Child

Sorry that the last chapter was rushed. I had a test to study for, and wanted it get off my back.

OMG, I'm crying... I feel so appreciated. I'm reaaaally sorry for all those people who were waiting forever for me to update, and I only put on a few hundred of words... I feel so guilty.

So I'll make it up to you guys with ONE MORE CHAPTER.

This is thesemifinal chapter for Child! Holy crack! Finally!
But if you enjoyed this fic, there WILL BE A SEQUEL soon. 100 percent garentee. Actually, not even. 99999999999 percent garentee. Unless for some reason I die or something... Hehehe! But nonlikely.

Tangled Strings of Love

"So Beast Boy, how was my past?"

She asked, curious. Beast Boy felt cautious, knowing that Raven would eventually kill him. No, kill him, bring him back to life, and kill him again.

"Does Robin knows that you're normal?"

Raven lifted up a hand.

"I sent a telepathic message to him a few minutes ago. Don't worry, but answer my question."

"She was... I mean, you were... you were..." Beast Boy couldn't find the right word. Funny? Crazy? Hyper? "You were... d-different." He answered akwardedly.

"I see." She replied, and sat on the cold edge of the tower. Beast Boy joined her. They just stared into the horizon.

"Raven?" Beast Boy asked. Raven grunted in reply, tell him that she's listening. "Are you mad?"

"You expect me to be happy about this?"

Beast Boy fell silent. Raven sighed.

"You realize that some parts of me, some dark parts of me, are never meant to be known. Luckily, that spell backfired. Congratulations, you met my inner child."

"Your what?"

"My inner child. Not my past, not the real kid. That's what you thought, right?" Beast Boy nodded. "You... liked my inner child, didn't you?"

Beast Boy didn't know what tosay. True, he did. But if he said that, this girl beside him... this girl would hate him. What could he say? Remembering all the past events, he knew that this wasn't the time to lie.

"Yes."

"Feh. Well, that's not surprising. After all, I'm creepy."She spitted the last word bitterly.

"Raven, I didn't mean - " Raven lifted another hand. She pulled out a card out of her sleeve.

"What is this?" Raven pulled out the card that Beast Boy gave her. He gasped. He never meant her to see that! Oh no! "You know you really need some help with grammar and spelling." Raven said.

"It's nothing!" Beast Boy cried.

"It's, nothing, you say?" Raven quired. Beast Boy was lost for words. If he said yes, he would be confessing love. If he said no, then it shows her that he doesn't like her.

"It's not what you think!"

Raven pulled out something else. It was a small jewelery box. She opened it and there was a dark blue sapphire carved into a raven, with the background of pure bloodstone. It was attached to a shining silver chain, tieing like a necklace.

"This is nothing?" Raven asked, dissapointed. Beast Boy tried to look away. "Well, if you insist..." Raven tucked it under her cape, a little sad. She thought that Beast boy liked her, and now he's denying it. It made Raven want to fall off and roll over and die.

"What were you trying to do in the first place, anyways?"

"Erm..." Raven started. "I was just trying to find a spell that would help me concentrate more clearly. See, lately, it's been hard to focus, and my meditating time is always interupted by villians and their plans."

"Oh."

There was an akward silence.

"How come you didn't have a chakra?"

"I told you, you met my inner child, not my "real" self. My pure self. I didn't need a chakra to hold in my powers."

"But your powers were going crazy."

"Yes, but did they do a lot of damage? I mean, like how I would if it was the real me?"

"No."

"Exactly."

Beast Boy wanted to start a conversation.

"Your inner child... was nice."

"Why, because she reminded you of Terra?"

Beast Boy lost all the courage to talk to her. This wasn't the kind of talk he was hoping for. Buthow did she know? She acted a lot like Terra. She was perfect. She was like a reincarnation of her. To be more infact, he kind of liked her inner child more than Raven herself. Terra would be the only one for him, but Raven... she never betrayed him, and she was so pretty. But he's still hooked on her, and it was already almost been a year.

"Kind of."

"Why do you like her?"

"Because..." He had to use his brain carefully this time. He doesn't want to anger Raven. "Because she was really pretty, and she thought I was funny..."

"Beast Boy, are you that shallow? Would you still liked her if she was seducing you, or would you like her if she did prostitution?"

"Why do you hate her?"

"It takes a lot of things to earn my trust. Beast Boy, there are people in the world that use others. There are people in the world that manipulates emotions to get what they want. Terra is an example. You didn't even know her, and you liked her. You fell victim of her evil. You can't trust a pretty face, because they hide their true self."

"What about Malchior?"

Now it was Raven's time to be silent. She looked at the ground, and tears formed around her soft, blue eyes. Beast Boy felt guilty. He never wanted Raven to feel this pain.

"Malchior is another example..." She muttered. "But don't think you can replace Terra with me! I am nothing like her!"

"Raven, get a hold of yourself!" Beast Boy begged, not trying to lose Raven's trust. "You're nothing like Terra. I know, you're completely different! And I'm not trying to replace Terra! I swear. Raven, you don't realize love!" He immediately regreted what he said.

"Love? You want to talk about love now, eh?" Raven snapped angrilly. "Love is a fucking emotion that makes you do evil things. Love is an emotion that hurts. Love is an emotion that cannot be controlled. Love is even worse than hatred. Don't speak to me about love, if you don't even know ONE TIHNG ABOUT IT!" There was a crash inside the tower.

"Love isn't a bad emotion, it's a wonderful one. Maybe if you would give it a chance and use your emotions for once, YOU'D ACTUALLY ENJOY LOVE!" Beast Boy completely lost his temper.

That was the worse thing to say. Raven's eyes flickered crimson, and her voice was replaced with a demonic hiss. "Don't. Make. Me. Hurt. You." Raven growled, full of rage. More things seemed to have crashed inside the tower.

Beast Boy knew that it wasn't her fault. He merely went up to the rampaging Raven, and hugged her. She calmed down for a minute. When her rage subsided, she pushed him away.

"Don't touch me."

"Raven, please."

"No. Time has passed far too much."

"Raven, you don't mean it..."

"I meant every word."

"No you don't..."

"Read my lips." Beast Boy embraced Raven one more time. "Argh! Leave me alone, you bastard!" He held on tightly even though Raven was resisting. After a few seconds of squirming, Raven relaxed, and hugged back.

"You must hate me for this, Raven..." Beast Boy murmured in her ear. "But I don't care how you feel about me. I love you. And I meant every word of it." Raven started to cry freely in his arms. For the first time in her life, she felt complete and warm. But this is wrong. Everybody I love, she said mentally, always reject and hurt me in the end.

She looked up to his face, who was looking down at her innocent face. She closed her eyes, and forcefully leaned in for a kiss. Raven's cold lips touched Beast Boy's warm ones. He happilly returned the kiss, and their tounges decided to play a little game. Beast Boy's tounge explored into Raven's mouth, and vice versa.

Then began the battle of dominance. They fought for power and love. Because Beast Boy was worn out, Raven turned out to be more dominant. Then was the sweet part of making out, pressing eachother's skin against eachother, but not too roughly. Raven broke the kiss, and both of them panted for needed air.

"That was fun." Beast Boy said.

"Hmmm." Raven replied. They held hands, and Raven leaned beside her earned man.

"You have to enjoy love now, Raven."

"I could care less..." Raven replied sarcastically. Beast Boy chuckled. "There's still one more thing to do, though."

"What's that?"

Raven faced Beast Boy again. But instead of doing anything lustifully, she placed her finger on his forehead.

Raven chanted a charm. A channel of energy entered Beast Boy's mind.

"Raven, what...?" He couldn't finish his sentence, because he dropped into slumber. Raven slipped more tears. Then she jolted around.

"You didn't see anything, spies." Raven preformed the same thing to Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg. They were watching the whole thing from behind, and was hurtled the same procedure as Beast Boy. All three of them dropped down, snoring.

"You may think it now, but later on, I know you won't care. You're just like all the others." Raven said sadly. Using her powers, she carried all of her friends inside. Then she went inside her dark chamber, and opened the same jumbo spell book.

She blew the dust away, and found the perfect spell. And there was no Beast Boy to modify it. She cleared her throat, and chanted the incantation. And she chanted louder, she used the hand motions to complete the spell.

A blinding gold light emmited from the book, and it spread to all over the Earth. Something seemed to have ticked backwards, erasing every memory from the past few weeks.

And it started all over again. Raven turned the hourglass backwards.

Time has to rerun it's path, because it was the day of the beginning once more.

Well, there goes the semifinal chapter.

Next chapter will be the epiloge. It was only a matter of time for this fic to end, so don't feel sad.
Remember the sequel... Something you guys have my word on.