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Chapter 5

"My baby!" she screamed, and then Gar's voice could be heard, "Raven, you've been shot" before everything went black.

Everything seemed to work in slow-motion for Robin. After Kory told him about Nikki being his daughter, he remembered a blue car skidding around the corner, a beautiful pregnant woman walking, and the passengers of the blue car revealing a machine gun and began spraying bullets everywhere. The pregnant woman was shot and then he heard Kory's scream, and he heard Raina's and Nikki's. When he did run out of the building, Raina and Nikki were lying on the ground drenched in blood. He barely remembered using Kory's phone to call 911.

The next thing he knew he was at the hospital pacing till the doctor came out.

"I'm sorry, she was shot many times in the lung, the damage is lethal, we've done all we could. She won't be with us for very much longer."

"No!" Robin yelled, shaking his head. Robin ran into the ICU. His sister was lying there pale. He walked towards her and took her hands. Her eyes opened slowly.

"Robin, thank you. You've given me something to smile back at. These last few weeks have been the best weeks of my life, knowing that there was someone out there who loved me"

"No Rain, no don't leave me" Robin sobbed, tears he hadn't shed slowing down his face.

"Good-bye Robin, I'll always love you" she whispered, before she closed her eyes.

When Raven gained consciousness her usually big bump was gone. Her hand went immediately to her stomach, "My baby" she whispered. Garfield and a nurse came into view, both looking crestfallen.

"I'm sorry Mrs. Logan…"the nurse began

"What happened to my baby?" Raven screeched, her voice unfamiliar to her.

"They, they. They killed the baby, Raven" Gar stuttered.

"No" Raven said mortified, shaking her head profusely. "Not my baby, no!" she yelled out before breaking into fits of sobs. Gar rushed over to comfort his wife, but she pushed him away. "Leave me alone" she sobbed softly. Gar nodded, tears in his eyes and his heart aching at his child's demise, and his wife's rejection, before he turned on his heel and reluctantly left her.

Raven hugged one of her pillows to her chest, her whole body was numb and sore and her mind was distant. She noted that the girl in the hospital bed not too far from her was finally left alone, after all the doctors tried their best to help her. After a few moments she saw the guy from earlier, he came to the girl next door, but she died.

Kory's whole world came crashing down when she heard the gunshots. She didn't seem to remember how she got to the hospital, when the doctor came to her and said those words, "I'm sorry Miss Anders"

"No! No! Not Nikki, please not Nikki!"

"She died instantly; the bullet hit her in the head"

"NO!" Kory cried out sobbing loudly, before she fell to the ground in a distraught mess. Victor's strong hands enveloped her tiny form, and she pushed her head into his shoulder. The two friends sobbed together, both torn at the loss of the precious third. In one instant, the lives of five ordinary people were turned upside down and ripped apart.

After two hours Raven finally left her hospital bed. She was loaded into a wheelchair, and she wheeled herself down the hall, stopping in front of the nursery. Raven looked in at all the tiny little babies, and her heart pulled. Tears began forming in her eyes and flowing freely down her pale face.

Robin marched down the corridor, his body numb and his world spinning, when he saw the pregnant woman from earlier, only now she wasn't pregnant, and she was in a wheelchair. Robin viewed her for a second; she was staring into the nursery and crying. He overheard that she lost her baby, when her husband was told. He slowly walked up to her, and when she noted his presence, she quickly wiped her tears away.

"I'm sorry about your loss" he said softly.

"Yeah, my deepest sympathy for your loss as well" Raven said meekly. The two remained silent for a few moments, just looking into the nursery at the numerous babies.

"I'm about to go get some coffee, would you like some? I'm Robin by the way"

"Coffee sounds, nice. Raven" she answered with a small smile before taking his hand in a polite handshake, before he wheeled her to the café.

They didn't speak much, and the silences weren't uncomfortable. When they returned, they saw Kory and Victor.

"Hey, they have this program at the hospital; it helps people deal with their losses, without going into depression and stuff. I hear it's really good, and it's starting in twenty minutes" Victor said to Kory.

"Go, I'll join you in a second" Kory replied.

"Victor?" Raven called out

"Raven? Is that you?"

"Yeah, what are you doing here?" Raven asked shocked. Victor explained about Nikki and told Raven about the hospital program; both Raven and Robin agreed to go.

Garfield walked towards and sat outside the room where his wife went in, he desperately needed a fix. A red head sat beside him. He remembered her as the mother whose child was shot. Her eyes seemed distant, and she was shaking. He immediately knew she needed a fix as much as he.

"I'm sorry about your little girl. I lost my baby too" he said.

"I need a fix" she murmured softly.

"Come with me, I can hook you up" he said feeling pity for her. The two disappeared to a Janitor's closet where they got their fix.

When the two returned and went into the building, the class had everyone paired in five. Garfield walked to Raven, Kory walked to Victor and Robin who were standing near Raven. Victor happened to know Raven; they'd met when Raven was a call girl. The newly formed group confided in each other telling of their losses ad emotions felt towards. The group all had the same emotions, anger, hate and revenge.

"I'll hunt down those bastards, and I'll make sure then get what they deserve" Robin said angry.

"Okay they'll get what they deserve alright, if I have anything to say about it. I think that we should meet up in a few weeks" Victor said. Everyone nodded, and the group then split up.

"Who do you think those people were?" Raven asked.
After four weeks of grieving the crew regrouped.

"It could have been anybody" Robin stated truthfully before taking a drag on his cigarette. His newfound addiction helped him deal with the loss of his sister. His whole world had crumbled before his eyes. In on instant he had lost both his sister and newly discovered daughter. He looked over at the black haired woman. She seemed to be coping well. Her blank expression and monotone voice hid the broken little girl very well. Robin then looked over to Garfield Logan, her ex husband. He didn't know why they divorced, but Gar didn't seem phased. He was talking to the vivacious redhead Kory. Robin glanced over to Victor Stone, the mountain of a man stood tall, yet his eyes seemed distant, Victor then tossed his cigarette on the ground and stomped on it.

"So far we know what car they drive, what weapon they used, but we don't know the purpose. So far the police have analyzed the bullet lodged in Nikki's head and they have found a lead" Robin said.

Everyone became captivated at Robin's words.

"The only leads we have are the names Sacco and Vanzetti" Robin searched among the group. Everyone shook their heads except for Gar. He froze.
"Are the names familiar to you Gar?" he asked the smaller man. Gar nodded slowly.
The group turned around to stare at Garfield. Raven walked closer to Gar, and he shrunk back instinctively.

"How do you know them?" she asked her voice icy. Garfield seemed to shrink even more. Robin had never encountered a woman who could strike fear in the eyes of a man, let alone him. But Raven Roth's voice now made his blood turn cold.
"How do you know them Gar!" she ground out making everyone wince.
"It's a long story" he stuttered fearfully.
"Spit it out!" she shrieked getting highly impatient, and pissed off that Gar knew the people responsible for killing their baby. It would have been her first baby, but it was her second loss. The first time Raven became pregnant was in her second year of university. She was studying medicine, and after she was knocked up by her no good boyfriend her adoptive family disowned her. Raven struggled to get by without their support.

At 19, she got a job at a local pub. With the stress of having to pay humungous Harvard bills, Raven was then asked to leave the school because of her inability to pay her fees. She was then raped and beaten when walking home from her shift at the pub, and she was knocked into a coma. After she was in a coma for three months she had lost the baby. Alone, penniless but determined Raven took the world head on. She got herself four jobs just to pay off her hospital and Harvard bills.

Soon Raven then resorted to prostitution, and she became a call girl. She then met Victor, and after she gave him head, he asked her to join him and his group of successful girls. Raven declined having already fallen for Gar. She then left her mistress and became a full time exotic dancer. With a naturally generous chest she was loved by most of her clients as natural was not popular in her line of work. Raven soon after married Gar and became pregnant. Gar now stood before her gripping Kory's shirt tightly as Raven loomed over him.
"They are loaners I borrowed money from"

"WHAT! You borrowed money without consulting me?" she exploded making everybody shrink from her.
"Look Rae baby. I needed the money"
"Don't Rae baby me. How could you do that? I wasn't working so how could we have paid it back? How could you endanger all of our lives like that? I was going to have your baby Gar!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't know. I didn't think of the consequences"
That was the last straw. Normally Raven never showed her emotions, they could only work against her in an occupation she had. But Garfield made her lose her cool. Raven jumped at him and landed a powerful right hook, she had learned by one of her regular customers, who was a kick boxer. In exchange for self defense lessons, she offered her body.

He taught Raven a lot and she always would be grateful for it. It had come in handy many times. Now her defensive abilities were being used offensively.
Raven was straddled on top of Gar punching away, while Kory was screaming, before she was wretched off him by Victor. In one swift movement, her foot connected with his balls, and the large intimidating black man was down for the count. Robin was quick, and ceased the wild cat, but not before she punched him in the eye.

The punch was hard and Robin knew it was going to mark. Raven turned her attentions to Gar, hating him for being so stupid and being the cause of her losing the baby. Before she could attack Gar, Robin ceased her in a lock. When she finally calmed down she was beet red. Robin released her.

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