A/N: Thank you for reviewing Raven and Jay, I am pleased that you liked it. It may be a little confusing down there so I'll give you a little key… anything surrounded by this '' is a thought or is part of a conversation in someone's head, and anything in normal quotes "" is a normal spoken aloud conversation. That is all.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this story, except maybe the plot line-I'll check with my lawyer.

Even though the voice was inside her head Raven stumbled back in surprise.

"It can't be…"

'Oh, but it is, Raven.'

"You're dead."

'On the contrary, daughter…'

What was going on? Her head was spinning, thoughts racing; could he be here? Was he in her head, could he hear her thoughts?

'I've lost it, the stress has made me insane.'

'Life is insanity, Raven. But by normal, human standards you are quite in your right mind.'

"No, the darkness has gotten to me; there's no light down here, I've got loads of stress and almost no sleep-after everything that's happened in the past few days my subconscious needs a way out." She sounded as if she was trying to convince herself.

'I am here, Raven. There is nothing you can do to change that.'

"You're dead, we stopped you, we killed you; you shouldn't be here!"

'And yet here, I remain.'

'He's not real.' She thought, closing her eyes tight. 'He's in your head. He's not real. It's all in your head.'

She suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder. She let out a scream and leapt forward in surprise, and looked around feverishly for the body of the hand she had felt. Nothing was there.

'I am very much real and very much alive, Raven.'

"No. This can't be real. You can't be real. It can't." She gripped her head.

'Sit down Raven.' He continued when she complied. 'We have many things to discuss.'

"So what if I do, jut for the moment, entertain the idea that you're not just a projection of my fears and problems, my over taxed mind trying to cope? What then? We going to have a heart to heart." She asked cynically.

At this moment he appeared in front of her, looking exactly as he did before the Titans had defeated him, only this time he was the size of a normal man.

Raven stared in shock at the figure 15 feet away from her only for a moment, then she attacked.

She jumped up and flew at Trigon with everything she had; ahead of her she sent an enormous beam of black energy. It passed through her target with precision accuracy and hit the wall behind, sending up a large cloud of dust.

It cleared moments later and Raven stood ready, expecting an attack or a body. But there was nothing. No sign of him ever being there.

"Behind you Raven…"

Raven spun in place only to receive a savage blow to the stomach that took her breath away as well as sending her into a nearby wall.

She got up slowly, coughing and sputtering, fully expecting the attacks to continue. When they didn't come she looked around and searched the darkness with her power had picked up nothing. He had vanished again.

"Where did you go?" She demanded.

'If I'm not real, just a figment of a your, over active imagination, then you know where I am.'

"Show yourself, monster!" Raven demanded. She felt another hand on her shoulder, turned quickly, and punched into darkness making no contact.

'In time, in time…'

She could feel him again, close. All around. On her left, above her, behind her. She could fight it all; she took off running. After a few seconds she went into the air and she began flying through the black cavern. Her powers and demonic heritage were showing her where to move through a combination of telepathy and enhanced vision.

'Where are you going Raven?' She could no longer feel him, only hear his voice.

'As far away from you as possible!' She was now moving so fast through the underground cavern she was finding it difficult to breath. She dogged stalactites and stalagmites alike, bobbing and weaving through the twisted caves. She could hear lightly running water in the distance.

'You can't run forever…'

'I can try…' She felt his presence again and saw him, through the darkness, directly in front of her, only a few yards away; she made an abrupt about-face and sped off in the direction she came from, then made a sharp right turn down a side tunnel.

'You can't hide Raven, I will find you wherever you go, no matter how deep, how dark, how remote.'

His demonic energy was near her once again and closing, fast. She took evasive action, altering her movements to be as random as possible, not thinking of them more than milliseconds before she executed them, she kept her mind as focused as possible on what she was doing, tuning out almost everything else.

She continued like this for several minuets before she realized that she was extremely tired; she slowed down her pace; her powers were almost tapped out for now, along with the fact that she may have already circled the entire cave system more than once.

'Maybe I lost him, I don't sense him at all.' Then he came flooding back, his thoughts, his power, and his scent. He appeared flying alongside her with a menacing grin.

"I told you that couldn't hide. "

Raven kicked her powers back into high gear and doubled her airspeed. She could feel him falling greatly behind and she breathed an ever-so small sigh of relief.

Then he was in fort of her, at the mouth of a side cave, his arm outstretched, beckoning. She pulled a hard 180-degree turn only to seem him ahead of her, baring her path.

"You're not real, not real, you can't stop me." She flew straight for him, only to have his large fist connect with her stomach as she tried to fly by. She fell to the earth at great speed with a dull thud overshadowed by the crushing sound of the rock being decimated beneath her.

He floated down to where she was on her knees, clutching her stomach.

"Am I real now, Raven?" He kicked her savagely in the ribs sending her flying a few yards and into a shallow stream of cold running water.

She had just gotten to her hands and knees when he kicked her in the face forcing her into the middle of the wide but shallow stream.

"How about now?" he demanded. He grabbed her by the hair and forced her face into the icey water, which was just deep enough to cover her head.

"NOW?" He had lifted her head out of the water and was holding it close to his own, Raven's body still limp in the frigid water.

"Yes…" She managed to cough out, he was definitely real. He through her onto the dry ground a few yards away.

"Good, now we can talk…"

A/N: Hoped you like it, please Read and Review. Hope it wasn't too confusing either.