I do not, I repeat, do not own the Teen Titans. Well I' don't wanna go on a rant here so I'll just start this chapter.

Chapter 4: Do you wanna talk about it?

Kaiser was in a deep sleep, but he kept dreaming of the encounter with Slade. Every time he would experience the burn in the dream his leg would cringe. Eventually it stopped, but a new nightmare appeared. He saw his mother putting him in the car. He was wrapped in blankets and covered in sweat.

"Don't worry I'll get you to the hospital." his mother said in a hurried and worried tone.

"Mom?" Kaiser thought to himself. But she didn't hear him.

"Don't worry honey you'll be alright as soon as we get to the doctor." His mother said as she started the car.

"Mommy I feel cold." The young Kaiser said weakly.

"Don't worry the doctor will make you feel all better." His mother started to get on the highway.

Kaiser's mother speeded through the busy highway. It was still snowing, but not that bad. The road was wet but not more than a small storm would have done. She drove through the street's weaving through the cars trying to get her son to the hospital. In the back seat the young Kaiser was shivering. He had fallen very ill and his mother was worried so she took him to the hospital as fast as she could, worried that her son might die. The young Kaiser had been hallucinating the whole day and on occasion he would shoot an energy ball at what he thought was a monster, but being in his state it was only enough to make a slight burn mark on the wall of his room. The young Kaiser was trying very hard to stay awake, afraid to fall asleep.

"Don't worry were almost there just hang on." his mother said as she swerved past a truck. Kaiser threw up in the back seat a few seconds later. "Just hold on a little bit longer." Kaiser then past out in the back seat of the car. Kaiser's hands then started to glow. An energy ball formed around his hand a then fired through the car hitting the right rear tire. The tire was blown clean off and the car started to slide. The car then flung into the air and spun several times landing on the wheels but then flipped three more times. The car then landed on it's roof sliding to a stop. A few moments later two ambulances arrived.

"Man this looks pretty bad." The male ambulance driver said as he ran towards to wreckage. He ran over to the two people in the car and quickly checked the boy while the female driver checked the woman.

"This one's still alive. Man he's bleeding pretty bad from the arm and leg" The male MT said.

"This one's still alive too. Common lets get them outta here and get them some help." The female MT said as they loaded the two victims onto gurneys.

The young Kaiser slowly came too as he saw his mother being put in a separate ambulance.

"Mom, Mom where are you?. Mom." Kaiser started to wake up.

"MOM!" He yelled as he jumped up from his bed. "Damn it." Kaiser started to cry. He slowly looked at the clock and saw that it read 3:24. He wiped the tears in his eyes and got up from the bed. He left his room and headed to the roof.

He reached the roof and stood there for a second thinking, nothing in particular just...thinking. About his life, his friends, everything. He then started to practice his fighting. He started to throw punches and kicks. After about every three or four attacks he would shoot an energy wave. After about twenty minuets he stopped and just sat down. A few seconds later someone or something had hit the trap he left by the door. He would always place a small tin can on a string so he would know if anyone would sneak up on him.

"Who's there." Kaiser said as he jumped up.

"It's just me." Raven said as she stepped through the door.

"How long have you been there?" Kaiser asked.

"About two minutes. I saw you come up here." Raven said as the scream Kaiser let out woke the light sleeper up, wondering where it came from. "I heard a scream and woke up to see what it was. How long have you've been coming up here?" Raven asked.

"Every day since I've been here. I keep having the same damn nightmare every night and I come up here to clear my head." Kaiser said as he started to slowly throw out punches, the way he learned in Tai-Chi.

"Do you wanna talk about it?" Raven said showing her rare, caring side. Kaiser really didn't like to talk about his haunting past, but he felt he could trust her. He didn't know what it was about her. The first day he came to the tower he just felt he could trust her.

"I guess. But promise me you won't tell anyone what I tell you." Raven nodded, and he then sat down. Raven slowly sat down beside him and listened to every word he had to say. "You know how I said my mother died when I was young. Well...I caused it." Raven was a little stunned when she heard this, but she still listened to him. "What happened is I got sick one day, it wasn't anything big. I had a slight fever, 99.5, but my mom told me stay home from school. Well the next day I had a 101.8, and the day after that 103.5. I got really sick. I was vomiting everyday, I was hallucinating, I was even starting to fly uncontrollably. On the third day my mom got really worried and started to take me to the hospital. On the drive there I passed out and lost control of my powers. I shot an energy ball that went straight through the car and blew off the tire. The car flipped and landed upside down."

"Did she die in the wreck?" Raven asked.

"No, worse. I woke up in the hospital three days later. When I woke up I saw my mother next to my bed. And when I looked down I saw these." Kaiser then lifted his shirt and started to rip at his skin. It was coming off like plastic, reaveiling a metal arm.

"Oh my god?" Raven looked at the metal arm wondering how he hid this from the others.

"Apparently I was the so called 'lucky one' and my arm and leg had a massive infection and needed to be amputated." Kaiser said as he lifted his left pants leg and ripped off the fake skin showing his other metal limb. "What happened is they told my mother what had happened to me and told her about a procedure that could repair my body with robotics. She heard about this many times before but the only difference is that all those operations the people had for there robotic parts is that mine didn't need an out side power source. They said that my nerves, blood and, brainwaves could be used to power them. But what happened is my mother had massive internal hemeraging and they couldn't stop it. So she agreed with the procedure and they gave me my new parts." He said the last part very sarcastically.

"What happened to your mother?" Raven asked in a careing tone.

"Well when I woke up and saw my mother she told me what happened. The wreck, the procedure, and the hemrage inside her. She told me she wasn't going to make it and so did the doctors. She told me to be brave and to make sure I was a good boy. She started to fade away. I didn't want to lose my mother she meant everything to me. She told me to take care of the family and make sure that I took care of the dog. She died two hours later." Kaiser was compleatly quiet after he said this. No one talked for a good two minuets, but it seemed like forever.

"You lost control of your powers. It's happened to me too." Raven said as she placed an hand on his metal arm.

"Yeah but no one probably died because of you." He yelled, "My mother told me to be brave and I was a cowered. After her funeral I ran away from home. I felt guilty about what happened. It's my fault she's dead." Kaiser started to cry. It just hurt talking about his past, this being the worst of it all.

"You have to stop beating yourself up over this. It wasn't your fault, you couldn't of stopped the wreck. Your mother was just trying to help you." Raven trying to bring some sense into him.

"She should've just let me die. Then she would be alive, I wouldn't be in pain." Raven was compleatly stunned when she heard what he just said.

"Just stop it." Raven yelled at him. "What would your mother think if she was here right now." Kaiser thought of what she said and she was right. He was ashamed of himself. If his mother was there she would have probably said the same thing. He couldn't believe what he was saying. His mother told him to brave and he didn't listen. He just kept running away, running from his past.

"I'm sorry. Your right. My mom would've just smacked me straight in the face for that." He said this with a giggle starting to feel a little better. "Listen Raven thanks for talking to me. I'm glad I could get this off my chest. It makes me feel a lot better." Kaiser looked up and saw the sun was starting to creep up on them. "We better go back inside before the others get up and get suspicious. I gotta make new skin for my arm. I don't want the guys finding out yet. So please remember not to tell the others. I'll tell them when I'm ready."

"How did you get that stuff?" Raven asked.

"Well I saved this guys life one time and turned out he was an expert special effects technician. He makes the stuff for me as gratitude for saving his life." Kaiser told her.

"Don't worry I won't say anything." She started to leave and then turned around. "But before I go I need to know one more thing. What's your real name." Kaiser was a little surprised she asked this, but he figured it wasn't hard to figure out he made up his name.

"I guess I can tell you. It's Kevin, Kevin Michaels. You can tell the others that." Kevin said with a smile on his face. He then walked off the roof with Raven

BAM more of his dark past has been revealed. But there is still more. So tell me what you think of this little number. I need more criticism.