Chapter Eight
--Weaknesses
She walked back into the lounge where she saw all the other Teen Titans talking away about what they think they should do when Slade comes back.
He already has come back…and with friends.
What am I getting myself into? She thought with a worried look on her face, These are my friends…my only friends that I will have. And I'm betraying them? Yes, I am…I will get anything I desire. What is it I desire, exactly?
"Hey, Vic!" she heard Beast Boy say, she snapped out of her thoughts, "Come sit down and talk with the rest of us."
She nodded and sat down on the couch next to Beast Boy, who, hesitantly, put his arm around her.
"What are you guys talking about?" she asked, cracking a small smile.
"Nothing really, just yapping," Cyborg said.
She laughed a little, "Why don't we yap about a particular subject?"
"Like…?"
She shrugged, "I don't know," she said, then bracing herself, "Our weaknesses?"
Raven eye's shot over to her, Where is she getting at? She sat there, watching carefully at every move Victoria would make.
Beast Boy looked unsure about the subject, but agreed anyway, "That seems ok…who would like to share first?"
"I'll share," Victoria said, thinking it was a strong move to go first, "You all know cool is my weakness, gotta always have the heat. Beast Boy?"
He shrugged, "Don't really have one…I guess it's the person I care for the most," he smiled warmly at Victoria.
She blushed, turning her gaze from him, Gods…that would be me…
"Robin?" she asked.
He thought for a minute, "I'd say without my weapons, I'm powerless."
"Cyborg?"
"If someone hacks my system."
"Starfire?"
"Without my arms I can't fight."
She nodded at their answers and then turned to the last person, "And Raven?"
Raven looked at her coldly, "I don't have a weakness."
Victoria laughed, "Everyone has to have a weakness."
"I don't," she saw that Victoria was giving her a suspicious look and became suspicious herself, "Beast Boy…can I talk to you…in private?"
Beast Boy nodded and got up to follow her out to the hallway, "What's up?"
"I don't trust her," she said in a whisper.
"What don't you trust about her?"
She shrugged, "Everything…anything I can see," she said, "The way her eyes shift, they way she looks at me…everything!"
"Why not?"
"It makes me…feel uncomfortable. Just be careful."
"Of what?"
She shrugged once again and started back to the lounge, "Of what she can do. She might turn about to be just like Terra. Who knows?"
Beast Boy waited until Raven was completely out of earshot before he said to himself, "She will never be like Terra."
She sat in her room in the dark for about ten minutes before she looked up at the clock. It was midnight now, everyone should be asleep.
Biting her lips, she got up from her bed and walked to the door. She slowly turned the doorknob and walked out.
She made sure no one was around before she headed towards the door that would lead her to the flight of stairs that would go downstairs. She tried not to make much noise.
"Where are you going?" she heard a glum voice behind her.
She whirled around on one heel and saw Raven standing there. How come she hadn't seen her there before? She had looked perfectly well around the hallway and didn't see not even her gleaming, white eyes.
"Perhaps you forgotten I can become a shadow? Maybe that's why you didn't see me," she glared at Victoria, seeing right through her innocent looking face, "Where are you going?" she asked again.
"For a walk," she answered.
"You've been going for a lot of walks lately," she said, "Who have you been meeting?"
"No one!" she said, almost screaming, "I walk to get my mind off things, not to meet anyone."
"I don't buy it…but go ahead, I'm going back to my room," she said, crossing her arms and heading back to her room.
Raven transformed back into a shadow and watched Victoria walk away to the staircase.
"She's gonna meet someone, but who?"
Going as silent as she could, she followed her towards the alley where she was told she would meet Slade.
Victoria looked around the darkened alley.
"Where are you?" she shouted out loud.
Slade appeared directly behind her, "I'm here. What have you got?"
She turned to face him, "Robin, his weapons are his weak spot. Starfire, detaching her arms. Cyborg, you'll have to hack into his system. Beast Boy…" she looked down, "I'm afraid I am his weakness."
Slade nodded, "And we'll have plans for that. And the glum girl?"
"Raven?" her eyebrows knitted with anger, "She wouldn't tell me."
"Mayhap she doesn't trust you?"
"Probably."
He nodded again, "Then she will be the last," he prepared to leave again, "I'll see you another time, my apprentice and will have another job. I'll see you another time."
Raven watched in the shadows, watching Slade walk off in one direction, Victoria, another. She bit her lips, angered at her.
"I knew it…how will I break it to Beast Boy?"
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A/N…Oo…mystery. I figured I slipped a little Raven style stealth in the story to make it more interesting. I was gonna make it happen later, but I figure I makes lots of holes in my story and decided to put it in now.
Anyway, the next chapter will be called The Capture. Not telling you what's gonna happen, but I'm sure it's gonna be something good.
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