1A/N: Would someone please tell me what the heck is going on? Oh wait, I'm supposed to know that...Uh Oh...umm...parasitic three-toed sloths with a grudge against those with opposable thumbs? And I think we have a problem...well more than usual.

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

Doors That Can't Be Closed

Chapter 6

By: Finalitylife

Raven was the only one in the infirmary with Robin, using her healing powers to close the bloody, jagged wounds that covered his body. The wounds were not smooth cuts but rather savage tears in his body, many of them deep. It truly amazed Raven how Robin had simply not succumb to blood loss and it was truly amazing that he had been able to attack as he did. The image of Robin's snarling face flashed through Raven's mind as she quivered just the slightest.

All the images of Robin she had lately were not ones she wanted. Why couldn't she be seeing his smiling face. Even his cocky smirk would have been welcomed at this moment but instead there was nothing on his unconscious face.

Robin was restrained heavily to the bed. His belt, boots, cape and shirt had been removed to ensure that he did not have anything hiding on him that could allow his escape. He would not be allowed to escape this time as he had done once before. Raven carefully worked on his healing and couldn't help but notice many other scars all over his body, the lasting proof of a human's quest to be a superhero. She also couldn't help but notice how built Robin's slender frame actually was and she occasionally found her eyes lingering too long on his physique rather than paying attention to her work.

It took some time but eventually Robin's body was fully healed though she knew that wasn't the real problem and as powerful as her powers were, she could not fix his mind. She knew it would be futile to try and enter his mind again to try and help because she knew he would never allow her entrance and his mental discipline and will were far beyond almost anything she had encountered before. If he wanted, she wouldn't even be able to pick the slightest emotions up with her empathy.

Raven let out a deep sigh, a twinge of weariness slipping into her after all the energy she used, after all she had been through recently, after all the emotional trauma she had endured. She was tired...just tired of everything that was going on. She gently traced her hand across Robin's cheek and felt a surge of wrongness flow through her, though she was unable to pinpoint what it had exactly been. Cyborg took this moment to enter into the infirmary, pulling her away from her attempt to ponder.

"Are you done in here yet Raven?" Cyborg's voice held almost no emotion except annoyance. Raven didn't even want to look up at him.

"He is healed but I am not done in here. I want to wait until he wakes up so I can talk to him. I want to try and get through to him." Cyborg let out an unbelieving grunt.

"I highly doubt you'll get anything out of him but threats and nonsensical accusations. Face it Raven, he's completely gone." Raven finally looked up, a challenging glare in her eyes.

"What is wrong with you Cyborg. What is wrong with everybody. None of you should be acting so...so cold, like you don't care about him." Cyborg smiled the smallest of smiles.

"You mean acting like you right." Raven clenched her teeth.

"That is not what I am talking about Cyborg. I am talking about how no one seems like they want to help Robin."

"We all are trying to help Robin. It is just simply that the rest of us know that it is not us who can help him. You just can't seem to realize that fact and its only causing more problems than we need. It doesn't help that you keep making up these stories..."

"I did not make anything up. Everything I have said is the truth."

"Well maybe your truth but it is not the real truth." Raven did her best to restrain her desire to magically throw something at the metal man.

"So what do YOU plan on doing with Robin if you seem to know exactly what needs to be done."

"Well after discussing it with the more rational members of the team, we've decided to send him back to Gotham City, to Arkham Asylum."

"Are you insane!" Cyborg seemed to take a step back as Raven stood up, her feelings having far surpassed being upset. "Do you have any idea what you just said? Can you even comprehend what type of people are there. Robin helped put half of them in there. He'll be killed the second he gets there."

"I think your overreacting Raven."

"I think your under reacting Cyborg. You can not do this. You can not keep acting like Robin is some deranged criminal that needs to be locked away with other psychopaths. He needs help...he needs our help." Cyborg's face remained impassive the entire time.

"You just don't understand Raven but what do I really expect from someone like you. Anyways, the decision has already been made..."

"You made a final decision without even asking me?"

"Raven, almost every decision around this place is made without even asking you because your never around and almost all the time you don't even care. So just accept what is going to happen...or don't but I highly suggest you do." Cyborg made his final point with a heartless glare and Raven found her eyes widen as Cyborg more or less threatened her. It was a terrible shock and a painful occurrence for Raven...that Cyborg would go this far. However, nothing could truly measure up to what he would say next.

"And once Robin is gone, it probably would be best if you disappeared too. I don't think you'll be wanted or needed here anymore. You've long out stayed your welcome." Raven couldn't find the words or the will to respond as Cyborg gave her one last dismissive glare before he walked out of the room, again leaving only Robin and Raven together.

"This can't be happening...none of this can be happening." She turned toward Robin who had yet to move. "Damn it Robin...you need to wake up. You need to pull yourself together or...or everything is going to fall apart. Do you hear me Robin...I need you... I need you to help me." Raven was in borderline hysteria, finding herself incapable of dealing with the crushing weight of all of this. She watched as Robin's body started to shift and she could help but feel a small bit of hope well up inside of her.

"Robin..." He started slowly moving his arms and legs, only able to do the slightest bit of movement due to the restraints. His movements soon became more aggressive, more desperate as he tried to free himself, his words panicky.

"Have to get free before he comes back...have to get away...damn it let me go!"

"Robin please calm down. Slade is not here. Its all in your head. You have to realize it." As if he finally realized she was there, Robin's gaze snapped over at the small girl standing next to the bed, his next word filled with contempt.

"You! I don't want to hear your damn lies...this is all your doing I know it. Your handing me over right to him you bitch." He continued to struggle against his bonds as Raven visibly flinched at each hate-filled word.

"Robin...you know I would never betray you. You're my best friend...and I've realized...maybe the only friend I actually had." Robin only laughed, a twisted, disturbed chuckle.

"Lies...all lies...I should have never trusted you...never trusted a half-demon bitch." Raven felt her heart, her mind, as well as her entire body freeze up at Robin's words. She couldn't even manage to get out a disbelieving 'How' though what she wanted to say was clearly evident to Robin.

"Don't think I didn't know Raven. Do you really think I would have started this team with you without doing a little research on you first, contacted a few sources. Did you think I was stupid?" Raven still couldn't form a coherent word, couldn't even manage to blink, her eyes as wide open as possible.

"But I allowed my self to be suckered in by your innocent act...tricked...deceived. Why did I ever trust you!"

"Please..." Raven barely managed that, a begging plea to the bound man in front of her who despite his situation, held far more power over her than she did him.

"Slade has done me one favor in this lifetime and that was allowing me to realize the truth you treacherous bitch. I promise Raven, that when I get free, you will pay for all of this. You will pay for betraying my trust." Again Raven felt that unnatural wrongness radiating off of Robin. However, it quickly faded as he again started thrashing around like a madman trying to free himself, inhuman growls mixing with savage grunts as he vainly tried to get away. He only served to cause the restraints to begin to dig into his flesh and Raven began to see spots of blood forming on his body. Raven instinctively approached to help him but he only screamed at her to get away from him. He finally started screaming Slade's name, screaming for Slade to leave him alone, his eyes locked on a spot where there was nothing there.

Eventually, Raven couldn't take it anymore and with tears beginning to form in her eyes, she disappeared into the shadows, knowing that the life she had thought she had created here had cruelly been taken away.

Raven again found herself in her room though she could not find any comfort there. Everything in her room seemed to be mocking her, laughing at her, taunting her with the words of the other Titans. Raven desperately clutched her ears, trying to block out all the voices.

"I can't take this. This all can't be real...this all has to be some horrible dream, just my worst nightmare coming true. Any moment I'll wake up and everything will be okay. Robin will be fine and the rest will still be me friends and I won't be alone. Any moment now I'll wake up...any moment now...wake up...wake up Raven! Why won't I wake up!" Raven grabbed a small statue and threw it at the wall, shattering it into a million pieces, a pointless act by a lost little girl. Tears were now falling from her eyes and she wanted to just throw herself out the window, her room continuing to laugh at her. She pitifully fell to her knees, again clutching her hands to her ears as the cruel taunts and angry words continued to drive the knife deeper and deeper into her already torn and bleeding heart.

"Why do I keep going...there is nothing left for me here...nothing left for me anywhere...I have no reason left..." And just like that, everything made sense. Raven dutifully stood up, her purpose all the now more clear than ever before. Her final task to stop all the loneliness and suffering. With a wave of her hand, the wall facing the outside in her room exploded out, allowing her the path to the ground below, her road to oblivion. As she took her small steps forward images of their cold eyes, their resentment all too clear flashed through her mind, Robin's maddened and hate-filled words echoing within her soul yet her end was not to be. As she stared out, ready to fall, the magic mirror...the portal to her mind reacted to the situation, and a talon of black energy rushed out, grasping tightly on to the broken young woman, and without a sound, pulled her into her own mind.

Her room grew deadly quiet except for the sound of the gentlest of breezes blowing through the destroyed wall...and not a single Titan cared to come question the noise from the explosion though a piercing bellow of rage could not be ignored.