Here's part 3, hot of the presses. It's a bit on the short side, so I will update this sooner (if I can). Hopefully you like this better than part 2, which I still have to get aorund to re-writing. As always rate and review, that keeps me wanting to write more.


Dawn broke, light streaming into the Titan's living room. The others were seated at the couch - Robin reading a police report, Cyborg flipping aimlessly through the channels, Starfire brushing her hair and Raven reading a book.

"Yo where's BeastBoy at, he hasn't popped his green head in yet?" Inquired Cyborg

"I don't know, he hasn't come out of his room and the door is locked." Said Robin.

"Heh, now if that was Raven I'd be worried." Joked Cyborg, earning a nasty glace from Raven.

"Bird-brain is probably just up to something stupid, like always. He'll probably come marching out with some surprise any minute." Raven said, turning back to her book.

"I am worried about friend BeastBoy; I will go check on him." Intoned Starfire, drifting towards the door. The trip was a short one, just down the hall.

"Friend BeastBoy, it is Starfire. Are you requiring the assistance?" She asked, knocking on the door.

"What? No Star, I'll be out soon. I have a surprise; go back out with the others." Came the muffled reply.

She obliged, returning to the others with a thoughtful look on her face.

"What is it Star, is something wrong" Robin asked.

"No, BeastBoy is unharmed. He merely seemed preoccupied. As Raven said, he is up to the something."

Raven silently raised her hand, and lifted a finger.

"And" she continued, "he said something about a surprise."

Another finger was lifted.

Robin and Cyborg shared a look of amusement.

"I wonder what it is, he hasn't exactly been back to normal ever since he thought he saw Terra." Said Robin.

"Maybe he got over it, we all miss her but sometimes you just got to let go. When a person's gone, well man, their just gone." Replied Cyborg.

"He swears it was her though…said something about some school, and things changing. I still don't know if he really saw her, or if he was just seeing what he wanted."

"Who knows man? I looked for a cure, but that's out of science's league for now."

"Even my magic has its boundaries. Everything I tried failed. Maybe she's just gone." Replied Raven.

They turned around to see BeastBoy standing there, a blank look on his face.

"BeastBoy? How long have you been there?" Asked Robin, shocked and sorry.

"Long enough..." a grin began to spread across his face, puzzling the other Titans.

"If you could talk to Terra again, what would you say?" He asked, his grin making the question that much odder for the gathered Titans.

"I would tell friend Terra that I am most saddened by her…her leaving us." Starfire began, clearly substituting the words she thought were true for ones she hopped would be less painful for BeastBoy.

"I'd say in the end, she made the right choice and I wish she was still with us." Followed Robin, with a puzzled look on his face.

"That she was one wild girl, wished she'd of stuck around." Cyborg said.

"Raven, what would you have said?" Asked BeastBoy, shifting his gaze only to her.

"She made mistakes, she messed up and she almost killed us. But for some reason I can't hate her for it and I wish she would come back."

"Why are you asking us this B.B" Cyborg said "I know you have feelings for her, but she's gone, you can't keep beating yourself up like this and why are you grinning?

On the other side of the door Terra took a deep breath, planted her feet on the ground, and began to walk in.

"All that stuff you guys just said…" BeastBoy gave them a quizzical look, prompting a chorus of nods as the door behind him opened, "say it to her face…"

They saw her.

They didn't believe it was her at first, so long was her absence and so firm in their belief that she was dead.

"Terra!" Starfire was the first to break the silence. "You are alive and unharmed!"

"Terra? But how?" Robin stammered.

Cyborg's mouth just hung open.

"Impossible…" Raven whispered.

"Hey guys, how is going?" Terra replied awkwardly, waving at them. She was just glad they weren't trying to kill her for now. BeastBoy led her closer to them; they still seemed to believe she wasn't real.

"How Terra, we searched for a cure for so long, how are you free?" Robin asked. She blushed at their concern for her; it was plain on their faces, except for Raven, who gave her a guarded but not hateful stare. That was more than she could have asked for.

"I…I don't know. I don't remember being turned into stone, and no idea of how I became…normal again." She grimaced at her use of normal. She wasn't normal, not now, not ever. When BeastBoy heard that Terra didn't remember anything of when she was stone, his spirits sank; he had told her how he really felt about her in the hopes she would hear. Telling her had been easier then, when she couldn't say anything back.

"BeastBoy told us he saw you in high school. Is that true? Did you really try to just forget who you are?" Robin inquired.

Terra suddenly found the floor much more interesting than usual and stared at it intently. That question again, the one she hated.

"Yeah" she breathed "I already told BeastBoy, but you all deserve to know too. I thought it would just be better that way. I thought no one else would be hurt. I figured you wouldn't have wanted to see me anyway…"

"That is most untrue friend Terra!" Starfire blurted out.

"When we tried to bring you back, we found out just how unstable and hard to control your powers were…are. That didn't make joining Slade the right choice…but we all do things out of desperation we wish we never had." Robin said, the image of a red X in his mind.

"Sometimes we want something so bad; we almost forget who we are just to get it." Said Cyborg, looking at his hands, their cold metal reflecting the light, and remembering the H.I.V.E. academy.

"But none of that matters, our friend Terra has returned to us, this is a call for joyous celebration!" Blurted Starfire, shattering the serious mood. Terra couldn't help but smile, to think she had been stupid enough to give this all up - the only place she was accepted, in some cases more than just accepted, for who she was. She was back and she was willing to do anything to become a Titan again. She was about to ask the question, but BeastBoy beat her to it.

"So can she ever be a Titan again?" This elicited some uneasy glances from the others.

"We don't know. We didn't expect her to ever come back." Robin shifted his gaze to Terra. "We will need to run extensive tests to make sure you are stable and not under the influence of anyone." The person's name Robin was implying didn't need to be stated.

"And Terra," he added "they won't be pleasant."

She nodded emphatically. "I understand. I'll do whatever it takes to be a Titan again, I won't screw this up."

"Then the tests begin tomorrow. You will want relax and sleep today. It's going to be a long day tomorrow. BeastBoy, take her to her room."

He quickly led her away, the door closing behind them.

"Can we trust her?" Raven spoke.

"I don't know. We'll find out tomorrow though." Robin said.

"If she is herself and not some puppet, do we even want her back after what she almost did?" Pressed Raven.

"Everybody makes mistakes, and by the time she realized that's what she had done it was already out of her hands till the end." Robin replied.

"Don't worry Rae, the test will tell us if she really is herself, and if we really should trust her. They won't be painless, but they won't lie." Assured Cyborg.

They arrived at Terra's room. He opened the door and let her in first.

"It's just like last time…"

"I wouldn't let them change it."

"They wanted to change it?" She inquired.

"Well…no, but I wouldn't have let them." He said, giving her a toothy grin. She giggled, his grin turned into a smile.

"I can't thank you enough BeastBoy, I owe everyone, but especially you. You never gave up on me; always saw the good in me. Even when I didn't."

"Terra, that's what I'm here for…just let things go back to how they were."

"Can they ever B.B? Even if I do become a Titan again I can't undo what I did, as much as I wish I could."

"Terra, what were you thinking when you went with…him?"

"I wasn't. That's probably why I did it, he gave me control and I just had to give him my body. He never wanted the mind."

"So you weren't thinking huh?"

"Yeah…"

"I thought that was supposed to be my job." He laughed, hopeful that his jokes still worked on her. They did. By the time he left it was dark out and he left to give her a good sleep, giving her a good night hug before he left. They had spent the entire time talking, about what didn't matter so long as they were together.


And there is part 3. I'm suprised I'm writting this 'good', seeing as how this is literaly the first creative thing I have written since middle school. Hopefully I'll keep geetting better, and put out better chapters for you all to read.