A/N: I'd like to thank my reviewers: Darkness, Phonix-Rising, ravenrouge19, and sorry for the long wait but I had to read a whole book over the weekend and thus had little time for writing. Same rules as before apply but I'll restate them just in case… 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. We must press on.

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Raven lay on the ground, clutching her stomach. Her head was throbbing and she could taste the blood in her mouth. There was crushing pain in her chest and a severe shortness of breath.

More than a few of her ribs had broken off completely and…embedded themselves into her lungs; she should have already been dead but she was no normal person by any standard, the demon in her is what kept her alive.

She was starting to black out from the lack of oxygen and the massive internal bleeding, she was in pain she had scarcely felt before, but the sleep didn't come. The blackness did not take her, death did not arrive, nor did the coma like state in which her body repaired itself.

She realized her eyes were open and she looked around for the first time and realized that her body was sheathed in the blue aura that she had been told about before, her healing aura. However, she had never been awake during this process and could explain why that had changed now.

Then Raven's eyes focused on him, crouching a few steps away, looking pleased with himself, Trigon; her father if one was uneducated on their current relationship.

She understood in a revelation that he was the one keeping her awake, her powers were a divertive of his and as such were not nearly as advanced. She was immobile as she healed her fatal wounds. Trigon had her completely with in his power.

'He said he wanted to talk, I guess I have no choice but to listen to what he has to say.' Raven thought weakly, but it was true; she was to hurt to not heal and she didn't know how to break her body's survival mechanisms.

"No Raven, you do not have much of a choice in the matter, do you?" Trigon said, standing up and clasping his hands behind his back and walking around her.

"At this point you are undeniably vulnerable," he said almost airily.

'You're enjoying this aren't you, you monster!'

"I won't deny that I have been longing for a similar situation in which I could take my vengeance upon your treacherous form."

'Treacherous! For standing up against your goal of destroying all of humanity?'

"You had one design in life, and that was to be my vessel for transport to this realm, to bring down the filth that was here and rebuild it, in my own image."

'You're a psychopathic, genocidal monster!'

"I should make you pay for everything, make you suffer for it all until your very last breath. The one, which you would beg for the sweet release of death with-"

'My only regret is that I could only do it once.' She would have spit on the ground if she had not been completely paralyzed.

"What I was going to say, dear Raven, is that I will not, however, be destroying you tonight."

'Whatever you've got planned the Titans will stop you, we did it once and we'll do it again! They'll find me, they always do!'

"Ah, but you are forgetting one crucial thing Raven, you were expelled from the team only hours ago. They no longer care where you are or what you're doing…"

He leaned in close over her prostrate from, she could see his fangs clearly in the dim blue glow, she could feel his hot breath bearing down on her, she could smell it and it crept up her nose and down her throat causing her to silently gag.

"They abandoned you, to this fate, to this outcome, they would not help you even if they knew where your were. They would leave you to die at my hands; it is because they never truly trusted you, not that you gave any of them much reason to. You lied about your entire past and now that they know what you truly are underneath that pretty face…they are disgusted by it, it sickens them. They have been wanting to be rid of you for some time now, this last…incident simply gave them a proper excuse." His words cut into her and made much deeper wounds than the ones he had made previously which were now quickly healing.

She was sobbing in her head and tears were slowly running down her face.

'But they accepted me, helped me, loved me.' She thought shakily.

"Did they ever, truly Raven? Did they ever in their hearts? You have your powers, you could tell, when they laughed with you or spent time with you or said they loved you, did any of them truly want or mean any of that in their hearts, in the back of their minds?"

'Yes, t-they did.'

"Are you so sure, are you not simply covering up emotions and thoughts which you felt emanating from them ones which you know contained their true feelings, just because you wished too? Just because you wanted to live in your fantasy realm where everything was perfect and people could accept you for what you are? What you really are?"

Raven looked back in her well-organized mind to all the memories that she considered happy or when she was with her friends. She looked back and found exactly what Trigon had said, that for all their smiles, all their laughs, all their love they had those thoughts and emotions coursing through their hearts and minds, they were afraid of her, truly afraid, and had been for quite some time.

Trigon had seen everything that she had gone over in her mind and smiled inwardly to himself, 'I have her.' He thought.

"Don't you think you deserve something more, Raven? After all you have done for them, and their city? A little trust, a little confidence? That they did not have fear you? Should they not have loved you for who you are, no matter what?"

Raven was growing angry, everything he said was true, through all their lies and deceit the Titans had not given her what was due, and she wanted to get even.

'Yes.'

"They needn't have feared you before, Raven. But soon, soon they shall."

A/N: And now to shamelessly ask for reviews, REVIEW! I hope you enjoyed this chapter because I enjoyed writing it a great deal, I'm thinking one more because breaking up the story for how I'm having it play out would not work right. If you have any ideas you want to share then by all means, I have used more than a few reviewers suggestions in the past and it helps a great deal, especially when I'm stuck. You can flame as well if you think my story is bad, just go for it.