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Chapter 14
"Tattle Tale"

Red X:

I have to admit, awake and off of Cyborg's shoulder, the girl is rather pretty. But, unfortunately, I have sworn off women unless its someone who has looks, a brain and is absolutely human comes along.

This girl didn't seem all too bright but I knew nothing about her heritage.

She spoke weird. "Please, where are we and who do I have the joy of doing the action called 'meeting'?"

People blinked in confusion.

Raven sighed and translated. "She said, where are we and who are you?"

Starfire, I believe is her name, looked around confused before watching Raven, her hands folded elegantly in her lap as she stood. "Please, is that not what I said?"

"Uh. . ." Raven held her arm uncomfortably.

Kole saved her, stepping away from me and skipping towards Starfire. "Hello, I'm Kole, who're you?"

Starfire brightened visibly. The girl was practically glowing. "Hello, friend! It is most joyous to meet you!"

Starfire hugged Kole. My hands curled into fists behind my back at Kole being in such close proximity to a dangerous person. But the only thing that required worrying was that Starfire seemed to hug particularly tight. Great. Everyone introduced themselves. She hugged or shook hands with everyone. She seemed a hell of a lot stronger then she looked. I remained out of view, ignoring them now, so she did not notice me.

Stupid Jinx.

"Hey, Tic-Tac-Toe! Come here!" Jinx shouted at me, irritated but playful.

With a sigh, I turned in my chair. The girl was staring at me as I did so, curious. Her eyes widened when she saw me. Probably because of how creepy I tend to be. I'm not complaining, no, quite the opposite really. I love scaring the hell out of people.

It makes my day.

"Starfire, this is Red X," Jinx said. "The ass."

"Thank you, Jinx," I snapped back, hissing but also teasing.

Starfire hovered over to where I was an extended her hand, smiling nervously. "H-Hello, new friend. It is nice to meet you!"

I took her hand, like a gentlemen would. "The pleasure is mine, dear. Now, tell us, where do you come from?"

I released her and she seemed ecstatic about my question. But I think she took it a little too serious.

"Oh, I come from the planet Tamaran!" She said, grinning. My eyes widened when I finally realized that her eyes were not normal. I just hadn't noticed. Her eyes were completely green, no part of it was white, like a normal human. True, it was different shades so they were very pretty on her, but . . . so, she was an alien? I relaxed. Whatever.

"I don't think that's what he meant, Star," Jinx said, rolling her eyes. "But, well, anyways, we need to get you home."

Starfire turned, looking confused, turning to my 'little sister'. "Friend, I am confused. Why should I be leaving for home so soon?"

Suddenly, which made us all freak at that moment, an alarm started going off. Then we realized it wasn't the Safety House alarm and all eyes turned to Starfire. The formerly black charms on various places on her costume were now flashing red and beeping. Like the beeping you'd here before something exploded but we doubted it was that.

Jinx looked horrified. She looked at Raven. "Everyone but Starfire, Kid Flash and I hide!"

Raven then lifted her cloak and things went black.

Jinx:

Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god oh god!

I did not have a lie for this! And I forgot to disable the tracking device we had placed on her and all the other Titans! Now that plan was going to bite me in the ass.

Damnit!

Starfire hit the button, her suit changing back. Shortly after the roof exploded. I prayed wherever Raven had taken them, it was far from here. Starfire screamed as the walls collapsed around us and Kid Flash pushed us both behind him, protecting from it. When it stopped he put his arms down. I looked up and paled. Robin, Speedy, Bumblebee, all of them were there. Standing on the roof frame. Staring down at us in anticipation, waiting for a fight.

The lie came to me then.

"What have you done!?" I shrieked, feigning anger as I shouted, looking around at the shattered roof horrified.

Robin then looked at the three of us confused. His eyes roamed the now partially aflame building and I made tears form in my eyes as I ran around, looking at everything in shock. Playing along, Kid Flash placed his hand on my shoulder before giving Robin a glare. Starfire also looked sad. They were playing along. Thank god.

"What . . . What's going on?" Robin demanded, jumping down next to us. "Jinx, what-?"

I spun around and hexed him, knocking him into the wall. Kid Flash was holding me back at once, my struggling nothing to him. Lean as he was, he was a lot stronger then me. "You destroyed it!"

"What?" Speedy cut in, standing next to our leader. Starfire stood in front of me, trying to calm me. I wasn't sure if she knew I was acting, but it didn't matter. The more convincing the better I guess. "Starfire, what's going on?"

"You son of a bitch, you destroyed my home!" I screeched, my struggling increasing.

Starfire turned and looked at Robin in disbelief and shame, shaking her head at him. "Robin, I believe you have done . . . the bad thing."

"What are you talking about, Star? Why are you all here?"

I finally shoved my elbow into Kid Flash's stomach, which he played off that it actually hurt, and I grabbed Robin's collar in my hands. Starfire squeaked in shock. "You pompous, arrogant, stupid, asshole!" I shouted into his face. "I took Starfire and Kid Flash to come see my home! Where I grew up! And you just blew it up!"

Robin looked stunned and then Starfire tore my hands away from Robin's collar. She hugged me tightly. I wasn't lying but again, I wasn't telling the whole truth either. "It is okay, friend. Calm down, please."

I began sobbing into her shoulder then and then I felt eyes that did not belong on me. I peaked up, since my back was to everyone but Kid Flash, and directed my gaze towards the beams from the roof. A pair of blue eyes with a feminine body and a mask with a masculine shape, well hidden and hardly noticable, watched me back.

Kole and Red X. Oh no. Not them! I let my eyes go back into Starfire's shoulder and cried tears of fear, now.

"Jinx . . ." Robin's voice said, "I . . . I didn't know. I'm so sorry-!"

I felt Starfire release me and soon after, Kid Flash embraced me instead. He was very quiet speaking to me. "Someone didn't leave." He breathed. At first I thought he meant Kole and Red X but then he added, still rubbing my back. "They're all still here."

"Just get out, Robin." I said, quiet now. I was panicking on the inside. They needed to leave or we might be caught was not what I had planned on taking Kid Flash to at all. Not in the least. "Please, just leave."

The glass shattered then. The large window in the corner, exploded.

It was not empty.

But it was . . . a rock?

Robin walked over and picked it up. We all leaned in, curious, although I simply peeked over Kid Flash's shoulder. To my surprise, and surely to everyone else's, there was a piece of paper attached to it. Robin red it out loud, slowly.

"The witch lies, look . . . up?"

Everyone's eyes turned on me. I was obviously the witch but . . . who had thrown the rock. My face was the perfect image of confusion and lingering sadness as tears still streaked down my face but Robin's eyes narrowed. The great leader no longer believed my story, I imagine. But that was when someone gasped and we all looked up. I turned and faced back to back to them all, looking around to realize we were surrounded. But I noticed two pairs of eyes missing. Thank god.

"Titans-!" Before Robin could finish a red X shaped glop covered his mouth, keeping him from finishing. The force knocked him over, onto his back and he struggled to take the X off. But the glop stuck to his hands. But everyone got the message and began wildly shooting in the dark. Some grunts were heard but everyone, including those who had been missing like See-More, dropped gracefully from the mantles of the ceiling.

Speedy looked directly at me, glaring hatefully. "Your home, huh?"

"I didn't-!" I said, shocked, because everyone would understand. My family would not my friends. But everyone was giving me a hateful glare, Starfire receiving only one hurt one from her beloved Robin. She looked at the floor. I couldn't see Kid Flash's face but I imagined he was just blank from the lack of response his hands had on me now.

Robin somehow managed to get Red X's stuff off and shouted, pointing at the three of us, including Starfire. But his gaze was on Kid Flash and I.

"Traitors! Get them!"

The fight broke out. Red X appeared in front of us, his back hunched, stiff, like a cat ready to pounce.

He looked at us, glaring. "Get out of here!"

Starfire bit her lip before standing firm. "I shall tell the truth. I will not cower from this."

"Suit yourself, but you two are leaving." He added, more forcefully at me and Kid Flash. More quietly he added, "The two are at Beast Boy's house, we made them stay. Tell them to get out of here or they'll find the cottage soon enough. We remained frozen, shocked at what was happening. "I said GO!"

Kid Flash immediately picked me up and we were in front of the cottage within seconds. We kicked the door open, not bothering to announce our entrance. We saw Beast Boy already in front of Raven, crouched down like a wolf protecting its young. When he saw us though, seeing we were alone, he relaxed and stood. Raven pushed him aside, staring. "What happened to everyone? Where's Starfire-!?"

"No time to explain, they're all fighting back at the Safe House. We need to get out of here, now-!"

My shouting was replaced by a excruciating pain, and things went black. The last I heard was Kid Flash's cry of distress as he too was probably attacked and Beast Boy's growling order for Raven to run, but I suspected that she had made no cry, and was already out cold. A low chuckle was also heard.

Then I went to sleep.

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I could've taken them then. All of them. Just one slit and they'd be dead but no. I had bigger plans in mind. Oh yes, my plan for them all would be there demise. Ha ha ha! And I would have to do nothing! Ha ha ha!

I dragged their bodies outside and let them lie there. Except for his precious one. Her I had special plans for.

Digging one nail into the place I'd already injured her, I closed my eyes and allowed her blood to wash over my finger. When there was enough I released her and the wound healed immediately. I inhaled the scent on my finger slowly and then, when that was done, licked my finger of the red substance. Laughing to myself, which sounded odd, even to me, I left, leaving them to be discovered.

I would see them soon enough anyways.

Robin:

They were all apprehended shortly after Jinx and Kid Flash disappeared. But Starfire . . . she stayed. How could she betray me like this? I walked over to where she stood, steel placed around her wrists herself as she sat on the floor, waiting for everything to stop. Now that it did, she looked at me with complete honesty on her face.

"I thought . . ." She wiped a tear with her shackled wrist. "I believed they knew where friend Raven was . . . I did not know . . . that they would . . ."

We believed her at once. Starfire didn't lie. I tossed the chains aside and the strangers did not look at her with that of any gang member who betrayed them. They looked worried. Guilty even.

"Who are you? Where is Raven?" Speedy demanded, aiming an arrow at the masked one with the X on his chest. The larger one, huge really, was being restrained by Starfire now and also a few others. But no one was struggling, much to my surprise. They were standing, solemn, outnumbered, and unafraid.

"We don't know where Raven is," he answered, irritated because of how easily they were defeated. It was pretty easy to tell. "Who I am, you're not gonna get that out of me, but here I'm Red X."

Someone was struggling, I realized then. The pitiful and weak grunts of something trying to pull out of a grip. I turned to see a little girl, maybe just entering her teen years, pink haired and eyes closed, doing just that. But Bumblebee had a firm grip on the girl, however much her legs were flailing. I heard the boy behind me huff in anger at the sight. He obviously cared for this girl. But he was too old for her. Maybe he was his sister or something. I walked over and placed a hand under her chin, making her look at me. She glared, hatred filling the gaze I suspected was normally cheery.

"What about you, do you know where she is?" I demanded.

She spat on my face. I wiped it off when Jericho came up and walked into one of them, the robot boy. The girl let out a cry at it, some shouted, "Cyborg!" so I assumed that was his name they called him. When Jericho was ready he told us where to find her before warping back out. Prisoners in hand, we traveled to the area.

When we finally found them, all were outside, lying on the floor, unconscious. Raven, Jinx, Kid Flash, and a boy I did not know. Jericho ran to Raven and then, after placing a few fingers on her neck, gave us a thumbs up. The traitors, the kidnapper, I suspected, and Raven were all fine.

"Beast Boy!" Someone shrieked. I turned to see one of the paler, black haired girls, gasping and crying. They all began struggling and a small fight broke out. But, what made me a tad confused was that Starfire began crying at the sight of them all. But then I remembered it was just for Raven, though. She was in the clear, I remembered.

We took them home, Arella was all too happy to hold her Raven again. An exam showed us the four only sustained one wound on the back of the head, oddly the same on each time, so it had to be a separate person to have done it. We didn't ask questions though, we were just thankful it had happened and they couldn't move Raven to another location. Everyone was fine, and the prisoners were thrown into different cells, Jinx and Kid Flash were tied to chairs, also in different rooms, to be questioned when they woke up. The cells shut down the powers they had. But when we tried to remove Red X's suit, we got electrocuted each time. Eventually, we just restrained his hands beyond use and that would have to do.

We immediately held a conference, informing the world the perpetrators had been caught and our teammate was, although unconscious for the moment, returned in a healthy manner and safe. We had no further information on what happened though, so that was the end of that. Arella handled it very well.

When we got back inside though, things weren't quite as 'cut and dry' as we'd hoped.

Raven:

I assumed I'd healed myself in my sleep, for I felt no pain in my head. I never intended to heal myself, it just happened sometimes. I realized I was not outside anymore, for the last I remembered there was grass around my person, but now I was in a bed. My bed. My old bed. But that meant-!

"NO!"

I sat up at once, my eyes wide with fear and panic. I threw the covers of myself, racing to the door and jerking at the handle. It didn't want to budge. It was locked from the outside it seemed. That would hardly hold me, though. Whoever had done this as a last thought probably meant that this was there old thought. I phased through it, using my spectral bird form to transport myself into the camera feed room. It was empty like normal and my eyes darted from screen to screen until I had a horrible chilling feeling. I closed my eyes and turned to the screens across the room before peeling them open.

And there they were.

The prisoner cams each had one person in them. A person who had become a part of me. But on the center screen I saw the person who had all of me, head slumped in shame and his wrists bound behind his back. With a quick glance at the bottom corner of the screen to see what cell he was in, I reverted back to my bird form and flew off, phasing through anything that would get in my way before I reached his room. I turned back into a person and his head snapped up, eyes widening in shock.

"R-Raven!? What are you doing here!? You'll get in trouble!" He hissed, glaring. Then his eyes softened. "You're okay though, right?"

I ignored his protests and questions, running over to him and placing my hands on his shoulder before kissing him. I felt him stiffen before he relaxed into me, returning the kiss as much as someone tied up could. I sighed and pulled away.

"I'll explain everything. I promise." I whispered, quietly.

His eyes narrowed at once. "You will not get into trouble for me, Raven." He warned. Although I don't know what he was threatening me with. He was in no position to be trying to order me around at the moment. I told him as much. He growled.

I gave him another kiss, and I felt his aura calm at once. I let my mouth linger as I pulled away before sighing, pressing my forehead against his. "And you won't get blamed for something that is my fault. Now stay calm, no matter what, got it?" I felt the recognition in the gaze he gave me. I moved behind him, kneeling so I was in front of his handcuffs.

"It won't work, using powers have been turned off." He said, knowing what I was going to do.

I focused my energy on the cuffs only weak spot. "Correction: Your powers have been turned off." The handcuffs shattered and I yanked, tossing the chains aside as well.

He stood and I grabbed him, holding him tight. He held me in turn, now that he could. We stood like that for a second before my powers surrounded us, teleporting us the conference room where I knew everyone would be. Talking about this mess we'd made, of course.

Beast Boy let go of me as soon as my aura surrounded us and I simply held his hand. He allowed that contact to remain.

LOL! Short chapter and well, very poorly written on my part so I apologize about that. I was just getting very impatient with this chapter. The next one will be a hell of a lot better, I promise you.

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