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Jinx had just started reading about Beast Boy's experience with the Teen Titans. To be honest, she was disturbed at how the Doom Patrol treated him like dirt. She thought that he should've left the team a lot sooner; nice people like him don't deserve to be mistreated by anyone. 'People like him... There's no one quite like him.'

"I shifted into a housefly and went in to her room a while ago, she found me watching her meditate. I've never seen her so angry before, I swear her eyes turned red. I didn't mean to make her angry, I just wanted to understand why she hides away. That's the first time she's used her powers to hurt me."

"Cyborg tried to force me to eat bacon this morning. He doesn't understand why I don't eat meat. It's cannibalism to me, it's absolutely disgusting. I'll never tell him this but I can hardly stand to be in a room with the smell of cooked meat in it."

She made a note to never eat meat around him, but if she planned to be around him as much as possible then surely she'd have to become a vegetarian. 'I'd be okay with that. I guess it would take some getting used to but as long as he's happy...' She paused to consider whether or not her current line of thinking was true. Surmising that it must've been, she finished her thought. '... I'm happy.'

"Starfire admitted that she only laughs at my jokes because she doesn't understand them and she thinks that it's only polite to laugh. Her not understanding them is another way of saying that they aren't funny. I know she doesn't mean to hurt me but it's hard sometimes not to feel hurt."

She had finished reading the older entries. It was clear that everyone on the team had hurt him almost equally apart from Starfire who only had one or two entries written about her. Most of the entries just mentioned scathing remarks made about him, typically about his intelligence, weakness or his ability to annoy everyone on a galactic scale, no matter what they were - he kept track of them all. Jinx clearly didn't like the way in which the others treated him, friends don't treat friends like they treated Beast Boy.

"Robin threatened to send me to jail yesterday. They all thought that I kidnapped and hurt Raven. It's been dubbed 'The Beast Incident' already. No one believed me when I said that I didn't remember and that I'd never hurt her. She woke up and she told them that I saved her."

That last entry was interesting. Jinx wondered what had happened. 'Robin takes being a hardass to a whole new level. I wonder what the whole beast thing is about?' The whole ordeal was kept from the media so it made sense that Jinx didn't know.

"I asked Raven if I could come in to her room for a moment to talk, she said I could. I managed to tell her that we should go on a date sometime. She stared at me for a few seconds before telling me no. She waited until I left her room and for her door to close before she laughed. She put it perfectly in Tokyo; my skin is green, I have fangs and my ears are pointed. I'm a freak."

Needless to say, she was shocked. Raven actually laughed at Beast Boy for asking her out? 'What kind of stupid bimbo does that? Doesn't she know that he has feelings?' Jinx knew from the get go that she wouldn't like Raven and upon speaking once or twice with her; she wasn't wrong, but now she knew that Raven was and is a total bitch. 'She isn't even worthy of Beast Boy's time, how dare she degrade him like that!'

She could tell that she was now reading the more recent entries because the fight with the Brotherhood of Evil had just been referenced.


The team split up to clean up and do their own things shortly after Jinx departed from the ops room in search of Beast Boy.

Robin was back in his office, scanning through the daily reports he received from the JCPD. 'What's this? S.T.A.R. Labs reported a theft?'

He kept reading into it and he found out that the theft occurred at around the same time they were busy dealing with Cinderblock which really caught his attention. The report itself didn't say what exactly was stolen so he did some digging and after hacking into S.T.A.R. Labs network he found an internal review that mentioned a stolen prototype impulse emitter from its Jump City branch, all of its research data was missing as well. He searched their data banks for further details on what the impulse emitter was supposed to do.

Apparently the scientists in the Jump City branch founded a solid theory that by using specially modulated electrical signals, it'd be possible to create an artificial impulse that could force subjects to respond in a desired manner. The report never stated it directly but it was clear that the technology's purpose was to enslave people. Theoretically they could dominate an entire persons synapses and enslave them, they would be capable of thought but they wouldn't control their actions. Thankfully the device itself wasn't functional when it was stolen, however, Robin knew that could change at any moment.

'The processing power required to individually control each muscle in the body in an efficient or any sort of useful manner would be impossible to generate. Only the experimental W86 would be capable of doing such a thing and that's locked away in Jump's Wayne Enterprises building."

He paused for a moment before it clicked.


Raven was sitting in her room finding that she couldn't meditate. Robin's rejection of her was weighing heavily on her mind, it took months of preparation to even think about approaching Robin like she did. She was so certain at the time that Robin returned her feelings since waves of affection emitted from him when ever she was around but now it's clear that it was just brotherly affection.

'This must be what Beast Boy felt like... Azar... I laughed at him when he asked me out, if Robin would've done that to me I don't know what I'd have done.'

She suddenly started feeling guilty for the way she treated Beast Boy. She never even checked to see how he felt about that, it was just too amusing at the time. In fact, she couldn't recall the last time she actually read his emotions apart from when they all saw him in the ops room earlier and that was completely on accident. 'Maybe I should apologize. He might be the only person that could care for a demon like me. Why was he experiencing so much raw emotion anyway?'

She returned to thinking about the situation with Robin. 'I guess it's a good thing that Robin doesn't return my feelings. Starfire would either freak out and leave or annihilate me in a blaze of righteous fury.'

With her inner conflicts resolved for now, she proceeded to meditate as she conferred with one of her emoticlones. She hasn't interacted directly or indirectly with any of her emoticlones for a very long time now. Directly being through her mental dimension called Nevermore, indirectly being telepathically through meditation. The last time she talked with any of her emoticlones was during a group meeting in Nevermore and she did that to sort out her feelings towards the boy wonder.

'Knowledge, are you there?' She thought hesitantly, it was always a little weird communicating with oneself in such a way no matter how many times you did it.

'Of course I am.' Came the instant reply in her mind.

Raven would've sighed quite audibly if she wasn't in a meditative trance right now. Her knowledgeable aspect was always far too disrespectful for her liking.

'I heard that.'

The fact that every emoticlone could pick up on all of her senses and her thoughts always irked her.

'I know it does.' Came Knowledge's undesired response.

Raven was technically annoying herself. 'Knowledge, stop that.'

There was a slight pause before Knowledge asked her a simple question. 'What do you want to know?'

'You know exactly what I want to know!' Was Raven's exasperated response.

'I do, but do you?'

She knew she'd have to play Knowledge's game if she was going to get answers about Beast Boy's weird emotional outbreak.

'I heard that.'

'STOP IT!'


"The others had a team meeting without me today whilst they thought I was sleeping in, they tried to keep it a secret. They were all incredibly nervous around me for a few days after it, then they all started treating me worse than usual. I've yet to find out what they discussed."

"Every time I ask Cyborg if he wants to do something with me, he always has something to do, whether it's his T-Car, maintenance to the tower or having to recharge; there was always some excuse. I know why he avoids me. It's because I'm an annoying green freak."

"Today Raven bashed me against a wall because one of her books was missing. Maybe if she'd have used her empathic powers she'd know that I had nothing to do with it. Maybe she doesn't even care whether or not I did it."

"Robin said that I rely too much on my animal forms despite the fact that I'm easily the second best martial artist in the team. I have to practice hand to hand combat with him every day now, in other words, he's found a way to kick me in the face with his steel toed boots and get away with it."

She noted that Starfire hadn't been mentioned at all recently and almost every entry was Raven insulting and physically abusing him, Cyborg rejecting him or Robin giving him extra duties.

"My birthday was yesterday. No one on the team actually knows when my birthday is because they've never asked. The only personal detail they know about me is that my first name is Garfield and that's just because they overheard Rita say it a while ago."

She smirked upon seeing his name but knew better than to think little of him for it. Not long after that, her eyes came upon the latest entry.

"I was playing games with Jinx when the rest of the team came in. I heard Starfire defending my position on the team before the doors opened, I can only assume that they were discussing removing me from it."

Upset isn't a word that was good enough to describe what Jinx was feeling. Sympathy? Sure. Sadness? No. Fury? Hell yes. Beast Boy was the last person she knew that deserved this. She just wanted to comfort him and take him away from it all. 'Now there's an idea...'


AUTHOR'S NOTE: On average, each chapter has been around 30 words longer than the previous one (apart from this one). I just thought that was interesting.