Beast Boy came into living room in the Titans Tower and threw himself on the sofa. Cyborg, who saw TV, moved a little to make room for his friend.
"Hard day?"
Beast Boy closed his eyes and sighted.
"You can't even imagine it. I have tried to baby-sit before, but that kid…"
He sat up and looked Cyborg right into the eyes.
"Did you know, that her parents calls her "Angel"?"
Cyborg smiled.
"Now you know how it is to baby-sit you."
"That WASN'T funny!!"
"Sorry."
Beast Boy felt back on the sofa again.
"That's okay, how was your day?"
Cyborg smiled sincerely.
"My friend, Murdock, has agreed to give me a job. He also want to give some money as a donation to the home."
"Nice, have you heard anything about how Starfire is doing."
"Yeah, she left an hour ago. It was something about…"
He was interrupted by a cry from the front door.
"BEAST BOY!!!!"
It was Raven.
The door to the living room blew up shortly after and revealed her. She wasn't dressed in her normal outfit, but in a half torn elf-dress with all kin of weird stains on it.
Things began to fly around her.
She wanted to say something, but couldn't, so she just went over to Beast Boy and slap his face. As he saw a little tear in her eye all his own problems disappeared. She ran out of the room and he went after her.
"Raven stop!"
He reached her on the top of the staircase.
"I'm sorry!"
She stopped and turned around to face him.
"Why? Why did you do it?"
He moved a step closer to her and tried to take her hand. She moved back, but had forgot were she was. Beast Boy tried to reach out after her, but couldn't reach her. She felt down the stairs.
Beast Boy heart stopped as he saw the girl fall down the stairs. It was just seconds, but it felt like hours. With a loud bump landed she on the floor and didn't move.
He ran down to her and with shaking hands he pushed the hair away from her face. She moved.
"Raven…"
She opened her eyes. He could see the pain in them.
"My back…is hurts!"
"Shall I get Cyborg?"
She shook her head lightly.
"Just take me to my room…"
She looked away.
"…I can't use my powers."
He lifted her up careful after making sure nothing serious was wrong with her back, and carried her to her room. He laid her down on the bed.
"I will get Cyborg now, so he can take care of you."
He turned around, but stopped.
"Raven, I'm so sorry."
He opened the door and was about to go, when he heard it.
"Don't leave!"
He turned towards her and saw her pleading eyes.
"What about…"
"I can heal myself. Please don't leave!"
She reached a hand out after him. He could see how much pain it cost her, so he quickly went over to her.
"I so sorry. It was a bad joke. I should never…"
The tears in her eyes stopped him. He sat down on the bed and comforted her. Around them things began to fly around and exposed, but they didn't notice it.
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Mrs. Williams was washing the floor in the hall, when she heard the front door being opened. She looked up and saw it was Jake.
"Hi, shouldn't you be working on the play?"
He nodded and began to walk over to the stairs.
"Jake, is something wrong?"
He shrugged his shoulders.
"Just one of my headaches."
He walked up the stairs and disappeared.
Back in the hall stood Mrs. Williams. She began to work again, but over and over her thoughts landed on what had happened last night. Jake had told about his dream and his fears of never remembering.
He was always there for the others, but he didn't allow himself to feel, which wasn't good in the long time. She knew form herself that the feelings just didn't disappear, but gather up as a big lump in the heart. In the end would the lump just expose and all the feeling would come out.
That had almost happened last night for Jake, but still he had held it back. She knew it would have been better if he just had let go. In that way reminded Jake her so much about Ethan. He had been about the same age as Jake, when the accident happened…
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"Hey, isn't that I new girl?"
The owner nodded.
"She came in today and asked for the job. I just had to give her the job."
The other man smiled.
"I understand why, but isn't she very young?"
The owner shrugged his shoulders.
"She is an alien, so it not like the she moves by the same rules as us. Besides look how good it is for the sale."
He looked proudly out on the full bar.
"It hadn't been so full for weeks."
"No, not since you fire Bet…"
A gesture from the owner made him silence.
"Don't ever say her name again or…"
He was interrupted some problems over by the bar disk. A man had had a little too much to drink and wanted to have some fun with Starfire. The owner's friend was about walked over to help her, but the owner stopped him.
"Wait, I want to see how she deal with this."
Back up by the disk tried Starfire to talk some sense into the man, but it didn't work. He jumped over the disk and tried to touch her, but a star bolt stopped him.
The owner dropped back in his seat with a smile.
"What a girl!"