Bad Memories
Chapter 2: Cold Concrete
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wylkin:Since he/she will not be reading this I won't bother thanking him/her here, instead I will explain his/her review to those of you who read it and said 'What the..." when I first posted the first chapter I couldn't find it anywhere, at first I just thought it was taking a few hour to post itself, so I wanted to at least see if it showed up on my profile...and I couldn't find it, my profile that is, I'm not kidding, search for my pen name and I promise you won't find it, so I freaked and asked wylkin to do me a favor and search for it and review just so I was sure other people could see it, so thats what up with that review, for those of you who care.
shadow-the-beast:Yay, my first real review, thanks for the complements, sorry for not fully discribing what he was wearing, hope you like this chapter:)
RavenKitten:First off, thanks for the review, and it only gets sadder...Second off, I love the quote, lastly, what does 'Onegai' mean:P
Lost1n7heDark:It depends on what part confused you...but yea, for parts it was supposed to provoke questions it you that I would answer little by little, and don't worry I take my time with the next few chapters, the last one was just a prolog remember...And thanks for the review..
Dark Celtic Blade:Here you go, hope you can wait for the next one.
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Authors Note:Please if you like my fic please review, even if it's only "Cool story, I liked it. Update soon" Just so I know people like it so I wont get discouraged and stop writing. Sorry if any of the scene changes confused you last time, the damn site took away all my underscores I used to seperate scene's, but I've fixed that, I use 6 cause, ya know 666, 'sign of the beast' oooooooo are you scared lol, well injoy:)
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"Well, is it worth it?"A gruff unshaven man wearing jeans and a tucked in blue button up shirt asked a young frightened naked Raven in the small, cold room, the door was open so it was no longer dark.
The light was not flattering to Raven
She was dirty, covered in filth and sweat. She was pale as if she had never seen the sun. She was naked huddled in the corner with her knees pulled to her chest in a futile attempt to hide her nudity, but you could still see her body, she was skinny, she was obviously not eating much, her rib cage was remarkivly visible, and her breasts looked small simply because of her age. She looked tierd, more tierd than any nine year old girl should, she had bags under her eyes, but her eyes... they were vacant, completely dead.
"Well?"The man asked again holding out a hand with an apple in it, Raven's mouth watered at the sight of it, she licked her lips and nodded. The man smiled, stood up unzipped his pants, pulled out his erect penis and pointed it directly at Raven's face, she leaned forward, closed her eyes, and parted her lips.
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Gasp Raven's eyes went wide as she shot up.
She was no longer in the small cold room, instead she was in a padded white room, like you would see in a mental hospital, it didn't have any any furniture, not even a bed, the light came from a lighting cannope that was eight feet from the actual ceiling, bars stoped anyone from getting near it.
Raven recognised this room immediatly, it was the maximum security holding cell in the titans tower. It took a few moments for the prievious days occurances to register in her memory.
'Damn, I accidently kill one robber and they turn on me, from the looks of things they were being beaten pretty badly by him, I probably saved there live's, and they turn on me'Raven thought bitterly, she had always known one day her powers would completely go out of control and she would kill some one, but she always thought her friends would stick by her, help her through the tough time's in her life, even if she didn't wan't there help ... 'Just the niave fantasy of a pathetic girl' Raven though even more bitterly. It was now that she realised she was still wearing her uniform, though the blood had been washed off, it looked like they did it with a damp rag cause there were still bloody streaks on her hands.
If this had been a normal holding cell she would have already escaped, but she knew the defences on this room, she had after all helped build it.
It had no way of opening it from the inside, no doorknob of any kind was inside, it was made of the stongest metal in the world, two solid feet thick of it, making it absolutly impossibly to break down the walls or the door, it was also magic proof, this is what was stoping her from leaving, they brought in a preist from The Vatican to sanctify the room making magic, 'The Devil's Art' as he had said, impossible in the room, she had disliked the man, he kept thowing her suspicious looks. Plus there were no secret panels to enter a secret code to help the the titans escape if they were ever traped in here, offically this was so it had no weaknessess, but all the titans knew why there really weren't any overide code's, because if any of the titans ever went evil, this was the only place in the city that could contain them.
"And now I'm here...guess that means I went evil"Raven said aloud without realising it.
"Yes, it does"Robin's voice sounded from the lighting system above the room, that's where they put all the survialance equipment, so they could talk and watch whoever was in the room without having to risk going in, it also had a screen that they could turn on if they wanted a face to face conversation, the screen was however off at the moment, this angered Raven, they threw her in this cell and they didn't even have the respect for her enough to talk through a computer screen.
"You don't even have the desency to turn on the screen?" Raven asked, somehow still able to keep her flat lifeless monotone, despite the anger and betrayal that was threatening to take over her. The screen came on, she could see all the titans in the security room
They were still pretty banged up, Robin had a black eye, at least it wasn't swelling shut any more, his arm was in a cast, and she knew how much he hated casts, Cyborg's left leg and right arm were those strange metal skeleton stuff, he was obviously waiting for replacement parts, Beastboy was only wearing the bottom half of his costume, he had bandages wraped around his entire torso, and Starfire's left boot was off, her entire leg from ankle to mid-theigh was covered in a white paste, she wore one of her sandle's on her foot, the same paste covered her right wrist, Raven took some time to marvel at the how strange Starfire looked, with miss matched shoes, and what looked like yogurt, but was more likely some of her home planets medicine coating her entire left leg and her right wrist. All the titans shared the same facial expression...loathing, they hated her, this was an especially frightning thing coming from Starfire, because at one time or another she had seen it from the others before.
"Well, comfertable?"Robin asked in a voice that let her know he wished for her to be anything but.
"Sure, you mind telling me why I'm here?"Raven asked, though she knew what he was going to say, his excuse for tuning his back on a team member, it would be something like 'You killed someone Raven' or 'Just because he was a criminal doesn't mean his lfe was forfit, he was still human' or
"You're dangerous" Robin said in a 'well duh' type voice, he looked very surprised that she would ask such a stupid question.
"Is that the thanks I get for saving your lives?"Raven asked still maintaining her monotone.
All the titans looked surprised, so surprised it covered up the hate, but the hate returned, though some of the confusion stayed.
"SAVED?"Robin shouted into the screen"YOU ATTACKED US!"
Needless to say, Raven was more than a little confused.
"What are you talking about?"Raven asked, all anger and betrayal lost in confusion and uncertinty.
"My hate took over and I killed the robber who was beating you to a pulp...right"
Her voice wavering for the first time today.
"Hate...?"Robin asked VERY confused
Now was the time for the return of anger"YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS ME! DID THE FOUR GLOWING RED EYE'S, TWELVE FOOT TALL CLOAK, BLACK TENDRALS, AND DEMONIC VOICE NOT TIP YOU OFF!"
When Raven was done she was out of breath, and leaned over slightly to try to catch it, she felt like she had just run a marithon, because she was hunched over she couldn't see there reactions but she head Robin's voice.
"But none of that happened..."He said in a soft voice
Raven's head shot up"What?"
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The titans were all looking at Raven, the man they were all fighting had just stared right at her and said "You"
'Does she know him?'Robin thought, from the expresion on her face she was just as confused as the rest of them...but she also looked to be holding back something, like she was struggling to not do somthing, her body was tense, then it went slack in the air, she had either decided to do it, whatever it is, or not.
Apperently the thing she had been trying to stop was a smirk, cause that's what she did.
Raven was smirking as she lowered herself to the ground.
"I remember you"She said in a voice that couldn't be more different than her usual monotone, it was sweet and innocent, kind of like Starfire, she was still smirking as she started walking toward him.
"Really...?"He said jumping off the car"Than why are you coming over here?"He asked as she stoped two feet away.
Raven looked at the crook for a moment, then a huge smile broke out across her face, for a moment she looked almost normal, the titans thought, then she reached her left hand up and grabed his right shoulder"Because"She said drawing back her right fist "I want my revenge" Her voice seemed almost sickly sweet as she rammed her fist threw his chest, and I do mean 'Through' it came out bloody on the other side.
The titans were almost as stunned as the criminal, especially when she withdrew her fist and rammed it though him again, and again, and agian. When she finally stoped punching him her right arm was covered in blood all the way up to just above the elbow, surpisingly when she removed her hand from his shoulder he didn't fall, he just smiled at her and said."I may be human but it's gonna take more then that to kill me"He said with a smirk.
Raven just chuckled and said "I know, I just wanted you to suffer"With that she grabbed both his wrists, jumped up so her feet were dug in his chest, befor the awkward position could tip them over she pulled hard enough on the arms to violently rip them off, she backflipped off him pushing him to land on his ass, and her to land gracefully on her feet with one of his arm's in each hand.
Finally the shock of what Raven was doing wore off"Titans stop her!"Robin shouted, that seemed to snap every one out of there trance and they rushed her.
Seeing the titans coming Raven directed her attention to them and dropped the arms, which had covered her one clean hand in blood.
Starfire got there first "Friend, I do not wish to harm you"She said in a pleading voice.
Raven ducked as Star flew at her and grabed her left leg when she was directly over top, this surprised Star not just for how fast her hand grabbed her but also by the streagth, she did not know Raven was so strong, her thoughts were cut short by Raven
"You may not want to fight, but I could use the fun"And with that Raven tightened her grip on Star's leg untill she heard a snap, Starfire's eyes went wide and she bit her bottom lip so hard it bleed to stop her from screeming, she also fell to the feet of a smirking Raven.
Star, making a last ditch effort to reach her friend held up a hand asking for help"Please...Raven...friend... I requiror help..."She had tears in her eyes from pain, both mental and physical. "You want help"Raven asked in a sincerley sweet voice, Star, believing she had reached her friend, smiled and nodded, Raven reached over and grabbed Starfires outstreched wrist "How about some advise"She said tightning her grip, untill she heard the familiar sound of bones snapping like twigs.Starfires eyes went wide again as her head and hand fell to the cold concrete. "Stay down" Raven said smirking
Raven turned around just in time to jump out of the way to avoid Cyborgs punch"Don't make me hurt you Rea..."He said extending his right arm and switching it to his sonic canon. "I'm not forcing you to do anything Cy"Raven said landing perfectly on a fire hydrant "You always have a choice, and I suggest you run, then again don't, like I told Starfire, I could use the fun"What disturbed Cyborg the most about Raven now wasn't the fact that she was covered in blood, or that she just pulled the arms of a guy and broke Star's leg and wrist, it was her personality, this was what he had been trying to get her to act like all along...ya know, without the fighting, he had always wanted her to call him 'Cy' to speak in anything other then that dead monotone voice, to try to have 'fun', to act more casually, more human, well she was doing all this now, and he was wishing with all his might for her to change back.
"Sorry Rea" He said solemnly firing his sonic canon. Raven didn't run, didn't jump, she just covered her right hand in black energy and held it completely vertical, the blast hit her hand and split off in two pieces, missing her on both side by a couple of inches, much to Cyborgs dismay that wasn't the end of it, as soon as the blast was clear she held both arms out sideways and again had her hands vertical and covered in dark energy, suddenly the two halfs of his blast were black and coming straight at him, they were faster under Raven's control, he didn't have enough time to dodge them, one hit his left leg, the other more powerful half hit his right arm, his leg crumpled and his arm was destroyed as he too fell on the cold concrete.
Raven looked up to see Robin being droped by Beastboy, who was coming around for an attack himself. Raven easily evaded Robin's first strike with his bo staff by back flipping out of the way, he jumped to propel himself at her and made his second strike, this time Raven caught it, Robin was definetly surprised "You souldn't under estimate me, I've always been stonger and faster than I look"Raven twisted her arm trying to get the staff from him but Robin held on with both hands and all his might, and even though Raven was only using one hand, the stress finally was to much and the staff broke, the half Robin was holding came back and hit him extrordanairly hard in the face, right around his eye, while Robin sank to the road clutching his face, Raven jumped at Beastboy who was charging at her in the form of an elephant, Raven landed right infront of him and let her self fall on her back, Beastboy didn't see where she jumped to so he ran to help Robin, unforunatly that meant Raven would pass right between his legs, as soon as he was over her she stabbed the brokrn end of her half of the bo staff into Beastboy's chest and dragged it diagonally across his chest as he stampeaded over her, as soon as he cleared her he morphed back into human form and fell on the cold concrete.
"You should have paid more attention"Raven said with a laugh
Raven tuned to the last titan(besides her) standing, Robin who, dispite his eye being half swollen shut looked mighty deturmined, he rushed her, 'Bad move'Raven thought as she sidesteped him and grabed his left arm as she stuck out her leg to trip him, he landed flat on his face, only aggrivating his eye, she placed a foot on his back and twisted his arm, she was greeted with many of her favorite noises, gunting in pain, bone poping, then snapping, and muffled cry's, then a crack as his head hit the cold concrete.
Now with the titans out of the way, Raven could finally return to her intended prey, the robber (AN:Bet you forgot all about him)who, despite his injuries was still alive and writhing in pain. She walked over and picked up one of his severed arms, she looked behind her to see the titans, pulling themselfs up very slowly, trying to regroup, she smiled "Let them"
Raven walked over to the man who's eye's went wide with horror when he saw her.
"What did you think they could possibly stop me from my revenge?"She said, still with a smirk on her face.She brought back the hand that held his arm and bought it down across his face, once, twice, five times, ten times, untill his screem's of pain stoped. Satasfied that her work was done, she droped the arm and looked out at the horizon, that's when the Raven we all know and love showed up again.
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"No way!"Raven said in disbelief "I wouldn't do that"
Robin smirked "That's what we thought, why do you think it took so long for us to react, it was shock"
'If I didn't change then it wasn't hate that took over, what emotion besides hate would be powerful enough to not only take me over completely, but make me forget entirely?'Raven was so absorbed in thought she didn't notice the titans conversing amogst themselfs.
The titans turned back to the screen "We're not really sure if we should believe you or not"Robin siad, getting Ravens attention "We want to, but after what happened... we're going to keep you in here for observation for awile, to make sure your not playing us"
Anger surged through Raven 'There not letting me out!' She was able to contain it"I understand" Raven said in a defeated voice "You have to be cautios"
Robin smiled, obviously glad he wasn't going to have to fight with her over this
"It will most likley only be a couple of days...ok?"
"Sure"
Authors Note:Two chapter's done, god knows how many chapters to go, I'm goona try to get this whole story out before summer vacation, I'm going on a trip so I will probaly not even have time to post the already written chapters, much less write new one's.So Read and Review PLEASE, the next chapter is already written, the more reviews I get the faster I'll update, and the faster I update the more likley that you won't have to wait till the beggining of next school year to see the ending.
