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Chapter 2

Raven woke on a small bed in a equally small room. A warm quilt covered her pale bandaged body. A body that seemed to ache with every breath. She sat up slowly, Partly from her sore bones and stinging burns and partly from caution. Her vision was still slightly blurred as she studied her surroundings. The walls held many jagged cracks and chips. One portion adjacent to her had a large hole in which various pipes and wires were exposed. A night sand stood beside the bed. On it sat a vase with a lone black rose inside it. Her cloak hung on a chair that sat by the far wall. The Navy blue fabric was scared with tares, ugly burn holes, and scorch marks.

Raven sat up tossing the quilt a side. She swung her legs over the side gasping slightly at the back of her bare legs touched the mattress's cold metal support bar. She stood up. Upon doing so she felt sharp pain coarse through her left leg. She shoved her fist in her mouth to stifle a whimper. She limped over to her cloak and wrapped it around herself. A familiar sense of comfort in a unfamiliar place.

Raven then walked slowly toward the doorway, pain coursed through her leg and up to her ribs with every step. She stopped when she heard movement coming from somewhere outside the room. If what ever it was out there was a threat she was in no condition to fight. She closed her eyes and tried to concentrate her power to heal herself, there was nothing. Her powers were not there, like they had abandoned her in her time of need. 'Injured, weak and powerless, this is not good' Raven thought as she propped herself against the door frame. She tried her power again. This time just to muster a ball of dark energy. Nothing. Raven felt like she wanted cry and scream as fear welled its way through her. She felt around her belt and in her cloak for her communicator. Not there or any where else in the room. Of coarse she rolled her eyes. 'That would have been way to easy'.

She could hear the pinging of various pots and pans from the other side of the door. Then a loud crash followed by a series of rather colorful swearing. This is her chance. While who ever it was out there was distracted. Raven opened the door wide enough to see a tall dark form in what looked to be a make-shift kitchenette. He was looking at the fallen cook ware with his hand hovering over them. The pots and pans that lay on the floor floated up and placed themselves on a small table by the almost as small stove. When he lifted the pots and pans Raven felt a odd tug at her very soul. She had a feeling that this man was the reason for her powerless state. A leech she thought. 'He sucked my power out of me like a leech and my escape plan is out The window'

"Why don't you come join me?" the man said turning to face her.

He wasn't a man after all. He looked about the same age as her, with pale skin and wild Black hair. But the thing that caught her attention was his eyes. All blue. Where white of his eyes should be was a light blue then the iris was a medium blue and the pupil was the darkest blue.

"It's not polite to stare" he said with a smile.

His voice was deep but smooth, like a melted dark chocolate. Raven hadn't realized she was staring she quickly turned her gaze to the vase of black roses on the small table in the middle of the room.

"Who are you?" she asked. "Where am I and why did you kidnap me?" she asked trying her best to not let her pain seep into her voice.

"My Name is Noir, this my home ,temporally, and i do not intend to keep you here against your will" he replied. "Merely till you are mended".

"Well, Noir. I appreciate you saving me and all but i feel pretty mended so can i go now, oh and have my powers back?" Raven asked trying to sound sarcastic and unafraid as she could given her state.

Noir seem to consider this as he poured food on to a plate from a frying pan. It looked like some sort of stir fry.

" You can show your appreciation by at least staying for something to eat you've been unconscious for three days, this being the fourth, I'm sure your hungry I know i would be. Of course I have a pretty high metabolism so I can't do more than a couple hours with out getting hungry, as for your powers its nothing personal but I must take caution, fore I had no way to know how you would react upon waking here" He looked at her again. "It appears I made the right call."

"Three days?" Raven asked. Noir nodded. "I need to contact my team they are probably worried sick. If they even noticed I'm gone" she mumbled the last part. Raven took a bold step out of the small room in to the slightly larger one. "Where is my communicator?" she asked.

Noir shrugged. " I didn't see any devices on you when i rescued you" he said. Raven watched him as he set out another plate with stir fry on it. She was trying to detect any sign of a lie since she couldn't use her empathy. He showed no indication of deceit in his expression or in his body language.

"Was there anyone else there?" she asked.

Noir answered her question with one of his own. "What do you mean?"

"The fire, was there anyone else there,I don't know, trying to save me, like some one from my team?" Raven asked crossing her arms as painful as it was to do so. She didn't let show on her face. She fought to keep her expression neutral.

"I saw no one else there" Noir said as he carried two plates to the small table.

Raven dropped her arms. "Are you sure?". She Refused to believe her teammates would abandon her. She searched him again for any form of treachery. She saw none as he sat.

"Please" he said gesturing to the empty chair across from him with the plate sitting on the table in front it.

Not seeing any other option and feeling a little disheartened Raven sat. She looked down at the stir fry. It the basic brown rice with a mixture of vegetables. Raven hugged herself as she asked "is there any thing to drink?"

The mini fridge door opened by itself and two orange soda's floated to the table and landed beside their plates then the fridge door slammed shut knocking of the box of cereal that was on top.

"Oops"Noir mumbled as she spooned the stir fry into his mouth.

Raven who had been watching said "You study magic don't you? other wise i wouldn't feel it when you use your powers"

"And I wouldn't be able to nullify yours" Noir said not noticing Raven hadn't touched her food

"How are you doing that by the way, my powers are not so easily suppressed yet you made them vanish" Raven said looking at Noir from across the table.

"I didn't make them vanish they are still there I just severed your access to them" Noir explained.

Raven found her self faintly impressed I would take a lot of power to do that as well. "How?" she asked.

Noir chuckled. It was a some what pleasing sound. "A magician never revels his secrets Raven". She made no outward reaction to the use of her name, even though she had never gave it.

"I'll make you a deal" Noir said looking up at her from his plate. "Eat all that you have there and I will let you have your powers back".

To sweeten the deal he added. "And I'll tell you how I did it"

Raven stared back at him. "All right". She picked up her spoon and began eating. She found it had gotten slightly cold and was quite spicy so he had to open her can of orange soda. They ate in silence. Raven mulling this stranger over in her head.

He's dark and really attractive, but am i really trusting him to keep his word? after all with out my powers he could just keep me here, I would out up a fight of course but my hand to hand is only at a moderate level and with his powers in tact i doubt i would stand much of a chance. Well he did save me from the fire, but I'm in pain because i can't heal myself. And I don't know where I am or even what time it is since there are no windows or clocks to tell by. And what is with the roses?

Then she started to wonder about the Titans.

The sun was setting as Robin rode his R-cycle through the emptying streets. Cyborg in the T-Car several blocks away while Starfire and Beast Boy were flying over head. Since Raven's communicator was left behind they had no way of tracking her so their search patterns are based on where the reports of a large winged creature show up. The speculations in the news papers and news feeds differ. Some say it is a giant black bird and others say the body is humanoid making this thing a angel type being. All Robin knew for sure is this thing who ever it is or what ever it is kidnapped one of his friends, and be damned if he didn't find her.

"Anything?" Robin asked through the com link in his helmet. "

"No" Cyborg replied sadly.

"Nor here" Starfire said. The sadness in her voice nearly Robin's heart out. He hated seeing so torn. All the more reason to get her back and bring this guy down.

Beast Boy didn't answer. He couldn't in his morph.

Which, was of a lime green Raven.

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