Second tale, a chapter in Beast Boy's life!
Chapter II
Beast Boy
Beast Boy, or rather Garfield Logan, stood waiting anxiously outside of SF High School, waiting for a certain blond girl to come out.
Her name was Tara Markov. But to Beast Boy she would always be Terra.
He was dressed in normal clothes. He had adopted this habit whenever he hung out with her. He would wait till she was done with school, and then they would go get some pizza or something.
It had become normal and random. He never knew which day he would get to hang out with her. Sometimes she would call him, other times he would surprise her. He acted completely cool around her, being a good friend.
She never saw the internal pain that he always felt, but that was brought to the surface every time he saw her.
A bell rang in the distance. He knew this signaled the end of her classes for the day. He turned his gaze to the large gate, waiting...
She came out with a few of her friends, dressed in her school uniform, a skirt, white shirt, and tie.
She saw Gar and waved. He waved back, hitching a smile that had not been there before on his face.
"Hey, Gar," she said, leaving her friends and walking over to him as the door opened.
"Hi, Tara," he greeted her, fighting back the reflexive "Terra" that had almost escaped him. "How was school?"
"Ugh, same old, same old," she answered, smiling wearily. "You're so lucky you don't have to go to high school. You get to be with your friends all of the time."
"Not all of the time," he said softly. They stood there for a while, awkward silence descending. Finally she spoke.
"So, do you want to go grab a hamburger or something?" she asked him. "I'll buy."
"No, actually," Gar said. "I was thinking we could go see that new movie that came out. 'Avengers,' I think it's called."
"Okay," she said cheerfully. He smiled as well, uplifted by her smile.
The movie was pretty good. Gar and Tara laughed at Tony Stark's antics, felt swells of pride and patriotism by Captain America, felt sorry over Phil Coulson's death. Tara buried her face in Gar's shoulder when Iron Man sacrificed himself for the rest of the team.
All of this went through Gar's mind. The only thing he registered was that Terra didn't recognize him.
Eighteen months had passed since their first meeting when she had said she didn't know who he was. A full year and a half... he felt like it was eternity.
His friendship with Tara had come about because he simply had to see Terra on a consistent basis, unwilling to forget about her now he knew she was alive. So he had accepted that she was now Tara Markov, the daughter of one of the wealthy industrialists of San Francisco who sent her to an expensive high school. When she was acting normal, she was exactly like Terra used to be; laughing, smiling, always ready with a quip. But obviously something had caused her memory to go away.
Was it due to a memory wipe? Or maybe the Slade Android had been right... she had forgotten simply because she had wanted to forget?
And if that was the case... had she wanted to forget Beast Boy?
He had loved her. He had believed that love had been reciprocated. If only... if only he had tried harder. That first time she had run away. He should have run after her, tried to convince her better that he hadn't told the others her secret.
All of it was pointless. And it was made all the more unfair when Raven and Spider-Man started dating.
Raven... Raven!... found happiness in love where he had not. He couldn't help feeling like it was some mass conspiracy. Robin, who called himself Nightwing now, had broken up with Starfire. Cyborg was still single, though this was more out of choice.
Maybe it was connected with Spider-Man coming to this universe. But no... his problems with Terra had begun long before Spider-Man arrived. It was unfair to blame him for his issues.
When the movie had ended, and the heroes were faced with a new threat, Gar and Tara left the theater. They talked about it for a while, walking along the street. They laughed at certain parts, recreating the best parts of the movie.
Finally they reached the end of the street before it turned off. Tara stood there for a moment.
"Well, guess this is it," she said simply. "I'll see you later."
"Okay," Beast Boy said, waving. "Bye."
Mr. Markov had said flat out that he didn't want "no green skinned sonova-," to court his daughter. He had forbidden Tara from seeing Beast Boy, but she had anyway.
Beast Boy kept thinking that he somehow had something to do with Terra's memory. But she had made him swear not to talk to her father. He had agreed.
He never stopped thinking for one moment that that might have been a mistake.
Turning himself into a bird, he flew toward Titans' Tower. It was getting dark, and he felt suddenly very tired.
How he wished he could bring her memory back...
Poor Beast Boy! Will he ever get Terra back? Stick around to find out!
NEXT: Cyborg!