Interlude:- Dreams

(Don't own Taking Over Me by Evanescence Man, there are far too many songs in this thing…)

A teenage Raven walked along the corridors of Titans Tower, searching for something.

She past the door to her own room, and Cyborg's, and Starfire's, and Robin's.

Then she stood alone, very quiet in front of Beast Boy's door. She knocked twice and heard his voice calling "It's open!", then she shoved the door open and walked into Beast Boy's room.

He was lying on his bed, reading a book on tigers. When Raven walked into the room, he immediately dropped the book, and stood up.

"Raven, is everything alright?"

Raven walked up to him, slowly.

"Raven?"

In a split second, she was on him, her arms wrapped around him, and she was kissing him frantically. Beast Boy didn't protest much.

She pulled away briefly, as a tear of blood dripped from her eyes, and fell to the floor. It landed weakly as Raven wrapped herself in Beast Boy's arms once more.

Raven sobbed frantically, admitting everything. She told Beast Boy every secret she ever held as she watched her own blood seep into the carpet.

She looked up at Beast Boy and said in a gasping voice: "I… love you…" before she flung herself into his arms once more.

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You don't remember me

But I remember you

Animal Man's eyes snapped open. He sat up in his bed like a rocket and gasped for air as he looked around the room. It was his old room, completely refurnished and covered in the vines he had planted there. He gazed out the window, at the twinkling stars beyond.

I lie awake and try so hard

Not to think of you

He stood up, growing angry at himself. Why didn't he tell her? He had the opportune moment and he didn't say a word.

Everyone in the world knew how she felt about him… Except her.

But who can decide what they dream?

And dream I do

He shifted his hand into a gorilla fist and hit the wall angrily, putting a large dent in the solid steel.

I believe in you

He growled ferociously. It wouldn't be the same. He couldn't just tell her she said that.

I'll give up everything just to find you

It would never be the same.

I have to be with you

He couldn't force her to do something like that.

To live

To breathe

You're taking over me

She had to fall in love with him all over again…

But all the years they spent together as Teen Titans would have to be relived for her to fall in love with him again. He couldn't make her relive them.

I look in the mirror

And see your face

If I look deep enough

She would never fall in love with him again.

The girl of his dreams lay sleeping peacefully in the next room, but she was always just out of reach.

His happy future had been stolen away from him at gunpoint.

So many things inside

That just remind me

You are taking over

He punched the floor, with his human hands, powerfully at first, then gradually getting weaker, more pathetic, until he was barely tapping the floor.

I believe in you

She would never love him again.

I'll give up everything just to find you

He sunk to his knees, and sprawled himself over the floor, and he sobbed.

I have to be with you

She would never love him again.

To live

She would never love him again.

To breathe

Animal Man let his tears drip to the floor and his claws rip into the carpet as he roared angrily like a werewolf in the night.

You're taking over me

She would never love him again.

You're taking over me

Never again.

Taking over me

Never.