Fan Fiction ❯ For Always and Forever ❯ One-Shot

Kinsha: This is a one-shot that I rote cuz I was bored and had nothing better to do. Please don't hurt me cuz I haven't updated mi other story! I just have no ideas for it rite now. Oh yea, I don't own the Teen Titans cuz if I did, I wouldn't be writing this, I would be writing the scripts for the shows.

 

 

To think they were my friends… Heh, it's impossible to see how I could have been so dumb. As soon as she left, they were done, we were done. There was nothing to hold us together. I saw it in him right as she left to follow that twisted man, Warp. The undying sensation of despair. If she had stayed, it would have been different, it would have been better. We wouldn't have drifted apart. We would still be in the tower. Robin, now Nightwing, would be with her. Cyborg would be in the garage, working on his “baby” with Bumble Bee who joined our ranks only a few short days after the incident. I would be with him, my old love, the Changeling, the comedian of the group. I don't think any of them realized how much I needed their support. Bu I still have one question. How did I love him? He's so pathetic now, we all are. Well, except for Nightwing. He's the hero till the end of time. It's funny when you think about it; Starfire traveled there, the end of time…

Now all we have left of her visit is the baby of the fiend Warp. He caused all of this. It serves him right. After what he did, we should kill him. I'll do it; I've become immune to pain after all of those years in the dark. I've become an unfeeling spinster, just as Slade said I would…

But have I really become unable to feel pain? Just a few moments ago, the men were talking among themselves about what to do with the baby. Now they have turned to look at my quiet form with such despair in their eyes, it took all of my strength not to break down and begin crying. I no longer needed to worry about my emotions getting the better of me; the Titans helped me that much. Instead I gazed back at them for a minute before shrinking back into the shadows, not only of the building, but of my soul as well. It didn't work though. I had forgotten how fast Nightwing moved. He had anticipated me doing this and came in and found me in only a few moments. Heh, I guess I've become rusty with being alone for so long…

But then something happened that even I didn't think could happen in the dark of the old building. He saw them, the scars that will never heal. He has realized it too. First he stared at them on my arm, slowly lifted his head to look into my eyes. After staring at me for a few minutes, I thought he would let go. Instead, to my complete and utter surprise, he pulled me to his chest and hugged me. This was it, my breaking point. I couldn't hold the tears of 20 years any longer. His shoulder now a soft blanket to press to my face, I let loose all of the bottled up feelings I had carried for so long. He just held me as though I was a young child. After a few soft hushes and a bit of soft whispers of “everything's going to be alright,” I was able to lift my head to his.

Then it hit me, I had missed him more than I would ever miss Beast Boy. I was cut even deeper to my heart when Cyborg hobbled over, tears running down his human eye. I couldn't stand to see him cry like that, so when he reached us, I lifted my hand to his face and wiped the tears away with my thumb. He then squashed both me and Nightwing together in a hug bear hug. Wrapped in their warm embraces, I turned my head to find Beast Boy. His expression was one of slight disappointment, but that soon disappeared as he walked towards us. As soon as we realized we didn't know where he was, we looked up to see a green puppy falling. I reached out and grabbed him and brought him into our hug of friends. `No,' I thought. `We're not just friends. We're family.'

It was at that point we felt the presence of another in the room, besides the baby Warp. We turned to see a 36 year old Starfire, as beautiful as ever, standing in a corner. As we looked around, we saw we were no longer in the warehouse, but in the Tower, looking as wonderful as when we first left it. We looked to each other to see that we had also changed. We looked younger, fitter, and in much better clothes.

This was when their minds began to forget the past 20 as new memories of the new 20 years filled their mind, just as they did mine. I think I was the only one that realized that this meant that Starfire was right about the Eternity Clock changing our future.

I may not be able to remember all of the 20 years of suffering, since the last, happy 20 years took up a lot of room, but the one thing I will never forget is the feeling of longing at Nightwing's touch. And as I gazed at him, I could tell, neither would he because of that significant glance I just got that made even me, the Emotionless Ice Queen, blush.

“We'll be together through thick and thin!” cried Cyborg, whose extra battery cell lay forgotten on the ground behind him.

“Through thick and thin!” yelled Starfire, Nightwing, and Beast Boy.

As they gazed at me, I finally knew exactly what to say.

“For always and forever.”