Double Trouble

Chapter Two: Lauren's Nightmare

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titians. Wish did, do not starts crying

Hello, all! I hope you guys all like this, I tried to make it longer then the first one, but it still might not be long enough for you. Ah, well, let's get to it, then!

Lauren slowly poked at the charred logs and sighed. The fire had gone out quite a while ago, but Lauren didn't notice until now. You see, usually Lauren was very alert, but with this one thought in her mind, she just couldn't concentrate:

WHERE IS SHE?

Terra had been missing for a whole month now! Usually if Terra was gone for more then 24 hours, she would send a telepathic message. But it had been 720 hours, NO MESSAGE! Lauren was officially a nervous wreck. After no message from Terra for 29 hours, she started pacing nervously. At 30 hours, she threw little rocks on the wall. At 31 hours, she had put large rocks in front of the cave using wind. They where heavy boulders, so it took almost all of Laurens power to move them, she only had a little bit left. With that, until she had more power, she couldn't get out.

But then again no one could get in.

After another day of sitting and thinking, Lauren decided it was nighttime, and time to go to bed. She couldn't tell what time it was, because the rocks blocked all of the light out and she had lost the watch in the darkness. So, she just decided what time it was.

For dinner Lauren had a pinch of denigrated milk, a cup of water from the spring in the cave, and caned soup (Lauren had a few matches left, but she was running out.

Lauren didn't sleep well that night. The dirt floor wasn't conferrable, but she had gotten used to it. The thing was, she had this terrible nightmare. She had a dream that she was walking down a dark tunnel, and she heard this voice calling out for her

Lauren, Lauren!

She started walking faster, towards the voice.

Lauren, help me!

Lauren broke out in a full out run, but then the end of the tunnel was a cliff, and she was running so fast she fell over the edge. Once she hit the ground she wasn't injured, though.

Please, Lauren, help me!

Lauren lifted her head, and saw Terra, but she was stone.

Terra!

Then she woke up, breathing hard and sweating. She looked around, thankful it was a dream.

Or was it?

After that thought struck Lauren, she couldn't go balk to sleep. She tossed and turned, and every time she was on the brink of sleep and being awake, the horrible memory of Terra in stone came to her.

Finally, Lauren just gave up on sleeping, and just sat and wondered:

Where is Terra?

Is she O.k.?

How much longer till she returns?

How is she doing with the Teen Titians?

What would Terra do at a time like this?

That's it! Lauren struck herself on the head. What would Terra do? Obviously, she wouldn't just wait around, hoping everything would become better; she would go out and do something about it! Well, it was time for Lauren to take a leaf out of Terra's book. She would go looking for Terra.

One small problem remains, Lauren reminded herself. I'm still to weak to do anything! Those boulders had taken a lot out of Lauren. What would Terra do? Lauren wondered. She wouldn't give up so easily if she had a dream that I was caved in stone. Lauren tried testing herself. She tried flying. She could still fly. Good, that would come in handy. Lauren tried to tell how long she could fly. She gave herself little tests. She flew around the cave, and then she did it twice. Whenever she felt tired, she kept on going, ignoring the tiredness and soon, pain. She tried going over the whole cave with a flashlight, trying to find another way out. The only thing she found was her watch.

Day by day, little by little, Lauren got stronger. She was starting to be able to fly longer and higher, and after a week of training, she started being able to make wind currents. She tried new things, like trying to make clouds, which could expand her fighting abilities. She figured if she were going to get Terra back, she would have to learn how to do more things. She made rain, snow, and (what she thought to be more useful) thunder and lightning. She even was able to make other things fly, not just herself.

After a few more weeks of training, Lauren desisted that she was ready. Even with her new strength, she was still too weak to blow the rocks this way and that again. So instead she took a smaller rock and sent a very strong wind current with the rock so it burst open. Once she got out of the cave, she winced and covered her eyes. With all that time in the dark cave, she felt like a vampire. She tried to open her eyes, but she just couldn't do it. Finally, she just gave up in trying to walk normally in the sun and made a cloud over her head that was sort of like an umbrella. She held on to her messenger bag that she used to hold and took off in open area. Her flying was still a little wobbly, but it got better as time went on. As she was flying over the lake, she looked in her refection. She almost screamed.

Oh my gosh, I look terrible!

Her blond hair was matted down with mud (from the rain) and dirt. Her pink t- shirt was solid and ripped, same with her white skirt. Her jazz shoes that she had changed into shoes, well, you couldn't quite tell what they where anymore.

Okay, before I do ANYTHING, I have to get freshened up.

She flew back over the lake to the rock terrain. She washed her hair the best she could and took a bath in a mountain spring she found. She put on tweed pants and a lavender tank top, and washed all of her chipped nail polish off. She didn't have another pair of shoes, so she scrubbed and scrubbed at her old ones.

There, Lauren thought, smiling, at least I look remotely acceptable.

So she put her dirty cloths into her messenger bag and flew back over the rocks and over the lake. This time her reflection didn't look like a banshee.

Once she got on the island with the giant T on it, the confidence that had filled her since she started practicing disappeared. She started to feel anxious.

What if they don't know who I am?

What if they kick me out?

What if they are mean?

And, of course, the dominant one:

What if the don't know where Terra is?

That one scared Lauren the most. Lauren took a deep breath and tried swallowing her fears (instead of helping, it made her want to throw up). She counted from 1 to 10 slowly, thinking about the good chi being with her (that didn't help either).

Finally she told herself to get a grip, and if she was going to be a nervous wreck all of the time, then she will never be able to ask the Teen Titians her questions.

She stood up straight, head held high, and knocked four times on the door (it was a nasty little habit she had. She always knocked four times because she was afraid that they didn't hear her the first time so she knocked three other times, just to be safe).

A green face pocked out. At first it looked scared, then puzzled, then it was filled with immense joy.

"TERRA!"

I hope that the next chapter will be up soon, but only the fates can now for sure.

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