Author's Note: Another Teen Titans story! (: This one is going to be mainly focusing on BB/Terra, before Terra turned evil and went to the dark side. :x So please, no flames about the couple….but anywho, side couples are: Star/Rob, and Cy/Rae. So if you don't like those couples, then don't read. Thanks, and enojoy.!:) Feel free to drop a review, if you'd like. ^_^
It was around 3 in the morning, and only one Titan was awake. She quickly slipped out of her room, her door shutting behind her with a echoing buzz. Shooting wary glances around the empty and dark hall, the Titan quickly jogged towards the living room. Bursting into it with quiet, bare-feet, the teenage girl paced over to the horseshow couch. Surprisingly, she was able to find it despite the living room being pitch black. She plopped herself onto the couch with a stifled and heavy sigh, stretching her feet out luxuriously. She hadn't been able to go to sleep in her own room, having been greeted by strange flashing nightmares when she did so; also tossing and writhing in her covers.
As the girl felt her breathing turn slow and rhythmic once more, she blankly stared up at the dark ceiling, seeing nothing but her mind a jumbled blur of thoughts. Another sigh escaped her lips as she shook the dream from her frantic mind; only remembering that horrifyingly dark voice, the pressure against her lungs, and then the slice of a knife against her skin. It was so strangely weird…Before she could delve too deeply into her thoughts, a light suddenly flickered on, sending the living room into complete brightness. "Terra?" A voice, monotone and quiet, muttered.
At the sudden light suddenly piercing her blue eyes, Terra sat up instantly, covering her eyes with her hands with a groan. "Yeah, what?" She responded, removing her hands and blinking as she struggled to get used to the light. The voice sounded familiar, so Terra quickly leaned against the couch, peering over the edge only to see the dark hooded cloak sweep by her and into the kitchen.
Raven. The only Titan who was still highly suspicious of her. Terra cringed quietly at this thought, but shook it off. "Just making sure a criminal wasn't sleeping in our living room," came the dry voice of Raven, but it held a hint of accusation in the sentence. Terra frowned slightly, her blond bangs falling into her eyes, but she ignored it. Ever since she'd first joined the Teen Titans, despite her unable to control her rock-bending powers, she had a feeling Raven loathed her. For no reason, apparently besides the fact that Raven thought she was a criminal.
"Nah, the living room's criminal free," Terra replied, stifling a yawn of her own as she ran her bare fingers through her knotted and messy shoulder-length blond hair, staring at the huge TV in front of her with no interest, her nightmare still brewing fresh in her mind.
The sound of water running reached Terra's ears, but she ignored it and randomly guessed Raven was making tea. "Why are you up so early?" Terra asked suddenly, feeling a sudden prick of curiosity envelop her; despite the shaky friendship the two barely had. The water quickly shut off, soon followed by the clink of a glass against the counter.
"Making tea." Raven's response was flat and dull. "Why are you up?" Her voice barely held a tint of suspicion, but Terra could still hear it. Getting a bit irritated by Raven's distrust, Terra simply rolled her blue eyes.
"Couldn't sleep." Her answer held the same tone as Raven's did, being monotone and also short and to the point. An uncomfortable silence fell over the two; only interrupted by the sound of tea being poured into a mug. Terra continued to stare at the blank black TV, hands resting on her lap and mind blank.
Terra didn't bother to turn her head; she heard the quiet clomp of Raven's boots as the empath disappeared, along with the buzz of the mechanical doors. When Raven disappeared, Terra allowed a heavy sigh to fall out of her lips as she fell backwards onto a cushion, resuming her previous position. She began to feel drowsy after a few minutes of staring at the ceiling, and yawned quickly. Hoping to not have the same nightmare, Terra allowed her eyes to slide shut and sleep to overcome her quickly, totally forgetting about the unimportant conversation she'd held with Raven.
Terra was suddenly awoken when a hand clamped onto her mouth, another wrapped firmly around her wrist. With a sharp and muffled 'mmph' of surprise, she was yanked off of the couch and into the chest of her attacker, her back to him. Terra was still shaking off sleep when suddenly something cool and metallic was looped around her neck, tied like a necklace. She was surprised, and was about to whip around and attack with something she could reach, but what felt like ropes were bound around her wrists.
A cloth was quickly wrapped tightly around her mouth, being shoved into her jaws and forbidding her to talk. Her gag reflex was acting up, but Terra quickly summoned her powers….and felt nothing. Normally, a rock or so would have came flying, but nothing happened. She quickly became panicked, but shoved it off as she instead tried to summon earth one more time. When it failed, she tried to call for help, but was instead slapped roughly in the face.
A muffled yelp escaped her mouth as she was pushed back onto the couch. Her blue eyes quickly scoped around, trying to pinpoint her attacker, but seeing nothing in the darkness. She figured quickly Raven must have turned the lights off when she departed, but she couldn't tell. The windows were still showing nothing but black, so she figured it was still early.
Terra pushed that off and began to struggle with the binds on her wrists, unable to undo them, but was met with another stinging smack to the face. "Don't try it, Terra," A voice murmured, being slick, but warning at the same time. She could feel warmth breath against her face, and quickly assumed he (the voice was too deep to be a woman's) was leaning towards her. She kicked out angrily with her feet, but they were caught with gloved hands.
"I said, don't." The voice was much firmer this time, but it still was in the soothing tone. Terra gritted her teeth, but ended up nearly choking on the cloth in her mouth. "I bet you're wondering why I'm doing this, don't you?" The voice added, apparently leaning closer to her. Terra drew back against the couch, her blue eyes wide. She couldn't see anybody, just pure darkness and several blurred shapes of the TV and such.
"You appear to be the Titan's weak link," He purred, "And they seem awfully fond of you. Especially that Beastboy." Terra stiffened at the green changeling's name, her blue eyes narrowing. She tried to spout something to whoever was standing in the dark, but it was muffled by the cloth stuffed in her mouth. She heard a deep, dark chuckle. "Don't bother to try and talk, Terra." Fingers stroked her chin, and the blonde shivered in disgust at the touch.
"I would say I'm sorry for this Terra," He spoke softly, "But I'm not." And then, something hard struck Terra in the back of her head. With her eyes slipping closed and a panicked feeling arising inside her stomach, she tried to fight the wooziness that was creeping up upon her. However, she couldn't. She felt the same gloved hands roughly grab her thin body, and she tried to cry out, but she couldn't. Soon, her sight began to fade away, along with her other senses. Her last thoughts were of her teammates, and then, of Beastboy…Beastboy! Terra cried out silently, but suddenly was robbed of her senses, unwillingly passing out.
Author's Note: Terrible first chapter, yes, I know. But I just didn't want to go further and ruin things, so here's where I end it. So I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of…whatever this story will be called. As you can see, when I wrote this, I didn't come up with a title until I was about to publish it. Procrastination is something I am very good at. ^_^ LOL. It's not as long as The Chaos of Emotions, but the other chapters following this one will be longer, hopefully.