Teen Titans: Male Reader x Raven 18+

White Lies... and Dark Ones

F/n's POV

Returning to Fragrada, a group had assembled of Fragrada(of course), Blissight, Raven... Grahja... and Tavari...

As I walked in, Raven was already at me, her arms wrapped around my neck, tears streaming from her face...

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!? I was so worried..!" She sobbed into my neck as I held her, but I wasn't looking at her... I was looking sadly at the boy in front of me. 

Fragrada spoke up, "So what happened? after you went to the signal farther away, I went to the closest one and... well It led me to Tavari. I still don't understand..."

"I looked at Grahja, "...It was him... it was..." I looked down at the little boy. He looked confused, scared, worried... I had a backup plan for when they asked what had happened but thinking about it now I didn't have the heart to say it in front of him. I leaned my head down into Raven and whispered, "Hey, I'm here. Everything is gonna be fine... but I need you to do something for me. Take Tavari out back keep him distracted, whatever it takes, just... I can't say everything I need to in front of him."

Her grip tightened, I didn't say anything, but it definitely didn't help the broken ribs. She let go, wiped her tears away, and turned around, "Hey Tavari, how about we give F/n some time and you and I can go play."

He looked confused that he was being asked to play in such a serious moment but shook his head in agreeance as they walked out back.

Once I knew they were out of earshot I spoke, "It was Tavari's father. Apparently, he's been amassing in power, he offered his flesh in blood to some twisted time Devil. The devil took the chains from the far-off future and gave them to Tavari's father, but only had so much time until he had to give up his body in return. He figured he could trick the god by giving him his son instead, so he wanted to kill me quickly so he could take my chains as well and then the main threat protecting Tavari would be gone."

"That doesn't explain why I got to signals from his blood."

"Well you must have made a mistake in your spell, not that I lack your power but I'm sure that such a simple spell as tracking people through blood might slip past your mind, you simply didn't take in all the details, giving you people related to him."

Fragrada crossed her arms, "HM, I guess so. What became of him?"

...

"Dead... snapped his neck... burned his body... I don't what happened to the bandages, the god must have taken them back after he realized his life was forfeited to another..."

"Well, that's a relief," Blissight said, lighting a cigarette.

"Sure is..."

We'd talked for a while longer till eventually, the questioning stopped, Fragrada healed me, and I walked out into the dead-grass yard. 

Raven was playing around with her magic and stopped as she saw me. I gave a faint smile, "Hey."

"Hey... you don't need to tell me now, you can tell me later."

"Sounds like a plan. I think I'm just gonna stay here with you tonight... its been a while after all eh?"

"Sure thing! I'm gonna go say bye to Blissight and Grahja before they go..."

I don't know how, but she knew I needed to talk to Tavari, alone.

She left after giving me a sad nod, walking into the house.

Tavari looked up to me... with those yellow eyes... cutting through me more thing his once that were full of spite.

"Come here then runt!" I said grabbing him and giving him a noogie again like many times before, he laughed and fought against me for a sec, then he noticed my abrupt stop to the horseplay.

This was exactly how I held him... when I broke his neck...

Noticing him look up at me confused I pulled the little punk into a hug. 

"So... I know we don't talk like this much... but you know I love you right? Like a big brother would?"

"Yeah, of course I know that! I love you like a little brother would after all!"

I cackled, "Well, I just... got the idea to remind you... and as my little brother... I-I want you to know that you don't NEED to beat me... you don't NEED to prove yourself... you don't need to be like me... you can be anyone you'd like... and if you do want to be like me, you'll either be ly equal or surpass me... just- what I'm saying is you aren't less than me... you'll never be less than me..."

He didn't really look like he knew what to say but shook his head in understanding. I let my wrappings wrap around his torso, tossing him around in the air. He laughed energetically and I dropped him, catching him in my own arms before plopping him on the ground, "alright then, get going, your moms gonna leave soon, besides the sunset almost two hours ago, its WAY past your bedtime." I gave him a shove and he laughed again before saying by and running into the house.

It had been the hardest day of my life, I'd decided to take a shower and after coming out Raven was in her bed. Inspecting the room now, it was a bit different from Fragrada's guest room in the basement before. The walls were gray, but now had multiple posters from the rock bands of hell. Candles, like the one we had got from fragrada, were all over her room like the normal candles in her room in the tower. A lot of more ornaments and nick-nacks of hers were around. 

I laid down next to her in bed as she read, closing the book to talk to me, "So what happened? I still haven't really been told."

I gave her the same story I did the others, and she shook her head solemnly, "Everything I've heard about him from Grahja have been good... its a shame that they were as false as I thought they were..." she finally decided to lay down with me and put her hand on my chest, and stopped snuggling up immediately. She looked at me, a worried look that made me wish I could help her help me.

She moved her hand up to my cheek and looked into my eyes...

"You feel so... cold. I sense... a lot, of regret."

...

"I... I can't help but feel regret... after I killed Tavari's father I couldn't help but feel sorry for doing it..."

Raven's eyes, flared, "I want you to say something to me. Right. Now." She placed her other hand on my other cheek... and then I remembered...

She can tell if I'm lying as long as she's touching me.

Tavari's POV

I had just barely started to go to sleep. when my door opened the light from the living room coming in.

Looking at the doorway, the silowet of F/n stood there!

With no hesitation, I hopped out of bed and walked over.

"Hey! What are you doing here? I thought you were at Fragrada's hous-" Before I could finish, he pulled me in and gave a noogie like usual. I started to laugh and fight back when he did something he hadn't before, placing his arm under my neck.

"Oh trust me... f/n most certainly is. But WERE not."

his arm sharply turned.

I could still see... but couldn't feel... everything was fading... the last thing I saw before the slow fade finally went black...

was a pair of yellow eyes.

A/N: Side note, I do not promote suicide/child murder.