Don't Leave // One-On-One // CLOSED

"Of course I'm alive. I'm not going down that easily," Raven joked, turning onto her back and breathing slightly shallowly.

Connor grinned and pounced on her. “Do I need to give you CPR?”

Raven pushed him off. "No, I just need to rest. And preferably not move any muscles. I'm really sore."

Connor rolled beside her. "Okay. Laying on the floor is cool. Let's do it."

"I ache all over. But it's done. Father is dead. I'm free of the curse."

Connor grinned like a mad-man. "So… does that mean we can actually live like normal people now?"

"I…guess it does. If you'd still want to date a formerly-cursed girl with huge black wings."

"Hmm, let me ponder this situation," Connor said, pretending to think about it.

Raven poked Connor, smiling. "I'd have to think about staying with you too."

Connor's eyes widened. "Why?"

"You quite literally almost killed me."

Connor's face was blank. "What?"

"My father was abusive of your body whole he was controlling you."

"Oh." He turned bright red. "Uh… sorry."

"I know it wasn't you, but in that moment, when you had a sword pointed at my throat, I truly thought that I was going to die at your hands."

Connor turned to lay on his back. “Oh.” What else had he done under the mind control?

"My father shot you. Did you know that? That's how you died. And I couldn't stand it. So I traded myself."

“I died?” he asked, looking back over at her.

"Yep," Raven replied, a tear falling down her cheek. You could hear the emotion in her voice. "And to save you, I gave myself to my father. If he wanted to kill me, he could."

Connor moved closer to her. “How could I give up a girl who would die for me?” he asked softly, brushing her hair away from her face.

Raven wasn't finished. "I let him take control of my body on the condition that he brought you back in your own mind. He made me fight you, but not kill you. And then he made me fall from up there."

"And I saved you," Connor recalled. "So we're even then."

"I guess."

"So… wanna be my girlfriend? Again. Even though we both almost killed each other… but then saved each other?"

"I wasn't aware that we broke up," Raven replied.

Connor shrugged. "We didn't. Official unofficial fresh start."

"My father used to be loving," Raven said suddenly.

"What happened?" he asked. "Sorry, you don't have to answer if you don't want to…"

Raven took Connor's hand and they were transported to an abandoned mill house. "My father used to love me and my mother equally. He was an artist."

Connor looked around, holding her hand tightly.