A/N: okay, the chapter name has like no meaning to it. Deal with it. This chappie has like no point to it, but w/e. I'll get to the juicy stuff soon, promise!

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This Prison

Chapter Five

Watching

As you can imagine, Raven slammed the book with unneeded force the instant she heard my statement of being of demon descent. She'd looked horrified, staring at her little "boyfriend" with widened eyes. That picture would have been worth more than a thousand words. She had gotten up from the floor almost immediately and strode about her room with arms moving often. They were first crossed over her chest. They then covered her stomach. They went to her shoulders. Robin did not stop her for a minute or two, as he was digesting the fact himself. Finally, he spoke.

"What are you going to do?"

"I need to think." lady Raven said. Her hands flew up to her temples as if concentrating. She didn't spare him a single glance.

"I'll go, then. Let me know if you want to talk about it." He rose from his patch on the maiden's dark carpet and made his way to the door. She gave a slight nod of response from her bed as she sat down. The boy let a sad smile run over his face as he exited the room.

The dark maiden sat on her bed for the longest while. Crickets chirped outside her curtained window. The clock read seven eighteen. She just sat there with her feminine hands clasped in her lap, staring at the window with emotional eyes. Breaths were slow and easy. I watched her well developed chest move with her breathing. She was so beautiful…'NO!' I caught myself. 'You cannot look at her that way! It is not appropriate!' But my thoughts took a while to kick in.

At seven fifty-six, the lady walked back over to my chest. She slowly opened its top and lifted my prison out.

"Malchior." She opened the book and looked into my eyes.

"Lady Raven." I returned softly.

"How are you a demon?"

"The Devil. He is a dragon, but a rather small one. He is my ancestor. Evolution grew us in size." I don't know why I told the girl. My head was not on straight- damn. I don't have a head.

"How could a human be mixed with a dragon?" She queried with an arched brow.

"Quite interesting intercourse…" She gave me a look of disgust. "Forgive me. I am not on terms to joke with you anymore. Sorry. It's because the Devil is a human-dragon crossbreed. How he became this way, I haven't the slightest idea."

She nodded, looking off to the side. Suddenly, a familiar deadpan voice filled my ears. 'What the hell am I doing?' I noticed lady Raven's lips were not moving in the slightest. I stared at her, not believing what I'd just heard. Her thoughts. Those definitely weren't mine. What was going on? How could I intercept her thoughts?

"Malchior, why did you bother apologizing?" I pushed the mystery of the intercepted thoughts from my mind. I hesitated a moment before I spoke again.

"I found it fitting. It is not every day that I seduce a young woman into loving me." I said softly.

"I-"

"Never loved me." I finished her statement for her. She looked at me with a scowl, masking all previous emotions.

"And if you ever-"

"Try to do it again, you'll burn me." I completed that one as well.

"Yes. And don't enter anyone's mind."

"Yes, lady Raven." I sat there, looking up into her gorgeous violet eyes. She stared back, and in seconds, she broke contact with a number of blinks. Her features cemented into a scowl and she lifted a hand to shut my prison. "Wait!" I said hastily. Her hand froze and recoiled. She drew it into her chest.

"What?"

"I apologize." I responded. She sent another piercing glare my way. "I…I heard one of your thoughts." I admitted. I soon regretted it and Raven slammed the cover shut.

"I won't forgive you."

'I figured as much.' I thought, inwardly sighing. I watched Raven's slim hands lock and spellbind the trunk and leave the room.

I sat and watched the "Titans" go about their lives for a time. I looked on, absentmindedly keeping my eyes on Raven the entire time. She walked about with her cape draped around her, drawing it tighter every time someone spoke to her. Ignoring the others, she prepared what looked like herbal or green tea. The dimwitted redhead attempted conversation several times, only to receive a nod or a shake of a head. She soon gave up and seated herself with the two stankballers on the couch. The two sat on the U-shaped couch, engrossed with a game on the screen.

Robin soon came in with beads of sweat glistening on his forehead. A towel was draped around his neck and a bottle was clutched in his hand. He made his way over to the sink and filled the bottle before joining Raven at the bar. She was reading yet again. I saw the boy take a glace backwards. He smirked when he saw no one looking and pushed lady Raven's book to the counter.

She looked up, a retort ready on her lips but she let it die when she saw who had interrupted her. She let a smile come to her face. Robin returned it and laid a tender kiss on her lips. He pulled back and stood up to leave. He laid a hand on her shoulder and walked off toward his room. The purple-haired goddess watched him go with a dreamy mask over her face.

I felt anger bubble inside me. Why did this-this-this…child make her so happy? She deserved better than him of all people! I had to get out of this damned book!

And so I once again set to the task of finding a spell to free myself.

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A/N: sorry it took me so long to update! I've been way to busy! I hope you like the chappie!

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