Mîr vanished for the rest of the day, after her and Robins chat. She just wanted to put the memories of her scarred life behind her. She left the tower and found a secluded spot in a park and hid there until the sun went down. She knew it was foolish to hide from her past, and try to forget everything. It would certainly not happen. Suddenly she heard the sound of crying, and whimpering. She looked down from the tree she had been in to see a small little girl curled up in a ball, in tears under the tree. She slowly climbed down and sat next to her.
"Hay," She said putting her hand on her shoulder. "What's wrong?" The little girl gasped and looked up.
"A….A…" She stuttered. Mîr looked into her eyes.
"It's ok, I'll help you. But I need to know what happened and where your parents are." The little girl looking up, tears where streaming down her face. She sniffed then spoke.
"I found this bag by a bench." She said holding out a paper lunch bag. "And now a really scary guy is chasing me!" Mîr took the bag and gasped at what was inside. "My mamma always said that when I find something that's not mine I should give it to an adult. So I tried o find the police but that guy…." She started crying again and clutched Mîr's waist. Mîr was still in shock at what laid in the bag, she had made a ruff guess of maybe, 50,000 dollars in cash.
"What did this guy look like exactly?" Mîr asked but got her answer from not the girl but from a gun firing a bullet into her arm. She yelled in pain, scaring the girl. She looked down at her and smiled, grabbed her and jumped into the tree.
"Look." She said handing her the bag. "Stay her, don't move and stay quite." The little girl nodded, then gave Mîr a quick hug.
"Come out kid!" The masked robber yelled. "That money doesn't belong to you!" Mîr jumped back out of the tree and landed in front of him, just as a breeze came, blowing her hair in front of her face.
"Doesn't belong to you either." Mîr said. The thief snickered has he say she had been the one he had shot.
"Hand over the girl and I won't kill you." He said aiming his gun. Mîr snickered.
"Just try." She whispered. The thief shot and Mîr dodged it. Robin had punched faster. The thief seemed shocked and began to fire rapidly. Mîr still dodgeing everything. Some hit the tree, some went into the ground, and some missed completely. Suddenly he was aware that he was out of bullets and looked up in fear.
"My turn." Mîr comforted herself. She transformed into a wolf, growling angrily at the thief. Then lunged, biting his arm. He yelled and smacked the gun onto her snout. She cried and drew back. He smiled and attempted to reload the gun, Mîr had to think fast, she lunged at the thief and transformed back to a human, delivering a nasty punch to the thief's hand that grasped the gun. She heard a faint snap as the bone's broke. He fell to the ground in tears begging for no more trouble. She flipped out her T-communicator and called the police. They soon arrived and with the girl's parents, they thanked Mîr gratefully. The little girl who she learned was named Brittany also thanked her.
"Thank you sooo much!" She said hugging her. Then noticed her wound. "Oh my gosh!" Mîr quickly hid it and said she was fine. Her parents took her home but the police stayed awhile longer to question Mîr.
"So" One said approaching her. "You're with the titans?" He said eyeing her T-communicator.
"Yeah, just recently joined. " She said smiling. He looked at her arm which he noticed the shirt sleeve over it was soaked in blood.
"You need to get that checked." He said pointing. Mîr nodded.
"I will." She said waving and running off. For some reason she had an urge to go back to the tower…
Mîr soon found herself back at the titan's tower again, but on the roof. Sadly she had made a bit of noise getting up there and all the titans had heard her, but a little too late. Mîr was standing on the edge of tower, looking down at the water below.
"Mîr, what are you doing?" Raven asked. Mîr shot her a glance but said nothing. She took a deep breath and jumped off the roof. At first the titans had no reason to worry, they saw Mîr began to fly as a bird once she jumped but then she winced as she flapped on of her wings and turned back to normal. She dove strait at the water, gaining speed. Starfire and Raven where following behind her but she was proving to be faster. She put her hands in front of her in a point, a normal diving position and prepared for impact. She hit the water; I was like ice but felt good. She relaxed a bit too much as she began to float down instead of up. She quickly snapped out of her trance and swam for the surface.
Raven and Star where hovering at the surface when Mîr came up. Star offered a hand as Raven signaled that she was ok.
"What is wrong with you!" Raven fussed as they reached shore. "You scarred us all to death! We thought you were hur…" Raven was about to saw hurt but saw Mîr's gun wound and shut her mouth. Mîr soon found herself in the infirmary getting a bullet pulled out of her arm. Finding no numbing medicine she had to be strapped down to the table and restrained by Star and Raven as Cyborg removed the bullet. BeastBoy had made a very bad choice and had angered Mîr just as Cy was pulling the bullet out. She broke Raven's grip on her other arm and socked him in the eye. This later proved to be a very good thing, him distracting her had made her forget the pain as the bullet was pulled out.
Her arm was cleaned, and wrapped, and then the team began prying for answers to her wound and the cause for her sudden midnight swim. Mîr retold her story of finding Brittany and the thief's gun, occasionally accompanied by Stars gasps and Tamaranian words of freight. Then she explained why she had jumped off the tower.
"Honestly, I wanted to see if I could dive off there. The idea first came to me when I was first brought here." She said. The team seemed to except that answer and finally let her go. She collapsed in bed and fell asleep immediately.
Despite her late night return Mîr woke up quite early. She walked into the living room to get some orange juice and found Robin nose deep in paper work. He called her over and gave her a few forms to look at. They where full of math problems for configuring new weapons for him. She hadn't seen problems this hard since high school. She also noticed that he had been typing up a file for her on the Titans main-frame computer.
"Name: Mîr, Height: 5'1, Age: 15," She began to read off. "How did you know who old I was?" She said looking at him.
"Looked up your birth certificates." He said, then turning back to some forms. Mîr continued to read through the info he had typed up and added a few things herself, including what her name translated to be. Robin looked over to see what she had down and noticed her translation.
"So that's what your name means. Jewel." He said seeing it.
"Yep, I really don't like it in English, Mîr is better." She said skimming through what she had typed. She had also decided to type up her family history in the base too. Including the story she had told Robin. She sighed and relaxed back in the chair, wincing as she moved her injured shoulder. She got up and took the paper Robin had given her and headed to her room. She worked on a few problems before falling back asleep.
While she was asleep the rest of the titans woke and began there day. Raven meditating some before eating breakfast which Robin had cooked. All the titans sat down and began to eat when there was a loud knocking from downstairs. They all hurried down prepared if it was a villain. BeastBoy slowly walked over and cracked the door. He smiled and let in the visitor.
Aqualad came walking in, receiving a kind greeting from all the titans.
"Good to see you again." Robin said shaking his hand Aqualad followed his friends into the living room and sat down on the couch. "Just came to give you some forms on our progress." He said handing Robin a file folder. He nodded and went to put it away. Starfire came over and sat next to him.
"It has been a long time since we last saw you." She said. "How has the team been?"
"Yeah man," Cyborg said coming over. "Anything new since I was there?" Aqualad thought for a second.
"No not really, everything has been going very well." He paused. "Oh, and Star, here's something from Mas and Menos." He pulled out a heart poorly cut from paper and handed it to her. She blushed took it and hurried to her room to hid it. All the noise from downstairs had awoken Mîr. She quickly looked over the problems robin had given her and got dressed.
She began to head down stairs towards the evidence room when she heard voices from the living room up ahead. She decided she should first deliver the paper to Robin, so continued on. But as she passed the door to the living room it opened. She peered in, just for a second, and saw someone she thought she'd never see again, Aqualad.
Aqualad had apparently been in mid sentence when the door opened to reveal Mîr. He froze as soon as there gazes met.
"Hay Mîr." Cyborg said. "This is Aqualad; he's part of Titans East." Cy said starting the introduction but Aqualad had gotten off the couch and was now standing.
"Mîr." He said sternly nodding his head slightly.
"Aqualad." Mîr said nodding back. Everyone could feel the fames coming off them; they had most definitely met before.
"Um, have you two met before or something?" Cy said breaking the silence.
"No." "Yes" Both of them giving different answers at the same time. Aqualad saying no and Mîr yes.
"Which answer is it?" Cy said asked scratching his head. Aqualad crossed his arms and turned is head away. Mîr walked into the room putting the paper on a nearby table.
"Yes." Mîr clarified. "He just doesn't want to admit it." She said smiling. Aqualad rolled his eyes and ignored her. "Oh come now?" Mîr said playfully. "You didn't forget who I was did you?" She leaned against the couch, his back turned to her.
"How could I." He said sarcastically. Suddenly the titans alarm went off, red lights flashing everywhere. Raven and Starfire returned from their rooms and BeastBoy looked up from his tofu waffles.
"Plasmas, he's escaped and headed for a bank." Robin clarified typing on the computer, pulling up live video coverage of his escape. "Want to lend us a hand?" He asked turning to Aqualad. He nodded his head as all the titans ran for the door.
Mîr had made a very god decision that morning. She had clipped on all her armor before heading for the living room and at the moment she was very grateful she had. For the tenth time she went flying into a wall of a nearby building. Plasmas was proving to be a very tough opponent, even for the titans. Mîr rubbed her head and stood to take another shot at Plasmas. BeastBoy in the form of an Ankylosaurus suddenly came slamming into the wall next to her, creating a cloud of dust. She extended her hand to help him but he ignored it and got up on his own.
"Look" Mîr started looking him dead in the eye. "I know you hate me" BeastBoy seemed a little shocked that she had used the word 'hate'. "But I don't think the rest of the team should have to suffer because of it." BeastBoy nodded his head and listened. "I have a plan."
Aqualad and the other Titans where having as much trouble with Plasmas as Mîr and BeastBoy where. Everyone was getting tired and where running out of ideas. Aqualad especially was having trouble with finding new water sources to aid him. They where nowhere near the ocean and it was to dangerous to pull up water mains. Suddenly he heard Robin shout in surprise for Mîr had snuck up behind him and stolen one of his explosive disks, then he saw BeastBoy ram head on into Plasmas's legs, disorienting him temporarily. Then Mîr, in the form of a falcon dived into Plasmas. The Titans all gasped at her desperate attempt, there was no sign of trying to escape, but Plasmas seemed slightly worried. He suddenly imploded, goo splattering everywhere, Mîr stood unharmed next to a sleeping man who was Plasmas.
Back at the tower everyone was congratulating Mîr on a job well done, she didn't take all the credit though, noting that BB had helped. He had vanished however before he heard her say it. Aqualad hung around for a little while longer, allowing Mîr to tell everyone how they knew each other.
"It was when Trident had first escaped Atlantis." She explained. "I had happened to run into him, and Aqualad in the form of a dolphin. I offered him my help but turned me down. I followed and well sort of…" She trailed off smiling innocently.
"She's the reason I was staying in a cave when I met you." Aqualad finished saying to the titans, glaring at Mîr.
"I said I was sorry!" Mîr said. "I didn't mean to accidentally destroy your old house." She crossed her arms and further explained. "Trident at shot at me and I was knocked out and smashed into his, well I guess you could call it a house thing." Aqualad looked clearly annoyed and stood.
"It was great seeing most of you again." He added with a little bit of spite in the end. He left after saying a few more goodbyes, but left leaving Mîr feeling sad.
Wow, that took awhile. Longest chapter yet. Hope you liked it. Added Aqualad in for you Emma, thought it would fun. Please review!
Thankies again!
Dragon.