Let me first say that I'm really proud of the outcome so far, hence this being my first fic and first chapter. Now onto what I want to say. I read the reviews so far, and I thank you all who had. But I want to clear up somethings.
In a few of the reviews, they generally say that Raven's sort of OOC, I understand what you guys are saying, but I didn't see that at all. I saw her as what a person would normally do after he/she has done to someone at those kinds of extremes.
Second, I just want to say that this story will have an overall theme. The theme is: What you think might happen next, won't...yet. This is self-explanitory, but I'll explain for those people who somehow don't understand. It's just saying that you might think that something obvious will happen in the next chapter, but it will most likely not be in the next chapter, but it will show up in future chapters. So instead of the story being straight forward, it will be going forward one way and then going forward in another way, then going forward in a totaly different way, but still going forward. (This theme will apply to most chapters) And if your thought was right, then you hopfully understood it, or something else. If you still don't understand you'll find out soon enough. (long...i know...just saying this so you know how my story's going to go)
Anyways, with out me further bothering you all,...I present to you...Ch 2.
Disclaimer: blah, blah, blah, I don't own the Titans, blah, blah, blah, what else is new, blah, blah, blah...blah.
Chapter 2- Comforting
Raven was running through the hallways to her room, with tears creeping out of her eyes. While she was running, light bulbs exploded and doors flew off and slammed into the opposite walls. She reached to her room, quickly opened it, slammed her door, ran right to her bed, and plopped onto it on her belly.
Things everywhere in her room started to fly off shelves and hit the walls in her room. Raven sniffled and tried to wipe the tears that were slowly trickling off her face, but she couldn't completely wipe them away because more tears came to replace them.
"I can't believe what I've just done!" Raven said to herself, still sniffling. "How could I have let myself go like that? It was only an accident, but how could I?" Raven felt very miserable. She couldn't remember the last time she felt this miserable. "Calm down, Raven. Just calm down." She tried to do some meditation for a few minutes, but her attempt failed. All that she could think about was what just had happened a several minutes ago, and it made her pissed off and confused. "Why can't I calm down? Stupid Beast Boy! If he just didn't come in, then-"
A knock came at her door, "Raven?"
"Go away!" Raven said coldly.
"But it is only, I, Starfire, trying to see if you are okay or not." Starfire said through Raven's dented door.
"Does it seem like I'm okay, Starfire?" Raven sniffled a little bit.
"I guess not," said Starfire, "But I do wish that I may come in so that I could help you with this problem."
"NO!" she sniffles "I'm fine!"
"But just a second ago you said that you are not fine, and you still sound like that you are clearly not fine, even though you say you are."
"I don't want to talk right now!"
"Please, Raven. I really think that you need to talk about this to someone."
Starfire could hear Raven sob a little bit through the door for a few seconds. All of a sudden, the door slid open, and Starfire walked in. Starfire saw that Raven's room was a mess, like Beast Boy's, but to a lesser extent. Statues cracked, candle holders melted, glass jars that were filled with magic stuff in them were now all over the floor, and some books were thrown all over the room.
She then saw Raven, lying on her bed still wrapped in her towel. Her face was down and facing away from Starfire. Starfire walked closely to Raven's bed, seeing more objects bending and breaking right in front of her. She saw a chair, that wasn't broken, that was right next to Raven's bed. Starfire took the chair, brought it close to Raven's face and sat on the chair.
"Raven?" Starfire asked softly with concern in her voice.
Raven picked up her head and looked at Starfire. Her face was all wet and her violet eyes were filled with tears as more tears came running down her face. Starfire gave a slight gasp, "Oh, Raven. You look awful."
"Starfire?"
"Yes?"
"How did this happen to me? Why did I lose control like the way I lost it?" Raven asked, even though she knew that Starfire couldn't give her a direct, or a good, answer. "I feel terrible about Beast Boy. I just...just..." Raven couldn't finish what she was saying and plopped right onto Starfire with her head on Starfire's shoulder as another object in the room gave out a huge explosion.
"Raven, please calm down," proclaimed Starfire while lightly hugging Raven trying to comfort her. "Everything is going to be alright."
"How can you say that that everything is going to be alright, when you can see that it clearly isn't, Starfire?" Raven shouted with a mild raspy voice as she pushed away from Starfire. "Didn't you see how Beast Boy reacted to me when I picked him up, after I destroyed his room?" clenching her fist while pacing around her room. "Huh? Did you? He was terrified like he saw the devil, himself, in me! And the devil looked like he was going to kill Beast Boy in an instant!" Raven sat on her bed and hung her head down in disappointment and spoke in a softer and lower tone, "I don't know if he'll speak to me again." A pause hits the room. "What have I done?" Raven put her elbows on her knees and her hands onto her hanging head covering her face.
An awkward silence crept into Raven's room as Starfire was trying to think of the right words to say to Raven that might have a chance to cheer her up. "Sure he will talk to you again, Raven," Starfire gave a slight smile.
"You think so?" sniffled Raven.
"Oh definitely. We are all friends here, correct?"
"I don't know, because what if Beast Boy hates me and doesn't want to be friends anymore?"
"Stop being so timid, Raven. You and Beast Boy will always be friends with each other. Beast Boy just needs some time to calm down also after this ordeal that had just happened. You will see," Starfire got up from the chair, walked to Raven and put her right hand onto Raven's shoulder. "Like I said, everything will be fine."
"Yeah. I hope so too. But, I still think that-"
"But nothing!" Starfire raised her voice a little. "Do not complain about what had just happened. What had happened in the past is all in the past, and you can not go back and changed what has already happened. All what we can do is to look ahead and hope that things will happen for the better for us."
The room went silent for a second time. Then, Raven picked up her head and looked up at Starfire. "Starfire, I...I...thanks," Raven gave a slight smile.
"No problem, Raven," Starfire gave a big smile back, and then took her hand of Raven's shoulder.
Starfire and Raven looked around at her room to see the damage that she has done to her room. She examined it. The cracked statues were now completely broken, the melted candle holders were now a puddle, the bookcases were broken into many pieces and thrown at all the walls, most of her books were ripped into shreds, her antique clock was busted, an armoire collapsed, the big mirror on the wall was severely cracked, and her windows were slightly cracked. "Guess I got a little bit carried away in here," said Raven trying to get back to her normal self.
"What do you mean by 'a little bit', Raven?" Starfire got confused as she also saw the damage to Raven's room. "Both yours and Beast Boy's rooms looked like that they went through-"
"Starfire, it's just another figure of speech," proclaimed Raven in a monotone voice.
"Oh. Well then I guess that you sure have gotten carried away a tiny bit. heh-heh."
'Great. One minute she becomes very wise and the next, she becomes her naïve self again.' "Ya. Well I guess I have to go find Beast Boy and try to apologize to him. Now can you please get out of my room? 'Cause I need to get out of this towel and get into some clothes," said Raven as she was trying to find something to wear in her wrecked room.
"No, Raven. You should not be doing anything at this very moment. You need to rest, since you have been through a lot today," Starfire said strongly. "Robin told me to tell you that."
"But what about Beast Boy?"
"You do not need to worry about that. The situation is already covered. Robin and Cyborg have been starting to look all around the tower for Beast Boy. We'll come and get you when we find him, ok?"
"Yeah. Hope Beast Boy's alright," Raven sad with worry in her eyes.
"He will be, Raven. He will." Starfire walked to the door, and then quickly turned back to Raven. "You seem very troublesome about Beast Boy."
"Of course I am, Starfire. I-"
"I know. You have said this many times already. But, I have never seen you been broken down like this before, plus the fact that you have broken down to someone you know very well."
"What are you trying to get at?" one of Raven's eyebrows was sticking up slightly higher than her other eyebrow.
"Well I mean...like...well...it...ummm seems that you...like Beast Boy and-"
Raven's eyes shot open wide in pure shock, "What did...you just...say?"
"Well," Starfire said it prolonged, "based by the way you are acting towards Beast Boy now by second guessing your friendship with him and that you are really concerned about how he is and you caring about him and very afraid that he will not be talking to you again. It seems to me that you really like Beast Boy."
Raven stared in shock, starting to blush. 'How could I have these kinds of feelings at all towards anyone, especially Beast Boy? This doesn't make sense at all.' "But...I don't-" the cracked window starts to glow black and larger cracks appear until the whole window breaks and falls, some on the floor and some to the bottom of the tower. Raven and Starfire quickly turn their heads to see the suddenly broken window. Raven's cheeks become fully flushed with red.
Starfire starts to walk out of the door, speaking faster than normal with an embarrassed type of smile on her face, "Uhhhh...I think you should go and rest now while I will go and help Robin and Cyborg find Beast Boy. And I promise that I will not tell anyone about you liking Beast Boy. Errr...bye," Starfire walks out of Raven's room.
Raven just stood there by her bed, face still flushed and in shock by what Starfire had just said.
'What is she talking about. She can't be serious about this. I mean, I don't like Beast Boy like tha-' the remaining parts of her cracked mirror on her wall broke instantly making Raven jump. 'Guess I do need to get some rest. My powers are going crazy. I'll have a much easier time controlling them and think about things if I rest.'
Raven first changed into some better clothes, rather than a towel, and then went into her bed. She closes her eyes and starts to rest. But then she opens them and sits up looking at her demolished counter. On the counter was a weird looking gray beauty mirror with four thorns sticking out of it and two red gemstones opposite from each other, and it wasn't cracked at all. Raven just looked at it, pondering.
"Hmmmmm..."
So there you go, ch 2 complete.A pet-peeve of mine in other Titan fan fics is the way that they(other authors)write "Friend Titan's name" for Starfire. I mean it's ok for her to say it once and a while, but not for every single time she says one of the Titan's names. So I tried to stay away from that(Had to put it; not disrespecting anyone who does it, it doesn't make the stories any worse, but it does give me a twinge when I see it many times). But I hope I got Star'stype of grammar right.
Much shorter chapter and maybe weaker than the 1st chapter, but still gets what I wanted to put down for this chapter.
The updating mighttake longer for future chapters due to school, personal life, having to write and put up the next chapter(s), and writing other stories that might be brewing in my head. So be paitent.
Ch 3...on the way.
Oh, and can someone tell me how to write back to the people who reviewed my story, besides posting it on here? Didn't figure it out yet. :-