At Hive Five Lair-

Jinx walked out of her room with a hand to her head.

Gizmo walked away from the refrigerator when he saw her. (Unfortunately, Mammoth did not.)

"Are you sure you're alright?", Gizmo asked. "You were up half the night coughing and sneezing."

"Yes, mom.", Jinx told him sarcastically. "It's just a cold or something. I'm not copping out from ultimate power because I'm coughing. Besides, if it was something Dayquil couldn't fix then your scanners would have picked it up and put the place into lockdown."

"This place can go into lockdown?", Seemore asked with a somehow more wide-eyed stare.

Jinx pointed at herself. "If I'm dying from an infectious disease..." Then she pointed at Seemore. "Then you're dying from an infectious disease."

At Titans Tower-

"Waffle day. Waffle day. Take all my cares away.", Cyborg sung. His chef hat wobble precariously on his bald and metal scalp.

"Here's one for Raven.", he said while using a spatula to place a waffle infront of Raven. The girl pushed her hood off her head and her cloak behind her shoulders.

"Here's some for Star." Cyborg dumped a stack infront of the alien princess. Starfire's prehensile tongue licked her lips (and cheeks and eyebrows). She then proceeded to tear into her food.

"I know you may not look it, but I've seen how you like to eat.", Cyborg told Terra. Terra appeared to be as despondent as she was in her med lab bed, despite being dressed in the clothes she originally came to the Titans in.

"You shouldn't have cooked for me.", Terra told him. "I'm not hungry anyway."

"Shoot, I'll take 'em.", Jinx declared. The pink haired girl picked up a spare plate and used it to swipe visciously into the stack of waffles.

"Those are Terra's waffles, Jinx.", Cyborg warned.

"She said she's not hungry, Stone.", Jinx countered.

"She still needs to eat, Jinx!", Cyborg yelled at her.

"She'll leave two for Terra.", Raven cut in, "Won't you, Jinx?"

Jinx frowned. "I didn't think I would."

Raven pushed the tines of her fork to her neck.

Jinx through her hands in the air. "Fine, I'll leave two for Terra."

On one hand, when Jinx through up her hands in exasperation she was holding the stack of waffles on the plate. On the other hand, two 'just happenned' to come down on Terra's plate while the rest landed on her plate at an empty space on the table.

Raven started eating again.

Cyborg looked really confused for a moment. "Uh, here's some for Robin." Cyborg looked back at the group to see what chaos would ensue. Seeing none, he returned to his earlier chipperness.

"And the rest are for me.", Cyborg pointed out.

"Dude!", Beastboy exclaimed.

Cyborg shrugged. "Hey, you weren't here a moment ago when I finished serving."

"Yes, I was.", Beastboy counter argued. "I was all aaaaah...", he said while hanging out his tongue in a hungry stare. "And I was all...", he continued while tapping the surface of his plate.

"But I cooked 'em with extra animal fat. Yeah, that's it!", Cyborg said.

"No, you didn't. You always cook 'em with all natural butter and/"

"Fine, you little grass stain.", Cyborg conceded. He then plopped some of the remaining waffles on Beastboy's plate. Beastboy nearly bit into them before they got there. "Those are my fingers, man!", Cyborg told him.

Later-

"Meditation?", Jinx asked. "For real?"

Jinx, Raven, Starfire and Terra were on or above the roof of Titans Tower. Raven was already floating in a lotus position. Starfire matched her stance in mid air but had an estatic expression on her face rather than a serene one. Terra hugged herself with one arm and let the other one droop. Jinx stood a little off center with one hand planted on a bony hip and the other pointing animatedly as if she was going to rip into someone. "You have got to be/"

"It's how I focus my powers, Jinx.", Raven stated.

"Focussed powers?", Jinx asked. "Why didn't you say so?"

Raven rolled her eyes inside her lids. "I know you can't fly, so just have a seat on the roof."

"Who says I can't fly?", Jinx countered. "You know how much molecular motion there is in air this temp? If even a small part of it just happenned to move in the same way all at once..."

The girl glew a pale pink aura and floated into the air beside Starfire and Raven.

"You can control molecular motion?", Raven asked.

Jinx laughed. "Can't you? But no, seriously, I'm just using the random gusts of wind. But when I fight your true form again/"

Starfire's eyes snapped open. "What fight is the one of which you speak?"

Jinx tried to laugh but it turned into a cough that lasted longer than she would have liked.

"What did we discuss about speaking during meditation?", Raven asked.

Starfire gave an apologetic expression. "Well, yes, friend Raven. But Jinx has said/"

Raven pointed a single finger in the air then brought it against her lips.

Starfire pouted. "Fine.", she said.

"Uh, Terra?", Beast Boy asked. This was the second time he seemed to appear from nowhere. "Could I see you for a moment? If, you know...you're not busy meditating or anything."

Terra looked from Raven to Beast Boy and back again. Raven's eyes rolled again under their lids. "Just go.", she said dismissively.

"Can I go too?", Jinx asked.

"Shut up and meditate Jinx.", Raven scolded.

"Meditating's against my religion.", Jinx told her. "We pray to the one true, living god. Not meditate like some pagan heathen."

"Wow, Jinx. I'm so uninformed about what I'm doing that you've really offended me.", Raven said sarcastically. "Maybe I'll just lose control over such an insiuation right now."

"But, friend Raven.", Starfire started. "You told me that you had studied in the ways of meditation for years with your people on Azar. I don't really want to betray X'hal."

"What did we discuss about talking during mediation Starfire?", Raven asked again.

In Nevermore-

"Finally!", Raven in a red cloak exclaimed. "If those bitches didn't shut the fuck up I would have really /unpronouncable Azerath/ lost it."

"We just started including you in these.", Raven in a yellow cloak stated. "Don't go messing it up."

"Can we focus people?", Raven in a too deep blue cloak asked.

"How are you holding up?", Raven in a yellow cloak asked her.

"I'm in the best shape of my life. Never better.", she replied.

Raven nodded, then readjusted her glasses when they slipped. "And you?"

Raven's four red eyes lost a little of their edge when she smiled. "Yeah, I'm a good little girl."

"Do you really think having her meditate is the answer?", Raven in a grey cloak asked.

"Probably not.", Raven in a yellow cloak admitted. "But if she can just get some of the calm that meditation can bring, perhaps she'll be willing to listen about not bringing the catastrophe she's planning on herself. Or me. Or the world."

"Hey Raven!", Jinx' voice boomed across the landscape.

On the rooftop-

"What!", Raven asked with an annoyed tone.

"I think I can see my house from here.", Jinx said coyly.

Raven rolled her eyes again.

In the Tower-

Beast Boy and Terra walked back inside in complete silence. Niether really knew where they were going. They ended up outside Terra's room. Beast Boy waved a hand at the door. Terra looked at him, then slumped her shoulders. Nodding, she went inside her room with him.

It was just like she remembered it. Apparently, it was the only room that wasn't trashed by the robotic army Slade had sent when she betrayed all her friends. Unless, like idiots, they had repainted the night sky on the cieling and restocked the array of anti-heavy soil soaps for her. As if they were just waiting for her to return despite all she had done to him.

But a sparkle of hope entered her eyes. She could make it up to at least one of them.

"Terra, I/", Beast Boy started but was cut off.

"You can rape me Beast Boy.", Terra told him.

Beast Boy froze in mid syllable. His mouth hung open and refused to close. His eyes refused to blink. He was obviously off balance enough to tip over but somehow didn't fall.

"I know you think I'm pretty.", Terra continued. "When I hurt all of you, I even stole the chance you had with me. That's the only thing I can give back to you."

Terra pulled her shirt over her head. "Don't try to make me feel good, Beast Boy. I don't deserve it. Hurt me if you can. Think only of yourself. I'll try not to scream if it hurts too bad, but even if I do just keep using me."

She finished undressing. Her blond hair hung nearly to her nipples on a nearly non-existant chest. Her hands at first clasped in front of her. Then she decided that was sort of hiding from him, so her arms hung loosely at her sides.

"You don't have to stay in that shape either.", Terra informed. "You can be as big as you like, with claws or whatever if you want to hurt me to make up for the pain I caused when I fought you. You can change into something slimy or dirty to humiliate me. That's what I did when I betrayed you to Slade."

"Please, Beast Boy." Terra started to tear up. "Hurt me. Punish me for what I did. Don't make me just stay and rely on your kindness and desire to help and your heroism. How can you just help and help and help ME! I betrayed you! Punish me!"

Terra was crying. "I'll do all the work if you want! I'll slave for you Beast Boy."

Terra rushed to her knees in front of him. Only when she touched his waist band was he able to react.

"AAAAAAH!", the green titan screamed at the top of his lungs. He shook his arms and legs wildly. The boy pulled more of his hair out. He screamed again and ran out the door.

Clang! At the sound of the scream Cyborg ran to the room from down the hall. As soon as Beast Boy was clear of the door to Terra's room, he bounced off Cyborg's exoskeleton. "What's going on, B B?", he asked.

Terra walked out of the room still disrobed. "Oh.", she started. "I know I'm white and pretty flat and all Cyborg. But you can too...if you want."

Beast Boy screamed again and ran as far away as he could. Cyborg looked after him. Then the he glanced back at Terra. "You know, Beast Boy seems to have a really good plan.", he said. Then he screamed and ran away.

Terra's shoulders slumped. She walked back in her room and continued crying. When she came to her comfortable bed, she decided against it. Flopping onto the floor, she kept crying until she was asleep.

But even in her dreams she wasn't free from her guilt. Images of Beast Boy telling her how her sins made her ugly were added to her nightmares.