Title: Fractured
Rating: K
Word Count: 497
Song: In Pieces
Notes: None.
And you, you will be alone. Alone with all your secrets and regrets.
"You never tell me anything!" He shouted, throwing his hands up in unrestrained frustration. "You still haven't let me in. Why can't you trust me?"
She stared levelly at him as he paced the rec room. No one else was around, being wise enough to stay away. "I do trust you," her voice hinted no emotion and it stabbed at his chest.
"You trust me on the battlefield, you trust me as a leader," he clarified, turning away from her. "But you don't trust me as a lover." Richard shook his head and a rueful smiled tugged on his lips. "I wonder if this is even worth it anymore."
He did not see the momentary flash of panic and hurt in her eyes. "You've just given me reason not to trust you or anyone else," she said, rising from the sofa. Her tone so cold it turned his blood to ice. Raven stared dangerously at the man she thought she loved. "There is always chance for betrayal."
The shocked expression on his face as he turned toward her made the empath smile in self-loathing; still she could not keep the words from tumbling past her lips. She would hurt him the way he was hurting her. "You're probably right, a relationship isn't worth this fighting and struggle. It's obvious you're insecure," her tone was cutting as she eyed his frame. "You can't handle being unable to control someone and you can't stand having to depend on anyone."
Grayson was stunned silent for a moment as she watched emotions wash across his face; confusion, anger, shock, pain. She knew it would end this way. There are no happy endings.
He was having trouble controlling his breathing as he stared at her blank face and condemning eyes. His chest hurt as his heart was being strangled. "That has nothing to do with this and you know it." He was outraged that she could accuse him of such, Richard would go to the ends of the Earth—no, he would go to hell for her again if it would make her happy.
"Yes, it does," she said evenly, angering him with how calm she was. "You believe I don't trust you and I know you think I'm cold; I've heard Starfire talking to you about us. However, you are just as guarded as I am, if not more so. I've never seen the real you; I had to go into your head to learn anything about you. You're being a hypocrite."
"Damn it, Raven, that's unfair," was his clipped reply. Frustrated he ran a hand through his hair.
"Life isn't fair," she retorted, walking around him to the exit.
"Don't you leave, we're not done here." The boy wonder called, striding after her to grab her wrist.
"Yes we are, Robin." Pulling away from his slackened grip, Raven spoke from the hallway. "Neither of us are equipped for a conducive relationship, so let's just cut our losses and move on."