All Good Things
A/N: In a fit of boredom and trying to break the vice-like grip of my writer's block I began doing these little prompt pieces. It took me forever to think up 100 words to base these pieces around but here they are. Sadly my writer's block persists. Um…some of these are an attempt to be funny but I doubt they are. By the way this is actually the second chapter 9. The first one is on my livejournal and will not be shown here.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans. The title is taken from Nelly Furtado's song 'All Good Things come to an End'.
1.Rain
It shocked him the first time he realized it. How much Raven reminded him of the rain. She was a little somber, almost saturnine, and a little sad; but still sweet, and pure all at the same time. Every time it rains now all he's reminded of her.
2.Bruises
She's got bruises they can't see. The real ones, the ones that turn her skin that angry shade of purple and green, the ones she gets by healing them, fade soon enough. It's the bruises around her heart that linger on. The bruises that form every time he smiles at her.
3.Guitar
No one knows that she can play. She hides the instrument and her skill at it from prying eyes and pointed ears. She doesn't want to share this part of herself with them, not just yet. So she plays it secret. Lets it sing the songs her heart hears.
4.Mentor
It wasn't until he was completely alone that it hit him. Wasn't until he had systematically pushed them all away and out his life that he realized how much like Bruce he truly was.
5.Hot
He'd told her she was hot once. She left him in the tundra as a response. 'But', he mused as he pulled out his communicator to call for help 'that sweet blush of hers made it all worth it'.
6.Tonsils
It was the little things that made him feel normal still. Reminded Cyborg of his humanity. Having his tonsils out was one of those things.
7.Make-up
Jinx didn't wear make-up. No one made a cover-up for her particular shade of skin. But sitting there, watching as the red and gold swathed boy across from her checked-out the heavily decorated girls passing by, she couldn't help but wish she did; if only to get him to look at her like that.
8.Betray
Garfield can't help but feel like he's betraying her. For even as the blonde on his arm smiles and grasps his hand, his heart can't help yearning for indigo hair and amethyst eyes.
9.Righteous
She remembers clearly the first time her hands gained their signature green glow. The first time that anger had welled up inside her. She would never forget. After all how often do ones parents sell you into slavery?
10.Awake
She doesn't sleep much those first few weeks, when the team is still new. Her teammates nightmares are especially vivid, and she stays awake to avoid them. Besides she doesn't know them well enough yet to offer her assistance in chasing away their demons.
11.Black (1)
It shocked his teammates. Hearing that word, that one hateful, painful phrase spill from the lips of the villain they faced. It was one of the few times they were reminded that besides being a teammate, a friend, a big brother, a cyborg and a hero, he was also African American. And to some people that was the only thing they ever needed to know.
12.Vulenerable
He never feels so much like prey as he does when he closes his eyes. It's the one place he can't outrun the shadows and demons that haunt him.
13.Fathers
They all had daddy issues. It was one of many links that kept them together.
14.Jealous
Bumble Bee knew she'd never really had a chance with him, but that didn't stop the green-eyed monster in her from screaming, when she saw him with the pink haired girl.
15.Mothers
It's been nearly seven years since the team began and this is the first time they'll actually celebrate mothers. It's also the first year that they'll celebrate fathers. Children change everything.
16.Yelling
They didn't think there was anything wrong with expressing their love with loud, forceful arguing, despite what the others thought. It was when they were quiet that everyone needed to worry.
17.Lullaby
It was the only song Starfire could actually keep in tune, but Robin was sure that the baby in her arms was just fine with that.
18.Soul
Her soul did not weep when Trigon was vanquished. It sang, a phoenix song of celebration.
19.Dance
Jinx wasn't sure what made her do it. Didn't matter anyway. She'd already asked him and he'd already said yes. Maybe Sadie Hawkins wasn't so bad.
20.Literate
He doesn't want them to know. Doesn't want them know that he can barely read the simplest of phrases. But one day she asks and the story just falls to the floor. Surprisingly she doesn't judge or mock. Even more surprising is when she appears in his room the next morning with Dr. Seuss; she's determined to help him learn what he should've been taught long ago.
21.Titans
She couldn't help but wonder if it wasn't bad luck to name themselves the Titans. After all even the ancient ones were eventually overthrown, and Tartarus was a long way from the light.
22.Stay
It was the only thing she asked of him. But the call of Bludhaven was stronger than her adjuration.
23.Bastard
While she was normally tried to keep her language clean she couldn't help the expletive that fell from her mouth as she set the talking book aflame.
24.Rehab
Speedy fought them the whole way there. It would be months before he was able to call them and tell them he was clean.
25.Punch
It wasn't until Starfire began 'The Battle Hymn of Tamaran', that Robin realized that the punch had been spiked.
26.Mute
Jericho had never been happier about his enforced silence. He wasn't ready to let his new friends know that their greatest foe was also his father.
27.Church
The first time she walked through St. Benedict's doors, she expected it to rain sulfur and brimstone. It was a pleasant surprise when nothing more than a simple worship service took place.
28.Little
It's not till he's a good foot taller them her does he realize how little she truly is. And how perfectly her head fits the crook of his neck.
29.Flight
It was something the three of them shared. In the foggy, early mornings they would meet and spend hours coasting the clouds.
30.Flowers
He never gave her red roses. She didn't mind. Pink roses complimented her better.
31.Weapon
The first time she saw a gun it was being pointed at her. She didn't understand the danger until it was fired.
32.His
She had been his since that first (slightly forced) kiss. It wasn't till someone tried to take her away that he realized it was true.
33.Mate
The animal instincts in him recognized her as his mate. And when the world went red and the Beast came out, it was those same instincts that demanded he protect her, no matter what.
34.Cheshire
He knows that she represents all he's against. But she gives him that smile and all Speedy can think about is how beautiful she looks.
35.Happy (2)
The one time her cloak turned that strawberry shade of pink was forever etched in Beast Boy's mind. He had spent that whole day hiding from the hyperactive empath.
36.Hex
Cyborg had doubted her prowess once. After a day when all the shit hit the fan, he never doubted the power of her hexes again.
37.Size
Sure, Mammoth was a little slow and thickheaded. But he was also a good seven feet in height and in Gizmo's eyes that was all the qualifications for friendship that he needed.
38.Tightrope
He always left the circus before that part of the show. No matter how many years passed, he still saw them. Falling to the ground below.
39.Dad
Bruce never tried to replace his dad. He just wanted to be the next best thing.
40.Tattoo
It come as quite a shock, when they see the dark blue raven etched across her lower back in very permanent ink.
41.Spanglish
They barely speak English and the team knows minimal Spanish but somehow they manage to find a middle ground, however mangled it may be.42. Cookies They're surprised when her cookies turn out the right color and shape. More so when they realize that they were actually edible.
43.Football
Robin is an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan, while Cyborg loves the Patriots. Football season is never a quiet time in the Tower.
44.Home
For all its dirty streets, crazy people, and even crazier villains Gotham was still Robin's home and never did he forget it.
45.Crash
Cyborg didn't like to abuse his technology, but when Jinx suggested they used the holo-rings to crash the movie stars wedding, he found he couldn't resist.
46.Motorcycle
Starfire would never tell him but she liked it when he drove his motorcycle a little too fast; it gave her an excuse to hold him just a little bit closer.
47.Mood
Robin never was good at setting the "mood". But somehow she never seemed to care.
48.Mythical
Beast Boy liked the mythical creatures. What better way to distract your enemy then by appearing as a unicorn?
49.Hair
When she comes back with her vermillion locks barely skimming her shoulders, he can't help the gasp that escapes him.
50.Annoying
Raven swears she'll throw him out the window if she has to hear the song about a nautical sea sponge residing in a pineapple One. More. Time.
51.Language
Beast Boy doesn't know why they're surprised when he translates for them in Africa. Didn't they hear him when he'd told them he used to live here?
52.Volunteers
Robin spends his free time at a local dojo; helping young kids hone their skills, while Starfire volunteers at a daycare; playing with all the little kids. Cyborg spends his spare time helping kids with prosthetic and cybernetic limbs, while Beast Boy volunteers at the animal shelter. Raven spends her time volunteering at a crisis center, she may not be able to relate, but she can listen and that's all that counts.
53.Shutterbug
She bought him the camera in an attempt to distract him from her. Too bad he spent all his time trying to snap a picture of her.
54.Catharsis
After Trigon's defeat she cried for the first time ever. She had never felt such lightness before in her life.
55.Nuance
It always shocked her, how he noticed the subtle things about her.
56.Flibbertigibbet (3)
She called him a flibbertigibbet once. He broke into song about living hills in reply.
57.Banter
Jinx was comfortable, as long the relationship didn't leave the witty wordplay stage.
58.Snow
Azarath didn't get snow. Maybe that's why she didn't fight him when he dragged her out into the white fluff to play.
59.Delilah
Once he told her the tale all she could think about was if what it meant for them if he was Samson and she was Delilah.
60.Puckish
It was his smile that made her give him the Shakespearean nickname.
61.Christmas
It was the first holiday they celebrated together. The first time they all felt like a family.
62.Clean
It took days after the battle before the dirty feeling of Slade's hands on her skin finally disappeared.
63.Snuggle
Robin had never really liked lightning. But as the red haired girl moved closer to him seeking solace he figured it wasn't so bad after all.
64.Sisters
Starfire liked to think that she had three sisters. The one she was born with and the two she chose.
65.Clandestine
That was how she liked their relationship. Secret and away from prying eyes.
66.Serendipity
The Psions hadn't been headed for Earth. It had been the grace of X'hal that crashed them there.
67.Memento
He kept the jewelry box he gave her. It was the only piece of her that was left.
68.Namesake
It only felt right, passing on his alter ego to Timothy Drake.
69.Technobabble
She may not have understood a word he said, but it was okay by him. At least she listened.
70.Death
Death did not come softly for him. It came with a bang and the smell of sulfur, and the crazed laugh of the Joker ringing in his ears.
71.Dawg (4)
He hated that word. Hatedhatedhatedhatedhatedhatedhated that word.
72.Devious
No one knew she had it in her. All they saw was the sugar and spice and everything nice. It took a while before they realized that she could be naughty too.
73.Memory
It was better to let him think she didn't remember. She didn't want to hurt them again. couldn't tame the Beast. And watching as Adonis dared to attack her, he realized he didn't want to.
75.Amoebas
Raven had always wondered what happened to them. What she hadn't expected was for them to show up on the Tower door, all wearing Beast Boy's face.
76.Similar
They were too alike to be anything more than friends.
77.Brothers
They didn't look alike. But they were brothers nonetheless.
78.Nervous
When had it become so hard to talk? So hard to say, "Raven will you go out with me?"
79. Tongue-tied
He asked, his green cheeks oddly ruddy. She replied, cloak turning the faintest shade of gray as she stumbled over her affirmative.
80.Bubbly
His smile made her feel tingles and bubbles deep in her soul. Made her float and fly back up into the stars.
81.Goodbye
They had known it was coming. Watching as the new team entered their home they knew that goodbye was inevitable.
82.Babysitting
She didn't do children. At least not until those three showed up at the station, looking so lost and alone that she couldn't resist when they took her hands and led her away.
83.Man
It didn't matter that most of him was made up of metal. She looked at him and saw not the machine, but the man instead.
84.Beautiful
They were both gorgeous in their own way. One was sunlight and sunflowers; the other was moonbeams and moonflowers.
85.Sing
She sings because it's the only way to safely share her feelings.
86.Façade
He tries not to let anyone see what he's hiding. Tries to keep the pain and sadness at bay.
87.Hell
She's not sure if she believes in Heaven, but she's seen Hell and knows that there must something better than that.
88.Choice
If he had to do it all over again, he knew he'd still leave Gotham. His life would not be the same without the Titans.
89.Children
It isn't till they were looking through Starfire's old scrapbooks that they realized how young they truly were when it all began.
90.Rage
Her cloak had only turned that shade of red once. And the blonde girl was no longer around to tell the tale of what happened when it did. was willing to teach Starfire anything. Anything except where exactly babies came from. He just couldn't tell her that.
92.Gothic
The second time they called her Goth she handed them one of her Roman history books and walked away.
93.Lost
Angela knew that you weren't supposed to talk strangers, but she was cold, she was wet and she was tired of feeling so lost and alone.
94.One
They didn't think it was possible. But when their homes were threatened and all the world falling apart, they figured maybe, just maybe they could be one team. Robin drew the line though at changing the name to the Hive Ten.
95.Force of Nature
It was times like these that they realized how powerful she was. When she was aglow in green and wore the fiercest of smiles upon her face.
96.Relationships
None of them were any good at figuring out relationships. They hadn't had the best examples of how love worked.
97.Hello
They hadn't begun with the hellos and how-do-you-dos, but maybe that was okay.
98.Rocks
He sat on the rocks outside the Tower. They made her feel closer to him that way.
99.Snap
There are days he's wound up so tight that he knows its only seconds until he snaps, until he shatters into a thousand red, green and yellow pieces.
100.End
Just because they were no longer a team didn't mean that their friendship was over. Family has a beginning but never an end.
End Notes
1.As a minority I felt that it was kind of a cop out to use the robot issue in the Troq episode especially because Cy is black. So I addressed it here. I hope that no one is offended by the word usage that is implied.
2.For my birthday last year Kayasuri-n wrote me a happy Raven piece. This line is based off that story.
3.Flibbertigibbet is taken from a Sound of Music song. Sorry, I couldn't resist the obscure musical reference.
4.Dawg. I hate it when people write stories with Cyborg using this word. Evil, stereotypical word.
A/N: So here they are. I was hoping that this would help destroy my writer's block but no such luck. Still no breakthrough on my infertility story, or on my Harry Potter piece. Anyway review and let me know what you think of these prompt pieces.