Ah the smell of updates in the afternoon! Well, not much to say except that I am slightly dissapointed in my lack of reviews. Oh well. "Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I'm gunna eat some worms..."
I still give you more story. Finally a show of power!
Four hours later there was a knock at her door. She had been reading one of the books she had found on the shelves in the common room and was surprised by the noise.
"Come in." She yelled at the door, she wasn't used to having privacy and people knocking before they entered.
"I finished with the T-Car and was wondering if you wanted to come with me to go join the others for dinner." Cyborg said, as he walked towards the couch.
"Um, sure." She blinked her eyes again and Cyborg thought he saw the light outside change. She stood up and grabbed her crutches.
As they exited the tower, they spotted the others outside. "Hey, did we miss all the fun?" Cyborg yelled after them.
"How could you miss anything? We just left the tower!" Robin yelled back as they waited for the two stragglers to catch up. When they finally did, Thyme hung back and Beast Boy joined her, listening in on the other's conversation.
"That can't be true. I worked on the T-Car for four hours. I was hoping we might make it for dinner with you guys if we hurried."
"But we have not been departed longer than ten minutes friend Cyborg." Starfire looked confused.
Beast Boy looked over at Thyme and raised an eyebrow. "Why are you named Thyme?" He asked.
She blushed, Ok, so I may not like this Cyborg guy, but I like his friends… "I have a few trick of my own. Like that stunt you pulled with my suitcase."
"What did you do?" He asked, "There aren't gunna be serious consequences for this are there?"
"No, of course not. That was pretty much a party trick." She smiled, "You should see what I can do when I really concentrate."
Robin turned around. "What's all this?" He stopped the group. "You have powers?" It was his turn to raise the eyebrow.
"Well, you didn't think I had such a strange name without reason did you?" She laughed. It was the first time she had laughed since the fall. "Yeah, I have powers. In fact, you could say I have a lot of power."
"Why didn't you tell us?" Raven asked, "We would have treated you a lot differently."
"Exactly, since that creep stole my wings, everyone has treated me like an ordinary person. My powers don't exactly announce themselves to the world like yours do." She pointed at Raven, and the fact that she was at least a foot off the ground. "I didn't want anyone to pry into my life. I may have power, but I don't use it that often."
"Why not?" Beast Boy asked. They were all headed in the general direction of the city now, and he had just caught up.
"Because my powers are dangerous if they aren't used properly; and it's hard to control them. I have… issues… sometimes, with my ability to control them. But they aren't the types that like to be controlled."
"Just for the record, what are your powers?" Robin asked.
"I don't exactly have powers, inasmuch as I have power." Everyone stared at her blankly. "I have control over time. I can stop time around a person, place or object, so that they are no longer in the realm of time, like I did this afternoon. I pulled Cyborg and myself out of time, and then paused it so that nothing happened while we were out. Then Cyborg could fix the T-Car or whatever he had to do, after he was done, I put us back into time and started things up again. Only minutes had gone by, but we were able to do things that could take hours normally."
"I think I understand your abilities friend Thyme, but is that the only thing you are capable of?"
"The only thing I am capable of? That's just a party trick." She grinned and blinked. There was a flash of light and they were suddenly back a few yards.
"Why not?" Beast Boy asked then shook his head. "Whoa, did we just… Dude!"
"I took us all back in time to a few minutes ago. Or, I should say 'Now' but you all know what I would be telling you now if this were the first time we had made it through this time."
Everyone was trying to comprehend this sentience when someone jumped in front of them.
"Hello Robin. It's so nice to see that you take some time off. Who is this? A new Titan?" Slade pushed through the other to see Thyme, she blinked and disappeared.
Back at the tower, she sat in her room cowering on her bed, crying. "Not him, not him, not him, never, no…" She muttered to herself, and then finally screamed at the empty room "I won't go back!"
"Too bad, I needed your help." The calm cool voice came out of the shadows. "Why did you leave?"
"I hate you" She breathed to herself, not daring to speak above a whisper.
"What was that?" He came to the bedside and took her face in his hands. "Did you say something?" He looked into her eyes and she tried to rip herself away from him. She clawed at his arms and tried to bite his hands. Teleporting wouldn't help her this time, she was too stressed and if she tried, he would go with her.
"Get away from her Slade!" Robin yelled from the doorway. The Titans were behind him and Beast Boy was slowly slinking off down the hallway.
"What do you think you can do Robin? She is mine, and you can't change that. She works for me, and she has shown loyalty and devotion in the past, haven't you, my pet."
To Thyme, it was like he spat the last two words out as an insult. "It's not true! Don't believe him! He's a liar and a murderer and a-
She was cut off by a hissing noise and then a strike as Beast Boy (as a cobra) bit Slade's foot, and slinked off. She looked down to see his foot growing to the size of a cantaloupe and she saw him grimace at the pain.
"I will be back, pretty girl, and next time, you will do as I say." He then vanished, and Thyme collapsed on her bed and sobbed, not caring that five other teenagers were standing in her doorway with millions of questions.
Beast Boy, who had returned to his original form, spoke for her. "Come on guys; let's leave her alone for a little while."
"What was that?" Robin began to ask. He was being forced out of the room by mass backing up. Beast Boy was the last to leave; before he did he turned around to look at the slumped form on the bed.
"Don't go…" She whispered in the middle of her tears. "If you leave, he wins… I can't let him… I won't… It can't happen… I won't…" She cried and gasped for air as she spoke to herself. Beast Boy slowly walked towards her. He hadn't dealt with a crying girl before, and he wasn't good at comforting.
He remembered something he had been told a long time ago, "Just be there, don't say anything, you might say something you regret, just be there." So he was. He sat down on the bed next to her and rubbed his hand up and down her back, hoping that it was comforting.
She looked at him, sat up and fell onto his shoulder. She couldn't keep anything from this green friend. He was so easy to be around, and tell things to. He was the best friend she had ever had, and she had only known him for two days.
"He… He ruins everything!"
"Shhh…" Beast Boy instinctively rubbed the back of her head. The two of them sat that way for an hour, her crying and muttering, him just listening.
Ah, more sentamental BB, I guess I'm just mushy that way. Hope none of you were confused by her explanation.
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