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Chapter 5: Life's many Paths

Raven's eyes fluttered open only to be blinded by the white light that was the lamp hanging from the ceiling of the medical lab inside Titans Tower. She eased herself up, her elbows helping to support her, her body still stiff from being hit with a freeze disk. She winced from the stiffness in her bones and finally managed to sit upright. She heard someone's shallow breathing from a chair next to her bed and looked over to see a sleeping Robin slumped over one of the uncomfortable medical chairs. The dark bags that lay under his unmasked eyes pained her heart. It hurt her to see that he hadn't slept for so long, obviously worried over her, but then she scorned herself. He had hurt her in so many ways over the past month or so. He didn't deserve her sympathy.

She bent over, her back arching as she stared down at the bed sheet lying over her legs. She breathed in heavily, her back so stiff it was unbelievable how one freeze disk could cause this much pain. But it wasn't just the freeze disk that had caused this much pain. It was everything that had happened. When she had caught Robin and Starfire, sure she had felt hurt but the person that had soothed her pain had now left her, just like Robin had. X had betrayed her and in her eyes, he was just as bad as Robin was to her; at first being loving, caring, making Raven feel like the only person in the world that mattered; then leaving her, breaking her heart into a million pieces by leaving her.

Before Robin had come and found Raven, she had heard those few words that Red X had said before leaving her. He had said to her encased figure how he would return to her. She'd believe that when it happened.

She looked over at the clock on the side table. It was 2am on the 29th April. It had been a week and he hadn't come back. She was used to people walking out on her and saying that they'd 'return for her' but it never happened. So why should this time be any different?

She jumped when she heard the hoarse voice of Robin speak her name. "Raven." He said.

She turned to look into those deep piercing blue eyes she had come to love so much, and saw the worry, the relief, the love and the most obvious one; the guilt. "Raven…are you okay?" He said, he voice croaky and quiet from the lack of sleep.

She nodded. "You're not in pain or anything?" He asked.

"Only stiff." She said, obviously answering the question that he had been asking; whether she was physically hurt, not emotionally. "Why did you come to find me?" She asked Robin.

He was silent then he opened his mouth then closed it, as if he was slowly becoming a fish in water. He seemed lost for words. She looked harder at him as if to say, "Well?"

"Because I was wrong." He stated.

She looked at him with a puzzled expression on her face.

"I know you saw me and Starfire. I gathered from when Starfire came running to me crying over how much her beloved friend now hated her for what we'd done." He said, finding it hard to put what he was feeling into words.

"That still doesn't explain why you were wrong." She said bluntly.

"I'm not saying it was wrong that I kissed Starfire." He paused and dared to look at Raven's face of shock and hurt for a second before carrying on. "Because if I hadn't have kissed Starfire, then my old feelings for her wouldn't have ever disappeared like they have now."

"I don't get it Robin. What are you saying?" Raven asked.

"I'm saying that yes, my old feelings for Starfire had lingered slightly and you were right. But then you were also wrong, for they weren't true feelings, just phantom feelings. But I never lied to you when I told you it was you that I loved. I've always meant that when ever I said that to you."

"Save the sympathy story for someone who cares Robin." She said harshly.

"But Raven-" He began but stopped when she started to move and began to push herself up off of the medical bed. "Where are you going? You're not in a fit enough state." He said, reaching out to sit her back down on the bed.

She batted his hand away and gave him a scowl that could kill. "Don't touch me." She hissed.

She continued to struggle and finally managed to stand up. She stretched her arms and legs while she arched her back, flexing it slightly. She walked over to the door and punched in the pin, the door swishing open at will. She slowly walked out, heading for her room. Robin stood up and ran after her, even though she had only reached about halfway down the corridor. He grabbed her arm and twirled her around.

She wrenched her arm away from his grasp, well at least try to, she was still too weak and Robin had always had the upper hand on physical strength. She seethed silently. She slowly raised her head so that her deep violet eyes, tinted with red from the pure anger that was trying to escape and roam free. She met his perfect blue eyes and saw the determination behind them. She didn't care though; he had hurt her one too many times to be forgiven. She wasn't going to give in and fall back into his arms openly. "Raven. I need you." He said, his voice mixed with desperation and determination.

"Well tough luck Robin 'cos I don't need you." She replied, her icy tone not loosening his grip at all.

"I know…but god Raven! Without you I'm fucking lost!" He said, emphasising the word 'lost'.

"Well you should have thought about that before you kissed Starfire." She said, sending cold glares to match his icy coloured eyes.

"I know I shouldn't have kissed her, but don't blame this entirely on me!" He said.

"Excuse me?" She said in disbelief. "How is this my fault?"

"You were the one which was pushing me towards her, constantly at my neck saying that I still loved her!"

"BECAUSE YOU DID!"

"NO I DIDN'T!"

"YES YOU FUCKING DID ROBIN…. AND YOU STILL DO!"

"WELL WHAT CAN I DO TO MAKE YOU FORGIVE ME RAVEN!"? He pleaded

"Nothing." She said but he wasn't having any of it. He grabbed her other arm and pressed his lips against hers. She struggled; trying to break free from him but his grip on her was too strong. She felt tears beginning to well up in her eyes. She used what was left of her energy to cause a black hand to push them apart. "You have no-" she began but was cut off by his hard kissing once again. She had no energy left and was slowly giving into him.

Part of her was fighting to stop her from giving in but soon her heart came into play and pushed them away. Tears began to roll freely down her cheeks as she felt herself giving into the kiss. She was kissing him back. His grip loosened and he removed one of his hands from her arm, letting it reach up and touch his cheek. She noticed it was moist and opened her eyes slightly to see that silent tears were falling down his face. He pulled away and looked down at her to see her tear strewn face and saw the expression of surprise and confusion on her face. He reached up to touch her hand and felt his fingertips touch something moist. He had been crying and not even realised it.

She smiled faintly before looking down onto the floor. How had she gone from hating this man to loving him all over again? Yet she still loved X. But he wasn't here. He had left her; just like everyone else in her life and she knew he wouldn't be back for her. She knew he would be just like everyone else who had left; everyone except Robin. She knew it was wrong for her to forgive him so easily, but she loved him too much.

The girl had had so little love in her life, she wasn't going to pass up an opportunity which although felt wrong, but also felt so right at the same time. She didn't need Red X. He cared only for himself, only used her, and used her for a bit of fun, a bit of fun on the side from all his robbing. He had left her because a better opportunity had come up, at least that's what her side of the story had seemed like.

Little did she know that the masked boy she was thinking about and scorning had left to save her life. Was at that very moment being beaten to a pulp by some alien guards. She didn't know how his mask had been cracked and fallen from his face, blood spitting from his mouth as the guards kicked him in the stomach before giving him the final blow to the head, sending him into the world of unconsciousness, the last person he saw before everything turning black being her face a faint smile creeping on her face, that same smile which had appeared after they had first kissed in the rain.

5 Years Later…

Raven sighed and got out of bed, laying the think summer sheets over her sleeping lover. She folded her arms and walked out onto the balcony of their little villa. She rubbed her arms as she felt a chilly summer breeze whistled around her, autumn announcing it was on its way. She turned to go back inside, feeling refreshed when she was stopped by a lean figure of a man blocking the doorway. "X?" She breathed in barley a whisper of disbelief when he stepped into the moonlight's gaze and out of the shadows.

He didn't have his mask on, well not his skull mask but he still had that thin red 'x' shaped one covering his eyes. "I said I'd come back for you." He said, his huskiness still within the voice, but it had grown deeper. He reached out and touched her arm put she gently pulled away. "You left me." Raven said softly.

"But now I've come back for you." He said reaching out once more to touch her arm.

She flinched away again. "It's too late. I'm not in love with you anymore X." That was a lie but she didn't want to screw up things for a 2 chance of something happening and them being together for permanently. She didn't want to take the chance. Didn't want to go through all those feelings she felt after he went the first time. "I think you should just go. Go find someone who feels the same way for you X." She said, lifting her head to look into his masked eyes.

He look heart broken and stunned by what she had just said. "But, I love you Raven."

"But I don't love you." She said, her insides turning as she spoke the lie.

He leaned forward and kissed her hard on the lips before pulling away and disappearing into the night sky, not before whispering in her ear, "I will always love you Raven." Emphasising the word 'always'.

She touched her lips which were still numb from the kiss before whispering softly, "and I will always love you, Red X." before turning and going back to the room and bed where the sleeping form of a robin slept peacefully.

THE END

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