Note : This chapter is definately good for hard-core Raven fans like myself!

Note 2: This chapter starts out at around midnight with Dove sleeping in her new room. It takes place two nights after they set up her room; the fifth night.

Note 3: Raven and Dove aren't aware of what's going on with each other until the door opens.

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Unforeseen Surprises

Chapter 6: Secrets Unwillingly Revealed

It was happening again.

Dove was having that dream, that memory, that nightmare for the first time in a month again. She tossed and turned in her bed, dreaming of the pain and feeling it once more.

The vision... Azarath gone... It was HIS fault...!

She saw the four red eyes in the sky in her remembered vision, and emotion fell into her. Fear, anger, confusion, and a sudden surge of hatred. All seemed black... Except those four, red, glowing eyes. Laughter boomed across the infinate skies in a voice Dove only knew too well.

What's happening? Dove asked herself in her night trance. A sudden feeling surged through her body. She had only felt it a few times before... She knew what was happening to her. Memories of the vision faded into a current problem; a major problem at that.

'These emotions are too strong!' Dove told herself. 'Calm down!' She lost her desperate sceams to herself inside her soul; it was going too far. 'NO!' Dove felt the feeling... The emotions are dangerous! I'm losing control! No. No, no no no no NOOO!

Dove screamed in her bed and bolted up, gasping desperately for breath and sweating a cold flood. The realization that she wasn't surrounded by a black infinity didn't comfort her this time; instead, the usually consoling darkness pressed in on her. Dove was still mentally screaming.

The emotions hit a dangerous level that time... Dove gasped in realization. She felt her face and hung her head before shaking it violently and feeling beneath her eyebrows and panicking.

No, no... I can't- I just did!

White bolts of energy were crackling around her body. Dove shakily crossed her legs and began to make a fruitless attempt to calm down, to at least get this under control.

Raven was having a head pounding, heart stopping empathy attack. Following her senses, she ended up in front of Dove's room. She let the door open...

Dove closed her eyes tightly and reopened them.

Raven took a step back, her expression one of disbelief.

Dove felt between her eyes and her eyebrows once more and calmed down a bit once she knew they were no longer there. Then she saw Raven, and her expression, and gasped.

"Oh no," she mumbled so quietly she could barely hear herself.

Raven's mouth opened, but no words came out.

The two girls stared at each other for a while before the crackling white energy faded.

Dove was the first to speak. "I... How... You... oh, Azar..." Dove put her head in her hands and sighed shakily.

"Did... Did you just...?"

Though Raven didn't finish, Dove's powers were going way out of control and she could sense that Raven had seen her closing four eyes.

Dove nodded weakly. "I-I..."

Dove wasn't sure how to tell Raven without telling her, but something was telling Dove that Raven knew almost exactly what had happened.

Raven blinked and stared at Dove intently.

"I-I'm sorry..."

Raven, finding her voice and her senses, replied, "For what?"

"I didn't want... I mean... I shouldn't..." Tears glistened in Dov's eyes, she closed her eyes tightly and let some fall.

"You really can't control your powers, can you?"

Dove shook her head and put her hands up to her face before she began sobbing quietly. "It's-It's s-so frightening..."

Raven crossed the room and sat down next to Dove. "You're fine now, aren't you?"

Dove didn't respond.

"Will you be okay?" Raven wasn't sure how mentally strong Dove was, but she guessed extremely weak, especially compared to herself.

Dove shrugged, and Raven began trying to calm Dove down. "It's alright, Dove... You're okay... Nothing happened... Dove, what was it? It didn't seem exactly like a vision-" Raven stopped herself, realizing that she wouldn't- shouldn't- know.

Dove took a shaky breath and shrugged. "Raven, I'm scared..."

"Of what?"

"Of losing control. It happened to me a few times in Azarath, and..." Sobs.

Dove leaned onto Raven, who was still trying to figure this all out. She hoped it wasn't what she thought... Could it be...? All her life, she had been told and knew that she was the only surviving child, but Dove just proved that wrong.

"Dove..." Raven wasn't sure how to approach it. "You... The eyes...Yesterday you told me you didn't want to talk about your family, or how you got your powers..."

Dove looked up at Raven with moist, violet eyes.

"I can... sometimes sense a restlessness in your soul that I feel a lot..." Raven took a breath. "Is it because Trigon is your father?"

Dove gasped sharply. The color drained from her face as she nodded weakly.

"The Azaratheans told me I was the only one..."

"Srentha was the only person besides my mother who knew of my existence." Dove's voice was weak.

"How did he come to learn about you?"

"He came to where my mother and I lived and came into the room where I was hidden, telling both of them he wanted to play with Sieara. He told me I could come out; he sensed me. He said he wouldn't tell anyone...I could sense he wasn't lying, and came out. He never told anyone..."

"How did he know-"

"He was young- so was I- and he was being trained to use Azar's magic. He was good at it, too."

Raven looked at the pain on her face. "What's wrong? Wouldn't thinking about him make you happier?"

"Most of the time, but there were so many instances when we'd plan to meet in secret, but one of us would have to cancel. And... He went with Azarath..." A fresh wave of tear began flowing from Dove's eyes.

Dove was still leaning on Raven, and Raven let her sob on her shoulder for a few minutes before she sighed softly. "It seems hard for you to move on..."

Dove looked up at her tearfully. "But- Azarath was all my life. The only thing I ever knew..."

"I understand, Dove... It's OK..."

Dove bowed her head.

"Maybe you should try meditating..."

"Won't work... I have enough troubles as it is, but now- just after... that... happened..."

"What was it anyway?" Raven thought she might already know...

"I was remembering the vision, but then my emotions just took off. I couldn't control myself... You saw me with the... You know..." Dove shuddered. "I'm really afaid of giving in. My mother always told me that, unfortunately, I'd never escape the influence..."

"Dove, do you know he's not even alive?"

"Wha...? No..."

"Well..."

"Oh... But it's still in my blood..."

"Unfortunately."

"Very."

"Dove... Do you realize this makes us sisters...?"

"Well... I never thought about it... But... Yeah. We are. Hm..."

Both girls realized how much that explained.

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Explains a lot, doesn't it? What did you think? Tell me, please! Sorry it ended kind of abruptly, but I'm sort of in a hurry to get this done... (on a time limit...) I'll change it when I get the chance.

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