1A/N: Ya know, I am rather curious as to what everyone thought was going to happen because it seems like everyone who reviewed said they were way off. I guess I accomplished my goal...let's see what else I can come up with...more than likely messed up. Enjoy...I guess.

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

Doors That Can't Be Closed

Chapter 8

By: Finalitylife

"All my fault all my fault ALL MY FAULT!" Raven's screams continued to echo across her mindscape, her despair and anguish ravaging what was left of her fragile sanity. Her emaciated doppleganger could only helplessly look on, each scream physically hurting the already deeply suffering emotional representation yet Raven did not seem to care.

"Everything...their torment...the horrible thoughts...and Robin...his sanity was torn apart by me because I wasn't strong enough, because I was weak and useless. I just want to die...I just want to fade away. I don't want to be here anymore!" Raven collapsed to the ground, a huddled mess of her former self, only a shell of her former self thanks to her dark side's meddling. Finally, her other self managed to speak despite her incredible pain.

"Would you...would you be so selfish as to leave them caught in the web of her making, would you be so uncaring as to leave Robin with that...that thing dwelling inside him. If you allow that to happen, then you truly are as pathetic as you see me as." Raven jumped to her feet and with a snarl tackled the weaker version of herself to the ground, her hands instantly locking around her throat.

"Who are you to judge me? You are only worthless emotions that I despise. You are nothing. You hear me! Nothing!" The grey cloaked Raven did not resist, did not fight back, only stared up at the real Raven with empty, dead eyes. The real Raven continued to squeeze, seeing nothing but red as her anger was unleashed, wanting nothing more than to choke the life out of her weakness.

However, in an instant, just enough of her mind snapped back into place and her vision became clear again, her grip loosening. She looked down at the grey-cloaked Raven who still had not moved, completely resigned to her punishment.

"Oh...what have I done...what have I become..." Raven fell off the other version, collapsing again to the ground, arms wrapped around herself. Tears again started pouring from her eyes, helplessness once again reigning supreme. The other Raven remained laying on her back, deep bruises now imprinted in her thin neck.

"Your darker emotions are still free within you just as the emotions I represent. They are still there for you to feel, to wield."

"Why does that even matter...nothing you can say can matter..."

"If you are willing to accept your weaker feelings as well as your darker feelings as part of yourself, accept them rather than deny them, then you can gain strength back. You can become strong enough to free the rest of your mind from her demented imprisonment, can retake your entire being from her control. And maybe...maybe then you can save the Titans from her...save Robin."

Raven did not respond immediately, only continued to lie there. Eventually, her body showed signs of life as she lifted herself from the ground, slowly as if all her limbs weighed hundreds of pounds. She looked down at her other self, who still had not moved, resembling a corpse in its coffin at a funeral rather than an actual sentient being. Raven reached out her hand to the grey cloaked Raven.

"Come on then...let's go. At least we can try...for them." The grey-cloaked Raven tentatively accepted the hand and Raven easily pulled the almost nonexistent weight to her feet. The two turned and walked off, their destination the darkest corner of Raven's mind, where only horror dwelled.

Robin continued to thrash around on his bed, eyes locked open in horror at Slade who stood only a few feet away. He seemed even more imposing than ever before, even more frightening. His cold grey eye no longer stared at him but instead burned crimson, his hands now seemed to be sharp claws more than his normal deadly hands, and his voice...it now sounded like a distorted version of Raven's rather than Slade's smooth, taunting voice.

"The time has come Robin." Robin screamed as a claw slashed across his chest, opening five, jagged lines in his body. "No one cares...no one gives a damn. You are nothing...except mine." Robin's scream echoed threw every wall of the tower. Starfire cringed, Beast Boy showed nothing, and Cyborg...he muttered the word psycho under his breath.

Raven as she walked felt the extreme pain that ripped through Robin thanks to the bond they shared...the bond that had ultimately doomed them all. She knew...she somehow knew that Robin had finally lost the battle for himself. She fought back the tears and instead allowed her anger to flow threw her, empowering her a little more, and she increased her pace toward her goal.

The surroundings were without any light yet somehow things remained visible against the unending black backdrop. The two Raven's, one real, one a representation of her weaker emotions, stood on the threshold of where Raven wished to never venture. It was the domain of all that was dark within Raven...her hatred, her anger, her jealousy, many more that she always wished she could deny because they only reminded her of what she truly was...a demonspawn. This was supposed to be a prison, a cage for one being to be locked away in yet because of her weakness, because of her inability to control her own self, freedom was granted to the one who should never had it.

Raven took a tentative step forward with the grey cloaked Raven standing behind her, following slowly. In the blackness, Raven could hear the occasional flap of some wings, rustling of feathers, a high pitched squawk, or the disturbing grinding of teeth. As they took a few more steps, the object of their quest could be seen ahead, all the other representations of Raven's personality lined up in their capture, unable to fight against their restraints.

"We need to free them...they must be set free..." Raven was about to take another step forward when a boney, icy hand was placed on her shoulder to stop her.

"No...let me go first..." Raven gave a questioning look that really couldn't be clearly seen but it didn't even seem like her other self was paying attention to her. The corpse like Raven shuffled slowly past her and after getting a few feet in front of her, Raven knew why she had gone first.

Hundreds of red-eyed, deformed ravens suddenly converged on the helpless form of the grey cloaked Raven. She screamed unearthly screams as they began pecking and gnawing at what little flesh was on her bones. Raven could only stare on in horror at the sight but the other Raven screamed for her to hurry. Raven sped past as fast as she could, swatting a few scattered ravens away from her but as she neared the prisoners she slammed into a barrier of red energy. She fell back to the ground, her entire body burning all over.

"No...this can't be...so close..." She turned around as the grey-cloaked Raven let out another bloody scream. Raven was shocked to find the other Raven still on her feet, refusing to succumb to the attacks, doing her best to give Raven time. Her body and face was a mess of missing chucks of flesh, her eyes were clearly no longer there, pecked out, and her cloak was soaked in her dull colored blood, yet she still would not go down. Raven found herself growling.

"So much pain...so much suffering...all to help me...all because of me...she did not deserve it...she does NOT deserve this!" In an instant, Raven's eyes turned fiery red though only two formed, her strength increasing incredibly. Raven was pissed beyond words, her accepted darker side fueling her. The raven's seemed to stop their assault, their beady red eyes locking on Raven's red eyes. They left their heavily wounded prey who finally collapsed to the ground, making a soggy sounding squish as she hit the ground. The raven's flew over and landed at the feet of Raven and lowered their heads, doing their best to bow to their master.

"Begone." The raven's nodded their heads and flew off into the darkness, far, far away into the depths of Raven's mind. Raven walked confidently toward her other forms, passing threw the barrier that once repelled her with ease. They all looked up at her, disbelief on all of their faces. Raven's hand glowed black with power and with a simple wave of it, the red energy that bound each of her other forms dissipated, freeing each of them. They all looked upon Raven as her eyes continued to glow red, unsure of what to do, not sure if she really was on their side. Brave leaned toward Intelligence and whispered in her ear, the slightest bit of fear in the voice of Raven's courage.

"Did she finally succumb to her dark side?" Intelligence shook her head.

"No. I believe she has accepted that aspect of her in order to free us. We think that we are safe for the moment." The real Raven growled every so slightly.

"No you aren't. Quickly, I need you to join with me before I am consumed by the anger, the hatred. I am out of balance...I need each of you." The other Raven's nodded in understanding and surrounded Raven in a circle. In a flash of many colors, the other Raven's disappeared and Raven's eyes no longer glowed with malice but rather had returned to their soft purple.

Raven turned around and started walking toward the limp, bleeding body of the grey cloaked Raven. Raven felt her stomach turn as she looked upon the tattered and broken form of the one who had sacrificed herself to allow her the chance to safe herself. Blood continued to ooze out of an uncountable number of wounds, almost no skin left to cover the torn flesh, empty, bleeding eye sockets no longer seeing anything.

Raven said a silent prayer and reached out her hand. It glowed a soft white and in a flash the grey cloaked Raven was gone, pulled in to the real Raven just like the rest. Raven felt to her knees as she took the pain, the untold suffering into herself once more. She knew she had to accept all aspects of her being, the strong as well as the weak, though she now doubted just how weak that part of her had been. She was whole again. She shook her head...almost whole...almost. She just hoped she was not too late.

Cyborg walked down the hallway of the tower, his heavy feet echoing loudly as he walked toward the infirmary. He was grumbling about having to go check on Robin. He pushed open the door and stepped in, quickly realizing that all the lights had gone out and there was no figure strapped to the bed.

"Ah shit." His arm instantly became his sonic cannon, and he switched his eye over to night vision looking for a very dangerous and deranged psychopath. He scanned the room and could not seem to find anything. He let out a small sigh of relief thinking Robin can run off, he only hoped far away from the tower. Of course he didn't notice the figure emerging from the shadows behind him. Tendrils of red energy lashed out, wrapping themselves around all of his limps tightly, lifting him off the ground.

"What the hell!" Cyborg tired to struggle but couldn't move an inch.

"Foolish, foolish machine." Cyborg was flung into the wall, though the tendrils did not release him. He did however realize that the voice was Raven's, though incredibly strange and evil sounding.

"What the hell is going on hear! Let go of me Raven." A dark chuckle.

"Only a little bit correct machine but it really doesn't matter. You are officially obsolete."

Starfire floated down the hallway, face a complete blank, her emotions all over the place. She wished her Robin was back the way he used to be and continued to curse Raven for her undeniable part in his change. She only hoped that by sending him away for a time, that he could be fixed and would return to her a nicer person, one who would never yell at her...never hurt her. She turned the dark corner and spotted a body lying on the floor, a body she recognized as Robin. She did not run forward immediately, realizing the potential danger of the situation but she could barely hear him calling out to her, calling out for help though his voice sounded very strange.

Starfire rushed over and knelt beside Robin, picking him up so that he was cradled ever so slightly in her arms. She noticed that he was bleeding from deep wounds in his chest and found the slightest bit of panic.

"Oh what has happened to you my love...what did Raven do to you..."

"Starfire..."

"Yes Robin." Starfire never noticed the tendril of energy snaking behind her until it wrapped tightly around her throat, squeezing tightly. Her eyes went wide in horror as Raven's voice came from her beloved's mouth, a sinister grin now there.

"Pucker up princess." Dark laughter echoed everywhere.

Beast Boy sat in the living room, the tv on though he wasn't really watching it. He was lost in thought about Terra, remembering how they used to sit and watch cartoons together, laughing and laughing. However, those times were gone...gone because of those that pushed her away, forced his first love away from him. He jumped ever so slightly as the lights suddenly went out and looked around the room, wondering what had happened. He heard a slight noise to his left and snapped his head in that direction.

"Cyborg?" He suddenly heard a noise to his right and again stared off in that direction

"Starfire?" An object slammed into the side of his head and he saw stars for a few seconds, reaching up his hand to clutch the area of contact. He found the slightest bit of blood coming from a cut.

"If that's you Robin...you've messed with the wrong guy. If its you Raven...don't expect me to go easy on you either. You both are guilty." Another object flew at him, slamming into his side, knocking his breath out of him. He fell to the ground, holding his side. This time when he looked up, he could make out the fact that almost every object in the room was now levitating around him. He heard Raven's dark voice as if it was coming from all places at once.

"No one could have ever loved something as pathetic as you." The objects converged on his helpless body.

Hatred will consume. Hatred has consumed. Nothing can ever be the same.