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.
