Blah blah blah; Disclaimers, disclaimers. There's probably one big disclaimer in the terms of use of this site (not that I didn't read those…). Anyway, just to clarify, this is a fic that takes place soon after the 'Terra' episode (A/N: It's my new favorite episode already—I watched it three times in the first three days (I recorded it)), so keep that in mind, and keep in mind what happened with Terra, and how she was feeling when she left, and the themes of the episode…Oh heck, just go watch it again (you did tape it, didn't you!?), it'll do you some good, anyway.

This is another Author's Note, but it's so big I had to put it in the beginning of the fic. Here:

I have already come up with ideas for several fics, and also scattered notes of interest, but this is the first fic I've written. Anyway, there is a fictitious note in here that is just 'part of the show,' but never actually occurred in the show. It's…well…I'm terrible at explaining, anyway, once upon a time, Beast Boy found out that he had a knack for using his various animal claws to carve pictures into pieces of glass, and went on fling of artisticness. He drew pictures of all kinds of stuff all over the tower, on every piece of glass he could find—which was fine, all (well, most) of the titans admitted they were pretty cool, but when Beast Boy went crazy and drew a huge mural on the living room window that covers the whole wall. He thought it was his 'masterpiece.' Unfortunately, when the titans' super-huge T.V. arrived the next week for the first time, Cyborg and Robin both decided that the only good place to put it was, yes, in front of the mural. Beast Boy's fling promptly died. Thank you for listening. (He still loves his masterpiece though)

Another Author's Note, but shorter:

The mural is just of all the titans in laid back, happy poses. If you want a complete description, then e-mail me at (I'm not sure if this is in my profile or not, but just in case) Bitbaby1@yahoo.com (I hate it, too, but I haven't bothered to change it (do I make too many notes? (add that to any reviews!)))(wow three parenthesis…)

Quakes



Beast Boy was standing in the middle of a very large snow field with a large mountain panorama on one side. It was snowing pleasantly, and the wind was blowing a little. He looked around, but other than an occasional, slight tremor, there was no stimulus.

"Where…?"

He didn't know what to do, so he walked around for a bit. After he had walked for a while, though, he became bored and let out a puff of air. He was about to plop down into the snow when a tremor surfaced and did not break. It continued growing louder and more violent until Beast Boy began to panic. Suddenly a rumbling began, and Beast Boy looked up at the mountain, and saw the snow begin to roll off of it in huge sheets, quickening with speed until Beast Boy realized what was happening.

He transformed into a huge bear and began running frenziedly down the slopes, but now the wind was blowing and he could not see anything through the snow. He kept running until a form appeared in front of him, small but visible. He couldn't stop in time, however, and ran straight into it, turning into a human just before. He shook the snow off of him as he recovered rubbing his head, but stopped when he realized who he had hit.

"Terra?"

Terra was also recovering, but as she was looking at Beast Boy her eyes were glowing a powerful yellow. The rumbling from the upper slopes was growing louder. She had a look of unhappiness and uncertainty, but after a second she got up to run, with Beast Boy calling after her.

"Terra! Wait!"

She did not listen and Beast Boy got up to chase her. He followed her as a human, not thinking about what was going on around him, while the rumbling grew louder.

Terra was faster than Beast Boy, and slowly her image turned into a shadow amidst the snow, then disappeared completely. Beast Boy kept running, though, while the rumbling grew continually louder.

Suddenly the ground dropped off in front of him and he barely managed to not plummet off the cliff. He almost did, but stayed half on and struggled to get back up completely. Immediately after he did that, however, he turned around and called off the cliff.

"Terra!"

It echoed but, there was no answer.

Beast Boy looked around, even more frightened than before. Then he saw two thick rubber gloves struggling to hold on to the edge of the cliff a few yards away. He called Terra's name as he ran over to her and grabbed one hand just as the other slid off and Terra gave a little yelp. After he had a firm grip with both hands, Beast Boy moved his right hand off of Terra's left hand to try and grab her right, but Terra was too busy looking below her to notice. Meanwhile the roaring of the avalanche was growing very close.

"Terra grab on!"

Terra looked at him, but it was a look of despair. When Beast Boy saw the utter lack of hope in her eyes he almost let go with his left hand, but he held on and firmed his expression.

"Terra, you have to take my hand!"

She still looked unsure, however. She looked back to the air below the cliff, and then to Beast Boy, but the avalanche came before Terra could make her decision, and as the snow engulfed him completely, all Beast Boy could remember was letting go.

"No!"

Beast Boy screamed from his bed as he shot awake. He was breathing hard and rather sweaty with his fists clenched and eyes wide. After a moment he yelped again—this time with pain. He shook his hand frantically until an object flew off it to the other end of his bunk bed.

"'d something bite me?" he said as he turned on the light. He looked at his hand, which, sure enough, had two small punctures, but as he inspected his bed, he found nothing but Terra's hair clip. He picked it up and there was another tremor. He held it in his hands and stared, his lids falling slowly.

Raven walked through her door into the hallway, finishing putting her cloak on and adjusting her brooch (A/N: a brooch is the clip thing you hold a cloak together with at the neck. If you've seen the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the hobbit's elven cloaks were held together with pretty green leaf brooches. Remember? No? All well…). She lifted her hood onto her head, and looked around the hallway as yet another tremor occurred.

They had been occurring steadily since a few hours after Terra left, which had been that evening. Raven watched the floor for a moment but again the quake subsided. She didn't look satisfied though and proceeded to one end of the corridor.

She continued walking until she arrived in the living room (where the huge T.V. is). She heard steady clinking and scraping noise coming from the direction of the T.V., and headed that way slowly. When she was close to twenty feet away, just behind the couch, she stopped, her eyes a little wider. Suddenly Raven's telekinesis seized the T.V. and silently moved it aside, and there Beast Boy stood, on a ladder and working on his mural.

She had seen him or heard him come down here several times to 'fix' the mural if he couldn't sleep, not that that was often. She had lost her interest until she saw something strange—Beast Boy wasn't adjusting the mural like he usually did, he was adding something.

Intrigued, she walked around the couch, staring intently at Beast Boy (who still hadn't noticed her), until she stood a few feet from his ladder. After that it didn't take too long to figure out who Beast Boy had been drawing. He had already drawn the full body, and hair, and if the figure wasn't identifiable after that, one simply had to note the large rock it was surfing on.

Despite this development, Raven still maintained her usual apathy, that is, until Beast Boy moved back a bit, and Raven saw Terra's face. Raven began to understand the amount of effort Beast Boy was putting in, despite it being one night's work. She had only been with them for two days but Beast Boy had already captured Terra's character. As she glided on her boulder she radiated her free spirit, and her grin suited her social giddiness. She laughed along with the rest of the titans. As a matter of fact, the way she was drawn, it was obvious that she was portrayed to be part of the team.

Despite Beast Boy's feverish inspiration, he had slowed down in the last few moments, finishing Terra's final part—her eyes. They were carefully drawn, perhaps the best in the mural, but Beast Boy didn't really look at them until he finished, with the last chip, he looked straight into them, just staring, his expression undetermined. Eventually the hammer and chisel simply dropped from his hand, forgotten. As they hit the ground the ground shook momentarily from a tremor, but Beast Boy didn't notice, and still hadn't taken his eyes off Terra's. His form leaned, and he fell onto the window, his forehead supporting him where he had drawn Terra's. His eyes were less than an inch from hers, but he didn't really break their gaze till a few moments later. He brought his hands up against the window to help support himself, and looked through the mural across the island over the bay and into the city. It was an awesome view, but that obviously wasn't on Beast Boy's mind. He just stared, his lids beginning to droop again until his eyes squeezed shut and his face twisted into reluctant despair and two tears rolled out of his eyes onto the mural and down Terra's face.

Raven had simply been watching, moving less than Beast Boy had in the last few minutes. In fact, she had not moved at all, but she had watched. Her only visible feature, her eyes, denoted surprise, shock, some strong emotion she hadn't prepared herself for. Eventually though the angle of her gaze caused her hood to slide back off of her head, and though the action was nearly silent, it was enough to get everyone in the rooms' attention.

Beast boy lost balance, and tipped the ladder over, landing with a crash.

"Whoa!" *Crash*

Raven quickly replaced her hood, but moved over to assist Beast Boy, who was on his knees facing the other direction. He was wiping his face with his forearm, and immediately after jumped up to his feet facing Raven.

"Uh hi, how ya doin' Rave? He he, eh…he."

Pretty much just muttering as walked up close to her on his tip-toes, obviously trying to obscure her view, albeit poorly. He ended up in a smiling, but terribly conspicuous and odd-looking pose in front of Raven.

Raven remained expressionless, "I saw, Beast Boy."

Beast Boy threw a funny 'oops, I failed' face and fell over sideways.

As Beast Boy got up from the ground Raven stepped up to where he had been and looked at the mural again, expressionless. Since she didn't say anything for a long time, Beast Boy eventually worked up some courage and said, "Raven I…I'm sorry you had to see that." He had become very serious again.

This actually got Raven's attention and she looked at him in a bit of confusion as he walked past and set up his ladder again, and picked up his hammer and chisel, but he did all this silently. When he was on the ladder, he stopped, and, looking to the ground absent mindedly, he said "I don't like to cry in front of people." Then he looked at her, "Bad image, you know?" he said, trying to smile.

As Beast Boy set back to work, Raven asked on a bit of a lighter note, "You couldn't sleep?" but almost looked like she wished she hadn't afterwards.

Beast Boy turned half back towards her, stopped, took another moment, and said "No." quietly.

Raven wasn't sure, but it seemed like this was the first time in a while she really didn't know what to say, but felt like she had to say something. She tried, but nothing came, and when Beast Boy set silently back to work on the mural, Raven could think of nothing to do but put her hood back on and walk away.

As she did so, Beast Boy's eyes drooped again. Then his head drooped and he looked at the ground as that expression began to return to his face. When he realized he had stopped working suddenly after a few moments, though, he quickly turned around to see if Raven had noticed, and she had. He sweatdropped as she stared at him from about the couch' s distance.

She was still for a moment, then with her more usual firmness took off her hood, faced him and said, "Just tell me…" then softer, "Is there something on your mind?"

Beast Boy looked back for a moment, then at the ground in quiet defeat. That is probably why his next action scared Raven half to death. He hurled his tools at the wall to the right of the window, and jumped off the ladder.

"Of course" *clang* *bash* "there is!"

Raven was, of course, taken aback.

He threw the ladder to the ground and continued yelling.

"Why Raven, why did she go!?"

He looked at her, but Raven was at an even larger loss for words than she had been before. "I…"

When she didn't answer Beast Boy went on, "Terra! Where are you going to go?!" he yelled at the vast window, to the city. Then finally quieter, panting, "What's going to happen to you?"

Both the teens were so distracted neither of them noticed the quake come and go.

Beast Boy calmed down a bit and reached into his uniform with a bandaged hand, from which he pulled Terra's hair clasp, giving Raven some time to recover.

"…Beast Boy you've seen her fight—she's a little clumsy but she can take care of herself." Raven had seen Beast Boy's wrapped hand and approached him until she was behind him.

He pounded the window once with his damaged hand, clasping the hair grip. Then he said very softly, "No, she can't."

Raven looked sympathetic but answered firmly as she reached over to take his hand, "Beast Boy…she can…she has to."

The Earth began to shake again, and then Beast Boy began growling, and finally roared with a terrible viciousness, "No she doesn't!" and struck Raven's hand away as she reached for his.

Beast Boy stood their breathing until all of the sudden his knees gave out, and then he sat there breathing. He heard a noise behind him and realized it was the T.V. being replaced where it had been between him and Raven, but he could still see Raven.

She was standing over behind the couch again, and she was still, buried deep under her hood, but as Beast Boy watched, he continued to think he saw her shake, but he thought that the tremors must be getting to him. Then suddenly he got back to his feet and called for her.

"Raven, wait—I'm sorry!"

But as soon has he had regained his footing, she had whipped around and was now levitating back across the living room to her room's corridor, as silently as before.

Beast Boy only followed her halfway across the living room calling after her, but successively weaker, until, "Raven…" he muttered. All of the sudden, as he watched her disappear into the corridor, and knew she wouldn't come back, a powerful expression came over his face. Then he fell into a sitting position with his elbows on his knees, staring at the floor.

"Oh man."

Another tremor ran through the tower, and could be felt like all the others, on every floor, but like all the others it subsided.

Well that was my first fic, and I hope my readers enjoyed it. That brings me to another topic, though. If you did like this, you might want to listen (read). I'm not going to require reviews, but the toughest thing I've had to fight to get anything done as a writer is lack of inspiration. My advice to any readers who enjoyed this is to give me a review (i.e. feedback) (good or bad) to simply remind me that I'm writing for someone, cause that's what it's all about, you know?

I used to dislike that cliché (you know) used that way, but ever since Terra used it I've been thinking it's actually pretty cool, you know? …I wonder if it's some sort of subliminal messaging. Is there any reason the creators of the Teen Titans would want to induce me to try knew slangs of language? Would it provide a benefit to any of their ends? Am I a loon? Well, you know, who cares, you know?

Until next time.