Chapter 2

Though we were all happy about her return, none of us had anything to say. We didn't need to say anything. "Guys?" she asked, unsure if she was still welcomed, "you look like you've just seen Slade-"

"Terra, we have seen Slade. We fought him before the eruption." Robin said. I could only stare, the same for Star and Cyborg. Raven made a point of not looking at her. "Somehow he managed to survive the volcano. He still hasn't given up yet; and he won't."

"Whoa," she whispered. "How is that even possible? I mean, I kicked his metal covered butt!"

"Wait," I said. "Everyone just wait. Terra, how did you manage to turn all... unstoned?"

The girl shrugged. "Erosion, I guess." Cyborg laughed, but I couldn't make myself. How did she come back?

It wasn't long before our search for Slade was halted because of Cyborg's hunger. As usual, we grabbed a pizza and headed back to Titan's Tower for "the iced cream" as Starfire would say. Terra and the others laughed... had she forgotten about me? About us, maybe?

"...And then, right before you hit us," Cy was saying, "Raven said 'To beat up the idiot telling jokes about him?' and... and then... came Star's 'Please, an aardvark is some kind of duck?'" he was really laughing too hard to be understood, but then again, so was the rest of the gang.

"So..." Terra said, "So the aardvark was going to cross the road to beat up Beast Boy? That's great..." she laughed.

"Yeah..." I muttered from behind them. "Great."

Titan's tower

Terra's Point of View

Song: Consider This by Anna Nalick

I've tripped again and things are starting to get interesting

Don't give me choices 'cause I can't decide

My mind is soaked in words

This is all too weird. They ask me all these questions and I'm supposed to know exactly what to say. I don't know how I was freed from the stone. I wish I did, though; it would make things a lot less complicated.

Beast Boy seems to have changed too much; Raven hasn't changed at all; Starfire appears to understand a bit more about life on Earth; Cyborg and Robin are as close as ever. What am I doing here? Again, with these people who I once tried to kill? They don't even care about me anymore. Not after the incidents with Slade. Not after what I had done. You can't just forgive that.

I've come to terms with all my insecurities

And purities no friend of mine

"So, are you back?" BB asked once we finished the pizza. "For good, I mean? You seem to have control over your powers now... that's a good thing..."

Did he have to bring back the memories I held with Slade? My training? How could they just trust me like this, after what I did? They were leading me on.

"Yeah," I said slowly. "Like I have anywhere else to go...I'm not going back with Slade-"

"What makes you so sure?" Raven almost yelled. I smiled. She had no idea.

"I have more control over myself now." Or, at least I think I do.

And dreaming doesn't do no good

'Cause I don't want to lie

That I'm okay and I'm alright

I'd rather take it and forget it

Once, Robin compared himself to me. He said that he had once been Slade's apprentice, but he got out. "Robin—" I started slowly, "When we were fighting, you said that you had gotten out of Slade's grasp. Well, you didn't want to be Slade's apprentice. That made it easier for you to escape. And he didn't have control over your powers... but that's not the point. It was easy for you to let go because of your hatred for him. He had become almost like a father to me. He became my family. I had trusted him. Then, it felt like he betrayed me just as I betrayed you."

"How dare you," Raven's cool voice came. "How can you say that? You gave us to him, and nothing can change that. Even when we fight him now, he knows all of our secrets, thanks all to you, Terra."

Beast Boy looked scared. "Just stop it, okay!" he yelled. "Raven, Terra saved our butts! Isn't that enough to prove that she-"

"No."

"Why not?" he asked, "She was stone for... three years after that happened! She did that because she was our friend."

"You guys, look, I know what I did was wrong. I'm sorry. Can we please just forget about it now?" Instead of wanting to talk about it, I found that I couldn't. No possible way.

Consider this a warning

'Cause I'll start another fight

And you'll say it's alright

I'll wait for the day when you find I'm too much for you Baby

So lay your hands over me

And feel what you only see

But don't bother wasting your time if you're trying to change me.