Day 6: Secret or trust

It wasn't very unlike Raven to hide away in her room. But it did become a problem when she started to miss out on missions. She didn't show up for dinner anymore. Her tea had been untouched for weeks. It wasn't before a month had passed with this behaviour the titans, or Robin, as the other titans were out on patrol. Robin had desiced that it might be for the best if he alone was the one to confront her of whatever was going on.

"Raven?" He knocked on her door gently, as he waited for her to respond, he thought of what he was going to say. Raven, I know something is going on and we're getting worried. Raven, you've been gone for a month, what's going on? What to talk about whatever is going on? All of his ideas weren't good enough. Raven could find her way around each question. He would have to be direct and strick, even though he didn't like it.

When Raven didn't answer after five minutes, Robin knocked again. "Raven? Are you okay?" He leaned against the door placing his ear to the cold metal. He could hear slow and uneven gasps and breath. Was she struggling with something? "Raven?"

She moaned. At first Robin's mind wandered to the inappropriate, but when she moaned again, it sounded more like a moan of pain.

Knowing that she wasn't going to open the door anytime soon, Robin dialed in a panic code. The panic code worked on every room in the tower, they did have their own code to lock the doors, but the panic code was for exactly this, panic. Robin and Cyborg were the only ones knew the code. They didn't want to give it to Beast Boy for obvious reasons, Raven and Starfire were more trustworthy with a code like it, but they kept it away anyway.

The door opened and Robin was quickly overwhelmed by emotions, mostly fear. Was she afraid?

"Raven?" He asked again.

The sound of movement from the bed made him turn. A lump on the bed moved around a little. Robin quickly walked up to the lump and pulled the cover off slightly.

Raven was laying under the covers with her eyes closed and seem to be in pain. She was sweating, shivering, and crying. But she didn't seem like herself completely. Her skin was redder, but it was only in a few spots. Under her eyelids, her eyes seem to be glowing red. Her hair was a mess as it also seem to almost be turning white at the roots. There was also small evidence of ram horns growing out on the side of her head. He didn't notice before but when he looked down her body, he noticed that a third leg was moving around, or it wasn't a leg, it was thinner and moved in many ways a leg couldn't. She seem to be having a tail.

"Raven?" He shook her shoulder gently, feeling how warm she was through his glove. "Raven, wake up." It didn't seem to work, so he shook her harder. "Raven!" He called.

Finally she seem to wake, her eyes shot open, all four of them, glowing red. She gasped and threw herself back resolving in falling off the bed. She cried out "Holy mother of Azar!" Before she seem to fall face first to the ground. She shook her head and looked back at her bed, eyes still red. "Robin?" Her eyes narrowed before widening. "Robin, get out!" She yelled.

"Raven, you've been gone for a month. Do you think I wouldn't get worried?" He asked as he moved to help her up. She took his hand, got up, before pushing him towards the door. "Raven, what's wrong? You've been gone forever."

"Just, I can't tell." She turned away and held onto her arms feeling quite helpless. "Just get out, please."

"Raven, you can't keep secrets like this." He looked her over, this was clearly a demon transformation, she should have told them. "What's happening?"

"Nothing-"

"Bull," She turned slightly to face him. Two fangs had grown out of her lips in the span of minutes. "If You're in danger I want you to tell me. I thought you trusted us. I thought you trusted me."

"I do," She almost yelled, fear, anger, and sadness grew in her voice. "I do trust you, all of you, it's just that…" She trailed off a little. "This is my problem and if I can keep it away from you for a little while I will. This is a secret I hoped I would be able to keep…" She turned away in frustration.

"Raven, you know that we want to help you. No matter the problem, we're family, we take care of each other. All you have to do is trust us, trust me." He grabbed her hand and held it up to his heart. "Even if the problem is only a broken nail."

"This is a little more than a broken nail." She huffed.

"I know, but remember. We're the Titans. We're family. We're here for you. I'm here for you." Without hesitation, he kissed the gem on her forehead. She gasped a little and he saw that her red eyes turned back to purple and the second pair close. Her hair turned back to purple and the horns that started to grow out of her head was growing back into her skull. The tail growing back as well. The red spots on her skin vanished. She blinked a few times.

"You really care that much?" She asked.

"Yes, the only thing we want from you, is your trust." She smiled at his words, as it felt like a flower was blooming in her stomach. "And no more secrets." She nodded.

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I'm so sorry it's late, I thought I uploaded it!