Hey everyone,

Yes this is my fourth story in the works, granted i should be working on the other 3 that people seem to enjoy, and i will, but my muses for those seem to be currently on some strike about silly equal rights or something, will try to have a new chapter for, maybe, all of them by tuesday night since its my day off work. Anyway, hope you enjoy this story.

Again, i do not own any rights to the titans, jump city, doom patrol, etc.

The Teen Titans, Robin, Raven, Starfire, Cyborg and their pet silki were sat in the Towers common room, Starfire was floating around in the equivalent manner of pacing, quite nervous yet happy and giddy at the same time, glancing occasionally to the main door to see if it would open just on cue as she had seen many on the earthly TV programs known as soaps, but sadly she did not have such luck.

She whimpered a little each time her head turned away from the Door, continuing the floating equivalent of pacing and has done so for the last three hours.

Robin sat at the kitchen table, like starfire he occasionally glanced at the door, not as often, but still too many times for his own liking, before him were piles of newspapers, they had only been delivered this morning, ranging from local papers to well known world wide press release newspapers.

However, even after just a few hours, he was already on the last one and uncertain what would keep him occupied afterwards. Robin was trying to wait patiently like Starfire, but the wait and worry was getting to him.

Cyborg was pressing combinations of buttons as quickly as he could, one would have expected it to be the buttons of a game controller but they were not, he was flicking through the tower Cameras to see if anyone was outside yet, then through all the halls, the common, the roof, but whatever he was looking for had yet to show.

Groaning with frustration every time he had flicked through the hundred, give or take a few, cameras inside and out of the tower.

Raven was sat by her usual spot by the window, it was dark out, the clouds covering the city in complete darkness, no star nor moon could be seen and rain was pounding down heavily against the windows, usually Raven didn't mind the weather, the changing sides of it sometimes peaceful to watch but now, the rather, gloomy, weather was having a negative affect on her.

Sighing quietly under her breath, too quiet for anyone to hear, her head slowly turning to look at the others, no one was looking at her. Reaching to the back of her neck, slipping her fingertips under the fabric until she felt them touch something metal.

Pulling gently on it, rounding her fingers along her neck, she pulled out a small chain, at the front of the chain was the coin, the special coin that was given to her the day she ended the world.

Silkie, the always cute and happy larva that always wiggled around and ate everything in sight was just laying on the kitchen counter, letting out its own equivalent of a sigh as it just layed there without moving, not having as much as taken a chunk out of the counter yet.

"What is the time of the hour?" The silence was broken as Starfire asked, Raven had quickly tucked the coin back into the front of her leotard and hid the chain under her collar so that no one would see it, though has been wearing her cloak a lot more than usual, just to be safe.

"2:33am." Cyborg said with a sigh, turning away from the computer screen and facing towards the centre of the room. "Well, he did say he would be here anytime from 10pm onwards." Cyborg continued.

The Titans remained sat in the common room, Starfires' eyes were half shut, still floating around the room, no one was too sure about the boy wonder though, eyes hidden behind that mask, just leaned back on his chair with gentle rocking motion.

Raven tried to meditate but found herself staring down at the coin once again in her hand, squeezing it tightly at times as though to reassure herself. Cyborg, although he hated doing so, went into Standby mode, anything above a certain pitch would wake him.

None of them, even for a moment concidered going to bed, they would wait.

Eight Months ago...

"Beastboy, are you sure about this? I know things have been strange lately but there is no reason for you to leave." Robin said with concern and worry in his voice, if it was for the changeling or the Team, Beastboy wasn't sure, he just didn't like it all together.

"Look, no offence Robin, you guys are like family to me, but the Doom Patrol was my first true family since i killed my parents. The fact is Mento rarely if ever changes his mind and before we went to Tokyo three weeks ago he offered me to re-join the Doom Patrol, heck, he even offered me to start my own Team as long as we continue upholding the Doom Patrols beliefs. Besides, i thought you would be glad." Beastboy said, he was simply explaining, he didn't raise his voice, he didn't growl, he wasn't being depressive, just calm and serious for a change.

"Beastboy you know thats- " "Come on Robin." Beastboy interrupted the boy wonder. "I am a animal half the time, one thing animals excel at, even at times more so than empaths, is that we can read body language and i know you tensed every time i let out a slight growl even if it was while stretching or yawning." Beastboy explained calmly and was glad that Robin did not have a reply to this.

"Heck, if you want i will come back for Holidays or something if its possible, but while you all may feel at home here, i haven't for too long now. If we hadn't put most of our personal Jump city villains on Ice, i would stay, but who is there actually left, Dr. Light? Takes us what, 30seconds to take him down, 5 if raven pulls off her scary face." Beastboy said though could not help but chuckle at the last part.

Robin still couldn't say anything, Beastboy was right about them only having petty thugs left to deal with at the moment, but what had hit him the hardest was that something the team, or just him, had been doing has made the Titans Tower, their home, feel otherwise to the changeling. Beastboy knew he had gotten his message across, he felt Robins hand on his shoulder, patting him slightly before leaving Beastboys Room.

"He's really leaving?" Cyborg said with disbelief, since Beastboy had told them that morning, he hadn't moved off the couch, his brain still trying to compute the Data. "Did he say why?"

Robin stood there, looking at them, Starfire had tears in her eyes, it made tears swell in the corners of his own eyes, glad he wore this mask now, Raven, Raven was still sat at the kitchen table, staring at the cold seven hour old Tea.

"He...said that this home, this family, feels like neither to him anymore..." Robin said, his voice hoarse, how could he let it get that bad?

"BB...he...said that?" Cyborg words barely audible, just above a whisper.

"How could it be that we let things become as such? I am always happy at the sight of our green Friend, I offer to make him the pudding of friendship, also having told our friend that if he wishes to do the boy and girl talk, about other girls, that i would be most happy to do so...but...he never did." Starfire whimpered, tears dripping from her cheek onto the carpet.

All of them felt quite down, the news Robin had given to them caused even further depression in the Titans, Starfire unable to keep herself afloat any longer, Cyborgs mechanical eye blinking rapidly, trying to search through all the events in his memory to possibly confirm what Beastboy had said, Raven however, was still just sat there, not realizing a single tear dripping into her cold beverage.

None of the Titans spoke after Starfire, their thoughts pondering over all their times together since the forming of the Teen Titans. After a while however they begun to discuss this, Beastboy with his ears could hear it all until turning on his CD player, drowning out the sound of everything around him but for the music, one of the reasons he always had the TV on so loud, preferring one loud constant noise rather than dozens if not hundreds of little sounds bothering him all day, every day.

In the end they couldn't believe it themselves, except for the occasional game station session and their weekly movie night, what had they actually done that Beastboy had wanted to do? He would go to the mall with starfire, train with Robin when asked, had learned to only bother Raven at certain times and then only for good reasons, like asking if she needed any tea, which he had actually gotten good at making, or helping Cyborg tune the T-car for the trillionth time.

He did all these things with them, for them, but now as they thought it through, had they ever given anything back?

Morning had come far quicker than any of them had liked, but they were awake and ready to send their friend off to his new life, no matter how badly it hurt them.

Starfire for the first time over the years, gave beastboy a very gentle and sincere hug, it startled him, smiling with closed eyes as they held the hug for the better part of a minute.

Robin and Beastboy just looked at one another, finally shaking one anothers hands, no words were said, but a mutual understanding seemed to have been found between them.

Beastboy smiled looking up at his bestfriend Cyborg and gave him a thumb up, Cyborg just stared down, quite unlike himself he dropped to one knee to be face to face with Beastboy and brought his friend into a hug, it felt like this was the last time he would ever see the green bean, and he did not like that one bit.

"Hey, come on Cy, they already think we have a thing going." Beastboy chuckled trying to get one last joke in.

"Well, thats everyone i guess, take care." Beastboy said with a smile, throwing his backpack over his right shoulder and went to leave, purposely avoiding the mention of Raven, the empath was nowhere to be seen, she hadn't shown her face and considering how she had been treating him, even after dialling down his annoyance, right now he honestly couldn't care less.

"Beastboy!" His head snapped back at the sight of Raven practically yelling his name, the doors she had just walked through suddenly twisting with the sound of straining metal, her emotions seemed out of control.

"Yeah yeah, what? One last portal 50meters above the ocean surface?" He said grimly, giving Raven the same stare she had given him for years and honestly, she did not like being on the receiving end of it.

Beastboy stared at the empath, her head turned away, he could hear her feet shuffling, she was nervous, maybe he was right and she just didn't want to prove his point.

Beastboy turned to leave again when suddenly he felt them, her hands, gently grasping at his arm, a pleading look in her eyes, just wanting a few more seconds to collect her thoughts. "Yes?" He said coldly and she couldn't help but look away again.

"Just wanted you to have this, for good luck." She said quieter than a whisper, if not for his ears the green changeling wouldn't have heard what she said as she gently pressed a penny into his open palm, he recognized it, it was the penny, the one he had given to her before she became the portal.

She turned away, her cheeks felt warm, she didn't know why this was so hard for her, the empaths powers still uncontrolled as the lights in the room were blinking on and off, the oven door suddenly blowing off and hitting the cupboard doors opposite.

Beastboy didn't say a word, She didn't look at him, she could feel his emotions and then a distance, her head turned to look at him but only caught a glimpse of his back before the door hissed shut and as she turned to leave, she saw the penny. The one that meant much to her because it came from him, was there on the counter side, it was clear that he had not forgotten it as it had been in his palm moments ago.

Did he think that ill of her? Tears swelled in her eyes, dropping to her knees, she couldn't hold back, not after that, her first sign of any affection in weeks, if not months, and he had thrown it right back into her face.

Now...

The door to the common room hissed open, everyone suddenly snapping out their own little words, Cyborgs electronic eye blinked to life as the half machine awoke from Stand-bye mode and stood up, Raven quickly tucked the necklace back under her leotard, unfolding her legs and standing to turn around.

Robin had almost fallen off his chair in mid tilt as he snapped awake but quickly regained his balance, placing his hands on the table to steady himself. Starfire still floating in the middle of the room. The one common factor on all of their faces however, confusion.

Starfire originally was confused when they said that he might be different once he got back, she quickly grabbed a picture from the counter, looking from the picture to the person having just walked through the door, again and again.

"Friend Beastboy?" She asked Hesitantly.

"Hey Guys." He said with a slight smile, his voice was deeper, more mature since they had last heard him, only knowing of his coming through a letter.

"Green Bean?" Cyborg stammered slightly.

Before them was not the little green Titan that they had remembered, Beastboy stood there at a good 5ft 11inches, he had let his hair grow, now almost shoulder length with a bit of a wild look. His green eyes had slitted pupils, his cheekbones were more defined and that goofy fang didn't stick out from his mouth, though his entire facial feature had a more canine look to it.

He was wearing an altered version of his Doom Patrol uniform, No sleeves which showed off his now somewhat toned arms, Instead of black, his uniform was white though the purple stripe down the centre remained the same. On his chest however was a black symbol, resembling that of a wolf. His build was different as well, he looked quite muscular, not in a disgusting overly buldged manner, to Starfire, his body resembled that of the Future Nightwing she had met.

"...What?" Beastboy said with a confused expression like everyone else.

"You've...changed." Starfire whispered and he turned to look at her.

"Huh? Oh the hair, yeah, let it grow." He said with a smile.

"Don't think that is what she means Beastboy." Cyborg said after hesitating.

"What?" He said with a slight dumbfounded look on his face.

Before anyone else could say anything however Starfire squealed and shot forward, colliding into him, wrapping her arms firmly around her friend, hugging him tightly with a joyous smile. The surprising thing to everyone was that the tackle hadn't sent Beastboy to the floor, he inched back slightly but that was it, even her hug didn't seem to be crushing the air out of him.

"Hey Star, nice to see you too." He said with a slight chuckle.

Raven couldn't believe as he stood there, looking so different to the little green changeling that had left here only eight months ago, she couldn't help but feel suspicious, there was no way anyone, like Beastboy at least, could change that much in such a short time and before she could help herself, she tried to probe his thoughts to see if this was the Real beastboy, after all, they hadn't heard from him in eight months and then last week they had gotten a letter out of the blue.

While she stood by the window, her mind reached out, wandering to his and as she slowly entered, she was confused at what she found, she could have sworn that she had briefly caught a glimps of an image, this quickly replaced by, maths?

He was doing calculations in his head? She tried pushing a little harder, but the harder she did the more complex they became as his mind seemed to try and work them out and then she snapped out of it, A loud, fearsome growl.

Everyone startled by him and then looked to who he was staring, Raven, he had sensed her? He actually blocked her reading of his mind?

"Nice to see you too Raven, I expected such intrusions from Mento but from you?, guess things haven't changed after all. I'll be in my room, Nice to see you guys." He said in a stern tone, growling audible under every word as he grabbed his large dufflebag off the floor and headed to his old room.

The Titans looked at Raven, what had she done to get a reaction like that out of him? She looked down, she tried to keep her face in its usual monotone self but could not help but feel ashamed, like everyone else she had hoped to see him again, then she does something as stupid as trying to invade his mind? Of course, Mento, the Doom Patrol leader must have taught Beastboy how to block his mind from probing.

"Raven? What did you do?" Robin asked quickly.

"I tried to probe his mind..." She said quietly.

"What were you thinking!" Cyborg suddenly yelled. "He left because this didn't feel like home, he is in here less than a minute and already you try to pry into his mind? No F...damn wonder he left." Cyborg shouted frustratingly.

Raven simply stood there, quietly, the shadow of her cloak hiding a tear slowly running down her cheek as the other Titans left to return to their own rooms. Over the months she had begun even further isolated in her room, Beastboy was the only one stupid enough to disturb her for no reason, though she hid it with anger, the fact that he wanted to interact with her had always brought a smile to her, inside, when he left, no one took his place, leaving her alone.

5:15am...

Everyone but Cyborg shot up in their beds as loud explosions filled the air and the Titans felt very foundations of the Tower shaking, The titans quickly threw on their uniforms and Ran, flew and teleported to the common Room and Robin quickly pressed the alarm button, which finally woke Cyborg and joined the others in just a few minutes.

"Whats going on?" He shouted as he could hear the explosions for himself now.

"We seem to be under attack, Raven, teleport down to the main entrance hall, see if you can find out who is attacking us, Cyborg, check the cameras for damage, Starfire..." Robin turned to look at the alien but noticed her by the window, thinking that she saw their attackers, the rest of the Titans quickly moved over but their faces were just as blank as Starfires.

Outside was Beastboy, he was running through their obstacle course and with ease as well, the way he moved, part animal, part man in some sense, he remained in his human form from what they could tell, noticing only brief blurring of his form as they had come to see from him changing but couldn't make out the animal he had become before he was already back in his human form, in less than a few second, the heavily armoured robot that had been his next opponent now laying on its side looked as though it had been torn to apart by a pack of wild animals.

"Come take a look at this." Cyborg called them over, startled briefly as no one had noticed him leaving their side.

He brought up the footage on the main screen replaying the last scene though Beastboy was still fighting outside, he moved swiftly before the heavily armoured Robot and had pushed himself up off the ground, his body spinning, instantly changing to that of a tiger, its claw slicing repeatedly at the Robots chest armor and by the time Beastboy had landed on the ground, he was in his human form again.

"He is actually waiting till the last possible second to change forms and then strike, instead of changing several seconds ahead of striking which usually gave his enemies a chance to come up with a counter." Cyborg said, mostly to himself than for the others as they watched Beastboy destroy everything in sight.

"Ummm Cyborg...what level is he running?" Robin asked hesitantly as some of the machines and opponents being thrown at Beastboy, he himself hadn't seen in a while.

"8" Cyborg said and they all simply continued staring,

Finally Beastboy had finished, making his way into the tower and into the common room, towel around his neck, dabbing his forehead slightly before noticing that just as earlier, everyone was staring at him again as though he had something on his face.

"What?" He simply asked but no one answered, Shrugging, he grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge and headed for his room when the silence was finally broken.

"Beastboy, you just ran through a level 8 obstacle course like it was a walk in the park." Robin said.

"...Yes and?" Beastboy said as Robin said this as though it was meant to be a bad thing.

"Just surprised thats all." Robin said, causing Beastboy to Shrug a little and leave the room.

"He has...much changed." Starfire said quietly, no one answered.

Hope you enjoyed, please do review as its always nice to read one and expect updates in the near future.