A.N. Hey, guys! I'm back! So, so sorry this took so long. Please read, review, and enjoy chapter 6!

Disclaimer: Come on, you must know by now that none of us own Teen Titans. Also, I don't own the two Susan Kay quotes (from the amazing novel Phantom) that I used.

The Story So Far: The Church of Blood wants to bring Trigon to power through a child of Raven and the new Brother Blood. They sent Slade to retrieve her, but he formed an alliance with Raven against Blood, even though it could cost him the chance to get his life back. Raven and Slade are currently in Lamech's Realm (sort of a prison/home to inter-dimensional creatures). Rae's soul self was damaged in a battle. Slade saved her, but is being pulled into a vast pit. Meanwhile, Cyborg and Beast Boy discovered Raven and Slade's partnership and informed Robin and Starfire. The team can't do anything about it, for now...

Raven

"Slade?!" Raven shouted after the masked man as he disappeared beneath the pit's opaque water. She landed near the edge unsteadily. How had that... freak show thing sapped her power like that?

She doubted she could dive in and save Slade. Whatever had pulled him down could easily take her out in this condition. Hopefully, because he was already dead, Slade would be okay. Well, relatively. Besides the whole being dead problem. Even if he wasn't okay, that wasn't so bad because he was evil, right? Not like Raven didn't want him to be alright, but-

"Concentrate," Raven muttered to herself. She shuddered. The pit's aura infected the area around it with a sense of depression and decay. She didn't know what it was, but Raven sensed she had to get Slade out of that thing. About half of the voices in her head agreed. That was good enough.

Raven closed her eyes and levitated into meditation position. "Azarth Metrion Zinthos," she chanted. It cleared her mind almost immediately, to her surprise. "Azarian Metrion Zinthos. Azarth... Metrion...

Zinthos..."

The chant, which seemed to work more quickly by far in Lamech's Realm, was ingrained into her heart, her brain, her body, and finally the jewel in her forehead. Raven felt her soul self spreading out like radar into the pit, convulsing at first touch with the darkness, but then meshing with it and healing and growing. She could no longer feel her body other than a faint shadow in the back of her mind.

Beyond the edge there is no pain...

It was a bit disconcerting to be so in tune with this soul sucking mass.

Beyond the edge you will be reborn in the glory of darkness...

Raven found him back on the edge and locked him into a blank space. She entered after him and saw his surprise.

"What...just happened?" Slade asked, uncharacteristically confused. Somehow his mask had come off and his skeleton face was revealed. He was so disoriented he hadn't really noticed yet that it was on the floor/ground by his feet.

"I guess I saved you," Raven said. But then she sensed it: she hadn't yet, and she could. Here in this supposedly blank space she could just reach out and take it back. Raven just closed her eyes and told the darkness what she wanted and there it was: her father's vault.

It would be easy to get in when she was the override code.

"Hey, Slade," Raven said with a weird sort of calm. This much power for so long was making her slightly light headed.

"Yes?" He replied, in a much more normal tone than when he had spoken before.

"Do you want your life back?"

"I'd think that would be obvious, but yes."

Raven reached out and opened the the door in her mind. Something dived out of the writhing shadows and she heard Slade start, back in the blank space.

She exited the vault quickly. Being in two places at once was difficult, three nearly impossible.

Slade was looking at her with and unfathomable expression on his face.That face was handsome enough that Raven (guiltily) wished she had seen it sooner. But there really wasn't time to analyze it before he kissed her.

Slade

You are an idiot.

Hm? Why would you say that?

You realize you're kissing a Teen Titan.

Who happens to be responding, did you notice?

Of course I did. Still, you're kissing a-

More of making out with, now.

Fine. That's worse.

"Worse" is not a word I would use to describe it.

He felt Raven pull away and really hoped she would not disintigrate him. Though that seemed unlikely considering the events of the last five minutes and the fact that she was...fading away and her forehead was bleeding where that red jewel used to be and her mouth was forming words he couldn't hear and then...

She was gone and he was standing by the edge of the pit. He was alone, somehow. Again.

He picked up his mask, which he noticed was on the ground/tile thing beneath his feet.

This is a problem.

No really.

A.N. So there is is. Now go review. Again, I apologize for taking a really long time to update.