Okay people reviews were better this time, in this chapter DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUN (*Melodramatic music*) we haaaaave
The much asked for: EXPLANATION!!!!!!
I know you're probably confused unless you're Somewhere In Time who knows EXACTLY what I'm talking about, so, on that said,
Let's continue!
Robin, Cyborg and the others took the Orb of Kin back to the security vault, Jinx and Kid Flash buried Slade's body, Jericho and Kole stayed behind as well, after all, good or bad, Slade HAD been Jericho's father.
Beast Boy and Raven went again to the Justice League's med-bay to check on their son.
'He looks so sick...so pale' Raven thought while tears poured down her cheeks as she watched her son in a white hospital gown, with tubes sticking out of every part of his body, his expression looked pained, troubled, like he was relieving horrible moments.
Beast Boy also watched his son with a pained grimace, Raven's words still echoed in his head:
'Your fault'
'If he dies it's all YOUR fault'
'He's your son!!!'
'Dad...dad please'
'HE'S NO SON OF MINE!!!!'
'I shall need your signature for the divorce'....'Very well'
'Don't bother sending the kids to me, I don't want them here...they're all yours'
Inadvertedly his arm reacehd out and his hand squeezed Raven's arm gently, she pulled back inmediately, Beast Boy sighed
"You're still mad at me aren't you?" he asked her, Raven looked up at him, her eyes filled with tears she said
"How can I ever forgive you Beast Boy, look at him! He is so close to death and it's all-"
"My fault" said Beast Boy wincing in pain of the memory
"Yes" Raven shook her head sadly
"Will things ever go back to how they where before all of this?" Beast Boy asked her quietly.
"I don't know Beast Boy, I don't think so" Raven replied
"Is there anything I can do to make you forgive me?" Beast Boy asked her again
"No there isn't, your words are still deep wounds in my heart Beast Boy, I don't think I can ever forget you" Raven said as she cried some more, Beast Boy wiped away her tears
"Is there anything I can do to make you feel better?" he asked
"Yes" said Raven "Stay far away for the moment...give me my space....please....perhaps....perhaps then, I can forgive you"
"Very well" he said then wiped away more tears and gently kissed the tip pf her nose then gave her a small and sweet kiss on her lips
"But I'll be waiting for you" he told her "I can wait all my life if necessary, but I was a jerk to let you go and I'm not repeating that mistake twice Rae...there'll never be a more perfect woman for me than you are now."
Raven turned away
"I wish I could say the same Beast Boy I really do." she replied.
With Jake...
Jake tossed and turned, well not really, butin his mind's sleep he DID, he was looking at a big, unpleasant gray screen who was running all those horrific flashbacks, flashbacks that had made him turn to Slade for help.
Flashback
Jake was humming to himself as he took the laundry downstairs, he stopped at the main room where he heard Robin and Speedy talking
"It's a shame...really that they became parents so young" Robin was saying
"Yeah I'll bet Beast Boy and Raven might'v wanted to enjoy a little bit more of life before getting into that responsability" Speedy had said
"Yes...indeed, did you know the Doom Patrol haven't spoken to Beast Boy since he desserted the Teen Titans?" Robin said
"All this years? Aren't they like family to him?" Speedy had asked
"They are....but family who doesn't approve of Jake and so Beast Boy sacrificed his family for his son" Robin said (Jake winced)
"That must have been terrible for him" Speedy said softly.
"Yeah" Robin agreed "It must'v been"
End of Flashback
Jake winced again as the second flashback started in the screen....
Flashback #2...
It had been a couple of days later since the scene with Robin and Speedy that he (Jake) overheard a conversation between Cyborg and Bumblebee
"Yes she was WAY too young to be mother" Cyborg was saying "Couldn't believe it when they told me at first"
"She WAS really young" Bee agreed
"She might'v been someone someday" Cyborg said "She sure had the potential to be someone in life...not a vet's assistant" (Jake winced again)
"Life wasted...so young" Bumblebee had mumbled
"Yes...both of them with their lives wasted FOREVER." Cyborg had agreed, Jake had walked out of the room, unnoticed by either of them, blinking back tears.
Tears right now was what threatened to trickle down Jake's cheeks again as yet flashback three was replayed on the screen...
Flashback #3
Jake had skipped toward the main room while he heard Aqualad, Argent and Hot Spot talking in low voices...
"It WAS terrible wasn't it?" Argent was saying
"Yes they were doing just great at the titans, they could've been great Justice League material someday, had it not been for that child" Hot Spot had said
"Yes, onve Raven got pregnant there was no question on them staying on the team anymore, Robin would've had him killed" Aqualad said (Jake's eyes had widened)
"What about now though?" Argent asked
"Naw...their life right now is gone forever...they'd need to train double-hard to pass the Justice League's tests and at the same fight crime here around the world and with their life full of children I'm afraid that's impossible" Aqualad said
"That child sure was a bad timing" Hot Spot said
"Yes...had he, they waited a little to had him their lives might have not been so ruined" Argent agreed.
"And yet the child bestows nothing special...no powers no nothing" Hot Spot had said.
Jake had continued down to the main room with tears pouring down his cheeks.
Jake's breathing and heart beat now got faster because he knew what memory was going to go to happen now in the big screen...
Flashback #4
It was weekend and Jake was relieved, it had been a hard week altogether for Jake, what with all the hard words he'd heard directed at him, he'd gone down to his parent's room to wish them good night and had stopped when he heard them talking in low voices, Beast Boy was sitting down in his bed clutching an envelope in his hand, his expression pained
"Is it from Mento again?" Raven had questioned
"Yes" Beast Boy had answered in a barely-audible whisper
"What does it say this time?" Raven asked him.
"The same as always. That I am foolish, dumb boy who ruined all his life's chances." Beast had replied (both Raven and Jake had winced)
There was a moments silence then...
"Do you regret anything?" Raven had askd him quietly
"When I was a boy" Beast Boy began "Ever since my DNA mix-up accident, I dreamed of being a superhero, I greatly idiolized Superman and in my wildest dreams I'd picture myself walking beside him, with my own glory,
Robin always says he envys our money when in reality I envy HIM"
"Do you have a particular reason?" Raven asked him
" Yeah, when I was thirteen I found some appliance forms, for young lads you know, willing to become heroes, Justice League members, but back then I ws still too young, so I stayed with the titans, and later, when I was sixteen and old enough to make my dream come true...well by then I had you and a baby son to take care of" Beast Boy said "And Robin got to go"
Raven placed both her hands on his own and smiled at him
"We were very young" Beast Boy had said "So very, very young"
"You're right, we had a whole lifetime ahead of us wasted by a careless mistake" Raven had agreed.
Not caring to say anything to anyone anymore Jake had ran up to his room and thrown himself on the pillow sobbing and so he had not heard when Beast Boy had said
"It doesn't matter I wouldn't trade my son for anything" and Raven had agreed with him
"No" Jake had whispered between sobs "No, no, no" and it was then he had decided, he WOULD make himself useful, he WOULD learn to control his powers if indeed he had any, he WOULD make his mother and father proud of him, their *mistake*, and both Robin and Terra had learned a lot from their master: Slade.
So he would go to Slade, cross the line between good and evil, all in order to be what everyone in the titans wanted him to be...
End of Flashback
Jake lay motionless in a hospital bed, relieving those flashbacks over and over again unable to snap out of it,
and that was just month one...
A/N: Okay people here is the much waited for explantion, and the reason I had to put him in a comma,
As you've probably noticed I added a bit to my username as I said I would,
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Fran01 Robert Pattinson XOXO