Mistake 1,001
Chapter 3
Authors note: I don't own teen titans. Set during aftershock parts one and two. Mostly Terra's POV
'' means thoughts
"" means spoken
"Why does that even matter? I just told you that I have to kill you tomorrow and you're worried about me?! This makes no sense." I'm close to yelling at him right now. How can he still care for me, after all the bad I've done. I haven't done nearly as much good to balance it out.
"Don't you get it Terra; I'm in love with you. And I know that you love me, just admit it. But look at yourself, tell me what's going on, let me in." He's begging me. I have to end this.
"Beast boy, if I do something wrong, I get beat. Slade has taken to raping me about once or twice a week. I fear him. I want out. I need help, I don't expect you to help me, but I wish you would." I'm crying and I hate crying, it means I'm weak. For some reason, he's hugging me. Hugging me really tightly too. He does love me. "And one last thing, I do love you beast boy."
"I'll help you Terra. Let's go down to the living room and we'll press the panic button, they'll kill me later but it's fine. Come on." After all of this, he still helps me.
*****Living room*****
I watch as beast boy presses the button and then hear the beeping.
"5, 4, 3, 2…." Beast boy counts down knowing that they'll be down here within seconds.
"Titans Go!" Robin cried out just as the doors opened and beast boy was about to say one. "Terra!"
"Get her" Raven made it down here now. Beast boy steps in front of me protecting me.
"Beast boy move, she's dangerous." Robin is trying to persuade him into letting me get beaten again.
"No, she came to me tonight seeking help. Guess what, I love her, so I'm helping her. You can help too or you can let me leave. She being raped, beaten and obviously starved. She needs help. We can start by getting this stupid suit off of her, Star get her some of her old clothes. Cyborg, help me get the neuro thingies out of her head. Robin, yell at me later. Raven, kill me later.
"Fine, we'll talk about this later terra. Once we get this suit of you, you're going down to the confinement room." Robin told her.
I was taken up to Cyborg's room where he got the neuro transmitters out of my head, so Slade couldn't control me anymore. Star brought in one of my old outfits that I had left here. The short almost fell of my hips. They would barely stay up. My shirt was now way too lose, loser then it was before. I was malnourished. Cyborg noticed so he stopped by the fridge on the way down to confinement so I could have some left over pizza and some soda to get some calories in me before I needed to be hospitalized. Robin met me down there.
"Cyborg, leave me alone with Terra. I want to hear side of the story." Robin said. Cyborg hugged me and said he was glad to see me alive before he went back upstairs. "Terra let me start by saying that this is a happy surprise. I was always hoping you'd make it away from Slade alive. I'm glad you're okay."
"Thanks Robin. I just couldn't take it anymore."
"Now, I'm going to ask, what the hell were you thinking going off with him?"
"When we first met, you figured out that I couldn't control my powers. I had told beast boy and I thought that he had told you. I felt hurt and betrayed so I ran. Along my way, I ran into Slade. He promised me shelter, food, water, and most importantly control. I was lost and lonely and scared. I didn't know what to do. By that time, I figured out that you just guessed, it finally hit me that you're just smart and you could tell. But I felt too embarrassed to go back after the scene I had made. So I went with Slade. Once I had control, he said that I owed him. He manipulated me against you guys. I always knew deep down that I didn't want this, and I should have told you guys so maybe you could save me before any of this happened. I never meant for any of this to happen. I thought I could get out before all of this happened, I thought you'd notice by then. I'm sorry Robin."
"I know how manipulative he can be Terra. He's done it to me too. If you had come to us, we would have been mad yes, but we would have helped you. I understand your reasons based on your file. I understand that you were lost and lonely. We'll talk as a team. Does he know you're here?"
"He thinks that I'm spying on you guys. He wants me to kill you guys tomorrow. I couldn't do it; I don't want to fight you guys anymore."
"Okay, I'm going to go talk the team. It'll be ok Terra."
And now I'm alone again.
