Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans.
Author's Note: This chapter is an alternate ending of the episode 'Betrayal' (Season 2 Episode 10)
*I WOULD RECOMMEND WATCHING SEASON 2 EPISODE 10 (BETRAYAL) BEFORE READING THIS FANFIC. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON, TERRA HAS JUST TOLD BEAST BOY THAT SHE HAS BEEN WORKING FOR SLADE THE ENTIRE TIME SHE WAS A TITAN*
FMF
You & Me
Chapter 1: Returning
"She's not your friend; she's my apprentice."
"No! Terra would never!"
"Beast Boy, it's the truth."
"Terra," Beast Boy said, fighting back tears. "Why?"
"Because you could never give her what she needs," Slade said, clearly smirking behind his mask.
"You don't know anything about her!" Beast Boy shouted, pouncing on Slade in all the vicious animal forms he could think of. Slade managed to get a few good hits on him, sending him crashing into an already broken mirror. Terra gasped and hesitated before attacking Slade.
"No! I won't let you hurt my friend!" She said, her fists glowing a bright yellow.
"Dear child, you don't have any friends," he replied, getting up from his recent blow from Terra.
"I'd rather have no friends than work for you!" she cried, sending a rock into his direction. His good reflexes allowed him to dodge it easily.
Terra didn't know what exactly made her changed her mind. Seeing Beast Boy in pain must've been what done it. Since she agreed to be Slade's apprentice she had second thoughts. But at the moment she realised that this wasn't who she was meant to be. She was a Teen Titan.
She quickly ran over to Beast Boy and examined his wounds.
"Aw man, they're deep," she said, offering her hand to help him up. He grunted in response and rejected her help, standing up by himself. "We need to get back to the tower, we've got to help the others."
"And just what are we going to do when we get there? Walk through the doors and say, 'hey, I hope we're not interrupting anything, but the reason that you're being brutally attacked right now is because Terra has betrayed our trust and was Slade's apprentice all along!' They won't want to see you, Terra," Beast Boy said, clutching his wounded shoulder.
Terra thought for a moment. Before she could reply, she felt strong arms roughly wrap around her.
"You are my apprentice! You belong to me, Terra!" Slade shouted, tightening his grip.
Back at the tower, things were finally looking up for the rest of the Titans. They seemed to have the upper-hand in battle, and the sooner they wrapped things up, the sooner they could repair everything that had been broken. Including Beast Boy's heart.
Within seconds, Slade has released Terra due to a certain green lion sinking it's teeth into his side. Slade screeched and collapsed, allowing the couple to get away.
The duo ran as fast as they could to get away from Slade. They eventually slowed their pace after getting out of breath.
"That was intense," Terra said between breaths. "Thanks for the save."
"Terra," Beast Boy said, stopping to look at her. "What happens now?"
"I don't know," she replied, stopping with him.
"You were- you were Slade's apprentice!" Beast Boy shouted as if he was just processing the information.
Terra jumped back, startled by his sudden outburst.
"I-" she started, but he cut her off.
"No! You betrayed us! You deactivated the security as Titans Tower! My friends are being attacked as I speak!" he cried, quickening his pace. "Don't you have any idea what this is going to do to them? Starfire is going to be heartbroken! Robin's going to be pissed, same goes for Cyborg, and Raven," he paused, not sure just how this was going to affect Raven. "Well, she never really liked you."
"You think?" Terra scoffed, knowing that the empath was never fond of her.
"But that doesn't mean that this isn't going to have an effect on her. She may not have been too keen on you, but she trusted you. We all did."
"I-I'm sorry Beast Boy. I truly am," she said, tears forming in her eyes. "Is there anything, anything that I can do to make it up to you? To make it up to the team?"
"What do you want from us?" he asked, but he knew that deep down that he wanted her to stay with them.
"I want your forgiveness. I'll leave you alone forever, I promise. I just need to know that you don't hate me," she replied, her gaze never meeting his. "D-do you hate me?"
Beast Boy thought for a moment before answering. "No, I don't hate you. But how could you hurt them? Hurt me? After everything we did for you, after everything we gave you?"
"Slade, he helped me; saved me from myself. He thinks I owe him," she replied, her attention apparently focused on her gloved hands.
"Do you think you owe him?"
"Well, yeah, I don't know! I would repay him, but what with? Blood and bones? He wanted me to eliminate all of you. I don't think I could ever bring myself to doing that," she said, finally making eye contact with him.
"But yet you disable the security at the tower and leave them to be killed!" he shouted, growing angry with her once more.
"You really underestimate your team. Do you really think that they're incapable of destroying some robots?" she asked, tucking her hair behind her ear.
"That's not the point! You left them there, and you stole my communicator so they couldn't call me for help!" he shouted, overexaggarating his arm gestures.
"I didn't steal your communicator. You probably lost it somewhere," she said in a low tone, as if she was guilty of stealing it.
"You're impossible," he said before he morphed into an eagle and began to fly back to the tower.
"Beast Boy! Beast Boy, wait!" she shouted as she manipulated a rock to aid her in following him. She leapt onto it and the chase began.
"I'm sorry, okay? I knew from the beginning that this entire thing was a bad idea! I was confused, scared and," she paused and hesitated before carrying on. "Alone."
The green eagle suddenly changed direction and began flying toward her. It landed on her rock and morphed back into it's original form.
Beast Boy sat on the rock with his legs hanging over the edge of it. Now it was his turn to avoid eye contact with her.
"You were never alone," he mumbled.
"Yes, I was," she replied as she sat beside him, the rock now hovering just slightly above the ground.
"How? You had us; we were your friends. We gave you everything."
"I know, but believe it or not, I'm grateful for everything that you gave to me," she took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "You guys were the only people who made me feel normal. Like I wasn't a threat because I couldn't control my powers."
"You're not a threat, Terra," he finally looked at her and inspected her for a moment before saying, "Well, you wasn't a threat."
"Beast Boy, I would never harm-"
"I have an idea," he suddenly said, standing up.
"What?" she asked, standing up with him.
"Terra, I need you to be completely honest with me, okay?"
She nodded in response.
"Would you want to come back with me to the tower?" he asked, looking deeply into her eyes.
She thought for a moment before replying, "Yes, I would love that."
Beast Boy took a deep breath. "Are you done with Slade? Are you no longer his apprentice?"
"I won't even think about Slade anymore, I promise," she replied, although it wasn't entirely true.
"Don't tell Robin that," Beast Boy chuckled and she laughed along too. His expression quickly turned serious before he said, "I'm taking you back to the tower."
"What?" she asked, as panic suddenly washed over here. "When they find out that I was Slade's-"
"They're not going to find out," he interrupted.
"Huh?" she questioned, but realised what he meant a few seconds after. "You're going to lie to them?"
"It's not like they're going to welcome you back with open arms once they find out that you were working for our sworn enemy."
"Wow, are you sure? You don't have to do this you know. You can leave me; you can still do the right thing," she said, even though this was what she wanted. She wanted to be a Teen Titan again. She wanted to stay with him.
"This is the right thing. Now come on, we're going home."
"Okay."