Kyd Wykkyd: Day Six
Raven had passed out leaving Kyd Wykkyd to try and think of what was wrong with her. Her skin looked pale and felt cold even to him and her bones were now visible in some places. He lifted her up and realised that there was no weight, she was as light as a piece of paper. That wasn't right.
Kyd Wykkyd took her from the room and down to Seemore's room. He opened the door letting himself in. Seemore was sitting on his bed with a new laptop, he didn't look up as Kyd Wykkyd walked in. Kyd Wykkyd placed Raven down on the bed and Seemore finally looked up.
"Your meant to keep her in your room, I'm not taking you're turn," Seemore stated and turned back to his laptop but Kyd Wykkyd shook his head.
'There's something wrong with her,' he said forcing Seemore to sigh and look up. He barely looked at her. 'You actually might want to look,' Kyd Wykkyd said as he leaned on the wall behind him. Seemore stood up and looked at her. His eye showed his own confusion as he saw her.
"Huh? She's sick, how long had she been sick for?" Seemore asked turning to Kyd Wykkyd.
'How am I meant to know? She collapsed in my room, that's how I found out,'
"But she looks, I mean it looks like she's been starved for days,"
'Well I doubt Red X gave her anything and we all saw how she acted when I tried to give her food. How much food did she eat when you fed her?' Seemore turned and looked at Kyd Wykkyd for a long moment.
"Right, ah, I actually don't think I bothered giving her food, I just presumed she'd help herself," he answered truly.
'You didn't give her any food? Did anyone else?' Kyd Wykkyd asked and Seemore went thoughtful again.
"Actually I don't remember anyone else giving her anything either,"
'She won't sit on our furniture or even use our beds and you think she was just going to help herself to our food,'
"Well if you were starving wouldn't you,"
'Yes but I'm not stubborn, she's taking this whole situation very serious,'
"But, I mean, she could have died. How could anyone be that stubborn?"
'I don't know, if she manages to live you can ask her… Um, what should we be doing with her anyway,' Kyd Wykkyd asked and his eyes fell on her again. She looked to be having difficult even breathing.
"Maybe Gizmo or Billy, or maybe even Mammoth will know what to do," Seemore said and walked out. Kyd Wykkyd picked Raven up again and carried her through to the lounge room. He placed her down on the couch as the others filed in. None of them could even remember feeding her.
After an hour of arguing Kyd Wykkyd called Angel who came over and helped fix Raven up. She made a few comments and told the boys what they needed to do to keep Raven heathy. It wasn't until hours after she left that Raven started to stir.
Kyd Wykkyd watched as Raven opened her eyes and started to search around. She looked at her arm that now had a bandage over it and then to the blankets that was placed over her. She made a sound that was close to a hiss as she tried very hard to sit up. Eventually she realised that it wasn't working and laid down. Finally her eyes landed on his and she glared.
"What have you done to me?" she hissed.
'I saved your life, you were starving yourself to death… well actually I guess we were starving you to death but you didn't ask for food either,' Kyd Wykkyd moved over to her and help her adjust in the seat so she could at least sit. He placed pillows behind her and moved back to his chair. 'The others have gone out to get more food so you'll be able to help yourself,' he continued.
"Why, are you bored of starving me?" Raven growled.
'I tried to give you food, I thought the others were doing the same. We all feel bad, you were meant to be treated like a guest but clearly were not very good with guest, although Gizmo had a fish once,'
"And what happened to the fish?"
He rubbed the back of his neck 'It kinda of starved to death, but that's beside the point I think,' Raven blinked. He knew what she must be thinking, if they starved a fish to death how were they meant to remember to feed her. 'But the cat Billy had didn't starve, he ran over it,' Kyd Wykkyd continued 'And Seemore's dog disappeared one day, I personal think Jinx got rid of it and I had a bird but left the window and the cage open so it flew off,' He could see the amusement in Ravens face even tho she tried to hid it.
"I suggest not getting any more pets," Raven said as she again tried to move.
'Jinx said the same thing, apparently none of us are responsible enough,' he got up and moved over to the kitchen. He grabbed out bread and buttered it lightly before returning and moving close enough to feed her. Raven refused to let him feed her even tho lifting her arms looked more than just painful. He watch while she managed to eat and brought a book in for her to read.
Kyd Wykkyd cooked her soup for dinner and fed her. She tried serval times to take the spoon but he threated to let her starve. He found feeding her was funny, the strong Titan having to be fed like a child. He couldn't help but laugh. Raven went to sleep pretty quickly too, she was clearly weakened.
"There's actually an up to all this," Seemore said as he moved over. "She's far too weak to try and escape," Seemore smiled at the thought and Kyd Wykkyd couldn't help but laugh. None of them had been stabbed during her escape so at the moment he felt he was the only one with any right to want her gone. But he didn't want her gone. She was amusing and acted so proud, how could he pass that up? Kyd Wykkyd turned to Seemore and titled his head.
'Did you want something else?' he asked and Seemore looked at him for a moment.
"I'm meant to take over now," Kyd Wykkyd nodded and stood up leaving Seemore with Raven. He moved back to his room and picked up his book. He'd been reading for fifteen minutes but was completely lost. The book wasn't hard to follow but his mind was elsewhere. He was stuck thinking about Raven. She tried so hard to be this strong, unapproachable and cold Titan, and she was pulling it off but there was times that Kyd Wykkyd wondered if maybe she was lonely. Who wouldn't be lonely when you spend all your time trying to force you're friends away or even you're enemies.
He shook his head as a small smile played on his lips. She was still stack here for five weeks and he was determined to break that cold shell.
Seemore: Day Seven
Raven had been more difficult than expected. Seemore wasn't able to feed her because she complained so he ended up leaving the food with her, she refused to play games or even watch movies. The previous days she had been easier to look after because they were just leaving her to do her own thing but now everyone felt bad and actually wanted to keep an eye on her. Ignoring her would have been fine but when they'd come close to actually killing her everything changed. No one wanted to leave her for a second. They were thieves and rebels but not killers.
It was now four in the afternoon and Billy would take Raven at six. The order had changed so instead it went Kyd Wykkyd, Seemore, Billy, Gizmo then Mammoth. Raven still wasn't happy with the order and asked a few times to stay in Kyd Wykkyd's room. Seemore thought maybe it was because of some crush or because she'd managed to actually hurt him but Kyd Wykkyd explained that he had books.
Raven was quietly reading on the couch but seemed unfocused. She watched the front doors for most of the day and looked disappointed each time she turned back to the book. Seemore finally gave up and sighed loudly.
"What are you doing?" he asked her. She remained reading.
"I'm reading," Raven answered.
"No the door, you keep looking at it," Seemore said and Raven looked to the door.
"I thought them having Starfire back meant that I would be returned home soon but…" she trailed off and Seemore actually felt bad. Even he wonder why her friends hadn't found her yet. He was more than happy because they hadn't managed to find them but the fact was they should have.
"You know there looking for you tho," Seemore wasn't sure why he wanted to comfort her he just did. It was quite possible he still felt bad about not feeding her.
"Or they've given up," Raven sighed she didn't look like she believed for a second she was going to be rescued. Seemore wasn't really that great with females, the last one he'd even liked was Jinx and she clearly didn't feel anything for himself. But right now Raven was so hurt and he just wanted to make her smile.
"They'll find you, their probably fighting every bad guy to find you," he said but Raven didn't seem to brighten anymore.
"No, there probably searching for Beast Boy, you save the more valued members first," Seemore could hear the pain in her voice now and wanted so much to help comfort her but he couldn't. After a moment an idea popped into his head.
"The Titan's East were searching for you. Robin called them and asked them to search for you while the Titan's North searched for Beast Boy and him and Cyborg looked for Starfire," Seemore smiled but Raven made a snorting nose.
"It really shouldn't shock me that he searched for Starfire, She's beautiful and everyone knows they want each other. I guess my downfall was looking and acting the way I do,"
"You don't seem you're normal chipper-self,"
"I miss my home, we may not always get along but, it was home which was more than I ever had is," her head fell back onto the couch.
"Raven it's only five more weeks than you're free," Seemore smiled but Raven didn't bother.
"You say free now but that could change, The Game Master could add more days, he draw this out longer and then I'll become a prisoner. This is cruel, what you're doing to me, what you've already done to me, you realise this don't you. You're thieves but now you've crossed a line. You're not going to be treated as children anymore," Raven calmed herself down and just picked up the book. Seemore could see she wanted to scream but choose to remain silent.
He knew that she was right. They'd crossed some line the moment they took her hostage. Hostage, what an ugly word. It was meant to be a game to prove yourself. But him no longer sure if he wanted to. And he also wasn't sure if he couldn't even promise her that she'd be going home because honestly, he didn't know.
Seemore was glad that the day was pasting by quickly, he was glad that Billy would be taking Raven soon but was even gladder that he would no longer be feeling this heavy weight on him. Every time he tried to speak Raven remained him of the fact that she was a prisoner. And it was sinking in. they'd taken her hostage, reduced her life to the point of death and left her to starve and even than they'd considered placing her in a cage. She couldn't be alone at any time, she had no clothes – even tho Red X had brought her a tank top and grey sweat pants – no bed, no books of her own and no space. She was bored and feeling so alone. And it was all because of him and his team.
Billy walked in the door and went to sneak past but Seemore grabbed him and forced him into the chair before running to… anywhere. Just away from Raven.
He found himself in his room and quickly got everything ready for a shower. He went to the bathroom and turned the shower on as hot as he liked. The shower would melt away his problems.
Billy Numerous: Day Eight
He hated her. She'd destroyed his room, let him fall onto a bed filled with sharp bits of plastic and stabbed his friend but all of that paled in comparison to the distraction of his TV and game station. Because of this he let her wait for food longer than what he was meant to. He kept the TV blasting in the room and had a dozen clones crowding the area.
Raven for the most part seemed unfazed by his attempt to annoy her. She had asked him once to turn it down to which he loudened the TV.
He'd spent the whole day watching shows after shows. He wasn't even paying attention anymore. He just wanted to anger her. He flick channels at seven and the TV blinked for a moment before faces appeared. He'd forgotten the other Villains called around this time.
"He… hey, what's going on?" Billy asked as he looked over the faces. Red X's screen wasn't even there. "Where's X?"
"He's off sulking, that little stunt she pulled was a low blow to his self-esteem," Adonis explained. "Also, speaking of which, were meant to still trade so if at any point you want to bring her round and I'll give you Beast Boy for a bit," Billy looked at Raven who was shaking her head furiously 'no'.
"I can bring her round now, be there soon," Billy smile. The Game Master said nothing and after a few updates all the screens turned off again. "Looks like were trading again," Billy smiled.
Raven argued the whole way to Adonis's house and tried several times to bolt but he kept his clones watching her at all times. He knocked on the rotting apartment door and whistled for a bit. Adonis opened the door and let them in. He showed Billy Beast Boy who seemed in great health. Beast Boy's ears dropped when he saw Raven. She knew she must still look a bit weaker.
"This is great. When shall we switch back, not that I want the snot back I just want to know how long Raven is staying," Adonis asked and looked at Raven leery. Raven turned to walk but Billy threw an arm over her shoulder and pulled her close.
"I could talk to the others and make this permanent," Billy smile.
"I suggest you do that, I can stop her from leaving and you might even get an easy win if I fail," Adonis said still keeping his eyes on Raven, although they lingered downwards.
"You don't wanna win?"
"Not as much as you do, anyway you should get going," Adonis grabbed Raven's arm so roughly she almost screamed. Billy dragged Beast Boy out and took him back to the base. He tried to think of why Adonis wanted her so badly but couldn't think of an actual reason. Beast Boy called Billy so many things as they walked but mostly stupid. He kept saying something about Adonis liked Raven or he's going to hurt her but Billy was to focus on getting himself home, it was already Gizmo's go.
Back at the base the others were eating and wondering where Billy was. When he walked in with Beast Boy everyone went confused and Seemore and Kyd Wykkyd paled.
"Where's Raven?" Seemore asked.
"Adonis's and I traded, now we have the easy win," Billy said letting go of Beast Boy. Kyd Wykkyd fist clenched and he nudged Seemore.
"But Adonis, I wouldn't trust him with either girl but I especial don't trust him with Raven," Seemore said and Beast Boy started nodding.
"I tried to tell him, Adonis is going to hurt her, he likes her but Billy won't listen," Beast Boy said.
"And I tired telling you that she'd be fine," Billy shoved Beast Boy hard in the chest.
"Ah, I don't think she'd be fine. Billy he has a cupboard full of photos of her and Starfire but they most focus on her," Seemore said.
'And he's been wanting her from the start, he could really hurt her and she can't fight back because of us,'
"So now you're on her side. I thought you wanted to win, we won't win if we have her," Billy argued back.
"I don't think Adonis cares about winning, his mind is elsewhere, please he'll hurt her or something worse," Beast Boy was on his knees now and shaking slightly. "He wants to…," Beast Boy trailed off but tears were in his rims.
'I'm going to get her,' Kyd Wykkyd walked past Billy but Billy stopped him.
"Now hang on, I was the one who took her over and if you're all this worried I'll go get her," Billy turned on his heel but Kyd Wykkyd threw his cape over them. Billy glared as they arrived "Or well go get her. Not that I think we should,"
Billy walked to the door and picked the lock before stepping inside. Kyd Wykkyd looked around for a moment, all the old furniture now looked broken or was knocked over. Billy chuckled nervously when he saw the room.
"This doesn't prove nothing," Billy said heading down the hall. He watched as both Kyd Wykkyd and Beast Boy searched the two other rooms. He opened the bedroom door and crept in, closing the door behind him. He really didn't like how fast his own heart was beating right now.
His heart stopped and he froze for a moment when he saw Raven strapped down to the bed, she had a red mark on her face that looked like it stung and her top was lifted to the bottom of her bra. Billy just stared at her. At the back of his mind he knew he should be helping her but he just didn't know how to.
"Found it feisty," Adonis came out of the bathroom with a camera, why it was in there Billy didn't want to know. He didn't even look in Billy's direction as he placed it on the dresser and moved over Raven. She winched and stiffened against him. "Not so feisty now are you,"
"Get off me," Raven growled. Billy flinched as Adonis laid a hand on her. It was as if he was being touch in the same place. He shook his head trying to throw all thoughts away and charged at Adonis. He knocked him off Raven and created to clone's that kept attacking Adonis while he helped Raven. She flinched at his touch but let him sit her up.
Beast Boy and Kyd Wykkyd came into the room and looked at the scene. Billy grabbed Raven and called his clones back as he moved over to Kyd Wykkyd. He shoved Beast Boy back and Kyd Wykkyd threw his cape over. They were back in Hive Five base before Adonis had time to fight back. Raven was gripping onto Billy's shirt so tightly her knuckles had whitened.
"You're safe at Hive Five base again so you can let go," Billy said trying to push her back. Raven pulled him into a hug that lasted a minute and then moved back looking around. Billy looked at all the faces that seemed shocked appear from the two that seemed angry.
"You realise he was the one who gave you to Adonis in the first place," Seemore pointed out. Raven finished fixing her clothes and smile.
"I'm getting there," she span round and slapped Billy across the face so hard that he fell to the ground. He smile as his team members cracked up.
Billy hadn't completely forgiven Raven but he wasn't so mad at her anymore. But she was angry with him. Which was understandable. He'd handed her over to someone who had one thing on their mind.
Billy felt a little disappointed when Gizmo took Raven to his bedroom, he'd started to like their time and it was gone. Lucky for Gizmo to that she was managing to walk around again. Billy sighed and left his friends early, he headed for an early night in his room.
Raven wasn't as cold as she'd seemed, she was defiantly as smart as everyone thought and unlucky but wasn't as cold. He was a little disappointed actual, if she was cold he could hate her but she wasn't hateable like he'd hoped.
Gizmo: Day Nine
Gizmo knew she was feeling better, she was walking around a lot more and kept herself busy. Raven even joined in with their scrabble game at five. She mostly wrote words like, useless, evil, villainous, graceless, barbaric, and malevolent and so on. Everyone found her choices funny and tried not to take it personal. Although at one point she put wicked next to a word and he made a face.
"I'm starting to think your trying to say something," Seemore said smiling.
'I'm not barbaric,' Kyd Wykkyd complained and took his name away.
"You can't take my pieces, it's a word, your name just happens to be close to it," Raven reached over trying to grab her pieces back but Kyd Wykkyd refused to hand them over.
"You're going to knock the board," Gizmo said as he ducked under a bit Kyd Wykkyd threw. Raven jumped up on the chair and went over the table to get her pieces back. She'd managed to not know a piece but Kyd Wykkyd kicked the table forcing her to fall back onto the board.
"Yes, now none of you can't say I lost badly," Billy said cheering to himself.
"I stopped counting you as an actually competitor when you wrote 'hot' followed by 'stuff'," Raven mumbled and dusted herself.
'I stopped counting him when he wrote cow,' Kyd Wykkyd mumbled into their heads.
"Cow is a word and I am hot stuff so it worked," Billy whined and moved into the kitchen. "That's it my new name is Hotstuff," Billy said laughing.
"Than my new name is as if," Seemore said and a they laughed at Billy.
"Billy you can't have that as a name anyway," Gizmo complained.
"And why not?"
"Because it sounds like that Titan, Hot… something,"
"Spot, Hotspot, that his name," Raven got up and walked away from them to the couch.
"Great going Gizmo, she was in a good mood," Seemore muttered. But Gizmo just shrugged his shoulders.
"She'll get over it. Wanna play another game?" he smile like a misbehaving child. They got out a new game and started playing. No one bothered to disturb Raven and Billy just left her food in front of her.
After dinner Gizmo had to leave so Mammoth got Raven earlier. He let her go in his room without him, figuring she'd just sleep.
Raven: Day Ten
Mammoth had led her to the room and left her there while he joined the others. Raven waited till he was out of the room to sneak out through the open door. She headed down to Gizmo's room and went inside.
Raven wasn't great with tools and computers but she'd spent enough time around Cyborg to know how to remove three bands. Raven started on the first one, an ash grey. She took her time making sure she removed it properly and smile when it hit the ground. Her powers didn't return to her so she started on the next one, being just as careful. When it fell she waited a second but still no powers returned to her. Raven sighed and started on the last one. Her eyebrows furrowed together and her smile started to widen as it snapped off.
"Azarath… metrion… zinthos!" she cried out but nothing happened. Raven looked at her hands for the longest moment. Her powers weren't working, they'd taken her powers away. She stormed out of the room and into the kitchen were everyone was. There was a large pillow fort in the middle of the room and everyone was laughing and playing another game, this time with cards.
Raven walked over and snatched the cards off the table before throwing them across the room. Seemore and Billy looked up to her in shock and Kyd Wykkyd tilted his head. "What the hell have you done to my powers," Raven yelled.
"Hey you took you're band off," Billy said "Wait, why didn't you just teleport when you had the chance," This caused Raven to growl and instead of controlling her anger she kicked the chair back and let him hit the wall.
"My powers aren't working, what, have you done to me?" she yelled.
"I swear the band was only meant to block you're powers, not take them away," Seemore said and Raven stalked round the table to where he was ready to hit him but Kyd Wykkyd and Mammoth grabbed her and pulled her back. They sat her down in a chair and Kyd Wykkyd kept her there for while Mammoth helped Billy.
"We didn't mean to stop you're powers, honest," Billy moved past her to the kitchen to grab a drink. The others were trying to keep Raven calm which was a lot harder than it looked.
"What would be up with her powers," Mammoth asked Kyd Wykkyd.
'Could be from lack of use or her starving for all that time. I have a few books in my room on this type of stuff maybe she should just stay with me,' he replied. Raven huffed but said nothing. After a bit of silence they all nodded and Kyd Wykkyd helped Raven back up, leading her to his room.
She sat on his bed and waited for him to grab the books. He pulled out an entire shelfs worth of books and placed them in front of her.
"We have the same idea on what a few is I see," Raven said picking up the first thick book. She opened it up and flicked through the pages. Kyd Wykkyd said at the end of his bed with a smile on his face.
'What's your favourite colour?' he asked.
"Blue,"
'What about time of the day?"
"Night,"
'What about fruit?'
"Apple,"
'Book,' Raven looked up and he smiled.
"I thought we were trying to figure out what's wrong with my powers," she questioned.
'No, you're trying to figure that out, I'm trying to learn more about you,' he smile and picked up a book, 'but I can do both, now what's your favourite book,' Raven sighed and turned back to the book she had.
"I don't have one. I use to but it turned out to be evil," she laughed at the thought of that evil book. Kyd Wykkyd tilted his head to the side for a moment.
'You're book turned out to be evil?" he asked questionably. Raven shook her head and focused on her book. 'Okay, what made you want to be one of the stuck up Titans? You're not really like them,' Raven was gripping the book so tightly it looked like she might rip it in half.
"Is it really any of your business?" she sighed when he made a face and hung her head. "Please can we just focus on finding out what's wrong with my powers," Kyd Wykkyd nodded and turned to the book again.
They read for hours and Kyd Wykkyd ended up falling asleep beside Raven and knocking off a few of the books. He shifted in his sleep and ended up placing his head in her lap. Raven stiffened and jerked back knocking him off the bed. He sat back up and glared at her.
'What did you do that for?' he growled.
"You were drooling," Raven lied and moved off the bed with bright cheeks, "Clearly you're tired and I am too, so let's just get some rest," she moved to the couch and laid down and Kyd Wykkyd shrugged before knocking off all the books. He laid down and turned the lights out and Raven closed her eyes.