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Requiem
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"Raven? Come out of your room, please, it's been over a week..." Robin said. He, Starfire, and Cyborg were standing outside of Raven's room, looks of concerns on their faces.
Robin never got a response.
"I fear that she will never come out," Starfire said, looking at Robin and Cyborg. "What can you expect, Star?" Cyborg replied wearily. "She's been through a lot." Starfire nodded, looking sadly at her feet. Robin leaned up against the wall and slid down until he sat on the floor, recalling the reason why Raven was being so distant now.
FLASHBACK:
The Titans were in the hardest and grueling battle of their lives, when Jynx, Blackfire, Gizmo, and a new villain named Ria had joined forces to destroy the titans. They had defeated Jynx, Blackfire, and Gizmo easily... but Ria had posed a threat to them like no other villain had before.
Robin remembered it all too well. Her flaming red hair, much like Starfire's. Her eyes, filled with anger at the titans for reasons unknown. Her power, oh her power was so great and dominant that the titans knew from the beginning they were going to have to fight their hardest just so they will stay alive.
It was a long and draining fight for good and evil that battle, all the titans against this one, powerful, demon. They had nearly beaten her down, both sides exhausted. She needed one more powerful hit to be down for good.
Except Ria had one more trick up her sleeve.
Cyborg threw strong punch at Ria, Starfire kept blasting her with the energy bolts, so she stayed on the ground. She stayed there for a while, so long that everyone else thought she was finally beaten.
Everyone except for Beastboy.
Ria raised up her hand, and using the last bit of power she had, threw the strongest energy beam she had, directly at the person that was unfortunately, in the direction of her palm.
Raven.
"Raven, watch out!" Beastboy said, running up to Raven and pushing her to the side. Unfortunately, Beastboy hadn't gotten out of the beam's way in time.
The other titans looked on in horror as Beastboy disintegrated in the beam, right in front of their eyes. Robin felt helpless, and he knew the others did too, as they watched their teammate-no, their friend, slowly fade away from them.
The look in Raven's eyes was horrendous. It was then in that moment that she realized she cared for Beastboy, as well as the other titans. It was in that moment she regretted all the times she was mean to him, all those times she didn't laugh at his jokes, all those times she pushed him away from her when he tried to get closer to her.
He saw her lips move.
Beastboy...
"NO! BEASTBOY!" Starfire yelled running up closer to the beam. Raven acted quickly and pulled her away from it. "No... Beastboy," Starfire sobbed and turned to Raven, crying. Raven was at a loss for words, and Robin could have sworn he saw a couple of teardrops fall from her face.
"Ha...Ha...Ha..." An evil laugh came from Ria. The other titans looked at her. She stood up, smiling wickedly. "I knew this would break you. All of you," she then looked at Raven adding, "especially you."
Raven lost it. She headed straight for Ria. "NO!" Robin said, holding up his arm to motion for her to stop. She didn't. The rest was in a blur.
The next thing he knew was he saw Ria in a bloody mess next to Raven, Raven with blood on her hands.
END FLASHBACK
Robin started to choke up again. No, he couldn't cry. Not again, not in front of Starfire and Cyborg. Especially not in front of Star, because she would start crying, and then Cyborg would start crying... and when Cyborg cries, everyone knows that he won't stop for a while.
"Raven, please open the door!" Starfire pleaded, knocking on the door. She teared up and continued knocking. 'Why did he have to die?' she thought. Cyborg was having the same thoughts. "Damnit!" he yelled suddenly, surprising Starfire and Robin a little. He turned to the wall, and punched it, a hole appearing right after. The others didn't say another word.
Darkness. That's what the state that Raven was in. Utter darkness. Only feline eyes could see in her room. That's what Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg wish they had. Feline eyes. That is... if they wanted to see Raven. Somehow the team didn't really want to see her. They had wanted her to get out of her room, but the sight of her so broken would be so heartbreaking that they would have wanted her back in her room again.
She was a complete mess. Sitting in the corner of her room, mumbling to herself. Her room was also a mess, everything either trashed or broken. The mirror, which led to her mind, was cracked. Raven hadn't eaten for a while. She grew thinner every day. The others had tried to get her to eat by sliding food under the little space under her door. That food was still in her room, rotting away.
Just like Raven.
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-Tanya