So here is part two, the final part. It has been a long day, so sorry that this didn't come earlier. Enjoy and review.
Disclaimer: BLARG BLARG BLARG, I DO NOT OWN TEEN TITANS, BUT I WANT TO
Dawn and Dusk
The dark infirmary, uncaringly sterile, was silent. The cool metal of the grey walls show no sympathy. All sorts of strange devices, from a heart monitor to an automatic feeder, was plugged into the young hero. His leg, literally throbbing, was raised by cords from an unknown source. The gentile beeping of his heart, created by the electrocardiograph (Heart monitor), soothed his bandaged head and reminded him that he was in fact alive.
"How did I get here?" The kid's voice was scratchy from disuse. He wasn't sure when he awoke, he wasn't sure if he wanted to awake, but he was. A pain, slowly rising in his head, brought his hand to massage his face, and ruffle through his newly clean hair. "The last thing I remember was… Oh, yeah."
The battle against Terra and Slade, where both the hero and villain were the same person and where two would die. The funeral in the cave, where Beast Boy placed his hand made plaque under the statue of what was his best friend. He had suffered many wounds over the single month. The most notable being Terra's betrayal and the final showdown between Slade and Terra. His body was crippled, but what truly hurt was his heart, it was broken.
Or at least it would be if he could remember.
"What is wrong with friend Beast Boy?" Starfire asked, eyes filled with worry. "He never healed." Robin stated. Starfire, now confused, simply gave a curious look. "What Robin means is that Beast Boy never healed from Terra's attack, not physically at least. And we have been taxing him both physically and mentally." Raven interjected, explaining to Starfire, who was becoming more and more confused. "So friend Beast Boy is not well?" Starfire asked. "No, he isn't. He suffered from an anxiety attack, something he wouldn't normally suffer from, but his practically non-existent health made room for it." Cyborg explained. "Oh…" Starfire still didn't fully understand, but she knew enough.
The four titans stood outside of the infirmary, their colleague unconscious in the other room, or at least they thought. The discussion continued, and so did their plans to help Beast Boy, starting with his leg, which was still mutilated. No one knew why he refused to let others near it, but they knew that his bone should not be worn as and accessory on his leg.
"Well, maybe he needs a therapist?" Robin suggested. "No way! You know the green bean would never tell any shrink anything, ever!" Cyborg protested. The Titans, off the subject of physically healing him, were on the subject of his sure to be twisted mind. Robin, trying to keep his health in mind, was thinking that he might need professional help. Truthfully, they all probably did. Yet Cyborg kept his happiness in mind, thinking that he didn't need to be stressed and worry, not with his current health.
Robin, about to offer a response to Cyborg, was halted by a pained calling from the infirmary. Together, the Titans entered, prepared for something awful.
Yet it never came. Upon entering the room, and turning on the dim lights, they noticed it. Beast Boy was smiling, it was filled with pain, but it was a smile nether the less. "Hey guys, what am I doing here?" Robin, filling in for the other Titans, questioned Beast Boy. "Do you mean you don't remember?" Beast Boy, still smiling, nodded. "What is the last thing you remember?" Beast Boy, putting on a comical thinking expression, complete with imaginary beard, took a few seconds before responding. "It was Thursday, we had spent the day hunting Sladebots, and we had just finished pizza, then went to bed."
Starfire gasped, Raven's eyes opened a millimetre wider in shock, Cyborg's jaw hit the floor, and Robin looked away in shame. Beast Boy had amnesia, and they could only heal his broken body.
Robin was locked away into his office, filling away crime reports, making written statement to the press about Beast Boy's absents for the past few days, and generally drowning out his guilt with monotonous work.
Yet he was not alone, Raven was there as well, going over Beast Boy's medical reports. Specially, a single bone shard. Accord to Cyborg, it had some strange markings on it, and the more she looked at a picture of it, the more she was sure that Terra had not attacked Beast Boy. "Robin, take a look at this…" Raven handed a picture of a bone to Robin, who nearly cursed when he saw it.
Carved into Beast Boy's bone was a circle, with a 's' in it, following the circle's ridges.
He knew what he did, yet it was easier to forget. He knew that he would be pestered till the end of time if Robin knew that Slade attacked him. But then again, it wasn't exactly something that he should hide from him, he needed to know. So, he would leave a few hints and forget about it, or at least pretend to. It was hard to sear Slade's signature 's' into his bones, but it was the best way. Robin would discover the truth, the team could start to heal, and so could he. Terra did the right thing, and he forgave her, he just needed to forgive himself.
Was he ever in love, he could not say. Yet she was his friend, and could never have turned his back without guilt, enough to carve letters into bones sill lodged in infected wounds apparently. He remembered, and he could never forget, but he would always forgive.
Yet when the nightmares continue past the dawn, they always end at the next dusk, and then the peaceful dreams begin.
The end. So what did you think? I know it is a little gory, but I care more about the story than the gore. Review and have a great day!
-A Mad Man (Who is feeling unusually happy)
