A/N: I promised to update sometime this weekend and I will keep that promise, so here's chapter 5!
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Forever in a Coffin Chapter 5: Meus Amor Nam Tuus, Habeo Fides
(My Love For You, Have Faith)
Recap: "Alright them I'll see-" She was cut of short by her own gasp of surprise, her eyes widening in shock.
The next image they saw was one of Raven's feet off the ground and a pair of silver boots right near her. The last thing they heard out of Raven, before the line went dead was a chocked out "Slade".
The screen went black and static filled their ears, as they stared shocked at the screen where Raven had been only moments ago.
His mind was a going a million miles a minute and his body, paralyze. How, how could this have happened? What just happened!
He was stunned the leader in him was telling him to go and rescue her, his love for her was telling him to fall on his knees and weep for her lose, while his logic argued that she was not lost just yet, and his anger bubbled over hating Slade for doing this and himself for not have seen it coming, and not being able to prevent it from happening. He was so confused and just so lost.
Then suddenly something in him snapped like a rubber band and the situation hit him like a ton of bricks. Without so much as a word, or backward glance to Star he ran out to the street where his R-cycle was parked. He jumped on and started off, leaving Starfire behind trying to catch up to him.
All he could think of now was Raven's choked cry, it echoed in his ears and left a bad taste in his mouth as he relived that scene over and over again. He sped along the streets to the place where Slade held Raven.
Cyborg and BB where both still in shock as they stare stupidly at the screen. Neither reacted until they simultaneously snapped out of it and ran of to the T-car.
There destination the warehouse.
She couldn't breath, and her strength was diminishing as the lack of oxygen took its toll. Her hope had been smashed along with her communicator, all she could do was to try and free herself. She doubted the others would get there in time and she couldn't hold her breath forever.
She then lost all possible hope as the black seeping into her vision slowly took over. It was welcome because with it, it brought the peaceful ignorance of unconsciousness. It was a relive because she would have gone mad from the despair she felt at not being able to breath.
All the while Slade just stared at her with that cold gray eye; it mocked her and took joy in seeing her suffer the way she was now. Totally unfazed by her nail digging into his flesh and the blood that pour forth.
She then fell limp and closed her eyes in defeat. He then chose to speak for the first time since he got her.
"How does it feel, Raven, to know that I could end you live right here and that you little friends won't be able to save you?" He mocked in his cold sinister voice. "How does it feel to lose all hope? Are you now seeing your life flash in front of your eyes? Or is it just a dark endless void?" His voice so cold she could almost feel it freeze her insides.
"Be sure to tell me what hell is like and say hello to you dearest daddy for me."
Just when her world was finally plunged into black, she heard another voice.
Robin arrived just in time to see her lose conscious. With great speed he tosses a bird-a-rang at Slade's hand, causing him to drop Raven in a heap on the floor.
"Don't you dare touch her again." He said I a deadly calm voice. He then charged at the madman who had threatened his loves life.
Ruthlessly he attached without really thinking anything he just fed off of his rage, causing him movements to unpredictable and deadly. He flung punches, kicks, and anything he could get his hands on in an effort to hurt the man in front of him. But everything was skillfully blocked or dodged with flawless grace.
He then noticed he would get nowhere without help, so pushing his pride aside, for the sake of Raven's well being he stopped the frenzy of attaches.
"Starfire, go!" He yelled at her, but not in an unfriendly voice, just in a way in which she knew she could now intervene, without consequence.
Quickly taking action she flung a barrage of starbolts at Slade, causing a cloud of smoke to rise around her target, obscuring him from view.
Just as the cloud cleared the others appeared at the doorway. When they all turned to where Slade was, they were shocked at why they didn't see, Slade.
"Looking for me Titans, your going to do better than that if you want to touch me." He taunted clearly amused in mocking them. "I had hoped that by hurting your precious little birdie you would have put up a great struggle but it only seems to have made you… suck." He said plainly.
The three standing titans quickly reformed around their leader, and with the battle cry of "Titans Go!" they were off. Cyborg and Robin did their sonic boom, Star shot starbolts and lasers from her eyes, and BB transformed into skunk and shot at Slade (hehehe couldn't help adding that one).
One of Star's bolts hit him in the leg making him stay put for two seconds, allowing BB shot to land on it's target. Slade was distracted so much he didn't realize Raven was conscious, until she hit in the back of the head with a hard bolt of black energy. He fell to the floor with a thud; 'unconscious.'
They all stared all in various states of shock apparent on their faces. Robin was the first to react as he ran to embrace the dark sorceress. He wrapped his arms around her fragile form and held on like there was no tomorrow.
"My god I thought I had lost you I was so scared." He whispered in her ear, burring his head into her hair.
"Mmmhh." Was her only response as she returned the hug, and buried her face in his neck.
The others, not knowing they were breaking a sweet moment, rushed in and a group hug was initiated. Poor Raven was stuck in the middle of it all, until she said, "Guys this is nice and everything but I think I've had enough suffocation to last me a good while." Upon hearing this they all let go blushing, except Robin who held her lightly afraid that if he let go she would collapse, after all she had been deprived of oxygen twice in less than two hour.
After a while she was completely stable and refused to be 'babied' any longer. So feeling secure, with Slade 'still out cold' Cyborg began walking off to get the T-car, Robin went to put his R-cycle in the back of the T-car so he could ride with Raven just to keep an eye on her, and BB with Star talked excitedly with one another about the battle, and finally Raven in tow. She maintained a good distance between the others and herself, still feeling faint but unwilling to let them see it. Therefore causing there to be a good five three meters between herself and the others.
Hahahaha, good that witch is separated from them and they let their guard down, now is my chance! Reaching slowly into the pocket on my belt I pulled out a bomb.
"Never let your guard down, or turn your backs on a villain, Titans, especially one playing dead." I yell as I throw the bomb, directly in between the witch and her pathetic little friends.
In slow motion I see the bomb land in between the four of us and Raven. I look up to her as she looks directly at me. Her eyes show me what's going on inside her head. The love she has for us, her wish to keep us safe, the regret that it has to end this way, the fear of what was to happen and finally the determination to stop the bomb from reaching us, and causing us any harm. These where only a few of the many emotions that ran through her eyes in those split moments before impact.
Then in slow motion I see her put up a shield around us (keeping the bomb out along with her and Slade) and keeping us safe, but not her. How, how could this be happening! The second time tonight, she's so stupid no! No! Save your self, not us!
She gives one last small sad smile as tears threaten to pour down her face. She knew the sacrifice and the price that came with keeping us safe, and she still did it selflessly all for us. (Tell me you'll live through this and I will die for you – Evanescence)
Then it went off the 00:00 mocking me, I couldn't do anything; reminding me I'm useless. A fiery cloud of smoke rumbles in slow motion towards Raven and us. It slowly engulfs her and hits the shield that then flickers and dies just as it passes.
And there we are left standing in the remains of this building, a graveyard.
We all stand there shocked for what seems like an eternity, until we snap out of our various states of shock. We then set to work all lost in our own thoughts.
After an eternity I began to see pieces of her clothing; soaked in blood. From the pile in front of me, that's where the blood flows was coming from.
As quickly as I could I call out to the others and together we uncover her broken body.
The next moments are a blur but somehow we arrived in the tower in a matter of seconds and I carried her broken body to the medical wing. Never letting her leave my side or sight. I did everything possible; we all clean and dress her wounds. And now all we could do was sit and wait until something happens.
I was lost in my own thoughts 'How can this be the same girl who I share the sunrise this morning. She can't be the same woman I kissed this morning, no that girl was so full of life and so vibrant and this girl is so lifeless so cold. They can't possibly be the same person, they're so different."
The worst part is she hasn't done anything, not even start to heal herself. So here I sit with her cold limp hand in my own seemingly hot as fire hand. She is so cold and pale, she barely breathes and yet she looks the most peaceful I've ever seen her. Her hair spread out behind her head, making a halo around her, she's an angle fallen from grace, but she's my fallen angle, and that give me a sense of hope, angles can't die. She can't die not when she is needed here to be our guardian angle.
Two Hours Later:
I woke to the feeling of my hand being squeezed and as I open my eyes I hear her groan, and then she opens her eyes and looks to me. All I felt was relief, "Raven." I whisper to her. She smiles a small smile at me and then she says
"He's not coming is he, I'm going to die here and I'll never see anything anymore." She says in a defeated voice.
"Who Raven? You won't die you'll be just fine just keep your eyes open and heal yourself. Please Rae if not for me then for the others, we all need you. "
"Mhhuhuhu (chuckles with dry humor), no Robin I can't no one but him can save me now. And he lied to me; he lied. " She tells me as her eyes droop and her voice fades. She then falls back into her coma, not a healing one though.
Who is she talking about and how come only he can save her? And what's this promise he made that is so important to her that he keeps?
A few hours later she start tossing and turning in her bed and mumbles things like "Save me" and "No, please make it to me, I need you."
When she next turns her head her neck is exposed to me for the first time, and there are two bit marks, fangs to be exact. I reach out to touch them and when I do she gasps and her eyes shot open, but as quickly as it happens she's lifeless again. I retreat afraid to touch her again in case I hurt her. And yet I wonder where did they came from what happened?
I decide to go and get something to calm my nerves, and hopefully help me sleep. As I walk down the stairs to the kitchen a shadow approaches me from behind and suddenly I'm against the wall.
T.B.C.
A/N: Ok sorry for the rush but I wanted to post! I want 5 reviews before I continue. Also I might fix this during the week but I don't know schools really hectic! Ok tell me who you think the shadow is! Oh and
Happy Halloween!
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FiliaofMortis