Raven awoke with a gasp. She had a headache. Something that shouldn't be possible. Whatever was in the gas, Trigon was right. That would kill a mortal.

Raven sat up and swung her legs over the bed. She felt utterly mortal, but she knew frrom the constant immaturity from Beast Boy, headaches would go away in a few days. Raven used a spell to repel the headache,but it didn't work. Raven felt a burn in her veins. She tried to hover. She couldn't. She concentrated and managed to get a few centimeters off the ground before a sharp pain overcame her head. She fell down on her hands and feet.

She knew she was still immortal, but still... It felt so different. She got up and straggled out her room. She took the elevator down. She stumbled and caught herself in the middle of the hallway. She grasped the walls and walked herself down the hall. She finally got the strength to stand on her own two feet. However, she still moved slowly. Magic was now a drain.

Raven gave out a sigh. She was sweating with exhaustion. She moved through the corridor at a slow pace, but she got to the living room. She needed to get to food. Food wasn't required, but it did make healing processing much quicker. She got to the kitchen. She managed to see around the corner. Robin, Cyborg, and Starfire were eating their varieties of breakfasts.

Someone walked around her. It was Beast Boy. He looked back at her. He had water in his hair and despite her constantly getting on him about it, he was wearing her shampoo. He looked concerned instantly.

"Are you alright Raven? You don't look so good." He touched her hand and felt the sweat. He pulled his hand away. "Whoa. Did you have another adventure or something?"

"I'm.." She fell on her hands and knees. She vomited blood on the floor. Beast Boy stumbled back. The Titans were running to her in an instant. Beast Boy flipped her over and Cyborg did a full body scan. Raven's eyes were blurring grey.

"Beast Boy," Robin yelled. "What happened?"

"I don't know man. She was just looking sweaty and she didn't look good."

"Cyborg, is she okay?"

Cyborg finished his scan. "She needs food. She has a sickness that gives her a more humane quality. She probably tried to do magic after someone or something gave her extreme pain."

"But she's a literal demon and half goddess. She can't be hurt."

"Well I'm seeing signs of it. So whatever did this to her, it could kill us in an instant."

There was a sudden silence before Raven screamed in pain. The Titans got back to work. Starfire quickly got a shiny liquid. It was bright pink. As soon as Raven's dim eyes processed the color, she started to freak out. Cyborg held her down. Beast Boy got her feet after she kicked him a few times. She tried to become angry and unleash her demonic powers, but that didn't work and only gave the benefit to her restraints. She became weaker.

"Her magic is hurting her," Beast Boy yellto. "Starfire get some of that blueberry smoothie. Strawberry ain't cutting it. Now!"

Starfire quickly replaced the flavor and the color. Raven stopped struggling as the color's gave her a calm tranquility. Beast Boy gave Raven little by little. She swallowed and she was rewarded with another taste of blueberry. She let him feed her, and it kind of felt good to cared for.

She let herself fall into a trance of Beast Boy's face. The concern felt so surreal and then it felt dreamy. She was already slipping into a restful state of mind. Why not let herself experience the luxury of bliss? After what she just went through, she had definitely paid the price for it. No one could deny that.

She kept the peace for as long as could, and then she felt the tug come. The tug on her third eye cueing her her time was up. She turned back into reality. She was done living in her dream for the time being. She wouldn't let the fantasies of a perfect life with Beast Boy and harmony consume her. Everything happens for a reason and the fact she was born into the blood of Trigon was no mistake. Fate had delibertly damned her to pick up his role as ruler of the underworld.

She woke up in her bed. She was being monitored by Beast Boy. The person she wanted to see most, but didn't want. She couldn't tempt Fate to give even more tragedy to her immortal life. She couldn't let a mortal, a annoying but cute mortal, be ended in a devastating way that would crush her. It would bomb her emotionally and even mentally. No, she couldn't let her love be shown.

"So you're up," Beast Boy noted.

"Why are you in my room?"

"Because it's my shift to watch you."

"You-"

"No... I didn't touch anything."

Raven felt a little smirk on the inside. That means Beast Boy had to watch her. At first she was about to smile, but then her face dropped to the slightest bit of horror. She talked in her sleep. Beast Boy must have noticed because he smiled widely.

"How did you exactly keep yourself occupied?" Raven asked.

"I mean... If I can't touch your stuff, obviously I was bored. SL I listened to you rambling."

"What does everyone know."

"We know about how much you loooove the Saturday cartoons. Especially the one with the ponies." Raven's heart sank slowly. "About how you love cherries and pancakes and ice cream. We heard about how you have a generous heart and like to cast spells to help humanity because you like the sunshine." Raven looked at the crazy hyper grin she secretly loved so much.

"Anything else?" Raven tried to sit up, but she decided against her judgement at the last second. Beast Boy nervously tapped his two pointer fingers together.

"There is something you said that I haven't told the others yet."

"What?"

"To water it down a lot, you talked about how you... You know, sorta had a crush on me. You talked about how you wanted to escape reality and live happily ever after with me. Then... You said you wanted to have kids..." Raven blushed. "That's when it really got weird, you started talking about how you wanted me to tie you to the headboard of a bed and f-"

"Okay!" Raven cut him off rather embarrassed. "I get it! So what?"

"I was wondering..." Beast Boy became once again interested in tapping his fingers. "Do you... I don't know...want to try to make it work."

Raven's heart ceased to beat in the moment. Time seemed to freeze. She felt as if this was one of those irreversible choices that would decide the future for her. If Beast Boy really had considered this, which he had quite a lot of time to do so, he knew the risks and their consequences. Could she indulge iin her happiness for once. Her mind told her no, but something now changed. She made up her mind. If it was the good of humanity versus love, it came down to this moment.

Fuck the world.

She nodded. Beast Boy got on his knees and she pulled him up onto her bed and kissed him. She got on top of him and continued to kiss him. She let her built up rage come out as she battled for dominance with her tounge. They came to a tie and just started pressing their lips together. The waves rolled in a soundless beauty against the Titan Tower shore and there might as well been roses to give a symbolism of a romantic night.

But in the depths of the underworld under the nine circles of hell, Trigon watched asure his evil inheritance would pass on to his daughter in a fitful rage. It seemed her life was like poetry; Blood, Love, and Tragedy. Not even Shakespeare or Edgar Allan Poe could compose a more beautiful story, even if they collaborated. Almost as forbidden as an apple, unthinkable as incest, and unrealistic as Hell's fires freezing over. Only one word could describe these roses and lilies.

Passion.