yay, so i couldn't wait to put up another chapter. i might not be able to get on for two weeks though. school's crap. oh well. thanks for the reviews samuraigurl213 and splint. it really meant a lot to know that someone's actually reading this. XD But, ZOMG,these chapters aresooo short. it annoys me. if i wasn't so lazy, i'd go back and add more detail. sorry.
- tired, as always, but forever yours, bAnGmYhEaRt
Chapter Two
…I'm fading…
You always knew this would happen again. Are you prepared?
…For what…?
For return.
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"Hello?" Beast Boy's voice was barely audible. His heart was pounding. And his headache was gone. "Must be my imagination. My own thoughts!" He laughed nervously. He bolted up the stairs. Maybe he could still find Robin and Starfire. He had to stop at the top though to hold his head. "Please be inside," he said to Star and Robin through the door. He pushed it open, roughly, loudly. It had been propped ajar with a wooden wedge. No one had bothered to even close it. He stumbled down a steep hill toward the rear of the building where a floodlight marked yet another door.
He yanked it open and slipped inside. He squinted against the sickly green-white glare of overhead fluorescents. Why were the lights on anyway? Wasn't this plant closed? His brain couldn't worry this problem out, not when he was too busy concentrating on walking. He was in the basement corridor, the passageway to Robin and Starfire's building. He could and would make it to them. Maybe even catch them kissing each other. That would be a riot. Polished wooden floors and taupe-painted walls contrasted sharply with the building's depressed exterior.
"Helllllp…"
He froze again. The voice. It was real. And loud. His eyes shot to its source. A door on the left, in the middle of the corridor. He began to walk toward it. He stopped when he heard footsteps. Two people in the far corridor and coming nearer. Instinctively he backed away. A hulking object, covered with a canvas tarp, was propped against the wall by the stairs. If he could catch Starfire and Robin together in an abandoned building it would be enough to shame them into pulling a few pranks on Raven and Cyborg for him. He hid behind the object.
Their footsteps drew nearer. Rushed. Agitated.
"I heard him all the way across the factory," Starfire said.
"I'm sorry," Robin replied.
Beast Boy was glad they had heard the poor guy that had locked himself into that room. He stood up slightly. Robin was fumbling for something at his belt and Starfire was clutching his other arm.
"This isn't supposed to happen, friend Robin," Starfire said gently. "He's too sensitive."
"My mistake," Robin answered as he inserted a card into a key slot. "I'll take care of it."
They pushed open the door and disappeared inside. Beast Boy slowly emerged from his hiding place and walked closer.
"He's too sensitive"?Robin's voice came from inside the room, muffled and soft: "Is everything all right?"
"Yes," answered the voice that Beast Boy had heard crying for help. It sounded young, like someone his own age. He leaned forward; they were hard to hear.
"What happened?" Robin asked.
"Someone…tried to get in…the window," the person answered.
"No one's at the window now," said Robin.
Starfire spoke next. "Last time it was rats.The fat animals with ugly tails."
Robin sighed. "I guess I should silence him, huh?"
Beast Boy would have screamed if that sentence did not chill him to the bone.
"I'll fix everything, Star. He won't make another sound until we need him."
Beast Boy fled back to his hiding place confused and afraid. He felt dizzy. It wasn't the headache. It was the sound of cold, hollow tapping. And the total silence that followed as his friends left the corridor.