Raven was mediating on the roof. She was searching through her mind for traces of memories. She would see a flash of something but it wouldn't last. A morning, a cup of coffee, playing chess with Alex, reading in the café… they were quick, like watching a preview for a movie. There was still something there… it was… it was…
"MOM!" A voice shattered her thoughts. She wasn't really hearing it, but she was. It was Alexander, he was calling her telepathically.
Raven got up and rushed into the tower. In her mind she could hear Alex whimpering in her mind. "I'm coming, Alex." She told her son mentally.
When she reached the gym she threw the door open. Alex was lying on the ground, he had a bloody nose and was clutching his arm. He had put a shield up around him.
There was another boy, with red hair, beating the shield with a bow-staff. He was dressed in the traditional Robin uniform so Raven took a guess that he was Star's and Nightwing's kid. His mask was broken and he had a black eye.
"Robin, Alex!" Raven yelled and Robin stopped immediately. Alexander lowered his shield and ran over to Raven, burying his face in her cloak. Raven smoothed his hair as he sobbed, causing a few things around the room to break.
Robin started crying too and Raven put an arm around him. "There, There. What were you two fighting about?" She asked after they calmed down a little.
Both of them started to talk at once, very quickly. They started yelling over each other and then fighting again. "ENOUGH!" They both went silent "Now, Richard. Tell me what happened."
"Zand made fun of me for not having super powers. Then I got mad and we started fighting and and and-" He started sniffling.
"Alex, why did you tease Richie?" She asked looking down at her son, who was clinging to her arm.
"He said that Lydia had useless powers and when we have our own team she wouldn't be able to help…" Alex said with a sniffle. "I'm sorry, Richie…"
"I'm sorry too, Zand." They both hugged and wiped their eyes. Raven healed their minor wounds. The boys seemed like the best friends they were.
"Now, you two go play and behave yourselves." She told them, giving Alexander a kiss on the forehead and ruffling Richard's hair. They both ran off.
Raven walked back up to the roof and was going to sit down in her meditation spot but she saw two of her friends sitting there talking.
"I told you, I don't know what's wrong with her. She seems perfectly healthy, Man. I wouldn't worry about it." Cyborg explained "Raven's fine. She just has to get her memory back."
"It's just… she's not herself. This must be scary for her. I mean to just wake up and not remember 7 years of your life…." Gar looked out over the bay "I mean, this morning she didn't even remember we were married… and now she's pregnant…"
"Don't worry about me." Raven spoke up causing both boys to turn around. "I think… I might be getting better, a little anyway. "Richard and Alex were fighting. I remembered Richard's name, and I remember the weird food Starfire used to eat when she was pregnant. And I remember teaching Alex to play chess… I was meditating and I could see something… I don't know what it was…"
"Maybe it was your nightmare, you always have the same one but you'll never tell me what it is." Gar explained.
Cyborg stood up "Come to the med-wing first thing in the morning. I have some test I want to run. I need to go get the machines ready." He rushed off inside.
"Gar… How often did I have nightmares?" Raven asked as she sat down beside him.
"Almost every night. It didn't get like that until we moved to Gothem. You said they were getting worse recently but you still never told me what they were about." He said quietly looking upward. "You tossed and turned every night. Sometimes I wouldn't sleep and I would stay up and watch you."
"Why would you loose sleep to watch over me?" Raven asked trying to look into his eyes but he had his face turned upward still.
"You didn't toss as much if I played with your hair when you slept." He said simply with a shrug. He was totally missing Raven's point.
"I mean, why didn't you just sleep somewhere else so my restless sleep wouldn't bother you? Or better yet why didn't you ask me to sleep on the couch?" Raven asked and then Gar turned to look at her.
"You really don't understand, do you? I told you I'd love you no matter what and that means not asking you to sleep on the couch. I love you, and I know it may be hard for you to think about right now but before you lost your memory you loved me too." He then turned away again and looked at the bay.
"Garfield. I'm sorry." Raven responded glumly. She didn't really understand how he felt or how she felt before the memory loss. She got up without another word and headed for the bathroom. She had a long day and was going to take a shower.
When she was done washing up she went back to her bedroom, the one she had woken up in. She was about to get changed but paused for a moment and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked so different. Raven was still looking at her body in the mirror when the door slid open.
Beast Boy walked into the room, an unintentional growl/purr came out of his mouth as he saw Raven. She quickly turned around and reached for her cloak holding it around her. "OUT!" she screamed at him, causing anything that wasn't already off the shelves from her outburst before to fall of the shelves.
The changeling quickly exited the room. He sat with his back against the door. "Raven… Come on… It's nothing I haven't seen before…. I mean… not that I don't like seeing it…. You… I mean… uhhh…. Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaven…. Can I come in? It's my room too…."
Raven had put on her pajamas and walked over to the door. She opened it angrily. She started to grab a pillow off the bed and search the closet for a blanket. "What are you doing?" Gar asked.
"I'm going to sleep on the couch, tonight." Raven said pulling a blanket down with a swift tug. He grabbed her wrist and looked at her with a pout.
"Rae, no. You can't…" he pleaded meekly.
Raven looked at him skeptically and questioned "Why not?"
Changeling turned away and looked down at the floor. "I… I can't sleep without you next to me, alright? I get restless and have nightmares…" He seemed ashamed of himself and was blushing.
"Why?" Raven asked on impulse. She moved closer behind him and put her hand on his shoulder.
Beast Boy shuffled his feet slightly "Well, I dunno, I just do. I… I don't like to have you away from me… I don't want to loose you again…"
Raven didn't say anything; she simply put the pillow back on the bed. She then looked in the mirror for another moment, messing her own short hair. "I'm going to go for a walk, Rae, I'll be back later…" Garfield announced in a defeated tone.
"Be careful, it's dark out." Raven observed as he walked out the door. She shoved the spare blanket back into the closet and in the process knocked down a small box. Raven smiled slightly to see something so familiar. She opened the lid and examined the contents.
A dried flower…
"Miss Raven! Miss Raven!" a young green boy ran up to the telepathic little girl who sat meditating under a tree in the park. "Raven! Look it!" He extended a bunch of wild flowers out infront of him, with a fanged grin on his face.
"What's this?" She asked opening her eyes to see him standing before her.
"Flowers! I picked then special for you Raven." Beast Boy was obviously very proud of himself.
"Why?" She asked coldly still not reaching out to take the offering.
"Because I thought they were pretty… and I saw Robin give one to Starfire… She was really happy about it so I thought maybe you would like some flowers too…" Beast Boy blushed and looked away slightly. "Don't you like flowers?"
Raven looked at him and couldn't bring herself to tell him she was allergic. She took the flowers from him and forced herself to smile "They're pretty I guess… ummm… thank you."
Beast Boy smiled brightly "Does this mean you're my girlfriend?"
"What?" Raven asked shocked jumping back slightly.
"Cyborg said that Robin gave Starfire a flower because he wanted her to be his girlfriend. And she took the flower so Cyborg said that that ment she wanted to be his girlfriend." Beast Boy explained childishly "That means I'm your boyfriend now, right?"
Cyborg could be seen chuckling behind a tree in the background.
An old penny….
"DUDE! Find a penny pick it up…. Uh, something, something, something, good luck! It's my lucky day!"
It was the good luck penny he had given her in hope of protecting her from her father on the day the prophecy was supposed to be fulfilled.
A broken piece of glass with glitter paint on it…
'The box he made for her…' Raven thought to herself as she walked through Terra's room, finding the box lying shattered on the ground. 'he… he really loves her…' Raven picked up on of the shattered pieces. A tear rolled down her cheek. 'he loves her…'
A cut out from a magazine….
"Hey, Rae, I think we should defiantly get a moped…" Beast Boy stated, sprawled out on the couch at the coffee shop. "Just think about it, You could be like Haru Haru Haruko! We could get a yellow Vespa!"
"Garfield, you've been watching too much FLCL." Raven stated bluntly as she looked at the magazine over his shoulder.
"Watermelon. Or like a panda with a mean face. Or like sandals with pressure points drawn on them, or the smell of a blackboard eraser, or a Sunday morning where you wake up and it's raining." Beastboy quoted.
"Well, I like them more than hard bread." Raven finished in a bored tone with a small smirk on her face.
Beast Boy flipped over so he was looking her in the eyes "Does this mean I can have a moped?" He asked excitedly.
"We'll see, Ta-kun…" Raven said and he gave her a peck on the lips.
Raven smiled and closed the box, leaving it on the table. She tucked herself into bed. She placed her hand on her stomach even though she knew the baby would be too small for her to feel. She smiled slightly for no reason as she drifted off to sleep.