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Post by quiteashame on Mar 4, 2005 17:56:41 GMT -5
This is a BB/Rae, Rob/Str mentions, Cy/Jinx mentions fic. This is a ONE-SHOT (meaning that it has only one chapter) - Things in Italics are writings.
- Single quotes are thoughts.
- Double quotes are diologue.
- Lots of 'l's is a scene change.
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Post by quiteashame on Mar 4, 2005 17:59:26 GMT -5
Nothing Ever Changes Raven sat alone in her darkened room, just like she had done thousands of times before. Usually around this time of day, she would be reading in the common room or meditating on the roof, but today was different. Today was special. She was impatiently waiting for the digital clock in her room to hurry up and shift from 6:35pm to 7:00. She had not been this eager for time to fast forward since the ride home in the T-Car before she found out that the book that she was reading contained Malchior. She had been waiting all day for 7:00 to arrive, but the longer she waited, the slower time seemed to pbutt by. It was indeed the longest day of her life. Out of sheer frustration, she took out her diary and began to write. llllllllllllllllllllllllllll It has been four years since the Teen Titans were formed, and everything is the same. You’d think that after all that time, some things were bound to happen. Events would occur that would change everyone’s lives forever, but nothing has changed. Sure, we’ve had our share of maniacs that were convinced that they could destroy the world. Some even came close, but they never succeeded. We always seem to stop them. We always win. That never changes. Everyone is still the same as when I met them. Nothing ever changes.
Take Robin, for example. He is still our leader, though I’ve never doubted that that wouldn’t change. He does a good job for the most part, but whenever Slade somehow comes back after we ‘kill’ him, things get ugly. He becomes obsessive. That hasn’t changed. He is just as obsessed with finding out who Slade is as he was when Gizmo first uttered his name three years ago. His ‘Slade room’ still exists, but he knocked down the walls to some of the adjoining rooms to make room for his ‘evidence.’ I can’t tell you how many fragments to Slade’s mask that he has collected. I think the count was up to twenty-three the last time I checked. I guess that I understand why he does it, though. Robin is forced to live in the shadow of his former mentor, and let me tell you, that is one big shadow. Robin is determined to make a name for himself, and in his eyes, catching Slade is the way to do it. Nothing ever changes.
Starfire. It is hard seeing her as anything but annoyingly over ecstatic. Out of everyone that I know, Starfire is the only one who I knew would be the most constant. I do not believe that she has been anything but her over joyous self. Starfire still gets confused about Earthly rituals and customs, but she has learned a lot. I am still grateful to whatever higher power that exists that she chose Robin as her ‘guide to the wonders of the Earth’ as she puts it. Even through her naivety and her joyfulness, she does, however, have her serious moments at times. Although, it takes a lot to bring it out. Usually, it is something that Robin did… or didn’t do. Nothing ever changes.
I watched, unwillingly of course, since day one of the Teen Titans, as our fearless leader and naive alien girl instantly fell in love. I can’t stand how they act around each other! They both are in love with the other, but are unsure of the extent of the other’s feelings toward them. That isn’t what makes them so difficult to be around. It is that they are constantly flirting with each other whenever Robin isn’t in his ‘Slade room’ or Starfire isn’t trying out one of her new recipes. I can’t stand it! I just wish that one of them would realize that the other is flirting with them and get together already. I blame Robin entirely. He prides himself in his observational skills. His observational skills!!! What makes it worse is that my empathic abilities allow me to be able to feel what they feel. I learned really quick how to not to use that power, but their love is just too strong. I am forced to feel it! I can’t tell you how close I am to either killing them both or just screaming out that they love each other, ending this madness. Yet, if I killed them, I would be sentenced to death, and if I told them… I don’t even want to think about how much love that they would feel. Nothing ever changes.
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Post by quiteashame on Mar 4, 2005 18:00:15 GMT -5
Then there is Cyborg. He is still half man, half machine, but that can’t change. Cyborg is still the same person that he was when I met him. He is also one of the most normal. If it wasn’t for his cybernetic half, he would just be an average human teen. However, Cyborg has always been the most mature, yet that sentiment gets scraped when paired up with Beast Boy, but I won’t go into that. He is obsessed with rotting his brain (at least I think he still has a normal brain) with video games, clogging his arteries (if he even has arteries) with cholesterol from all the food he eats, and he still harnesses the longing to be normal again. Almost since the beginning of the Teen Titans, Cyborg has had his car, the first of two things that he cherishes more than life itself. I think that he views his car as his one connection to normalcy. I’ve seen the shows on television where they show that every teen boy becoming obsessed with ‘their ride,’ and I’ve noticed how many people have adopted it as normal. The boys in Titan’s Tower are no exception. Robin has his R-cycle, Cyborg has his T-Car, and Beast Boy… Beast Boy has his dreams of someday owning a moped. He’s hopeless. Nothing ever changes.
As I mentioned before, Cyborg cherishes two things more than life itself. The first is his T-car. The second is something that surprised everyone but me, Jinx. Cyborg and Jinx have been dating for about a year now, and they are getting along pretty well. I always had a feeling that my self proclaimed big brother would at least try to get together with the one that he loved. That never changed. Ever since that first battle against the three Hive academy students, Gizmo, mammoth, and Jinx, he had thought that she was, and it annoys me greatly to write this, cute. He wouldn’t dare admit it to the others, but he let it slip a few times while I was helping him with his car. His thoughts of her have never changed. It was only after brother blood was finally defeated that she had a chance to escape and live her own life. It just so happens that the life that she envisioned involved her ‘Stone,’ and I have a hunch that it always has. Nothing ever changes.
And then there is me. I’m still me. I still chant my mantra when I meditate and before attacking. I don’t know why I do that, though. I don’t really need to say ‘Azerath Metrion Zinthos’ when attacking. My powers don’t require it. I guess I’ve just grown accustomed to doing so. I still prefer to be left alone in my secure, quiet room. I still enjoy the darkness, which is ironic now I think. I still get annoyed whenever Beast Boy and Cyborg argue about which is better, meat or tofu. They even, to my utter horror, named me their official mediator and forced pounds upon pounds of tofu and meat down my throat. That was the nastiest combination I have ever tasted. I still try to be as stolid as possible, even though I know that it wouldn’t hurt to show a little emotion now. I’m still the same Raven that I always was. Nothing ever changes…<br> …and Beast Boy is no exception. Beast Boy is still the same Beast Boy he has always been. He still gets too absorbed by his video games to notice anything around him. He still likes tofu, for reasons I have yet to determine other than his vegan diet. Beast Boy is still the emerald colored changeling, and I doubt that even is we could change that, he would. Being green is who he is, and it doesn’t bother him as much as he told me it used to. He says that it’s because he’s finally found friends… among other things. Beast Boy is still one of the most annoying people that I have ever met. He will not give up on anything, and, for one, am thankful for that. Beast Boy still tells his lame jokes, and has yet to hear me laugh at one of them. I let a smile slip once, but that is as far as he’s going to get. Beast Boy is still Beast Boy. Nothing ever changes.
It is true that Beast Boy has never changed, but it is only recently that I realized who the true Beast Boy was and still is. Beast Boy is too absorbed in video games to notice anything around him, yet the games are not why he plays. Cyborg is. He and Cyborg formed a bond when we banded together as the Teen Titans. They became fast friends. Beast Boy plays video games to keep that friendship together. Any other time, he’s getting on Cyborg’s, and everyone else’s, nerves. He plays games with Cyborg, because it is one time where nothing he does can have a negative impact on their friendship. Beast Boy and Cyborg have fun while absorbed in video games, and it brings them closer as friends. They would never change. Nothing ever changes.
Beast Boy still likes tofu and tries to get me to taste it, he is still an expert in telling lame jokes, and still manages to annoy the hell out of me, but I found out why a while ago. He does it to try and get closer to me. If I could go back in time and change one thing, it would be that I wouldn’t have decided not to use my empathic abilities on Beast Boy. This realization could have come a lot sooner. However, the past cannot be changed, and I am stuck with the present. Nothing ever changes.
I found out that Beast Boy cares for me, more than he has cared for anyone else in the past. I was such an idiot not to notice the way he acted around me, but then again, I guess Beast Boy is partly at fault too. Amidst all of the hatred I carried for that green shrimp, I cared for him too. The thing that I never told anyone, even Starfire during my unwanted girl talks with her, was that I could even go as far as to say that I… I… I loved him. I could never risk telling him, though. I was afraid. I was afraid that he would reject me, or even lead me on like that damned dragon did. Beast Boy is partly to blame for that, too. I only fell for that dragon because I though that Beast Boy didn’t like me. Anyone would make the same mistake if you had to live through “You’re creepy” or “Why are you so mean” ever day. I never imagined that he could love me too. He always had, though. Nothing ever changes.
We found out eventually, though. I was on the roof, meditating, or at least I was trying too. I had felt as I had always felt, alone. I wanted to be loved by someone. I wanted to be loved by Beast Boy. I wanted to tell him that I loved him, but I couldn’t. I was too afraid. It turns out that Beast Boy was too, but he at least had some courage. He found me, and spoke more seriously than I have ever heard him speak. He was rambling, but I swore that I heard the word “love” in his long sentences. My heart skipped a beat, but immediately sunk when I realized that he was probably wanting me to console him over the loss of… her, but I was wrong. Without warning, he kissed me. Sparks flew, literally. My shock had triggered my powers, destroying several windows below us as well as the flood lights on the roof. Beast Boy pulled away, and I stood there frozen in place. I couldn’t move. Beast Boy took this as a bad sign and started apologizing. I didn’t know if what just happened… really happened. It was too good to be true, yet it was. For the first time in my life, I smiled a genuine, warm smile, which instantly caught Beast Boy’s attention. It was his turn not to be able to move, so I decided to return the favor. I kissed him. We were happy. Each of us knew how the other had always felt. Nothing ever changes.llllllllllllllllllllllllllll There was a knock on Raven’s door, causing her to lose her train of thought. Noticing that the digital clock in her room now flashed 7:05, she smiled happily. Raven rushed to the door, with her newly re-obtained white cloak flapping behind her. On the other side was what she had been waiting on, Beast Boy. He gave her one of his trademark grins and offered her his arm. “You ready?” He asked hopeful. “I guess.” On the outside, Raven was as stolid as she had ever been. However, she was ecstatic on the inside. She was still the same Raven. She gladly took Beast Boy’s arm, and he led her down the hallway. “So, where are we going.”<br> “Well, I was thinking that we could go to the tofu emporium.”<br> Raven cringed at the word “tofu.”<br> Beast Boy let out a low chuckle. “Just kidding Raven. I thought that we would go to that nice Italian restaurant across the street from the coffee house that you like. I hear that it is good.”<br> “That sounds… nice.” Raven leaned on Beast Boy’s shoulder as they walked down the halls arm in arm. “Hey Beast Boy.”<br> “Yeah Raven?”<br> “Please… call me Rae.”<br> Beast Boy smiled and laughed silently. “Anything for you, Rae.”<br> As they walked into the garage where the T-Car, and their chauffeur Cyborg, awaited them, Raven took one last look at her past and thought. ‘I hope nothing ever changes.’<br>
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Post by quiteashame on Mar 4, 2005 18:00:56 GMT -5
I had to seperate it because it was too long by itself. ;D
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Post by Starfire on Mar 4, 2005 19:09:40 GMT -5
That was awsome! ;D
That was one of the best storys I've ever read!you should write another one!
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Post by DragoonBane on Mar 4, 2005 21:32:41 GMT -5
hey1 you posted this on fanfiction.net! and you will just have to read the reveiw from there cause its still the same! the reveiw that is!
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Post by quiteashame on Mar 4, 2005 23:50:31 GMT -5
hey1 you posted this on fanfiction.net! and you will just have to read the reveiw from there cause its still the same! the reveiw that is! I posted 'Comatose' on Birdfire (an R/S shrine) too, and I might just post it here. ;D
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Post by ImWithStupid93 on Mar 7, 2005 10:20:39 GMT -5
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Post by quiteashame on Mar 7, 2005 16:01:12 GMT -5
OMG! That was Terrific! With a capitol T! It was long, but a lot of great stories are long. Please write more! ;D Since you asked nicely, I'll post some of my other stories here as well. However, you must know that this was my shortest one.
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Post by JesFriendMagnet on Apr 1, 2005 18:51:33 GMT -5
This was awesome, dude!!! Lol, I had to tell ya, so I emailed you. lmao.
This one, along with "comatose" and "what is love" and "you make me feel" and "lone titan" and every other story you've written are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! you're a great writer! And I love ((I spelt it right again!)) reading your fics.
~Jess
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raven100
Likes BB/R.
my pic relatez 2 my life! is there any 1 4 me?
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Post by raven100 on Apr 11, 2006 7:24:07 GMT -5
that was reallg good u need 2 write some more
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Post by Moonchild10 on Jun 2, 2006 13:07:02 GMT -5
That was amazing ^_^ I have a nice fuzzy feeling now. I love your stories. Comatose made me cry.
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