(A/N: Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I'm going to make this chapter a good one, and there will probably be only one more after this. I've been having lots of school work, and I have a job now, so that's why I've had not much time lately. Enjoy!)

Chapter 19:

The gunshots rang loudly down the alley, and Raven approached the scene. The cops were backing away, and a faint growling could be heard.

"What the hell did you do?" Raven screamed, as she came closer and closer.

"Ma'am, I'm sorry, but you need to stay back. We've got things under control, and just need to get the scene cleaned up," the biggest man of the group said.

"But…I love him," Raven cried out, tears beginning to flow down her cheeks.

A female officer walked up to her, placing her arms on her shoulders.

"I'm sorry, dear, but, he murdered officers, an innocent girl, and caused mass amount of damage to the city. He wasn't in control of himself, and we had to do it."

"But I could have helped. He changed for me, in the station, if only for a moment."

Raven fell to her knees, and let all her emotions flow out. Slowly, she crawled forward, through the police who suddenly did not do a thing to stop her. There, before her eyes, was a large, green beast that had once been her love. The beautiful, glistening, green hair that had made up his form was now dirty, and matted with blood. Raven turned away for a moment, not wanting to look. Another policewoman came to her side, and kneeled down to help her.

"Come on, we'll get you home," she said in soft, motherly voice.

"I don't have one anymore," Raven said, and turned to look back at Beast Boy.

Pulling away from the officer, she crept ever closer, and reached out her hand to touch his fur. She ran her hand through the hair rising on his back, than stroked her hand over his head.

"No," she sobbed, "It…wasn't supposed to…happen this way."

Her hands glowed with the aura of the power she had discovered buried within herself. The officers seemed stunned by the sight. She could feel something inside Beast Boy, and could read his thoughts. She saw the unpredictable form rising out of his animal DNA, his rampage through the city, his murder of Terra. All up until he had fallen from a roof, and into the alley. The on-foot officers had cornered him, and pumped round after round of ammunition into his body, until the moment Raven arrived.

"No…please," she whispered in his ear, "Come back to me."

The aura began to spread, covering B.B.'s body. The officers, not knowing what to expect raised their weapons, and came closer, taking every necessary precaution.

"Ma'am," one said, "step away from the animal, now!"

"No," she said, still sobbing.

"Ma'am, we said now!" another command.

Slowly she turned her head toward them. Her eyes glowed the black aura, and appeared as if it were night. Raven started evilly at them, though tears could still be seen escaping from the blackness that was her eyes.

"I said NO!" Raven screamed, and with that, sending every single officer spiraling into the air. Some crashed into buildings, others went over them. Either way, she had gotten rid of them.

Raven turned back to Beast Boy. The black still consumed him, but he was no longer a Beast. He was the human form of Beast Boy again. His chest heaved up and down once more, slowly, but steadily. The aura slowly minimized, until it floated up as a ball, and every bullet from B.B.'s body dropped to the ground. He lifted his head, but couldn't move the rest of his body for the hundreds of wounds that still riddled him.

"Raven?" he asked, looking up at her.

Raven couldn't even utter a word. Tears streaming down her pale face, she reached down and kissed him.

"Oh Beast Boy," she cried after kissing him, "I thought you were gone for good."

"I think I was…or maybe I just had a dream about heaven."

Bending over his body, she slowly lifted him up to take him back home.

"We'll have to leave," she said, "we can't stay here. There's others, and they'll come after you, and me now."

"Then we will," he said weakly, laying back in her arms "Where do you want to go?"

"Anywhere, as long as it's with you," she said with a smile.

TO BE CONCLUDED…