Changes Chapter 20: Part 20, a teen titans fanfic

Part 20

"Inject him again," Blood commanded.

Best Boy watched through red blood shot eyes as a wavering figure stood over him. He then felt something hit his arm, and then his eyes closed and he lost all feeling.

"I still don't understand what we're doing," Mammoth said, leaning against the wall.

Blood let out a long drawn out breath, "Well what we're going to do is use that monster form to destroy the titans. You see we're filling him with a certain serum that should hopefully turn him into my slave."

"What slave?" Mammoth questioned.

"You dolt! We can use him against the Titans! If we can control his monster like state then with us backing him up we should have enough power to destroy them!" He laughed with glee in his eyes.

Somewhere there was a room full of noise. There was a room full of curiosity and wonder, where big bright eyes twirled from here to there. Somewhere there was a toast being raised, and dinner being served. Somewhere there was laughter and cheers at a game on TV. Somewhere there was someone who was simply happy, writing in crayon – the sun.

But this wasn't somewhere.

There was nothing but silence as she went through the halls and room to room. Without Beast Boy it was dead, no don't think such things, nothing is dead. He is fine, he is okay, and why would they take him just to kill him? No, he was alive, but was he in pain? She wished him a peaceful death then torture.

The team thought they had him, they followed the signal from his communicator but when they followed up they only saw garbage cans, there within the mess was his communicator, but no Beast Boy.

Raven didn't want to know about the interrogation, she had no interest in it. Well it wasn't that she didn't have any interest but she didn't want to hear what they would do to him, she didn't want to hear Jinx say that they would kill him, or that they would torture him, all she wanted was for him to be somewhere, somewhere safe.

She began thinking of the happy times that her and Beast Boy had shared. She wished that she could remember them better, clearer, even more so she wished that she could just share another one of those moments – wait now you are thinking as if he was gone. He's not gone! He's just missing, he's okay… somewhere.

Jinx looked up to see Robin and Cyborg standing over her. "Ugh," she held her head blinking several times, she looked around, she was in a brightly light room, at least bright to her. "Where am I? What am I doing here?"

"Your at Titan Tower," Cyborg answered.

"And you're going to stay here until we get some answers," Robin followed, "And don't think about doing anything fancy, our defenses in this Tower are quite good and you'd hate to show up as an enemy to them."

"Fine," she spat up, now sitting up against a wall, "What do you want?"

"Where's Beast Boy?" Cyborg asked.

She shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know. He's your teammate."

"No, Blood took him, now where did he take him to?" Cyborg questioned.

Jinx shrugged her shoulders yet again, "How am I supposed to know?"

Robin threw one of his 'sharp' toys, and it struck right next to Jinx's head ripping into the wall, "Now where would he be if your boss took him?"

Jinx bite her lip.

Cyborg sighed and kneeled down in front of her, "Listen we don't want to do this, but as you said Beast Boy is our teammate, and we will do what it takes to find him, now you can cooperate and this could go easily, or you an make this difficult which will end with us getting the answers anyway. So you have two options, 'A' you make this easy and we all leave happy and alive, or 'B' where we get our answers and I can't promise you anything. Now which will it be?" His face close to hers, his red eye staring straight into her.

She gulped, "Downtown, underneath the Splich building, that's where he should be, that's Bloods' new base of operation."

The Splich building was a tall tower, Splich was an insurance company, and it was also one of the largest towers if not the largest in the entire city.

"How do you gain access to it?" Robin folded his arms across his chest.

Jinx sighed and stood-up, "I'll get you there under one condition."

"You're not in position to make demands," Robin was going to continue but Cyborg cut him off.

"What do you want?"

"Out of here, out of all of this! I don't want to be a bad guy and I don't want to be a good guy, I just want to be normal and just be another person. These dumb powers I have got me into a world of politics I don't want to be a part of. I just want to be like anyone else, I'm tired of fighting, I'm tired of learning to hate others and I'm tired of fighting all of you. It doesn't make any sense to me anymore and I don't understand why we fight each other anymore, I only know two things. The first being that fighting seems to get you nowhere in life and number two is that number one isn't living at all."

Robin took a breath, "We'll try to help you."

Cyborg shook his head, "Listen we'll help you, as long as you help us get Beast Boy back, we'll protect you from Blood after that till you can hide away and not have to worry about him anymore. Deal?" He held out his robotic hand.

She shook his hand, "Deal."

Starfire grabbed the kettle and placed the water within the cup that contained a bag inside of it. She had seen Raven do it so many times that it wasn't difficult for her to figure out how to make her friends relaxing drink. Raven had been sitting on the couch for a long time and Starfire had been too afraid to talk to her, but she figured it would be good to get her friend her tea and then try to talk to her then. Without Beast Boy illuminating the room with his video games the place didn't seem the same, and she had a feeling that Raven was thinking that much more immensely than she was.

She flew over and placed the tea in front of Raven, "I had got you the tea of herbal honey that you love."

She took the cup, "I don't love."

Starfire sat on the seat next to the couch, "But what of friend Beast Boy."

Raven glanced over her, "What of him?"

"You love him right?"

Raven stared down at her tea and didn't say anything. It was quite for several minutes.

"You can be truthful with me friend," Starfire remarked, "I wish just to help."

Raven took a deep breath, "What makes you think I don't trust you?"

"I feel as though you are not trusting me with what you feel."

"That doesn't mean I'm not being truthful, just means I'm being quite."

"Well I wish you'd allow me to help," Starfire sighed, "Please?"

"You can't help me."

"Why not?"

Raven closed her eyes, "Because I am not sure what I feel."

"Let me help you understand your feelings, remember I was once like you," She gave her friend a lighthearted smile, "I understand that you are very confusing but I think that you can truly understand what is going on if you step outside yourself for a moment and us think about it honestly."

Raven raised her brow at Starfire, "I'm scared," she took a sip of the tea but it didn't get rid of the chill she was feeling, "I'm really scared, I'm so afraid," She shook her head, "If I would've been paying attention to the battle more closely I could've stopped all this from happening!" Her cup shattered and cut into her hands, she wrapped her hands quickly in her cape. She cringed in pain.

Starfire quickly grabbed the pieces of the cup and threw them out. She was going to get some bandages for Raven but she had already healed her hands. She then went and got a towel and began trying to remove the tea from the rug and couch, but since both the rug and the couches were dark, it wasn't really visible.

"This is what happens," Raven rubbed a hand through her hair then held it to her forehead, "This is my curse."

"You are not cursed my friend, you are much the opposite!" Starfire exclaimed.

"On my planet it is not uncommon for people to go through their entire life and not find a certain someone that truly loves them. They search their entire lives because on my planet finding that one person is the true purpose in ones life. It brings you happiness that the entire universe could not give you! You have already found that person I believe, and since you already know who it is, then you are truly not cursed! You are blessed!"

"Me and Beast Boy are not like that," She sighed.

"Now you are lying to yourself. Why? I do not know," Starfire frowned, "I wished you would be truthful to yourself."

"Why would I lie?"

"Because as you said you are scared."

Raven looked forward at the wall and said nothing.

"It is okay to be scared Raven, we all get scared, to be scared is to be," She paused, "Well I guess human," she stifled a small laugh.

Raven laid her head back and now was staring at the ceiling, "I am so confused. I'm angry at myself for letting this situation happen, I'm confused with how I feel towards Beast Boy and I am just torn thinking of what could be happening to him," She shook her head, "Just, just lost."

Starfire lowered her head, "I am sorry too."

"Why?"

"I feel bad because my friends feel bad."

"You work for Brother Blood, you are an animal you will destroy."

"I work for Blood, I am an animal, I must destroy."

- end of part 20