I Remember Chapter 3: Too Painful, a teen titans fanfic

Chapter three: Too Painful

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It was the night after Beast Boy refused to go anywhere other than his room, and now, a figure ― Beast Boy, was walking down the hallway, and into an orange and purple room, little lights on the ceiling, mimicking stars ― Terra's room. The automatic doors made a swift swoosh sound before revealing the bare room to the shape shifter.

"Terra…" He loved and hated that name. He loved the way she laughed, everything of her. He hated the way it haunted him. Everyday, every night he heard her laughing, as if to taunt him of his sadness and grief.

He walked to the centre of the room. Accidentally he knocked over the heart shaped box, the box that took him an entire night to make, just for Terra. The box crashed painfully to the ground, and broke into a few delicate pieces. The contents inside tumbled out: The butterfly clip, a few photos…Everything inside, those memories…

Beast Boy looked at the now-shattered item, but quickly looked away. It was too painful, too painful to remember of those happy moments they used to have. Yes, it was in the past, he understood that, but the memories themselves seemed to drill itself forcefully into his brain, planting firm roots there, playing itself 24/7.

"Why? You're so happy then…Why wouldn't you want to remember? You're the hero, not me," Beast Boy murmured. Tears started to form in his eyes.

Beast Boy hated crying. He hated it right from the beginning of his life, even before he became green. It — to him, means sorrow, depression, everything that the world could live without. The salty tears overflowed and slipped onto his cheek. Hastily he wiped it away. Crying won't make things better. Crying never made things better.

Terra sighed and lied down on her uncomfortable bed. The day at school had been stressful. Who knew tests could get on her nerves so much?

She rolled her head softly to the left, where her tiny desk stood, and found a plate with bread and water on it. Terra sighed. Slade had given her nothing to eat but bread and water, everyday. Her mind wandered thoughtlessly into when Starfire gave her those weird but tasty Tamaranian foods. At least they're better than bread and water.

Terra nibbled on the bread silently. I wish I was back with them. Not that they'll want me back. Looking down, Terra felt ashamed and dirty, even though she'd just had her shower. Why did she ever betray them and went to Slade? Terra herself didn't know either.

Losing her appetite completely, she placed the bread, which was barely eaten at all, and continued lying on her bed, until she fell into a dreamless sleep.

The sun shone brightly into the window of Terra's room and woke the green puppy, which was lying on the carpeted floor. Wincing as the light woke him, Beast Boy changed back into human form and opened his eyes slightly, so slightly that it just came out as a mere slit.

He sat up and tried to remember what happened last night. Oh yes, I fell asleep, Beast Boy recalled. A long night's sleep had done him good. He felt a tons better, so good that he's almost feeling like his usual self ― almost.

Stretching his tired limbs, he yawned loudly and slipped clumsily out of the room, walked down the hallway and into the main room. The air smelt of waffles. Ever since Raven told Beast Boy really, really patiently that the eggs they ate are unfertilized, and would never sprout chicks anyway, therefore it won't kill a chicken to eat those eggs…And that milk came out from a cow harmlessly and wasn't taken out from its bloodstream and brains, like Beast Boy once believed it was, Beast Boy had been okay with eating dairy products and eggs.

"Yo BB," Cyborg said as he noticed Beast Boy finally coming out of his stinky bedroom. Beast Boy smiled weakly at the half robot man. As usual, Cyborg was flipping eggs expertly and cooking waffles with the fantastic waffle-maker the Titans East had given them as Cyborg's b-day present, making their waffles golden brown and crunchy at the outside but soft at the inside.

Beast Boy noticed that Cyborg wasn't cooking bacons, as he normally would. He must've done that to cheer me up, Beast Boy grinned. No tofu VS bacon today! Was it amazing or what?

"Friend Beast Boy! You are feeling O the K?" Starfire asked, hovering several inches off the ground.

"Yeah, much better, but…you know."

As the titans sat down for their breakfast of eggs and waffles (with a large amount of syrup and jam and cream), Beast Boy realized how hungry he had been. He hadn't eaten yesterday, and the night before that. Wolfing down his stack of waffles in a legendary record of two minutes, he asked for another stack of waffles, and another stack…Till he patted his tummy, now round as a beach ball, and burped slightly.

"That's good," Beast Boy smiled. He had successfully shut the sadness from his mind, and look! He's almost normal now.

Any idea why Beast Boy healed so fast? Robin heard the voice of Raven's in his head. He turned to look at her. Oh duh, she'd put her telepathy powers to good use.

No, he thought back. But that's good ― I guess.

Suddenly, the room grew a bright red and the alarm sounded. The titans jumped. No one expected that. Sprinting out of his chair, Robin began typing furiously at the main computer. What was causing the alarm to sound surprised him wholly. "…Slade," He spat out in hatred as the computer confirmed that.

"No way…" Cyborg said his eyes wide. "How many lives does that guy have?"

Starfire looked at Robin's back and lowered her head. She knew Robin was going to be obsessed about Slade again, and would not rest until he caught Slade. Then Robin would separate himself from the team, from her, from everyone and thing…

"Titans GO!" Robin shouted, snapping Starfire out of her negative thoughts. Staring at the ground, Starfire thought of something joyful, which was turning harder at the moment, and flew out, following the rest of the team to the docks, where Slade's signal was shown to be.

Slade looked at the huge computer screen in his lair. Smirking under his mask, he knew what was going to happen. The Titans were going to fall into another trap of his…again. Nothing could stop his plan now.

Done! New chapter up soon!