Leaving
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Element opened his eyes to gaze at the sleeping Raven right next to him. A warm smile spread across his face as he slightly tightened his arms around the person that he loved. Raven turned her body around to gaze into her love's eyes, the movement must have woken her up. Element's smile grew broader as he saw Raven's warm, loving eyes. He whispered to her. "Hi."
A warm smile spread across Raven's face. "Hi."
Element ran a hand across Raven's back and up her head, stroking her hair. "Good morning." He gently pulled Raven's head a little bit closer in for a kiss. Their lips met, small fireworks were going off in Element's head. They shared the kiss for about a minute and broke for air, their heads headed in to go at it again.
"Maybe you guys can explain all this to us also."
The pair jerked in surprise as they saw Cyborg hovering over them. "Cyborg!" Element shouted in a mix of surprise and relief that he was better, then a little jokingly he added, "Why do always have to interrupt us when we're busy?" He and Raven got off of the couch, Element started to stretch.
Cyborg looked at both of them suspiciously. "Yeah, busy is right." He headed to the kitchen table where all the other Titans were watching Element and Raven.
Raven started to blush and pulled her hood up to hide her face, while Element walked to the kitchen ignoring their stares. He poured two cups of tea and headed over to where Raven was standing. He handed her one of the cups, as she took it, he bended his head down to kiss her again, although this time it was only for a few seconds before they separated. They walked over to the kitchen table and sat down next to each other. Element put his hand on Raven's, giving her a soft yet firm grip, feeling more relaxed she pulled her hood down and started taking sips from her tea.
Robin looked at both of them with a smile tugging at his face. "So, you two going to tell us what happened at the base yesterday?"
"Yeah, guess you'll need to know everything that happened." He glanced over at Raven. "But I think that Raven's going to have to tell you the first part of it, that part with Slade was kind of a blur to me, and I'm not completely proud of what happened. Do you mind, Raven?"
Raven shook her head and started. The story went on for quit a while as they told of the encounter with Slade. Once in a while they would gasp at what happened. When they got to the part of when Raven got hit and Element's worry, Robin took Starfire's hand in his, both of them smiled, remembering when they got together. After that Element told everything, going on until the point of when he ran out with Raven in his arms. "So I ran, found Robin and Cyborg, and you guys know the rest."
Beast Boy sat back in his chair, hands behind his head. "So Slade's finally defeated, no more, awesome, dude."
Element's face slightly dropped at hearing this. "No, he's still alive."
Beast Boy got a look of confusion on his face. "But, dude, how do you know?"
"He always survives, he probably had a way out of there, otherwise he wouldn't have even pulled the trigger. That man can escape anything like that, no matter how injured he is."
Robin leaned forward expectantly. "So I guess that you'll still be staying with us, then?"
Element's face fell. "Actually, no, my issues with Slade are over, he hasn't gotten a beating like that in his life, I've gotten my revenge on him. If we ever cross paths from now on I'm putting him in jail, but right now I'm not going to search for him unless he does something to me."
Raven bowed her head over her tea, pained at the thought of him going away. We just got together and he's going to LEAVE, I should have known he would have done something like this.
Robin continued with the conversation, not noticing Raven. "So when are you going to leave?"
Element squeezed Raven's hand a little bit more to reassure her. "I was thinking of staying her for another week, I want to get in some last moments here." Raven felt better at hearing those words, at least they could spend a good amount of time together, memorable time, before he left. The Titans got up from the table and went about to do various things while Element and Raven walked up to the roof to do some meditating, hand in hand.
Throughout the week Raven and Element did everything together, creating the best and most memorable times of their lives. They meditated together, kissed, talked together, kissed, read together, kissed, drank tea together, kissed, and many more things. Every single night they would sleep on the couch together in each other's arms, all but the last.
Element and Raven were walking down from the roof after meditating during the sunset and, of course, kissing. They were walking hand in hand, Element was just about to turn to head towards the couch when Raven pulled him along behind her. "Where are we going?" He needn't have waited for the answer, as he was suddenly standing in front of Raven's room.
Raven walked forward, pulling Element behind her into her room. She sat on her bed, patting the place right next to her. Element sat down, awe on his face as he realized that he was in Raven's room. "You want me to sleep here with you tonight?"
Raven leaned forward and brushed her lips against his, he took his arm and gently brought her head towards his, their lips pressed against each other. Okay, that's a yes. Element and Raven continued the kiss, basking in each other's love. They both slowly laid down on the bed, still kissing, and carefully pulled the sheets over each other. After separating they both began to fall asleep, happiness and love spreading through both of their bodies as they remembered the other's body right next to them on the bed, Raven's bed.
It was sunset on the last day, when Element would leave. All of the Titans were on the roof of the tower, where Element first came. He was standing in front of them all, a small bag was hanging from his right hand. His back was to them as he watched the sunset, after a while he turned around to talk to the. "The time that I have spent here... has been great, especially the last week." Both he and Raven smiled at that, although Raven's head was down because of her sadness that her love was leaving. "I won't forget any of you, and I hope and know that someday we'll meet."
Robin stepped forward Element could continue and he handed him something. "Here, most of the gang got to talking last night, and we want to make you an honorary member of the Teen Titans." What Robin handed him was one of the circular communicators with the T on it. "Use it if you ever need our help, and we'll call if we need yours."
Happiness spread over his face. "Thank you, I am honored to be a Titan. Here, I made each of you something as a present with my powers." From the bag he was holding he lifted something, there was a small chinking sound. Out from the bag came five medallions on a necklace, each was made out of a different kind of precious stone, even the chain was linked stone. Each medallion had something carved on it in great detail. He started to hand out each to everyone. "To Robin." His was made out of black onyx stone, on the medallion was carved a bat. "Thought it might help you if you're starting to doubt yourself. This is for Cyborg." His was made out of sapphire, on the medallion was carved a heart, except that half of it was mechanical. "It's to remind you that you may be part machine, but you're also part human, and that's what's good." To Beast Boy he handed one made of emerald, in it's face was carved Beast Boy's face, and in each corner was a different animal. "Sorry, that's not really supposed to remind you of anything, just thought it might be cool." To Starfire he handed a necklace made of ruby, on it was carved the planet of Tamaran, Starfire squealed as she put it on. "It's not to the best liking of it, but I hope that it's okay, you can look at it whenever you start to miss your home." All the Titans looked at their medallions in awe as Element stepped over to the person he loved. "And to my lovely Raven." The necklace that he handed her made everyone's mouth drop. The whole thing was made of pure diamond, in it's face was carved a raven with it's wings spread, more detailed than any of the other necklaces combined. There were small rubies for eyes, and instead of a circle around the figure to hold it to the necklace, there was a dragon, carved with the same detail as the raven. "It represents you and me." He slipped it over her head and around her neck, stroking her hair as he did so.
"Thank you." Raven said this in a low voice, so that Element couldn't hear her choked up voice.
Element turned to the rest of the Titans, Robin first, he shook his hand and brought him in for a quick one armed hug. "I look forward to working with you again."
"Back at ya."
He turned to Cyborg, did the same thing. "Next time I come I'll try your new obstacle course."
"No way, man, I'm not letting you break that again." Even though it was a joke you could still hear the sadness in his voice.
Element turned to Beast Boy and patted him on the shoulder. "Work on your material, and maybe I'll let you practice a few jokes on me." He turned to Starfire, who threw herself on him and gave him a big hug, of course she forgot how strong her hugs were. "Starfire... please.. let go... I'd like to live." She let go of him, feeling sorry for crushing him. "It's no big deal, just remember not to use your strength when doing those." Finally he turned to Raven and took her hand, he turned his head towards the other Titans. "Do you guys mind, I want to spend some last moments with her." They obliged by backing up to almost the other end of the roof. "Raven, I'm going to miss you most of all," he said in a soft voice. "And I want you to know that..."
When Raven pulled her head up to look in his eyes she was crying. It was a silent crying, the tears made two lines down her face, Element was pained from seeing her like this, it was worse than the goodbye itself. Raven jumped forward, putting her arms around the back of his neck, her head was on his chest, Element could feel her tears running down his shirt. In a sad voice, she whispered to Element. "I don't want you to leave."
Of all the things that Element went through in his life, his mother's death, Raven getting shot, everything, that hurt him more than all of them. He wrapped his right arm around her back and grasped the back of her head, his left arm went to hold her back. For a while they just stood there, Raven grasping Element, Element holding Raven to him. Finally he bent her head slightly back and kissed her on the forehead, he drew the rest of her back, and with his thumb he gently wiped the tears from her face. He stepped back from her a step so there was room and held up his right hand so that Raven could see a ring on his finger. He slipped it off, put her hand in his, and gently slipped the ring into her hand. "Here, I want you to have this, my grandfather gave it to me, it's a family heirloom."
Even through her veil of sadness, you could see shock on Raven's face. "No, I can't take..."
"Please," he interrupted, "take it, I want you to think of it as a promise that I'll come bag, and a symbol of my love." Raven's head bowed down a little bit again. "Hey." Element said in a soft, caring voice. "Chin up." He brought his hand up slowly to bring her face up, he grasped her chin softly, looked into her eyes, and brought her into a deep kiss. It was the deepest, most passionate kiss they had ever shared, it went on for what seemed like forever. Finally they slowly separated, Element's hand was sliding along her chin as he flew backwards, gazing into her eyes as he flew away, finally leaving. Raven started to tear up again, except this time she kept it as just wet eyes, as she watched him leave.
While he was leaving, there was only one thought going through Element's mind. Raven, I love you more than I love or have loved anything else in the world, and I will come back to you one day, that's a promise.
Through the tears and sadness, a wide smile appeared on Raven's mouth, and in a whisper only she could hear, she spoke. "I heard that."
I have finally finished my story, sorry about the fact that there aren't that many chapters, but it's how the story is told, I say. In case you're wondering about the end, why I made her say that, you might remember that at the end of my first chapter she said the same thing after Element made a comment in his head, so I thought it might be a good ending. Right now there are a few people I would like to thank.
First, my cousin, I'm very grateful that you read my stories and reviewed to me, I'm going to use your idea in my third story.
Second, I'd like to thank Anters, hey, bro, thanks for sticking with me to the end, I promise that I'm going to start reading your stories right away.
Finally, I'd like to thank Socialbutterfli, you were a big inspiration to me, and without you I would have never joined, I can't wait till your next stories/chapters.
That's all the people, and just so you know, I already have two more stories lined up, the sequels to this, I call them Blood of an Element and Origin of Element. Sorry, I won't be writing for a while, I want to take a break and get ideas in my head first. See you guys in my next story, you all know the drill, read and review.