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"You can't turn into dinosaurs?" Robin repeated looking at Mîr.
"No." She said trying to stand. "I've tried but it only results in pain and I end up turning back to normal. I can do a Saber tooth-cat though." She finally managed to stand with Starfire and Ravens help, the Cyborg said.
"We'll get BeastBoy for what he did." He said. "He could have killed you." Mîr stopped him however.
"He has a right to be angry, he's still upset over this terra girl I come waltzing in and seem to be trying to take her place. I've been trying to figure out what happened since yesterday and I did." She steadied herself and walked out of the room.
Mîr hurried back to her room as soon as Robin was done questioning her. But before anyone could look at her injures. For some reason she just wanted to be alone. Once inside her room, she locked the door and went to her backpack. She pulled out a picture and looked over it. She was in it and looked way happier than she did now. She had a huge smile and was making a peace sign at the camera. One other person was in the picture. It was a young boy with dark hair and blue eyes. He was dressing in a red tee and blue jeans He had one arm around Mîr's waist and was smiling and waving at the camera.
'That was Seth.' She thought happily. She looked over to a small end table which had a picture frame on it. She took it and slipped her picture in just as tears beginning to flow from her eyes.
Mîr began training with the titans again a few days after her and BB's fight. They both continued to ignore one another and give dirty looks when the other wasn't looking. Her friendship with the other titans however continued to grow. Cyborg was teaching her all the best video gaming skills and Raven some new languages from her books. But suddenly Mîr found herself spending more and more time locked in her room, looking over pictures and and old letters she had saved. Often times later being dragged out of her room by Starfire to go shopping at the mall or to participate in some strange Tamaranian holiday.
Thinking about Seth again was something she had promised herself not to do after his death. It brought up to many unsolved emotions and unresolved quarrels. His death was still one she wished to forget all together, she had always thought it was a simple accident but now she was beginning to think otherwise. She was mopping around one day when a voice came over her intercom in her room.
"Mîr" The voice said. "Could you please meet us in the living room; we have a question for you." She pressed the response button and said.
"Yeah, sure, one second." She said grabbing a light jacket and putting it on. She hurried down to the living room where she found the whole team sitting on the couch. "I'm I being voted off or something?" She asked looked at them all and walking over. Star looked very excited and Robin seemed to have something n his hand.
"Mîr "He started. "We've all been talking, and…" Star cut in.
"We where hoping you would like to stay here and be a teen titan!" She said smiling. Robin opened his hand to reveal a new T-communicator. She took it and thought about the offer.
"I…I don't know. I was planning…" Robin was the one to cut in this time.
"I know you where planning on something, but would you like to stay?" There was a tense moment of silence, all eyes on Mîr. She was really unsure of what she wanted. She had thought about this but had never come to a decision. Now the offer had been extended for real.
"I…"She paused."Sure." She sighed as Star cheered.
"Welcome." Robin said. Everyone later that day continued to congratulate her and tell her she had made an excellent decision. Finally Mîr had managed to get back into her room to relax. She sighed and land on her bed, setting the communicator next her picture. "Ohhh, Seth." She sighed. "I don't know what to do anymore."
"You don't?" Came a voice from the hallway. Mîr gasped and jolted up. Robin stood leaning against her door, she hadn't bothered to close. "Robin I..." She started but he hushed her.
"Who where you talking to?" He asked walking over to her.
"No one." She said attempting to stand in front of the picture. Robin eyed her and reached around her taking the picture in his own hands.
"This doesn't look like you." He said looking at the picture with interest. "Who's this?" He said. Mîr took the picture back from him and sighed.
"Seth, he was a very good friend of mine." She said sadly Robin coming to sit beside her.
"Was?" He questioned with a raised eye. Mîr sighed.
"He died." She said plainly. Robin looked away clearly kicking himself for asking.
"I'm sorry." He said. "If it makes you fell any better I lost my parents when I was young." Mîr smiled and shook her head.
"No it doesn't make me feel better." She said Robin looking down again that same. 'I'm such an idiot' look. "But it makes us have something in common." She continued. "My father and mother where very happy together. Dad working as the director of a microchip company and my mom a nurse. Dad left early one night saying that there was a problem in the building, a break-in or something. Mom was on break so I wasn't alone." She paused for a breath. "He never came home. The doctors said there was a deadly gas leak or something in his office, a quick painless death. My mom remarried 3 weeks later to his best friend Andrew." Mîr seemed to spiting out poison as she said his name. "I was still really upset but she had changed, and was acting really weird. Andrew was nice to me when-ever my mother was around but as soon as she turned her back or left at night for work, it was a nightmare."
"He'd shout and yell and blame simple thing on me. He'd go through my father's things and throw them out or burn them. One month after the marriage they told me I was going to be a big sister, and, I guess you could say I flipped out. Not in the good way either. I sunk into my mom's room one night when she and Andrew had gone out to eat. I took everything I could find of my fathers into my room and hid it. Among them I found an envelope with my name on it. Inside was my necklace." She said pointing to the necklace. "Soon after I met Seth, He was soo nice to me. Helping me out with the silliest things. He came over one night to see me. Andrew was nice to him at first but…"She trailed off for a second. She blushed slightly. "Um, it's kinda embarrassing to talk about, what happened." She said to Robin. He smiled at her shaking his head.
"I don't have to know what happened." He said. "It's your life." Mîr blushed slightly then continued.
"I was talking to him in my room. We had working on our homework and where taking a break. I got up to get up some drinks and slipped on a marble we had been using for a science project. He tried to catch me but I dragged him down too. After a few minutes on the floor we started laughing. Now I assumed the sound of the fall had gotten Andrews attention but I really don't know. The next thing I remember was how close we where and him, um, kissing me." She smiled and blushed. "And of course stupid Andrew comes in right as he does and completely freaks out. She started yelling at Seth to get out and leave but he didn't feel comfortable leaving me with Mad-Man-Andrew." That comment gat a same chuckle out of the Boy wonder but he continued to listen to Mîr's story.
"After a few minutes I thought they where going to get into a fight and knew something needed to be down. I grabbed Seth and ran down to our basement. While he barricaded the door I found an unusual book. It looked like a family diary that my grandparents had written in. I opened it up and skimmed through a few pages. I found incantations about Animal Shape-shifting. Then found another letter from my father explaining my powers. Right as I finished Andrew came bursting through the door. I transformed into a ram and attacked. Seth managed to escape and Andrew received only a slight concussion." Mîr relaxed for a moment while Robin gathered his thoughts.
"So your power is a family thing I assume." He said. Mîr nodded her head then continued.
"I brought the book to school the next day and Seth and I read through it in the library. It said that the power had from my father's side of the family and that it had been in his family for 100s of generations and was to be kept secret. I left for home early when the office said there was an emergency. I went home o find that my mom was about to have my little brother. We hurried to the hospital to only be crushed. My mother died trying to give birth and the baby died as well. I flew home as a falcon and hurried to my room. I opened the book to the last page to read that the power could only be give to one person, and any other children born to the mother would kill her and the baby. I felt hate like no other rise in me. It was Andrews's fault she had died. I gathered my belongings and the armor." She said pointing to the box that still remained open on the floor. "I put all of it on and headed for the door. Right as I was about to leave he walks in screaming it's my fault my mother died." She was grinding her teeth together really hard as she spoke. "I had had enough, and was leaving for good. I shouted back and emptied my feelings about him I had kept locked up for a little over a year. He got really angered and grabbed my arm saying I wasn't going to leave. That I was going to pay."
The memories were blurred and she hardly remembered what happened. Unknown to her know actions she had reached over to her right arm and had pulled her sleeve up and had her hand on the bandage. Robin saw it and moved her hand. She gasped and pulled away, pulling the sleeve back down to cover it.
"Mîr, "He said in shock. "What happened?" Mîr looked away and stated.
"I fought him and he broke my arm." She said. Then continued her story. "I ran away and went to live with Seth. We both graduated from school that year and we were going to a private high school. His parents bought us a really nice apartment across from the school. We had the best time together there. Then he went out on night to get something. He never back." A few tears where beginning to flow from her eyes. "I…I think it was my fault he died. I had to have the stupid book that night! Why couldn't I have waited!" She cried tears bursting from her eyes now. Before Robin could do anything she jumped from the bed and through open the windows and jumped out, turning into a raven and flying away. Robin sighed and closed her window and left her room. She had a nore troubled past than he had thought.
Thankies again for reading. Please review! 3/2/05
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