Chapter Five: Cameron
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans
Beast Boy was ecstatic, to say the least, about getting the rings. He bagged up all his clothes and after some difficulty found a pair of fairly decent jeans and a clean shirt.
Raven had on the same outfit she had been wearing the day they went out to breakfast (chappy2)
"Well are we ready to go?" Raven nodded
"I believe we are." they started for the mouth of the cave. Suddenly Beast Boy stopped and Raven looked back at him
"Raven, look. Since I'm not really a Titan anymore I want you to call me by my real name. Okay?"
"Sure. What is it?"
"Garfield Mark Logan. Gar for short." Raven smiled and floated off the edge of the cliff and levitated his bag into the air beside her
"Let's go." they took off for the city with Beast Boy as an owl and Raven floating alongside him.
Gar (that's his name now) shoved all his clothes into the washing machine with difficulty then slipped some quarters in and started the machine. Then he went to sit on a bench with Raven
"So, once we're done here what do you wanna do?" Raven shrugged and looked around the store. People milled around talking to each other or watching their clothes
"Beast- I mean Gar, look at this." she whispered pulling a newspaper off the counter. On the front headline was a photo of the Titans but above Beast Boy's figure someone had written 'traitor' Gar snorted then began to read to story
'Yesterday after the Titans fought the HIVE this reporter asked Robin, the team's leader, why the green changeling known as Beast Boy was not with them. Robin responded that Beast Boy had left the Titans but refused to give further details. After research this reporter has found that Beast Boy was accused of stealing while with the Titans and disappeared when Robin tried to bring him to justice.'
Gar restrained himself from yelling and instead hissed under his breath
"Liars." Raven touched his arm lightly
"Calm down Gar. You and I both know that you never stole anything while you were with the Titans. It doesn't matter what other people think." Gar glanced at her
"I guess you learned that the hard way huh?"
"Yes. I did." Raven responded softly.
After the laundry was done Raven teleported it back to the cave and the two wandered down the street until they reached downtown. It was almost two and neither of them had had lunch so they went to Raven's favorite café. She ordered herbal tea and a sandwich while Gar had a latte and some soup
"Rae?" Gar asked quietly. The girl looked up in surprise
"Yes?"
"Do you think Robin wants to put me in jail. I mean after all this and stuff?" Raven sighed and put the poetry journal she been writing in, in her small black backpack
"I don't know B- Gar. Ever since you left he's… changed. He's becoming more obsessed and more distant. Star's really worried about him." Gar shook his head
"You know, I think if Robin wasn't so serious all the time he might've realized how much Star likes him." Raven nodded
"She told me the other night that he got on her case for talking about you. He refuses to believe he did anything wrong."
"Poor Star, she's always been head over heels for him. If he breaks her heart," he shook his head again "she might never get over it. Then I'd really have a reason to hate him."
"So you're not really mad at him for sort of kicking you out of the Titans?" Gar shrugged and took a swing of his latte
"Not really. He's just torn between his duty to the city and a friend. I can understand that." Raven covered his hand gently
"Terra?" Gar nodded fighting the old pain that welled up in his chest. Fighting the geomancer had torn him apart
"Ya. So I understand what he's going through. I just hope he won't hurt Star. She's like my little sister."
"Same here. If he does anything to her I'll…" Raven started then sighed letting her anger flow out. Gar finished off his soup, they paid and went outside.
"Hey Raven?"
"Yes?"
"Would you mind showing me that store you told me about?" Raven looked back at him with a cocked eyebrow. After a moment she smiled
"Looks like I'm rubbing off on you Garfield." he smiled
"Fine. We're rubbing off on each other. Now will you?"
"Of course. Come on." she dragged him into the mall and walked around looking for the store. After getting lost three times they finally found it.
Gar bought three pairs of black jeans and several tee shirts and black hooded sweatshirts. Raven milled around the store looking at this and that.
It was almost three thirty when they left the store. Raven teleported Gar's purchases back to the cave then they walked down the street towards the bridge. Suddenly Gar stopped in the middle of the sidewalk. Raven looked back at him then at what he was staring at. She frowned. The Titans were gathered in the nearby park playing catch with a Frisbee
"What do you want to do?" she asked gently. Gar looked longingly at his friends then shoved his hands down into his pockets
"Just go home I guess." Raven nodded and pulled him into an alley then teleported them through the air.
The cave was dark so Beast Boy flicked on a flashlight he'd left right inside the entrance. Raven followed him in and frowned. The clothes she'd sent back were not there
"Hey Raven, you're sure you sent those clothes here?" Gar asked looking around the cave with the flashlight
"Positive. I'm familiar with the area. They should be on your bed." to both of the teen's surprise there was a deep chuckle from back further inside the cave
"Finally, you're back." a figure emerged from the shadows revealing Cameron with a deranged grin on his face "I was growing impatient."
"What do you want?" Raven asked in an icy monotone. The man looked at her with a strange glint in his eyes
"I want my lackey back. I want my super-thief back." suddenly he disappeared. Raven looked around wildly. Gar quickly slid off his rings. Soon he was Beast Boy once more
"What do you want with me Cameron?" he demanded looking around. Suddenly the man appeared beside him leaning against the wall
"Do you know how hard it is to run a black market when I can't break into labs and steal their blueprints?" he grabbed Beast Boy around the throat "That's why I need you again."
"Hey buddy." Raven hissed, the man turned towards her and was hit in the gut by several chunks of earth "Hands off." the man spit out sand and glared at her
"You little half demon wretch!" he yelled. Raven's purple eyes widened. No one but the Titans knew who her father was "You will not interrupt me again!" he threw a hand out in her direction. Raven felt as if someone had pushed her violently as she slid backwards a few feet
"Beast Boy, follow me!" she yelled. The changeling took to the skies as a falcon.
Raven spun in the air and threw both her hands together and pointed them at the man before shouting her famous mantra. The earth beneath his feet cracked and rumbled before trying to grab him in the shape of fists and bird claws. Suddenly a stab of pain went through Rave's mind like a knife. She screamed and fell. Beast Boy morphed into a pterodactyl and grabbed her.
He laded a few miles away in a cave where he had stashed a few supplies away. Just in case Robin found him or something. Raven wasn't moving and her pulse was going crazy
"Come on Rae. You can't do this to me. I need your help. I need you to stay with me." the girl didn't respond. Beast Boy grit his teeth in determination. Raven needed help. Medical help. And there was no way he could explain how she was a half demon from another dimension and therefore need special medical treatment. No, he'd have to take her to the one person who had treated Raven hundreds of times. Cyborg. But that meant going back to the Tower.
He glanced down at the girl. Her head lay in his lap, her chest rose and fell only an inch at a time. He swore in African under his breath then set her down so he could morph
"Okay Raven. You just hold on. I'm gonna get you some help." with that he turned into a pterodactyl and picked her up taking off for the slightly distant Titans Tower