Title: Penance
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans
Pairings: Blatant Slerra and implied actions
Other Notes: This is from Terra's POV from when she is in the statue.
Terra used to have too much time on her hands at night. She used to be too pumped after training all day to fall asleep, and unless Slade has to...talk to her later at night, all she does is think.
She used to think about the Titans a lot, about how much fun the Tower was. That was during the first few nights she was back, though. That was before she had spent more time with Slade, and stopped missing Beast Boy so much.
That was something else to think about; Beast Boy. That one night at the carnival really confused her, and thinking about it too much hurt sometimes. But yet again, that was before she had spent more time with Slade. Now she wasn't so confused. She was...pretty sure of the choices she had made.
But then, when she couldn't sleep, all she could think about was Slade. She kept going over what she felt when she first saw him without his mask on, that unexplainable rush of emotion. She thought of it when he was holding her, when she was trying to fall asleep in his unfamiliar bed, the night after she first whispered "I love you..." and he answered her.
Now she thinks of the promises she made as a lovesick teenager. The promises he whispered to her, that she believed. She realizes now that she was being used, and with a nauseating sensation, realizes that he lied to her.
And she thinks now, of penance; of a punishment undergone for forgiveness of sin. She wonders if this stone prison is her punishment, and if it's appropriate.
