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Jason stared up at her, she stood over him looking like an angel of shadows. However, there was a shiver down his spine which told him he was not looking at an angel as the fifteen year old stared at the girl. She tilted her head as she stared at him with dark eyes, he gasped in pain.

"You… You need to leave…" he whispered. God everything hurt, his body was pulsing in pain, and worse… he could hear the beeping and his own heart stuttering.

The girl said nothing as she leant over him and moved his hand.

"No… Leave!" he gasped as he weakly shoved the mysterious girl away. She wasn't deterred though. "There's… a bomb…" he slurred.

Her head looked up at him, and he saw the red digit numbers over her shoulder.

Nine…

Eight…

He closed his eyes, death couldn't be so bad.

The girl gasped, he heard the explosion, tensed for the burning pain which singed his body and then he groaned when he slammed into cement and the girl was over him panting. She spoke a foreign tongue then as she propped over him.

He stared at the sky, it looked so peaceful.

Suddenly there was a white glow on her hands then as she spoke so soothingly he just surrendered to sleep. Or death, however he felt his pain sliding over and through his body to where the girl's fingers were resting. He couldn't fight whatever was going on… and he was so tired, he hurt so badly.

She hadn't meant to find him, she hadn't even been looking out for him, however… her only way out of hell was latching onto some very strong emotions, his had sang to her and now she was in Azarath's ruins with him, he was so badly hurt. His emotions were everywhere, gingerly she brushed his hair out of his face and examined the tattered clothe on his face. Standing again she stumbled from the pain she'd collected from him, but shoved it aside as she took a steadying breath and focused on her center before she used her powers.

The old magic and her gifts slid through her body as she felt the boy's weight in her grasp and focused on lifting him. The young man was a hefty weight, she pulled him along as she navigated the ruins carefully moving through the stones and the destruction she had brought about as she looked for a suitable living area for herself and her new companion. When he was healed she would return him to his dimension and she would stay in Azarath.

Raven found a home, the plants were over growing in it, which had her empathy pushing out as she felt no signs of life. Gingerly she used her powers to find the bed, she shook out some of the tattered material on the bed before she settled her mysterious guest there. Tucking him in she brushed his hair out of his face then.

Slipping out of the house she went about scavenging through the ruins of her home world for supplies. Her father may have destroyed all life here, however she was seeing that many things had survived in the annihilation.

Jason winced when he wok, he didn't hurt as much, but he still hurt as he lay there. He couldn't move, but it felt easier to breath as he lay there just wheezing.

The girl appeared now, he noticed her skin was grey.

"Wh…Where am I?" he breathed.

She answered in her strange language, he didn't recognize it at all. The girl walked over to him and rested her hand on his arm then as a feeling swirled calmly into him, home, safety, comfort, sorrow, calm.

"Get off!" he yelped and tried to move these were her emotions! His captor had powers! He had to get away.

"Shhhh," she sounded as she sat by him then brushed his hair out of his eyes. "Raven," she pointed at herself then.

"Wha?" he gasped.

"Raven," she repeated.

"J… Jay," he answered not willing to reveal his full name. She smiled slightly.

"Jay," she point pressed her hand on his chest, he winced in pain but he looked at her hand on his burnt flesh, he stared as his skin regrew, the girl's face scrunched up a bit and he watched as everything flowed into her fingers, and he felt like his pain was going with it.

Raven gasped as she cried out and fell off the bed with a low pained whine. Jason stared at her as she stood rubbing her temples.

"Empath?" he guessed, she didn't answer but he didn't think she would. They didn't seem to speak the same language.

"Jay," she said his name as she stood, speaking in a foreign tongue before there were pots floating over head and she picked them. Gingerly she showed them to him, before she dipped her fingers in them and gingerly pulled the bandages off before gently rubbing it over his aching wounds.

"Raven…" he hissed.

"Jay," she replied monotonously as she continued her work. they remained that way for a while before she stood, nodded and lifted the pots before she was walking off.

He winced, but his pain was manageable before he was tired again, he sighed as he surrendered to sleep. Raven, his captor's name was Raven.

Raven looked to be about his age, but he was guessing she was an empath and telekinetic, he didn't feel like his mind was invaded. He'd been linked enough to M'gann to know that feeling. And so far, Raven had expressed no hostility towards him. Still… there was something in him screaming she was dangerous and he had to get away from the pretty girl.

Not that he really wanted to, he was too tired, and he hurt too much. Right now he was warm, he felt content, if a bit hungry, and safe. He'd worry about the contradiction later and escape. For now, he rested his eyes.

Raven winced at the accumulated pain from the stranger, and she felt his emotions mingle like a miniature storm in her own calm center before she repressed them and felt his hunger, comfort, discomfort, and pain radiating off Jay.

He had said Jay in response to the name her earth mother had given her, she peeked in on him, he looked about her age, which was…she didn't know. Sighing she left him slumbering as she walked away from him and sought out some food. Raven examined her tattered robes, she sighed, she'd need new ones. Moving through the overgrown plants she sought out fruit and fish, her powers flooded the area as she found an over grown orchard. Sighing she pulled with her telekinetese at a broken bowl, but decided it would do until such a time she could find a new one or make one. Flying up she picked the fruit and wondered if she'd be able to save Jay.

Healing herself was second nature, she was part demon.

But healing a stranger like him… well, she'd never used her empathy that way and it was draining her. Still, he was breathing and she would continue to try to save him.

Once she had a good amount of fruit she looked for a knife and twine to make a fishing rod. Normally she'd cheat and use her powers, however, Jay was draining on her, so she wasn't going to. Eventually she managed to make what she needed as she sat on a dock she had once been trained on fishing, her empathy feeling the fish below as she focused on hooking one of them.

A few hours later she had two fish, and she was struggling to make a fire and clean them (she'd never done this before, she'd had other lessons and in Hell nothing was really edible).

Jay staggered out and collapsed at her fire pit.

Raven was quick to catch him with her powers before she sat him up and settled him in the least painful way she could manage.

Jay said something, she sighed not understanding him.

"Fire," he pointed to her pitiful pit.

"I have no idea what you're saying and I'm trying to cook for us," she answered.

Jay rolled his eyes as he winced and grabbed something. there was a clack, then a spark, and Raven gasped as she stared at the flames.

"How'd you…?" she turned to look at him.

He winced, grinned though, and held up the stones in his hand.

"Teach me," she ordered as she continued to struggle with fish. Jay sighed.

"Fire," he pointed to the flames, and she stared at them.

"F-Ire," she tested out his word.

"Yeah…" he nodded.

"Alright," she nodded to herself, she would learn his language if only to get him to teach her how he did the fire trick.

"Raven," he pointed to her.

"Jay," she pointed back to him, he nodded.

This could work.

Final new story for a while.

That's all for now folks.

Enjoy Things Found in the Dark.