Gar looked at the vast warehouse full of musical goodies. To some this was heaven to others it was simply a haven and to the boring majority it was simply a shop. It was called "mount guitar" something so beautiful to a guitar player and they had more than just guitars. They had simply every instrument you might even imagine needing for creating music.
And to think all he needed was guitar strings….
Gar looked at all the things they sold wide eyed; he didn't even know all this existed. He wanted to sample every single guitar, he wanted to strum every bass guitar, and he wanted to touch every speaker. He wanted to play with the keyboards, he wanted to feel the bass reverberate against his skin.
Gar walked into the guitar section dubbed "luthiers emporiam" he walked the isles reading the labels marveling at all he ever dreamed being. Who knew maybe he still was dreaming….soo many guitars, that was all that was going through Gar's head. Finally he reached the isle holding the guitar strings.
"damn………….." escaped Gar's mouth as he looked at the 8ft tall shelf holding over 5000 brands of guitar strings, needless to say the different kind of strings that where on there. Turning around in the isle his eyes widened as he saw increasing numbers of strings.
"wow……………"
"yeah our selection is amazing. We carry everystring that is produced and for record low prices too!" said a lanky blonde. Gar could have sworn he recognized her, then he read her nametag
Terra Markov
Gar didn't expect to bump into out of all people his Ex-girlfriend. The ex-girlfriend that dumped him years ago….the one that broke his heart….
"uh yeah…" Gar quitly said. He was mad at her, though he forgave her, he really didn't want to do anything with her. Not after what she did….not then…it took him a long time to get over her. Fortunatly Raven was there the whole time
"Uh I just wanted a couple of boxes of uh those strings over there" said gar, he really didn't want to be in her presence, he didn't feel comfortable, especially the way she was eying him now. Like a cat eyes its prey.
"Just those?" asked terra. Terra looked at this obvious musician. He looked like one; he was tall, lean, and as close to normal as she would love to be. He was what she wanted. He wore the same cologne that beastboy wore though, and clothes wise she didn't know since beast boy basically wore the same outfit day in and day out.
Non the less he was hot. He had a goofy smile, and she honestly thought he might like her. Now all she had to do was thrown in the hook line and sinker, and she would be Mrs. Whatever his last name is.
Not that she was ever this desperate before, but after she left the titans and told them to leave her alone, she finished high school and found that college was harder to get into then she thought.
Life was quite boring same old ruitine. She didn't like it at all, so she moved from jump City to Beverly hills, and scored a job at this shop. Though it wasn't the most fun she ever had in her life, or the most excitement, it was pretty good.
She got to meet a lot of real musicians, some of which where famouse. And occasunally she would get to meet a rich musician that the world didn't hear of yet, like this person in front of her whoever he was.
He had shocking blonde spiky hair, blazing green eyes, and a sculpted frame. What was there not to like?
"so you play guitar?" Terra asked while retrieving the strings for him slowly hoping to strike a conversation before she had to leave him, so he could purchase his strings.
Gar decided the best thing on earth right now to do was pretend to have zoned out. Completely. Then once given the strings mumble a deep thought thanks and walk in a somewhat hurry to the register. 'Gar your such a geniouse' ran through his head. And he was for the moment zoned out.
"here are your strings sir." Terra said looking at the zoned out youth. Obviousely he was thinking hard and deep. Maybe he'd come again and she would get her chance then.
"huh what? Oh thanks" mumbled the youth before walking off a little distraught with the strings in tow. Terra sighed. Well there went the fifth guy she considered in the past year.
"did you find everything ok? And thatll be $125.26" asked the mellow clerk. He was in his mid twenties, and obviously surfed.
"yeah, just some chick scared me, its like dude its not a dating parlor!" Gar said before handing the cashier two hundred-dollar bills.
"eh well that's what happens sometimes, you know? Like the other day I was surfing and this dolphin seemed to really like my board. And I guess it might of liked my breath because I snuffed some crack. But anyways it swam up to me and was like hello there surfer! I was like awsomeness dude, Ive never seen a purple dolphin before. And so here is your change $74.74, come again and check out our website for the competition that's running." Said the clerk, Gar was honestly wondering what they put in these people's water and if he should be conserned.
"uh yeah, thanks and uh tell that dolphin I said hi k? from a green kangaroo." Said Gar, hey why not spark this guys imagination. Purple dolphins psh.
"dude don't drive and be high! Green kangaroos are wicked I get em from coke."
"uh yeah, gotta run byes."
Gar sat down into his car, a bright yellow corvette, and drove away. He really had too much fun… much tooooo much.
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victor looked at Karen, it would be alright. He was gonna be a daddy. They where looking a baby name book, curtesy of karen's parents. It included a book on all the names in karen's family.
Not that he minded looking at the vast majority of names, mostly Karen, kathrine, margarite, Shawnee, Martha, Baptista and well the list goes on.
Karen was most certain they would have a baby girl. Something told him it would be more than just a girl. He didn't want to argue with her, he learned the hard way that you just didn't argue with Karen.
"How bought Maybelle?" Asked Vic. Not that he liked the name he was just wondering what would happen if he offered a name not in that book.
"cant, aunt maybeell will think you named her after her, and well even though it's a different name, nobody in the family will allow me to live that down. Aunt maybeell aint the favorite to say the least." Stated Karen calmly looking at the variouse books her parents had provided.
"vic I wonder if our baby will have superpowers" pondered half asked Karen
"Karen...we dont have superpowers, you use a suit and i am half metal...the only superpower they might inherit is a hyper active intelligent mind and stunnin looks" answered Vic as he looked again at the countless amounts of books
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Gar sighed as he looked down. It's been four months since the forest singing to the animal's escapade and everything was just making him think more. He didn't like it too much.
Sure Raven was the only one that never dated in the tower, so why should she be not dating and waiting for him now? Hell robin dated several girls before settling on star, just like star dating around first too.
Cyborg had a girlfriend before he became metal man, got dumped for being a metal man too. And he dated a few girls too till he got with bee.
Even he himself dated, though once, before getting rejected and learning for the first time to fear being rejected. The thought of Terra still made him want to cry and scream and yell and break a few things. But that's not what superheroes do. They simply don't. They stop the bad guys, and make the world a safer place to live. Not become bad guys and fight amongst each other because of betrayal and a dating game.
So what made him think that Rachel Roth wasn't dating? What if she was, and oh god enjoying it for some reason that thought was sickening to him and he knew why. He loved her and probably always would. He just didn't know if he would ever hold her in his arms even if it was just for a moment.
With that Gar went on to live his life without Rachel Roth…though he tried to forget her and date other girls he couldn't, and frequently dumped girls simply because they weren't what he wanted. Thus our cuddly beast boy was known as a irresponsible rich youth………the lead singer of punk band green182
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4 years later
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Vic sighed in relief when he listened to his favorite group record music. Green182, with his beastly best friend as the lead singer, he laughed, who wasn't so beastly physically anymore. Just attitude wise. He and Karen knew why, it even seemed that Shawnee and Mike knew too why their favorite uncle acted like a prick to everyone but this one family called Stone.
It was quite amazing because he chose and made the band Sonic4, and they where quite a hit though quickly began to die. Fortunately his boss was so impressed he let him sign another band that was already formed before Sonice4 became "Hasbeenmore", and thereof their fall from fame. Though Green182 seemed to be on a much livelier trail, with the occasional pissed of Gar yelling at a equally pissed off Vic, Tony Blair and the hired drummer.
They where good, Gar played insane guitar and had insane vocals, Tony Blair was talented in bass, though he was constantly high, and the hired drummers came and went as they pleased ever running after a bigger check.
"Dude you totally throw off my vibe…..always!" yelled Tony at Gar.
"Well you always nag at me like some nagging hoe!!" yelled back a flustered and tired Gar
"Who you calling a hoe? You sleep with a new girl every fucking night! Before you die you might wana check for aids." Yelled a frustrated Tony
"Don't worry singing on the same stage as me, I wont contaminate you mother!" yelled Gar as he walked out
"That was rather calm, what about this time?" asked Vic as he watched his best friend drink a beer.
"And you really shouldn't be drinking so much Gar" Karen pitched in as she took the bottle away from him and replaced it with some mineral water "drains you of water, and bad influence on your Godkids"
"But they aren't here bee!!" whined Gar, he only acted like his normal self around his close friends, who he considered their family.
"UNCLEEEE GA!!!!!" screamed two little tots as they burst from beneath the sink cabinet with pots on their heads and spatulas as swords.
"AHHHHHHHHH they got mee!!! Saveeeee meeeee!!!" moaned a falling on cue Gar. Truth be told he loved those two kids a lot. Why he didn't know, maybe because it was Cy's kids. Or maybe because they where cute but none the less he didn't know. Both of them where chubby cheeked and had giant afros that Karen usually corn-rowed. Shawnee looked a bit more like her dad than Mike did, he looked like his mom.
Both kids laughed like crazy before Mike recited the coveted verse.
"We will let you go if….." started Mike, " heeeeeyyyy it was tur!! I wana do the sayeeeng its no fairs Miiiiiikiiie noooo faiiiiiir. I tell momyyyy!!!!!" wailed a distraught Shawnee
"Ill tell daddy you touched his computa again……" threatened mike
"You touched my computer??" asked an amused Vic. Honestly he knew whenever they touched his computer, they where one of the few people on the planet that knew he was cyborg. But nope, they frequently didn't care to remember he had the entire home configured precisely he knew who touched what when and put it where if it was inside the house.
"Nooooooooo……." Started Shawnee,
"Shawnees Katharine Stone, are you lying?" asked Karen. She didn't encourage bad behavior in her children and it frustrated her when they did so just to avoid getting into trouble.
"Yes ma, she lying anyways I SHALL LET YOU GO IFFFF YOU READ US twinkle toes Johnny!!!!" finally finished Mike who was losing his patience.
Gar let out a slight laugh as he picked the tot up and watched Karen's face, "Michael Benjamin Stone did you just interrupt me?"
"Nope just took the words out of your mouth" said Gar as he picked up a giggling Shawnee and trotted to the couch whilst where the aforementioned book lay and began to read it.
"Once upon a yodeling time, long ago in the fifties" started Gar
"You think he will be ok?" asked Karen, she knew that his actions where a response to the life he lived without the titans, and frankly beastboy didn't know how to make any friends. Not that he didn't want to. He just couldn't. He wasn't able to trust them enough considering that was how the entire Terra thing happened.
"Maybe, we might never know. But what concerns me is if the band is going to be ok, though remember how we met him two years ago? That was strange to find him on a band I won in a lottery!" rambled Vic as he looked at the fallen titan. Though they where supposed good guys in their youth, Vic knew the teen titans where only human.
He hugged Karen around the waist and did a lazy slow dance with her; she smiled and gave a soft laugh as she listened to her exited children hang on every word Gar said. Truth be told twinkle toes Johnny wasn't the story they knew by heart. It was a story of one of Gar's dates with fate. How he became beast boy. He conveniently changed his name to Johnny for the story and the children honestly believed that Gar was the second beastboy. Least that's what Gar thought. Cyborg was able to derive from them that they figured it out.
None the less they loved the story, how a young boy in Africa encounters the disease and how every sneeze makes him change and scare or amuse the confused villagers. He conveniently left out the way he lost his parents, his evil uncle, and his days in the orphanage, and his life roaming the streets hiding from his uncle who hunted after him.
"And then Johnny sneezed……." Gar supposedly read
"AND TURNED INTO A BIG TIGA!!!!" yelled a over hyped Mike
"noooopeee a…." Gar loved having them hang on his words
"A bunnnyy????" asked Shawnees holding her two favorite animals, a monkey and a bunny.
"Nope a he became a fat rat!" concluded a happy Gar as the two children laughed.
"Considering he just lost two band members he's in a good mood" said Vic looking at his client so to speak. After being with him for two years the band was able to do whatever before resigning the contract. This is where they became the client rather than the slave.
"That's cuz he pays you cash to find em dear" laughed a happy Karen. She didn't know why she ever doubted Vic; he gave her everything but the wedding he promised her. And that's because there was no time for a wedding, instead the got married in Hawaii while she was 8 months pregnant and his band was a hit.
He got her a house, a Mercedes Benz, her babies had everything they ever wanted and a good amount of money in savings for their future.
She had a always clean house, and he always knew where what was. He cooked for her cleaned for her and worked for her. She lived better than a queen. She smiled lovingly as she leaned against her husband of four years. She was really rewarded in accepting his metallic-ness and loving him. She had two bright young kids who where overly hyper and for taking care of them he took care of her. It was almost unreal.
In fact her family thought it was unreal. Something completely wrong, and then got jealous. Her aunt Vern said that all a man was good for was a mess and laziness. For some reason Vic was able to prove them wrong.
"Common kiddos and ill make you Gar's secret beast milk that'll magically put you to sleep!"
"If it didn't taste so good I would scream!" stated Shawnees as he sat them down at the kitchen bar. Then turned his back to them to conceal his secret recipe, steering the warm milk with unknown contents until it was completed then giving it to the eager kids who drank it without delay
"What do you put in there anyway Gar? They fall asleep almost instantly" said Vic as he picked up his drowsy kids.
"Oh just a few calming herbs, my nana made it for me when I wasn't ill in Africa. I was a tad hyper so to speak and so she did it when she needed a break." Answered Gar as he got himself a tall glass of Champaign
"tad hyper eh? well mister hyper, what are you gonna do since your band members bailed on you and green182 is basically disbanded with one member?" asked Karen as she got herself a glass of Champaign,
"no offence gar but your reckless. ever since the titans disbanded you've been reckless. care to explain?" Karen added as she delicately sipped her Champaign.
"that's the thing, why did we disband? I mean we started the teen titans, we where the first, then you guys started titans east and then there where two. I pretty much assumed we would stay like that, I don't get why we had to partways...still don't, guess I just try to do things without thinking so I just don't think." sighed gar as he drank a large amount of the golden liquid in his glass.
"I mean I never got to tell Raven that I loved her, still do. guess I'll write another song like that maybe it'll be a hit and it'll be on the Garfield Logan goes solo album, I dunno what to do bee I just don't know...move on? nope cuz non of the girls are like her and I can't get over her...I don't know what to do." said Gar as he took another sip of his Champaign, never really putting down the glass,
cyborg came in and decided to tease his friend and comrade like he always did, "who would've thought that beast boy the strict vegetarian would become such an alcoholic! Lay of the booze man your hyper as it is" cyborg said as he got himself a glass out and began to pour some Champaign.
"Grapes aren't an animal so don't be surprised...So metal man what we gonna do with green182?" asked Gar before his friend could interrupt him with one of his smart alec suggestions about one thing or another. He loved his friends dearly though and wouldn't dream of abandoning them for the world.
"I just asked you that question gar!!" yelled cyborg
"Vic!! The kids! They're sleep-in" whined Karen
"Its soundproofed don't worry, I thought ahead!" smiled Vic proudly. He took planning ahead to a new extent sometimes.
"Dude seriously, if I could id just get a time machine and reverse time till we where back in the tower and cast some spell so that we would've stayed 18 forever, I mean then we wouldn't have needed to ever move out, we would have been teen titans forever! And I wouldn't be sitting here fuming about my past mistakes..." ranted Gar
"Well I guess I can look around tomorrow for some new members but don't plan on it being easy or that you'll like the new members. And the teen tower thing, we got kicked out thanks to lord bat. He wanted robin to move on, kinda conduct an experiment so to speak. Technically if fate demands it we will regroup but in a different city." cyborg said as he took the Champaign bottle and put it into the wine chamber
"Goodnight guys I'm off to bed" said Karen as she walked up the stairs to her bedroom.
"Don't kill yourself for the past gar, instead live for the future..." said Cyborg as he put the glasses into the sink
"Care for some assbeating in the land of PS3?" asked cyborg as he walked into his family room
"Not like you could actually beat me in the virtual world tin man" muttered a smiling gar
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two months later
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gar gently stringed his electric guitar playing a tune he had composed to a song he wrote half a year ago, and sometimes still felt. He named it "story of a lonely guy" because it was befitting him. He didn't notice cyborg come into the study with Karen and a flock of guys hoping to make the cut into Green182, though thinking he wondered if they should change the title to G.L.G or Gar the lonely guy. After all band members had the tendency to leave every couple of years.With that thought he started to sing lyrics to his song
Push it
out, fake a smile
avert disaster just in time
cyborg looked at Karen then back at gar sounded like something he would have wrote in the tower, after all that's all they did avert disaster, pointing the guys to their spur the moment seats he decided he would allow them to hear out Gar and leave if they didn't want to deal with him.
I need a drink, cause in a
while
worthless answers from friends
of mine
it's dumb to ask, cool to ignore
Robin looked at Gar almost gapping. First of all he wasn't green, second of all his annoying squeaky voice seemed perfect for singing this style and his song was kinda sad...
girls possess me but they're
never mine
I made my entrance
avoided hazards
checked my engine I fell behind
Gar kept his eyes closed as he recited the lyrics perfectly, he didn't need to read his songs, for some reason he could remember all the lyrics perfectly which always annoyed Tony, he almost smiled he was glad he quit...
Dada dada dada dada
da
I fell behind
dada dada dada dada da
She makes me feel like it's
raining outside
and when the storms gone I'm
all torn up inside
I'm always nervous on days
like this like the prom
I get too scared to move cause
I'm a fuckin' boy
Xavier looked at the supposedly famous Garfield "Gar" Logan. He was hoping to score the drumming position but looking at this guy he wasn't sure if he was even in the right place... fuckin... yup he was in the right place...
Remember when I was in
the grocery store, now's my
time
lost the words, lost the
nerve,
lost the girl, left the line
I would wish upon a star
but that star, it doesn't
shine
so read my book, with a boring
ending
a short story of a lonely guy
Gar sang the words he wrote, he wrote them while in the tower, the new titans didn't even see him only showing how good they actually where. He almost wanted to laugh at the ridiculously dressed new titans, he really couldn't believe the justice league could have done that to them
Dada dada dada dada da
who fell behind
dada dada dada dada da
She makes me feel like it's
raining outside
and when the storms gone I'm
all torn up inside
I'm always nervous on days
like this like the prom
I get too scared to move cause
I'm a fuckin' boy
since they separated he loved the rain because it reminded him of raven, she wasn't like star who was constantly sunny, she was like the rain, free wild but restrained. Cold but comforting...in some twisted way
Dada dada dada dada da
dada dada dada dada da
She makes me feel like it's
raining outside
and when the storms gone I'm all
torn up inside
I'm always nervous on days like
this like the prom
I get too scared to move cause
I'm still
just a stupid, worthless boy
he finished the song and opened his eyes almost to scream at the amount of people in the studio. Not knowing what to do beastboy, the sweet misunderstood charmer turned into Gar Logan, the not so sweet misunderstood punk rock star
"What the fuck?" shouted Gar
"Hey Gar get in the studio and stop playing, these boys here to audition for your band . Tell em what your looking for in the new members" said cyborg as he hit the record button so that every moment would be recorded
"Uh well letsee, all members need to be fun and outgoing and unusual preferably misunderstood because if your not it might make me look bad. Uh you need to sing and be able to come up with melodies of your own because believe it or not I do have block moments where I just cant think...and uh yeah don't piss me off though that might be fun..."said Gar as he walked into the studio to sit down in his chair next to cyborg.
"For the audition just grab your intstrument and either sing a song whilst playing or play a song" finished Gar.
A tall lanky guy with a bald head walked in wearing usual punk clothing and grabbed his bass guitar.
"Hi i'm Austin Terin and I hope to be in your band!"
With that he started strumming it a bit off key and had a blank look on his face whilst he started to sing horribly off key
"Don't get mad if I stay the night
cuz with the way you talk baby I just might
don't get mad if I flip the switch on at night
I tend to get lazy and switch random switches just not to sleep at night
yeah I got insoooooommmmmniaaaaaaaaa!
Insoooooooooommmmmmmmniaaaaaaaa!
"Uh stop that was good uh next!" said Gar looking at the significantly taller lanky guy..
After about 2 hours of listening to random noise that he sometimes liked and didn't like gar finally got to watch a tall lean guy walk into the booth wearing typical punk clothing and having overly excessively spiked black hair, he picked up the bass guitar. At the same time a second member walked in who had the exact same built as robin except he was taller by four inches and leaner sporting a multicolored Mohawk and his exposed arms covered in tattoos.
"Those two demanded to audition together" whispered cyborg before Gar could open his mouth
"Hi I'm Richard Grayson and I'm mentally disturbed, on the drums is..."
"Xavier Darker and I hate your guts"
"Together we hope to kick your ass"
with that robin began strumming his bass guitar whilst Xavier started on hisdrums
It's
Christmas Eve, and I've only wrapped two fuckin' presents
it's
Christmas Eve, and I've only wrapped two fuckin' presents
and I
hate, hate, hate your guts
I hate,
hate, hate your guts
and I'll never talk to you again
Unless
your dad will suck me off
I'll never
talk to you again
unless
your mom will touch my cock
I'll never
talk to you again
ejaculate
into a sock
I'll never
talk to you again
I'll never talk to you again
It's Labor Day and my Grandpa just ate seven fuckin' hotdogs
it's Labor
Day and my Grandpa just ate seven fuckin' hotdogs
and he
shit, shit, shit his pants
he always
fuckin' shitin' his pants
and I'll never talk to you again
Unless
your dad will suck me off
I'll never
talk to you again
unless
your mom will touch my cock
I'll never
talk to you again
ejaculate
into a sock
I'll never
talk to you again
I'll never talk to you again
finishing their song they did a strange little bow and walked out of the booth into the waiting room where all the others waited for The Gar Logan to come out and give them the title of nearly family.
robin fidgeted and kinda wondered if Gar was the same guy he was years ago the gar he remembered was hyper happy and overly emotional. having no care for the world as he knew it since the world didn't care about a short green freak. frankly he was proud of being a green short freak at least that's what they thought...long ago...many things had changed since then
Gar wrote down who he wanted to admit to the band and the callbacks in the number described, thereof if it didn't work out with the first two choices the 3 follow ups would get a phone call.
"add that practice is tonight at 7pm and thanks" said Gar as he gave cyborg one of those rare tired beastboy punches in the cyborg arm before walking off to the garage and ultimately his car.
walking to his car he noticed a girl that looked a lot like star, she wore shredded jeans and a black t-shirt with the green182 logo, the green being loosely painted a dark green. her green eyes complimented and her red hair pulled into a high pony tail. she had some kohl on and on the back of her t-shirt he noticed that it was band member names, oddly the ones he chose
Gar Logan was written in white
Tony Blair was crossed out with a little skull and bones and next to it in hot pink was Richard Grayson
where it said guest drummer it was marked out with lots of little lines and had letters in scorching red was Xavier Darker
when she saw him she started to approach him, and for once he really hoped that she in fact was the girl he thought she was. maybe then they could be at least somewhat connected, three out of the original teen titans west.
"Gar Logan!!! it is a honor to meet you at last!!!!!! I am Kori Anders!!!! may I have your autograph?" asked the girl quite excitedly,
"your English is getting better star, and I see your supporting some people who auditioned eh?" Gar smiled embracing her in a hug that she quickly and quite happily returned
"beastboy its good to finally see you again. maybe we can be united again, the only one left to find is Raven. she sorta disappeared" said Kori a bit dejectedly in the end
"oh, well i'm sure we will find her, we always did before I don't see why we wont again..." droned Gar a little bit jittery hoping that he was right and that they would find her, he didn't want to think she died without the team, after all she wasn't the richest of the team
"i'm sure we will! I see you are no longer green beastboy and much taller!" said Kori, after all now she looked slightly up rather than down
he wasn't that much taller than Kori who was fairly tall for a girl, 5'11
robin was 6'3, Gar was 6'2 and Xavier was 6,5, the same height as Cyborg. Karen was 5'7 the shortest of the reunited teens.
"yeah, i'm not green anymore and you know what I don't think I would have survived if I stayed green, after all everyone notices a green guy." said beastboy
"see ya around i'm tired and I neeeeed to sleep, and whatever God you pray to answered your prayers that t-shirt is valid." said Gar as he sat down in his corvette and waved to her driving away. it seemed to be really looking up
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