Authors Note: Chapter 7. Secret's are uncovered. Jinx gets a big shock. Raven's pissed.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titan's, or Twilight.
"Wow, this place is pretty nice." Jinx stated with a grin as she looked around at Raven's rather small, one bedroom apartment curiously, "Kind of spartan though, don't you think?"
Raven shrugged, walking over to her two person sofa and laying across it. "Yeah, but I'm not going to be here too long."
Jinx frowned slightly and she moved to sit next to Raven, lifting the superhero's legs and placing them back on her lap, so not to disturb her comfortable position. "What do you mean, you're not going to be here too long?"
Raven closed her eyes, feeling tired. She hadn't gotten that much sleep lately, what with Trigon's words still weighing heavily on her mind. "Well, I'll be going back to the Teen Titans once school finishes, and that's only a few months away. No point getting too settled in is there?"
Jinx bit her lip and stared at the expensive looking plasma TV sitting in front of them. "Yeah I guess, I hadn't realized you would be going back to the Spandex club."
Raven let out a small chuckle and cracked one eye open to gaze at her fuchsia haired companion. "Nice," she smiled, referring to the nick name Jinx gave the Teen Titans. "But, there's nothing much else for me to do, I might go to college in Jump or something, I'm sure I can get tuition covered completely by the government. I mean, I am helping police the city after all."
"Why don't you just, stop being a superhero? You don't strike me as the type to enjoy it, you know, with the whole dark, mysterious persona. Well, I guess maybe Batman is like that," Jinx shook her head, "Anyway, you get my point." she finished, still staring at the blank TV screen.
Raven opened both her eyes, only to rub at them wearily. "I love it. I know it's probably hard for you to understand, but knowing that I've saved lives and helped people makes me feel good. I didn't always enjoy it, actually I only joined because I felt I had to give back to earth, for all I was going to take from it in the future, with Trigon's prophecy looming in the distance. But instead, I managed to make a great group of friends, that I can literally trust my life with. Heroism... it's a part of me. Just like villainy will always be a part of you, no matter how much you keep on the straight and narrow." she smirked over at Jinx. "Or maybe not so much 'straight'."
Raven's smirk turned into a genuine grin when Jinx slapped her leg and blushed. "You are really hilarious. Maybe that conversation about Beast Boy really did lower your IQ."
"It would still be higher then yours so don't get your hopes up." Raven sat forward an poked Jinx in the stomach, feeling uncharacteristically playful. She smiled softly to herself when Jinx started pouting adorably.
"You wound me," Jinx said dramatically, exaggerating her words, only to giggle after she finished her sentence. Before Raven could retort, Jinx's cell phone began to ring, interrupting their lighthearted teasing. The Titan stayed quiet while Jinx answered.
"'Yello?" Jinx chirped, smiling widely over at Raven who rolled her eyes at her goofball of a friend.
"Oh, um okay..." Raven cocked an eyebrow, hearing the trepidation and slight tinge disappointment in Jinx's voice. "I'll see you soon then. Yeah, I can get a ride from Raven. No, god you're an idiot. Bye."
Raven watched curiously as Jinx ended the call and moved her legs out of the way so she could stand up. "I've got to go, Bella wants me to go over to the Cullen's for dinner to meet the rest of the family I guess. Can you give me a ride there?"
Raven stood as well, yawning slightly. "Yeah, sure." she shrugged, following Jinx as the fuchsia haired girl bounced towards the front door.
"Thanks, you're the best Rae." Jinx chirped over her shoulder, appreciative smile on her face.
"Oh, I know." Raven smirked back at her, grabbing her keys off their hook as they walked out of the door. She didn't bother locking her apartment, she doubted she would be gone long and knew for a fact that the crime rate in Fork's was practically non-existent.
Ten minutes later, Raven was barely restraining herself from kicking Jinx out of her car.
"How many times do I have to tell you?" Raven used her left hand to slap Jinx's hand away from the radio controls, rolling her eyes in exasperation. "Don't touch it."
"I'm not going to break it," Jinx whined, and Raven saw her cross her arms out of the corner of her eye. "Why won't you let me touch it?"
Raven frowned in annoyance. "Because you'll change it, and it's a bitch to change back."
"But this music is so... depressing." Jinx gave the radio a distasteful look and Raven rolled her eyes again.
"Well I happen to like it. Gah-don't touch it." she slapped Jinx's hand away once again.
"Alright, alright I won't." Jinx huffed, "Do you even know where you're going?" she added, looking over at Raven.
Breathing out heavily, Raven clenched her jaw and turned into a barely noticeable driveway. "Yes, I do. We're here. Thank Azar."
Jinx smirked as Raven stopped the car in front of the large house. "Don't sound so relieved, I'll be back annoying you soon enough." she then looked away from Raven, catching sight of the house. Raven stifled a chuckle at Jinx's opened mouth expression.
"Holy shit, they must be loaded!" the ex-thief exclaimed, still gaping.
"Obviously." Raven shot her a look, "Don't go stealing anything." she added in a teasing tone, biting her cheek to prevent herself from smiling at Jinx's almost affronted expression.
"Nah, they are like Bells second family. I don't steal things from family." Jinx smiled, moving her eye's to Raven. "I can go back to being bad if you want though, seems you have a thing for bad girls." she wiggled her eyebrows with a Cheshire grin curled widely at her lips.
Raven shot her a glare, "Shut up, I thought we called a truce."
"What?" Jinx looked at her innocently, "I didn't mention Blackfire, so I didn't violate the truce at all."
Raven scowled, "Stupid technicality's," she mumbled under her breath. "Weren't you leaving? Shoo!"
Jinx rolled her eyes and opened her door, "Okay, okay I'm going! I'll see you later, 'kay?"
"Unfortunately," Raven deadpanned, though she was smirking. Jinx sent her a smirk back and slammed her door, just to irk the superhero before running up to the large house.
Raven repressed the urge to stay and wait for her, because she knew Jinx had just been literally invited to dinner with vampires, and even though she knew they were 'vegetarians' it still didn't sit too well. Shaking her head, she started her Audi and left, consoling herself with the decision to call Jinx later with the faux-excuse of checking if the ex-thief had done her homework that was due tomorrow.
Around an hour and a half had past, and in that time Raven had prepared and ate dinner, had a shower, watched TV briefly and meditated, all the while unsuccessfully trying to not worry about Jinx.
Needless to say, it wasn't working.
Staring down at the white phone in her hand she narrowed her eyes for a moment before deciding to dial. She listened to it ring for a few moments, before Jinx's bubbly voice answered.
"Statchu?" she heard the ex-thieves voice trill through the speakers and the worried frown she had been wearing disappeared instantly.
"Hey, Jinx." she smiled involuntarily, "I was just checking up to see if you had done you're English homework, you know the homework that's due tomorrow?"
"Oh fuck," Raven stifled her chuckles. Just like she expected, Jinx hadn't. "That's due tomorrow? Argh! Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"Well I only just remembered it before," she smirked, "You should be thanking me for reminding you."
"Have you done it?" before Raven could answer, she heard Jinx talking to someone, "Oh nah, it's alright I can carry it... Ow, shit."
Raven's breathing hitched and her eyes widened in a moment of blind panic. "Jinx? Jinx are you alright?" she asked hurriedly, unknowingly clutching her phone tighter.
"What? Oh yeah, just a cut... nothing to worry 'bout -"
Raven dropped the phone, not even waiting for Jinx to finish her sentence. Her dark smokey energy surrounded her as she teleported herself instantly to the Cullen residence. Not caring about the fact that she was revealing herself to them. The mission of spying on them was the last thing on her mind.
When she arrived, she caught sight of a blonde vampire she knew to be Alice's mate Jasper, being held back by Edward and a giant, muscled vampire she had been told by the Volturi was Emmett. Standing in the far corner of the room was Esme, the coven leader Carlisle's mate and the gorgeous blonde-bombshell, Raven realized had to be Rosalie, who was rumored to rival the fisher vampire Heidi in beauty.
"Where is Jinx?" she demanded, eye's flashing red. "If either of you have even laid one stone cold finger on her I swear I'll make you wish you had never been born." Raven snarled furiously, her voice going slightly raspy as her demonic heritage melded into her rage.
She barely gave notice to the startled looks on the vampires in the room, too concerned on getting Jinx out safely. A lamp sitting on the mantle of their fireplace smashed under the intensity of her emotion's.
"Wait, who the hell are you?" Rosalie retorted back, growling deep in her chest. "And what are you doing in our house!"
"Where," Raven stepped forward, growing in height as her blood began to change her appearance, "Is," another step and two more sets of glowing red eyes appeared on her forehead, "Jinx?"
Raven would have delighted in the fact that the normally - from what she had heard - proud vampire was cowering in front of her, but Jinx's safety was more important then bragging to herself, even if it was just in her head, so she continued with her interrogation. She didn't even notice the fact that Jasper had been dragged from the house and only Esme, Rosalie, Alice and she herself were the only ones left in the room.
"Tell me where she is." She bared her teeth, flashing elongated lower canines, "NOW!"
"I'm fine," Jinx's voice resounded from somewhere behind her, and Raven immediately spun around to face her, eyes immediately zeroing in on the bandage wrapped around her slender hand and the fact that the coven leader, Carlisle had his hand resting comfortingly on her shoulder. Bella was standing beside her, holding her uninjured hand and looking just as bewildered as the vampires. Raven almost felt to lost in her natural state now, too intent of protecting what was hers.
"Calm yourself, Raven... don't let it take over," She heard distantly, before she felt her size decrease, her smokey black magic disappear and her eyes return to their normal violet color. As soon as she had reverted, she was wrapping Jinx in a tight embrace and glaring at the rest of the vampire coven over the ex-thieves shoulder.
"Did they hurt you?" she whispered roughly into Jinx's ear, holding her tighter still. "Because I swear if those filthy bloodsuckers even looked at you wrong that I'll -"
"Raven," Jinx cut her off with a soothing tone, her voice sounding slightly detached. "I cut myself on a knife. They didn't hurt me, fortunately. But they did explain a few things to me. I am in a state of shock right now, so please don't go freaking out at them, it would be more then I could take. This is all just a little bit more weird then the average meta-humans... How did you know about them anyway?"
Raven pulled herself back, and studied Jinx's almost dazed looking expression. Relaxing her clenched jaw, she let out a shaky breath once she realized no harm had come to the fuchsia haired girl. "Good," she breathed, closing her eyes and resting her forehead against Jinx's shoulder.
Raven for once, didn't care that they had an audience watching on as she held her best friend. The only thing she cared about right now was the fact that Jinx was alive, that her heart was beating. Their touching moment was soon interrupted however.
"May I ask what is going on here?" Carlisle spoke, causing the two girls to separate and turn their gazes to him. Raven didn't let go of Jinx's hand though, needing something to remind her that Jinx was still there. Unknowing to herself, she also instinctively stood in front of her, hindering sight of Jinx from everyone else.
"I think I need to explain a few things." her voice was composed and cool, how it was whenever she talked to someone other than Jinx, excluding the times she was snarling and in a rage.
"Oh you think?" Rosalie asked sarcastically, now lounging on the couch. Previous fear forgotten, replaced with sneering arrogance. "I'd like to know what the fuck just happened, personally. You appeared out of fucking thin air!"
"Rosalie," Carlisle scolded sternly, giving his daughter, for all intents and purposes a sharp look. Raven merely shot the blonde vampire a cold glare, showing how much she didn't appreciate her remarks.
"It's a very," she struggled for a word, "Complex, story."
"Well I think, since you seem to know so much about us, that we should know about you in return." Rosalie bit out between clenched teeth, glowering. Raven ignored her, turning her gaze to Carlsile who was now standing with his arm wrapped around Esme's waist. She noted also that Alice was seated on the floor by Bella, who was sitting in a love seat across the room. Edward, Jasper and Emmett were nowhere in sight.
"Do you think the rest of your," Raven twisted her mouth sardonically, "Family could come back to listen? I won't be repeating myself."
"We're here," A booming voice answered, and the three male vampires strolled through the room. Emmett, the one who had spoken was immediately sitting with Rosalie's feet in his lap. Edward sat on the other side of Bella, holding her hand and Jasper moved to stand in the furthermost corner of the room, avoiding everyone's eyes.
"Good." Raven nodded curtly at no one in particular, turning to look at Jinx for a split second. "First of all, my name is Raven, not Rachel. That is merely my alias."
"Alias?" Emmett interrupted obnoxiously, "Why would you need an alias? Are you like, an alien or something? Or a spy? Oh wait, maybe your a -" before he could finished, Rosalie slapped him hard in the back of the head. Raven almost wanted to give her a thankful look. Almost.
Instead, she merely settled her annoyed gaze on him and continued. "Yes, you could call me an Alien. I am kind of a spy, but that is not my profession." she knew she would make Emmett's day with her next words. "I'm a superhero."
A stunned silence settled over the room, and Raven awaited for the eventual outburst.
"Wait-what?" - Rosalie.
"HOLY SHIT!" - Emmett.
"You have got to be kidding me." - Edward.
"Oh, that's... an interesting occupation." - Esme.
"Wow... wait, Raven? Your name sounds familiar..." - Bella.
"I knew there was something different about you." - Alice.
Jasper and Carlisle were the the only ones not to say anything, instead opting to stay silent and study Raven intensely. Raven had been informed Jasper's power was the same as her own empathy, though he couldn't shut it off. She wondered for a moment if he was trying to get a read on her emotions, maybe to see if he could detect some kind of deceit. Carlisle, as far as she had been told, had no power.
"Yes, I really am a legitimate superhero." she droned, not letting herself roll her eyes. "I'm from another dimension, called Azarath. I came to earth a couple of years ago and joined a team of newly forming super powered teens called the 'Teen Titans'."
Not waiting for the inevitable questions she continued. "I am not completely human. I am a half-blooded demon. After a prophecy that predicted Trigon -my demon father- would use me as a portal to this dimension, I tried for years to prevent it, only to fail. But with the help of my team mates, we defeated Trigon last year." her expression didn't change. "Trigon, as an Arch Demon, was the one to create vampires, hence the reason I was there the day Edward, Bella and Alice were under trial with the Volturi." she stopped and wanted to smirk and the looks of realization dawning on their faces.
"I knew the name 'Raven' was familiar," Bella mumbled, leaning into Edward's side. Raven gave a thin smile.
Around half an hour later, Raven finished telling them about the conflict with her father - his defeat leaving her with the duty of keeping tabs over the vampires, which ultimately led to her coming to Forks. The Cullen's looked rather taken aback at her history, but recovered by the end of her tale.
"Fascinating..." Carlisle breathed, causing Raven to shoot him an incredulous glare.
"Don't say that word, you sound like you're channeling Aro." she explained when Carlisle cocked an eyebrow at her. He let out a light melodious chuckle, and had a warm, playful smile on his face.
"We wouldn't want that, now would we?" the wide, warm smile reached his golden-colored eyes. "Aro is a rather... unusual man."
"No," Raven retorted, dully. "He's a monster. A manipulative, power hungry monster of the highest degree. Painting something a different color, doesn't change the picture, Carlisle." she tangled her fingers with Jinx's, who was now standing adjacent to her instead of behind her. "Aro could be like you're family," she finally had come to terms with the fact these unusual bunch of vampire's were a family, "But he chooses not to. Instead he lusts after power and having control over vampires all over the world. He enjoys having their lives under his thumb. He could decide to kill them and with a snap of his fingertips it would be done. Aro is a monster, and I hope you are disillusioned to that fact."
"And why would it matter so much to us that we know what type of character Aro is?" Rosalie asked, her voice terse and slightly sharp.
"Because," Raven stared at her stonily, blank faced. "You and your family are Aro's greatest threat. He is paranoid that you're coven will become more powerful, and decide to take over reign of the vampires. He's terrified that he won't be able to stop you, so I have no doubt, that right at this moment he is making plans to finish you off," her expression didn't change, but her fingers twitched slightly inside Jinx's. "To prevent any possible mutiny."
Another silence fell over the room, before Raven spoke again. "That's all I have to say. Now, if no one minds, I would like to go home. It wouldn't do me well to come to school tired. I think, Bella, that maybe you should take Jinx's home too. You..." she gave Bella a long look, "Have a lot to talk about."
Letting go of Jinx's hand, she gave her taller friend a brief kiss on the forehead, still not perturbed by their audience. "We'll talk tomorrow," she whispered, before she was gone and a wisp of black smoke was left in her wake.
Arriving back at her apartment, Raven stumbled, almost drunkenly into her room, collapsing into her bed she tried to sort out her jumbled thoughts. She had never been so scared in her life. Even when Trigon had arrived, threatening the world. The thought of Jinx dying sent a thrill of terror throughout her veins. Raven desperately wanted to know what was going on with her emotions.
The answer finally became clear, when her eyes caught the silver plated, shining Nevermore portal.
End Note: Hm... What will Raven find in Nevermore? xD. Review's are greatly appreciated.
