I know this is really short. Inspiration just kinda sucker punched me and this is what it left me with.
BBRae, Rated T
Nothing else matters. It doesn't matter that I've over strained myself, it doesn't matter that I may have to amputate my leg, it doesn't matter that the others need my help, it doesn't matter that Slade has finally decided to take over the world. All that matters is that the man I love is about to leave me and he doesn't want to. All that matters is that Beast Boy is about to die.
Raven's mind was devoid of anything other than the green man she held cradled in her lap. Her trembling hands were poised over the hole in his stomach, the literal hole, but even then the blue magic that encased her hands was wavering and she quickly felt the faintness that came from the toll of trying to repair the mortal wound. He was bleeding out and she was about to lose consciousness. But all that mattered was doing all she could so that she would see that lopsided, toothy grin again every day. Somewhere in the back of her mind, her reasoning told her that he wasn't going to make it, but throwing logic to the wind, she tearfully continued to try. Her hands were dropping steadily, Raven's store of energy was almost dried up. She shut her eyes tightly, holding on to any energy she had left and pass it on to the fatally wounded animorph. A weak hand brushing hers made her eyes shoot open, hoping with all her heart to see a fully healed Beast Boy grinning into her face. But at most, all she had given him was a few more conscious minutes of life. His fading eyes stared at her and the bloodied hand that had caught her attention dropped onto his chest.
"Stop it, Raven." She stared at him incredulously.
"I can't! How can you ask me to give up on you when I can save you?!"
"There's nothing you can do, Rae. I don't want my last sight to be you hurting yourself trying to help me. There's nothing you can do." The light in his eyes was fading fast and she clutched his hand as the tears came.
"Beast Boy… Garfield, I love you. Don't say there's nothing I can do, I can't just lose you. You can't just leave me…" The tears streaming down her face dripped onto the torn glove she held closely and she didn't even give any notice to the explosion behind her that blew her hair around her face violently. Beast Boy smiled weakly, his fang barely showing.
"Raven, I love you. And I don't want to leave, but… I think it's time to say goodbye now."
"NO!" She tried to let go of his hand and continue healing, but his grip had somehow tightened so that she could do nothing but watch him bleed out. Somewhere in the background, Cyborg had just been flung through a building, but all she could do was stare into his face until his lids closed halfway and his once full of life eyes glazed over.
The feeling she suddenly felt brush against her heart wasn't grief, oddly enough. She felt empty for a moment, nothing mattered any more. There was nothing to fight for. Then Rage blazed through her chest and she realized: Slade took him from me.
In the moments before her second pair of eyes appeared and she shot up to ten times her size, angry tears streamed down her face and the name of her beloved exploded from her tongue. She didn't want to have to say goodbye.
So it was someone else's turn to.
Soooo, I don't know what prompted this much angst, but despite the horridly short length, I think the emotion came across pretty well. I hate goodbyes...