Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans but I do own The Eight.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Cherry asks as she walked down the stairs into the basement.
Cherry's dad looked up with a smile.
"I'm milking this spider sweetie." He said.
Cherry looked confuse, "How do you 'milk' a spider?"
Her dad places the spider back in its cage.
"Well, you make the spider give up a little of its venom by placing this little vacuum against its fangs." He said as he held up his tools.
"Why would you want to do that?" she asked.
"That's how doctors create anti venom for poisonous insects and snakes."
Ten year old Cherry looked at the cage with the spider in it.
It was a black widow.
"Cool." She said.
It was 7:00 A.M. in the morning and Black Widow was pissed.
She was wide awake but because of her ankle she couldn't get up and walk around.
"Wolf. WOLF!" She yelled as she threw a pillow at him.
Wolf didn't turn his head.
"Don't ignore me asshole! I know you can't sleep." She yelled.
Wolf turns his head.
"What do you want?" he asked clearly annoyed.
"Go get me an ankle brace."
Wolf looks at her swollen ankle and laughs.
"You do know it won't magically fix that right?"
"JUST GET ME ONE!"
Cherry walked down the basement carrying her dad's coffee.
"Here you go." She cheerfully said.
"Thanks sweetie." Her dad said as he took the coffee.
Cherry looked in awe at the cages in the basement, there had to be at least twenty of them now.
"Dad, can I help you milk one of them?" she asked.
Her dad shook his head.
"Sorry sweetie, but these are very dangerous. I don't want you to get bit." He said.
Cherry nodded her head. She was a very obedient child and knew her dad said no for a good reason.
Wolf finally gave in and went out to get Black Widow an ankle brace.
As she waited she pulled out countless needles and darts.
Very carefully she took out the poisons and mixed them in a bowl she had.
She then added some water to the mixture to dilute the poison a bit.
"Alright let's try this." She said as she took out a needle, added the mixture, and injected it into her foot.
"Dad! Mom says we're going to be late!" Twelve year old Cherry said as her dad was milking another spider.
"Go tell your mom I'm almost done." He said.
"Ok." She said.
As Cherry walked back upstairs she could hear a cracking sound.
Before she could react the wooden steps gave way and she fell; right onto the black widow's cages.
She could hear her parents screaming and could feel the spiders biting her.
Wolf entered the room and found Black Widow passed out on her bed.
He rolled his eyes. This wasn't the first time he's found her like this.
"Give it to me straight doctor. Will she be ok?" Cherry's dad asks in the hospital.
The doctor let out a deep breath.
"She has sustained 23 bites which caused her lungs to fail. While she is stable at the moment her brain has been without oxygen for a few minutes. Because of this she may suffer from some neurological damage."
"What kind of damage are we talking about?"
"We'll just have to wait and see."
SPLASH!
Wolf threw a bucket of water on Black Widow.
"WHAT THE F#$!" She yelled as she woke up.
"Wakey wakey." Wolf said.
"DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!" she yelled.
"You're welcome." He said as he threw the ankle brace on the bed.
Cherry's parents gently led her back in the house.
She had a blank expression on her face, a far cry from the smile she usually made.
"Sweetie, are you ok." Her dad asks.
Cherry turned her head.
"I'm fine." She said in a monotone voice.
"Do you need anything?" her mom asked.
She shook her head.
Her parents look at her worrying.
This wasn't the same Cherry.
Black Widow added some more water to the mixture and injected it into her broken ankle again.
Her foot went numb, too numb for her to move it.
"Almost there." She said.
Fourteen year old Cherry was in school waiting in the lunch line.
She was starting to get impatient.
All of the sudden a boy bumped into her.
"Sorry." He said.
Without warning she jumps on him and stuck her fingers into his eyes.
She could feel them popping.
After feeling came back into her foot Black Widow made a third mixture.
"Third time's a charm." she said as she injected it into her foot.
The pain was numb. But not too numb were she couldn't move her foot.
"Perfect." She said with a smile.
Sixteen year old Cherry sat on the back porch of her house.
She was remembering the courtroom.
"Your honor this girl is a loaded gun." The prosecutor said, "If we let her go, someone else will get hurt or worse."
Cherry went to the stand.
"I'm sorry," she said as she busted into tears, "Put me away, I don't deserve to be free."
She turns to the family of the boy.
"Take my eyes if it will make you feel better." She said, "I deserve it."
The Jury fell for it.
Hook, line, and sinker.
"Not guilty." They said.
As Cherry was giggling on the memory a stray cat came up to her.
"Here kitty kitty." She said.
The cat came up to her and purred.
She quickly grabbed it and started to choke it.
When its body went limp a smile appeared on Cherry's face.
It was the first time she killed something.
And she loved it.
Black Widow wraps the ankle brace on her foot.
Wolf looked at her with amusement.
"You're seriously going to walk on that?" he said.
She ignored him and slowly stood up.
Her broken ankle made some popping sounds but Black Widow didn't even flinch.
She then started to walk around without even a limp.
She smiled.
Nothing was going to keep her from doing what she loved.
"Dad," Cherry said as her dad was about to go down the basement.
Her dad turns around.
"Yes sweetie?" he said.
"I love you." She said with a smile.
Her dad's face gave off a look of happiness.
Ever since the accident Cherry never said I love you to him or her mother.
"I love you too dear." He said.
Cherry then charged at him and pushed him with all her might.
He fell back, went through the wooden stairs, and crashed through the cages.
As he screamed in pain she smiled.
"I love you so much." She said.
She then went under the kitchen sink and pulled out a heavy duty extension cord.
Cherry went upstairs with the cord in her hands and knocked on her parents' bedroom door were her mother was taking a nap.
"Mom." She said.
"Yes," her mom said as she was waking up.
"Can I come in?"
"Sure dear."
Cherry walked into the bedroom with the cord around her arm.
"Mom, I just want to say I love you." Cherry said with a smile.
Cherry's mom was so happy that she didn't notice the cord on Cherry's arm.
"I love you too." Her mom said on the verge of tears.
Before anything else could be said Cherry whip the cord at her mother's head knocking her out.
"I love you so much." Cherry said as she continued to whip her mother's body with the cord.
After an hour of beating her mother's lifeless body Cherry went downstairs and turned on the TV.
"That was fun." She thought as she put the bloody cord on her lap.
She didn't know how much time passed since then, nor did she care.
All she could think about was who would be next.
As she thought about taking out one of her school friends a man appeared behind her.
She didn't hear him come in, but she enjoyed it none the less.
"I guess you'll be next." She said.
She swung the cord at his head but he easily dodged it.
"You're sloppy." He said.
Cherry eye's glared.
"I'M NOT SLOPPY!" she yelled as she charges him.
He easily tackled her to the ground.
"GET OFF ME!" She yelled.
The man then placed his knees on her arms.
"Do you know why I'm here?"
Cherry didn't say anything as she continued to struggle.
"The parents of the boy you blinded are paying me to kill you and your family." He said, "But I'm not the one to throw away talent. How would you like to join me and my team?"
Black Widow walks down the hallway of the hotel with a smile.
She loved this job so much that she was willing to walk on a broken ankle to do it.
"Excuse me miss." A room service maid said, "Would you care for a complement morning chocolate."
Black Widow looks at the plate.
It had a cherry covered flavor piece.
She remembers that cherry use to be her name.
"I would love a piece." She said as she pop the chocolate in her mouth.
Cherry died the day she fell through those stairs.
And Black Widow was born when Owl came into her house.