We Meet Again

Eighteen

And... this is my vision of Richard 'Ric' Grayson. 

(Raven)

(Current)

"FREEZE!! THIS IS THE FBI!"

"Shit! We've got to get out of here!" I said to Rose, and she sobered for a moment.

"Cuz... huh... which way?" She demanded, alarmed that she couldn't recall which way to go due to the drugs, completely covered in Hussain's blood.

"The roof top! You can glide right?" I asked knowing that she was still incapacitated.

"I will do the best that I can, but don't wait for me. You get to safety Raven! I mean it... get out!"

"I'm NOT leaving you Rose! Come on... let's go!" I grabbed her and pulled up the stairs to the rooftop. She staggered the entire way as I led her to our bookbags. I got her suit out and as fast as lightning, I gotten her in it.

"Listen to me cuz, I need you to get away. Please promise me that you and Ivy would have your happy ever after!"

"What do you mean? You're coming too. Come on Raven! I might be drugged, but I'm coming around. We both go... or we don't go at all!" Tears started to form in her eyes as she continued...

"I'm in it for the long haul. I owe you so much cuz. I will not leave without you! Screw Slade! You are my family! So... let's get your bag too! We will either leave together, or we'll die together!" She said and searched for my bookbag. I watched her for a few moments, as she was desperate to find my escape bag. She found it, staggered back to me, and managed to put my ski mask on my face as my suit laid by my feet.

"Listen to me Rose, FBI are everywhere! Please don't waste time!"

"Please Raven!!! Hurry and put on your gear, we can leave together!" That's when she saw a red dot on my head! And I on hers!

"Rose... don't move." I pulled my ski mask off my head and reviled my face. If FBI wanted me then... here I am!

"I quickly put on my escape gear to appease Rose then...

"FOPP!"

(Writer)

Rose witnessed Raven spin, uprooting off her feet in the process, and slam hard into the roof's medium high wall! The impact caused Raven to exhale all the wind from her small body, and buckle with eminence pain from the sharpshooter's efforts, so much that she couldn't handle it.

'The Beast was hit! She actually took a bullet for me!' Ravager thought.

Rose ran to Raven, then Raven in turn, with the strength she had left, pushed Rose off the ledge of the hotel, sending her to the 'safe place' that was pre-arranged for their escape. Raven watched her plan work, smiled a little whilst breathing hard on her stomach, looking out the corner of her watered eyes, then blacked out.

Rose forcefully glided into the adjacent building, crashing through the window feet first, and safely landed after a few roll tucks. She, on her knees, let out a howl of sadness, crying for her family!

"No... No... NO!!! ARGH! Raven!!! RAVEN! Cuz...ARGH!!... huh, ugh... no." Rose screamed. She cried hard for Raven. She didn't know what to do. Rose sat there for a while mourning her real family. Then she willed herself to sobered up a with sweet vengeance in her heart.

"Slade! Father... I will kill you! I've had all I could stand. I will end you!" Rose vowed and went to the 'meeting' point, deadpan. Now she's empty. Her cousin that she tortured over these years... that was still willing to help her end her misery, because that's the kind of person that Raven is.

And now she's ... dead!

(BB)

(Eight minutes earlier)

"Agent down! I repeat Agent down! Agents go... go...go... GO!" Omega Team! Stand by... I repeat... Stand by!" I heard Ric announce through my earpiece.

Okay here we go!

I assume that things went south real quick dude. Who was hurt? 'Was Star hurt? Was Ramos hurt?' I thought feeling some kind of way, then I heard other officials say that Hussain is dead. He was decapitated... gross!

I automatically knew that only a top-level assassin was the only one capable of killing a well-trained Prince. Then I saw activity on the south end of the rooftop through binoculars. I cocked my Sig Riffle, looked into the scope, and my whole world stood still.

I saw someone pulling a very intoxicated Rose Wilson to what looked like a pair of bookbags. I turned on my inferred, ready to take heads off, then she took off her ski mask! I couldn't believe my eyes, she stood right there!

... 'Raven?'

I'd know her from anywhere! My Rae, my girl, my son's mother was right there... on the rooftop with Rose!

I quickly changed my ammo to non-lethal soft polymer rounds, and aimed at her again, and before Travis can take her out. I held my breath and shot.

"Sorry mama" ...

'FOPP!'

I watched her spin like a top and hit the wall of the roofs edge with great force. I'm glad she's a short woman because if not, she would've went over. I had to get there and fast! Once the other agents got there, I would never see her again.

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(Edited 2021)