1A/N: Really messed up...I think only one more chapter to go...great thanks to everyone that reviewed last chapter. Let me know if I messed anything up.

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

Doors That Can't Be Closed

Chapter 9

By: Finalitylife

Raven again found her feet touching real ground having returned to her room. A cold, relentless wind flowed through her room from where there was no wall to keep it out, the evidence of what she had tried to do to herself...what she had been driven too. She clenched her tiny hands, feeling more whole at this moment than she had in a very long time though she knew she was far from complete. It was time to fight back...she hoped she could fight back.

Raven floated cautiously threw the darkened hallways, having found out that not a single light in the tower still functioned. She was ready for anything, knowing that anyone at this moment could be a threat to her. Her destination was the infirmary, where she hoped she would find what she sought.

Nothing at this moment in the tower...in the air felt right to Raven, and had it not been for her mind being restricted before, she would have easily noticed those feelings before. The tower had been a darker place for awhile now because of her mistakes.

As she approached the infirmary, she noticed that the doors had been torn from their hinges. She must have been too late. She melded into the darkness and entered and found a war zone. Everything was destroyed, huge dents had been formed in the solid steel walls, Cyborg size dents Raven noted with a grim face. Why her dark side would have attacked one of her 'allies' remained to be seen but Raven assumed it was just out of pure malevolence.

She floated into the lotus position and closed her eyes, reaching out with her mind as she had done once before to save Robin...the choice that started all of this. Raven knew had she not entered Robin's mind then, he more than likely would have perished but in doing so, his prolonged life was nothing but suffering and psychosis that passed into the rest of her friends. Had it been the right choice? She still believed it to be only that she should have been stronger, more aware of her own weaknesses to ensure this tragedy had never occurred. Again she only hoped it was not too late to save them all from herself.

Raven's extended mind finally found what it was looking for though it had taken a great amount of her power to push threw a veil of darkness to get there. Four presences were in the main room, three of them unconscious, and one...one that chilled her to the core.

Raven suddenly felt someone else pushing against her mind and before she could stop it, she could hear her own distorted voice in her mind, images of blood and gore overwhelming her senses.

"Foolish Raven...you really should have taken the easy way out when you had the chance. Now you'll have to watch all of them die, horribly and painfully." Laughter flowed into her mind and Raven finally was able to cut off the connection, pulling her soul self back into her body. She fell to the floor, breathing heavily but she knew there was not much time. She had to get to them now. She took flight with the greatest of urgency.

Raven did not hesitate in the slightest in her path to the main room even though she knew there was undoubtably some type of trap. She flew into the room and stopped at the sight. Hanging to the wall, out cold, suspended by the same red energy that had held the aspects of her personality in her mind were the Titans. Starfire and Beast Boy were covered in gashes everywhere, a steady drip of blood flowing from each them congealing in large pools beneath them, one of Beast Boy's eyes hanging from the socket, still connected by the nerve.. Cyborg's body was dented and broken in some places, an occasional shower of sparks erupting from parts of his body. Starfire had the very unfortunate place of being held next to him, some of the sparks burning into her formerly flawless skin.. She could only feel the slightest signs to life from them, as if they would be gone at any second. The horrifying sight tore deep into Raven on almost every level imaginable.

"Hahahaha. Welcome Raven. I truly was hoping that I would never have to see you alive again but it seems that dream did not come to be." Raven searched for the source of her own voice but was unable to find it.

"They suffered because of you Raven...He suffers because of you." The voice really did seem like it was coming from everywhere.

"You have made all this possible Raven. Had you not created that bond with Robin, I would have not been able to free myself and escape. Had you not developed such a good trust with him, he would have never allowed my entry into his mind. Hahaha...he thought I was you, allowed me in without question...what a fool!" Raven gritted her teeth, clenched her firsts, though she really did feel like breaking down again after seeing her friends, as the truths she suspected were revealed to her.

"At it was so easy once I was inside. He was already cracked up to begin with and I simply fed into his paranoia, his mistrustful nature, helped him justify his own actions and his choices and though not my original idea, I made him believe Slade was after him again. I inflicted wounds upon his body from the inside, very real injuries that made him positive Slade had returned and I slowly tore away at his mind until he no longer could even identify what or who was right in front of him. How quickly he was ready to pay you all back for betraying him when you refused to see what was very real to him, refused to help him."

"He was so afraid of being stabbed in the back...always worried it would eventually come, so easy to convince him it had. It just happened to work out in my favor that it was you he most trusted and it especially broke him when he learned of your 'betrayal.'" A figure seemed to emerge right out of the shadows across the room into a form she recognized instantly. There were claw marks across his bare chest and his hands now resembled sharp claws more than anything else but it was clear as to who it was.

"Robin?" Raven still asked though she already knew the answer. Robin's body greeted her with a cold smile on his face.

"You tell me." Raven could not even describe the incredible strangeness of hearing her own voice coming from Robin's mouth. Robin's hand reached up to the edge of his mask, and slowly peeled it off. Raven couldn't help but think of one of her smallest fantasies she allowed herself...that she would be the one that Robin would first show his eyes too...that he would trust her enough, above everyone else to reveal that highly guarded secret too. However, this time, Raven was not graced with Robin's secret but rather two burning red eyes that pierced right into her soul.

"Come now...you couldn't have expected anything else. Of course if you did, you really are crazy." The calm and leisurely way this...this thing talked to her truly disturbed Raven.

"I'm not crazy...I never was...nor was Robin...it was all your doing."

A loud , mocking laugh emanated from the corrupted Robin's mouth, one born of disbelief and humor all the same.

"I am flattered that you would think me that powerful dear 'sister' but are you truly that delusional, truly that blatantly stupid to believe all that."

"What are you talking about you manipulative monster. Don't stand there and try to pretend you didn't turn all my friends against me. Don't stand there and tell me you didn't try and destroy me!" Another amused laugh.

"Oh yes I did try to destroy you." The cruel and ruthless glare on Robin's face almost made Raven cringe. "I was hoping that you would kill yourself, pathetically take your own life because 'Oh life its so hard, everyone is against me.' The last part was said in a high pitched mockery of her own voice emphasized with taunting hand motions.

"With you dead, I could finally completely separate myself from your being, gaining my freedom permanently. Would it have been an excruciating for me to separate myself? Incredibly. Would it have been worth it? Completely." Raven thought she could almost see her own face in Robin's smiling hungrily.

"I am strong, though I hate to admit it, even I have my limits on what I could do, which is what you seem to be denying even up until this point. You refuse to see the truth."

"What truth?"

"The truth is I did not turn your friends against you. They did it all on their own. I am not powerful enough to control the others from where I resided and it took me up until not that long ago to gain control of Robin's mind. What I did do was simply used our empathic abilities to gently push their true feelings regarding you and each other to the surface where they finally could be expressed." Raven could only look on in horror as Robin's body approached her.

"It should be obvious by now but you haven't been able to figure anything out lately so I guess I'll just tell you. All those horrible words they said to you, all those terrible thoughts you heard from them that drove you toward madness, well I have news for you. There all true, every...single...one."

"Liar!" Raven found herself shaking with anger and outrage and the sheer audacity of her dark side, to actually think she would believe such a thing. Robin's controlled form stared pacing in a circle around her, a large smile on his twisted face.

"I am many things but a liar? I think not. All I did was simply bring the truth to the surface in all of them, the truth that had been festering deep inside for so long, that everyone refused to simply acknowledge. Cyborg really does despise that Robin is the leader, can't stand the fact that you are so cold and distant. Starfire truly does blame you for Robin not already being hers and is very angry at Robin for hurting her. Beast Boy...he is my favorite because the anger and hatred he feels for both you and Robin is amazing. He has no doubt that it is your two faults that Terra is gone...and he loathes you two with every ounce of his being."

"No!"Raven felt her strength slowly dwindling away as her twisted counterpart ripped into her will, bringing her own emotions to the surface...her fears.

"Yes." Robin sneered in her face. "Yes it is all true. I can not create false emotions in them but I can use what was already clearly there. Like I said, I simply allowed hidden truths to be unleashed and you know exactly how it turned out." Robin placed his arms behind his back and continued walking leisurely around Raven's shaking form.

"All I did was set the music and the stage...and you all danced the way you each have wanted to do for so long...just the way I wanted you too. Well almost..." Robin's hand flashed out and a red tendril of energy whipped out, faster than Raven could even register and slashed Raven across the cheek drawing a thin line of blood. She instinctively raised her hand to the cut from an attack that she hadn't even been able to keep up with. Raven's distorted voice floated through the air, in a happy-go-lucky way..

"If that pathetic grey-cloaked waste of brain matter hadn't interfered...well I'm sure you know what would have happened. You can't tell me it wouldn't have been better off with you splattered all over the ground. It would have given you some badly needed color to your skin." Another tendril lashed out and cut Raven across the stomach, still unable to even see them coming, unable to defend herself. She was beginning to realize exactly what she was up against.

She found her head beginning to hang sadly, her eyes squeezed shut. She somehow knew that the words were true...that all those horrible emotions she had felt from the Titans were in fact truly theres and not put there by her darker side. They were not fabricated or placed there by her own anger, her own hatred but rather were as much a part of the Titans as was the thing that was controlling Robin's body at the moment.

After winning in her mind, she so stubbornly believed that all that had occurred had been the work of her devil, and her innocent friends had been forced to be so cruel...so hurting. However, they had not been forced to do anything, had meant every word that came from their mouths.

"With you dead, I would have been free to inhabit Robin, no one knowing I was there. Those hanging weaklings over there would have been real fun to play with." Robin's arm waved toward the three hanging Titans.

"Scream for me why don't you." The slightest bit of life came to all the titans, their mouths opening, high pitched screams of pain piercing threw the air. It still stabbed deep into Raven no matter what she now knew.

"Of course, Robin was the most prized possession in all of this. It is incredible to be in control of one of the most respected heros in all the world, his almost unequaled skills augmenting my great power. I have become unstoppable...not even you can oppose me though I guess you could try. But of course then you'd be risking hurting Robin and I know you won't do that." Raven could only look at the ground, not wanting to look upon the corrupted visage of the one she held the most dear in her heart.

She suspected that if it came down to it, she could defeat Robin in battle but Robin with her dark power, knowing she would have to hold back in a fight to avoid hurting him...it could not be done. She would have to try something else...hope that an opportunity would present itself to do what she needed to do.

"Oh I could have had so much fun...but instead I had to alter my plans just a tad bit though I doubt the outcome will be any different." Another slash across Raven's leg, causing her to struggle for a second to maintain her balance, still not looking up as her body continued to burn from the wounds being inflicted upon her by a more powerful opponent.

"You will die here today Raven...all the Titans will die here today...well except one. Your beloved Robin will suffer an unending waking nightmare as he gets to watch his body destroy everything innocent and pure in this world while trapped within his own mind. I'm sure he is greatly appreciative to now know that all his suffering is entirely your fault. He should have gone with his instincts and never trusted a thing like you. Would have saved everyone a lot of trouble." Raven did not respond.

Robin's body shrugged its shoulder. "Oh well." Red tendrils wrapped all over Raven's body, starting to squeeze, beginning to cut into her own body. Robin's body walked toward Raven, Raven's darker side filled with nothing but arrogance and malice as her opponent so easily submitted to her fate after learning all she had. A terrifying grin crossed Robin's face as a gruesome idea formed within the dark controller of the once great protector of all innocent.

"I know you desire this body Raven, that is no secret to even one who was locked deep in the darkness of your mind. How about a little treat, a parting gift for one as worthless and unloved as you." The dark Robin leaned forward, Robin's face a mere inch from Raven's face, flicking his tongue out against her ear lobe and whispered into Raven's ear. Its guard had been let down, its confidence overwhelming.

"How would you like to be the first person ever to actually be forcibly defiled by their own self." Claws caressed Raven's body, where no one had the right to touch her without her permission.

"Who knows, you might actually enjoy it."

Raven had found her moment..her one and only chance to end this. Raven's darker side was surprised when Raven's head snapped up, a burning fury in her purple eyes, a righteous fury that would have put Starfire to shame. Her hands shot up, glowing with white energy and grasped tightly on to the sides of Robin's head. The darker side instantly felt pain, instantly felt its clarity of mind, its control be shaken.

"This ends now. You are nothing but a twisted parasite." Robin's body struggled vainly against the iron clad grip to no avail. The tendrils wrapped around Raven drew themselves tighter, more blood being freed, falling to the ground but Raven took no notice.

"You can not allowed to be free...you can not be allowed to hurt anyone else!" Raven's eyes burned white as another surge of energy pulsed into Robin's mind, trying to force a very painful separation of two entities. Robin's body continued to lash out at Raven with his arms along with red energy though Raven endured the punches...the cuts...the pain because...because there simply was no other choice.

"You are nothing but a bad dream but you are my bad dream, and you must be returned to your proper place within me."

"Let go of me! I will not go back I will not go back. I will not let you lock me away again! I won't!" Raven increased her power into Robin's tattered mind with a determined look on her face even as a clawed hand started viciously and desperately tearing in to her face.

"It is not your choice because you are only a part of me. I control you, not the other way around and it is time you go back where you belong!"

"NOOOOOO!" An sphere of white and red energy expanded out from the two forms and in a flash of destructive emotion, an massive explosion erupted, instantly shattering every window in the tower.

The darkness had returned from whence it came. Nothing would ever be the same, not for anyone.