“I let you see the parts of me that weren’t all that pretty…” (two are gonna play this game)
Sentence Starters: Pop Songs
They never let them go on the same mission together.
Even Beast Boy notices. It’s not that they can’t fight together; no, they fight almost too well as a team. It’s the pain that sends Raven teleporting away, locking herself in her room for hours of meditation before she can face them again.
But they can’t run away from fate forever.
"We might not make it out of here alive."
”I know.” he sighs. ”As far as I can tell, we’re the only ones still on the radar.”
He can still hear her, see those sad eyes despite his attempt to focus on the T-plane.
”I let you see all the parts of me that weren’t all that pretty…”
"Did you? Wasn’t Stone supposed to cover those parts?”
”Jinx.” he says, because he can heart the unsteadiness of her voice. ”I’m half machine. But there? There, I was all human.”
It doesn’t even scratch the surface of the pain they’re both holding, of betrayal and misunderstanding. And she wants to scream at him, hex him, curse him, and be held by him again. But — perhaps it’s for the best. In an hour, there’s a good chance that they both won’t have to deal with what could have beens. So she does the only thing that feels right. She tells the truth.
"Despite everything, I’m glad I met you."