Terra looked uncomfortable. "I don't know. We haven't figured that out. I woke up in the cave about six years ago. I was really weak, but I managed to make it to the tower. They nursed me back to health. It was a couple of months before I found out what happened to you. I've been to visit you a lot since then."
Two hands reached out and abruptly drew a hood over Raven's face. She knew the truth. She had matured and long since faced the truth. She loved him, but as much as she had matured, he hadn't.
Beastboy was still the same person he had been ten years ago. If he returned to the team he would still be the jester. He would still crack jokes with Cyborg, he would keep fighting to protect his friends, and he would still love Terra.
Deep down, Raven knew that Beastboy loved Terra. She knew that with her around she had no chance.
Deep down, she was wrong.
Terra had never been anything except an infatuation and a friend. Beastboy had learned this a long time ago. Still he had never worked up the guts to tell his true love the truth. Then he had been robbed of that chance. "Look Terra," Beastboy began to look around at the packed room. "A little privacy please."
Suddenly it seemed as if everyone in the room had someplace else to be.
"Terra, I don't know if you still feel, like we did back then. I hope we can be friends because, I can't see it going any farther than that. When what happened, happened, I was hurt. It took a long time but I put it behind me. After a while, I realized that there was no real chance for us. God, I wish there was an easy way to say this. I don't love you, and I don't think I ever did."
Terra trembled. The look on her face was unreadable. Beastboy really wished he could take back the things he had just told her. He closed his eyes as he prepared to take the blow he knew was coming.
What he felt was quite different. He felt a pair of arms encircle him. "Thank you. I thought this was going to be hard, but you feel the same way I do. I thought you were going to hate me even more than when I worked for Slade. Thank you Beastboy."
Beastboy looked as confused as he had ever been. "You aren't going to kill me? Not even going to hit me?"
"No. I'm not gonna hurt you. I realized after a while that I didn't love you. I never told any of the Titans. In fact, I've been dating this one guy for a couple of years now."
Terra began to pull off the glove that resided on her left hand. Once it was off he could see a small golden band that resided on the second finger from the end. "He asked me to marry him."
"Well, from the fact that you're wearing the ring. I'd have to be an idiot to ask what your answer was. You should tell the others."
Terra smiled. She could hardly believe that after everything that had happened they still had that same easy-going camraderie that they had shared from the start. "I know."
Beastboy looked relieved. "This is a load off my mind. I'm happy for you. I just hope he treats you the way you deserve to be treated."
"He does, of course, that could be because I can dump a boulder the size of cleveland on him."
"Hehehehehe, good one. So what's been happening for the others. Relationship wise I mean."
"Well, when I came back, I found out that Nightwing and Starfire were dating. Raven is still a stick in the mud when it comes to anything dealing with emotions. And Cyborg, well. You remember how they told you that they had added a couple of people?"
"Yeah,"
"Well, the last member joined because they're a couple."
"Huh, Who's that sly dog dating."
"Jinx."
Beastboy's mouth dropped open. "Wha, He's dating who?"
"Jinx defected from the Hive and joined the Titans."
Beastboy tottered where he sat. It was a good thing he was in bed.
Beastboy dropped into a classic example of a faint.