In this chapter I will give a little thanks to one of my favorite reviews Mr. D 91.
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Ch.3: Love and Help
Logan walked down the side streets of Jump City; he could see the bright morning sun peeking over the vast horizon next to the buildings. This was one of his favorite times of day next to the sunset. He used to watch them from the Tower's roof and sometimes Raven would join him. How he wanted to tell Raven the truth of how he felt for her. But she probably has found someone for herself, Price had token everything away from him and that's why he wanted the man dead. Price needed to suffer because of his stupid actions. Logan felt he was the man to do that job and really he was. He walked down an empty street not knowing were he was going but felt he was going the right way. Logan always had a feeling for Raven, not love but true senses like he knew were she was and would fell if she was dead. She was not dead or even injured he could fell her like normal. In jail he could not sense her but he really didn't want to. Logan walked down another street and saw a diner. It was a small brick building with 2 large windows in the front, it had no sign but in the window he could see the words 'Mr. D's Diner'. Logan felt the pit of his stomach growl. He hadn't eaten a descent meal in 10 years usually just liquids and salads, the prison doesn't serve tofu.
"What do you say we have a bite to eat aye old pall?" laughed Logan as he rubbed his empty stomach.
Logan walked into the diner with his trench coat high above his face. The inside was a simple hometown brown with a couple of tables and booths to the left and right. He took a seat at a far back booth and awaited his service.
Central Jump City
The middle of Jump City was the best place to be it's the only place that had the buildings clean and perfect not like the outer rims of the city. In the middle of the city was a large tower. It had glass walls and a large neon blue sign above it, 'Price Corp.'.
Inside the building at the very top floor sat a shadowed man; all that could be seen was he dull grey eyes and the orange light from his cigar. He sat at the end of the table with a large window next to it. He looked over his city and smiled. He had become an emperor over the 12 years as Mayor.
"Mr. Price I have news that a Mr. Garfield Logan was released from the City penitentiary. The officers have no idea were he is heading." said a small woman with a blue business suit on and cherry brown hair.
"Thank you Miss Dean I am aware of it, now do me a small favor and beef up or security around the building, make sure every entry way and exit way has at least 4 guards with loaded rounds." said the soft voiced man.
"Yes sir."
And with that the woman left the room and Johnny Price was alone once again.
"So Mr. Logan, finally free and ready to come to me, I think it is time we meet face to face." said the man calmly as he pressed a button on a monitor.
In front of him a TV screen blared on, in front of it was a young man with long white hair. His eyes were a light blue and his face was pale and perfect. All that could be seen of him was his face; he smiled showing his two vampires like fangs.
"Riku I think you should head back to the base, a mad man is free and I don't want to endanger you at all."
"Yes father." replied the soft teen like voice of Riku Price.
The screen blanked off and Johnny Price let out a small chuckle.
"It is all a matter of time before I can finally watch you die Beast Boy." with that the man continued to laugh a dark and frightening chuckle.
Mr. D's Diner
Logan sat in the corner of the small diner, not a lot of people were there, just a few truckers and old timers. They drank there coffee and ate there eggs like normal people. But the workers and the customers all watched Logan carefully, they probably though he was a Price Passion follower. He didn't care the less people talked to him the better he felt. As he sat there a young woman appeared in his view, she had short blonde hair and bright blue eye. She looked frightened to be next to him though.
"Wel…welcome to uh… Mr. D's diner can I take your order?" asked the girl in the nicest voice she could come up with.
Logan let out a small laugh.
"There's no need to be frightened young lady I am no threat, I will have a large coffee, black, oh and a bottle of scotch, if ya got It." he said with a laugh.
The waitress let out a sigh of relief and did a small high school giggle.
"Yes sir, coming right up."
Logan watched the little girl walk away with an o.k. sign to the people at the stools in front of a table next to the kitchen. They all as well let out a sigh and went back to eating and drinking. Logan sat back and relaxed, making sure no one saw his face while doing it. As he watched the people eat and drink and the overweight chef in the back flip pancakes and other foods, he heard the front door to the diner and a young violet haired girl walk in. Her hair was long; it stretched down to her middle back. Her eyes were a deep purple that shinned in the dim light of the diner. She was some what taller than the little girl who took his order. She wore a dark black and purple t-shirt with a pair of tight fitted black jeans. On her arm was a black bracelet and around her neck was a necklace with an old, time beaten penny hooked to it. Logan's eye's widened when he saw the girl walk in; she was beautiful and so familiar to him.
"Rachel its great you could show up." smiled the chubby cook behind the counter.
Logan's hopes drooped when he heard her name. She wasn't her, that person was too beautiful to be working anywhere near this dump of a city. As he began to look down the small waitress walked up to the Rachel girl and whisper in her ear, then she pointed towards Logan and giggled. Rachel smiled and slowly strolled over to him and smiled.
"I will be serving you, while Tina goes on a morning break." smiled the soft yet still strongly familiar voiced Rachel.
Logan said nothing he kept looking at her eyes from the darkness of his over coat.
"Sir is everything o.k.?" asked Rachel.
"Yes, yes everything is fine you just seem so familiar to me but your name is different from hers." Logan replied with a sweet voice.
Rachel looked at him weird and went into the kitchen to get his order. Logan sat back again but didn't care if they got a glimpse of his different colored skin of his empty eyes; he was just care if he could find the wonderful girl from his past. Rachel came back quickly and placed a tall glass of black coffee and then a beer bottle like cup of scotch. Logan nodded his head under the overcoat and watched Rachel walk away without even saying something to him.
"It aint food but I need something to make me feel better." He said to himself and then looked down at his stomach.
"Is that alright with you?" he spoke to his empty stomach.
He could his stomach yell at him but he just laughed.
"Doesn't matter what you want." he smiled.
Logan drank half the coffee quickly and then dumped the scotch into the cup of coffee and pulled his overcoat away from his face. The people there all starred at him as they slowly stopped eating. He looked at them all with a glare of anger. Then he downed the alcoholic coffee and grinned showing his fangs. Rachel looked at him with a look of pure joy. She walked over to him and removed the penny necklace from her neck.
"Beast Boy?" she asked with tears in her eyes.
"Sorry wrong person my names Garfield Logan." Logan answered without looking at her.
Rachel put the penny necklace in his hands and wrapped her arms around him.
"Beast Boy, you've come back." smiled Rachel as she cried into his neck.
"Sorry Rachel you've got the wrong person."
"That's my other name it's me Raven, I got that name to keep Price off of me. Don't you remember that penny? You gave it to me that night for good luck and I never let go of it."
Logan looked at her with eyes of tears, he stared into her eyes again and saw the same spark of pure good he had seen so many years ago on her that he had almost long forgotten.
"Raven is it really you?" asked Logan as he wrapped his arms around her as well.
"Yes…I'm sorry I aint got the cloak but it's still Me." she said with a laugh.
Logan smiled and told her to take a seat. They began to talk about how Price had destroyed the Titans and how Raven had been hiding from him. Logan told her of his times in prison and how he had kept her in his mind so he wouldn't kill himself. After about an hour and a half, Raven told Logan that he would be staying at her place for a while. Logan sighed and agreed.
"Garfield there has always been something I have wanted to say to you." smiled Raven as he held Garfield's hand.
"Me to but I can't say it to you until Price is dead." Garfield said as he let go of her hand.
Raven grabbed a hold of his hand and smiled. Garfield smiled back but someone barged in with the smell of alcohol and piss.
"Rachel…is you here, you littler bitch!" yelled out the person.
The people all back away from the man at the door; he had a leather jacket on with a long shaggy hair and a short stubbed beard.
"Hey Nicky we told you, you aint welcome here if you acting like that." said the chubby chef.
"Shut the fuck up tubby, I'm just her for the slut now were is she." Yelled the man as he through a bottle of whisky at the man, he ducked and glared at him in anger.
"Nicky leave him alone." yelled the small waitress.
The drunken man turned around and wrapped his large hand around the little girls throat.
"What did you say pip squeak? I aught a cut your throat so I can stop these nice people from suffering from looking at your ugly ass."
Raven got up and ran over to him.
"Leave her alone Nicky! She didn't do anything!" yelled Raven as she pulled on his sleeve.
Nicky let Tina go and put his hands on ravens arm. He slapped her across the face and spat in it.
"Don't you ever tell me what to do you little slut! I told you to stay home and cook for me but you come her and gave your half assed self to them! I am gona teach you to mess with me."
Logan go up and walked over to Nicky.
"Leave her alone." he said with anger in his voice.
Nicky huffed and looked at him.
"And who the fuck is you? Some sort of circus clown you green idiot I own this bitch so don't tell me what I can't do to her."
"Me…oh I'm her boy friend and you putting your nasty ass hands on a figment of pure beauty and I don't like that."
Nicky was about to punch Logan in the face but he grabbed his hand and snapped it back and broke it in 4 places. Nicky yelled in pain and tried to punch him with the other hand but Logan grabbed it and broke it in half. Then Logan kneed Nicky in the groin and stomach and then crashed his elbow into Nicky's spine sending him to the floor. Nicky got up slowly and got a fist to the face sending him crashing into a wall. The drunken idiot was bleeding from his mouth nose and a small gash from the punch in his forehead.
"Nice work…I give it a 10." smiled an old man.
"You o.k. Rae how about you Tina, and what's your name chef?" Logan said with a smile as he looked at the chubby chef.
"The names David, thank you so much for beating up the brute, he has been torching little Rachel and all of his fro almost 2 years, its about time someone taught him a lesson." smiled David as he went back to flipping pancakes.
Logan nodded and looked down to Raven who has holding her reddened cheek.
"Friend of yours?" he said looking back to Nicky.
"No an ex-boyfriend that I try to help get over his alcoholism, he is such a nice guy when he's sober but he's so frightening when he's different." she said with a tear in her eye.
"Why didn't you use your powers?" asked Logan
"Because if I do Price will find out and he will find me. Why didn't you use yours?" she asked confused.
"I don't need them anymore, there only for special missions but I don't like to use them because that not who I am anymore. Price killed the old Beast Boy and left the hollowed out Garfield Logan in his place. This is why I have come to find you."
"Not to be my boyfriend?" she asked with a hint of disappointment.
"Not until I can kill Price, once I do my Burdon will be dead and my old self will return. Price has my younger life captured in a box and once when his blood flows like a river, that box will finally open."
Raven looked at him with a sad face and nodded, she understood, why wouldn't she, Price has token everything from everyone but he has stolen the most un-replaceable item from Beast Boy his childhood. Raven kissed him on the cheek and told him to go to 124th Sunshine Avenue. That was where she was living and was Logan could sleep and rest for the travel ahead of him.
"When you're going to kill Price, I want to come with you." Raven said with a stern look.
"Why?"
"Because he's stolen something from everyone but he's token my only loves self away."
Logan looked at her and kissed her softly on the lips and smiled.
"He won't know what hit him."
