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Teen Titans The Changeling's Dilemma Chapter 3!

When she woke up, Sonia was lying on her couch, and she could smell food cooking. She tried to remember what had happened, but only found pain. She opened her eyes, looked towards her small kitchen, and saw the blonde Beastboy with an apron on, stir-frying some mushrooms, onions and green peppers. She realized she was smelling some of her veggie burgers frying in a pan next to the vegetables.

"What's cookin' doc?" she asked weakly.

"Oh, you're awake!" Sonia had obviously startled him. "Lunch, that's what's cooking!" he said with a grin.

"Great, I'm starving," she lied. The memories had seeped slowly back in, and she now felt even worse than before. At least BB didn't seem hurt. Physically hurt, that is. He must have figured out that she had seen the same ghost he had. "Hey, Beastboy," She started apologetically while sitting up painfully.

"Yeah, what is it?" He had a pretty good idea what she was about to say. When she had passed out she had asked BB not to let her fall asleep, and that someone was going to get her. He had pieced it together from there. It had really scared him when Sonia had screamed. It had been a bone-chilling experience.

"I'm sorry for not telling you that I had the same dream as you. I just didn't want you to get worried." She was sorry, but she didn't want to burden him with her own problems.

"Sonia, we're friends, right? I came running to you when I had a problem didn't I? You can tell me when you have a problem. Okay?" He remembered telling Terra almost the same thing.

Sonia smiled back at him. "Okay, thanks Beastboy."

They sat down to lunch, veggie burgers with the sautéed vegetables on top. They ate silently for a while, before BB's communicator went off. It was Cyborg, checking up on him, asking if he had found anything out. He said yeah, and that he would be back in a little while, after he had finished lunch.

"How's Boom?" Cy asked.

"You won't believe this. She had the same dream as me! And we figured out that the spirit that took over Krystal is the same spirit that took my powers and now it's after Sonia too and-"

Sonia yanked the device out of his hands and spoke matter of factly. "Hey Cy, let me talk to Robin." He handed the communicator over to Robin. "Yo boy wonder, how's it been?"

"Not so great, as you can imagine. Did you guys find any thing out?" he asked her, business as usual as well.

"Yeah, that I can beat her whoever or whatever she is. My screams seem to weaken her a lot. We also figured out where she wants us to go; a little town called Stapleton. We'll probably head out tonight."

This grabbed Beastboy's attention. How'd she know that's where I was born? I wonder what else she hasn't told me. Boom had a history of lying about things she didn't think people needed to know. She always saw it as sparing them the trouble. It was a serious flaw, but Sonia always felt that she should bare the most burden. Part of it was guilt over killing Krystal. Another part of it was the fact that she didn't think she should live a good life, because she had killed so many other people when she did robberies. She's way too hard on herself, he thought as he slumped down on the couch again.

"Wait, I don't think it's wise to move on your own. What if there's trouble?" Robin didn't say it, but he didn't think BB would be much help in a fight now.

"Thought you'd say that, but what about the city? You guys are needed here, too. Besides, I got a couple of friends I know will help me." She grinned thinking about her so-called friends. They're gonna be so pissed at me. Ah well, they owe me.

"Are you sure? We could send Starfire with you guys." The girl appeared behind him, floating and nodding her head in approval.

"No thanks." Starfire deflated. "Really, what if there's a huge emergency? You're gonna be handicapped enough without Beastboy. You'll need all the help you can get."

"All right, if you say so. Well, come by the Tower before you guys leave and get some supplies. You can take one of our cars too. Just bring it back," he added when he saw her mile wide grin and glimmering eyes.

"Okay! See ya then!" Sonia closed the communicator, still grinning mischievously, and she went to get her apartment keys, saying "Well, let's go green man!" But her keys weren't where they were supposed to be. She whirled around, and found Beastboy giving her a suspicious look and holding her keys in his hand. "What? What's that look for?"

"You're going to tell me the whole truth right now, Sonia Trivlusky." His use of her whole name made her wince. It reminded her of when…no, she can't think about the past right now. It would be too hard to keep control.

"Alright," she sighed and looked straight at BB. "Do you really want the whole truth?" He nodded. "Fine. I wasn't just born with my abilities, and neither was Krys. When we were born, our parents and the parents of three other children born that night had us blessed by this Wicca woman."

"Do you know these other people?"

"Yeah, David and Phillip. Dave can control sunlight, and Phil can do the same with water."

"Wait, that's only two," he interrupted. "Who was the other kid?"

"Well, I'm guessing it's you." She looked straight at him, hoping he'd believe her this time.

"Did your parents tell you all this?" BB asked her, this time a little more somber.

"No, actually," her face fell more than a little, "they died. And so did Krystal's. She and I were adopted by the same family..." She paused. "Derek's family. That's why I've always called her my sister. It was Derek's parents who told us. They had known our parents really well before they had that accident. They also knew the families that had Dave and Phillip blessed, so we've kept in touch." This time Sonia was telling the truth as far as she knew. "I haven't talked to them lately though. They…don't know what we did for Derek, or what's happened to Krys. It's going to be rough on them."

"Yeah, but it was rough for you too." Beastboy knew exactly how she felt about losing Krystal. He had been through the same thing with Terra. He felt like Boom was a kindred spirit, someone who shared his pain. Since the Krystal ordeal he had visited her a couple of times, and each time she had seemed a little less depressed, as he had put it to the Titans.

Now that he believed he knew the truth, he held out Boom's keys to her. "But from now on, you've got to stop lying, whether or not you think it's important, promise?"

Sonia looked straight into those emerald eyes of his, and said, "I promise." She knew it would be tough, keeping this promise, but she didn't want to lose one of the last people who would call himself her friend. "Now let's get this show on the road!"

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