Slade walked through the door to see Raven meditating. So he placed her dinner in front of her and walked off. As soon as he closed the door she opened her eyes and looked in front of her. There was a plate with some mystery meat on it and salad. Raven just ate the salad afraid of what the 'meat' might do, or in that case might be. She finished and then went back to meditating.
"What was that on that plate?" Asked Brave.
"It looked like horse sh…"
"Any way," Happy interrupted Gross before she could finish. "What do we do now?"
"Actually Gross, that was old steak." Corrected Intelligent.
"How do you know?"
"Because I do."
"Nerd." Said Brave.
"Fight, fight, fight!" Yelled Hatred.
"Would you stop it!" Said Raven a little annoyed. "What should I do?"
"Well you could go along with it and wait for the others to save you, or you could be stubborn and not do anything for Slade." Suggested Intelligent.
"Well I think I will just be stubborn," decided Raven.
All of a sudden Happy started to sing a song.
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Raven Happy Birthday to you!"SHUT UP!" Screamed Raven. "It is not even my Birthday yet and you know I don't celebrate it!"
"I know but you have your Birthday in a month and I just want to remind you."
"Oh my god you are right! Shit! Slade is going to make me his apprentice then turn me to the dark side and the prophecy will begin!"
"Precisely." Said Intelligent.
Raven came back to reality and stood up knocking the plate with the meat onto the floor. She looked down at the plate. She had an idea. She dropped the plate. It broke into four pieces. She took the sharpest one and cut herself it on her stomach. It immediately started to bleed where she cut herself. She screamed in pain. Slade heard her and ran into the cell. When he saw that she was gushing blood, he rushed over to her and tore of her cape and wrapped it around her.
"What did you do?" He asked.
"It was an accident." Replied Raven.
'I can't let her die. Then I won't have an apprentice.' Slade thought to himself.
He hurried to the phone in the other room and called the hospital.
'What if she tell the nurse that she was kidnapped.'
"Hello?" Answered a voice from the other line.
"Um… this is Mr. Bucle and my daughter was stabbed in the stomach." Lied Slade
"Okay hurry down to the hospital!"
"And nurse? Um, she also is a little retarded so she might say some crazy things like she as been kidnapped."
He hung up and grabbed a coat to hide his costume and a big hat that cast a shadow over his face so nobody could see him. He carried Raven outside into an old car and sped off to the hospital.
'My plan is working. Now when I am in the hospital I can tell the nurse everything.' Raven thought proud of herself. The car stopped and Slade carried Raven into the hospital. A nurse took Raven and placed her on the roller bed and rushed of to the emergency room leaving Slade in the waiting room.
TITANS TOWER
Robin was thinking what he could do. "Wait I put a tracker in her belt. She still has her belt on!" Exclaimed Robin.
He ran out of his room and into the main room. He logged on to her tracker and a red blinking dot appeared on the map on the screen.
"Why is she at the Hospital?" He thought aloud. "Oh, god! He hurt her!"
Robin ran to Cyborg's room and knocked on it hoping he would hear. But Cy is a heavy sleeper so he didn't hear Robin. Robin ran to Beast Boy's room and knocked on it.
"Beast Boy!" Yelled Robin.
No reply.
"Crap!" He cursed under his breath.
He ran to Starfire's room and knocked on it.
"She is still at the mall!" Yelled Robin.
Robin ran into the garage and got on his R-cycle. "Please don't be dieing!"
THE HOSPITAL
"Nurse." Whispered Raven. "Please help me I have been kidnapped!"
"It's okay I know about your problem. You father told me."
'What I don't have a problem? And who the hell is my father?' Raven was now to confused and angry that her plan is not working.
ROBIN ON THE R-CYCLE
It started to rain and the road was becoming sleek and hard to keep control. He stopped in front of the hospital. He jumped off and ran inside.
"I need to see someone!" Said Robin.
"I need to know her name." Said the nurse in no hurry.
"Her name is Rachel Roth. Now what room is she in?"
"She is in room…" The nurse was taking her time flipping through the papers trying to find her room.
Robin turned around to look at the time but instead saw someone. Sitting down with a long over coat and hat on. The man shifted and part of his coat reveled an armored chest.
"Slade!" Robin yelled.
Slade looked up at the sound of his name.
THE HOSPITAL ROOM
'Oh I shouldn't have cut so deep.'
The nurse walked in and started doing various things.
"Raven? Can you hear me?" Asked the nurse. "We found bruises to your ribs too?"
'How did I get those? Oh, Slade kicked me there.'
The nurse left the room. Raven could hear running in the hall. Slade ran into the room. Raven wanted to scream but she had no voice. He picked her up. Robin ran into the room.
"Robin?" Raven asked with a weak voice.
"Raven!" Yelled Robin.
Slade looked around and spotted a knife on a tray. He grabbed it and held it to Raven's neck. "Robin, go home or I'll kill your girlfriend." Slade Said calmly.
Raven could feel the blade on her neck. "Robin, don't leave me!" Cried Raven more scared than ever.
"I won't."
Slade thought for a moment about what was happening. 'Wait I can't kill Raven. She is my apprentice.'
Slade dropped Raven on the bed. Knife still in hand Slade lounged at Robin. Robin, caught by surprise, fell to the ground. Slade picked Robin up and held the knife to his neck.
"If you become my apprentice then I will not kill Robin."
Raven felt her fear turn to anger as she saw Robin with a knife to his neck. She jumped up and hit Slade in the stomach.
"No!" Raven screamed.
Robin fell to the ground and crawled out of Slade's reach.
"You little…" Slade lounged at Raven with the knife.
Raven screamed has she fells to the ground. Slade was on top of her with the knife pointed to her chest. She was trying to hold Slade back from stabbing her.
"Help!" Raven yelled in agony.
Robin got up and tried to push Slade off of Raven but he couldn't.
Raven was to weak to hold it back any more.
"Good bye Robin." Whispered Raven as she let the knife ease into her chest.
"No!" Cried Robin, tears flowing down his cheeks.
Raven let go of Slade's wrists. Blood stained her costume. A nurse came running in. She screamed at the sight of Raven's body.
"Oh my god!" The nurse yelled.
She ran out of the room and returned with a doctor.
"Call 911!" He ordered the nurse as he picked up the blood stained Raven.
As soon as the two left Robin turned around to Slade who was sitting in the corner thinking about what happened.
"I should just kill you right now." Sobbed Robin through tears.
"No chance of that Robin." Said Slade. He threw a smoke bomb in front of Robin so he couldn't see him running out the door.
Once the smoke cleared Robin got up running out the door. He ran past every room peering in the rooms to see if Raven was any of them. He finally found her in a room with doctors sticking tubes in her arms.
"Excuse me how is she? Will she live?" Asked Robin.
"Um, well she has something in her veins that was injected into her. We are trying to separate the liquid from her blood. She might not make it but she is trying her best.
"Thank you." Robin said pulling out his communicator and contacted Cy, Bb, and Star to come down to the hospital.
TWO HOURS LATER
The Titans were waiting in the waiting room for more news of Raven while Robin explained what happened.
Starfire got up and walked out of the room crying not able to hear anymore. Cyborg was crying silently and Beast Boy, now a hound dog, curled up on the floor and started to whimper.
'It turns out I do love her and now she'll never know.' Robin thought as a tear slipped down his cheek.
FOUR HOURS LATER
The Titans were all asleep in the waiting room. A nurse came in and shook Robin awake.
"Sir? Um, she is still alive but unconscious. We drained the liquid from her veins and bandaged her wounds. Would you like to see her?" Asked the Nurse quietly.
Robin nodded and followed the nurse into the room where Raven was. The nurse started to leave, but Robin stopped her.
"Why did you wake me up instead of the others?" He asked.
"I thought you were her boyfriend." Replied the nurse walking away.
Robin turned to face Raven.
"Um…well…this is kind of not my thing but please don't die because I…I…love you." Whispered Robin.
The nurse came in. The hospital is going to close. Why don't you come tomorrow?" Suggested the nurse.
"No. Robin don't leave me." Mumbled a dry voice.
"Oh, you are awake?" Said the nurse. "Well you can stay but not the others."
The nurse left to go tell the others to come back tomorrow.
"Did you hear what I said earlier?" Asked Robin hoping she didn't hear him tell her he liked her.
"What? No." Answered Raven.