I DON'T OWN THE TEEN TITANS!
Just a little authors note, some of you are going to be like "WTH?" Or some "WTF?" In this chapter, because it will say Terra's not a titan, well that's because she's not, if you have forgotten (because of my lack of updates --) or skipped a few chapters, then go back and read. "Chapter 7: Titan Down" Did not mean Terra was a Titan (officially) what it meant was Terra has the heart of a Titan. Just felt like letting you in on that hint, I didn't want any misunderstandings or angry fans…okay; you can be an angry fan at me for not updating in so long. --
This is the final Chapter of "Are We Friends Or More?"
Chapter 13: Surprise
The days went by as Terra's recovery was coming along nicely and the titans were slowly getting themselves back together after the shot scare a so many days ago. Beast Boy was as happy as ever, smiling like an evil leprechaun and always seemed to be caught up in a day dream.
Terra was sitting in her hospital bed, bored out of her sanity. Nothing was on. The only thing on the Television was news, game shows, soap operas, or talk shows; which made her want to rip out her hair. Her new green boy friend would constantly pop up in her head and her day dreams would keep her happy through out a lot of the days.
Seconds felt like minutes, minutes felt like hours, hours felt like days, days felt like weeks, and weeks felt like months to her. She had been cooped up in the room and maybe given some help with using her arm again, eventually, she only had two more days left in that retched hospital and she was getting anxious.
She couldn't even call her friends. She didn't have a communicator…after all, she wasn't even a titan. She stared at the door, her face full of wisdom. Having been through so much in the last four months was almost overwhelming. Thinking back on most of it actually made her feel sick.
She laid her head on her pillow and stared up at the ceiling, with a frown on her face. Her mind was full of words that had been lost in the past, but some of the words said back then, felt so empty and meaningless.
"You are my apprentice."
"Slade was right, you don't have any friends!"
"I can help you, child."
And so many others wrestled in her mind, leading to the extinction of those thoughts. Maybe, when the doctors operated on her, they took out her insecurities, or maybe that bullet shot some sense into her…or maybe when she kissed Beast Boy, that took away her pain…
What ever did, she was glad it did. She thought, even is she couldn't live a life with the titans or as a titan, she knew that she could still live. She could still breathe, feel love and affection. She realized how much she had really grown from that scrawny little sixteen year old that only cried and bled on the inside to a smiling bright seventeen year old.
She smiled lightly; maybe things were going to be okay after all.
The titans were at their tower, doing their own things in the living room. As usual, the television was on and there was no conversations going on. Just Raven reading her book, Robin played a video game, Starfire petting Silky, Cyborg cooking…but Beast Boy wasn't doing any thing…He just sat on the stool in front of the counter, silently.
His back facing the counter and his chin on the back of the chair, he just sat there. It didn't really worry his friends, they knew what ever he was thinking; he would come out soon and spill.
Beast Boy's expression was a frown with an indescribable stare, maybe blank, but he looked simple, sitting there with it plastered all over his face.
Thoughts played a tune in his mind as he thought about Terra. He wasn't thinking of romance or any thing, but her future with the titans…How could she have a future with them, if she wasn't even a titan. Sure they said she could stay, titan or not, but still, he couldn't help but wonder. How could she stand seeing them fight?
He had found out on his own, once you fight as a titan, you can't stop fighting as a titan. Terra was a titan once, whether it was some cruel joke or not, she was an official titan, and some where along the line, she had put her heart into it.
He came to a conclusion, she had to become a titan, she had done enough sacrificing to earn her title back and she had even proved it to their very eyes.
"Guys, I've been thinking…" Beast Boy began, lifting his head off of the chair head. He noticed all of his team mates looked up at him and look a little surprised, not only had he not spoken that much today, but he had been thinking.
"Heads, up guys, it's the end of the world." Cyborg joked a little, not even putting on a smile.
Beast Boy decided to ignore it, but toss a glare at his friend. "Look, I was thinking…Terra has been with us for four months. And she's worked hard trying to prove herself to us and she seems really sorry for what she did to us. And…after this last month, getting shot-"
"Beast Boy is right." Starfire protested softly. Looking up just a little worriedly, wondering if one of her friends would object.
"I agree with Starfire." Robin spoke up, after a little bit of silence.
"I agree too, there was nothing stopping Terra from becoming a titan, not back then, not now." Cyborg answered.
They all looked over at Raven, if any one was going to protest, it would be her, she was the one who had had problems with Terra, and over the months it seemed that their relationship has smoothed out, but so had it years ago, she was the one to be cautious.
"Terra deserves to be a titan again, only a titan would do what she did for Beast Boy and she's proved useful. I say yes." Raven said with a light smile.
Beast Boy smiled, life was about to take a step up; for him and Terra.
"Oh, I think we should have a celebration for Terra!" Starfire said jumping up and down with excitement.
All the friends looked at each other in question, "We'll think about it Star…" Robin replied.
Two days had finally ended and Terra was ready to return to her home. She was excited and relieved to get out of that bed and into her regular clothes. Though to her misfortune, she still had to wear a cast, but that was better than being dead. She couldn't wait to see Beast Boy, she hadn't seen him in three days, she didn't know what he was doing, and there were about five crimes that had been reported on television, the titans stopped all of them; so technically she had seen him yesterday on the news. But his last visit was still three days ago.
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Beast Boy was waiting outside in the waiting room, anxiously. He would look up at the door way that lead to the multiple rooms, one of them Terra's, then he would look some where else. But quickly look back towards her direction.
His eyes lit up with a brilliant emerald color as he saw Terra being escorted down the hall by a nurse.
Her arm was in a sling and she wore her black shirt with a T on it and her yellow pants. Her blonde hair shined like gold as the bright hospital lighting hit it.
His jaw almost dropped as she got closer to him. Just being around her set his mouth agape.
She stopped when she was two inches away from his face and stared at him for five seconds. She could sense his nervousness, it was obvious he could talk, but he couldn't do the walk. He was a flirt, but once he was in love, he was a trembling little puppy.
She kissed him on the cheek quickly, and gave him a warm smile. Some thing he was glad to see, even though in the past few weeks, he had been seeing it a lot.
He checked her out of the hospital and walked out of the hospital to feel the fresh air kiss their skin lightly.
Beast Boy watched the blonde girl next to him allow a smile to creep onto her face. She was so glad to feel the air and see the sun again. She was such an outdoors person; she couldn't stand to be cooped up for that long.
He enjoyed the site of her eyes that seemed to dance with the reflection of the sun and her hair seemed to escort the color of the sun. She was the most beautiful thing under the sun, under the sky, under the moon, under the stars. Heck, to Beast Boy, nothing could be her. He had never seen a girl with her spirit and beauty, any other girl that stood next to Terra, didn't stand a chance in his eyes.
"Are the others at the tower?" Terra asked curiously, smiling at the green boy.
"No, actually they got a call, but they said that I should go pick you up and take you home first. We're supposed to meet them for lunch when their done." Beast Boy said with his casual tone.
Some how or another, she bought his excuse, most of the time she was sharp on the uptake, but for some reason this time she was completely clueless. But that made it all the better for Beast Boy.
"Come on, we gotta get you home. The doctor didn't want you to move around that much; he said you needed to rest your arm." Beast Boy said grabbing her good hand and began almost dragging her home.
"Beast Boy, I'm fine, come on you don't have to drag me home, and I can still walk." Terra countered giving him a reassuring laugh. She was able to keep him from dragging her, and they continued their way to the tower.
The plan was coming along perfectly; soon it would set into position…
It was about four and still the other four titans still had yet to return. She was slightly concerned. Beast Boy had picked her up at two and that meant the titans were still out fighting. It never took them two hours to take some thing down. Unless they starting chasing what ever or who ever they were fighting, then it could continue on forever. But most of the time, one of them would come home and try and track the enemy down on the computer. But they hadn't done that.
She had brought this up to Beast Boy, but he just gave her a care free smile and told her that they were fine.
After pacing a little, she sat down on the sofa and continued worrying and wondering, but soon a call from Beast Boy's communicator rang out through the living room.
She couldn't hear the conversation, he had set it to mono volume and so only Beast Boy could hear, which was unusual, since he always had his volume up to where every one can hear it.
She shifted a little trying to hear the conversation. But her plan had failed; Beast Boy had hung up and passed her a questioning glance, because he was receiving the same look from his girlfriend.
"What's with the volume change, you never keep it that quiet, no matter what the conversation is?"
Beast Boy playfully teased, "What, do you think I'm cheating on you? Come, on there's no girl better than you, also, I just hooked up with you, it's too soon to cheat." He received a playful punch in the shoulder, "Now come on, it's time to go and eat lunch, they wanted us to hurry. They already ordered." He said helping her off the sofa.
She still couldn't see that he was lying through his toothy smile.
They were walking through the park, which, where they were, was a thick crowd of trees that had huddled together. They slowly made their way, Terra still not knowing, and Beast Boy trying to plan the time perfectly.
Terra had merely followed the green boy where ever he led her. She just figured they were taking a short cut of possibly eating in the park. Only half right.
Suddenly Beast Boy leapt behind her and covered her eyes with his hands.
"What are you doing?" Terra asked, still clueless, but she felt like she was beginning to pick up on the plan.
"Covering your eyes," Beast Boy answered. His bicuspid tooth on the bottom stuck out from his toothy grin.
"You know, I need those eyes to see." Terra said with a chuckle.
"I can be your eyes. Now, come on, we have to get to the others soon." Beast Boy cut the subject, trying to keep the secret sound a little longer.
The walked slowly, trying to keep up with her speed and keeping her from hurting herself. His smile got bigger and bigger as they got closer to their destination, the thought of her surprised face.
Beast Boy stopped, causing Terra to stop. She stood there for a moment, realizing Beast Boy wasn't moving his hands from her eyes.
"Beast Boy, can I look now?" She asked, motioning her hands over his about ready to move them herself.
"Hmm…" Beast Boy bit his tongue that was sticking out as he looked over the surroundings, then his tongue returned to his mouth and his smile can back, "Okay, now!" He removed his hands and allowed the world to see her beautiful blue eyes and allowed the beautiful eyes to see the world.
Her expression of the site was mixed. Confusion, surprise, happiness, but the confusion and shock mainly took over.
There stood all of the titans, including Titans east, and every body else who had a communicator. Even some citizens of the city were they greeting her with a smile. There were picnic tables with balloons that wanted to lift up into the sky for joy, but where held down by a little bag of sand. There was food set out on one of the picnic tables and there were games and music. Terra didn't understand what was going on.
It was silent for a moment as all of the Titans smiled at Terra, whether it was through a mask or pure eyes, they were all staring, waiting for some one to make a move.
Robin stepped forward slowly and began walking over to Terra. His face contained a light smile. He held some thing in his hand as he approached her. But she couldn't figure out what it was, his hand was barely big enough to cover the exterior of the object.
He stopped and hand out his hand, revealing the object. It was a yellow communicator with a white T in the middle of a black circular design. It had a very small thick antenna sticking out on the left side of the top of it and had a little red light that would flash when danger called.
"Welcome back, Terra." Robin said the smile still on his face.
Terra, now in turmoil, stared down at the small device, memories of her betrayal raced through her mind and guilt ripped at her heart. Why would they give this to her? She hadn't worked hard enough to get this back. She didn't get it, just like she didn't get a lot of her actions. Ever since she came back, they may have treated her coldly, but they soon started treating her kindly; smiling at her, laughing with her, caring about her. She didn't feel like she deserved it at all.
"Why?" was the only thing she could choke out in the confusion.
"Why? Terra, you've been working hard to redeem yourself ever since you came back. You've fought with us, and remained loyal. And if saving another titan, throwing your life away for him, isn't redeeming enough, then I don't know what is." Robin lectured, trying to make it clear that she was truly deserving of the title 'Titan'
She stared at it for a little longer, trying to sort things out. She passed a worried, questioning glance to Beast Boy, who smiled back at her and nodded. She stared back at the communicator, still hesitant. But then a smile carved upon her face and she reached out and took the communicator from her now official team leader.
People began cheering as she looked at the communicator in her gloved hand with pride. She was home. She may have already been home, but now it really felt like she was at home.
She looked back at Beast Boy again who was standing merely an inch behind her, he had a warm smile on his green face.
She turned around and kissed him lightly on the lips and hugged him, only a few words escaped her mouth, "Thank you, Beast Boy."
With out him, his encouragement and his love, she would have never made this far.
"Come on ya'll let's party!" Cyborg cheered, flipping the switch on the radio. Every one began the command Cyborg had yelled.
Raven walked up to Beast Boy and Terra and put her hand on Terra's shoulder and gave her a soft smile, "Way to go, Terra." Raven paused, "You deserved it." Raven sustained her smile and walked away to join her other friends. Leaving Beast Boy and Terra to stand and smile.
Some people danced, some ate, and some talked. But Beast Boy and Terra just leaned again a vacant picnic table and smiled to themselves as they watched their friends enjoy themselves.
Terra…Was a Titan again…Terra…Was finally home.