/Hey guys! I'm going to be REALLY busy... so the next time I'll have to update is on June 1st... (sorry)/
Raven's P.O.V.
"Beastboy? Beastboy? Beastboy?!" Robin was getting more frantic every second.
"Is friend Beastboy in danger?" Starfire panicked.
Cyborg was typing on his arm. He stopped suddenly and groaned, "Still, no connection!"
"You can't track his communicator either?" Robin asked.
"I could try to find his brain waves." I said.
"Glorious! Let us go!" Starfire said.
"Starfire, I, um, can't do it with other people around me." I said nervously, knowing Cyborg he would probably make a joke or something.
"Why not?" Cyborg said.
"I need to focus and if there are more people around me, they block the brain wave that I'm trying to focus on." It was true, the more people there the harder it is to focus.
"Oh." Starfire looked hurt for a minute, but she seemed to understand.
I walked outside of the house. Children swarmed the street. I pulled up my hood and flew higher. I went into my meditative position. I pushed the children's thoughts from my head and focused on Beastboy.
'Why? Why did it have to be this way? Why did I have to get separated? Why is it always my fault?' His thoughts were muffled I couldn't tell where they were coming from. I focused harder. A light green line wafted up from the ground. The children ran in the streets, making the line fainter. I followed it. It went through the streets and behind a house. It grew the largest beside a pile of sticks and continued through a small hole in the wall the surrounded the village. I flew above the wall and pursued Beastboy's trail. It circled the back of the wall, before going into a circle of bushes hidden by mounds of sand. I flew around the bushes. I finally landed outside a small crack.
"Beastboy?" I asked cautiously.
I heard a startled gasp. "Raven?" I saw two eyes appear suddenly inside the darkness.
"Why are you in there?" I asked.
"This is my, uh, thinking place. It's where I used to go whenever I had something on my mind. How did you find me?"
"I followed your brainwaves."
"Why were you looking for me?"
"You didn't answer your communicator." I pointed out.
"You guys never called me! It's right…" He stopped. I could hear him messing with his belt. "Where'd it go?"
"Didn't you bring it with you?"
"I did I prom….Oh…"
"What?"
"Great. I know where it is."
"Where is it?"
"Behind a house. Never mind that I'll. Why were you guys calling me?" The rest of him appeared as he climbed out of the bushes. He looked like he had been crying.
"Beastboy, exactly what kind of things did those people make you do?" I was nervous about asking him this.
He tensed and looked at the ground and fidgeted. "Why do you want to know?"
"Answer the question!" I demanded. Neither of us was enjoying this, and we needed to get it over with.
"Anyone that saw what I looked like I was supposed to…" He trailed off.
"You were supposed to?"
"Kill them. I never wanted to Rae!" He said quickly before starting to panic. He jumped up started to back away from me like I was going to hurt him.
"Beastboy stop!" He was running as fast as he could away from her. He was in full fledged panic mode. I put a barrier in front of him. He turned around. His eyes were wide with terror.
"What are you going to do to me? I can't go to jail- I know I deserve it but-"
"We are NOT going to put you in jail! And you don't deserve it."
He stopped and seemed to calm down a bit. "You… you aren't?"
"No Beastboy. We aren't it wasn't your fault."
He sat down and put his hands over his face. "It is my fault."
"Why do you think it's your fault?" I sat down beside him.
"Because I could have prevented it or stopped it entirely."
"What makes you think that you could have stopped it?"
"I could have fought back."
"You would have died!" 'How could he think it would have been better that way?' I thought.
He looked at me sadly.
"Think of all the lives you've saved." He looked at me and smiled.
"Thanks Rae."
I cleared my throat.
"Rae-ven." He smirked.
"Let's go back to the others." I stood up.
"And get my communicator." Beastboy added.
Third Person .
Beastboy and Raven stood in front of the house. Raven was unsure what to do once they got in. Saying 'hey guys, he really was a murderer!' didn't exactly seem the best idea to approach the subject.
'How will Robin react? He's the most likely to put me in jail. I mean he has threatened to do it before. And that was just him thinking that I had hurt someone.' Beastboy thought.
"You ready?" Raven looked over at Beastboy.
"I don't think that I'll ever be ready." Beastboy looked at the door.
"They aren't going to do anything bad to you." Raven opened the door quickly and pulled herself and Beastboy in.
"Well?" Robin asked.
"The newspaper article is true." Beastboy hung his head.
"Why did you do it BB?" Cyborg asked.
"I..." Beastboy stuttered. He didn't know what to say.
"They would have tortured or killed him if he hadn't." Raven said.
"Friend Beastboy, why did you not tell us these things before?" Starfire asked.
"How would it sound? Oh hey guys, guess what I use to be a murderer!" Beastboy said bitterly.
"We probably wouldn't have believed you or let you on the team if you had told us." Robin said.
"Beastboy who are they? Are they who did that?" Raven asked gesturing to Beastboy chest.
"Yes." Beastboy answered and sat down.
"What did they do?" Cyborg asked.
"Do you remember how I said that Beastboy had a reminder on him?" Raven said.
"They branded me." Beastboy finished.
"They BRANDED you?!" Robin demanded.
Beastboy nodded his head.
"What does 'branded' mean?" Starfire asked.
"They wrote that I was their property in a way that I could not take off."
"But you are not anyone's property!" Starfire gasped.
They heard a sharp knock on the door. King Tawabe burst in and dropped sacks on the ground, "Lazima kuondoka! Wanaume ni hapa kwa ajili yako! (You must leave! Men are here for you!)"
"Raven, teleport us and the sacks as far away as you can from here!" Beastboy said urgently.
/Mwahahahaha. Any guesses on who sent the Titans to the desert, left the newspaper clipping, and is there for Beastboy? First correct guess in my PM wins! (there isn't really a prize besides, ya know, having the mystery unsolved...)/