(I am the bad, bad author for taking sooooo long to update. X.x If you're still reading, you rock and are forever my hero; it takes a heck of a lot of patience to put up with someone like me! And for your patience I give you another chapter. x3 Enjoy!

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Lost and Found

Chapter 7

Raven's heart was beginning to flutter as a hint of fear started to creep into the back of her mind; why was she freaking out? She put a hand to her heart, willing the organ to calm down, but she still couldn't stop that horrible feeling of foreboding. She'd sensed it the moment they entered the forest; and now she wasn't sure if it was real or her mind playing tricks on her.

"Raven?" Raven nearly jumped out of her skin, having been moving blindly behind the others for a little while, only focusing on that strange sensation. "Rae, are you okay?"

She looked up with a weak smile. "I'm fine. I'm just tired." She assured Cyborg, though she herself wasn't convinced. "I haven't gotten much sleep since-"

"-This is it!" Terra suddenly yelled from behind a set of bushes in front of the Titans.

Cyborg smiled to Raven reassuringly, as if saying 'see, now we're one step closer to finding BB.' She started to give him a small smile in return but was cut off by a sudden pang in her chest; a tree erupted from the ground as her powers went haywire.

Suddenly the world was spinning. Which way was up; down? Raven grabbed her head and clamped her eyes shut, willing the dizzying sensation away but with no luck. Everything around her was being engulfed in her powers; bushes and trees torn up and cast aside into everything else around them. She thought she heard someone call her name but it sounded distant and detached. The last thing she saw before she passed out was someone's feet rushing over to her and then the world went black.

"Gah, where could she /be? She couldn't have gotten /that/ far!" Beast Boy groaned in frustration as he flopped onto the grass on his back, sweat plastered to his green face. He'd just finished doing an aerial search; people should give birds more credit, his arms were /killing/ him!

But that was beside the point right now. His mission was to find Terra; it sounded easy enough but it was proving to be much more difficult then he anticipated. You'd never believe how many blue eyed, blonde haired girls there were in Jump City alone. And none of them was the blue eyed, blonde haired girl that he was looking for. He sighed in frustration, too tired to realize he was in plain view of everyone at the edge of a park and in his human form.

It was getting dark now and fatigue was creeping into his eyes, making them heavy with the inevitable notion of sleep. When /was/ the last time he'd slept? The park cleared out as families headed off for home; all oblivious to the lonely teen sleeping soundly in their midst.

"Terra! Where are you! Please, Terra! Please come out!" he stumbled through the crowds of people, all heading in the direction he was coming from; all of them against him. He waded through the wall of people, none of them giving an inch even when they nearly knocked him down. It seemed like the whole world didn't want him to find this one person he cared so much about. "Terraaaaaaaaaa!" He called out in an almost whiney voice, tears welling up in his emerald eyes. Why wouldn't she answer? Why wouldn't she come to him? Didn't she care? Didn't she?

"Terra?" He stopped; suddenly the massive crowd was gone. One solitary figure stood before him; hidden in the shadows. But he knew who it was; his heart told him and he listened. He started to smile, started to walk over to her, but she turned and ran. "Terra wait!" He pleaded, taking off after her. But it was difficult to run and she seemed so much quicker then he was. "Terra!" She rounded a corner, he following quickly behind, suddenly finding himself face to face with that one person he could never live without. But didn't Terra have blonde hair; blue eyes? Why did she have purple hair and eyes? Fierce but gentle; strong but weak; cold but loving. And all at once his situation suddenly became far too confusing to handle on his own.

"This is horrible!" Starfire cried defeated, flopping onto the couch in Titans Tower. "We have not discovered Beast Boy's location and now Raven and Cyborg are missing!" A frown formed on her face as she laid there, stifling a yawn.

"I don't understand why they wouldn't tell us where they went. What if they're in trouble?" Robin fumed, pacing back and forth. "I can't even reach them on their communicators!"

"Robin…" Starfire started slowly. "Perhaps they did not tell you because…" She paused, not sure how to explain. "This is how you react?" She tried innocently.

Robin quirked a brow at her, pausing in his relentless pace of the living room. "How I…react?" He asked dumbly, not sure what the young alien was getting at.

"Raven is very intent on finding Beast Boy, yes? And if they found a clue…and they told you, what would you have them do?"

"I'd tell them to wait up and we'd talk it over. We'd regroup and come up with a good plan."

"Yes! That is what I mean!" Starfire exclaimed, jumping up from the couch and holding up a pointer finger. "Raven does not want to wait up and to talk over and to come up with a good plan. She wants to find friend Beast Boy and make things better. She's afraid if she does not do something very soon it will be too late."

Robin frowned slightly. "But that's irrational thinking. She shouldn't go off like that without telling us." He insisted, starting up his pacing again. "Wait a minute..." He paused and looked over at Starfire. "How do you know all that?"

"Uhm…" Starfire's eyes shifted nervously. "She told me where she and friend Cyborg were going about an hour ago?" She said slowly and timidly with an apprehensive smile.

Robin's jaw nearly dropped. "And you didn't tell me?" He demanded through clenched teeth.

"Raven told me not to tell you." She explained with a quivering lower lip. "And…and I believed she was right. You are too uptight!" She suddenly announced with a little more spunk. "Besides, she would not tell me what the clue was. It sounded like she was just going to search in a new place." Star added with a slightly puzzled expression.

"Where did she say they were going?" Robin asked with some forced ease in his voice even though he refused to reply to Starfire's comment about his stress issues.

Robin's brows furrowed irritably as he and Starfire ran off in the direction of the forest she'd described. It hadn't taken long to look up and confirm it on the Teen Titans database, but something about the whole thing troubled him. Why couldn't he get in touch with Cyborg and Raven? It wasn't that they'd turned their communicators off; there was just a lot of static…enough static to be an all-out jam. Beast Boy couldn't be behind it…that was something beyond him. So what /was/ causing the interference?

"Beast Boy?" Starfire suddenly gasped, stopping short. Robin skidded to a stop, brows furrowed even more at what he saw. There on the edge of the grass laid a very peaceful looking Beast Boy; sound asleep.

"What do you think you're /doing!" A voice slashed through his dreams, but he was too tired to attach the voice to a figure.

"Trying to sleep." BB muttered, ignoring the fact that he was being grabbed by the front of his shirt. A little drool trickled down from his mouth but he failed to wipe it away.

"That's not what I mean!" The voice growled, shaking him around.

"Hey, hey!" Beast Boy whined, pushing the attacker off him. "Geeze, what does it take for a guy to get some…sleep…?" His voice cracked as he looked up at a very pissed off Robin. His first instinct /would/ have been to morph and get out of there, but when your team leader is staring you down like that it suddenly becomes a hell of a feet to just speak.

"Friend Beast Boy! You are not angry anymore!" Starfire announced gleefully, choking Beast Boy in an inhumanly tight hug.

Beast Boy was lost at this point. He wasn't sure what to do with himself. He was angry before? He blinked blankly, trying to collect his thoughts together, but his recent memories were fuzzy. The only things he remembered were sometime before the anniversary of Terra's death and finding out that Terra was alive. "Uhm…Star?" He choked out. "You're crushing my organs!"

"Oh!" She released him with a wide smile, unaware that if that had gone on any longer she would probably have fractured all his ribs if she hadn't done so already. "But it is so good to see you again! We have been looking everywhere!"

"For me?" Beast Boy asked in astonishment.

"That's not the point right now!" Robin suddenly put in, absolutely fuming over the fact that he was being ignored when he was about to go on a rampage. "Where did you go! Why did you trash Jump City! What /happened/ to you!" He demanded angrily.

"That is the point." Starfire reminded Robin.

"No! The point is-"

"I trashed Jump City?" Beast Boy asked, confusion flickering on his face. "No; I didn't do that...I mean…I don't..." He backed away a step, running a hand through his hair, obviously trying hard to recall something but unable to. "I've got to find Terra." He said finally, somehow feeling that would resolve everything.

All he had to do was find Terra. He was starting to get scared; his heart was speeding up in his anxiety; he remembered that dream he had. Scattered memories began to click in his mind; all lost when he got hit in the head by that pebble. But they were distant and detached; he couldn't make heads or tails of anything.

"No." Robin's voice said firmly.

Beast Boy looked up, scared and confused. Why couldn't he find Terra?

"We have to find Raven."