You Can Never Forget

Chapter 4: Siblings

"I can't track her," sighed Beast Boy. The rain had prevented her scent from staying, and even her footprints wouldn't stay, so they had nothing to go off of to find the Hive Five or Terra.

"I thought you said she couldn't use her powers," confronted Cyborg.

"She couldn't, or at least I thought she couldn't."

"It would make sense though…" said Raven. "If she has amnesia, she would still be able to use them, but if she didn't remember that she had them in the first place, it would take an incident like this for instinct to kick in."

"Are we sure she was kidnapped?" asked Starfire.

"From what I gathered, she ran away, and they ran after her. But no one saw anything after that. It's a very good possibility, since if she took them down, we would've known," Cyborg explained.

"They're not getting away with this…" growled Beast Boy.

"They won't," Robin reassured him.

"The usual?" asked an old waitress behind the counter.

"Huh?" Tara looked up, confused.

"Sorry, you looked like someone who used to come around here from time to time," the woman apologized. "So, what'll it be?"

Tara looked down at the menu as a voice next to her said, "I'm buying."

She looked to see a guy, older than her, with blonde hair and eyes just like hers. She stared at him in shock due to the uncanny resemblance. "Who are you?"

"You don't recognize your own brother? I'm Brion," he introduced.

"What do you want?" she asked, skeptically.

"To protect my little sister."

"Ahem," the woman cleared her throat.

"Oh, yeah, uh… I'll have a cheeseburger and a sprite."

"I'll have the same," he added on.

"If you're really my brother, where have you been all this time?" she asked.

In a whisper, he said, "Fighting crime in Gotham." His voice was normal again. "When I heard you were missing, I came to find you."

"How?"

"The sibling thing."

"I see…"

"Anyway, why d'ya run away?"

"Because…" she sighed. "I just can't stay there. I'm too dangerous. And I have no idea what's going on…"

"So you ran away, leaving anyone that could help you behind?"

"What're you saying?"

"I know more about you than you know about yourself. You used to be a Teen Titan-"

"I've heard that story before. But he was mistaken…"

"The Terra he knew could control the earth, right?"

"…"

"Anyway, as I was saying, they could've given you answers."

"So you're saying I should just go back?"

"I'm not telling you to do anything. In fact, I didn't expect you to."

"Then why are you here?"

"Just checking on you."

"I'm fine."

"You don't seem fine. But I'll leave you alone if you want. But after food."

The waitress returned, placing a pair of plates in front of them.

They finished eating and he turned to her, saying, "You sure you'll be fine?"

"Yeah."

"You have a place to stay tonight?"

She lied, "Yeah."

He seemed to buy it "Ok then. If you need me, I'll be in Gotham." In a whisper, he added, "Look for Geo-Force."

He paid for their dinners and got up and left.

After a minute, Tara got up and left. She wondered around for a couple hours, most likely past midnight, until she found a cave where she could spend the night. She walked reached into her book bag for a flashlight and pulled out a blanket. Using her book bag as a pillow, she laid down on the cold floor of the cave. It was strange how this felt familiar to her, even though she could never remember doing this.

It didn't take long for her to get to sleep.

Sunlight shone through the mouth of the cave, waking up the young geomancer. Opening her eyes, she saw a shadow of a person, featured unidentifiable against the brightness from outside.

"Good morning, Terra," said Slade's cold voice.