Title: Injection
Rating: K+
Pairings: None


No one made fun of Beast Boy when it came to needles, though it would have been easy. His eyes screwed up, biting his lip, whimpering softly as his nails dug into the leather on the medical seat. Once you looked closer, though, and saw the genuine tremble in hi boy, the way his chest inflated and deflated at a rate that would have been worrying in most of his smaller forms, let alone as a human, it was much harder to find the situation amusing.

"Friend Beast Boy," Starfire said soothingly, hugging the boy after Cyborg had pulled out the needle. "Surely it hurts less than when you broke a bone, or are gravely injured in battle."

"I was small..." Beast Boy whispered, then gasped slightly, and squeezed the alien girls hand. "I was sick. My parents found a cure, and they gave me a shot."

When the boy fell silent, she smiled. "That is a good thing! You became better!"

"It felt like...knives. Like, burning needles or..." he began trembling. "Every cell in my body, changing. It hurt, Star. It hurt so much.

She hugged him tighter.