I have updated! Wow...
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans, but I do own the poem, Butterfly Wings, which I wrote like 3 months ago and just seemed to fit.
Enjoy!
Fall (Chapter 7)
Raven's POV
What am I feeling? Happiness? Not quite. Sadness? Definitely not. Relief? Yes. I am relieved. About everything I suppose. I can actually sleep. I don't have nightmares. Everything seems to be getting better slowly, ever since I did what that teenage girl said might work. I don't even know her name. I can't even remember what she looked like. I remember the butterfly shirt. The girl with the butterfly shirt.
Can you hear them,
The butterfly wings?
Their song of sweet
innocence
And the harmony it
brings?
Ironically there is a butterfly here too. I am in a meadow that seems to burst life, and go on forever. We took a vacation. Hard to believe. I arranged to be gone two weeks, and we, the Titans, packed and traveled to the middle of nowhere over night. All I really know is we're at a place full of these meadows, gorgeous forests, gently rolling hills; all under an open blue sky.
Butterfly wings,
Are you more than
what you seem?
Are you more than a
pretty pattern?
More than just a
dream?
I watch the butterfly gently flutter from lilac flower to yellow flower, pausing slightly at each one. The butterfly doesn't know anything is wrong and just goes about its honest business. I don't know what type of butterfly it is, but it has black and bright yellow patterns, creating mazes and webs on its wings.
Butterfly wings,
Can you fly to the
sun?
Can you move on?
Fly past what you've
done?
Somewhere in the distance I see a red spot against the baby blue sky. A green dot chases the red dot playfully. The red spot is Starfire. Arriving at this happy place changed her. Maybe it has shown her that there is still joy in the world, not everything is hopeless. Beast Boy, I think, has started to move on. Past Terra, past Slade, and past our fall.
Butterfly wings,
Can you see through
the dark?
Are you the very
last,
Of hope's little
spark?
Robin (an earthbound red dot) and Cyborg (a rather big blue dot) are playing football I think. I can see the little brown dot flying through the sky, and the green spot hitting it, then the blue spot yelling and waving his arms. Cyborg is learning how to relax again. It's so strange. We have to learn how to have fun again. I have a feeling that the Tower will still have cameras for a while, but we won't have to be watching them every second. What a relief.
Butterfly wings,
Can you lead us to
the light?
Can you give us
hope?
Take us away from
night?
My thoughts stray to the butterfly girl again. She had gray eyes. I suddenly remember that. Gray eyes that looked into my soul. I wondered how she became so wise, so young. Somehow I wish I could see the butterfly girl again. She is one of the few people I know that can tell the blunt truth. When I talked to her, she didn't try to reassure me that everything would be alright. I like that quality. She has strong opinions. I like that too.
Butterfly wings,
Weak, and yet strong
Fly to the right
flower
Never the wrong
Suddenly Starfire is beside me, giggling. "Friend Raven, I am very happy we have come here. I believe it has done us much good."
"I know. So do I." I reply.
"How did you think of it?" she asks me.
"Well, to tell you the truth, a gray-eyed butterfly girl suggested it to me. I've been looking for the hidden solution for so long, I guess I forgot how to see the obvious." I tell her. No use making up something. We've suffered enough lies. I don't want to lie anymore.
"It is a good idea." Starfire is silent for a moment. "I…I had thought that there was no way anything would change, and we would never go back to the way we used to be. I, I thought there was no hope left." Star hangs her head in shame. Like I said before, this has been the hardest on her, but she is recovering wonderfully.
"Star?"
"Yes, Raven?"
"Did I…did I do what was right for the team?" I ask quietly. It is a question that has been bothering me ever since I've taken over the Teen Titans. I needed to hear the truth.
Starfire is quiet again. "I believe, friend Raven, you did more than enough for the team. You did not have to lead us when Robin became unable to. You did not have to attend funerals, but you felt obliged to anyway. You could have sunk into a state of depression as the rest of us did, but instead you chose to lead us and help us in our time of need. You did a perfect job." Star gives me with one of her dazzling smiles before flying off to the red, blue, and green spots in the distance.
Butterfly wings,
Though tattered and
torn
Still move forward
Though weathered and
worn
Maybe Starfire is right. All I know is that I should stop looking at the past and start looking forward into our future. A new time has come for us. A time after our fall. Our new rise back to what we used to be. The butterfly has moved on. And we must too. Like a butterfly's wings unfolds after metamorphosis, our new adventure is unfolding too into a new day.
Butterfly wings,
Have come to say
good bye
Butterfly wings,
Fly on past the sky
A/N: This was going to be the last chapter, but I might do ONE more chapter as an epilouge sort of thing. Tell me what you think!
DKR
