Teen Titans
Fragile Dreams

A/N I'm going to flatter myself by thinking that any of you still care about this story even a little bit after all this time. Well, if you do… I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! Well, first things first. I think I owe my readers about a year's worth of apologies… because I just did what I always HATED it when authors did. Between computer problems continually forcing me to wipe my computer clean and losing process on the chapter, my first year of college, and a new girlfriend, combined with sheer human laziness, this story still hasn't gotten done when I figured I'd be done with my second story by now.

Well, anyway… I wrote a prequel to Fragile Dreams, too. You might want to check that out. It happens right before this story, and shows Raven's exodus from Azarath and the fate of her teacher. It's not quite cannon, but nothing about this story is quite cannon. I'm sure you'll all get over it.

Disclaimer - Think about it. If I owned Teen Titans, I wouldn't need to be rewriting the show, now would I?

Fragile Dreams Chapter 23 - Birthmark
...June 25th, 3:24 AM...

Raven lay shivering in the darkness, trying to concentrate. It wasn't working very well. No matter how hard she tried, she could not block out everything and meditate: she remained acutely aware of every little thing happening. The time glowing on the clock: 3:24, the unnatural coldness filling the room, Robin pacing worriedly just outside of the door. Raven could not but smile at this, despite the gut wrenching feeling of horror in her gut. How could today have snuck up on her? Resolutely, Raven shook the thought from her head.

...1:33 PM...

Robin paced outside Raven's door, wanting very badly to knock but too polite to do so. Besides, she certainly knew he was here. If she wanted him to come in right now, she'd invite him in. Still, Robin couldn't bring himself to leave. After many more hours of pacing, he finally brought himself to get a late lunch. When he returned, the door still hadn't opened.

'What is going on in there?' Robin couldn't help but wonder. 'Why can't you just tell me what's wrong?'

...6:14 PM...

'Meditate, meditate… another six hours and this day will be all over.' Raven thought, trying to console herself. 'It probably won't happen today anyway… according to Star, nothing is supposed to happen for another 3 years. The Eclipse was just a coincidence. Nothing to worry about…'

Raven could almost hear Anger laughing at her discomfiture.

'Nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about, nothing to wo…'

Something just ran by her door.

Instantly shifting into full combat readiness, Raven teleported from her perch on her bed to outside of her door, adrenaline pumping as she looked around for the threat. Nothing. Footsteps… she could hear footsteps at the end of the hallways. Raven walked slowly after them, gathering energy in her hands as she went. First a right turn, then a left. Slowly open the door…

"SURPRISE!" Raven's adrenaline kicked in instantly, putting a shield up around her as she sank into the floor, expanding her soulself around to take in the surroundings. The other four titans were in the room, holding… cake? Streamers? Balloons? Raven went from shock to anger in a second. She started phasing back into the room behind the group.

"I guess she doesn't like balloons…" Changeling said.

"How did you know it was my birthday!" Rae growled in the scariest voice she knew. Clearly, it was working… the little green man almost ended up on the ceiling.

"Well… you know how you kinda freaked when you found out what day it was? Well, we did some investigating." As all the other Titans, even Starfire, joined Raven in glaring at him, he quickly amended. "Ok, I did some investigating. And… it turns out that there is this super de duperly secret file in the Titans Mainframe that has your birthday on it. So… Happy Birthday!"

Raven looked around the room, examining everyone in turn. Starfire looked a bit sullen. Makes sense, considering that she knows about Trigon. Richard looked hopeful. No surprise there. Changeling and Cy looked cheerful and happy. She supposed that proved that ignorance is bliss.

"No thank you," she said, walking towards the door. She saw Richard's face fall and it almost killed her, but she kept walking.

Changeling, being Changeling, stepped into her way. "C'mon Rae… We got some tasty cake for you! Robin made it himself!"

"No thank you," Raven said, stepping around him. Didn't they realize they were trying her patience, after all this time with her?

Cyborg continued where Changeling left off. "We even have a piñata shaped like Beast Boy…"

"I said NO!" With that outburst, a fraction of all of Raven's worry, fear, anger, and frustration that had been building all day snuck up to the surface and escaped. Banners ripped, piñatas cracked, and cake went flying everywhere. Horrified, Raven quickly raced out of the room, before anything else went wrong today.

Starfire watch as Raven ran from the room. 'Poor Raven… Today is a terrible day for her.'

She inched up behind Robin. "What are you waiting for, Friend Robin?" she whispered in his ear, "Go after her!" She gave him a little push and he started moving.

"I told you a surprise party was a bad idea…" Changeling moaned to himself.

"Save it," friend Robin said as he pushed a party back into the shape shifter's hands as he passed. He rushed out the door after Raven.

'Friend Raven needs more today, more than you can know…' Starfire thought, as she started to clean up. "I just wish I didn't need you just as much..."

'Stupid BB and his stupid party!' Robin thought to himself as he ran after his girlfriend. For a girl who always walked everywhere, she sure could move fast when she wanted to. Robin rounded a corner and almost ran into her. He would have fallen if she didn't catch him.

Raven gave a sad little smile. "Watch yourself, Richard. I can't be here to save you all the time." The light tone in her voice took all possible sting out of her words.

"Rae… I know something's wrong. Please, let me help you. Please?"

Raven sighed; cupping his cheek with one hand as she slowly brushed it down his face. "Do you trust me?"

Robin's response was unhesitating. "Of course I do."

"Then please trust me when I say I'm not ready to talk about this yet. Just know that there is nothing about my birthday to celebrate." She turned away from him, giving him one last smile. "I need to go meditate now. I'll talk to you tomorrow… ok?"

Robin wasn't convinced, but was willing to put his trust in her. "Ok."

...6:31 PM...

Raven closed the door to her room, leaning against it as she did, finally letting go of the smile she didn't particularly feel. She could feel Robin taking up a vigil on the outside once again. She wanted to smile, but didn't have the heart. She collapsed on the bed in a heap.

'I'm going to kill everyone. Damn you Gold, this was what I was trying to avoid."

She could practically see Gold's sneering face through her little hand mirror, resting on the shelf. She picked up a paperweight from her desk and threw it at the mirror halfheartedly. She missed, instead knocking down a large, black book.

'The book of Azar,' She thought. 'Azar…' Raven shook her head fiercely, but couldn't help steeling a glance at the silver rings on each hand.

"What does Trigon want with me?"

"Here, read this. Everything you want to know is in there."

"The book of Azar! You never let me even touch this before, Master!"

"That's because it was ordered that you shouldn't know your parentage. Too dangerous for you, and much too dangerous for Azarath."

Raven shook off the conversation as well. More pain was not what she needed right now. Still, she got up and picked up the book. Pages turned of their own accord, flipping to the day of her birth, seventeen years ago to the day.

"THE GEM WAS BORN OF EVIL'S FIRE; THE GEM SHALL BE HIS PORT…"

Raven slammed the book closed, shutting the voice out of her head. She knew what the book said.

"It will not happen. Do you hear, me, Father!"

Raven hopped back on the bed. Only five hours and thirty minutes remaining. 'If I meditate, it will all me over before I know it,' she thought, then winced at her own bad choice of words.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"

...10:49 PM...

Robin rested leaning against Rae's door, insuring that he would know when she decided to leave. It wasn't that he didn't trust her… far from it. He simply didn't want to waste any time.

"Hey, Robin!" The sudden voice was piercing in the silence. Robin started, throwing himself to his feet before he recognized the voice.

"Cyborg…" To say Robin felt ridiculous was an understatement.

"It's ok, man. We're all tense," he said, waving his hand dismissively. "I mean, if it's got Raven freaked, it's got to be bad, right? I just wanted to let you know it was your turn to take watch tonight."

Robin glanced towards the door meaningfully.

"I figured man. You want me to take it for you tonight?"

Robin let out a sigh of relief and forced a smile. He knew Cy wouldn't let him down. "Would you?"

Cy smiled, but it was just as forced as Robin's. "Whatever man, but you owe me!" He said, whistling as he walked off.

"For sure…" Robin whispered, but Cy was already gone.

...11:13 PM...

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"

'Calm.'

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"

'Peace.'

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"

'Tranquility.'

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"

'Hot…'

"Azarath Metri…"

Raven started hacking uncontrollably, unable to get enough oxygen. As her mind came back to the real world, she could feel the heat brushing every inch of her skin as she breathed in smoke. Her eyes snapped open.

The room was wreathed in flame. Her bedding, her books, even the book of Azar, all on fire. She looked around in horror. This couldn't be real. Yet it had to be. She could feel flame's signature kiss as flames licked her limbs. Yet somehow, she couldn't make herself move. Then her eyes found a pocket of flame burning out her father's symbol on the floor. She glared at it, and to her surprise it grew four burning eyes, meeting Raven's terrified gaze. "This is your destiny!" A voice boomed.

"I will not accept that!" Raven managed to choke out, huddled on the bed while she gagged on smoke.

"The portal MUST BE OPENED!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

...11:14 PM...
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" The shriek came suddenly into the silence.

Robin was about to doze off when Raven's piercing scream suddenly awakened him. Adrenaline pumping through his veins, Robin stood and smashed the keypad on the door, using a override for the lock the other Titans didn't even know he had while he drew his bo staff.

Raven was sitting upright on the bed, clutching her cloak to her body. Robin rushed her, grabbing her in a protective hug, then immediately was forced to recoil to avoid being burned. Raven was hot to the touch. Without warning, her eyes popped open, and her heat rapidly dissipated, although she didn't slow her breathing any.

"Robin!" Raven cried, practically tackling him with a hug. Was he hallucinating, or was that a tear in her eyes?

After letting her lie on top of him for a minute or so, Robin softly pushed up to a sitting position so he could look into her eyes. "Rae, are you ok?"

"Robin, you need to know something. I'm not safe to be around right now."

Robin looked at her like she'd just grown a third eye. "What are you talking about, Rae?"

"It's about my Fa…"

And all around Titan Tower, Alarms started blaring.

She looked up, and Robin could see her face go through a range of emotions faster than he could blink, and then she was back to her neutral face.

"Trouble."

...11:46 PM...
Robin looked around is disbelief. "What are we being called in on again, Cy?"

"Robbery in Process."

"Why would someone rob here?" Robin asked, puzzled.

It was a good question. All that was in this building was the new clock tower, built after the old one got destroyed. There was nothing here to steal.

"Ok Titans, spread out and search. Do not engage anyone you find, call for backup." There were no acknowledgements, no questions. Everyone had been working as a team long enough to be as much a part of a machine as the clock gears above. Everyone soundlessly did there job.

Robin started prowling along the side of the main area in the middle, slinking up and down the pistons pumping on his right side. He couldn't shake the feeling he was being watched.

'Why did it have to be a clock tower? I hate clock towers.'

For an instant, Robin thought he saw a shadow, but then the shadow created by the moving pistol eclipsed it. When it went back up, the shadow was gone. Robin moved to investigate.

'Even this new clock tower reeks of an age long past, and of manipulation. A single cog in the right place influencing helpless others.' There always was something Robin found uncomfortable about gears and machines… and nowhere was that discomfiture stronger that with clocks.

There was definitely a shadow. A man stood on the balcony, silhouetting himself against the faint backlight. "Titans, Robin. We have one man, center stage, balcony." Robin crept closer.

And most of all, clock towers remind him of…

A tall man with silvery white hair billowing from his head stood in the beam of moonlight, announcing his presence to Robin as he looked right down at the Titan. The man only had one eye, glinting in the dim light. The second eye was nothing but a scar across the right side of his face, seemingly like a bullet wound. He had combat armor encasing his entire body from his shoulders down to his ankles. Only this face and neck were exposed.

"I don't know who you are, but you're not allowed here. Why don't you come with us peacefully? We're not looking for a fight."

"Not looking for a fight, Robin? So very unlike you." The armored old man mocked in a slow, smooth voice. "So very disappointing."

Robin froze. He would never be able to forget that voice, no matter how hard he tried. "Slade!" Robin couldn't help himself from yelling out loud, his jaw dropping in shock. "Impossible!" Robin could feel the other Titans falling in behind him.

"Terra killed you!" Changeling shouted from behind him.

Slade made a show of checking out his armored body, proving that it was all there. "She did a good job of it too, the ungrateful bitch. Pity she didn't survive, or else I'd enjoy the chance to watch her die as well."

"So it that your plan then, Slade?" Robin asked, preparing a birdarang with one hand while drawing his staff with the other. He could sense the other Titans likewise preparing themselves behind him. "Something as petty as revenge?"

Slade laughed; a deep, sinister laugh promising all the torments hell could bestow. "Oh, no, Robin. Not at all. You see, I'm just a messenger for your pretty little girlfriend." With that, Slade's body exploded in flame and a strange mark appeared on his forehead. With a roar, he sent torrents of flame blazing towards the Titans.

"Titans, GO!"

...11:51 PM...

'That mark!' Raven couldn't move, couldn't even think as Slade's fire flowed rapidly towards her. 'Why is Slade wearing my father's emblem! Only servants of Trigon wear that mark. How could he possibly be… ?'

"RAVEN, MOVE!"

Her musings were interrupted by the sudden realization of three thousand degrees of demonic flame heading towards her face. Wrapping her soulself around her like a cloak, she forced the floor to become less that solid and fell into it like a man trying to stand on water just as the plasma streaked above her. She forced herself back to the surface in its wake, countering by hurling gears from the great clock at him.

Slade back flipped away from a string of emerald starbolts and Raven's hurled cog, perfectly aimed, was waiting for him. Without apparent effort, he swatted the two ton hunk of metal out of the way.

"Good god…" Cy whispered.

"Yeah!" Changeling echoed. "Since when could Slade to that?"

Robin snarled. "Se he got a few new powers. We still have to take him down."

'This is more than a few new powers, Richard…' Raven thought to herself. 'I would not go to my destiny, so this is my destiny coming to get me.'

...11:52 PM...

As much as it hurt Robin to admit it, Slade always had been his martial superior. But this… this was ridiculous. Slade was as fast as ever, but had somehow gotten far stronger. Robin used the railing on the balcony to deliver a fast kick, grabbing it with both hands and using the leverage to twist himself around the pipe and extending his foot towards Slade's face.

As expected, Slade parried it, pushing the kick to the side. Robin then used the impact of his foot against the other railing to pivot, delivering a devastating roundhouse kick to the Slade's face. Or at least that was the plan. It never got past the parrying part.

Instead of pushing the kick to the side like any sane fighter would have done, Slade caught the kick straight on in the palm of his hand, his massive strength absorbing the impact entirely. Slade proceeded to using his grip to hurl Robin against one of the walls.

As Robin flew towards the wall, he flipped so he could use his feet to help absorb the impact against the wall. As he did, he saw Cyborg swing a massive pylon at Slade only to have it burned in half on impact. Robin hit the wall, bending his knees and ankles as he hit and kicking to redirect his momentum in a less damaging direction… back to another part of the balcony from which he would have a clear run at Slade.

As Robin flew back towards the fight, Starfire and Slade pitted the energy blasts against each other, and it quickly became apparent that Starfire didn't have a chance. Right before the flame overcame Star completely; Raven pushed her out of the way and extended her shield around her body. That absorbed the fire, but did nothing for the kinetic energy of the impact. Raven went flying back against the wall, and fell out cold.

"Stay down, birthday girl. I'd hate for you to get hurt before He's ready for you." Smiling, Slade unleashed another set of twin flames at Cyborg and Changeling.

"Go down, you son of a bitch!" Robin yelled, swinging his staff at Slade as he charged. Slade dodged with a flip sideways, standing on a gear as it disappeared deeper into the clock. Slade gave one mocking salute before he vanished from sight.

Robin quickly looked around. Starfire was panting on the ground, winded. Changeling and Cyborg were still picking themselves back up from Slade's last blast. Raven was out cold. It was just him who could chase Slade.

Robin jumped into the maze of gears after Slade, leaping from cog to cog without catching site of him. He quickly stripped off his own cape… getting it caught here would be a death sentence. 'Where is he? Where is… There he is.'

Slade was slowly walking towards him across a horizontal gear. As he walked, he passes a control box and casually ripped the lever out of it, hoisting it like a sword. He assumed a ready position as Robin charged.

Slade's makeshift weapon began to glow with unholy fire as he parried Robin's first swipe, leaping to another gear and backpedaling to stay in the same relative position, Robin followed, attacking downwards with an overhead smash. Slade deflected it to the side, counter attacking at Robin's head with a stab. The boy wonder easily twisted out of the way, bringing the bo down at a forty five degree angle from the right, hoping to catch Slade in a blind spot with his missing eye.

Quicker than Robin would have believed possible, Slade pulled back his unwieldy weapon and caught the swipe with a parry trapping it against his thigh. With a quick twist of his body, he brought the improvised sword down on the staff, shattering it.

Robin stared at his destroyed weapon in horror as Slade smiles at him. "Take my word for it, Robin. You're out of your league. With a kick so fast Robin never saw it coming, he found himself out of breath and flying out of the clockworks, impacting heavily against the ground. The world went dark.

...12:00 AM...

Cyborg, horrified, looked on as Robin was tossed to the ground like a rag doll. Forcing his gaze from the sight, he looked up as Slade gazed down across the carnage he had wrought. He smiled. "IT HAS BEGUN!" He yelled, firing a burst of his fire into the clockworks on each side. With the rumble, the entire building started to come down.

Cyborg made a dash for Robin, but a massive gear fell right in front of him. Cursing, he looked for a way around it, but could find none. Then he saw another massive gear falling right on top of Robin. He shouted a warning he knew would be useless.

...12:00 AM...

Raven came to with a loud rumbling filling the clock tower as Slade was bringing the structure down. She watched as Cyborg dragged Star to her feet, pushing her towards the door. She was Changeling transforming again, dodging falling machinery as he tried to fly his way out. She couldn't help but see Slade, his eyes glinting with madness through her father's dark fire as he smashed the building to pieces. But most of all, she watched, her mouth open in horror, as a gear fell straight down onto Robin.

'Robin. Robin. Robin. Robin. Robin.'

Raven's eyes widened.

She stretched out with her power, but knew it was too late.

'You will not take him away from me, Father! I will not accept this!' She smashed her eyes shut.

"STOP!"

It was a scream of pure emotion, Raven's cloak rapidly shifting through colors, becoming white for an instant before fading. Raven poured every feeling she had ever had for Robin into that one shout, every emotion that had ever touched her. Her cloak, for an instant, shined the purest white as all of her emotions and thoughts came together into a singular thought.

With all of her might speaking with a single voice for the first time in her life, She commanded the gear, Slade, her father, and the universe in general to stop.

And the universe did.

...12:00 AM...

All sound stopped immediately, and Raven slowly dared to open her eyes. The gear was still posed in mid air, just feet away from her fallen love. Everyone else had frozen in spot as well.

'Unbelievable…'

Her eyes focused on Slade, His eyes full of murderous rage as he flooded the clock tower with fire. "How did I…"

All the sudden, Slade unfroze, and those murderous eyes focused right onto her. "You may be able to stop time, Raven. But you still can't stop me." He lashed out, faster than Raven's eye could follow, and grabbed her right wrist. Raven could feel something being burned onto it. "You can't stop any of it really. Least of all your destiny."

Slade flung her backwards, and Raven caught herself, hovering a few feet over the floor right in front of a giant upright cog. "There is no destiny," Raven muttered to herself, stealing glances at the arcane rune that had been grafted onto her skin at the wrist. "Who we are is in our actions, not in our birth."

"Your delusions are irrelevant." Slade mocked, slowly separating himself from his blasts of fire towards the walls and walking towards her through the air. "I must say, Raven, I was… surprised… when I learned of your glorious secret. It's always the quiet ones, isn't it?"

Again, moving faster than she could see, Slade rushed her. She tried to put up a shield to defend herself, but he was too fast. He grabbed both her wrists, pinning her hands against the cog behind him. She winced as she felt more scalding runes attaching awakening under her skin and come to the surface. His face was right in front of hers, his eye meeting her two. "I have a message for you, Raven."

Slade laughed. "The Sky will burn. Flesh will become Stone. The sun will set on this world, never to rise again!"

"Shut UP!" Raven shouted, interrupting the prophesy of her birth.

Slade looked down at her like a teacher looks down at an impudent pupil who didn't know her place. "What you have concealed you will become, Raven. You can't do anything to stop it."

"I can try!" She shouted, her eyes shining as she manifested her soulself, turning the cog behind her less than solid and pushing against Slade with all her might. She fell free of his grasp and sank through the cog. On the other side, she used it as a block Slade's sight of her while she teleported over to Robin, grabbing him by the shoulder. Robin awoke instantly, falling out of unconsciousness and joining Raven in the frozen time.

He looked around, and Raven could just picture those beautiful, ice blue eyes moving around under the mask. "Raven, what's going on?"

She looked at him sadly, laying a hand protectively on his cheek. "I'm sorry, this is all my fault. I promise, I'll tell you everything as soon as we're far away from here."

Slade's sinister laugh interrupted the moment. "You mean you haven't told him what kind of monster you are?"

Raven looked up to find Slade hovering about 20 feet above them, his hand glowing will the ball of fire he had cupped in it. He looked right down into her eyes. "I have a message for you, Raven. And it will be delivered."

"Time to go," she whispered to Robin and wrapped her soulself around the two of them. Then they were both gone.

...12:00 AM...

Robin was dumped unceremoniously to the floor as the teleport ended, but quickly scrambled to his feet. He looked around. There were in a church, and time was still frozen. He looked back as Raven as she slowly took physical form again, and all his questions started coming out.

"Raven, what's going on? How is Slade alive? Where did he get such power? Why is he after you? What did he mean want you to tell me? How did you stop time?"

He stared into her beautiful face as her eyes closed thoughtfully. "Please Raven, let me help you."

...12:00 AM...

There was no easy answer to any of his questions, but he deserved to know. She struggled with an answer. Finally, she simply said, "Today's my birthday."

Robin looked at her quizzically, but she held up a hand to stop him. She wasn't finished. "When I was born, the priests of Azarath looked into the future and prophesied that something would happen. Something terrible." She stopped, looking up at Robin. "Today is the day it starts, Robin. The Prophesy is coming true."

She could see him processing that. She had so much more to say, but without warning the doors of the church blew in with a blaze of fire. It swept down the aisle, striking both of the lovers even as they turned their heads towards the sound. Robin went crashing into a wall on the other side of the church, while Raven managed to partially shield herself. With out even needing to look at Robin, she knew he was past the limit of his endurance. She was alone.

"Seeking refuge from your inner demons in a church; How symbolic."

Slade walked in down his own pathway of flame, the demonic inferno parting to make way for him. He stared right now down at Raven.

"It's just you and me now, kid." He raised one burning hand to point at her.

Raven ran.

End Chapter 23
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Next Time on Teen Titans - Fragile Dreams:

- The conclusion of Raven's brush with her father

- Gold abandons Raven to her fate? Why?

Next Episode: Destiny