Birds Of A Feather (on hold)

Chapter 4

Ravens POV

 When Luke came around the corner, panting hard from running, Raven immediatly went on defense mode.

Corey looked up when he felt Raven tense.

"Hey Luke, what's up." Corey asked.

"Need Raven'" Luke gasped, trying to get more air into his lungs. "We found a girl in a cage."

Corey and Raven exchenged looks. Why was a girl in a cage?

"Girl in cage?" Raven asked in slightly choppy English.

"Yes." Luke said still gasping.

"And you need Raven." Corey stated.

"Yes."

"Raven. Your sure?"

"The girl is speaking russian." Luke said, finally getting his breathing under control.

Raven, who had turned to continue working on the potential alarm system trips, spun around and looked closely at Luke, and noticed that although the blonde was still slightly flushed, he was paler than normal.

"Girl is russkiy?" (Russian) Raven asked, wanting to be a clear as possible.

"Yes, and that's not even the crazest part." Luke said as he shifted on his feet. "I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't seem it with my own eyes. I mean how does- She isn't- I can't-"

Corey interrupted Luke's ramblings. "What's wrong Luke? Is everyone alright?"

"Everyone is fine, well not the girl, she was badly beaten and-" Luke trailed off as Raven cursed.

"Izbityy?! Kakogo cherta ty imeyesh' v vidu?!" (Beaten?! What the fuck do you mean beaten?!)

"Raven," Corey said gently, placing his hand on his boyfriend's shoulder. "Luke, why-"

"She looks like Sang." Luke blurted.

This time both Raven and Corey cursed.

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As Raven and Luke approached the room everyone was in, a murmur of voices drifted towards them and Raven could hear a soft voice speaking in Russian.

"Son pri ranenykh plokh. Sasha zasnul i nikogda ne prosnulsya." (Sleeping while injured is bad. Sasha fell asleep and never woke up.) Raven tense yet again as the words registered in his mind. He bypassed Luke who had come o a stop in the open door, and moved to standed behind Sean. "Ser skhodit s uma, yesli on lovit menya." (Sir gets mad if he catches me sleeping.)

Raven peered over the doctors shoulder and saw a girl who couldn't have been more than 16 and indeed looked like the blackbourne bird.

"I don't understand you hon, North can you-" Sean started.

"She said sleeping bad." Raven said, hiding a smirk as Sean jumped and spun around to face him. "Then someone named sir gets mad if she sleeps."

Sean frowned and turned back to the girl.

"Raven, thank god. I was wondering what was taking so long." Marc said, sounding relieved. "Luke, what took so long?"

"He was on the other side of the warehouse." Luke said and Raven thought he still sounded out of breath.

"Enough about me. Who is this malen'kiy yagnenok?" (Little lamb) Raven commanded.

Marc opened his mouth to introduce them when the malen'kiy yagnenok (little lamb) spoke.

"YA ne malen'kiy yagnenok, ty bol'shoy russkiy" (I am not a little lamb you big russian).

Raven saw her blanch and while he wanted to do or say something, he was stunned into silence. About 10 seconds passed in total silence, when Raven burst out into laughter.

"Vy, konechno zhe, malen'kiy ovechek, no vashi slova kusayut, kak lev." (You most certainly are a little lamb, but your words bite like a lion cub) Raven told her in their shared tongue, laughter still spilling from his mouth. "Kak tvoye imya malen'koye yagnenok?" (What's your name little lamb?).

"Menya zovut Anastasiya. Kto ty?" (My name is Anastasiya. Who are you?)

Raven choked on his laughter. 'No way. It couldn't be- I thought she had, had died.'

"Vashe imya Anastasiya?" (Your name is Anastasiya?) Raven whispered, not wanting to believe it. He saw Marc and Brandon exchanged confused glances out of the corner of his eye.

"Da." (Yes.) She grunted as Sean prodded at an injury. "Opyat' zhe, kto ty?" (Again, who are you?).

"Menya zovut Nikolay Ravenstahl'." (My name is Nikolay Ravenstahl.) Raven whispered and watched as she froze, and then brushed Seans hands away as she struggled to sit up. Sean started to protest but switched to a cry of shocked alarm.

Once she had sat up, she turned to face him and Raven got a good look into familiar blue eyes. He raked his eyes over her to make sure it was in fact his Svetlyak (firefly).

She was different then he remembered, still skinny, but it seemed more out of starvation then running around on the streets of St. Petersburg. Her hair was darker then he remembered, but it might have just been because of the blood and dirt in it. Even her eyes were different, they held a broken look in them, just like they had when he first found her on the streets. The only thing that hadn't changed was the color. It was still the same unique sapphire blue it has always been.

He finally noticed that she was studying him just as intently, with tears streaming down her face.

In broken English, she said the two words that allowed him to finally hope.

"Big Bear."

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Hey loves!

I owe you guys 2 chapter as I missed last time, which I am so sorry about! I had so much stuff going on, by the time I remembered, it was already monday. the next chapter will be in Ana's POV again and we will be joined by a few more important people. Care to guess who?

The picture above is of Raven, and the song is a cover of Radiohead's Creep sung by Brain Justin Crum from season 11 of Amarica's Got Talent

I'm not totally sold on this chapter so I might make so changes, but let me know what you thouhgt!

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