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Chapter 2: The Girl of my Nightmares
Beast Boy tossed in his bed, muttering to himself. He tossed and turned around, unaware of his actions due to his sleep. The uncontrollable mutter he was saying was in a broken up sentence that sounded like," No…please…Terra…. Don't…No!" As soon as he yelled that, he jolted up quickly in bead, panting heavily. He looked around, as if expecting something. But, he saw nothing. Just his room and the way he left it. Discarded wrappers dirty clothing, and moldy food items dotted the floor. "Everything's the same," he reassured himself," as always."
He slowly got out of his bed and moved across the floor. He opened the door quietly as to not wake the others and dragged himself over to the bathroom. He then moved in front of a door to his side and then stopped. The name said "Specter", but before it became his room. It was another's room. Someone special. Someone dear to his heart. He felt his heart start to fill with depression and walked away before he was consumed by it. As he entered the bathroom, he walked up to the mirror and looked at his facial features. It had been three years since Blood had fallen and here he was; eighteen and still good looking, in his opinion. "Hey there." He said to his sweet drenched reflection staring back at him. HE turned on the sink and let the water run on his hands. He then splashed some of it on his face, the cool water feeling refreshing. As he wiped his face, the dream then once again tried to rear its ugly head back in, but he blocked it out and headed back to bed.
As he once again passed by the door he stopped in front of originally, it opened. Out of it stepped Specter. He was wearing a robe and his mask was off, revealing his black hair and blue eyes. "BB," he said with a yawn," its three AM. What are you doing up?" "I couldn't sleep. I'm heading back now." BB replied. He then noticed a red mark on Specter's neck and asked," Hey, what's that?" Specter covered the mark and said," Nothing." Bb then heard a low murmur from the inside and then asked," Is Raven in there with you?" "Maybe." He said. "Whatever." Bb said as he walked down the hall, hearing Specter's door close behind him. He went back into his room and said at the foot of his bed.
He couldn't sleep, so he just started to think. His mind then thought back to all that had happen three years ago. The team had experienced many events. Slade's death, Trigon's fall, the coming of the sorcerer Malvento, the destruction of HIVE and Blood, and the Red X incident that had happened a month ago. Then came the passing of three years. Himself, Specter and Robin were eighteen; Starfire was seventeen along with Raven and Cyborg, although he never could have his body grow beyond what it was he would be nineteen. The Titans had been relatively slow in the years, either taking down crime bosses or nutcases like Dr. Light. But, even if crime had been cleaned up, they were still good friends.
But, there was just one thing he was jealous of. One thing he wanted despised. They weren't alone. Well, they had friends, except it was different. He wanted someone to love him. He watched how everyone was having a good relationship. He did felt feelings for Raven, but now she loved Specter. Robin was now with Starfire (what a surprise), and Cyborg, even though his relationships most likely didn't last more then three months, had at least found love many times. But for BB, it had been a failure. He could never find the perfect girl. Not since Terra. His body shivered with the thought of her. Her carefree personality, her beauty, and how the two loved each other. But, she became Slade's apprentice and tried to kill the team. She then rebelled against him, but it nearly killed her. She was turned into a statue and the team would search for a cure. Of course, that would soon begin the beginning of his terrible dreams. Some guy came into the cave with Jinx and just destroyed the statue. He tried to fight the killer, but Jinx had delayed this. BB felt deep hatred for the mysterious person and wanted to kill him, but would Terra like that? He laughed softly at thinking of how a dead person would of felt. But then he slowly started to sop at thinking of this, and soon the nightmare replayed in his head.
For the past three years, he covered up the dream as it would play through his mind on and off again. He hid the pain he felt behind his humor, but that didn't help him a lot. BB never mentioned the dream as to not worry his friends. All in all, that damned nightmare was the reason he could never fully get rid of his pain. He could play the dream in his head like a record, even if he wasn't sleeping. He starts off in the dream in a long passageway. He hears "Beast Boy!" being yelled down the hallway by a familiar voice. He runs down the passage, following the familiar sounding cries. He reaches the end and there his dream becomes even worse. He comes into the familiar cavern where a bottomless hole resides there. In the center there is a rock platform accessible via a walkway. At the end he sees Terra, but she is human and in the Slade outfit. She continues to call his name. He tells her to run, but as she tries, the suit shocks her and freezes her body in place. With her body immobile, he tries to run across the runway, but it blows up, the destroyed pieces falling into the abyss. Out of nowhere a man in a Slade mask and wearing the same clothes as the person who killed Terra comes next to her. He raises his fist as she yells, "Beast Boy! You have to save me!" He then watches as the fist comes straight down on her head, which he the part when he wakes up with a jolt.
He wiped his eyes in his bed spread as tears started to form on them. He missed he so much. BB hated himself for falling to save her twice. There was also the pain felt at not telling her how he felt. How much she meant to him. BB just wanted to see her here with him and say, "I love you." That day would probably never come. He looked over at his bedside clock and realized it was six o'clock in the morning. "Never thought I waste that much time thinking instead of sleeping." He joked. He then got up and put on a new costume and a green hoody, deciding on talking a morning walk in the city. BB quietly left his room, made it to the rooftop, transformed into a bird and flew over to the city.
The day was coming early as the sun was slowly rising over the horizon. The lights of the buildings that had once illuminated it at night were now being shut off. The streets were quiet, the only sound of passing cars. Some joggers dotted the streets, but everyone else was either sleeping or had gotten to their jobs early. Beast Boy like how the street was quiet this way, before the rush. He walked the streets of the city, his hood over his head and his hands in the pockets of the hoody, admiring the serene peace the city was at. As he turned a corner, he then realized that he wasn't paying attention it where he was going. He then noticed the street that he was on. He started to walk quicker down the street. His walk then turned to a jog, which then turned into a run. He ran down two blocks and up an incline, his pace quickening as he got to the park and then to another hill. He looked as though he wanted to go to where he was going. He then finally got to where he wanted. On the hillside was a jutting out platform made of concrete. On the platform was a park bench and a two trees behind it. BB walked down to the tree and leaned against it, looked out at the city that lay before him. He then looked around, as though he was expecting someone. "What am I doing here?" Bb asked himself as he realized what he was doing. "And why did I come back here anyway?"
He never wanted to come back here. It was just another hurtful memory. He had brought Terra here to this one spot, to show here the city at daybreak. They sat next to each other and saw the sun's rays hit the rooftops of the buildings. How the lights of the buildings seemed to go off all at once. At that moment, he turned his head towards Terra and had really noticed Terra then. The wind blowing her blond hair. Her deep eyes looking with wonder at what was before them. He lips curling into a smile. He had wanted to tell her his feelings, to hear how she felt about him, to have her, to kiss her. But, he missed the chance. And now, here he was, lonely and he missed the chance. The sun was now halfway over the horizon and the area was now covered in light. "Better head home." He said as he turned around and walked a few feet forward. But just then, a shadow stretched in front of him. He looked at it, and realized it to be in the figure of a person hovering on something. "It can't be." He said as he turned around. There, on a rock slap, with her blond hair blowing behind her, her eyes coolly looking at BB, and her hands on her hips, was Terra.
Is Terra really back? Find out in Chapter 3!