A/N: HEY GUYS! SCHOOL'S OUT! I'm sad and happy..anyway...I must say THANK YOU BIG TIME to Sakura of the Nin..something...lol! MUCH LOVE to you! Okay anyway CHAPTER 3! More reviews needed, people. P.S. I don't remember everything that is on the obstacle course, sooo I kinda made somethings up ; And I may kinda actually skip over most of that part since I'm not good at thinkin this stuff up...sorry guys!
Chapter 3: Training and a Mission.
Christine sobbed as quietly as she could so no one would hear, but she knew that Starfire knew. Sure enough, seconds later, there was a gentle knock on the door.
"Christine? It is I, Starfire," Starfire's kind voice said.
"It's your room, come on in," Christine said. Starfire came in and sat on the bed next to Christine. "So," she said. Christine started sobbing again.
"I didn't realize I liked him until he said my eyes were dark red and I felt it inside of me. Oh, God.." she said, wiping her eyes the best she could. Starfire hugged her.
"Do not be cast down, my friend. Beast Boy and Terra's relationship should not last long if it is like last year," Starfire said. Christine smiled.
"Thanks. Am I going to have training today? It doesn't seem right for me to stay any longer if I'm not a member," she said, wanting to change the topic badly. Starfire nodded.
"You can try out the obstacle course," she said, "But first dry your eyes and let us go down stairs to converse with our friends." Christine took a few seconds to wipe her eyes with tissues and she concentrated her mind on happy things.
"Are my eyes hazel?" she asked Starfire. She nodded and smiled. "Great, let's go."
When they got downstairs, Cyborg and Beast Boy were playing a video game and Terra was cheering for Beast Boy. Christine felt anger welling up inside her, but she suppressed it, forcing herself to think of something happy. Robin sat on a chair nearby, watching in slight amusement. Raven was nowhere to be seen.
"Robin, should we allow Christine to try out the obstacle course?" Starfire asked. Robin stood up and nodded.
"If she wants to try and become a member, definitely," he said. Beast Boy and Cyborg finished their game and they called Raven down. They all made their way to the obstacle course and took their places to watch. Christine focused her mind and readied herself.
"You ready?" Robin called. Christine took a second to breathe, then nodded. "Go!"
The first thing was a bunch of flying disks. She ran forward and used one hand to blow all the disks coming at her in a certain direction and used the other hand to conjure up balls of water and blasted the disks with them. She quickly got through this stage of the course and ran to the next one. Four huge gate-type things opened and closed very quickly. She threw one hand up and used her wind powers to blow it back up, and did that with the other three. She completed that part quickly. She ran forward quickly to complete the last part...
"You totally dominated out there!" Beast Boy said, high fiving Christine as she walked towards them after completing the obstacle course. Christine grinned.
"You really think so?" she asked cheerfully, her eyes glowing a golden color. They all nodded.
"I'll go get you a communicator," Robin said when they entered the main living room near the top floor. He turned and went back downstairs. Raven went to her room, Starfire started cooking a celebratory lunch, Cyborg and Beast Boy became immersed in a video game, and Terra was in her room writing or something. Christine sat by Beast Boy on the couch and cheered for both of them. Cyborg actually lost, much to Beast Boy's delighted shock.
"Hey let me play!" Christine said, snatching the controller from Cyborg. Cyborg blinked a few times but didn't say anything. Beast Boy and Christine started a new race and tried to run each other off the road. Christine covered Beast Boy's eyes with one hand and steered with the other.
"Hey! Stop it! No fair!" Beast Boy yelled, scrabbling at her hand. He pulled it free and said, "I wonder if you're...TICKLISH!!!!!" He poked her in the side and she leaped almost halfway across the couch, almost into Cyborg,who stood up quickly.
"Beast Boy! Ahhh!!! No!!!!!!" she yelled. Beast Boy paused the game and tickled her sides relentlessly. Christine screamed in laughter and slight discomfort, and Cyborg laughing hysterically.
"Get off! Get off!" she yelled, pushing on his chest to get him off her (she was on her back on the couch and he was on top of her tickling her). "Stop! Stop stop!!!" she yelled. "I give up! You win! Get off!" she yelled. Laughing, Beast Boy sat up and grabbed the controller. "Geez, now my sides hurt you little twerp," she said. He unpaused the game and Christine beat him.
"Oh come on that's not even right!" Beast Boy said, shocked.
"Yes it is, that's what you get for tickling me," she said. Beast Boy frowned.
"Still not fair," he said.
"Yes it is," she said. "You just wish you had my skills."
"Oh, that's it. I DEMAND A REMATCH!" Beast Boy said angrily.
"Anytime, anywhere!" Christine said. She leaped onto the couch and they started a new game. Christine grinned at him and he took notice that her eyes were a delicate mixture of pink and yellow.
"You are seriously going to have to make me a list or something because your eyes confuse me. What's yellow and pink mean?" he asked.
"Yellow means humourous or mischevious and pink means-" She stopped short. The yellow disappeared and was replaced with all-too-familiar orange, but the pink lingered still.
"Uh....Christine?" he asked.
"Be right back," she said softly, running to the elevator and punching the button for the roof as hard as she could.
Robin walked back into the living room with Christine's new communicator. Terra and Raven were nowhere to be seen, but Starfire was cooking something that actually smelt good, Cyborg was playing a one player game on the Gamestation, and Beast Boy was sitting by himself in a chair not bothering anyone...Robin did a double take. Beast Boy not doing anything??? Wow.
"Hey Beast Boy, what's the matter?" he said, walking over to him. "Have you seen Christine?" Beast Boy nodded.
"Nothing, yes, elevator," he said absent mindedly. Robin gave him a curious look, but Beast Boy just waved him away. Robin searched most of the tower but couldn't find her.
"Try the roof," Raven's voice said behind him as he looked in the training room. He jumped in surprise.
"How do you know?" he asked.
"That's where I always go when I'm upset. I can tell, she's upset," Raven said. Robin thanked Raven, then ran to the elevator and punched the button for the roof. When he got up there he saw Christine sitting with her legs dangling over the edge of the roof, her arms on the railing, her head on her arms. She was crying.
"Christine?" Robin said softly, walking up behind her.
"Robin, what are you doing up here?" Christine asked shakily, trying to dry her tears before he could see them, but failing.
"Well I came to give you your new communicator, but it looks like I'll have to be a counsler instead," he said jokingly, sitting down beside her. "So what's wrong?" He looked at her and could see her eyes were an odd mixture of dark blue, dark red, black, and pink. "I've never seen your eyes so many colors before."
"That's the whole problem," she said. "My eyes tell everyone what I'm feeling, even if I don't want them to know. It's like your giving away your own secrets and putting your emotions on display for the whole damn world to see. I can't even keep my own secrets," she said. "And before you ask, dark blue is sadness, dark red is rejection, black is hate, and pink is romantic feelings." Robin blinked and decided that it would be in his best interest not to ask what..or who..caused her to feel all those things.
"Hmm..I can kind of understand what you mean, not being able to keep a secret because your emotions are out on display. That can't be too much fun. Why are you feeling so many emotions right now though?" he asked. Christine sighed.
"It's really confusing," she said simply. Robin thought a moment.
"Does this have anything to do with why Beast Boy was acting so upset in the game room?" he asked suddenly. Christine stood up quickly.
"He was upset?" she asked. "Thanks for the communicator gotta run bye!" she said, taking the communicator and running down the stairs. Robin sweat dropped (A/N: I hate using that word, but there's really no other way to say it.) then walked back downstairs slowly, wondering if he had helped at all.
Terra watched angrily from behind the wall at Beast Boy and Christine's tickle fight.
"That's my boyfriend, not hers!" she thought, anger pulsing through her body. As much as she thought Christine was a nice enough person, she couldn't help but be happy when she jumped up and ran off suddenly.
"Beast Boy?" Terra said, coming into the room. Beast Boy blinked at Terra, still feeling somewhat shocked and confused by Christine's sudden exit.
"Yeah?" he said.
"Do you like Christine?" she asked. They were both somewhat shocked by the question. Terra hadn't meant to ask it, but it had been weighing heavily on her mind, and the tickle fight just seemed to increase her suspicions. Beast Boy looked up at her and tried not to let his uncertainty show.
"No, you're my girlfriend, I couldn't," he said. Terra smiled.
"That's good," she said. She walked out. "Maybe he's telling the truth. Maybe I'm just paranoid," Terra thought.
Beast Boy sighed and flopped onto the nearest chair. Robin came in and asked him about Christine's location and Beast Boy told him without really thinking.
"Okay...Terra doesn't seem to trust me, I like Terra, and I think I like Christine. What the heck??" Beast Boy thought. "I can't possibly like both of them, because that'd just make more confusion! Or something...dude, now I'm really confused, and I'm not even talking to someone who confuses me!" Beast Boy sighed and looked over at Cyborg playing his one player game. Beast Boy got up and went to his room to think some more.
"And why do her eyes change so much? I mean, dude, how often can a girl change moods? Maybe it's just PMS like she said. But then again maybe she's confused about something to, or is just bipolar. Hmm...I want to know what the colors mean. But how? Maybe I can convince her to make me a copy of that list. Or-" Suddenly the alarm went off, and he ran to the main control room. He saw Robin standing there with Starfire beside him. Cyborg, Raven, and Terra came in seconds later, followed by Christine.
"Slade," Robin said. "Christine, do you think you can come with us? You only just passed the test, so if you don't feel ready-"
"I'll be fine," she said, cutting him off. Beast Boy felt Terra take his hand and she smiled at him. He smiled back, though right now he didn't feel like being lovey-dovey or anything with her, nor did he really feel like going on a mission.
"Come on guys, let's go!" Robin yelled, and they all ran out of the building.
"Hey Beast Boy?" Christine said as they approached the warehouse.
"Yeah?"
"I was just wondering....why were you upset when I left?" She asked the question softly so that Terra wouldn't hear.
"Because I thought I had ticked you off or something...I didn't know what I had done."
"Oh, well...just know, it wasn't your fault," she said smiling. Beast Boy grinned.
"For once."
They reached an abandoned warehouse. "It is very silent in this building," Starfire said uneasily. Suddenly they were surrounded by Slade's minions.
"Titans, Go!" Robin yelled, and they all charged at one. Christine noticed a puddle of water on the ground.
"It's small, but it'll do," she thought. She faced the puddle and lifted her arms, concentrating as hard as she could. She conjured up more water, added it to the puddle, and flooded the villians in front of her. Once they were on the ground she started attacking them physically. Elsewhere, Beast Boy was transforming into a rhino and smashing Slade's followers into walls and destroying them. He looked over at Christine, then Terra.
"Beast Boy, watch it!" Christine yelled suddenly, creating a huge gust of wind and blowing one of Slade's robots into a wall. Beast Boy spun around. He nodded his thanks, glad that rhinos couldn't blush.
"Stupid, that was stupid, stupid, concentrate!" he told himself. Raven was nearby, chanting and blowing up the robots. Terra was near Raven, and Beast Boy feared for her; if she lost control of her powers again...thankfully she didn't get a chance to,because suddenly the robots ran off.
"What the...?" Robin said.
"Slade," Cyborg said. They saw a dark figure standing above them on the rafters.
"I was hoping you would come," he said. Christine gasped suddenly and everyone stared at her. Her eyes were orange again. Wondering how she could be scared of Slade when she had just met him, they all turned back to Slade. He jumped down to them.
"Ah yes. Christine," he said, smiling and walking over to her. She backed up, the orange turning into a fiery red.
"Get away from me," she said.
"Even more fiesty than before. Hmm. I suppose I shall have to reconsider my plans for you," he said. Everyone was staring at Christine now, instead of Slade. They turned back, and he was gone.
Nobody bothered Christine when they reached the tower. Robin and Raven suspected she had gone to the roof again. Beast Boy and Terra were sitting on the couch holding hands. Robin was in his room when he heard a knock on the door.
"Come in," he said.
"It is I, Starfire," she said, walking in.
"Hey Star, what is it?" he said, sitting up on the edge of his bed and smiling. She walked over and sat beside him.
"Well, I wanted to ask you..why is it exactly that you do not wish to be my boyfriend?" They both turned pink, and Robin sighed.
"It's not that I don't want to, it's...well...I've always wondered, what if someone else started liking you or something, and-"
"You cannot possibly think I would be unfaithful to you, Robin!" Starfire cried before he could finish. Robin shrugged. Starfire gasped. "I would never do that!"
"Really? How can you be so sure?"
"Because, Robin, I really like you a lot and could never even look at another boy!" Robin blinked.
"I really like you a lot, too, Starfire."
"Then why will you not be my boyfriend? I've tried the flirting and the hinting, but you would not accept the hinting or the flirting!"
"It's not that I didn't get it..it's..I guess I was just scared. I don't know."
"Well Robin, I don't know how you could be scared of me or anything about me, but I would like to extend to you and offer to be my boyfriend," she said. Robin stared at her, then smiled.
"Sure."
Raven sat in her room, meditating. She knew Christine needed help controlling her emotions..but Raven wasn't exactly the social type.
"So how do I help her without destroying my reputation?" Raven thought. She decided to just go see her. She walked up to the roof and, sure enough, there was Christine. This time she was sitting on the railing, looking over the water at the sunset.
"Christine?" Raven said, walking up to her. "Can I help you with anything?" Christine sighed and shook her head.
"No, Raven, but thank you." Raven sat beside her.
"You know, we both have a pretty screwed up past involving our fathers. And we both have emotionally controlled powers. You can pretty much tell me anything if you wanted to," Raven said. Christine stared at her a moment.
"I thought you were the anti social one," Christine said, closing her eyes and smiling into the soft breeze that was blowing.
"I am. I just figured that maybe if you wanted to talk you could since we're so alike," Raven said. "I've never met anyone remotely like me before."
"Me either." They were silent for a moment.
"If you want help controlling your emotions, come see me," Raven said, hopping off the railing.
"Thanks, Raven."
"Anytime." Raven smiled, then walked downstairs. Christine continued looking out over the sunset, absorbed in thought.
A/N: Hey! Another chapter down...heh. I continually mean to add more but can't think of how to do it so I cut the chapters short. But, that means more chapters! lol, whatcha think of that? I'm thinking of adding a chapter where they get together and have a huge party and play truth or dare and fun games like that...mwuhaha. I also have an idea where the Teen Titans go on a road trip, but that's a whole other fanfic! lol, well any ideas and ya'll can just email me! Much love!