OK, now you get to find out if Beast Boy is dead or not! Hopefully, I will not or have not lost readers! Btw, people, I need a little help advertising…well, you don't have to, but it would be greatly appreciated. Thanx for your support! (AUGH! Teacher quote XP)
Disclaimer: I SO forgot this in everything else but everyone knows that no one on this site owns Teen Titans. I don't own the song "Hello" by Evanescence, either.
Starfire lay on the ground, clutching her shoulder. Blood poured out from underneath her hand. She looked up at the Goth with pain in her eyes. "But…I thought we were friends…" before her surroundings faded into darkness. (A/N: OK, fine, darker darkness because the lights are already out)
Robin watched in horror as the Tameranian's voice lost its confidence. He was filled with rage. Her own friend shot her! A fellow titan! All hope lost, he abandoned his search for the murderer and began to attack Raven. He threw smoke bombs, birdarangs, and electric disks left and right. He didn't even seem to care that he was attacking another titan. She had killed Starfire, and that was a good enough reason. He didn't even notice the voice yelling at him over all of the explosions.
"Stop! STOP! STOP!" Robin finally heard the last shout and obeyed. When all of the smoke cleared, Raven was kneeling on the floor, battered, bleeding, and bruised. (A/N: Sorry to ruin the moment, but…alliteration!) She looked at him with her normal eyes and muttered, "What are you, deaf?"
"You…killed…Starfire…" Robin said between breaths.
Raven was silent. Then the tears began to form again. "I didn't do it…"
"YES…YOU…DID!" Robin lost it again and threw an explosive disk at her. She didn't even try to block it and was thrown back even farther from the explosion.
"It was him, I swear," Raven coughed. Robin was about to throw another one when he noticed that Raven was crying. She was actually crying. (A/N: FYI, this is not out of character because she cried in spellbound!) "I didn't mean to! I tried to fight it…but it happened anyway! I shot Beast Boy…and now Starfire! I didn't mean it! I didn't…"
Robin lowered his weapon. Then he pulled out his communicator. "Cyborg, could you get in here, please? We need to do some medical tests."
There was a huge yawn on the other end. "OK, Robin…"
Robin looked behind him at the body of the Tameranian, still covered in fresh blood. Picking her up, he walked to the door and turned on the light. It revealed the bedroom in shambles; broken furniture littered the floor, the carpet was bloodstained and burnt in some places, and there were many dents in the walls. But, most importantly, there was no trace of the mysterious enemy Robin had been fighting before. Cursing quietly, he awaited the arrival of the half-robot.
Suddenly, the door opened, revealing a very exhausted Cyborg. He instantly grew serious when he saw Starfire's condition.
"What happened!"
"I'll explain later," Robin said. " Right now, we have to get them to the emergency room."
"You mean you and Starfire?"
"No, I mean her and Rav—where'd she go?" Robin did a double take and looked around the room, seeing no trace of the Goth.
"DAMN!" he and Cyborg cursed, running out of the room, Robin still clutching Starfire's limp body. Cyborg ran ahead of him and rounded a corner.
"Robin! Get over here!"
Robin also rounded the corner to find Raven passed out on the floor. Cyborg lifted her as best he could and noticed the puddle of blood in her place.
"She's lost consciousness from loss of blood," Cyborg told Robin.
"That's odd…" Robin commented. "There was no trail in the hallways."
"She probably phased through the floor to get here. You know she can do that."
"Yeah, but she was too weak to use her powers just a few minutes ago."
Cyborg thought for a moment. "She probably passed out from exhaustion, too."
Robin approached the place where she had been lying. He frowned. "I would've thought that she'd go to the emergency room, but this is in the opposite direction."
Cyborg looked up at the wall. There was a door there. Recognizing it as a bedroom, he quietly read the name.
"Beast Boy."
"She said that she—" Robin began, but the realization gripped him before he could finish his sentence. "Oh, no…"
He burst through the door (but without hurting Starfire) and ran up to Beast Boy's bunk. He saw the changeling with his eyes open wide.
"…He's dead."
Cyborg approached and shifted Raven on his shoulders so he could feel the changeling's pulse. What he said next caused Robin's heart to leap in his throat.
"No, he's not."
Robin started. "What are you waiting for! We have to get all of them to the emergency room, now!"
Cyborg nodded and lifted up Beast Boy in addition to his previous load. (A/N: It was not too difficult, as he can lift a heck of a lot of weight!) Then the two titans dashed down the hallway (Cyborg dropping Beast Boy once or twice) to the emergency room.
"I'm dead…I'm dead…I'm dead…"
These thoughts raced through the changeling's head as he fell into a never-ending darkness.
"No, you are not dead," said another voice. (A/N: I got that from dot.Hack/ Legend of the Twilight)
"I was shot with a gun…I can't possibly survive…"
"Yes, you can, if you try."
"It hit me in the heart."
"That just proves my point."
"What do you mean?"
"That is the place where all of your emotional strength lies…where all the souls precious to you reside…"
"That's just a load of bologna!"
"Excuse me!"
"You sound like my mom!"
"OH SHUT UP!"
"Huh?"
Beast Boy slowly slipped away from the feuding voices, and into a much lighter world. He noticed the feeling coming back to his tired limbs. He opened his heavy eyelids…
"Well?"
Robin paced the room anxiously, watching the activity monitors for Starfire, Beast Boy and Raven.
"Can't you sit down for just two minutes? You're making me nervous," Cyborg told him. He typed more into the keyboard before jerking his head upwards with a start.
"What happened!" Robin asked, running over to him.
"It's Beast Boy, he—!"
"Uhnnnn…"
"Beast Boy!"
In a flash, Robin and Cyborg were standing over the changeling, watching him with wide eyes. He coughed a bit and then stared up at their faces.
"I'm…alive?"
"Yeah! By some miracle," Cyborg told him.
"Raven said that she shot you and we were really worried," Robin added.
"Raven? Where is she? Is she OK?" Beast Boy was suddenly sitting straight up and looking around frantically. After a split second, he felt a stabbing pain in his chest and fell back down.
"You shouldn't be getting up yet, so stay in bed," Cyborg commanded.
The changeling ignored him and tried to get up again, but the half-robot held him down.
"Let go of me!"
"Have some common sense, man! You're injured!"
"You were shot in the chest, Beast Boy. Aren't you concerned about your own life?" Robin asked him.
"Yeah, but…"
Cyborg and Robin looked at each other. They knew he wouldn't stop struggling until he knew Raven was all right. The problem was, she wasn't.
"Beast Boy…about Raven…" Cyborg started.
"She was badly injured and she hasn't woken up," Robin finished. No one had to know that he was the one who caused it.
Beast Boy avoided their eyes. He knew what it meant, but he didn't want to believe it.
"I'm sorry, Beast Boy."
The two titans, knowing how he felt, exited the room to check on Starfire next door, leaving the changeling to his thoughts. (A/N: Her monitor is in that room because they can watch her while they're checking on the other two, but she's in such critical condition that she was put in another room.)
Plunging into the same unknown darkness, Raven lay numbly in endless space. She tried to move, but she felt as if she no longer inhabited her body. She kept thinking the same things.
"Beast Boy…Starfire…I'm sorry…I'm so sorry…I'm dead…I've moved on…I can't go back…I want to apologize…I want them to live…"
She called out her thoughts to the dark shadows that engulfed her, but they greeted her with a lonely silence. Falling…falling…
Playground school bell rings again
Rain clouds come to play again
Has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello, I'm your mind
Giving you someone to talk to
Hello…
If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream
Don't try to fix me I'm not broken
Hello, I'm the lie
Living for you so you can hide…
Don't cry…
Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello, I'm still here
All that's left of yesterday…
(A/N: I will not end it here, for your sanity and mine, even though I am DYING to stop. Btw, school people, it gets a little dramatic here…just warning you.)
"—en…"
"What?" Raven's own voice echoed in her head.
"Raven." The voice sounded distant and vaguely familiar.
"Someone's calling me."
"Raven?"
"Am I dead?"
"Are you alive?"
"I don't know. I was asking you."
"Don't leave!"
"Am I? I don't want to…"
"I stayed! Why can't you?"
"But I did! I'm right here!"
"Wake up!"
"Dammit! Tell me what's going on here! Why can't I answer?"
Suddenly, she felt a violent shaking. It made her nauseous.
"Stop! Stop it!"
"Don't leave me!"
"Who are you?"
…
Beast Boy listened to the faint beeping of the activity monitors. He could not turn around and look at them because it hurt too much. Yet he wanted to see how the other two were doing. Making sure that Robin and Cyborg were nowhere near, he rolled slowly to the edge of the bed and fell with a thump on the floor.
"OW!" he stifled his cry of pain by turning his face into the floor. Sluggishly, he worked his way to a sitting position necessary to see the monitors. He saw two others besides his own (currently inactive because he was not connected) and read the labels. Finding Raven's, he watched the steady rise and fall of the heart meter. Good, she was still alive, but barely. He lowered himself back to the floor and began to inch himself along the ground towards Raven's cot. He knew it would be a bad idea to transform in this state, so he stayed human the whole way there.
After what seemed like hours, he finally pulled his tired body over the edge of the cot. He watched the Goth levitate a few inches off of the mattress. Rise…fall…rise…fall…rise…
Suddenly, she dropped out of the air and landed on the cot heavily. Beast Boy knew that was not a good sign. He leaned his body against the bed so his hands could be free and called to her.
"Raven."
Of course, there was no answer.
"Raven."
Silence. Not so much as a twitch.
"Raven? Are you alive?"
Maybe it was just him, but the beeping of the monitors seemed to be slowing down.
"Don't leave!"
Now it was definitely slowing down.
"I stayed! Why can't you! Wake up! Please!"
He began to shake her as best he could without falling over. The beeping slowed even more.
"Don't leave me!" He could feel tears welling up in his eyes. His vision began to blur. He dreaded the sound that met his ears the next moment and his heart sank.
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.
"…Raven."