5th Floor Common Room, Tuesday Late Morning/Early Afternoon

[trigons_child]

Raven didn't have any classes on Tuesdays now, and since 'Dite still hadn't contacted her to speak in person about what had happened, she wasn't going into work, either. Earlier that morning she'd been woken up by strong feelings of love and calm and traced them to their source, though she regretfully had to refuse the offer the stone seemed to be making.

So for now she had to completely distract herself from thoughts of her mother so that she didn't start to inadvertently daydream about her. Said distraction was currently taking place in the form of browsing the web on her laptop and looking for new pictures from the episodes of Rumor Gal currently being filmed. Thank Azar Charlie was still alive!

[Open, of course.]

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Morning!" Hannibal said, remarkably awake for the time it was. "Writing that story we talked about?"

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"I am not," Raven said, blushing a little because it was impossible for her not to blush within five minutes of Hannibal talking to her. "I am looking for spoilers, however."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

And he hadn't done anything blush worthy! He'd have been pleased to hear that just his presence made her blush.

"Anything good?" he asked, flopping down on a chair.

[trigons_child]

"I have been pleased to find my favorite character seems to have survived the grave injury that was inflicted upon him in the final episode of this past season," Raven said. Or else he was a very active ghost. With a cane.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I guess there's a bigger chance of that happening there rather than here," he said, smirking. "No healers there with their magical powers and even more magical fingers."

[trigons_child]

"I certainly would have healed him with my gifts," Raven said. No, she hadn't envisioned that scenario at all, why do you ask?

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"How's your healing work?" he asked curiously.

[trigons_child]

"I am able to take pain and any injury into my own body," Raven explained, setting aside her laptop. "And then dispel it. Most empaths can feel another's emotions or pain, but I can actually take it away."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"You take it into your own body?" Hannibal asked, raising an eyebrow. "Doesn't that hurt you?"

[trigons_child]

"Momentarily," Raven admitted. Sometimes she really wished she could lie about that. "But it quickly passes, and it is more than worth it to bring relief to another. I do not mind it at all."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Where does the pain go?" Hannibal wondered. "If you take it and it goes away, does it just...evaporate?"

[trigons_child]

"It is as if it never was," Raven said proudly. "It just ceases to be."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Wow. Handy talent to have," Hannibal said, impressed. "Me? I'd just give the other person a bandaid and hope for the best. I shouldn't be a healer."

[life_inshadow]

"Raven!" Tara exclaimed as she wandered into the room. She hadn't been avoiding Raven or anything, she'd just been trying to gather her thoughts so she didn't say anything stupid.

Which looked like avoiding, yes.

Sheepishly, she added, "How are you doing?"

[trigons_child]

"Hello, Tara," Raven said, giving her a soft smile. "I have been...I cannot say I have been entirely well, but I have been feeling better."

[trigons_child]

"Your gifts lay elsewhere," Raven said. "Not everyone is meant to be a healer, but I hope you never have real need of one."

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"Don't worry, I've curbed my fistfights as of late," Hannibal assured her, laughing. "You and Angela have the same feelings about that one."

[life_inshadow]

"I'm glad," Tara said, concern crossing her face. "Sorry I didn't come find you. I, uh, kinda suck at knowing what to say. But I was thinking about you."

[trigons_child]

"Have you written a poem for Angela yet?" Raven teased, remembering their previous conversation.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Laughing, Hannibal shook his head. "I got caught up with a few other things that I needed to do first. Now that I'm there, I should be free to write poetry...at some point."

[trigons_child]

"Thank you," Raven said. "The first few days were difficult, but I am trying to learn to accept what has happened. And I apologize for bringing you to harm. I did not know the Justice League would show up as they did and disrupt the ritual...or that my father would appear."

But she was very pleased that Tara was still speaking to her despite having seen just what her father looked like.

[life_inshadow]

Tara shook her head rapidly. "I wasn't really hurt," she said. "And -- and even if I had been, I know you d-didn't know any of that would happen. Nobody did."

[trigons_child]

"What could possibly be more important than expressing your feelings in verse?" Raven said.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Talking about the future," he said and winced. "We don't talk well about stuff like that but we had to get it out of the way."

[trigons_child]

"I am grateful no one was badly injured," Raven said with a nod. "But...I would rather that my friends had not seen my father. Karla and Professor Skywalker had already encountered him, but if I could have spared the rest of you, I surely would have." And spared herself the shame she felt about her heritage as well.