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Coming Home (Sorta)

Chapter 4 - You Will Be Loved

 

By Robster80

 

 

The sudden knock on her door startled Raven, causing her to look up from her bed. She heard Cyborg's voice from behind the door and, quickly wiping her face of the tearstains, got up to answer him. “Yes?”

 

There stood her mechanical teammate, holding a plate of steaming food with silverware under his thumb. The food ranged from steak, tofu, assorted vegetables, and a small mound of blue goo that they both recognized as one of Starfire's homeworld delicacies. “You missed dinner,” he said, holding out the plate to her.

 

“Sorry,” was all Raven said, taking the plate and silverware into her hands.

 

“Look, if you don't want to talk about your past involving TK, the team's cool with that. However-.”

 

“I won't try to kill him anymore,” Raven replied, cutting off Cyborg with sadness in her voice. “It's just… I've had to accept that he was gone from my life forever, and then he just shows up out of the blue-.”

 

It was Cyborg's turn to interrupt. “And everything you've worked so hard for in order to move on with your life seems like a waste. I can somewhat relate to that, looking back on when I lost my real body.” He put a hand to her shoulder. “You eat up, and then you should come out and apologize to TK. A nice, long talk wouldn't hurt, right?”

 

“…I'll try.” Having said this, Raven retreated back into her room, closing the door behind her.

 

Sighing heavily, Cyborg walked away. He hoped that Raven was sincere about not wanting to commit murder. I'd better beef up the security cameras just in case.

 

 

* * *

 

 

Afternoon passed, and evening came. Raven never came out of her room, except to leave her empty plate and silverware outside her door. Whetehr she was ashamed for her earlier behavior or was plotting another way to go after TK, none of the Titans couldn't understand why. Soon it was lights out at Titans' Tower, and time to go to sleep.

 

Unfortunately for TK and Patamon, they were forced to sleep on the couch in the lounge due to the fact that the room that had belonged to Terra had been left untouched after her betrayal. None of the Titans wanted to enter that room, let alone tidy it up at all. Cyborg found a spare blanket and pillows for the two from his room. Being mostly machine, he didn't use a bed per se, but a standing charger unit to recharge his batteries while he slept.

 

After the lights went out, however, both TK and Patamon were unable to go to sleep so easily. In the first place, they were in a strange new place, and secondly, they were still concerned about Raven. Neither was convinced that she had given up, Patamon especially.

 

Unbeknownst to the Digimon, however, TK mentally debated whether or not he should let Raven kill him. It was not the first time since Kari's betrayal that he had considered death. At times when he was left alone, he nearly had stepped out in front of a speeding vehicle, or jumped off the roof of a building headfirst, or slit his wrists. There were even times in the Digital World that he almost put himself in unavoidable danger where no one could save him. However, something always stopped him from committing to these acts; a nagging feeling that told him to stay alive a little longer. It was if as a tiny bit of hope still resided within his broken heart a true love would find him.

 

True love; he had thought he'd found it with Kari when they first met over eight years ago. TK thought back to when Kari joined him and other Odaiba Digi-Destined to fight Myotismon and then the Dark Masters. He thought about how Piedmon had turned everyone but him and Kari into little keychain dolls, and how Kari held onto his hand, refusing to let him go when Piedmon grabbed him. Then he thought about when Kari was taken to the Dark Ocean, and she had called out to him to save her. It wasn't Davis she called out to, but him. He thought those times had meant something between them, but they didn't.

 

As much as I want to go home, why bother? There's nothing left there, except pain… and loneliness. A tear squeezed out of his eyes after he closed them, and one last thought crossed his mind before sleep took hold over him: I'm destined to never find love.

 

Sometime after TK finally went to sleep, Raven quietly came out into the lounge and made her way to the couch he and Patamon were sleeping on. She just stood there, looking at him in the darkness. She had been afraid to approach him after she learned that he was telling the truth, that he was from another dimension. After all, how could she explain their connection? Would he believe her, especially after all she had tried to do earlier in the day?

 

Kneeling down beside the couch, Raven reached out with her hand and gently brushed a hair from TK's brow. Watching him sleep like this brought back memories of when she used to sleep over at his apartment. She recalled sneaking into his bed and curling up against him, her head resting on his chest to hear his heart beating, which would make her heart race. He was always so warm next to her, like a favorite blanket.

 

A light moan from TK's lips caused Raven to gasp silently, Her body frozen in place, she listened as he kept moaning, as if he were talking in his sleep. “No,” she heard him say, “no, don't… why? Why Ka-?”

 

Who was he talking to, Raven wondered? Was he trying to call out a name just then?

 

“Wait,” he kept moaning, “don't leave me. You said… you said you cared for me. You called out to me. No. No!” With that, TK sat up straight, wide awake.

 

Moving out of concern as well as on instinct, Raven took TK inot her arms and hugged him gently. “Sssh,” she whispered, “it's okay. You were dreaming.”

 

“Huh, wha?” Patamon rubbed his eyes with his one wing before he looked over at TK. “TK, what's-?” Seeing Raven holding TK, Patamon opened his mouth to shout out for her to let him go. However, he found himself unable to make a sound, as if something invisible were over his mouth.

 

TK looked to see Raven holding up a hand towards Patamon. “Relax,” she said, “I'm not going to hurt either of you.”

 

“Uh, then why are you out here with us, and why do you have one arm around me?”

 

“You were having a nightmare. I was trying to comfort you.” Though they were in darkness, TK could see Raven's face turn red. “I… I'm sorry. For trying to kill you, I mean.”

 

“…Honestly, I'm not sure I blame you for that, after what the other Titans told me about Terra and Deathstro-. Er, I mean, Slade. But I was telling you the truth before: I never knew anyone named Raven back in my dimension.”

 

That's because it's not my real name, Raven thought, but she refused to tell TK this. At least, not just yet. “Still, I overreacted. I'm not supposed to do that; it goes against all of my training.”

 

Is it just me, or does she look cute in the dark? …What am I thinking?! She doesn't love me; she loves my counterpart.

 

“Who was it?”

 

TK blinked. “Come again?”

 

“You were calling out to someone in your sleep. But you never said a name, not fully.”

 

Now he understood what Raven meant. Turning to look at the blanket covering his legs, TK weakly said, “I'd rather not talk about it.”

 

From this reaction, plus the tone of TK's voice, Patamon could tell what the nightmare was about. “TK, if you don't tell her, I will.” Not waiting for a response, the Digimon began speaking directly to Raven. “He was dreaming about his first love; someone we both trusted and thought that she loved him.”

 

“First love?” Raven was now unsure if she wanted to hear this. Her heart warned her she was not going to like what Patamon was going to say.

 

However, it was TK who spoke. Though he didn't want to, he had decided it was better if he told the story. “In my dream, I was reliving two of my memories. The first was of a monster named Piedmon-.”

 

“The leader of the Dark Masters,” Raven added. “…”I've heard of him. Go on.”

 

“ Piedmon was chasing us through his castle. We found ourselves on a balcony, with a pot and a rope rising out of it like you see done in India. She went up first, and I followed after her, urging her to keep climbing. Suddenly, Piedmon grabbed my foot, and she grabbed my hand. I knew he'd get us both if… I told her to let go. …She did, saying she was glad to do it.”

 

Raven knew this wasn't how it had actually happened, but she didn't say it aloud. She also didn't say anything about whomever TK was talking about, but she had a good idea who it was. “What happened next?”

 

“I heard her calling out to me, from far, far away. I started to run, following her voice until I came to the Dark Ocean. She had been taken there, and was calling me to save her. However… she was nowhere to be found. Then I saw her… and him.”

 

“Piedmon?” Raven asked.

 

Patamon shook his head/body. The name he gave took the breath right out of Raven. “Davis.”

 

Nodding, TK continued his story. “I heard her say that I was too late. Davis had rescued her, no thanks to me. Then they started to fly away, laughing at me and calling me a fool. I tried to run after them, but… they were so far from me.

 

Raven was almost speechless when TK finished his story. She had never heard of the Dark Ocean, but Davis was another story. “What… what was her name?”

 

“…Kari Yagami.”

 

It was as if a thousand knives had been plunged into her body when she heard the name. Raven just knelt there, staring at TK in disbelief. How could this be even possible? How could Kari from TK's dimension betray him like this? His fate was a worse one than what hers had suffered. Once more, she hugged TK, but this time with more strength. She didn't care if it bothered him since he wasn't her love; her heart went out to him now that she understood his pain.

 

“I'm so sorry,” she whispered, crying on his shoulder, “that you had to suffer so much because of… because of her.”

 

Patamon stared at them, while TK was shocked by Raven's sudden 180. There was something about Raven that seemed almost familiar to them both. However, only Patamon was able to, though slowly, realize the truth. Oh my god… It can't be!

 

Suddenly, there came a noise from the hallway. The three looked in the hall's direction, keeping silent as they heard shuffling and then a door opening and closing. Raven knew what it was: Starfire had snuck into Robin's room again. That girl seriously needs to work on her stealth skills. “I'd better go. Sleep well, Takeru.” Before TK or Patamon could say anything, Raven dropped into the shadows on the floor and vanished.

 

“…Okay, that was weird.”

 

“Maybe we should talk to her in the morning. Get some rest, TK.” Patamon then flew off the couch.

 

“Where are you going?”

 

“To find the bathroom.”

 

 

* * *

 

 

Raven didn't return to her room. Instead, she used her powers to reappear inside the bathroom. Her head was spinning from the revelation TK had dropped on her, and her heart ached fit to burst. Now how was she to reach out to him while the pain of Kari's betrayal weighed heavily in his mind? Now how was she to tell him who she really was?

 

How could she, she thought bitterly. How dare she do that to him?! And with… with that bastard of all people!

 

Suddenly the door opened and in flew Patamon. Regaining her composure, raven waved lightly at him. “Sorry, I'll be heading back to my-.”

 

“I know who you really are.”

 

Those words made Raven stand still right were she was. Looking inot the Digimon's eyes, she knew he wasn't playing around. Yet, this stunned her. “What?”

 

“Like I said, I know your real name now. I won't tell TK yet, but… what happened to you that you became… became Raven?”

 

“You can somewhat thank Daisuke for this, though it mostly has to do… with my real father.”

 

Silence passed between them before Patamon finally said, “It's too late to talk. I only wanted to let you know that I now know the truth, or some of it. And I'd suggest you try to talk to TK in the morning.”

 

“But how can I tell him? You know he's still hurting-.”

 

“Because I realize that this could be the second chance that both of you have been waiting for. Yes, you're from different dimensions, and there's still the fact that TK and I have to find our way back to ours, but in the meantime he deserves to love, and be loved in return. …Goodnight, Raven.”

 

“Wait,” Raven called out. Patamon turned back to look at her. “Just answer me this before you go: what was it that Kari said to take away his hope?”

 

“…That nothing good would come from entering a broken home. I don't know about your TK, but mine has a family history of divorces, including his parents when he was real young. Something like that leaves terrible scars, possibly for life. I guess Kari wanted to protect herself, but then again, I could be wrong.”

 

Once more, Raven was alone in the bathroom. She turned to look at her reflection in the mirror above the sink, trying to imagine just how Kari would look at her age. At that moment, she wished that the two of them were switched; that she was from TK's dimension where she would love him, and that Kari was here and Takeru was dead so that he wouldn't have had to suffer.

 

A dark voice in her head told her to stop her wishful thinking; Takeru was dead, and this new one would never love her. She should let the past go and be done with it. However, her heart told her that it didn't matter if this wasn't her Takeru. The point was that his heart had been broken, and he needed to be loved so that he would not give up the desire to love.

 

Her mind was made up: she would love him, even if he would someday leave her again. And when that time would come, she would let him go. Once she decided on this, Raven once more melted into the darkness. Reappearing back in the lounge, she used her powers to take herself and the slumbering TK and Patamon into her room. Patamon was carefully placed one of the extra pillows Raven kept, which she placed on the floor beside her bed. TK was quietly placed under the covers where Raven joined him.

 

It's almost like old times, she thought, snuggling next to TK. Resting her head on his chest, she held her breath for a moment as she listened hard. His heartbeat… it's the same as before. A smile on her lips, Raven fell asleep with her arms around TK lovingly.

 

I will love you… Takeru.

 

 

* * *

 

 

The next morning, TK awoke from a dreamless sleep to find himself sitting up in a bed. “How'd I get here?” he asked himself. “Pata?”

 

“Mmmm, five more minutes,” a voice said from the floor. TK crawled to the one side to look down: Patamon was sleeping on a pillow that had been placed beside the bed. Looking around, he took in the occult items, books, and dark, mysterious decor before he guessed where he was. “This must be Raven's room.”

 

As iff on cue, the bedroom door opened and in stepped the shadowy Titan. In her hands was a large tray with three plates of breakfast food. “I thought I'd make breakfast for the three of us,” she said, “Though I should warn you, the only thing I'm good at making is herbal tea.”

 

“Eeeh, smells like burned toast.” Patamon floated upwards before he spotted the tray of food. “Oh boy, room service!”

 

“Uh, how'd we get in your room?” TK asked.

 

“I transported you with my powers. After all, couches were made for sitting in, not sleeping in.”

 

“Talk later, let's eat!” Patamon suddenly dived for the tray, which Raven quickly set down on the bed. Grabbing a plate, Patamon began stuffing his face with what looked like eggs, toast, and bacon. “Not bad,” he muttered with his mouth full. “A bit overly done, but I won't complain much.”

 

Raven picked up the other two plates and held one out to TK. “If I recall, you liked your eggs scrambled?”

 

He didn't know, why, but seeing raven being so warm towards him lifted TK's spirits. Smiling, he reached out for the plate. “Thank you.”

 

 

End Chapter 4