IMPORTANT PLEASE READ.

There is a slight timeline change. Every Dog Has Its Day will take place before Masks. This is because I want to leave Robin for last.

Also I've gotten a few questions about pairings. I have no plans to pair Danny with anyone but if enough people want me to I can work it into your story. I'll stop waisting your time and let you read.

I think about my home all the time. I mean my home at Amity Park not my apartment. I wonder how Sam and Tucker are doing. Or what my parents think about what happened. It's been two months since I left and I've had no contact with anyone. I could, I managed to save enough money for a cheap old laptop. But I'm sure the GIW are monitoring my friends internet activity. So it's too dangerous.

Those are my thoughts as I finish up my workout routine. I guess it made think of the training I used to do with Sam and Tucker and my mind wandered from there. I turn my thoughts to my upcoming school day. I have a chemistry assignment due today and I don't want to forget it. I finish my last set of push ups, completing my workout. I stuff my assignment in my backpack and head to school.

I make it to school without any incident. I grabbed my books and shut my locker. Turning around I find nothing. That's strange. This would be about the time Slide and Kelsey would appear and tell me their plan next big plan to get me to socialize and make friends. I wonder where they are. Oh wait, Kelsey said she had a soccer tournament today. That explains Kelsey absence but what about Slide. I wonder where were he could be. I can think about this later class is about to start.

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School was peaceful even if it was a little boring. I spent my day the way I use to before Slide and Kelsey took an interest in me. I did my work in class, ate in the garden and left. But I kind of missed the craziness those two brought. Their antics and plans made my day interesting. I don't miss them. Definitely not.

I don't have work today and due to the lack of interruptions I finished all of my homework. With nothing to do I decide to have an early supper. Not wanting to cook and having just received my pay check, I decided to go to a pizza place. The pizza place where Starfire landed is close to the school. It will only be a 5 minute walk and I've heard Slide rave about their pizza. It's decided, I'll go there.

Once I enter I buy myself a slice of pepperoni pizza and a drink before sitting down. Because it's so early the restaurant isn't very busy. A couple sits in a booth in a corner, a group of teenagers are hanging out near the counter, and I see a pair of blond twin girls through the window sitting on the patio. I feel out of place being the only one alone but I'm use to it. The few people here are nothing compared to being alone at school. At least at school I have Slide and Kelsey. Wait wait wait, what am I saying, I'm better off alone.

To get my mind of those two, I dig into my pizza. It's pretty good and I'm hungrier than I thought. My slice of pizza quickly disappears. I gather my garbage before throwing it out and leave the restaurant. As I open the door to leave I hear a splash followed by a thunk. Standing before me is a soaking wet Beastboy with a pitcher on his head. Based on the faces on the twins that are walking away, I'm guessing he tried hitting on them and failed spectacularly. Beastboy pulls the pitcher off his head while he grumbles under his breath.

"Tough day?" I ask while trying, and failing, to hide my smile.

"Yah" he said with a sigh while staring the two blondes petting a dog. "Man dogs are so lucky. They get all the attention."

"And you don't" I reply slightly confused. "You get tons of attention from the news everyday. Isn't that enough?"

"No, it's just not the same. You won't understand" he is exasperated as he says it.

"You thinks so. Well then try me" I challenge.

"Fine, whatever dude. My teammates don't want anything to do with me so it's not like I have anything else to do." Said Beastboy.

"By the way my name's Danny, not dude" I say as I sit down on one the chairs on the patio. Beastboy sits down across from me. This will probably take a while. "So what won't I understand?"

"The thing is the news isn't personal. It's attention but, like it's not personal. Yah there's people, but they aren't with me" Beastboy tries to explain. What he says sound familiar. But what does it remind me of.

Acting on a hunch I ask "When you are around people, do you try and become the centre of attention?"

He thinks for a second before replying. "Yah I guess I do."

"And when you aren't the centre of attention do you feel awkward?"

I get a nod followed by another "yah".

"Last question. When you are around people due you tend to be over dramatic?"

Beastboy thinks for a little while before saying "I guess I do. Why is there a problem?"

"Maybe. Have you every seen a therapist?" I ask. By now I'm almost certain my hunch is correct.

"No, why?" Replied Beastboy nervously.

"Well it sounds like you have a mild case of Histrionic Personality Disorder." I explain.

"What's that?" asks Beastboy obviously curious.

"It's a personality disorder in which a person wants to be the centre of attention. When they aren't they feel out of place. In more extreme cases the person might try to seduce people and display exhibitionist behaviour. It's similar to being narcissistic, just without the extreme self love." I explain.

"I didn't understand half of what you said" he confessed while scratching his head in confusion. "Are you sure I have whatever your talking about?" Beastboy sounded worried.

"No I'm not sure. It's just a hunch." I said as Beastboy's face lit up. "But I had a sister who was a psychology nut that taught me a lot of what she knew" more like forced me to "so you should probably psychiatrist just to be sure." And with that he became worried again.

"How did this happen to me?" Asked Beastboy with a slight warble in his voice.

"Well it is usually caused by a traumatic experience. Aside from being thrown through a wall by a supervillain once or twice has anything happened to you?" I joked trying to lift his spirits. It didn't work because he looked even more depressed than before.

"Being green doesn't really make it easy to make friends. When I met people they were usually scared of me." Beastboy said in almost a whisper.

"That would probably do it." I say as Beastboy looks incredibly miserable. Trying to cheer him up I say "Don't worry if you have it, and I stress if, there's medication that helps and one of the best remedies is raising your self esteem. With your team that could be easy."

"If I have it, I'm not sure if I'll tell them"

"Why?"

"If they know something's wrong with me they might not want me on the team." He explains.

"Everyone has problems. Nobody can be perfect not even your teammates. Just think Cyborg's half machine and Starfire's an alien adapting to a new culture. I bet they both struggle with problems." I say trying to reason with him.

"I'll think about it" says Beastboy while he stares wistfully at the dog the twins were still petting.

Seeing what he was wishing for I playfully said "Just don't think while being a dog."

"Why not?" He asks.

"How many green dogs are there in Jump City. Just you, so they'll know the moment you walk over." I say still playfully.

My comment seemed to bring back Beastboy's good mood back. "Dude I can do what I want." He said and stood up and started walking to the park. He stopped before crossing the street. He said a quick "Thanks, I needed someone to talk to" before he morphed into dog and crossed the street.

I stood up from my seat and without any direction I started walking. After my isolated day at school it felt kind of nice to talk to someone.

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I decided to restock my food supplies. They weren't dangerously low but I don't know when I'll get another chance to do a real grocery shop for a while. I had walked to the supermarket about 10 minutes from my apartment and spent an hour shopping for food. I didn't enjoy shopping but it's better than starving.

I just left the supermarket with my arms laden with bags. This is when a car or ghost powers would be really nice. I could drive or fly the bags home quickly. But neither seemed to be in my immediate future unfortunately.

I'd only been walking for a few minutes when I heard a cry of "Friend Danny". Turning around I saw Starfire flying towards me. She had a frantic look on her face and when she landed I heard a squelching sound coming from her boot.

"Have you seen friend Beastboy? He is a dog right now. Oh and he's green too" she said.

"I saw him about an hour ago at the pizza place. But he was human then. Does that help?" I said.

"I'm afraid not." said Starfire. "I guess I must continue the searching."

"You might want to fix you boots first. They sound like you have a small lake inside them." I say.

Starfire face reddens from embarrassment. "Beastboy decided to turn my boots into the bite toy." she explained.

"Uh Starfire it a chew toy." I said.

"Oh"

"I've got to go. I have frozen food I need to get into my freezer and you have a search you need to do. But it's been nice seeing you." I say as I take a few steps away from Starfire.

Starfire gives me a nod and a "bye" before she flies off in search of her teammate. I readjust my grip on my bags and start the boring walk back to my apartment.

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The next day

I was sitting in math when Slide arrived late to class. That in itself was strange. He always is at school early. The thing that really warned me that something was wrong was Slide's face. His ever present smile wasn't there. He sauntered into class, handed the teacher his late slip before making his way to his seat.

When Slide sat down I leaned over and whispered "Is something wrong?"

"I'll tell you later" he said dismissively. Something was seriously off with Slide. He would never turn down a conversation with anyone, especially the non social me.

I turned back to note taking. I spent the rest of the period working while sneaking glances at Slide. It was strange to see the usually carefree and happy guy turn into a stoic emotionless person in one day. I'm worried for him.

After classes finish I go to the garden with Kelsey for lunch. We are joined by Slide but he's almost 10 minutes later than usual. He also looks like he has no energy. He might be late just because he's walking so slow. Each step he takes seems to take all of his effort. When he sits down beside us and starts eating he seems drained.

"Slide, are you ok? You weren't at school yesterday and you seem out of it today." I ask worriedly.

"I'm fine" he said trying and failing to sound convincing.

"Come on Slide, like we'd believe that. You can tells us what's wrong." piped in Kelsey as I nodded in agreement. "You'd help us. Let us help you."

"Alright I'll tell you. The night before yesterday my mom had to work really late on some project for the company she works at. Because of that, she was driving home really late. She ended getting into a horrible accident with a drunk driver and had to be rushed to the hospital." Slide said in a strained voice as he tried to hold in his tears. "She was in critical condition for the night and most of the morning. Me and my dad spent all of yesterday with my mom."

"Shouldn't you be with your mom now?" I asked.

"That's the worst part. When I was at the hospital yesterday I kept looking looking at my mom in her bed and I couldn't believe that it was really her. Her face was bruised from the impact of her head hitting the steering wheel and her body was converted in bandages. She looked nothing like herself so I thought that it wasn't really my mom that was hurt. Someone else must have taken her place. And since I didn't know them I could leave and go home. After I thought that I felt guilty that I didn't care if a person got hurt. Or that I didn't recognize my own mother. So when she made the suggestion that I go back to school, I saw a way out and jumped on it. I am such a coward." With that comment Slide burst into sobs as the tears he tried hold in flowed from his eyes. Kelsey put a hand on his shoulder in an attempt to comfort him. Unfortunately it didn't calm down Slide.

After a minute or so of Slide crying I finally thought of something that might help him. "What if we went with you to visit your mom?" I offer as Slide stopped crying and appeared interested in my offer. "Would having more people help you?"

"You guys would do that for me?" Slide asked hesitantly as me and Kelsey nod are heads yes. "You guys are the best friends a person could ask for." He exclaimed as he pulled me and Kelsey into a group hug. A smile makes its way to his face for the first time today. The Slide I know started to reappear.

His friend comment worries me a little but I guess I'm his friend now after what he just told me. It will make it harder for me to leave but at this point I don't care.

"Can we go right after school?" asked Slide.

I smile as I say "Sure. We'll go whenever you want."