The penny

Lies and truths all come out

RAVENS POV:
As I was crying in my dream after seeing my father eat my loved one, I hear someone shout my name. Beastboy. I shout and cry till everything starts to fade. I feel him hug me and scream my name one last time. I awake and on instinct put my shield up.
BEASTBOYS POV:
And everything goes black. Wait but I didn't feel pain or feel like I got knocked out. I look around and notice it's pitch black but the items around me and raven are outlined in white. Then it fades and everything falls to the ground.

I hear a groan and look towards raven, I then realize it wasn't a groan it was a whimper. I inspect her to find out why she whimpered, I see one of my hands are tightly grasping her wrist. Why would that hurt her? I look at her and she looks so worn out, I loosen my grip and she looks a little more relaxed. I question this and pull down her sleeve with no warning.

RAVENS POV:
I use what power I have to stop everything that's going on, I then release my power from our surrounding and I hear everything fall. I would have groaned if I didn't whimper from beast boys sudden tighten on his grip, his hand was around my left wrist. He loosens his grip on my wrist so I relax a bit now that he has stopped clenching so hard. Suddenly out of nowhere he pulls up my sleeve where he can see my wrist. Shit.

He looks at my pale flesh, it has rough and smooth, long and small, thick and thin, scars scattered all over it. I can see in his eyes that the fake side of him, the kidding, fun, lovable side, or his mask is now gone and he is his normal self. As hard as a rock, as serious as robin when slade is the subject, and as cold as the joker when it comes to killing people. But over all of that is caring, sympathy, confusion, and something I can't quite place. But these were not the fake ones, no these are as real as you and me.

BEASTBOYS POV:
What I see is shameful to everything that has meaning in this dark world we call home. Her pale flesh was slashed with cuts in every shape and size imaginable, there were some that had pretty much healed that were now overlapped with more cuts. I saw the word worthless and if I wasn't so drained of emotion at that second I would have felt my heart choke on the blood running through it with every beat. My blood ran cold, I felt as though my heart had stop beating for the sake of being stabbed over and over again. All the emotions my real self had were now the only ones there. Suddenly the real emotions of sympathy caring confusion and love were there, sure i had experienced them but they were so strong at this moment like if they held real power beneath the meaning of them. We sat there forever me staring at the cut wrist and her staring at my face to catch any glimpse of my next actions. I was going to ask "Why?" when the alarm went off and we heard running down the hallway, I quickly hid the scars and got up. We looked at each other in the eyes, robin came in and yelled something till he left, I didn't hear him nor did I care.

"C'mon we have a job to do." I said before turning to leave.

"R-right." She stammered before hesitantly following me.