(AN: Well, another late update, after over two weeks. I've been busy with way too much stuff, but I have time, and have been anxious to update. Thank you all so much for the kind reviews. I'm still trying to work things and get to the climax, and make the chapters longer. So sit back and enjoy.)

Chapter 11:

Raven awoke late in the day, to find Beast Boy gone. He hadn't left a note, so it was most likely another emergency. All was quiet now, and the only sound was the cars passing by on the highway out front. Raven yawned and looked at the clock. It read just about 5:00 p.m. The time she would normally being cooking her father's dinner.

"RAVEN!" a voice in her head shouted, sounding like her father.

These past few days had seemed like such a dream, a relief from it all, where nothing could go wrong. She knew it couldn't last. He'd find her, somehow. He might be looking already. He wouldn't let her out now, after living his way for those eight years. The happier years, the years she supposed were happier, from the time she was born to the time she was eight, she couldn't even remember. Raven had done more than she ever should have for him, and wouldn't allow it any longer. That voice inside her kept telling her, anywhere she went, that she wasn't safe. And if she wasn't, and her father found her, that would mean B.B. wasn't safe either.

Too much plagued her mind, and she sat down in one of his kitchen chairs for a moment.

"Oh God, what should I do?" she asked herself.

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"Sir, please, we believe we have a lead on her. Calm down, and wait. Officer Omahundro will be with you soon. He'll give you the details, and we'll check it out and give you a report," the woman from the police station on the end of the line said strictly.

"I don't want fucking leads, I want my daughter back!" Raven's father snapped back, sighed, and then said "Sorry… call me when they return."

He hung up the phone, and sat down in the kitchen. The light flicked in the socket above him. Around him, ghastly faces floated, mocking him, laughing, taunting him. The alcohol was taking hold again.

Images flashed through his eyes. Memories.

"Come on Thomas," a tall woman, with bright eyes and long black hair with streaks of blue in it. She had a wonderful smile.

Flash.

Another scene from his past. A dark night, just after their wedding. A passionate night, where nothing could tear them apart.

Flash.

A white room in a hospital. He looked on as the doctors brought to him a baby girl, and sat her in his waiting arms. The woman smiled at him, and he smiled as well, proudly.

Flash.

A dark night. Storming outside. He was with the woman in some kind of clinic, speaking with a doctor. Eight year old Raven played in a room behind a glass window with a doll she brought with her.

"…we've tried everything. Exorcism, spiritualists, holy men, and nothing has worked" the woman was saying. "Science seems to be our next way to turn. I have been a religious person, but this seemed best for now."

The doctor sitting across from them had his hands cupped in front of his mouth, sitting his elbows on the desk. "Yes, there are certain cases we've seen in these past few years of odd occurrences in humans. Excuse the term but, super powers if you will. Most are fine, but from what you've described, this seems almost demonic. Wrong. Toys being levitated, random objects exploding. And it seems to only happen when she is sad, or mad?"

"I don't know, and I don't care. I just don't want her to be like those freaks on TV," Raven's father said.

"She's not a freak, Tom," the woman snapped, obviously stressed.

"I'm sorry. It's just…the public these days with special cases like her…" he trailed off as he noticed Raven standing near the window. The room was sound proof, and so she knocked on the window. The doctor pushed a button and activated a microphone.

"Yes Raven?" the woman asked.

"Mommy, when can we go?" she asked sweetly, with a tone of fear.

"Soon honey. We are just trying to figure out a few things. The doctors are coming now to do a few tests on you. It'll be over soon, and we can all go home," Raven's mother replied.

"Daddy too?"

"Yes sweetie, of course."

Raven's father smiled, and couldn't help but love her. She was his daughter.

Then two doctors came in, carrying a bag of supplies. One began filling a large needle with a sedative. Raven's eyes widened upon seeing this. She ran to the corner of the room, and pleaded to go.

"Mommy, please don't let this happen. Please!" Tears streamed down her face.

"I'm sorry Raven. It's for the best." Her mother felt awful. Her father didn't feel much better.

The first doctor came forward, and took her by the arm. "Come now Raven. We just want to help."

"NO!" she cried. "Mommy! Please, no! Don't let them do this!"

Raven's mother began to sob a little as well. "I'm…sorry Raven…forgive me."

That was when hell broke loose. Raven's eyes begun to glow red as fire. The doctors backed away, and ran for the door. It slammed, sealing them inside with her.

"Mommy.." tears came down her eight year old cheek, "I hate you."

A bright flash of white light shot from her, and extended across both rooms. Raven's father ducked down low. All Raven's mother could do was stand there in horror. After only a moment, and an ear piercing scream from raven's mother, it was over.

Raven's father looked up. The doctors, and Raven's mother were gone. Only splatters of blood remained, covering the walls. Raven sat silent in her room, normal again. He broke through the window, and gather her in his arms. She was his daughter, and he wouldn't kill her. She was all he had left now, and he would raise her as best he could. Back then, he hadn't realized how much resentment he would come to know, how much pain she would bring him. He knew she was a monster, so why did he let her live?

Tom came back to reality when the phone rang. HE had been lost in the memories for over an hour. He let them go again, and stood to answer the phone. That was in another city, so long ago. Almost like it was in another life. The pain was still there, and he knew, all to well, how real that felt.

(To be continued… very soon. Already writing next chapter, and it will be up soon. Sorry again for the late update guys. I'll try to be quicker from now on.)