The Adventures of the Teen Titans

I cannot believe I only got one review for the last chapter. I can't believe it. So (sighs) I'm going to give this another try. Okay? Here goes.

Chapter-Seven

Plane Ride----------------------------------

Alethea slept nearly the entire time she was on the plane, which wasn't hard because she was in first class and got the comfiest pillows and blankets. She woke up only to go to the bathroom and get water. Speedy and Robin had positioned themselves protectively next to her incase another fit occurred. Speedy chose the window seat while Robin took the aisle. Alethea was in the middle.

"So, what actually happened at the airport?" asked Speedy. They had been on the flight for almost two hours and had just been notified that their food would be arriving soon.

"I really have no clue. She fell asleep in one of the chairs and started talking about her mom and stuff. I think she misses them a lot. Anyways, then she started shaking and fell on the floor. I woke her up and she had no idea where she was. I told her that we were still at the airport and she said she had the weirdest dream. She was all clammy and stuff."

There was a pause.

"Do you think it was right?"

"What?"

"Asking her to join. Maybe she should have stayed with her family."

"I'm not sure. They sent her to that school after all, and look what happened. I just don't think something like that is right."

"Whatever man," Speedy concluded as a plate of steaming rice and gigantic helping of chicken teriyaki were placed in front of him. Along with a bubbly Coke.

"Alright!" he said enthusiastically, happy to have food that he was familiar with, considering he'd been living in Japan for three years, and jumped into his meal. Suddenly raving with hunger.

An outburst occurred behind them. They looked at each other.

"Ah! Get it away! Get it away!"

Robin, curious at what was happening in the row behind him, sat up in his seat and turned around. Beast Boy was positioned behind him and was waving his arms around in a fury. A considerably large steak was looming in front of him, almost smiling.

A flight attendant quickly rushed over.

"How can I help you, sir?"

"I ordered the vegetarian special! Not a steak!" he cried, scooting as far away as possible from it. He wasn't getting very far, because his chair was stopping him.

"I'm terribly sorry! I'll—"

"Take it away! Ewww!"

The row in front of him was comforting Cyborg, and he had a salad with a large side dish of tofu on his lap.

"Uhhh, Miss? I think you got their orders mixed up," Robin assisted from his kneeling in his seat position.

"Oh no! I'm so sorry gentleman!"

"Just...get...it....away!" yelled Beast Boy, breathing heavily in between words.

"Yes! Yes, of course," agreed the lady, absolutely flustered.

"Excuse me! Miss! Over here! MISS! EXCUSE ME!"

"What? Oh! Yes! I'm sorry! You too?"

"Please just take it from my sight," pleaded Cyborg.

"I apologize!" She gave Cyborg his steak and Beast Boy his tofu and peace was restored.

"Wow..." said Speedy. "They really don't like each others food choice do they?"

"Try living with them," said Robin as he dove into his meal.

Alethea's eyes fluttered, and then gently opened. The smell of Speedy's chicken teriyaki had stirred her senses and had woken her up. She found her self suddenly wanting food more than anything else at the moment. The sweet smell wafted up her nose as she sat up. Robin immediately left his food.

"How are you feeling?" he asked, concerned.

"Hungry," she said, eyeing Speedy's meal. He saw her checking out his food, and covered it protectively, mid-bite.

"No...way," he defended through a mouth of chicken.

"Oh, just a bite. Please," she pleaded, poking through the holes that his arms failed to cover the meal.

"No."

"Robin," she whined, making a puppy face and turning toward the boy wonder, "Tell him to let me have some."

Robin looked from Speedy to Alethea, then back to Speedy.

"Well, Speedy. Why don't you let her have some? She wasn't awake when we ordered, and I'm sure she's very hungry."

Speedy's jaw dropped in horror.

Alethea's smile brightened the row.

And Robin was immediately glad whose side he took.

"B-But—wh-what?!! Why can't she order her own?"

"Because dinner has already been served, that's why. And the cook doesn't make anymore meals after a certain time has passed. Just let her have some."

Alethea's mouth was watering profusely now, and she couldn't find the will power in her to tear her eyes away from the delicious, steamy, mouth-watering, cooked to perfection chicken! Speedy saw her savageness.

He "hmphed" stubbornly and gave Alethea some on a napkin. It was gone within ten seconds.

"Thank you," she offered smiled at Robin and he melted. Speedy went back to his meal.

"So when do the movies start?" she asked, settling down in her seat.

"Soon," he said.

"What movie?"

He grinned at her.

"Castaway."

She chuckled. "Sure know how to attract a crowd, don't they?"

There was a long pause.

"Hey," Robin said turning towards her in his seat and lying on his side. He had been contemplating on what Speedy said earlier. "Do you ever miss your parents?" he asked after hesitating a while.

She thought about it for a while.

"No."

This was not the answer he had been expecting.

"Why not?"

"Because they sent me away and never bothered to check on me and didn't really care when I came to live at Titans Tower and never had the guts to ask me anything about my life and they didn't like me because of my powers."

"I guess that's a good reason."

"I love 'em, don't get me wrong. But, after the way they've treated me, I find it kind of hard to forgive them." She messed with her blanket and didn't look at him.

"Could you ever find it in your heart to forgive them?"

She sighed. "Maybe with time, Robin. Maybe with time," she said as she hugged her pillow and legs.

"So tell me about your dream," he asked after a pause.

"Well, I was in this field. And everything was perfect. The grass surrounded me for miles and the sky was so blue and—" she sighed, "—it was just absolutely perfect. Then, I heard something and sat up, because I had already been lying down. I stood up and saw a house that hadn't been there before, because that's the kind of stuff that happens in dreams, you know."

He nodded. "Go on..."

"So then I start going towards it and my mom popped in out of nowhere. She said she missed me and stuff and I actually believed her. But, something was calling my name. And I was the only one who could hear it. Weird huh?"

"Yeah," he agreed in a daze.

"I asked her what that sound was and she was like "What?" "What are you talking about, sweetie," and things like that. Then it got really loud and I woke up."

"I think...it might have been me."

"What?"

"Me calling your name," he explained.

"Oh..." she thought about it for a moment, "Oh!" She smiled as though a light bulb had suddenly gone off above her head.

A pitter patter was heard on the top of the plane and slowly turned to a thundering drumline of doom; bass drums, snares, the works.

"It's raining," observed Robin.

"I gathered," giggled Alethea. Robin blushed and frantically looked for something to change the subject on.

"Hey, the movie's starting," he noted.

"Cool," she said and turned from looking out the window. She tapped Speedy who had been sleeping through the fury outside.

"Hey," she said gently, flicking his shoulder. His eyes/mask (A/N: God! I never know what to do with the masks! Someone help me!) opened.

"Cluck, cluck," he jested.

"Yuk it up, Speedo. The movie's starting."

"What is it?"

"Castaway. You know, with Tom—"

"I know who's in it," he said aggressively. The way it came out was extremely rude, but he continued, "I don't care."

She was taken aback by his defensiveness.

"I—I..."

"Leave me alone."

She fumbled for words as he went back to sleep. Robin had heard the entire thing and saw the look on her face.

"Alethea..."

"It's okay, Robin. I know why he's mad," she was angered. Suddenly, Speedy cried out in pain, waking up.

"What?" demanded Robin.

"I don't know. It just felt like a needle was stuck into my brain and swirled around!"

"That was a minor attack on your conscious. And you deserved every bit of it," she snapped and got up to go to the bathroom.

"Good job," said Robin.-------------------------------------------------

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