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Epilogue

Dreams

 

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Note: I thank my friend Ashraf for the title he gave me.

 

~GxJxR

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Raven gasps for air. She is floating in entire darkness. Cold and alone, she curls into a fetal position.

 

`Is this death? But I won… we should…' she cries in silence, when suddenly, she gasps for more air.

 

She looks around, and lay in bed. She looks around. Everything is fine. The walls are still there, and nothing is damaged. It's as if she never woke up because of Beast Boy in the first place.

 

She stumbles out of her bed, walking into the main room, where the other Titans and Crow stand. Crow's hair is the same as it was on his severed head and he has a scar around his neck, Beast Boy has a black blotch on his neck, Cyborg is charred slightly, Robin (who is shirtless) has a scar over his heart, and Starfire's skin has multiple scars on assorted parts of her body.

 

“What happened?” She asks the others.

 

“Raven!” Starfire gleefully hugs her, “I am so happy to see you unharmed!” She laughs.

 

“We don't know…” Cyborg says, “One minute I explode, and the next one I'm in my bed.”

 

“At least you guys got to wake up! I had to watch you all die before I woke up!” Beast Boy says. “The guy fucking absorbs me, and I have to wait until you're all dead before I wake!”

 

“Sorry Beast Boy, it must have been hard…” Robin says, and he turns to Crow. “What happened to you?”

 

“Decapitation. I hit the eye, and then it turned out that it is indestructible,” he sighs.

 

“Well, it wasn't a dream…” Raven says, “You all have scars…” She feels a pain in her back, and feels a scar. “We all have scars…”

 

“Yes, that's the funny thing about alternate realities…” a voice says from the doorway, “They affect the person permanently, and the person is thrown back to the real one after death.” Darke steps out from the doorway, and smiles.

 

“You're trying to tell me, that you made a whole alternate Earth just so you could kill us, and keep us from dying?!” Robin asks in anger.

 

“Yeah. I kill me!” He laughs, and he taps him on the forehead.

 

“Why did you do that?” Starfire asks, “Why keep us alive. Surely we will only get in your way…”

 

“Yeah, that's true. I really wanted to use that as practice…” Darke says.

 

“Practice?!” Beast Boy asks, confused.

 

“Well, of course. I need to know how you fight, and you should know how I do. It's simple, and gives us both equal terms to fight on at another time. Except for you Starfire. That was really foolish back there…” He says, in a friendly tone.

 

“But…” Raven starts.

 

“Sunlight doesn't really kill me. I'm just can maneuver better in the dark, is all.”

 

“You're twisted…” Cyborg says.

 

“And you're alive,” Darke states, smiling, “Next time, I won't hold back; it'll be for real.”

 

“Next time?!” Robin asks.

 

“Yes. I still intend on killing all humans,” Darke says, seriously. He turns into Shade, and walks off, “I will kill you all eventually. Just that time, I won't do it out of hate, but out of necessity. If you were alive, you would work against me, and my world order. But I don't want it to get between us, my killing you and all. I still want to stay friends with you all. In fact, I don't want to kill you, and if I could I'd let you stay alive. I merely want to get it out that when I do kill you all, it's nothing against you personally. I like you all a lot.”

 

“That's nice to hear,” Beast boy says sarcastically, “that you have nothing against us while you kill us…”

 

“Yeah,” He says, as he phases through the wall, and stops halfway, “oh, and Crow, I forgive you, and I hope you forgive me too.” He laughs, and walks off.

 

“And don't worry,” He yells back from behind the wall, “I promise not to kill you in your sleep, because I want you to see it!”

 

The Titans sit in the room, completely baffled, and lost for words.

 

“This guy is the freaky…” Starfire says, breaking the silence.

 

“It's good to know he has morals,” Cyborg says sarcastically, “Not kill us in our sleep…”

 

“You know, if you look past his wanting to kill humanity, he'd make a nice guy…” Beast Boy points out.

 

“He tried to make you kill me. He killed us all, and he's going to do it again. He wants to kill humanity… Nice guy my ass…” Crow mutters, cursing wildly afterward.

 

“I fear what tomorrow has in store for us…” Robin spills out, get to bed.”

 

The Titans split up, going into their selective bedrooms.

 

Raven slips into bed with Crow beside her. Crow falls asleep almost instantly, and Raven sits in bed wide-awake. It's only twenty minutes after they had met Shade when the whole incident started, all of that battle being a distant dream to the Titans for now.

 

Raven shivers, and stands up. She goes over to the other side of the room, and feels around the wall. She finds something she had never used in all her stay in the tower. There is a click, and her lights turn on.

 

Raven shuffles uncomfortably as she adjusts to the light, and closes her eyes.

 

 

She fears the dark.

 

 

The End