Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titan's or this song but the plot and non-Titan Characters are mine.
Note: The POV changes between Raven and Beast Boy.
Chapter 5
(womans voice)
Into the water
Into the truth
In your reflection
They live in you…
I opened my eyes and looked out over the cool waters of the ocean. I was curled up on a large boulder outside the tower. The sun was just cresting the waters and I looked behind me half expecting my vision to come true but the glass windows of the tower only reflected the dawning of the new day. I looked around but none of the others were there, I was alone outside and already the events that had felt hazy, during the tests were already fading from my thoughts. I struggled to grasp them, to remember but they slid through my fingers like wisps of clouds. A warm hand rested on my shoulder and I looked up to see Beast Boy looking down at me. His expression was strangely serious and his hair hung in a loose shag which looked quite fitting. The gold fleck in his eye glittered in the dawn light but it didn't stand out as I thought it should have.
"You'll remember what's important Rae. To push it is useless. We'll be the only ones." I looked up at him curiously.
"It, it just doesn't seem fair. How were we to witness what we can't remember?" I asked him and he sat down beside me. I noticed the sea water running our of his hair in light trickles and he looked out at the water.
"You're souls will remember, not the mind. It's their way, always has been. After all Rae in a way it never happened. No time has passed, they took us with them at dawn and they returned us at the same exact moment." he looked at me. "I've lived out a whole life time in my soul for the tests and yet not a moment passed. The Tests are just another part of history, able to fit in wherever necessary." he looked at the water and I closed my eyes confused.
"I still don't understand." I told him and he was silent then tapped my shoulder and pointed at a still pool of water below us. I looked down and my mind registered that the stillness wasn't possible since the waves seemed to roll on around it. Then I saw two images. The woman surrounded by eternal darkness and the teen who now lounged back against the midnight wolf one eye on both wolf and teen emerald green. Behind the souls of Beast Boy and I stood a woman with golden eyes and a man with a tiger cape. "They're in our souls now?" I asked him and he smiled and said softly.
"Into the water, into the truth, in the souls reflection they live in you…" he murmured softly and I leaned my head against his shoulder as the images faded and I truly understood what had happened and realised that it was true. It wasn't possible to understand these events with the mind, only the soul could decipher it. The tests only revealed the reasons to answers the soul knew for the mind. Nothing more, and nothing less, a gift without value.
"Maybe just this once I don't need to understand." I muttered and Beast Boy laughed.
"That's the way to think of it Rae. The answers just lead to more questions." He rubbed his hands together and looked at me and I raised my head self consciously wondering what was coming over me. First that kiss then just now, I shot a look at where the pool had been but the waves had claimed it once more.
"I'm blaming it on them." I said through gritted teeth and Beast Boy wiggled his eyebrows.
"Maybe it's just my cute factor reaching you. Don't deny it." I rolled my eyes and stood up.
"Hardly Beast Boy. Hardly." I started up the path towards the tower but paused and looked back at him. "Beast Boy out of curiosity," I pointed to my left eye, "what does this make you?" he paused and looked down at the ground then back up to me.
"I don't know yet Rae. We'll find out in time but for now, for now I'm just another set of eyes." I nodded as though that made sense and started up to the tower. I didn't know it but more then just Beast Boy's eyes followed me. A white clad form slid into my shadow and closed her eyes in contentment melding into my shadow and happily removing a dark weight from my soul…
… I watched Raven leave then looked back to the restless rolling waters of the ocean. The tests were over and my future was still uncertain but I smiled softly as the nagging feeling that something had been missing was gone. In it's place was a gold, blue/silver, green/red ball. Instinct was a beautiful thing. I rose and brushed off my hands then shifted into a flacon and flew up to the roof to take a short cut to my room.
After over a million years of evolution and sitting passively on the sidelines the mother and father hand managed to finally blend a part of humanity with instinct and created the third of their order… the third and the final… their true child, one who would live as long as they would and yet was physical to their omnipresent conscious. In the depths of the earth a cave with a silver pool dwelled underneath Mt. Kiliminjaro, a woman looked up from the pool with a smile as the waters faded away taking the image of the violet haired gothic girl with them...
A.N. - Thanks for reading this I've put plenty of time into this and I hope you've enjoyed it. I know I said that "Awake at Night" was for one shots but I originally wrote this as a oneshot but it evolved on me and I didn't think anyone wanted to read all 26 pages at once so I broke it down. Anyway this is the end of it I hope that you've liked it. Here's a few quick notes on it: 1) If you didn't catch on the lyrics at the start of each chapter were off the Lion King -They live in you. If you don't know the song watch the movie. 2) This was written originally as a Prequel to a story that's sitting in my head at the moment. Review and let me know it I should continue it. (It'll be under it's own title) 3)This is my rendition of Beast Boy's history I swear that the Mother and Father are copy-right so no flinching! (not that you honourable readers and authors would do that but you never know who else might be out there… close up of eye I'm watching you…) 4) Alright I'm done so read and review!