Destined For Each Other
I Told You, You Are NEVER Alone
A/N: Sorry guys for the long wait! But I've been RIDICOUSLY busy! : ( Well Here's the next Chappie!! : )
P.S. This is the first time me and Raven2K8 are working together to write a story…so let's see how it goes! ; )
Oh! And incase you're wondering, this is sort of a continuation of Chapter 2.
Disclaimer: I'm speaking for both of us here, neither ME or Raven2k8 own the Teen Titans!!!
It had been a long sad week. A week since Beast Boy died and left Raven as a widow mother. Raven was abruptly left alone, to raise her daughter hope without her father. Hope was too young to fully understand. After all, she was only four years old when Beast Boy died. And when Raven woke up that morning to find Beast Boy not breathing and without a pulse, it gave her a heavy and broken heart to tell Hope that "Daddy is on vacation."
Hope took the news well, only because she didn't truly know what happened to her father. The excuse worked for a few days before Hope began to get impatient for her father's return.
"Mommy?" Hope asked as she got up from playing with her toys. Raven looked away from the window.
"Yes Hope?" She asked gently, bending over to look her daughter in the eyes. But what she saw in Hope's eye was sadness and confusion.
"When is daddy coming back home?" Hope asked innocently. Raven felt her heart stop. She felt fresh tears stream down her face. Hope turned her head sideways.
"Mommy, why are you crying?" Hope asked, began to grow worried
"Hope sweetie…" Raven began as she bent down on her knees and grabbed Hope in a hug.
"Daddy…isn't coming back" Raven said brokenly. She felt Hope shake in her arms.
"Why? Where is he? I miss daddy" Hope said sadly as her own tears ran down her small face. At seeing her daughter cry, Raven began to cry even harder.
"H-he's in a b-better place." Raven said trying hard to be strong for her daughter's sake.
"Why did he leave mommy? I love daddy" Hope said between her sobs
"He…he didn't leave, sweetie. He was taken from us" Raven said that last part hatefully; remembering the last mission they were on. The last night she ever got to spend with her husband; Beast Boy
[Flash Back]
The Teen Titans were called down on a routine bank robbery. Nothing big, just a group of thugs trying to pull a fast one, but of course would have to pay it big time. The real issue was who was going to stay back and look after Hope. Beast Boy volunteered to stay back again, but Robin insisted that Starfire should stay behind. Beast Boy decided it would be wise not to go against orders and tagged along with Robin, Cyborg and his wife; Raven. But unfortunately for the Titans, this was no ordinary hold up. The thugs were notorious and ruthless criminals all the way from Liberty City. The Titans made it over to the crime scene and were immediately caught in a brutal gun fight. Dozens of Police cruisers and even the Jump City SWAT team were involved in the dire situation.
"Stand down!! You have nowhere to run!" Robin shouted from behind the T-Car.
"Not a chance kid! I have plans for this money!" One of the men shouted from inside the bank. Then all of a sudden, one of the deranged men shot off a grenade from his grenade launcher, blowing up a row of police cruisers. The other three men went trigger happy with their sub machine guns and shot everything in their sights.
"Titans GO!" Robin commanded as the four heroes ran out of their cover and evaded the storm of bullets. Cyborg stood in front of everyone, and reflected all the bullets from the thugs. One of the mad-men pulled out a rocket launcher from his gym bag and shot it straight at Cyborg, sending him flying straight back into the T-car, flipping it over in the process. Robin quickly jumped away and flipped himself in front of one of the bank robbers. He grabbed his arm and elbowed him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Beast Boy morphed himself into a raptor and jumped from behind Robin and jumped the second criminal. Meanwhile Raven was easily dodging the projectiles that the third outlaw was blasting at her. Suddenly, one of the missiles came at Raven too fast, but she made a dark force field in front of her at the last second. The impact however sent her falling down from high above the hard unforgiving pavement. Raven saw the asphalt closing on her, and to her surprise, she couldn't stop herself. She braced herself for hard and painful impact, but it never came. Amazingly, Beast Boy saw her fall in the nick of time and quickly morphed himself into an eagle and caught her before she hit the ground. Cyborg returned from behind the flipped over T-car and rammed the missile wielding bandit into the wall, knocking him unconscious.
The group of outlaws were all battered and defeated. They groaned in pain as a small army of SWAT troopers ran in to place the men in custody. Beast Boy flew down and placed Raven safely on the ground, landing right next to her. Raven grew a smirk on her face before she did something unusual. She went ahead and leaned in and gave her husband a kiss on the cheek. It was very unusual for Raven to show public displays of affection, but the wide grin on Beast Boy's face made it all worthwhile for her. But the smile on Beast Boy suddenly changed to a cry of pain as he fell to the ground.
Raven was in shock as she watched Beast Boy fall to the ground. Everything was in slow motion for her. When she looked back up she barely heard the sound of the main thug yelling out in fury before a group of officers tackled him to the ground. Raven looked back down to see a puddle of crimson grow around Beast Boy. Realization hit her; she bent down and frantically tried to heal her husband, but it didn't seem to be working since he was losing too much blood, too fast. Raven didn't hear the screams coming from Robin and Cyborg, and she certainly didn't even notice them stand over her asking her what happened. But her hearing returned as she kept hearing Robin ignorantly ask what happened.
"HE WAS SHOT!! SHUT UP!! I'M TRYING TO SAVE HIM!!" Raven yelled at the top of her lungs as she continued where she left off. But to her horror, her magic wasn't doing much help. Robin bent down and ripped off his cape and wrapped it carefully around the fallen Beast Boy's body, to stop the excessive bleeding. Beast Boy was going through compulsions. He was breathing heavily and forcefully. He chest was rising and falling unevenly, and his body was twitching. Raven cried as she saw Beast Boy suffer through the pain of being mortally shot.
"We have to get him back to the Tower! NOW!" Cyborg said as he carefully placed his arms underneath Beast Boy's back. But as soon as he lifted him up, Beast Boy began to scream and cry out in horrendous pain.
"PUT HIM DOWN!!! YOU'RE HURTING HIM!!" Raven screamed again. Cyborg did as he was told. Raven used her magic to gently levitate Beast Boy above the ground. She then teleported everyone back to the Tower's Medical Bay. She placed Beast Boy on the nearest bed and Cyborg quickly got to work. He placed numerous wires all along Beast Boy's chest. Raven watched in horror as she watched her husband on the verge of death. Starfire came in, informing everyone that she placed Hope to bed, but was confused by what was happening. Robin took Starfire and Raven outside and explained what to Starfire. Starfire placed her hands over her mouth as tears ran down her face. Raven couldn't bear to listen to the story again before she turned to enter the Medical Bay again. But she was stopped by Robin's hand on her shoulder.
"Raven you should wait out here. I'll go help Cyborg, you just sit out and try to relax" Robin ordered gently. Raven's face grew angry but before she could argue Robin entered the room and closed the door. Raven slumped down the wall and began to cry in her hands. Starfire sat next to her and held her in her arms. Raven leaned onto her shoulder and continued to cry.
Hours passed before Cyborg and Robin finally came out the door. They had straight faces, but when they looked down at Raven they grew sad frowns. Raven took this as horrible news. Without thinking she pushed past them and ran over to Beast Boy's bed. Beast Boy turned to look at Raven and grew a sad smile.
"Hey Rae…I got shot" Beast Boy tried to chuckle but instead coughed painfully
"Beast Boy, stop! Now is not a time to joke!" Raven said in between heavy sobs. Beast Boy looked up at his wife, and frowned sadly. He lifted his arm slowly, and wiped away her tears.
"I'm sorry Rae, I think it's all over" Beast Boy whispered regretfully
"Beast Boy, don't talk like that! We have a daughter to raise! You c-can't leave me a-alone!" Raven was crying uncontrollably, causing Beast Boy to also cry.
"Raven, I was shot…with 10 bullets to the back. It's amazing I'm still alive" Beast Boy explained dejectedly
"Beast Boy, y-you promised. I would never be a-alone" Raven continued to sob, causing her purple framed hair to fall on her face. Beast Boy again raised his arm painfully to place her hair behind her ear.
"Raven, trust me…that is the one promise I'm going to keep" Beast Boy whispered again. Raven looked to see him smiling at her. She couldn't help but smile sadly back. Beast Boy looked back at the ceiling and yawned quietly.
"Hey Rae, I'm beat. You wanna sleep here with me tonight? I doubt Cy and Robin will let me leave the room tonight" Beast Boy scuffed playfully, causing Raven to smile.
"Sure, just make some room." Raven ordered as she climbed onto the small bed and laid down next to Beast Boy. Beast Boy summed up all his strength to wrap his arms around her perfect-slim waste. Raven turned around to lay her face on his chest softly, careful not to hurt him. She fell asleep to the sound of her husband's strong heartbeat. Beast Boy fell asleep to the intoxicating smell of Raven's lavender shampoo, and there they slept together.
Raven awoke to the morning sunlight beaming In her face. She groaned in exasperation.
"Gar close the blinds please" She grumbled. No response
"Gar?" Raven asked quietly. Again no response. Raven then realized that she didn't feel a heart beat from his chest. She began to panic. She immediately got up and saw that Beast Boy wasn't breathing. She just stared with heartbroken eyes for several minutes, before finally falling on top of his chest and crying hysterically.
[End of Flash Back]
"But will daddy ever come back?" Hope asked sadly after hearing the tragic story of her late father.
"I-I'm sorry sweetie…but he's gone. F-forever" Raven said brokenly and remorsefully. Hope began to cry again, with Raven joining. Before long, Raven wiped her tears away and hoisted Hope up on her shoulders.
"C'mon. It's time for bed" She whispered sadly as she left the common room and headed for her lonely room. She looked inside to see it was dead. Without Beast Boy there to breathe life into the room, it seemed dead, just like Beast Boy. Raven shook the horrible thoughts away as she placed her sleeping daughter on the bed. She looked down at hope and began to tear up again. She looked so much like her, but she had so many qualities from her father too. She had Raven's purple hair the framed her small face, she also had pale skin like her mother, but her skin was a pale green. But what really gave away that Hope was Beast Boy's daughter, was her pointed ears. Raven felt herself get emotional, so she bit her bottom lip and laid next to Hope.
Raven allowed her tears to fall freely onto her bed. She knew it had been a week and two days, but she had never learned to experience death properly. She cried and she cried.
Her sobs grew heavier until it began to hurt her chest. The pressure on her chest mixed with her exhaustion made it hard for her to remain awake.
As much as she denied herself, sleep took over her. It seemed more of a mystical pull then that of physical but nonetheless, she couldn't hold out any longer.
Raven's Dream
Raven awoken in a dark place, in the middle of what seemed like a trench. She looked around and saw no escape around her.
At her sides she saw the tall stone walls which were about a foot away from her left and right. She was in a very small area with no way out.
She closed her eyes in hopes of escape but when she reopened them she only saw a small opening in front of her.
'Better than staying here.' She said to herself in a dreary tone.
She squeezed through the tiny opening and walked on. The beginning of the journey was extremely hard. She crawled through many different obstacles, stepping on many small stones and scratching herself on sharp rocks protruding from the walls.
She almost felt the need to give up, but her dreamlike state prevented her from making any decisions on her own.
She crawled through one more hole and emerged in an oasis. She took a few steps more and realized her feet were now walking on pure white sand. There was a small stream trickling bi leading into a big pool in the center of the land.
She made her way over to the pool almost running there. She knelt down to the pool and saw the blue water begin to circle counter clockwise soon revealing a familiar face.
It was that of Beast Boy's!
She began to cry as her tears fell into the pool. The tears did nothing to the smiling reflection. Almost as if he were untouchable. This thought made her sob even harder into the pool still not phasing the pool.
The water began to lift up in a small cyclone and circled around her. In the cyclone she saw Beast Boy's full figure in front of her. She reached out her hand to touch him but felt nothing.
Though she was surrounded by the water, not a drop got on her. She did not see any of the liquid touch her, but she felt soaking wet.
Soon the water started to make its way back the pool and drain itself. The water was disappearing into the sand and she ran for it trying to salvage whatever she could.
The water simply slipped through her fingers and she once again wept.
Raven awoken once again but this time she held a child in her arms.
Hope had probably come in looking for comfort, she had been dreary lately as well, and who could blame her? She lost the only father she had.
"Hope, sweetie are you okay?" Raven whispered gently
"Yes mommy." Hope replied happily. Raven was a little surprised at her response.
"Are you sure honey?"
"Yes mommy, I saw daddy in my dream. He was in the sky." Hope answered with a smile very similar to her father's. Raven sat up in a fast motion but in a way she wouldn't alarm Hope.
"Are you sure you saw daddy?" Raven asked, confused.
"Yes, daddy was smiling at me from the sky."
"Hope, why don't you go find and play with aunt Starfire for a little while?" Raven remained flabbergasted.
"Okay mommy." With that, the little girl got up from her mother's bed and made her way out of the room. Raven knew she really needed to figure out why she and hope had similar dreams about Beast Boy, but right know she just wanted to see his face again.
She made her way to the bookshelf and pulled out a large photo album. She opened it and immediately was greeted by a picture of her and her late husband kissing at their wedding. He had looked so handsome in his tux. She smiled down at the picture and closed the book.
She needed to desperately find some control of her emotions, and quick. It was time for a trip to Nevermore.
Raven walked over to her dresser and had to stop herself from crying when she saw some of his clothes on his half of the drawer. She couldn't get rid of them just yet.
She picked up her mirror and closed her eyes.
"Mommy, auntie Starfire went out with uncle Nightie, can I stay with you?"
Raven turned around quickly to see Hope walk by her. The portal rapidly opened up and Raven along with Hope were immediately sucked in.
Raven drew Hope close to her chest as Hope screamed in fear of the travel. When they finally landed Hope had been crying into her mother's shoulder.
"Shh it's okay sweetie, everything's going to be all right." Raven listened to Hope's tear cease as she put her down and wiped her tears away with her hand.
"Now do you want to come with me or do you want me to send you back home?"
"I wanna come with you." She said still wiping her tears away with one hand and taking hold of her mom's with the other.
"Okay, now we're going to see a couple of weird things down here, can you be brave for me?"
"Yes." She replied with a small smile.
"All right."
Raven and Hope began walking down the rocky path. Raven looked up at the 'sky' and saw it was a slightly lighter color than usual.
Raven had expected a change to Nevermore, but she expected it to be darker than usual. She noticed the farther they walked, the lighter her surroundings were.
Soon she and Hope were walking on light grass, and naturally Raven assumed they were in Happy's realm, but they hadn't walk through the entrance yet.
"DADDY!" Raven was interrupted from her thoughts due to Hope's scream.
She felt Hope release her hand and run to the large tree Beast Boy had been sitting under. He was surrounded by Raven's other emotions all listening to him.
"So then I said, with teeth that big, you could open a surf shop!" Beast Boy delivered the punch line to Raven's emotions, who all cracked up in response.
"BB!! I-if y-you keep these jokes up, I-I'm gonna need stitches!" Happy said between giggles and laughs
He had apparently been telling jokes making the group around him laugh when Hope had interrupted them.
"DADDY!" Hope screamed again as she ran toward him. Beast Boy stood up only to fall back down as Hope ran into his stomach and pushed him down.
"Hey baby, how are you doing?" Beast Boy yelled out gleefully, hugging his small daughter tightly.
"I missed you daddy." The small girl cried into his shirt as he gently stroked her hair and whispered into her ear trying to quiet her.
"I missed you too. And I want to hear what you've been up to, but can I talk to your mom for a while?"
"Okay." She slowly got off him and finally realized she was surrounded by about twelve of her moms.
"Wow, are all you guys my mom?" Hope asked with wide eyes
"Yes sweetie." They all replied in unison.
Hope now let a huge smile grace her lips as she went to go talk to her multiple moms.
"So how's life Rae, I wouldn't know anymore." He smiled his perfect smile and took one of her hands in his.
Raven's face was that of shock mixed with confusion, sadness, anger and relief. That of loving and longing. That of hope.
When Beast Boy let out another chuckle, she finally spoke.
"If Hope weren't here, I'd slap you." She said with no actual authority behind her words.
"That's not what's stopping you." He replied with a chuckle.
"Then what is?"
"The fact that I have your hand."
"How can you joke like this? Do you know what I've been through the last week? I've been an emotional wreck without you!"
"I know Rae; I've been in your head."
"Gar please." Raven said pleading to him to explain what has been going on.
"Okay okay Rae, but let's sit down first." He took her by the hand and sat down beneath the tree in the middle of the circle of emotions. They settled down and Gar began to tell his story. All of Raven's emotions sat crossed-legged and stared at Gar with fascinated eyes. True they already heard the story before, but they couldn't help seeing their "husband" in the "flesh."
"Actually it was partly yours and Hope's fault that I'm here. Your love for me kept me alive in your minds. But that was only the beginning." He began, only pausing to kiss Raven on the cheek.
"While I was dead though, I kind of asked death, this really big creepy looking guy in a black robe, if I can stay with you guys. Of course he refused, but once I remembered that I had made a promise to you that I would always be with you, he had no choice but to let me come back." Beast Boy finished with a grin, holding his arms out as if saying "ta-da!"
"That's it? He just let you come back, no strings attached." Raven questioned.
"Well not exactly, he said I can come back but only in your mind, and at least one of you guys have to visit me every day for the contract to stay in effect."
"Well that's no problem." Raven said with a small tear tracing down her face. "But what about me and Hope's dream? What was that about?" Raven asked curiously. Receiving a chant of agreement from her group of emotions.
"I had to find some way to get you in here! I couldn't really talk to you yet, so I needed to do something to get you in here. Of course I can't take all the credit, your emotions helped."
"How would that affect Hope as well?" Raven asked again
"You guys have a special mother-daughter connection that grew stronger after I died. I guess what I did to affect your dreams, affected hers too."
Raven smiled up at him once more as she pulled Hope into her arms.
"Whoa I just realized something!" Beast Boy said with astonishment
"What is it?" Raven asked concerned
"For the first time in my knowing you, I knew more then you did." He said laughing once more. Raven exchanged her smile for a smirk and punched him in the arm.
"Ow Rae! Geez! Come back from the dead for a girl, and this is how she repays you!" Beast Boy exclaimed rubbing his arm. All of the emotions around her laughed. They were all acting out of character, but her emotions would eventually revert back to normal. After getting used to Beast Boy being around in Nevermore.
"Mommy, Daddy? Can we bring uncle Cy, Nightie and Auntie Starfire here?" Hope asked excitingly
"Maybe later honey." Raven answered with a smile, looking up at her living husband
"Yeah sweetie, right now we're having family alone time." Gar said as he kissed the top of his daughter's head and then kissed his wife passionately.
A/N: Well there ya have it guys! Me and Raven2K8 put our heads together for the first time to give you guys this one-shot! I REALLY hope the long wait was worth it! Oh! Don't forget to give credit to Raven2K8 as well! She helped with half! Lol! Anyways until next time! ; )
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