TW: Mention of Sexual assault
Present day-Raven
The darkness of the bunker sends shivers down my spine. It isn't the literal dark...it's the darkness behind the memory which I know is all this has to be. Klarion had to just put me in the one memory that he knows would bring out the most chaos in me. It won't work. I take in a couple deep breaths trying to remind myself that it is just a memory. It is over, this isn't happening now. I repeat that to myself over and over but my thoughts fall short when I hear the heavy metal footsteps. It's like my breath gets caught in my throat and my legs feel like they are made out of lead. I look around frantically, trying to find where the footsteps are coming from but I don't see him, I don't see anyone.
"I know what will bring out chaos" I hear a voice echo throughout the bunker and I recognize it as Klarion's voice. I try to remember what he is trying to do, he is trying to bring out the panic in me. Bringing out the worst memory, well one of the worst anyway.
The footsteps begin once again echoing throughout the bunker like I remember footsteps would. Only these footsteps no longer sound like...his. They don't sound like the pattern I had grown used to. I look around the room trying to calm myself enough to get myself out of whatever spell this is. I struggle to calm my breathing as I realize this is one of those things I can't just force out of the way. I need to work through the panic not just pretend it isn't there.
"Come on Sunshine, open your eyes" I hear, I freeze knowing the voice behind those words. The hair on my neck stands up and chills can be felt down to my toes. I open my eyes staring at the green eyes of Jason.
"Jason" I whisper trying to look over him, he looks like himself but his voice as much as it sounds like him...isn't him. I take a step back from the Not Jason hoping to put some distance between the two of us but he grabs my wrist hard.
"Don't run away from me" He growls I put my free hand on my wrist below his hand trying to pull it back.
"Let me go" I demand trying to free my hand. His face distorts into a creepy angry look, his eyes glowing a slight green which makes the uneasiness in my stomach even worse.
"Come on, you can't say no to me" He growls pulling me closer to him he releases my wrist but wraps his arm around my waist tightly I fight against his arms but it feels like he is a brick wall and I am as weightless.
"Stop it Jason" I say without thinking, this isn't Jason. I know it's not. I struggle against him and decide to stomp on his foot. He doesn't seem affected at all but it does seem to anger this not Jason. He begins walks back aggressively backing me into a cold wall. My head hits the wall hard but not hard enough for me to bleed. Just be slightly dazed. he shifts his hands, one on the base of my neck holding me to the wall and his other wondering down the side of my body.
"Men have needs Raven" He growls I release a panicked whimper even though I didn't want to.
I bring my knee up trying to hit him where it hurts but he swats my knee away like it's nothing. His hand traces my inner thigh running up higher than I would like him to. I try again this time putting more force into it, it connects to the inside of his thigh as I am off about a couple inches. He growls again tossing me onto the floor. I yelp as I try to catch myself hearing a snap in my wrist. The Not Jason grabs my hips with his hands yanking me towards him. I kick my legs up trying to get away from his grip but he sits on top of me. He gets angry with me pulling his hand back and swinging it forward hitting my cheek hard. I need to get out whatever this is.
"Don't fight me Raven" He says, he sounds calmer now but his hands wonder up my body cupping my chest with aggressive force. I grimace trying to squirm my way out of his grip. I fling my knees up hitting him in the tail bone. He has to let me go to catch himself and I use that to throw a punch getting him off of me. It kind of felt nice to punch a Jason look alike. I manage to get to my feet kicking the not Jason in the ribs. I kick him again this time in the face. He looks at me, his lip bloody and his eyes narrowed.
"Let me inside you Raven" He laughs getting to his feet. I roll my eyes jumping up and kicking him with both feet in the chest. We both fall back and I hit the ground but not before he does.
"NOT FAIR NOT FAIR NOT FAIR" I heat Klarion boom through the bunker. I look down at the Not Jason watching him slowly disappear. I release a breath of relief. I am tearing apart his spell from the inside out. It could also be Starfire's attacks on Teekl are finally getting to him.
"Get me out of here!" I growl angrily I can feel my second pair of eyes opening. I force myself to levitate, and it takes so much energy doing this from inside of whatever spell he has me trapped in.
"Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" I yell as the bunker begins to tear away like pieces of ripped paper.
The lights of the day outside of the spell makes me squint my eyes but I have never been so happy to see light. I suck in a breath that feels like the first breath of fresh air I have been able to take in so long even though I know it hasn't been more than thirty minutes. I look around and Klarion has Starfire in the opposite grip of the giant cat. I thrust my hands forward throwing darts of black energy at the Cat. I wrap Klarion in my energy tossing him farther away from us.
Teekl begins to shrink in size which could be good or bad depending on how fast I can get him to release Starfire and Jason. Starfire begins to pound against Teekl's paws throwing her Starbolts at him. He is moving his paws around trying to find a way to get her to stop but she throws on at his face. He drops her and Jason but Jason isn't near the rooftop. I race to the edge of the roof grabbing him with my soul self and bringing it back up before he hits the ground. I lower him onto the roof.
"Jesus fuck that was too close" He says dusting off his uniform. I release a deep breath of relief and roll my eyes.
"NO FAIR NO FAIR" Klarion screeches stomping towards us. I put a hand out stopping him in his tracks.
"Don't come near me" I spit he grins
"AHAHAH I see I was able to do something to the precious Gem's mind" He boasts I glare at him throwing my soul self around him and tightening it.
"All You did was piss me off" I reply muttering a spell in Latin and pressing my thumb onto his forehead. He squeals and grimaces as his eyes go white. When his eyes fall back into their natural black color he looks panicked.
"What did you do to me?" He asks I step back releases him as Teekl normal size walks between us curling up next to Klarion's legs.
"Nothing you won't be able to break through sooner or later" I reply he scowls stomping his foot. "Let me guess...No fair?"
Present day- Jason
I don't know how to describe the panic I saw on Raven's face, all I know is it will always make me wonder what he made her see. What she was fighting against inside that mind of hers. I noticed her lip start bleeding out of no where, like something had just hit her. I had tried to release myself using all of my energy to get myself away from this fucking cat but my arms were locked in place. Kori was trying her best to get me released but when she was slapped out of the sky and picked up by this fucking pussy I knew it was too late. I looked down to the ground seeing no one underneath us. I guess everyone was still working on getting Cheshire and Taila. I feel a slight worry for anyone fighting against her but right now I needed to get out of this grip and get to Raven.
I begin trying to get my knife out of my utility belt. I can feel the handle of it but the awkward angle my hand is at made it more difficult for me to grab it. I don't give up, this huge Cat notices me doing something and tightens it's grip which makes the tips of my fingers and my toes numb. God dammit.
"Kori, can you get out?" I ask she looks over at me pausing in her own struggle
"I am doing the trying but I think I can get my arm out" She replies, I nod as I try to do the same. Before I can free myself I notice Raven's facial expression change as her second eyes begin to open. I will never stop thinking about how cool but terrifying that shit is. She radiates a white light as she is brought out of whatever trance she was in. She begins to squint looking around from where she was, her legs are able to move as she takes a small step forward. She moves her hands towards us hitting the cat, he hisses slightly but shrinks in size slightly as Kori frees her hand. She begins to throw Starbolts at the cats paw. She hits him in the face and the grip is released but I am falling fast.
Within inches of being to the ground I feel myself halt in the middle of the air. My heart is racing in my chest and I couldn't find a way to calm my nerves of being dropped off of a building. I see a black energy wrapped around me as I am being brought up back onto the roof.
"Jesus fuck that was too close" I say dusting off invisible dust from my uniform, it was my way of tryin to dust off the panic.
"NO FAIR NO FAIR" Witch Dick screeches stomping towards us. Raven flinches putting her hand up to stop him.
"Don't come near me" She spits, her voice leaks with some kind of fear but also anger. Witch Dick just grins from ear to ear
"AHAHAH I see I was able to do something to the precious Gem's mind" He boasts, I glare at him and raise a fist as Raven throws black energy out at him mimicking ropes it wraps around him, she tightens the grip on him which makes his swallow hard.
"All you did was piss me off" she replies, she mutters something in a language I don't understand while pulling Witch Dick closer. She presses her thumb on his forehead and his eyes white over, which I think is creepier than his original eye color. When his eyes fade back into their original color he looks around as she let's him go.
"What did you do to me?" He asks, the damn cat is now normal size and rubs against his leg.
"Nothing you won't be able to break through sooner or later" She replies folding her arms across her chest, he scowls at her stomping her foot like a child throwing a tantrum. "Let me guess...no fair?"
I chuckle a little bit at her reply as Witch Dick takes on a new tantrum. She turns around wiping the blood from her lip and rolling her eyes. I can hear Kori grabbing Witch Boy and taking him off the roof. When Raven's eyes fall on me she falters slightly looking away and then back at me with nervousness. I can even feel the nerves in my body rising up. I haven't seen her since we broke up and looking at her now I can feel the influx of guilt and nerves rising through.
"Glad to see you are not squished" Is all she says, I just nod awkwardly
"Raven look I-" she puts her hand up stopping me
"I need time before I can look at you...or talk to you" She says her voice wavers slightly and I furrow my brows in confusion but I don't argue.
"Okay...let me know when you are ready" I say she doesn't say anything but the look on her face tells me she appreciates the lack of arguing.
"Jason.." she says lightly when we finally get to the ground I look over at her
"Yeah?" I ask
"Why did you send me the message?" she questions, it's a good question I understand it.
"I needed you know that I never wanted to cheat. I didn't know what was happening and I wanted you to know that if I had control of myself I never would have done that" I answer she nods sucking on the inside of her cheek. I can tell by the way her cheeks hollow out.
"Thank you" She says softly and walks away from me to Tim as she walks out of the building, his eyebrow is split open and she is holding his stomach firmly. She says something I can't hear to her as he looks back into the building. She nods sitting him on the ground and beginning to heal him. I walk towards them wanting to know when the rest of the team would be out.
"I think he's going to be okay but when you can I think you should heal him" Tim says as part of a finished sentence I didn't get to hear the beginning of.
"Everyone alive?" I ask he looks at me and nods
"Yeah, Cyborg and Beastboy are cuffing Taila and Dick is waiting for them to help him out." Tim says I nod as if on que everyone comes pouring out of the building, Cyborg has cuffs on Taila and is pushing her outside of the building followed by Beastboy allowing Dick to lean on him.
"Your wrist is swollen and bruised" I hear Tim say, I look back to him confused
"Yeah, whatever happens in the trance happens to your body in real time as you know. I think it's broken but it'll heal. I need Vic to wrap it" She replies I look down to her wrist and sure enough it was twice the size of her other one and it was a deep blue and purple with black surrounding the major bones.
"You should wait to heal anyone else until your wrist is better" Tim says placing a hand on hers, it tugs on my heart as he touches her and makes me feel angry but I don't show it. Instead I turn around looking to Dick. He seems to be okay, limping a little bit but nothing he won't be able to walk off.
We pack everything up after about thirty minutes of waiting for the armored trucks to take away these highly dangerous criminals. I know Taila won't be in jail for long. She will find some way to have her assassins get her out and I don't think I will lose sleep over it. However, I know for sure that Witch Dick will eventually get out as well and that worries me more. When we finally have everything packed up we begin our travel back to the manor.
Tim falls asleep on the way there, not that I blame him. Knowing him he probably was up all night planning back up for plans he knew he would need in place in case something goes wrong. I just happen to know one of those backups had to include me. If I had chose I liked the villain lifestyle again. I didn't. I never even thought about it. When we pull up I can see a grim look on Alfred's face but he doesn't say anything about what could be bothering him.
"Ms. Tess and Ms. Zarrina are in the Batcave awaiting your arrival" He says, I get a slight anger hearing Tess's name. Even though everything was cleared up I can't help but feel resentment towards her for everything she put me through, I think it's mostly an anger towards myself but, she fuels it. The walk to the Batcave seems too long and I can feel Raven's uneasiness as well as my own as she cradles her injured wrist in her hand.
"Yo Rae, come over here I'll wrap you" Cyborg calls out waving for Raven to follow him. She does so as I get down to the last step of the Batcave. I stalk down to the area where the case for my uniform is. I undo the belts on the front of my uniform. I can't help but look over at Raven talking quietly with Cyborg on the other side of the room. I suck in a pained breath looking back to the light of the case.
"I'm sorry everything got so screwed up for you" I hear Tess say behind me as I shrug off the rest of the top half of the uniform.
"You should be" I say, I don't want to continue undressing if Tess is going to be right here. I think she has seen enough of me to last a life time.
"I was serious when I said I really didn't want to do it. I didn't want you two to end up breaking up." She says I shrug clenching my jaw
"That doesn't change that it happened. You aren't the only one to blame" I reply, she pokes her tongue into her cheek and looks away from me towards Raven.
"She keeps looking over here, I wouldn't give up just yet dude" She says patting me on the shoulder before walking away. I never said I would give up but I can't deny that as of right now, things look pretty grim in that sense.