((School's a monster; that's all I have to say in defense of my ignoring this fic. x.X; Also, very sorry for the major shortness of the chapter. I was afraid if I didn't put down what I've got so far that I wouldn't post at all. O.o;

This chapter is dedicated to my very best friend. -you know who you are- Happy Birthday:3

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or any of it's characters, ideas, ect.))

Hear Me Out

Chapter 5

Raven sighed softly as she slumped into the long couch in the Titan's living room, finding a sudden fondness for the bulky thing. Couches never did seem very useful until you'd spent the whole day on your feet, after all. She closed her eyes momentarily, unconsciously stroking the wrinkles out of her cloak as she thought back over the past two weeks. She shuddered and opened her eyes with a hurt expression on her visage.

This just wasn't right; wasn't logical. Something terrible has happened to make Beast Boy act the way he did…and for a frightful moment Raven wondered if she was the reason.

"Right back at square one..." She muttered bitterly. Raven was about to make herself some tea to calm her nerves when the door to Titans Tower opened abruptly, momentarily startling the demoness. When she looked to see who had entered she wasn't sure what to think at all. Who? What? How?

Why?

"Cyborg…" She whispered, a sudden fierceness dripping in her voice. "What is…how is…"

"Raven…" Terra said softly at Cyborg's side, her eyes wide and pleading innocence.

"I found her outside when I got the groceries." Cyborg informed a tongue-tied Raven. His voice was slow, calculating, and controlled; as if he was afraid a wrong pronunciation might set his fellow Titan off.

"How!" Raven demanded, sick of this procrastination and charade. "How is she here!" She was surprised to find herself shaking slightly.

"Raven I…" The blonde started.

"Shut up!" Raven snapped, her eyes faintly glowing red. Terra was silent. "I don't know what the hell is going on here but you've got some damn nerve to show your face here again!" She spat vehemently.

"Raven." Cyborg drew her wrath to him as he carefully placed the groceries on the kitchen table, Terra still glued to the door-way.

"You've got some explaining to do too!" Raven shouted at him, her eyes dampening.

"Raven." Cyborg repeated with more force this time, his human eye giving her a silencing stare. "Terra…Terra is just as lost as we are." He said slowly. "More then we are." He added carefully.

"Will you stop making excuses and just tell me what's going on!" Raven cried before rounding on Terra again. "Where's Beast Boy! What did you do to him! I know you have something to do with this!" She hollered, her voice cracking and something warm trickling down her face.

"Beast Boy's gone?" The blonde asked with dismay, her face contorted with sincere worry and apology.

At that point Raven realized that Terra had…no intentional part in their situation.

"She doesn't know what happened, Rae. The last thing she remembers is fighting Slade." Cyborg took a sharp intake of breath. "She thought she had died."

Raven saw Terra flinch out of the corner of her eyes. And despite her dislike for Terra she realized, in a sense, she could never compare to the girl. Terra had given her life for Beast Boy…for all of them. And far too often she forgot that. But…she couldn't shake the feeling that Beast Boy's disappearance and Terra's reappearance were somehow connected. And her anger flared once again in an instant.

"She woke up alone in a forest." Cyborg continued. "There were signs of others being there. And ground had been scraped as if someone was pulling something really heavy through the woods. It led from where she woke up to out of the forest and beyond, but once she found Jump City she came looking for us."

"Something really heavy…then…" Raven began, her eyes wide, suddenly aware that she had been crying before.

"Exactly." Cyborg said with a little bit of triumph hidden in his voice. They were finally getting somewhere. "Terra." The blonde jumped at her name but looked up tentatively in response. "Can you show us exactly where you woke up?"

"I…yes." She replied, a shadow of her old self shining through. She managed a small, almost confident smile. "If you trust me." She added, looking to Raven.

Raven's eyes darkened as she returned Terra's gaze, a frown tugging at her lips. Terra had just come out of nowhere…for all she knew this might not even be Terra…How could she trust her?

"Raven…you once told me I had to earn you trust; that it wouldn't just be there." She took a deep breath before continuing. "But if Beast Boy…if any of you are in trouble…I'll do everything in my power to help." She balled her hands into fists, tears welling up in her eyes. "I don't know how I got back here…and I can't make you trust me but…just one chance. That's all I ask." Raven still looked a little skeptical. "I just want to help…" Terra said softly, her voice catching in her throat. And then she was silent again, rubbing one arm uncomfortably as Raven glared at her critically.

"One chance."

Terra's head shot up at Raven's admission, a small, grateful smile on her face. "Thank you."

Raven gave the girl a dark look. "Don't."

"What do you mean 'she left'!" Beast Boy demanded, throwing his arms up in the air with a mixture of betrayal and utter loathing for the figure that stood before him in the shadows.

"It's just as I said, boy. She. Left." The figure replied wearily as if this argument was a total waste of time.

"But…how?" BB insisted, striding towards the shadowed girl purposefully. "Why didn't you tell me!"

"Why didn't you follow orders?" She hissed from darkness, halting Beast Boy's advance.

"I did what you told me; I tore up Jump City, I made sure they saw me." The shape-shifter replied stiffly.

"I told you. They aren't your friends."

"I heard you the first time. I didn't-"

"Exactly; you didn't do anything." She replied with malice, throwing her head back to remove her long tresses from her already hidden face.

Beast Boy growled slightly in his throat, turning on his heel and walking away.

"Where are you going?" The figure demanded, suddenly sounding startled by his rapid departure.

"To find her." He replied simply without looking back or stopping in his determined stride.

"Not without my permission you aren't!"

"Screw your permission." He morphed into a small green snake and was gone.