Above and Below
Prologue - The Ritual
Beast Boy sat perched atop the apartment complex he had become so accustomed to. A green hand running through his even greener hair, the other reaching for the joint that was so graciously offered to him. Jaded eyes scanned the city below as he brought it to his lips and inhaled the thing, his contemplative look slowly curling into a smile. The pink haired girl next to him slightly giggling as he handed it to tall red headed man with a goofy grin dazzling his features.
"If we were normal do you think we still would have been as awesome?" The green skinned teen asked suddenly. Jinx looked to him slightly intrigued by the question while Mammoth snorted.
"Maybe not you B, but I'm pretty sure I'd be awesome no matter what!" He chortled happily without a doubt in his mind that he was the awesomest thing since spray cheese (and regular cheese... and also just about all other cheeses too). Jinx sighed, exhaling a cloud of smoke vaguely reminding Beast Boy of a dragon.
"Who's to say this isn't normal?" her narrow eyes searching skyward as the question left her mouth. "What if we're the normal ones and all those people out there without power are the weird ones?" A moment of silence fell upon the trio as they sat, the joint almost gone.
"Then I'd say we're super normal in that case. And that they're some pretty lame weirdoes out there!" They laughed at the green teens "sage wisdom".
The three sat atop the building, just as they had for the past two years. Enjoying each others company. This had become their ritual. In a way it reminded him of the time he would spend with the Titans... Well sort of. They would eat together and "Crack the Wise" as Starfire would put it. He would play videos games with Gizmo or Mammoth or talk about the books Jinx let him borrow with her. Sometimes they would road trip out of Jump City so they could venture out into public without all the stress of being famous (or infamous in certain cases). And somehow they usually wound up here, on the roof of the apartment building that the HIVE Five called home. It wasn't much, just an old couch and a few chairs pulled into something reminiscent of a circle. A table littered with junk food old and new alike. And a tarp hanging above ready to be stretched out at a moments notice. This was their Temple and this is where they practiced the ritual of their friendship.
Beast Boy cringed as Mammoth lit up a rather large blunt. "Aww, Dude you know I hate those things." He complained half heartedly as he sprawled out in the old red recliner he had claimed as his own.
"Well it is a man's smoke." Grunted Mammoth as he took a drag of the said "man smoke". Garfield sighed as he took a sip of his cola, watching as Jinx took a deep hit. He stored away the mental picture of how the stars made her eyes sparkle as she exhaled tiny ringlets of smoke. And then it was his turn, a green hand reaching out to take the gift. He inhaled quickly handing it off just as fast, coughs following soon after.
"Bleh, I don't know why you always do that! Couldn't you have just rolled some more joints or brought the pipe or something?" Beast Boy whined through his coughing fit. Just as Mammoth was about to answer the sound of a door opening and a nasally voice could be heard calling for them.
"Hey are you guys done yet? I'm ready to beat the snot out of ya' on some Call of Duty!" Gizmo shouted gleefully as he bounded over to them. Beast Boy and Mammoth smiled as they stood while Jinx rolled her eyes, putting out the blunt.
"When I'm done with the both of ya' your gonna wished you'd never even heard of xbox!" Mammoth roared proudly.
"Want me to order a pizza guys?" The pale girl asked as they headed inside and a chorus of yea, sure and no duh followed.
As they made their way to Mammoth and Gizmos apartment Beast Boy checked his communicator, it wasn't to late so the other Titans hadn't called to check up him. Which really was fine because he knew they cared but he had told them as delicately as he could that he wanted a life outside the Titans too, "it was just to unhealthy to not have a social life" as he had put it. But really he thought it was just to weird, though he had never thought he would have ended up here. He smiled, messaging Cyborg he would be late tonight as he reached for a controller. Joining the other two males as Jinxed laid on the floor beside them contemplating joining them as she waited for the pizza. And just as he had expected the night would be full of laughter as the friends did as they always did.
This was their ritual, and for Beast Boy that was just fine.
Ok, this is the first fic I'm submitting, yea I know it's a little weird right now but trust me I have got some plans for it! And also I don't own any of this (duh) and if you like it maybe someone would beta for it (that would be nic)
