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Library, Sunday 07/08

After taking care of returned books and going through the shelves to make certain all the books were in their proper place (the US Space Program books seemed a little melancholy and needed some cheering up), Raven settled at the front desk with the course catalog for Gotham U. She was at least going to try to narrow down her choices from the overwhelming number of classes the school was offering for the fall. Maybe she'd give Dinah a call to see if they might end up in any class together.

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It could be like a race! See if Raven could get to Evan before he could pull himself back into one piece!

"I can imagine," Evan replied with a little smile. He didn't have to grow up with the shadow of Apocalypse looming over him, but he was getting a bit of a taste for how hurtful it was, being accused of genocide before ever even thinking about doing wrong. "Doing the right thing is its own reward. Saving lives, making people happy..."

It felt good to do that.

If he was ever in more than one piece they were going to have a serious discussion about avoiding that, young man. Raven would not approve.

"I am motivated in part because I wish to prove that I am not my father's daughter," Raven said, nodding. "But it is so much more than that. To help my friends, to heal someone, there is no word to truly express how much joy it brings me."

"It kind of makes you feel like you're... you're more real somehow, when you know you're making some kind of difference in someone else's life," Evan offered. "I mean, a good difference. Even if they don't know it was you."

Beaten and bleeding at the hand of the villain, the first time he'd ever heard the name Apocalypse, and it had been... been Angel, but someone entirely different, throwing feathers like knives and leaving him crumpled on the ground, and Evan hadn't won. He hadn't. But it had been enough. The day had been saved and it was poison and knives and electricity ripping through his body and had hurt more than anything, but it had been so vibrant. Like everything before then had been a dream, had been perfect in that way that only dreams can be, and his world had faded away and that one moment had been the first real thing he'd ever done.

"It's like the whole world comes together in a way it never did before, when you do something that really, really matters."

"In Azarath, my home, I studied, I learned how to use my gifts, but it was rare that I had need of them," Raven said. Not to mention it was hard to feel like she was making a difference when most everyone shunned her.

"But since coming here, yes, I do feel like I have made a difference. I have made some mistakes, but I even more I have helped my friends, healed them, protected them from harm. It has made me believe in myself instead of what others may have told me."

"So... here's a good place for that. For proving that you're who you decide you are."

That made Evan smile a little. Yeah, he liked that. He liked that a lot.

"I'll prove it, you know. I'll prove it to everyone. That I'm me, I'm just me. And nobody else. Just like you did."

To the people at his last school. To people who were upset because he existed. To anyone who ever called him 'Kid Apocalypse.'

He was Genesis. He was Evan.

"I have no doubt that you will," Raven said, remembering how she'd been so determined to do the same, and mentally wincing at little at how she'd almost screwed that up by trying to handle things on her own. She hoped that if Evan ever had to face such a situation that he would know his friends would stand beside him.

If. She hoped even more that he wouldn't have to deal with something like that.

Of course he wouldn't have to!

Right?

... Right?

"Thank you, Raven," Evan murmured, still smiling that little smile of his. "It's easier to believe that when there's someone else there who believes it, too."

"It is," Raven said. Her friends' faith in her gave her strength, and not just because she feared disappointing them. Just the fact they believed made her feel stronger.

"And I will always believe in you, Evan, I promise you that," she said. She hadn't known him long, but she didn't think his earnest nature could be feigned. And he was a kindred spirit in a way.

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