I do not own the Teen Titans or anything related to them, however I do own this story and all of the non-original characters except for Isis, who I have been given permission to use by a friend of mine and all are copywrited. This means you can not copy the story or any of the characters or use them without permission from their original owners. Check out the mini-fics by my friend, Starfire Fury, called Teen Titans: Alpha Humor, they're mini-fics about these characters and they're really good and absolutely hilarious, so go read them!

The chapter is about Isis and her past and how she likes Zeru. The fic is inspired by the song 'Spread your wings', sung by Robbie Williams, enjoy! Oh yeah, a long with the disclaimers up the top there I'd also like to point out that I don't own Technicolor. Ok, thanks J

Teen Titans: The Alpha Five: The lost one shots

Isis

"Coco toffee puffs, or Frosted coco wheats?" Yes it was the age old question for Zeru – What exactly to have for breakfast… "Hmmmmm… Coco toffee puffs… Frosted coco wheats…"

"How about something that won't make you hyper and be sick in Technicolor?" Zeru glared at the cupboard as Isis made her sarcastic remark.

"Ha ha, very funny frosty." 'Hmmm, that's a new one."

"Frosty?" For once Isis was confused, no one had ever called her 'Frosty' before. Zeru grinned – Zeru 1, Isis 0.

"Yep. I called you Frosty." He said, pulling both the before mentioned cereals out of the cupboard and mixing them together in the bowl, problem solved.

"Whatever. Don't come crying to me when you're sick all over the common room… Again." With that she tossed her hair and walked out of the common room, Zeru watched her go, hypnotised by the way she walked.

So as Zeru munched on his cereal and Isis walked to her room, she thought about what she'd written in her Diary the night before, after that weird dream she'd had that had somehow turned into a nightmare…

Zeru was telling his story, his mother and father were dying, he'd said his goodbyes and he'd run. At least his parents had no choice in leaving him, at least he was doing the running away, she hadn't been so lucky.

The dream had twisted into a nightmare, made of memories she'd rather forget. Faces swam into focus and voices screamed in her head as she tossed and turned in her sleep. Her parents hadn't wanted her; they hadn't loved her, how could they love her? How could they love a freak?

So she'd ran, that's all she could do, ran and ran and lived in the only way open to her – on the streets. She'd moved from city to city, every time the police thought they'd caught her she was gone, the law doesn't like homeless people cluttering up their streets now do they? She'd thought bitterly every time she'd had to move.

She'd finally managed to leave the streets, she'd followed a rumour about a school nearby that people had said had been founded to keep the 'misfits' of the streets. Isis had loathed the people who'd talked about it at first, they were narrow minded, ignorant and rude, but now she considered that small comment to be the most pivotal moment of her life because she'd followed the rumour to the Titans Academy. Now she had a home, safety, security and best of all, she didn't feel like so much of a 'misfit' – She wasn't alone.

Yet she still didn't have love, not for a while anyway. She thought she'd found it when she'd found Ryu, but that came to nothing, not that she minded now.

'I didn't love Ryu anymore back then, that's why I broke up with him. But… What if I liked someone else? What if I just didn't want to admit it to myself, maybe I don't want to admit it to myself even now…"

Eyes flashed in front of her, for a moment, then they stayed longer, longer and longer until his face stayed, burning into her eyes. Memories of the arguments they'd had, Valentine's Day's disaster, was she even capable of feeling love?

She'd woken up, icicles of tears stinging in the corners of her eyes. She'd never felt love, never had the safety of someone's arms to call home. She was sure Zeru was trying to offer her that, but it was so new and frightening to her. Her parents were supposed to love her and they just hurt her, they stabbed and punched and kicked her with their scorn, their indifference and their contempt, what if she let Zeru into her life, into her heart and he did the same? Besides, she wasn't sure she had a heart left anymore.

But she thought of all the fun times, the carnival, the dances, the formals, even their days in the Tower and smiled. She hurt so much because she had a heart. And Zeru made it fly, he stole it and took off into the sky with it whenever she saw him, not that she wanted to admit to it.

And one day, one day she'd follow him, she'd run after him and grab his hand as he took off into the sky with her heart and… biff him one around the head… After all, she couldn't not be herself, could she?

Told ya I'd update :) Anyway, I'm just trying to come up with some finishing touches to an idea I've had before I write another story, oh and I have another Zeru/Isis idea brewing in my head that could evolve into a Zeru/Isis and Taiyou/Phoenix fic for this series, so stay tuned :)