A/N: Fifth done in the series yet number two on the list(yes, I am going to continue with this). I actually intended this to be a pairing fic but I figured I would have enough of them in later chapters. Seems it turned into something of a pairing fic anyway(though not the original pairing). You'll see when you read it. Please enjoy.

Summary: Beast Boy wonders at the angel before him.

2. Angel

Beast Boy stopped in front of the piece of stone. He figured that it was supposed to be meaningless, a stone angel in the middle of a nearly forgotten graveyard only visited when someone had recently died and was ready to be buried. But he couldn't help but pause and stare at the beautiful piece of work. Someone must have taken great care to sculpt it.

In truth, he had come here to pay respects to his parents. They weren't buried here but it was the closet he could get to them as their bodies were lost in the waters of Africa. So every once in a while, he would come here and wander among the graves thinking about the short time he'd spent with them.

But those thoughts were far from his mind as he stared up at the stone angel. The name on the base was illegible, worn away by time, wind and rain. The statue was a female, as angels were usually depicted, her arms spread to either side, palms up and elbows bent, her wings flaring behind her, her face upturned. Beast Boy noted the sad expression on her face.

It seemed like she was asking for something like relief or redemption or... hope. She seemed lost, as if cast out of whatever wondrous plane she had resided in. He wondered, if she were real, what she had done to deserve such a fate. What could such an image of beauty have done to be thrown out of her home and turned into a stone statue? His thoughts immediately turned to Terra.

Perhaps this angel was a lot like her, a lost child looking for acceptance but constantly shunned and pushed to the side. So terrified that she turned to a madman for help instead of the only welcoming arms she had found in a long time. Maybe, in the end, she turned against him, saved those she had betrayed as well as innocents but still paid the price. Was turned to stone for all eternity.

Many possibilities ran through Beast Boy's mind as to how this angel got here, none of them fully the explaining things though the first one kept popping up.

Finally, he decided to just wonder at her sad face. To him, it spoke a thousand truths. Of family torn, of love lost, friends gone, and many other things. It was her face that really captured his attention. The look on it made him think about a certain girl he had remembered just moments ago, someone he hadn't thought about for what seemed like a very long time.

Something changed within him. He wasn't quite sure what but he figured it didn't really matter.

Yes, he had already let her go but he had never really said goodbye. Her statue in her cavern was gone and he didn't know if that blonde girl he'd seen at the high school was actually her. She was gone and she wasn't coming back. Thinking about it, if she had come back, she more than likely wouldn't accepted anyway. The others wouldn't be able to trust her again and he honestly wondered if even he could.

Beast Boy turned this idea around in his head before looking up and giving the angel a soft smile. He had one finally thing to say.

"Goodbye, Terra."

With that, he turned and left, in a much brighter mood than before.

He never noticed that the angel's lips seemed turned up into an almost imperceptible smile.