Chapter 2: Vision
Raven entered the kitchen to fix her morning cup of herbal tea. Cyborg was busy stuffing his face full of waffles and bacon, Robin was casually munching on some eggs and toast, Beast Boy had his tofu breakfast, and Starfire was gleefully slurping a bottle of mustard. Everyone seemed to be in their usual high spirits. Well all except for Beast Boy Raven noted. He just sat there picking at his food in a daze, with small bags under his eyes. As Raven filled up the kettle Beast Boy walked up to the sink beside her and set his plate down.
"Restless night?" she asked. "That obvious, huh?" he responded in a low, almost sad tone. "Well by the looks of things, you're not really trying to hide it." He let out a low chuckle. "Guess not." He went silent for a moment. "I just had this really weird dream last and woke up covered in sweat on the couch around 4 this morning. I couldn't get back to sleep after that." Raven knew that much already, but wasn't saying anything in hopes that he would share the dream's contents. When he just began staring out into space she raised her eye brow. "Sooo, you want to talk about it?" she asked. "Maybe later." Was his only response as he walked past her and out of the kitchen, heading for his room.
'That must have been some dream to get to him like this.' she quietly thought to herself. 'Last time he was like this was after the whole Terra ordeal.' "Yo Rae." Cyborg called out. "Whats up with B today? He's been acting like a zombie." "Sleepless night." She calmly said as she finished making her tea and headed off to her room to meditate.
Concentration wasn't coming easily to Raven today, since her mind was wondering between Beast Boy's dream and her own. "This is pointless!" she growled to herself after hitting the ground for the fourth time in ten minutes. Suddenly there was a light knocking on her door. "Who is it." She said in an irritated tone.
"It's me." Beast Boy answered through the door. Raven quickly got up and floated over to her door and cracked it open. "You wanna talk?" he asked rubbing the back of his head. "Sure" she said in her monotone voice. She opened the door and then walked back to her bed and sat down. Beast Boy slowly entered, closing the door behind him, then sat down beside her on the edge of the bed. They sat in silence for a few minutes before Raven broke the ice. "So are we going to talk or just sit here in silence?" "Oh…uh…sorry about that." He said with a sheepish grin that soon faded away. "About that dream I had last night…" He began, then stopped and gave the floor a grim look. "Go on." she said trying to hide her curiosity. "Well in it I'm lying on my back on top of a flat table in a completely white room. No matter how hard I try I can't seem to move a muscle. Suddenly the outline of a door appears on one of the walls, it opens up and you step though it, then you walk over to the side of the table and stare down at me with a very sad look on your face. I try to ask what's wrong, but no sound comes out of my mouth. As I look into your eyes I see sadness and anger all at once. You look directly at me and as a tear begins to roll down your check you turn around and begin to rush to the door. Just as you do this I regain partial mobility and can speak, but all I can do is stretch out one of my hands and let out a weak whisper pleading you not to leave, but you keep walking away as though you don't hear me. After you shut the door, the entire room shatters as though it was glass and I found myself now standing in a cave with flames roaring all around me. I looked down and saw you lying motionless on the ground. I fell to my knees and picked you up and shook you to wake you up, but no matter what I did you still didn't move or open your eyes. I began screaming for you not to leave again, but still nothing happened. Suddenly everything disappeared and I was in a black void where I heard an ominous voice say that a choice must be made. Then I woke up."
Raven sat there at a loss for words. 'No wonder he's been acting all weird today' she thought. "It just all seemed so real, like you were actually gone and I just couldn't calm myself down enough to get back to sleep. I just didn't know how to handle the thought of…" He was cut off by Raven's finger on his lips. "Don't worry too much about it. It was only a dream." She said, though inwardly she was thinking quite the opposite. He just looked at her with concern filling every part of his expression. She leaned in and embraced him in a tight hug, whispering in his ear, "I'm not going anywhere." He drew his head back so their faces were merely inches apart, then began to lean forward.
Just then the tower's alarm rang throughout the room causing Beast Boy to fall backwards. Robin's voice came over their communicators. "Beast Boy, Raven get down here quick. We got trouble." He said in his normal serious tone. "Yeah, you're not kidding." Beast Boy commented as he and Raven went running out of the room and down the hall to meet up with the others in the T-car.
A/N: Sorry this one is a little on the short side, but PLEASE R&R!