The Choice on Their Last Day
Who guessed that Rae and BB would die? If not, I'm kinda surprised; it's pretty obvious, after all. Anyways, now that Raven has started to love (at least according to my story… which is all that matters if you're reading it right now), this happens… Do you have any idea how much that'd suck? Especially for BB… Oh yeah, in case you were wondering, this story happens just before the episode Terra… in case you don't know, that's the one where Terra gets introduced (and there's no sarcasm behind any of this).
Sorry if I seem like a bit of a dumb ss, but I'm not really. All of that is meant honestly and without intending to insult anyone…
Anyways, sorry about rambling… I'll let you get on with the story now.
Finally its over, Robin thought, then grimaced, what am I thinking? Two of my friends are dead…
The dust settled around the quartet who gazed in despair at the temple. Oddly the least emotional of the group was Tovar, the enormous mute.
Robin was the first to speak, saying, "We need to leave. We'll do a quick ceremony, and then we'll leave."
The others gazed at him, and then nodded. Tears were streaming down Starfire's face. The red dust floating gently in the air mixed with the tears, making a thick mud; it looked like she was weeping blood…
Robin spoke of both Titans, talking about their achievements and about the friendships that they had shared with the rest of the group. Starfire almost had to leave, but stayed. Tovar walked over and put his arm around her shoulders.
Slade interrupted, "But why did the girl stay? She could've escaped."
"She was… changing. I'm not sure how much, but she was learning to care about people in a way past plain friendship."
Slade sat in the dirt, comprehension dawning on his face. He looked at Tovar, who was still attempting to comfort the Tameranian girl, and said, "She wasn't the one who had to stay."
Starfire looked at him confused, as did Robin. Tovar actually gave a soft chuckle and nodded; it was the first noise he had made in their company.
"Do you remember how one person had to stay, and the other would choose to stay?" the man asked his enemies, "Raven was the one that had to stay."
"But she chose to stay, she went back to Beast Boy," Starfire said softly through the tears.
"No. She huddled closer to the boy in the cave because she knew that he would stay with her. She had read that she couldn't leave and that he would chose to stay. Couldn't you see it in her face?"
"BB couldn't have chosen. He was unconscious," Robin said.
"He chose when he started carrying Raven out. If he hadn't the rock wouldn't have hit him and he would've escaped. She didn't tell him or try to make him leave her because she knew that he never would," Slade finished sadly, "And if she had tried, all of us would've stayed back and been killed."
Tovar nodded again, and Starfire buried her face into his side, crying loudly at the loss of her friends. Fighting tears, Robin approached a large chunk of the temple and began scratching at it with one of his boomerangs. The others looked at the stone for a moment, and then followed.
As the light faded, the sun was reflected in the scratches, which simply read, "We will never forget you."
The sun set on the final day of the two friends, Raven and Beast Boy…