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*Revised June 13th*
Raven could only stare at Thanatos as he departed, feeling her anger drain away only to be replaced by despair. Her father had returned. She closed her eyes.
"No…" She whispered softly, it was all hopeless. I thought I was finally rid of him. Now I find out that I am still bringing him back?
Raven struggled to keep awake as exhaustion from the battle kept pulling her towards the dark void that was unconsciousness. The great burst of energy her demon side released only dealt with her stress over the past couple weeks. It did not help the energy she had used during the chase and fight.
Her emotions were worn out, skittish. They themselves were tired and stressed themselves out. Raven tried to gather her thoughts and emotions but it was like a cat chasing a bunch of mice in a barn full of hay. Just when she caught one another skittered away right out from under her.
She let out a long sigh and felt herself collapse on the ground when her exhaustion took over and she fell unconscious. Beast Boy quickly ran over to her and lifted her head and shoulders up into his arms gently.
"Will she be alright?" Beast Boy asked, fighting back tears that were starting to form in his eyes.
"I don't know BB." Said Cyborg softly, too softly for his usual boisterous self.
"Don't worry friend Beast Boy." Started Starfire. "I'm sure friend Raven will be fine." The words came out reassuringly, but her eyes held traces of worry and sadness and she had a slight frown on her face.
"But for now we should head back to the tower, I want to do a bit of research on this Thanatos guy," stated Robin. He looked at the unconscious Raven, her chest rising and falling slowly.
"I am sure she will be fine." Robin finished, then turned and headed towards the T-car.
Beast Boy nodded and lifted her up in his arms. She felt light in his arms and heat flooded through him when he realized he was actually picking up Raven bridal style. She would freak out if she saw him carrying her like this, if he had carried her at all actually.
Beast Boy steadily and without dropping Raven, walked over to the T-car to leave. Cyborg and Starfire following behind him slowly. Starfire glanced behind her shoulder to look at the wreckage of the fight.
What buildings were burning had already collapsed; the demonic fight had ruined them much faster than the fire normally would have. Starfire turned back and looked at the others getting into the T-car.
"I don't want to leave her." Beast Boy protested, he decided that he wouldn't fly home but go in the T-car with Raven and the others. He cared too much about her to do otherwise.
Cyborg and Robin had no protest, they just let him get in with her and with a nod from Starfire, and they started up the car. Starfire just let out a sigh and flew up into the air; she would fly home since she just needed to think.
"Do you have any idea who that guy is?" demanded Raven as she stormed through nevermore. Most of her emotions were too tired to reply, even Happy didn't have the energy she normally had. Timid flinched at Raven's yelling and hid behind Brave. Rude just stood there not caring. Rage didn't look pleased at all, but then again she normally wasn't a content person. Knowledge was flipping through a book, glancing upward with a tinge of surprise at the anger Raven was directing at her emotions.
"No, all the books I've checked said nothing about Thanatos, or what his connection to Trigon might be." Knowledge pushed her glasses up with a finger, then kept flipping through the pages. Raven let out a huff of disappointment.
"Well at least we kicked his butt!" Brave joked, but Raven didn't do anything other than shake her head.
"I wouldn't really consider what happened kicking his butt." Rage snapped at Brave, while Brave just shrugged in reply.
"You think maybe he is going to come back" Timid whispered in a terrified voice. The gray cloaked emotion was shaking slightly.
Happy looked around, obviously trying to find something good about the situation while at the same time finding none. Then she brightened.
"At least now we know what we are up against!" She stated helpfully.
"Yes and now we can actually plan. We know that Thanatos serves Trigon and that Thanatos appears to be immortal." Knowledge supplied.
"And how does that help out our situation?" Raven asked in a sarcastic tone. Raven turned and walked away from the clearing and her emotions without waiting for an answer. She hoped meditating would help her concentration and she knew she would have to explain to Robin what happened between her and Thanatos.
"I swear, sometimes my emotions are idiots…" Raven muttered.
Raven sat in a meditative pose, trying to scavenge whatever sanity she could inside of this chaos so that when she woke up. she would at least not bite any of her teammate's heads off. She levitated into the air and started softly chanting her mantra. Back at the clearing her other emotions just kept doing their own thing, Rage just flat out left, cursing about how she was constantly being blamed whenever something went wrong.
Beast Boy was sitting down in the sick bay next to Raven's bed. She looked so beautiful. Some might say that her demon ash-gray skin was unearthly, was hideous. But Beast Boy thought it made her look all the more beautiful. Her beautiful violet eyes were like amethysts and her short purple hair as soft as silk.
He sighed. Why did she have to suffer so much just for being born? It wasn't fair. She had to live her whole life suppressing her emotions; she had to live with the other titans knowing that she was supposed to destroy them along with the whole wide world. She had to actually END the world with no hope at the time that it would be saved.
"And even now she still suffers; I wonder what happened between her and that Thanatos guy?" Beast Boy whispered. The moonlight, not dulled by the smoke that covered the moon that was still rising from the destroyed part of the city, shone on her making her look like a dark goddess.
Beast Boy reached out tentatively and held her hand. He knew that if she woke up right now he would be blasted off into another dimension. But now he just wanted her to wake up just so he knew she would be alright. He had loved her since he first went to nevermore, since he realized that she actually didn't hate him.
Beast Boy would sit there the rest of the night and wait for her to wake up.
