The Impures

Chapter 10

Once Raven and Damian both made it to Raven's room, Raven jested for him to take a seat on her bed while she went to pick up a couple pieces of cloth's that were laying on the floor around the room. He had never been in Raven's room before, no one has, it was different, there were dim candle's lit around the room, lots of strange and interesting trinket's and decoration's around the place and a large mirror in the corner with looked to have some decretive engraving carved along the top of it.

Raven soon to a seat beside Damian on her round bed, he just looked down not wanting to make eye contact with her. "So" Raven began, not entirely sure on where to start. "what's it like to have your father in your head all the time?" Raven was a bit taken back with Damian's question as she had to think for a minute before answering "He's......he talk's a lot sometimes and pushes back sometimes too but I've managed to live with it! It doesn't get bad anymore like it used to and I've stopped having a lot of the night mare's I would get because of it!"

Damian just nodded his head, still looking at his feet. "what's going on Damian?" Raven asked in a softer voice, trying to step lightly around the minefield known as Damian. He just squeezed his eyes shut and gave a deep exhale before answering "I don't know anymore...I.... I.... just don't know" with that Damian brought both his hand's up to his face as he let out a shaky breath, trying to hold back his emotion's so he wouldn't look weak. "what don't you know?" Raven asked wanting to comfort Damian but not wanting to make him angry.

"I don't know who I am anymore!" Damian replied as he fought to hold back his emotion, so he wouldn't either back down or blow up. "I feel lost in myself I...I... used to be able to tell but now the lines have blurred and.... FUCK" Damian stood and started passing again while running his hand's through his thick ebony hair.

It broke Raven's heart seeing him like this, she's never seen him so......broken. She didn't know what to do but just watched as he passed back and forth, feeling his stress level's rise as he continued "I...I...I'm not sure whether I'm an Al Guhl or the son of Batman or a Titan or...or" Damian stopped passing and sat against the foot of Raven's bed not to her with his knees to his chest and his head between his legs.

"I can't sleep because I'm......scared.... that he'll get into my head again and make me hurt someone, how am I supposed to protect the innocence if I can't even protect my teammates from myself!" he stated as he tried to steady himself.

Raven took a deep breath before kneeling down to sit next to him against her bed, putting her hand on his back and rubbing it up and down to try and relax him. Raven could feel all the stress, sadness and angry slowly melt away as he relaxed into her touch.

Slowly Damian began to raise his head from his leg's still not looking at Raven but continuing his aimless glare at the ground. Raven's eyes didn't leave his face, wishing she could hold him as he continued to stare into the abyss. She began rubbing circles on his back as he exhaled, closing his eye's.

Raven opened her mouth to say something but stopped when she heard a loud knock on her door stopping her. Getting up, she went to answer the door to find Garfield standing there with a goofy grin on his face" hey Rae I was just wondering whether you wante...." He pursed then he caught sight of Damian still sitting where Raven left him "never mind, I see you already have company!" he said with a bit of an edge in his voice.

"Yea..." Raven replied a little puzzled until Damian got up and walked past her and Beast boy "I was just leaving anyway!" he said as he began to make his way down the hall to his room. Garfield giving him the stink eye the whole time while Raven just rolled her eyes and returned to her room closing the door behind her.

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Raven's point of view

The next few days were quiet with a lack of crime and Damian, Garfield beginning to get on my nerve as he's flirting got worse and worse to the point it was the only thing he did when I was around. I brought it up with Kori who told me to just ignore it, but I was getting harder to.

My alarm woke me up at 6 this morning since it was a team training day today which meant getting up early which sucked. After getting dressed and ready for the day I made my way to the kitten to make some tea where I meant most of the team already up. "so, is everyone ready?" Kori asked as she walked in to the common room to in which everybody nodded a yes.

Making our way down to the training simulator we could began to hear someone training down there already, entering the room we were meant by the sight of Damian in the middle eliminating enemy hologram's and by the looks of it he had been down here for a couple hour's already.

"Damian, will you be joining us today?" Kori asked trying to get his attention, without stopping Damian gave a nod to indicate he would be. Kori seemed happy by this as she turned off the simulator and told everyone to gather around "so today we will be practicing hand to hand combating and how important it is when faced with a saturation your cant use your power's in" Kori announced as he looked to each one of us.

"to begin we will be doing some basic sparing to see where your all at, so first let's get Jamie and Donna" smirking, Jamie stepped forward into the battle area with Donna and got into a battle ready stance "ready?" he asked her seeming a little over cocky "you bet" Donna replied as they both ran at each other, Jamie swing at her but missing when she dodged it and gave him a powerful upper cut to the chest which sent him flying backwards, giving her enough time to pin him to the floor for a win. "good, next let's have Garfield and Damian"

Nodding, both walked out into the arena where they readied themselves for battle with Garfield giving Damian a strange look the entire time "Fight" Kori announced, and Beast boy charged at Damian who out of character like seem to be taking the defensive blocking a punch from Beast boy before sweeping his leg's out from under him and pinning Beast boy down with is foot. Angry could seem swelling up inside Beast boy as he turned into a bear, backhanding Damian who went flying across the room. Everyone was shocked by this as Beast boy then turned into a cheater who then charges at Damian who was already up.

"WHAT YOUR PROBLEM?" Damian shouted as his anger began to boil over the edge again "YOU" Beast boy answered as he jumped at Damian who got out of the way but being scratched across the face still. Nobody knows what to do as Damian put his finger's up to his face to reveal blood. Drawing his sword Damian charged at Beast boy completely losing control of his emotion's swinging upwards to slice Beast boy along the chest before kicking him in the face before finishing with an elbow to the chest.

Stumbling back in pain Beast boy looked back up to the son of Batman before turning into a giant T-rex "I WON'T LOSE TO YOU" he screams as he swiped Damian with Is huge tail sending him hurtling across the room and into a wall. Kori tried to stop the fight but couldn't without hurting one of them or getting herself hurt. I could sense a great deal of jealousy and anger coming off Beast boy and a huge amount of mounting anger coming off Damian, it was beginning to become too much.

Damian had gotten back up by now and dodge another tail swing by Beast boy before pulling out his Bat claw and shooting it around Beast boy's leg's forcing him to lose balance and collapse under his own weight. After returning to normal, Damian then jumped at Beast boy and deliver and frenzy of powerful blows to Beast boy before getting dragged off his by Jamie and Kori while still trying to hit Beast boy.

I ran over to Damian before he started attacking anyone else, placing two figures from both hands on his temples to calm his mind while Donna ran over to see if Beast boy was ok, after calming down Damian went quiet before wobbly standing up and leaving the room with mixed emotion's playing on his face. The others went to check on Garfield who was ok with a couple of deep cut's that would need stitches but nothing too major unlike what Damian might have sustained.