Through You Chapter 13

Through You 13

Beast Boy suddenly felt a twist in his mind...and suddenly he was on a featureless plain, Raven standing before him.

Raven swallowed.  She knew what she had to say, but she also knew how dangerous what she was going to tell him could be.  But plainly, it would be more dangerous not to.

"Beast Boy," she began, "don't speak just now.  If I don't say it all now, I won't be able to get it all out."  She sighed.  "Beast Boy...I'm inside you.  Inside your mind, inside your heart.  Somehow, when that man killed me, my essence bonded to you.  And...it's my fault, what happened to Gizmo.  I had...merged with your primal side.  THe longer I'm inside you, the more my mind seeks solutions in your way...but when my primal side gets loose..."  She shuddered.  "I'm so sorry."  She met his eyes.  "Do you remember that book?  The one you couldn't read?  It...gave me the answers to what's happening.  I'm...not dead, not really.  And it also contains instructions for how to craft a tool you can use to release me - my mind, heart, soul, essence - from your body.  Once that's done, I'll return to my own, and live again."

She held up a hand.  "Before you jump on this, eager to do this...this particular book containes the darkest of magics ever to exist: necromancy, soul dominance, life eating...it came from my father's library.  I have no idea what using this tool will do to you.  But...the longer we stay one this way, the worse it will be for both of us."  She swallowed.  "When...when you come back to your body, you will have the knowledge to read the book, and craft the tool.  And...the shape of the tool and how the magic will work will be shaped by your mind.  That's...that's all I know."

She rushed forward suddenly, and threw her arms around him.  "Oh, Garfield...I'm so afraid...afraid that I'm going to lose you to the magic, or worse...to my father..."  She looked up, and suddenly kissed him, deeply, passionately.  "I want you to know, no matter what else happens, no matter the outcome...this, this situation we're in, it made me realize...just how much I love you."  Burying her face into his chest, she let the vision fade, and Beast Boy was returned to his body.