Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans. Thanks to animeobsessed3191 for reviewing.
Contains blood and suicide. Born of Raven gradually losing control after Terra was turned into a statue, this fiction is the black rosebud from the stem of agony Raven has felt, over and over. And if it blooms, the black rose will spell the world's end...
-Killing Me-
"I should hate you." The flat, trembling voice echoed softly in the cave. Terra's statue didn't move, didn't respond to the hidden note of agony in the words. "I hate you." The figure shook slightly, kneeling upright in front of the stone girl.
"I hate you."
Silence fell down, her pale face a mask that was flickering violently.
"Do you want to know why?"
Terra didn't answer, but the speaker didn't take her eyes off of the frozen girl's.
"I was supposed to be the emotionless one. The one who didn't feel, or cry, or laugh. Me. But now you've taken my place, and I do feel. I feel, Terra." A tear slid from Raven's violet eye, crystal jewel in the dark of the earth. "And it hurts."
"Did you know, Terra? Did you know that your arrival would change me? That after you came, I couldn't stop myself?"
She took a breath.
"But I'm here now. To apologize. Not to you, Terra. To my friends. Because I'm losing control. Because I can't stop it. Because I felt. I was never meant to- made to. And it's killing me."
She laughed hollowly. Softly.
"See?"
She lifted up her arms. Blood dripped slowly from her wrists onto the cold ground.
"And the black rose will be cut before it blooms..."
Maybe when I see them next they'll forgive me.
Maybe we can laugh.
Cry.
Live.
Feel.