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Chapter 24: Coming Home

Nem could hear the cold girl's voice, she hadn't told Nem her name. All she knew was that this girl, no matter who or what she was, knew Rella and could take her to her beloved sister.

Don't open your eyes, no matter what! There was a voice, telling her what to do in her mind. It must have been the empath.

The wind around them shattered, voices and laughs and ringing whips echoed in Nem's ears, until finally the darkness evaded and Nem could feel her weight on a red carpet.

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Raven had been gone for about 2 hours now, and Beast Boy had gotten up and offered that Scorpio rest. Though she hated people insisting she do things, she had taken his offer and asked him to go and get her journal. Beast Boy had obeyed, hoping that Raven had left it open.

He turned the corridors and walked up to Raven's closed door. Scorpio's journal would have to be in there. Where else? He transformed into a bug and squirmed under the door, transforming into a human on the other side.

He looked around cautiously, eyeing Raven's cloak on the floor. He blushed at the sight, unsure that Raven would even mess up her room. Looking at the bottom of her bed, he spotted the brown leather book with the shining red metal lock. He beamed and reached for it, sighing when he saw that Raven had locked it.

Rushing out of the door and closing it behind him, he ran to the main room to grab some water for Scorpio when he saw that the rest of the Titans, spilled about the room, bathing in the glow of dawn.

Robin caught Beast Boy's eye. "Where's Raven?" He asked sternly, his face tired. "And where's Scorpio?"

"Scorpio's in the West Bay," Beast Boy replied, heading for the sink. "And Raven...um...Raven..." He froze. Scorpio might over hear him, and he knew Robin wouldn't like the fact that Raven was traveling from dimension to dimension trying to help Scorpio's emotions. Robin hated Scorpio as it was.

"Where's Raven?" Robin pressed.

Beast Boy looked at him, usure of what to say. "She...she...went..." You're the worst liar in the world, you know that? "She...um...she went to...to get..."

He didn't need to say anything more. There in the main room, right infront of the big screen TV, a black misted aura came out of the floor, taking shape into a raven. It vanished leaving 2 hooded figures hunched on the floor.

The Titans recognized the bigger as Raven, whom stood up instantly and rushed to the other figure's side, helping her up and lifting her hood to reveil a small and pale face.

"Raven..." Robin began, but he didn't know what to ask.

The pale faced girl stood up slowly, adjusting her blue eyes to the light of the room. Her fair hazel hair spilled about her shoulders and back. She winced, and then pulled her fists to her stomach, swallowing and groaning. "Where's...Rella...?"

Raven pulled her up and placed her on the couch, eyeing the questioning Robin. "Are you OK?" Raven asked.

"Fine!" The girl shouted through clenched teeth, pulling herself up. "Where's Rella? You said I could see Rella!"

Raven tightened her fists at the her remark. She really did have no patience for those younger, and the persisting questions of this girl were driving Raven's rage to seep through her pores.

"She's in here!" Beast Boy calmed, grabbing the girl by the arm and leading her into the West Bay. "Come on."

As Beast Boy led the girl, Raven just plopped down on the couch, feeling the stare of her friends. She wouldn't give them any information, only if asked, and maybe not even then.

"You mind explaining any of this, Raven?" Robin asked angerly, staring at Raven through eyes of broken orders. First she had gone against his wishes by bringing Scorpio and Beast Boy to the tower, and now she had brought some girl from Saphiria to see Scorpio, again without his permission. He was the leader, he would decide...

She read his thoughts. "I don't have to listen to anyone, Robin," she stated plainly, staring back with just as much force, tired from her trip. "And I don't really feel like explaining any thing." She crossed her arms and legs, her eyes smirking at how much he wanted to know more about her.

"Please, Raven. Who was the girl who wished to see this...Rella?" Starfire had flew to Robin's side, eyeing the empath and holding her arms to her chest.

Raven paused, disgusted. If anyone could make her say anything, it was Starfire. Her pleading eyes and her innocence, all of it so fragile. "It was Scorpio's sister," she added coldly. "Rella is Scorpio's Saphirian name..." She wanted to explain more, but why should she? It was not their place to interfer with Saphirian matters anyway.

She got up and left the room.

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Nem followed the green boy...she hoped it was a boy. It looked like a boy, but its color...that color...it just didn't seem natural for anything to have skin so vivid as his. He barged into an open door, coming in before her.

And then Nem saw what she had wanted to see for a year. Her sister, standing next to the wall sized window, her face as expressionless as it always was, her eyes stained with memory.

"Rella! Rella!" Nem pushed the green boy out of her way and ran to her standing sister, whose face lit and smile beamed when she saw her.

"Nem!" Scorpio took her sister in her arms and held her tight. "Oh Nem...my dear, sweet Nem...I'm so sorry...I'm so sorry, sorry..."

She didn't want to let go, an eternity could pass by and Nem wouldn't let go of her sister. Tears came to her naturally, and the faint mark that had began to show between her breasts now glowed in a full, vivid blue color. "I've missed you so much, Rella. And don't apologize...you've done nothing wrong..." Her voice cracked at the words. In her moment of disbelief she had forgotten how sour and emotionless her sister could be to her sometimes. It wouldn't matter now. They were reunited, they had each other.

Finally Scorpio broke their embrace and looked at Beast Boy, who smiled shyly and left the room to the sisters.

"Nem! You've gotten your mark!" She exclaimed, looking at the blue light, which had began to fade. "Since when?"

Nem shrugged and lunged toward her sister again. It was like Rella to break their embraces, but it didn't matter anymore to her. "I've missed you so much Rella. You have no idea..."

Scorpio broke the hug again, letting her sister settle in the West Bay bed. "How's Kudio?" She asked, staring at the orange sky.

"Fine," Nem gestured. "He's a first term now."

Scorpio nodded at the words. "I knew he'd go far..."

"Is Jet here?" Nem asked excitingly, remembering that Jet would do anything for her sister. Following her into a different realm would be no acception.

Scorpio squirmed in her spot, not sure of how to break the news to Nem, who had a weak heart to begin with. "He...was here..."

"Did he leave?"

"No, Nem..." Scorpio sighed at her own lies. How would she tell her? How would she react. "He died, Nem. He died about a day ago."

Nem's eyes grew wide at the remark, her mouth parting and her eyes watering. She could feel a prominent lump in her throat, something that wanted to come up but could not. "W-what...?"

"He died, Nem. And to say the truth, I'm happy about it." Scorpio felt her temper boil beneth her skin. Jet's smile, his mark, the way he loved her, in his sick and twisted ways... "He was a sick bastard!" She exploded. "I hated him! I'm glad he's gone!"

Nem just stared at her. Now that Jet was gone there didn't seem like a way out for her sister. Their main plan for the rest of their lives had always been that Rella would marry Jet and that Nem would marry Kudio, and that they would live in Tavis where the Libran Lord could not touch them. Now that Jet was gone all hopes seemed to follow him. "But...how? Who killed him?"

Nem and her questions..."He killed himself. And it's like I told you, I'm happy about it."

That was her sister. Cold and unfeeling on the surface but deep and guilty on the inside. Many didn't know her. Many thought that she was just blank and unmoving, that she was just mean. But she only did it to cover what she didn't want on the inside, her Scorpion soul. "We have to go back. Now. You can't stay here, Rella." Nem got up and put her hand on her sisters shoulder. "You know you can't stay in one place. You know that it's dangerous." Nem's face hardened.

"I know." Scorpio replyed, broken. "I know."

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