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Beast Boy crept into Raven's old room. It was exactly a year after her death today. He fiddled with Raven's old sapphire pendant, he hadn't taken it off since her funeral.

No-one had entered the room since the wooden ball had returned them to Earth. It was like an insult to Raven's memory, going into her room. But Beast Boy wanted to remember her better, to have a better relic then a bird on a chain.

He looked at her bookshelf. It still had a small scorchmark where the shadowbolt had hit it a year ago. The Book of Azar was still there. There were still so many pages she hadn't read, pages she would never get to read.

He saw a small photograph on the second shelf. Beast Boy picked it up and wiped the dust off it. He smiled. This photograph was the one taken on their first day of being Teen Titans. Raven was standing at the end, smiling slightly. Beast Boy was standing next to her, his hand on her shoulder. His other hand was doing bunny ears to Cyborg...which was why he was tip-toeing. Cyborg had a rectangle cut out his arm. That was where they had got the camera from. Starfire was beaming an ear-to-ear smile, one arm hugging Robin, who's head was slightly turning towards Starfire.

They weren't like that anymore. Since Raven's death, the Titans had changed.

Starfire hardly ever smiled, or announced her strange Tameranian celebrations with such excitement anymore.

Cyborg practically lived in the garage with the T-car. He would take it apart, then rebuild it, then take it apart again.

Robin hardly said anything to anyone but Starfire. All he said to the team together was either "Titans, trouble," or "Titans, go!"

Beast Boy...Beast Boy hadn't pulled a prank, told a joke, even smiled since that awful day. Everytime he thought of pulling a prank or telling a joke, he would remember Raven discouraging him or cutting him to size with a sarcastic remark.

He couldn't believe he actually missed that about her.

Starfire missed the meditation sessions, visiting 'the mall of shopping' and just having another girl who understood her, who cared about her problems, who she could tell her most dark secrets and be sure that Raven would never tell...she was so trustworthy.

Cyborg missed the way she would burn Beast Boy with a remark everytime he did pretty much everything he always used to do. He also missed the way she helped him with the T-car, even though she hated the piece of scrap metal.

Robin missed having someone he could trust to lead the team when he was away or unable to fight.

Beast Boy...he missed everything. Her beauty, her understanding, her kindness, even the way she blew her hair out her eyes when she fought.

Beast Boy carried on looking around the room. He walked over to her dressing table. Her old meditational mirror was lying there, cracked and misty.

I wonder what happened to her emotions.

Then, he saw a figure in the mirror. She was all gray, and icy. Like a ghost.

He looked around him. There was no-one there, so it wasn't a reflection.

The girl smiled at him. She had short, silky hair. She was wearing a cape with a simple brooch. She also had a chakra on her forehead.

"Raven!" whispered Beast Boy.

She nodded. Beast Boy lifted his hand up and touched the mirror. Raven lifted her hand as well and touched his. The mirror immediately frosted up, it looked like a piece of cracked ice. Beast Boy didn't flinch. He could still see Raven's outline.

Raven pointed a slender index finger and started to write something on the mirror. Where her finger touched the ice would melt away and a letter would be legible.

Beast Boy heard footsteps coming down the corridor. Raven looked up to see Cyborg coming through the door.

"BB, are you alright?"

Beast Boy turned back to the mirror. Raven was gone. But he could still read what she had written.

"Yeah, I think I will be,"

With that, Beast Boy left the room, Cyborg following him outside, then the two went their separate ways, Cyborg to the garage, Beast Boy going outside to the place where he and Raven had had a talk about the difference between being child and being a man.

And there he saw her, as beautiful as the moon and the stars combined.

On her mirror the words began to fade.

You are no longer a child, I see that in your eyes.
I will see the man you have become now, tomorrow and on until the end of time. I return to you today.

I love you.

The End

Incase you're wondering, that is indeed Raven, not just her spirit.