PART I: A WAKE UP CALL.
SeaSide Mall
Raven: “Oh god, please, not again!” Raven is sitting on the floor,
crying, with Phoatu’s head resting on her lap. Her hood covered her face,
so no one noticed she was crying.
Robin: “Everyone, quickly, to the tower, Cyborg, call the medics and tell
them to come to the tower immediately!” Cyborg picked up Phoatu and
used his boosters to get in the air and start flying to the tower,
simultaneously using his arm phone to call for help. Beastboy transformed
into a pterodactyl and carried Robin using his claws. Raven and Starfire
flew to the tower as fast as they could.
Titan’s Tower
The titans were waiting in the hall outside the medical room, the
guys leaning against the walls, the girls sitting on the floor.
Beastboy: “Why didn’t we let the robots handle this?”
Cyborg: “Cuz I only programmed them to handle the not-so-serious stuff,
like sprains, minor burns, small fractures, slightly deep cuts, etc. Not
things like hemorrhages!” Robin: “Yea, even if we did program them
for serious stuff like this, what would happen if they short-circuited
during an operation?”
Beastboy: “oh.” Raven was sitting down, trying not to cry out loud,
Starfire was sitting across from her. Raven got up and walked to the
kitchen.
Raven: “Why is it that every time I get close to someone and I show the
slightest amount of emotion, something bad happens? Why?”
(FLASHBACK: School of Mystic Arts:
Assistant principle: “Quickly! Someone call an ambulance!”
Raven: “What happened?” the Asst. Principle just shook his head from
side to side. She runs past him to see her best friend and about a dozen
other people being taken away on stretchers. Two of those other people were
her boyfriend and his best friend. Raven: “How did this happen?” She
said, starting to weep. Another teacher came by. Teacher: “There was
an accident in the sparring room.” She looks towards the hall leading
to the sparring room, only to see a blackened doorway. She runs to the
doorway and sees two men arguing. The only face she clearly remembered
seeing was a boy, with white hair and blue eyes, nearly pale skin and armor
exactly like Phoatu’s except it had red armor instead of blue. She couldn’t
remember the other boy, he was only a blur, only the voice, the voice
sounded extremely familiar.
Boy: “Nick! I know you did this on purpose! Mark my words you’ll pay for
this!” “You have no evidence of this.” Said Nick coolly, brushing
some dust off his white hair. “What will you do about it, anyways? I am a
much better fighter than you! You are only an expert in the Light Arts,
your skill in the Dark Arts is pitifully weak!”
Boy: “maybe so! But I will get stronger!”
Nick: “Ha! Let’s see that happen! (Says his name.)” He walked past the
other boy and Raven, she gave him the coldest stare imaginable.
Boy: “This may be graduating year! But this school will not be the last
place we see each other!” Raven spent the rest of the year in silence,
barely talking. None of the people who were injured in ‘the accident’
survived. END FLASHBACK)
Starfire comes into the kitchen.
Starfire: “Raven, is it ok if I talked to you?”
Raven: “*hic* Yes.” She pulls down her hood; it was useless hiding her
tears now that her words were broken.
Starfire: “I feel your grief, Raven, I too have lost others close to me.
But I assure you that Phoatu will make it.”
Raven: “I wish that would be the REAL answer. (She explained what happened
the year she graduated from the Mystic Arts School.) The doctors said the
same thing about them. and not even *hic* one made *hic* it!” She breaks
down, crying hysterically, her knees start to get wobbly.
Starfire: “Raven, it will be alright.” she walked over to Raven and hugged
her.
Raven: “I can’t *hic* bottle *hic* my emotions any more! *hic* *hic*” she
hugs Starfire back.
Starfire: “it will be ok.”
Robin walks in: “the operation is over. You can go in to see him now.”
Raven: “He’s alive!” she runs to the medical room.
Cyborg: “the doctors left, but they said that he’ll be out like a light for
a while an-” he gets cut off by Raven hugging him.
Raven: “thank you soo much! If you didn’t get him here and call for help as
fast as you did he wouldn’t have made it!” she gives him a peck on the lips
to show her gratitude. He starts blushing madly.
Cyborg: “talk about showing how happy you are!”
Raven: “that never happened. Alright Beastboy?”
Beastboy shudders in fear: “sure thing!” Raven sits in the chair by the bed
and holds Phoatu’s hand. On the other side of the room robin puts some
hydrogen peroxide on the cut and covers it with some gauzes and tape. He
then walks out of the room and makes his way on to the rooftop. He looks
over to the city.
Robin: “I’m starting to realize just how serious crime fighting can be. I
almost lost two of my friends tonight.” Starfire walks over to Robin.
Starfire: “Robin.”
Robin: “Yea Star? What is it?”
Starfire: “May I talk to you?”
Robin: “sure. What do you need to talk to me about?”
Starfire: “I would like to thank you for always being there to defend me.
The time my sister came, saving me many times during battle, and tonight. I
thought that you would not make it in time and I-I got so scared I thought
that-” Starfire’s eyes started to get watery. She looked at the floor and
hair got in her face.
Robin: “oh, Star.” He walks up to her and holds her chin to lift her face.
He brushes a few strands of hair away from her face and holds her by the
arms. “I guarantee that I will not let anything bad happen to you as long
as I’m here.”
Starfire: “Robin I was so scared! I thought that they had me for sure.”
Robin: “I know I know, but it’s ok now, its over. I just wish we could have
a night out that nothing bad happens to us. Looks like this was our wake up
call.” They hold each other closer for what seemed like an eternity.
Robin: “well I think we should go to sleep; it getting late.”
Starfire: “ok. Good night Robin.”
Robin: “good night Star.” Both head off to their rooms.
Back at the medical room.
Raven: “it’s getting really late. I should go to sleep.” everybody else was
asleep, she didn’t want to wake anybody up with the sound from her airlock
door. So instead she slipped into Phoatu’s bed (it was a Queen-sized bed).
NOTICE: I am not implying anything sexual by this; I respect women more
than most men and I do not see them as objects. I’m just making a point so
there are no misunderstandings.
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