A.N.: Geez, that was the easiest name I've ever come up with for a chapter! Okay, on with the surprise!…
Disclaimer: I do not own them. That Sam-I-Am! I do not like them, Sam-I-Am! I do not like Green Eggs and Ham. Nor do I like eating mass quantities of tofu and soymilk. So blame Beast Boy for the mass outbreak of diarrhea.
Chapter Nine: SURPRISE!!!
A blurred figure shot past the living room and into the lobby towards the marinated Titans. It stopped short in front of them, but only long enough to pent up energy that was used to bear-hug the three girls…regardless of the vinegar. Marie felt the wind being sucked out of her. Facing the other boys, Marie could see Beast Boy grinning broadly, Cyborg rolling his eyes and a smiling Robin joining them from the kitchen. Unable to see her 'attacker', however, Marie was starting to wonder if the whole locked-outside-get-dunked-in-vinegar incident was really just a nasty prank. And when the girls were finally released, she got a good view of this person.
"SURPRISE!!!" screamed a vibrant young blonde.
Three things were uttered at once from three utterly reeling and befuddled girls:
"FRIEND TERRA!!!" said the first little pig.
"THE TERRA?!?!" said the second little pig.
"You…" growled the third crooked little pig.
"Yes! I'm back!" grinned the famished wolf.
"What brought about this wondrous occasion?" queried a pleased Starfire.
"Thought I'd just stop by and pay a visit to my old friends, you know, it seems so dead around Jump City, with barely any crime going on here, I thought I'd just shake things up a bit, have some fun. And who might you be?" Terra turned to Marie and cocked her head to the side.
Starfire replied for her, "This is our newest recruit of the team, Mar—"
"—Sepia. Nice to meet you Terra." Marie interrupted, concealing herself with a hastily made up pseudonym. Well, Robin said that I would need one, so, I guess I'll stick with this… "I've read ALL about you in the papers…" Marie casually hinted towards Terra's rather infamous past.
"SEPIA?! I thought you said your name was—" Robin interrupted.
"Robin, this is her chosen nom de plume. Let her do as she desires." Raven said, catching on to Marie's suspicious actions.
"Yeah, I guess there's been a lot to read in the papers, hasn't there?!" Terra said rather defensively.
And enter Beast Boy, with his normal masculine stupidity, makes a remark that pierces the hearts of the three vinegar-girls. "You know, since Marie is a total stranger and is joining the Titans, why not let Terra have another go?"
"REALLY?!!!? That would be SO awesome!" Terra looked at Beast Boy as if she'd been Cupid's latest unfortunate victim.
"No…" Raven looked intently at the jocund blonde in deep disgust. "A total stranger would be more worthy of our trust than you."
"WHA-HUH?!" Terra was shocked.
Beast Boy looked as offended as she did. "Just let her stay, Raven! Let her have one more chance!"
Marie, alias Sepia was still a little lost at sea. She had read the papers, but was not familiar with the inside scoop. She listened closely to the argument between the group:
"We've been granting her chances ever since she joined us."
"Oh yeah? And what's so wrong with that? We gave YOU chances, Ra-ven!"
"I never betrayed the team."
"Oh really? What about your little tantrum with Dr. Light, huh? That's the same thing as assaulting an innocent citizen! You were joining the Dark Side, Raven!"
"Let's not get off topic, shall we? Terra still needs more time away from the team."
"In your OPINION! Heck no! She's staying here! Ask everyone else! I bet THEY'LL agree with me!" Beast Boy turned to an assortment of aphonic Titans. Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, and supposedly Terra were looking on with stunned faces. They had never seen Beast Boy like this. He was so…enraged…so…
Apparently, he would get no answer. And then, Beast Boy got a horribly brilliantly banefully indecent idea. He turned to Marie and asked in a deep, sepulchral voice, "What do YOU think?! Should she STAY, or no?"
Marie lost it. Beast Boy looked like a green devil. It was her responsibility to choose what would happen. Her heart was hammering madly inside her ribs. The shivers went up her spine like a thousand crawling, hairy arachnids. Her tired eyes were squinted in concentration. What should I do?! If I say no, who knows what Beast Boy will do to me?! If I say yes, will Terra be as bad as the media and Raven say she is?! Oh geez, what the hell?!
"YES!" The answer came out of her trembling mouth like a bullet.
The reaction was similar:
Raven was on the verge of blowing herself into smithereens.
Beast Boy had suddenly turned into a sea lion and was barking and clapping his hands madly in delight.
The other Titans were starting to slink out of their stupefaction.
And there was a sinister glow in Terra's eyes that was barely concealed by a satisfied smirk.
Robin shook his head to clear his thoughts. "I'll go renew your documents." He said, and jaunted off towards the filing room.
Starfire broke into a group hug and nearly choked Terra to death. "Oh! Joy be to us all! We have made so many moldy and ew friends this wondrous day!"
"I'll go and create a new profile for you, Terra." Cyborg said, excusing himself from another vice grip.
"And I shall wash this fetidness from myself!" Starfire left for the showers.
Raven melted into the shadows and slid gently away along the walls, leaving a gentle murmur in the breeze that blew in from the open door: Soon, Terra. Very Soon.
Marie was about to leave, when someone grabbed her arm. It was Terra. "Hey, Sepia you said your name was?"
"Yes."
"Beast Boy told me you're sleeping in the room at the end of the hallway. That's where I used to sleep, you know, and since I really didn't feel like going anywhere else, I sort of, well, moved in with you. So I guess we'll be kind of like roommates, huh? Oh, I also moved some stuff around. I know you won't mind!"
"Huh!? YOU MOVED MY STUFF?!" Marie was horrified. She started dashing up the stairs.
"Yeah, I KNOW that you'll just LOVE the way that I fixed it up! It'll be a lot more cozy now!"
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Marie nearly broke the door down in her haste. And what she saw made her feel as if the world had come to an end. Everywhere was PINK. Nothing but endless amounts of it! Pink wallpaper, pink bedcovers, pink furniture, pink carpet, pink curtains, pink, pink, PINK!!! And what was more…
"WHERE THE HELL IS MY STUFF!!!???" Marie glanced around the room. Terra had even gone so far as to replace her OWN bedspread with pink quilts and line a collection of fluffy pink toys along the puffy pink pillows that were stacked in front of a perky pink headrest…
Marie flipped the quilt to reveal…
"AUGH!!!" Pink sheets! And behind that…
"What in God's name—?!" was a pink mattress. Marie ran to the pink drawer and started uprooting the layers of pink thongs, she went to the closet and began tossing out the heaps of pink clothing, and she crawled under the bed and found that her suitcase had been replaced with a fluffy pink duffel bag.
Storming downstairs, Marie dumped the sheets, the quilt, the pillows, the toys, the clothes, the thongs, the duffel bag, even the mattress, ALL pink, on Terra's lap.
"WHERE-IN-THE-FUCKING-WORLD-IS-MY-STUFF?!"
Beast Boy and Cyborg leaned over and each snatched a thong from the pile of pinkiness.
"Oh! All THAT junk? I thought that was just trash…"
"WELL?"
"Well what?"
"Where IS it?!"
"Oh! I thought that you just meant to throw it out anyways. I'm sorry if I ruined something. I was only trying to help. It's outside by the dump…By the way, love the costume!" She remarked, oblivious as to what she had done.
Marie was starting to realize why this girl was to be detested so much. She was also starting to regret her rash decision to let the beast stay.
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A.N.: Muwahahahaaaaa!!! YES! TERRA HAS RETURNED!!!
And I know someone out there is at the moment cursing Marie for letting her stay with the Titans, but please DON'T! Bcuz, as u can c, she is starting to hate that evil blonde as faithfully as anyone for the room-make-over.
And for those of you Terra fans, plz do NOT kill me OR waste my precious Panamanian Cocoa Beans.
And to everyone whose favorite color is pink: Pink is okay, just not too much of it, or I would go crazy, as Marie did in reaction to her room.
And how the heck is Beast Boy just gonna let Terra stay like that? I mean, c'mon, people, it's not logical! But it's MY fic, so MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA to you, too!
More will be told later on! But for now my friends, I must bid thee farewell and take a chill pill. Good night! Don't let the bedbugs bite!
Peace out ppl.