Mark of Trigon Chapter 10: Two Days Left
He was wrong, despite that only Raven knew about the soul-trap thing, the dread of the passing days leading up to the ritual had made things worse.
Only two days remained, and things weren't exactly getting any better, everyone was stressed out, Garfield could tell that no one had been sleeping much at all, he sighed in a depressed tone when he told himself the reason he didn't want.
"It's all because of me…"
He didn't know if he was referring to the stress of the teams due to the ritual or if it was, everything else.
Everything that had happened to him because of one wrong choice he made, ever since he got bitten by that green monkey.
Sakutia, that's how it all began, his parents saved his life with an experimental serum which is now lost to the world, except, in his very own body, the Sakutia isn't gone, it's dormant, the animal DNA allowing immunity to the effects of said disease the effects including excruciating pain and death, Garfield had cheated Death and got away with only a mutation, he was a green animorph.
The unstable DNA allowing him to morph into any animal he could think of at will, the curse of said gift became apparent rather quickly, he was green, he would become an outcast, a freak to society, his uncle made sure that he knew this, tortured the boy for years right after the 6 year old witnessed the deaths of his own parents and was too helpless at the time to save them.
He ran away when he learnt that his so called uncle planned to kill him, Garfield ended up joining the Doom Patrol by chance, they taught him how to use his powers, he finally had a family again.
But the time came where, he had to leave, so he traveled, and soon found himself in Jump City and then joined another team, another family.
The Teen Titans.
The same Teen Titans that were practically avoiding sleep in order to study for answers on how to deal with the ritual that would occur in mere days.
The same Teen Titans that had called in the world famous Justice League for help.
The same Teen Titans that seemed dead serious on not giving up on him, despite how obvious the outcome seemed to be.
The Teen Titans, they were his family, and they weren't giving up on him, and for that, he was willing to try, to try not to give up on himself either.