Future Raven stood up, still rubbing her temples, "Okay we have one shot at sending you back and sticking you to you correct time which is a little more than a year before Robin and I get married. And we have to hurry, if you are here to long your way of thinking could be altered, and it would be a hell of a mess. Not to mention I could disappear and then you'd be anchored here."
Raven shook her head, "Now that doesn't make sense. When this all first started, I spoke to a future version of Robin and he told me that we had been engaged for a year. Does he just propose out of the blue?" Raven asked.
The older Raven thought for a moment, carefully choosing the correct ting to say, "No, I'm sending you back to around a year before you FIRST get married. You were in the part of our timeline when it was a year before myself and Robin's second marriage." Young Raven's jaw hit the floor. Did she just find out that she will marry Robin twice?
"How does it happen the first time?" Raven asked in mild anger.
Older Raven sighed and shook her head, "I really shouldn't tell you. It's against the unspoken rules of time travel," she paused and thought for a moment, then said, "I have an idea. If you promise you'll follow a plan I have prepared for you when you return, I will tell you what happens, answer your questions."
Young Raven narrowed her eyes, wary of herself answering questions. She knew herself, and it wasn't like herself to answer anything, nevertheless, she agreed, "Fine. I'll follow your plan." Raven said, allowing her suspicion to show in her voice.
Future Raven raised an eyebrow, "Alright, shoot. Whadya want to know?"
"When And how does mine and Robin's relationship start?" Raven inquired.
Future Raven gave a faint smile, "Well, Beastboy will run away to Las Vegas, where he knows Terra is because he feels unwanted on the team. You and Robin will go after him about a year later, because you need his help, and you know what Vegas does to you... Well, you and Robin will get drunk somehow, I think we were trying to get information out of someone who kept buying us drinks, then Robin will get drugged by a gay guy and then, we wake up with a marriage license taped to my butt. At first, we try to get an annulment, but couldn't for some dumb reason so we had to get a divorce, we did and then..." she trailed off. He eyes softened and she rested her eyes on the floor in a sad manor. Her lip wavered, "Then I found out I was pregnant. I was 4 months along when I found out. I noticed when I started showing. I knew I had missed my periods, but I never thought..." she sighed, "we were going to keep it. And Robin asked me if I would marry him again when I was 7 months along. He wanted to be married to the mother of his child. So we got engaged, but the baby... Didn't make it. He died when he was a week old.
"By then, Beastboy was back, and he had Terra with him. He asked her to marry him but she turned him down. They broke up on the day the baby died. This is when my feelings for Beadtboy began. We had both lost what we had loved. I loved the baby, even though he wasn't planned, after he died I was overcome by depression. Beastboy had lost Terra when she first died, and she rejected him now that she was back. We grew close because we had that in common. But all the while I grew closer with Robin too. He was grief stricken as well when we lost the baby. I eventually thought I truly loved Robin, but Beastboy was in love with me. I still couldn't help be sad about my baby. Robin couldn't either. It was his idea, that since we were still getting married, and since we loved each other, and since we had put so much into it the first time, we should try for a second baby. That's when I started having doubts. Robin and I were trying for a baby, and it hadn't been two years since the night in Las Vegas. Things were going to fast. I felt like there was pressure on me to marry Robin and have a kid because of what we had gone through. Well, I had told all this to Beastboy one day when we were alone in the tower, just to get it off my chest. And, well, things happened, and I am not proud of it, but I don't regret it either. I had sex with Beastboy. And then I made him promise not to tell Robin, which he agreed to because he would do anything for me. But I was still going to marry Robin. I got pregnant again, and me an Robin got married and everyone came. Then I found out I was having twins. I was thrilled, but nervous, because I realized the Beastboy could be the father.
"Robin never knew. Then I had the twins, they were fraternal, a boy and a girl. The girl looked like me and the boy looked like Robin. I was so happy because Robin was he father, but then as they grew, I started to notice things about the girl. She had light, bright blue eyes, and the boy had dark, vibrant ones. I know that fraternal twins aren't supposed to be identical looking especially in boy girl twins, but the girl didn't look one bit like Robin at all. And when she was a year old, she had thin Carmel colored hair, was very bony, and had ver prominent freckles. She didn't even look like me anymore. And the boy had thick black hair and no freckles, he was looked healthier and was first to learn anything. I was worried so I secretly took them to a specialist who confirmed that both had my DNA, but only the boy had Robin's. That's when I realized the mistake I had made. I knew then that I had screwed up my life beyond repair so I thought I would just go back in time, but it didn't work out right and you got sent forward instead." She inhaled deeply and let out a long breath.
Raven was staring at the ground, she refused to believe everything she heard, "That's the most absurd thing I've ever heard! That only happens in books!" Raven exclaimed.
Her counterpart grabbed her by the shoulders, "You promised me you would go back in time and carry out the plan I give you! Please if it wasn't crazy then we wouldn't be in this situation!"
"If YOU weren't crazy then we wouldn't even be in this situation!" rRaven shouted. She huffed and rubbed her temples, "How bout this for a plan, I go back in time and make sure this never happens. It's that simple."
"Raven, look, I know I screwed up my- I mean, our life. So I get that you would blame it on me, but you have to get it into your unchangeable mind that we are one and the same," Raven sighed at her older self's words, future Raven continued, "Now listen, the only way we can be sure that things will change, the only way to send you back, and the only way to prevent Beastboy from leaving is for you to get your head into a state of mind that won't let him go. You have to know that you will stop him before he ever reaches Las Vegas. I can't tell you what to, I don't remember how I or Beastboy acted back then, but you do. Think of something that would make him stay, anything that might make him reconsider. As soon as you think of something you have to feel in your soul that that is your future, and then time will change so that I never use the time travel spell and therefor you never get sent through time and you end up some time in your life, close to when this first began and it will be like it never happened." Future Raven clasped her hands together in a pleading way.
A moment went by and Raven just stared at the ground. He future self was worried she had pushed her over the edge by telling her everything, but then, Raven looked up," I'll do it." she closed her eyes. She swam through her memories and thoughts, focus only on what Beastboy would react to. As she pushed her mind harder, she pressed her eyelids together harder and her chakra began to glow. She began to rise off the ground and her whole body became increasingly illuminated, until the scene around her apparently disintegrated and a new one began to form.
TT...TT
Raven slowly opened up her eyes. It was dark, and quiet. She blinked a few times as her eyes adjusted and she realized she was in her own room.
"It worked!" Raven whisper-shrieked.
She looked at her clock, 4 am. Kind of early, but she really wanted to see her friends, and be sure that her future really had changed. She slid out of bed and threw on one of her uniforms. She pushed a red button on a panel beside her door.
"Everybody meet in the living now! I have to tell you all something!" Raven spoke urgently. She teleported herself to the living room and strange as it seems, she waited eagerly for their arrival.
The end, for now.
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