1A/N: Yeah...so...yeah. Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter and I'm sure everyone will be happy because Robin is back and well...you'll see. This was a tough one to write and I'm not sure how I feel about it yet so ya know...usual pessimistic self evaluation and all. Anyways, enjoy this chapter as much as possible and hopefully I'll have another one up soon.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans, but hey, I think we all knew that already

Doors That Can't Be Closed

Chapter 5

By: Finalitylife

Maybe she should just leave. Maybe she should just pull herself off the floor and go away forever, never to return. It was clear she had no friend's hear, no one wanted her here, so why did she stay? She had been just fine when she had been completely alone, never talking with anyone, never interacting with another living being. Of course she knew she hadn't been okay. She had been lonely, terribly lonely and when she formed the Titans with Robin, she thought that maybe that loneliness would go away and it had for awhile. However, at this moment, she felt more alone than ever before.

She never had any friends...only teammates who needed her power, who mocked her behind her back, who eyed her with resentment. It wasn't supposed to be this way but it was...and it tore Raven up on the inside.

Raven still couldn't make herself move from the spot she sat leaning against her door, her dead eyes staring out into nothingness as these same thoughts...their words continued to beat against her mind. Creepy...frigid...bitch...those who cared about her would never say such things ever yet they had all too clearly. Why did she stay?

In the back of her mind though, Raven did know the answer to that one very important question she kept asking herself. Why did she stay? It was because of Robin. She would not selfishly abandon him in his time of need. She would not leave his fragile state in the hands of the others who would surely lock him away with strangers where she knew no one would be able to truly help him. It was the very least she could do for the great man who led the Titans, who on more than one occasion had saved her life, and providing feelings of safety and comfort that she had almost never felt before in her lonely life.

She tried to think of some of her special memories to try and bring the slightest bit of contentment to her mind, not being greedy enough to look for something that reminded her of being happy rather only contentment, as she continued to fight her war within just as another war was being fought right down the hall.

Robin P.O.V:

"Shut up."

"Do you know what they are doing?"

"Die."

"I think you know what they're doing right at this moment."

"Shut up."

"It is so very obvious because you know they don't care."

"Die."

"They are planning on locking you away."

"Shut up."

"And once you are alone...you will be mine forever."

"Shut up!" My fist crunches loudly against my solid metal wall though Slade avoids it easily. I do not feel the pain that I know is coursing through my hand and my arm nor do I feel the pain from the numerous lacerations that cover my body, blood steadily dripping to the floor. I glare menacingly at Slade, my strength fueled by my unending anger. I am more man than beast at this moment but I do not care because it allows me to ignore the pain, the weariness of my body as I continue to fight against the one who will not leave me in peace, who whispers secrets and truths to me that I do not wish to hear though can not deny.

It used to be just Slade coming to hurt me and then his relentless voice echoing within every corner of my mind but now...he in every aspect refused to leave and the hours that I have fought him continue to tick by. He only taunts, rarely attacks to inflict the growing numbers of wounds on my tired body, though I never stop trying to end him.

"I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that they want you gone Robin. They meet secretly behind your back, planning and plotting. They are all against you Robin...especially Raven."

"Die!" Again I attack, sending a kick at Slade that would have surely cracked his neck like a twig but again I miss, my foot meeting the wall again, sending a shockwave through my entire body. It is just another tremor through my body which continued to be ravaged by them.

I continue to curse the other Titan's existence as they do not arrive to help. They have to know I am fighting this battle. The sound of it had to be clear into the hallways but they do not show up. Slade keeps me far away from the door to exit my room, my communicator smashed long ago, and I know that even if the Titans had given a damn, they were outside my reach.

"They have no faith in you Robin...she has no faith in you. They know you have already fallen Robin and thusly, your time here has come to an end.

"Shut up damn it. Just shut up!" I can feel my body shaking uncontrollably with what flows through me, my fists clenched in relentless fury. His words infuriate me and stab at my very being over and over again. The Titans are no longer there for me, they were never there for me.

"All your paranoia, all your mistrust have all been warranted because in the end, you have always been right. They all are truly against you Robin...and if they have it Raven's way...they shall end you." Nothing but lies, nothing but fallacy. I knew it, knew it all along but I refused to trust my instincts. They never cared. There smiles always empty, there embraces hallow, their words hiding the twisted truth. And Raven, Raven was the worst because I actually trusted her and she rewarded me by leading the witch hunt against me. A dark, distorted laugh erupts from my very being as the smallest bit of calm exists within me.

"I shall prove to them all that they should have never doubted me. I shall prove to them all that I am not to be betrayed, not to be turned against. They shall pay. However, I shall first prove to them that I am not crazy, that you are truly real...by delivering your severed head to them as proof of their failures and ignorance." An enraged battle cry emanated from me, and I advance quickly on my blood-lusts target.

Back in Raven's room, she continued to dwell on what had all happened.

"Maybe I should take a trip to Nevermore...maybe that will help clear my head, give me a better perspective on what I should do." Raven finally rose to her feet, finally deciding to visit her mindscape for some clarity but as she neared the mirror that acted as the portal, her communicator began buzzing relentlessly. When she opened it up, she was greeted with the face of Cyborg, who clearly looked angry.

"Damn it Raven...are you deaf and blind! Do you not hear the alarm going off or the red lights flashing everywhere. There's an attack going down!" Raven found herself blinking in shock.

"There was no alar..." She was abruptly cut off by Cyborg.

"I really don't care what your excuse is Raven but we need to get going. Go drag Robin's scrawny ass out of his room and meet the rest of us downtown."

"We should not bring Robin...we should leave..." Again Cyborg cut her off with a loud bellow.

"Just shut up and do what I say Raven! Your wasting time with your idiotic words and people could be getting hurt. Now go get Robin and for once, do what a Titan is supposed to do and act like a hero." Cyborg's face disappeared from the screen and the communicator turned off. All Raven could do was continue to stare at where his face had been, the biting tone of his words still ripping into her and it took every ounce of her will not to throw the communicator at the wall.

Maybe Cyborg was right and she was acting selfish by refusing orders in the cities time of need. Of course there were many maybes running through her head at this moment but eventually she found herself floating quickly down the hallway toward Robin's room. Just as she was about to call out his name, an explosion erupted from with the room, blowing the door straight out at Raven. It was more by instinct than anything else that allowed her to put up a black shield of energy to stop the door from crushing her to death though it still pushed her back, the force still causing her to slam against the wall. She fell to one knee, wincing slightly from pain though she was quickly to her feet as she noticed the dark figure in the former doorway, slightly obscured by the drifting smoke.

"Robin..." He did not respond as she thought he would.

"I am going to kill you Slade and then I am going to make sure the rest know I am not to be messed with." The sheer anger and hatred in Robin's voice made her shiver but her blood truly turned cold as Robin suddenly shot forward at her and again, by instinct her power sprang to life and grabbed hold of the young man in front of her and pushed him back against a nearby wall, her doing the best to hold him there. She in no way sensed Slade anywhere or for that matter anyone else in the near vicinity, only more proof that Robin was totally delusional, his mind gone.

Raven hadn't been able to completely catch him in her energy and the birdarang that had been in his hand was thrown forward, slicing across her shoulder. She let out a yelp, losing her grip on Robin as she felt the blood begin to flow from her shoulder. Again he charged forward with a scream and with fear in her eyes, she let lose more energy at him, encasing him completely with her power, again slamming him against the wall. This time he held. His entire body below his neck was outlined in her dark energy and she was surprised when he continued to struggle, continued to make progress in breaking the hold.

It simply did not make sense. As strong as Robin was physically, his physical strength could never match up against the power of Raven's mind and magic yet at this moment, Robin was slowly winning the battle. He snarled like some kind of crazed beast at her, trying to free himself.

"I won't let you win Slade. I won't let you do this to me. I will kill you, I swear it!" Raven felt her heart breaking at the sight in front of her as Robin continued to try his best to lash out at her, madness and rage clearly having a complete grip over him.

"Robin please...please stop this. Its me Raven, not Slade. There's no one here to hurt you." Robin seemed to stop for the briefest of moments and Raven could feel the boiling rage within him silence. He seemed to stop struggling as his eyes focused on the purple-haired young woman in front of him and instead of the burning anger, she felt a coldness sweep out from him that permeated her entire body.

"Raven...you are to blame for this...I trusted you and then this. I hate y..." Before he could finish his dark statement, a stream of blue energy slammed into his head and upon impact, slammed his head back into the wall with a loud impact. Robin immediately stopped struggling and his head fell over, hanging loosely as he continued to hang there from Raven's power. It took Raven a few seconds to figure out what had just happened when she finally regained herself and immediately flew forward catching Robin's now unconscious body as her power relinquished. She immediately saw the many bleeding wounds on his body, wounds he could have only done to himself and again she felt her heart bleed at the condition of the young man in front of her though his frigid words battered her will to help him.

Her eyes slowly moved down the hallway to find Cyborg with his sonic cannon still trained on Robin, Starfire with glowing starbolts in each of her hands, and Beast Boy in a battle ready stance.

"What do you think your doing?" Raven's voice came out weak sounding and she immediately hated herself for sounding like that in this position.

"I did what needed to be done. He need to be stopped."

"You could have killed him with that blast." Raven's voice was stern this time, repressing her anger within, repressing everything within.

"No I couldn't have. I turned down the amplitude of the blast so it wouldn't be fatal." Raven only grimaced at the response.

"Why are you here so quickly? I thought you left to the city for the emergency." Cyborg's face never once wavered.

"What are you talking about Raven. There was no emergency, there was no alarm."

"But I just talked to you over the communicator...you told me to get Robin to deal with the emergency in the city..."

"Not this again Raven. Why do you keep making up things? There was no emergency, I did not talk to you, and for the record I would have never told you to go get Robin in the condition he is in. What kind of leader would I be if I told you to go near this deranged psychopath. Raven's eyes narrowed as she looked at Cyborg.

"You're not the leader Cyborg." He matched her glare with his one eye.

"Some one has to be when the old leader is no longer capable of anything." Starfire and Beast Boy did not say anything, only staring at Raven and the fallen Robin. Raven got the impression that Beast Boy was looking at both of them with disdain while Starfire's eyes only seemed to be focused on her as she held Robin in her arms. It was a very unsettling gaze.

"Well it doesn't matter right now because this only proves that Robin is dangerous and can't be allowed to stay here. We need to get him out of here so that he can get some help. We should put him in a holding cell until we find someone..." Raven pleaded with Cyborg's cold, uncaring tone.

"We can't just lock him up. He's injured. He needs medical attention now." Cyborg looked on casually at Raven.

"Alright. We'll take him to the infirmary and this time, we will ensure that he can't get out of the bed we restrain him too. Raven, you can carry him because right now, I really don't want to touch him." Cyborg turned and walked away and Beast Boy and Starfire only followed, though giving one last glances back as they left. Raven only could stare silently as they all left, the only sound remaining was the occasional drip of Robin's blood hitting the ground.