Hey everyone! Yesssss! I finally updated! I just felt an urge to write this next chapter… I was weird. I wrote it in about 3 hours this morning.

Okay, it didn't turn out anything like I had originally planned. I wrote about Beast Boy's childhood (maybe not his true one, but the one that I made up). I didn't even plan on writing anything about Beast Boy's childhood in this story, but it seems that just about this whole chapter is just that.

So please go on and read. You'll enjoy it.

Oh, and be forewarned: this is not a happy story.

(at least not yet)

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans which is probably why I like to write about sharks… and pain… haha (no, not really.)

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To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark

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"Hey, aren't you Beast Boy from the Teen Titans?"

"Umm… yeah, that's me." Beast Boy had decided he needed to find someplace to stay for the night, somewhere far away from the Tower. After flying around for quite some time, he settled on a small motel in a very not nice part of town. He figured no one would be able to find him there. Beast Boy was surprised the man behind the desk recognized him; the room was very dimly lit so his green skin was not as noticeable as usual.

"I could just charge your room to the government account, then," the man said cheerily. The city had established a system for people who worked in the government in which they each had their own account connected to the unit they were in. The Teen Titans was Beast Boy's unit. A bill would then be shipped to the Tower for whatever was purchased. It didn't work on most things, but motels were one of essentials that the government thought their people should have easy access to.

"No, don't do that," Beast Boy said a little too quickly.

The man looked at him with raised eyebrows. "And why's that, Beastie?"

'Well first off, I'm not a Teen Titan anymore. And second, I don't want them to find out where I had stayed once they get the bill,' Beast Boy thought. He knew he couldn't tell him that, though. He didn't want people to know that he had left the team, at least not yet. He would be safer if when his enemies saw him, they thought that all the other Titans were nearby or at least a call from his communicator away. So instead of answering the question with the truth, Beast Boy had to disguise his situation. "I can pay for it right now."

"Can you now? Well that's alright, then." The man pressed the buttons on his cash register to come out with a total. "That will be… forty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents."

'Wow, that's expensive for this piece of crap,' Beast Boy thought as he looked around him. The wallpaper was peeling from the walls and the carpet had spots of mold growing in it. He thought he saw a rat scurry by out of the corner of his eye. Not that he minded, of course. He liked rats.

Beast Boy stuck his hand into his pocket and dug deep. He knew he had a little over fifty dollars left over from when he had gotten a job. He kept it with him at all times because he didn't trust to leave it somewhere that Cyborg could find it and consequentially take possession of it.

"Here you go, Sir," Beast Boy said as he handed the man two twenties, a five, and a one. He waited patiently for his change wondering how he was going to be able to feed himself with the few dollars he had left. 'Looks like I'm going to have to get myself another job,' he thought. 'Hopefully there will be no aliens involved since I'm really not up to the whole saving the world thing.'

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Beast Boy lied on the hard mattress and tried to sleep, but it was no use. All he could think about was what had happened that night. The whole scene kept replaying in his head.

'How could I do that to Raven,' he thought. He could remember the look in her eyes when he had yelled at her, the look of shock when he had told her it was her fault he was leaving, and then her look when he had told her he wasn't good enough for her which he still couldn't figure out the meaning of. He could see her eyes as clearly as she was sitting beside him. He could also hear her voice calling his name to come back home, but for some reason he didn't think that was a memory. It felt like she was searching for him… her mind was trying to connect with his, but she was a ways off. Not close enough to find him, but it still made him nervous. How was he supposed to ever face her again? 'I have to get out of this city as soon as I can. Maybe I can go back to Hawaii where I was born. They'll probably just exile me again, though.' Beast Boy's eyes glossed over as he remembered his early childhood life.

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Beast Boy had been a wild little boy. He loved to swim and surf. Well, surfing was his life. His father taught him how to surf at a very young age and the two of them would go out when he father had days off from his work and they would ride the waves, side by side.

Beast Boy's father wasn't a very tall man, but he wasn't short either. He had a dark complexion; dark brown hair and very tan skin. His mother looked much the same way. She was short, just over five feet, and very petite. She had beautiful brown hair which flowed down to her hips. Her skin was also tan, and she had the most beautiful blue eyes which stood out on her face. Beast Boy could still remember those eyes shinning as they looked at him, her son.

Beast Boy looked just like his parents. He had very tan skin, maybe even tanner than his parents since he was outside much more then they were. He had messy, dark brown hair which fell into his eyes. His eyes were a deep shade of green, his only feature that he still possessed in the future. No one called him Beast Boy; his name was Garfield Logan. He was very thin and small for his age, but he was very popular with all of the children. He had loads of friends and he even had many little girls after him, starting at the age of four. Beast Boy didn't like girls very much at that time. He had little interest in people who just sat around giggling on the beach watching him while he surfed the waves. He did like the attention these fans gave him, but he didn't like to hang around with them. He found them boring. But there was one girl who had sparked his interest.

Tonya was the same age as him and in his grade at school. She had long blonde hair which went almost to the top of her thighs. Her hair was soft and beautiful, and Beast Boy loved to touch it. She had blue eyes like his mother. They were the only two people he had ever seen with eyes that color and it amazed him. She was nice and funny, but not afraid of the ocean. She was almost as good a surfer as Beast Boy was, which is what attracted him to her the most. She was the only girl whom he could surf with as equals. They quickly became best friends and would go out every day after kindergarten to the ocean to experience its wonders. All the other girls were instantly jealous of Tonya and her connection with Beast Boy, but none of the girls could learn to surf as well as the two of them.

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Beast Boy's life was wonderful until about half way through his second grade year. He came down with a disease that no doctor on the island had ever seen before. It started one day when he was surfing with Tonya. They were riding a huge wave, side by side, when Beast Boy literally fell straight down. Tonya watched in horror as the wave toppled over him. She quickly swam to her friend and brought him to shore. When the doctors examined him the first time, they said that he had a problem with his heart. His parents were mortified. A child in second grade should not be having heart problems. He was way too young. There was also no history of heart attacks or anything like that in either his mother or father's family lines.

Beast Boy was allowed to go home with some medication supplied to him by the doctors. They had said that there was something strange about Beast Boy's condition. They told his parents to bring him back for follow-up examinations. When Beast Boy went back for the second time, they found something very wrong which they could not identify. He had a virus in his system, one that he never been discovered before. It was attacking all his organs by mainly focusing on his heart. The doctors took samples of the virus out to look at them under microscopes, but it was nothing any scientist had ever seen. Beast Boy was experiencing a lot of pain now, too. They gave him morphine and other drugs to ease the pain, but they didn't know what to do about his condition.

They called in doctors from all of the major hospitals of the country to come and look at their case. None of them knew what to do either, and time was running out. Beast Boy was growing very weak and was in a lot of pain. Even the morphine couldn't cover it up. He couldn't sleep at night and was having trouble breathing. His parents had taken him out of school so now all he did was lie in his bed and tried to live. Tonya visited him every day in the hospital and was terrified every time she saw her best friend in pain. She hated knowing that there was nothing she could do to help him. He loved to see her there beside his bed; it gave him hope.

The doctors finally decided that Beast Boy's disease was going to be fatal. No one had any ideas on how to save him, except for one scientist.

The scientist was not a doctor but was an expert in animal sciences and DNA research. He had developed a formula which contained a form of DNA which was able to mold itself into any type of DNA. It was an amazing discovery. He tested the formula on monkeys and it caused them to be able to change their DNA into a few other animals'. None of the monkeys lived long after they were injected with the formula, though. The scientist worked hard to improve the formula so it wouldn't destroy the monkeys' own DNA and kill them, which was what was happening. Soon he had a formula that was working very well.

When he heard about Beast Boy's condition, he immediately thought that his formula was the answer. If Beast Boy was able to change his organs and heart into different forms from different species which may be immune to the disease, them maybe the virus wouldn't be able to destroy him. He also wanted very much to test his formula on a human. He did feel that it was safe, but he also figured that Beast Boy was going to die anyway; at least if he was injected with the formula, it would give him a chance.

He talked with the doctors and Beast Boy's parents about his idea, and eventually they all gave in. It seemed to be his only hope. The doctors didn't explain fully to Beast Boy what they were going to do, but they did tell him they were going to inject him with something that may be able to cure his illness. Beast Boy became hopeful again and said that he was willing to try it.

Since they weren't sure what his reaction to the formula would be, they decided to strap him into a bed so that he wouldn't be able to get up or if he had a negative reaction, he wouldn't be hurt one of the doctors in any way. They strapped the small boy into the bed and then stuck the needle into his arm.

At first nothing happened, and then all hell broke loose.

Beast Boy's eyes rolled up into his head, and he began to shake, slightly at first but it gradually became more and more violent. He opened his mouth and screamed so loud that everyone froze where they stood. He continued to scream as his body began to change. At first it was just the color. His skin lost it's beautiful tan color and began to transform into a dark shade of green, and then his limbs began to change. They seemed to change shape, but still had his green skin over them. The doctors watched in horror was Beast Boy's leg changed into a tigers, but with his skin still over it; no tiger fur. His arm changed to a frogs and the other changed to a lizard. Every part of him began to change except for his head. His head stayed the same and his screams grew louder. Each part of his body began to change so fast you could barely make out what animal it had been. Soon he was almost a green blur on the bed. The doctors all stood back in horror; they had no idea of what to do.

Suddenly, Beast Boy stopped changing. His whole body was his own again. His chest arched up and his mouth opened wide to scream, but his voice was already gone. His eyes bulged from their sockets as he stared at the ceiling. Then he fell back onto the bed, the straps still tightly around him. His eyes rolled up into his head and he went limp.

It turned out that the injection had saved his life. When they checked him again, the virus was no where to be found. It seemed that his transforming had flushed it from his system somehow. He was very happy for that, but he now had a new problem. After the transformation occurred, he didn't feel any pain at all, but he was now… green. Even his hair, his beautiful dark brown hair, had changed into a dark shade of green. He was scared; he didn't know what to think or what to do. He was re-enrolled in school, but he began to hate going. He now had a new major problem; he would randomly transform into an animal without his consent. So in the middle class, instead of a small green boy sitting in a desk in the back of the room, there could be a zebra, an ant, or even a buffalo. Beast Boy could feel when he was going to change a few seconds before it happened, which is how he saved his school from him destroying it. He was about to turn into an elephant but was able to run outside just in time.

The kids liked Beast Boy's new ability and many of them wanted it also. They had all been very worried about Beast Boy and were glad he was back, even if he was green and whenever he turned into an animal, it was also green. Beast Boy had trouble catching up with the school work, but Tonya was there to help him. He was very grateful for her.

Many people in their town were wary of Beast Boy. He scared them with his power that he didn't seem to have any control over. They wanted him to leave before he caused someone harm, but his parents insisted that their son would never hurt anyone. They villagers eventually gave in, but they said that if he ever did anything to anyone he would have to be sent away.

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One day after school, when Tonya asked Beast Boy if he was going to go to the beach with her, he surprised both of them by saying no. He was feeling very strange that day, and he just wanted to go home and lie in his bed. She seemed a bit worried, but didn't say anything to him about it. She walked to his house with him, and then after a quick hug, headed for the beach.

Beast Boy had been lying in his bed for a while when he began to have a very odd feeling. He felt like he could hear someone talking to him from far away, but he could barely make out what they were saying. Its train of thought felt different from Beast Boy's own, as if it wasn't another person. He could feel it thinking it was hungry. Then Beast Boy's heart almost stopped. It had spotted a meal.

Beast Boy jumped from his bed and went flying down the street. He skidded in the sand, cutting up his legs and knees, but he got up and kept running. When he got to the beach he stood frozen as he saw what he had thought he heard. A shark was in the water, slowing swimming towards a girl paddling along on a surfboard. Beast Boy could feel the shark still in his mind thinking that it had found a seal to eat.

Beast Boy's mind suddenly snapped back into reality. "STAY AWAY FROM HER!" It seemed that no one heard him, even though he had screamed as loud as he could. Then the shark-voice re-entered his mind. "Seal is mine, shark. I saw first."

The shark thought Beast Boy was also a shark. Beast Boy stood there, stunned at first until the saw the shark swimming toward Tonya, ready to strike. "NOOOOO!"

Beast Boy ran into the ocean and splashed into the water. Before he knew it, he had transformed into a shark. He swam with lightening speed to the surfer and the attacker. To his surprise, the other shark was also a shade of green, quite like his own. He had never seen a shark that color before. He saw the shark strike and he immediately bit the other shark's head and clamped on tightly. He could hear screams coming from above the water… the shark had bitten Tonya's leg. Beast Boy bit down harder when he heard her screams. The shark let go of Tonya and turned his full attention to Beast Boy. They began to fight viciously, but Beast Boy had much stronger motivation. The other shark surrendered quickly and swam away. Beast Boy had barely any cuts of bruises at all from the fight.

Suddenly Beast Boy couldn't breathe. He looked down at himself and saw that he had transformed back into his human body. He struggled against the water but couldn't seem to get up. Just as he was about to black out, he felt a hand reach down from the surface and pull him above the water.

He was dragged to the shore and left gasping for breath in the sand. He slowly sat up and looked around. His mind was dizzy from all the noise and activity which was happening around him. "Tonya!" Beast Boy scrambled to his feet and ran to her side. She had a look of extreme pain on her face and tears were flowing from her eyes. She had a very deep bite in her leg, and it looked pretty bad. An ambulance had already been called, but Beast Boy just couldn't see her in such pain. He went to hold her hand, but was pushed forcefully away by a man.

"You did this to her, you beast!" He yelled with anger boiling in his eyes. "There are no sharks around here, haven't been for years. But then there's you, animal boy."

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To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around

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"Why would you do this to her? She's your friend, is she not?" Another woman yelled. All of the people turned and looked at Beast Boy with hatred in their eyes.

"Wh-what! I didn't do it! I couldn't! I would never…" Beast Boy looked around at the faces with fear. He didn't know what to do. "Tonya, tell them! It wasn't me!"

Tonya looked at him with hurtful eyes. She seemed scared. Her voice was soft as she tried to talk through her pain. "Was it? I don't think you did it, Gar… I don't… but… the shark was green… I saw it on my leg… you were there…"

"No! I stopped the shark! It bit you… I attacked it… got it to go away…" Beast Boy was desperate to have the people believe him.

"But you weren't at the beach today." It was one of Beast Boy's friends who spoke. He seemed just as scared as the other two children. "I saw you go to your house."

"Then why was he at the beach when Tonya was attacked?" A woman asked.

"I… uh… I heard the shark." Beast Boy looked around at the look on the people's faces. "I could hear its voice… in my mind."

"This boy is either crazy or a danger to us all!" A man shouted from the crowd of people. "He must leave this island. We are not safe with him here."

Beast Boy's eyes filled with tears. He didn't know how to explain what happened so that people would understand. He couldn't tell them that he had heard a shark speaking all the way from his house. They would think he really was crazy. Was he? Even Beast Boy wasn't sure at this point.

He took one last look at Tonya, who looked straight back into his eyes. Her expression was still one of shock. She didn't seem to hate him like everyone else. Beast Boy looked into her beautiful blue eyes as his filled with tears. He got up and ran home as fast as he could.

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"I don't belong here!" He shouted as he began to pack a suitcase of his things. "I have to leave! Don't stop me mom! They will all kill me if I stay!" Beast Boy was frantic as his mother watched him worriedly.

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To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one's there to save you

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"I know sweetheart…" Her voice was soft and scared. "You have to go."

Beast Boy looked at his mother in shock. "So you want to get rid of me, too, mommy?"

"No, no baby," his mom grabbed him into a hug and held him close. Beast Boy could feel the tears flowing from her eyes. "I love you so much. It's just that your father and I have been doing some research, and we found this place that I think you will like. It's in California." She pulled a small brochure out of her pocket and handed it to the boy in her lap. He took it gently and began to explore the pictures. "They take care of children like you, honey. Children with special powers. They'll help you control your morphing, too. I called them myself to find out everything I could."

Beast Boy looked at the pictures. They all seemed friendly and welcoming. There were even pictures of some of the people who went there. One of the boys was blue. "I think I'd like this place a lot, mommy." He said. He read more of the writing. "And it says here that if I work very hard I could even be part of a crime fighting team someday."

His mother smiled at him. "Gar, you would be the most amazing superhero."

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No you don't know what it's like
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Beast Boy stared at the ceiling, his heart sinking. He hated remembering what life was like before he became 'Beast Boy.' It was too sad. Especially since his parents both drowned about 5 years ago while on a ship coming from Hawaii to California to visit him. There was a horrible storm and the ship went under. He missed them terribly, but he knew he had to go on with his life. It's what his parents would have wanted.

'I wonder if Tonya would remember me if I went back,' Beast Boy thought. He smiled. "Wait… who could forget someone who's green?"

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