Big brother to the rescue! Bum bum BUUMMM!

Sorry.

"Richard-"

"I don't want to hear it Kory."

"But Richard, I have talked to Garfield-" Kory stopped, 'Was I not supposed to keep a secret? Oh, I was.'

Richard side glanced her, "And.?"

"Um, he has told me the reasoning behind Raven's lateness. Believe me, Richard, it is a good reason." Kory was satisfied with her answer, she didn't say anything. Though she expressed the reason as a good one.

"…" Richard stared, "So? What was it?"

Kory's eyes widened. "I…um, I was not supposed to say anything. Just please believe me that it was for good reason that she leave."

Richard rolled his eyes, "Whatever."

"A-and I think that your yelling was unnecessary. Maybe it would be good hearted if you apologized."

Kory said.

Richard kept his head down and stuffed his hands in his pockets.

"Maybe." He mumbled.

Kory and Richard rounded a corner.

Kory smiled widely, "What was that?"

"Nothing."

"No I believe it was a 'maybe'. Was it not?" Kory joked.

"Kory, if you knew what I said then why did you have to ask?" Richard chuckled and lightly elbowed Kory.

Kory went into a fit of giggles. This was the soft side of Richard that only Kory and Victor knew about. Kory knew that in time Terra would know his the way she and Victor did.

Kory looked at Richard through he laughing to see a stern look on his face. If that didn't stop her laughing then the next thing he did definitely would.

"C'mon Kory let's go." Richard grabbed her arm and started to lead her away.

Kory looked at what Richard was staring at and gasped.

"Richard! It is Raven!"

After Crow had come to pick up Raven and Garfield, Raven came home and changed into something lighter. She didn't really care if it wasn't her 'style' because it was comfortable.

After deciding not to get a bite to eat, Raven walked outside and started to walk around mindlessly, thinking about random things.

She was looking down, and wasn't watching where she was gong. Big mistake.

"Hey! Watch where you're goin'!"

Raven's head snapped up in surprise, "Sorry." She said with a bit of ignorance.

The teenaged boy leaned in, "That doesn't sound sincere." He snarled.

Raven narrowed her eyes; "Does it have to be?"

Usually Raven wouldn't argue and would just walk away, but she wasn't in the best of moods today.

The boy's scowl turned into a smirk, "Yes, it does."

Raven eyed the boy; he looked around Crow's age, meaning he probably would know and fear Crow. She rolled her eyes and tried to walk away but he stepped in front of her. She decided to just go back but his posse blocked the way. Raven was stuck in the middle of a circle of idiots.

"Let me go." Raven sighed annoyed.

"Say the magic words." The leader of the gang chuckled menacingly.

"The magic words." Raven sneered.

The leader snickered, "A funny one we have here, boys."

Raven crossed her arms over her chest, "Just let me go already. I'm a lot more trouble than you think I am."

That statement sent the group surrounding her into a fit of laughter.

By the time they were settling down, Raven's legs were already getting tired of standing.

"You know, I usually don't hit girls but-" Out of no where the leader sent a punch to Raven's face.

Knowing he'd do that soon, she swerved to the left and delivered a punch to his gut.

The group watched as their leader doubled over in pain. Raven would have advanced until he was on the floor, but her vision started to waver between normal and extremely blurry.

'What the hell.' She let her hand massage her head, not noticing their leader stand back up to his full height.

"You bitch." She heard the leader say as he sent another punch towards her chest bone.

She dodged it, feeling as if a lot of energy was leaving her with just one swift move.

'Seriously, what the hell is going on here.? I feel so weak.'

The leader started being a snob, and Raven could tell by his facial expression. But she could barely hear him over her own heart beating in her ears.

Raven staggered to the side clutching her head with one hand.

The group around her started to question what the heck was wrong with her, they didn't even touch her.

Raven took one blurry glance at their confused faces, and collapsed.

"Richard, you must help her! She might be beaten up!" Kory urged.

"She can take care of herself, Kory, she already punched that guy in the gut." Richard argued back trying to get out of her death grip on his arm.

"Please Richard! You must help her, please put your pride aside and help her!" Kory yelled.

Richard glared at her.

"Richard, what if we do not see her in school tomorrow because you would not help her! What if she gets beaten or even raped?" Kory whispered with urgency.

"Kory, stop worrying, she will not get raped." Richard broke through her grasp and turned around, walking away.

Kory was deciding whether to leave Raven, or follow Richard, besides he knew more about this country than she did, what if he was right?

All of Kory's questions were answered as she watched Raven collapse to the ground.

"Richard!"

Richard turned around with an annoyed look. That look completely faltered as Raven hit the ground and wasn't even moving afterward.

Once Raven hit the ground, a looming figure came out of no where and grabbed the leader by the neck, suspending him in the air with his back against a nearby tree.

"What did you do to her?"

"Who the hell are you?" The leader tried to break free, but to no avail.

The leader was brought lower, now eye to eye with his assaulter.

"Her older brother. Ever heard of Crow Roth?"

The leader couldn't help but let out a gasp.

'The girl was right, she was more trouble than I thought. She was related to Crow Roth! She must have been Raven. No wonder she dodged my moves.'

"Alright man! We'll leave, just put me down already!" The leader struggled to say through Crow's death-like grip. He had never heard of Crow actually showing anger. He only heard rumors that he cold beat you up without even looking like he cared. But this time Crow looked as if he was livid. Heck, he probably was.

"Not until you tell me exactly what you did." Crow snarled.

"We didn't do nothing! She dodged two of my punches and collapsed, I wasn't even able to touch her!"

Crow stared at the leader of the group with his intense eyes, waiting for him to crack under pressure and tell him what really happened.

There was a moment of silence, he must be telling the truth.

Crow brought the leader to the ground and watched as the leader straightened out his outfit, acting like he wasn't pleading for his life a second ago. If anything that only made Crow angrier.

Crow waited until the leader looked back up with a smirk on his face, and punched him straight on the nose. A sickening crack was heard making his group stagger back and run away. As Crow brought his hand back, he noticed blood dripping from his knuckles and look to their 'oh so fearless leader' to see him holding two teeth, blood dripping from his mouth and disfigured nose.

"Is that your blood on my fist?" Crow asked unfazed by the leader's weird breathing.

The leader looked at Crow's hand and his eyes widened. He stepped away from Crow and made a run for it in the other direction, telling himself not to stop until he was with mommy.

Crow smirked and wiped off the blood using a leaf from a tree, not even breaking it off the stem. Crow turned back around to see Raven lying on the floor motionless.

He bent down and checked to see for any injuries. Crow sighed in relief that the leader was right. He chuckled to himself, he knew how feisty Raven could get, and knew when she did, no one could lay a hand on her.

Crow scooped her in his hands and picked her up bridal style. He was about to walk home when two people running towards him called out to him.

He saw one of them was the guy from that rainy day, while the other was just a tall red head. She looked preppy, he'd had have to freak her out or something, Goth law.

Crow waited until they caught up with him.

"What?" Was his famous greeting.

The red head started to talk, though she talked like a foreigner, not a prep.

"Is Raven… ok? She is not hurt correct?" Kory asked, her hands clamped together in concern.

"She's fine."

Kory was about to ask another question, but Richard intruded.

"Where are you taking her?" He asked, eyes narrowed slightly. For all he knew this creep who he kept seeing with Raven might be a stalker, who's waited until she was unconscious to have his way with her.

Crow looked annoyed, "Home."

Kory and Richard exchanged confused looks.

"Who are you?" Richard asked, totally confused.

"Why is that important?" Crow asked.

Richard brought his hands up in defense, "I just wanna know."

Crow scowled and turned away, ready to walk away from their stupid questions.

Surprisingly Kory stopped him by a light touch on the arm making him turn around.

"Please, we are just concerned for her safety." Kory reasoned.

Crow eyed the hand on his shoulder; Kory took it off immediately.

"I'm her older brother. Crow Roth."

Richard had to strain himself not to choke on his own spit.

'Her brother's Crow? THE Crow?'

"Oh, her brother? That is wonderful you two have such a close relationship." Kory gushed, beaming her smile that could probably blind Crow for life.

"Right..."

"May we escort you to your house and stay until Raven is healthy?" Kory asked sweetly.

Crow rolled his eyes and turned around, walking away, "Whatever."

Crow led the way until they were all at the Roth's stoop. He rang the bell using his foot and leaned on the rail, Raven was getting heavy.

Kory watched a cute boy and girl answered the door. The girl answered it with the boy behind her, but it seemed that the little girl didn't recognize Kory and ran behind the older boy.

Crow stepped into view with Raven in his hands and walked inside.

"Crow!" The girl greeted, "What happened to Raven?"

Falcon shut the door after Richard and Kory walked in.

"Oh! She is just so adorable!" Kory grabbed the girl bright her in a bone-crushing hug.

Crow didn't even look back as he entered the living-room and carefully set Raven down on the couch. Richard, Falcon and Dove in Kory's arms followed.

"Um, Falcon?" Dove asked pleadingly.

Falcon turned around and tugged on Kory's arm, "Can you let go of her? She's choking."

Kory looked down at Dove's pale face and set her down, "My apologies." She sent them a wide smile.

Dove matched it with her own while Falcon eyed them weirdly.

"What happened to Raven, Crow?" Falcon asked, recovering from his stupor.

"I think she passed out because of lack of sleep and nutrition. Falcon, when she wakes up make sure she gets some fruits. I'm going out." Crow left to the kitchen to get a bite to eat first, Richard followed.

Kory was left in a room with the younger Roths.

"Umm, Hello! I am Kory Anders, what is your name?" She asked Dove.

"My names Dove, and this is Falcon." Dove pointed to Falcon, who was playing with Raven's hand and entwining his fingers with hers. He looked worried, and Dove noticed how he was extra quiet.

Kory noticed this too. "Do not worry Falcon. Raven will awaken soon enough." She assured him with a smile and ruffle to the hair.

Falcon gave her a weak smile and continued to play with Raven's hands.

Kory decided to change the subject. "So… Dove, Falcon, Raven, Crow. Are these not the names of majestic American birds?"

"Yes, our mother gave them. She loved birds, and said it would be nice to have these names. They set us apart from others, and we like it. She named us on which bird's personality matched ours. As you see, Crow was given to my colder and more distant older brother. Raven was more of a quiet yet sarcastic one. I was given Falcon for my more brave and rebellious actions. While Dove is a more sweet and gentle person, coming from a different father."

"Yeah, but our mother gave Crow, Raven and Falcon their names. Falcon was actually the one who named me since." Dove bowed her head slightly.

"Since your mother died, correct?" Kory asked softly.

Falcon and Dove nodded their heads.

"But Raven and Crow take good care of you two. You both have nothing to worry about." Kory beamed, remembering the time Raven and Crow protected Falcon from the group of bullies. And also how Crow beat up the kid who threatened Raven with his posse.

Falcon and Dove nodded their heads again; the only difference was that they both had a comforting smile on their faces.

As Richard followed Crow to the kitchen, he noticed that there were no pictures of people on the wall. No family, not even self-portraits hung on the vacant white walls. He was surprised, after seeing how protective Raven was when he talked about her parents, he would have guess they had pictures of them all over the place.

Reaching their destination, Crow opened the fridge and rummaged through the bottom drawers.

Richard eyed the kitchen, it was clean. In fact, the silverware even matched the tiles on the floor. To think about it, their living-room was matched and well furnished as well.

Richard almost yelped in surprise when he saw an apple being hurdled at him. He caught it and look to see Crow eating an apple as well. Hesitantly, he bit into it. You can never trust someone like Crow to hand you an apple, especially after the movie 'Snow White' came out.

'Actually,' He took a bite, 'It's pretty good.'

"So are you guys Raven's friends?" Crow asked, taking another bite and started fishing his car keys out of a messy drawer.

"Actually, we just have a science project together."

Richard answered.

Crow nodded and finally pulled the car keys from the drawer. "And I was surprised when she met Garfield." Crow eyed the door to the living-room where Kory was. "She usually doesn't bring home things like those." He pointed a thumb towards the door.

Richard chuckled, "Yeah, I know what you mean."

'Am I actually having a conversation without a beating from THE Crow? I am so telling Victor about this.'

Crow and Richard talk for another few minutes before he leaves. Richard walks back inside and sees Kory tickling Falcon to death to get him to cheer up.

"Hahahaha, stop it! Hahahaha."

"Not until you have declared the word 'Uncle'. Kory giggled.

Richard rolled his eyes playfully and noticed a little movement from the couch. He looked closer to see that

Raven was waking up.

Before he could get out-

".R-Richard?"

Everyone froze at the sound of Raven's voice.

Dove and Falcon turned to see their sister awake. Dove ran to Raven and tackled her like she did every morning to get her to wake up. While Falcon scrambled off the floor with a little help from Kory and stood next to her as she sat up, a small Dove in her lap.

"What happened and why are they here?" Raven asks, rubbing her head.

"I think you blacked out from luck of neutrons and sleep." Dove answered with a sheepish expression on her face.

"Um, I think she means lack of nutrition." Kory corrected, getting off the floor. "Do you not remember collapsing while in the middle of a group of boys ganging up on you?"

Raven thought for a second, "Oh yeah. What happened to them…and me?"

This time Richard spoke up in his usual careless voice, "Basically right after you dropped to the ground, your brother must have been walking around and saw you drop. So he came over and pinned the leader guy to a tree and choked him. Then after he let go of him, thinking he wasn't going to be beat up, Crow delivered a powerful punch to the guy's nose!" Richard was starting to get excited and was now acting out the scene. "Then the whole group ran away! Your brother seemed to care less that he broke two teeth and broke the guy's nose, or that he was bawling! Crow asked him if it was his blood on his knuckle and the guy ran off. That is so Crow style, just like everything I've heard." Richard beamed, and looked around to see everyone staring at him. "What?"

Raven shook off her surprised expression, "So why are you two here?"

"We just wanted to see how you were doing after we saw what happened, and asked your brother Crow if we may stay. So here we are!" Kory said in her usual giddy voice.

Raven rolled her eyes, "Well thanks for the concern. I'm fine now, so you two can leave."

Kory looked at Richard as if saying she wanted to stay, but unfortunately he was already half way to the door.

"Don't need to tell me twice." He said before walking out the door.

Kory looked back at Raven, "I think it is nutrition your brother said to have. Let me get you some fruit, do you have any?"

'Why does she want to help me?' Raven wondered.

Falcon nodded and led her to the kitchen; "I'll show you." Kory smiled and followed him.

Raven looked down at Dove who was smiling up at her, still sitting on her lap from her tackle.

"What a day, huh?" Raven asked gently.

Dove nodded, giving her another famous 100-wat smile.

Kory and Falcon walked back in with fresh fruits on a plate.

"Here you are, Raven!" Kory beamed, obviously proud of her work.

Raven took an apple and started peeling it.

"Thanks, but you don't have to stay." Raven urged.

Kory blinked, "I know."

There was silence, until Kory got the message.

"Oh, you do not wish for me to stay."

Raven started feeling guilty.

Kory stood up and started to walk away, but turned around before she left the room.

"Raven, if you want a friend, a girl friend, then I am always here." She assured.

Raven looked down and smiled, "Thanks, Kory. I…I'd like that." Raven mumbled. 'It's the least I could do after shooing her out of my house.'

Kory looked dreamy eyed at her. "This is wonderful! In my country, this kind of situation is always celebrated with pudding!"

Raven nodded slightly, "Yeah, uhhh… maybe tomorrow, Kory."

Kory nodded and said her good byes to the family and showed herself out.

Raven exchanged looks with her siblings and started to giggle.

"Interesting girl, isn't she?"

Thanks for reading it!

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