A/N Thanks again to my readers. I think I'd like to take some time to thank my lovely awesome reviewers.

Dak Hamee: You are awesome. You're reviews make me smile and I'm sorry that the last chapter was short, I tend to type these up late at night before I go to bed. Hopefully this one make up for the last one haha. Oh! Also, thank you for the lovely compliments :D

Coot: Thank you, I hope you enjoy the rest of the story like you enjoy it so far

DISCLAIMER: Small language warning, and I still don't own these characters

Raven awoke the next morning to sunlight streaming through her open windows. As she yawned and stretched, she noticed something different about her. First, she wasn't hung-over (which was custom on a Sunday morning). Second, was that she hadn't been woken up by her alarm clock, but by the natural light flitting through the window. Third, was that the other half of her bed was empty (although she quickly remembered why that was). Finally, the hollow ache that had been in her chest for so long was gone now. Her emotions were at peace once again.

Raven got up and walked into her kitchen. It was strange for the house to be quiet this late in the morning. She put a kettle of water on the stove, and absorbed the quiet. The sound of the kettle whistling brought Raven out of her thoughts after a while and back to reality. She took the kettle off and went to start making her tea. A small smile graced Raven's lips as the scent of the tea she was making hit her nose. It was floral with small hints of citrus, and it comforted Raven.

Raven sat on the couch with her tea and looked around for the remote. After she found it (it had been laying on top of one of the pillows) she flipped the tv on and started watching the news. Nothing interesting, or suspicious, was on. It seemed to her that it would be a quiet Sunday, which she would enjoy. She decided that she would take advantage of this day, and go into town.

Raven quickly checked the temperature out, and then went up to her bedroom to figure out what to wear. she opened the white doors to her closet and stared inside for a while, before grabbing the first pieces of clothing that caught her eye. After pulling on the blue and black shirt and the skinny jeans, she went to the bathroom to finish getting ready. When finished, she made her way back to the living room and pulled on her shoes and grabbed her keys. She thought about driving, but decided that since is was such a nice spring day, she could just walk instead.

The warm sun caressed Raven's face when she got outside. It had been a very cold winter, and this sunlight was a nice change of pace. As she was walking, Raven was trying to figure out where to go. She hadn't been to her favorite bookstore in a while, and she needed a few more books of a questionable nature, so she finally decided to head that way.

It didn't take Raven very long to get there. Although it should have been busy and the streets of Jump should have been packed, most families were out at the park. Many others were at the fair that was a few miles out of Jump. Raven though preferred to be outside her favorite café with a new book just enjoying the weather itself.

Raven opened the door of the bookshop with a familiar ease and let the smell of both old and new books to calm her down. It was one of the odd smells that Raven loved. She muttered a quick hello to the girl that was at the counter, a new girl, and then went to find Nate, the owner, to let her view a different collection of sorts. After a few minutes of looking around, she found him shelving a new shipment of sci-fi books.

"Hello, Nathanial, " She chuckled, "Do you have anything interesting in for me today?" Nate jumped slightly at her speaking, he wasn't expecting anyone to be here this early or on a day like this, least of all Raven.

"Is that who I think it is?" He asked, not believing that the girl was actually there. It had been months since Raven had been there. She had missed the place, but she had been so busy with her relationship that she couldn't stop by.

"Who else would call you by your full first name?" Raven jokingly snapped back. Nate was the other person, next to Sandra, that Raven trusted. She even used to help out here on weekend when she had no plans. The man in front of her laughed and ran a hand through his short, spiky, blonde hair.

"Rae, I've told you a thousand times to quit doing that. It's Nate, Nathanial is too stuffy sounding." He shook his head and hugged her, only because it made her uncomfortable and it was pay back for calling him Nathanial.

"And yet I still continue to do so," Raven said, voice thick with sarcasm, "Anyway, have you been saving up books for me?" she asked. Raven was like a small kid when it came to books. She could never get enough of them and always wanted more. The shelves in her home were packed with books from Lovecraft all the way to little known old English texts by sorcerers.

"Of course I have, but there's another customer like you here." Nate started to say as he led her back into the storage part of the store and started to open the door. This put Raven's nerves on edge, the only other person in Jump that would be looking through sorcery and witchcraft books in a bookstore like this would be,

"Jinx." Raven stated as she saw the bubblegum haired witch stare at her from behind the book she was reading. Raven's emotions were picking up into a whirlwind of confusion, anger, love, and pain. She didn't know whether to run or stay. She couldn't just run out of the store and leave them there. She told

Sandra that she would at least try to make an effort to end this fighting, but she didn't know if she was ready.

"Raven, " Jinx started to say before thinking it unwise and shutting her mouth. Nate looked at them both oddly before shrugging and shaking his head.

"You know where I'll be if you need to find me Rae." He said before turning, shutting the door, and leaving. Raven started to skim over the books in front of her as she tried to fight the suffocation of the silence in the room. To say that the place was uncomfortable to her was an understatement. Finally Raven just grabbed some books and sat at the table in the corner to skim over them.

Though she was trying, trying being the key word, she couldn't help but steal glances at the thief that had stolen her heart. With love back in Raven's emotions, it was harder to fight the urges she had every time she looked at her. Sandra's story of what happened kept echoing in her mind. Raven wanted Jinx. She wanted to grab her and hold her. To kiss the lips that she used to claim as hers. To run her finger through the pink hair that she once used to stroke so lovingly before falling asleep. She wanted Jinx back and she wanted it bad.

It seemed like hours had passed in that small room from the silence, but it couldn't have been more than ten minutes. Raven had finally settled into some lesser form of uncomfortableness with Jinx in the room also. As much as Raven wanted to read the book in front of her, she couldn't. She looked up and sighed before noticing that Jinx was standing only a few feet away, looking from her to the seat in front of her. It was the only other seat in the room, and Raven knew she wanted to sit down.

"You can sit." She muttered quietly before looking back and attempting to read the book again. She heard the scratching sound of the chair being pulled out and Jinx sitting. Time passed in silence once again as the two ex-lovers sat and read.

"Hey, Rae...I know you don't want to hear me, but please let me talk to you at least this once. I want to apologize." Jinx said quietly. Raven couldn't tell if it was meant to be heard or not. Jinx wasn't one to be quiet about things, so this was even more strange. Raven sighed quietly. Her emotions were swirling again, but she tried to keep them under control as best as she could.

"It's Raven. Not Rae. I'm willing to listen, unless you try and pull the same shit you did the last time you did this." Raven spit out venomously. She didn't mean to, but fear and rage were coursing through her as a natural defense to her fear. Nobody had ever had this much power over Raven, and her emotions, and her heritage, did not like that. She was supposed to be the one in control of the situation. Jinx paled slightly and almost chickened out. Raven could feel Rage's smile as she felt the fear roll off the other woman. Jinx swallowed the lump in her throat before starting to speak.

"Raven, it's been three years. Three years that the thought of you has weighed on my mind, that the image of has haunted me. I want to apologize. I was an idiot. If I could go back in time and change everything, I would. Losing you was the worst mistake I could make." Jinx looked like she was about to cry as she continued to talk, "I was such a fucking idiot. I can't believe I let you slip away like that. I can't believe how big of a fucking mistake I made." Tears were flowing freely down Jinx's face now, "I've looked for you for three years. I asked Sandra how you were, and constantly checked on you. I needed to see you again, but anytime I got close I chickened out and ran away. Then when I finally got the courage, I saw you with that other girl. You looked so happy and I didn't want to ruin that. I thought you had finally gotten over me and that you had moved on. I asked Sandra and she told me that I didn't have any hope in getting you back, Raven. I-" Jinx's voice cracked as she lost the words she was trying to say.

Raven sat there in shock as she tried to process everything that Jinx had just said. She didn't know what to say, let alone do. Raven's mind was a hurricane in the wave of Jinx's tears. She knew that if Jinx would have asked her she would have dropped everything and held her as closely as she could and would've kissed the tears from her eyes.

"Jinx." Raven started, grasping to find the words. The witch's head snapped up at the sound of her name.

"Yes Rae?" She asked hesitantly.

"Do you know what I've been through in the time you left me. Apart from drowning myself in alcohol and one night stands to make the hole inside me go away, I had to deal with you prancing around with Him like a fucking show pony. Worst of all though? You left me to deal with all of that shit by myself. Alone. Even now I don't know what to do. I won't lie to you Jinx, you have hurt me the worst of anyone that has been that close to me. I got into a relationship where he made me feel like shit because I thought I deserved it because of you." The hurt in Raven's voice became more and more apparent as she kept talking. "I never got over you Jinx! I've had to live comparing every relationship I'm in to you. Every kiss, every touch, everything. Do you know what that's like? I can't put anything into it except sex because I don't want to get close enough to be hurt like that ever again."

Love was screaming at Raven to grab Jinx and hold her as she stared into the pink haired woman's watery eyes. Her tears had stopped falling when Raven was talking and now they sat hovering at the corners of her eyes, threatening to fall out onto the table. Raven was shaking, whether out of fear or anger though Raven wasn't sure. Raven stood up quickly and went to leave, but Jinx grabbed her arm.

"Raven, wait." Jinx said. Raven turned and looked Jinx in the eyes before pulling her arm out of the others grasp. Jinx went to say something, but Raven put her off.

"Even now, you know what I want to do? I want to grab you, hold you, kiss you, and tell you everything will be okay. It's been three years since you destroyed me, and I still love you. I still want you. I'd still give up the world for you, and if I didn't know that it's a bad idea then I probably would." Raven went and walked to the door before hesitating for a minute.

"I love you Jinx." She said quietly before walking out as fast as she could, leaving Jinx to sit there open mouthed in shock.