Raventhedarkgoddess: Short Rae/Cy peice, don't ask, it's really random and pretty bad. The poem inbetween is mine, please R+R.
Crystal Raindrops
Let the crystal raindrops fall.
Let them come around us all.
From every begining, another defeat.
The rain comes down in frozen sheet.
I see you standing, standing alone.
I know not what to say to convince you to come home.
So just give me a second to clear my head,
and just try to forget all the things I said.
Let's face it, I'm never going back there again. Raven Roth stood with her head down and her eyes on the sky, stubborn and dark as ever, the rain falling in forgotten clouds around her body, clinging to her face and hair as if trying to hold her down, to keep her from running away from all the pain of a past one last time. She ignored it, however: No one wanted her, least of all the person she had been closest to, Cyborg.
Just let her go, Rob. She thinks she's too good for this team. I can't believe he would say that to me... The words resounded over and over in her head and she sighed, that being all that she could think. I just wanted to take a moment and go away for about a month to try to remember who I was and leave all the stress beind... Andhe wouldn't even let me do that. He claimed he cared so much...
Just prove to me, Rae, that you care. Somehow, some way. Or is control really that important? Do you really need control over even love, even over the people you care about? At the time, all she had been able to do was let air out in an angry hiss and tell him, once again, that if she could show love she would have done so already. He had ignored it, though. She couldnt' even remember what the fight had been about: It was all too painful to remember now.
That was when she heard them. Footsteps, heavy footsteps, coming closer and closer to her, splashing through deep puddles and hitting the paved road out of the city into Suburbia behind her, a road no cars dare be on with the recent threats of the river flooding, of people being caught on the bridge she walked on now. She knew who was coming even before she heard his call. "Rae, please listen!"
"Listen to what?" She asked as he neared her. "Listen to you tell me that I think I'm too good for everyone else just because I asked if I could take a break? No thanks, I heard enough of that at the tower." She looked at him standing before her, soaking wet, his hulking metal form dripping. "Or do you have something else to say to me that isn't a clearly intended insult?"
For a second, he could find nothing to say, staring at her form with her black outfit clinging to her, the blue cloak pressed against her due to the sheer force of the blowing water. He watched them roll down her face from near her eyes like tiny, perfect teardrops: And then shook his head. He had to convince her to come home.
It would not be his home, could not be his home, if she wasn't there for him. "Rae... Listen..."
"I am listening. Now, do you have something to say to me or not?" Her blazing purple hair came down toward her eyes and he longed to affectionatly brush it away, but something inside him refused to do so, refused to go back to begging her just to make her come home. She has to come home because she loves me, or... Or it just won't work.
"... I was really, really nasty to you back there," he managed to start out, but then realized just how nasty he had been, how selfish it was of him in refusing to let her go, in not wanting to let her go for fear of losing her to someone else. It had been a stupid fear, but still he could not make the words come out of his mouth.
"Yes, I suppose you were." She turned away from him, beads of crystal water clinging in her hair. "But surely you didn't come all the way out here just to tell me that?" Please, don't have come all the way out here just to tell me that.
Without each other we have no directions.
Catching sight of both our reflections.
I see all the pain etched there on your face.
And knowing I caused it I long to erase.
But you're moving away from all the strife.
And somehow I know this is about your whole life.
So I hold out my hand for you to take.
Hoping and praying that I don't break.
"No, no I didn't. I just wanted to know... I just wanted to know why you needed some time off in the first place, why you wanted to leave the team for a while," he babbled, feeling lame, feeling idiotic.
"My emotions were getting out of control from being with you so much, that's all. It's not that I didn't love you, it's just that too much stress makes a girl... like me need a little time away. And then you started yelling and well, it was just better to go than to stay where I wasn't wanted."
"It's not that I don't..." Just then, Cyborg stopped. There they were, their faces reflected in the pool of water. His face was pleading, lonely, that of someone scared and alone who only acted tough when he thought everyone else needed him to be. She stood next to him, alone and slightly... Was Raven upset? Had he been so concerned for himself that he had failed to see her suffering there next to him?
He blinked his human eye and turned to face her, but it was gone: Anything that might have remained on her face was hidden away just under the surface again. "Look, Rae... I'm sorry."
She edged away from him slowly, continuing to walk along the bridge. "You're sorry now that you're losing someone, aren't you? You're sorry now. Well, sometimes you have to consider how sorry you'll be before it's too late." Her voice almost broke over the words but she managed to keep it steady, to keep the way she really was out of her voice so that no pain shown through.
"Raven..." He paused, unsure how to handle the question. "Is there something about you that just won't let you stay here, or do you just not like being attached to someone? What is it, huh? I was mean, and I said I was sorry... You have to stay with us, Raven. You have to."
She moved further away from him. "I can't. I can't stay with you. You're right, I don't like being attached to people. I'm too weak to be attached to people. I always have been. That's why I wanted to go away, I was going to come back when I was ready, and..."
Cyborg reached over and took her hand. "Shh... Raven, it's okay." Please, let it be okay...
And then I see what makes it worthwhile.
Among the falling raindrops is finally your smile.
I realize now just how things would lack,
if I didn't let you use the light to change yourself back.
And although things made be hard and the road long,
You're coming home again, back where you belong.
And as the crystal raindrops fall, in mind they stay.
Our protection against the storms of other untold days.
Raven's head had gone to the hollow in his shoulder on instinct alone. Suddenly, she didn't want to be away anymore. She just wanted to be there with them, with people who cared about her. "CanI go now?"
"You're still leaving?" He tried not to sound shocked, incredious, but failed at doing so, his human eye growing larger in his head as he stared at her. "You're still gonna leave us?"
That was when she smiled, the rain still running down her face like tears. "No, Cyborg. Why would I want to leave you? Let's just go home."
He looked over at her and then he smiled too: The smile fixed itself in his memory now, the memory of being together and of happiness. He knew that there would be other hard times, but he could get through them.
He just had to think of the Raven covered in crystal raindrops.
