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Random quote #6: "There is no greater gift than a sympathetic ear." –Frank Tyger


Chapter 6

"Beast boy- what the heck?" Cyborg asked, picking himself of the floor sulkily, from where he had fallen. He knew Beast boy was in a very fragile state after what had happened, but come on! It still wasn't a good reason to freak him out like that!

Beast boy didn't say a word, just stood there like a statue.

"Uh, Beast boy?" Cyborg asked, all anger leaving him very quickly, like money for dinks from a drunk.

He waved his metal hand in front of Beast boy's small, shocked face. He just kept staring, unblinkingly, at the wall across from him, as if concentrating on something. Something very difficult. He was really starting to scare him now!

Suddenly, Beast boy finally blinked and looked at Cyborg. He looked like he just found out the circus had been canceled. He spoke then, his voice quiet and scared.

"Cyborg, I...I heard her. She was... yelling for all of us, to help her."

Cyborg set his hand down by his side, no longer needing it there to try to wake Beast boy from his daze. He quirked a dark eyebrow.

"Heard who?" he asked cautiously.

"...Raven." Beast boy gulped as if not quite believing it himself and sat back down on the couch, only making a tiny indent with his light weight.

Cyborg's mouth fell open and almost hit the floor.

"What?!" he gasped, making Beast boy flinch, just meagerly.

Beast boy looked down at his gloved hands, as they lay cupped on his lap.

"I know it may seem crazy." He answered to the bewildered Cyborg, not looking at him. "But I'm positive it was her voice, calling my name."

Cyborg couldn't believe what he was hearing. Just in twenty-four hours, one of his best friends gets hurt bad enough to have to go the hospital, another is hearing voices of said friend while he's sleeping, and he has no idea where the rest of them are! His mind couldn't process it all at once.

He needed to sit down.

"Beast boy," Cyborg sighed, as he sat down beside the sad, green boy, "There is no way she could have spoken to you. She's way over at the hospital. It just your mind, playing tricks on you. Even... even if she was in prefect health, she couldn't have eve-"

"But she di-id!" Beast boy interrupted, setting his head in his hands, knees tucking neatly under his chin. Tears started to once again slide slowly and silently down his cheeks.

"She did..." He sobbed, voice just slightly muffled because of his now wet hands. It was just too much. He hugged his arms around his legs and then cried into them instead.

Cyborg started to reach over to him, to hug him, to comfort him, but drew back with a sigh. It was a hopeless battle. He had to show Beast boy himself, that she couldn't have spoken to him and that it was just his mind playing tricks on him, taking advantage of his frail state.

He just had to, or else he might start blaming himself for what happened once again. And Cyborg couldn't risk that.

"Beast boy." He said, gently shaking the younger boy's shoulder. "Let's go check on Raven."


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P.S. All will be explained (What happened, how she get hurt, what time it is, what's going on, etc.) in the next few chapters, so please hang on a bit longer. I just love suspense, that's why.