Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans or any villains affiliated with them. I only own my characters, which are as follows: Wicca (Kali), Delusion (Dylanne), Cronos (Finn). Those are the ones in this chapter. I accept flames about MY STORY, not the topic. Thank you, dirty-witch, for bringing this problem to my attention oh-so-gracefully.

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Stupid curtains, Kali thought, waking up seeing red light filter through her closed eyelids. I swear, I'm gonna buy blackout ones- Opening her eyes, Kali expected to see the violet and silver walls of her room. Instead, she found herself inside a sterile-looking white room in what seemed to be a hospital-type bed, with harsh white lights glaring down at her from the ceiling. She sat up with a gasp, causing a wave of dizziness to slam into her. Where on earth am I? Looking down at herself, she saw that she was wearing her uniform minus her boots and cloak.

You should be resting, the teenager heard a soft voice say. Kali whipped her head around and came face-to-face with a younger version of her grandmother. The memories of the previous events came back to her in a rush as Kali stared at the white-clad woman who stood beside her bed.

"Ohhhhh, man," Kali mumbled, falling back on the pillows. She looked up at Raven. "Where am I? What happened? Is Cronos ok?" she asked, a thousand worries filling her mind. What if Dylanne or Finn had told who they, or she, was? What if Finn was still hurt? Was he in a hospital or something? Where was she? What if they took a bit of her DNA and compared it to- no, they probably wouldn't do that- Kali put a hand to her head, wincing, as the room spun when another wave of dizziness hit her. "And why the hell am I so dizzy?"

You are in the infirmary of Titans Tower. You collapsed when you tried to…heal your friend, I believe. He is unharmed. Kali sighed happily.

"Good. I mean, I had such a hard time calling magic to that spell, I thought maybe I did it wrong-" Kali felt something nudge her mind, something that she had trouble identifying for a moment. Then it hit her: curiosity. She was feeling Raven's curiosity. She looked up at the woman beside her bed, eyes wide in surprise. When her grandmother's soul-self and Kali's own had collided and integrated once by accident, they'd each retained the other's memories, an easily accessed mental link, and a small bit of the other's abilities. Kali had gained the ability to faintly pick up the very strongest emotion another person was feeling. Her grandmother was able to detect magic in the working.

Raven was now looking back at Kali, a puzzled look on her face. Shoving away her feelings of surprise and familiarity, Kali put a hand to her shoulder, and, feeling the smooth, whole skin, she asked,

"Did you heal me?"

Yes. Kali was inwardly relieved when the empath stopped thinking about her emotions and focused on the question. I am sorry, but I was unable to entirely heal the head trauma you received. I am incapable of -

"Curing a disease or anything potentially lethal," Kali interrupted, mentally cursing herself when she realized what she'd said. How was she supposed to explain how she knew what Raven was capable of? She'd just opened her moth to attempt an explanation when a loud voice cried,

"You're awake!" Kali'd barely turned toward the source of the noise when she felt arms fling themselves around her. "Holy scraps, Wicca! I thought you were gonna die, you were bleeding so much!" Kali blinked.

"Yeah, and it's your fault. If you hadn't made all that noise and given Speedy such an obvious target…" She glared down at him. Cronos looked up at her with sad eyes.

"I'm really sorry-" Kali grinned, then returned Cronos's hug.

"Oh, it's ok. I'm fine now, thanks to Raven." Kali looked around and blinked again. Raven wasn't where she'd been a second ago. Glancing at the door, Kali found the empath about to leave. "Hey, wait a sec!" she called. The cloaked figure paused. "I didn't get to say thanks yet!" Kali stopped for a second, then continued. "Thanks for healing me, Raven."

You are welcome, the woman answered before rushing out the door. Kali raised an eyebrow.

"Whaaatever," she mumbled. Looking over at Cronos, she asked, "So what did you guys tell them? The Titans, I mean?" Cronos hopped up on the bed and sat down, cross-legged.

"Delusion just told 'em we're from the future, and some bad guys sent us here by accident."

"That's all?" Kali wanted to know. "Nothing else?" Cronos shook his head.

"Nope. Nuthin'."

"Oh. Ok." She looked sidelong at her friend. "Can you find Delusion and ask her to come in here?"

"Sure." Cronos hopped down and raced out of the room. Kali smiled and shook her head. He had way to much energy. Remembering that Raven said she hadn't healed Kali's head all the way, Kali drew the healing spell on her forehead and healed it herself. When she found that she herself had had a concussion, Kali was bewildered. How had that happened? Remembering the feeling she'd had right before she'd passed out, she concluded that she hadn't really healed Cronos, she'd just transferred his wounds to herself.

As she levered herself out of the bed, Delusion walked in.

"Hey."

"Hey, yourself. You feeling ok?" Delusion inquired as Kali tugged on her boots. She'd found them beside the bed.

"Yeah, I'm ok." Finished, Kali looked around for her cloak.

"Well, that's good. You looked really bad when they brought you here," Delusion remarked, picking up Kali's mantle from a side table and handing it to her friend.

"What did you tell them?" Kali questioned, pulling her cloak on. There was still blood on it. Grimacing, she muttered, "reverto".

"What are you doing?" Delusion hissed as Kali's uniform melted back into her normal clothes. "They could see you!"

"Hold on, hold on!" Kali reassured. She then uttered the companion spell, dissimulo, and her casual clothes changed back into her uniform. There was now no blood on her cloak, nor any tear in her sleeve.

"Ahh, I see what you were doing. But please, don't do that again," Delusion pleaded as she began to walk toward the door.

"Ok, I won't" Kali assured her friend, strolling beside her.

"Thank you." Delusion put an arm around Kali's shoulders and squeezed as they walked. "You know, I'm glad you're ok." Kali smiled.

"Thanks." She skimmed their surroundings as they walked out of the infirmary. "Where are we going, anyway?"

"The Titans said they wanted to see you as soon as you were better." Delusion looked over at her friend. "To ask you some questions. And seeing as you're fine now…"

"Why?" The black-caped teenager shrugged. "Dunno. They asked Cronos an' me some stuff, too. I think they might wanna know what you did with Cronos."

Kali was quiet. She could answer their questions about her spell, yes, she had no problem with that, but what if they asked her about who she was? What was she supposed to say then? And Raven could tell if you were lying…

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To tell the truth or not to tell the truth, that is the question… Anyhoo, the voice of Raven in this chapter and the Titans' voices in the previous chapter were really bad. Sorry. I'm just not good with that kind of stuff! Oh, well. Check out Kali's poems that I posted yesterday. The title is 'Messenger Poems'. So…yeah. Take a look if you want.

Peace and Oreos, Onyx