Reunited

Chapter 3

Saying Michiru and Haruka were surprised would be an understatement. They damn near had a heart attack. "Setsuna, what the hell is going on here? Who the hell are they?"

Setsuna points to Raven "This is Raven and the boy's name is Richard."

Haruka looked a little put out. "Okay. Why are they here?"

"Queen Selenity ordered it," Setsuna said with an amused look on her face.

"What's so goddamn special about these two that they had to be brought here," she asked with a little anger.

"Well Raven here is the daughter of our dear Hotaru," she answered. Haruka and Michiru looked at her like she was insane before the inevitable happened.

"What! Who dared to touch my firefly? I am going to fuckin' kill him." Michiru was just fuming silently. Setsuna just sighed and waited for Haruka to calm down. When she finally stopped ranting and noticed that Setsuna wasn't all the upset. "How come you're not as upset about this as we are?" She came up with a conclusion. "You knew. You knew and you didn't tell us?" Haruka was beyond pissed.

Setsuna sighed. "Haruka, look at Raven. Look at how old she is."

Haruka looks at her closely, studying her features. "She's got to be 15 or 16. How is this possible? Hotaru is only 21."

"Remember when Hotaru disappeared and landed in that other dimension." They nodded. "Raven is her child from that dimension. Our firefly fell in love, albeit with the wrong guy, but in love. She married him and had Raven. Her husband killed her." Haruka and Michiru looked at her with horror. "He killed her in front of Raven. She was 13."

Michiru looked at Raven with tears in her eyes. Haruka looked angry, wanting to kill the bastard that dared to harm her firefly. Then she remembered about Richard. "What about the boy? What's his deal in this?"

Setsuna stared at her with a weird look and said, "surely you recognize your brother"

Haruka was shocked. 'My brother. My brother is back! I can't believe this.' "Why is he here? Now? And with her?"

"Richard and Raven are a part of a team of superheroes known as the Teen Titans. Richard is known as Robin the boy wonder and Raven is known to be the quiet halfdemon." As soon as she let those words slip, she knew she shouldn't have.

"Demon! How the hell did that happen?" Haruka is ready to pop vessel at this time.

Setsuna sighs again and starts the story. "Hotaru fell in love with a Demon. He had a great human appearance and looked like he genuinely loved her. After they married and Hotaru told him she was pregnant is when he revealed his true motives. He locked her in the basement. After a week she escaped and left the country to have her child. She had Raven and they lived in peace until Raven's 5th birthday.

"Raven started showing her powers around that time and her father found them by tracking the power to the source. He showed up out of the blue and scared Hotaru into letting him stay. He trained Raven in her powers for eight years, then killed Hotaru in front of Raven, hoping she would become evil like him. He never expected her power to explode the way it did, killing his human self in the process.

"She wondered from city to city for a year before she came upon the Titans fighting a villain. Raven saved a group of people from a building that was falling over. The Titans saw this and invited her in and she accepted. She's been with them for a year."

Michiru, once again, has tears in her eyes. Haruka looks at Setsuna like she had been dropped on her head as a child. Setsuna, for what seems like the umpteenth time today, sighs and says, "Haruka, cold you take Richard to a room? Michiru and I will take Raven to a room."

Haruka picks up Richard and carries him to a guest room, while Setsuna and Michiru take Raven to the guest room couple of doors from Richard's.

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