Chapter 3: I Am Not a Robot
The cold blank stare of her own reflection was the only thing she could see in the ancient mirror. She was tempted to simply let the emotions currently arguing inside of her keep going. There was truly no harm in doing it right? I mean they weren't causing her powers to become out of her control… yet. There was no way for her to guarantee that they wouldn't, but she almost simply wanted to let it be and hope that all would be okay. br /spanShe sighed, "Here goes nothing." She mumbled, sticking her hand through the mirror and suddenly finding herself in her signature leotard and cape, with rocks floating all about. The sky was black as per usual and the rocks had a red aura floating around them, showing which emotion she would currently be having to fight.
There was something different about Nevermore this time. There wasn't the normal chill in the air. The scene was less dreary. There was no sense of foreboding.
She began her journey, stumbling upon timidity as she reached the first gate. br /span"He won't love us. We can't admit our feelings to him." Timid stressed to Raven. "We can't let him know. We would be embarrassed and I wouldn't be able to stand it. Please, don't do anything brave." She said, disappointment clearly visible in her eyes as she looked away and allowed Raven continue on with her path. br /The next emotion she had stumbled upon was happiness. "He came out on the roof to just sit with us." She smiled and cooed. "He likes us." She squealed and held her hands over her mouth to mask it. "You know it's true!" Raven looked at the bright landscape. A landscape covered in trees and grass. There were birds singing happily all over, which accounted for the lack of blackbirds yelling at her in the part outside of this part of her mind. There was only cheeriness here. Even more than normal.
"I don't know anything of the sort," Raven hissed at her emotion. That was enough to terrify most people, but happiness knew better.
"It's almost time." She smiled as Raven exited her happy-go-lucky section of her brain.
Around Raven had appeared a lush green rainforest, there were animals calling all around her. All of them seemed to be calling at once and there seemed to be everything in the animal kingdom in this one forest. br /spanNext was the green hooded Raven. She came bounding in with a black flip and a smile. She was swinging on a vine before her graceful dismount, despite the fact that she could've fallen at any point, meaning death for that emotion, but when you're pure bravery you don't seem to care.
"You should tell him. You'll never know if you don't tell him. Have some balls." The green hooded girl said as she removed her hood to reveal Raven's face. Raven just stared at her and let her go on speaking. "Bravery means taking the risk that he might not like you back, but it doesn't mean that you can just sit back and not do anything." She explained. She stood there, staring Raven down. Raven was just happy that bravery was not the one in control, because if she was, she would've confessed to Beast Boy a long time ago.
"Come on, don't be such a wimp." She whined to her creator, giving her a light punch on the arm.
Raven simply turned away and walked towards the next emotion, maybe to one that could help decide what she should do.
She came across her second to last emotion. A tall slim girl with a purple hood stand directly in front of Raven. She didn't turn - not right away. "I knew you would be here eventually. When I saw Beast Boy, I knew." Raven gave her emotion a very confused look, waiting for her to continue.
"It was very, very small when we first saw him. It was barely anything at all. All the other emotions thought that it would fade. I knew better, but they wouldn't listen to me. They all believed that it was going to be done after a month or 2. You didn't even know it was happening before it would be gone. The feelings were so insignificant, yet they grew. They flourished. They have faded in and out over the years, but they have always been here." Her emotion went on to state. "The more that you let your anger and annoyance take over. The more that the emotions faded, until they were almost gone, but ever since he grew up. Ever since he didn't see annoying you as a goal. You have been able to let them flourish despite your protests against it. It has now taken over. It has begun to warm. You could feel it as you entered this place. You could feel the lack of cold, despite the fact that it is not quite warm yet. You now know the cause of that warmth. The warmth we haven't felt since our few years on Azarath." Love now turned to look at Raven. Face to face Raven could see the image in her emotions eye.
"You love him, Raven. You can't ignore it anymore." All she could see in her emotion's eye was a tint of green, hinting at who she always had on her mind./p