Forgive Me
Chapter 1 – Welcome home?
The girl kept to the shadows. She wore an old filthy hoodie, that covered her face with it's hood, she wore dirty ripped jeans, and her feet carried trainers with a hole in each. With her hood on, you couldn't see her face or her hair, but it was probably accurate that her hair would be lank and dirty, and her face disgraceful.
She took a deep breath and looked over at the island. That was where the tower stood. It had been two years since she last stood in it, and she was determined to call it her home. Again. Surely, the Titans would forget her betrayal, and surely Beast Boy had thought about her. It made her warm inside to think of Beast Boy, and how close they had been. It also made her cry, because her betrayal hurt him the most. She was saddened but also lightened as she approached a fisherman.
"Excuse me?" she asked. The man jumped and when he turned around he stared at the girl.
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"I need to get to that island," she persisted.
"And, you need my help?" the man asked.
"Please, I..I don't have much to offer, but if you need anything, I'll do it," she cried.
The fisherman thought, "Hmmm.. Well..."
"Please.." the girl begged.
The man scratched his head, "I guess I can let you go for free, there's nothing I need that I think you'll be able to do."
"Which is?" the girl asked, a little harshly.
"Well, my son was playing around, and he dug up my best fishing-rod, it's the one I use most often, as it catches more fish. However, I don't know where he put it." The girl nodded, she closed her eyes and imagined the ground lifting. The fisherman stared. He quickly grabbed the fishing-rod and escaped the dagger-like rocks. "I thank you miss," he said.
"You're welcome, can you take me to the island then?" she replied.
The fisherman bowed his head, "It would be my honour."
The girl followed the fisherman into the boat, and he led her to the island. She thanked him and escaped the boat. Taking a deep breath, she walked further to the tower. She noticed the higher security put in and was not surprised. She used the earth around her to escape cameras. "Best to sneak in to surprise the lot," she whispered to herself. Carefully she scanned the area and saw the door. She noticed the hand scanner thing. The girl raised an eyebrow. She darted over to the door and breathed deeply and she leaned across the wall. She shuffled to the scanner and looked at it closely. She saw the last hand print was recently, so she took a little brush and swept at it. She took a little plaster thing, and stuck it to the scanner. The scanner flashed.
"Welcome Nightwing," it said. The girl raised an eyebrow in confusion. The door opened, and she crept in. She heard voices from the main room and listened in at the wall.
"C'mon out BB!" yelled Cyborg. The girl smiled at the nickname. He looked around the room. "I know you blew the fridge up!" The girl blinked in confusion. Boom Baby shuffled to him.
"Sorry," she grinned.
'That isn't BB,' the girl thought.
"See, isn't it nice when we tell the truth," Cyborg smirked. "But the punishment is nicer." The girl heard laughter. Cyborg tickled the girl until she released a glove from her hand.
"Want me to...snort..blow you up?" she said, unsuccessfully trying to be serious.
Cyborg pouted, "You and you bombs." The girl looked through the crack in the door to see the metal-man she once knew and a stranger. She had peach skin, raspberry red hair and golden eyes. She wore an outfit which had the combination of red, black, gold and orange.
'Who is she?' the girl thought.
"Anyhoo, have you seen Raven?" Boom Baby asked.
"What do you need to see her for?" Cyborg asked.
BB sighed, "She's the only one who might know where Amira is."
"Amira? You need her?"
BB shook her head, "N needs her."
"Any idea why?" Cyborg asked. The girl looked to see BB jump over the sofa to sit down, Cyborg following her lead.. The sitting not the jumping.
"Not sure, well since her little drama thing two years ago, he's still unaware if she's trustworthy."
"She's Raven's sister though." That got the girl interested.
"Yeah, I know, but she was in prison!"
'Woah..' the girl thought.
"True, but that was because of her screwed-up life. I'm surprised Raven didn't turn out the same." Cyborg shrugged.
"Why do they look so different?" Boom Baby asked.
"Amira took after their mother, not the demon father, I thought you knew that."
"Great.. We have two demons!" Boom Baby sighed.
'Demons?' the girl asked herself.
"Raven destroyed Trigon though..."
"Sorry," BB sighed, "Hey, if you see Amira, tell her Nightwing wants her." BB stood up and went to leave, catching the girl by surprise. The girl darted 'round the corner. BB walked out the room and went the other way, relieving the girl. She then noticed that another stranger walked into the main room. Her skin was a coffee colour, and her eyes were golden. She had white hair that journeyed down her back. She didn't notice the girl, but she stopped before entering, and looked like she was sniffing the air. She shrugged and walked back in.
"Hey Cyborg!" the bronzed girl yelled. The girl leaned on the door again.
'How many newbies are there?' she thought.
"Hey Libitina, how are you?" Cyborg grinned.
"I'm good, hey have you seen-"
"I haven't but you can ask Raven," Cyborg cut her off.
"Oh thanks," Libitina grinned and ran off. She ran at inhuman speed, which alerted the girl quickly enough to run around the corner. The girl sighed as she listened to the wall again.
"Ya know, Nightwing would disapprove of trespassers.." came a female voice. The girl jumped and turned around..
'Busted!' she thought. She turned around to see a completely white girl, with long black hair and silver eyes. She wore a gothic dress, and she had a frown painted on her lips. 'Raven much?' she thought. The strange girl's eyes scanned the busted girl.
"Terra," the girl said. Terra's eyes widened.
"How did you know that!?" she shrieked.
"I read minds, like you throw rocks," the pale girl replied.
"Who are you?" Terra asked.
"My name is Midnight," the girl replied, folding her arms.
"Woah.. Weird name," Terra thought out-loud. She saw the other girl's frown.
"Whatever, you're not supposed to be here."
"I know, but I couldn't stay away," Terra replied, looking down at the floor.
"No," the girl shook her head, "I mean in this hallway."
"What? Why?" Terra asked confused.
"Let's just say I have a knack for witch-craft.. And also psychic abilities.." Midnight admitted.
"Woah... But what's wrong?"
"Well unless you want the wall to fall on top of you, you better move.." Midnight said.
"Wait... What?"
The girl sighed, "Boom Baby, or BB as you heard her, seems to keep blowing stuff up, and her surprised and a bare hand is dangerous than you would think.."
"She blows stuff up with her hand?" Terra asked.
Midnight nodded, "Not intentionally, but it'll be easier when you see what she can do and why she wears gloves all the time."
"That's tough," Terra said.
"Very," she began to turn around. "Well," she said, turning her head. "Do you want to announce you're back or will I do that for you?"
"Wait," Terra said, following her. "I look like a wreck, is there spare clothes or anything."
"You won't like my fashion," she said raising an eyebrow at Terra's reaction, "But you seem more like Boom Baby, so I'll let you borrow something of hers'."
"Won't she mind?" Terra asked.
Then Midnight smiled, "I can be very persuasive." Terra swore she saw the girl's eyes flash. Midnight stopped at a door, she eyed the keypad. "Stay here," she warned Terra. Terra stood. Midnight walked through the door, making Terra's eyes widen. Midnight came back with a pair of dark blue jeans, a red top and long black boots, as well as a red choker. "I'll take you to my room, I have a bathroom so you can have a shower, and I have more personal stuff for you." Terra suddenly started to like the girl. Midnight was quite cold and serious, but she had an energetic spark and a kind heart.
Terra nodded, "Thank you."
"Don't mention it," Midnight replied. She led Terra through more corridors until she reached the room. When they went in Terra paled and Midnight sweat-dropped. "If you hadn't noticed, I am quite gothic." Terra nodded in agreement. The room was totally black or silver. There were cool decorations that hung from the roof or swirled up the walls. She opened a door, letting Terra in. "Here's a bathroom, I have some stuff in there that you might need.." then she whispered, "Including soap." She raised her voice again, "So feel free to use them." Midnight went back into her own room and sat on her bed, reading a thick novel.
Terra felt better already as she rinsed her hair with water. Midnight's kindness would not go forgotten. It was good to get clean again. When she finished, she dried her self and changed into the clothes Midnight had brought her. She dried her hair with another towel and came back.
"You look much better," Midnight said, looking up from her book.
"Feel it too," Terra sighed with pleasure.
Midnight pointed to a box, "There's a hair-dryer and a brush in there."
"Thank you," Terra literally yelled. She grabbed them both and began drying her hair. Midnight chuckled, going back to her book. She stopped for a moment, her face paler, and her eyes turned fully silver. Terra stopped the hair-dryer, she was finished anyway and looked at Midnight with concern. "Are you alright?" Midnight shivered, and suddenly silver tears leaked from her eyes. "Midnight!?" Terra yelled. Midnight began breathing harder. Midnight yelled with agony, and Terra rushed to her side. The door burst open, surprising Terra, and in sight was a man. He was quite tall, muscular. He had short purple hair, and gold eyes. His skin was quite tanned. "Who are you?" Terra asked.
"Never mind me," he turned to her, "or you, I need to help Midnight."
"What's happening to her?" Terra asked.
"She's having a Death Vision," the mysterious guy said.
"Death Vision?" Terra repeated.
"Her vision is of death," the boy replied. Terra looked at him more closely, he had a mark on his forehead, in the shape of a lightening thing. She looked at him curiously. "Stop that, and help me," the guy frowned.
"How are you going to help her?" Terra asked.
The lightening-thing-on-his-head-guy sighed. "I'm going to zap her mind."
"Zap? Mind?" Terra repeated. The guy looked at her annoyed. He turned to Midnight and put his hand on her head. Terra could see sparks of energy or lightening bounce from his hand to her head. Midnight relaxed as she looked up at the guy.
"Again?" she whispered hoarsely. He nodded. "Thanks, Bolt," she said closing her eyes.
"You can't keep getting these, it almost killed you last time," Bolt shook his head.
"I can't stop them," Midnight shrugged hopelessly.
"You have to try, or just ignore them," he said.
"Don't you think I've tried?" Midnight whispered, pleading.
"I know," Bolt sighed. He looked over to Terra. "Who's this?"
Midnight smiled and raised an eyebrow, "The legendary Terra."
Bolt paled, "What?"
"Hey!" Terra barked, "The legendary part better be good."
Midnight winked, "You'll find out, now let's go." She turned to Bolt, "Don't tell anyone yet, leave that to me. Why don't you get everyone to go to the main room, I'll introduce her there."
Bolt nodded, "Anything for you babe!" he winked then walked away. Terra smirked.
"Let's go then," Midnight said, she gave Terra her hand. She was about to leave the room when someone knocked on the door. Terra knew what to do and locked herself in the bathroom. "Oh, hey Amberlee."
"Hey, are you alright?" Terra heard a female voice.
'How many new people are there?' she thought.
"I'm fine," Midnight replied. "Luckily Bolt came." Terra could hear the girl giggle.
"There's a surprise."
Midnight rolled her eyes, "Anyway I need to talk to all of you, so can you go to the main room?"
"Is it serious?" Amberlee asked, worried.
"Quite," Midnight bit her lip.
"Alright, I'll go down, want me to ask more people to come?"
"If that's not too much trouble, Bolt's already helping me with it."
Amberlee giggled again, "I don't know why you two don't go out with each other already."
"You heard the boss," Midnight sighed.
"Yeah, and he's all eyes for Starfire, have your fun."
Midnight smirked, "I'll keep that in mind."
"Okay then, I'll see you in a bit." Amberlee winked and walked off.
"You can come out now," Midnight called. Terra came out of the bathroom.
"How many new people are there?" she asked.
Midnight looked at her, "Plenty, you should try training them."
"How long have you been here for?" Terra asked.
"Around a year, anyway let's go, keep to the walls." Terra followed Midnight through the complicated corridors. Terra's heart raced as she heard voices in the main room. "It's alright," Midnight whispered. She entered the room, making all the Titans silent. "Okay, now it's a little unusual for me to call you here, but.." she stopped to look at all the Titans, they were all here, this better go down well, "This is quite important, and I'm glad all of you managed to come, thanks to Bolt and Amberlee." The two nodded to her. "Well, enough of that, I'm sort of proud to announce our visitor," she smiled, surprising them. "I don't know her as much as some of you will have, but to me she's nice. Now because of some thing before, you might not feel very pleasant towards her, but I can tell she's changed." The room was very silent. The original titans swallowed. "You can come in!" Midnight yelled.
Terra took a deep breath, and she opened the door. She was sweating, and it wasn't very pleasant. She stepped into the light, hearing gasps. She turned to Midnight who was smiling. Terra then looked at all the Titans and scanned each one. She saw Bolt standing by the wall, he had a smug look on his face as he was looking at all the surprised Titans. She saw another girl, who she thought must have been Amberlee. She had long red hair, in a ponytail, and red sparkling eyes. She had creamy-coloured skin. She wore a red choker, which was attached to a black long top. She wore a red top on top of that, and she wore black long trousers, and black boots. She was clearly surprised as well, and confused. Terra turned her attention to the girl with coffee-coloured skin, white hair and golden eyes, she must be Libitina. Libitina wore a black top that was short sleeved, but crawled up her neck. She wore black gloves which stopped to her manicured hand. She wore black trousers and also wore black boots. She had a complete look of surprise but she understood the situation well for some odd reason. (Mind Reading, People) A guy on her left had quite long black hair, pale-ish skin and deep blue eyes. He wore a black cloak with some form of armour or ninja outfit underneath it. He had a startled look painted on his face. Terra looked at the girl on a sofa, she was Bomb Baby as she recalled her from earlier. She had hair as red as raspberries, golden eyes, and peachy skin. She wore a black turtle-neck top with long sleeves, a gold jacket, black belt with 'BB' on it, a red mini-skirt, golden boots and she also wore orange gloves. BB was glaring at her, well not her precisely, more like the clothes. There was a man next to her, he wore a mask, that was blue, and his outfit was blue with a yellow circle on his chest. He had chestnut brown hair that was short but stylish and green eyes that looked through the mask. He was shocked as well as confused. There was a girl with black hair, with a purple streak. Her hair was down to her chin. She had amethyst eyes and skin which was quite dark. Her eyes were Asian-looking but she reminded Terra of Raven. She was tall, and wore a black tank top, and black, blue, silver and purple camouflaged trousers. She wore heavy black army boots. Her ears were pierced several times, and she had a sneer on her face, mixed with confusion. There was a girl with short black hair, deep brown eyes, and tanned skin. She looked African to her, maybe Egyptian. She wore a long golden dress, which split where her legs began, she wore a golden thing on her arm which was in the shape of a snake slithering around and up. She wore golden hoops, with a blue and white inner bit. She had eye-liner on which made her look exotic because of the shape it went into, and she wore golden eyeshadow. She wore a necklace, and the jewel was gold, it sparkled and it was kept in a round white container that rested on her chest. She had a golden ankle bracelet, the twirled up like the snake. She wore nothing on her feet, which surprised Terra. The girl had a kind face but it resembled surprise, confusion and probably a glare. She had her arms crossed, and Terra could tell that she wore bracelets. There was something enchanting about the woman, put she couldn't place it. Oh, and surprise, surprise, there was the original titans.
Terra levelled her look of surprise on them, they looked different, most of them. Cyborg was the same, but he had more protection on his arms and legs, and his face looked a little older. Robin, or Nightwing rather, wore a black body-suit with a pair of dark blue wings on his chest. His hair had grown out as it hung down his chin, wasn't that long, but the longest he ever had it. (Except From The Future) Starfire wore something more revealing than before. She still had the purple theme, but it showed a lot of her chest, going down though, and it was a one-piece, almost like a leotard. Her hair had grown and was more curly. She wore long purple boots too. She had a look of joy but also of worry and shock. She looked more older, more unjoyous, if such a thing was to happen. She saw Raven glaring at her. Raven too had longer hair, but it looked like it must have taken more than two years to grow it. It was half-way down her back and her bangs stood out in front of her face. She wore a dark blue cloak like before, but it was longer and without a hood. What really surprised Terra about Raven was that she was wearing a dress. It split at her legs, like the Egyptian girl's dress. It was black, and where her stomach was there was a swirly hole that revealed her skin. She wore her normal boots but they had heels on them this time. Terra started getting jealous, Raven had become more curvy like an hourglass over the years, and Terra was just getting a figure. Raven's eyes fixed on Terra, making her uncomfortable. And to her biggest surprise, the green boy sitting next to the empath. His hair was longer and more wild. He wore a suit-thing like before but it had short sleeves, revealing his muscular arms. He had a purple paw print on his chest. He wore a similar belt, but the middle part was a paw print too. He still had the same bottom parts including the boots. He looked like a total hunk, and if Terra didn't have as much sense as she did she would have drooled. The green boy stared at her, his eyes weren't filled with love but not with hatred either, something in between, something distant and neutral.
"Terra?" Nightwing questioned. Terra stepped forward, well, she had no choice, thankfully to Midnight who was shoving her.
"Yeah.. Uhhh.." she began thinking, "Nightwing."
Nightwing nodded in approval, "Yes."
Terra gave a small nervous laugh, "Never expected so many people here."
Only a few people chucked but the green bloke sat still. Terra felt her face lit up like a candle... Or a fire. She turned to Midnight, pleading with her eyes.
"I found her, she was a wreck, so it was best to get her back to normal," Midnight explained quickly.
"Depends what normal for her is," Raven muttered. Terra heard her crush give a small low chuckle.
"This is probably unexpected of me, and possibly a lot more than I could have asked for," she said, rubbing the back of her head, nervously. Raven stood up, agonizing Terra.
"Well, what are we waiting for," she crossed her arms, "Aren't we going to celebrate?" That really surprised the lot. Raven gave a small weak smile at Terra, so small and quick, Terra thought she imagined it. "Well," Raven barked. "Are you lot just going to gawk at her!?" Nightwing walked up to Raven and started discussing something with her, Terra tried to ignore the fact that he kept glancing up at her. Raven had her arms crossed the whole time, her eyebrow raised. Terra heard Midnight sigh with relief.
"I didn't know what to expect," she admitted.
"Neither did I," Terra said, her eyes gazing at the green beast/total hunk of a man. BB walked up to Terra, surprising her.
"Midnight, care to explain where she got the clothes from?" she asked.
Midnight sighed, "You never wear them anyway."
BB threw her arms up in the air as a sign of desperation, "Okay, okay, don't get all wolfie on me."
"Wolfie?" Terra repeated, looking at Midnight. BB walked away.
"Yeah, I have the ability to change into a wolf," Midnight replied.
"Awesome! Can you show me?"
Midnight shook her head, "There's a power neutraliser in every room, meaning we can't purposely use our powers. For some odd reason it has no effect if it's accidental, which kinda explains why Boom Baby keeps blowing up everything."
"What if you're under attack?"
"Well," Midnight began, "The Titans who are skilled in martial arts or whatever will attack first, giving a Titan enough time to switch the neutraliser off."
"What if you need every Titan?" Terra asked.
Midnight shook her head, "Raven, Libitina and I can phase through walls, we have no problem getting to the central neutraliser."
"I have a question," Terra said.
"Yes?"
"So, an example, Boom Baby, or whatever, ends up blowing a fridge, or something, up by accident, but if she wanted to do it, will her powers be ineffective?" Midnight nodded. "But how does a machine know when someone wants to use their powers? And why did they chose this in the first place?"
"Those with powers give off a kind of energy pattern which the neutraliser can receive. There's a part of our mind that gives off a similar pattern, which is kinda of desire, if I put it like that, someone purposely wants to shoot a lightening bolt, the neutraliser will detect this and break off the energy pattern that would release the power. And because, people fight," she said simply at the end.
"Uhh.." Terra said, nodding approvingly. "Don't know why it doesn't just cancel out the powers all together then."
"Because it's a machine," Midnight shrugged. Terra noticed Raven, Nightwing, Starfire, Cyborg and a drifting green hunk. Terra noticed her crush first and wrapped her arms around him, in an embrace. He pulled back after ten seconds.
"Beast Boy!" she grinned. "I'm so glad to see you."
He gave her a sideways glance, "Don't call me that," he said simply.
"What? Why not?"
"It's not my name..."
"What is?"
"It's Changeling," Raven said.
"Cool," Terra said, stilling looking at him. He wasn't smiling back at her.
"Gar," Raven warned. Gar looked at her.
"Gar?" Terra repeated. Gar looked back at her.
"My name," he said plainly.
"I thought it was Changeling?"
"My real name."
"Oh, uhhh... Nice..." Terra sweated.
"Whatever, what are you doing here?" Gar asked coldly. Raven nudged him. "Ow..!" he groaned, but smiled at her. "Sorry," he said to Terra.
"That's alright," Terra lisped.
"He is right though," Starfire said, "I don't mean to offend you, but the last time we saw you, you were working with Slade."
"I'm really, really sorry about that," Terra whispered.
Nightwing nodded, "Yes, but it's been two years."
"Surely, she's suffered enough," Midnight added. The others looked at her. "She looked like she's been living on the streets." Terra blushed.
"Really?" Cyborg asked, a little disgusted and curious.
Terra nodded, "Yes, it's been hard these couple of years.."
Raven put her hand on Terra's shoulder, and Terra could see she wore blue gloves, which was the same shade as her dress, it was fingerless for three fingers, but two fingers were connected with the gloves. The gloves had material that hung loosely from her hand. Terra was surprised at the gesture. "Let her stay," she said to Nightwing.
'Has Raven suddenly gone nice?' Terra thought.
"Fine," Nightwing sighed. "But she'll need to get stuff for herself because we're packed as it is."
Terra nodded, "Thank you so much!" she smiled, tears in her eyes. She was about to hug Gar then changed her mind. Had Raven and Gar switched places or something? Instead, she hugged Raven, as she was the one to convince Nightwing. Raven gave Gar a 'help!' look, which made Gar chuckle.
"Uhh.. Terra, Raven still hates physical contact," Starfire laughed. Terra let go and laughed with them. It was good to be back, or was it?
