The Suffering Inside
Prologue: Bad Memories
It was a quite day in Jump City and the Titan's were trying to make the most of it. There weren't many villains to fight after the defeat of the Brotherhood Of Evil, and though they still had the odd new villain attempt to attack the city, it just wasn't the same as it used to be. Not that anyone was complaining about this of course. The less villain attacks there were meant less money the city would have to pay for repairs and the Titans would get more time to themselves.
Currently Starfire was in the kitchen preparing a Tamaranian pudding that no one but her would touch. It was a glowing pink concoction that, much to Starfire's frustration, kept setting fire to the wooden spoon she was using to stir it. Cyborg and Robin were sitting on the coach playing a racing game against each other on the gamestation and Raven was sitting across from them reading one of her many old spell books.
Beast Boy had locked himself in his room and had not been seen by any of the others yet that day. Beast Boy had been spending a lot of time in his room recently and his friends were starting to become concerned. They each has tried many times to coax him out of his room, to no avail. They just figured he was going through a 'phase' and decided to leave him be.
In actual fact Beast Boy had not been in his room at all and was spending his time taking trips outside of the tower to think. Seeing the Doom Patrol again after all these years had brought back many bad memories that he just wished he could forget. Seeing his adoptive family again just made him think of his own parents and the accident he still blamed himself for.
He had only been young when he caught that damn disease and his life has changed forever. The cure for Sakutia was a serum his parents, who were successful researchers, had extracted from a rare green monkey, but the serum had unusual side effects. The formula had permanently died his hair, eyes and skin a green colour and had given him the ability to change into any animal of his choosing and how these powers had resulted in his parents deaths.
His thoughts occasionally wandered to his lost friend Terra. She had been the first girl he had ever developed feelings towards and that had all been dashed when she betrayed the Titans and turned them over to their worst enemy and though she sacrificed herself to save them and the city she only did it because Slade didn't turn out to be the mentor she thought him to be and double crossed her. He now felt great confusion when he thought of the girl as while he resented her for what she had done to him and his friends, deep down part of him still felt for her. This wasn't helped by Terra's recent reappearance. It helped him know she was still alive, but she was still lost to him, she couldn't remember anything about him, the Titans or Slade and it seemed she didn't want to either.
As he thought of Terra and his confused feelings towards her he could feel a rising anger build up inside him and he continued his stroll along Jump City's various side street and alley ways. He could always feel a primal urge build when he got angry, almost like a beast inside his mind waiting to get out. After a fight against the villain Adonis he got a covered in a array of strange chemicals and these mutagens, changed and corrupted his DNA and through his ability to change into any animal he wished the beast in his mind managed to physically manifest itself and prevent Adonis from attacking his team mate Raven. Though she comforted him after the incident and told him that he had protected her, part of him still believed that it had been he that had hurt her.
Raven. His mysterious, dark at times team mate intrigued him greatly. He had been developing feelings for her ever since the time her demon father Trigon brought about the end of the world and he thought he had lost her forever. Knowing that she had almost died made him more aware of all the things that made her special, all the things that could have been lost to the world. She was beautiful, but not in a in your face, supermodel type way, she was naturally beautiful with flowing violet hair that complemented her pale grey skin, that on most girls he would have found off putting, but on her he found it oddly appealing. She had the most gorgeous eyes he had ever seen. The same violet colour as her hair, her eyes were deep as if they were holding wisdom beyond their years and had seen things no one should see, which he was pretty sure she had considering who her father was. Her powers are controlled by her emotions, so she meditates daily to keep herself calm but this always leaves a cool, unemotional look on her face and this, along with her sharp tongue only add to her dark exterior.
He often tried his best to try and get her to laugh, to smile, but she just either ignore him or give him some cold, biting remark and he was getting sick of her attitude towards him. All he wanted was to make her happy and she would just be her rude, uncaring self and push him away like everyone else that had ever tried to get closer to her. She was just so frustrating. He always tried to impress her, make her happy, do things for her and just show her that he cared for her, but she ignored him and would throw him aside as he wasn't even there. While he and Raven had shown their odd few moments of affection towards each other, the hug she had given him after the betrayal she suffered at the hands of the deceptive dragon Malchior was vividly etched into his memory, he had started to feel some anger and resentment towards her and her oblivious and downright rude attitude towards his advances.
On this thought he began to make his stormy march back to the tower, the anger towards Raven that had built up inside him over all the years he had known her still fresh on his mind.
Author's Note
Hello, SilentHal here. This is my first story here on fanfiction so please don't judge my work too harshly as I am after all, only a beginner. This story takes place not long after Things Change with the events of season 5 still having noticable consequences. I am aware that not much happens this chapter, but this is mainly a set up for the larger plot and what is going through BB's mind factors much into this.
Please R&R.