Chapter 3- new Titan

Knight was strapped to a chair. He knew why. The Mark of Scath was dangerous and was a symbol of Trigon, well he only knew that part recently, but still a chair was too extreme. He looked up at the team. Cyborg was the closest as he was scanning Knight for any traces of Trigon or other demon DNA. Starfire was holding Medusa in her arms as if she was protecting her from something. Robin was leaning against the table and just stared at Knight with is arms crossed. Beast Boy was beside Cyborg looking at the scanner's screen. Raven was the furthest from him, her hood was up and she was leaning against the glass looking out. She was trying and failing to hid her fear.

Cyborg's device eventually stopped beeping and a ding sound came from it.

"Good news" he said. This got everyone's attention "he has no DNA related to Trigon or any other demon. At least that we know of"

"Excellent" said Knight "now untie me, please I beg you"

"We can't do that" said Robin

"And why, pray tell, not?"

"Trigon needed you for something, why?"

"You think I've had contact with him. I didn't even know the name until I read Raven's mind the other night"

"So you don't know about what he did" said Raven who had seemed to come out of her trance

"Yeah. I've been inside your head, remember. Look I got the Mark a year ago, around the same time that Raven's memories of battling Trigon were from"

"Could you tell us what happened" said Robin

"Not much of a story, I woke up one morning and there it was. One day it got so powerful it blasted a hole in my school and I ran away. Became a secret vigilant, made a stupid story in my head that I was a warlock to make sense of it all and left it at that"

Robin looked at the others and they looked at him, a moment passed and he walked up to Knight and untied him. He quickly got up.

"Thanks" he said rubbing his wrists

Raven then walked up to Knight and then spoke.

"Knight isn't your real name is it?"

"Of course not. Who calls their kid Knight" he replied

"Well, listen. Knight or whatever your name is. The Mark is powerful and you need to learn the powers that it's given you"

"You just want me to stay, don't you?"

"What Raven is trying to say" said Beast Boy "is that you were good against the Joker"

"And we could use a guy like you" said Robin

"Hold on" said Knight "you're not..."

"Yes" Robin then held out a T phone "welcome to the team"

Knight slowly took the phone from Robin's hand then he shock it with the other on "I will not let you down" he whispered

"Oh yay!" Said Starfire, passing Medusa to Robin and hugging Knight, who was know struggling to breathe because Starfire was crushing is ribs "friend Knight, you will love it here, let us take you to your room"

"Can't... Breath" gasped Knight

Starfire dropped Knight and she, Cyborg and Beast Boy escorted him to his new room. Raven then walked to her own room leaving Robin alone with Medusa who was now starting to cry.

"Oh great" he said

Knight was lying on his new bed. It felt better than the cardboard he'd been sleeping on for the last week, the muffled sounds of Medusa crying was all he could hear. But he wasn't bothered by it. We was lost in thought about his new friends. Already they had warmed up to him and gave him a home. Then his thoughts turned to Raven, about how they both showed off their power to each other how she was the only one of the group to find him, her eyes, how beautiful they were, then he remembered the fear in them when she saw the Mark of Scath. He wanted to make it up to her so he quickly got out of bed and walked out of his room and towards Ravens. When he got there he knocked on the door. It only opened a bit to reveal half her still hooded face.

"What do you want?" She asked emotionlessly

"I-i-I just wanted to drop by and say sorry"

"For what?"

"For making you feel scared"

"I don't do scared"

"Oh come on. You don't have to be a mind reader, which I am, to know that the Mark scared you. And I just want to say sorry for that"

"Oh. Ok. Apology accepted"

"And for the records, your not creepy, don't let the others make you think that way about you, your actually really cool"

A small smile came over Ravens face, she bowed her head slightly "thank you" she said before the door closed into Knight face which was now showing how puzzled he was.

"What the hell just happened" he thought as he walked back to his room.

Raven then returned to the centre of the room, struggling to get her heartbeat under control, what was wrong with her, she remembered how she felt when Malchior was pretending to like her to get her to free him. She was now feeling the same way about Knight, no this can't be happening again, she couldn't go through that again, but she checked, he wasn't in league with Slade or Trigon. But nothing can say it won't happen, it happened with Robin and Terra. And he had the Mark of Scath.

'No' she thought to herself 'if we can help him. He won't turn on us'

She had to meditate on this. Maybe one of her emotions could provide her with some good advise.

To be continued