Heart of Stone: Chapter III
Cyborg, Raven, Robin and Starfire were back at the tower, still worried about Beast Boy. None of them were having any luck finding him.
"Maybe the human we asked was right, but just mistaken about his location," said Starfire, worried.
"No, if he really were, we would've found him. We searched the entire city, and at least all the streets!" said Robin, still not giving up hope.
"Hold up!" said Cyborg, realizing something. "He was depressed because of Terra before he left. And the one place that we didn't check should have been the most obvious place."
"Right!" said Robin, understanding what Cyborg was hinting at.
Just as they began to leave, the door opened, revealing Beast Boy, looking happier than he had been in a long time.
"Good evening! Titans and moody Ravens-"
Raven: ¬¬;
"Please give a huge 'welcome back' to the newest member of our team!"
"TERRA!" yelled Starfire excitedly as Terra walked in behind Beast Boy. Starfire embraced her in a hug with the capability of suffocating.
"Nice to see you again too, Starfire "
"Good to have you back, kid," said Cyborg warmly.
"Welcome back, Terra," said Robin, smiling.
"Welcome back," said Raven in her normal, monotonous voice.
"I missed you all too," she said, struggling through Starfire's deadly hug of doom. (hmmmm… speaking of which, Katsucon is coming up soon, I should practice those )
"How'd you do it, Beastboy?" Cyborg asked Beast Boy
"Yes, inform us. Have you sold your soul to who the earthlings call 'The Devil'?" Starfire asked after realizing Terra from the hug of insanity.
"No, not to the devil anyway," he said, trying to act as if he were only joking. Laughing, he added on, "I just made a copy from paint and toothpicks!"
"I do not understand, how can she be so realistic-" Starfire began but was interrupted by Raven:
"He was joking- or attempting to anyway."
"Beast Boy hasn't been this annoying since before you left," Cyborg said to Terra. "So we missed you both."
Beast Boy: ¬¬;
"After two and a half years, you must be tired," Beast Boy said to her, trying to get a chance to be alone with her.
"Not really-" but Beast Boy was leading her to her room which was exactly the same way it had been before she left.
"Never really got a chance to clean it after you left, and after… the incident, I couldn't bear to touch it…." he said, but Terra was already asleep, despite what she said before. (sleep is hypnotizing ) Beast Boy knelt next to her and kissed her softly. As he got up and began to left, he realized that he had left the door open and the others were waiting for him. Embarrassed, he continued to walk towards them.
"I saw that!" teased Cyborg, causing Beast Boy to blush. "How cute, the green really contrasts with the red nicely!"
Ignoring him, Robin said, "I think it's about time you tell us how."
"You mean the toothpick story wasn't good enough?" he responded innocently, receiving glares from his other team mates. "Well, I met this healer, Garnet-"
"What! That woman is still alive?" asked Raven, actually showing both fear and anger in her voice. "AND you made a deal with her?"
"Uh, yeah," he responded, noticing Raven glaring at him. "Was that not a good idea?" She lunged at him as if ready to strangle him, but was held back by Robin, Cyborg and Starfire.
"Raven, calm down!" said Robin.
"Yeah, whatever happened to 'cool, collected' Raven?" Cyborg added on.
"What's so wrong with her? It can't be that bad, and I was willing to do anything to save Terra."
"Yes, at least we have our old friend back," said Starfire in an other attempt to calm down Raven.
"Fine, but if we get a little visit from a self righteous 'healer' witch, we know who to point fingers at."
When Terra finally woke up, it was five in the morning. She just gazed out the window at the city. It was back to normal, like it had been before Slade had controlled it…
She glanced at herself in the mirror. She was still wearing the suit Slade had given her, the one he had used to control her every move, even as far as to try to kill Beast Boy…. If only she could actually take it off and remove all memories of that time…. But maybe, just maybe… Terra tried to take it off.
"Success!" she said in a whisper-shout. (yes, that's a word now )
She looked around and found her old uniform lying around and so she put it on. She heard a knock at the door and went to open it.
"Hi, Raven," she said somewhat uneasily; they never really got along, and she had been harshest towards her when they fought, or almost as harsh as she had been to Beast Boy, but that was just because it was more emotional. "You're up kind of early, aren't you?"
"Listen, Terra. I'm sorry for anything I might have said."
"It's ok, I'm sorry too, for everything I did." There was a couple second pause, then Terra hugged Raven. Her eyes went wide in shock; she wasn't really the hugging sort, but decided to just let it go, it was certainly better than trying to kill them. "I missed you," said Terra.
"And thanks, for what you did back then," Raven said and left.
Terra closed the door and lied back down. She still felt extremely guilty. She betrayed them, tried to kill them, and allowed Slade to make her kill Beast Boy and he had almost succeeded. She felt horrible, after all, she wouldn't have forgiven herself if she were one of them. Forgiveness, although it was the best feeling in the world, it was also the most painful.
After about an hour later, she decided it would be better to walk around instead of just thinking about it. And she needed to look for her green bundle of funniness: Beast Boy. As soon as she left her room, she was knocked to the floor by a green dog who greeted her by licking her face.
"Hi Beast Boy," she said cheerfully as he transformed back into his human form.
"How about a kiss for your knight in green skin?" he said, raising his eyebrows in a playboy-ish type way, But he had just expected an innocent kiss on the lips, not a full out freedom kiss. (freedom actually works better than "French" in this case )
"Get a room you two," Cyborg said, laughing. "Again with the red on green, man."
Terra and Beast Boy both laughed, trying to cover up their embarrassment unsuccessfully.
Raven was meditating outside. When she meditated, she was in a completely calm state, but it also made her more aware of her surrounding so she sensed someone unwanted coming up behind her.
