Songfic to Broken by Evanescance.

I wanted you to know, I love the way you laugh

I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away

Cause I'm broken when I'm open

And I don't feel like I am strong enough

It's strange really, the city is abandoned, the town is abandoned and yet, I'm still here. I don't know why, I can't take the long aching steps to further myself. I can't take the long aching steps away from you. I can't part from you and the feelings that wash over me when I'd pass by places we used to talk. Your voice resonates in the old walls and the memory of your eyes captivates me still. I stand here, the place where I saw you last. It was down in an unimportant hallway, I see it now, though the carpet has worn and faded.

Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome

And I don't feel right when you're gone away

I can visualize your face and its hollowness. I pry into your lifeless eyes and it's my gaze that's reflected back. Even now you are a mystery to me, your unbroken silence is a reminder of all the broken things in this world. The silence is my greatest treasure these days when things are made to be destroyed. It makes me stay, even when all else has passed and gone. Raven, you should see how the others miss you. But you can't now because we are like cracked glass. Some things can't be put back together. Some things aren't meant to be put back together.

The worst is over now and we can breathe again

I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away

There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight

I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

We were all children once. We thought we could change the world, the future even. Starfire made us promise, she thought we would have stayed. We would have stayed for a promise. The unspoken words passed between us are worth more than empty promises. I can hear the subtle movement of your lips, the sentence damaged over time. Three restrained words that never would have left your mouth. I have repeated them over and over unconsciously. I wish you were here to hear me say.

Cause I'm broken when I'm open

And I don't feel like I am strong enough

I want to take you from that padded room. I want to rip you from the white dullness. I can picture you wandering a vast stretch of ceaseless space. Your feet drag from the tiredness of it all. But you don't recognize our faces, our words mean nothing to you. How many years more, Raven? Until we have become old and gray, the wrinkles too numerous to count? You entered my mind once, and on countless occasions I've wanted to same of you. But you're untouchable, the stony countenance that you hide behind.

Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome

And I don't feel right when you're gone away

It's only you and me now, and the old haunt. The memories of something gone and you in my head linger. It's a madness that I can't stop. Tell me Raven, how long? How long until I join you in that lonely room? Even then, we will still be light years apart. You are with me always and yet I do not exist to you. You are physically attacked to my brain, the smell of you clings to me. Your influence over me can't be unnoticed. I'm submerged in your essence and can't break free.

There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight

I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

Cause I'm broken when I'm open

And I don't feel like I am strong enough

I'm drowning slowly, Raven. I sinking as you watch on.

Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome

And I don't feel right when you're gone away