Fan Fiction ❯ Bloody Eyes ❯ Chapter 3
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Strausse 
Raven's depressed, and doesn't want to admit it. Her powers come back, and Robin has an offer to make.
Please R&R
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 05.09.2005 | Updated On: 05.09.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 368 | Status: Completed
Raven's depressed, and doesn't want to admit it. Her powers come back, and Robin has an offer to make.
Please R&R
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 05.09.2005 | Updated On: 05.09.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 368 | Status: Completed
*AN*
Sorry about the long wait for the new chapter. Just wanted to say thanks once again to Amnystist for the title.
Next chapter may not be for a while, I want to write one or two for my other.
Before I forget, Thanks for the reviews as well. Any constructive critisicm is welcome.
Bloody Eyes
Chapter 3
Raven was awakened by insistent knocking on her door. She sighed in irritation as she crossed her darkened room and slid her door open by two inches. Robin stood on the other side, his hand raised to knock again. "What?" Raven fought down the now familiar fear that threatened to consume her.
"Raven, we need to talk." Robin was obviously nervous about something.
"So talk."
"In private."
Raven sighed again, feigning irritation in order to hide her terror at being alone with Robin. "Fine." She stepped out of her room and started walking down the wide hallway, followed by Robin walking at a distance.
Raven led them to a rarely used kitchen, deeper in the tower. The tower had been built for a much larger group than currently used it, and the small kitchenette in the common room was usually sufficient for the five of them. If their team ever grew significantly, than they would use this kitchen, but for now it only collected dust.
Raven positioned herself across a large metal island from Robin, near an open door. She knew her fear of him was unfounded, Robin was a good friend, and her team leader, he would never hurt her, but she could not help the urge to run. "What did you want to talk about?" She managed to say this without letting out a telltale quiver in her voice.
"Raven, we're worried about you."
"I'm flattered, but you don't need to worry."
"You haven't left your room in three days. You've barely eaten anything, and you've done nothing but sleep. Raven, we’re your friends. We want to help you, but your shutting us out now more than ever."
"I am fine. I've just not been feeling well, I think its just the stuff that M... he gave me to shut down my powers still working its way through my system." Her inability to say Mammoth's name worried her, and she knew that Robin wouldn't miss it.
"Alright, I can buy that, but I'm still worried. You can't go through something like that and be alright." Robin took a deep breath, preparing himself for what he expected to be a long battle, "Raven, I'd like you to talk to a therapist."
"No."
Robin waited to see if Raven would say something else, but she did not continue. "Raven, I just want you to go in and talk to her once, I just want to know that you're okay."
"I am fine, I don't need help, and I definitely don't need a shrink. I'm not crazy."
"Going to a shrink doesn't mean you're crazy, Raven, it just means that something happened that you need some help dealing with."
"I don't need help and I don't want help. I. Am. Fine." She said each word more forceful than the last, leaving her meaning perfectly clear. Robin's watch beeped, and he glanced down noting the time. "Need to be somewhere, Robin?"
"It can wait, this can't. Raven, we're all worried about you, we don't want to see you fade away. We are not going to just watch it happen."
"It won't happen, Robin. I'll be fine."
Robin sighed, hating himself for what he was about to do. "Raven, I'm asking you as a friend to go talk to this therapist, don't make me order you to do it, please don't make me order you to go."
His words gave Raven pause. Outside of a fight, Robin rarely gave orders and when he did they were for a good reason. Raven couldn't help but wonder if she was worse than she believed, if the others saw something that she didn't. "I'll go, I'll talk to her, but if I don't like what she has to say, I'm not going back."
"That's all I'm asking, just talk to her."
Raven nodded. "Perhaps I've given you guys reason to be scared, and I'm sorry for that."
"It's okay, Raven."
Raven turned and walked out into the hall. Robin followed her out, making sure to keep a good distance from her. As they walked Raven thought that she could here something, Robin's voice, "She took it better than I thought."
Raven looked back at him, "Did you say something?"
"No, why?"
"I thought I heard..."
Robin's voice came again, she now realized it was in her head, his thoughts, "What's going on?"
"My powers are coming back." Black energy flickered along the walls as she fought to control rising panic. "I've got to go, I've got to meditate." Without waiting for Robin's reply she took off, phasing through the ceiling, headed for the roof.
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Robin walked into the common area of the tower. Cyborg was watching the news on one of the large televisions in the room, while Beastboy seemed totally engrossed by the book in his lap. Starfire was sitting next to the phone, staring off into space. When Robin walked into the room all eyes turned to him. “She agreed to go at least once." The others smiled at this news.
The phone rang, interrupting any questions. Starfire picked it up and held it to her ear. "Hello?" After a moment she spoke again, "We've already released a prepared statement, for now that will have to be enough." She held the phone for another moment before hanging it up. "It has not stopped ringing, friend Robin. They wish to interview friend Raven."
"I don't think she's ready for that yet. Her powers are starting to come back, I assume she's on the roof meditating; somebody should go check on her soon. I'm late, I have to her going now."
Beastboy stood, letting the book drop to the couch next to him, "I'll go check on her."
Robin nodded. "I don't know how long I'll be, and I need to take the T-car."
Cyborg scowled, "If there is one scratch on my baby when I get her back..."
He was interrupted by Robin, "Thanks, Cy, I knew you wouldn't mind."
Robin drove the T-car through the streets of Jump City, heading for a special maximum security prison. As he approached the gates, they swung open allowing him to enter. He parked in one of the available spaces and walked into the heavily fortified building.
At a metal detector just inside the doors, Robin divested himself of his belt and walked through. When the machinery gave no response he was waved by a machinegun wielding guard further into the building. He was led into a small room containing two chairs and a metal table, usually reserved for lawyers and their clients.
Robin sat in one of the chairs and leaned back, his hands resting easily on the table. After only a moments delay, the opposite door was opened and Jynx was led in. She had a despairing look on her face, that did not change when she saw him. She sat in the chair across the table from him and immediately asked, "How's Raven?"
"She'll be okay, how have you been?"
Jynx shrugged, "The stupid interviews finally stopped. Now they don't seem to know what to do with me. They said that if they put me in a normal prison, I won't last long, not after betraying Brother Blood."
"You're right. It won't be long before someone comes trying to get revenge, or curry favor from Blood." Robin paused for a moment, staring at Jynx thoughtfully, "I've been talking to the prosecutor, though. They're willing to offer a deal."
Jynx looked up at him. "Don't bother. Whatever happens to me, I'll get what I deserve."
"Jynx, you saved Raven's life. That means something. You've quite possibly sacrificed your own life, expecting nothing in return, to bring down Blood. I think that, though its a little late, you've changed."
"What happened to Raven was my fault in the first place, if I'd have had a better handle on my team..."
"They went over your head in order to get permission, and hide it from you, you're not to blame. I'm her team leader, its my job to make sure she doesn't get hurt."
"You can't watch your team all the time, it's not possible."
"That was my point, your team was careful not to let you know what they were doing, you're not responsible to what happened."
"Maybe not, but I've done so much, I deserve whatever I get."
"No, you don't. You saved one of my team members lives, and you've given the lawyers everything they need to put Blood and the other hive students away for a long time." Robin stared at her for a moment, "Why did you work for him."
Jynx shrugged, "I thought it was fun, doin whatever I wanted, gettin just about anything I wanted."
"So that's it, it was fun?"
"Nah, I though I owed him somethin. Before he took me in, I was on the street. He took me in gave me a bed and food, I figured it was the least I could do in return."
Robin nodded. "I can understand feeling obligated to work for him. I stuck with my mentor for years, even after I wanted to get out on my own."
"What made you finally leave?"
"Not anything in particular, things just came to a head and we figured it would be best to part ways. What made you give up Blood? You didn't have to do that, you know, didn't have to turn yourself in or give up so much."
"I guess it had just been building up for a long time, I just needed to get away and stop doing what I was doing. The thing with Raven was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I wish now that I had gotten out sooner."
"I'm glad you didn't get out sooner, they would have done what they did whether or not you were there, but because you were there you were able to help us stop them."
Jynx shook her head, effectively ending their conversation, "What deal did you work out for me?"
"About a lifetime of community service."
"What, they'd just let me go? What's the catch?"
Robin pulled a comunicator out of his pocket and dropped it on the table. He gave it a shove so that it slid and came to rest in front of Jynx. "You'd be my responsibility, one of my team members."
"You mean they'd just let me go if I become a Titan?"
"have to wear a tracking device, and report for parole meetings, but that’s about it."
"No, I can't. I've done too much, just put me in prison and let someone finish me off."
Robin stood. "Come on, I've got something to show you."
He walked to the door that Jynx had been led in through and knocked. After a few whispered words with the guard he returned to the other door and pulled it open, waving Jynx to follow him.
Jynx stood with a sigh and followed him, grabbing the comunicator off the table. She pushed it at Robin, but he refused to take it, "Hold onto it for now. Wait until we're done."
Robin led Jynx out of the compound, though she half expected someone to stop them. At the gate he collected his gear and strapped it back on as they walked to the car. Once they were in the car and driving Robin spoke again, "Jynx, do you remember a girl named Terra? She was a Titan until recently."
"I don't think so, at least I never fought her."
"She showed up out of the blue, barely able to control her powers. I said something that drove her away, it was a misunderstanding, but she didn't stay long enough for me to explain." Robin pulled the car off the main roads, driving into the outskirts of the city towards the foothills of a nearby mountain. "When she came back a few months later, able to control her powers, we welcomed her back with open arms." He pulled to a stop in front of a cave mouth and got out of the car.
After she was standing, Jynx spoke, "She betrayed you, didn't she."
"She was Slade's apprentice. Only Raven was the least bit suspicious." They started walking up a path, towards the cave, "She was working with out arch-enemy, she took out our security systems, she tired to kill us, she helped Slade take over the city." They stopped outside of the cave. "Then, when it came down to the wire, she saved us. I've never seen someone so," he shook his head, "I don't know. While she was with us she and Beastboy, I don't know what they had, but they had something. When he ordered her to kill him, it was enough to break his control over her. She attacked him, but in her rage she woke up this volcano."
"I remember hearing about this. I was out of town, but I remember it."
Robin nodded. "When the volcano started, we all wanted to run. As powerful as we are, we can't stop a volcano." He walked into the cave, followed by Jynx. He led her to Terra, still frozen in place. "She sacrificed herself in order to save us, to save the city."
Jynx looked at Terra's petrified form. At its feet was a plaque. She could easily make out the words inscribed, "Terra, A True Titan, A True Friend" Next to the plaque a an old bouquet had lost most of its petals.
"If we were able to bring Terra back today, we would welcome her back. She betrayed us, but in the end she sacrificed everything to save us. I think everyone deserves another chance Jynx, even you."
Jynx stared down at the communicator that she still held, clenched in her fist.
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Sorry about the long wait for the new chapter. Just wanted to say thanks once again to Amnystist for the title.
Next chapter may not be for a while, I want to write one or two for my other.
Before I forget, Thanks for the reviews as well. Any constructive critisicm is welcome.
Bloody Eyes
Chapter 3
Raven was awakened by insistent knocking on her door. She sighed in irritation as she crossed her darkened room and slid her door open by two inches. Robin stood on the other side, his hand raised to knock again. "What?" Raven fought down the now familiar fear that threatened to consume her.
"Raven, we need to talk." Robin was obviously nervous about something.
"So talk."
"In private."
Raven sighed again, feigning irritation in order to hide her terror at being alone with Robin. "Fine." She stepped out of her room and started walking down the wide hallway, followed by Robin walking at a distance.
Raven led them to a rarely used kitchen, deeper in the tower. The tower had been built for a much larger group than currently used it, and the small kitchenette in the common room was usually sufficient for the five of them. If their team ever grew significantly, than they would use this kitchen, but for now it only collected dust.
Raven positioned herself across a large metal island from Robin, near an open door. She knew her fear of him was unfounded, Robin was a good friend, and her team leader, he would never hurt her, but she could not help the urge to run. "What did you want to talk about?" She managed to say this without letting out a telltale quiver in her voice.
"Raven, we're worried about you."
"I'm flattered, but you don't need to worry."
"You haven't left your room in three days. You've barely eaten anything, and you've done nothing but sleep. Raven, we’re your friends. We want to help you, but your shutting us out now more than ever."
"I am fine. I've just not been feeling well, I think its just the stuff that M... he gave me to shut down my powers still working its way through my system." Her inability to say Mammoth's name worried her, and she knew that Robin wouldn't miss it.
"Alright, I can buy that, but I'm still worried. You can't go through something like that and be alright." Robin took a deep breath, preparing himself for what he expected to be a long battle, "Raven, I'd like you to talk to a therapist."
"No."
Robin waited to see if Raven would say something else, but she did not continue. "Raven, I just want you to go in and talk to her once, I just want to know that you're okay."
"I am fine, I don't need help, and I definitely don't need a shrink. I'm not crazy."
"Going to a shrink doesn't mean you're crazy, Raven, it just means that something happened that you need some help dealing with."
"I don't need help and I don't want help. I. Am. Fine." She said each word more forceful than the last, leaving her meaning perfectly clear. Robin's watch beeped, and he glanced down noting the time. "Need to be somewhere, Robin?"
"It can wait, this can't. Raven, we're all worried about you, we don't want to see you fade away. We are not going to just watch it happen."
"It won't happen, Robin. I'll be fine."
Robin sighed, hating himself for what he was about to do. "Raven, I'm asking you as a friend to go talk to this therapist, don't make me order you to do it, please don't make me order you to go."
His words gave Raven pause. Outside of a fight, Robin rarely gave orders and when he did they were for a good reason. Raven couldn't help but wonder if she was worse than she believed, if the others saw something that she didn't. "I'll go, I'll talk to her, but if I don't like what she has to say, I'm not going back."
"That's all I'm asking, just talk to her."
Raven nodded. "Perhaps I've given you guys reason to be scared, and I'm sorry for that."
"It's okay, Raven."
Raven turned and walked out into the hall. Robin followed her out, making sure to keep a good distance from her. As they walked Raven thought that she could here something, Robin's voice, "She took it better than I thought."
Raven looked back at him, "Did you say something?"
"No, why?"
"I thought I heard..."
Robin's voice came again, she now realized it was in her head, his thoughts, "What's going on?"
"My powers are coming back." Black energy flickered along the walls as she fought to control rising panic. "I've got to go, I've got to meditate." Without waiting for Robin's reply she took off, phasing through the ceiling, headed for the roof.
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Robin walked into the common area of the tower. Cyborg was watching the news on one of the large televisions in the room, while Beastboy seemed totally engrossed by the book in his lap. Starfire was sitting next to the phone, staring off into space. When Robin walked into the room all eyes turned to him. “She agreed to go at least once." The others smiled at this news.
The phone rang, interrupting any questions. Starfire picked it up and held it to her ear. "Hello?" After a moment she spoke again, "We've already released a prepared statement, for now that will have to be enough." She held the phone for another moment before hanging it up. "It has not stopped ringing, friend Robin. They wish to interview friend Raven."
"I don't think she's ready for that yet. Her powers are starting to come back, I assume she's on the roof meditating; somebody should go check on her soon. I'm late, I have to her going now."
Beastboy stood, letting the book drop to the couch next to him, "I'll go check on her."
Robin nodded. "I don't know how long I'll be, and I need to take the T-car."
Cyborg scowled, "If there is one scratch on my baby when I get her back..."
He was interrupted by Robin, "Thanks, Cy, I knew you wouldn't mind."
Robin drove the T-car through the streets of Jump City, heading for a special maximum security prison. As he approached the gates, they swung open allowing him to enter. He parked in one of the available spaces and walked into the heavily fortified building.
At a metal detector just inside the doors, Robin divested himself of his belt and walked through. When the machinery gave no response he was waved by a machinegun wielding guard further into the building. He was led into a small room containing two chairs and a metal table, usually reserved for lawyers and their clients.
Robin sat in one of the chairs and leaned back, his hands resting easily on the table. After only a moments delay, the opposite door was opened and Jynx was led in. She had a despairing look on her face, that did not change when she saw him. She sat in the chair across the table from him and immediately asked, "How's Raven?"
"She'll be okay, how have you been?"
Jynx shrugged, "The stupid interviews finally stopped. Now they don't seem to know what to do with me. They said that if they put me in a normal prison, I won't last long, not after betraying Brother Blood."
"You're right. It won't be long before someone comes trying to get revenge, or curry favor from Blood." Robin paused for a moment, staring at Jynx thoughtfully, "I've been talking to the prosecutor, though. They're willing to offer a deal."
Jynx looked up at him. "Don't bother. Whatever happens to me, I'll get what I deserve."
"Jynx, you saved Raven's life. That means something. You've quite possibly sacrificed your own life, expecting nothing in return, to bring down Blood. I think that, though its a little late, you've changed."
"What happened to Raven was my fault in the first place, if I'd have had a better handle on my team..."
"They went over your head in order to get permission, and hide it from you, you're not to blame. I'm her team leader, its my job to make sure she doesn't get hurt."
"You can't watch your team all the time, it's not possible."
"That was my point, your team was careful not to let you know what they were doing, you're not responsible to what happened."
"Maybe not, but I've done so much, I deserve whatever I get."
"No, you don't. You saved one of my team members lives, and you've given the lawyers everything they need to put Blood and the other hive students away for a long time." Robin stared at her for a moment, "Why did you work for him."
Jynx shrugged, "I thought it was fun, doin whatever I wanted, gettin just about anything I wanted."
"So that's it, it was fun?"
"Nah, I though I owed him somethin. Before he took me in, I was on the street. He took me in gave me a bed and food, I figured it was the least I could do in return."
Robin nodded. "I can understand feeling obligated to work for him. I stuck with my mentor for years, even after I wanted to get out on my own."
"What made you finally leave?"
"Not anything in particular, things just came to a head and we figured it would be best to part ways. What made you give up Blood? You didn't have to do that, you know, didn't have to turn yourself in or give up so much."
"I guess it had just been building up for a long time, I just needed to get away and stop doing what I was doing. The thing with Raven was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I wish now that I had gotten out sooner."
"I'm glad you didn't get out sooner, they would have done what they did whether or not you were there, but because you were there you were able to help us stop them."
Jynx shook her head, effectively ending their conversation, "What deal did you work out for me?"
"About a lifetime of community service."
"What, they'd just let me go? What's the catch?"
Robin pulled a comunicator out of his pocket and dropped it on the table. He gave it a shove so that it slid and came to rest in front of Jynx. "You'd be my responsibility, one of my team members."
"You mean they'd just let me go if I become a Titan?"
"have to wear a tracking device, and report for parole meetings, but that’s about it."
"No, I can't. I've done too much, just put me in prison and let someone finish me off."
Robin stood. "Come on, I've got something to show you."
He walked to the door that Jynx had been led in through and knocked. After a few whispered words with the guard he returned to the other door and pulled it open, waving Jynx to follow him.
Jynx stood with a sigh and followed him, grabbing the comunicator off the table. She pushed it at Robin, but he refused to take it, "Hold onto it for now. Wait until we're done."
Robin led Jynx out of the compound, though she half expected someone to stop them. At the gate he collected his gear and strapped it back on as they walked to the car. Once they were in the car and driving Robin spoke again, "Jynx, do you remember a girl named Terra? She was a Titan until recently."
"I don't think so, at least I never fought her."
"She showed up out of the blue, barely able to control her powers. I said something that drove her away, it was a misunderstanding, but she didn't stay long enough for me to explain." Robin pulled the car off the main roads, driving into the outskirts of the city towards the foothills of a nearby mountain. "When she came back a few months later, able to control her powers, we welcomed her back with open arms." He pulled to a stop in front of a cave mouth and got out of the car.
After she was standing, Jynx spoke, "She betrayed you, didn't she."
"She was Slade's apprentice. Only Raven was the least bit suspicious." They started walking up a path, towards the cave, "She was working with out arch-enemy, she took out our security systems, she tired to kill us, she helped Slade take over the city." They stopped outside of the cave. "Then, when it came down to the wire, she saved us. I've never seen someone so," he shook his head, "I don't know. While she was with us she and Beastboy, I don't know what they had, but they had something. When he ordered her to kill him, it was enough to break his control over her. She attacked him, but in her rage she woke up this volcano."
"I remember hearing about this. I was out of town, but I remember it."
Robin nodded. "When the volcano started, we all wanted to run. As powerful as we are, we can't stop a volcano." He walked into the cave, followed by Jynx. He led her to Terra, still frozen in place. "She sacrificed herself in order to save us, to save the city."
Jynx looked at Terra's petrified form. At its feet was a plaque. She could easily make out the words inscribed, "Terra, A True Titan, A True Friend" Next to the plaque a an old bouquet had lost most of its petals.
"If we were able to bring Terra back today, we would welcome her back. She betrayed us, but in the end she sacrificed everything to save us. I think everyone deserves another chance Jynx, even you."
Jynx stared down at the communicator that she still held, clenched in her fist.
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