I don't own Teen Titans, cartoon Network does. Or Terra or Beast Boy. I don't even own the civilians in the story...that's my life.
AN: So I thought it would take several weeks to get a view. Then a few more to maybe possibly get a review or a follow, but no, the first day I post and BAM, you're on it! I'm proud of my Terra fans out there.
S/O to Mrmrgriff for being my first reviewer... cause you rock! (Yeah, you can all tell I'm pretty excited about this).
Let's get back to the story!
Ladies and gentlemen the first chapter of Things Change: Terra's POV.
Enjoy!
"*ehem*...*ehem* Lisa?... excuse me, Miss. Lisa?"
...-WAP!-
A startled Lisa looked up from her notebook to see a very stern looking teacher holding a ruler against her desk. Unsure of what to say, Lisa just gave a sheepish grin and started to slowly sink into her chair.
"Do you find your notebook more entertaining than my lecture, Miss. Lisa?" her teacher said in a very sarcastic, and frankly obnoxious tone.
General Science class was only her second class of the day, and she was already getting in trouble.
Yeah great, way to blend in, Lisa thought.
"No Miss. Adamson! I was actually just taking some notes on the lecture. I wouldn't want to miss a precious word, especially on the first day." Smooth.
Miss. Adamson raised an eyebrow in disbelief and peered down at her notebook. "I uh, I'll try not to be so distracting next time,Miss. Adamson." The girl said still smiling and keeping eye contact while slowly closing and pulling the book away, "Promise."
Her teacher didn't know what kind of notes she would have taken within the first 10 minutes of class. And so furiously too. She seemed completely normal this morning when the blonde girl came and introduced herself to her at the beginning of class. Then about 5 minutes into her lecture on introductory geology, she noticed the blonde sitting in the front row, whip open up her notebook and writing rather frantically.
"Alright," said the teacher quizzically, "but if it happens again I'm going to have to ask you to leave. Understood?" The girl quickly nodded, "Understood."
The teacher gave her one last look and continued her lecture in the front of the room, "As I was saying, the landslides in the middle east are a major reason for..."
If I don't write this down now, I know I'll forget...
She pulled out her notebook and opened it up. She wrote slower, but still making sure she got everything down.
This heart pounding attack was different. Talking about, what, landslides? This sure didn't help. She was definitely intrigued, however. She wasn't sure what she wanted to do more: listen to the lecture or write down. All of her thoughts were running wild.
She wish she understood why.
Every time Miss. Adamson said the word "rocks" or "earth," something inside of her would lurch forward, causing her to move a little. Writing was difficult considering her hand would fly off the page with almost every other word. She knew it had something to do with her past. It had to. It was the weirdest reaction to a memory she's had so far. But the strange thing was, she liked it.
It was almost thrilling.
She wasn't sure how to list it in her notebook, so she simply wrote "Earth" under the REMEMBER side.
On a separate page, she had written down her new reactions and feelings that are somehow connected with these two words. She wasn't sure what she was looking for yet, but she hoped that when the dots started to connect, the reactions written on paper wouldl help.
*brrrrriiiiinnnnnggggg*
"Oh, well class is over for today," said Miss. Adamson, "Make sure to read the Geology chapter of your text books, there will be a quiz first thing tomorrow!" The class groaned in unison.
Lisa grabbed her notebook and her new science text-book and made sure to be the first one out of class. She didn't want to give her teacher a chance to keep her after.
Lisa was only a few steps down the hall when someone ran into her from behind, knocking down all of her books. She looked up to see who it was, and they had already taken off with two other guys laughing. Lisa glared in their direction. She felt the impulse to chase them down, and she definitely would have if it weren't for a girl with short red hair who came and stood in the way of her path.
"Jerks, right?" said the girl as she bent down to pick up Lisa's books and handed them to her, "Here you go. Sorry about that. The jocks think they can do whatever they want because they're, well. jocks? I guess? Makes no sense, really. I'm Kasey by the way." she held out her hand.
Lisa shifted her books to one arm and held out the other, "Lisa, nice to meet you. Were you in my science class?"
Kasey laughed, "Yeah, I heard rumors that Miss. Adamson can be a witch sometimes, guess it's true!"
Lisa's heart started to pound a bit faster. Witch? Really? That's triggering a memory? Well, okay, if you say so...
Nonchalantly opening up her notebook, she pulled out the pen from the bindings and and wrote "Witch" under Need to Remember.
Kasey raised an eyebrow and curiously watched the blonde write, stare at the page for a few more seconds and snapped the book shut. Lisa looked up from the book and smiled casually, "So what class do you have next?"
Kasey looked at Lisa for another second then added, "Um, history with Mower in room 117."
"Ha, no way, me too!" chimed Lisa, "I need to drop off my textbook at my locker, then we can go together."
They walked to the edge of the hallway and she opened up her locker. A note dropped onto the floor. Kasey picked it up, "What's this? A secret admirer already?!" she giggled.
Lisa looked at the folded up piece of paper in here hands, "I have no idea," she took it from Kasey and opened it.
It read:
Hey Lisa! I hope you're having a good day so far! Jen and I want to have lunch with you today, so if we don't see you in the lunch room, just meet us on the grass in front of the school.
See ya then!
-Eric
Kasey's jaw dropped open as she stared at the note. "Eric? As in, Senior Class President, Eric? The Eric Lancing?!" Kasey said in a higher pitch than she was previously talking in.
Lisa shrugged and started to walk in the direction of their next class, "Yeah, It's no big deal, though. They're my host family for my study abroad progra-"
Kasey interrupted and stopped Lisa to spin and face her, "Wha-wha, you're staying with Eric?! In Eric's actual house?! All school year?!"
Yikes.
"I'm guessing this is a big deal?" Lisa said as she turned around and started to walk toward class again, they really were going to be late if they didn't get there soon.
"Big deal? Eric Lancing is only the most smartest, talented, funniest, gorgeous...nicest..." Kasey started to get a dreamy look in her eyes.
"Okay!" Lisa yelled, "What's your point?"
"The point is, is that you will be seen eating lunch with him. You will be at every house party he has. You will be hanging out with him and all his gorgeous friends!"
Lisa looked over at Kasey, still waiting for her to make a point. Kasey sighed, "You will be top of the social popularity chain before you know it. And you're only a sophomore!"
Lisa rolled her eyes, "Okay, really? Is that what all this was about?"
"Well...yeah." Kasey said as she looked at the floor, "We all want friends, you know? To belong somewhere? I'm sure you've felt that way."
Of course. All the time. Still am actually - wait... Lisa stopped walking. Did I just think that? She fumbled her notebook open and started writing again.
"Go to class, I'll be there in a sec!"
Kasey gave her a weird look, and waved it off, "If you say so. I'll save you a seat!" Then she walked off to class.
Just like the anchovy pizza, my mind had a thought all its own...God, this is getting old.
It was lunchtime and Lisa was walking with her tray of food outside. This was so weird to her. So many people sitting and groups, just talking and eating together like it's nothing. Like this is how life should be.
"Lisa!" She looked over to see Jen waving, sitting next to Eric, of course, and a group of other students who looked much older than her.
Ah, must be Eric's friends. she thought as she approached the group and set next to Jen on the ground.
"*ehem* Guys," Eric announced,"this is our friend Lisa. She's a study abroad student staying with our family, and she's way cool! Lisa, these are my guys!"
Lisa kind of smiled in their direction, she wasn't good at having all this attention on her. The group waved, and gave some collective "Hey's" back. One of the members of the group walked over and crouched down next to her.
"Name's Spencer. But you can call me Spence." He said with a wink. Wow, did he just wink at me? He started to loose his smile when he noticed she didn't do anything in return. She just started at him wit ha blank gape on her face. He adjusted his footing and started up again, "Look, uh, you wouldn't happen to, you know, want to catch a movie with me later, would ya?"
Jen groaned and pushed him aside, "Back off Spencer, she's not interested." Lisa gave her a grateful smile and laughed.
Spencer laughed and went back to his previous spot, "Hey! At least I tried right?"
Eric leaned over to Lisa and whispered, "Don't worry about him, he's kind of the fruit loop of the group."
Lisa nodded once, "Noted. Thanks for the heads up." Eric laughed and gave a mocking Spencer wink. This made Lisa and the other's in the group laugh.
She turned to Jen, "I invited a friend to come sit with us today, hope that's cool with you."
"Sure thing!", Jen said taking another bite of her sandwich, "So... do you like your classes?" asking with a mouth full of food.
"Yeah, they're good," Lisa replied while tossing an apple between her hands, "I especially like my science class. Not the teacher, but I find the subject interesting."
Jen swallowed her food,"Oh yeah! General Science was my favorite class in 10th grade! Miss. Adamson is your teacher, right?" Lisa nodded, then Jen continued, "The teacher isn't great, and the geology chapter is pretty boring, but just wait till you get to Living Organisms. You talk about plants, and animals - all sorts of beasts!"
Lisa dropped her apple and her whole body got chills, "Beasts?" she asked out loud. "Yeah! It's really - uh, Lisa, are you doing okay?" Jen asked in a worried tone.
Lisa's eye's were locked on the grass she was now clutching. The green grass. And couldn't help but find some weird, confusing connection between the two.
"Lisa?" Jen asked again, a little louder.
Yikes, this one almost hurts. But it also feels so ... good? Pain and joy at the same time? Beasts...Her body jolted. There it is again!
She felt a hand on her back, and a deep voice ask, "What is it, Lisa?" Eric asked.
She looked up at Eric,"Well um..." how do I explain this? 'Oh I'm fine, it's just that I act crazy when I hear random words and see certain things. It's been happening all day, but don't you worry about it.' Yeah, that's not freaky at all.
Eric noticed her struggle with words, "Is it...?" he trailed off, knowing Lisa could understand the rest. Which she did and nodded to confirm.
He patted her back and started to stand back up, "We can talk about this later, alright?" he asked. Lisa nodded and smiled. Jen was still giving her a bizarre look, and was about to say something, when someone called from down the court-yard.
"Lisa!" the two girls looked over to see Kasey walking over with a sack lunch. "See Lisa," said Jen, "I knew you would make friends on the first day. And you were worried."
"Hey guys!" Said Kasey a little too cheerfully, "I'm Kasey!" She was looking at the entire group, then looked to Lisa. "Oh, she's my friend. She's good people." Lisa said, repeating whatever Eric had said to make them accept her. The group all smiled and said their "Hey's." Spencer even got up and started walking over to Kasey. Ha, I guess Kasey was right, I am climbing up on the social ladder."
Lisa could hear the Spencer Speech begin, and was about to warn Kasey when Eric tapped on Lisa's shoulder,"Hey Lisa, sorry for the short notice, but I'm going to be a little late driving us home today. I have to stay after school and start planning the first week of the school activities. Would you be okay waiting an extra half hour or so with Jen?"
"Yeah, that's no problem, I have homework to do anyway." Replied Lisa.
Jen chimed in, "Okay, I'll just meet you in the library after school then?"
"Sounds good to me" replied Lisa.
She pulled out her notebook and added the word "beasts" next to the word "Green", in the Need To REMEMBER column.
First day of school was finally over, so Lisa started to head for the library to do some homework assignments. Despite her weird episodes, she had a pretty good first day. She made new friends, most of them she didn't know. But there was Kasey, Jen, and Eric. She smiled at the thought.
Walking down the hallway she looked out the big windows facing the front of the school. She could see the business buildings, as well as the rest of the city, a place she hadn't explored yet.
I know they don't want me to go into the city, but a quick trip wouldn't hurt.
Stepping outside for a moment, Lisa stared across the street. It was so vibrant and full of life. Not at all how the Lancing's warned. They told her of the dangers that often happened in the city. Which is why they never went, nor took Lisa.
She heard music coming from a shop about 100 feet ahead of her. Okay, one trip to the music shop. That's it. And before you know it Lisa was on the other side of the cross walk headed straight in to the city. Well, I'm sure easily persuaded, aren't I?
She started to feel a little guilty. Maybe I should go back and get Jen to come with me. But what if she won't let me go? She'll be fine by herself in the library. And Eric said we weren't leaving for another half hour. What's there to lose?
Lisa felt better after she talked herself into it. Maybe I could even get Jen a CD, as a gift...or something?
All of her thoughts halted when she heard the loud sound of metal crunching. Like a bumper to bumper collision perhaps? As soon as Lisa looked over to see what that noise was, she saw a giant boulder hurtling towards herself and some other people standing around her.
She didn't even have time to think before it crashed into the pavement and sent dust everywhere.
Store owners were running out of their shops, and the people were running everywhere. Some away from the boulder, others towards it to make sure everyone was okay. Lisa just stood there with her hands shaking, staring at the boulder. She wasn't scared at all. Shouldn't she be?
She heard screaming, and saw even more things flying around and running. But she couldn't take her eyes off the rock.
Lisa! Get out of here! Go! Can't you see there's nearby danger? Rocks don't just fly out of nowhere like that..they can't... She thought to herself.
But there was something there, pulling her in. But there was also someone else, pulling her arm in the opposite direction.
It was an owner of a nearby store,"Come on, ma'am! We need to get you out of here!" The middle-aged man pulled harder on her arm and she left with him back to crowd of people far enough away from the commotion, "This thing won't stop attacking!"
"What thing?" She asked loud enough so only she could hear. What could have caused that? She thought. She quickly looked behind her to see what exactly the man was talking about, but she didn't see anything. There was nothing around that could have been strong enough to send a rock that heavy flying through the air.
But something felt off.
"Is everyone alright?" "We called the paramedics, they'll be here soon!" "Does anyone need water?" There were lots of people surrounding the area now, well, more than usual.
Lisa, felt completely fine physically, and just wanted to leave. She looked toward the school, and sure enough, there was Eric and Jen hustling over with a group of other faculty and students.
Lisa wanted to turn around a greet them, but someone was taking her pulse. A few seconds later the woman gave the go-ahead, "Okay, you're fine - Actually you have the calmest pulse of everyone around here."
"So does that mean I can leave?" the girl asked impatiently, the woman shrugged "If you're feeling alright, then yeah, you're good to go."
Lisa turned around to greet her friends, "Hi you gu-" "Lisa!" Jen tackled her into a hug, "Are you alright? What happened? Why were you over here?! Remember when we told you NOT to go into the city?!"
"Yes. A rock crashed in the road. I wanted to get some music. And yeah, I remember you saying something like that." Lisa replied, answering all of her questions in order.
She looked at Eric who surveyed the scene, smiled and said, "Well, that answers all my questions. We grabbed your books, Jen found them in the hallway. You ready to go?" Lisa sighed, "Yes, I am most definitely ready to leave."
Once inside the car, Jen loosened her tie and took it off. "Talk about an exciting first day! Sometimes I wish Jump City weren't so used to this kind of calamity, or else we'd probably have the day off tomorrow. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the fearsome five, but sometimes I wish they weren't always on the case, you know what I mean? And what are the police doing during all..."
Jen's voice sounded distant to Lisa, she had learned way too much stuff about her old life today, and didn't want it all to go to waste. She opened up her book to the two columns, and put a comma next to the word "Earth", and added "rocks" then underlined it.
I'm so close. I've got to be.
Yay! We're finally starting to get into the episode.
I'll post a list of everything Lisa has written so far on the next chapter. Just because I get confused myself sometimes ^_^
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Thanks again!
Stay tuned for chapter 2! Because I have really enjoyed writing it so far!
peace!