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Changes pt 3
Raven mumbled as she got up upon hearing a knocking on her door. She opened it slightly and peered through, "What?"
Beast boy stood there and inhaled a slight gulp, "May I talk to you please?"
"You should be sleeping," she uttered.
"So should you," he rebutted.
"You woke me," Raven lied and backed away from the slightly ajar door and sat down on the edge of her bed, and waited. After several moments Raven sighed, "You can come in."
Beast boy slid in fitting through the small opening and then closing her door quietly. He stared at her momentarily as she sat there on her bed. He so badly wanted to sit next to her, but already felt out of place. He stood up with his back against the wall and slumped down and sat on the floor, "I want to talk about what happened yesterday, or well, last night, or I mean this morning, or I, um, I…."
"Get to the point!" she placed her hand to her forehead and rubbed it annoyed.
Beast boy's eyes bounced back and forth around the room, trying his best to avoid the abyss that lied within Raven's hood, "Well um, we have training in an hour and I don't want to go."
Raven blinked and looked at him confused, "Then shouldn't you be talking to Robin?"
He placed his hands up and waved, "No! No! No! You don't get it! I'm," he looked down and an ashamed look came across his face, "I'm afraid."
"Of changing into the beast?" Raven asked.
He shook his head, but then seemed to be nodding at the same time, he sighed and rubbed his hands across his face several times and then laid them against his head, "I'm afraid of changing into anything! I'm afraid that if I try to change into a mouse, a bear, a snake, anything that I'll change into the beast instead, I…." He moved his hands down to hide his eyes and face so that Raven couldn't see his tears, "I don't want to leave the team. This is the only home really that I have ever had for the most part, or at least the longest, I just, it's growing, I don't know how else to explain it! It's like me wanting to tell a joke or something? Like I always want to tell a joke and I get a sense of excitement when I tell one, it's kinda the same thing I guess? Like I have this constant feeling to change, I have this constant want to just let it go and I'll be happier, and it's taking everything I have to stop that from happening, it's –"
His rambling thoughts were cut short by the Titan's alarm, so much for training.
Beast boy didn't change he went in Cyborg's 'baby' his head staring out the window the whole way wondering how he was going to fight, wondering how he was going to be helpful to his team. His mind began to drift to seeing Raven on her bed. Her smooth legs dangling off the edge, her enchanting violet eyes calling him from her hood, why was he thinking of her in this way?
"Beast boy come on!" Cyborg shouted through the outside of the car. Beast boy quickly unbuckled himself and exited looking at what was happening in front of him.
They were in downtown Jump City; Cinderblock was mindlessly destroying things left and right.
"We're gonna' knock a hole in that thick head!" Robin called, as his R-cycle jumped from a rooftop he threw several exploding discs, as he flipped off his bike and landed gracefully on his feet.
Cinderblock angered by the blasts whacked the building next to him as hard as possible breaking the top stories in half. Starfire and Cyborg both blasted him after he had done this, and Raven tried her best to slow the debris onto the ground to stop further destruction.
Beast boy stood there – he stood and watched.
The blast from Starfire and Cyborg knocked Cinderblock onto his backside. Reaching to his right he picked up a sedan and tossed it blindly up into the air.
"Star!" Robin called. Starfire quickly flew down and picked Robin off the ground so to avoid the car.
Beast boy gulped and watched the car smash down onto the road in front of him. Move! But he just stood there as a tire flew off the car and crashed down into his chest.
Raven looked down and reached her arm out trying to gather power to stop Beast boy's movement but he was too far. Beast boy flew backwards and toppled backwards into a fruit stand having it crash atop of him. Raven felt the anger rip through her body and quickly turned her head over to Cinderblock who was steadying himself back onto his feat. She grabbed the car that Cinderblock and thrown and launched it back at him. This knocked Cinderblock back so that he was just balancing on one leg.
"Now!" Robin called out, throwing several more exploding discs at the stone creature.
Cyborg shot his cannon and Starfire blasted him with her eyebeams. Cinderblock was knocked back down into the ground creating a tremendous tremor breaking the road in half for several feet.
Cyborg let out a sigh not seeing Cinderblock moving, "Booyah!"
I hear a rustling something is flowing, moving. It's a rushing sound it sounds almost like a waterfall?
Starfire flew down over to Robin and Raven readied herself incase Cinderblock started moving again. Starfire was about to say something to Robin about getting to Beast boy when she heard muffling. Looking over Robin's shoulder she saw a roof and an entire building about to collapse, "RAVIN LOOK OUT!"
Raven looked up eyes wide and full of fear at tons upon tons of brick was about to land atop her and knock her out of the air and bury her to the ground. She closed her eyes, but nothing happened.
Before she knew it she heard heavy breathing and then was placed upon the ground. She looked up and instantly jumped backwards seeing the Beast in front of her, his eyes glaring. Robin, Starfire and Cyborg ran towards him, but stopped when the Beast let out a growl and then bent his knees. He held his hands out readying himself, his claws appearing to have grown ready to tear flesh and bone.
"Adonis?" Starfire asked tilting her head.
"No," Robin assured her shaking his head, "Adonis is in jail."
"So that's," Starfire gulped and Cyborg finished her sentence for her, preparing his sonic cannon, "It's Beast boy."
The Beast growled again ready to pounce, "Beast boy stop!" The Beast's head turned towards Raven who lowered her hood and gave him a pleading look, "Beast boy I know you're in there, control it!"
The Beast cocked his head as though he understood and suddenly the fur began to go away, the claws began to shrink, and so did his body. The Beast turned into a battered Beast boy whose arms crossed across his chest in pain and he doubled over falling to his knees, gasping for air.
Robin immediately took control of the situation, "Get him back to the tower now!"
Starfire clung to Robin as they look at their battered friend as he laid there upon the table. His shirt was off and his chest was wrapped in bandages. Raven had healed him as best she could, but she couldn't heal broken ribs she could only decrease the inflammation around them. She was glad Beast boy only suffered from three broken ribs and nothing more. She was also glad that he had gone in and out of sleep since they've got him here. Cyborg medicated him pretty well so he, Beast boy, was out of it at the moment, but Cyborg said it would take their fallen titan at least a month and a half to two months to completely heal. As Raven pondered all these things she didn't notice that her fellow titans had left.
Cyborg was attempting to make lunch and Robin and Starfire were attempting to try and gain an appetite, truth was though that none of them were really hungry.
Robin sighed again, "I should've not let him come. He wasn't exactly with it before we left."
"Tell me about it," Cyborg answered with a nod, "I called to him several times before he got out of the T-car."
Robin peered up at his friend, "Thanks Cy."
"No prob, Rob," He gave a small smirk before grabbing something from the fridge.
Starfire placed her gentle hands on Robin's shoulder and tenderly tried to console him, "Please friend Robin it is not your fault. There was no way for you to know that Beast boy would lose control of his DNA."
Cyborg shook his head, "No Star it wasn't the DNA this time. Something else made him change," Cyborg stopped cooking and rubbed his chin, "I just don't know what."
"Should we bind him?" Robin questioned, gaining a stare from both of his friends, "Well I mean we're not sure how he turned into that creature again, and I'm not sure he knows how he did it. He could change into it again; it's a risk to not hold him to any constraints."
"How much damage can he do with three broken ribs?" Cyborg queried.
Robin took a second, "Well his ribs didn't really seem to be bothering him when he transformed."
Starfire nodded, "Yes I was quite fearful that our friend was going to attack us," she sighed, "I do not want to fight friend Beast boy but at the same time I feel that binding our friend in any way is wrong."
Robin gave Starfire a small smile, "Well if you think it's wrong then we won't."
Starfire gave Robin a hug, "I thank you."
Raven had moved a chair over towards Beast boy and sat there staring at his sleeping form, he had an oxygen mask over his face to help him breath. He had saved her and then he listened to her when she asked him to stop, buy why? Why did he listen to her? Why did he come to her this morning and then feel comforted last night from her?
She sighed wishing for him to tell her a joke that would break her out of her concentration, she never thought she'd miss his humor but she did. Beast boy usually was everything she wasn't: friendly, jovial, social, energetic, and loud. Seeing him in the past twenty four hours going from all those things to depressing lost and then without control made her upset. She didn't want him to be like her and truth be told deep down, she wished she could be more like him.
She didn't notice that she was rubbing her hands through his hair, again.
end of part 3