Giving Yourself

A Teen Titans Fan Fiction by Jacob McDonald

Standard Disclaimers Apply. I don't own Teen Titans.

Chapter Two

"… three!" Cyborg shouted, and kicked the door to the heroin den clean off it's hinges. He rushed in, and Raven took to the air behind him, gliding forward and surveying the large main room they'd just burst into.

Only one young man and a young woman were there, sitting on the couch off to the side. The man was looking at them with wide eyes, half way sitting up. The girl's head lolled back, and her eyes darted about wildly. A needle was still stuck in her arm.

"Shit…" the man said, and staggered to his feet, "What the hell do you want?"

"We're looking for Roy Harper." Cyborg walked over to him and held him steady with one hand as the man wavered a little, "He organized this party. We need to find him right now."

"Roy?"

"Yeah, Roy."

"He's in the back."

"I'll go." Raven glanced at the young woman on the couch, "See if she's still alive."

Cyborg sighed and walked over to the girl as Raven floated to the door that led to the next room in the house. Without knocking, she pushed it open and stepped inside.

Instantly she was over come with the smell of sex and lubricant. Seven naked women writhed about the pillow covered floor, pleasuring each other and the four men that were there with them. Disgusted, Raven took a step back.

A quick glance around and she spotted Roy's red hair. She flew up over the orgy and to the other side of the room. Landing, she covered her mouth to keep from vomiting. A naked girl of no more than seventeen was bobbing her head up and down in his lap, sucking like a lamprey.

Roy looked helpless. He was moaning, wincing when the girl's teeth hit a sensitive spot, and gagging on his own spittle as he tried to yank a needle out of his arm. His fingers didn't seem to be working.

The girl pulled back for a moment and giggled, "Tasty, Harper… you want me to show you what my pussy feels like?"

"Hrkkalllthhhh…" Roy replied and his eyes rolled back in his head.

The girl giggled again, then latched her mouth back down in his lap.

Raven's disgust reached a critical point, and she snapped. A quick snap kick with her right foot sent the sex crazed drug addict sprawling across the floor with a spray of blood from her nose. The girl moaned but didn't get up.

"Damn you, Roy." Raven muttered and bent down. After zipping him up and taking the needle from his arm, she quickly hoisted him off the floor and over her shoulders. She thanked Robin silently for making her do all that weight training for the past five years.

Floating out of the orgy room (the sex continued, despite her interference) Raven landed once again in the main room out front. Cyborg had sedated the young man, and was currently working on reviving the girl. "How is she?"

"Alive." Cy stood up, "She'll live, but there's no telling how much damage she's done to her body. I'd be surprised if she makes it another three years."

"Call EMTs and Police. Let's get out of here."

Rushing back out into the rain, Raven wondered at where to go while Cy put the calls in.

Roy was blubbering incoherently in the back seat while Raven sat with him, using her empathic healing powers to try to clear his mind. She was getting dizzy though from the pain it was causing her.

Looking out the window of the T-Car, she knew suddenly that Roy wasn't going to recover in just a few days, or even a few weeks. He'd need constant care and supervision. Titans East couldn't provide that with all the work they had to do, and there was no way she was sending one of her friends into a State hospital where they'd just pump him full of more drugs and expect him to get better.

"Victor, stop the car."

Cyborg slammed on the breaks as they came to an intersection, and turned to look at her, "What is it? Is he going to make it? Should I head to a hospital?"
Raven took a deep breath, "Roy's suffering from a rather severe overdose of heroin. I've taken him through the worst of it with my abilities, but he's not going to recover any time soon. He needs my help, Victor, and I'm going to give it to him."

"What are you saying?" Cyborg looked frightened.

"Take us to the nearest safe house here in Steel. I'll care for him there."

"But the Tower-"

"The Tower has the other Titans in it. He needs to rest, and there's no rest to be had at the base of operations for the largest Super Hero team on the East Coast."

Cy sighed, "Okay, Rae. It's not far."

The safe house was a third floor apartment in the low rent section of town. The building actually belonged to the Titans through a dummy corporation, and as such it was fairly well furnished, and had running water and working electricity all year round.

"It'll have to do." Raven said as Cyborg followed her up the steps. He cradled Roy in his arms like a child, and the red haired archer moaned in a fitful sleep. As Raven came to the door, she pulled out her T-Comp and entered a code into it. The electronic lock on the door of the apartment clicked open, and she tucked the communication device away.

Opening the door and walking in, Raven looked around, "Just put him on the couch for now, Victor." and she walked into the kitchen. A quick search around and she found what she was looking for.

"Sweet, life giving tea…" she muttered and looked over her selection. Just a generic green of some sort and a large box of Earl Gray, but she'd make do. Taking out some of the back tea, she set a kettle to boil.

Cyborg stepped into the kitchen area and frowned down at her, "I need to contact Karen and tell her where you are."

"When the lock disengaged it sent out a beacon to the entire network. They know where we are."

"I know that. I just want to let her know not to visit very often."

"Tell her not to visit at all." Raven turned her violet gaze on him, and he was suddenly angered by the emotionless void he saw there.

"Damn it, Raven! Why are you insisting on doing this alone?"

"Because Roy deserves it!" Raven hissed back, floating up in his face, "He's a good man, Victor, and he's our friend! He deserves to at least make it through this with his dignity intact."

"And having you care for him like a child for however long this is going to take is going to preserve his dignity?"
"It's better than having a parade of his closest friends march through looking at him with pity and disgust." Raven narrowed her eyes, "You can tell Karen that he's sick, and that only I can take care of him. Tell all the Titans to stay away."

"Raven, you can't do this."

"I can, and I will." Raven pointed towards the door, "Out, Victor. I'll call you when it's okay to come back."

"Raven-"

"Out." Her tone was final, and she turned back to her boiling water without another glance at him.

Cyborg sighed, then walked to the door, turning the lock back on as he left.

Sunlight was seeping in through the blinds when Roy woke up. The first thing he noticed was that he hurt all over, and that he had a splitting headache. He sat up on the couch he was lying on and looked around.

He didn't recognize the apartment he was in, but that didn't bother him. The morning after a several day binge was always like this. It was just part of the payment plan for having a good time.

Slowly, he tried to get to his feet. A gentle hand pushed him back down to the couch and he found he was too weak to resist even the slight shove.

Looking up, he saw Raven. She was wearing jeans and a black t-shirt, and her feet were bare. She frowned at him, her violet hair falling down from behind her ear on one side of her face, "How are you feeling?"

"Raven?" he was confused, "What's going on?"

"I dragged you out of your little party last night, and brought you to a safe house."

"What?" he paled.

"Cat's out of the bag, Roy. We busted your dealer, got your name, and dragged your dumb ass here."

"Who's we?"

"Myself and Victor. He's gone now, so don't think you'll be able to get any sympathy from him. You have a long, hard road ahead of you Roy. I'm just here to make sure you walk it."

"Wait… what are you saying?" he tried to sit up again, but stopped when she pinned him with a glare.

"I'm saying that you're going to kick this habit, and you're going to do it cold turkey." Raven floated over to the door and stood in front of it with crossed arms, "I'm not letting you leave here until you're better."