Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans. Neither do I own the general idea of this mini-story. That goes to The-New-Nightingale.
Type: Mini-story
Title: Unjust
Pairings: RedxRae
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Raven stared out the window from her bed. Her eyes were red and puffy, and her sheets were soaked with salty tears. Every night, since that one night, she had cried.
Raven shifted slightly and looked at her hands when something poked her. She had been clutching the diamond ring. Her eyes widened in horror as tears started to fall from them again. The horrible memory of that night came back to her.
Flashback…
"I think Red X is insane." Beast Boy said. The Titans were having a meeting concerning him.
"He is," Robin told them. "Red X has been here for nearly a week now, and he's no use to us. Maybe we should just send him to an asylum now."
"No way man," Cyborg protested. "We don't enough information to bust the people Red X stole for. We need to get more information out of him."
"Face it Cy, we're not going to get anything else out of him. He's too shocked, broken down from what happened." Robin argued.
"Friend Robin is right. The enemy Red X cannot tell us more." Starfire joined in.
Raven sat there in silence as the team argued. Finally unable to take the swirl of emotions, she stood up, harshly pushing her chair back to make it fall. The team stared at her as she put her hood up and walked out the room.
Raven muttered to herself as she walked through the halls. All Red X had done was cause trouble for her. Her heart tightened though as she thought, But I had loved him, and he had loved me.
Raven shook the thought from her head and stared at where she had walked to. It was Red X's jail cell. Raven reached out toward the panel to type in the code, but then stopped herself. Did she really want to see X? Yes, the word rang through her mind, she did.
Raven typed in the code and watched the door swoosh open. The room was pitch-black. She stepped in tentatively as the door closed behind her. "X?" she called out, feeling around the wall for the light switch. She found it and flipped it on, but nothing happened.
"It's no use," she heard X say from the shadows.
"X, where are you?" Raven asked, trying to feel for him. Suddenly her arm was grabbed and she pulled towards X. He enveloped her in a hug, holding her tight against his chest.
"I've missed you, Raven." He whispered into her ear. His fingers ran along her arm slowly, making her shiver. "You have no idea how much I've missed you."
"X, I-" Raven was interrupted when X put his finger on her lips. (A/N: Sorry if she seems a little OOC, but she is madly in love with him, remember that.)
"Shh." Raven suddenly gasped in surprise as she felt X kiss her neck. He inhaled her lavender scent and sighed. "Do you know how much I've missed doing this? How much I've missed your scent?" He chuckled as he placed butterfly kisses on her neck.
"Why?" Raven's voice was small, and tears fell from her eyes. "Why are you torturing me like this?"
Red X pulled away from her. "Is this hurting you, Raven?" he asked as he caressed her cheek gently. "Do you want me to stop?"
Raven bit her lip, resisting the urge to say no and let him continue. "Tell me," X said softly. He kissed her forehead, then her nose and then her lips. When he pulled away, he asked, "Does that hurt?" His hand wrapped around her waist to crush her against his chest. "Do you feel pain when I hold you? Touch you?"
"I…I-" Raven choked on her tears as she tried to form a coherent sentence, but Red X was intoxicating her.
Suddenly, Red X pulled away from her and put a distance between them. "I don't know about you Raven," he said to her, "but I feel a lot of pain when I do those things."
"X," Raven managed, tears coming to her eyes again, "You know that I love you, but this," she gestured to them right now, "this relationship is impossible."
X looked at her sadly and shook his head, "No Raven, nothing's impossible, you just chose for it to be."
Raven cried out, "No! I didn't want this! I didn't want this at all! I wanted to be with you! But…it's not possible!" She looked at X, or where she knew he was, tears falling down her cheeks and staining the floor. "You're a thief, I'm a hero. That's the way it's meant to be."
X looked at where Raven was and sighed, "No Rae, I don't believe that." He took something out of his pocket and grabbed Raven's hand and placed it there. He closed her fingers around it and said, "Here, this belongs to you."
Raven looked at the object in her hands. It was the diamond ring. "X," Raven looked up and suddenly the lights turned on. BANG!
Raven watched in horror as X fell into her arms, blood staining her. His eyes were closed and a peaceful look was on his face. Raven couldn't stop shaking though as she looked at him, her eyes wide with disbelief. She pulled him closer to her chest and cried, "X!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
End of Flashback…
In the end, they ended up finding out everything. Red X had files, already packed with all the information the Titans needed, ready for them in his home. It was like he knew they were going to find them. The Titans got every man and woman.
They also found out who Red X was. His birth name was Danny Jacobson. No one knew who his father was and his mother died of cancer when Danny was 7. Then he was sent off to an orphanage and his named was changed to Ryan Deriks. He was then adopted by the age of 10 and his name once again changed, this time to Todd Summers. His adopted parents were multibillionaires and left Todd everything. Todd "mysteriously" disappeared though, and that was when Ronan Xavier made his appearance as Red X.
But the Titans also found an orphanage founded by Ronan Xavier, and they also discovered Todd Summers had given half of his fortune to finding the cure for cancer and many charities around the world. The other half, in Todd Summer's will, was for Raven Roth.
Everyone had been surprised by this action, and of course Red X was given a proper burial for it. "Maybe he wasn't such a bad guy after all." Robin had said to everyone.
Raven turned on her bed as she remembered everything that had happened that week. She closed her eyes, wanting to forget it all yet couldn't. Sometimes she doubted if there was justice in the world. If there was, she wouldn't be a hero, and he wouldn't have been a thief.
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Ahh! Thus marks the end of the first mini-story! I hoped you guys enjoyed it! First update of the new year 2008!!!
I really wanted to end it happily, and at first it was a happy ending, but it kind of ruined the whole "tortured souls" thing I was going for. Sorry everyone. I promise though that the next one will end happily.
Thanx for reading!
Ciao,
Xaleria