Hola, Hello, and Salutto everyone. Thank you so much again to people who reviewed the last chapters, you guys are so nice! And I'm so glad you liked it. The raebb thing in this chapter is the same as the last, they're only a pair if you want them to be. Oh! And I just realized, after I posted the last chapter, that both of the chapters have been really short so far. So I made this one longer (I think). I'm terribly sorry if anything in this chapter offends you in any way, or if any of the characters are out of character. That, and if Imake a reference to another fanfiction thatI didn't know about (which, if happens, it's purely coincidence), are twoof my worst writing fears.Anyways, read and enjoy!
disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans or the movie "The Blair Witch Project." But I love them both dearly.
You Are My Sunshine
Chapter 3
The clock struck 9:30 when Raven silently entered the main room of Titan's Tower. Robin and Starfire were sitting at the table, eating they're usual breakfast. Robin had his ham and eggs, which he always had with orange juice. And Starfire had her gorklemar mix with a glass of mustard. Cyborg was at the stove, cooking all the bacon and sausage he could find. Raven crossed the room to the their second stove, where she already had a kettle of boiling water waiting for her so she could make her herbal tea.
"Good morning, friend Raven!" Starfire said the instant she saw her.
"'Morning." Raven said quietly. She didn't say any more. At this point in her friendship with the other Titans, barely any verbal contact was needed for them to communicate. She never liked to talk much anyway. But this morning she was debating in her mind whether or not to tell them about Beast Boy. They did have a right to know. Still, 'Would Beast Boy want them to know?' She couldn't help but wonder.
Raven finished pouring her tea into her mug and floated over to where her book was sitting on her corner of the couch. She took a small sip of her tea and breathed, relaxing as the warm liquid slid down her throat. She set her mug down on the coffee table after a few sips, carefully picked up her book, and began to read.
"Alright, whose shift is it to wake up BB?" Cyborg said after a few minutes.
"I think it's yours, Starfire, isn't it?" Robin said, turning to the Tamaranean sitting beside him.
"It is?" Starfire said, her mouth full of her alien breakfast. She swallowed the substance quickly and spoke again, "But I thought it was my turn last week!"
"Well, it was, but remember Beast Boy got up on his own time." Robin explained.
"Oh yes, that is right." Starfire said, remembering. "Very well, I shall awaken him."
"Don't be too hard on him." Raven had no time to stop herself before she heard the words come out of her mouth. All three heads turned and soon all eyes were on her.
"What do you mean?" Robin asked, confused.
"Don't you guys know what day it is?" Raven set down her book and turned to face the others. A long silence followed. The other Titans all looked at each other, wondering if they knew what she was talking about.
"Tuesday?" Cyborg said slowly after a pause.
Raven sighed and rolled her eyes; "It's the anniversary of Terra's death, you morons. Beast Boy's completely depressed, don't mess him up." She turned to leave the others staring in disbelief at each other.
"I cannot believe it! Was it really a year ago today?" Starfire asked, pleadingly.
Robin took out his communicator and checked the date. "August 21st! It really has been a year, hasn't it?"
"Never thought Beast Boy would remember something like that. And this is coming from the guy who can't even remember laundry day!" Cyborg said in disbelief.
"Still, I think that Raven is right. We should try to do the cheering up for friend Beast Boy today. I shall go wake him." Starfire set her dishes in the sink and flew out of the room.
"Cyborg, you'd better eat that stuff fast, you don't want Beast Boy to go into the whole vegetarian lecture again. I'm sure he's not in the mood for a fight today." Robin said after Starfire had left. He gulped down his ham and eggs and set his dishes in the sink as well. "I'll set out some of that tofu stuff he likes so much." He said, opening the fridge and taking out the white gelatin-like meat substance
"I don't have to eat it and pretend I like it, do I?" Cyborg asked, sitting down with his plate covered in meat. He started to stuff his food in his mouth as Robin put on some tofu scrambled eggs and bacon.
"No, you just have to smile and pretend you appreciate the fact that he doesn't eat meat."
"I can do that, I guess." Cyborg had his mouth full of the last of his breakfast. He swallowed it all in one huge gulp and chugged what was left of his milk. He let out a window-shattering burp and wiped his mouth.
"Gross." Raven muttered. Just as Cyborg was setting his plates in the sink and Robin was finishing up the tofu bacon, Beast Boy and Starfire entered the room.
"Beast Boy!" Robin said, turning, pasting a smile on his face.
"Hey man! 'Morning!" Cyborg said doing the same.
Beast Boy froze in the middle of the doorway. "Uhh… Hi?"
"Friend! Partake in the eating of the breakfast with us!" Starfire said, snapping him out of his shocked state and pushing him down the stairs and to the table. Robin dished out a plate of tofu eggs and bacon and poured a glass of soymilk and set them on the table in front of Beast Boy.
"Tofu eggs and bakey?" Beast Boy said, sitting down to the meal in front of him. "Dudes, what's the catch? Cy, did you put Tabasco sauce in my food again?" He said, pointing to Cyborg.
"What? No, man, we just wanted to make you breakfast… for… once." Cyborg said, uneasily.
"Way to be subtle, guys." Raven said sarcastically, eyes not leaving her book.
All eyes were on her once more. A look of horror crossed Beast Boy's face.
"Raven did you—Did you tell them was day it was?" Beast Boy said, getting up from his chair and moving over to the couch. Raven looked up from her book and faced Beast Boy, who was now standing right behind her. "Why did you do that, Rae? I thought I told you not to worry about me!"
"They had a right to know." Raven said, still refusing to show any emotion.
"We cannot help but worry about you, Beast Boy. You are our friend." Starfire said, approaching him cautiously.
Beast Boy turned and faced the three other Titans. His eyes switched from their faces to the meal they had made for him to their faces again. He took a heavy sigh and looked them all in the eyes. "Look, guys, this is really nice and all. I mean, let's face it you bothered to make me tofu! But, I'd much rather just get through this day as fast as I can. Sorry." The three Titans looked at the ground sadly. Raven's eyes drifted back to Beast Boy's pathetic state. They all hated to see him like this, his ecstatic spirit crushed so easily. "I think I'll just go sit on the roof or something for a while. See you guys later." Beast Boy walked slowly to the door. The four Titans standing in the room sighed as the doors closed behind him. They looked up again to the noise of the doors opening again.
"I forgot my food. Rob, it's okay if I eat this on the roof, right?" Beast Boy said running back in the room and picking up the plate and glass.
"Sure, Beast Boy." Robin said sadly.
"K. Thanks." Beast Boy ran out of the room again, leaving the others to clean up after breakfast.
"Please, friends, there is not anything that you think we should do to cheer up our friend's state?" Starfire said, once dishes were done. She was sitting at the couch, braiding Raven's hair, while Raven was sitting on the floor, still reading her book. Starfire found that, after the right amount of begging, Raven would let her practice braiding on her. Though her hair was short, and Starfire's skills had a lot of room for improvement, this was something that Starfire enjoyed doing to pass the time. Raven's feelings toward the activity varied on her mood. Robin and Cyborg were sitting beside them on the couch, playing video games. Robin quickly paused the game and turned to face Starfire.
"I'm sure he would want to be left alone, Star. Maybe tomorrow we could all go out or something." Robin answered with a smile
"Or maybe you and Star could just do that yourselves some day." Cyborg said under his breath, starting the game again. Robin went bright red and kicked his foot very hard under the coffee table.
"Ow!" Cyborg mouthed silently.
"I suppose so. Still, it pains me to see him so… 'Down in the dumps,' as you say." Starfire said, returning to the previous conversation.
"I don't think there's much we can do, Star. If he wants to be left alone, I think that's what we should do." Raven said, eyes still not leaving her book. "And, Cyborg? Can you turn down the volume on that game? I've been reading the same sentence for five minutes."
Cyborg sighed. "Fine." He reached for the volume control on the remote and lowered the volume by two notches.
"You call that down? It's barely any different." Raven said, staring Cyborg down.
"If we turn it down any more, we won't be able to hear the cool noises the car makes when it makes a sharp turn!"
"Whatever. I'm going to go to my room. See you guys later."
"Goodbye, friend Raven!" Starfire called as Raven walked out of the room.
Raven walked up the stairs to level four, where her room was. When she reached level three, she walked down the hall to the one staircase leading up to level four. As she walked down the halls, she approached the workout room on that level. And as she drew nearer, she started to hear noises coming from within. She, again, recognized Beast Boy's voice. Out of habit, she searched the room for emotions. She felt some blind anger, frustration, and a lot of sadness. For reasons she couldn't place she stopped at the door to the room and carefully peeked inside.
Beast Boy was there, punching fiercely at the punching bag hanging from he ceiling. He was covered in sweat, and there was intensity in his eyes that she had only seen that time he was being tortured by the Beast Within. The sight of him startled her. She had never seen him like this and it scared her. He wasn't himself at all today.
Beast Boy made a back-hook kick to the punching bag with a loud yell and it snapped off the ceiling and fell to the ground. He transformed into a very fierce looking gorilla and pounded mercilessly at the bag on the ground. He picked it up and, in one swift motion, threw it against the wall, making a loud crashing noise as it fell on the weights below it. Beast Boy transformed back into the scrawny little boy that he was and sat on the ground, weakly, burying his face in his hands. Raven watched helplessly as Beast Boy's shoulders jerked forward and sobbing noises came from his crouched figure.
"Terra…" Beast Boy choked out. "Terra, why did you have to leave?" He paused to let out a new wave of tears. "Just for one day, I wish I could see you again. Just one day, Terra, please…"
Raven looked at the ground and closed the door, resuming her walk to her room. She couldn't watch anymore.
For a year, the Titans had tried everything to bring Terra out of her stony state. For a year, they had studied with the government's most advanced scientific researchers. And for a year, they had found absolutely no hope of a cure. Cyborg and Beast Boy spent many sleepless nights searching online for more information. Robin traveled across countries to make sure they weren't missing anything that could have the slightest chance of helping them. Starfire made trips back to Tamaran and tried many alien rituals on the statue. Raven searched through all of the enchanted books that she had for spells of charms that might help. Still, they found nothing.
Raven walked into her dark room and closed the door. She would not see Beast Boy hurt anymore. She locked her door and closed the blinds to her window, making sure that absolutely nothing would disturb her. She used her powers to move a large bookcase that was against the left wall in her room. Behind it was a small storage closet, which she kept hidden from all the Titans. Inside, she kept all of her enchanted books and ancient scriptures.
Raven had looked over all of them countless times for cures for Terra, but she had never found anything that would be of any use. She didn't know why, but now, after almost three months of giving up on the cause, she looked through them again. She searched for hours and hours, and read until her eyes watered and blurred from weariness. She emerged at three in the afternoon to make some more tea and brought it back to her room, where she continued to read. None of the other Titans bothered her, and she didn't care. She knew they were used to her behaving like this. They only had to worry if she stayed in her room for days at a time. As long as she made an appearance every once and a while, she knew she wouldn't have to worry about disturbances.
As the sun began to set, Robin arrived at her door to ask if she wanted to watch "The Blair Witch Project" with them. Every few days the Titans would rent a scary movie and all watch it together. Raven declined, of course, and went back to searching through her scriptures.
At nine o'clock, Raven heard the other Titans moving about the halls, walking towards their rooms. It had been a very tedious day for all of them, and it was no wonder they were all going to bed relatively early. Raven, though, continued to work.
As her clock struck one thirty, Raven's eyes were as tired as they had ever been. They begged for sleep and threatened to close every minute. Still, she forced herself to stay awake. She was about a ninth of her way done searching through her books and was about to give up hope, when something in the corner of one page caught her eye. It said:
"Contacting the Lost Through way of Telepathy"
'Why hadn't I thought of that before?' Raven wondered to herself. Slightly mad at herself for overseeing this, but very relieved that the search was practically over, Raven thought 'This might actually help!' She read the directions inscribed on the ancient pages very carefully, twice, before taking a single candle out of one of the drawers to her dresser, lighting it, and placing it in the center of the floor. She sat in front of it, the light just enough to illuminate only a portion of the room. It was very dark before. Raven had no trouble reading, or seeing for that fact, in the dark. She had grown accustomed to it over time.
Raven crossed her legs and pulled her cloak over her body, closing her eyes, and repeating the incantation she had read in the book. She repeated it three times, then breathed twice very deeply, and focused all of her attention on Terra, just as the directions had said. She felt herself go cold, as the air around her started to chill. She knew suddenly that she was not the only one in the room. A shiver went down her spine as Raven took a single breath before speaking.
"Terra?" Raven said, almost in a whisper. A deafening silence followed as Raven waited for a response. She received one a few minutes later.
"…Raven?" Came a soft whisper from all around her.
I'm sorry to leave you hanging with such a horrible cliffhanger, but that's the only way I get people to read the next chapters! ;-D. and I also need to get up at six tomorrow for field hockey and it's already ten fifty hehe. Review only if you feel the need to! Constructive criticism is welcome, but sloppy flames will be frowned upon. if you have any qualms with my work, please tell me how it can be fixed. :-D
Thank you so much for reading, everyone! I hope you'll read the next addition!
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