Frankly none of them knew where they were going or what they where going to do, Robin knew he was going back to Gotham, and lucky him he got Star to go with him. Beast boy smiled, too bad he didn't have the guts like Robin maybe then he would have Raven. But who knew?
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The teen titans looked at each other and said their final goodbyes. Raven got into her car, a birthday gift from Gar, a black corvette and drove away. She was the first to leave, they all suspected because she really didn't want to show any emotions and this was a touchy moment. She didn't leave without giving a hug to everyone though, and Gar could have sworn she kissed his neck.
Second to leave was Cyborg with his fiancée Bumble Bee. They got into the "T" car and drove away, then finally Robin and Star, into Robin's cherry red Ferrari and away into the night.
Gar sat down on the roof, for the last time, he looked at the ocean he loved so dearly, and for a while he allowed himself to cry, before turning into a hawk and flying away.
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Raven sat down for the first time in her new room. She wasn't fortunate enough to have loads of cash like Richard and Garfield; in fact she had close to none. And that's why Rachel Roth lived in the slums; she got herself a studio in Los Angeles, close to jump city but not that close. She unpacked all her boxes except one using her powers, over the years in the tower she was able to control them perfectly and now was able to make them stronger, in truth now it was safe to show and feel emotions but she wasn't used to them.
She looked at the photographs she put up; she was going to miss all of them, most of all Garfield. She loved him, and she knew he loved her, she felt it. She felt his anxiety, his pain and his heart break when she drove away. She knew he cried that night; she was there, the lone raven sitting near the fallen titan.
She had kissed him, on the neck, and she knew he thought he hallucinated. She didn't follow him though, why? She really didn't know, for some reason something held her back this entire time from allowing them to have a relationship. And now that she thought about it, probably because she wanted him to yell at the top of his lungs to the world his undying love for her.
Yes, Rachel Roth was a hopeless romantic, and no she wouldn't actually do it, but her man better. And Garfield never did quit that, he sort of loved her from a distance scared to come close, and fear could ruin something she held sacred.
She walked over to her sacred box and slowly and carefully unpacked it, eventually coming to Garfield's letter.
She slowly read it, and then she found herself wanting to cry. He wasn't scared of her or her powers, she misread that, he was scared of hurting her…
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Kori Anders smiled as Richard Grayson drove through the night, all was well, except she didn't know if she would see her friends again, though Richard said they would, and she believed him.
According to everything, they where to be married in two years, after Richard finished college, and he had encouraged her to join him at Gotham university. Frankly she was shy at the thought but now it seemed like it would be fun and possibly worthwhile. It would give her something to do while two long years passed. And on the plus side she would be with her love, parting was always a pain.
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Victor stone looked at Karen, soon Mrs. Stone… and smiled. She said she loved his technology, she said she knew he was all human except for the body, she added that could be a plus. He couldn't imagine being more lucky, and thanks to his technology he would be able to easily locate their friends, and their wedding would be in a year.
"Vic, do you think that raven and Gar will ever get together?" Asked Karen, she was so sure that those two would marry before everyone else, and it seemed that they didn't even kiss.
"I don't know, maybe its his obsession with tofu that chased her away," said victor with a straight face, till Karen punched him in the shoulder and they both laughed.
"If its real love, then it'll stand the test of time, and ill be damned if I don't win that bet with flash. Hell I am not losing this T-car if they're not together in ten years……victor seemed to zone out into a sulky fume
But baby if you do lose the t car what then? Asked Karen, not that she didn't know the answer just that she knew it brought his spirits up, just like it always did. He bet the t car on several things, robin and star getting together, Garfield being rich, raven and beastboy getting together, robin owning a Ferrari, Bruce Wayne sending robin to Gotham university, and the la dodgers winning against san Diego padres.
I guess ill make another one, but with more cup holders! Vic smiled and gave Karen a happy look, he loved her, and he knew she loved him, as for their friends, they weren't far. Hell he would probably bump into beast boy first, he would actually bet his arm on that.
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Beast boy sighed in his lonely mansion. His parents left him a lot of money including a well furnished mansion in Beverly Hills. Except all his years away have made it a large spooky mansion with lots of dust, gar sneezed
Least it was big, but for what reason? It just made him depressed. He couldn't show himself to public, or they'd know where he lived. And everyone knew who he was. Not by name, but by skin tone. After all how many green guys live on one street?
Now he had the choices, what to do now that it was over?
Get depressed and kill himself? Nope then there is no chance to meet raven ever again and the news would love it. He could see the headline now "beastly death in Beverly Hills"
Get depressed and play video games nonstop, become fat and pretty bad at everything he was good at now? Nope, then raven wouldn't ever like him and none of the superheros would ever let him live it down…
Get depressed and train in this abandoned mansion, then take over the world and take Rachel Roth as my wife…….nope too bad boy
Get depressed and train till I kill myself? Maybe
Get depressed and train, then think about my next momentum? Maybe
Meditate……..meditate? Where'd that come from? He almost cried, that's what raven would say. He missed her; it wouldn't be that bad if he had the guts to kiss her at least once.
So he sat down cross legged and started to meditate. After two hours our hyper hero got bored.
Standing up he went into the basement that had lots of space and plenty of mirrors. Why? His mother liked to dance. And watch herself dance. Yeah…
He started shape shifting who knew, maybe he could do human Rhino
Elephant
Lizard
Gecko
Mammoth
Hawk
Glorkendork (Tamaranian six eyed wolf)
Ooooooooooooooo
Owl
Human
He stared at his green skin. Nope. Not working
Having time to kill beastboy decided to turn to science books his parents left behind, who knew maybe his parents knew something he didn't….
Four hours of searching, one week of reading, one day of hoping,
Four hours to sign a contract with Bruce Wayne, two days to receive the antidote, and finally the hour was here
He sighed, if all was to go well he would have his powers, if not he would be just a normal human being, with loads of cash.
"Bottoms up" squeaked beastboy closing his eyes and drank the potion.
1,2,3,4
Not very patient he opened his eyes, in the mirror stared a taller, leaner, sculpture face, with shocking white blonde hair, blazing green eyes, and really pale skin.
He was taller than his old form, but he was still Garfield…he smiled, hell he still had small fangs!
Maybe, just maybe …
Elephant….
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Just so you know, beastboy sounds like the lead singer of blink 182 and looks like the lead singer of my chemical romance. Total hotness……drools
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Victor looked at Karen and smiled, "common Karen, we both need money i know, but what if we took just a couple of classes? we can still work for wherever and take classes in free time..."
"ok ok vic, you know its just that, tuition aint free. never has and never will"
"we will make it i swear kar", vic smiled as he kissed his fiancee he really did love her and she was letting his dream come true. going to school.
The next day victor enrolled in music production class, and in sound recording class. Karen enrolled in some business classes; later on they found jobs, victor as a mechanic and Karen as a hair stylist.
Victor smiled at their little apartment, sure it was in the ghetto, but it was in the better area of the ghetto, he swore he would buy her a big house, with a nice car, and lots of expensive stuff. And he knew he could, if he went to school. Sure he was a superhero, but that service was always free.
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Garfield walked around the vast empty mansion; it was his first day looking normal, though he hasn't changed inside. That's what mattered, not his powers but if it altered who he was inside, At least that's what he kept telling himself.
He walked into his enormous kitchen. Turned on the TV on the counter and opened the fridge. He had ordered groceries online whilst being green so he had food in his fridge. He looked at all the vegetarian goodness that gave him (it's a website based in Gotham and has a branch in Los Angeles that I made up. caters gourmet vegetarian meals)
smiling ever so slightly he removed a dish of tomato soup and placed it in the microwave, Getting the vegetarian pizza out afterwards. Gar smiled slightly, the Portobello steaks he thought even CY would like. Sigh CY, that made him think of only a month ago they where still together fighting crime and kicking ass.
CY was always working on tech stuff, star was always cheering everyone on, robin was obsessed with training, and raven, raven read. This made him think of all the times they shared together and he was rudely awakened from reliving those moments by the two microwaves beeping, signaling that his pizza and soup awaited him.
He had so much time on his hands he really didn't know what to do. Go to school? Nah, work? Already filthy rich, and to add to that he was investing in some stocks.
He just didn't know what to do. Going up into his room he looked at his shelves, filled only with three kinds of books, comic books, notebooks and albums. He almost had 2000 pictures per year fit into five albums, totaling nearly forty albums of the teen titans; he also had six albums dedicated to memorabilia and bio of each titan, including terra.
He looked around his room, it was all brown, Different from his tower room. He needed to paint...hell why not renovate the place everything was so 90s anyhow...
walking over to the bookshelf he glanced at the song lyrics he had written whilst in the tower, sure he could hire some people to renovate or he could do it himself...and write more songs in the process...that would at least occupy a year right?
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robin grabbed kori around the waist, he honestly loved her as he showered her with kisses. "kori"... droned robin whilst kissing her from behind
kori could only mumble a sigh in reply , "guess what kori?"
"hmmmmm... "
"turns out my leadership at teen tower earned me a few marks through wayne interprise "
"uhuh..."
"so I just need to take one class and I'm out"
"mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... "
"that means we don't have to wait to get married if you don't want to"
"that's nice mmmmm..."
frankly to say kori couldn't really register anything he said due to the fact she was enjoying herself much too much. Finally she couldn't take it anymore and turned around to kiss him square in the lips.
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victor smiled at his professor who just happened to teach both of the classes he was taking. Professor Bummsfield was pretty great and produced a number of bands back in the day.
He looked like an average musician, the trimmed beard, the suit, and the piercings. All the indications that once pone a time he too was in a band, though that band didn't make it, he did.
"Son what you got is talent, your good with music and technology! Simply amazing so I recommended you to my friend Steffen Rogers he works as a CEO of the production department at 'stone note'. he really wants to offer you something and I suggest you don't pass it up, pays better than whatever your doing now I promise you."
victor walked off in total awe, basically he just got hired for one of the biggest music giants in the industry, and he doesn't even have a diploma yet... he had to tell Karen!
He walked into the lil apartment and immediately yelled her name, he knew she would be home at this time, "BABY!! I got some news for you!! Really good news. "
"what is it Vic? I got some news for you too but you can start."
"I just got a interview at stone note!!!!"
"for a janitor???"
"for a music producer!!!"
"wow baby that's great, how????"
"never mind that what's your news???"
"I think I'm pregnant."
A thud was heard as our lovable giant collapsed.
"Vic?? VICTOR STONE? Answer me, damn you, can't take news your gonna be a daddy huh. "Karen smiled at her fallen fiancée, they would make it, he swore.
She laughed, hey if what he said was true and not a joke, they wouldn't be here much longer and the baby would be born amongst rich snobby kids.
She laughed at the thought, whoever thought she would make it? Though technically she didn't yet, she felt like she did.
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Gar strummed his guitar in his newly redone room. He painted everything dark green, he had black comforter set on his new modern bed. His stuff was put away into steel shelves and the ceiling had an expensive mural of the galaxies. Tamaran included.
Sure his bedroom contained all the elements of the titans, steel shelves similar to the ones Cy loved. Galaxies that star and terra loved gazing at, Black sheets like the ones raven favored, modern bed, the kind robin preferred, and green walls, the essence of beastboy.
He already redid his kitchen in shades of gray and one single color, azure, luckily it had an ocean view. Living room he made it as empty as possible and the family room he made as close to the tower's as possible. Now at least he had a ps2, and from what he heard ps3 would be released soon.
He sighed; he had a giant poster of the teen titans in his room. of course nobody would recognize anybody. They're too careful when it comes to that.
Speaking of recognize that meant he could go outside now. Gar picked up his keys to his yellow mustang GT and drove off. Maybe he could find a place to go.
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Raven sat on her perch. They didn't know she was watching them. He liked her, mostly for her body, mostly for her soul but not for who she truly was. He wasn't planning on staying and she knew he only wanted sex. Darius was her new "friend" so to speak. And she watched him talk to his guy friends about how to get her to sleep with him. Methods, eventually she just flew away because there's only so much idiocy you can take in at one day.
She missed beastboy; she liked his idiocy and found herself fantasizing about him more often these days. She knew she would never be able to get over him. She would always want to kiss his lips and help heal his pain. Yeah he had a lot of pain he just never talked about it. But she felt it.
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Meanwhile Garfield decided to walk into some karaoke bar. Called something stupid that star would probably go to. "Galactic bar" sure he made sure it was a straight bar before entering, he wasn't here for dates though. He was kind of thinking of following Bruce Wayne's dry living method. He had a point, love hurts….
He sat down at the bar, waiting for the bartender to work his way up. He was in the darkest loneliest corner of the bar. Possibly nobody would notice him sitting their lost in his memories.
"What can I get you son?" asked the bar tender
Beast boy kind-of sat there not sure what to order. He didn't really drink alcohol, now that he thought of it; the titans only drank wine, why? Cause they where minors.. And the thought of breaking this law didn't occur to them….it just didn't pop into their teen heads.
So now, 19 year old gar sat there trying to figure out whether he wanted to break that law or not. There where plenty of advantages to breaking it, just as many advantages of not breaking it.
After all the titans broke every speed racing law there was in jump city, but that was because they where fighting crime right?
Man since when where the titans so confusing, they where good guys. They got rid of bad guys' right? What if they didn't get rid of the bad guys…would things be different? Would it not? They rarely had contact with the cops and he knew of the cases where even batman and superman where wanted by the law.
"Boy what can I get you? Losing your head over something?" asked the bar tender at the zoning out youth
"uh I dunno, just too much happened, lost all my friends once we had to move out of the uh house we where renting and uh never got to tell one of the girls there how much I love her. Guess I'll never see her again. Don't even know where she went…"
great going Gar, now some stranger knows most of your worries besides the fact that your parents are dead, you lived most of your life being green and short, and that you in fact are beast boy the superhero that sits at a bar at the age of nineteen wondering whether to order a damned drink or not…….
"Kid it happens sometimes, when you leave school you all of a sudden realize what you could've done but didn't. Hell I told this one girl what's her name, Terrence I believe, that I loved her over the phone. Turned out that she didn't move out immediately but took another class so when I called half drunk and hoping she was there she picked up. And you know what we moved on. I got married, had a kid, now he's in school. Doing the same dumb mistakes I did."
For some reason Gar wasn't amused. He really didn't care about the bartender, though he supposed that he should after all, he was a superhero. Superheroes where supposed to care, that was their job. But what if he didn't feel like caring? What if for once he just wanted to hate the world?
"you know what kid, you should try the karaoke, by the way are you of legal drinking age?"
"uuuuuuuh karaoke?? And what is the legal drinking age?"
"21, if you aint 21 you can't order anything on that menu over there, you can order everything in this menu over here though. We kinda do the bar and grill thing, so I don't need to kick you out. Anyways try the karaoke it helps some people. "
"uuuuuuuh ok sure, uh thanks" muttered Gar, did he really want to try the karaoke? Did he really wana sing in front of a bunch of drunk older people?
Not really but it's not likely there was anything else he wanted to do, so he stepped up, wrote down his name, and placed random for the song. Just hoping it wasn't anything too spiffy.
Since there wasn't any line yet, he got to go up almost immediately, he just needed to wait for a fifty something year old lady to stop singing " oops I did it again" horribly off-key.
Now that the topic was about off key how would he know that he wasn't off key?
Maybe he was, though from what he remembered girls kind of liked it, or was it the fact that he was green and short?
He turned around and went back out the door. He didn't need karaoke, he needed raven, and the closest thing to that was playing his guitar about sadness and lost love in a forest of animals that couldn't judge a guy like him. Though it was different now, he wasn't short or green.
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raven walked around the tables picking up dirty dishes and putting tips into her apron. She didn't love her job, but it paid for her expenses. She couldn't do much else, she was writing a angst script and if that sold she could have a few grand for upping her job, but besides that she didn't have anything.
She spotted her "friend" enter the Café and sighed. Last person she hoped to see.
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Victor scanned his surroundings, for an executive office this was pretty nice, they had nice furniture all around and in the single little room was had two couches facing each other, he was to sit on one whilst his new boss sat on the other.
Steffen Rogers looked at the young African American. From what he heard and saw from earlier today this boy had talent. Immense talent, it was a leap of faith to hire him and pure insanity to decide to promote him so quickly to music producer/manager position. However their label wasn't selling well lately and he was a desperate man.
"Vic, we are going to give you a very rare opportunity based on our observations. We will allow you to form a band from the people that send in their tapes from all the states, and work with them. Depending on their success we will decide on allowing the band and you, their producer to stay, or we will kick them out and fire you. So choose wisely."
Victor swallowed, this was kind of hard. Now he had to make sure that whoever he picked would rock insanely well and produce millions to keep his job. Nice. Karen will kill him that's all he knew.
"Uh can I hire an assistant?" asked victor , maybe Karen could cash into the wealth and they can save up temporarily until he got fired.
"Later when you form the band sure you can, but the choosing you will do alone. We want to see how finely tuned you are to raw talent because all these sample tapes are going to be raw, unedited voices with all their flaws and imperfections, and same with the musicians."
Steffen looked at this young man; he hoped he could do it, because if he didn't he, Steffen could lose his job.
" we are having a competition that's starting next week, in a month we will receive 300 tapes of voices and instruments with short bios on each one, in three months you will have to decide who made it to the band, you may choose between one and five musicians but only from the sample tapes. You will be able to fine tune the band after the two year contract expires. Alright, it was a pleasure meeting you, and we will send you the tapes, you will receive your first pay cut once the band produces their first album and then your pay will be determined by how well they sell."
"Thank you sir, and it was a great honor meeting you,"
"Likewise, see you in a few"
With that Vic left the office looking at the busy Hollywood streets. He was in the ever tricky music business, and now he had to worry because of the fine print.
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