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Made the Promise

I can't remember how long I've kept my promise.

It seems like forever since that day, but it's still there, in my memory.

Rob had been hurt, and Dark Girl was tending to him. Starfire was sitting by his side, crying, while BB had gone off to sulk.

"He's been hit pretty badly," Raven murmured, placing a cooling hand on the wonder boy's cheek. "I don't know whether we can keep his temperature down long enough for him to break through" The dark girl glanced at Starfire guiltily, and took away her hand. "I'm sorry Star"

Only Cyborg saw the Goth's glances towards their leader as she pulled away for Starfire.

"I wish you too awaken, Robin!" Starfire cried, her tears dropping onto the clean, white sheets.

Cyborg felt his heart pang at the sight of the alien girl's sobbing. He wouldn't want any of his friends to cry over him.

"I'm gonna be the last to go"

Raven looked over at him, hearing what he had said. Something strange flickered in her eyes, then it was gone. "You will be"

Wonder Boy didn't die. He survived. But the attack had weakened him. He was killed five years later by some punk-ass kid with wheels.

BB took it bad.

After Rob's death, he transformed into a tiger and ended up as some hunter's mantle piece. It was sort of weird, hearing it. Green man's life being taken in the very sport he hated.

Things were rocky for the rest of us. Raven was... Raven. She didn't give an outward sign of caring, and it hurt.

Starfire in particular, hated it. She gave up trying to talk to her, and left for her own planet.

Blackfire got her before she reached it, crashing the ship and killing them both.

I dunno what I would've done, if it weren't for Raven. She comforted me, helped me to deal with it. I always wonder what she'd seen that day, if she'd known how... how things would be.

She was the last to go.

There was no explosion, no shooting, no being run over. I woke up one day, and found her, gone, but for all the world looking peaceful. I hope wherever the dark girl is, she's happy. She deserves it.

They all do.

Sometimes, I visit those I can. Rae was scattered out to sea, with Rob. I know that it was always Rob and Star, but I don't think Wonder Boy would've minded.

Beast Boy was harder to find. That bloody freak that had gunned him down wasn't cheap. In the end I got BB's head, and cremated that too.

As for Star, her people took back the charred remains of her body. She's back with her people, that's all that matters.

Me? I didn't realize it when I was young, I never saw the signs. Raven did though. She helped me cope with the knowledge, helped me to see that it wasn't permanent.

I'm part machine.

I can't die, at least, I can't die naturally.

Before she left me, Rae said I wasn't to shut down permanently.

There's been a few close calls, but each time I've chickened out.

Suicide ain't the way for me.

So finally, fifty years since Rae died, it's happening.

My programing's old. They don't make 'em like they used too.

My batteries are only going to last another few minutes, then my circuits fail completely.

That's good though; I feel like I'm about to go to sleep after a heavy night of partying.

I made the promise that I'd die last.

I always keep my promises-

SYSTEM SHUT DOWN

Story behind the Story: One quarter of what Lady Karmina said in a review, one quarter Darkness Falls, one quarter of realizing that my many year old cd player broke down, and one quarter pure insanity.