Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN THE TEEN TITANS
CHAPTER 8: The Worry Stone And The Frog?
Beast Boy felt his eye lids slowly unfurl as he was slowly waking up. His eyes snapped open, his heart raced, and his memory came to as he remembered where and why he was here.
He shot up from where he was lying, though now he realized that was a mistake. He yelped in pain as his muscles throbbed and his head began to ache. He rubbed his head and glanced around his surroundings. It was dark and lonely, though he had a creepy sensation of being watched. But that was a natural feeling in all hospitals. He looked over at the closest clock to him. It was 9:00pm. Every body must have gone to bed or be treating patients in other parts in the hospital. He winced in pain as his body hurt so bad. But it was nothing compared to what Terra was going through. Beast Boy cringed at the thought.
A nurse came into the room holding a clip board. She seemed to be extremely focused on it. But she wasn't too distracted to see BB sitting on the sofa.
"Oh, I'm sorry sir. Our visiting hours are over. You should go home." The nurse informed.
Beast Boy sat there silently for a few moments trying to process every thing through his brain. He snapped back to reality with an excuse.
"Wait a minute. I brought my best friend to the hospital at 6:00pm today. She got shot in the left shoulder, Terra Markov? Beast Boy refreshed.
The nurse looked at him with a confused look. She looked at her clip board to see if there was really such a person at presence.
"Oh, yes Mrs. Markov?" The nurse questioned. "You must be her husband."
Beast Boy felt a very uncomfortable silence sweep over the room. He felt a blush slowly creep onto his face. Though that was far from the truth; he wished he could say yes. He loved Terra, but he felt that her name becoming Mrs. Logan were highly possible.
"…Ehem…Umm actually, she's single. I'm her best friend…not her husband…" He mumbled. "Not to mention my last name is Logan."
"Ah, yes I see. Well I suppose you can stay. Only because you protect the city and you are her best friend and all…Say isn't there 4 more of you?" The nurse answered and questioned.
"Uh, yah speaking of which have they come in yet? They must have since I've been out cold for 3 hours." Beast Boy asked.
"I don't know, I've been treating patients and looking at results all day, I haven't seen any one today except the staff and patients." The nurse assured and with that she left.
He felt a scare come over him. What if some thing bad happened to his friends or what if they stopped caring. If they had come by they surly would have awoken him. He thought of so many explanations to there where bouts. He sigh a frightful sigh and closed his eyes. He felt so cold and pale with fear. He felt burning tears well up into his eyes. He felt so mixed with emotions right now; he just wanted to cry on some one's shoulder.
It wasn't just the fact that Terra got shot. It was also that he had ripped a robot to shreads that could have been a real live human being, all because of his anger and uncontrollable beast. He felt guilty for the beast and Terra. If it weren't for him Terra wouldn't have been shot and causing the beast to be unleashed.
He sat up correctly and hugged his knees to his chest. He buried his face into his knees and only thought. Right now he only wanted to sit and wait.
He thought about Terra on an operating table of some sort. He could imagine the heart monitor beeping rapidly then coming to a screeching halt. He shook the thought from his head. He only sat there, until he heard the glass doors open and close. Beast Boy looked up from his somber spot on the sofa and looked behind him. There stood Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, and Raven looking down at him. He stared back at them with a pitiful expression
"How is she?" Raven asked with a little worry in her tone.
"Gee, I don't know, maybe if you got here sooner then you would know." Beast Boy backfired.
All of the standing titans looked at each other with concern. Apparently he was aggravated about something and they had a feeling they knew who he was mad at.
"…Where were you!" He demanded in a strict tone.
"Chill man…It took an hour to get out of traffic, then we had to shoe our way through the Jump city press and that took another hour and then we stopped by and did some arraigns." Cyborg informed.
Beast Boy's face filled with hate as his ears bled at their words. They would rather do arraigns then be with their fallen comrade. It made his stomach wrench at the thought.
"You went and did arraigns at a time like this! What were you thinking!" He screeched.
"We didn't say that." Robin corrected.
"You didn't have to. You guys don't show much care about those in pain, do you?" He countered once again.
He couldn't believe it. He had woken up only minutes ago and he was already blowing his guts out at his friends. He felt his face burn a little as anger was coming over. He tried to remain calm. He turned around to where his back was facing them and he sighed with exhaust.
They stared sadly at their heart broken team mate. He was so mad and depressed it scared them. They then took notice of Beast Boy's uncontrollable shaking; this made them even more concerned.
"Maybe someone should go talk to him?" Robin suggested. At that second everyone except Raven backed out. She looked around to see the other volunteers, but there were none. She took in a deep sigh and braced herself.
"I'll go talk to him. But it won't be easy." Raven volunteered.
She walked over to Beast Boy who continued to shake, as if he was about to break out into sobs. She felt lonely behind her. Apparently the others didn't feel too confident in her; of course she felt little confidence in herself.
"Hey." She said blankly.
"…Hey…" He answered back with no emotion.
"You okay?" Raven asked. That was a dumb question, but it was the only way she could think of to start an emotional conversation.
"What do you think? The girl I love the most is in the hospital all because of a gun shot that I could have avoided all on my own, but was to stupid to move and then the beast inside me got mad and killed some thing that could have been a real person…" He said full of grief.
"So this is what it's all about." Raven said calmly, while sitting down next to him.
"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked.
"No. But you guys won't leave me alone till I do. So I guess." He said with an unsure feeling.
"First off I want to give you some thing. I thought you might need it." Raven said.
She pulled out of her pocket, a little plastic blue dolphin, with a small stone in the middle. It was so small you could clench your fist over it.
Beast Boy looked at it with confusion. Not only was it a gift from Raven, but it had a stone inside of it. It puzzled him. It looked so cheap, but it had a meaningful symbolism to it. Yet he couldn't figure out why the stone was in it.
"What is it?" Beast Boy asked with little curiosity.
"Beast Boy…This is a worry stone. You use it when you're worried or concerned. So if you feel worried you rub it to unleash all of your grief into it. And the only reason it's a dolphin is because the store didn't have any other colors or animals. I thought it might come useful to you." Raven taught.
Beast Boy took the small little dolphin from her hands and studied it carefully. He fumbled a little with it in his fingers. The color of it reminded him of Terra's ocean blue eyes. He thought about it and wanted to smile, but now was no time to smile. He put the worry dolphin back into Raven's hand.
"Thanks, but I don't need it." He assured.
Raven opened Beast Boy's fist and placed the dolphin back in it and wrapped his fist over it.
"Keep it; it's a gift from me." Raven forced.
Beast Boy looked at it one last time, he took his eyes off of it, but little did he know he was rubbing it none stop.
"Raven…It's not fair! Terra is dieing and I never got to tell her how I felt and I killed a person that was actually a robot. And now every thing seems to be falling apart." Beast Boy said sadly.
"Your situation is tough, but I think I can help you. Beast Boy, do you know why Terra jumped in front of you?" Raven asked.
He shook his head in reply "All I know is she did it because I wouldn't move…" He answered honestly.
"…She jumped in front of you…because she loves you. And she didn't want you to die so she sacrificed herself to save you." Raven lectured.
"So why is it I don't feel thankful?" Beast Boy asked still confused.
"Because she saved you from death, but now she's going through death and you're in the place she would be in right now if you were shot. So it didn't make too much of a depression difference. But I think every one was stunned by her courageous move." Raven explained.
"Yah, I know I was…But why did she have to do that and why couldn't I move? He asked like a child.
"You couldn't move because you were caught off guard, you were scared and many other reasons. And Terra did what she did for you, not for us, but for you. She loves you more then life itself. She's the real thing Beast Boy…" Raven said.
She saw a slight smile ripple across his face, but it soon fell as the next thought came into place.
Raven could tell what he was thinking she didn't have to read his mind to figure it out. She didn't even have to read his emotions.
"Do you know why you turned into the beast?" Raven checked.
Beast Boy shook his head. "No, I don't get it. You told me knowing when to let it out is what makes me a man, but today something happened." BB reminded.
"Look a man knows when to fight and when to put other things at the side. You turned into the beast because you care about Terra and you wanted to make sure she was safe and because you love her. And you knew when things were bad there was still hope hanging around in the air. You knew that then and there, there was no time for goofing off. If that's not a true man…then I don't know what is." Raven said for a confidence boost.
"Oh, and your welcome!" Raven said.
"But I didn't say thank you." Beast Boy claimed.
"Trust me you will sooner or later." Raven said with a small smile.
After the conversation every thing was silent. Robin and Starfire sat on one of the sofa. Starfire had her face buried in Robin's shoulder, crying as if no end. Cyborg sat on a chair tapping his foot nervously. Raven remained calm and watched a miserable Beast Boy fiddle with his plastic dolphin worry stone.
Every one almost had a heart attack as they saw a nurse come into the room. The nurse eyed them cautiously and looked at a clip board in her hands.
"Are you the friends of Terra Markov? The nurse asked.
"Yes." Raven answered.
"Oh, I'm sorry, but only one of you can go in and be in the room with her. It's a strict rule all of us stick to." The nurse replied.
All of the titans turned their eyes towards Beast Boy. He looked back at them with an asking expression. They all nodded to him in reply.
Beast Boy slowly got up from the sofa and started his way towards the hall way, but some one stopped him.
"Beast Boy wait." Starfire commanded.
He turned around to Starfire who was taking some thing out of a small bag. He eyed her carefully to see what it was. She pulled out a small green stuffed animal, a frog. He was surprised at the little stuffed animal choice.
Starfire gave him the little frog only to receive a confused look in return.
"Why a frog?" Beast Boy asked still bating in confusment.
"You have never heard of the acronym for frog, friend Beast Boy?" She asked.
"No, what's it mean?" BB asked again
"Fully" Robin started.
"Rely" Starfire continued.
"On" Cyborg said
"God." Raven finished.
Was his response from all of the titans? He looked down at the little frog in his hands. He never knew what a powerful meaning frog's could have.
He heard a muffled noise behind him. He turned around from his friends to see the nurse standing there impatiently. He looked back at his friends and nodded in thanks. They nodded back and smiled.
And with that Beast Boy followed the nurse to Terra's room.
Fully
Rely
On
God
That Was Ch. 8 as you may already know. Man I'm tired, I've stayed up late just to update this. But as I've said before: I love writing this. Heck I might as well turn the genre to this story to Gospel. It has so much worship stuff in it. I got the idea of the dolphin worry stone, because I have one just like the one in the story. I came up with the frog thing from like every where, seeing as that's the frog acronym.But anyways Plz R&R