The Impures

Chapter 9

Raven's point of view

"azarath, metrion, zinthos, azarath, metrion, zinthos ,azarath, metrion, zin..." my eye's burst open as I heard the rapid knock at the door to my room. Sighing, I got up off my bed and went to the door, opening it to see a very upset Kori standing on the other side "what?" I asked still coming out of my deep meditation.

"would you please accompany me down to the Police station to pick up Damian?" Kori asked looking quite tired and upset. "What's Damian doing at the Police station? Is he hurt? Is he in trouble?" I question as a thousand though came flooding into my mind, worried what Damian had gotten himself into now.

"I'll tell you along the way!" Kori put simply as she began he way down the hallway from my room to the elevator with me close behind. Once we got down to the garage level we hoped into Kori's new Green SUV and set off towards the Police station which was about a five-minute drive from the tower.

"did you know Damian left the tower this afternoon?" Kori quired as the light from the light poles along that high way lit her face every two seconds "no I was I went straight to my room as soon as I returned from the shorefront! Why what did he do?" Raven answered feeling anxious about what Damian had done.

Sighing Kori looked back to the road and began to talk catching Raven's attention "apparently Damian went out for a walk but came across a group of men harassing a girl, he intervened and ended up putting five guys' in hospital with two of them in Intensive care, one beat to an inch of his life! And then when the police arrived he attacked two officers' before being restrained!" my heart sank at what I heard, it wasn't unusual for Damian to lash out but to lose control that badly was something different entirely.

Shortly after, we arrived at the station and went inside to be greeted by both Bruce Wayne and Dick waiting in the station impatiently. You wouldn't need empathic powers to tell Bruce was Angry, very angry to the point every other emotion in the room was clouded by it.

When approaching them Dick stood from his seat "what's going on?" Kori asked wondering why Bruce was here. "He wants to take Damian back to Gotham when he's bond Is paid!" my heart dropped as Dick answered looking a bit upset himself. "where's Damian now?" I questioned with a little too much emotion in my voice then I wanted.

Bruce looked up at us from his seat "He attacked two more people in the shear sell he was put in and was put in isolation until he calm's down!" Bruce said quickly as he began to stand "and his charge's?" Kori asked now looking to Bruce "with what we've heard so far he tried saving a woman being abused but loosed control and instead of simply incapacitating them he put most of them in the ICU at Jump city University Hospital. So far, he's only getting charged for two counts' for assaulting a police officer, one count of attempted murder and another two counts of assaulting fellow inmate's!"

Dick tried to put simply as Bruce stepped beside him "but because of the circumstance's, all the charge's may be dropped because of Damian defending the innocence! But he will be coming home with me tonight." Kori looked to me with an expression I couldn't quite read and then back to the Dark Knight himself "The team and I along with Dick have discussed the matter of Damian and we feel it's our responsibility to take care of him while he's on our team!" Kori put forward with her back straight and a stern look on her face that implied her mind was made up.

Bruce looked to Dick with a 'what the hell is she talking about' looking on his face. Scratching the back of his head Dick began to explain that they had a team meeting and decided that Damian Is apart of the Titan's which makes him their problem.

You could almost hear the gear's turn in Bruce's head as he thought about what Kori and Dick had announced when he was interrupted by an officer who approached us "He's calmed down enough to be released from our custody, so if you want to see him you can meanwhile can I get the person who's having him released into their custody come with me!" Kori looked to Bruce with a Pleading look in her eye's which he returned with a frown and a groan "fine but If anything, else like this happens again, I'm taking him off the team!" nodding Kori followed the police officer to the front desk to sign the release papers.

Dick looked down at me as he stood with the Dark Knight "do you want to go see Damian to make sure if he's all good?" he asked me in which I answered with a simple nod. Following an officer, he leads me down a hall to a set of cells with white padding lining the walls. we finally made it to Damian's one when I sore my sitting to the corner on the room with his legs up to his chest and his head in between, my expression softened at the sight of him as the officer opened the cell to let me in to talk to him.

When I approached him, he stiffened at the sudden breach of his privacy but didn't make any move's or react in a way he would get in more trouble for "hey" I said simply as he dug his head deeper into his leg's. I took a seat next to him against the soft white wall and put my hand on his shoulder to see what he was feeling, suddenly a rush of emotion came flooding into me as he just sat the not wanting to look up.

I started to feel a rush of regret, sadness, and grief come over me as I sat there "you want to talk about it?" I asked him while he sat there for a while longer before responding "no". I started rubbing circles at the top of his back as I could feel him relax until I heard key's raddling and the door to the cell open again "he's good to go" the officer announced nodding his head towards Damian.

I nodded in response and stood to hold out my hand to help Damian up which he took surprisingly. Walking out of the cell block and into the waiting room Damian's already sad expression dropped even further at the sight of his father and his father's sight of him. Bruce approached Damian with his arms crossed against his stomach and a disappointed look on his face while Damian just looked down to his feet not wanting to look his father in the eye. "what the hell did you think you were doing? Going off without anyone's knowing and getting into a street fight with a group of thugs', you could have been injured or even killed...." "tt" Damian interrupted his father's rant finally looking up to him "you know I could have easily taken them on which I did..." "yes but instead of taking them out and calling the police for them to be arrested, you had to lose control and nearly kill them making you the one locked up in here instead of THEM!" Bruce interrupted Damian who looked down in defeat, knowing he wouldn't win this argument.

Bruce said his fair well's as he left to go his separate way while we got into Kori's SUV and headed off back to the Tower. Damian sat in the back with me and just looked out the window at the black ocean lit by the moon's light as I just watched him trying to figure out what was going on inside his head.

When we got back to the tower Damian and I got out of the car and entered the tower while Dick and Kori returned to Dick's apartment in the city. Once reaching the top floor I began to head to my room just wanting to get some sleep when Damian grabbed me by the wrist to stop me, turning around again Damian stood there with an embarrassed look across his face "do you think maybe we could have that talk you offed?" he asked nervously. I was surprised at this, I never thought I would ever see Damian embarrassed or nerves about anything. Smiling, I simply nodded a yes and lead him into my room.