Raven walked down the path and saw a nothing but blackness. She seemed to walk for ages and it looked as if she wasn't making progress. Something was preventing her from sensing both Beast Boy's and Slade's presence in the underworld. She felt nothing.

She finally stopped in her tracks. "Trigon! Do not give me injustice of finding them."

Trigon suddenly appeared. He was her size and stood before her with his biceps bulging and pulsing red. He stepped forward and blinked his smoldering yellow eyes. He had no pupils, but this didn't scare her. This was the father she grew up with before fleeing to her mother for knowledge. She stepped forward and came eye to eye with him. He was only a few inches taller, but since Raven started to hover, they were even.

"My daughter," Trigon breathed in a growl of a bear with rock teeth. "You wish for something."

"Give me what is mine."

"Why should I? You are in my domain."

"His time has not come. Do not let the scales of balance tip."

"He is already gone. A mortal has slayed him. The only way I would be able to exchange his soul would be for you to kill the man who released his soul."

"Show me where he is."

"As you wish." Trigon waved his hand in the darkness and a Deathstroke was on the path not even one hundred meters away. "But first, you need to listen to someone."

"Who?"

"Me," said a voice behind her.

Raven turned slowly. She saw Arella, her mother. The one she thought died. Raven backed away and let her feet hit the ground. Arella drew closer.

"Do not be afraid Raven," Arella said putting her hands up. "I am only here by Trigon's orders to comfort you"

"Why would you listen to him? He raped you. He doesn't need you."

"Unfortunately, yes he does. Since you are born as a result of my impregnation, we are forced in a vicious circle of life and death. I am a servent of him and I am a form of life and pacifism. Therefore, I am here as a balance of the scales. You are now under the pressure of choice. If you save your lover, you will be a murder of the winner, therefore you will tip it the scale. You will have to lose something valuable to yuou.

"If you don't kill him, reality will go on as normal. If you are killed, I believe I will be purged of my master's taint and light shall overcome, though it will be at the expense of your exclusion of basking in it. You must make a choice my daughter."

Raven pulled out the glass ball full of thick pink gas. She looked back at her mother. Her mother smiled. "Though I do not agree with violence, you are defying the choices. You leaving Fate to chance. Messing with a loom you do not know or feel the presence of."

"I suppose you are aware chance does not tip the scales."

"I am."

"Return him as soon as we see rather or not his chance of survival proceeds."

Raven threw the ball and let it shatter against his body. She created a shield around herself as it spread everywhere. She created a portal and dropped back into the real world. She used extra magic to create a bigger portal. She made it so big that the world collapsed inwards on itself. The world disappeared and she saw only blackness. She wasn't going to leave this up to chance.

Raven shot up. She was laying next to Beast Boy. He had his arm around her chest. She was cuddled into him. She sat up surprised.

"What?" Beast Boy said waking up startled.

"You're alive."

"Uh, yeah."

"Wha- how?"

"You didn't kill me when you kissed me, did you?"

"What happened?"

"Well, you overextended your magic when you were sick, so you woke up when I was watching over you. Then we talked and then we kissed and then you got me under the covers. And that's when you-"

"What's today's the date?"

"Um... The 2nd."

Raven fell back in his arms and kissed him hard. He was surprised and confused, but eventually he sunk into the kissing and forgot about whatever she was rambling about. When they got up, Raven went to the bathroom. She washed her face and then looked up. In the mirror was Dr. Fate. She looked behind her and gripped the sink. This was someone she wouldn't be able to fight and win.

"You turned back time," he said.

"How?"

"You tore a hole in time and reality. Did you not?"

"Yes."

"You understand the foolishness in what you did."

"I made no mistake."

"You have damned Slade. As far as history knows, he died from a heart attack. Now that Terra and the Mayor are still alive, you know what must be done."

"But Terra committed suicide."

"Slade is indirectly responsible for it though."

"Then I'll kill her."

"That can't be done. There is no need. As a result of her life still being preserved, you have inexplicably damned your mother under Trigon for enternity and you will take her place should you be killed."

"I'll make sure I don't die."

"No, you don't understand."

"What?"

"When you die, you will take her place. You will overthrow Trigon and rule in his throne with Beast Boy as your husband. You will be responsible for making sure death occurs. Beast Boy may not know it, but he is a immortal now. You have changed the rules of reality. Both of you will die at the same time. There is only hope for your offspring."

"That is my wishes."

"Then I am perhaps mistaken. Maybe you have won if this is what you wished for. But let's make this very clear," Dr. Fate stepped close to her face. "Don't mess with time again."

Raven nodded. Dr. Fate bowed and vanished. She smelled a thin scent of another galaxy. She smiled dryly. Then she gave a laugh. She would live happily ever after with Beast Boy, forever.

Six years later…

Raven held Heather. Heather was bright grey and she had her father's green eyes. Beast Boy sat across from her happy. Raven got up and laid Heather down in her crib and sung her an ancient lullaby intertwined with magical words that put her asleep. Beast Boy hugged Raven's stomach close and pressed his hips into her rear. She smiled and put her hand behind his head and pressed him closer for a kiss.

Raven smiled as Beast Boy carried her to their bed. They held each other. Raven, yes, that Raven who was once quiet. Who was once a depressant who didn't know love. Who tore apart reality and literally went to hell and came back for her lover. Yes, that Raven, knew the consequences of letting go of those she loved and how hard she had to go to get them back, was finally something she would have never shown or expressed six years back;

Happy.

The End