Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans. I'm sorry to disappoint you. If I did, there'd be no such thing as Terra and Cyborg would have a lot more shows.

This story is an in-betweener of Thicker Than Water. You don't have to read that to understand this, but if you are reading that story, you should read this, or TTWVII won't make sense to you.

Maybe I can get some alone time with Bee, Cyborg thought. He hadn't hung out with his girlfriend since the last time he was in Steel City. That was, what, last Christmas? It was May now.

He was headed to the practice arena with the rest of the Titans when he noticed Bumble Bee sneaking off, away from the group. He wondered what she was doing.

She walked down the main streets of Jump City, past the stores and arcades and places they'd hung out before. Bee kept glancing about nervously, almost as though what she was doing was bad. It confused Cyborg. She wasn't usually so paranoid. Then it hit him.

She's cheating on me.

That was so not cool! Cyborg had dated a lot of girls, but he'd only gone steady with three girls: Andrea, the girl he was with before his accident, Jinx, whom he had to break up with for obvious reasons, and Bumble Bee. He'd never cheated on anyone, ever, and none of his girlfriends cheated on him.

It brought back memories, really. The accident had happened right after one of his greatest football games. He'd made some excellent tackles and his team, the Whitmer Eagles, had won the state championships. Vic Stone had been riding home with his mother when something strange happened – some sort of demon-thing attacked the car. He'd jumped from the car, thrown stuff at it, hoping to protect his mom, but the thing jumped on him, and that was the last thing he remembered before waking up with a digital voice in his mind and vision like a computer screen.

And Andrea, his best friend, his girlfriend, had never come to visit him. It wasn't until a week later that he found out she was killed in a crash resulting from his little escapade with the creature.

But Cyborg had bad luck like that. He liked Jinx, too. She was so nice to him when he was Stone, and she was a great person. Well, besides the fact that she was HIVE. At least he didn't cause her death. Still, they couldn't date because of the side difference.

He met Bumble Bee at HIVE, too, and she'd asked him to a dance. Cyborg didn't really know her then, and he didn't even find out what side she was on until she almost killed him the second time he was at the HIVE, only the underwater. When she became the leader of Titans East, he finally got the guts to ask her out. Ever since that first date to The Point, he'd been head-over-heels in love with her. And now -

Shoot, he thought. Cy really liked Bumble Bee. He really hoped that she wasn't messing around.

Cyborg continued to follow her, occasionally ducking behind trees when she turned, once diving behind a parked SUV outside Pedro's Pirate Pizza Palace. For some strange reason, he didn't want Bumble Bee to know he was following her. He had an investigation to carry out! Cy noticed that she kept mumbling nervously to herself, and she acted more like a skittish horse than a bumblebee.

She eventually made her way to the busier parts of town. The boy was shocked to see Bee head into the Jump City Mall, of all places!

I thought she hated the mall, he thought, following her in anyways.

The girl ended up outside a store called "Designz." Bumble Bee just sort of stood there, looking around. Cyborg frowned. That's the store that made Robin and Beast Boy's suits, the one Raven took her ripped capes to, where Starfire got repair supplies for her own clothing.

He sighed in relief. Bumble Bee was just going in to get her suit fixed! That was all. Happily, Cyborg started to step from the bush he was occupying, when something happened.

"Alan!" she exclaimed, as she ran over to a boy across the path. Cyborg quickly hopped back into the fake bush.

No…

The guy watched helplessly as his girlfriend hugged a boy an inch or so taller than her. He was nice-looking, and pretty well-built. That guy must work out, Cyborg thought, judging from his muscular expertise. His black hair puffed out half an inch from his skull, and his dark skin made a sharp contrast to his white T-shirt. He also looked vaguely familiar, although Cyborg couldn't quite place the well-known trait.

"Wow, Alan," Bumble Bee said softly. "It's been so long…I can't believe it's you. We haven't seen each other since – oh, jeez, since this happened." She indicated her wings.

The Homebreaker – as Cyborg was beginning to think of him – smiled down at her. "I know. A few years is too long, especially for us." Alan paused. "I heard that you're Bumble Bee now, Karen. Is that right?"

Karen? Cyborg thought. She never told me her real name.

She nodded, pulling away. "Yes. I'm Bumble Bee. Not Karen anymore, not after all that. And I'm with the Teen Titans. I lead Titans East."

"That's great!" he exclaimed. "I'm betting you know that Calvin got into the business?"

Bumble Bee nodded. "Frizz? Yeah! I can't accept the fact that he actually got a record made."

Alan snorted. "Yeah," he said. "The guy can't even rap. And his lyrics don't rhyme. But the album must be really important to him." He paused. "It's got that song on it about – well, it's called Honeycomb. And you know what it is."

"Yeah…" They both fell quiet.

"I can't believe it," he said again. "So – what did you want to meet me here for, in this mall? Why didn't you want me to meet you at the Titans Tower?"

Bumble Bee looked extremely embarrassed. "Well – you see, there's this guy – " Cyborg reddened, understanding whom "this guy" was.

"Oh," he said, slightly angrily. "You didn't want me talking to your boyfriend, huh?"

"That's not it!" she flared. "Oh, brother. I knew you'd react this way, Alan, and that is why I didn't want you coming. Cyborg doesn't know anything about my former life. I – I'm afraid to tell him. But I'll have to now, won't I?" she added sullenly. "Especially because of you. But I also wanted you here." Bumble Bee dragged him into Designz.

At that point, Cyborg came out of the bushes and sat on the nearest bench. He couldn't believe what he had just heard. This Alan guy, he was one of Bumble Bee's old boyfriends or something, and she wanted –

Him.

He couldn't take it. Cyborg stood up. Bumble Bee was so important to him. What did this guy have that he didn't?

A life, he realized. Arms and legs. He's freaking human, for God's sake. He remembered the muscles the other guy had. She can never see me that way, he thought sadly. I'm just not good enough for Bumble Bee.

Well, he could at least say good-bye.

Rory: Aww, poor Cy! That was really short, I know, but it was just right. Perfect for this story. It's going to be short anyways.

What do you all think? What's Bumble Bee going to decide? You tell me what you think, then come back to find out if you're right!