Beastboy has been an official member of the Teen Titans for about a month now. His sister's been missing for six months now. But one girl completely flipped his life around. Her name was Terra. After half a year of being with the Titans Beast boy had gotten used to how everything works. When Robin asked if he wanted to officially join the Titans he was ecstatic. Now with five members (Raven refused any request of becoming a member. She didn't want to take time away from her studies.) The Titans easily took down their enemy's as well as any challenge that surfaced. Currently that was her.
She appeared out of nowhere. Seemingly lost and having a hard time controlling her powers. She was, well in Garfield Logan's eyes, the best thing that could ever happen to him. She loved video games, loved food and loved getting down and doing her own work! Needless to say, the Titan was in love. For the last few days he's done nothing but spend time with her, spend time with her and well, spend time with her. They'd go out to eat, kick but in video games, beat up bad guys, kick butt in video games, skip rocks, kick butt in video games, watch scary movies, kick more butt in video games and rough house.
Raven was fed up with it. Sure she had a crush on the kid, she was glad that he found someone like him to well, be able to be with him. Raven sure couldn't, her powers were unbalanced as it was. Getting into a romantic relationship with someone was not something on her 'Need to do' list. But she didn't expect that his relationship with the girl that showed up, what was it, three weeks ago, would have the effect it did on her.
Not only that, but at the moment she was forced to watch the happy couple. She doesn't know how they managed to get her out of the tower. But there she sat surrounded by Garfield and Terra in their lovey-dovey stage across from her while Dick and Kori were secretly holding hands to her left, talking to Victor and Sarah Simms, the half robot's girlfriend who was a mechanic just like he was. The only other one who didn't have a date was Wally but he didn't seem to notice the effect it was having on Rachel. They were at the normal hangout for everyone else. Usually she just stayed home, but she was practically bribed here by Terra and Wally.
Rachel didn't have anything against Terra. She was a nice girl. She just felt that Garfield was taking things too fast with her. They met, hung out for a day and were making out the next. Honestly it was a bit too fast but she didn't bring it up in his private training sessions. Though lately she's been cutting them short saying that she had things to attend to and locking herself in her room for the rest of the day. He didn't mind it, whenever she stopped his lesson with her, which bored him to death lately, he got to spend more time with Terra.
"I shouldn't be here." Rachel looked down at her untouched plate. They were inside, the only reason for that was because it's snowing. Raven's cloak was wrapped around her, it was the warmest thing she owned and kept her body warm on cold days like this. In the mornings she would usually spend an hour or so meditating on the roof, or just watch the city and snow. No one heard her statement. Wally was making small comments here and there in the conversation Kori, Sarah, Victor and Dick were in and Garfield and Terra we're in their own world.
She took a deep breath trying to settle her emotions, something that usually made her meditate for several hours a day. Not that it helped much. The two across from her kissed again, Rachel wondered to herself if she would be able to sneak away. Not likely.
Another kiss happened less than a minute later. The glass windows surrounding the shop we're starting to crack under pressure. It wasn't long before they shattered completely. Rachel was on her feet before anyone else was, using the distraction of panic from the glass falling everywhere to cover her head and run out of the building.
"What was that?" Garfield asked moving from his protective position over Terra, though the glass didn't lay inside the building, it scattered all over the sidewalk. He looked around at the others counting in his head.
"Someone must have sent out a sonic wave." Victor said but his theory was tossed aside with Kori's comment.
"Where is friend Raven?" She asked knowing that the girl had been here just a moment ago. Dick's face was expressionless. Already having put the clues together, after all, he was Batman's apprentice. Garfield noticed this.
"Robin-"
"Cyborg do a sweep, find her." Robin didn't look at Garfield. "Fan out, if you find her call in!" He wasn't just some boy with his friends at the pizza place now, he was Robin, leader of the Teen Titans. A mission had come too them, they wont waste time finishing it.
Everyone started moving, "Beastboy that means you as well."
"You know something." Garfield looked at him, unmoving.
"I would think you would too, seeing as you were in a similar situation earlier today." The boy wonder crossed his arms. "You know how dangerous emotions are."
Rachel was at the dock's where she had first arrived just over half a year ago. She stood in the shadows looking at the Tower she called home. A flashing light went off on her cloak, the binding that held it together. They were tracking her, she sighed and started walking deer into the ally. Her hood still covered her face and every once and a while the flashing red light would illuminate her path. A net shot out and trapped her to the ground, distracted by her thoughts she hadn't seen the young boy that sent it at her. "Jinx I got her!" He called and a girl dropped off of the roof. She walked over to the trapped power user and smiled.
"Long time no see Rachel." She stopped walking when she was close enough to see her glare. "Good night." A pink flash lit up the ally, moments later the three were gone, leaving only the cloak with the flashing red light.
The Titans sat in the lounge with the cloak sitting on the coffee table. Garfield looked dead, he held his head, images of the fight he had earlier with Rachel replaying in his head.
"Again!" The order rained out as the battle ground reset itself. Cyborg wasn't going easy on the newest Titan today. He was tired, he spent all night with Terra and now he was regretting it. Not only did Cyborg know about his secret nights with his girlfriend but he was using it to his advantage. But his trainers comments weren't directed towards his relationship with Terra, that much Garfield hasn't figured out yet. Victor Stone's comments were based on his knowledge of Garfield's long standing crush on his other trainer. "You're never going to be able to protect her if you don't push yourself! Faster!"
Garfield squeezed his eyes shut, all the romantic pushing wasn't for Terra. He knew that now, he understood why Cyborg pushed him so hard, it was for a situation like this. A situation that could bring out someones real feelings.
It happened quickly. His anger that had been building up towards his trainers over the last months exploded out of him. One moment he's human, the next a Beast. Cyborg was ready to put him out with any attack directed at him. Only Garfield was in control, he saw through the eyes of the Beast. His movements were quick, faster, stronger than any other animal form he could transform into. He was in action, doing the course as he had learned was the quickest to run through. When he hit the simulator button at the other end of the room he was human again. Cyborg let him off early, congratulating him on his control.
His first thought was to find Rachel, she was in the lounge room meditating in front of the window. "Rachel!" The voice entered the room where a girl sat facing the window meditating. "Rachel!"
"Go Away Beastboy." The girl said uninterested in what the boy had to say to her right this moment.
"No this is big!" He was in front of her, one moment a green boy the next a green cat. He jumped onto her lap and nuzzled into her stomach until she finally gave in.
"What?" She asked dryly. The cat jumped off her lap and morphed back into a boy.
"I did it! I was able to control the Beast!" He cheered, for him, that was a big accomplishment. Raven stared at him for a few more moments before closing her eyes again and returning to meditating. "Oh come on Raven, you can't say you're not proud of me." He whined at the lack of response.
"You're purposely pushing your limits and putting the team in danger," Raven spoke.
"But I have more control over it now." The happiness from before was drained from his voice. "I thought you encouraged me to gain control over when I transformed into the Beast."
"You're letting you're emotions take over. That's dangerous for you." She responded. Beast boy didn't speak, instead he got up and started out of the room.
"Lucky was right about you." He mumbled, the sound of shattering glass made him turn around ten of the fifteen windows to the wall had crumbled letting in the outside air. The lounge room was covered in glass up until the sofa ended. "Raven?" The girl was still levitating. She looked like she hadn't moved, but broken glass surrounded her. Her legs touched the ground and the cape wrapped around her, she started out of the room the hood keeping her face out of sight as she passed Beastboy. He watched her go, concern showing on his face.
The windows that had been repaired earlier didn't make his mood any better. But the explosion of the pizza place windows now made sense to him. Rachel was hurting, but why?
"I heard a crash, what happened?" Robin, the boy wonder was running towards him. Beastboy couldn't look at his team leader, he stared at the ground and spotted specks of blood leading in the path she had walked in.
"I think I made her cry." He spoke, the black haired leader seemed confused. He had on his uniform, it was hardly off just in case they were called to work. But the moment he saw the room he understood. Beastboy took off running towards Ravens room. Seeing Terra and Wally talking to the girl he was worried about made him stop in his tracks. Did they notice that she was bleeding? Seeing Terra made his worries vanish from his mind. He backed away so they wouldn't see him eavesdropping on their conversation.
"Come on Raven, you never spend time with anyone." Terra pleaded.
"I don't need to spend time with people." Raven spoke coldly.
"That's funny, I remember you spending quite a lot of time with Garfield befo-" The boy was dropped through the floor.
"Who's Garfield?" Terra asked. Beastboy transformed into a spider and crawled on the wall, he felt bad for not telling Terra what his real name was but at the same time there was something holding him back from telling her.
"Nobody." Raven spoke and the sound of a door slamming filled the air. Terra stood alone for a few seconds before Wally was back.
"What you don't know who Garfield Logan is?" He asked her, using the bait to make Raven come out of her room again.
"Garfield... Logan?" Terra seemed to know the last name. "Is he by chance related to Mark and Mary Logan...?"
"Yeah! He's their son, and he's here in this b-"
"I'll go." Raven interrupted him, distracting Terra from the comment Wally had made.
"Yes!" She cheered.
He was mad at Wally earlier for pulling something like that, and risk Terra finding out who he was. But he wasn't ready for her to know his real name, he wasn't sure he'll ever be ready to be honest. At the moment he was glad Rachel had interrupted him, he was glad Rachel was watching out for him even if she was mad at him. He felt... like she loved him. But how could she love him? It was rare for her to show any emotion and love was not on her top five.
"Hello Garfield," an image flickered to life on the TV screen. A girl was shown, bound by a strange rope that seemed to glow with black energy, she was laying on the ground nearly uncontentious. Garfield looked up when his name was said. "I hope we're not interrupting anything, but it seems that we found something of yours." A pink light shocked the girl on the ground, a scream of pain echoed through the room as her face was lifted for the others too see.
"No," Kori gasped seeing their missing friend.
"This little bird was lost, we found her alone wandering the streets. Isn't that right Rachel." There was a snap and she screamed again. The camera zoomed in on her face and tears were streaming down her cheeks. You could see that her cloths were ripped, blood was dried on gashes and stained her cloths. Garfield growled seeing the image. Terra looked at him her eyes shocked.
"Lucky... why...?" Rachel's voice was hardly audible.
"Don't call me that!" The shriek was followed by her body being engulfed in a pink light. Her scream couldn't be heard, when -after a painful five minutes- the light vanished she collapsed on the ground. The camera was knocked over showing the boat house they were in.
Garfield was out of the room before anyone could process what was going on. His trip out of the building seemed to be shorter and he was in the air, crossing the bay to the docs where he would find her. In his rage the trip to the boat house took only minutes, he was next to her limp body before he could process anything.
He carefully picked her up, her breathing was shallow, he could hardly hear it with his senses peaked. A rib was broken at the least, he could imagine much worse with all the cuts she had. Something was wrong, usually if she got wounded her body would start healing itself, it was as if something was preventing her from doing just that. He noticed the bindings keeping her hands together.
"Garfield!" Kori landed next to him when he walked out of the boat house. "Friends I have found him." She told the communicator.
"Star, take the rope off her arms." Garfield said too her and she did just that. He could see the change in Rachel's condition instantly. Less blood was flowing and face seemed to calm.
"Bring them back Star." Robin's voice spoke through the communicator.