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Teen Titans: The Alpha Five

Mind Games – Part 5

He still couldn't get over the fancy digs she had going on here. The 'Titans Tower' 'Catchy' He had thought as she led him through what she said had been his home, their home with the other Titans that he'd yet to meet. He'd tried to listen as she spoke on her communicator to them, but he hadn't caught what had been said. She'd left him with old photos and mission reports.

"Are you ok?" She asked as she reappeared, he wasn't sure what to say.

"All these missions, all these victories. They make us sound like heroes."

"Yeah I guess it does. You're one of them don't forget." He looked at a mission report about a fire that had been in a block of flats in which they'd had to rescue families that were trapped inside.

"I don't think I can live up to that." Phoenix looked at him with a gentle smile.

"But, you already have." He looked at her as she smiled, putting a hand on his shoulder for a moment before going to check on the other Titans again, leaving him with the old photographs.

"How is he?" Zeru asked as Phoenix met them by the car in the garage as they arrived back at the Tower.

"Ok, I've left him looking at our old mission reports and some old photos. Did you get the cure?" Li grinned.

"Right here." He was clutching a small vile of a clear purple liquid. "It should give him his memory back, could cause him drowsiness though." Phoenix nodded, as Li handed her the vile and they walked back into the main Tower.

"Do you mind if I do it? Its just, he trusts me, I don't want to get him angry or scared again by suddenly turning up with you guys." The other Titans nodded, understanding Phoenix's request and proceeding to the main room where they would be out of the way.

Taiyou couldn't believe what he'd read, it all seemed so extraordinary, but the photographs of the criminals, the mission reports, it had all definitely happened. As he sat looking through the photos he let the images wash over him, not trying to remember as Phoenix had promised she would cure him. He didn't know what made him trust her, it was just this odd feeling that he felt he should and that he just somehow knew he could trust her with his life.

As she returned he spotted the needle with some clear purple liquid in the syringe behind it.

"Is that what's going to make me remember?" He asked, looking back to the photos and Phoenix nodded.

"It should do. Though you might like to know that the guy that did this to you is behind bars now." Taiyou nodded quietly.

"That's good to know." He looked at a picture of five teenagers, two of which he recognised, one of course was himself, the other was the girl he was entrusting his memory with now. The group was at some sort of carnival, their happy faces seemed to bore into his eyes, but more so the two faces that struck him, causing him to think of the night before when he and Phoenix had almost kissed, but she'd pulled away.

"You know yesterday, when you said that, when you first met me, you thought something would happen between us?" Phoenix was blushing slightly, but Taiyou was too busy looking at the photo to notice. She stepped closer to him to look at the photograph.

"Did you mean me, or him?" He asked, pointing at the photo and as Phoenix looked at it her face softened and her blush faded.

"My Taiyou's in here." She said, placing her hand gently over his heart as she smiled at him "He's my best friend, and he means the world to me, I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to him." Taiyou nodded and rolled up his t-shirt sleeve, allowing Phoenix to give him the injection.

As the liquid dispersed into his blood system Taiyou felt all of his nerves convulse, pain reached the back of his mind as it felt like it was exploding. It was over as quickly as it started and as he came to his senses he found that he was clutching onto Phoenix for dear life, she seemed as though she'd been taken by surprise and was trying to keep him standing.

"Hi." He grinned at her in a slightly goofy way as she smiled back.

"Hi." He continued to grin for a moment before he slumped in her arms, as she tried her best to stop him from dropping to the floor. 'Could cause him some drowsiness try flipping unconsciousness!' She thought to herself as she dragged Taiyou over to his bed, somehow managing to get him onto it and pulling a blanket over him. She looked at him for a moment, glad to have her Taiyou back, she'd known it the instant he'd looked at her, hell somehow she knew he was back when she'd found herself suddenly in a head lock.

"I'm glad to have you back Tae. I really am." She whispered quietly, going over to his desk and picking up the carnival photo, looking at it and smiling before holding it to her heart like she had done days ago as she'd grieved.

"I truly am."

Awwww a bit of heartfelt fluff never hurt anyone LOL. And so ends the tale entitled - Mind Games, stay tuned for a rather long chapter coming up.