Interlude:- Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

A/N:- This chapter is a little song-fic that doesn't really lend anything to the story that's why it's an interlude. The song lines are in italics except in the flashback when they're in normal text. Sorry, if you get confused… Oh, BTW. Don't own the song Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Greenday… blah, blah, blah… and know you don't get a prize for guessing the song from the chapter's title…

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I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known

Raven walked down alone down the street. Her cape billowed behind her. The public gazed in her direction, muttering comments.

Don't know where it goes

But it's home to me and I walk alone

"Mommy, is that a superhero?" muttered a little girl as she pulled at her mother's coat.

I walk this empty street

"Man, she is hot…" said the teenage boys to their friends.

On the boulevard of broken dreams

"Is that…? I thought she was dead!" said the older members of the crowd.

When the city sleeps

I'm the only one and I walk alone

Raven tried to ignore them, but there gasps of awe and stupid looks made it difficult. She kept to her path, as the crowd got out of her way.

I walk alone

I walk alone

Soon, the crowd grew more eager. They started to bustle forward and yell out questions.

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

"Why aren't you flying?"

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

"Show us some magic!"

Sometimes I wish that one of them will find me

"How did you survive?"

'Til then I walk alone

"How about a date?"

I walk alone

I walk alone

She ignored them all, moving steadily forward towards the forest on the island, leaving the crowd behind and walking past the pizza place…

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"Who wants the last slice of pizza?" yelled Cyborg.

"I do!" yelled Robin and Beast Boy in unison before staring at each other and growling ferociously.

I'm walking down the line

"Okay y'all. Looks like we'll have to settle this the old fashioned way…" said Cyborg.

"What is this old fashioned way?" asked Starfire sweetly.

That divides me somewhere in my mind

"Line up!" yelled Cyborg.

Beast Boy and Robin stood side staring each other down right on the edge of the rooftop that sat on.

On the borderline

"A spitting contest?" asked Raven. "You have to be kidding…"

"No way! A spitting contest is the ultimate test of manly power," said Beast Boy in his terrible attempt at a tough guy voice.

Of the edge and where I walk alone

Robin spat over the rooftop, before proclaiming "Hah! Beat that!"

"Easy!" yelled Beast Boy shifting into a llama and sending a wad of spit way out across the street.

Look between the lines

"That is disgusting…" said Raven.

"I declare Beast Boy the winner!" yelled Cyborg.

What's fed up and everything's alright

"What? He so cheated!" yelled Robin.

"Oh, so, the Boy Wonder is a sore loser. That's cool. You can't be good at everything."

Robin's teeth grinded together loudly.

Check my vital signs

"And now for my prize!" yelled Beast Boy rushing to the table, only to find Starfire gulping down the last slice of pizza.

"Looks like your test of manly power just got broken up by an alien girl…" said Raven sarcastically.

"This was the prize? I am so sorry!" proclaimed Starfire apologetically.

To know I'm still alive and I walk alone

I walk alone

I walk alone

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My shadow's the only one who walks beside me

Raven stopped and stared into space.

"What's the matter with her?" said one of the crowd.

My shallow heart's the only thing that beating

"Spitting contest…" Raven said. "A spitting contest…"

"What?" asked the crowd, almost in unison.

Sometimes I wish that one of them will find me

'Til then I walk alone

Raven shook her head, and walked off in the direction of the forest.

I walk this empty street

On the boulevard of broken dreams…

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OK. Sorry fellas for that little break in the story. Wanted to put that song in there it felt so appropriate. OK. Onto the good stuff.