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A/N: You guys just know when to ask your questions … I mean, just when I'm getting to the point of something, the question is asked and is answered in the next chapter. What? Are you guys psychic or somthin' (eyes bug out, slowly backs away) knock it off, you're starting to freak me out.

Nah, I'm kidding, I love you all so much, and your questions are good ones, keep the reviews coming and I'll keep the chapters coming. Chapter 6 for your reading pleasure, enjoy.

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Abstract Point of View

"Robin!" she screamed from the house, but the young racer glared at the ground gritting his teeth, fisting his hands where his short nails were creating crescent moons in his palms. Walking down the stairs and down the street to the bus stop, his other called out to him again, "Robin Richards! Turn and look at me!"

Scowling, Robin called over his shoulder, "I'm late! Like you say mother school's important so, see ya."

"Robin!" she sounded appalled, but quickly turned to anger once again, "Robin!"

She continued to scream his name till he couldn't hear her any more. Until his hearing went numb, he couldn't do it, he couldn't listen to her any more. He loved her like the mother she was to him, but he just couldn't follow her every step anymore. The path she wanted for him to go down was an impossible one, Slade … Slade Wilson. That guy … his name … it was so … so … he couldn't even find the words for him, all Robin knew was he hated the man.

He hated him for playing his mother, but no matter he tried to get her to see Slade wasn't all she thought he was. Robin growled and felt so much like hitting something, more in particularly a certain someone instead. The stop came into view then there he found his girlfriend – his only calm in his raging storm of life – Kori Ander "Star". As if a silent call was heard from him, she looked up and her bright smile got him to smile … a feat he thought was impossible to accomplish. But she did it.

"Hey you," she greeted, standing up and walking the rest of the way to him, she wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly, "you okay?"

Robin returned the gesture with no hesitation and pulled away, kissing her chastely then leading them to the stop and sat n the bench. Her next to him resting her head on his shoulder he sighed and sat back, "I don't know anymore Star … she's not even listening to me anymore."

"Well," she started slowly then asked, "have you tried telling her calmly?"

"Yeah, Star," Robin nodded, "I tried everything, but it's like she doesn't want to believe me! Damn, can't she see that Slade's the bad-guy here not me! I mean, shit, she makes it out like I'm the one that's the bad-guy!"

Star sat up and cupped his chin in her hands having him look into her calming green eyes, drowning in his dark blue cerulean eyes she sighed, "You're not the bad guy Robin, never where, never are now alright? Your mother just needs a little more … persuading."

Robin snorted and pulled away from her, "Then you try, cause I'm tired of it all already."

"Oh Robin," Star frowned in worry and closed her eyes, once again resting her head on his shoulder, Robin let her and sat back again, waiting for the bus to come in the chill of the morning. Both the students sat in thoughtful and respectful silence.

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"You gonna take care of your self?" Rorek asked with much concern as Raven jumped off his cycle, turning to flash him a small smile she nodded.

"I'll be okay, and yes I do have the cell phone in case if anything should happen."

"How about the back up?"

Raven sighed and nodded again, "Got it, now I gotta go."

Rorek sighed and looked over the school with a scowl, "Just make sure you avoid closed spaces, and if possible, avoid that kid from yesterday. He's only going to get in the way."

"Right, you picking me up?"

"I wish, Malchior this time … family business …"

There was an uneasy silence that suddenly befell on the two. Family business. It explained enough and Raven sighed closing her eyes and shaking her head she looked back up at Rorek and frowned. Chuckling he ran a finger under her chin and winked down into her violet eyes he smirked, "Come on, don't be so down. It's just a meeting right?"

Raven sighed and nodded her head looking off to her school, and then back up at Rorek he revved his cycle then tore out the school's driveway. Seeing him go, Raven sighed and turned to enter the school, placing her passive mask on it was an incredible feat to go from worry and paranoia, straight to serious all-business façade.

Into the school, she waltzed ignoring the slight pain on her side from the bruises she had received from Kitten, Raven held her breath and gritted her teeth, heading in the familiar direction of her own little spot in the school. Second thought stopped her and she scowled when she realized being alone was not such a good idea. Taking a turn towards G building where Robin's gang hung around.

Raven sucked up her pride and forced her body to move, God I hope this doesn't look out of place. Looking down at her own outfit that was a black short mini skirt – all her other pants had bloodstains on it and were torn, she had to take it into the wash. So saying that this was the worse day of her life was an understatement. She HATED skirts, not very modest in the mists of a battle, however easy to move in, she still hated the damned things.

So to make up for the lack of cover for her legs was long thigh-high black socks showing off the black steel-toed boots that strapped up to her knees and were about three inches high. Her top wasn't exactly show and tell, but another black tight tang top, however with a net blouse underneath, her hair was clipped up and dangling from the top as her black chocker wrapped around her neck with lavender broken heart chained in the front.

Raven bit down on her lower lip and entered, spotting not Robin or Star telling her that they were still on their way to school. However spotting their other friends. Roy Harper, Garth O'Reilly, and Wally West. Roy Harper, Raven knew him to be a pro at skateboarding and wondered faintly if he was at the skate park yesterday when she was in trouble. Orange short cut hair and shimmering green eyes, he was a regular playboy.

Garth O'Reily, if she remembered correctly he was in some swimming team and the champion of champions – in the water that is, she didn't know. Sports weren't something she was into. Though she couldn't ignore the fact that he was a looker, with his long silky back hair pulled back in a neat ponytail, but not as long as Rorek's, the fact that he was a sport guy was evident enough in his well trimmed body.

Now Wally West, she knew him well, hell Jinx wouldn't shut up about him, the all star cross country runner and cocky as all hell. His red hair and bright blue eyes told Raven that he would be someone that could charm and get whatever he wanted. However, none of these guys she could stand to be with, Raven sighed and decided to go with it anyway feeling everyone glaring at her presents. She scoffed and ignored them all.

Silently, so much so in fact that neither of the boys heard her or even noticed her presents even as she got close enough to hear their conversation. Wally snorted, "Man that's nothing, Mrs. Gardner's flunking me and the parentals are so gonna' be on my ass for it."

Garth chuckled, "Sucks to be your dumb ass."

"Oh fuck you water-boy," Wally glared, "it's not my fault her class is so damn boring."

"Well than that's your problem man," Roy snickered, "you think everything's boring. You sleep in every class."

Blue eyes rolled and Wally scoffed, "Can you blame me? World History is a snore fest."

Raven raised a brow, He's failing World History? How pathetic … she thought with a snort, in slight disbelief that World History could possibly be failed. To her it was the easiest class in school, just writing, reading, research and such, she just had to let herself be known, "How can you be failing World History?"

All three guys turned to see the gothic Raven standing behind them, hand on hip with a perplexed look; Wally scanned her and raised a brow of his own. During the times he'd seen her with Jinx he'd always see her in pants, but now she's in a skirt? That was more shocking than her actual presences, looking back up at her violet eyes that were always so hidden from the world. Wally shrugged nonchalantly and tisked, looking away to the side he sighed, "What are you doing here?"

"Looking for Robin, but seeing that he's not here, well … is World History that hard for you?" Raven was relentless in her curiosity about his failing class and Wally growled.

"No," he pouted, "its just useless, I mean what the hell's the deal with Alexander the Great any way? What does that got anything to do with now? It's history! And the past belongs where it belongs, right in the past."

"So no one would have to make the same mistakes," Raven philosophized, crossing her arms under her chest she looked to Roy and Garth, "he's your friend isn't he? Shouldn't you be helping him?"

Roy snorted a laugh, "That's a joke right? World History is just as much hated by me than with Wally, I just do it cause I got no choice."

Garth chuckled, smirking, "Even if I had the time, Wally has the attention span of a rat, getting him to sit and listen to me teach is impossible."

Raven jerked her head back, fringing shock she looked back at Wally noticing him looking down at her with a strange curios expression she sneered, "Well, looks like you are SOL."

He shrugged and ran a hand through his red hair, "Yeah, but hey, not like you care right? What do you want with Robin any way?"

"None of your business, I just wanted to talk to him about something is all," Raven dismissively waved her hand and looked around, now getting uncomfortable with being around such a large crowd of people that didn't like her kind. The three guys could feel her uneasiness and started to get nervous themselves, it's been ages since they last spoke to Raven and speaking to her now was … awkward. No one knew what she was or what made her tick. Everything she did was so secretive and having a conversation with her was … strange.

Especially when she kept most things to herself.

Even though the guys respected that from her, they sometimes wished she'd just laugh every now and then, cause it would make their air much easier to breath. Raven sighed and looked off beyond them to notice the people coming in and out of G building. Noticing some of them walking on by, she blinked and narrowed her eyes when she saw a certain someone heading into the area. Glaring she gritted her teeth thinking to herself, Damn, I should have known he'd come here, looking up to the three she waved, "Uh, well, it's been nice meeting you guys again. Um, see ya."

Quickly she turned heel and took off to the opposite exit, hoping that she wouldn't be seen by her dismay, Garth, Roy, and Wally looked at each other in wonder. What was her rush? Wanting to know Wally called out to her, "Raven!"

Garth and Roy followed as Wally jogged up to the rushing girl, Raven stilled and cursed Wally for calling out to her, cause now no doubt Angel knew she was around. Turning to face the three she caught a glimpse of Angel looking over in their direction and in one fatal lock. Amber hazel and violet eyes meet, Raven cursed inwardly and looked up to Wally giving him a defeated look, "What is it?"

"What's the rush the bell don't ring for another 10 minuets or so," he stated looking at his watch.

Raven found her hand reaching up to her forehead as she counted down the seconds it would take for Angel to reach their location she sighed, "Nothing, I just remembered I have to go and ask for Rorek and Malchior's homework and class work for the time they've been out. Gotta' go, talk to you guys some other time. Okay?"

Wally mockingly pouted, "Aw, and we were just getting to know each other, whatever girl, see ya."

"Yeah," Raven turned and left raising an arm to wave a, "Good-bye."

Out the exit she went leaving the three to look at each other on wonder and shrugged the whole thing off, meanwhile behind them X slinked his way passed and followed Raven to where it was she was going. Out the passageway heading to J building, X put little effort into his jog easily catching up to her brisk walk, "Hey, Rae, slow down. Geez you always walk this fast?"

"Only when stalkers won't leave me alone," she answered sarcastically and abruptly stopped spinning around, X who was directly behind her bumped into her causing Raven to stumble back a few steps. Growling she shoved him away and fixed her skirt, "watch it, and my name is not "Rae" it's Raven. Learn it."

"Sorry," X absent-mindedly apologized, "and I heard Jinx calling you "Rae" not to long ago."

"Doesn't mean it gives you the right to," Raven glared and shifted the weight of her back-pack till it was resting comfortable on her shoulder she looked around noticing that they were in the wide open where everyone could see them. She sneered and looked up to X, "So what do you want?"

Suddenly his confidant posture turned uneasy and nervous, almost – dare she think it – shy? Rubbing the back of his neck he looked away to the side and closed his eyes mumbling, "Just thought I'd check on you."

Raven blinked, Check on – what? She thought in disbelief, not sure she heard right she asked, "What?"

He huffed and gave her a pensive look, "I said, just thought I'd check on you, whatever it is you and Rorek left for. It was probably part of your "schedule" and … yeah."

He … he was worried about me? That was the only conclusion she came up with, and to be honest she didn't believe it. A guy that she barely knew, a guy that was only in one of her classes, a guy who was Jinx's older cousin and one of the top street racers in Diamond Cut Boulevard was worried about her. Unbelievable, un-freakin-believable, where did he even get the idea that her life was something he should worry about? He didn't even know her, he just suddenly landed into her affairs by an accidental rescue and he already thought he could be in her life?

Raven shook her head and turned around, not walking away, but just facing her back to him. Putting a hand on her hip and running another through her hair, Raven bit down on her lower lip and growled, "Well, as you can see Angel, I'm fine. I told you I don't need your help; I don't need you to look out for me. I'm just fine."

"Maybe," he said still looking away, "maybe not. With you Raven, sometimes I just can't take your word for it."

Why this little … Raven scoffed and slowly turned back around to glare heatedly at him, getting tired of him getting in her way, "Are you suggesting that I'm a liar?"

X snorted and gritted his teeth, officially getting annoyed. Which was an amazing feat for him to get annoyed, usually it's always him doing the annoying, but Raven? She was unbelievable! "No I'm not suggesting that you're a liar, far from it, what I'm trying to get at here is that – fuck it. You're not gonna' listen anyway. Okay, you're fine, that's good. I'm cool, even better. Moving on."

What is his deal? Why is he coming up to ask me stupid questions and actings all … strange … what does he want? Raven narrowed suspicious eyes on him and leaned away, scanning his person trying to get a feel of what he was thinking or trying to get at. However, slightly side tracked at his lean visibly built body. She inwardly shook her head from it and took notice of his shot cut poofy hair was a bit flat and messier than normal, he looked like he hadn't got a wink of sleep and was about to fall over any minute. Fatigue, that's what he looked like, and Raven found herself getting … worried? Worried? Over his health? Oh come on Raven, if he's dieing wouldn't that be a good thing for you? He'd be out of your hair.

Somehow, for some strange reason, that thought just got Raven to worry even more about X, so she spoke in codes, "Well then, if that's all. I'm going, I get the feeling I'm gonna' fall asleep in class today."

He chuckled and sniffed, answering gruffly, "Yeah, I know what you mean. I didn't eat or sleep all night and in the morning, I forgot to bring my ID so I can't have lunch. Heh, looks like I'm starving for the day."

So … I was right then, Raven blinked and shrugged, "Sucks to be you," she turned and continued her walk into J building with X following side by side as if to be her equal. Strangely enough she wasn't at all bothered by his presents.

"Wow, I feel loved," X snickered and the bell rang, just in time as they entered their classroom. Raven headed to her seat in the back corner of the class and surprisingly enough X took a seat right next to her. Winking when she gave him a strange look, Raven inwardly shook her head and propped her elbow on the desk and looked out the window of the class. Watching as the kids all moved fluently and hypnotically to their classes.

Her eyes drooped as she found herself once again staring at the palm tree that swayed in the wind, letting kids know that summer was not to far away. The clouds in the sky slowly moved and Raven stifled a yawn when she felt one rising. Waking herself up as their teacher and the rest of the class shuffled in, she titled her head and found that she just couldn't pay any attention to the lesson. Too caught up on other things, she glanced curiously at X and snorted when she found his head down and his eyes closed.

Apparently he hadn't been lying when he said that he was going to fall asleep. Raven just didn't think he'd take it seriously. Peaceful and silent, Raven had to admit he looked kind of … cute.

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hmm … nothing much happened in this chapter … just more introductions to the other characters … and maybe a little insight on Raven's view of "Angel" … yeah … just so you know that name "Angel" wasn't the first thing that popped in my head for X, in fact I'm surprised no one's cracked a joke about it … you know about it's irony and all?

Shutting up about it … ANYWAY … next chapter will be info on why Raven was found crying by Jinx and why Trigon wants Malchior and Raven back with him on Azarath. See you guy then …

BUT WAIT! There's more … I just can't shut the hell up can I?

However this one is serious … those of you that were reading "It's Not Me" I got a very important question to ask you – however you can skip over this if you want, cause I'm gonna post an Author's Note later. I need to know … would it be okay for me to delete parts of the story in order for me to start on a new plot line for it? I'm NOT getting rid of the WHOLE THING just gotta' know if you're cool with me deleting a few or more chapters in order to get the story straight, AND to make it much less confusing.

Is it cool with you guys?

Huh?

Please give me an answer.

Seriously.

L8er Daez, thanks for sticking with me, (Plays Pussy Cat Dolls "Stick Wit You")