The Truth Of Life- BBRAE One-Shots

Eyes

Everyone's eyes display their deepest emotions. It shows fear, love, sadness, joy. All in a person's eyes. Sometimes you can tell because of tears. Sometimes because their eyes open wide in a happy manner. But sometimes, you notice it because of their specific color.

Raven Roth and Garfield Logan of Titans Tower have the most peculiar eyes you'll ever see or come across. Raven's eyes are a dark violet, a raven at night, glowing, amethysts. They display the one part of her she hides with all her might- her emotions. Garfield, better known as Beast Boy, has a peculiar shade of green eyes. Instead of normal, light green eyes, they shine as emeralds, a dark green, not his skin color shade, but darker. They display the one thing he tries to hide with all his might- his sadness.

His laughter covers it up. Her silence covers it up. He looks up. She looks down. The team doesn't see the pain in their eyes. For his parents. For her mother. For their friends. It is displayed in the very lines of their eyes, from the pupil to the edges, sadness roams, like it is crossing a desert in search of water, but never finding it.

She feels other's emotions. He blocks his pain from her. She blocks her pain from herself. They tell themselves it will all be alright, when they know, in their eyes and their hearts, that it will never be.

When you look at her eyes you see bottomless pools of violet water, twisting, splashing, trying to find it's way home. When you look at his eyes you see a green sky, birds flying and circling until they come so close only dark green is shown.

When they first saw each other, the pain in their eyes wasn't as bad. They could handle it enough to keep it reaching that far. But if you lock grief away, it grows like vines on a wall, taller and taller, even if it eventually bounces, no surface to support it. Over time, their sadness grew as it only saw darkness, no sun. They didn't say anything. Didn't speak. Didn't dare. It would have been their doom. But they had the sense to fight for others, even if they didn't feel like fighting for themselves.

He saw her pain first. He knocked on her door constantly, trying to make her smile, trying to make her laugh, hoping, no, wanting, to no longer see the pools of violet that grew in her eyes.

She saw his pain second. When he let his Beast out, she saw his eyes clearly. She saw the green sky. She tried to comfort him, eventually hugged him, tried to open up to him. All of them. She didn't want to see the green sky reflected in his eyes.

Attempts failed. They tried again. Another failure plummeted them a little deeper underground, like something was breaking the very ground they were standing on, and it couldn't be built again without cracks in it's surface. Nothing seemed to work. Did sadness rule supreme? Did it tower over them like a god, holding its scepter, while you begged for clemency? Did anything defeat it?

They discovered their cure on their annual vacation to Florida. It was hot, humid, wet. Mosquitos bit them every year, and again Beast Boy forgot to bring the bug spray. They scolded him, except Raven. She grabbed his arm, dragged him to an empty room, and hugged him. "I forgive you." She whispered in his ear, and looked at each other. He had expected a punishment, but it had not come. They realized they had someone who cares. For a moment, the sadness subsided to a clear violet stream that flowed through her eyes prettily, and his green skies were free of birds. But she stepped away, and it came back.

They were afraid. She was afraid. Of what it would mean, what would happen. He just wanted her to be happy. She wanted the same for him, did she not?

Resentment ran its course as the two Titans watched the only other couple in the Tower do their own things. Why was their love life so difficult?

She sat on the roof, alone once more, wishing he would come sit next to her, tell her it was okay. He sat with his best friend, not alone, but deprived of who he really wanted, which made it all so much worse, wishing she would come down and play a round of video games against him.

Then he came. The super villain they called Storm Hunter. Lightening struck. Thunder crashed and she was the easy target. He leaped to save her, but lightening always finds it's target. A scream, a sob, a resounding thump.

Doctors in white coats and nurses in blue scrubs surrounded her. His skies became more cloudy as she sank into an even deeper coma. The whole Tower was gloomy, but he had a thunder cloud above him. It struck him and made him feel as if every part of him was guilty, and he felt it. It was more pain than he had ever experienced. Physical pain didn't even amount to the pain he felt, and though no one saw, his eyes displayed it. He cared about her. He loved her. And he never had the guts to get to her, to tell her his feelings that were bursting from inside him, trying to find a way out. And now...well, he tried to hold his tears back.

He walked down the streets to the hospital, rain pelting his uniform. Opening the door to the frenzy of the lobby, he made his way upstairs to her room. He grabbed her lifeless hand and gave it a squeeze. "If you can hear me, I love you." He whispered to the sleeping beauty. He pressed his lips to her forehead and made to go. She heard him.

She blinked hazily and looked around, knowing he was near. She heard him, understood it, and felt it back. As her eyes focused, she saw him, his back turned leaving.

A tiny tremor in her hand stopped him, and he turned back. Amethysts filled his vision. His heart felt ready to burst at seeing the girl he was told might not ever open her eyes again stare at him once more.

So overcome, he leaned forward. She didn't resist. There lips met on the hospital floor, and she smiled, for the first time in a long while, happy. He did the same.

Insane, absolute joy was the only thing that could describe their feelings. Brighter than the sun, greater than the loudest firework. Their love completed them, and they never denied it to each other.

Raven Roth and Garfield Logan loved each other.

The violet river stopped churning, the green skies cleared.

Their eyes never showed sadness like that again.