Chapter 7: Gravity

Beast Boy lay on his bed, depressed. In all honesty, depressed was probably an understatement, but he couldn't think of a better word. Al the others like sad, miserable, glum all seemed to only halfway fit the bill. He had no words to describe his deep treachery. Except those of Say Anything's- Everyman has a Molly, which he was playing on his I-pod.

Here I am, laid bare at the end of my rope.
I've lost all hope So long
Molly Connelly just broke up with me over the revealing nature of the songs.
You goddamn kids had best be gracious with the much money you spend
because for you I won't ever have rough sex with Molly Connelly again.

Here I am, laid down at the end of my rope, wishing I had not been born.
Now I've spewed too much. I can never shut it up.
I thought you should be warned and I implied black sky took the needle to my eye and sucked out all its glow.
Ohh Ohh! Molly Connelly ruined my life,
I thought the world should know.
Ohh!

I can't stop thinking about what she did wrong to me.
I can't figure out just what I did wrong.
I'll kill myself thinking about the things that you did to me,
Molly Connelly.

Can't stop thinking about what she did wrong to me.
Just can't figure out just what I did wrong.
Kill myself thinking about, things that you did to me,
Molly, Connelly,

Can't stop thinkin' bout
Just can't figure her out.
Kill myself thinking 'bout,
My Molly, Connelly.

Can't stop thinkin 'bout
(I can't stop thinkin' 'bout it)
Just can't figure out
(I won't stop thinking 'bout it)
Kill myself thinking 'bout
(I'll kill myself! I'll kill myself! I'll kill myself!)
Molly Connelly

He didn't know anyone named Moll Connelly. He knew someone named Terra Markov. And she couldn't even remember him. He hadn't really been dating her, their previous life had been too complicated for dating. But unfortunately, that doesn't stop hormones. It wasn't like she'd actually dumped him, but it felt that way. Scratch that, it felt like she'd ripped out his heart, and sewed his skin back together without putting it back in. As he lay on his bed, a sheet falling to the floor, pillow previously thrown somewhere else, and thought of all things he was absolutely sure of.

Terra had been his friend.

Terra had joined the team

She'd betrayed the team

Terra had tried to kill him

She'd taken over the city

She tried to leave Slade, but couldn't

She'd killed Slade

Terra saved the city

She'd come back to life somehow.

He thought about the last one for a long time. He couldn't figure out how exactly, not that he cared. He was just glad she was alive. He wasn't glad that she didn't remember anything. She'd said that she wasn't 'terra' but she stilled called herself that. And she still looked the same. He closed his eyes and remembered her from before. She had been so happy, and pretty too, He reopened his eyes and thought about the girl he'd seen earlier that day. She wasn't happy. She was feeling something else he couldn't understand. But apart from her emotions she'd looked almost exactly the same. Except the scars. He tries to remember them. There was one under her left eye, and several on her neck. He could see them stretching over her arms, and under her shirt. He didn't remember her having scars. Maybe that was why she'd always worn a turtleneck shirt, and gloves. Or maybe she got them from the lava. He knew that fire left scars, lava probably would too.

"It would have hurt…" he said meekly, "all that lava, it would have burned. I wish I could have been there with her. Maybe then it wouldn't have been so bad." He had been trying to get over the guilt of leaving Terra alone in the cave. He'd heard her scream while he and his team had escaped out. He'd been so terrified when he heard that sound. Beast Boy had turned back to go and save her, but it had been too late. She'd already turned to stone. He remembered holding back tears upon seeing her stone frozen face. And yet, she had seemed so peaceful, so relaxed. He'd hoped she hadn't been in any pain; but the scars and burns were proof. It would most definitely have hurt.

It was just as he re-closed his eyes that the alarm sounded. Normally this would have shocked him so terribly that he would have nearly hit the ceiling. But today? Today he just slowly reopened his eyes, and thought about how irritating the sound was. He knew what he was supposed to do.

He was supposed to jump up, get in the T-car, kick bad guy ass, then celebrate with pizza, and argue with Cyborg tofu/meat toppings.

Today Beast Boy didn't want to fight villains, eat pizza, or argue with anyone.

Today he wanted to die.

"Beast Boy! Let's go!" Raven said impatiently outside his door.

"Yes Friend! There is trouble in the 'up' part of town." Starfire added, opening the door to come in and find her friend near tears.

"She means uptown." Raven said rolling her eyes at the aliens misunderstanding.

Beast Boy glanced at them, hopping his solemn look would make them understand and leave. It didn't.

"Oh! Friend why are you so not the happy?"

"Can we worry about it later?" Raven said in her monotone voice.

"No. We can not." He said glaring at his cloaked friend.

"To bad." Ravens said tonelessly as she pulled him off the bed by his ear, and lead him to the garage.

Normally Beast Boy would have been fighting with Raven about some thing or another. But today, he didn't feel the need to resist. He was dragged all the way down stairs, in to the car, and into the city. The team stopped in the dicer part of the city. Ya know? That fancy part of down town, where all the snobby people hang out. Well unfortunately for all the snobs that happened to be on the street, cinderblock was trying to kill them all.

And so as things usually go, the team sprung into action. Cinderblock wasn't exactly the smartest villain out there; he was the kinda guy (thing?) to take orders. For whatever reason he (it?) seemed to be looking for something. Or someone. A woman. He picked up different nicely dressed ladies and stared at them, and then through them over his back. None of them were who he (it?) was looking for. So he simply threw them aside, and each of them shrieked very loudly, and very shrilly. Raven caught some of them in her magic stuff. I caught the others. Robin and Cyborg fired at Cinderblock with small bombs, and such things. Starfire shot fire blots from above and occasionally caught a thrown person. Suddenly Cinderblock ran towards the door of a restaurant andpicked up another lady and held her in front of him. We all stopped attacking.

"Careful we can't hurt her." Robin said seriously. She was screaming her head off, and in honesty it wasn't doing her any good.

"What are we to do?" Starfire asked.

"We need to get her away from him first, and then take him down; before he hurts anyone else." Robin said quietly so Cinderblock couldn't hear.

"Okay. And how do we do that?" Raven said sarcastically.

As if timed, Cinderblock put the woman down. She ran away the moment her feet hit the ground.

"Now! Teen Titans GO!" Robin yelled, like always. Just as we reached him, he turned his back to us so that he was facing the door. He suddenly started laughing, reached in and grabbed a hold of something. He pulled his hand out to reveal that he was holding yet another woman. She had her back to us so we couldn't see her face. We were back to where we started. But this time there was something different. He didn't just throw her in some other direction. He held on to this one. The team stared, trying to discover how to get her away from him. Beast boy noticed something different about this girl. Cinderblock only needed to hold on to her with one hand. She was so skinny, but she was fighting back. Or trying, at least. No matter how hard she pounded her fists, she couldn't make him (it?) let go of her. She seemed to be younger than the others as well.

"Great. Back to point A." Raven remarked. We all looked to Robin.

"Beast Boy, Raven, Get the girl. Cyborg and Star help me take down Cinderblock." Robin said spitting orders. We turned back to see that Cinderblock had began to run the street, girl in hand. He started to climb up one of the taller buildings. Well that was new. The Team had never known this particular villain to be agile enough to climb up a building. Never the less the team followed. Beast boy turned into crow and followed Raven after the girl. They still couldn't see her face, but she was kicking and screaming to be let go. Probably not her best choice of words at the moment. They were at least 17 stories up. When they finally reached the roof cinderblock put her down, and used one of his giant hands to make a cage around her. He said something in his garbled no one had the ability to understand. The girl just stared at him. He pulled out a telephone thing, and sent his location to some unknown source. By the time Raven and Beast Boy reached them, the coordinates had been received, and someone else was coming to get the girl. Raven took the telephone away, and broke it. Cinderblock pulled a piece of the roof up, and threw it at her. She barley dodged it and flew in to attack. Beast Boy turned back to normal, and ran to the caged hand to help the girl, only to discover she was already gone.

"She escaped?" He said puzzled by her disappearance. He then heard clicking coming from the other side of the building. He turned to see her running away from her capture. Cinderblock tried to pick the girl up, who he still believed to be in his hand, only to discover she was already gone. He yelled out something that wasn't understandable, but could have most likely been translated into 'NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!'. He ran towards her, and when he got just close enough to her, slammed his huge fists down on to the ground, causing the huge building to shake. The girl stumbled, but didn't fall; she didn't even turn just kept going. She really had whole 'run away thing' down. Cinderblock pounded down onto the roof again, sending a wave of destruction towards the girl.

"LOOK OUT!!" Beast Boy yelled to her. She turned at the sound of his voice, and what he saw shocked him.

The girl that cinderblock had abducted, was no girl. It was Terra.

He wanted to move towards her, but his feet wouldn't budge. She didn't move either. They just stood there staring at each other. Until Cinderblock's destruction surge reached Terra. The building was shaking wildly, making hard for either of them to stand. Cinderblock reached for her again, and she just barley moved out of the way in time.

"Don't you touch her!" Beast Boy yelled as he ran to help her.

She tried to run, but couldn't manage to move over the trembles quickly enough. Cinderblock banged down on to the roof. It was all the building could take. The roof began to crack, and there was a low rumble. Terra didn't move, she was too afraid the building would collapse.

It was going to. Beast boy knew it was. The quaking ground, and moaning sound coming from the build was proof enough. He ran to her.

"Terra! Get away from the edge!" He yelled. He could feel the building coming apart under his feet. Dust was swarming up, only Terra's figure remained. And the dust was getting thicker.

"Terra run to my voice!"

The rumble was getting louder. He could see her now. He was so close and yet still she felt too far away. She turned to face him, and to beast boy's utter surprise she smiled at him.

Just then the ground began to break apart under her feet. The smile vanished. Terra was going to fall. Beast boy ran faster, he could see her body sinking down with the ground below her. But it was odd. It was like it was in slow motion, but it was getting faster. He'd only just reached the edge, when the ground was really gone.

There was no slow motion now. He slid on his stomach to the edge, hoping to catch her hand.

"Grab on to me!" He shouted to her. But it was too late, she had already fallen too far to be able to reach him. But still, she stretched out her hand, and just barley missed his fingers.

"NOOOO!" Beast Boy screamed, as he watched her plummet towards the ground below.

She shrieked, but at the time she had every right to. Her gold hair, flew around her head and shoulders. The red dress, swelled out around her body and made her almost look like she was floating. Her blue eyes were glistening with tears. In a way, it was almost pretty. However, Beast Boy didn't want to see her spread on the ground, bones broken and dead. He dived down after her.

He normally would have been terrified of falling from a 25 story building, but today was different. Today the girl he loved had told him to stay way from her, she had sworn she had no idea who he was, and today she was falling to her death. Nothing that happened earlier that day mattered at that moment. The only thing that mattered was saving her from the ultimate death that lurked only a few yards away. He moved fast, keeping himself straight so he would reach her faster. It seemed like it took forever, but he eventually got closer to her. She had her back to the ground and was facing up at him.

"Terra! Reach out to me! Now!" He yelled. She couldn't hear him.

The wind was too loud, and she had squeezed her eyes shut. She couldn't see that he was there, trying to save her.

"Terra! Terra, look at me!"

Still there was nothing.

"LOOK! AT! ME!"

She opened her eyes, and glanced up at him. Her eyes were blood shot, and watery. She reached up and tried to take his hand but missed. It seemed that when she missed that she fell farther from him. In the process she flipped her body over, and was now facing the ground. The view frightened her. She screamed again. Beast Boy Shot down, and grabbed on to her shoulders. Terra turned her head and gazed at him in panic. He gently turned her over so she wouldn't have to face the ground anymore; he was careful not to hurt or scare her yet again. He felt her grip his shoulders, and bury her face in his chest. He wrapped his arms around her, and kept her close.

"It's gonna be alright. I promise." He said to quietly for her to hear. They were only seconds from the ground. Beast Boy's mind raced as he searched for what to do. He couldn't just land; the two of them would be crushed.

10 seconds.

Then it came to him. He ran the plan over in his mind. It was the only thing he could do now.

7 seconds.

Beast Boy moved up so that he was falling feet first. He hoped that his plan didn't end up breaking every bone in his body.

5 seconds.

Terra pulled up her head and looked at him in pure dreaded horror. She thought they were going to die. At the time it looked like they would.

"Trust me." Beast Boy yelled. She nodded, and clutched him tighter.

2 seconds.

At the last possible second, Beast boy turned into a gorilla, and landed, with a loud crack, on the ground.

Perfectly safe.

He turned back to normal, and slumped to the ground. The landing had hurt, a lot, but he was still in one piece. But most importantly, in his opinion at least, Terra was alive. He looked down at her in his arms, and she looked at him.

"See? I told ya you'd need me didn't I?" He said smiling. She was shaking madly. She was upset, horrified even. And yet through it all she laughed.

They returned to Terra's new apartment shortly after. Beast Boy was moderately impressed; it was as nice as the Tower if not better. She lived on West Elm, one of the richest places in Jump City. But it was still puzzling, how did she make so much money? How in the world did she support herself as well as she did?

"Where does all this come form?" he asked in awe, as he admired the finery of the living room.

"From Mr. Wilson. He takes care of me." She said smiling. "He's a really nice man."

"He sounds formal."

"I imagine he is. He's a business man of some sort."

"You imagine? You've never met him?"

Terra hesitated. "No."

"Some guardian."

Terra scowled at Beast Boy for a moment. She turned and looked out the long windows.

"He's the only person who's willing to take care of me."

Beast Boy had just crossed a line. He didn't know what it was like, not to know your past. And not to have anyone.

He didn't know what it was like to be alone.

"I would take care of you." He said putting hand on her shoulder. She turned, feeling her blush whip over her cheeks. He smiled weakly at her.

"Why?" she asked meekly. She could feel tears in her eyes. Beast Boy could make her feel so…… Everything. He could make her feel happy, and pain, and fear. And love.

"Because…" He sighed, "You wouldn't believe me. And you won't like the answer."

"It's because I'm 'Terra', isn't it?" She said holding back all her emotion.

"…Yeah."

"I see. But I'm not her. It's not up to you to take care of me."

She turned to go back to her room.

"You asked me how I'm sure you are 'Terra'. But I have to know, how do you know you're not her?"

She stopped. 'How do you know you're not her?'. What an unfortunately good question.

"Terra, you said you can't remember anything. So how do you know?"

Terra stopped to consider what he was saying. And at that moment it all made since. If she couldn't remember, who was she to say she hadn't been the other girl? For a moment, it almost felt, right.

But Terra refused to believe it. It just couldn't be real. It wasn't possible. And yet, she couldn't bring herself to refuse him.

"I……I…" she couldn't say anything. The words were just wrong, nothing made since. Earlier that day she couldn't have been more sure about who she was, and now she had no idea.

"I don't know anymore……" She whispered.

She turned and looked at him. She was on the verge of crying, but she knew she couldn't. It would make him assume things. He would take her tears of pain and confusion the wrong way. He would think she had, feelings for him. And she most certainly did not. Or at least that was she thought.

He stepped towards her. She stepped back. She was afraid. Not of Beast Boy, she knew he wouldn't dare hurt her. She was afraid of what she didn't remember, of what he was trying to convince her of. He stepped towards her again. She stepped backwards again. Towards her. Backwards. They repeated the pattern until Terra had her back up against the wall, and Beast Boy was directly in front of her.

"I have to know." He said grimly, he was close. Not close like 'hi nice to see you' either, it was more like 'Hi I'm in your bubble, almost close enough to touch nose's' close. Beast Boy just stood there staring into her eyes, it was like he was trying to read her soul. What ever he was seeing, was nothing compared to what Terra was seeing. Somewhere between backing into the wall, and Beast Boy saying 'I have to know', Terra's mind had gone a hell run. All the flashes of color, all the garbled voices, everything was going off at once. She was feeling things that she couldn't name and hearing strange voices in other languages.

"I just want it all to stop……" She whispered. She couldn't see anymore, she couldn't hear. She wasn't even sure the words left her mouth, she just felt herself say that. All the while the colors changed, and swirled. It all made her so dizzy, and she could barley stand anymore.

Then she felt Beast Boy reach out and touch her face, and everything went black.