Witness
Two weeks after the incident in the hospital… if one wanted to be precise, it had been 13 days, 7 hours, 53 minutes, 18 seconds and counting… not that she was. Raven was simply worried over him, but not too worried. Not any more worried then the rest of the team…
At least, that's what she kept telling herself.
She didn't tell Robin or the others what Beast Boy had confided in her, as she herself was still in a little confusion over it… but she tried not to let it bother her… instead, she would wait here in the mornings around the time he woke up, and when he opened his door, she would walk with him down to the kitchen as she tried to talk. Not something she was good at.
But he seemed to be appreciative for it, and it calmed him down. She knew because he always left his room in the beastly form he had taken on in the hospital, and after a few kind words, would change back.
Some key things still stayed different though. His hair, though not as long as before, was long enough for him to pull back in to a messy pony tail, and he was still at least half a head taller than Raven. Also, his fangs still protruded from his lips… but by far the most disturbing thing was how his eyes seemed just a little less cheerful everyday…
A groan from the room in front of her stirred her from her thoughts.
She waited a few minutes, getting ready for him to step out of the door… he seemed to have a routine that he followed to the letter. So when he didn't step out of the metal confines that made up his door, she grew even more worried. Worried to the point that she muttered her words of choice before literally melting into shadow and slipping through the fine cracks of the door…
When she rematerialized, the first thing she noticed was the mess. Eyes narrowing in annoyance, she commanded her dark magic to clean the room before her, and in moments clothes were flying in to the a wardrobe as other knickknacks started to line shelves… she made her way over to Beast Boy's bed, seeing that he was still asleep.
She sat down next to him, her hand automatically reaching up to feel his forehead… no fever. He turned jerked away from her, a pained expression coming to his features…
Her decision was made within seconds, and as stupid as it would have seemed in a normal state of mind, she went through with it.
Shutting her eyes, she concentrated on pulling her subconscious away from her living body, and submerged herself into his dream…
Opening her eyes, she looked out from beneath the tangles branches of a weeping willow to the boy that sat cross legged at the lake… Beast Boy! She took a step and found herself floating closer towards him, only to sit beside him in silence.
"You are needed," she found herself saying, instead of the worried lecture she had started to form in her mind. She tried to look over to him, tried to gage his reaction, but found herself looking down at their reflections… but they weren't there.
"By whom?" he asked her… but it wasn't the kind, if a little high pitched, voice of Beast Boy that she heard… no, this voice was lower, laced with tones of depression. It fit the face of the blond haired boy that sat in place of the green boy she was expecting.
"Raija," Raven watched, almost in a trance, hearing her own voice say those words, and seeing the lips of the pretty red head say them…
"How do you know about her?" the boy demanding. He reached over and forced her to look up at him, gripping her shoulder with one had so tight that it hurt… "Tell me you didn't do anything to Raija!"
"I didn't do anything to her," tears started to come to her eyes… but why? "I promise I didn't… but she will need you more than anything. You will have to raise her, and love her, just as she loves you."
"What does it matter?" he snapped at her. His green eyes flashed with anger.
"Because you have to learn to love," she almost chuckled, but held it back, looking to where her hands were folded in her lap. "If you don't… if you don't, you'll ruin their lives."
"Ruin whose lives?" he did laugh. It was a hollow sound that stung at her ears. "My mother's? The Tribe's? Yours?"
She looked up at him slowly, taking care to rake her eyes over albino skin and tense muscles before she looked back into his intoxicating green eyes. "No… you'll ruin the lives of the two who have to fulfill your life's wish; the two who are reliving these very moments in our bodies."
Raven was jerked to reality so suddenly that she fell forwards onto her knees, only to look up towards Beast Boy who slowly sat up. It took him a few moments, but he saw her there finally… her presence didn't surprise him, and she wondered briefly if he had seen her in the confines of his own dream… but that didn't matter. She needed to know something, and she needed to know it now.
"Who am I in Tai's past?"