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Chapter 3,
Part 2:
Beast Boy sat there with Terra for probably a few hours watching the videos. One or few he wanted so badly to turn them off. Others he couldn't help but laugh. He realized how rotten he had really been. But by the end, the videos where getting old, and he turned them off. "I don't know how you can stand to sit here and watch these all day." He joked at Terra as he took the video out of the VCR and put it back in its case.
Terra shrugged. "I dunno either," she yawned and stood up, stretching her arms above her head. "Well, what do you wanna do now?"
"Not sure," Beast Boy turned to her. "I was going to go see if the others are still in the garage, I could show you the ship if you want. It's like, two times the size of the T-ship." His tone held faint bragging.
Terra grinned. "Okay, sure!" she agreed.
"C'mon," Beast Boy smiled at her then fast walked towards one of the houses back doors. He walked through and into the large backyard that was opened by a brick patio. He walked over towards the garage and opened one of the Dutch doors.
Terra followed him, looking around as they went. She stepped in the garage after him and immediately spotted the ship. Her mouth dropped and her eyes widened. It was HUGE! "Whoa…" she awed. "That's a big ship…"
"Yeah- should check out the inside. I never got to fly it, but rode in it a lot." He walked around the giant white ship till he came to the square line carved into the ship. He entered the code on the button pad next to the carved door, then watched it open. "You guys in here?"
"Hey Grass Stain." Robot Man's voice welcomed.
Terra walked over to Beast Boy, staring at the giant ship in front of her.
"You guys been cleaning this whole time?" Negative Man asked.
"We were watching TV," Terra responded.
"I knew it was too good to be true," Negative Man muttered.
Beast Boy laughed to himself before walking up the platform and into the ship, motioning for Terra to follow. "I had to sit through hours of home videos, you guys lucked out." He snorted, mostly playing though.
Terra grinned guiltily. "What? They were funny," she said, shrugging.
"Mm," Negative Man nodded. Oh yeah, he remembered those things.
"Am I the only one who is actually trying to get SOME of this ship updated?" Mento asked as he walked into the middle part of the ship, where the others were.
Robot Man slowly looked around at everyone then back at Mento. "It kinda looks like it."
Mento gave an annoyed look, "Are the computers updated?"
"Almost..." Robot Man trailed.
"Finish them, now." Mento turned around and left.
"Can I help?" Beast Boy tagged along side Robot Man who was walking towards the giant computer screen.
"I remember those words three years ago, and it ended up with me fixing the computers again." Robot Man joked. "So unless you got better with your computer skills, I'll handle it."
"Right..." Beast Boy grinned, "I'll just be uh- over here... some where."
Terra laughed a little to herself. "This is really nice," she repeated, looking around the ship again as Negative Man stood up to go help Robot Man.
"Sure! Leave me all alone! Thanks guys!" Beast Boy yelled after the two, joking behind turning to Terra. "Yeah, I found out the adult super heroes often get better stuff then the teenagers." He half joked.
"Of course, like always," Terra joked along with a small laugh.
The hours passed by and it had just started getting dark out. Elasta Girl had just announced dinner being ready. "What's for dinner?" Terra asked.
"Spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, some tofu for Beast Boy if he wants any," Elasta Girl listed. "You like spaghetti, right?"
"Yeah!" Terra said.
"Yay!" Beast Boy cheered as he dashed to the kitchen table.
"No running!" Mento reminded. But Beast Boy was already at the table with fork in hand.
"Wait for me!" Terra called after, forgetting about 'no running' as she ran after Beast Boy. She skidded to a stop at the table and pulled the chair next to Beast Boy out and sat down.
Elasta Girl followed, starting to serve everyone a plate of spaghetti.
"Hey look, the foods not BURNT." Beast Boy teased Robot Man, getting an annoyed look from the robot.
"Watch it elf boy."
Negative Man took his usual seat at the table and waited for his food. Soon, everyone's plate had food on it and there was a salad bowl and plate of garlic bread in the middle of the table for anyone who wanted any.
"Can I eat now?" Beast Boy pleaded, in his teenaged mind, going without eating something for longer then four hours meant he was starving. And lunch had been awhile ago.
"Go ahead, start eating," Elasta Girl said from across the table.
Terra reached over for a slice or two of bread. The food smelled so good… it was nearly impossible for her not to start stuffing her face.
Beast Boy stabbed into his food with the fork in an almost brutal way before wrapping the spaghetti around his fork quickly then stuffing it in his mouth, chewing and swallowing. All in near record breaking time, if only Cyborg had seen THAT move!
Mento slapped his forehead (he wasn't wearing his helmet) and shook his head. "Beast Boy, I don't think you're starving." He noted.
Terra was barely listening as she stuffed the food in her mouth, chewed, and swallowed as well. Not quiet as fast as Beast Boy though.
"I guess they're hungry," Elasta Girl half laughed out.
"Obviously," Negative Man said near a monotone.
Robot Man was too busy eating at a fast rate to talk though got Mento's attention. "Cliff! You're as bad as the kids sometimes." He sighed and shook his head.
"Huh?" Terra looked up at hearing the word 'kids'. She shrugged, noticing she wasn't being spoken to and then went back to eating like a starved dog.
A few minutes later Beast Boy held his plate up with both hands. "More?" He asked Elasta Girl with a huge grin.
"Have at it," Elasta Girl said. "Help yourselves. I thought I made too much, but with you two here, maybe I didn't make enough," she joked.
Terra looked up from her plate now too. "Help ourselves? Really?" she asked, grinning too.
"Thanks," Beast Boy scooped up what was left of the tofu and some more garlic bread onto his plate. "There's hardly ever left overs at the tower." He informed before scarfing down the rest of his meal.
"With you, Cyborg, Robin, Starfire, and me, I'd be worried if there was," Terra joked before serving herself more bread and spaghetti. Raven didn't ever really eat like the rest of the Titans did- like a pig, basically. Terra sat back down and ate the rest of her food as though something might blow up if she didn't eat it quick enough.
Supper didn't last much longer. Soon Robot Man had wandered off, probably reading that car magazine he had gotten in the mail the other day. Mento was working on some papers in the study, and as for poor Beast Boy, he was stuck with cleaning the table off. He stacked the plates in his arms and he walked around the table. You could tell which plates had been his and Terra's, they where already sparkly white clean.
Terra was helping Beast Boy clean up, taking the silverware off the table to be cleaned. "Hey, where do these go?" she asked, holding up one of the utensils. "Dish washer, or do you hand wash them?"
"Who hand washes these days?" Beast Boy laughed. "Put 'em in the dish washer." He pointed to the black front dish washer that was connected into the cupboards next to the sink.
Terra rolled her eyes. "We do," she said, clearly annoyed at that fact. "We're like… the only people who hand wash dishes anymore. We gotta convince Robin to get us a dishwasher."
"Tell me about it. Six teenagers and no dish washer, it just doesn't add up into anything good." Beast Boy agreed.
Terra loaded all the silverware into the dishwasher and closed it. She turned around and realized she missed a couple though. "Oh, Beast Boy, can you grab that?" she asked, nodding at the remaining silverware.
Beast Boy was setting the plates in the sink; he looked over at the silverware then back at Terra. "Why should I help you?" He raised his eye brow, though his mouth curled in a joking sort of way. "I'm not your boyfriend, remember?"
Terra gave him an annoyed look, but couldn't help smiling. "I wasn't serious, you know," she assured him.
Beast Boy walked over and scooped the silverware up, "Uh hu, how do I know for sure hmmm?" He teased as he walked back over and handed her the forks and butter knives.
"You could just believe me," Terra said, taking the silverware. She grinned after putting them in the dishwasher. "Unless you're saying you don't want to be my boyfriend."
"...I believe you." Beast Boy said hurriedly before scooping up the rest of the dishs and setting them in the sink. Next he grabbed the wash rag and got it wet then rubbed the table down.
"I thought so," Terra joked, grabbing another rag to clean the counters off.
"We still got a little while before bed, whatcha wanna do?" Beast Boy asked Terra as he rinsed the sink out from grime.
"I have no idea," Terra admitted, scrubbing the counters off more. "What's there to do around here?" she asked.
"I dunno, ADULTS ARE BORING!" Beast Boy yelled, then laughed. He sorta missed joking with the Doom Patrol, even if they didn't usually joke back. Guess he looked at it like a challenge, see if he could make anyone laugh. Probably why he had been attracted to Raven months ago. "We could uh-... I dunno. I might have my old game boy in my room, if you want to play that." He suggested. "Video games, have always been in my life." He joked.
Terra laughed. "Okay, that sounds good."
"Good-O!" Beast Boy grinned. "C'mon!" He threw the rag aside in the sink and jogged out of the kitchen, to the left and up the stairs,
Terra set her rag down in the sink as well and ran to catch up with Beast Boy. "What games do you have?" she asked curiously.
"At the time I mostly played Pokemon," Beast Boy admitted with a grin. "But I might have others."
Terra laughed a little. "I remember that…" she said. That brought back memories, kids running around with cards and other things from the show. "It was really popular at one point."
Beast Boy nodded with another grin. "I got every game, just incase you want to play it." He laughed. "But I really don't remember what all I have. It's been years." They came to his room and he pushed the door open. Indeed, it hadn't stayed clean.
Terra raised an eyebrow. "Okay, I'm sticking with the theory that you sleep walk and thrash and room in the middle of the night," she joked. How ELSE could he have made this much of a mess?
Beast Boy laughed to himself. "It's a gift of mine." He joked.
Terra shook her head, smiling a little. "So," She started. "Where's your gameboy?" she half smirked at the thought of him just knowing where it was after all these years and being able to find it in this mess.
Beast Boy looked around the room then turned to look at Terra with a guilty face. "Heh, start looking?"
"Yeah," Terra chuckled before starting the search for the gaming device. Too bad gameboy's were small… this could take a while. "Man, why didn't you just get a playstation?" the blonde joked.
"Because play stations can't fit in your pocket on long ship rides." Beast Boy laughed as he looked under his desk, then around his book shelf.
"Hmm, good point," Terra briefly thought about his answer as she checked under the bed and the closet.
"Here gameboy, here buddy ol pal! Beast Boy wants to play with you," He called out in sing song.
Terra laughed as she checked the top of a shelf in the closet. Well, she couldn't see but she felt around for it. Her hand touched something rectangular so she snatched it up, grinning. Too her annoyance, she saw it wasn't a gameboy, but a picture and her smile fell. She was about to put it back when something caught her eye. She lowered it again and looked at it. It was a picture of three people. They looked to be a family, a mother, a father, and a little boy.
"I wonder if someone took it..." Beast Boy said after searching his book shelf again. "Or the gremlins got in here and stole it." He joked as he looked over at Terra. "Oo, watcha got?" He asked.
Terra came closer to Beast Boy, holding the picture out. "Who are they?" she asked, curiosity swelling up again.
Beast Boy walked a little closer as well. He took the picture from her and cocked his head to the side as he looked at it. The women in the picture with the honey colored hair, and the man with the spiky brown. Then the little boy wearing shorts and a green T-shirt. His blonde hair pricked out from the too-big safari hat he had on. A small, almost sad grin crept up Beast Boy's face as he stared at it. "It's my Mom and Dad," his voice was lower, he didn't know why. It just was. "And me."
Terra looked down at the picture again, then back at Beast Boy. She just realized… Beast Boy couldn't always have been green. She knew it before, deep down, but had never really thought about it. "Beast Boy?" she asked. "What's wrong?" It wasn't like him to be… well… quiet.
Beast Boy looked up from the picture. "Hu? Oh, it's kinda a long story." He looked back down at the picture he held in his hands.
"I've got time," Terra smiled, glancing to the picture and then Beast Boy again.
Beast Boy glanced up at Terra again, a small grin planted itself on his face once more. "When I was really little, my mom and dad took me with them to Africa. I forget why, I think it was for some job they where doing... but anyways, I ran off on my own and ran into this weird green monkey..." He stopped for a minute as if recalling the memories that stuck in his head. "I got bitten, and tada." He looked down at himself for a brief moment then returned his eyes to Terra. "It almost killed me I heard... but mom and dad found an antidote. It was all a blur most of the time, I don't remember much really. I found out about my powers after I changed into a mongoose, I think it was... I can't remember..." Beast Boy shook his head then resumed. "Not long after I remember mom and dad saying they where going to cross the river... so I stayed on shore to watch them leave..." Beast Boy paused for a long while, clearing his throat and staring at the picture in his hands. The next memories, he hated them. Wished they would go away, but they stayed there no matter what he tried. "Their boat blew, I don't remember if anyone survived. They didn't." Beast Boy shrugged as if it wasn't a big deal.
Terra's grew wide, the went back to the normal size, only a sympathetic look replaced her usual happy one. "Beast Boy…" she didn't know what to say. "I- I'm sorry," she apologized. That would be horrible… watching your parent's death.
Beast Boy shrugged again and looked away. He didn't like recalling most of those memories of his younger days. "It's not your fault, history is history." He made a weak attempt to smile but it failed. After a minute he cleared his throat and set the picture on his desk and turned to Terra. "So," This time his fake grin worked.
"So…" Terra repeated, not really being able to smile back. She never knew what had happened to Beast Boy. After all this time of knowing him… she never knew what he went through.
Beast Boy caught sight of something he looked up towards the higher shelf and saw the edge of his purple see-through gameboy. "Ha, there it is!" He pointed to the gameboy, trying to put the conversation behind him.
Terra forced a grin. "Great," she said. "Now we can start playing!"
"Yeah!" Beast Boy's voice failed to hold excitement, it was kind of hard after talking about somthing like that. He stood up on his bed and grabbed the gameboy; luckily his game holder case was beside it. He jumped back down and handed the items to Terra. "You have the first turn."
"Are you sure?" Terra asked. She felt bad now… not only for Beast Boy but because she had been the one to bring the whole thing up again. "I've never played one of these things," she grinned sheepishly.
Beast Boy grinned, for real this time. "Yeah I'm sure! I would rather watch you play, and I can help if you need me too. But over all its easy." He told her.
"Alright," Terra shrugged, sitting down on his bed to play it. "Er… how do you turn it on?" she asked, grinning again. Okay, so she had NO idea how to play these. At all.
Beast Boy laughed and sat down on the bed as well, right next to her. "The little button on the side." He informed.
Terra turned the gameboy to it's side and turned the switch to 'on'. "Got it," she said, watching the screen.
Beast Boy watched as the screen blinked on then a title of the game he had left in, Pokemon silver. Even if it was an outdated game and system, it wasn't bad. "Ooo, I got a game saved on here." He pointed out. "You can play it or make a new one. I don't care."
"Okay," Terra said, grinning. She moved to the little 'load' button and clicked it, causing the saved game files to come up. She saw one with the name 'Gar' on it. She cocked her head to the side questioningly. "Who's Gar?" she asked, reading the name off the file.
"Uhhh," Beast Boy stared at the screen for a minute. "Stupid nick name." He laughed nervously.
"From where?" Terra asked, clicking okay on that file to start playing it.
Beast Boy shrugged and gave 'I dunno' sounds. He wasn't going to relive his real name, no way. "Ooo, I think you're in Goldenrod!" He pointed to the screen while he talked, then started going into what kind of places were around there.
Terra listened to Beast boy and did what she was told to. The game actually turned out to be kind of fun. They must have sat there for a few hours, though it didn't seem like it. When Terra next looked up at the clock, it said 10:00. "Man, time flies," she half complained.
"Hu?" Beast Boy looked up at the clock and whined. "Aww man..."
"Bed time!" Mento's voice hollered up at them.
"Five more minutes?" Beast Boy called down. When there wasn't a reply. "Guess not," He turned to Terra.
Terra sighed. "Nice try," she complimented. She didn't expect Mento to bend the rules really. He didn't seem like much of a rule bender.
"He's being pretty nice as it is, bed time used to be nine-thirty." Beast Boy laughed as he stood up.
"Wow…" Terra said. "I can't remember the last time I went to bed that early," she half joked, standing up too.
"You didn't live in a military camp." Beast Boy joked.
Terra laughed a little and started for the door. "I'm gonna remember my stuff this time," she said, remembering last night when she'd forgotten her bag.
"An improvement, awesome." Beast Boy laughed, "would you do me a favor and close the door behind you?" He asked as he looked under his bed for his lost night clothes.
"Yeah, sure," Terra smiled as she left the room and closed the door behind her. She went down the hall a little bit to her room and walked in. She found her bag and changed into her pajamas before taking her toothbrush and toothpaste to the bathroom. She didn't bother to close the door, it's not like she needed privacy to brush her teeth.
Beast Boy finished changing into his night clothes, after finding his boxers in the corner under his bed. He was about to climb into bed when he remembered one of his nightly routines. Beast Boy left his room then jogged down the hall till he came to the open bath room. "Night Terra," He waved and grin then turned around and ran back to his room, climbed into bed. And played his gameboy by lamp light.
Terra smiled, repeating the good night back to Beast Boy. As soon as she finished, she headed down the hall again and to her room. She climbed into bed and lay there for a while. It was hard going to bed at 10 when you weren't used to it. But, she finally managed to fall into sleep.
You guys asked for it, so we posted the second part to chapter 3 early for you :-)
Sorry if the plot seems to be going slow, but Grease and I still have a few things planned before the action comes into plot.
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