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"20 Years"

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Prologue Part I

After All

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-Robin/Nightwing-

She asked me, 'Forever?'

She disappeared that very day. And I failed her. I promised her forever, yet in a few weeks we each parted ways. Now I'm the only one standing in a cold, empty city that is a mere shell of what it was before.

This, all of this, is my fault.

Yet I can't leave this city riddled with memories, because I still hold on to that thin strand of hope that maybe, sometime in the future, I'd meet her again.

Every night I stare at the broken monument of the Teen Titans and pray that today, today she will appear to me.

It's been twenty years.

I'm still waiting.

-Beastboy-

We told each other we'd all be okay. I mean, lots of teams break up after a while. We promised we'd stay in touch, that we'd still be friends.

But we all knew deep inside we weren't okay. We knew this breaking up tore each of our hearts into tiny ragged pieces. Because we had been a family. Because we had loved each other.

It was hard on all of us. Suddenly I was without a place to stay or anything to eat. Sure, I could ask one or more of the other Titans for help. Yeah, right.

I didn't care I was getting my butt kicked all the time. I didn't care I was cold and hungry. Until she stopped recognizing me.

Raven. She was the one who acted like it was nothing. She acted if breaking up didn't really matter to her. I should have known better. But I swallowed everything she said. I didn't really want to think about it.

At first I went to see her quite often. I think I showed up at her doorstep practically every day. As if by some unsaid promise, we never used our communicators. Occasionally we met up with Cy. Robin never showed up. We didn't try to force him our company. We all knew he was cut the most when Starfire disappeared.

But slowly, but surely, we drifted apart. Maybe we were all occupied with our own problems, with our own work. Maybe we just didn't feel together.

I didn't realize how much Raven was hurting inside.

When I arrived at her place, after a year had passed since I last saw her, the first thing I noticed was that every single piece of furniture was gone, even her beloved books. The next thing I noticed was that Rae was mumbling to herself.

I called out to her, grabbed her shoulder, my animal instincts crying out that something was wrong. Horribly wrong.

She blocked me out, yelling something about me not being her friend, about me not really being there.

I tried. But she was too far gone for me to reach her.

I gave up. On her, on Cy, on life.

-Cyborg-

I've been stuck in this tower for what seems like forever.

Not like I really tried to get out of here. There isn't anywhere to go.

Nothing interests me now. I just live for the simple reason that I'm not dead yet.

A/N There's too many of these kind of fics, but I just couldn't help it!!

Anyway, WB gave us twenty empty years to deal with, we might as well fill it up!

This is sort of a drabble thing, so it might not be up to my usual standards(which weren't very high to start with).

Tell me what you think about it by a wonderful thing called reviewing!

P.S. Raven is not here because she is insane by this time.