Dusty: Katy? Where are you?

Katy: Right here.

Dusty: Yay! I found you!

Katy: Found me?

Dusty: Weren't we playing hide and seek?

Katy: I don't remember---

Starfire: (interrupting) Friend Katy! You have returned!

Raven: And in one piece too… regretfully…

Robin: Where have you been?

Katy: College.

Robin: College? I thought you were in high school.

Katy: I was in my senior year when I started this story.

Starfire and Dusty: Do we get another chapter?

Katy: Of course!

Cyborg: (face is red from washing his face off so much) That's great for you guys, but you don't have to feel the burn of a thousand soap bars!

Beastboy: (laughing) I so got you good, man!

Cyborg: You are so dead!

Disclaimer: do not own Teen Titans… (blah, I'm sick…)

Author's Note:

I have a cold.

I am bored, so I thought I would type up what I have of Chapter 18.

In real life, italics is in Starfire's head. Inside Robin's mind, italics are usually otherwise noted.

Please read and review.

CHAPTER 18

"Raven!" Starfire screamed as she watched Raven's body fall to the floor of the warehouse.

The name, although spoken by Starfire, jolted into Robin's brain, knocking Little J out of control for a tad and bringing Robin back to reality. He spun around to look at where he had last seen the half-demon. What he saw both shocked and horrified him. Raven had fallen out of her meditative pose and onto the floor of the warehouse. Even from the distance and height of the catwalk, Robin could see the wound on her chest. He looked down at the gun in his hand and gasped. Robin dropped the gun and stepped back a few steps, "No… I… I did not just…"

Taking advantage of Robin's frightened and confused state, Terri jumped quickly forward and wrestled Robin to the ground. By this time, Robin had lost his senses and was frantically shouting, "Raven! I didn't—Raven!"

Starfire turned to look fearfully at the wrestling forms on the catwalk. Her right hand rose to cover her gaping mouth as she stared in horror at the screaming Robin. This is not the Robin I know anymore…

The only one who seemed the least bit calm or serious was Terri. As he tried to subdue a crazed Robin, he shouted to Starfire, "Go get Raven out of here. I'll take Robin and meet you outside." This snapped Starfire out of her terror for a moment as she flew as fast as she could possibly go down to Raven's side.

Meanwhile… In Robin's mind…

Raven felt the stabbing pain in her chest but did not know where it came from. She clutched her chest and gasped.

Little J seemed impassive as she did so. He sort of grasped an idea of what had happened in reality. But only vaguely. 'What's wrong, Raven dearest?'

"Raven!" Richard shouted worriedly.

"It's alright…" Raven replied, "I'm fine…" as soon as she said it, Raven knew she was wrong. Something must have happened to my body in reality… What is this? Raven thought.

'Well, if everything is fine and dandy, Raven, we should start our lovely little race.' Little J turned away from Raven and started toward the entrance to the maze. He didn't take three steps ahead of Raven before someone tackled him from the right. Raven and Richard looked on in surprise as the figment Robin from before wrestled Little J to the floor.

"Robin…" Raven gasped. She was shocked to find her voice had weakened from the chest pain.

"Don't worry about me, Raven! Just go!"

Richard, by this time, had apparently gotten courage from Robin's sudden appearance, "Yeah! You can't let him win, Raven!"

Even though she wanted desperately to stay and help Robin finish off Little J, Raven knew she had a more important task at hand: destroying Little J for good. And from the increasing chest pain, Raven could feel that she didn't have a lot of time left in which to do it. So she tried her best to ignore the pain and lack of air and ran forward into the maze.

'Left, left, right, right, left…' Raven said to herself in her head while making split second decisions in terms of which way she should go through the maze. With each passing second, she began to notice her shortness of breath as she ran through the maze. Pretty soon, her lungs began screaming for air and demanded that her legs stop moving. Raven grasped her chest, which was continuing to throb more and more. She leaned against the nearest wall of the maze and gasped for breath through this pain.

'I have to keep going… I can't just stop here because of a little pain! Richard… no, Robin will never forgive me if I don't keep moving…' she thought. Just as Raven finished this thought, the walls of the maze around her began to flicker wildly. 'What the… what's happening? The maze is— as soon as she thought this, Raven realized, "Robin…"

Katy: I know this chapter seems a tad short, but I wanted to end 18 here.

Dusty: Meanie…

Starfire: We will get to hear more soon, correct?

Katy: Yep. As soon as my schedule allows.

Dusty and Starfire: YAY!

Robin: Reviews will make Katy very happy, everyone!

Katy: Thank you, Robin!

Robin: You're welcome.