A.N. I just want to quickly say that every other chapter will focus on Slade and Robin. So this chapter is mostly on Terra and Beast Boy but all of my SladeRobin lovers out there, don't fret! Slade and Robin are up next chapter.
Title: Aftershock Prizes
Author: Jordan Herbert
Rating: M throughout the entire fic for obvious reasons if you actually read it.
Genre: Angst/Slash/Drama
Pairing: SladeRobin, or what I like to call Sladin, and TerraxBeast Boy, which I'm not sure if it has another name
Chapter Summary: Terra isn't used to being in charge of anyone, she was only recently able to control herself. But now that Beast Boy is hers to do with what she wants, she doesn't know what she wants. She wants him to be there for her, but she doesn't want to make him do it, she wants him to want her and want to be there for her. As for Beast Boy, he wants to be there for her and he wants to help her be her own person again, not Slade's apprentice.
Chapter 2
Slade's Apprentice
Terra trotted down the hallway toward her own room where she knew Beast Boy was waiting for her. She stopped before she entered her room and took a deep breath to calm herself. She had to remind herself that she was a villain now and not only that but she was in charge and could do anything she wanted.
She placed her hand on the handle but then pulled it back as she brushed her hair quickly with her fingers, making sure it looked perfect. She figured it did and reached for the handle again but once more stopped as she grabbed her head. What would she say when she saw him? He probably hated her after everything she had done! Oh wait…Right, she was in charge now. Why should she care what Beast Boy thought about her? He had to do what she said from then on.
Terra took one last deep breath and opened the door. Beast Boy was sitting on her circular, silver sheeted bed. He didn't look up at her and instead kept his gaze floating around the room. She looked around her room once and sighed inwardly. Her room wasn't as nice as the one she had had with the Titans. There were no elaborately painted walls and no glow in the dark stars on her ceiling.
The walls were bare and metal, cold and uninviting. She had a small dark woodened vanity, a closet, a door that lead to her private bathroom, a wardrobe, and a desk. She often changed the positioning of the furniture around to provide some variety but it didn't help make the room feel any more comfortable.
She nodded to the Sladebot and it left quietly. "So, what now Terra?" Beast Boy asked as he kept his gaze off of her. "You've destroyed Jump City, your home, made all the citizens run away in fear, the people who once looked at you as a hero, and you broke the Titans one by one, your friends, you betrayed us all Terra. So what are you going to do now?" Beast Boy looked at her and she suddenly felt all of her guilt hit her at once as she peered into his sad eyes.
But then she reminded herself aloud of how wrong he was. "Jump City was never my home, I'm a drifter and I've never been accepted anywhere. The citizens only thought I was a hero because they didn't really know me but if they did they would have thought that I was a monster. And the Titans, if you guys were really my friends then you would still like me, despite what I've done. You were the ones who betrayed me when you guys stopped being my friend." Her tone was icy and Beast Boy flinched.
"I still do like you." He whispered softly and sighed as he brought his knees to his chest and rested his head.
Terra was caught off guard for a second; Slade had assured her that Beast Boy didn't like her anymore, that he couldn't possibly like her after everything she had done. But he claimed that he did, and she knew he wasn't the type of person to lie about something like that, let alone lie period.
"And I still like you," Terra smiled softly, and Beast Boy looked up at her, at the glance of the old Terra. Of the confused but fun loving and easy going girl that he had grew to like, like a lot. Dare to say, he even loved her at one point and still did. "So this shouldn't be hard for you." Her smile turned cold as a glitter passed through her visible eye.
Beast Boy gulped, that was a Slade look. "What are you talking about Terra?" He really didn't know what she was talking about but he had a feeling that he should know in order to prepare himself for it, whatever it was.
"I'm talking about us, about our new relationship. I wanted to be your friend Beast Boy, I really did but you broke your promise." Terra narrowed her eyes at the floor as she clenched her hands into tight fists at her sides.
"I only broke my promise after you betrayed us to Slade. You told him everything about us, all of our weaknesses and tons of personal stuff as well. Then you just let his robots destroy the Tower, our home, and you tried to destroy us as well." Beast Boy frowned as he recalled the dark abyss that Terra had sent Cyborg and him into.
"Your home," she corrected. "It was never really a place I could call mine; I didn't belong there. Raven and Robin both watched me even though they claimed to trust me. Cyborg always doubted that I really could control my powers; I could tell by the way he always looked at me while we practiced. And Starfire, she didn't really see me for who I was, she just saw me as a girl to hang out with since Raven refused to. You were the only one who actually tried to get to know me, that's why you'll get to live a good life while Slade and I take over." Terra strode casually across the room and stood in front of her bed.
"You can't really believe all of that Terra. And how could you saw that you didn't fit in with us? You were the second most normal person out of all of Terra." Beast Boy frowned again as he stared at her. She couldn't really believe all of that, she was just repeating the lies that Slade had told her.
"And the Tower was your home Terra, you had a room there, you still have a room there and it's a lot nicer then this one." Beast Boy continued. "As soon as you realize that Slade's just using you and that he doesn't really care about you, then you'll be welcomed back to the Tower, by all of us. Do you know why Terra?" She shook her head, a negative, but he couldn't tell if she was just humoring him. "It's because Starfire, Cyborg, Raven, Robin, and I are more than just your friends Terra, we're your family. We care about you and we--"
"I only cared about you Beast Boy." Terra cut him off as she leaned over him. His eyes widened and his mouth parted open as he gasped slightly. "Starfire, Raven, and Cyborg, I don't care about them at all and that's why I destroyed them. I would have destroyed Robin as well if Slade didn't like him so much. But you Beast Boy, I don't want to hurt you."
Terra brushed her hair behind her shoulders. "So don't make me have to." She sat beside him and cupped his cheek as she made him look her straight in the eyes. "Slade says that I own you, that you're my 'pet' now. But I don't want you as my pet and I don't want you as my friend either. From now on Beast Boy you're my captive boyfriend." She stated sternly as she gripped his chin and roughly pulled him forward so that the tip of his nose touched hers.
"And as my captive boyfriend, you'll do whatever I say when I say it or else I'll shock you." She held out a controller to her side and Beast Boy looked at it out of the corner of his eye. "You're collar allows me to punish you if you upset me, so don't upset me. Treat me just like a boyfriend would. Comfort me when I'm sad, tell me jokes to make me laugh, compliment me to let me know how special I am, cuddle with me just because you want to touch me, and kiss me to show that you love me."
Beast Boy's eyes widened as Terra forcefully grabbed the back of his head and pressed her lips to his. His first kiss was with the girl he had feelings for but it wasn't for the right reasons and it didn't feel like he had always imagined it to. It was cold despite the warmth of her lips and it didn't send fireworks off in his mind like he had rather pictured. It was nothing more then a lost and desperate girl searching for some way to prove that she was alive, that she could still feel.
"Terra," the blond haired girl pulled away from her captive boyfriend with a wet noise as she gasped. She looked past Beast Boy at the door and scowled.
"At least you interrupted us after we kissed this time and not before." Terra pouted as Slade stood in the doorway. She glared at Robin who was standing before Slade in a matching uniform. Terra knew that Robin was once Slade's apprentice, she was reminded almost on a daily basis, and she guessed that the outfit he was wearing was his old apprentice uniform that Slade had dug up.
But Slade had better not been trying to replace her with Robin, she had worked too hard for the man for him to do that to her. No, she decided as she watched Robin's look of utter disgust as Slade placed a hand on the boy's shoulder. Robin wasn't going to be Slade's apprentice again, that was her spot now and Slade only wanted Robin for the boy's body. Besides, if Robin did ever try to take her spot as apprentice, she wouldn't hold back her powers on him.
"Yes, well you interrupted me so I thought it would only be fair to return the favor. Now, the pizza's getting cold, or are you going to skip dinner to just have some dessert with your little pet? Even though it's unhealthy to do so; I find that it's a very tempting idea." His grip increased on Robin's tiny shoulder as the boy shuddered.
"No, I can wait for my dessert." She smiled as she untied Beast Boy's legs and arms. "Now remember, do what I say or else I'll be forced to hurt you." Terra threatened Beast Boy as she stood from the bed. "Now come." Beast Boy sighed and followed as they all walked out of Terra's room and down the hallway to a different room.
The room was bare and the boys couldn't help but think that all of the rooms in that place probably were. But the main thing in the room was the rather small table in the middle. Four seats on each side of the square woodened table and a pizza box steaming in the middle.
"I just got plain, seeing as we can all agree on that at least." Terra joked lightly as she strode across the room and sat down. Slade sat down to her left, so that she was on his right side, seeing how appropriate it was; she was his right hand after all.
"Come sit here Robin." Slade motioned to the chair to his left and Robin sighed as he complied. That left the one chair across from Slade for Beast Boy. The green boy gulped as he silently prayed that Slade wouldn't look at him the entire meal, the man gave him the creeps.
Beast Boy sat down and Terra handed him a plate with a piece of pizza on it. "Eat," she commanded as if he was too stupid to figure it out on his own. He picked the warm pizza up and was about to bite into it, he was starving since he had barely had anything to eat that day, when he looked at Robin. His leader was simply sitting, staring at the pizza before him as though it was a foreign object and not part of the Titans' regular diet.
He lowered the pizza back onto his plate and Terra reached across the table and grabbed his chin roughly. "I said eat Beast Boy. Just because Robin wants to starve himself that doesn't mean you should too." She released his chin and glared at Robin. Robin glared right back and Slade watched on curiously.
Seeing his former apprentice and his current apprentice glare across the table at each other, he couldn't help but find it a tad amusing and ironic that the two hated each other. Though he didn't find Robin starving himself amusing in the least, the boy was already too skinny, he had felt the boy's ribs too easily while exploring. Well, Slade knew one way that would make sure that Robin ate.
"Robin," Slade purred as he grabbed the armrest on Robin's chair and skid the chair an inch closer to himself. Robin's eyes widened and he leaned against the opposite armrest in an attempt to remote himself. "If you don't want to eat then I won't force you to. But know this; if you skip dinner then I'll just give you a bigger treat for dessert."
Robin gulped and reached for his pizza, his hands shook only once for a split second but Slade still caught it and smirked at the boy's delicious fear. Robin took a bite of the pizza and continued to nibble on it silently. Beast Boy looked at his leader in desperation, hoping that Robin was currently plotting their escape, as he also ate in silence. Terra hummed to herself absent mindedly as she grabbed her second slice.
Beast Boy cleared his throat and all eyes, all five of them, turned to him. "Um, aren't you going to eat?" he asked with hesitation as he stared at Slade.
Slade raised a brow behind his mask. "I don't eat food that does potentially nothing for you except add calories. Besides, the day I take off my mask for all of you will be the day when you all are no longer any threat to me." Terra slammed her hands on the table and stood abruptly.
"You still doubt my loyalty to you? After everything I've done, you still don't trust me?" Terra was hurt and also mad. She wanted to see Slade's face before Robin did, not because she really cared about what Slade looked like but it was the matter of the thing. Slade only showed his face to those he really trusted and also the fact that Robin desperately wanted to see behind Slade's mask would make it even sweeter if she would find out before the boy detective. "What do I have to do to prove myself to you?"
"We've been over this before Terra; if you have to ask you'll never know." Slade replied coolly. Terra pouted and took a big bite of pizza as she chewed angrily. Slade's attention went from his apprentice to the green boy next to her. He was glaring straight at him. It was rather annoying.
Slade glared back and the boy's eyes widened in fear as Slade's intimidating manner won the glare off. Slade smirked as he watched Beast Boy bow his head in defeat and reach for a second piece. It was amusing that he could intimidate Beast Boy so easily. Then again, there weren't too many people he couldn't intimidate. One of the few though, was Robin.
Slade's gaze fell on his boy, who was still on his first piece and not even close to finishing it. "You might want to get your fill of pizza tonight, all of you." Slade broke the silence. "There won't be pizza again for a long time. Tomorrow you'll all start on my diet." Terra looked up at him with an appalled face. "Yes Terra, even you."
"But why? You use to let me eat anything I wanted because you hoped that I would gain some weight. Now you're going to put me on that health food crap I always find in the fridge? That's crap Slade." Terra crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair.
"Watch your language young lady," Slade hissed and Terra gulped as she uncrossed her arms and sat up straight with perfect posture, the way she knew Slade liked to see at the dinner table normally.
"But Slade, I need chocolate, especially this week, you know that." She blushed slightly as did the boys around her once they understood her reference. It was always awkward to talk about someone's time of the month when there was only one girl in the room, yet alone the entire complex.
"Yes I understand how during your menstrual cycle you go through horrible moods if you have a lack of chocolate." Apparently though, embarrassment didn't affect Slade. "But I no longer have to deal with your moods, he does." Slade motioned to Beast Boy. "Though, seeing as last time you went through your time without any chocolate you almost destroyed this place, I suppose I'll simply limit your chocolate conception instead of making you go cold turkey."
Terra smiled as she nodded her head in agreement. They continued to eat in silence, Terra moving onto her fourth slice, Beast Boy finishing his third piece, and Robin finally reaching for his second. Slade stood up and all eyes shot to his shadowing form.
"You," Slade pointed across the table at Beast Boy and the changeling gulped nervously. "Follow me; we need to have a little private talk."
"Don't scare my boyfriend Slade." Terra whined as Slade started walking out of the room.
"He'll live." Slade replied coldly over his shoulder.
Beast Boy looked at Terra for help but she simply motioned for him to follow her master. He reluctantly did. He walked out of the room and in the direction that he had seen Slade turn when he was suddenly pinned to the wall, feet dangling off the ground, as he grabbed at the opposing hand at the collar of his shirt. He gulped as he stared Slade straight in the face.
"Listen to me and listen to me good boy." Slade hissed through the slates in his mask. "You are to take good care of Terra and make sure that she's happy. If she gets upset she'll come to you but if you upset her then she'll come to me. If she does ever come to me, then I'll break your limbs. Understand?" Beast Boy nodded his head weakly.
"Good. Now understand this as well. You're absolutely useless to me. You'd never be a good apprentice, let alone a challenge to fight against, and I find you utterly repulsing with your stupid little quips. I don't know why Terra likes you, but you'd better hope that she continues to do so or else you're through. If you hurt her to the point that she no longer likes you anymore, then I will not hesitate to kill you. Do you understand me you miserable excuse for a hero?" Slade glared as he tightened his hold in the boy's uniform. The child nodded franticly and fell to the ground on his butt as Slade released him.
"Excellent. Now that our little father to boyfriend talk is over, let us rejoin diner. I don't want to miss out on whatever Terra and Robin might be discussing."
Robin watched as Beast Boy walked after Slade and his heart went out to his little friend. He turned his attention to the girl across from him as she bit into her pizza again. "How could you?" He hissed as he plopped his piece back onto his plate.
Terra looked confused for a moment. "Even if I didn't want Slade to talk to him what do you think I could--?"
"No, not that," Robin glared. "How could you do this to us, to Beast Boy and me? How could you treat Beast Boy like some slave and just watch as Slade does the same to me? We were your friends Terra."
"Yeah you were, but you're not anymore. That's partly why I'm doing this. Now Beast Boy has to be my friend, my boyfriend, for as long as I say and I say forever! As for you, I just plain hate you." Terra sneered. "Do you know how many times Slade's commented about how perfect an apprentice you were to him? I hate being compared to you so I'm glad to see you getting treated like some dog because that's what you deserve."
Robin clenched his fists tightly on the table. "How can you say that? I never wanted to be Slade's apprentice; he forced me to by blackmailing my friends' lives! That creep threatened Beast Boy's life! Doesn't that make you at least a bit angry at him?"
"I try not to dwell on the past Robin, I just think of the now and the future. Of how now Beast Boy is mine and only mine and how you're Slade's." Terra smirked evilly.
Robin was furious. He banged his fists against the table and stood up. "Do you have any idea of Slade's intentions towards me? He's not looking to make me his damn apprentice again!"
"I know that!" Terra shouted as she stood up as well. Of course Slade didn't want him as an apprentice; Slade already had her as a wonderful apprentice. "And I know what he wants you for as well, in fact I've known since I moved into your little tower. And you know what?" She flashed a toothy grin. "I hope it hurts when he rapes you. I hope you break down in tears while he does it. And I hope that--"
Robin growled and jumped over the table at the blonde haired girl. Terra was completely off guard and fell backwards on her chair, snapping the back off of it, as Robin landed on top of her on the ground.
Her eyes glowed to match her hair color and she shoved her hands into Robin's chest as the ground around her flew up to smack the boy there as well. Robin flew back and into a wall but he quickly jumped off of it and used the extra momentum to lung at Terra again. She threw stone after large stone to stop him mid-flight but he dodged them, bounced off of them to only gain more speed, and finally reached his destination.
With a solid kick to her tiny midsection, Terra flew backwards with large eyes. She gasped as all of the air in her lungs quickly eluded her. She fell onto her back and remained there, gasping in pain, as she waited for air to flow freely through her body once more. It finally did and she got up shakily.
"You're going to wish you hadn't done that." She raised her glowing hands to her side and her hair flew franticly around herself.
Robin froze at the words. They were the same ones that Slade had said to him. It was then that the realization hit him, hard; Terra really was Slade's apprentice. And she wanted to make sure that everyone knew that. But that moment of stillness cost Robin as a rock quickly collided into his side.
He broke his fall and sprinted at Terra once again. He was determined to bring her down. She was going to pay for everything they had been through so far.
She was ready for him and watched as Robin came closer. She was not going to let him get her again. She was going to make him cry out in pain, she was determined to do so.
They both screamed at the same time as Robin lunged in the air and aimed another kick. Terra raised her hand in front of herself as she ushered a giant boulder toward the flying boy. "That's enough you two."
Both pair of eyes widened as a heavy hand clamped down on Robin's foot and Terra's outstretched hand. Slade stood in-between the two and quickly tugged both of them off balance to land on the unforgiving floor as Terra's boulder sped by. The two teens stared up at the powerful man with wide eyes. Both knew how strong the man was and what he was capable of doing when he was angry enough. And they could tell that he was ticked.
"I don't know what may have caused this little outburst but I can assure you both that there isn't possibly a good enough explanation for it. You both disobeyed my orders." Slade narrowed his eyes as the two continued to stare at him. "Terra," there was nothing but disappointment in his voice. "I had told you before all of this began that you were never to touch Robin, no matter the circumstance; he is mine and mine alone to touch. And you Robin," the cruelty in his voice was evident. "You are to do what I order and I had said nothing about fighting; you were supposed to eat and that was all.
"You both know how I won't stand for disobedience so let this be a warning to the both of you. Make me angry one more time and you will pay." Slade growled. Terra nodded her head in understanding as Robin glared and stood up silently.
Terra looked at Beast Boy as he appeared beside her. He frowned and offered her a hand up; he couldn't stand to see her scared and he could tell that she was. He couldn't blame her though; Slade was a very scary man. She took his hand and pulled him into a hug; he couldn't help but blush and wrap his arms around her. He closed his eyes as he felt her head on his shoulder.
"You're a good boyfriend Beast Boy." She whispered in his ear. His eyes shot open as he realized that she wasn't only seeking comfort in him. She was hugging him because she simply thought that she could, reason or not.
He sighed but kept his arms wrapped around her anyway. He couldn't help but want to comfort her, despite her messed up and confused mind, she was still Terra. She just needed some help and someone to give her that help. And it was at that moment that Beast Boy decided that he would stay by her side, threat or not, until she got that help from him. She was still his friend and she was still that girl he loved.
