.

And then they were running again.

7:17

By the time they made it to the medic Starfire was dragging both Beast Boy and Robin.

Robin was half awake, his chest heaving hard with breathing, it had now become a chore. His vision was jumping in the rush, and his heart was thundering faster than it ever had.

They tore into the room. Cyborg set down Raven on a free bed before dashing to the medicine cabinet. He threw bottles aside searching for just the combination, frantic and haphazard he scanned the small labels.

Starfire was now carrying Robin. She set him gently on a bed next to Raven's, to watch his eyes fall back into his head. She noticed he was sweating profusely, though his hand still latched to his shoulder.

And she was frightened. So scared he wouldn't make it. Tears came to her eyes and she didn't bother to wipe them away.

She gripped his other hand, it was cold and limp. A sob escaped her mouth, her shoulders shaking uncontrollably.

Beast Boy watched the scene. Guilt and self hate was treading deep through his nerves. His hands shook on their own accord. His fault. It was all his fault, and now Robin was dying…

7:21

Cyborg had all the chemicals. In a small tin he measured them out quickly and stirred before grabbing a large saringe.

For safety measures he fillled the needle with a little more than was needed. He turned to find Starfire, hunched over a bed sobbing and for a moment he thought-

He shook his head, moving over to the bed.

"I need his arm." Cyborg said gently, trying to move Starfire away. She sniffled and slid to the side.

Cyborg straightened the arm, searching for the vein on the inside of his elbow. His skin was so cold…

And then he found it. With medical precision he poked the needle tip through the skin, and slowly ejected the fluid into his blood.

There was a faint groan from Robin and he tried to twist away. In haste to keep the needle in place, and not damage a major vein, Cyborg used his other hand to press quick and hard against the boys chest. He stilled immediately.

Sighing as the last of the antidote vanished from the needle, Cyborg pulled it out and grabbed the bed sheet to press at the puncture.

"Will he-" Starfire's voice cracked, and she put a hand over her mouth to stifle the cry.

"I don't know." Cyborg dropped the syringe on a near by medical table before turning back to Starfire. She had her eyes glued on Robin's resting form.

He shifted to look for Beast Boy.

His eyes fell on empty air.

7:25

Beast Boy had wandered out the door of the medic room. His thoughts were tangled and haggard. He had caused them all pain.

He had.

If it weren't for him-

He choked back what sounded half way between a cough and a sob. He was still sore everywhere, his body ached, but his mind ached worse.

Hadn't he been joking around with them all just a few hours before?

But he had to go do something stupid. Open the umbrella…

He snarled at himself and battered his fist against the nearest wall. Sharp stabs of pain blossomed, but he ignored it. He deserved pain, he deserved it all..

7:27

"Where's Beast Boy?" Cyborg asked now worried. He had checked all about the room, but Beast Boy was absent.

Starfire wrung her hands worriedly. "He was right behind me."

Cyborg stalked over to the door and grabbed the hand to turn and check the hall. But it was already open. He glanced back at Starfire trying to formulate a plan.

They couldn't leave Robin and Raven, they couldn't leave Beast Boy.

Going alone would be dangerous.

Starfire seemed to notice this as well, she stepped forward. "I will search for him, you must watch our friends!"

"But-"

Starfire gave him a determined look shaking her head. "I will be promptly back!"

And against his better judgment, he let her go, defeatedly closing the door behind her. His arm read 4 percent.

A deadly kind of silence filled the room as he turned to check on Robin.

7:31

Beast Boy stumbled. Almost in a state of drunken depression he made his way down the hall. No real destination in mind he moved on.

As much as his body wanted to collapse, he wouldn't let it.

There was a few times he tumbled down stairs, but picked himself back up.

He didn't wonder where he walked until he came upon a door. It had been at the end of the latest hallway. The boy twisted the handle, leaning slightly on the wall.

The door creaked open.

It looked like the spare parts room they had been trying to get to earlier.

The irony almost made him laugh. Instead, a sob shook his body.

And he lurched in. His feet clumsily tripped over parts, he slid sideways and bumped his hip sharply, but kept trekking. His vision blurred through tears, his tripping becoming more and more common.

Why was he even moving through the room?

But then he saw it.

7:33

Starfire wandered down the hall, after where she hoped he had gone. Her lighting was growing dim in the dire circumstances.

Occasionally she had heard a noise, a pounding or mumbling not far off and she did her best to follow it.

The longer she had yet to find him only made the fear tremble inside her. Raven was unconscious, Robin deathly ill, Beast Boy missing…

She moved faster, down some stairs, another hall, more stairs…

And then she heard it.

A distinct creaking of a door. A floor down? A hallway away?

She hurried forward, straining her eyes for a noise.

7:35

There was a window. It was open, the curtains billowing in the light night breeze. Disillusioned, Beast Boy moved toward it. He could solve their problems, no more Beast Boy.

There was a crescent mood rising, he could see it through the window.

He bustled over more garbage, a light, numb feeling filling him.

But his feet were giving out on him. He grabbed a large structure that was near by. It was a ladder. He heaved his weight on it, eyes still greedily glued to the window. After a moment he used momentum to spring himself forward.

Instead, his feet caught on the junk littering the floor, and he achieved the opposite effect.

He fell backwards, back toward the ladder.

7:36

Starfire spotted the door, it was ajar.

She rushed at it, sure that he had been this way.

Without another thought she burst through the threshold silently. There was a window across the room, from the moonlight she could see a figure. The elfin ears gave it away.

He was grasping what looked like a latter.

Beast Boy had wretched himself forward, but tripped, his momentum backtracking itself.

She opened her mouth to cry out at him, as he fell through the arch of the ladder, but it died in her throat. A thick crunch and gasp reverberated through the room.

Carefully, Starfire moved forward, there was something wrong. Beast Boy wasn't getting up.

She found him, in a pile of parts, he looked stunned. His eyes were barely moving, still watching the ceiling.

"Are you…okay?" Starfire asked timidly, and bent down to try and pull Beast Boy up.

He didn't look at her. His mouth moved, but no words were formed.

Suddenly very worried, she grabbed his arm and hauled him up. He screamed, and she nearly let go.

But he wouldn't stand, and supporting him, she looked him up and down. His chest was heaving and his breathing was erratic, but she could see nothing wrong.

She turned him to look at his back.

And was suddenly sickened and horrified.

Something that looked like a large nail was halfway impaled into his lower back. But it wasn't bleeding, the nail was acting as a plug.

Beast Boy had shut his eyes, pain shivering through his limbs. Tears continued to fall down his cheeks.

Starfire shook her head trying to clear her mind, and her clouded eyes, this wasn't happening.

7:40

Cyborg watched the number on his wrist finally blip down to 3 percent.

He breathed deeply and looked back at the two beds. Raven had begun hovering, her body trying to replenish itself. At least that was something.

Robin was gravely still. He had to check the boys heart beat and breathing every few minutes, fearful he would slip away.

And Starfire was still gone. They hadn't put a time limit on her going because there wasn't a point. He couldn't leave the two titans under his care.

But he might not have a choice anyway. The numbers ticked down on his wrist, his power supply dwindling.

Then there was scuffling.

Cyborg stood quickly, turning to the door, aiming his arm toward the door. He didn't care if it would use the last of his energy, if something was coming for Robin or Raven he would make the sacrifice.

Luckily for him, red hair appeared in the doorway. He lowered his arm and rushed forward.

Starfire tottered in, heaving a green bodied boy with her. She shoved Beast Boy at him, he groaned, his head lulling.

Cyborg looked down at the green boy. There was something protruding out his back…

He swore blackly under his breath. There was no blood, his was an injury of pure pain.

He turned, only to hear a noise and a moan.

Cyborg turned his head to see Starfire, collapsed on the floor in a pile of sobs. But he had neither the time nor the energy to deal with her. He glanced at his arm, pulling Beast Boy to a bed beside Raven, quite literally.

He placed Beast Boy on his stomach before pausing to just stare. What was he to do now?

Beast Boy groaned, and Starfire cried out loudly from across the room.

Cyborg had a massive headache. He couldn't take this, he couldn't stand seeing his friends fall apart like this.

He sat down at the end of Beast Boy's bed and buried his head in his hands. There, as death and darkness pressed in on them, he cried.

A few minutes later, he felt a presence sit down beside him, the bed weight shifting. Smearing a hand across his eyes he looked up. Starfire leaned over and hugged him around the chest, and continued crying into his metal frame.

He looked down at the messy red headed alien.

There was a beep that signaled the new hour.

Well now, isn't it getting grave?

The last omen was…

Umbrella: Umbrellas go back to sun worshipping. Since they shield the sun, it was thought offensive to open them inside and brought bad luck from the gods.

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