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Raven sighed in contentment as she read her newest book. The other Titans were all gone so she had the whole Tower to herself. Or so she thought. Sneaking up behind the empath was one green changeling. He reached out a hand and touched her shoulder.
"BOO!" Raven's eyes then turned red and she turned to face her annoying teammate.
"Beast Boy, why is it, no matter how many times I yell at you or throw you out the window, you can't seem to understand that I don't want to be around you?"
"Well Rae I'm just trying to- Raven silenced him with a piece of black energy.
"No, in fact I don't care anymore. I'm only going to do this once and I hope this will make you leave me alone." Her cloak then opened but all the changeling could see was darkness devoid of any light. The cloak then covered him and he started screaming.
Beast Boy was falling in a world of night. He heard voices speak to him out from that dark pit, leering, howling cries of pain and suffering the likes of which he had never heard.
"It's your fault your parents died, because you were weak and you'll always be weak. You couldn't even save Terra. The world would be so much better with you not in it. You're not that strong, you're not even all that talented. You're a coward!" The voice said but it wasn't in a demonic tone, rather this voice was Raven's. Suddenly Beast Boy felt himself being pulled back to the normal world.
Cyborg was the first person he saw and his best friends face lit up into a smile when he saw him.
"BB are you okay?" The changeling was pale and his body was shivering.
"So…dark…don't…leave...me, please. Mom, Dad, Terra…forgive…" Then he passed out and Cyborg picked him up and took him to the medical wing as fast as he could.
In Nevermore all of Raven's emotions were yelling at her for hurting Beast Boy.
"You bitch, why did you do that to him?!" Rude yelled.
"You shouldn't have done that Raven." Timid said as loud as she could.
"Your hastiness could ruin Beast Boy's life forever!" Knowledge screamed.
"That was cowardly!" Brave retorted.
"Why Rae Rae?" Happy asked, her head drooping. Finally a new emotion appeared, one that Raven had never seen before. It was dressed in a vermillion robe like Rage but the eyes that bore into Raven's harbored no hate, just a sorrow so profound it hurt just to look at it.
"Love is gentle, Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not easily angered. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. You, who haven't understood this, are afflicted. You hurt the most important person and for what? If he dies, I will die and then you will be alone your entire life. Your friends will abandon you, you will wander, alone and tormented, until the end of your days." Raven then came back to her room.
The door to Raven's room was then ripped from its hinges and Cyborg entered, his robotic eye glowing in the gloom.
"RAVEN!" He yelled. He approached his teammate and grabbed her roughly by the collar of her shirt and lifted her up until they were face to face. "Do you have any idea what you've done to him?!"
"I'm sorry…" The empath said, tears filling her eyes. Cyborg lowered her to the ground and pointed to the hallway.
"I'm not the one you should apologize to. You are going to stay by his side until he wakes up. What you do after that is up to you." Cyborg then left, hands still clenched in a fist and anger billowing like waves from his form.
Beast Boy was still shivering when Raven came to the medical room. The empath sat beside him and reached out hand towards his forehead. The changeling jerked back from the touch and tucked into a ball. Words flew from his lips.
"Darkness…failure…forgive…Mother…" Raven closed her eyes and her body glowed with a white light. When it dissipated, the empath was gone and the changeling was still shivering.
Raven found herself standing on the shoreline of a raging river. A boat was sinking and a small child with green skin was crying. The two adults on the boat tried to get him to safety but the boy would not leave them. The mother kissed her child on the forehead and hugged him close.
"Gar listen to me. You have to leave us honey. You're still only a child and haven't gotten to choose your own way of life like we have. So until you can live life the way you want to you have to stay alive!" She then pushed the boy out of the boat and a small green bird flew towards the shore, turning back to normal when it reached land.
"Mommy, Daddy!" The boat had sunk under the raging waters and soon disappeared. A pair of bodies then floated to the top of the river before being dragged down again.
"Quite a scene, isn't it Rae?" The empath turned towards the voice and saw a young man her age with blonde hair and brown eyes. His skin was so pale he looked as if he had been carved from the moon.
"Beast Boy?"
"How do I look?" The changeling spread his arms wide and turned a full circle. "This is what I would look like if I hadn't been infected by that green monkey." Raven threw her arms around Beast Boy and buried her face in his chest.
"I'm so sorry…" Then she started crying and the changeling let her, not offering any condolences. Breaking apart, Raven glanced at Beast Boy's face. His face was smiling but not his eyes.
"I'm going to show you a bit more of my past before I met the Titans." Raven then found herself standing in a dirty back alley, cardboard boxes all around. A boy of about 13 was dragged from one of these boxes by a group of similar aged boys.
"What the hell are you some kind of monster?" The boys then started beating the child. The green skinned boy didn't cry out until he felt one of his ribs break.
"Please…no more…it hurts…" The boys then left their victim lying in a puddle of his own blood. It wasn't until night had fallen that the boy picked himself up and limped over to his home, the box he had just been dragged out of. This scene faded and Raven found herself standing at Beast Boy's rock right outside the tower. The changeling was back to his normal green skinned form.
"I know what the dark side of life is like too Rae. I just choose to laugh and forget instead of brooding unnecessarily. I try and get you to do the same. That's why I bug you so much. Because I don't like to see the person I care about most in this world depressed all the time. So once again I'll say to you that although you think you're alone, you're really not."
"I'm the most important person to you?" Raven asked her voice soft. Beast Boy grinned at her.
"Yes." White light engulfed the two Titan's and when they opened their eyes they were back in the medical room with one marked difference: Beast Boy was wide awake. His shivering had passed and he looked as happy as he always did. Raven reached out a hand and stroked his cheek but Beast Boy wasn't content with that gesture. Leaning in towards her face, the changeling pressed his lips to her in a chaste kiss. Breaking apart from Beast Boy, Raven had her gaze on the bed sheets, eyes refusing to meet his.
"You don't deserve a monster like me." The empath said in her monotone.
"I forgive you Rae."
"Still I can't…" Beast Boy silenced her with a finger to her lips.
"No more talking. Come here…" Wrapping his arms around Raven's waist, he pulled her down beside him and held her close. "I love you Rae and when you love someone, you forgive them unconditionally. Can you forgive me for being a pest all the time?"
"Yes…Gar I…love you as well."
"I knew you couldn't resist my charms." Beast Boy said that silly grin on his face. Raven's violet orbs met his emerald eyes and she glared at him.
"We're having a moment here." She then kissed him on the lips and ran her fingers through his hair. Once they broke apart it was Raven who was smiling, and it wasn't her normal wry grin, this was the smile that Beast Boy had been questing for since he had met her. "Don't ruin it."