[I do not own Teen Titans or any characters mentioned in this story. This chapter is a lot less dark and foreboding, I think. Eventually I'll go into detail exactly what the place Elliot and Raven lives at looks like, but for now have a sibling mess.]

Elliot and Raven lay asleep in their lit up pillow fort the next morning - or, at least Elliot did.

Raven, with her always wide, curious eyes, softly loomed over her softly snoring and...sleep-glaring, brother, before poking his cheek quickly.

"...Elliot…" She whispered softly and urgently, knowing if she didn't wake her brother up he'd stay asleep for the next nine hours at the least. Her eyebrows furrowed as she poked him again.

"...Elliot…!" Raven repeated in a raspy whisper, shaking Elliot's shoulder a bit after poking him.

Elliot's mouth and eyes scrunched up in frustration. He reached his arm out to find the hand that was bothering him, then the arm, and when Elliot finally got to Raven's head, Raven realized that her brother didn't even need to be conscious to be a jerk to people. Elliot pointed one finger right in between Raven's forehead and slowly drew it back, causing Raven to slowly lean forward in curiosity and interest, and as she was distracted he took his now open palm and threw her backward by her forehead. Raven flew back with a quiet and startled 'meep!' as Elliot grumbled in his sleep and turned over away from his now ceiling-glaring sister.

"Oh lookit me, I'm bigger and taller and older and smarter and that makes me the bestest person in the whole frickin' world doesn't it?" Raven mumbled to herself in a fake Elliot voice to mock him as she climbed up on an unusually high stack of book right in front of her brother.

Raven readied herself before she hurtled off the books and crashed into her older brother, successfully waking him up after all of her efforts.

Elliot scrunched up and groaned, holding his stomach painfully from where Raven had landed from her launch before scrambling off of him. Raven slowly got on all fours in front of her brother, seriously worried if she's hurt him.

Elliot looked up with a menacing hiss and four glowing eyes.

Raven burst out of the room with a shriek as her righteously angry brother chased after her in a rage, catching up to her quicker than she'd hoped. Raven and Elliot dashed through the large castle that they lived in, paying no attention to the intricacy and detail put into the Middle Age like building their father had built purely to keep them quiet and out of his way. Everything was a blur as she rounded a corner messily, her brother skidding after her, using his claw like nails to slow his trip before he started after her again.

Raven passed a very large, dark room, and she sparked an idea.

"Kitty! Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!" She yelled mischievously as she ran from her now much less angry brother.

Elliot saw Raven, and then he didn't, as he crashed painfully and hard into a large brown wall.

Elliot fell painfully on his back, his black hair laid out wildly, groaning as now both sides of his body hurt. Elliot finally opened his eyes and he cursed quietly when he realized the out of nowhere brown wall was indeed not a wall, but something far worse. Elliot then felt a pair of teeth delicately grab him by his ankle.

"...no, no, no, no! No, No! No! No! NO!" Elliot said softly only to slowly get louder until he was yelling. 'Kitty', the three headed hell-hound that reached three-quarters toward the ceiling picked Elliot up by one of her heads and threw him into the air as he yelled, only to catch him by his cape and let him hang there uselessly as he kicked and yelled to get away from the mangy rottweiler.

Elliot finally gave up, completely out of energy and breath both from yelling and from chasing his sister, and his mass and the flimsy fabric of his cape caused him to slowly turn to face his tyrannic sister.

Elliot fiercely shook his head 'no' with a fearful and pleading look in his eyes, only for Raven to smirk viciously and nod a very exaggerate 'yes' toward 'Kitty'.

Elliot shrieked very girlishly as all three heads took turns licking one long strip up his entire body out of love and excitement, not noticing how a series of violent tremors ran through his body at the experience. Kitty gently set him back down on his own two feet, leaning down and panting with her tongue out and waiting for a reward of some kind as Elliot glared at the wall like he'd looked into the face of death itself.

Raven quickly scurried past him and scratched Kitty on her head, the entire room rumbling with the force that Kitty turned on her back to be scratched some more as Elliot rolled his eyes and waved his arms around to get rid of the excess slobber now covering his body. Elliot sighed sadly as he leaned over on a wall delicately laced with satanic patterns which cast a spell that made it impossible to break the wall, just like every other piece of material in the enormous castle.

"...I found a new room." Raven said quietly with a hopeful voice to get her brother's attention. Elliot sighed as he rolled his eyes and made a gesture with his hands that said 'get on with it'.

Raven then led her brother with a smiling face toward yet another undiscovered, unentered room that she'd found just waiting to be explored. Elliot came up behind her and put her on his shoulders, chuckling at her comments.

"You're this tall all the time?" Raven said in wonderment at how far she was from the ground.

"Yep." Elliot said simply. Raven hummed in thought for a moment.

"Y'know, I think I actually kinda like being shorter. I mean, I'd rather be short than be able to turn around and stick my tongue out to look like a zipper." Raven teased as Elliot grumbled something that sounded like 'I can still drop you'.

The two finally arrived, and Raven struggled with the door because of her 'little girl arms' as Elliot put it, Elliot merely throwing the door open and smirking at Raven's pout.

Raven entered the room quietly, marveling at the mass of books and paintings gathered from the human realm that filled up the room. Kitty ran in after her, squishing Elliot against the wall in the process before he ripped himself from the dark interior and slowly approached one of the many piles of painted books and paper. Elliot was never one for reading, that was Raven's thing. Raven always wanted to know more, and Elliot always wanted to see more.

Elliot plucked a random book of small boxed in painting from the large pile, reading the front headline as 'comic book' and making a confused face as he peered down at a man dressed in all black, proclaiming himself as 'Batman'.

Elliot scoffed at the pictures inside, throwing the comic carelessly behind him, and choosing to slowly approach the closed window instead. Elliot looked down eerily at the lit up portal, not knowing what was beyond it, where it led, where he would pop out on Earth if he went through it. Who would he meet? Would everyone hate him, knowing he was the son of Trigon, or would he be treated as every other person on Earth despite his appearance?

"Why do you always do this to yourself?" Raven asked with a flat voice from next to him, met with only silence.

"Why…?" Raven asked brokenly, now sniffling and whimpering a bit to match a few tears she tried her hardest to blink back. This caused Elliot to finally turn to her with a worried face.

"I know it hurts Elliot, even if you say it doesn't. You act so numb and indifferent, but I see the way the guards beat you when you try to get past them! They hurt you and you don't care and one day you'll die because you don't know when to stop! Elliot, why can't you just…!" Raven said in a louder voice, but not openly yelling just yet.

"Just what Raven? Be like you?...Raven, I'm not like you, and I'll never be able to be like you. Raven, you're a princess, you're made to be content with this kind of stuff. I'm not. I'm a thief, I'm an explorer, I want more than this, so much more." Elliot said softly, trying to calm his sister in the dark light of the room, bringing her closer so he could embrace her.

"...I'm not going to die, Raven. I won't leave you, not yet." He assured softly.

Raven nodded before Kitty came over and nudged her worriedly with her extremely large nose, whimpering softly before Raven giggling and started petting her again. Elliot smiled for a moment, only to turn back toward the window where a lone guard had just left his post. Raven was right.

Elliot didn't know when to stop.

[I love Kitty with all of my heart, I really do. Read and Review please, I hope you enjoyed!]