The Secret Past of Raven
By DarkNightangale
Ok, I apologize profusely for completely ignoring this! I've just been really busy, see first there was school and finals and then I had to work and now I'm in summer school. And on top of that I'm dealing with some shit of my own so I haven't exactly been sitting down and writing everything down. I seem to have forgotten where I was going with this so it's going to take me a while to get everything back in order. These next few chapters are probably not going to be the best and may seem a tad weak. Well…really weak. So, please forgive me.
Chapter 6—Coma
The Titans stood over Raven's body. They had all been blown back into Raven's room and it had taken them a while to get their bearings back. And just as they had Raven herself and flown out of the mirror and into the room with them. The only problem was…she wasn't waking up.
"No!" Beast Boy cried, "No! Raven! Wake up! Wake up!"
He shook her so violently that Star and Robin had to tear him off of her. Beast Boy was crying and finally stormed out of the room and into his own. The others put her in the medical room and tried to figure out what was wrong. She wasn't healing herself like she usually did. Her body was just…there. They hooked her up to machines and it detected a heartbeat. A faint one, but it was there. Her breathing was short and shallow.
Raven was dying.
They didn't quite know how to break the news to Beast Boy, but they didn't want him to have false hopes that she would get better when they really had no idea if she would. So, they decided to keep quiet for now and simply told him that they had no idea how she was, but for now she seemed ok. Just out of it.
Beast Boy didn't believe it. He knew there was something wrong. There was something so wrong with Raven. She wasn't healing herself. He could read the charts and machine screens. The girl he loved, the only girl he had ever loved was dying. And it was tearing him apart. He didn't want to believe it. He refused to believe it. There was just no way that he could accept it.
He went into Raven's room one day and saw the mirror still lying on the floor where it had been left. He picked it up and peered into it. All he saw was himself. He wasn't quite sure what he had expected to see, he was hoping to see Raven he guessed. Not likely. He put the mirror on the dresser. It went down with a little more force than was needed, shaking the dresser a bit. Beast Boy slumped down on the bed. He couldn't save Raven and he felt so helpless because of it. He also felt so hopeless because of it.
Raven started to come to. Everything was so black. So suffocating. She looked around but all she saw was darkness. Everywhere. This darkness she did not like. She felt lost. What was going on? Where was she? How did she get here? The questions flooded her mind and she started feeling a sinking feeling in her heart. A voice called her name. Faintly at first, but louder each time it was called. Almost as though the voice was getting closer to her. She was tempted to call out in return, but thought better of it, considering she had no idea where she was or who she could be with. Suddenly she saw a small ray of light. Flashing brightly. She stood up and even though she couldn't see where she was going, she went in the direction the light was. She kept following it, spreading her hands out to the sides and feeling a wall. Then she hit something with her foot. She bit back yells of pain as she realized she had just stubbed her toe on a stair. Raven slowly made her way up the stairs, feeling her way toward the light. She reached it and realized that it was a window. She peered out cautiously and immediately gasped and backed into the cold, stone wall, that she could now see. After she pulled herself together again, she slowly crept over and peered out again.
What Raven saw were her friends: Star, Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy…and…herself.
Everything became crystal clear. Her body was out there. In the real world. And her spirit, her real person, was stuck in…God knows where. And her body was dying. Fast.
"Well…this is a problem." Raven thought.
If she didn't figure out how to get herself back into her body, her body would die, and she would remain a spirit, wandering around in this dark place only being able to look at her friends—her family—and never be able to be with them in person again. She had to work fast, the charts did not look favorable and now it was a race against time. And a race against time is never a fair one.
For now her body was in a coma. And it would never come out of it until she managed to get back in there. Raven sighed, frustrated. She backed away and slunk down on the floor, letting the coldness of the stone calm her down. She suddenly realized how exhausted she was. She leaned her head back and her eyes s…l…o…w…l…y…started to close. Until she slept.
As both the spirit Raven and the body Raven slept, the other Titans were also in a race against time, trying to figure out what was wrong with Raven and how to fix it.
End Chapter 6
Ok…so rather weak and short, but I'm actually somewhat proud of this chapter even if it isn't my best. So, I apologize again for this delay. But, I promise I'll try to write more sooner. I'll be gone this weekend because I'm going to San Diego but I'll try hard to write some every day. Please bear with me. You have been so patient so far. And I'm sooooo sorry for the delay.
