Chapter 2

Beep, beep, beep. The sound of a machine beeps in my ears. This sound is new to me. It sound likes a machine from a hospital. I open my eyes, blinking rapidly so they adjust in this light fixture. I look around and there are cords laying across my face. I can't touch them, their already pulling on my skin. Oh the agony of my throbbing head, the cords, and the idea of being somewhere I am not familiar with.

Beast Boy is lying on a bed, along with the other Titans, cords are attached to them too. Suddenly it hits me, we're in trouble! This isn't a dream, this isn't a delusion. Something wrong is going to happen, and I am scared. I want to go home to the tower. I want to go see Jericho, I want this all to end now. I miss him, I need him here, if I was living with him....

No. I shouldn't even think that! If I never came here, I would've never met Beast Boy, or Starfire.... Or anyone.... And it was none of there business to even come to Tibet. Who sent them, and why?

"Beast Boy.... Beast Boy....! Wake up! Come on.... Please?" I produce a sound not related to the English language. I blow in his face {He hates that} to wake him from his heavy slumber. I blow towards him, and he cringes away. Come on BB. Wake up and help me.... Wait! I am big, I am my own person. I can do this myself. So what if I'm strapped to a bed. So what if I have some sort of wires attached to my head. So what if even the slightest shock, at this point would turn me purple. I can take care of myself.

I slowly pull my arm up, so my shoulder is touching my face. No such luck this way. Maybe there's a hidden switch-

A door from my left flips open. A shadowy figure emerges from the door away, accompanied by four other androids. I shut my eyes, in an attempt to appear as if I am asleep. They slowly make their way to Raven's bed with limitless sound. One of the androids are taking notes, while the others are messing with knobs and buttons. Slade walks over to Beast Boys bed, I flinch in fear of what may happen. He starts to touch his ear, pull it even, and checks the papers at the end of the bed.

What are they doing playing doctor? This is so stupid! But I can't make any noise, Slade might react. So I stay quiet. He turns to the androids on his heels.

"Well, I think we can wake our guests of honor now!" He says nodding to Beast Boy.

Will he wake them all? He only nodded to Beast Boy.... Will he take him away? Will he take me too? Will he take the Titans? What will he do to them? Will he harm them? Will he-

"But leave the girl. She's mine." He whispers to the rest of the androids.

I am scared, am I sweating? I need to get out, but how? I need to stay here with the teem, it's what Robin would do.

They slowly take the Titans out one by one. Raven, Starfire, Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy is left there. I thought they were taking him?

He lies there motionless. His mouth open, lying on his back. His eyebrows slightly turned, so he looks preeminently mad. He looks dead. I hope to god he is alive. If he wasn't alive, I'd probably go with him. His skin is getting lighter and lighter. And his breathing is unstable. It makes me want to.... I can't stand lying here, this far away from him. Slade so close. It makes me want to puke. Or worse, go Purple. I shudder at the thought, surprisingly Beast Boy simultaneously shudders.

It is as if, we are the same people sometimes. So many times have gone by, where we have done the same things. I want a certain kind of food, he wants it to. I want to watch a certain kind of movie, he does too. I need to go to the bathroom, I think you get it.

Slade paces back and forth, across our beds. Thinking? Maybe. Planning? Maybe. Wanting to let us all go, and buy us ice cream? Not likely.

"You there! Come here... Yes you," he says mockingly. "Take him to the 23rd room, and her too. I have plans for them...!" He admits an evil laugh and walks off, while Beast Boy and I are left to be taken to who knows where.

We are rolled out of the room, as slow as possible. They want to 'be careful' I am assuming. Though I have no knowledge why they would do that.

The hallways of this strange place, have many fascinating traits. Sticky notes, no windows, different colored doors. The robots are saying things to me. They say 'it'll be ok', and 'just wait 'till Slade has his way with you!' That doesn't exactly help me, two different things at once. It makes my head spin. Beast Boy is ahead of me, and still asleep.

I know how to wake him up! I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner!

Squinting with all my might, I concentrate on leaving my body. Picturing me becoming Beast Boy, concentrating, concentrating. Leaving my body, thanking whoever there is to thank for the fact, that my spirit cannot be seen. Everything goes black, and I am somewhere new. Again.

Yes it's Beast Boys mind, And it seems filled with knowledge. Not exactly what I've heard about it.... I can see memories and likes, dislikes. Memories of his past life, before he was green. When he was normal. I noticed there is a small amount of memories, from this time. That worries me. I can see the time he became Beast Boy. What?!

Beast Boy? What happened to your life? Why did you think you could be strong? When you obviously couldn't. Why didn't you listen to your dad? Why did you have to impress no one? Your dad must've known your bravery and strength. Right? And is that... a monkey? Ok I have some serious questions when... If this gets over....

"Beast Boy? Beast Boy you there?" I yell. There is an echo about ten seconds long, before I get a response. A snore is all I get back... that's cheap!

"Beast Boy wake up!" I scream at him in anger. Sleep when I want his attention.... A sound of a choked up snore emerges from the darkness. Moaning starts, and the ground shakes like an earthquake. He's waking up!

"Beast Boy stop! Don't move...!" I say calmly. The ground stops, and all is quiet again. I hear Beast Boy, make a sound of confusion, and a figure appears beside me.

The figure is shaped like Beast Boy, except there is no face to it. There is no spirit. But it has to be him. It's the perfect outline of him. I can see that his arms are crossed, in away that indicates he's angry. At me? I am the one saving him.

"I was sleeping you know? Wait! Are you in me? Wait what's going on? He says grabbing his head. Him grabbing his head, makes me think of before. I wish it had never happened. I wish I had stayed in bed, or something. Then everything would've been better. We wouldn't be in this mess, and Robin, Raven, Beast Boy, Starfire, Cyborg, and I would be safe at home.

"Beast Boy I am in your mind. Don't be scared or anything. Who do I talk to? All I see is a figure." A say spinning around. Looking around I conclude, I am basically alone in here. I stand in a darkroom, in the middle of a spotlight. Apparently that means he's focusing on me. I guess.

"Well... o.k., here," A figure of him walks out, as plain as he is when we are in the outside world.. He looks so, peaceful in his mind. So calm, and relaxed. I almost want to just run up and hug him, but something in my gut is telling me I will pass through him.

"Is this better? I am not sure what's happening." He says to me, still rubbing his head. He looks up and down himself, as do I, and we switch. He looks so real, and so do I. I am not sure why I am so excited about this....

"That's.... Amazing!" I say in disbelief.

I walk up to him slowly. Hesitating with each step. He watches me confused. I make it to him, and pause. My hand extends to his face. Slowly, I touch him. The warmth of him send chills up and down my spine. It helps, it's so cold in here. A jolt of energy courses through my veins. It excites me that I can feel him. Wrapping my arms around him, is the best thing I've done yet. I love him, and I never want him to leave me.

"Well we've established that you can feel.... Now what's going on?" He says wrapping his arms around me. I love him! I love his everything! I missed his touch, I've missed his spirit. I think I've tuned him out. Did he say something?

"Jewel? Hello?" He says knocking on my head repeatedly. I guess he did say something. Oops.

"What? Oh sorry," I say looking deeply in his eyes. "I... um... What?" I stutter. I really wasn't listening. He looks at me with comedic eyes, mocking my surprised emotion towards him. I guess he didn't want to repeat himself....

"What-is-going-on?" He says in syllables. I giggle at his joke, it warms me when he stares into me. He's holding me by the shoulders, just looking, waiting for an answer.

The answer? 'Why were in here.' I don't know.... I really don't. I don't know where we are, or the rest of the Titans, or Aunt Elsie, or cousin Mandy, or Jericho. Or any of the people I've met in my life. I don't know why I had to leave Tibet to live with my Aunt. Jericho was taking perfectly good care of me. And who sent the social workers?

"Jewel? Hello? Come back to earth please!" Hands are waving by my face, and knocks on my head resume. My head starts pounding again.

"What? Oh um, I don't know what's going on."

"So you don't know how you got in here?"

"I did that." I say quickly. Making my point, before he could assume anything.

"Ok one things taken care of. Now why are you in here?" He says pointing his finger in every direction possible. I think he's annoyed. Oh well, he should be.

"Because, why do you think your asleep?" I say pushing him slightly as I grab his shoulders. He looks around, avoiding my eyes. Thinking, tapping his chin. He finally takes his shoulders, and raises them. I sigh and roll my eyes, swiftly so I can get this through his, sometimes thick skull.

"We were blown up! Well, I guess we were...." I say flinging my arms in the air. I act excited, to try to keep him calm. It usually works.

By this time, we've been talking for about two minutes. It feels as though it's been hours. I wonder where our bodies are now.

"Blown up? What are you talking about," He walks away. But swiftly turns around. I think he gets it now. "Wait...! Battle... purple... Boom?!" Yep he got it. He runs over and grabs me again.

"Ok explain what happened outside of here! And do I need to wake-"

"No! Not yet!" I cut him off again. Beast Boy doesn't normally have good ideas. So, I need to make sure he doesn't do anything wrong. Like waking up.... Not a good idea.

"Ok, but I will only say this once, ok?" He nods his head, and backs up. Sitting down cross legged, with his story face on, he wears a smile so big it leaves his face. I giggle, and join him on the floor. I need to tell him the tale of ten minutes ago. Yippee!

"well for starters, you woke me up from a dream about Jericho. So I am still mad about that.... On a more serious note, Slade-"

"Slade? What?" He shoves his finger in my face, poking my nose inward. He cut me off... only I can do that!

"Ok ok, I know. But don't interrupt me! There's allot of story to tell," I say waving my hands back and forth. "Now to get back to the story:

"Slade captured Starfire, and like I said before, you woke me up. So I am still angry about that." I roll my eyes at him. He mocks me by doing the same, and I smirk.

"Anyway.... Starfire was captured, and We were all like 'oh no!' And we went down town. I hit my head off a tree, and it hurt like allot! You came over and helped me up.... Thank you by the way!" He smiles, and tries to make muscles... not much to be seen....

"Yes, moving on... So we made our way to the forbidden man-hole. You know, the forbidden 'man-hole'. There were workers, and I guess we didn't disturb them... but still, they kinda bug me and like-"

"You know you aren't the best story teller...?!" I stare at him. I am not impressed.

"Ok ok go ahead." He winks and rocks back and forth.

"Well, then ok.... Robin kicked down the door, and we were all like 'oh no,' again. Then Slade disappeared, and my head started to hurt," His eyes widen in fear. I knew that would be his reaction. He is concerned for me, and I am grateful. "Yes, yes I know.... And then Slade went inside of me. And like I was him, or something.... Oh! And does your stomach hurt?"

"Yeah a little.... Why? what did you do?" He says holding his stomach.

"I um, flipped you over.... Sorry!" I say quietly to him. Again, his eyes get bigger. And I touch his shoulder, showing him I am sorry. He puts his hand over mine, and smiles. A deep smile that takes me on a journey.

"So, did you flip me? Or was it Slade?"

"Slade."

"Oh. Ok." He says rolling his eyes.

"It was!" I say pushing him slightly. He nods his head in disbelief. Now I'm angry.

"Don't make me hurt you!" I say swiftly! I get a vibe that he has given up, and I smile.

"Ok, I believe you. So what happened next?" He says with an eager tone, to get this story rolling again.

A bang erupts from the back of me, and made me jump. He morphs into a cat, and jumps a foot high. A rumbling sound appears, and then a type of earthquake crumbles the nothingness away. A light opens. A picture is clear. We really were in his mind, and now we can see? See a picture. A picture of a hospital room?

"What's going on?" He says walking over to me. He lays his hands on my shoulders. The top of my head barely reaches his chin. But we are the same age of fifteen.

"I think, your awake?!" I say smiling. Good he's awake, now we can get out and kick some robot butt!

His eyes are open yet nothing happens. We can not here him breath, is he dead? He can't be dead, HE is still alive. All this hurts my head. It must hurt his too, his hands replace his face. I look to the sides, investigating my surroundings. Not much to be seen.

"Can you control, yourself?" I say turning around, as if I am dancing. He shrugs, great response. I shrug back, and smirk... He moves his eyes around and around.

I look to my back, turning to face his eyes, and the scenery of the room spins and spins. Looking all around the room, it seems to be a room. Just a room, but also a white room of darkness.

"Turn around..." I say flexing my arm around.

He does as I command, and my body is to the side of him. I look unconscious, with my head to the side and my mouth open. I look dead.... Am I?

"Jewel? Are you...." He chokes up at the last words.

No.... No.... I'm not.... I mean.... No.... Shutting my eyes, tightly. And squinting my face slightly. I open my eyes again. My body twitches some.

"I'm not dead! I'm in a trance...." That's even worse.

"Jewel...." He says in a I-can't-beleive-you-did-that way.

"What else was I supposed to do?" I say turning to him and cocking my head to the side. He looks mad at me. I know I can get testy some times... but I really can't control it. Getting my body mind, and soul taken over around the average of twice a week can get stressful. And it rubs off on me sometimes. Maybe I truly am evil. My father was evil. But my brother.... He is good. He's found the light, while I wonder through a tunnel.

"Well you.... Forget it.... I think you should go back to your body...."

"Ok but wait 'till I wake up...." He nods a few times and smiles. I walk towards him slowly. An abrupt stop, arms in the air, and the warmth of his suit against mine. He holds me close and warm. Just standing there is all I need.

I turn from him, and sit cross legged. Concentrating on one thing: My soul being lifted from his body. Transforming into myself, once again. Waiting for the enormous wait to be put back onto me.

Chapter 3

I end up as me once again, and slowly regain the feeling of weight. Opening my eyes, and looking around, I see the white room described from the illustration. A door, but no windows, no sticky notes... nothing. I look over to my partner, and he seems restless. He tosses, and turns, with what little space he has. He's unsteady, he's wary of waking up, he wants to go home. All of this, I can collect from his squinting face. His eyes suddenly burst open, and my nose tingles with tears of frustration. His eyes move around the room, taking it all in. Chained, he struggles to get up, he looks at me frustrated. I raise my eyebrow, and he understands. He, himself, has forgotten about his power....

He shifts into a fly and swarms out of the chains. Only to re-form up in the air. Not the brightest idea in my opinion. He falls about ten feet down, and lands on his feet. Like a skilled cat. Though I should expect his animal wits by now. He quickly paces over, and unties me from the bed. The second his skin touches mine, I become Nausea.

I get up while holding my stomach, and he understands. He puts his hand on my back, to help support my aching body. automatically pulling me into a hug. The hug was warm, which was good, cause I was frozen. The chains felt as if they were bathed in dry ice. He sits next to me on the bed, with out pulling me off of him. I lie there in his arms, giving in to his hug.

"What happened? Did you do this to my head?" He says, pulling at his hair. My mind immediately fluttered to the past 10 minutes. Full of arguments, and planning.

"You don't remember?"

"I remember. It's just.... ugh." That's normal. It usually causes people pain when I go in their minds. Once they try to recall what happened, pain. Pain happens.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" I pat his head continuously, until he looks back up. once he does, I smile. But, there was a bang at the door.

He scrambles to pick me up, like a baby. Carrying into a corner, under a blanket. Does he really think we're invisible? He puts his finger on his lips. I nod in approval. We sit there for what seems like hours. Though it's been seconds.

The door fly's open, and ricochets off the wall with a bang. I jump, but Beast Boy clutches me tighter. We can't see what's going on, the blanket is to old and thick.

"What! Where are they?!" Someone yells. Neither of us can say weather or not it was robot or not.

"I don't know. We need to go find look. Bosses going to go crazy!" Footsteps speed away. All is silent.

Silence. All I can hear is our breathing. Mine slightly faster, and louder. He keeps is eyes forward, narrow and still. It seems he focussing. His pointy ears, twitching, listening for a sign. A sign of another presence. Yet nothing.

His eyes find mine. He stares for a few seconds. Not saying anything. Looking past me?

"Hello?" I say. I remove my hand, from his grasp, and snap in his face.

He blinks rapidly. Looking up and down, up and down, up and down.

"What?"

"What were you doing?" I say, balling my hands up in fists. I place my hands directly under my chin. He quickly reacts.

"No no, just thinking...." He trailed off somewhere in the distance. I pat his head again. And mouth, 'it's ok!'

I squirm out of his lap, and scurry away. I feel his hand grab the back of my shirt. I shake his grip away, and pop my head out of the blanket.

The doors wide open, and the cool air from a vent flutters in. Compared to the white lonely room, the hall way is a darkish brown. The sticky notes are there, and some bolted up windows. I stand up and brush myself off. Straitening out my black flowing hair, I feel a breeze. Which tells me Beast Boy is standing up as well.

"So, where do we go now?"

"And your asking me because?"

"Because, you know what this place looks like. And, I was unconscious. So I win!" I roll my eyes. And turn back around to face the door. Trying to remember all that happened. I start swaying back and forth. Shifting weight from one side to another. I start walking away slowly. Not realizing what I'm doing. He reaches out for my sleeve again.

"Um, Dude? Where are you going? Don't forget me!" I didn't realize what I was doing! And now I feel bad. When I space out, it's not exactly my fault.

"Oh... Um.... Sorry. Oh right. Follow me." I say grabbing his green hand. Pulling it tighter into mine. He's sweating, as always.

While we walk silently down the hall, I start to space again. Though he's only a few centimeters away, and facing the back of me, he knows. My mind wanders freely through past thoughts, and old memories. I think about the little things in life that make me happy. Which somehow lead to a sad movie I watched with the whole team last week. Which brought me to Jericho. Which reminded me, how much I would love to be back in Tibet. I loved my life in Tibet. The fishing, and the music. My singing combined with Jericho's guitar. It was all so magical.

And what we didn't get to do. We could never have a real talk. And since I had no mother around....

But I know it wasn't his fault. It was my fathers fault, his evil ways. And, If Jericho never saved me, I would be that way as well. I would be stealing things, and taking names. But thanks to what he did, I am-

"Jewel Where are you going? Their right there?!" Beast Boy stands in front of a door. I am a few doors down, standing there, confused. I raise my eyebrow. Beast Boy comes over, and grabs my hand, tugging me along to the door.

"Heh, thanks." I say tripping over my feet. He glances back at me, and again I feel small.

This was the room, the Titans still lay in the same alignment. My heart skipped a beat when I saw Robin there. He looked so helpless.

"Come on we have to help them." He said, so focused. I could detect no emotion. He must be hurting.

Untying them was difficult. Who knew robots could be so precise! With each screw up, I would slice my finger with my nail. Soon after my fingers would be red. Beast Boy wasn't talking, or looking over here every time I breathed in quickly. In the time it took me to unknot Starfire's hand, Beast Boy freed Robin.

Almost instantly Robin jumped up and screamed Slades name.

"Dude, calm down!" Beast Boy grabs his shoulder, as an effort to calm him. Robin quickly turns his head back and forth. Surveying his surroundings.

"What's going on?" He says facing me.

As if this is my fault! Here I am trying to help. Even though this is only my second battle with them, I am very educated. I've taken the corse, I've beat the drill robots. I know what I am doing.

"Um. We're trapped in Slades- his game, and there looking for Beast Boy and I." I say returning to the knot.

I feel arms on my waist. A familiar feeling. My hands freeze up, looking in to his eyes, he nods his head to the side. Scooting over to the side, he assists me in untying Starfire.

Robin on the other hand, isn't exactly happy. Even hearing the word 'Slade' makes him want to throw something out the window. To bad the windows are boarded up.

In silence, we finish untying everyone. And one by one I need to explain what had happened. And every time, their eyes get bigger, and they say 'Oh my.' Or something along those lines. What lies ahead, Slade.