Prologue: Cyborg tiptoed into his room with a small green leather bound book. It was four in the morning and he had to get even with the little grass stain for getting Mikanna to write that program. (a/n read "holiday bliss" to understand, this might get posted before "Holiday Bliss") He opened it to the 4th page and stopped instantly. "No way, this is from last Friday." He whispered silently. This is what he saw:
"12-18-2004
My chest is hurting so bad I ain't sure I can hide it much longer. I almost threw up today but luckily Star thought I ate bad Tofu, I thought so until I coughed up some blood. My head's spinning and I think I'm gonna pass out or something. Now I know how Caesar Rodney felt after getting sick from riding his horse to warn the colonists about the Japanese bombing D.C. I think I'm gonna die but I don't wanna worry the guys, they can't find out."
Cyborg closed the journal and uttered a small "no" before setting it down to go to sleep, he woulda told Robin but he remembered "The Tournament of Champions" and felt Robin wouldn't believe him especially in the middle of the night. He lay down and powered down for the night.
"Dude leave me alone." BeastBoy yelled trying to fight Cyborg for the controller. "I was in the middle of a game!" they rolled around the floor fighting and Cyborg's hand slammed his hand into BeastBoy's chest. The boy's eyes squeezed shut and he managed to ignore the pain as Cyborg finally grabbed the controller. "Ow dude, steal my game?" He murmured coldly unconsciously swaying as he stood up.
"Well it was my turn and you took it."
"So didn't dude!" The boys argued for a few minutes and then BeastBoy had enough. "Look, you play really mean jokes on me, steal the controller, cheat, and you hit hard just leave me alone!" He ran from the room, his head spinning with Cyborg watching him out of the corner of his eye.
"I think you guys hafta know something." Said the tall cybernetic male pausing the game and turning to his fellow titans. "BeastBoy's been acting weird right? Well I think I found out why." Mikanna stopped mixing cookie dough for her "Santa cookies" she didn't believe in Santa but she liked mailing cookies to the post office so they could snack on them, she often made then look like Santa hence the title.
"I already knew he made me promise not to tell." She said quietly making the other titans stare at the dirty blond girl who was hugging herself like you'd hug a scare child. "When Monnako turned 5 he caught the same illness, Kuritheliomeosis, very hard to get but he somehow got it. Nobody knows how he survived but it should have killed him since his immune system's so weak." The girl's eyes flowed with tears and Starfire was at her side comforting her.
"What shall we do about our friend?" She asked trying not to show her fear. The tamaranean girl had heard about Kuritheliomeosis once, it was a very bad disease in which your lungs slowly fill with blood and liquid causing chest pain and coughing, Kuritheliomeosis also caused paranoia and schizophrenia and if someone caught it eight out of ten times someone would be in an insane asylum and they'd die, one out of ten would die and the other one would survive but possibly become comatose. Kuritheliomeosis could destroy internal organs or slowly destroy someone's brain until vegetation, and worse do all these things at once.
"First find out which of the three types he has, lungs, brain, or organ depletion." Raven said trying to explain and point out that it wouldn't be easy at the same time. "The fluids that build up in a person's lungs turns them to mush." She said slowly. It seemed kind of random but it made sense, Mikanna couldn't stand talking about the illness anymore and fled the room only to run into BeastBoy outside the room.
"You promised." He whispered weakly holding his chest. He was swaying more now than right after the fight. "I'm not feeling too well-I think I'm gonna pass out now." He said falling into her so his head was between the girl's breasts.
"Uh guys?" Mikanna yelled. "He's fainted!" She yelled a little louder, nothing. Taking him in her arms, something she hadn't done since a little under a year earlier, she carried him to the infirmary. "Please just be alright." Mikanna whispered remembering her little brother when he was this ill.
It's three years earlier and a ten year old Mikanna watches her brother sleep. He had been sleeping for almost a whole day and Mikanna was starting to worry. "Daddy is Monnako gonna be OK?" the younger Mikanna asks. Her father chuckles and sighs.
"I don't know Mikanna, I honestly don't know." He says as a doctor comes in to check on Monnako. After a few minutes he smiles.
"He's cured somehow and now his body's recuperating." The doctor says leaving after giving Mikanna a candy cane. "Merry Christmas Mikanna."
"Hey Mikanna wake up." Mikanna blinked, she had fallen asleep thinking about her brother. "We gotta go; Dr.Light's robbing a jewelry store." Robin said leaving. "Stay by him." He called disappearing and Mikanna looked at her love. His face was covered in cold sweat and his breathing was weak, like Monnako's when he was ill. 'Hang on, like Monnako's when-' Mikanna thought to herself. Grabbing a phone she called her home, her step-mother picked up.
"Hey Jessica, when Monnako had Kuritheliomeosis what type was it?" The girl asked quickly, Jessica paused a moment remembering.
"Lung depletion, why?" She replied.
"No time, gotta go Jessica." Mikanna said hanging up, she wrote down all symptoms of type 2 Kuritheliomeosis which included fainting, chest pain, coughing, nausea, cold sweat, and shortness of breath. Finishing Mikanna sat next to her boyfriend holding one of his gloved hands.
"Hey, sorry I scared everyone. I didn't want them to worry." Mikanna heard BeastBoy whisper weakly.
"Save your breath, I have an idea but I need the others to get back, they went after Dr.Light." Mikanna said gently. "Just hang on."
"I can't Mikanna, my mother's calling to me and my father, and they died when I was very little." He whispered as his eyes started to droop and his heart rate slowed to a crawl. They were trying to stay open but God was pulling him away.
"No, try to stay awake please, please BeastBoy I need you, the titans need you, the city needs you-" Mikanna stopped when his eyes shut and his heart stopped. "No, no no no…It can't be, BeastBoy stay with me, stay with me please…please don't be gone..." Mikanna screamed starting to shake him; tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes. Robin saw her and grabbed her.
"Stop Mikanna!"
"Get off of me! He's dead, he just died let me go!" Mikanna screamed crying and her words stunned them all. Robin released her and the sad girl fell onto her knees crying. Raven went to him and studied him. Robin looked to her and the Goth shook her head.
"Nothing we can do Robin, he's gone and that's all there is to it." Mikanna stood up and held into BeastBoy for the last time.
"I was too late, I couldn't save you, I'm sorry."
It was a large funeral and practically the whole city came it was a sea of black with tears from pretty much everyone. Mikanna was crying the most and nothing could have stopped her from trying to save him. Her millionaire neighbors had erected an extravagant grave marker in his honor with this engraved upon it:
"He was the best friend a person could have, he always loved and he liked almost everyone. People broke his heart which broke his soul. This boy was a good human being who loved his friends and would never turn his back on them completely. God save this boy and let him live in your heavenly embrace with his family for all eternity."
The priest finished his words and Mikanna stepped forth with a single rose, a black magic rose to be exact, her favorite and the kind he had given her on their first date. "Oh God BeastBoy you had a good life and it shouldn't have ended so soon, I was too late, I couldn't help you." She turned away after placing the rose on the grave next to a small horn-like device, incase it was just a coma that had death like characteristics and he awoke. Robin held her and Starfire as Cyborg said his final words, they all took turns and when the funeral was over the only one left was Mikanna. "I wish you were here with me, I don't know if I can go on without you." She whispered softly holding her special necklace. She removed it and buried it just under the dirt's surface. "So I'm always with you." She left the grave and looking back to the grave marker pulled out a pad and pencil.
BeastBoy's spirit lingered by the one he loved for the duration of the funeral and a little while after. He whispered her name into the wind and a last message to her. "Mikanna, never give up on life, please don't just because of this. I'd never forgive myself." His last words before he was swept up into heaven played across the wind and into Mikanna's ears, the girl turned and smiled. The weight had started to lift off her heart and she started to feel love.
"I won't BeastBoy, I promise." Mikanna replied and up in heaven she knew BeastBoy was smiling down on her.