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Yes, you have seen these two before. I'm getting rid of Memories of Shadows- I wasn't happy with how it was working out. Warning: Beast Boy:Raven in this one. Thankies to animeobsessed3191 for reviewing - good luck with the Kyo:Tohru goodness!
-What Love Is-
"I don't know what love is." Raven had her eyes on something in the distance, her mouth shaping the words and releasing them into being.
"I never… had a chance to. You don't know this, but my mother was killed by Trigon shortly after I was born. I was brought up in a cold, sterile environment, trained to feel nothing. Nothing. And so…" She glanced down at her hands, clasped lightly in her lap. "I don't know what love is like.
"People describe it in so many ways. It's so different, for everyone… "There are a thousand kinds of love, each one unique to the one who is feeling it..." Kathryn Blackstone wrote that.
"They say that love is easy. That it hurts. It's 'a state of mind'; anger turned around. It takes work; it just happens; it was always there and you're just remembering it. It's hot and cool, it burns and soothes, it's a dove-feathered raven and an angelical fiend." Her speech was quickening and more and more confusion and emotions filled her voice.
"I don't know what love is to me, but if it's something that, whenever I'm near you, makes me want to smile, to laugh or cry… If it's feeling that every time I see you, life's bearable, or that something about you completes me…" She calmed herself visibly, taking a breath and sitting back down on the stool gently.
"Maybe…" Her eyes looked up into the camera.
"I think I can love you."
Beast Boy shut off the VCR and TV, turning away as a tear slid slowly down his face. Behind him on the wall, a snippet of news paper was pinned onto the wall, next to photo of Raven, smiling hesitantly someone off-screen
TITAN MEMBER RAVEN KILLED IN BATTLE AGAINST CRIME
Early yesterday morning the Teen Titan member Raven was killed fighting the notorious criminal known as Slade. Eye witnesses say that she leapt in front of fellow teammates who were injured, protecting them from a fatal blow. "Jump City mourns her loss: that of a true hero who stood for what we all believe in," says Mayor Wilson at her burial. In a quiet, simple ceremony that elegantly portrayed what many called Raven's loyalties to those whom she protected, Raven Roth was laid to rest at Jump City's cemetery. A statue in her likeness was placed in the Hall of Heroes.
"Maybe… I think I can love you."