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Raven sat in her room, trying to meditate. She would have to retrain Starfire. Beast Boy… he was a different story. Raven didn't know if she had the patience for him. Sighing, Raven stood up.
Cyborg and Robin were sitting in the family room, quietly talking, wondering what was going on. Robin hadn't talked to Cyborg about what had happened that afternoon, he thought he would wait for Raven to explain. As far as the others were concerned Lilith was off getting them help.
"Holy water." Raven said emotionlessly. "You should work on it."
"Of course Raven. Right on it."
"Come on Cyborg let's go to…"
"My room. To work on it. I know Rob."
Raven didn't hear the rest of their conversastion, she had turned on her heel and was headed out the door to Starfire's room.
Raven rapped on the door. "Starfire, Beast Boy, I'm coming in. I suggest you two get off eachother, I really don't want to see anything."
"Just a minute friend Raven!" Starfire squealed.
"Haha hold on Rae!"
"Don't call me Rae."
Starfire opened the door and grinned, acting innocent.
"You're uniform isn't straight." Raven said.
Starfire quickly pulled her top into place.
"Eh…heh… Why don't we uh… not tell Robin?" Beast Boy said, scratching the back of his head.
"OH of course not. Why would I want revenge on you for anything Beast Boy?"
"Right…. HEY! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!"
"Shut up. You need to be trained to morph into a-" Raven paused. She wasn't sure what to tell Beast Boy. "A demon." The words slipped her lips before she could stop them.
"A demon? What?" Beast Boy, as usual, was confused. "Why?"
"Let's guess… hmm… so you can fight them maybe?"
"But- but- demons- SCARE ME!"
"Love Beast Boy, I'm confident that you can do this!" Starfire offered her words of encouragement, attempting to cheer the changeling up.
"I'll do it!" Beast Boy said. Raven almost felt sorry for him, he was just so gullible it was sad.
"I thought so. Starfire… I can't… train you." Raven realized she would be no help to Starfire, their powers were just too different. "You'll… have to find someone else to train you."
"They can… train me on Tamaran… But I would have to leave my-" Starfire looked down at her feet, "Earth friends for a short period of time." She finally said quietly.
"NOO! YOU CAN'T LEAVE!" Beast Boy cried out.
"Unless you can do this on your own… I suppose this is your own deciscion Starfire."
Starfire nodded. "I must."
"I'll leave you two alone now." Raven darted out of the room.
Now she was alone, her best friend was leaving to train on a planet, everyone was so happy. Her "bro" Cyborg was happy as ever, Raven noted that he hadn't seen her much. Robin… she didn't know what to say about Robin… She got that alone and empty feeling again, a feeling that made her want to crawl away and forget everything… if she was gone, there would be no prophecy.
"Raven?" Robin came up behind her and surprised her by laying a hand on her shoulder. The gloom of the hallway was settling around them, though neither of the teens took notice of it.
"What Robin?" Raven asked, pretending not to be surprised.
"You need to talk with someone."
Raven turned to face him. "Of all the people to have a 'bond' with, it has to be you doesn't it? Maybe I want to be alone."
"Maybe I don't want you to." Robin cocked his head to the side and stared at Raven.
"Maybe you should leave me alone."
"Why?"
"Oh I don't know… hmm… maybe because I want to be right now? Robin on average I would be with you all. But I do these things to protect you. You just can't seem to understand that."
"We understand. I think there is something you can't understand. I think if you use your emotions a little more, the better ones like love and happiness then you would be a little bit freer. From what it seems Trigon can't understand such emotions, making them a weapon against him."
Unconsciously the two teens had led themselves to the roof, and were sitting down staring at the lake.
Raven so desperately wanted to agree with Robin, to believe there was a glitch in her fathers plan. She wondered, how could someone like Robin see something she couldn't?
"Starfire is going back to Tamaran." Raven said after a moment of silence.
"She's WHAT!"
"You heard me. She has to train again… to learn how to work her powers."
"Well she needs to talk to the team about this, I mean if she doesn't then what will we-"
"You aren't upset she is leaving? I thought you liked her. I figured you would be jealous of Beast Boy."
"No. It's a brother/sister thing. You don't go out with your siblings."
Raven decided to change the subject for Robin's sake, but Robin butted in before she could.
"I turned her down, remember? I turned her down for someone else who doesn't care."
"You're right Robin. They don't." Raven stood up and looked down at him. "That's what you don't get."
She understood why he was being so nice to her. He wanted someone. She wasn't going to be his someone.
"Raven wait! Maybe it isn't you! Ever think of that? In case you haven't noticed girls are drooling over me all the time! Maybe your not as important as you think yourself to be."
Raven froze. "Maybe you should watch your fucking temper!"
"I should." Robin looked over the edge of the roof, "I should." The ground was tempting. He decided to give Raven a scare, he needed something to jolt himself into life again.
Robin dove.
Raven blew up an antennae. She used her powers and grabbed him, just before he shot his grappling hook. Using her aurora Raven made a large black hand and put it around Robin's neck.
"You fucking think you can impress me, or create a distraction with that?" Raven hissed. Her eyes were glowing white and she had a look that wished death across her face.
"Raven! I needed to do that! I do it to jolt myself into life! That's all!"
"You are disgusting Robin." Raven dropped him, and fell to the ground herself. Robin ran over to her and picked her up in his arms.
"Get. The… fu- fuck… off… me." Raven tried to be stern, but Robin wouldn't listen to her.
"I'm sorry Raven. I have to go."
"Good! I'm leaving too then!" Raven reached into the air and summoned a knife. "I'm leaving!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"NO!"
"DON'T ARGUE WITH ME!" Another antennae exploded, and some tiles on the roof curled up.
"RAVEN!" Robin yelled, he grabbed her arms and pinned them behind her. "I want to help you."
Raven regained her control, and sickened looked at the knife. That goddamned reflection would die if and when it decided to come into the real world.
Raven snatched the knife from Robin and threw it as far as she could.
"What was that all about?"
"You don't need to know."
"I do."
"YOU DON'T!" Everything around them exploded and warped.
"I have literal inner demons."
"We know tha- oh. Of course."
"Will you let me go now?"
Robin realized he was still holding Raven. Trying not to blush he let her go. Raven stood up and started to walk away.
This time Robin didn't call her back.
AAAAAARGGH! THIS IS SO SHORT! Sorry about that. Sorry about this chapter. I'm seriously having some issues with "the block". Okay, and now it's time to answer reviews. Joy Joy…
Zoicytes-Shadow: Okay. I kind of changed my e-mail so I hope you didn't send me anything yet. Sorry. But it's xdeathlovexsmilesxxx yahoo. com just take out the spaces and it's all cool. Kyrie would be interesting. Maybe I will borrow someone like her near the end. Which sadly may be coming up. It's tragic I know ((not the ending that fact that the ending is coming)) Yes, but Lilith wasn't really working out, part of why I got rid of her. I BORROWED YOUR IDEA! Thank you so much! She is going to learn to- I'M NOT TELLING! Sorry for making it so hard. Zoicytesama what? Cool, that would be great.
Xlife: Thanks. I'm glad you did, it was really erm… different to write. I tried so hard. I'm not as happy with it, it could be better, but hey that's all I've got right now. Anyways, I'm glad you don't mind I take forever sometimes, because I really truly do. That idea is probably going to come in very nicely. It may be different, because I was thinking of just making her really unsure of herself and learning different things, but I don't have enough time. This will be the part that exposes her true inner demons… Thanks for your help!
AngeloftheSecondHell: Sniff, I missed your review. Ah, Nascar… I hate it but I guess for earning money I would definantly do it. Haha drunk people are funny, I love to laugh at them. I mean uh… Uhm… Blackfire? That would be a different purity. The kind of purity where you accept yourself, Blackfire accepts herself which makes her I guess, pure in my terms. Hmm… that could make sense. You make too much sense! Argh! I'm better… truly… okay maybe not. You seriously should write comic books, I would buy them if that helps.
Samael Archon: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You have one too buddy! I guess I can't really tell you to stop can I?
Yeah, I kind of messed up there. He is going to have a story. It may interlock with Raven's I haven't gotten that far yet. You can just calm down there little lady! Big T? What? Lilith was confusing. Haha I won't. I meant make Robin a really happy guy… and Raven happy too. HAH RAVEN ROBIN RELAITIONS BABY! I'm better. I'm glad it's better than a Disney, too bad I can't sell it and make millions off of it like Disney does to Brothers Grimm. Hmmph. I like Brothers Grimm. Anyways… Yeah Starfire is in trouble. MUWAHAHAHHA! Should I bring Tamaran into this? And if I do where should I do the battle?
Well… that's all for now kids. Thanks…
