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TT Story - Raven: Chapter 4

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Chapter 4: Hiding the Emotions

Robin’s green-gloved fist slammed down on the table, making everything on it shudder. “Where is she?” he ground out. They’d looked everywhere. Everywhere. Raven wasn’t in the city. Someone was trying very hard – and succeeding – to keep them from finding her. The other question that had been plaguing him for the past weeks was ‘who had taken her?’
  “Slade…” Robin muttered under his breath. Only he would know how this would drive Robin mad. Slade had outwitted and beat Robin so many times that Robin had been driven to obsession. And this long period of getting nowhere would drive him crazy. Slade knew it.  
  The rest of the team lay sprawled around the sitting room, examining maps of the city or the documents on the lairs of all their enemies. Robin was standing in front of the huge screen at the front of the room, going over security cameras from all over the city. With a silent cry of frustration, he turned to the rest of the team, hiding the anger and irritation that was written on his face. “Titans.” He said. They all looked up in unison, the tiredness of the past days showing in their faces. “Obviously, Raven is not being kept in the city. There is nowhere else to look; we must now broaden the search. Starting tomorrow, we will search every small town or village we come across. She has to be somewhere in the vicinity.” They all nodded, rubbing their eyes and trying to stifle yawns. “We’d better get some sleep then.” He said. Dismissed, the team got up and headed towards their separate bedrooms.
  Robin turned back to the screen, his shoulders slumping out of the tense position they’d been in. They shot back up again, however, when he felt a hand on his arm. “Robin,” came Starfire’s voice. “Are you not going to bed?”
“In a minute, Star. I’ve just got to finish up here.”
“Why do you care so much that you would risk your health for Raven? I could – I could almost say that I have reason to be jealous!”
Robin sighed. “Star, even if I was in love with Raven – which I’m not – why would it bother you?”
“Well, are we not doing the going out?” she said huffily.
“Star, I’ve explained this before. I said that we could go and see a movie. That doesn’t mean that we are going out. Okay?” Tossing her head back sulkily, she turned and walked stiffly to her bedroom.
  When all was quiet, Robin took his mask off and rubbed his bright green eyes. Rolling his shoulders to loosen them, he turned back to the screen and went back to work.

*
Raven slowly opened her puffy eyes. She winced as he remembered what had happened in the dungeon. Her mother… the darkness… the pain…. Resolutely, she buried the memory deep in herself once more, hoping it would never be resurrected again.
  Raven shifted, stretching her stiff limbs. Suddenly she became aware of the strong arms around her. And she remembered; why she had been in that dungeon, who she was running from, why she was running… her eyes snapped open. Her cheek was pressed into his chest, his arms cradling her. They were pressed so close she couldn’t have fitted her hand between them. And he was sleeping, his chest rising and falling softly beneath her cheek. With a yelp of shock she jumped back. Throwing Slade’s arms off her, she scrambled backwards until suddenly the bed fell out from under her. She gasped in pain as her ankle bent under her as she fell onto the floor.
  She jumped back onto her feet as she heard him stir. Her ankle gave way under her, and she grabbed the bedpost with a moan of pain. Suddenly Slade was standing up, right beside her. “Are you alright?” he said softly with… was it concern? This wasn’t the Slade she knew. She backed away from him, or limped. “What’s going on here? Why were – why were we –?” she gestured helplessly towards the bed.
Slade, hiding the emotions that scared even him, said, “I should ask you that question, Raven.” Ah. The hard voice of Slade was back. “If you recall, you were trying to escape. I found you, however, curled up in the old dungeon, sobbing. I’m afraid you wouldn’t let me leave you.”
  Raven closed her eyes in mortification. The things she must have said… what must he think of her? She opened her eyes, and looked at him squarely, straightening her posture. The effect was ruined, however, when she put her weight on her sprained ankle and she nearly fell over with a gasp of pain. But she was caught, by none other than Slade. “What have you done to your ankle?” he said in that same soft voice. “I twisted it when I fell out of that bed! Now let go of me.” She struggled out of the circle of his arms. “Just because I called out to you in a daze doesn’t mean anything’s changed.” She said firmly. “Now, you may escort me back to that accursed cell.”
“Oh I don’t think so.” He said. Raven stared hard at him.
“Oh, you’re taking me home? How kind of you.”
“Nice try. But I can no longer trust you. I will have to keep you much closer from now on.”
“Closer? How much closer?” she asked, afraid of the answer.
“In my own room. Yes, you will have to sleep next to me. And just try to escape from that!” he said harshly.
“You – I – I can’t – I refuse to sleep in your room! You can’t force me!” Raven stuttered.
“Oh you’ll find that I can.” With that, he grabbed her arm and picked her up. Before she could utter a protest, he swept out of the room and went into the one next door. Inside, he dumped her on the bed.
“Now,” he said, looking down on her. “Seeing as you abandoned your breakfast this morning, you must be hungry. I’m going to get some food and some ointments for your ankle. I’ll be back in a few minutes, so don’t even think of trying anything.”
When he was gone, Raven scrambled over to the huge bay window in the room and settled among the fluffy pillows. The room looked out on many green pastures and off to the right was a vast forest.
Great. She was in the middle of nowhere. The Titans would never find her, and even if she managed to escape, she wouldn’t have a clue which way to go. Oh, Slade was a clever bastard.




*End of Chapter 4
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Raven is now deeply hating slade....

1 month l8r,
Rust eats away at that bracelet.

SNAP

the demon inside, is now free, free for revenge.