A shadow slipped slowly through the tower, so silently and stealthily that not even Cyborg's highly advanced security system could detect it. How it longed to kill everyone it saw here… but that wasn't its job. It was here only to gain information right now. It turned a corner, entering a familiar hall.
Words echoed through the shadow's head… words that had been uttered an eternity ago.
Long lost words whisper slowly to me.
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Still can't find what keeps me here.
When all this time I've been so hollow inside.
The shadow reached the door of the person it longed to kill most… Raven's room, and the girl herself, were mere feet away.
Inside her room, Raven cried softly into the pillow.
I don't want to leave! she thought bitterly, But I don't know why I should stay. Its just going to cause more problems for us all if I do.
The girl took a deep breath, tightly closing her eyes to hold the tears back. She quietly tried to go back to the peaceful state that would allow her to find a solution to all of this… the same peaceful state that had, truthfully, caused all of the problems in the first place.
There was a faint noise in the hallway, and Raven sent her mind out. All she could detect was hate… hate, and a strange sort of respect. A respect she had only ever been given by one person…
She sat up angrily, glaring at the door. No more tricks.
"I know you're still there!" Raven shouted at the door, "Show yourself, Terra!"
Watching me, wanting me,
I can feel you pull me down.
Raven had known that the girl would come back. But she had been hoping it would be as a part of the team. The hate she felt coming from it, though, was more than enough proof that Terra wasn't here to rejoin.
Raven could still feel Terra out in the hall, silently watching the door, resisting the urge to answer the challenge.
Fearing you, loving you,
I won't let you hold me down.
I can't give in to that witch! Terra thought to herself. She walked silently away from the door, But I will come back, and I will kill her!
Since she had been brought back to life, she had felt mixed feelings about the team… and about Raven. She had hated Raven so much in the end, but she still remembered that Raven had been the one that had trusted her the most, other than Beast Boy, just before she had betrayed them all. She would never forget that kindness.
Haunting you, I can smell you- alive.
Your heart pounding in my head…
At the end of the hall, Terra stopped and set her ear against the wall. She reached out with her powers, using a new skill she had learned. The entire concrete structure turned into a microphone, and it all went directly to her. But it was so much more than that. Nearly every sense was transferred to her through the cement.
Beast Boy's room… the familiar smell of him drifted to her. A mix of fur and tofu. And she could hear each of the Titans breath; she could almost hear their hearts beating.
Watching me, wanting me,
I can feel you pull me down.
Saving me, raping me,
Watching me.
Watching me, wanting me,
I can feel you pull me down.
Fearing you, loving you,
I won't let you hold me down.
