Finally, i got chapter 4 done! Enjoy!
Ben was in the Titans medical room. He slowly began to wake up; sorta shocked at where he was at until he remembered that Penny said where they were headed. He sat up in the bed, looking down he saw that he was still holding onto his sister's green leather jacket with a white stripe on one side and the number ten on it.
"Ten for Tennyson." Ben said to himself.
"Story of our life."
He quickly looked up to see his sister standing in the doorway. She then walked to his side lightly ruffling his hair and kissing his forehead.
"How are you feeling Benny?" Penny said grabbing a chair and sat on Ben's right side.
"Alright…..I guess." Ben said.
"Need me to get you anything?" She asked Ben.
"Water?" Ben said.
Penny smiled and handed him a bottle of water. Ben took the water and looked at her strangely. "Figured you'd be thirsty, so I snagged one before I came in."
Ben nodded as he opened the water and took a sip. Penny noticed that Ben didn't simply chug it down, he took small sips. 'Good to know he listened when I talked to him about survival.' She looked at him earnestly, "You know I won't push you to tell me what happened, and I've made damn sure that no one else here asks either. I've got a pretty good idea what happened, but I give you time if you want to talk about it."
"Thanks Penny." Ben said smiling at her.
She smiled back at him before she got up and left the room. Turning to her right, she saw Beast Boy looking at her sadly. Penny raised a brow at him, "What's with the sad face?"
"Don't you think you should have stayed with him?" Beast Boy asked her, "I mean, he hasn't seen you in a while and he's gone through something quite traumatic. He probably wants to be with his big sis, know what I mean?"
"I do, but I'm afraid he'll think that I'll keep trying to get information out of him. He'll have someone get me when he feels ready to talk." She started to walk off still talking to Beast Boy as she did, "In the meantime, why don't you try comforting him. That would be good for him."
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Beast Boy asked.
"I wouldn't be asking you to if I wasn't." and with that, she disappeared around the corner.
Beast Boy still wasn't sure if it was a good idea, but Ben did need someone around his age to talk to. And he was the closest one they had to a ten-year-old. With that in mind, Beast Boy walked into the medical room. He noticed that Ben was different then when he first met, then again Beast Boy wasn't surprised. After taking afew more steps, Ben took notice of Beast Boy and smiled softly.
"Hi Beast Boy." Ben said.
"Hey there Ben, good to see that you're up." Beast Boy said taking a seat on the bed next to Ben's, "You know, I played that Sumo Slammers game you kept talking about last time you were here. And I gotta tell you, it's super fun."
"You really think so?" Ben said, "What about Cyborg?"
"He's into it as well, but he's yet to defeat me." He said quite proudly.
"Really? How'd you manage to pull that off?" Ben asked him.
"Took your cousin's advice and read the manual in the box." Beast Boy told him.
Ben gave a small smile, "As much as I hate to admit it, Gwen can give good advice at times."
"How have you two been since you had the omnitrix removed? I mean, has she been alittle nicer to you?"
He thought about it for a second and shrugged, "I guess so. We don't fight as much as we used to."
"I see."
On the roof…
Penny lit a cigarette taking in a breath of cancer in a stick, and slowly exhaled. She was furious, she wanted to kill Jezebel and Apep for what they did to Ben. Though she knows that she can't really do that, that would cause a hell of a lot of trouble in the Plummer Community. But she could still make them suffer, how she would be able to torture two psychopathic aliens was still a question to her but she'll make it possible.
"Hello beautiful."
Those words instantly snapped Penny out of her thoughts and turn to see said Anodite in her true form and smiling at Penny, who in turn gave the alien a death glare.
"You've got some serious guts to show your fucking face around me!" Penny said as she threw her cigarette to the ground and stomped on it.
"It's nice to see you to, Penny." Jezebel said ignoring her statement.
Penny simply glared at her, "What the hell do you want?"
She smiled, "You know damn well what I want. I want the boy."
"Fat chance of that happening."
"Such confidence, unfortunately that's the reason I can't turn you."
"Honestly, I can't even believe you'd go so far as to steal a boy's innocence."
Jezebel's eyes widened slightly, "I'll go to any length to get the strongest Anodite."
"What are you really doing here?" Penny said growing more suspicious.
She smiled, "You'll see." And with that, she disappeared.
Realization finally hit Penny, "Ben!"
To be continued…..
Hope you all enjoyed the new chapter! might be awhile before i post the next one.
