Vampires beast
chapter 4
truth
"is she ok?"
"shes not awake yet..."
"where is friend beast boy..."
raven slowly opened her eyes...
"what happened..."
they all looked round at her...
"RAVEN"
starfire crushed the tired ...and frankly irritable... raven.
"are you ok rae?" asked cyborg...
"just peachy..." 'she had lost her attempts to sit up but she will NOT loose her sarcasm'
they all smiled...she looked around and noticed someone missing...
"wheres beast boy?"
...silence...
"i said where IS he" she was angry now...she hated it when people ignore her...
"he...well...he...he's in his room..." stumbled cyborg
"he has been there since we got back...after we found out that...that..." robin trailed off slowly...
"found out what?" she was asking a lot more questions then she felt comfortable doing...she preferred to have the answers...
"well...we found out that slade was...erm..." starfire was stumbling now...this could not be a good thing... "slades is...well...he...he's..."
"my farther"
they all jumped at this...even raven found the energy to sit up...
"beast boy..."
"before you start robin... let me explain..." ok this was a little to official...even with beast boys recent behavior...
"i told you...robin...that I have been regaining my memory lately..." ...robin nods... "well...i found out that he..." he said with as much disdain possible "...was my farther that week when i was in my room...thats why I didn't tell you before..." beast boy hung his head... they were probably hateing him by now...he new they would...
"well... at least you don't have his sense of fashion...that would just be wrong..." said cyborg in a really cocky way...
everyone was smiling or 'in ravens case' looking in contempt at cyborg...everyone that was...except robin who looked like he was in deep thought...
"wait... isn't this the part when you guys are meant to hate me...or shout...or yell...or something"
"why...you are our friend...friend beast boy..." happily mentioned starfire...
"yeah dude... I'm just happy that you don't work for him or sommat" said cyborg
"how could I judge...with a farther like mine" mentioned raven in a slightly quieter tone as her throat was hurting.
...only robin remained silent...
"what bout you rob...your our leader..." beast boy had been worrying about robins reaction most...
"ok...if your slade's son...you must know how to fight like him...i mean... I don't see him having a son with your abilities and not having taught him how to fight?...or steal?"
beast boy sighs...he knew this was coming... though he didn't quite expect that last part... and he knew robin would defiantly be the one to think off it...
cyborg, starfire and even raven looks at robin like he's lost his mind...
"yo, what makes you say something like that... bb isn't no apprentice..." cyborg had defiantly exaggerated that last word...
"friend cyborg is right... friend beast boy can not fight like slade... we have seen him...and also he is our FREIND"
"they are right robin"...raven?...she was sticking up for him... "there is no real evidence to support your theory"
"he's right though..." beast boy half mumbled, they all looked at him like he had grown an extra head or something...
"what do you mean..." robin said... 'he must have been convinced by the others arguments...' thought beast boy...
"i mean that...*sigh*...i was slades apprentice for a time..." he was DEFINATLY not gonna tell them how long...explaining how he was 26 when he left slade...and was pretending to be 19 now...was well...difficult when trying to hide his vampireism...
they looked slightly scared now... 'they probably think i'm some kind off obsessive freak like him... I best...at least...explain myself...'
another sigh...
"ok... I thought my parents had both died when I was 9... I had seen them die ...i had no doubt they had..." the titans faces softened when they heard this ... " I went through life believing this... well that was until just after the doom patrol... I was alone...and he found me...i didn't believe it was him at first but... when I saw his face I knew... I knew strait away...he then forced me into working for him... I won't go into the details of that..." (he shudders) "it was a lot of time before I got the courage to leave...and when I did... when I ran from him ... I ran into a few problems...unfortunately a while afterwards was when my memory was destroyed... I remember meeting you guys after a few months on the street..."
there was a deftly silence that followed this...
"wow" exclaimed cyborg... " I never knew...i'm really sorry for all those times i called u a freak yeah..."
"i am also sorry for the being of ignorant of your past..."
"look guys.." beast boy said "i know your feeling sorry for me and everything...but... I actually deserved it...i did some shit stuff with my life...so don't bang on about it yeah... I honestly have come to terms with it..."
"beast boy... no one deserves..." began raven...
"don't raven, you need your strength..." said beast boy "do you know what he did to her cyborg?"
"I'm not sure... I think the weapon was some kind of aging device, but I can't be sure... I still need to run a few more tests..."
"ok... could you keep us updated... I need to talk to beast boy about slades strengths and weaknesses..."
'should have seen that one coming' thought beast boy as he and robin left for what he knew would be a tiring and strenuous day...
later that day...
"oh and beast boy..."
"yeh..."
"you know you cant hold back so much in sparing now..."
"k... robbo... c u later..." he knew he was gonna say something like that. He left the main room, well at least he didn't get me sparing today...i'm really not in the mood...
"CAN ALL TITANS REPORT TO THE MEDICAL ROOM... I REPEAT ALL TITANS TO MEDICAL ROOM... I HAVE FOUND A CURE..." beast boy jumped at this and ran quickly to the medical room...
"what is it?" he asked as he arrived, robin right behind him...
"the lazer he hit her with... it was the aging beam I thought..."
"but friend raven doesn't look like she has aged"
"thats because it starts slow and gets faster...my guess is that she'll be 50 by the end of the month!"
"but what about the cure..." said a surprisingly calm robin "you said you had found one..."
"well, yes I have...but..."
"but...?" chipped in beast boy...
"but I will need to be dosed with vampire blood.." said raven... with an unmistakable quiver in her voice...
"WHAT"
"it's not as bad as it seems...me and raven talked and...well... the blood will be cleaned (if we can get some)...so no diseases are spread to her... and she will not become a vampire as her demon blood kinda... well...cancels it out!..."
starfire and robin where in shock at the very idea... but beast boy knew... cyborg was right... vampires where technically types of demon... so the fact that she was demon would cancel it out... it was quite obvious now he thought of it...
"are you sure about this...?" asked robin to both cyborg and raven... they both nodded...
"then all we need now is vampire blood...easier said then done..."
few hours later...
beast boy was walking to the common room...he had been contemplating this since he heard of the cure...if it was the only way raven could live then he would do it...'he would do anything for her'...'shit did I just think that!...?...' he left his thoughts hanging a he entered the common room...
they turned to see who it was and when they saw him they smiled... he had to admit...it was ironic that they were going to cure an illness one titan had with an illness another had... they were all gathered around the computer, trying to find someway of curing raven... even she had found the strength to sit on the couch... soon they all went back to the discussion...
"for the last time starfire...it wont work! ... my powers are to weak...we could never get ANY titan to do THAT... and where would we get 4 headless chickens and a thousand Nannyberry from?..." starfire looked upset and raven sighed...
"i didn't mean to shout at you starfire...i'm just still a little tired... thats all!"
beast boy could not help but smile at this... starfire was the only person in this world that could get raven to appologise...
he remembered why he was here and took a deep breath...
"guys... I think I can help..."