KURAMA: Goodbye.
Where the hell do you think you're going?
KURAMA: Home. I'll send someone back after me, so you won't get lonely.
No thanks. I've got people from other shows on the way here. Beast Boy is dropping by later. Get packing, Kurama.
KURAMA: Fine. Give me my boxers.
[Disclaimer: I told you it's a good thing I don't own the characters! Read on.]
Nobody had expected it. Nobody had wanted it. But it happened nonetheless.
None of them were able to speak for a while after it happened. Except Raven...she flew into a rage and nearly destroyed half the town. What happened to make her do this, you ask? I shall tell you.
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Raven and Beast Boy arrived on the scene of Cinderblock's destruction not five minutes after Robin had called for help. The rain was still pouring down in torrents, and they were having a hard time apprehending the giant stone man.
But when they did...it wasn't a good victory.
Cinderblock's heavy granite body fell to the street, bringing a certain green changeling down with him. It seemed to go in slow motion. Cinderblock falling...Beast Boy yelling...Raven's heart skipped a beat. Was this really happening?
When they were able to move again, the four remaining Titans stepped forward and tried to move Cinderblock. When they finally got the dead stone goliath rolled out of the way, they knew it was too late.
One final shuddering breath, and then...nothing. The rain kept falling, the wind kept blowing, but Beast Boy stopped breathing. Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg looked warily over at Raven, whose face was slipping from a look of astonishment to one of supreme anger and hurt.
With no effort actually from her consciousness, Raven's eyes began to glow white and random objects around her glowed black. A bus rose into the air and crashed into a building. Parking meters, mailboxes, cars, dumpsters, rocks, pieces of Cinderblock, and other debris flew through the air, smashing into buildings and causing a general amount of damage.
Raven could feel a scream welling up in her chest, and she tried to keep it back to no avail. The sound was pain-filled, loud, and heart-wrenching. It came from her heart, and it sounded to all who heard it as though her very soul was being ripped from her body.
She sank to her knees as she continued to scream a scream so powerful that it held her pain, her sorrow, her feelings. Without warning, she jumped up into the air and floated there, still screaming her heart out.
As the sound faded away in the still-roaring wind, and the objects that were glowing black smashed to their final places of destruction, Raven dropped down to the pavement with a soft thump and began to cry uncontrollably. Sobs wracked her frame as she fell to her knees helplessly.
Starfire stepped forward and put her hand on Raven's shoulder. She shrank away from it violently and said in a hoarse voice, "Get away from me!" The Tamaranian backed off. Robin tried his luck next, and got the same response.
"I think we'd better just leave her alone," he said, leading the other two away from Raven. The rain continued to fall. Raven continued to cry. The world kept spinning, though she wished it wouldn't.
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When Raven finally pulled herself together and decided to go back to the tower, she kept stumbling like a drunk. She could no longer distinguish between tears and rain. She fell once or twice, scraping up her hands and knees. But she didn't care.
She collapsed on the couch when she reached Titans Tower. Nobody else was in the room, so she began talking to nobody.
"Why couldn't it have been me? Why?" A tear fell from her eye to the couch. She looked at it and continued to talk. "I love you, Beast Boy. I wish it had been me. You didn't deserve it. I did."
"Why?" Raven sat up. Cyborg was behind her. He repeated. "Why do you deserve it?" He sat down next to her. Raven wiped away her tears to the best of her ability.
"Because. He was a good person. He was...I loved him. He didn't deserve to die. I do. I'm not a good person. I'm just a burden to everyone. I'm a failure. I'm the devil's child for Christ's sake..." she sniffed.
"You're not a failure. You're not. You aren't a burden to anybody. You're our friend. We're all sad to see him go, but—"
"But I loved him. And he loved me. He was the only person EVER who told me they loved me. It felt so good. And now there's nobody left in the world who gives a shit about me." Again, things in the room glowed black and started to levitate into the air, flying around like debris in a tornado.
"But we care about you. You're our friend. We'd be lost without you."
"Well I think we're all lost without Beast Boy." She stood up and walked towards the doorway.
"Where are you going?"
"To the café. Everything's shot to hell around here."
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Raven walked the mostly empty streets of Jump City up and down for about thirty minutes until she found an open café. Her regular one was closed. As she stepped through the door of Harry's, she was almost glad—relieved, really; glad was a bit much—to see that there was almost nobody there. The bartender was there, of course, and a man in the corner was nearly asleep over his coffee, but other than that, there was no one.
"Welcome. What can I get you?" Raven was silent and just sat down at the bar. Looking out at him from under her hood, she was still noiseless. The bartender shrugged and went back to cleaning the bar. A few minutes passed and he began to wipe shot glasses.
"We heard the noise a while back. Was that you and the rest of the Titans?" he asked quietly. Raven raised her head.
"No. That was just me." The bartender placed a mug in front of her.
"Peppermint tea. It'll make you feel better."
"Nothing will make me feel better."
[A/N: ::ducks trash thrown by readers:: DON'T HURT ME!!! I know I'm mean...but it's all for the good of the story, ne? Please don't flame me...
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Shegoshena: Thank you lots! Kurama is a character from a show called Yu Yu Hakusho that I borrow from time to time just to put funny stuff in my author's notes.
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Identity99 (10): You...you know nothing of Jack Off Jill?!? You live under a rock, yes? Oh well. Kurama's FAMOUS. Why wouldn't anyone want his animated boxers? And yet...you do have a point.
Identity99 (11): Anorexia definitely. I have a lightbulb now. Never mention this again. I'm out of twenties. Settle for an update? Deal. Too bad about your dad. And you know, there's something I've been wondering about Robin: Which one is he? There were three. One died, one became Nightwing (as we have seen this Robin do), and I'm not sure what the other one did, but he wore this Robin costume. They were all different. I am curious. That's going to keep me up all night, I know it....
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Where the hell do you think you're going?
KURAMA: Home. I'll send someone back after me, so you won't get lonely.
No thanks. I've got people from other shows on the way here. Beast Boy is dropping by later. Get packing, Kurama.
KURAMA: Fine. Give me my boxers.
[Disclaimer: I told you it's a good thing I don't own the characters! Read on.]
Nobody had expected it. Nobody had wanted it. But it happened nonetheless.
None of them were able to speak for a while after it happened. Except Raven...she flew into a rage and nearly destroyed half the town. What happened to make her do this, you ask? I shall tell you.
.
.
.
Raven and Beast Boy arrived on the scene of Cinderblock's destruction not five minutes after Robin had called for help. The rain was still pouring down in torrents, and they were having a hard time apprehending the giant stone man.
But when they did...it wasn't a good victory.
Cinderblock's heavy granite body fell to the street, bringing a certain green changeling down with him. It seemed to go in slow motion. Cinderblock falling...Beast Boy yelling...Raven's heart skipped a beat. Was this really happening?
When they were able to move again, the four remaining Titans stepped forward and tried to move Cinderblock. When they finally got the dead stone goliath rolled out of the way, they knew it was too late.
One final shuddering breath, and then...nothing. The rain kept falling, the wind kept blowing, but Beast Boy stopped breathing. Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg looked warily over at Raven, whose face was slipping from a look of astonishment to one of supreme anger and hurt.
With no effort actually from her consciousness, Raven's eyes began to glow white and random objects around her glowed black. A bus rose into the air and crashed into a building. Parking meters, mailboxes, cars, dumpsters, rocks, pieces of Cinderblock, and other debris flew through the air, smashing into buildings and causing a general amount of damage.
Raven could feel a scream welling up in her chest, and she tried to keep it back to no avail. The sound was pain-filled, loud, and heart-wrenching. It came from her heart, and it sounded to all who heard it as though her very soul was being ripped from her body.
She sank to her knees as she continued to scream a scream so powerful that it held her pain, her sorrow, her feelings. Without warning, she jumped up into the air and floated there, still screaming her heart out.
As the sound faded away in the still-roaring wind, and the objects that were glowing black smashed to their final places of destruction, Raven dropped down to the pavement with a soft thump and began to cry uncontrollably. Sobs wracked her frame as she fell to her knees helplessly.
Starfire stepped forward and put her hand on Raven's shoulder. She shrank away from it violently and said in a hoarse voice, "Get away from me!" The Tamaranian backed off. Robin tried his luck next, and got the same response.
"I think we'd better just leave her alone," he said, leading the other two away from Raven. The rain continued to fall. Raven continued to cry. The world kept spinning, though she wished it wouldn't.
.
.
.
When Raven finally pulled herself together and decided to go back to the tower, she kept stumbling like a drunk. She could no longer distinguish between tears and rain. She fell once or twice, scraping up her hands and knees. But she didn't care.
She collapsed on the couch when she reached Titans Tower. Nobody else was in the room, so she began talking to nobody.
"Why couldn't it have been me? Why?" A tear fell from her eye to the couch. She looked at it and continued to talk. "I love you, Beast Boy. I wish it had been me. You didn't deserve it. I did."
"Why?" Raven sat up. Cyborg was behind her. He repeated. "Why do you deserve it?" He sat down next to her. Raven wiped away her tears to the best of her ability.
"Because. He was a good person. He was...I loved him. He didn't deserve to die. I do. I'm not a good person. I'm just a burden to everyone. I'm a failure. I'm the devil's child for Christ's sake..." she sniffed.
"You're not a failure. You're not. You aren't a burden to anybody. You're our friend. We're all sad to see him go, but—"
"But I loved him. And he loved me. He was the only person EVER who told me they loved me. It felt so good. And now there's nobody left in the world who gives a shit about me." Again, things in the room glowed black and started to levitate into the air, flying around like debris in a tornado.
"But we care about you. You're our friend. We'd be lost without you."
"Well I think we're all lost without Beast Boy." She stood up and walked towards the doorway.
"Where are you going?"
"To the café. Everything's shot to hell around here."
.
.
.
Raven walked the mostly empty streets of Jump City up and down for about thirty minutes until she found an open café. Her regular one was closed. As she stepped through the door of Harry's, she was almost glad—relieved, really; glad was a bit much—to see that there was almost nobody there. The bartender was there, of course, and a man in the corner was nearly asleep over his coffee, but other than that, there was no one.
"Welcome. What can I get you?" Raven was silent and just sat down at the bar. Looking out at him from under her hood, she was still noiseless. The bartender shrugged and went back to cleaning the bar. A few minutes passed and he began to wipe shot glasses.
"We heard the noise a while back. Was that you and the rest of the Titans?" he asked quietly. Raven raised her head.
"No. That was just me." The bartender placed a mug in front of her.
"Peppermint tea. It'll make you feel better."
"Nothing will make me feel better."
[A/N: ::ducks trash thrown by readers:: DON'T HURT ME!!! I know I'm mean...but it's all for the good of the story, ne? Please don't flame me...
KURAMA: You'll be lucky.
Inwe Lothelen: Thanks and good luck!
TsukasaSIGN: Thanks. She was going to, and then I came up with this idea instead...I am twisted.
Zerin Emperess (7): Thanks.
EndlessDeviltry: That's okay. Thanks!
new identity: Thanks.
Zerin Emperess (11): Thanks.
dana1313: Sorry. Was this better?
The Mad shoe: Thanks.
killallfags (6): ::Chuckie smile:: You better be hella glad you signed this anonymously, or I WOULD e-mail you and chew you out so that I don't have to waste time for my other readers, but here goes, and pardon my French: WHO GIVES A FUCK THAT YOU HATE ME OR THE DAMN THEME SONG? NOBODY, THAT'S WHO. AS FOR WHAT ELSE YOU SAID, I WON'T WASTE MY TIME. You're not worth it.
Shegoshena: Thank you lots! Kurama is a character from a show called Yu Yu Hakusho that I borrow from time to time just to put funny stuff in my author's notes.
purplemusicgoddess: Thank you!
jgh: Thank you! I will.
Raven-Vegeta: Thank you.
Rusty Marshmellows: I'm not sure, but I have heard rumors that her real name is Metrion. I'm going to fire those clowns.
raven 44: Cool.
killallfags: YOU. ARE. SICK. AND. TWISTED. AND. I. WANT. YOU. TO. STAY. THE. FUCK. OFF. MY. REVIEW. LIST. Can you read, or are you just stupid? Nevermind. I know the answer to that. You're more stupid than anyone could ever hope to be. Congratulations, you win a scholarship to Stupid College.
steph4nie ff: Thank you.
Evanescence Lover (8): I'm so sorry!!!! I done killed him off now!!! ::cries::
Evanescence Lover (9): LIGHTBULB!!!! I thank you immensely. ::slips EL a $20 bill:: Never mention this again.
xgirl66: What do you mean?
leahgrave: I was going to have her with an eating disorder, and then this comes along...LIGHTBULB!!!!!! ::slips lg a $20 bill:: Never mention this again.
TRoi7887: Thank you lots! I recommend Paulie and now that I think about it, The Ring did have its sucky moments, but it was a good story.
Identity99 (10): You...you know nothing of Jack Off Jill?!? You live under a rock, yes? Oh well. Kurama's FAMOUS. Why wouldn't anyone want his animated boxers? And yet...you do have a point.
Identity99 (11): Anorexia definitely. I have a lightbulb now. Never mention this again. I'm out of twenties. Settle for an update? Deal. Too bad about your dad. And you know, there's something I've been wondering about Robin: Which one is he? There were three. One died, one became Nightwing (as we have seen this Robin do), and I'm not sure what the other one did, but he wore this Robin costume. They were all different. I am curious. That's going to keep me up all night, I know it....
raven1332: Thanks!