(AN: Finally, summer vacation is here! Ah, the climax begins here! Sorry everyone for taking so long. Too much stuff to do over these past two weeks. Summer started today, so I'll have plenty of update time.)

Chapter 13:

"What the heck!" Beast boy asked, and slammed a fist on the table.

"Just tell us, where is she?" Terry said, looking down at him, blocking the bright light in the interrogation room.

"I told you, I didn't kidnap her. I let her stay for a few days, but she just left recently. I have no idea where she went! Why won't you believe me!"

"We believe you…at least on all of this but her location. Where is she? Is she dead? Did you use her, then kill her? OR throw her out, alone, cold, maybe naked, in some back alley for some lowlife scum to have their way with?"

Beast Boy raised his hand, and slapped Terry.

"I'd never do that to her! Never! I'd never let her get hurt! How could you assume someone as me could do the things you are assuming I might have?"

Terry rubbed his cheek, than pulled his arm back, and punched B.B. out of his chair. Looking up at his attacker, B.B. wiped away a line of blood from his lip.

"Now," Terry said, "Tell us the truth."

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Watching from a window, Maria Smith, a neighbor across the street from Starfire, one of which Raven's father had had personal relations a couple years back, dialed Raven's home number. A gruff, almost sad voice came across the line.

"Hello?" he said.

"Ah, it's been too long Tom," she said to him, with a small smile on her face. "Anyway, I didn't call to recap old times, I've got some news for you." She flipped her bright red bangs out of her eyes, and waited for a reply.

Sounding as if he'd had a week long hangover, he answered back, in a low voice, "Eh, uh, what is it?"

"Your daughter, Raven. I think I know where to find her, but you'd better hurry. It appears she is at a friend's house across the street. She hasn't been there long. I saw her enter, wasn't sure it was her, but now I'm positive. I think she believes your at work, or something."

Maria could hear as his teeth gritted against each other for a moment. Then, in a calm voice that sounded like he had just 180'ed every emotion in his body, he said, "Thank you, Maria, and please, lets get together to talk sometime."

Before she could reply, a click sounded the call was over. Maria sat the phone down, wondering how he would deal with her. He'd never been a particularly forgiving person, so she could only guess. She pulled the blinds shut, and turned away. What ever he would do, she didn't want to see it.

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Raven climbed out the window, saying goodbye to Starfire, and telling her when they might hang out again. She walked down the street, past her house. Then a thought occurred to her: although she had washed them, she hadn't had but one pair of clothes. If her father was still at work, she'd sneak in and get some. Seeing her window, cracked open to cool her room, just as the night she left. She looked around cautiously, and decided to go on in.

Inside, Raven's father saw her from the darkened living room.

"So, she's coming back here. I'll show her NEVER to mess with me again. She'll regret leaving. And that green bastard she's been living with, probably screwing him too, I'll wait to tell the police she is home. He deserves more than that."

He sat down on the couch, and waited for her to enter.

Meanwhile, Raven pushed the window up, and climbed in, and onto her bed. She looked down. Her bed, the one she'd been pushed on, hit on, and cried on. It pained her in many ways to see it. She climbed down quietly, and walked to her dresser. Her reflection in the mirror showed a girl who, in her eyes, had grown a lot in just a week.

She reached down, and pulled open her dresser. She gathered a pile of shirts and skirts which all looked much like what she was wearing now, all black, but some had designs on them. She tossed them on the bed, and turned around to find her suitcase to pack them in. Her hand probed the floor, until she found it. She pulled it up, and put it on the bed as well. At that moment, a shadow fell upon her. Before she could even turn, she was struck with a numbing blow to the back of the head. As she passed out, and fell to the floor, she could hear the sound of laughing from the poor soul, who had once been her father.