I do not own the Teen Titans. But hey I still have more random Chuck Norris facts: Chuck Norris is a master at Dance Dance Revolution. If you play him and lose, he roundhouse kicks you in the face which somehow breaks your legs. And the funny thing is I play DDR, but I don't think I can take the Chuck man. Now onto the story.
Chapter 7: I really need to talk to someone.
Kevin was flying home carying his dog Max in the cage he bought for him. He spent the whole flight thinking about what he had just done. Kevin still had trouble believing what he did, he had just killed a man he had once called his best friend. Kevin couldn't explain it, but for some reason he couldn't controle his anger. He tried to calm himself down fearing that is what would happen if his anger took over again. He had only lost himself to rage on five occasion's, but none as bad as what happend to Alex. He remembered when he was seven when it first happened. His brother Jake had been beating him up and he started to get angry when he lost himself Jake endded up with two broken arms and a sprained ankle. It was like something was magnifying his anger to no ends, and when Kevin swung the final blow he was able to control himself again. Kevin only knew one thing, he couldn't tell the other's. Whatever happened he just couldn't tell them, he knew if he would he would be rejected again, and he didn't want that. When Kevin started to closer to Jump City Max finally started to wake up from the incident in Kevin's hometown. Max started to bark a little as he saw that he was in the air.
"Calm down Max, were almost home. Don't worry you'll like the other's there really nice, and they have someone there you can play with. I mean he may be a pupa moth thing, but hey he's kinda like a dog." Kevin said as he started to get closer to the city. He remained quite for the rest of the trip as he started to get closer to the Tower. His arm was feeling like it had bricks tied to it from carrying his dog, and his back was sore from all the stuff he had in his backpack. He couldn't wait to take a rest and finally be among friends who cared about him. He could see the Tower in view as he stareted to get closer. Kevin got closer and closer as he saw that all the other's were waiting on the roof for him. A smile came on his face for the first time since he left after what happened. Kevin slowly got towards the Tower as he landed on the roof and placed the cage down gently. "Hey guy's miss me." Kevin said with a smile on his face so he wouldn't worry the other's.
"Friend Kevin you have finally returned." Starfire said as she raan at him giving him another bear hug.
"Starfire...air...ribs...pain." Kevin said as Starfire let go. "Man does she do this all the time?" Everyone just looked at him and shook there heads yes. Raven then came up and gave Kevin a hug as well, he was just happy it wasn't a bear hug. "Oh, I missed you so much." Kevin said as he huged her.
"So Kevin did you have a good time while you were away?" Beast Boy asked.
"Well If by good time you mean 12 hour training sessions for three days straight, then yes I had a wonderful time." Kevin said sarcastically taking off his backpack.
"So Kev, where's this dog of your's?" Terra asked. Kevin moved over to the cage and opened the door.
"Common boy it's OK." Kevin said as Max slowly came out of the cage wagging his tail.
"OH he's so much cuter in person." Terra said. Max let out a bark as he started to run and jump around everyone. He moved towards Starfire as he started to sniff her legs and started to move towards her skirt.
"Woah easy there boy." Kevin said as he called Max over. Max then ran over towards Silky the little worm as Max started to sniff him. Max then sat there with his tounge hanging out and sitting down. "Well looks like someone made a new friend." Kevin said. "So guy's anything happened while I was gone?" Kevin asked. Max then started to circle around everyone again as he sniffed everyone.
"Not much we had to stop a bamk robbery but that was about it." Robin said.
"Well I say we head inside, I've been flying for about eight hours and I am starving." Kevin said as he called over Max picking up the cage and his backpack as they headed back into the Tower. When Kevin got inside to the living room he took of his back pack and took out Max's food dish, he went to the sink to clean it off, and proceeded to take a permanent marker and put Max's name on it. "There that should hold him over for the night." Kevin said as he placed the food and water on the floor.
"Where is friend Max?" Starfire asked. Kevin looked around to see that Max wasn't around.
"Just whistle for him, he'll come." Kevin said. Starfire then put her pinkies in her mouth and let out a high pitched whistle to whisch everyone but Robin was surprised of.
"Where did you learn that?" Beast Boy asked.
"Robin taught me how to do that." Starfire responded. Everyone then started to hear hurried foot steps on the linolium floor as Kevin just realized what he done. A smile came across his face.
"Hey Star you might wanna brace yourself." Kevin said.
"Why?" Starfire said. Max then came running into the room as Kevin pointed at him. He then jumped on Starfire and proceeded to lick her face like a lollipop. Starfire started to giggle as Max kept licking her face.
"That's why. He kinda jumps on people when you whistle for him." Kevin said as he started to get Max off of Starfire. "Common boy thats enough, let the lady up." Kevin was able to get Max off of her as he then went over to his food bowl and started to eat. Kevin then walked over to the refrigerator and fixed himself a quick sandwhich, and by quick I mean he used his energy to make himself super fast and made it in about five seconds. "AAAHHH the perfect sandwhich." Kevin said as he took a bite out of it.
"So Kevin how was your trip?" Robin was the first one to ask? Kevin swallowed his food as to not be rude and responded.
"It was pretty good, aside from seeing my lame brother's I had a pretty good time." Kevin then though to himself 'Except for the end.' "I payed a trip to my old Master, I got to see my sister again, and I payed a trip to my mother." Kevin said as he took another bite of the sandwhich. Everyone was now sitting down around the table listening to Kevin's trip.
"So tell me Kevin, what are your brother's like? Because you told the other's already and I still don't know much about you except you saved my life." Terra said.
"Well OK I guess I could tell you guy's. Well I'll start with Jake and move up with age. Jake as you saw from the communicator was the one in all black. He is by far the meanest of all my brother's. He likes to just hit you for no reason, call ya names, you know whatever he feels like. Also he listens to crappy emo music and is always depressed about the world around him. Then there's Dan or his full name Daniel, he just likes to be called Dan. He is the laziest of the brother's. Whenver my mom wanted him to do something around the house he would never do it and I had to do it for him. All he does is sit sround the house and play the Gamestation all day." Kevin said.
"You mean like Beast Boy." Raven said.
"Ha Ha very funny." Beast Boy said as he crossed his arms.
"Yeah exactly. Anyways I never really liked him much because he would help Jake pick on me. Then there's Kyle, he's the oddest of them all. Plus he has the attention span of a goldfish. He can't pay attention to anything for more than five minuets. All he does is watch anime or is on the computer." Kevin said.
"What about your sister?" Terra asked.
"Yes tell us of your sister." Starfire said with glee.
"Ok that I don't mind talking about. You see my sister is a little younger than me so I kinda looked after her like a big bro should, unlike my brother's who picked on her as well just not as much as me. She likes to keep to herself a lot and she always has the stuffed bear she keeps with her. It was a gift from my mom before she passed away. I always had to protect her from my brother's seeing as she wasn't born with powers like the rest of us." Kevin said.
"You mean your brother's have powers too?" Robin said a little surprised.
"Yeah all the men on my father's side do. It's just that all of them were single children untill my mom came around. My family is the only one to have more than one child." Kevin said explaining a little of his heritage.
"What kind of power's do they have?" Terra asked.
"Very glad you asked that, now I can explain why I hate them. You see there is one thing that my family has in common with there powers, they can control things. My father and Grandfather had the same powers as me except that every new generation got a new power. My dad got flight and I got the whole changing stuff and healing thing. Anyways let's start with Jake again and work from there. Jake I think is the biggest problem because he can control emotions." Kevin said.
"Emotions." Raven said in a monotone.
"Yep, you see he can take a emotion and increase or decrease its strength. For example let's say your startled by a scary man in a movie, he can take that emotion and make you so afraid you become paralyzed and have nightmares for days. He's also the reason I have an anger problem." Kevin said explaing his bro's powers.
"What anger problem?" Robin asked.
"I'll explain later." Kevin said.
"So that's why you call him the king of Emo's." Beast Boy said.
"Exactly. Next there's Dan. He can control the senses, all of them. Taste, sight, smell, hearing, and touch. He can make you blind one second, and deaf the next. He make your whole bodie numb or he can make you smell the most horrible thing you have ever smelled...EVER. Trust me I know from experience, although I don't know if that was his power or not." Kevin said with a chuckkle.
"Wow thats kinda creepy." Beast Boy said.
"Oh yeah here's Kyle's power. He can control your imagination." Kevin said.
"So what he can make us think were seeing like candy land or something?" Cyborg said.
"Well almost, he doesn't just make you think it's there he makes it real in all aspects. He can go into your mind see the thing your most afraid of and make it real and attack you. The funny thing is thats how our first house got burned to the ground." Kevin said finishing his sandwhich.
"He burned down your house, how?" Robin asked.
"Well one day he got the bright idea to think up a dragon and make it real, yes he can even make things from his own mind. And well he couldn't quite control his powers as well, so the dragon went berserk and burned down the house. We lost all of our old family photo's and that's why I don't know what my dad looks like because I was only like two or three." Kevin said.
"Is your dad alive?" Raven asked.
"Yeah he's still alive I just have no idea where he is or what he's doing." Kevin said. "Anyway's my brother's would always team up on me or my sister and mess with us using there powers. Well they would mess with me using there powers just not my sis." Kevin said.
"Why not your sister?" Starfire asked.
"Well my sister may not have gotten any phisical powers she did get one thing from my mom's side. She can resist all of our powers. Jake can't toy with her emotions, Dan cant mess with her senses, and Kyle cant go into her mind and create anything. Me I never used any harmful powers on her, but I did try to heal her once after I tested it out a few times, but it just didn't work for some reason. So my brother's would just mess with her without there powers. They would take her teddy bear, hide her things, play practical jokes on her. And what I would do is I would get there attention away from my sister and get them to mess with me seeing as I could defend myself." Kevin said.
"Well thats nice of you." Terra said.
"Hey I'm a good guy, I gotta help someone." Kevin said.
'Well I wanna know more, like what are your powers no one has told me anything since I've been back." Terra said.
"That's cause you never asked." Beast Boy said.
"Yes I did, you just never listned." Terra said.
"Common Beast Boy you know communication is the keypoint in any relationship." Kevin said.
"What's that supposed to mean." Beast Boy said blushing a little.
"Anyways common tell me." Terra said.
"OK, OK. Well I came here a couple of month's ago after I ran away from my house about four years ago. I would travvel from place to place and stop crimes and just help people out. When I came here I met the Titans and they asked me to join up after I helped them take down Plasmus. I joined up the next day after I thought about it. A couple of days later, my old friend Qui... Alex showed up." Kevin started to remeber Alex.
"Who's Alex?" Terra asked.
"He used to be Kevin's friend in his old hometown, but he joined up with HIVE and now he's a criminal. He shot Starfire the first day we met him, but Kevin healed her. He also almost shot Robin, but Kevin stopped him before he could pull the trigger." Beast Boy told her.
"Wow that had to be hard to fight your old friend." Terra said.
"More than you know." Kevin said.
"Trust me I know." Terra said. Her and Kevin both had there heads down for a second.
"Common guy's it's OK, it happens you know." Cyborg said trying to comfort them. Max then came up to Kevin and started to whine a little.
"What is it boy?" Kevin said patting his head. Beast Boy then turned into a dog and walked over to Max and started to bark. Max then started to bark a little. Beast Boy then changed back.
"He says he wants to go back out side for a little bit." Beast Boy told him.
"OK common boy let's go." Kevin said as he took a tennis ball out of his backpack. He then started to leave towards the roof. He was thinking about Alex as he walked out of the room. He then stopped out in the hallway. "Give me a sec boy I wanna try somethin." Kevin said as he closed his eyes hoping his idea would work. He satrted to try and contact Raven through his mind hoping she would answer. "Raven can you hear me, Raven." Kevin thought.
"Yes what do you need?" Raven thought to Kevin. Kevin was happy it worked.
"Hey Raven, I really need to talk to someone and your the only person I can think of, so could you meet me on the roof in about five minuets." Kevin sending his thoughts to Raven.
"Yeah sure, what do you wanna talk about." Raven sending her thoughts to Kevin.
"I don't really wanna talk about it here can you just meet me on the roof, I really need to talk to someone."
"Yeah I'll be up soon." Raven said. Kevin then headed to the roof of the Tower.
Kevin was sitting down throwing the tennis ball against the tower wall next to the door leading up to the roof. Max would go after the ball and bring it back to Kevin. He did this untill Raven came through the door.
"You said you wanted to talk." Raven said as she came out of the door.
"Yeah, I really need to talk to someone. And I can trust you over everyone else." Kevin said as he motioned for Raven to sit next to him. She came over and sat next to the person she loved. Kevin then held onto her hand. "Raven you know how I said that Alex attacked me when I got to my old home." Kevin said.
"Yeah, which is another thing, why didn't you tell me sooner?" Raven said in a caring tone.
"Well like I said before I didn't want to worry you. But I wanted to talk to you about Alex." Kevin said.
"I though you said you weren't going to call him Alex since you weren't friends anymore." Raven asked.
"Well I think I owe it to him to call him Alex now. Cause you see when I was looking for a cage to carry Max in to come here, Alex attacked me again in the middle of the street." Kevin said.
"What why didn't you say anything?" Raven asked a little worried.
"Well I couldn't. You see what happend is there was an explosion in the middle of the street, so I tied Max to a pole in the alleyway so he wouldn't get hurt. When I saw Alex I feared the worst because he didn't just have his handguns. He was compleately loaded from head to toe in weaponry. He said he was there to finnaly get his revenge on me after I left my home. After I left he was always picked on for being my friend and he was always getting beat up, and he said it was my fault for letting him get hurt. He said that he was going to kill me and he started to shoot at me. He didn't even care about all the people around us, he just wanted to kill me. He was hurting innocent people, I don't even know how many people were killed." Kevin said.
"I can't believe him. Why would he hold a grudge for so long just for that." Raven said.
"He had his reasons. But I'm not done, you see while he was shooting at me Max somehow got loose from the leash and started to bark at Alex. He pointed his gun at him, I wasn't fast enough to stop him and he shot him. But I was able to knock him out for a sec so I could heal him. When I got up I started to get angry at what he was doing. I don't know how to explain it, but I started to lose control of myself. I couldn't control my anger and I blackedout. Then when I came too I was hovering over Alex...I killed him." Kevin said as tears started to fill his eye's.
"Oh my... Kevin how did you.." Raven started but was cut off.
"I don't know it happens everytime I get too angry. I can't control myself and loose it, and everytime it happens someone gets hurt. Only this time I killed someone, I killed my best friend, one of the only people to ever understand me." Kevin was compleatly sobbing at this point he still had trouble blieving what he had done. "He's dead and I can't bring him back."
"Kevin it's OK." Raven started to hug Kevin to try and comfort him. Kevin continued to cry remembering what had happened. Raven just held onto him as Kevin held onto her, he just wanted to forget about everything. After a few minuets Kevin started to calm down.
"Raven can you not tell the other's, I don't want them to know. I'm afraid if they find out that there gonna hate me and I'll have to leave. I don't want to go anywhere, I'm finally accepted somewhere. Please don't tell them." Kevin pleaded with her.
"I don't know Kevin, what you did, it's hard to keep a secret like that. And it will hurt you not tell someone." Raven said.
"I know, but I'm prepared to leave with this burden. Just pleas don't tell them." Kevin said.
"...OK I won't tell them. I'm glad you decided to tell me though." Raven then gave him another hug.
"Thank you." Kevin said as he huged her as well. They stayed like that for what felt like forever, and Kevin didn't want it to end.
Well thats the end of that chapter, and I'm afraid to say that book because I can't think of how to keep this one going without mixing it with the next book. But no fear for I will be writing another book that continues from the end of this one. Although before I start that one I will be doing this story and doing a noncannocal work with something else. But if you wanna know what you'll have to read it. It will be a M rating for "scenes of explicit violence and gore." Thats a little hint of what the crossover is. Just look for it on my profile in about a day or two.