My Eyes!

By Satu

AN. A day after the last one. I don't own Teen Titans, but if the owners want to sell it to me I have (my aquatic science teacher yelling) a glasses case, a small bottle of liquid-paper and a marine studies book cover.

Answer to Poll:

I say: I fall into a state of disbelief. I think that Raven and Robin are too dark and they'd fall into depression, while Beast Boy and Starfire would become so preppy the world would have to exile or shoot them. :D

My sister says: meh – who cares?

Chapter Eleven

Beast Boy was floating on a bed of numbness. He tried to lift his arm, but it wouldn't move.

That's odd, he thought. He just lay there for a moment, looking around the darkness. A few times he tried to move again but his body didn't obey his half-hearted demands. Then, like a beacon from above, a quiet voice pierced his subconscious.

"Don't leave me. You promised you'd never leave me."

Raven, he tried to say aloud, but his mouth wouldn't open.

"You'd never leave." The statement kept repeating itself. And he could hear the tears, could almost see them running down her cheeks.

Rae! Can you hear me? Even as he thought it he knew he had done nothing but make a tiny noise in the real world.

"Come back to me BB," she continued. "I love you." He felt her kiss her cheek and tried again to move something, anything, but was again shut down by his body's almost comatose state.

"Raven." Robin's voice joined Raven's, interrupting her steady chant. "You need rest. You haven't left Beast Boy's side since he fainted."

"He might wake up," Raven said, her voice sure, but even he could hear the undercurrent of desperation.

"He's been unconscious for the past 24 hours. He's not going to wake up anytime soon." He said something else, but it was too faint for Beast Boy to make out.

Robin! I'm alright! Where are you? He mentally slapped himself. He was getting hysterical. He looked around the blackness that surrounded him and saw a tiny speck of light. Raven? he thought doubtfully, but he knew this wasn't the work of Raven's power. There was the sudden feeling of immense speed and the pinpoint of light grew so quickly that he was momentarily blinded by the white light all around him.

"Raven?" he said. It took a moment for this to sink in. "Hey! I can talk!"

"Yes you can," a soft voice said. He whirled around and gaped at the woman standing in front of her. She had long brown hair, put up in a braid that was draped over her shoulder. Large, white wings stretched out from behind her back. She was holding hands with another person, a man, with short black hair and thick glasses. His wings were slightly darker then the woman's. Instead of the white robes Beast Boy thought that all angels wore they were wearing shorts and black T-shirts with camouflage jackets over them. They looked almost exactly as they had the last time he had seen them.

"Gar," the man said, smiling sadly.

"Mum? Dad?" he asked, feeling a tear snake down his cheek. The woman nodded slightly, her hand tightening on the man's. Beast Boy tried to speak, but instead just rushed forward and threw his arms around the two adults, tears now streaming down his cheeks. "I'm sorry."

"You don't need to be sorry," Jonathan Logan said, one arm wrapping around his son.

"It's not your fault we died," Katherine Logan said, her hand rubbing up and down Beast Boy's back. He cried into their shoulders, his shoulders shaking and his breath coming in harsh sobs. They hugged him until his sobs died away.

"You have questions," Jon said.

"We can answer them," Kath said. Beast Boy noticed that their hands never parted.

"Why do you keep holding hands?" he asked, holding their free hands.

"This is the way we looked when we died," Jon said matter-of-factly.

"And you're angels," Gar continued.

"Yes. As you were only a young child when we died, we thought that we'd turn to ghosts. But we turned up in this room and were assigned the job of watching over you. We're your guardian angels." Kath smiled at him.

"My guardian angels?" Beast Boy asked, feeling a smile spread over his face. "So all those times when I knew I should feel alone but I never did, it was because you were there? With me?"

"Yes. We haven't left you. Ever," Jon said. He pulled Beast Boy into a hug.

"Someone wants to meet you," Kath said. She and Jon stepped to the side and a girl stepped from behind them, rubbing her arm nervously. Her long, blonde hair was tucked behind her ears and her large, blue eyes were facing downward nervously. She was wearing a yellow T-shirt and short pants. Large white wings, much like his mother's, extended from above her shoulders.

"Terra?" Gar asked, stepping forward.

"Hi BB," she said. She reached back and pulled the tip of a long wing in front of her. "How's life?"

"I don't know. I'm not even sure if I'm alive." He glanced at his parents, who shrugged slightly in unison.

"I just wanted you to know BB, I did love you. I really did. But it was a love that couldn't last. Or maybe more of a first love. Sweet while it lasts, but short. Something that you can look back on and smile. I want you to remember me for our short-term love, not for the way I betrayed you." She looked down in shame as she said the last bit. Beast Boy hesitated, then walked forward and wrapped his arms around her. She hugged him back and kissed him gently on the lips.

"I'll remember you, Terra," he whispered into her ear. "But I love Raven."

"I know. And I know it's the love that will last forever. Take my advice, and stay with her." She kissed his cheek and stepped back. Jon and Kath stepped forward again.

"Now you have a choice," Kath said.

"You can stay here, with the parents you've missed forever and the girl you loved first," Jon said.

"Or you can go back, to your life and to Raven." Kath waved her free hand and a bubble appeared. Beast Boy leaned closer and saw himself lying on a bed, looking pale and wan. Raven was sitting on the bedside, gazing intensely at his face. There were grey half-moons under her eyes and it was obvious she hadn't slept or eaten in at least a day.

"Raven," he said softly, stepping closer and putting his hand on the bubble. "But… This isn't fair." He started to cry. "I can't choose between the love of my life and my parents. It's not fair."

"Whatever you choose," Jon said.

"We'll always love you," Kath finished.

"Do the right thing," Terra said softly.

"I pick –" Gar started.

Raven was sitting at Beast Boy's side, his hand in hers.

"You have to come back," she said again.

Her fingers were wrapped around his and she felt a moment of disbelief when his squeezed hers slightly.

"Beast Boy?" she asked tearfully, her other hand gripping his hands. His eyes flickered open for a moment, then shut immediately. A loud continuous beep filled the room. "No. NO!" she screamed. Cyborg burst into the room.

"Outta the way," he said, pushing Raven out of the way. She watched with growing horror as Cyborg pushed down three times on Beast Boy's skinny chest before blowing into his mouth and nose. He repeated these movements ten times before stopping, his human eye wide and leaking tears.

"What's wrong? Why are you stopping?" Raven asked, feeling slightly hysterical.

"He's gone," Cy said simply, wiping away the tears running down his cheeks.

"No. He can't be gone. He can't be." She rushed forward, trying to get back to the still figure of Beast Boy. Cy caught her in one of his huge hands, bringing her into his embrace.

"He is. I'm sorry, Raven." He hugged her again. She stopped struggling to reach Beast Boy and collapsed sobbing into Cyborg's chest. He held her, like an elder brother or parent might hold a sobbing child, until her sobs had quietened into whimpers. Then he let her go and she walked slowly to the bedside of her fallen comrade. She kissed his cheek gently her hand resting on his chest. There was a jerk from under her hand and she stepped back, her eyebrows rising and her jaw dropping. Cyborg came in and gently threw a sheet over Beast Boy.

"Cyborg," she said breathlessly. "I think he's alive."

"Not possible," Cy said sadly. "He's dead, Raven. If CPR couldn't bring him back then next to nothing will."

"Then it's a miracle," she said impatiently. The sheet settled around Beast Boy, his nose standing out. She put her hand on his chest and felt a grin spread across her face at the slight movement. "He is!" She pulled off the sheet, despite Cyborg's attempts to stop her. Beast Boy's forest green eyes, the eyes Raven thought she'd never see again, fluttered open and he looked up at her with a sort of dazed confusion.

"Raven?" he asked, squinting up at her. Tears streaming anew down her face she nodded, taking his hand. Beast Boy looked behind her and saw his friend standing in the doorway, his jaw dropped to the ground. "Cy?" The metal man nodded slightly. Beast Boy smiled weakly and returned his gaze to Raven. "What happened?"

"You died," she said softly. "Just for a few minutes." Instead of looking shocked as she thought he would, he smiled knowingly.

"So I was dead."

"What?" She was feeling confused for the first time since she had met this green changeling.

"Rae, I met my mum. And my dad. They're my guardian angels." She gently put a hand on his forehead, feeling for a temperature. He laughed and batted it off.

"So you met your parents."

"Yeah. They looked just like they did last time I saw them. 'Cept they've got wings now. I saw Terra too." He smiled at her. Raven felt a slight flash of triumph, immediately stifled by shame.

"What did she say?" Raven asked, hearing and hating the stiffness in her voice. Beast Boy must have picked up on this because he pulled her closer.

"That she loves me, but she's glad I chose you."

"Chose me?"

"I had a choice. Death, were I could stay with my parents and Life, were I could stay with you for the rest of my life." He took her hand and kissed it. "Have a guess what I picked."

"You picked me," she said, tears threatening to spill, "over your parents."

"My parents are always with me," he said. "No matter where I am or who I'm with." The tears spilled over and she embraced him, her eyes squeezing shut. He complied by wrapping his arms around her waist, stroking her back as she cried into his shoulder. When she finally relaxed and wiped her eyes, he smiled at her. "Now my life is perfect. I have my sight. I have my friends. I have a home and enough tofu to last a lifetime. And I also have you." He kissed her on the cheek. "And I love you so much."

AN. I'm sorry for the short chapter this time… It's the second last and I don't think I could say anything else. The next chapter will be set in the future (cue for sci-fi music) and it's going to be the last one. I'll see you then.

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