A/N: Another chapter already! Go me. Thanks to those who reviewed for the first chapter which I posted 2 days ago! Thanks to Rikku the Legendary Guardian (girl you rock so hard!), BlackMagick666, Moving Mountains and Athena's Wings. You guys are all great! And thanks to those of you who put my story on your faves/alert list!
Disclaimer: As you know, I don't own Teen Titans, though I'd love to! I also don't own the Russian girl, she is owned by Alisa a girl who first gave me The Russian's profile in a review for my story 'Shades of Blue' (please read it if you have nothing else to do, I've heard its really good!)
Ok so on with the story! Also, when reading this, keep in mind that the girl has a Russian accent otherwise she sounds like Starfire ok.
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP
Chapter 2: Life and Death
Robin watched as the T-car sped away with his team mates and his heart lurched into his throat. Worry caused his stomach to knot up and his breathing became erratic.
"Starfire, Beast Boy." He managed to say through gritted teeth; trying to hide the worry he felt "Control Freak is over there. Take him far away from Jump City and lock him away somewhere where he will never EVER get out and make sure that he knows if he ever hurts Raven again then I will kill him and no-one will stop me."
Beast Boy and Starfire both silently moved over to where Robin had pointed. Both had felt the anger, fear and worry radiating off of Robin. Neither had ever seen their leader like this and both were stunned into silence. When they reach Control Freak, they were once more stunned, but this time with nauseous and slight fear of the Boy Wonder. Control Freak's face was nothing more than a black and blue bruise. Blood poured from many wounds and Control Freak's limbs were set in awkward positions, obviously broken. Their leader had not held back and Control Freak would need a lot of time to heal from this beating.
Gingerly, Starfire picked Control Freak up and, after quietly discussing with Beast Boy where they should take the criminal, flew up into the air and sped off with a green pterodactyl following close behind.
On the ground below, Robin watched as they disappeared in the rain. He no longer felt the droplets of water falling on and around him, nor did he hear the thunder which boomed deafeningly, all he could hear was Raven screaming and his own heart hammering away. Tears were forming at the corners of his eyes as he replayed the scene of Raven being electrocuted over and over in his mind, trying to see if there was a way he could have saved her, could have protected her. He didn't want to cry, it was a very un-Robin like thing to do but he couldn't stop the tears which fell from the corners of his eyes and mingled with the raindrops on his cheeks when he pictured Raven's beautiful face screwed up in agony.
"Please, we go inside." An accented voice came from behind him "The rain will do you no good."
Robin spun round and truly noticed the girl who had pulled Raven out of the water for the first time. From what he could see of her through the rain she wasn't very tall, perhaps Beast Boy's height, with long hair and a petite frame. Her whole body was cast in darkness but her eyes shone a bright, brilliant blue, illuminated even in the darkness of the storm.
"The tower isn't far." Robin replied curtly, turning away from her too blue eyes "I'll give you a ride."
"Thank you uh-" She trailed off, not knowing his name or what to call him.
"My name is Robin." He replied "Now lets go." With that he strode off toward his R-cycle which he had parked beside a building not too far away from where the battle had taken place. Behind him he could here the crackling of electricity coming from the broken electricity cable that Control Freak had directed towards Raven. He spun around quickly and threw a bird-a-rang at the end that was still attached to the pole. He watched as the cable fell from where it had been attached. It sparked a few times before lying lifeless on the ground. He made a mental note to tell Starfire to come back and fix that later but for now, all he wanted to do was to get back to the tower and help care for his team mate.
He and the girl reached his bike and he put his helmet on. From a hidden compartment on the R-cycle, he pulled out a spare helmet and handed it to the girl before hopping onto the bike and waiting for her to climb on.
"It is safe yes?" she asked, her voice sounding slightly worried.
"Yes, it is safe, now get on." He said through gritted teeth, willing her to hurry up.
"Ok I am sorry for asking the question." She said as she slid onto the back of the bike "Do not worry about the girl, she will be ok, she is strong, she will not give up."
Robin absorbed her words and he knew she was right but he still couldn't shake off the worry and fear for Raven that he felt. He didn't reply to what the girl had said, instead he kicked the R-cycle into high gear and sped off toward the Tower.
He and the girl arrived there in record time and he had hopped off the bike and sped halfway up the garage stairs into the main tower before the R-cycle had come to a complete stop. The girl who had been with him took off the helmet she wore and placed it onto the seat of the R-cycle before racing out of the room after Robin, not wishing to get lost in the tower which had looked so large and formidable from the outside.
She ran through the tower, desperately trying to keep up with Robin who appeared as nothing more than a red and green blur as he ran. Finally, he came to a screeching halt outside a large pair of steel doors which he flung open before darting through them into the room; the girl barely had time to slip in through the doors before they slammed shut behind her.
The first sound to greet her as she stepped through the doorway was the loud continuous beep of the heart monitor as it detected no heart movement in the girl it was hooked up to. This beeping was followed by a voice:
"Aqualad! Stand back." The voice commanded. The girl looked to where this voice had come from and saw the metal teen that had driven the large car back here before.
"Cyborg, how is more electricity going to help her live!" The boy called Aqualad replied, his voice bordering on hysteria.
"We need to force her heart to pump the blood through her body, this will wake her up!" The metal teen called Cyborg replied "We have to make the muscles contract and the electricity will cause this to happen, now MOVE!"
Aqualad leapt out of the way and all three people in the room watched as Cyborg charged up the pads before pressing them to the girl's chest. Her body spasmed and lurched forward once as the electricity jolted through her body before lying motionless on the bed once more. The heart monitor that was beside Raven continued to flat line.
"Nothing happened!" Aqualad cried out angrily, glaring at Cyborg.
"I know." He replied through gritted teeth "I'm charging them, higher voltage. I am not going to let the closest person I've ever had to a sister die!"
He rubbed the pads together and waited a moment as the electricity charged through them before pressing them once again to Raven's chest. She lurched forward more forcefully this time as more spasms rocked Raven's body violently. Once more, she fell back onto the bed motionlessly and the heart monitor continued to flat line.
"It's no good man, she isn't responding." Cyborg said, his voice full of pain and grief. His shoulders slumped forward dejectedly "She's not going to wake up."
"Try again." Robin suddenly interjected "Don't give up."
"Robin, I've been doing this for five minutes, she isn't resp-"
"I don't care." Robin interrupted, his voice calm and threatening "Do it again. Don't let her go. If you do then so help me it will be the last thing you do."
Cyborg looked at his leader, torn between following orders and knowing that the girl he so desperately wanted to protect never would wake up. He hesitated for a moment before seeing the look on his leader's face. Even if he couldn't see Robin's eyes, he knew that Robin was glaring at him and he also knew that Robin was crying, his eyes may have been covered by his mask but the tears still leaked out from beneath the mask. His brave, fearless and somewhat emotionally-detached leader was actually crying, and in front of other team members. If nothing else, it was this fact that made Cyborg charge up the pads.
"Increasing voltage, charging." Cyborg said, as he fiddled around with a few buttons on the machine that the pads were attached to. He rubbed the pads together, whispered a silent pray to whatever god existed, and pressed the pads to Raven's chest.
Once again her body lurched forward grotesquely, her limbs shaking as she lurched. Four pairs of eyes watched as her body fell back onto the bed, not a breath was heard as all four concentrated on the heart machine which upon which, the green line remained flat.
"No." Robin whispered, his breath coming out in one long whoosh. He watched the green line travel across the screen and he felt his heart break into a million pieces as he stared at the lifeless body of his team member. He looked over her body at Aqualad, who stood a mere few feet away from her. His body was shaking as tears flowed freely from his eyes which were fixated upon the lifeless body of his love. His legs gave out from underneath him and he collapsed to the ground, his hands covering his eyes as he sobbed beside Raven's bed. Robin turned away, he couldn't watch Aqualad, he felt as though he were intruding upon a very private moment and if he continued to watch Aqualad grieve, he wasn't sure whether he'd be able to keep his grief in check.
"I'm sorry I couldn't save you Raven." Cyborg whispered, before leaning over her to turn off the heart monitor.
"Cyborg." A voice whispered from behind him. He paused, halfway toward turning the machine off and turned to look at the girl who had said his name "wait." She whispered.
"For what?" Cyborg replied, his voice heavy and shaking with grief "I'm only delaying the inevitable truth, Raven's de-" He stopped as he heard a beep, then another. His human eye widened and he turned back to the heart monitor. Instead of displaying a flat line, the line now had peaks in it, one, two, more. They were appearing frequently, disrupting the uniformity of the straight line "But, how could she-" Cyborg questioned, confusion evident in his voice, he was overwhelmed with questions as to how she had come back but most of all, all he felt was happiness and intense joy.
"Raven." Two voices whispered in unison. Both Robin and Aqualad had looked up at the sound of the heart monitor beeping frequently, the sound of life, as both would soon come to recognise it as. They stood, both frozen, watching the line spiking up and down, afraid to move in case this was a dream, afraid that if there was a disturbance, the line would return to how it originally was, and she would be lost.
Robin was the first to snap out of his shocked state, his body coursed with joy and he could barely keep himself from screaming out in elation. He walked forward over to where Raven lay and he gently picked up her hand. He squeezed her hand, enjoying the feeling of the blood pounding through her thin skin, proving she really was alive. He released her hand and turned around "Cyborg. Check her vitals, make sure there is no neural damage and that everything is fine but most of all, make sure she's comfortable. I need to have a chat with our new guest. If anything happens, anything at all, if she wakes up, call me. Aqualad stay here, she'd like to know you were there for her and if she wakes up, she'll be glad to see you first. You," he said, pointing at the new girl "Come with me."
With that, he left the med lab, the girl once again hot on his heels but rather than running this time, the boy wonder seemed to float down to wherever he was leading her, his shoulders thrown back and his breathing heavy and erratic.
A/N: thanks for reading! What did you think? Was the whole death scene written well? I hope so, I wanted to make people feel like crying at the thought of losing Raven though of course I never really could kill her off cos she is my favourite character! Anyway, thanks again and please, please, please leave a review on your way out! Until next time!