Story idea I had in mind. Let me know what you think.
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Forgive Me: Chapter One: Rough Start
Summary: Beast Boy acts stupid. Raven gets mad at him. Classic, right? Not this time around! Set a year after Trouble in Tokyo. BBXRAE
We start our beautiful day here at Titans West Tower. Home to the world famous Teen Titans. It has been one year since our heroes went to Tokyo to deal with Brushogan and his inky minions.
After Trouble in Tokyo, Robin and Starfire finally became public and pursued a romantic relationship with each other. They are still going strong and are still very committed to each other.
Cyborg, unable to take the new couple making out wherever he went in the tower, has started spending more of his time in Steele City with Titan's leader Bumblebee. Even though he hasn't admitted to anything, his teammates (and the whole world), know he has a romantic relationship with her as well.
That leaves our last two favorite Titans for today. The green changeling on the team, named Garfield Logan, AKA Beast Boy. And the mysterious, violet haired sorceress, named Rachel Roth, AKA Raven. These are the only two Titans left on the team that aren't in a romantic relationship with anybody else.
But, what if one of them is willing to change that? Will the other agree, or even notice for that matter? Will that person be willing to look past the other's faults for who they really are on the inside? Let's find out then!
The Main Ops Room of Titans West
"I'm bor-(drag out)-ed."
This had been the eighth time in five minutes that Beast Boy had made that comment out loud to the world. And unfortunately for a certain violet haired someone who was trying to meditate, it wasn't going to be the last time either. Go figure.
"I'm bor-(drag out even longer)-ed."
'Do I kill him, do I throw him out a window again, maybe if I tried forcing him to morph he'd go somewhere else for once. Azar, can that green prick ever do something like shut the-'
"I'm bor-(world has long ended, humanity's extinct, sun has burned out a trillion years ago, civilization is done with, space is disappearing in a bright flash of light, and he's still going… and... still... GOING...)-"
"HOLY AZAR! DO YOU WANT TO BE MURDERED TODAY BEAST BOY!" Raven shouted at him while picking him up with her Soul Self.
Beast Boy was smiling in his mind, glad he had finally managed to grab her attention. "I'm just saying how I'm feeling at the moment Rae. I didn't think you'd find something as small as that annoying now. Did you?"
She dropped him onto the ground again with a big oof. "First off, my name is Raven. Ra-Ven. Get that through your thick headed skull of yours where your brain should be."
"Hey, I do have a -"
"Second (she said interrupting his rant), if you're bored, go somewhere else to say it. I need to meditate, and you're ruining my concentration."
"But Raeeeee (vein throbs on her forehead), there's no where else in the tower to go and hang you know." he said in a whiny voice. Which wasn't as effective for him now since it sounded much deeper now than a year ago when he had still looked like a small kid. Now, he was slightly taller than Raven, still on the stringy side though.
Raven tried to stay calm by saying her mantra over and over again in her mind. "Listen, closely, Beast Boy. I am trying, to meditate here, so that way my emotions don't go and destroy our home along with you in the process. I don't care if we'll have the tower all to ourselves for the week while the other Titans are in Titan's East. If you don't let me meditate, I'll release my pent up emotions by destroying your room, then the gamestation, and then all that crappy tofu that you call food in the fridge there. Do I make myself clear!" she shouted in his face at the end.
He instantly backed away, realizing he might have pushed her a bit to far this time in grabbing her attention. Yet in his idiotic way, he decided to push just a little bit more by ignoring what she had said and saying something totally random, even for him. "You know Rae-Rae, you look really cute to me when you're pissed at me." he said in a teasing voice to her.
Raven's eye started to twitch. Then...
Shoreline across the bay.
The pedestrians of Jump City were out and about. Doing whatever their business would be at this hour. Cars jammed the streets since it was just about lunch time now and the sidewalks were full of people trying to get to wherever the heck they needed to go to grab a bite to eat before work. People were sitting at tables, talking on there cell phones. Not a crime was in site.
All was peaceful.
But then, a sound drew everyone's heads as they turned towards the tower in the distance. A very, very, very (it was pretty freaking loud) loud scream was the cause for grabbing everyone's attention. They all wondered what would cause such a loud scream to occur in the first place, and particularly, why it was coming from the tower that housed their beloved heroes. But within seconds, it was business as usual as everyone turned away to continue with life. Figuring if nothing had blown up, nothing was wrong. No one saw it then, when a bright green dot was hurled out the top window of the tower out over the ocean until it disappeared from view.
Said green dot flying through the air
After letting out that scream of anger, Raven had picked up Beast Boy with her powers, threw him around the tower a few times, and had then proceeded to chuck him far out over the beautiful Pacific Ocean. He was currently unconscious from being battered around by the force of Raven's different emotions.
He came too. A mere hundred feet from going splat into the water. Thinking quickly, the green changeling morphed into a eagle and spread his wings to slow himself down. It slowed him down, but not enough to stop him from hitting the water. And then before contact, he morphed himself into a giant whale.
He managed to survive the impact, but ended up sending a big geyser of water several hundred feet into the air from his landing, marking the spot where he had crashed into the water. Not really mentioning how much it had still hurt the changeling, in more ways than one.
When he finally surfaced again, he saw that he was likely a good fifteen miles away from the tower now. 'I think I might have been acting a little to stupid this time.' Beast Boy thought in his mind. He morphed into himself first to check for injuries. Finding none, he then transformed into a seagull and flew towards the city, knowing he had made Raven a little to mad this time.
'I thought as soon as I saw that extra set of eyes that I was a goner! I hope Raven won't really hate me now. Sigh. I just wanted to grab her attention. I just had to be my same annoying little self though, didn't I… why did I have to choose to be the jokester... why couldn't I have grown up being something else to hide my past from others.'
As Beast Boy continued to think, he found himself getting more and more depressed about what he had done. Feeling guilty that he had managed to push Raven away again. He realized that, he had really messed up big time once again. Who knows, he probably even ruined the friendship he so valued with Raven. That had been the last thing he ever wanted to do to her. She had been hurt enough by others in her life.
'Why can't I do anything right…' he thought while sadly flapping himself towards the city. 'Why do I even bother with this. I know she'll never like me at all. She barely tolerates me as a nuisance in her life as it is. Who could ever like a green changeling with a past like mine.'
He was too distracted to realize that his communicator wasn't even on him anymore.
Back at the tower in the gym a good fifteen minutes later
'Why is he always the one who's bugging me?! Why can't he ever just leave me the hell alone?! I'm just different from everyone else! So why can't he just go away?!'
Raven was currently working off steam by using her emotions on a bunch of now mutilated training dummies. It was a wide variety, as it always was where Beast Boy was concerned. She had expected the anger to be among them as it clearly was by the shade of red, but there was a bunch of other colors as as well that were in the mix.
Dark gray, worry. Light black, fear. Pink, happiness? That emotion, she had no idea why she might be expressing that. Green, brave. And she couldn't even comprehend why she had the first two in the first place. Finally, there in the background of her powers, shadowing everything, was a color she couldn't recognize. Purple?
Stopping what she was currently doing, Raven wiped the sweat off her brow before she opened a portal in front of her. She stepped into it and came out in her room. She walked over to her dresser and opened the top drawer. Revealing her meditation mirror. Which she had hid after that incident from several years before when Beast Boy and Cyborg went into her mind.
'That was when he said he liked us!' Happy said to Raven in her mind.
That did it. Raven was now seething mad as she went through into her mirror. She ended up right by the Forbidden Door, and all her emotions were gathered in the small grove waiting for her.
"All right now. What in Azar's name is going on here?" Raven asked the gathered emotions.
"Can't you tell?" Knowledge said while walking forward to speak. "Your feeling a wide variety of emotions toward BB at the moment."
Raven cocked her head to the side in confusion. "Who?" she asked in her normal monotone voice.
"Why Beast Boy of course!" Happy said while skipping forward to stand by Knowledge. "BB is just the nickname we have for him in here."
Pause "Okay... well that leads me to my next question. Why in Azar's name am I even feeling happiness towards... him!?" she shouted at the pink cloaked happy emotion in front of her.
"Silly Rae-Rae. Didn't you even realize what he said to us?" Happiness was undeterred by the glare Raven sent at the use of that nickname which had set her off just moments before.
"And what… exactly… did he say… that made you so… darn… happy!" Raven got out through gritted teeth.
"Why Raven, he called us cute of course. Didn't you even realize that?" she asked, the same smile adorning her face as she did so.
Raven fell backwards in shock. "Why the heck would you be happy because of that?" Raven asked in a quieter, timid voice now.
Brave, in her green cloak, stepped forward to answer for her. "Because no one has had the courage to ever tell us something like that before Raven. That took some serious guts on his part to even admit that to your face. Knowing how you might react to someone using a term like that on you."
"But... he…was just joking around... right?" Raven tried to speak. Words almost failing her for once.
Timid stepped forward again to speak this time. "Why did we have to go and hurt him again?" she asked in her small, scared voice.
"What do you mean... Timid? BB's fine... He always is... after being thrown out a window." Raven said, not even realizing that she was using the nickname for him now. At this point, she could have fallen into a mud hole in her mind, and she wouldn't have realized it.
"But what about before that Raven? We threw him into the walls so hard… and he didn't look awake when we threw him out the window there... was he even conscious when we threw him out this time?" Timid asked.
This made Raven blink in shock. "But…but... this is Beast Boy... he's never out for long... unless Mad Mod is involved... But still... he's still okay... right?"
Knowledge spoke again. "Depends, have we even seen him since you threw him out of the tower Raven? Do we know if he's truly all right as you are willing to claim?"
Silence for a few seconds. "Oh Azar, what have I done?" Raven asked in a low voice. She turned around, away from her emotions, and ran out of her mind through the Forbidden Door. It was then that an emotion, draped in a dark purple cloak, decided to step forward.
"Do you think she's ready to admit to it now Knowledge?"
Knowledge shrugged her shoulders to the emotion. "We'll see Affection. We'll see."
In the Tower.
As Raven came out of her mirror she rushed out of her room and searched the tower. Her empathic senses searching for the missing green changeling.
'Oh Azar, please let him be okay this time.' She thought as she searched the tower desperately. Coming up with nothing, she went to the main ops room and opened up the mission console to search for his communicator. Finally, she found it twenty miles away, at the bottom of the ocean.
Raven immediately flew out of the tower, following the signal on her communicator to the coordinates that Beast Boy's was sending out. Finally, about ten minutes later, she was hovering over the ocean waves, above the spot her communicator was showing Beast Boy's. She was really worried now, his communicator hadn't budged since she had gotten the coordinates. She surrounded herself in a dark bubble of her powers and then dropped down into the ocean at a fast pace.
As she dove farther and farther down, her worry for the green changeling continued to grow and grow in her. It was making it harder to keep her emotional shield to keep its protective form around her. And the rising water pressure outside of it was not even helping in the slightest for the sorceress.
Down and down she continued, getting closer and closer to his unmoving signal. The light from the surface having disappeared a little while ago. Finally, she reached the bottom of the ocean, five thousand feet beneath the surface, and saw it sticking on a piece of coral. Beast Boy's communicator, with Beast Boy nowhere in sight, still five thousand feet beneath the surface.
'No… no… no…'
Her bubble, which she had managed to keep up to this point. Slowly started to break apart as her emotions started to come out in different ways.
Thinking quickly, Raven used her powers to first grab his communicator and put it in her hand, and then opened a portal that she stepped into. Just as her powers collapsed and ocean water replaced the area she had just been standing in.
Raven came out of her portal onto one of her black disks one hundred feet above where she had originally dropped down into the water. Her emotions were still acting up as she tried to use her disk to travel back towards the land in the distance. Thoughts filling her mind.
'Pull it together Raven! You aren't even supposed to feel! It could destroy the freaking world for crying out loud! Besides, you couldn't possibly feel anything for him other than anger! All he ever did was annoy the crap out of you and pull pranks on you! He always acted like an idiot around you and was hardly serious! He even tried to get you to eat that crappy food of his!' Raven thought to her mind.
'But he always tried to get you to laugh... to smile... to feel... different, special, maybe even... loved. He never left you alone when everyone else would have abandoned you. He comforted you when that bastard broke your heart. He helped you even when all had seemed hopeless. How could you not possible feel anything for him!'
Raven found herself having less and less control over her powers, her disk started to crack underneath her as she tried to hold it together. Thoughts filled with her memories of Beast Boy.
Still about ten miles away from the mainland, her powers where literally threatening to fail on her and drop her into the middle of the ocean.
Finally, Raven was forced to divert her course to an uninhabited island about one mile away from her for fear she wouldn't make it to the mainland. About a minute later, she managed to crash land onto the beach of the small island. The soft sand helping to cushion her fall.
It was then that her powers started lashing out at everything in reach. The few trees and rocks that were on the island were caught up in the storm of power as Raven tried in vain to rein them all in. Clenching her hands in front of her she looked into them, and that was what finally broke her. As she saw what was still clenched in her left hand. Beast Boy's Communicator. The last thing she had that had been on him when he was alive.
'He's dead… Beast Boy… Gar... he's… dead…'
The only sound at first, was the lapping of the waves a few feet away from her.
Then...
…
...
…
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Island gets enveloped in black cloud
Back in the park at Jump City
Kids were playing around in Jump City park. Adults were there watching them to make sure that nothing happened to there kids. There was also a couple young couples here and there doing things that people in love did. Whether it was an outdoor picnic, or just enjoying there time with each other and mother nature's backyard. Some enjoyed ice cream, others biked around on couple bikes. Everyone was having a good time.
In the middle of the park, there rested a small hill, covered in trees. Because of this people avoided going onto it to discover it's secrets. But in the middle of it, there was a small grove. It overlooked the park and the bay in the distance, but was hidden from view so nobody could see it. And in the middle of this small grove, there rested a green dog, similar to the one that had been found there years ago when a weird alien dog escaped his owner. It had a sad expression on its face. One that hadn't been seen since the time that Terra had betrayed the Titans.
The dog sighed to itself 'You know, I should probably go apologize to her. I mean, it's not like I can try to hide from her forever. I could try, I did lose my Communicator wherever I had landed in that ocean. So it's not like the Raven or the others could track me anymore. And I have a good head start on them...'
The green dog, named Beast Boy, continued to watch the kids and couples down in the distance from his hiding spot. He remembered a time when he had wanted so badly to be just like those kids down there at one point in life.
Normal, carefree, having fun, not a trouble to care about in the world.
But now, he had been a hero for years. He had seen the good, the bad, a lot of the ugliness in the world. And he found, that he wanted to be just like the couples he now saw down in the park.
Loving, caring, being with people who actually liked them for them. Enjoying the time they spent with each other no matter where it was. He wanted to be with the person he liked more than he could really say. Only, he found that he managed to push her away... again... because of his poor attempts to get her to come out of that emotionless shell of hers. To at least show him that smile of hers that made his heart melt with joy. To hear that laugh that made him want to laugh along with her.
But instead, the last thing he had gotten her to show, was the face of Rage. That's all he ever managed to do when he was with her most of the time. No matter what he did, no matter how hard he tried, that's all she ever showed him.
'Maybe… I should at least go back and apologize to her. If she still hates me… I can just ask Robin for some time away when he gets back from checking up on Titan's East with Star and Chrome Dome. Give Raven some time to cool off and forgive me... if she ever does.' (he doesn't realize what's going on still, in case you were wondering)
The dog slowly got up, and then it changed, into a green raven, before the raven took flight. Flying out of the secret grove, it flew high over the trees, leaving it's hiding spot behind, as it flew home towards the T-shaped tower. Catching an updraft, the green raven flew lazily on. Passing over streets full of pedestrians, heading back to work since lunch break was now over. Nobody really paying attention to the lone bird flying high above them in the direction of the tower.
Finally, the raven was flying over the bay, dropping it's height as it prepared to land on the roof of the tower. Thoughts on what he should do going through it's mind
'Now how should I apologize to her. Should I just tell her flat out, should I just leave a note in front of her door and hope she isn't to mad to look for me…' still thinking, the raven was several feet above the roof. When suddenly, it heard a loud scream.
Beast Boy morphed back into himself in shock. He had recognized that it was Raven screaming again. Although he couldn't tell why this time. And landed onto the roof with his butt, harder than he might have wanted to. But he didn't feel the pain, as his mind filled with fear as to what could have happened.
"Why is Raven screaming! Is someone attacking her! Is Malchior out again! What the hell is happening…'
That was when he saw a dark spot in the distance out in the ocean. Morphing into an eagle, he saw that the dark spot was actually Raven's powers. And that it was quickly growing and getting more and more out of control as he watched.
Morphing again, this time into a Peregrine Falcon since they could fly at 200 m/h, Beast Boy flew off the roof again. This time, towards Raven in the distance. Wondering what could have possibly happened while he was away this time to her.
On the island
The ground was being torn up in big chunks. The few trees that had been there originally were now wood chips, flying around in the air above a figure who was on her hands and knees on the ground. Rocks, which had been grounded into powder, also flew around, hitting the would chips above the figure.
The island was throughly ravaged by the force of emotions happening just above it. It was shaking to it's core, just from the raw power that was emanating from the lone figure.
It was Raven, and she could tell what her powers were doing. After all, the energy was coming directly from her. She couldn't find it in her to care though. After all, she had just killed the one person who she cared about the most in her life.
'Beast Boy… I'm sorry… I'm so… so… sorry. Please don't leave me alone… please don't leave me behind… please... come back to me… I'll listen to your dumb jokes! I'll try your tofu! I'll do anything to see that dumb smile again! JUST PLEASE COME BACK TO ME! DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE!'
But he wasn't there. In her mind, she saw him, pale and lifeless, floating somewhere above the ocean floor. Dead… because of her.
Tears were falling from her eyes as on the inside, her emoticlones cried there hearts out with her, all of them, even including Rage. Who had been the cause of his demise.
In her grief, Raven had finally came to realize something. Something that she'd been afraid to admit because of her powers. Ever since the Titans had first formed even. Just been to afraid until now to show it.
She had liked Beast Boy. Probably even loved him. As more than a friend should have liked or loved someone.
And now, she had killed him, out of anger, over something so trivial. Raven, the emotionless Titan, had killed the one person she valued more than anyone else, including herself. Beast Boy.
She couldn't quiet the sobs that racked her body. the tears that fell from her face, like a neverending waterfall that filled the ground around her with the grief, the sadness, the guilt she was feeling. She couldn't even think about what might happen to her, about what Robin and the others would think. All she could think was one thing.
'Beast Boy's gone. I'll never see him again... and it's all my fault.'
She found herself losing consciousness as the energy she was emitting became to much for her to endure anymore.
The powder rock and wood chips falling around her as her energy diminished. The blackness fading away to allow the sunlight to come back in.
The last thing Raven saw, before losing consciousness, was a lone bird, flying towards the island, towards her, at a fast pace. Not being able to see what the color was at all. One last thought filled her mind.
'Garfield… forgive me…' and then, everything became black for Raven as she passed out into a deep unconsciousness.
As the bird landed in front of her, it changed into Beast Boy.
"RAVEN!"
Author's Notes:
Okay, so I had another story idea popping into my head that just wanted to come out. It will certainly not be as long as "I'm Sorry" but will still be focused on BBxRae. I think it'll be at least five chapters with ten being the most. I'll be working on this along with "I'm Sorry" at the same time. I'm mainly writing action now for "I'm Sorry" so I want to be able to take breaks in between to write some drama and romance for my favorite couple here. Maybe some angst, we'll see.
So good start? Grab your attention or anything? Please let me know! Those reviews are really helpful in cases like this.
Till Next Time
Allen
