7snogs Themed Fics
by LusciniaeCantus
Robin/Raven pairing
Standard Disclaimer: Move along people, it isn't mine.
A/N: Thanks to everyone who's reviewed and read. This one gave me some headaches because once the initial foundation was laid, it refused to go any further. Also? I suck at Robin POV apparently. ((le sigh))
So, dedicated to Kikiks who asked for a Robin-centric piece. I tried, I really did.
Theme #4 Sunset:
Inevitable
For every sunrise, there will inevitably be a sunset. This is a lesson I've learned well in my life. I've had my sunrises—learning to fly for the first time, and also my sunsets—having my wings broken and losing my everything. However, just as surely, sunrise would always follow the sunset.
Bruce gave me a new home, and mended my wings. They were reforged to be harder, more durable than my previous ones, but also heavier. I was no longer the cheerful youngest son of the Flying Graysons. Instead, I was reborn as Robin, and my wings were cast of sorrow and darkness instead of joy and light. I'd come to accept this unspoken law of the world, and my own place within it.
So when I met Raven, and found out about her past, it was like being kissed by lightning. Although her future seemed so dark, so condemning, she continued to fight, to hope, to persevere and I sometimes feel like a leaf in the wind of her silent strength. Once I'd learned of her fate, the one that had been predicted for her at birth and haunted her to this day, I was all at once humbled and fiercely protective. I'd wanted to preserve her unruffled calm forever, to never see her break. Her end may be coming, but she's fighting with everything she's got to prevent it.
Raven knew from the very beginning what she was destined for, had grown up with the horrible knowledge, and she still fought on, carrying the burden of the Armageddon upon her slim shoulders.
Everyone has their sunsets, and hers is darker than most. For at Raven's sunset, the sun may never rise again. But she will not face it alone. The Titans will all be there. I will be there. And until that day comes, I will continue to watch over her. And then… we will stand together at her sunset and wait for the sun to rise again.
Reviews and any concrit doted upon, always. ((off to procrastinate on next installment))
