The Furies

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"I need to see her." Slade's normally distant and controlled voice was colored with rage.

"I'm sorry Mr. Wilson, but that was not-" He was cut off by the sight of Slade's gun shaking in the air before him.

"New deal: You allow me to see her, as a visitor, or I kill you." The commissioner trembled with fear at the sight of the gun. It had been so long since he'd been threatened at gun point. He couldn't handle it back then, and now was no different.

"Okay! Okay." The man straightened as Slade put the gun back into its holster. "But if you compromise any information about our dealings with you. Then you will end up on our top wanted list, right above those kids."

"Of course, Commissioner, of course."

They had been sitting in that pipe for a couple days now. They no longer feared that they would be next, they just didn't know what to do. The city would be on high alert now, and they no longer had a hideout, or a home. So all they could do was sneak out daily, for food, for information, and then return to their hole. On one of the outings they had picked up a newspaper and Robin had been obsessively reading one article in it ever since. It was a simple but apparently important article. Front page material in fact. Its title encompassed nearly the whole front page: "TWO OF THE FIVE HADES' CHILDREN ARRESTED AND IN POLICE CUSTODY!"

Robin had memorized most of it by now. It had simply said that both Raven and Beast Boy had been put in special cells in the prison, and were under twenty-four guard. No matter how many times Robin read it, it still said nothing about Beast Boy's injuries, or about any casualties occurring during the capture. So they continued their long wait. They were not sure what they were waiting for, they only knew that when it occurred they would finally know what to do.

She hadn't seen Beast Boy since she had been arrested. And they wouldn't tell her anything, but that was fine. For now. If Raven was anything, she was patient, and she could wait. She would not do anything rash so long as her friends were safe. Killing was not something she enjoyed, but if anything happened to any of her friends, she would rip apart anyone in the way, and slaughter those responsible. Yet, until a time like that came she would have to remain calm, and patient.

"Hey devil!"

That's what they called her here. She looked up at the guard, and raised her eyebrows, waiting for him to continue.

"You've got a visitor." She nodded curtly and waited, eyes locked on the door. A tall muscular man entered from behind the guard. His hair was silver, and he appeared about fifty. He dismissed the guard, and Raven saw that, despite the guard's hesitation, he still obeyed this mysterious man. After the door closed behind him, the man's lip curled slightly, into a malicious smirk.

"Raven. We meet at last." She wished the guard had not left.

"And you are?" Raven would not allow this man any advantage over her. She showed no weakness.

"That matters little. You are the star here Raven."

"I know what you are doing. You think you have the advantage here? You have no idea."

He laughed at this, and Raven scowled in response.

"Clever. But I have the one thing you want, and lack, Raven: information." He was right. This cut through her like a knife, and she almost shook with the effort of staying calm. Her eyes betrayed her rage.

"Yes Raven, I know what happened to Beast Boy. I also know where your friends are hiding. But because you're so conveniently locked inside that cell, I thought I'd come here first. I thought you should kn-"

"Don't." Raven cut him off, she knew whatever he was about to say would shatter her control. She knew that it would be the end.

"You have no idea what you're doing. I don't know who you are, or what I've done to you, but please. I don't want to know what happens next."

He smiled, and she now recognized that look on his face. It was the insanity of grief. She cursed quietly, she knew now he would not leave until satisfied.

"I just thought you should know: I am the one who shot Beast Boy." Her breath quickened, she clenched her fists, angry tears began to drip down her face, but still she contained her rage, like a single soldier holding a door closed against a whole army.

"It was sad really, how easy it was. He must have been in pain though. That's all that really matters anyway.

Especially now that he's dead."

He was so calm, relishing her pain. It was battle of self-control, and Raven was losing. And for a few moments it seemed so quiet, and they both knew the storm was coming. She could feel memories flooding her mind, suffocating her in their emotions. She remembered when they'd first met, he had been the first. They ran from that circus together, she'd helped him to escape. He'd been the closest friend she'd ever had. They-

"LIAR!" She screamed at him. Darkness began to stretch in tendrils across the floor, but were halted by the thick plastic. She hoped that the wall would hold.

"He died that night, on the floor of the hospital."

She could see him there, they mopped the blood from around him, and he cried, but he did not ask for help, he didn't expect their help. She wondered what was the last thing he'd said was. It was probably a joke, he was always-

"You're trying to do this. He's. Not. Dead." The wall still held.

The man smiled wisely at her.

"Then why can't you feel him?"

He was right.

She hadn't sensed him anywhere in days. She'd made excuses. She'd kept hoping.

Now she grew very quiet.

He was right.

Her eyes went from white to red. And the cell rapidly filled with darkness. This time the wall did not hold.

Yet, Slade stood there and laughed. The plastic shards cut deep into him, he still laughed. Then, as everything grew dark, the building began to collapse. The alarm blared, but did nothing, it would be too quick.

But not for Slade. Raven grabbed him and grinned, red eyes gleaming. Then he was gone. And Raven took comfort in that she knew his suffering would never end.

It was not enough.

She needed more destruction. And as the building crashed around her, she laughed and she enjoyed it, and she forgot all about Beast Boy.