Feeble Fortitude Chapter 12: Blackmail!, a teen titans fanfic

Hey everyone,

Okay it's official MY MUSE HAS RETURNED!YAY!

I know that his isn't the longest chapter that I've written but I thought that it was good compared to the last one. Anyways, I know that I promised a kiss in the last chapter, but I just thought that this would be a good place to end it, so anyways I hope to update next week sometime, since I'm feeling more creative, but who know if it'll last! I sure as hell don't! so anyways enjoy chapter 12!

read the bold paragraph at the end of this chapter!

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Chapter 12: Blackmail!

"You're all right!" Raven asked her fallen comrade cautiously, as if he would get pulled into the subtle hands of unconsciousness once again.

"Yeah, I think so," he replied with a smile, "what happened?"

Raven avoided Robin's gaze, which she knew was lingering upon her. 'What should I tell him, I don't even know what happened!' She thought, still "absentmindedly" glancing at the charred earth. When she reached the end of her thoughts, she thought it best to change the subject and save explanations for when she could actually explain them properly.

"Can you sit up?" She asked, shifting her eyes back to Robin. He groaned loudly as he attempted to move his stiff muscles into a sitting position. In Robin's moment of brief pain he had, without realizing, clasped Raven's hand firmly and, trying to block out the pain erupting from his body, focused instead on the delicate mountains and valleys that produced her ghostly hand. His eyes washed over it, memorizing every inch, from the short cut nails to the rivers of blue that cascaded in-between her knuckles and ran rapidly throughout the rest of her, his gloved hands could only glower in jealousy over the eyes special treat. It felt like he had only begun to focus on the exquisiteness of her long, slender fingers when the hand began to fidget slightly, drawing Robin out of his intricate thoughts. Before Robin unclenched his hand from her, he felt a spark ignite on the end of his fingertips, like one would receive from a slight brush with a needle. Robin immediately glanced up at Raven, eager to see her reaction. His suspicions of mutual feeling of the short-lived spark were put to rest when Raven suddenly wrenched her hand out of Robin's warm grasp.

Robin suddenly noticed Raven's mauled body and lightly tattered clothing. "Are you all right?" Robin asked, taking over Raven's concerned thoughts.

Raven followed Robin's gaze down her battered form. A few scratches lingered on her legs, pooled over with dried blood that had began its journey downward. Her cloak had received equally harsh treatment, as did her normally smooth hair. Both were extremely mussed, with a few rogue threads standing up, begging for attention. Raven felt her cheeks grow hot from embarrassment as it plagued her to have Robin see her like this. Though as rush of concern equally filled her mind, she had never been this anxious about her appearance. Why had her unique interests changed within a few seconds of time?

"I'm fine." Raven replied simply, almost forgetting the question she had been asked.

Robin warmed her heart with a sincere smile as they shunned their thoughts away and jerked themselves back to the present.

"C'mon, let's go home." Robin said, clenching his teeth in an effort to fight the pain of rising to his feet.

Everything Raven had done in the past few days finally caught up with her jumbled thoughts. "Robin," she said warily, rising also to her feet to meet Robin's confused glance, "I can't go. " She looked down as the ground, knowing the question that was to follow.

"Why?" Robin retorted, clearly puzzled at Raven's sudden withdrawal.

"I don't want any of you getting hurt." Raven responded, implying her other friends that eagerly awaited Raven's arrival, for Robin had simply told them that she had been "out."

"Raven…" Robin replied in understanding. "We're a team, we can get through this as long as we stick together." Robin finished, longing to take her face in his hands and force her to look into his reassuring eyes.

However, this answer had not convinced the dark titan. She knew exactly what was to come, he didn't. He hadn't been born into a destiny that reigned over her life, he didn't have a father who was the definition of evil itself, he didn't have to live everyday like it was his last, knowing that he would succumb to something that freewill had no control over. Raven suddenly switched viewpoints, well if she was going to give in to her father and unleash as unstoppable hell on earth, maybe she did owe Robin a simple explanation. He doesn't even know what's going on.

"Robin…"She said, beginning her thorough explanation with recognizable tension. "You don't understand…" She said softly, trailing off while trying to search for the right words to describe everything.

"Then help me understand." He said, gazing into her endless lavender eyes. As Raven gazed back at Robin all the right words seemed to find there way to the surface. (A/N: I didn't feel like writing the whole Trigon-is my-father-and-destroyer-of-the-world thingy, so just assume all the knowledge from "The Prophecy" is learned!)

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"Wow, Raven ,I had no idea." Robin said in shock.

"Yeah, well it's not something I like to bring up in everyday conversation." Raven replied. The mood had eased from tension-filled into something close to enjoyable, despite the fact that what Raven had revealed would make even the happiest of people morbidly depressed.

"Raven, I understand why you don't want to go back, but you have to." Robin replied, still adamant about bringing Raven back to the tower with him.

"I…I can't." Raven said weakly, turning away from Robin once more.

"What am I supposed to tell the rest of the titans? That you just fell off the face of the earth?" Robin asked, getting ever so slightly annoyed at Raven's inability to comply with him.

Raven's eyes went wide, she hadn't counted on Robin telling the others. It was supposed to be a secret between to two. Raven was now mentally slapping herself for relaying her deepest secrets to Robin. "You aren't going to tell them are you! You can't!" She begged.

An evil grin slowly crept onto the edges of Robin's lips, tugging them upward into a positively maniacal smile. Raven looked at him with mixed feelings of confusion and fear.

"Here, I'll make you a deal," Robin began, already Raven didn't like where this was going, "you either come back to the tower with me or I'll tell the other titans."

"That's not a deal, that's blackmail!" Raven objected, though there was the risk of Raven's secrets being revealed, which was no laughing matter, Raven couldn't help but smile at the Boy Wonder's bold move. No one had ever dared to go so far as to hold something over her, mostly because she never got close enough to anyone to tell them any of her secrets.

Robin mused for a few seconds before replying, "so it is." He eyes Raven for a few moments before trudging back to the R-cycle, still in apparent anguish.

"Fine!" Raven yelled, giving into his retreating form, which halted instantly upon hearing Raven's voice ringing throughout its ears. She ran to catch up with him and turned the ugliest glare towards him. "But you promise not to tell anyone." She reminded, putting immense emphasis on "anyone."

"I promise." Robin said, throwing up his right hand as a pledge.

"Good…" Raven mumbled to herself as the two headed back towards Titan's Tower.

END OF CHAPTER 12!

Okay I thought that all the chapter so far have been a little dramatic so I put a wee touch of humor and a spot of fluff in this one, hope ya'll like!

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