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Rated MA for language, violence, and sexual content (yes, there will eventually be hot lesbian sex, but also a plot and a story)
This is a lesbian fanfiction people, if you don't like it, don't read.
Disclaimer: If I owned the Teen Titans, I'd be a whole lot richer. As it is, if you sue me, I'll laugh and help you look for money. But in all seriousness, I do not own these characters, DC, Cartoon Network, or any of that jazz.
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Also I think I mentioned it in the last chapter but 'dialogue' = telepathy and "dialogue" = talking :)
Chapter 8
"I still don't like this." Robin repeated for likely the 15th time. "Even if you're able to let us know you're in danger, there won't be a damn thing any of us can do about it!"
Raven sighed, trying not to lose her patience. She knew Robin's frustration only stemmed from his worry about her but she thought he understood there was no point in arguing.
"Robin, I promise, at the first sign of danger, I will come straight back." She said.
Robin continued to frown but bit his lip to keep from responding.
"Jinx, we know we must not disturb you while you are in meditation, but could you not tell us the status of Raven while you are connected with her?" Starfire asked.
"Er…" Jinx looked at Raven.
"Yes, you can still speak out loud just as you were chanting earlier." Raven explained before turning back to Robin.
"You know I have to do this." She said quietly.
"I know, doesn't mean I have to like it." Robin said with a small smile.
"I won't be gone long."
Jinx cleared her throat awkwardly and flinched when all five Titans turned to her.
"Not to make this even more difficult but, I've now only meditated once. I'm kinda worried I won't be able to if I've got all of you watchin me." She confessed.
To her surprise, the Titans nodded in understanding.
"You can meditate in my room again and Robin, will you stay with her while the others wait out here?" Raven asked.
Robin nodded.
"Ok then, let's go."
Raven gave a brief smile to all of her friends before turning and leaving the living room, followed by Robin and Jinx. It was clear she felt enough time had already been wasted. As soon as they reached Raven's room, she levitated herself into the air and fell into meditation. Jinx quickly sat on the bed and joined her. This time it took only a few minutes for Jinx to relax into a deep meditation. She wasn't surprised when Raven's voice echoed clearly in her mind.
'I'm not counting on us being able to communicate verbally.' She admitted. 'We haven't become accustomed to each other and our connection enough. But you should be able to sense me and even see me if you look deep enough.'
Jinx knew that Raven took her silence to mean she understood what the Titan was saying.
'And Jinx…'
Raven's tone had become soft again, sounding much more like the girl Jinx felt she had begun to know, the girl Jinx liked much more than the cold and distant one Raven had become since the confusing moment they'd shared earlier.
'Remember what I said earlier. If you start to lose yourself, just get out, however you need to.'
Jinx wanted to protest again, but Raven had already gone. Letting out a frustrated sigh, Jinx focused all her energy on feeling Raven's presence. Though the distance felt much greater than before, Jinx felt sure that as long as she could see their aura's together, she would be able to sense if Raven was ok.
Raven tried unsuccessfully to push her worry for Jinx from her mind as she flew as quickly as possible towards the large city floating in the pink and orange sky. She knew Jinx could sense her, simply by the way she could feel Jinx's focus and energy directed entirely on to her.
As Raven neared the city, she stretched out her empathic powers, searching for any sign of a living soul. Years of practice helped her keep the rising dread at bay as her visions were confirmed.
Back at Titans Tower, Jinx could feel the sorrow threatening to drown Raven. She reported the empath's safety to Robin but kept the emotions to herself. She couldn't see Raven but knew she had reached the heart of Azarath. She also knew Raven's destination, and the vision they had shared caused her to call out to Raven, desperately hoping she would be heard.
Raven felt Jinx's fear and knew she must have sensed Raven's intentions. Shoving Jinx aside, Raven continued towards the Temple of Azar. She honestly wasn't sure if she hoped to find it as deserted as the city or to find the mysterious being that served her father.
She walked silently through the entrance, her senses and abilities on high alert for anyone or anything that didn't belong there. The temple was lit only by the soft orange sky coming through the windows lining the walls up towards the vaulted, stone ceiling.
Suddenly, Raven stopped. She was no longer alone.
"Of all the things your father calls you, 'a fool' was not one of them. He'll be eager to add it to his list though, I'm sure."
The voice was even more terrible than it had sounded in her vision. Raven tried to suppress the chill that slid down her spine. Turning slowly, Raven summoned her magic and readied herself for an attack.
"The only name my father should dare call me is his vanquisher." She replied, her eyes blackening.
The man chuckled softly, a sound like glass shattering.
"If the mighty Trigon were truly vanquished, your people would have nothing to fear then, would they?" He said, an evident sneer in his voice.
"Where are they?!" Raven demanded.
With a speed unlike Raven had ever encountered, the man was suddenly inches in front of her, his hand gripping her pale throat tightly. He lifted her easily from the ground while Raven struggled against him. Her eyes widened in fear as she realized his touch was somehow blocking her powers.
"Why don't we go pay them a little visit?" He snarled.
He reached his other hand up and Raven watched as it began to glow with red crackling energy. He pressed the energy to her chest at the same time he released her neck. Raven screamed in pain, but over her cries, she heard Jinx.
The man's hood fell from his face, revealing a horribly scarred and burned face, a twisted, fanged snarl, and glowing red eyes with slit-like pupils. Raven watched his eyes widen in shock before she was wrenched from his magical grasp. He screamed in anger and made a slashing motion towards Raven. She didn't have time to even comprehend the pain in her side before she was being pulled violently through the dimensional walls. Before everything went black, she felt soft, warm arms surround her and a panicked voice calling her name.
Jinx rubbed at her temples with irritation. The splitting headache she'd had for the past hour was only getting worse. And if Robin asked her to explain something she didn't understand one more time, she was going to make sure he shared her pain.
Raven was still unconscious on a bed in the Titan's medical bay. Jinx sat by her side, refusing to move, much to Robin's irritation. He had finally let her be, pulling Cyborg out of the room as well to have a meeting with the other Titans. Jinx couldn't care less that she hadn't been included. She certainly didn't want to endure Robin's glares as he retold her extremely vague account of what had happened to the rest of his team.
Cradling her head in her hands, Jinx replayed the event in her mind. She'd known the moment the man appeared, but after that, she'd been unable to sense anything other than Raven's fear and pain. She had no idea how she'd brought Raven back. All she knew was that the moment she had felt Raven being pulled to God knows where, she had screamed out to her, then watched in awe as her own pink energy wrapped tightly around Raven's fading purple, and suddenly shone bright white. At that moment, Jinx was looking through Raven's eyes into the startled glowing red ones. She watched the flicker of recognition pass through them before she was looking through her own eyes down at the limp form of Raven in her arms.
Recalling that flicker of recognition she'd seen caused her head to throb with renewed vigor and Jinx squeezed her eyes shut, her jaw clenched in pain.
Cyborg reentered the room about a half hour later. He assured Jinx that all of Raven's vitals were normal and that all they could do now was wait for her to finish healing herself and wake up. It was nearly midnight and he suggested Jinx go try to get some sleep in Raven's room.
"I'm not leaving her." Jinx mumbled, her head searing in pain once again.
Cyborg sighed before pulling a bottle out of one of the cupboards.
"Here, that'll help your head." He said, handing it to Jinx.
She swallowed four of the pills before handing the bottle back with a quiet 'thanks.'
"I've got an alarm set in my system if she wakes up. So hopefully I'll see you before morning."
Cyborg didn't wait for a response before leaving the medical bay. Jinx looked at Raven's pale face, willing her violet eyes to open. With a sigh, Jinx gently pulled one of Raven's hands into her lap and held it tightly. Her head was already starting to feel better and in place of the pain came pure exhaustion. Jinx had never felt more mentally drained and she spared a moment of thought to wonder if this was how Raven felt after a fight.
With a small flick of her wrist, Jinx cast the room into darkness, broken only by the soft green lights of the machine currently hooked up to Raven. Unwilling to let go of the Titan's hand, Jinx entwined her fingers with Ravens before curling up in her chair. She was asleep before she could feel the light squeeze of Raven's hand.