DarkEyedDemon: Well, I just saw the episode Spellbound and I have to say it gave back some hope to all who support the whole Beast Boy and Raven pairing, of which I am part of. I think the two belong together.
BB&Rae: We do not! We couldn't be any farther apart!
DED: You know, opposites attract...
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, someone else does.
The next morning Raven awoke and went to breakfast as normal. The entire day was the same as any other and Raven was beginning to grow suspicious as none of her previous days had been so calm. It was about lunch time when the alarm went off.
"Titans, go!" Robin shouted characteristically. The team flew, carried by either Raven Starfire or Beast Boy, downtown. When they got there a strange new criminal was apparently robbing a bank. He seemed a sort of mix between a man and a lizard. He turned to the titans and revealed a long forked tongue. His long, narrow tail slashed dangerously as he approached his new prey. Beast Boy changed into a bull and rushed the reptile who caught the green bovine by the horns and lifted him into the air, throwing him back where he had come from. Before he could smash into the bank's wall he was enveloped in a black aura that let him back to the ground.
"Thanks, Rae." By now Robin and Starfire were keeping the lizard-man busy with a flurry of attacks, but the mutant showed no signs of fatigue. Cyborg opened fire with his plasma cannon and was rewarded with a direct hit. The lizard-man went flying into the counter but quickly got back to his feet, hissing.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zynthos!" Two black trash cans were sent hurtling towards the creature and he seemed to let them hit him. The lizard stood and stared directly at Raven before speaking in a raspy voice.
"Raven, I presume?" All of the Titan's were in shock that the thing could speak, let alone know Raven's name. She nodded numbly and it continued. "Yes, I have brought word from Azarath for you. I was told I could find you here. You see, your mother has passed away." It looked like Raven had been hit in the chest with a bullet. She let herself float slowly to the ground and then fell to her knees. The lizard-man seemed hardly affected by the news himself. "Yes, now if you'll excuse me, I must return to Azarath." Robin, having snapped out of his state of shock, leapt at the fleeing demon only to land in thin air as the mutant disappeared into a dark portal. Raven was now just staring at the ground, her eyes wide. Beast Boy was the first to kneel down next to her.
"Raven, I'm sorry..." She didn't even acknowledge his presence; she just floated out of the bank and back towards the tower. The other titan's exchanged worried glances before following her out. Raven ran straight to her room and threw herself onto her bed, burying her face in her pillow and crying her eyes out. Besides her friends, her mother was the only kind person she knew; growing up with Trigon as a father kind of ensures that.
Not too long after, the Titan's arrived. Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg all knew that Raven wanted to be alone right now and Beast Boy tried to respect that as well, but the fact that Raven was so depressed was eating him up inside. Before he could stop himself he was walking down the hallway and stopping in front of the dark mystic's room. He lifted his hand and knocked on the gray door but received only silence.
"Raven, Raven it's me, BB. Please, will you just talk to me?" There was still no answer and he nodded. "Alright, well, when you're ready you can come and talk to me, I'm always willing to listen." With that he turned and left back to the common room to join the rest of his friends.
Raven was still laying face-down on her bed but had listened to all that Beast Boy had said. Though tears still flooded her eyes, she took some comfort in his words. That was what she needed in this time of tragedy, his unbreakable confidence, his warm smile.
DED: I know I know, short, but mainly because this was just a set-up for the next chapter. Anyway, so now, at the end of this chapter, it has been one day since my viewing of Spellbound. And now that I've replayed that ending where BB comforts Raven and she hugs him in my mind, I'm beginning to wonder if it was real. Please reassure me that I'm not crazy!!! Anyway, there are probably a lot of people going on about Raven's mother, and Azarath, and 'snake man' and blah blah blah. I'm just using all of this for my story, it doesn't mean that it is what things are really like in the show or comic or whatever.