Disclaimer: See first chapter.

A/N: ScarletAngel68, you'll just have to wait and see. (

Oh, by the way DarkXeno, I like "Nevermore".

Chapter 3

"NOOOOOOO!"

Slade didn't flinch at the crash of a priceless Ming vase breaking. Instead, he lifted his teacup to his lips and took a sip.

Terra lost the energy to destroy more artifacts and fell to her knees sobbing. "You... you said he wouldn't be hurt," she whimpered. "You said he wouldn't be in the way."

Slade sighed and set his cup and saucer on the table at his elbow and picked up the mask he had placed there earlier. He was sitting in the shadows, so his apprentice could not see his face, which was exactly the point. Placing the mask over his face, he turned to face Terra. "Really, Terra. There is no need for these histrionics."

"But he's dead!" she sobbed. "I killed him! I... killed... him."

"Not at all, Terra," Slade said, walking passed her to a monitor.

"Wha... what do you mean?" Terra sat up, no longer crying.

"Do you really think I would let you have him as a pet if he were as weak as you seem to think he is?" He pressed a button and a hospital room appeared on the screen. In the hospital bed laid Beast Boy, unconscious, bruised, and with a bandage around his head, but apparently, none the worse for wear. And definitely alive. Terra gasped, her eyes glowing with surprise and hope. Slade didn't notice. His eyes were focused on the shapeshifter lying on the hospital bed. Behind his mask, Slade smiled. "Yes, you will get what you want." His eyes narrowed menacingly.

"And so will I."

Robin looked at the door of the waiting room again. Seeing no doctor or nurse with news about Beast Boy, he resumed his pacing and bumped into Cyborg, who was following his example. Starfire, who had been allowed to leave her own room to be with her friends, was sobbing softly into a tissue, her leg in a cast.

Robin paused to look at Raven. She seemed to be taking the accident the hardest. She was sitting next to Starfire, back straight, staring blankly ahead, her face even paler than usual.

Robin had rushed back to where the Titans had split up after chasing the hologram to find Raven in an awful state. She had been kneeling next to Beast Boy's body, just staring at him. As near as he could tell, she had used her powers to dig him out of the rubble and had gone into shock. Robin had check Beast Boy's pulse, then called Cyborg and told him to send an ambulance.

He didn't know what the doctors were doing with him. Surely just a few broken bones wouldn't take this long to wrap up. It was as if they were operating on him in there. But that would only be necessary if...

Robin wouldn't let himself finish the thought.

He was about to start pacing again when the waiting room door opened. An elderly man, maybe about fifty, in a white lab coat came out. He spoke briefly with the receptionist, then came over to the teens.

"Hello. I'm Doctor Christopher." The man smiled and held out his hand. Robin shook it, but couldn't smile. "How's Beast Boy? Is he..."

"He has a pretty severe concussion," the doctor said, "but that seems to be the worst of the injuries."

Starfire looked up hopefully. Raven actually focused on the doctor.

"Beyond that," he continued, "he only has a few cracked ribs, some cuts that I already stitched up, and bruises of varying sizes." Dr. Christopher smiled cheerfully. "I must say, to come away from a fall like that with only mild injuries, he must be a very strong young man."

Robin let out a relieved breath. "Can we see him now?"

The doctor thought a moment. "Well... he's still unconscious, but I don't see any problem with that."
His first though was, Did anyone get the license number of that tank?

Beast Boy tried not to move, but no matter how hard he tried, he still had to breathe. Taking shallow breaths, he tried to remember what had happened. Suddenly, it all came back to him. Terra, Raven, the boulders, the avalanche.

The pain.

Fortunately, he had gotten knocked unconscious before he was completely buried.

Unfortunately, he was making up for that now.

He started to open his eyes, but even that hurt. His breath came out in a hiss, which faded into a moan. Probably better to keep my eyes closed.

"Beast Boy? Are you awake?"

"Robin?" Beast Boy considered trying to open his eyes again, just to make sure he wasn't delusional, but decided against it.

"Don't worry, Beast Boy. The doctors say you're going to be fine."

"They also said you were really lucky to be alive." This from Cyborg, relief and the last dregs of worry clear in his voice.

"We are all so grateful that you are all right." Starfire punctuated this by plowing her nose. Loudly.

He waited for Raven to add her good wishes to the rest, but he didn't hear a thing from her. Panic rose instantly in his chest area. "Where's Raven?" he asked. "Is she all right? Did she get caught in the slide?"

"Calm down, Beast Boy. She's right here." Robin paused. "I think she's in shock."

Beast Boy relaxed, but not much. "I'd open my eyes, but it hurts to much," he joked, even though it was entirely true.

There was a long pause. Then Cyborg spoke. "BB, your eyes are open."

Beast Boy felt his eyes widen in surprise, so he knew his friend wasn't joking. "Whoa, it must be, like, pitch black in here. What, the lights not working or something?"

There was another pause, this one longer and filled with almost tangible tension.

Starfire broke the silence. "But, Robin," she whispered, "the lights are on."

Beast Boy froze, then, ignoring the pain because he no longer felt it, he ran his fingers over his blank, unseeing eyes.
"Blind?" Terra cried. "Oh, no!" She resumed sobbing. "Oh, no. Blind! It would have been better if I had killed him!"

Slade ignored his histrionic apprentice and stared murderously at the screen. This ruins everything! he thought furiously, his hand curled into a deadly fist.

Then, suddenly, it loosened. Slade turned from the screen to his student. "As I said before, Terra, there is no need for hysterics."

The tiny blonde breathed deeply a few times before answering. "But... but he's blind. Doesn't that ruin everything?"

"Not at all," he answered, turning back to the screen. "It only... changes a few things."
A/N: Please R/R!