Raven prowled the streets, searching for T-Bird and Skank. They were the only two left in her and Eric's hit list, and she intended to kill them before the night was up. She found them walking down a sidewalk, discussing Tin Tin's death and Funboy's whereabouts. When T-Bird sent Skank into a store for "smokes and road beers," Raven came up behind him and help a gun to his head. "Pop quiz!" she said menacingly. "An insane woman comes up behind you and tells you to take her to the docks or die. What do you do?"

"You want me to drive?" he responded all to quickly.

"Good answer." Raven said, throwing herself into the front seat. Unbeknownst to them, Eric was sprawled across the back seat, awaiting T-Bird's return. When T-Bird hesitated to start the car, Raven and Eric held guns to his head and said, "Drive!" He took off at about 90 M.P.H., leaving Skank behind. After a high-speed chase involving T-Bird, a couple cops, and Skank, they reached the docks. While Raven duct-taped T-Bird to his seat, Eric searched the explosives in the trunk. T-Bird was rambling incoherently until Eric came back around to the front of the car and he recognized him. "I know you. I knew I knew you. But you ain't you. You can't be you we put you through the window. There ain't no comin' back. This is the really real world, there ain't no comin' back. There ain't no comin' back! There ain't. . . Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is! Abashed. . ." He continued to ramble as Raven stepped out of the car. Eric lit an explosive, tossed it into T-Bird's lap, and set the car into drive. They watched and waved as it took off down the dock, then set about making and lighting the symbol of a crow/raven on the concrete in front of the docks. After the car and T-Bird exploded and landed in the river, Raven nodded at Eric and took off for her apartment.

About halfway to her apartment, Raven realized she'd left her cloak sprawled across Eric's chair. "Crap it!" she moaned. "I've been going around all night without it, and Eric's probably recognized me, and. . . aw crap it!" She slumped down against the side of a building, buried her face in her hands, and shook with silent tears. She sat there for so long she ended up falling asleep. Luckily, no one noticed she was there and she was left alone.

Raven awoke the next night feeling slightly better than she had the night before. She headed back to Eric's loft to retrieve her cloak, and hoped he wasn't there. When she arrived, it wasn't Eric she found, it was Sarah. Yet again, Sarah's eyes widened, and Raven enveloped her in a hug. Raven pulled away and looked at Sarah with an almost stern expression. "Sarah," she said softly. "You've got to promise me that if you see Eric, you won't tell him I'm here."

"Why not? I'm sure he'd be happy to see you."

"That's something I've got to do on my own. Can you keep a secret?"

"Yeah!" Sarah said, perking up a bit. Raven then launched into a short but detailed explanation of her suicide, resurrection, and following of Eric the night before, Sarah clinging to every word she said. "So," Raven concluded, "I think I've been brought back to tell Eric how I feel, regardless of what I promised Shelly. That's why I've got to face him alone. What do you think?" Sarah's apparent expression of a fish out of water answered her question. Raven laughed and stood, gathering her cloak and stepping up to the window. "Now, I'm going to go stalk Eric some more. Remember what I told you," she told Sarah before jumping out the window, much like she did the night before.

Raven and Eric were sitting about 3 feet away from each other on the fire escape of Top Dollar's building. Eric was waiting for the opportune moment to strike, Raven the moment to follow him. After Top Dollar gave a rather impressive speech about Devil's Night and anarchy, the crow on Eric's shoulder flew down to land in the middle of the table. "How the hell did that thing get in here?" Top Dollar asked no one in particular. "Gentlemen!" Eric called, stepping from the shadows. Raven followed him, but stopped at the shadow's edge. Skank began to freak out, for he knew he was going to be the next to die. As he struggled to escape Grange's grasp, Eric flipped over a chair and propelled himself onto the table, landing cross-legged atop it. Top Dollar smirked and said, "So you're him, huh. The Avenger. The Killer of Killers. Like the look. Not too sure about the face though.

Eric pointed to Skank and said, "I just want him."

"Well you can't have him," Top Dollar retorted.

"I see you have made your decision," he said, rising. "Now let's see you enforce it."

Top Dollar rolled his eyes. "Aw this is already boring the shit outta me, kill him!" As a hail of bullets flew at Eric, Raven smirked and sang 'I know something you don't know!' repeatedly in her head. Raven stepped forward as Eric fell to the floor. He winked at her before diving under the table. She smiled and grabbed a gun, shot the person nearest her in the head, then aimed her gun at Top Dollar, preparing to shoot him if he didn't cooperate. "Who do you think you are?" he asked, sneering.

"No one you want pissed off," she said back, glaring. She noticed Eric killing someone out of the corner of her eye. Then, the battle started. Top Dollar and his cohorts, Myca and Grange, ran off as soon as the first shot was fired. Raven started to go after them, but Eric called her back, saying he'd need her help. She aimed her gun and started shooting. Bullets were flying, enemies were dying, and Raven was having the time of her life. Unfortunately, sometime during the process of wiping out Top Dollar's gang, her hood fell and Eric, getting his first good glimpse of her, immediately recognized her. Once the battle was over, Raven reached up and felt her hair rather than the velvet of her hood and she flew into the shadows while Eric dealt with Skank. He grabbed him and pulled him out from under the table. "Today's not a good day to be a bad guy, huh Skank?" he asked mockingly.

"I ain't Skank. That's Skank right there. Skank's dead!" he replied, trying in vain to worm his way out of trouble.

"That's right," Eric said before tossing Skank out the window. Then, he turned to the shadows of the building, searching for Raven. "Raven," he called. "I know you're there. Why are you hiding from me?"

She drew a long, shaky breath and whispered, "Because I'm afraid you'll leave again, just like you did when you met Shelly." She stepped from the shadows, her cloak in a heap on the floor, and gazed softly at him, a few tears running down her cheeks. "I missed you," she whispered even softer than before, then ran to him and threw her arms around his neck. She buried her face in the crook of his neck and cried some more. "God I missed you so much." She hoped he believed she was never dead. Luckily, he didn't suspect a thing. "What have you been doing for the past year?" he asked quietly.

"Same stuff I always did," she lied after a moments silence. She looked up at him and smiled, wiping away her remaining tears, which also resulted in the smudging of her eyeliner. They both laughed. The happy moment was interrupted, however, when about 7 police officers came bursting into the room, shouting "Freeze!" Eric and Raven looked at each other, then made for the roof. They ran as fast as humanly possible, and then jumped from the roof. Raven landed with cat-like grace, then turned and, laughing, helped Eric up from the pile of garbage he landed in. She rolled her eyes, then grabbed his hand and took off running again. They hadn't gotten very far when Albrecht screeched to a stop beside them and opened the side door, telling them to get in. They hurled themselves into the car, Raven in the back, Eric up front. They drove for a few minutes, then screeched to a stop after nearly colliding with another car. Albrecht heaved a sigh, then looked around the car, finding it empty. Once the car had stopped, Eric and Raven had fled the scene, disappearing onto the shadows of the night.

Eric and Raven slowly entered the cemetery, exhausted from running but prepared for whatever else happened. They looked at each other and smiled upon finding Sarah asleep by Shelly's grave. Raven wandered off while Eric sent Sarah home. She stood in the shadows and watched him give Sarah the engagement ring that once belonged to Shelly. As Sarah left, Raven came up behind Eric and began to speak to him, but Midnight fluttering onto her shoulder cut her off., scaring her a bit. "Holy crap! You scared me you little booger!" she said, flicking the bird's beak gently. Midnight cawed and flew off. "So, when'd you get the bird?" Eric asked.

"Oh, Midnight? She came to me after. . . . .after I finally got over your death." She mentally slapped herself yet again. She'd almost blown her cover. Eric looked at her oddly but didn't say anything. He turned back to Shelly's grave, placing his hand on it. Raven knew he'd want some alone time, so she walked off hurriedly, wanting to catch up with Sarah. She came around the corner in time to see Sarah get carried into the church by Grange, Top Dollar's right-hand man. She ran back around to the cemetery and called to Eric. "Hey! We've got trouble. Come on, Sarah's gonna need help," she said, before running off into the church.