A/N Thank you to all the people reviewing and following. I really hope you enjoy this chapter, it was interesting to write, especially the end. If you have any questions about it do not hesitate to ask me in a review or a message. keep those reviews going :D Also I do not own Teen Titans in any way shape or form, and there's a small language warning here because people say nasty things when they're angry.
Sandra sighed after Raven had finished telling her what had happened. It was at this point that Raven noticed Sandra hadn't looked her in the eye the entire time she had been talking. Raven knew she was hiding something. Sandra looked up and Raven felt the guilt rolling off of her in waves as they finally locked eyes.
"How long have you known that she was going to try and find me?" Raven asked. Her voice was a quiet monotone. She couldn't risk letting her emotions get the best of her control. This subject seemed to be one of the few fuses that could short circuit her powers, and was also the one that hurt her the most.
"Raven, please understand that I didn't think she was actually going to go looking for you," Sandra started before cut her off.
"Tell me!" Raven snapped; her voice flooded with the anger she couldn't hold back. It hurt her that Sandra would've kept something like this from her.
"Fine! She told me over a month ago! She came to me in the middle of the night drunk and crying. She kept talking about how much she had fucked up. She screamed about how leaving you was the biggest mistake that she had ever made. She told me she was the biggest fucking idiot for leaving you, and she hated herself for it. Eventually I got her to calm down enough that she eventually fell asleep. When she finally woke up she panicked and made me swear I wouldn't say anything to you. I figured because she was so messed up that she didn't mean any of it that it would be okay. Apparently it isn't though." Sandra finally finished.
Raven stood speechless as she looked at the other woman. She was at a complete loss for words and felt like her breath had completely left her. Her emotions screamed at her to leave and pretend it never happened, but she was frozen where she stood. She couldn't believe it.
"I can't believe she would stoop so low as to tell you this shit to try and hurt me more." Raven hissed. Her voice was as cold as ice.
"Rae, I'm sorry, but I don't think she was joking. I've never seen her in that much distress." Sandra reached out and tried to put her and on Raven's shoulder, but Rae quickly pulled away.
"I'm sorry, I need to go. Now." Raven said quickly before getting her coat back on. She needed to get out of there as fast as possible. Sandra grabbed Raven's arm and looked her straight in the eye.
"I'm not getting in the middle of this Raven. You're dealing with this on your own." Sandra said pointedly. Raven nodded and pulled away from the other girl's grasp before heading out the door into the darkness of the night.
The first thing Raven noticed when she got out was the faint feel of rain on her skin. It was a little known fact, but Raven loved walking in the rain. It made her feel at one with the world around her. It was almost calming to her. She sighed and looked up into the darkness above, letting the droplets run down her face. She welcomed their coolness on her burning skin.
Raven decided to walk home. As she made her way through the deserted streets, she became lost in her thoughts. She didn't know what to make of this. Jinx was bad news, and Raven had already had enough of that in the past few days.
Raven's mind flicked back to the thought of her last girlfriend, Delilah. Her mind's eye tried to remember all the details of her. She was an attractive girl to say the least. Her personality balanced Raven's perfectly. Raven; however, just wasn't in love with her. She loved her, much as one would love a puppy or a best friend, but the "spark" that people love to talk about just wasn't there. She knew what she had done was the right thing in ending it, but a small part of her wished that Dee was there now to help her out. She did always have the best advice.
When Raven snapped out of her thoughts she noticed two things. First was that she was standing outside the door to her house and had been for at least a few minutes. Second was that she was soaking wet and that she was shivering.
Raven unlocked the door and flipped on the light-switch. Her clean, organized house welcomed her. A small smile graced her lips as for the first time that night she found something nice to appreciate. She took off her shoes, careful to not let any mud get on her carpet, and laid them out on the porch, right outside the door. She made her way to her bathroom to take a shower.
Raven gasped slightly as the air of her bathroom (which was always colder than the rest of her house) hit her wet body. She quickly undressed and turned the heater, and the shower, on. She waited a few minutes to let the water heat up before getting in. A content sigh left her lips as the hot water warmed up her cold body. She stayed in the heat for as long as possible before turning the water off and going to get her pajamas.
After getting redressed, and grabbing a mirror and book, she went into the living-room and sat on the couch. She grabbed the book, feeling the familiar weight of it, and flipped to a page. She tried to read it, but she knew that nothing was going to help her concentrate until she settled the issues in her mind.
Raven laid the book down on the end table next to her couch and moved to sit in the middle of her living-room floor. She closed her eyes and willed away the sounds of the outside that were threatening to slip in. Gradually the sound of the odd car passing by gave way to silence, and the dim light seeping through her windows gave way to total darkness. Her eyes opened and she saw a path in front of her. She walked along it. As she made her way down the path one by one she saw lanterns being lit.
Raven started to hurry towards the stone circle she knew was in the center. A table met her eyes as she got closer and there they were. Her emotions all sat waiting for her. Silence met her ears, causing her skin to prickle with the atmosphere of the meeting. As she finally got to the table, taking her seat at the end, she saw that all of the emoticlones hoods were up. She could not see their faces.
A figure stood up, her lilac cloak hiding her body. As she took her hood off Raven gasped. Her face looked more like a skeleton than a clone of Raven. Her hands shook slightly. Raven took the opportunity before she started speaking to examine more of her.
Although her body was hidden, by the way the cloak hung from her Raven could tell that her body was no better than her face. Her hair hung like greasy string from her head. Black circles were so dark around her eyes that from a far off distance it would look like she only had holes where her eyes should be. Her cheeks sunk in, making her face pointed, and her skin was a dark grey color. She looked like what Raven imagined her own corpse would look like. The figure took a rattling breath, before speaking.
"Greetings Mistress, we were beginning to wonder if you were ever going to come and face us."
