'Thinking'
"Talking"
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Recommended song(s) to listen to this chapter: Hello, Goodbye by the Beatles
Still 3rd Person POV
Raven woke up to the sight of an unfamiliar room. It took her a moment to realize exactly where she was; better yet, what she was planning on doing.
Raven sighed, sobering up about the entire situation, 'Nothing like admitting you hid the mistakes of your past from the only people who gave an actual crap about you.'
Kane looked up from the TV show he was watching. He could see how much his mother was worrying about what was supposed to come in the near future.
Kane cleared his throat, waiting for his mother's attention before speaking, "Your mind gears-" Kane was cut off by a snort coming from his mother. She laughed silently, trying to calm herself enough to listen, 'Mind gears?'
Kane ignored his mother's laughing, and continued with his motivational metaphor, "...are turning so hard that smoke is coming out of your ear holes. What's bothering you? Is it the Titans?"
"I think it's time we make the Titans aware of our presence here," Raven admitted after a long silence, her voice calm. Kane immediately turned off the TV and shifted himself to look over at his mother.
"Are you sure you're ready for that?" Kane asked, eyeing his mother carefully. He was worried about his mother and her emotions, not knowing how she would react when the time came to admit everything, especially when bringing up the past.
Raven sighed, "Of course I'm not ready, but that doesn't mean that you are not, and your happiness is what is most important to me." Raven jumped in surprise as she felt two muscular arms wrap her body, holding her tight.
"Thank you, Mom," he said quietly. Raven only nodded, allowing an intimate moment between mother and son. As he held her, Raven couldn't help but think about how even though they were close, she had not hugged him in a while. She would never say it out loud, but it was moments like these that she would miss her daughter, and she tended to avoid them because of it.
"We should get dressed," Raven acknowledged, almost despising herself for breaking the silence. Kane gently let Raven go and sped around the room to find his clothes, before dashing into the bathroom to get dressed. His mother watched this encounter with mirth, noting how similar he acted like the green boy she once knew. Sighing with nostalgia, Raven walked over to her bag and grabbed some loose clothes and a hoodie. She put them on and waited for Kane to come out of the bathroom.
"Ready?" Kane asked, making his mother turn around to face him.
"As I'll ever be," Raven muttered in response. Smiling, Kane grabbed his mother's hand and the two strolled out of the hotel.
It was not long after the two had left had they walked into chaos. A giant crater was imprinted into the street, and a large structure of a stone-man crawled out, causing Raven to flinch with memories of her past with the Titans.
"Well, that didn't take long," Kane commented, allowing his arms to cross over one another as he stood by and watched, "Who is he?" His thick eyebrows raised as the colossal stone-man picked up a car and launched it as if it was nothing.
Raven's breath caught in her throat, but she managed a strangled, "Cinderblock." Kane glanced at his mother, who was paler than she usually was. He nudged his mother, who looked at him with a curious expression. Kane brightly smiled at Raven, attempting to make her smile as well, but it faltered when he saw a costumed group approaching the already aggressive Cinderblock.
"Isn't that..." Kane trailed off, watching a moderately rowdy group of adults running straight toward the behemoth. To anyone who did not know who or what the Titans were, it would like the circus came for a visit and never left.
Kane was cut off by his mother, who had paled considerably in seconds, "The Titans." With that being said, Kane's heart started beating faster and a deep growl entered his mind.
Kane echoed the growl lowly enough for his mother not to hear him, 'Shut up. Now's not the time.' A deep chuckle was his only reply. Shaking his head to bring his focus back, Kane looked over at the fighting team in front of him.
In front of him stood the people he knew only from pictures and his mother's stories, and he was more happy than he had ever been in his entire life, and was twice as terrified. He named them off mentally: Nightwing, Starfire, Cyborg, Bumblebee, and...
"Please tell me he's real," Kane begged, his eyes never leaving the green man. Raven followed his gaze to the man who she hadn't seen in nearly two decades, and her breathing hitched. A feeling of home washed over her as she heard him laugh as they finished off the ne'er-do-well and prepped for him incarceration.
Slowly, she nodded before swallowing the large lump she had in her throat, "That's really him." She was absolutely terrified about what was to come.
Seeing his mother's almost terrified expression, Kane spoke slowly, "We don't have to do this, you know that right?"
Raven shook her head, erasing any fear she had off of her features, "It's time for me to face the music... Let's go." Kane nodded, and with that, Raven and Kane strolled toward the Titans, head's held high.