Finally, the writers block is over! Let's begin!
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Drusilla looked at Aiden. "Do you think we could escape?"
"I...I really don't know...I need some time to think..." He stood up and walked over to the door, she followed him.
"Where are you going?" She asked, concern filling her eyes.
"I'm gonna go to my room to think for a while, I'll be back to check up on you in an hour or so, okay?" He turned the knob and opened the door slightly.
Her violet eyes faltered in their usual expressionless state. They softened a bit and she nodded as he left the room. She was left to herself again. To stare at the strange girl in the mirror. But now she had found herself. This wasn't the life she was meant to live, and she had known it all along. She looked at the stack of books Aiden had left her to read and picked one up. With a quick look around the room to make sure no one else was watching, she opened it up and began to read it with the utmost care.
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Slade was waiting outside of Drusilla's door when Aiden exited. The boy's eyes widened slightly at the cold look his 'master' gave him.
"Why were you in there?" Slade asked, his voice eerily calm.
"I...I was checking up on her. I wanted to see if she requested anything." He chose his words carefully and tried to see Slade's reaction. As always, it was impossible with one eye.
The eye narrowed slightly, as if the mad-man had caugh on to something. But he merely held in his thoughts and waved his hand in the air to dismiss the boy away. Aiden slowly trailed off, watching as Slade walked in the other direction. All Aiden could do was hope the walls were soundproof and that he haden't been outside her door for very long.
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Raven sat on the main room couch watching Robin as he paced around the room, shooting out random plan ideas and looking for approval from the team. For some reason, the words didn't click inside her. It went in one ear and out the other. She tried to make the words stick and listen, but instead she felt like a kid with a short attention span. Her mind was anywhere but here.
Beast Boy wasn't even in the room. He said he had to go out into the city for some thinking time and no one questioned him. He was walking around, trying to piece things together. Seeing his own flesh and blood so evil like that, it broke his heart more than anything in this world ever had.
Finally, Robin dismissed the team and told them he would discuss it with everyone later. Starfire floated off by his side and Raven smiled slightly to herself, noticing the Tameranean was getting a bit bigger around her stomach area. Her thoughts bounced back to Beast Boy and she decided to go find him. She knew he needed someone to talk to, and that she was the only one who could even begin to understand.
Beast Boy found himself at a small cafe. It seemed like more of a 'Raven' thing to him, but he shrugged off the thought and went in, delighted to find a whole freezer of Ben and Jerry's icecream for him to devour. He picked up a flavor and sat at the table, stabbing the spoon into the icecream and sighing as it became stuck. That's how he felt. Frozen in time, not knowing where to go or what to pick up.
The door opened, shaking the bell that was attached. The small sound that resulted echoed throughout thecafe and caused Beast Boy's ears to twitch. He looked up to see Raven entering and looking around. He smiled to her and she joined him at the small table in the corner of the busy, yet quaint cafe.
"Glad I found you..." She said, placing her hand over his. She eyed his icecream and he pushed it towards her.
"Chunky Monkey, my personal favorite. I know you preffer Chubby Hubby, but you can't compare 'em till you've tried them both." He said with a smile.
Raven rolled her eyes and put a spoonful of banana icecream into her mouth. "Thanks...anyways...How are you holding up?"
Beast Boy's eyes looked away for a second then back at Raven. "I'm honestly not sure. I mean, she doesn't know any better...and I just want to kill Slade. Now I know how Robin feels...so much rage towards that man..."
"Yeah. I know what you're saying..." She leaned back slightly and pushed the icecream back towards him.
He slowly took a scoop and put it in his mouth, studying Raven's distant eyes as she looked out the window.
"We've got to save her..." Raven said in a whisper.
"But how? Where do we even begin to plan something like that?" He closed the icecream and focused his attention on Raven's fumbling hands.
"We've got to find where Slade ishiding...then...then we try to break in and take her with us." Her mind began to try and image something like that. It couldn't.
Beast Boy stood up and sighed. "I don't know. That seems more like Robin's thing..."
"You really need to stop putting labels on situations. This is OUR daughter we're talking about. We should be the one to call the shots." She crossed her arms.
"Alright, I'm sorry. I'll admit that you're right though. C'mon, let's go to the park or something..." He gave her a small smile and she stood up and walked out the door with him so they could spend some quality time together.
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Aiden stared at the paper infront of him. It was more than just a paper though, it was a blue print. He'd been making it for quite some time now. The blueprint was one of Slade's entire hideout, it was pretty accurate, considering that he had been here for so long. He stared at it, waiting for the answer to jump out at him and give him a clue of some sort. But nothing happened, and he didn't really expect it to.
"What to do..." He mummbled, leaning back in his chair, causing it to rest on the two hind legs silently.
His eyes floated around the room. Bland and dark as usual. He let out a long sigh, causing some of the hair near his face to flutter away. Then his eyes stayed on one object on his desk. A picture frame. It was hurting him to look at it, but he did anyways. The only memory he had of his past, a small picture of his parents and himself.
"God, I know this is wrong...Why am I still here?" Aiden asked the smiling, frozen faces.
Of course, they didn't respond. Aiden was left in his own sad darkness once again. But a slight chill went down his back and he stood perfectly still.
"Because you cannot escape." A familiar voice droned into his ear.
"You really shouldn't talk to yourself like that...people might think you're...Crazy" He added, almost seductively.
"Slade..." The word rolled out of Aiden's mouth more bitter than intended, he glared at the wall, refusing to turn to the masked fiend.
"So...You've been messing with my pet haven't you?" A gloved finger traced Aiden's delicate face soflty.
Aiden felt his stomach flop and his mouth go into a sickened grimace. "Drusilla is not a pet."
Slade chuckled. "Well, maybe not to you. Now, what's this you've got here?"
The color drained from his face as Slade picked up the blueprint. All the forms of torture leaked into his head, some worse than others and more likely than the next.
"Ahh, what a clever blueprint...This wouldn't have helped you much though." He said and Aiden didn't turn around when he heard a loud ripping noise.
Slade leaned down to Aiden's ear again, the single eye peering into his. "Just remeber, you are mine and only mine."
Aiden expected a beating or yelling, but instead, Slade left the room slowly. Sure, he haden't gotten beaten physically, but he felt like his stomach had turned itself inside out and under. He ran a hand down his face slowly and let out a long sigh.
"I'm trapped here..."
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Slade sat in his chair, his hands curling and uncurling as he watched the screens infront of him. He glared at the footage of Robin and his team bursting through the bank to fight off Mumbo with their combat skills and sad puns. They were just children, right? But then why were they so damn hard to beat? He had many plans, some suceeding farther than others, but then always backfiring.
He had Robin and could never forget it. But that boy was just too smart for his own good, and figured out how to trick Slade at his own game. Then came Terra. She was good for a long while. Being his personal spy, but she grew too attached to the team and ended up betraying him in the end. He growled, low and sudden to the dark that surrounded him.
"I will win. I will have this world in the palm of my hand and the Teen Titans will be dead!" He shouted, pounding his fist on the arm of the chair and causing it to crack slightly.
His eye wandered back up to the video footage. He focused in on the darkest titan, chanting and swirling her dark magic around her hands, taking out villians in one fatal sweep. He peered at her carefully. No wonder she had given birth to such a strong child, she herself was indeed a very strong member of the team. Then an idea swept across Slade's mind and a black smile curled behind the mask.
"That's it...I'll have the strongest apprentice ever and it will be like taking candy from a child." He laughed to the darkness, his fist curling up victoriously.
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A/N: -que stupid suspense music- Ahh, what does Slade have planned! I think I have an idea, but I gotta run it through my head a couple of times. Not too sure if I like it. Anyways, It took me a long while to pump out this chapter. Sorry it's still really short.God writer's block sucks! Uhh...Before anyone asks, Yeah, I really do think that Slade is a pedophile. XD Okay, Read and Review as always! -Emmery.