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Disclaimer: I don't own the song "Only Hope" by Mandy Moore on the A Walk To Remember soundtrack.
She didn't remember her dream. It all just faded out of her memory the second she woke up. Natalie rubbed her hair, pushing it out of her face, and walked towards the window. She peered outside to see only the night sky covered with a full moon and stars.
Natalie lowered her arm down and walked back towards her bed. Before she could climb in, she felt dizzy and collasped on the floor. The dream started again.
15 minutes passed and her eyes shot open, her blankets on the floor with her.
"Oh, god." She whimpered to herself. Then she thought for a second, she remembered. She remembered her dream.
She was walking through the halls in her dream, there was no light whatsoever. Only black and very little shades of gray covered the halls. No one was around, no one at all.
"Hello?" She called out in her dream. No answer, only silence. Where was everybody, she wondered.
"Raven?" Still no answer.
"Robin?" Still no answer.
"Cyborg?" Still no answer.
"Beast Boy?" Still no answer.
Only one last person to name. "Starfire?" Still no answer. No one was there at all. Natalie sighed in terror, and confusion, and ran into her bedroom to see herself kicking and screaming in her sleep, in her bed.
"Oh my god." She gasped in horror. "It's me." She screamed and then stopped and ran out in the hall again.
This time it was full of people, all of them lying on the floor. Dead. It was the Teen Titans, all five of them.
"Guys?" Natalie asked quietly. She screamed, breathing heavily.
That was her dream. All the Titans were dead, and she was left alone in the tower too terrified to do anything. All alone. Like always.
She wrapped a blanket around her, still on the floor. She had been so lost in her own thoughts she didn't see Starfire standing in the doorway of her bedroom.
"Natalie?" Starfire asked, concern in her voice. "Are you okay?"
Natalie stood up, placing her blanket in a ball on her bed. "I'm fine, Starfire." She lied. "Really, I am."
"Okay, I will leave you alone in your bedroom." Starfire replied, shutting the door behind her as she left.
Natalie made sure she was gone before falling onto her bed, lying there getting lost in her own thoughts again. The Titans couldn't have died, they just couldn't. Wait, it was only a dream. Not reality. She wondered.
Then it came to her. Her dream was the future, and it came to her so she can stop it.
If you were Natalie right now, you would seriously hate your life and what you know will happen in the future wil be like commiting suicide in the next five minutes. But she knew she wasn't going to kill herself, or anyone. Not yet anyway. It wouldn't be something she would do. She could never kill herself not only because it wouldn't be right, but because she wanted to know what would happen in her life. And to do that she couldn't end her life by commiting suicide. No, she couldn't. Never.
Natalie climbed up off of her bed, and went over to window. She sat on the ledge, peering out at the city. It seemed so quiet, so pleasant, so perfect. But it wasn't perfect. Nothing, and nobody, was perfect. The city has it's villans, and that is never and never will be perfect. She began to sing, she didn't know why though.
There's a song that's inside of my soul. It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again. I'm awake in the infinate cold, but you sing to me over and over and over again. So I lay my head back down. And I life my hands and pray, to be only yours. I pray, to be only yours. I know now you're my only hope.
She didn't have anyone to love, anyone to tell her secrets too. No one could help her, no one to do anything at all. She just wanted to know how the Titans die in her dream, her future.
Sing to me the song of the stars. Of your galaxy dancing and laughing, and laughing again. When it feels like my dreams are so far, sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again. So I lay my head back down. And I life my hands and pray, to be only yours. I pray, to be only yours. I know now you're my only hope.
One of the questions now is who her only hope was. She's never had a boyfriend, or anyone to really love. No one at all. Family, in this case, didn't count. She wanted someone to love, but she didn't have anyone. No one at all.
I give you my destiny. I'm giving you all of me. I want your symphony. Singing in all that I am, at the top of my lungs. I'm giving it back. So I lay my head back down, and I life my hands and pray to be only yours. I pray to be only yours. I pray to be only yours. I know now you're my only hope.
She got off of her window ledge, and closed the window shut, closing the curtains as well. She had to change this future, or dream, of hers. She could never let the Titans die, they had to live so that they could fight all the evil in the city and not let the city become a living hell.
Someone knocked on her door then. "Come in," Natalie replied.
Robin walked in. "We just wanted to know if you plan on coming out sometime or if you are going to stay in here."
"I'll be out soon. Don't worry about me, I'm fine." Natalie lied. But one part of it was true. She hated when people worried about her. It made her feel like she wasn't trusted, but she knew the Titans didn't trust her. Did she ever did them a reason to? No, and she didn't want them to so that they wouldn't get attached to her. She wasn't planning on staying with the Titans because she would just get in the way.
Robin waved goodbye and left her bedroom.
She decided to change her clothes and take a walk outside of the Tower, see what's out there and what there is to see.
Author's Note: I hope you guys liked that chapter. Please review. And sorry to say this, but I'm not putting anyone in my stories now. It would be hard adding people to it right now. Ok, that's it. Please review!
