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I'm so sorry for such a long wait! I went on a skiing holiday but now I'm back! Thank you all for the encouraging reviews, I can't believe how many of you like this story! And if I am taking too long to update again, please tell me, and I will quickly get onto writing up a new chapter!
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Starfire and Cyborg stared at Robin. He started to cower under their gazes. It seemed Raven's punch had knocked some sense into him as he started to realized what he had done.
Cyborg turned away, "Im going to find B." he said, and started to walk away, tracking Beastboy's communicator from his arm. Starfire glanced sorrowfully at Robin before floating after Cyborg.
Robin felt guilty. He was supposed to be the leader of the titans. Encouraging them, keeping them together. "W-wait for me," he mumbled and followed the other two titans.
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"Slade!" Beastboy breathed. "Beastboy," Slade said in a monotone that could rival Ravens. "What do you want," Beastboy said sharply, ready to morph at any second. "The same thing I wanted with Robin and Terra," Slade said simply.
Beastboy almost snorted in laugher. "Yeah right, like I would ever agree to something like that."
"Why not. Your team doesn't want you. I heard what Robin just said, and Cyborg or Starfire didn't stand in for you did they?" Slade stated, making it seem like a fact. Beastboy was beginning to feel doubtful.
"None of them want you, you know." Slade continued. "During the Beast incident they all doubted you, thinking you really would attack a teammate. Robin even threatened to put you in jail."
Beastboy clenched his fists when he started to believe Slade's lies. He made good points in Beastboy's opinion.
"Not even Raven likes you, don't you remember all the times she got angry at you, insulted you, pushed you around, pushed you out the window?!" Beastboy gritted his teeth, forcing himself to believe Slade's lies were fake. But Beastboy was in no position to think happy thoughts at the moment, and Slade knew that.
"SLADE!" cried a voice from behind Beastboy. He turned to see the rest of the titans standing at the end of the alleyway.
"Ahh titans. Here at last, you took your time." Slade said in an icy, heartless chuckle. Raven's hands glowed with dark magic. "What do you want with him?" Robin inquired coldly. To which slade replied with a somewhat warmer laugh. "An apprentice."
"Friend Beastboy would never agree to go with a clorgbag varblanelk like you!" Starfire hissed at him. For a moment Slade looked generally confused before coming back with another quick-witted reply.
"You titans know nothing about him, the things he does right under your noses, and the pain he goes through, cutting into him." Slade said, and if he could grin, he would have.
Raven froze and Beastboy spun around to face Slade. "H-how did you know about that?!" He asked incredulously. "I, unlike the titans, notice when people go to 'extreme' measures." Slade replied, leaving the rest of the titans, except raven, genuinely confused.
"What does he mean BB?" Cyborg asked. Beastboy didn't answer. "I'll just answer for him then," Slade said then shot forward and grabbed Beastboy's arm, and pulled up the sleeve, ignoring the changeling's cries of 'NO!' but it was too late.
Starfire sank to the ground, glowing green eyes and starbolts gone, Cyborg's mechanic brain whirred into overdrive, while his human brain slowed down, and his blue parts faded. Robin was mentally kicking himself. He was supposed to be the greatest detective of all time, and yet he let one of his own teammates get away with… with something this big, under his nose for years! And what Robin had said at the bank had probably not helped… at all.
Obviously Raven already knew about Beastboy's secret, but the distress on his, and the other titans, faces didn't exactly make her any less upset.
Beastboy was feeling distress, anger, sadness, relief, and a bunch of other emotions Raven couldn't even begin to describe wash over Beastboy, and she knew it was just too much for him.
And it was. After years and years of hiding, keeping all his pain inside, putting on the fake persona and hiding under his jokes, Beastboy finally, finally, snapped.
Anger washed over him, and letting his animal instincts take over, he transformed into the Beast. Growling he turned around to face a shocked Slade. Lifting one huge paw, the Beast brought it down on Slade. Making him fly back, and hit the wall.
Before Slade could even get up, the Beast leapt at him, and kept raking his claws over Slade's armour, ripping it and leaving blood seeping from his wounds. The Beast once again threw Slade back to the wall, and a sickening crack could be heard as Slade's arm bent in a way that it wasn't supposed to go.
Robin stepped forward to intervene, but Raven held him back. "I know it's wrong, but he has been keeping in everything for years, since he was young, he needs to let some go," she said. Robin stood back uneasily.
Slade wasn't even trying to get up anymore, and the Beast moved his teeth to Slade's neck, ready to bite down, but he hesitated as Beastboy's human side was pulling him away. The Beast growled but moved slowly away.
Transforming into a falcon, Beastboy took off, and flew towards the tower, leaving the stunned titans behind. Raven reacted first. "I'm going to talk to Beastboy," she said, and then looked at Slade. "You guys better call an ambulance," she added grimly before teleporting herself to the tower.
A few moments of silence passed, then all at once, the other titans went into action. Starfire took a look at the blood around Slade, and his broken arm, and threw up into a cardboard box in the alley. Cyborg fell backwards and robin paled as he called the ambulance.
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At the tower, Raven knocked on Beastboy's door. "No." came the voice from inside. Raven sighed and opened a portal into his room. It was a mess, but not the usual Beastboy mess, everything was broken, and there were claw marks running down the walls. Beastboy was lying face down on what was left of his bed.
"Slade was right Rae," he said as she sat down. "Robin was right, Slade was right, they're all right," he sighed.
"Beastboy," Raven started, but Beastboy cut her off.
"Im a screw up, I mess everything up and I can't even hide one limb!"
"Beastboy…" Raven tried again, and again Beastboy cut her off.
"I almost killed him Raven! I don't even know if I am a person or an animal!"
"Beastboy…" Raven started, but cut herself off as she noticed a fresh cut running down his arm. A lump rose in her throat.
"If I am an animal then which one am i?"
Again Raven tried. "Beastb…" And again she was cut off.
"Why did that monkey have to bite me?"
"Beast…"
"No one wants me, im just the jokester of the group, the first to go, the idiot who is just there for comic relief!"
"Im so pathetic, I can't even look at my cuts, and I am the one who makes them!"
"Bea…"
"And I can't even hide my anger, I just go ahead and let the Beast out!"
"B…"
"My life is so hard! I should just end it…"
"BEASTBOY"
"What's the point…?" Beastboy started to say, but this time he was the one who was cut off.
Raven was pressing her lips onto his, unsure if this was the best time, but her worries disappeared as he started to kiss back. It was bliss, and if they didn't need air, they would have kept going for hours. But sadly, they did need air, and they pulled away.
Beastboy had a goofy grin spreading over his face. "Did you do that just to shut me up?" he asked. "Well… yes… but that wasn't the only reason." Raven answered, her small smile gracing her lips.
Before they could say anything else, a knock was heard from Beastboy's door. In came the three other titans and they all sat next to raven on Beastboy's bed, unaware of what had happened there moments before.
"BB…" Cyborg started. "Im sorry for not realizing what you were doing to yourself all these years. I should have known, im supposed to be your best friend…" He continued, but Beastboy cut him off. "It's ok dude, I didn't want anyone to know, even you guys, so it's not your fault." The green been said.
Robin wanted to go next. "Beastboy… Im really sorry I said all those things at the bank, I didn't really mean them," he said, and then told them all about his deal with the bank. "And im also sorry about the so many other times I yelled at you," he continued then turned his attention on all the other titans.
"All of you. Im sorry I have yelled at you all. It's just hard being the leader and having to make hard decisions, and I get stressed and take it out on you. Im sorry." Robin finished.
"It's fine, I forgive you, and im sorry about bringing down the bank, I didn't know about the deal you made." Beastboy said, patting robin on the back.
"Yeah and don't worry about yelling at us," Cyborg said cheerily. Raven nodded too. "And sometimes we do need to be yelled at," she added. Starfire just sat in between Robin and Beastboy and pulled them together in one of her bone crushing hugs. "Friends! Im so glad we are the happy again!" she cried.
"Yeah" Beastboy wheezed after being let out of Starfire's death hug. "Me too Star." He continued.
"You guys mean so much to me. I guess I sort of forgot that for a while." The green titan said.
He pointed to Robin. "My friend, and amazing leader." He said then pointed to Starfire. "My friend." Next he pointed to Cyborg. "My best friend." Then finally to Raven. "My girlfriend." He grinned at her.
Ravens eyes lit up and she hugged his with a small smile. A light bulb cracked outside in the hallway, but no one payed any attention.
Raven and Beastboy were hugging. Starfire was squealing like a little girl excited over a new toy, Cyborg's mechanical brain blew a fuse and his robotic eye fell onto the floor, and Robin clutched at his chest and toppled over backwards.
Never had the titans been so surprised, so many times in one day.
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THE END!
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