Terra's Return

Chapter Six: Memory

They had secured Terra back in the basement, more careful to lock and secured everything so she couldn't escape again. They were trying to figure out why she had suddenly began to get what seemed like seizure, except that her brain functions were functioning normally. What was wrong with her?

No one was more worried about her than Beast Boy, who had taken ever opportunity he could to go down and see her, even though Raven found that what he was doing was not going to help anything. He ignored her, still not trusting her help, and went to see her anyway.

They now kept her in an X-scan container, which helped them to see her body functions, although everything was fine.

"I just don't get it," Robin said one day. "How can you be fine at one point, but then completely go out of control the next?"

"I don't know," was their only answer.

"Maybe it could be a part of the memory recovery process," Cyborg suggested. "She has been acting like this since we've revived her."

"It can't be."

"There's no other evidence to what's making her do this, Robin," Raven told him. "She never was like this, even when she was normal. It has to do something with her brain power."

"But her brain power is fine, as well as the rest of her body. This can't have anything to do with the recovery process."

"Can I suggest that maybe it is the tests we put on her?" Starfire asked.

"She's got a good point," Cyborg said. "What do we use on her?"

"All I know is we don't use anything that can't harm her internal organs, and therefore, it has nothing to do with that."

"Well goddammit Robin," Raven said, "it had to have happened for a reason, and we won't know the reason until we look further into it!"

"Not while she's recovering, or it will affect her brain!"

The argument carried on for a while, and Beast Boy was listening the whole time. It was no help if they didn't know why it happened, let alone not care about how it would alter Terra if it happened again. They starting doing all this to help him, but as they progress it only made him feel worse. If Terra did get well and back to normal, that would only put their suspicion of her not being on their side back on.

He needed some air; he left the Tower for a walk, or fly as he turned in a bird, around the town. He needed to clear some things out of his mind and stop worrying. It would all get better eventually. Wouldn't it?

When he came back, he went straight to see Terra. He was now able to communicate with her, as she had grown to trust them much more than the first time she was awaken. This made his visits to a level that at least it wasn't completely boring.

"Terra," he called her.

She turned around from her spot in the middle of the basement.

"Hello," she said in her unusually low voice.

"Terra, about what happened yesterday-"

"When I tried to escape? I know it was stupid, because I knew I wouldn't get very far, especially now since you guys seem to have figured out every exit I could take."

"No, not that. It was about the second time you tried to escape."

"Oh, yeah, well I don't remember it very well. All I remember was that I was half way to the door out when I blacked out."

"That's it?"

"Well, I remember haven't a very bad headache when I collapsed on the ground, and I remember you guys came in and tried to wake me up before I passed out completely and..."

She paused. No doubt she was remember what she had seen before they came to get her.

"What?" Beast Boy asked anxiously.

"I remember seeing a man," she finally said. "Not a teenager like you guys. He was a grown man. Very tall, muscular, and a little familiar, too. I don't know why, but he just did."

From that point on she was quiet. No matter how many times Beast Boy tried to get her to respond, she just wasn't going to.

"Well, uh, I'll see you later," he said, leaving the basement. "Bye."

"Bye," were her last words.

Three days later, she starting to remember the Titans. She recognized Raven and Cyborg first, mostly because Raven seemed the least important to her. In the days that followed, she knew Starfire and Robin, but still not Beast Boy. Of the 95 of her memory recovered, she still didn't know him. Maybe she'll never know him. Maybe he was the a part of her memory that would never be brought back. These doubts followed him everytime she greeted the other Titans but looked at him strangely, asking who he was. He thought he might as well give up.

It wasn't until a few days later that something happened.

Beast Boy was in his bed, almost asleep, thinking about all that was going on. He just couldn't stop thinking that things would get better eventually. Obviously, eventually wasn't fast enough. He was thinking that he should stop worrying when his room door slid open.

"Who's there's?" he called.

No answer.

"Look, guys, it's 11:35, and I want to go to sleep. Stop fretting about me and leave me alone."

"But I can never leave you alone," the person said. "Not the one I love."

He turned around to see who said, even though is was already clear who it was. Terra had already grabbed him for a big hug, much greater than Starfire's, but he didn't care. He pinched himself just to see if it was a dream. Apparently, when he opened his eyes, it wasn't.

It took too long again. Sorry. "Lysander" made a good point, because now that I think of it, it is similar to both Godsend and The Fifth Element. I hope you liked this chapter, because I might not update for a while again. Another sorry, and another thanks!