Red X's POV

This is the second time I have ordered food to here, hoping she would wake up to eat with me but she doesn't she remains floating on the couch with her hands straight to her side. A weird blue looking bubble surrounds her. I can't help but feel useless. Is she healing herself? Is this what happens when a demon dies? I have too many questions running through my frantic head that I cannot find the answer to. I slump on the couch placing the extra food I won't eat in the middle of the coffee table. I eat silently and clean up. Before I throw my trash away I take the towel off of her wounds to check on them, being in the middle of her bubble feels cold but in a soothing way. Her gunshot wounds do look a little better, and her breathing is beyond better. I take my hands out of the bubble and look at her face, still bruised and the cut on her forehead hasn't healed at all. I cleaned up the blood the other day, so all traces of blood are gone from her face. She looks peaceful, she also looks younger when she isn't scowling at me, or rolling her eyes at someone's comment. I pull myself away from her and throw my trash in the trashcan. I look back at her feeling more anger than anything coming forward. I need to go do a job or something to get through this heavy anger I feel deep in my core.

I race upstairs grabbing my suit. I quickly change and pull my mask over my face. I take a moment to look over everything, make sure my weapons are where they are supposed to be, make sure I have enough Xinotheium to get me to and from and any more teleporting I may need. I do but I know I will need more soon. I will have to worry about that another time though. I could always go back to the jewelry store I hit since I already know the lay out. I quickly teleport myself there, well on top of the roof anyway and slip through the air vent just as I did last time. Places here really don't ever learn. Dropping in I look around seeing the shelves of jewels that they have yet to sell. I break a glass case no doubt setting off of the silent alarm that alerts the Titans. I grab a handful of rings and bracelets shoving them into the black duffel. I hear footsteps clattering behind me and I smirk under my mask.

"Freeze X" Robin commands, I slowly turn around and look at them. Cyborg has his arm outstretched to me a blue light at the end.

"Does that ever actually work with us people I got to know" I reply he scowls and arms himself with his bo staff, I throw an X at him letting him dodge it and roll, Beastboy turns into a gorilla, as always and tries to swat me from where I stand, I jump up and land on the corner of the case next to the one I broke. I throw another X at him the same as always designed to keep him and his transformations in. I quickly throw another one sending Starfire into a pillar, it wrapped out the pillar and she grunts.

"Cyborg shoot him" Robin yells out Cyborg's face twists into disgust

"Don't tell me what the fuck to do" He spits Robin's face looks more shocked than hurt. Cyborg still sends off a shot at me, I barely miss it, it almost hit me square in the chest. I throw another X but it misses him. Shit.

Robin gets to his feet and jumps in front of a running Cyborg but he pushes Robin out of the way and charges at me himself. This close there is no way I could miss him. I throw another X a larger one this time and watch and it covers him completely.

"I told you to shoot him!" Robin says, almost like an 'I told you so' I wait for Robin to attack me but he doesn't He looks to Cyborg instead scowling.

"Let me out of these damn restraints and I will shoot someone" Cyborg grounds out, it's almost awkward just standing here while they argue. I take a couple steps back to walk out of room when Robin turns to me his bo staff extended.

"I am not done with you" He grinds out. He turns back to Cyborg "You can't keep blaming me for this, if she didn't want to die she could have fought but she didn't"

A blinding red anger seethes through me as I realize what he's talking about. Cyborg is seething too struggling hard against his X. I wonder if I let him out if he will help me beat the fuck out of this bird brain. I don't find out, I don't even notice I am throwing the punch until my fist connect with his head. He turns to me shocked almost but doesn't have time to react as I kick him in the chest hard. I am so blinded by the fury of his words I don't even see anything else happen until I stop and look at him. His face is bloody and bruised and his eye is swollen almost shut. I can still see him scowling. I don't anything just take a step back and look around. Cyborg isn't even looking a Robin meanwhile a single tear falls down Stars face.

"You're a fucking Dick" I say, I press my middle button and teleport myself back to the safe house. I rip off my mask and cover my face with my hand.

"What. A. fucking. Asshole" Is all I can say and I do mean Robin how dare he think that Raven just let herself get killed. How did she even date him?


[At the Tower]

Robin leans on a strong and upset Starfire as they enter the Comm room. He doesn't really need the special treatment but he enjoys having her this close. He straightens up when he see's the dark looming character looking out of their Comm room window. The Bat turns around at him looking to each of them.

"I need to know what happened." He says in his deep grainy voice. Robin nods and looks to Starfire.

"Can you bring me a packet of frozen peas in my Office please?" He asks she nods and makes her way to the freezer as Robin and Batman walk into the office. Beastboy turns into a dog and gets onto the couch cuddling up next to the plush egg for the fourth time today. Cyborg sits next to him petting his back comfortingly as the green dog whimpers.

"What do you mean what happened?" Robin asks sitting down carefully at in his office chair. His face is screaming at him pain. What the hell is wrong with Red X? He never hits anyone else when he gets them by themselves.

"You want to tell me who Conner Mendez 'Killed' He was just booked for murder and I have his personal belongings" Batman says, Robin looks down his lap as Starfire walks in with a bag of Frozen peas. She shoves it in his hand and turns around. He presses them against his left eye carefully.

"He uhh...He killed Raven." Robin forces out. Batman stops in his tracks looking to Robin trying to read his expression.

"Where is her body then?" He asks Robin shrugs

"We don't know...we were there though there was a lot of blood and we don't know who wrote that on his shirt either maybe he did as a brag but we also don't know who beat the shit out of him because his injuries are not consistent with Raven's fighting and she wasn't there" Robin explains

"All of the blood was hers?" Batman asks Robin nods grimly

"He shot her, twice. He has bruised knuckles and other injuries that say he was beating someone to so we think he shot her dragged her behind the concession stand and did whatever else to her. " Robin says almost shrugging it off.

"I'm sorry" Batman says Robin shrugs

" She could have fought him off if she wanted. She was powerful. I doubt she put up much of a fight" Robin spits Batman presses his lips together and tosses him a bronze medallion.

"What's this?" Robin asks turning it over in his hands.

"This, Dick, was found in Conner's Pocket. I have done research on it, it is meant to stop magical powers, such as Raven's. So if it didn't stop her powers completely it dampened them. She couldn't have fought as hard as she normally would. You didn't have all the facts Dick and you have already written her off as wanting to die or wanting to attacked. You did the same thing with Barbra." Batman explains glaring daggers at Robin.

"You know that isn't the same thing. Raven has powers" Robin defends.

"She is still a person. She is a woman. Men sometimes like to think they are entitled to Woman and their bodies and sometimes Woman freeze trying to stop it because they are scared. Now we will ask Conner if he killed her. We will ask if she fought back. So that maybe you can stop blaming her for things she is not responsible for. You need to grow up Dick. Raven deserved better than you" Batman lectures. Robin scoffs

"You don't even know Raven!" He protests but Batman holds up a hand to stop him from speaking, he does so.

"I spoke to her, you hurt her in ways I never thought you would. Alfred and I are disappointed in you. You know how I knew you wouldn't make a good leader? Because you can't grow up and stop blaming people and you can't think that you were wrong. She deserved better, she didn't deserve die and she doesn't deserve for you to now claim she wanted anything that happened to her to do you understand me?" Batman growls, he has dealt enough in his line of work of women being hurt and killed and the men in their lives blaming them for it. It makes him sick, now seeing one of those men be his own son, now that pisses him off more than anyone could imagine.

"You're right she doesn't deserve that" Robin admits

"Let's go" Batman demands, Robin doesn't argue, just stands up and follows him out of the door he leaves the peas on the counter and leaves with Batman down to the police station. The whole ride there all he can think about is how hurt and guilty he feels at the moment. As much as he believed Raven could have fought off anyone it doesn't mean she isn't impossible to overcome. They pull up and Robin feels insecure walking in with his face bruised up. He doesn't show his uneasiness as they walk into the interrogation room. Batman must have already set this up before he went to get Robin. They take a seat across from the man, his jaw is now wired shut and he has a huge bruise on the side of his head.

"Here is what we are going to do, I will ask you a yes or no question and you will nod or shake your head no the question. If you don't or if I can tell you are lying I will rebreak your jaw and rip it off of your face" Batman grinds. Robin hasn't seen Batman get this violent or even make violent threats towards anyone. Conner nods and glares daggers at the duo. Batman nudges Robin to ask the first question, Robin sets the medallion on the table to let Conner see it.

"Did you get this to de-power Raven?" He asks Conner's lips twist into a smirk and he nods. Robin feels his heart sink slightly.

"Did you shoot her?" Batman asks Conner nods again this time putting up his handcuffed wrists in the air, holding up two fingers. "Twice. I see."

"Did you beat her?" Robin asks Batman looks over to him hearing the small waver in his voice only a father could spot. Conner nods his smirk widening into a smile. He is enjoying mentally reliving what he did to the girl. He wishes he had more time alone with her, that the stupid fuck with the Skull mask didn't interrupt. He wanted to at least finish. Let her wake up that way.

"Did the medallion work?" Batman asks Conner shrugs and moves his hand in a "so-so" kind of way. Batman nods," So did she still have her powers? Did she use them on you?"

He nods again but also does that same wavering hand movement. Oh how he wishes he could tell these masked fuckers what he wanted to do to her. No one ruins his buisness and walks away from it, the fact that it was the witch bitch just made everything better.

"Did you kill her?" Robin asks, Conner smiles and nods again. He knows no one can survive losing that much blood. He holds up his hands and asks for a pen and paper, Batman pulls some out from what seemed like no where and slides it over to him. He scribbles down something and hands it over to them to see them squirm. Robin grabs the note first.

Phone camera roll

He furrows his brows in confusion but stands up and exits the room heading to the lead detective on the case he taps his shoulders and awaits for him to turn around.

"Did Conner Mendez have a phone in his personal belongings?" He asks

"Yes, but it's locked and he won't give me the passcode. Do you think you will have better luck?" He asks grabbing an iphone in a plastic baggy over to Robin.

"I think he wants us to see something" Robin says heading back to the room. He grabs the phone out of the plastic evidence bag and opens the password screen. He holds it up to Conner and waits as Conner unlocks it, he slides through finding the Camera roll and suck in a breath as he scrolls through pictures of Raven's body on the sand. Bruises covering her neck and face. Her eyebrow cut open and blood covering the side. A large pool of blood underneath her. He shakily exhales and gives the Phone to Batman as he tries to gather his emotions. He leaps over the table and grabs Conner's collar of his orange jumpsuit.

"What else did you do to her?" He grinds Batman gets up and pulls him off of the man. He takes the phone with him and hands it back unlocked to the lead detective. They exit the building.

Robin lets out a pain filled yell as he kicks the side of the wall. Batman watches as he takes his frustration out on the defenseless wall and sits back. He knew Robin needed to hear the worst of it, he needed Robin to understand that this isn't on Raven. Robin stops and slumps onto the ground burying in face in his gloves.

"Is this my fault?" He asks Batman doesn't say anything. "I know I let her go off on her own...and we would have found her in time to help her but I thought she could take care of herself and that she wouldn't need our help. I left her alone with that guy"

"I am not going to say you didn't help him with her death. Because you did. I want you to change your views so that it never happens again. To anyone. I'm sorry about Raven" Batman says, Robin groans and slams his fist against the concrete.

"Do you think she was scared?" Robin asks

"Don't think about that" Batman replies

"I have to! She had to have been scared...she couldn't use her powers. Do you think she was waiting for us to show up? We just never did. Her last moments she was scared and alone and it is all my fault" Robin breaks down into his gloves more angry than sad. Angry at himself, angry he didn't see how wrong he was. His heart has sunk into his stomach and he has a rock in his throat, one he wishes would stop his breathing so he could tell Raven how sorry he is.

"Robin, did you get the information you needed?" Batman asks Robin shrugs his shoulders letting his hands fall from his face to look at his mentor.

"I want to know if he...she was dressed in the photo. Maybe he didn't" Robin says Batman nods

"Without a body we can't be sure what he did and didn't do" Batman says, Robin knows this but it doesn't stop him from hoping that her last moments were not filled with what he thinks it was. Batman let's Robin go through his breakdown for another ten minutes before getting him the car and dropping him off at the Tower. Robin enters the building shuffling his way sadly to the Comm room where Beastboy is asleep in dog form surrounded by the Egg plush he got for her. Cyborg is no longer next to him like he was when they left. Instead he is on the breakfast bar with a bottle of Jack sitting next to him. His fingers peeling back the label on it. Robin sits next to him and Cyborg scoffs.

"Get the fuck out of here man" Cyborg mutters.

"You were right...this is my fault." Robin says, Cyborg nods and takes a swig of the drink.

"I already knew that. How you didn't is beyond me. You deserved that ass kicking from Red X" he says shaking his head.

"Are you ever going to forgive me?" Robin asks, he doesn't know why he did. The feeling of everyone in his tower mad at him and blaming him for the death of Raven was hard enough to deal with without the new overwhelming feeling of guilt he has now.

"Probably not dude. I just got to know, did you ever once think that you were wrong? When you cheated on her? When you treated her like crap? When you blamed her for being attacked by those guy? Or even when she was killed. Did you ever sit there and think 'Man maybe I should stop being such an asshole'" Cyborg asks taking another swig.

"I felt bad when I cheated. Obviously I was mad and sad when we found out she died but...I never thought that I could have been somewhat the reason" Robin answers, Cyborg stands up and looks at him his breath thick with alcohol.

"You were not somewhat the reason Robin, You were the Reason. You told her to leave, so she did. Then when we all wanted to find her you told us not to and make sure we got everyone out safe. We did that. Now she's gone and you want me to tell you everything is not your fault or that I don't heavily blame you? You got my little sister killed. You know Starfire Saw Red X there...yeah and she thought he was the one firing shots until she had eyes on him when the second shot went off. You would know if you were trying to make sure your team is okay. We aren't! Beastboy can't seem to part with that god damn egg, Starfire barely comes out of her room an I? I can't even fucking think without hurting." Cyborg goes off, he isn't yelling but he's angry. He throws the bottle of Jack at the wall and walks away heaving, trying not to punch the fuck out of his leader.

"Cyborg I am going to make this right...to all of you" Robin calls after him, Cyborg flips off as he walks away

"You can't" He calls back.


[Back with red x]

I don't feel bad for beating up Robin. I don't remember most of it which meant the pit won against my will. I don't regret it, it was the only way I could even get at him for saying something to mean about Raven, not that I am surprised. He basically told Barbra she was being dramatic when she broke down about what happened to her. If only I broke his jaw too. By the looks of it Cyborg wants to. I have never seen that team be this out of focus and out of sync. It has never been as easy to take them all out as it was this time. I spend most of the night staring up at the ceiling, keeping an ear out in case Raven wakes up and I don't hear her. Finally I give up on sleep and walk down the stairs to see her still peaceful in her blue bubble. I walk closer to her looking for her gunshot wounds, they are now closed and the only trace of them being a red mark. I look at her head and see that her healing process has moved to that, it is no almost completely healed. Hopefully that means she will be waking up soon. I move the recliner chair to face the couch and lay down it in, setting it back all the way. I feel more comfortable being able to see her. I spend more time looking up at the ceiling and then back at her floating form. There is still a ball of anger sitting in the pit of my stomach every time my mind flashes back to seeing Conner fucking her. Her legs limply on each side of him.

I don't know when sleep finally took me over but does, despite being so close to Raven I still have the nightmares making sleeping peacefully not an option. I wake up numerous times during my fitful sleep, looking over to see Raven still peaceful in her bubble, it makes me wonder how she heals, inside out? Healing the Internal wounds before moving on to the top? Does she always self heal or does it take time for her to do that? So many questions that I will have to wait to have answered. Hopefully soon. Hopefully she wakes up.