Disclaimer - I do not own Teen Titans, but I do own Scorpio. So ha.

Chapter 13: Jet's return

June 20, Year 13

Dear Journal,

I was just observing my hands, journal. It gets really boring here, and so I've decided that in my spare time I'm going to observe what I can about my hands.

You can always tell a person by their hands and their eyes. If their fingers are hard and course, they are wokers. If their fingers are smooth and pudgy, they are most likely feminine, and if their fingers are long and smooth, they are an artist. Artists have no gender, journal, they are a gender of their own. A people of their own...I am an artist.

Unlike eyes, hands don't tell the world your sign. A water sign always has blue eyes. A fire sign always has brown/amber eyes, an Earth sign always has brown eyes, and an air sign always has gray eyes. A scorpion always has black eyes.

Me and Nem went into the village today...we kinda snuck out but it was worth it. It is a shame, really, journal, how many Aries elites have fallen. There were countless numbers on the streets, poverty stricken and shameless, trying to cover their heads with scarves and head dresses, trying to cover the mark on their foreheads. Aries' marks glow when they are angry, Scorpion marks glow when they are...um...interested...

I don't really want to spell it out for you journal, only beacause it isn't the greatest thing in the world. Of all the signs my father could have been, he was a Scorpion...I have no complaints or regrets. My father was a brillant man according to Mama, and I believe her. "Where do you think you got your smarts, Rella?" She used to ask me. "I know, Mama."

Jet won't leave me be for a second since I we reached the convent. He isn't allowed in the nuns' area anyway, but he comes. Shameless all the same. Nem is obsessed with him, and my Picsean friend (the only Picsean here) is in love with him. I don't see anything in him but that mark, which he keeps trying to get me to look at.

-Rella

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Scorpio was on her bed, reading over the first few pages of her journal. She remembered everything now, her memory was no longer a fogged mist, but it was clear. She closed the book and glanced at the clock. It was about 11:00 p.m. Raven would be up, and Scorpio would join her, but Raven was dangerous, especially at a time like this.

It was November 1st, and in one hour her birthday would be over, finally. The whole day she had been acting jumpy, but guilty all the same. If she hadn't had been so shy, she would've let Beast Boy lather her mark and take the curse off him, but she couldn't. And more importantly, he didn't want to. She knew. If he did, it was only beacuse of the curse, once it was off he probably wouldn't think about her in that way again.

It comes with the responsibility...she thought to herself as she crawled into bed. She wouldn't sleep, but at least her body would be able to rest. And I am to blame...

Instantly her mind drifted to Beast Boy's dreams, which he was having currently. They were getting stranger and stranger each time, but one thing never changed...Jet was in all of them. Jet and herself, and the mark. And that damned convent. She closed her eyes and watched them, piece by piece until it was morning.

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Raven woke up to the slightly filtering light going through the clouds. She had never slept in this late before, it was almost 8:00 a.m. She got up and stretched, throwing her cape over her shoulders and getting ready for the day. Scorpio would probably be on the roof waiting for her, but she doubted it. "I hate meditating," Raven recalled her saying. "Can't we do something else...please?"

Chances were that Scorpio had already went to the roof, noticed Raven wasn't there, and had went back inside to make breakfast. Raven smiled at the thought, having someone younger than them was enjoyable.

Raven made her way to the main room, the doors hissing a welcome. Scorpio, Robin, and Starfire were inside, eating and talking all the same. Robin shot her a smile.
"Morning, Raven." He told her.

"Yes, good morning friend Raven!" Starfire exclaimed from next to him. "You have slept well?"

"Good morning, Robin," Raven answered. "And good morning, Starfire. I slept...well...enough." Truthfully Raven had barely slept at all, getting strong vibes from Beast Boy's room and Scorpio's room. She guessed that something was up, but she wouldn't try to read her mind again.

Scorpio smiled at her too and gave her a mug of tea. "You weren't up this morning," she said proudly.

"You should've waited," Raven said back, sipping her tea.

Scorpio furrowed her eyebrows and stretched her arms up. Today was her first day officially as 15. It wasn't the greatest feeling in the world to have no one acknowledge you one day after your birth, but then again, they didn't know. "So...I guess we still have to meditated then...huh?" She said quietly.

Raven nodded but then turned to Robin, who shoke his head. "You've been training well enough. I think you can take a break for today...for both mental and pysical." He took a sip of coffee.

Scorpio smiled broadly. Today would be awesome, no training...no nothing...

It was then the Titans' alarm went off in the tower, as if to ruin the whole thing. Robin ran to the moniters and typed in the code, and maps and diagrams flashed infront of them

"Slade." Robin told them.

Scorpio looked at the moniters and then at Robin's back. He turned around and sighed. "I guess it's time you come with us, then."

Beast Boy and Cyborg came out of their rooms, hardly awake and half asleep. When the saw the moniters they straightened. Cyborg ran to the garage to get the T-car and Beast Boy and the others were off to the city.

Raven would have helped Scorpio make it over the water, but remembering her element she didn't. Scorpio managed to make a thin ice sheet that she could stand on and control at the same time. Within minutes they were off to the Harbor.

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The harbor wasn't rich in jewels or money, but Slade didn't want that. "He's planning something," Robin had told them. "Something big, and I will stop it." He always did.

What the harbor did have was location, right to the East of Titans Tower, and right next to the observatory. It was a perfect location for any madman, why not Slade?

"Stop!" Robin yelled to the taller apprentice, who was busy trying to shot down a fishermen. "Freeze!"

"Ha! The Titan Toddelers, what a surprise..." He turned around, still having flames bursting from his arms, to Robin; who jumped and threw a flat ice bomb on him. He caught in and threw in in the harbor. "You're going to have to do better than that, bird boy." He answered back, now throwing flames at the other Titans.

Scorpio could only watch. Fight...fight...fight...fight...She was not a fighter, but she would have to try.

The other apprentice, the shorter by about 2 centimeters, was hauling fish back into the water, clearing the space for his master. Obviosly neither saw the Titans as a threat, and that burned Scorpio most of all. She bit her lip and ran towards him, dodging the fire of the first. She pulled her arms up and water from the harbor flowed and hit both of them flat on their backs.

The same ice pins that had held Robin now held them firmly between the boards of the dock. Scorpio smiled to herself and turned to her friends, who smiled back and ran to un-mask the two.

Robin reached for the first one, who was lying on his stomach, pinned to the ground. Remembering that his hands were still dangerous, he turned to the shorter, who was lying on his back, and un-masked him.

His hair was very dark, almost like the night sky, and his eyes were blue and a little green too. His skin was slightly tan, but not dark or light, and his actions were forcefull and reckless as he tried to escape the ice pins.

Scorpio looked at him, and Robin noticed she wasn't looking at his face, but at his stomach...something was glowing under his uniform, and Scorpio was staring as if hypnotized.

"Scorpio!" Robin yelled, moving his hands infront of her. He shook her shoulders. "Raven, Starfire, look away!" He yelled back to the them. They did as they were told, closing their eyes and looking in the opposite direction.

Raven tried to reach Scorpio's mind, to break her out of the trance, but it was useless. Her mind was locked from the outside in...the curse..

And Beast Boy noticed the glowing mark, the same one Scorpio had on her back.

Scorpio wouldn't move. She was just staring...staring...not really belonging to this world anymore. The dark haired boy was smiling broadly, as if he had been waiting his whole life for something this wonderful to happen.

"Robin, get her out of here!" Beast Boy yelled at Robin, who was standing in front of Scorpio. Beast Boy began pulling on Scorpio's arm. "We...have...to get...her...out of here!" Scorpio wouldn't move. Cyborg pulled out his laser cannon and pointed it at the boy, when suddenly a flash of harbor water hit all of the Titans right over head. The ice pins holding the two down melted and the dark haired boy, the taller, and Scorpio vanished before anyone could say anthing else.