Here you go! A conversation with Raven, though it may be short. I hope it meets everyone's wants, and I'm sorry if it doesn't.

aspiringTechGuy: I thought the villain was Firefly, not Firebug. I really tried to give her an original name…. And last chapter I just had it that the super villains just jumped in and thought they could finally take down the League if they had help from the OC villains. I guess they failed. I was gonna have a few OC villains show up in the next book as well.

Chapter 15

CJ didn't remember the trip back up to the Watchtower and into the lounge area. She had somehow obtained a rather warm and fuzzy blanket, and was very grateful for whomever provided it for her. She did remember Wonder Woman coming to visit her.

After CJ apologized many times, and Diana insisting that it wasn't her and that everyone understood, she told CJ about what happened.

Black Canary had successfully gone back to CJ's world and destroyed the teleporting devices, but one more had gone through before she could destroy them completely. She teleported back with a remote that Batman had made, and that was when CJ had seen the man, right before she had lost control.

CJ was told that that man had taken control of her, and his name was Dr. Raphael Norman, and had been trying to discover teleportation for years. When he finally did, he discovered that this world had people with powers, and he wanted an ability. He sent cameras through a portal, and studied this world, to see what needed to be done to obtain powers. Norman knew that there would be people to put him in jail if he got powers, and so created an army of willing people with the metagene who were intrigued by the idea of getting powers. He was now in a cell in Arkham.

CJ wasn't told how the man had figured out how to determine if one had the metagene or how he created a portal made for specifically one person. After she was told that he had taken control of her, she didn't want to listen anymore. She didn't understand half of it, and didn't want to. She didn't even want to think about today, and just wanted it to be over with already.

The last thing Diana told her was that the portal had injured Black Canary, and that she was still in a coma in the med bay. Also that no one else got hurt, and she didn't have to worry about it.

Wonder Woman left after making sure that CJ was okay, which she was. That didn't stop her from having another visitor.

CJ thought she looked familiar, but couldn't tell. She had a dark purple cloak around her, somewhat hiding most of her in the shadows. She removed her hood to reveal jet black hair that reached her pale shoulders and sat on the opposite side of the couch from CJ. At first, CJ thought that maybe she didn't understand personal space, seeing that there were three more couches and dozens of chairs to sit in. When she looked over to her, after squinting her eyes at the young woman that stared straight ahead, CJ finally recognized her. She was a Teen Titan, or had been with them at the battle.

Then she spoke, and CJ didn't try to stop her, but listened in silence, unmoving.

"I am Raven." CJ didn't know if it was her real name or her hero-secret-identity name, and she didn't clarify; it was unnecessary. "I know what it's like to not be able to control my powers. It's a little scary, having all the power and potential to hurt another. Sometimes, emotions take over, even for a split second, and someone gets hurt because of it. Fear, anger, anxiety, happiness; all of them. You're not prepared, and the powers are just instinct trying to protect yourself.

"I, and many others, have learned that you will never be a hundred percent in control of your powers. You may think you are, believe me, I have many times, but having emotions will always contain a connection to the powers. We can only hope that the control we do have will be enough." By the end, she had quieted and sounded as if she was trailing off, but she was done.

CJ felt tears spring to her eyes. Raven, like some of the others, knew what she was going through, but she was actually willing to spill her guts out. CJ could see that she was uncomfortable, maybe embarrassed and angry.

CJ didn't want to make anything worse, and she definitely wouldn't have liked her listener to talk. She let out a small sigh of relief. "Thank you," she said softly, sure that she was heard across the couch. She was.

Raven stood, the deep purple hood replaced on her head to cloak most of her face in shadows, the cloak around her covering her shoulders and arms wrapped around her to make her seem darker. She and CJ shared one more small glance of understanding before Raven left the room in silence.

CJ really had needed to hear it. She had heard others say how it was difficult to control their powers, either to CJ or she had heard them from eavesdropping; but Raven had said it with emotion, had brought past experiences and possible future experiences into it. CJ had had similar situations, and was grateful that she was not alone.

The process of getting her powers in check was a very long and complicated one.

Ted Wallace suddenly showed up, making CJ wonder what he had been doing while she was down in New York with the others. She didn't make eye contact until he was sitting next to her, a cushion away, staring straight ahead.

Finally, he turned to her, and their gazes met. "Diana told me that you were here."

She shifted and looked away. "Did she tell you what happened?"

She could see him shake his head as he, too, turned away.

She sighed, not in anger or annoyance; she wanted to tell him, but was humiliated, guilty, shamed and embarrassed that she had almost burnt down the city. She told him anyways, hesitating at the part with Norman. She didn't know someone could take control of another's body like that, and it scared her. She never wanted it to happen again.

While she told him the story starting from where she had last yelled at him, he said nothing. He nodded at appropriate times to encourage her to continue to talk, and frowned when tears returned. When she almost broke, he still said nothing, and only waited. Somehow, he knew that she wanted him to stay where he was, silent, because CJ didn't want any comfort.

CJ was very grateful that he respected her untold wishes, and while he took it all in, she wondered how he did that. How he knew exactly how to act around her. She hadn't really seen him around anyone else, but she felt that he respected others' feelings and adapted to everyone like this. She grew uncomfortable for some reason knowing that he was kind to only sit there. It was how she and her sister Caroline spoke, when they needed to share their frustration or unhappiness.

She felt much better after a while, and he cheered her up immediately. She enjoyed hearing him speak about random yet interesting facts. "You know, there's a 2,346 to 1 chance that, if you're looking up at the moon at the right moment on a clear night, you just might…."

While Diana, Raven and Ted were nice to her, when Batman encountered her, she felt extremely guilty. And a little angry.

When she saw him walk in, she immediately stood, throwing the comfortable blanket around her. She didn't wait for him to begin. "I know why you're here. You're here to yell at me, and you know what, I don't want to hear it!" She was a little shocked that she was standing up to him, but his expression remained blank.

She sighed. "I know I messed up. I almost blew up the city. But I had to stop that Shadow Man. If I didn't, he would have used my powers to hurt you guys. I was only trying to help." She sighed again. It felt good to say all that. By how much she knew Batman, she knew that he was one hundred percent angry, but CJ still felt that she was right.

After a long moment of him staring at her, he simply asked, "You don't think we couldn't have handled it?"

She blinked, unconsciously holding her breath. The thought had never crossed her mind, and she immediately hated herself. But he rubbed it deeper into her face, and the whole time his voice remained even and calm, along with his face. "Do you know how many alien invasions this Earth has had? Do you know how many villains and crooks we've locked up? Too many to count, but I actually have. He took over your body and your powers, but honestly, your powers aren't that difficult to contain. With just enough subzero temperature, we could have stopped him. Superman has already proven that we can."

He took a menacing step forward, and though he didn't sound or look angry, CJ knew that he was, and jumped back in fear. She had said her piece, but he was proving her wrong.

"You said that you never wanted to hurt another person again. If the Justice League hadn't been there, you would have flattened the city, and the millions of people that reside there. Next time, think of that before you try to stop a villain on your own."

With one last odd and frightening moment held between them, he turned and left CJ to think that through. She did, and the conversation stayed with her for the rest of her life. He was completely right; she had thought she knew what she was doing, and she hadn't. She knew she could trust the League to stop her if she became a threat to this world.

But would they actually do it?

If you didn't know: This was a short chapter, I know, but it didn't fit well with the next.

Next chapter will be the last. I really enjoy writing about CJ, and I'm glad everyone likes her story as well. I'll just say that if anyone wanted to see a certain hero/villain and they weren't in this story, I promise I'll put them in the next book. Yes, there will be a next book. I would have made it all one but I didn't really like the idea of my story being 100,000 words. Well, 80,000, because this is 40,000 and the next will be close to that. I just think it's too much.

So tell me who you want to see, and stay tuned to actually read them. Are there any suggestions? The last chapter is coming soon.

To be continued….