Chapter One
It was a majestic morning to the inhabitants of Jump City. The rising sun signaling the start of a new day. As it slowly rose to ignite the sky with warmth and light, it eventually reached through the window to one green skinned shape-shifter. As his eyes slowly fluttered open, his jaws widened as he let out a huge yawn. Consciousness slowly coming to his previously turned-off brain, Beast Boy slowly made his way over to his privet bathroom to prepare for the day ahead of him.
After showering and dressing in his usual spandex uniform, Beast Boy made his way back to his bed, picking up an opened book lying face down. Along the spine the words "The Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells. Taking the book over to his closet, he slid the door to the side revealing a tall bookshelf filled with novels of various lengths, almost all pertaining to the genre of Sci-Fi.
After returning the book to its place, he closed the closet door and made his way over to the full-body mirror on his wall, just staring at his reflection.
His face showed a completely foreign look of seriousness, while his emerald green eyes lacked the ever present twinkle of humor and innocence. Letting out a small sigh, Beast Boy closed his eyes.
When he opened them, they had regained the missing twinkle, and a large, goofy grin adorned his face. Seemingly satisfied, Beast Boy exited his room intent on finding breakfast.
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The Teen Titans all sat in various locations around the living room, save for Cyborg, who had immediately rushed to the garage to install a "Turbo Nos XT" unit to his baby, the T-Car.
Robin and Starfire were watching The Fast and the Furious on TV, with Starfire asking Robin to explain why one must be 'furious' to be 'fast', when to fly fast she must think the exact opposite with feelings of great joy and happiness.
"No no Starfire, that's just the name of the movie, and since in the movie they race cars on the street, your attitude has got to be pretty furious if you ever hope to win." explained Robin.
"So unless one is furious, one will not be able to win the race of cars?"
"No, you see…"
The remaining two titans could be found in the corner of the room. One sitting in a chair, a book propped open in her lap, an annoyed look on her face, as the other rambled on and on with lame jokes.
"How about this one…Why did the gum cross the road?" questioned Beast Boy.
Raven showed no sign of acknowledgement whatsoever and continued to read on.
"Because the gum was stuck to the chicken!!" he shouted, before breaking out into uncontrollable laughter.
Breathing in and out slowly, Raven tried to keep her emotions from destroying anything, as she spoke in her usual monotone voice.
"Beast Boy, I don't want to hear anymore lame pathetic jokes, nor do I care." she said dully.
Either not hearing her, or ignoring her, Beast Boy continued, "Okay, okay, here's a really good one. Why did they put a fence around the graveyard?"
"Beast Boy…" Raven started.
"Because everyone's just been DIEING to get in!!" and again he was on the floor, laughing his head off.
Getting seriously irritated, Raven closed her book, and made to escape to the peace and quite of her room. Unfortunately, Beast Boy had other plans.
"Aw, not that one either. Fine, this one's sure to make you laugh…" Beast Boy said, moving inbetween Raven and the door leading towards the Titans' rooms.
"Beast Boy, get out of my way." Raven stated, glaring so intensely at Beast Boy it was a wonder he didn't burn to a crisp right there.
"What do-" Beast Boy began.
"Now." Raven's glare, if possible, intensified, her voice laced with anger and annoyance.
"C'mon Rae, I promise-"
Whatever Beast Boy planned on saying, no one will ever know. For at that moment, Raven's eye's glowed white as she interrupted Beast Boy.
"Don't call me RAE!" she said, yelling the last bit, while simultaneously shooting a bolt of black energy into the chest of a certain green changeling, which in turn sent him rocketing back where he met the wall with a sickening CRACK.
Having continued on her way, Raven was out of the room and headed towards her own bedroom, by the time Beast Boy collided with the wall. Robin and Starfire, who had witnessed the incident due to Beast Boy's loud voice and the fact that in her anger, Raven had cracked the screen to the TV.
Immediately Starfire rushed to her friend, who had slumped to the ground and lay there moaning.
"Friend Beast Boy!"
Right behind the Tameranian was Robin, already checking his body for any serious injuries. As far as he could tell, Beast Boy was no worse for wear, except maybe one heck of a headache and a bruise or two. After confirming the health of his teammate, Robin turned to face Starfire, who continued to look at her obviously hurt friend in concern.
"He'll be okay Star, just a bit banged up, he's been much worse off before." explained Robin.
"Oh glorious!" exclaimed Starfire, "Friend Beast Boy, I shall go and make for you the Pudding of Recovery!" and without waiting for a response, hurried into the kitchen to begin. Shuddering, Robin turned his attention to the now sitting up green teammate of his.
"You okay?" asked Robin.
Rubbing his head a bit, Beast Boy replied softly, "Huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'll be fine." The look on Beast Boy's face was unreadable by the Teen Titan leader which, considering Robin's skill and ability to read the expressions of almost anyone, greatly troubled him.
"Are you sure? You hit the wall pretty hard. It didn't sound pretty that's for sure." Robin stated.
"Yeah, and it felt even worse!" Beast Boy exclaimed, his customary grin back on his face, one fang sticking out. Robin failed to notice how the smile couldn't cover the sadness shown in his astonishingly green eyes. Quickly getting up, Beast Boy made his way towards the exit.
"Well, I'm gonna go…read some comics." said Beast Boy, and with that he was gone.
Robin continued to stare at where his oddly acting friend had exited. Then again, if he'd just got slammed into a wall by one of his teammates, he'd be acting a bit different as well.
Speaking of which…and so Robin too made his way to the Titans' rooms, to have a little chat with a certain half demon.
A few minutes later, Cyborg made his way into the living room. It wasn't until the TV failed to respond that he noticed the very large crack in it, along with the absence of any of his other teammates.
"Wonder where everybody went?" he asked to no one in particular.
Suddenly, Starfire burst into the living room, eyes closed smiling in pure joy.
"It is done!" she shouted, holding forth her very uneatable looking, very lumpy, very brown, and…did it just move on its own?
Suffice to say, when Starfire opened her eyes, she was met with a barren living room. Thinking nothing of it, Starfire put her pudding in the fridge, reminding herself to offer it to friend Beast Boy as soon as possible.
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In his room sat a brooding changeling. Brooding, because he was once again shot down, this time literally.
"Why does she have to be closed off from everything. It's understandable that she can't show emotions without her powers running rampant around her, but would a few laughs kill her? Hell, I'd even take a smile…" he said to himself.
Beast Boy's face was once again the very unfamiliar serious expression, the despair and sadness apparent to all in his deep green orbs.
Thinking back to all the hardships in his life, Beast Boy began wondering, not for the first time, why he was dealt such a crappy hand at life.
First, the life altering experimental cure to a rare disease that his father gave him to save his life, yet also cursing him with animalistic looks and unnatural green skin, at the age of 4. Then, the death of his parents at age 6 where if he could have only been stronger, he might have been able to save them. Then his violent rampage, when he lost control of his powers and slaughtered everyone in the only home he had ever known, at age 8. Joining the Doom Patrol at age 12, only to be treated as dirt, and either picked on or avoided by everyone. Then finally, for the first time in almost his entire life, it seemed Beast Boy had finally found a home, with the Teen Titans, age 17.
Yet what he found there was only more distress. More sadness. For since he first laid his eyes on the dark girl with pale skin, he knew. But as it turned out, he was only getting his hopes up. Not only was she completely emotionless, but the fact remained that he was just a green skinned freak. Simply put, she was completely and utterly out of his league.
Still, he couldn't help what he felt. At least that was before. Before she had mercilessly and uncaringly slammed him into the re-enforced steel walls of Titans Tower. No, he made no fantasies now. Never would Raven hold any feelings towards him. In fact, she probably hated him. All this time, trying to get a laugh, a smile, anything, out of her. Yet the whole time he all he was doing was making his one true dream more and more impossible, if it was ever possible in the first place. It all seemed pointless now. As Beast Boy continued to stare at one of his most prized possessions, a photo of Raven, taken within the first few months of his being on the team, Beast Boy came to a decision in his mind.
"No more…"
A/N: Well, there you go. So to help explain a bit, Beast Boy really isn't as dumb as everyone thinks. Not super intelligent, but also not stupid. Something i think no one ever really considers is how much loss Beast Boy had in his life before he joined the Teen Titans. And while all of the events in my version of BB's life might be wrong well, it's just that. MY version. So his past can be whatever I want it to be. Although I did try and make it mostly accurate. Anyways, lemme know what you think!!