AN- I know it's been a while and I'm sorry. After my final exams which end next Wednesday, I'll be writing all the time. Sorry if some people are OOC, I haven't written with them or watched TT in a month or two now.

Heart
Chapter 9: Holes

Robin was speechless. He briefly met Sora's eyes, but then Sora turned away, ashamed. Sora was sitting at Kairi's bedside, holding her hand. Robin licked his lips.

"Well…you can help her, right? Come on Cy, tell me she's going to be okay." Robin's voice never sounded this desperate and pleading, and it made Cyborg grimace.

"I'm going to do my best. You know Rae, she's a tough girl. She'll get through it."
"Thanks." He nodded at his friend, and looked again at Raven. He placed his hand on her forehead, and it was a small comfort for him to notice that it had cooled down from before. Already just the car ride seemed like it was so long ago.

"With her healing powers, do you think she can fix this? Maybe that's why she's unconscious?"
"I want to say yes, Rob, but I really don't know. I mean, it's not a physical attack- it's magic. She's gotten rid of magical injuries before, but they were just cuts and bruises. This is something tricky."

Robin couldn't help it; he turned and glared at Sora. Why was Sora the lucky one, why was Kairi unscathed? Sora had brought all of this trouble with him. Robin knew it wasn't true, that the Heartless were searching for Raven regardless of Sora's appearance, but at the moment it was so much easier to hate him. Especially when Sora wouldn't even notice, wouldn't even look at him.

Robin's anger diminished as Beast Boy and Starfire entered the room with Donald and Goofy, all of them much more quiet and somber than usual.

"How're y'all feeling?" Cyborg asked, "Anybody need me to check them out?"

Everyone shrugged or mumbled an answer and averted their eyes; they obviously thought their own injuries much less than those of Kairi and Raven.

"Well Beast Boy had previously complained of a sprained ankle, although he will not admit it," Starfire announced, unable to hold her silence.

"Star!" Beast Boy whined, "I asked you not to-,"

He was interrupted by a spurt of ferocious coughing, and Cyborg and Robin turned their attention to Raven's bed. Robin gently held down her shoulders to stop her from shaking, and Cyborg held out a glass of water. Robin could see the flecks of blood on her lips.

"Here, here. Take it easy, Rae." Cyborg handed her the glass and she took it shakily, the fit ending. She drank slowly, obviously embarrassed by her episode.

"Guys, I know that you all want to know how Raven's doing, but I need you to leave for now so Cyborg and I can concentrate on helping her get better. Cy will brief you on her condition in the control room in a half hour. Agreed?"

No one seemed completely happy with the idea, but after a moment they all turned and filed out of the Med Bay.

"Beast Boy, lemme look at your ankle later, okay? Don't put any weight on it for now." Cyborg yelled after his friend.

"Sure Cy, thanks."

Now Robin turned and looked at Sora again. Sora seemed to have not noticed any of what had just occurred. Robin was about to speak to him, but Cyborg put a hand on his shoulder.

"His friend is hurt too, remember?" Cyborg muttered, "Have a heart man, let him stay. He's not in our way or anything." Robin reluctantly agreed.

They turned back to Raven; she eyed them warily. When Robin looked closely, he could see that her entire body was shaking and her eyes had lost a little bit of the sharpness and wit they once possessed. Suddenly, Robin felt utterly useless. She might die, and it was entirely his fault. He hadn't even noticed that Cyborg was talking to her quietly until he rose.

"She won't tell me what's hurting her," Cyborg said, slightly irritated. "And I don't want to run any tests in case they make something worse."

"Well, don't we know it's her heart?"

"Yeah, but if there was a certain part of her that hurt, it would be a lot easier to start there and see if Maleficent did damage elsewhere. That might even help us get the answer to help fix everything."

Robin frowned. "Look, I'll talk to her. Why don't you just go down to the control room and brief the team?"

"Good luck, man." Cyborg left, shaking his head.

Pulling the curtain divider between Raven's bed and Kairi's, Robin settled into the chair next to Raven's bed.

"Rae?"

"Mm?" She sounded exhausted, but he knew he had to continue.

"I'm so sorry, this is all my fault. If I hadn't let you be alone during the fight, if I had just known that-,"
She grabbed his wrist and shook her head frantically. "N-no. You- you saved me." He noticed how strained her voice was, and he got to his feet. Her grip slackened.

"Raven, you need to tell us what hurts the most. Just so we can try to help, or at least get rid of the pain without completely drugging you up. I'm sure you'd appreciate the ability to stay awake and alert. Please, tell me. Please."

"First," she coughed, "First, could you just tell me what happened? I know- I know it's bad. But I need to know."

He took her hand, and he could tell how much this action scared her. It was a precursor to bad news.

"Well, when Maleficent was trying to take away your heart, she wasn't done yet, when we stopped her, and now it has all of these…holes."

"Holes?" Her voice quivered.

"Rae, we're going to fix it, I promise. I promise. But we need you to help us fix it if you want to get better. We're not- well, we are superheroes, but I'm just human, you know."

She didn't smile, but he could see in her eyes that she understood. "My chest- it hurts to breathe too much. And I'm a little bit dizzy."

'Thank you."

AN- Ugh sort of a filler chapter but this fic is almost done, I think. It's really just whether I decide that Raven will survive or not. I'd say 2 more chapters, probably.