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Chapter 7
Closer Than You Think
Rachel waited until everyone was asleep to sneak out of her new room and go to the infirmary. Once there she stole a bag of blood and stashed it in her room. After drinking some, sloppily she walked into the main room to watch some TV until daybreak. She sat on the couch lazily, feeling bored to death. There was nothing on TV, the radio, and nothing to read.
Beast Boy woke up in the middle of the night and stared at his clock. "Aw man." He stood up and tried to carefully escape the combines of his room without tripping over anything. Bam! Too, late. He walked into the hallway and into the main room to see Rachel on the couch.
Her hand was up in the air as a soda can surrounded in a black aurora flew over to her hand. She opened it and took a sip before burping. In her hand was a game controller as she beat the record.
"Dude! Rachel, you're good!" BB said all of a sudden.
Rachel froze, but then relaxed. "Not really; this is the first time I've played this game."
The changeling sat next to her, grinning.
"So who's Raven anyway? A super hero like you guys that ran away from home?"
He smiled sadly, "Yeah but I just wish she would've talked to me before she left to at least say good-bye. I should be mad at her because she broke her promise about leaving but I can never stay seriously mad at her."
"She didn't break her promise," Rachel said under her breath, thinking he wouldn't hear.
His ears perked up, "What do you mean?"
"Beast Boy," Rachel looked him straight in the eyes, "I'm 78945." (What she was called at the beginning of chapter one when she had lost her memory)
Beast Boy's eyes widened as tears leaked out as he smiled and laughed, "Rae?" (Dang he has a good memory)
She nodded.
BB gave her a hug, "I thought you ran away."
"I promised I wouldn't leave," Rachel hugged him back.
He released her grinning. "Why Rachel?"
She rolled her eyes, "Rae-ven. Rae-chel."
He laughed, "I like your green streaks."
Raven looked embarrassed.
"I've never seen you wear anything except your cape and leotard 'till now; you look great," he blushed.
"Thanks."
Following Morning
Robin walked into the main room to see Rachel curled up on the couch with a soda can in one hand, popcorn all over the couch, and a green dog sleeping against the table. What in the world did they do last night?
Rachel yawned and looked up to see Robin and the mess of popcorn she had slept in. "Oops, uh….Midnight movie?" She silently apologized, "and a popcorn fight for the ages." She kicked BB.
"Ow!" He changed back to his human form. "Oh, no." he spotted the mess. "Well it was fun while it lasted," he started to walk out the room whistling.
"Beast Boy, you're cleaning this up!" Robin ordered.
BB's shoulders slumped.
"I'll help!" Rae volunteered.
"After breakfast we'll start searching for Raven again, ok Beast Boy?" The Boy Wonder said with more sympathy.
"Ok," he put on a sad face.
As soon as Robin left the room Raven used her powers to clean up all the popcorn and then they sat down on the couch.
"Wanna play?" BB offered.
The tired girl yawned, "Actually I could use some sleep."
His ears fell down to the side.
"Maybe tonight." She walked out of the room.
The green teen grinned and started bouncing around. Then he stopped with a confused look on his face. Wait! Was Raven actually nice to me! OMG! She was! Maybe she does like me!
Later On
The titans searched all day for Raven but of course they didn't find her.
While the others searched, Beast Boy had tried to find something to do to pass the time but he ended up heading back to Titans tower around the time he knew Rae would wake up.
Raven was in the main room when she saw him walk in, "You just left them out there on a wild goose chase?"
"Goose chase?" He looked confused. "But we're not chasing wild geese."
The goth rolled her eyes, "It's an expression that means even though they think they're getting somewhere, they're actually not going anywhere at all."
"Huh?" BB tilted his head.
She shook her head, "Never mind."
They sat down on the couch and for a couple of minutes they sat in silence.
"Beast Boy," Raven started, "Would it be alright if I looked into your mind?" She then explained about the book she was going to search for in his mind.
"Sure Rae…..Um, what do I have to do?" He sat facing her.
"Just close your eyes and relax."
He obeyed.
She closed her eyes and placed her hands on both sides of his face. "Azerath, Metrion, Zinthos," she whispered. She saw a library that was rather big. To her left was a section of comic and joke books, to her right was a section on movies and games, in front of her was a section that was entitled People I Know. She walked into that section and searched for her book on the shelf entitled Friends. Her book wasn't there. She searched for it but then thought. He doesn't consider me his friend? She looked down to see a "Best Friend" section. She wasn't there either! "Damnit, Beast Boy!" Suddenly a book fell and hit her on her head. "Shit," she looked at the book to see her name on it. Then she looked up. There were two sections it could've fallen from: Enemies or People I Love. She sighed and figures that maybe the changeling's mind was simply unorganized since she saw Robin's book was under Enemies. She opened the book and had a flashback.
Flashback
Raven walked through an alley on her way to the tower from the café.
A few guys she knew greeted her and asked to walk her home.
She shrugged, not really caring. She was a super hero after all.
They followed her and when a car pasted by they jumped her and put some scotch tape over her mouth.
She tried to fight back but they had like super strength.
The ring leader smiled.
And that's when she saw his fangs and her eyes widened.
"Now sweet Raven. I think your blood will be the sweetest of all considering how much power you have," he bit her on the neck and started sucking her blood until she passed out.
Raven opened her eyes and everything seemed hazy as she felt something going down her throat. The pain in her neck was nothing compared to what her whole body felt like. It felt like a thousand knives were piercing her body.
A guy with blond hair, blue eyes and grey skin was staring at her, "Drink up; it will help you feel better."
She drank and then blacked out. When she woke up again her body felt sore and cold. "Wha-what happened?"
"You died Raven." The same guy looked at her.
"If I'm dead than.."
"You're a vampire; sorry but it was the only way to save you," he bowed his head.
Raven sat up and stared at him, "And you are?"
"Angel," he bowed.
"Well thanks Angel; I guess I'll go home now." The goth stood up and fell down.
"It might take a while for your body to heal since you've just barely made the transformation. May I help you?" Angel asked.
"Um, ok." She sweat dropped.
The vampire lowered himself, "Climb on." He said, still not looking at her.
The dark titan blinked, feeling embarrassed. "Why don't you look at me?" She got on.
Angel stood up and started walking toward the tower, "There is a prophecy among vampires that one who is part vampire, part devil, and used to be part human would be the one to hold the destiny of all vampires. Whatever the chosen one decides on doing, we will follow. This person would hold the power to destroying the world. I know you are the one in this prophecy, Raven. You're a super hero so most will think you to choose the power of good, others will think you'll betray everyone and use humans like the guys that tried to kill you tonight."
"So what does that mean? And what power am I supposed to have?" Raven had her head down on his back because she felt her energy was drained. Of course being dead will do that to you.
"It means that you better watch your back. It won't take long for word to spread and some people will try to temp you into choosing a path you may not want. As for your power, I have no idea."
"So why are you helping me?"
He sighed, "Raven, I was trained to protect you and I've known you were going to be the one since you were born. However, if you ever decide to take matters into your own hands I will understand."
They arrived at the docks and could see the tower. Angel merely took flight as Raven's grip tightened.
He smiled at her, "Don't worry; I won't drop you."
Raven narrowed her eyes at him. "Shut up."
They went through Raven's window and landed in her room.
Angel laid her on the bed and bit his arm and let blood drop on her neck as the mark disappeared.
"Ugh, that was just gross Angel," Rae groaned.
Angel smirked and started tickling her.
"ANGEL! STOP IT!" She laughed so much her body hurt more. "It hurts!"
He stopped, "Sorry but you don't have to be so serious you know?"
She raised a brow at him.
"You'll figure it out later. Oh and I must warn you that a day might come when you might lose control so make sure you eat well and DON'T starve yourself." He sat on the window sill. "Good-bye Raven, I'll be watching."
She looked at him strangely.
"And when I'm not watching I'll be listening," he added and flew out the window.
End Flashback
She read the entry that seemed to be Beast Boy's point of view of what happened that same night.
I saw some strange guy carrying Raven into her room and I smelled her blood and panicked. Who hurt her! I ran out of my room and went to Raven's room. Before I knocked on the door I heard Raven start laughing. "ANGEL! STOP IT! It hurts!"
I felt angered and confused. Who was this guy? Had he hurt Raven? What was Raven doing with him? Finally I gathered up the courage to knock on the door, "Raven?" "Uh, Beast Boy, whatever it is, could it wait until tomorrow?" "Yeah," he said sadly and walked off.
The next day I asked Raven where she was last night but she simply said it was none of my business and asked why I would want to know anyway. I told her I smelled her blood last night and her eyes had a look of shock. "I got a paper cut," she lied. I knew she wasn't telling me the truth but if she doesn't wanna tell me than I guess I can't exactly force her to.
Raven dropped the book on the ground. "Where is that stupid book!" She came out of Beast Boy's mind and shook her head and sighed.
Robin, Cyborg, and Starfire came into the main room.
"BEAST BOY!" Robin shouted.
BB turned around to face him, "What?"
"Where were you!" He shouted.
"I'm sorry but I'm afraid that's my fault." Rachel said seriously, standing up.
The Boy Wonder's expression softened and he calmed down as he waited for her to explain.
"You see," she started nervously, looking down at her index fingers that were bending as they touched, "…" Her mouth was open but no words came out. OMG! I'm sunk! What am I supposed to say? "Well…." Ok, there's only one thing I can think of and although I don't wanna use this excuse I think I'm going to have to.
"Well, what happened?" Cyborg asked, arms folded.
"I told Beast Boy that it was pointless to look for Raven." She bit her lip.
The changeling knew what was going to happen next.
"What do you mean it is pointless?" Starfire asked, her eyes beginning to shine with tears.
"POINTLESS!" Robin and Cy yelled. They looked at the green teen. "And YOU STOPPED SEARCHING JUST LIKE THAT!"
"Um," he sweat dropped.
"I mean if you haven't found her by now than you guys never will," Rae said.
The alien burst into tears and the Boy Wonder went over to comfort her.
The tin man exploded at this, "WHAT RIGHT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY THAT! RAVEN'S OUR FRIEND AND WE WILL FIND HER! WE'RE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP SO EASILY! WHAT MAKES YOU SO SURE THAT WE WON'T FIND HER?"
Rachel wasn't scared at all. She looked at him, "Because she's hiding in a place you would never look."
BB decided he better put on the act that he didn't know she was Raven, "You know where Raven is?"
At this Star stopped crying.
Robin stared at her, "Where is she?"
The green streaked haired girl smiled at them and turned around and looked at the group over her left shoulder, "She's closer than you think."