Day 1

Raven woke up early Saturday morning. All was quiet. She sat up and stretched. "I wonder what kind of torturous day we'll have today." she said to herself. If only she knew. She got up and put a hand towards her bed. Black energy surrounded her sheets, and they folded themselves neatly on her bed. She went out into the quiet hallway of Titans Tower. As she was passing Starfire's room, Starfire's thoughts burst into Raven's mind. Oh what a glorious day it will be! Perhaps myself and friend Raven will go to the mall of shopping. her thoughts said. Raven groaned. It was too early to have Starfire happily babbling about who knows what. She quickened her pace until she got to the bathroom. She shut the door behind her and locked it. She stared blankly at herself in the mirror. Her hair was a mess. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" she said. Her hair began straightening out into its standard form. She half smiled. Then, she was startled by someone pounding on the bathroom door. "Yo Raven! Are you done yet?! Some of us need to get our day started!" Cyborgs voice bellowed through the door. Raven cringed. It was too early to have Cyborg shouting at you like it was a party. She sighed and opened the door. Cyborg stood in the doorway. "What up girl!?" he said, grinning. Raven walked past him, and said nothing. Cyborg scowled, and then went into the bathroom. Finding the kitchen empty, Raven stood at the kitchen table and put her hands up. A box of Bat-o's moved themselves out of the cupboard, and the milk out of the fridge. She poured herself her standard cup of cereal, and then put the ingredients back. As she slowly chewed her cereal, Robin came into the kitchen. "Morning Raven." he said. Raven didn't respond. Robin put two slices of bread in the toaster and pushed the handle down. When it was done, he sat down at the table across from Raven. Knowing Raven would not say anything, he was quiet. Until Starfire floated into the kitchen. "Greetings friends! It is a wonderful morning, yes?!" she said. Raven wanted to bang her head on the table. "Starfire, it's too early. Could you please keep it down?" she said. Starfire's smile vanished, and she blushed. Then she turned to Robin. "Surely you are in higher of spirits?" she asked. Robin looked at her. "Star, as long as you're here I'm always in high spirits." he said. Starfire blushed at the sound of her nickname, Star. Cyborg walked into the kitchen and yawned, rather loudly. "EEEyawwwwwn!" That was the last straw. Raven stood up, knocking her chair onto the floor. Without looking at Cyborg, she developed a strand of duct tape out of thin air, and smacked it over Cyborgs mouth. He pulled it off easily. "I get the idea." he said quietly. "Good." Raven said, scowling. Robin looked around. "Hey, where's BeastBoy? He's usually the first one in here." Hearing this, Raven looked up from her cereal. It was true, BeastBoy was not with them. "I'll go get him!" Cyborg said, and walked off in the direction of BeastBoy's room. Raven, Starfire, and Robin followed. When they approached BeastBoy's door, Cyborg knocked. "Yo BB, you in there?!" After a minute, they heard a groan. Cyborg looked at Robin, who motioned for him to enter. Cyborg opened BeastBoy's door. BeastBoy was crouched over on his bed, with his face in the trashcan. "Everything looks normal, just BeastBoy putting his face where it belongs." Raven said, finally waking up. Robin shot her a look. Raven hid her face under the hood of her cloak. BeastBoy groaned again. "BeastBoy, are the good feelings with you?" Starfire asked. In response, BeastBoy threw up. He looked up from the trash can when he was finished. Even Raven gasped. He looked miserable. His eyes were bloodshot, and half closed. His hair was a mess, and so were his clothes. "I...not...well." he struggled to speak. He tried to focus on his friends. Suddenly, his eyes opened wide. "Aah!" He jumped backwards, falling off his bed onto the floor. Raven suppressed a snicker, although she was worried about him. Starfire helped him back onto his bed. BeastBoy started to speak, but Starfire shushed him. "Do not speak, for you are not well and in need of rest." she said. "We better take him to the doctor." Robin said. "Titans, Go!"

. . .

In the waiting room of the Jump City Medical Clinic, BeastBoy had passed out onto Raven's lap. Of course, Raven had some objection, but since BeastBoy was ill, she let it go. She wasn't completely heartless. When the nurse came out to get them, Raven carried BeastBoy using her dark powers. She carefully set him down onto the examining table. "So, BeastBoy is sick with something, but we don't know what. This morning, when we all came in his room, he jumped and fell off the bed." Cyborg told the nurse. "Was he aware of your presence in the room?" the nurse asked. Cyborg nodded. While the nurse continued to jot down some notes, Starfire asked Raven, "Could you not use your healing powers to heal friend BeastBoy?" Raven looked up from under her hood. She hadn't thought of that. "After we figure out what is wrong with him. I don't know where the problem is." she replied. As Raven pulled out her book, the doctor entered the room. "I'm Dr. Zownkaski. It is an honor to help the Teen Titans." he said, somewhat excited. "The problem is not all of us, just BeastBoy." Robin said. Dr. Zownkaski's smile faded, replaced by a serious expression. "Right, what have you seen him doing since you were aware of his sickness?" he asked. "He was throwing up, and his face looked really bad. He fell off the bed after we entered, and on the way here, he passed out into Raven's lap." Cyborg said, gesturing to Raven. The doctor turned to Raven. "Did you notice any shaking, sweat, or unusual temperature?" he asked her. Without looking up from the book she brought with her, she replied, "He was sweating, and shaking slightly, but his temperature felt normal." The doctor put down his pencil. After doing the regular checkup things, like listening to BeastBoy's heart, he took the unconscious BeastBoy into the X-Ray room. Starfire looked sad. "I fear there is something terribly wrong with BeastBoy." she said. "There'd better not be, him and I had plans for a movie this afternoon." Cyborg said, trying to lighten the mood. "I tried sensing for what was wrong, but I got nothing." Raven said. "Could you reach into the doctor's thoughts and see what he thinks?" Robin asked her. Raven shrugged. She put two fingers on her forehead and closed her eyes. After a few minutes, Raven's eyes opened wide, and she sent a small rush of dark energy throughout the room, knocking over pill bottles and scattering numerous papers in the process. Her eyes and mouth were open wide. "What! What's wrong?" Robin asked frantically. "BeastBoy, he's...he's got a cancerous tumor." she said, her expression unchanged. Everyone gasped. The doctor came back in, without the Titans green friend. "I have some rather bad news." the doctor said. "Your friend has cancer. There is a tumor in his stomach region, which was pushing on his stomach, causing him to throw up. We can operate and take the tumor out, but that won't do much except extend his life for a week or two. He only would have about fifteen day's left." he finished. Everyone had a look of shock on their face. "Surely this is a joke, sir." Starfire said, her voice slightly higher than usual. "My orange dear, I wish it was. But he has a rare kind of cancer that is incurable. After the operation, he will have fifteen days." the doctor said. Robin stood up slowly. "Do the operation, we'll pay for it, no matter what the cost." he said. "As you wish. We'll have him transferred to Jump City hospital, but you four will have to return home. Your presence is not allowed for this special operation." the doctor finished. None of the Titans liked that idea. Raven stood up and grabbed the doctor by his collar. "What do you mean, we can't be there? We have to be there!" she growled. She was surprised by her reaction to the news. "Raven..." Robin warned. Raven sighed, and released her grip. The doctor fell against the wall, struggling to breath. "I'm sorry, but, th...those are the rules." he choked. Robin opened the door. "All right, have him transported to Titans Tower as soon as possible. Let's go Titans." he said, sounding angry. When they got out into the parking lot, Cyborg pounded his hand on the hood of the T-Mobile. "Who does that guy think he is?! Telling us we can't be there!" he shouted. "Easy Cyborg, if you can't handle yourself, maybe Raven should drive." Robin said. "No...no, I'll be alright, just upset." Cyborg said, trying to calm down. He got in the driver's seat and turned the key in the ignition. As Raven got in her spot in the back seat, she didn't say so, but she felt alone without BeastBoy next to her. Cyborg backed out and squealed onto the road. Everyone was quiet on the way back to the Tower.

. . .

Since the first day they met, Raven had known she felt differently about BeastBoy more than anyone else, but she didn't know why. As far as everyone knew, she didn't really like BeastBoy, but the truth was, she thought he was a good friend. Sure, he was obnoxious at times, and he had his quirks, but Raven didn't mind as much as everyone thought. When BeastBoy returned to Titans Tower via ambulance, all he did was sleep for the first day. While he did so, Raven spent most of her time in her room trying to think of something special she could do with him before he...was gone. Raven sighed. She didn't want to think that far ahead. She left her room and walked down the hall to BeastBoy's room. She entered, making sure to be quiet, and, after making sure he was asleep, sat on the edge of his bed. She looked at him. He was so quiet, so lifeless. He was never like this. Raven put her hand on BeastBoy's shoulder. She though back of all the adventures the Titans had together. BeastBoy and Cyborg finding her portal mirror, and going into her mind, discovering all the personalities she had. Fighting Slade, Brother Blood, The Brain, and finding out that he had been a member of the Doom Squad. The more she thought back, she realized BeastBoy had been in every fight, adventure, and event the Titans had ever been in. The thought of the Titans without him simply proved too much for Raven. She really tried not to, but her feelings were too strong. As the tears started to roll down her cheeks, she thought about how she had been so mean to him when all he was trying to do was have some fun. Why? Why had she been so mean? She stroked BeastBoy's face with the back of her hand as she began sobbing. It took all her power to not let her emotions take control of her, but she didn't want to hurt him anymore. As BeastBoy started to stir, Raven ran out of his room, tears falling on the floor all the way back to her room. Not two seconds after her door had closed, all the power inside her let loose. Black energy shot in all directions from her hands, knocking over her books, ripping sheets off her bed, tearing curtains off the window, and knocking over all her furniture. She couldn't stop it. A streak of energy burst out of her window, breaking it in the process. Another streak slammed into her bedroom door, blowing it off its track, tossing it into the hall. But when a streak hit her mirror, bounced off, and hit her squarely in the head, all the black energy vanished. She fell to the floor, knocked out by her angered emotions. Cyborg, who had been walking down the hall when Raven's door was blown off its track, peeked around doorway into her room. Starfire, also startled by the explosion, followed Cyborg into Raven's room. "Somebody had a spazz attack." He picked up Raven and put her on her bed. Then he stood up and looked around Raven's room, looking at all the debris. As he began picking up Raven's furniture and setting it in its proper place, which only he and BeastBoy knew, because they had been in her room before, a voice stopped him in his tracks. "What's with all the noise?" Starfire and Cyborg turned to look at the doorway, and seeing a limp, weak, tired BeastBoy standing there, dropped everything they were doing and went over to him. Well, Starfire flew over and picked him up off the ground in a bone crushing hug. "Friend BeastBoy, you are well! We all had worries about you!" she squealed. BeastBoy began screaming in pain. "Star, stop! You're hurting him badly!" Cyborg said, running over. Starfire stopped and gently set him on Raven's bed next to Raven. "I'm sorry; I failed to remember his recent surgery in my joy of seeing him!" Starfire babbled, almost too ashamed to show her face. BeastBoy opened his eyes and looked at Raven lying next to him, still asleep. "Just what I've always dreamed of, a nap with Raven." he joked weakly. "Hush your mouth, Beastman; you need to save your energy." Cyborg said. "We dare not move him from Raven's bed, for he is still too fragile." Starfire said. She gently put a pillow behind BeastBoy to prop him up. "Can I get anything to assist your healing?" she asked. BeastBoy shook his head. "Just some quiet so I can rest." he said. Nodding, Cyborg and Starfire exited Raven's room. Cyborg picked up her door and placed it back in its frame. BeastBoy looked around. He was in Raven's room. With Raven. Alone. He almost couldn't believe it. He glanced at Raven lying beside him. He hoped she didn't hurt him for being in her room. He reached a hand towards her and stroked her hair. That was enough to wake her up. She opened her eyes a little, and looked at BeastBoy. "What the..." she shouted, and fell off her bed. BeastBoy had to laugh. "Haha! Smooth Raven!" he said, then grabbed his side in pain. "What do you think you're doing..." Raven began, but seeing him holding his side in pain, a look of fear on his face, her expression softened, and she stopped talking. "Don't hurt me, please!" BeastBoy cried. Raven felt bad for scaring him, and being ready to smack him. "It's alright BeastBoy, I'm not going to hurt you." she said softly. "You, you're not?" BeastBoy asked, a look of disbelief on his face. Raven smiled and shook her head. "I just want to make my friend feel better while you still..." Raven stopped herself before she made BeastBoy aware of his limited lifetime. "While I still?" BeastBoy asked. "While you still rest in my room." Raven said, quickly covering up her tracks. "Oh, well, thanks." BeastBoy said, still looking at her suspiciously. Raven sat down on the edge of her bed next to BeastBoy. "Listen, BeastBoy, there's something I need to tell you, that I've never told anyone." she said reluctantly. "Yes?" BeastBoy asked. Raven hesitated. "I..." but, before she could finish, Raven was interrupted by Robin, Cyborg, and Starfire. "Hey, Raven, we got to go, the Hive is out again terrorizing the town." Robin said. Raven got up. BeastBoy started to get out of bed, but Raven almost shoved him back into her bed. "You need to stay here. Don't worry about us." she said. What she really wanted to say, for some reason, was "Don't worry about me." BeastBoy started to protest. "Aw come on Raven, I'm fine!" he said. Then, he doubled over in waves of dizziness. "I don't think so." Cyborg said. They all left Raven's room and shut the door behind them. As they got into the T-Mobile, Cyborg tried to lift everyone's spirits. "So, what were you two doing in there? Huh? Huh?" he said, with a fake grin. Raven growled. Cyborg new well enough to shut up. He continued driving in silence. When they got to the scene, they were met by Gizmo, Jinx, and Mammoth. There were multiple small fires, chunks of buildings here and there, and broken windows. "Well, if it isn't my least favorite Titans!" Jinx growled. "Oh, well see how you like us after this!" Cyborg said, transforming his left arm into a gun. He fired several shots at Jinx, knocking her off her feet onto the ground. Cyborg was about to fire again, when he was swept off his feet by a long, mechanical, spider like leg. "Hands off, ya big metal trash heap!" Gizmo yelled. He raised one of his four metal legs and plunged it down towards Cyborg. He rolled out of the way just in time. CRUNCH! The metal leg plunged into the concrete, breaking up the ground around it. Starfire took the opportunity to shoot Gizmo's computer pack that controlled all of his gadgets. It exploded off of Gizmo's back in a green, fiery inferno. "Hey, quit it!" Gizmo hollered, already knowing he was defeated. Robin jumped at Mammoth with his staff in hand. "HI-YAA! Take this!" Robin shouted, striking Mammoth multiple times in the head with the staff. Mammoth stumbled a few steps back, then picked a light pole right out of the ground, and swung it at Robin. CRACK! Robin went sailing across to the other side of the street, where he slammed into a building. "Robin!" Starfire yelled. She turned towards Mammoth, her eyes glowing a raging, fiery green. "You have injured Robin! You will pay now!" she yelled. She threw starbolt after starbolt at Mammoth, until he fell backwards onto a car, and went unconscious. "Two down, one to go." Raven said, wanting to get the fight over with so she could go back to BeastBoy. They all turned to Jinx, who was standing twenty feet away. She raised her hands in the air, and plunged her pink energy into the ground, throwing a wave of street in the Titans direction. "Titans, Go!" Robin yelled. They scattered in all directions, avoiding the concrete wave. Cyborg opened fire. Jinx back flipped to avoid Cyborgs fire. "Nice try, tin man!" she cackled. But she spoke to soon. Raven, who had come up behind her, used her dark energy to strike Jinx in the back of the head with a rather large stone. Jinx moaned, then fell forward flat onto the ground. The police arrived at that instant. "Thanks Titans, we'll take it from here!" said the chief. The Titans jumped into the T-Mobile and headed off back to Titans Tower.

. . .

As soon as they arrived, Raven jumped out and went straight to her room to check on BeastBoy. He was still in bed, zoning out. He snapped out of it when she entered. "What happened to you?" he asked, noticing Raven's bruised, dirty cloak and skin. "Fight with the Hive, remember?" she said. "Oh yeah." BeastBoy said. Raven looked at the clock. It was 8:00pm. BeastBoy had fallen asleep suddenly. She sat on her bed and pulled out her photo album from her shelf across the room. She began flipping through it, looking at all the pictures of the Titans doing things together. Raven turned to her favorite picture. It was a picture of her and BeastBoy. BeastBoy had his arm around her, and she was doing rabbit ears above his head. A rare, memorable moment. She smiled and put the photo album away. She glanced at BeastBoy, who was breathing quietly. Raven wished it was all a lie. Just yesterday she told BeastBoy she was going to kill him, and now, she felt terrible. I didn't mean it. I was just mad. She thought. She left her room and walked towards the kitchen. Robin and Starfire where there. "How is he?" Robin asked. "Sleeping. He's probably exhausted from being sick, and the operation." Raven said, plopping herself in a chair. "I just don't get it. Yesterday, he was his old self. Today, he's scheduled to die." she said. "Agreed. BeastBoy was in his usual mood all of the yesterday." Starfire said. "All we can really do is help him enjoy the time he has left." Robin said. Raven didn't like the sound of that. The time he has left. She never thought she'd hear something like that. Especially about BeastBoy. She quickly stood up and walked out of the kitchen. She entered the bathroom and shut the door behind her. She turned on the faucet and splashed some water on her face, hoping to wake herself up from this bad dream. No luck. It wasn't a dream. This was real.

. . .

It was nine in the evening. Raven yawned and headed towards her room. She quietly opened the door as not to wake BeastBoy. She sat on the edge of her bed, watching BeastBoy. He looks so content, just sleeping in my bed. Like a young child. They don't know what their life brings. Neither does BeastBoy. Nobody knows. She thought. He didn't know he was not going to live for more than a couple weeks. Unless the doctor was wrong. Raven hoped he was. She stretched and gently laid on the edge of her bed. As she closed her eyes, she vowed to herself she would make BeastBoy's last days his best, although she didn't know exactly why she felt compelled to do so.