The cute part comes next week.

Buried 3

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With the way she gazes blankly up at the ceiling Robin fears that she is already dead. "Wake up Raven! Please..." He breathes a sigh of relief as clarity suddenly comes back into her eyes. Robin holds her down as she tries to move. "No stay still. You have to heal yourself quickly." He sits back watching as her body suddenly levitates above the floor and wound begins to knit back together. As he looks down at his hands Robin realizes how shaken he is from the sight as he trembles. He manages to compose himself and takes the scissors from Raven's hand.

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Just how long its been Raven doesn't know but she cries out weakly as she collapses heavily onto the floor once her powers have healed her. Her throat burns terribly as she tries to contemplate what just happened. She looks over at Robin who kneels beside her.

"You slit your throat."

Raven touches her throat with her hand.

"If I hadn't come back up here-"

"-OK."

"OK what?"

"You can go into my mind if you think that answer to what's wrong is there somewhere. I'm sorry I should have listened earlier..."

"...Rest now. Just let me in and I will figure this out."

Raven nods as Robin picks her up from the floor and lays her down on the bed. She points over to the mirror laying on the dresser. "You will need to go through the portal. Please be careful."

"I will." He looks down at the bloody floor hesitating before he speaks. "Maybe it would be a good idea if the others come up here and stay with you while I'm gone."

Raven nods her head slightly in agreement.

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Cyborg looks down at the display on his arm as Robin calls. "Everything okay up there?" He can feel the tension as there is a marked silence before the reply.

"Raven is going to let me go into her mind. I think you all should come up and stay with her while I'm gone...and bring some cleaning supplies."

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Several minutes later Beast Boy stands in the doorway in shock over what he sees.

Starfire seems to take little note of how gruesome the sight is and begins cleaning before a stain sets in.

Cyborg talks to Robin in the hallway. "So when you came up here and she had slit her own throat?"

"She snapped out of it when I came back and healed herself."

"I really think we need to call a doctor."

"If I don't find anything in her mind then I won't argue with that. I really do think the answer is there."

"Alright, but I'm going with you."

Robin nods. As he goes back into Raven's room Cyborg follows him. He approaches Raven. "Is it OK if Cyborg goes with me?"

"I think it would be safer that way." She waves her hand toward the mirror on the dresser opening the portal.

Beast Boy backs way out into the hall as Robin and Cyborg approach the mirror and are pulled inside.

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Robin looks around at the starlit outer space vista before him. What ever he expected it wasn't this but it seems very fitting for Raven. "Whoa!"

"That's what I thought when Beast Boy and I got sucked in here. Any idea what we're looking f..." Cyborg pauses as a small figure darts out onto the path ahead of them. "That looks like one of Raven's emoticlones but younger."

"I think we may have just found what we're looking for."

"I've never seen that one before."

Robin and Cyborg look back to see Raven.

She shrugs. "Where do you think I end up when I meditate?"

Robin turns back as the figure darts out again. He realizes its playing with a strange looking bird that flies around. "Careful we don't want to startle her."

They move slowly toward the little girl who looks like a much younger version of Raven dressed in white.

She stops as she spots the others looking up at them. She focuses on Cyborg. "Why are you part metal?"

"I'll tell you what happened to me if you tell me what happened to you."

"You first."

"I had an accident. I was hurt very badly. My father worked in robotics and he didn't give up on me. He made robot parts to replace may damaged limbs."

"Was he bad?"

"Who?"

"Your father."

"No."

"My father is a monster. I should be dead, but he sent me back so I could be his portal later."

"Slow down. What exactly happened?"

"It was my birthday." She looks over at the bird on a nearby rock. "I never got a present before. My mom gave me a toy like that. I was playing and all the sudden there a was a shadow and I was grabbed." She holds her throat. "I couldn't scream everything got dark and then the monster appeared. Told me he was my father. He sent me back to be his portal."

Robin looks over at Raven.

"I remember getting the toy bird as a present but not the other stuff. Trigon may have reached out to me but my powers would have healed me. That's what they were for to keep me alive for him. If I was so sure I was dead then the monks could have buried the memory in my mind."

"And it got out when the crook grabbed you at the jewelry store robbery. That part of you is what has been taking control of you ever since. Do you know how to stop it?"

Raven look over at Robin. "Stop a memory that has a form like my emoticlones?" She shakes her head no.