Third Chance

Ronnoco

Chapter IV

Sign of Bondage

The trio strode down the hall, Terra in between, parading to her bedroom. Proudly, beast boy opened the door. "I fixed it back up when Rae said we might bring you back!" He said, rubbing the back of his head nervously. "Look! I even added a plasma TV!"

Terra chuckled. "Thanks Beast." They stared at each other for a moment, lost in the other's eyes.

"Um, I'll go call the others. You two can, a, hang around for while..." Raven announced, suddenly realizing the awkwardness of the situation, before quickly leaving the room.

In the main room, safe from the reuniting of Terra and Beast Boy, Raven quickly whipped out her communicator. "Robin? Hello? It's important, please pick up! Rob-"

"Hey Rae, what's up?"

With a smirk of pride, "Terra's back!"

Immediately, Starfire had snatched the yellow device from Robin. "Friend Terra has returned! We must throw a celebration of welcoming in her honor! Oh joyous! Absolutely glorious!-" In the background, Robin had his hand on his head, shaking it back and forth. Raven could barely make out Cyborg's remark: "...shouldn't have let her have all that candy..."

Totally ignoring Starfire's excitement, Raven quickly announced that she'd order a pizza then hung up.

"I missed you so much..." Beast Boy whispered, hugging Terra emotionally.

Holding each other, neither could be happier at that very moment, Beast Boy thanking all that was good for bringing her back from death. "I was so, so scared when you stayed in that cave, to save the city. And then when you didn't come out... I visited almost every day for three months..."

Terra let go for a moment, to look Beast Boy in the eyes. He was only a few inches taller now, haven grown quite a bit in the past year. She smiled "You and Raven, you're so different now..."

"Well, it's been a while... and Rae's gone through a lot in the past few months..."

Terra paused for a moment, thinking, then said uneasily "What, what was that red thing on her forehead? I didn't get a good look, but I know it wasn't there before..."

"It's, it's a sort of, mark. Terra, maybe you should look in the mirror..."

Looking at Beast Boy skeptically, she went to the adjoining bathroom, looked in the mirror, shrieked, then immediately began scrubbing her forehead vigorously with a washcloth. "Gaa! What is this thing! A cult tattoo!"

"No, it's a side effect; the only way to bring you back was to have that too. It's not going to come off, so stop scrubbing or you'll rub a hole in your head..."

"So, why does Raven have one too? Did she die last week or something!"

"No, it's actually more a sort of sign of bondage, to Trigon... Yours is a bond to Rae..."

Terra turned, appearing slightly confused. "So, why did she get a 'bond' thingy anyways...?"

"Slade came back."