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Chapter 6: Calm Before the Storm

Patience is a virtue, a skill and something that most people don't have much of, yet why was one of the most skilful people in this subject finding it so hard to control? Maybe some of his non-existing patience had begun to spread to her mind. She was getting impatient as to when her husband would be coming to her rescue, not remembering that he probably had no idea as to where Slade's new hideout was, but still, small matters like that get pushed aside when you're locked up in a damp cold cell with frequent beating visits, literally beating, by the man whom you had once feared most at a stage in your life.

She would just have to persevere and wait with what little patience she had until he came to save her. What else could she do with no energy to summon up power from the lack of meditation, food, water and fresh air? 'BANG!' She shuddered slightly, wishing that the smallest amount of energy from within her would protect her from what was about to come. She heard his metal boots clanging with every step he took down the concrete hallway.

Another 'BANG' and there he was, his figure silhouetted in the doorway, the smallest amount of light escaping around his body and onto her hand. "Ready to talk yet little bird." He said, a sickening patronising tone spilling from his mouth with every word he spoke to her. It just made her want to kill him all the more, the fragment of energy still residing in her wanting to escape and break his neck. Sadly that fragment was not enough to fight back.

She turned her head up, hair falling in front of her eyes, a grimace appearing on her lips giving off the impression that some psychotic patient had possessed her body. "Fuck you." She spat out.

"As much as I would, gladly, that's not why I'm hear little bird."

That phrase rang through out her head again; little bird. Fair enough she may be petite, have the name of a bird and take on the form of a black energy raven, but did he have to make her seem like a idiotic little child?

"So why are you here Slade?" She once again spat out.

"Well there's two reasons I'm holding you here little bird." He smirked coyly as he saw the way her eyes narrowed and the effort it took her to resist from killing him with her bare hands. "Firstly, to lure your pathetic excuse of a husband here. Secondly, you're going to eventually give in and tell me where exactly this little hideout you and your 'superhero' friends resides."

"Firstly," Raven mimicked him, "Robin ain't gonna come for me as you're a bit of a twit as he doesn't know where the FUCK I am. Secondly, that will never happen, concerning me giving in and telling you where the hideout is."

"Oh really."

"Really."

"Well we'll see about that." He bent down to look her in the eye, close enough to see the tears of fear, also mixed with anger, forming in her eyes. He smirked behind his mask, brought his hand back and hit her hard across the face. She didn't call out in pain, make a whimpering sound or let her tears fall freely down her face.

She stayed still, until she heard him get up and slam the door behind him, almost like a child of about three who hasn't gotten his or her own way and is now in a stress with their parents or carer.

When he was gone, she let out a shudder and a quite sob. It wasn't like he hit her with all his strength, like something he would charge at Robin. It was that he had hit her in that same place about 10 times now, the scar from the knife on his first visit constantly re-opening while the bruises that formed and appeared after a few days never getting a chance to heal. It didn't help that she was feeling like she was completely alone and that no one would come and rescue her. It made her angry although she couldn't waste her energy on anger so focused it on her pathetic sadness. The only way she saw it, was that for her to escape, she would have to save her energy and either phase out or battle her way through the Slade-bots. With Slade's weekly visits though, there wasn't much chance of either of those strategies working, so her only other option was to hope, just hope on what ever reaming piece of it there was inside of her, that Robin would find her.

"That ISN'T good ENOUGH!" robin slammed his fists down angrily on the computer keys, frustrated by the lack of devotion the rest of the team held toward finding Raven.

"Robin, you have to calm yourself." Starfire said, her soothing voice calming him slightly. "You're scaring some of the younger ones," she gestured around at some of the newer unknown heroes who had edged towards the doorway after Robin's outburst. "We're all trying to find Raven, but in order for us to do that, we need you to calm down."

He breather out and turned towards his friend. "I know Star. It's just so hard to remain calm when I have no idea where she is or what Slade's doing to her. I don't even know if she's still-"

Starfire put a hand in front of his mouth to stop him from saying it. "She is still alive Robin. We have to believe that or there is no hope of finding her."

Robin sighed again. Cyborg laid a reassuring hand on his shoulder while Star put her hand in his; both of them letting him know that they were there for him. He smiled at them both, letting them know how grateful he was that they were there with him. "So let's get going. BB, what information do you have?" Robin said, turning to his green friend.

"Well her last signal from her communication gems came from the sewers in north Jump City. But then it must have gotten torn off because it lost signal after that."

"So let's start there. Anything else?"

"Well there were signal trails by the pier and through the south sewers before the north sewers."

"So let's send teams to those points." Starfire said, her leadership kicking in. "Beast Boy, Terra, you'll lead a team of Bumblebee and Aqualad to the piers. Cyborg and Robin, you go to the North sewers and take with you Speedy. Red X, Jinx and Gizmo, we'll go south. Report back over coms if there's any sign of Raven or Slade or any strange activity. Okay, move out."

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