Author's Note: As promised, a new chapter after > 3 reviews.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans or Before Sunrise.


Chapter 12 - NO DELUSIONS

A soft summer breeze passed between them and made her hair billow like a cape trailing behind her. He was holding her hand then suddenly brought his arm over her head and around her waist so that he embraced her without letting go. They kept walking to no place in particular.

"This friend of mine had a kid, and he was there for support and everything. And he said at that profound moment of birth, he was watching this child, experiencing life for the first time, I mean, trying to take its first breath... all he could think about was that he was looking at something that was gunna die someday. He just couldn't get it out of his head. And I think that's so true, I mean, all-- everything is so finite. I mean, but, but don't you think that that's what makes our time, at specific moments, so important?"

Gar sighed, "Yeah, I know. It's the same for us, tonight, though. After tomorrow morning, we're probably never going to see each other again, right?"

"You don't think we'll ever see each other again?" Raven looked up at him.

"Well, um, gosh, I don't know. Uh, I mean, I hadn't planned another trip to..." He turned away.

"Oh, Me too, y'know," she quickly nodded her head. Shook the thoughts from her mind, the tears from her eyes, "I live in Paris, you live in the US. I totally understand that..."

"I mean, if you were gunna come to the US, or if, y'know, I mean, if I, or y'know, I mean, I could come back here, I mean," he caught her blank gaze, "What?"

She turned back to him, bitter as they first met, "Now let's just be rational adults about this. We, maybe we should try something different. I mean, its no so bad if tonight is our only night, right? People always exchange phone numbers, addresses, they end up writing once, calling each other once or twice..." They both looked away, unable to bear the thought.

"And it fades away…So, you think tonight's it, huh? I mean, that, tonight's our only night?"

They both stopped walking. Raven leaned up to him and kissed his nose, "It's the only way."

"Well, alright. Let's do it. No delusions, no projections. We'll just make tonight great." He drew her close again and kept on walking.

"It's just... it's depressing," she leaned her head on his shoulder again, "That the... the only thing we're gunna think of is when we're gunna have to say goodbye tomorrow."

"Well, we could say goodbye now. Then we wouldn't have to worry about it in the morning." He sounded silly but the look in his eyes was anything but.

"Now?"

"Yeah. Say goodbye."

"Bye."

"Goodbye."

"Au revoir."

"Later"


A/N: The final lines were from the movie. I really loved them and thought they were adorable. As I'm writing this thing, I notice how it's gradually getting further and further away from the movie. Like the ice cream scene for example, that wasn't in the movie at all. The conversation at the balcony was completely different and especially the next chapters. I doesn't matter to me, it wasn't like I was trying to just retell the story, I rewrote it too.