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Chapter 8: Rainy Reminiscence
After having one last glance at the tower she traveled through the lonely streets of Jump City under the stealth of night to eventually reach the outskirts of the city. The moonlight was the only bright object in her future. The wind brought a soft but chillingly cold breeze to the back of Raven's retreating figure.
She stumbled down the seemingly endless road. Nothing lay before her and only her past lay behind her. A strong gust of icy wind blew her cloak upwards, allowing the silver, blissful waves of night to glide onto her pale, milky skin. A slight shiver could be seen as she drew her hood around her fragile form.
A cricket chirp could be heard somewhere in the depths of the corn field beside her. It vaguely reminded her of the silences after Beastboy's jokes. A smile crossed her lips as she remembered her friend's anger when no one would laugh at his lame remarks. Her thoughts then strayed to the attack. Beastboy had always tried to be nice and a good friends to her. Even when he was sprayed with toxic chemicals and unleashed his inner beast, he had still protected her. And what had she done in thanks? Almost killed him. She felt so filthy and disgusting, like she had felt as a child when her father called her a half-breed. That's when she left Azarath she was half-human and half-demon. She didn't belong with demons, "so what about humans?" She figured. Turns out she was wrong again. She didn't belong with anyone, not humans, not demons…she belonged alone.
She drew her cloak even tighter around herself as another gust of wind rustled through it. Her thoughts then moved to Cyborg, the best friend of green changeling. She never had any siblings, that she knew of anyway. Cyborg had always been a brother to her. Unlike Beastboy, Raven noticed he had a certain…understanding that no other member of the team possessed. He never asked questions as to her mysterious nature. He never asked why she was the way she was. He just understood and accepted her. Cyborg was a unique teammate and a unique friend.
Raven could feel her fingertips become numb from the nonchalant coldness, but she continued to reminisce as she thought about Starfire. Being the only other girl on the team, Raven thought that they would be able to share many similarities. However, beyond their gender, Raven and Starfire might as well be night and day. At first Raven couldn't even stand being in the same room as her. She was always so bubbly and nice. "Anyone that happy had to be hiding something." Raven had always thought. It wasn't until they had switched bodies, courtesy the Puppet King, that Raven had begun to understand Starfire and Starfire had begun to understand Raven. After that the commonalties had slowly grown. Starfire had learned to meditate quite efficiently and Raven had experienced what little fun she was able to have by her outings to the mall with Star. To Raven, Starfire had become something like a best friend.
A low roar had snapped Raven out of her thoughts. She spun around and instantly she had regretted it. She was already a couple miles from Jump City and she could see its entirety. A throbbing pain developed in her heart. She clenched it, fighting back the pain. She glanced up towards the moon and saw low changing dark clouds. A bright flash of light emitted from it and a booming clap of thunder followed. She gazed at it with anxious eye as they covered up the moon, her only source of light. Raven turned and looked down the empty road, it was as if someone had turned of the lights and she was left in unabridged darkness. As large heavy rain drops stained her cloak, Raven continued to tread down the desolate highway using the firmness of the road and the barely visible stripes to continue onwards.
Her dampened cloak weighed her down and provided little shelter for the former titan. She began to shiver even more as her skin became soaked and her temperature began to drop. Her whole body became numb, and to avoid the numbness she thought about the only person even close to understanding what she was going through, Robin. Just the sound of his name in her mind brought some feeling back to her broken, empty body. Strange though, this feeling was not like what she felt for the rest of the titans, it was something that was, like her, shrouded in mystery. She was not used to this feeling, but was determined to find out what it was.
Raven had never ever had a friend like Robin. He was so adamant to know all about her. She had just passed it of as his leadership-like personality. Though he always did ask her more questions and seemed more interested in her persona. It could've been that she always revealed little about herself, or could it have been something else?
Trudging through the deepening puddles of water brought Raven out of her final reminiscent thought. Having almost been an hour since it started raining. Raven was completely drenched from head to toe. Thought she had the strength to shield herself from the rain, she did not find it necessary. She had no one to impress, and she might as well accept any treatment to numb her heart.
After about four more miles Raven, from lack of sleep and exasperation, began to sway back and forth, the endless stripe she was focussing on became a blur as she used her hands to steady herself. She blinked harshly a few times, roughly brought her eyes back towards the white line and continued to follow it.
A jarring beam of light from behind her made Raven lose her focus again. She didn't look back, not wanting to make the same mistake twice, though she doubted anyone could see anything two feet in front of them. She continued to walk hoping the occupants of the vehicle would just pass by her.
As the head lights became more annoyingly vibrant, Raven squinted her eyes. She could hear the motor and even the tires kicking up the rain from the road as it was catching up to her.
As if a giant tidal wave had come down from the sky, the car ran over a pothole and splashed a wave of water right on the dark teen. She gasped as she felt the coldness sting her senses. The car continued to drive a few feet as Raven held out her dripping cloak. It slowed to a stop and suddenly and quickly backed up to where Raven was standing and stopped. The windows slowly lowered themselves to reveal a group of about five guys bursting with laughter. Raven turned towards them and removed her doused hood, intending to give them the scariest death glare of their lives. The group of boys slapped her anger back with more hysterical laughter.
"Well look what the cat coughed up!" A long black-haired boy finally exclaimed after wiping tears of laughter from his eyes.
Raven glared again, gritted her teeth and balled up her hands into fists. She was angry enough to let her emotions release themselves. But somewhere deep inside of her numb heart remained an ounce of self control. She roughly shoved her emotions aside and continued walking. The boys just couldn't take a hint and shifted into drive and drove slowly along side her.
"So what happened? Did you friends kick you out of there little super hero gang?" The black-haired teen said again.
"I guess you were too creepy for them!" Another teen with bleached blonde hair and a goatee replied. The rest of the gang hooted with laughter at his, what Raven thought was an incredibly idiotic yet hurtful, remark. Raven continued to look at the road below her feet but, unfortunately, couldn't block out what the immature boys were saying. She stopped walking and if it wasn't for the cover of the pouring rain the boys would've seen a single tear leak from her shimmering violet eyes.
"Well, are you gonna say anything, gothie?" The driver said, mocking her dark nature. The rest chuckled a bit but silenced themselves, eager to hear the dark girl stand up for herself. Raven continued to pretend to ignore their insults and commenced forward once again. "Yeah, that's right demon, you got nothing!" Said a member of the group from the back of the dark vehicle.
Raven's eyes widened at this comment. 'How did they know!" She thought as she heard the car erupt in laughter again. As dew began to cloud Raven's vision she fled into the dripping stalks of corn.
In the distance she heard the boys laughing still, and with one final insult, "yeah, that's right demon, you better run!" They were off on their way to who cares where.
Raven stumbled through the thick stalks, batting away leaves and tripping over water filled hole. Her wet lavender hair plastered her face as she hurried attempted to locate the street again. A massive pit in the muddy earth finally sent her sprawling to the ground. She turned to her side and landed on her shoulder, thinking it would hurt less, it would be the third time she was wrong today. She moaned as she say herself up. She would definitely be feeling her shoulder in the morning.
That thought brought her back to the present. "Where will I sleep!" She said aloud to the howling wind. She looked in front of her and found an ugly looking scarecrow mounted high up on a wooden plank. 'Hmmm, his clothes might provide some sort of mediocre shelter.' She thought as she picked herself up. She looked at his blacks garbs whipping around in the wind under him. It had to be the worst idea of the day, but she'd rather sleep there than no where. She crawled under the scarecrow and leaned against the wood holding him up. She brought her knees to her chest and curled herself up as she closed her eyes and rested her head on her shoulders. Hopefully she would at least get a couple winks of sleep.
okay so hopefully that was better than the last chapter..and look how fast I updated!YAY ME!………………….review……..just thought I'd add that in…….yeah