Pardon the shift in perspectives in the prior chapter... With Raven at Death's door I didn't figure I should keep the perspective as hers when there's so much going on... (: Anyways... Thanks all of you reviewers for the support, input, and occasional ass chewing lol :) Now... On with the story!

Living with Life's Choices

Chapter 12

Canyons: Terra's perspective

~I just watched him with envy. He cared for her with such intensity and devotion that I soon felt a gaping hole in my chest from years of neglect. I had helped them back to my 'woman cave' as soon as Beast Boy told me Raven was dying... The only reason I did so was because it would kill him to watch her die; plus, I was ordered to protect both lover under any circumstance. I justified taking them in for that purpose, but truthfully, I just wanted to be near BB.

~I don't think he was ever that way about me... I got off the rock I was perched on and went to refill Raven's IV bags. I had IV's, water, food, bandages, and anything else a stranded hiker might need, but I had had no use for them until now because I usually let them die. I replaced her bags and returned to my spot. I watched him with avid curiosity as he displayed such affection over the half-demon. She occasionally stirred, and he just gave up after a while of trying to wake her.

~"Terra, do you know what's wrong with her?" he asked hopefully.

~My medical knowledge had grown over the years, and I answered, "She's just dehydrated... That's all..." I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared at the ground as I was not absolutely sure what was wrong.

~He looked at me and his eyes were wide and the circles under them were dark and apparent. "You don't know..."

~How could I lie to him anyway? "You're right," I reached out to his hand but he pulled away. "I don't know, BB."

~He mimicked my seated position, his eyes never leaving the pale girl. She occasionally would twitch and groan and BB flew to her side every time. He was such a good person and I was trying to rid the world of the two and their friends... my former friends. I had to face the facts. I was a killer. I was no longer their friend. I was their enemy and their demise.

~Suddenly, I was yanked from my thought process by the groans and murmurings of Raven. Beast Boy was immediately at her side staring at her with an intense gaze.

~"Rae..." he whispered almost to where I couldn't hear.

~"Gar..." she coughed violently and her eyelids fluttered open and closed. "Gar..."

~"Raven, I'm here... I'm here..." he sounded desperate and broken.

~Her eyes snapped open and she snatched up breathless. BB fell back with a sigh of relief, but his concern returned when Raven's giant eyes remained open wide and appeared to see things that weren't in front of her.

~"Garfield, you have to go back to the Tower... Now..." She groaned deeply and coughed.

~"Rae, are you ok?" he rose up again and knelt by her side, looking her in the face.

~"It doesn't matter..." She looked up at him fiercely, which provoked my anger. "Go to the Tower. Now."

~"I'm not leaving until I know you're gonna be fine..." he replied indignantly.

~"I had heat stroke, ok? I'm fine now... just a little weak..."

~I cleared my throat in an effort to break momentum of the argument. I began to feel like a massive agrument was about to go on around here, interrupting the peace of my cave.

~"You..." she gasped.

Back at the Tower: Bumblebee's perspective

~The three sauntered in as if they owned my fellow Titans' Tower.

~The scrawny kid Gizmo laughed manically. "Nice place, butt-sniffers. I guess we'll have to take it again!."

~I had heard about the infamous run in with the HIVE when the Titans were still new; without Richard, they had kicked my friends out of their own home and had taken Sparky's right arm (well at least the scrawny kid had detached his arm.) When Richard reappeared, the Titans kicked them out, but we were now three men short instead of one. We knew that Raven and Beast Boy were somewhere in the Canyons, and inevitably, Starfire had gone to find them as she had stated she had 'the bad feeling' about them. Now, we were faced with a tech freak, a bad ass pseudo-sorcerer, and a pseudo-Beast. Oh, joy.

~I pulled my lasers out to inflict well deserved wounds, but was stopped by Victor's hand.

~"Is there a way to discuss this?" asked a diplomatic Robin.

~Brandt laughed heartily, lifted his hand, and a ruby shot of electricity flew out and connected with Richard's chest sending him flying across the room and cracking a window. Vic was in action immediately sending cannon blasts out to the annoying child towering above us, and I joined in attacking the scar-faced Emma with my lasers.

~Vic got a few well paced hits and went physical shortly after Gizmo attempted to dissect him... again... Richard tried continually to defeat Brandt with his martial arts but was stopped every time by a blast of energy; soon, however, Rich did something I'd never seen before... He pulled out a 9-millimeter pistol and fired shot after shot at his evading enemy. Richard too clipped Brandt several times, and our enemy seemed to weaken but persisted still. Emma lunged at me while I was momentarily distracted by gunshots, but I was able to shrink myself to an insect size and attack from there. Sadly, my lasers were no longer fatal but continued to inflict pain on the ugly animal. She swiped and howled as I attacked her legs and her face.

~Emma let out another ear piercing howl and began to retreat faster than I could fly... which was fast. I returned to my normal size and she lunged again; this time, she pinned me to the ground with her rough claws and beat my face with one of her paws until my conciousness began to fade.

~"KAREN!" I heard Vic scream over all the commotion. I feared what I figured to be my end. I thought I was going to die just like the rest of us. The remaining HIVE members weren't playing anymore. We were going to die.

Back at the Canyons: Raven's perspective.

~"You..." my head nearly exploded from the rush of blood and norepinephrine to my brain. I looked back at Gar. "What HAPPENED?"

~He spoke calmly. "Terra saved you from falling down a rivene..."

~"It was actually just a trench... A BIG trench... Rivenes have water..." Terra bothered to interject condescendingly, which drove me to leap up and stare up at her. She glanced down at me and looked out at the night sky beyond her cave.

~"Don't talk to him like that," I growled and my vision swam from standing so abruptly.

~"Talk to him like what?" Terra lashed back. "Like a human?"

~My vision blurred black then red. I realized what was happening when the glowed red, and I covered my face ashamed.

~Terra snorted at my response. "See... You can't even control your powers, and I can now."

~I felt a shrinking presence and fear eminating from Gar and struggled to reign in my emotions but failed. "BECAUSE YOU'RE WORKING WITH SLADE AGAIN!"

~Terra reeled and gasped with a horrified look on her face. "How... How did-? How could-? Who said such a thing?" She bounded back from the proverbial hole she was digging.

~I smirked up at her tanned face and blue eyes. "Visions... Remember? I'm a witch in your eyes, remember?"

~There was a moment of tense, dark silence until I glanced at Gar whose face was pale. I walked over and rested my head in the crook of his shoudler. "I'm sorry you had to hear all that..."

~He stroked my hair, eyes still on the traitor. "I'd rather kn-"

~He was cut off by a battle cry and vivid green bolts of energy breaking the dark of the night.

~A familiar voice cried out, "You will not harm my friends, traitor!"

~"Starfire!"

Sorry about the wait for the chapter, and it's still short! Aaaahhhh! I hit a writer's block so... (:

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