A/N: Sorry I couldn't get this chapter up before school. I'll try harder next time. Wow! I'm on someone's favorite author list!!! That's great!!! Thank you soooo much! I really really appreciate all of you who review, and I really hope this isn't too much of a twist. This isn't exactly your typical Teen Titans story. But I promise after this it will get back on course, no more trials and lots more fluff. So please just bare with me and of course, like always, REVIEW!!!
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The next day when Raven awoke she saw handcuffs holding her tight and shackles pinned her feet to the ground. Tears came to her eyes, the pain she was feeling was unbearable, and the fight still going on in her head only made it worse. She knew she had a fever, and knew that would only give her even more of a disadvantage in the upcoming trial. Three guards walked in holding guns, but these weren't tranquilizers, they had bullets in them rather than darts. "Come with us quietly and there will be no reason to use these," said one of the guards indicating his gun. Raven only nodded.
Once they had finally arrived at the building where the trial would be held they found they had to wait outside until all the guest and judge had arrived. Raven had worked hard to control her powers on the way over but it had not stopped them from escaping a couple of times melting or breaking random objects on the street. I wonder if the judge will understand the only reason all this is happening is because I haven't been meditating. She needed her mirror now more than ever, she could sense something wrong but was incapable of figuring out what that was unless she could speak to her other selves directly.
After a few minutes of persuasion she had convinced the guards to let her meditate while they were waiting. While in meditation she tried to calm her emotion's war, there was definitely something abnormal about there actions. And fifteen minutes later she figured out what it was. There was more disturbing her emotions than there usual conflicts, much more. She had to tell someone before she lost control completely.
"Raven, wake up, Raven!" The guards had asked the Teen Titans, who had already taken there seats in front of an awaiting judge to help get Raven out of her meditation, Beast Boy was first to try. He wasn't in the mood to make jokes but if he didn't succeed in getting Raven out soon it would only make the judge angrier than he already was. "Yo, Rae, wake up dude! Hey, sleepy head!" This did the trick, Raven's eyes flew open in shock and she fell to the ground. Beast Boy caught her on the way down holding her tight till her eyes opened.
Raven was shocked when she found herself in Beast Boy's arms and it caused her to say something she had been pondering and worrying over since the last time she had seen him. "Do you really consider me as just a friend?" No, that's not what she had meant; she disciplined herself for the misplaced words. She had to tell them what she had seen tormenting her emotions so. But even more than that pressing problem right now, she wanted Beast Boy's answer.
The question shocked Beast Boy, did he really consider her as more than a good friend. She had always been so distant, could he really have deeper feelings for someone he felt he hardly knew. He opened his mouth to answer but it was too late, the guards were already dragging a teary eyed Raven into the court.
Cyborg, sure Beast Boy's answer would be yes, only a friend, put a hand on his friends shoulder, "Not now, man."
Raven decided it was best not to struggle against the guards, she would tell the Titans what she had seen bothering her emotions when all of this was over. As she walked down the isle to her seat she tried do drown out the yelling of the crowd. In this one room was probably more people than she had ever seen cramped into such a small space at one time. She could ignore them no longer; they were too loud, too persistent. They booed at her, scowled at her, called her the word that burned in her mind, everyone of them was calling her a witch. She hated not being able to pull her hood over her head, not being able to move or talk freely. She felt like a dog on a leash.
It was the few who reassured her, told her she had saved the town and there loved ones so many times they would never give up hope on her, that kept her from losing grip of her rebelling powers.
Nearly halfway through the trial the judge already looked ready to pass a sentence against Raven. There was no denying what she had done and, even though the Titans had hired one of the best defendants in town, she had no explanation for the deaths rather than she simply didn't have control of what was hers. When she tried to tell the judge what she had seen while meditating, which possibly could have proved her innocents, one of her emotions went crazy nearly putting a crack in the ceiling. Nothing seemed to be going right, and there seemed no way to fix that. The Titans fought for justice and no matter how much they wanted Raven to win, they could not lie in front of a judge, or the town they were protecting. All the Titans told the truth, all of them told the story of her mysterious arrival on earth, the many dangerous mishaps she had had with her unruly powers, and though Raven told herself they were doing the right thing, her emotions were telling her otherwise.
The trial was over; the judge had gone in to a back room to create a sentence, for Raven knew she would not be let out free. When he came back out there was no sign of emotion on his hard face. The only emotion she had seen from him the entire time was horror as he flipped through the pictures of her and the ones she had killed. It made her actually wish she had seen the others, what horrors lay on them? Standing before his podium he began with the verdict. All was lost to Raven except for the terrifying sentence, for the worst possible thing had just happened, she was to be exiled from Earth, never to return again or she would face the pain of death.
All the Titans jumped from there seats crying out at the unjustness of the trial. A few from the audience joined them, and a few remained seated, but the majority cheered at the final decision calling her a witch once more.
"No!" cried Raven, "This is my home!" Indicating the Titans, "These are my friends." A sudden burst of fear, hatred, and anger overtook her, her eyes began to grow red and darkness consumed the rest of her body. She began to look very much like she did the day she 'cooked' Doctor Light. Levitating herself into the air she said, in a voice very much like her anger, "I will not let you take them away from me!" She had lost hope of control, lost hope in life, if she didn't have a home what was the point in living? Her powers spread around the room, tossing people into corners, picking up benches and tossing them across the room.
As the roof began to crumble the Titans stopped trying to get her to calm down and began the task of making sure everyone got out of the court house safely. As they dragged the judge out, stricken with fear and hatred, he began to yell a new verdict. "Death! I sentence her to death!"
This made the Titans furious, but it was Beast Boy who lost total control, "No!" was that managed to escape his mouth. It was his actions that showed how he really felt, without taking the time to change into a more dangerous creature he began to land hard punches at whatever part of the judge he could reach. It took both Robin and Starfire to hold him back, begging him to take it easy. "You Bastard! I swear I'll-" He was incapable of finishing his sentence for, even he didn't know what he would do, even if he was capable of hurting another man, even for Raven's life.
Once everyone was out and well away from the building Robin declared it to dangerous to go back in the crumbling court house to get Raven out. But Beast Boy would not listen; he would not let Raven be crushed because of something she couldn't control. Entering the building he silently thanked Robin for not stopping him.
Raven had not calmed down; she was tired of fighting all the time. If her emotions wanted out than why not let them. She was going to die anyway. Knowing the building was about to collapse she only intensified the force. Creating a shield around herself she looked to see if any of those who had called her a witch would be crushed underneath the rubble. But the boy she saw was not one of the ones who had taunted her; the only other living thing in the building was Beast Boy. And once again there was one emotion capable of overpowering her anger.
A/N: So I hope you liked it! Again, I promise, if you bare with me it will get back to the more Teen Titans setting, in the mean time… please please please review! It helps me a lot. I'll even skip doing all my homework if I see people have been taking the time to read and review my strange little story. So it's really up to you when the next one comes out! Thanks for reading!