CHAPTER 4 - IT'S HER LIFE, NOT OURS TO SAVE

Robin stuffed his letter into his pocket and ran to the infirmary. Cyborg was checking the monitors and seemed happy that they were slowly getting back to normal. Beast Boy was standing in the corner re-reading his letter. He really took it to heart. Starfire was sitting on a chair close to Raven's bed. Robin walked into the tense atmosphere and pulled a chair up to Raven's side and sat there staring at her. He grabbed her hand held it tightly.

"I thought you said she was awake?" Robin questioned Cyborg.

"I said she was waking up. I heard her groan and called you all here." he answered.

Robin looked at the cuts on Raven's arm. Cyborg had stitched them up. The stitches were crisscrossed all up her arm.

"Did it hurt her?" Beast Boy said out of the blue.

"No. She was out like a broken light bulb. Don't worry BB." Cyborg smiled.

"Urgh."

"Raven?" Robin said leaning forward.

"Where… am… I?"

"The infirmary." he replied.

Raven had no strength to talk. She started to find breathing difficult.

"Don't say anything Rae." said Cyborg standing up and putting the oxygen mask on her. "You're very weak."

"You gave us all a scare Rae." Beast Boy said concerned.

The room went silent.

"Why'd you do it Raven?" Robin asked. He knew someone had to ask her eventually and he hated being the one to do it.

Raven started crying because of the physical and emotional pain she was going through. She just wanted to sleep, so she closed her amethyst eyes and drifted off to sleep…

"Hah hah! Dearest daughter. You thought you could just get away so easily. Just leave me like that. You're even stupider than I thought"

"Leave… me… alone!"

"Child, you are never alone. I'll always be here haunting you!"

"Please… father… please."

"Don't beg you pathetic waste of space!"

"I… hate… you!"

"They read the letters you know. They know your true feelings. Robin knows everything. You can't even die right can you?"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Raven?"

"Make… him… stop!" Raven begged.

"Don't worry Rae, I'm here." Robin said squeezing her hand.

"I HATE YOU ALL!" Raven shouted.

Cyborg, Robin, Beast Boy and Starfire all gasped in astonishment.

"WHY… DID… YOU… SAVE… ME!"

"We weren't gonna just let you go like that!" Robin said trying to make her calm down.

"YOU'VE… RUINED… MY… LIFE!"

Raven went blue in the face and she lost grip of Robin's hand.

"Raven!" Robin shouted.

"Put the mask on her. She'll be alright eventually." Cyborg instructed.

They all sighed.

"Friends. Why is Raven mad?" Starfire asked awkwardly.

"Because it's her life and not ours to save." Robin said.

"You know don't you?" Cyborg said to Robin. He nodded. Although it sounded like they were talking in code, they all knew exactly what Cyborg meant.

"I'm going to talk to Raven after, when she's stronger. Then I'll tell you all. I don't want to keep anything from you but this is different. If she wanted all of us to know and it would've been in all our letters." Robin said.