Title: Dreams
Disclaimer: I own nothing, and so on...
Pairing: None
Raven doesn't sleep much anymore.
And how could she? There's far too much noise in the tower for her to even dream of resting. But it isn't as if everyone is yelling, or something. Everyone's mind is just too loud. They're emotions are bottled up, and at night they scream for attention.
Take Robin, for example. He rarely speaks, and when he does, it's too important to ignore. Everything he says has a meaning and purpose; this makes his thoughts annoying, and mostly utter nonsense. And his dreams are...too explicit. Too graphic. Violence and sex and gore. Like a bad horror film from the late seventies.
Starfire is much the same. On her planet, she has seen much war and bloodshed, but her dreams aren't vulger or gorey. Just sad. She misses her siblings, her parents, her caretaker. Even if she won't admit it, she's depressed.
Cyborg, on the other hand, doesn't miss his parents. On the contrary, he misses his body. At night, he dreams of his old friends, his new crushes, playing basketball at school, and so much more. Every dream ends with him realizing he's a robot, and he wakes up mentally screaming.
Beast Boy puzzles Raven, because he is the quietest of all of the Titans. He rarely dreams, and when he does, it's usually about two things; living in Africa with his parents, and of Terra. Some nights are horrible for him, because all he can do is replay in his mind over and over the last things Terra said to him. He always wakes up crying on those nights.
The one thing Raven is grateful for, is that Terra doesn't live at the tower anymore. The only thing you could ever hear from her at night was about the people who died because of her. the earthquakes, the avalanches, the mudslides...it was scary. And when she came back (with a new outfit and new control) Raven couldn't hear anything. That's why Raven wouldn't trust her. No one Raven knew could bottle up their emotions so well, they didn't feel anything anymore.
Not even Raven was that good.
On of my first fics ever without a pairing kicking you in the face! woo!