Chapter 5

Raven's Dream

She awoke in a dark ware house. Raven stood to her feet and looked around. As she began to clear her head she heard a scream. Just then she remembered she saw this when Jason had touched her hand. She was relapsing his past. Raven followed the scream to a dimly lit room. She saw a boy strapped to a chair. A tall dark figure was standing above him with heated metal. "You're gonna give me what I want Jason!" the figure yelled to at the boy, placing the hot metal on the boys skin. The young boy screamed once again in pain.

" Ahh!" Raven woke up in her room once again. There was a hard knock on the door. She opened it to find Robin at the door. "Are you ok?" he asked, short of breath. "I'm fine," she replied softly. "Are you sure cause-" "It was just a bad dream," she cut him off with a hint of annoyance in her voice. Robin got the hint and left it at that. She sat back down on to her bed. "What happened to him?" she whispered to her self. Rea had to know.

Red X's hide out

Raven was at his front door, not sure weather or not she should go in there or not. She made up her mind. She had to know what happened to him as child. Raven softly knocked on the front door of his broken down shack.

He answered, still half asleep. "Damn. When I said we should do this again I didn't mean two hours later." He said in a joking way. "We need to talk," she replied seriously. "Ah…ok. Come in." He moved out the way to give a path into the house. She walked in and looked around. The place was dusty with old tacky furniture. "Listen. If this is about what happened at the movies I'm sorry," he said while wiping his neck nervously. Raven simply retorted, "It's not." She swiftly turned around to face him. His face had a mixed emotion of confusion and nervousness. "Jason…what happened to you…as a kid?" "What do you mean?" "Don't play this game with me." "What game? I honestly don't know what talkin' 'bout." She walked over to him and lifted up his shirt. There was a burn on the left of his chest, just where the man burned him in her dream. He quickly pulled it back down. "I saw everything when you touched my hand." "Then why do you need to hear it from me?" he said, obviously not wanting to talk about it. "I just want to know why." There was a long pause. "Listen, it's late. You should get home before the others fin-"

He was cut off by someone knocking down his door. Both their heads turned toward it to see two built men and a short fat one. "What are you doing here Jack?" Jason yelled. "Jason my boy did you forget how to greet me? Boy's help him remember." With those words both his goons walked over to him. One grabbed him and another started punching his stomach. Raven than used her powers to help. She slammed the one hitting him against the wall and held him there with dark energy. X than flipped around the other one's head and flipped him over.

Jack pulled out gun and pointed it toward Raven. "Jason!" he yelled. Red X looked over and immediately stopped beating up the man that laid under him. The man rose and grabbed Jason again, holding him tighter than before.

"Drop him girl." Jack yelled. Raven did so. The goon went over to her and tightly held her wrist together behind her back. Jack walked over to her and grabbed Raven's chin in his grasp. "So this is the girl who's been distractingyou huh?" Jason looked away when Raven shot him a look. She then snatched her face out of Jack's grasp. "Feisty huh?" Jack raised his gun and hit her in the face with the handle. She yelped. Jason shot a look straight in their direction. "You hit her again and I swear I'll kill you myself." he snapped struggling against the man holding him. "Really?" Jack replied and raised his gun once again. As he went to bring it down X pleaded. "Wait! What do you want? I'll give you anything." Jack stopped and smiled. "I'm just here to make sure I get my money. See, I got this crappy little place bugged and when I heard her sweet little voice I knew she was the girl you cared so deeply for. So here's the deal. Either I get my money in four weeks or she and that pretty little face of hers are dead." With that said he had his goons drop them both and walked out the house.

Red X crawled over to Raven "How's your face?" he asked brushing her hair behind her ear. "It's fine." she said, covering the mark with her hand. "Let me see." he said in a soft voice. "No. I'm fine really." she said pulling away from him. "Stop being so stubborn and let me see." he said moving close to her again. She sighed and lowered her hand. He then put his hand on the wound and softly caressed it. She closed her eyes and pushed her face deeper into his touch.His hand was so firm and comforting."I'm sorry this happened to you." he said in barely a whisper. She opened her eyes and stared into his. They were so captivating. "That's alright." She whispered. She then pulled away from him and rose to her feet.

He stood as well. "How much do you owe him?" she asked looking at him. "A couple hundred…thousand." he looked away in shame. "For what?" she asked, her voice still soft. "I stole it from him because he stole from my…mother." he said still looking away. "Is that why you steal from jewelry stores and banks?" He simply nodded. They stood in silents for awhile.

"Here, I'll give you a ride home," he said walking toward the door and grabbing the keys to his bike. She followed him out and they hopped on the bike and rode off.

Outside the Tower

They pulled up and theygot off his bike. He walked her to the front door and they stopped. "You should come in and I'll take a look at you stomach." He just nodded and reluctantly walked in the tower. As they walked into the main room a series of stares came their way. "Raven!" Aqaulad yelled. "Everyone was worried about you!" Robin yelled. "Well sorry I didn't know I had to ask permission to go out." she said angrily. This only made Robin madder. "Maybe I should go." Jason whispered to her. "No." was her only reply. So he stayed put. Robin saw the young man behind her and this only made him madder. "The least you could have done was told one of us!" She rolled her eyes. "Whatever." she grabbed Jason by the hand and headed toward her room. Acouple of 'Aws' and whistle were heard and that made Robin angrier.

They reached her room and were now inside. She took off X's shirt and put her hand to his stomach. He started to laugh. "That tickles?" he said. She looked up and smiled at him. Her hand began to glow and his pain began to disappear. "Can you do that to yourself?" He asked worriedly. She nodded. "You know for a cold hearted thief you sure worry a lot about others." He smiled. "No just beautiful girls." She looked away in a blush. "I should go." he said rising from her bed, feeling uncomfortable about being this far in the tower. She reluctantly agreed.

They made their way to the front door. "That was quick." Speedy said with a smirk on his face. Raven shot him a death glare. Red X opened the door and turned around to face Raven. "Thanks." he said in a low voice. She nodded and turned to leave. "Jason." he turned and she walked up to him quickly and wrapped her arms around her neck, pulling him tight. Robin left the room in disgust. X was shocked but soon returned to her embrace. "I'm gonna help you." She declared in a whisper. He nodded and she let go.

He left and when she turned she was greeted by 'woots' and clapping hands. She rolled her eyes and made her way to bed. She had had a long day.