Chapter 4
Garfield sat in the tower distracted. Terra was getting married to a DJ named Jessie in less then two months. He wished he had got her to say she was Terra those years ago and then that family would have been them. But he knew he had lost that chance. Terra was now happy with Jessie and had Atlee. He let out a sigh as Cody and Amy came through the doors.
"Are Amon and Atlee out yet?" Cody asked.
"Yeah. They should be here any minute." Garfield said.
"Finally some entertainment." Amy said as they sat down.
"What?" Garfield asked.
"Amon and Atlee." Cody said.
"And why are they entertainment for you?" Garfield asked.
"Because they are trying to hiding the fact they are a couple and they are failing at it." Cody said.
"They've been doing this for a couple of weeks now. They've talked about going to Homecoming or whatever." Amy said. Garfield sighed.
"Terra is going to kill me if she finds out I knew and didn't tell her." He said as the doors open and the two came in.
"Hey you two. Do you have any homework?" Garfield asked.
"No." Amon said.
"Good. Then let's work on combat training." Garfield said.
"Then let me go change first." Atlee said.
"Why is what you're wearing not good to train in?"Cody asked.
"Oh let's see, my mother will kill me." Atlee said walking off causing Amon to smile.
"I'll wheel myself out to the training ground." Amon said as he started to do so.
"Then let's head out." Garfield said getting up. Cody let out a groan.
"We'll order some pizza afterwards. How does that sound?" Garfield asked as they walked.
"Sounds find to me." Amy said as they made it to the field. Amon had already changed and was waiting for them.
"Now we wait on Atlee." He said.
"Then can we go ahead and start?" Cody asked.
"Sure. Amon, Amy, you'll fight each other. Cody, you'll fight Atlee. And no powers. Got it?" Garfield said.
"Aw. That's no fun." Cody said.
"Shut it Cody. Atlee is still having trouble with her powers. It makes it fair." Amy said.
"She is correct. Plus there may be a chance we can't use our powers and hand to hand is the only thing we can do." Amon said.
"Pfft. Fine." Cody said as Amy and Amon walked off and started to fight. Atlee came out in brown boots, tattered jeans and a grey t-shirt with a black beanie on.
"Why are you going to train with a beanie? Which why do you always wear hats?" Cody asked.
"I have my reasons." She said coming over.
"Alright. Altee, this combat training is using no powers what so ever." Garfield said.
"Okay." Atlee said as she got into a fighting stance.
"Do I have to go easy on her too?" Cody asked.
"Yes. She doesn't have much combat training." Garfield said as the two started fighting. He saw Amon was watching Cody and Atlee fight.
So are they dating? He thought to himself as a squeal was heard. He saw Atlee crouch on the ground covering her ears with Cody holding her hat.
"I got her-WHOA!" A Earht barrier surrounded Atlee, knocking Cody back.
"CODY!" Garfield snapped running over to the barrier.
"Atlee, open the barrier. What's wrong?" He asked. The only sound he could hear was crying. Amon stopped and flew over.
"Atlee, what's wrong?" He said softly. Amy came over.
"Why not break it open?" She asked.
"You could harm her," Amon looked at Cody, "What did you do?" He said.
"I took her hat. That's all." Cody said as Garfield sighed.
"I'm going to call her mother and see if this has happen before. Do not break it open." Garfield said as he pulled out his phone. He started to walk away as he dialed Terra's number. She picked up after the fourth ring.
"What?" She asked sounding annoyed.
"We have a problem with Atlee." He said.
"What happen?" Garfield heard the change in tone.
"One of the members grabbed her fight while practicing combat and she made an Earth dome over herself and we can't get in. She's also crying in there." He said. He heard Terra sighed.
"I'll be there shortly. I'll grade these papers later." She said before she hung up. Garfield put his phone up and looked and the others.
"Alright so training is over. Everyone go inside." Garfield said. Cody and Amy nodded as they walked off. Amon stood at the dome with his hands on it and his eyes closed.
"Amon, it'll be best for you to go too." He said. Amon opened his eyes and looked at him.
"No. I'm going to stay here." He said. Garfield sighed.
"Fine but if her mother gets here and tells you to go, then go." Garfield said.
"I will." He said. Garfield nodded his head. He sat down and looked out for Terra. In a few minutes, he saw Terra coming over on a rock. He landed down and saw she was wearing a grey dress pants and a purple blouse on with black flats.
"Is she still in there?" She asked as she walked over.
"Yes." Amon said. Terra sighed seeing him.
"Amon, she's not going to want you to see when I get her out. With why she did this, she doesn't like people to see the reason. Gar, you might want to stay to you know." Terra said. Amon sighed and then walked away. Garfield looked at her.
"So what is it?" Garfield asked.
"Her ears. When she was born, they were normal like mine but as she grew up, they got pointy for no reason what so ever." She said.
"Pointy like mine?" Gar asked. Terra nodded as she brought the Earth down. Atlee sat there with her face in her knees. The two of them could see her ears. They stuck out just like Garfield's but they weren't as long and big. Terra kneeled down and looked at Atlee.
"Sweetie, it's okay." She said.
"Why can't I get rid of them?" Atlee said.
"I know you want to but you're now with people who want care." Terra said as she took her hands.
"But Cody would make fun of them." She said.
"If Cody does, you can beat the living shit out of him and I will not say a word." Terra said.
"Unless Amon gets to him first." Garfield said as he saw Amon head over. Terra turned and saw him and Atlee started to panic.
"No no no." Atlee got up and tried to run. Terra grabbed her.
"It's okay." She said.
"No No NO!" Atlee said. Amon ran over and placed his hands on her ears and gave her a smile.
"They're cute." He said. Atlee started to cry and then hugged him. Garfield smiled. Terra looked at Amon as she crossed her arms.
"Is something going on here?" She asked.
"They've become a couple. I found out today." He said.
"Well he's the first guy who hasn't stopped talking to her after finding out about her ears. I'm going to let it slide. Amon, we'll need to talk later." Terra said. Amon looked at her and nodded his head.
"Now Atlee, are you going to be fine not wearing your hat around here?" Garfield asked.
"Yes." She said.
"That's good. How about you two head inside?" Terra said. Amon and Atlee nodded as they took each other's hands and started to walk back into the tower. Terra walked away and looked out into the ocean. Garfield walked up beside her.
"You know I do miss this view." She said.
"It's pretty awesome. So is the reason all those years ago you made it so that you pretended you didn't know me or remember the Titan life was because of Atlee wasn't it?" He asked.
"Yeah. I was pregnant when I was turned to stone. All of the biological signs of mine were halted as well which meant Atlee's development. I was unstoned for a year before you found me again. I was almost three months pregnant when that happen so six months later, she came. She was almost a year old before you found me." Terra said.
"So is….Slade the father?" Garfield asked.
"…yes." Terra said.
"Did he-"
"Rape me, yes. Her animal powers and the ears, I don't know how those happen. For all we know he has that ability and he never took off his mask so yeah. Or they could have been suppressing powers from what I was experimented on." Terra said.
"Yeah. We met Geo-Force and he told us everything. So Atlee is technically 17 not 16?"
"Yes. I haven't told Jessie how she was created. I can't figure it out how to tell him I was raped. I can't believe I'm telling you." Terra said.
"Does Atlee know?"
"Nope. She's the hardest person to tell. How can you tell your daughter was the most feared criminal and who raped her mother?" Beast Boy said.
"I don't know either. But she turned out great. So why did she react like she did?"
"She was bullied a lot growing up. When she was in seventh grade, it got really bad. Kids started to throw things at her, call her names, some even resulted to psychical violence. Atlee had a mental break down and tried to cut her ears off. If you look closely to her left ear, you'll see surgical scars from them reattaching her ear. So I went to the school board and demanded them to let her wear hats and they said no and didn't do much to the people who bullied her. So I transferred to Jump City High with Atlee and told them what had happen and they agreed to let her wear hats to school to hid her ears so nothing like that would happen." She said.
"oh wow. She had it rough." He said.
"Yeah. So you know, we're going to need her medical files on record. Is that fine?" He asked.
"Oh sure." Terra said as she rubbed her neck. Garfield nodded.
"I'm going to get Atlee back home. When her ears gets expose, she needs the night to herself with animals."
"Well it's Friday and I think Amon has calmed her down. Let her stay the night so she knows how it is to sleep in the tower." Gar said. Terra thought for a moment.
"…Fine. But she stays out of Amon's room." Terra said.
"Don't worry, I don't think it will happen."
"Gar, she's 16 and now has a boyfriend who is not bothered by her ears. She will try." She said. Garfield smiled.
"I'll tell them. Now head home and grade those papers." Garfield said. Terra smiled.
"Alright...Hey Gar, do you want to come to the wedding?" She asked.
"Oh, sure. Thanks." Garfield said causing Terra to smile. He looked at her and returned the smile.
Author's Note:
So there's some background information on Atlee. Needed something to tug on your heart strings. Maybe next chapter will have some chaos going on. Who knows?