PAST BROKEN MIRRORS

Mirror 6: Broken piece of the past (2)

"You can hide away the truth

Lock it from the world

Keep it buried under

But deep down you know

You know

You can never

Make it completely disappear

You can never

Run from it forever

Because

Every time you glance in the mirror

It looks you in the eye

It stares back at you

It reminds you that you know

Yes, you know

You know

The truth you try so hard to hide."

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"I think you've overdone it."

Beast Boy stared at himself again in the mirror as Kat made the comment over his shoulder.

"A bit?"

Rolling her eyes, Kat repeated,

"No. Not a bit. You look…so formal."

"But Simon told me it looked good," argued Beast Boy as he adjusted his hair that had been gelled back it looked really slick. He was getting ready to go out for his dinner plan with Raven and had asked Kat her opinion on how he looked.

Kat shook her head, laughing as she looked into Simon's direction, who, was on the couch at the far end of the room with the two younger ones.

"You can't take fashion advice from Simon! He's too…proper – in everything!"

To this, Simon himself did not respond as both he and Aliya were apparently occupied with a large photo album while Energizer had dozed off in a corner.

"Besides, you did say yourself it's just 'going out' – as in hanging out," Kat pointed out with a smirk as she cleared away the pile of clothes on the floor.

"So why bother so much about these things. You should just be yourself, have a good time, a good meal – just well, have fun!"

Thinking this over, Beast Boy nodded as he resumed to readjusting his hair.

"I guess you're right."

"Well, unless, you were thinking of really trying to impress her…"

Kat could not help from adding with a teasing glint in her eye as she ducked in time from a flying jacket that came from a red-faced Beast Boy.

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Staring at the time on the wall clock of the Vegetarian Bar, Beast Boy knew he had arrived there quite early. Taking another sip of water, Beast Boy looked around the vicinity, dwelling in his thoughts as he did. The place had a nice homey environment to it; clean and spacious, a tad too brightly decorated maybe – but all in all, it was a good place for a good meal, good conversation…

Then why was he feeling nervous?

Setting down his glass of water, Beast Boy tried to come up with an explanation for this unexpected feeling.

It was only dinner, with Raven…

So he shouldn't be nervous, right?

After all, it was not like they'd never eaten out together. Okay, together meaning with everyone else in the team. So well…

Deciding a little fresh air would clear his head, he took a walk outside in the fair evening weather.

Jump City…

He let his mind wander back into the memories he held upon this place. Having been away, he'd been occupied with his present state and had set on himself to look more towards the future instead of the past. It didn't mean he had deliberately wanted to forget. After all, despite there being the inevitable events that concerned loss and also pain, there were things of importance to him that he would forever cherish.

His friends, his team, and all that they had been through, together.

"Hey, mister! Watch out!"

Beast Boy got out of the way just in time as a kid on wheels zoomed right by into the spot where he had been standing a mere second ago.

"Wren! Oh, I am so gonna kill you!"

The kid came to a halt a few meters away as she looked over her shoulder to a young lady who was running at top speed towards her. Picking up her skateboard from the ground, Wren, a kid with a tomboyish hair cut, grinned widely,

"Woo. Did you see that? I was so fast – "

"That you nearly caused an accident," the young lady stated sternly as she managed to catch her breath before continuing, "You nearly caused this innocent bystander to become road kill!"

She gestured towards the 'innocent bystander' who had been watching on with interest.

But his amusement faded when their eyes came into contact.

Taking a closer look, a sense of familiarity sank into him. Dressed in a pair of jeans and a baby blue t-shirt to match, the young lady with short blond hair stared back at him with her wide blue eyes. She was just as surprised as he was that very moment.

Wondering at the strange sudden silence that had taken place, Wren walked up to the older girl and tugged at her sleeve,

"Do you like, know this green guy?"

Finding her voice, she nodded slowly to answer,

"Yes. And he knows me too…"

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That was what happened the evening when he had met her.

They had had a brief conversation in place of his earlier plans. It had been awkward, neither knew exactly where to start, as the last time they had parted wasn't actually on a pleasant note.

He had asked her how she was and she had asked him the same in return. That was how it went, touching only on general stuff. But when she had to leave, she told him to go to the Titan's leader as he would be able to answer the questions she knew were on his mind.

Presently, Beast Boy listened as Robin revealed to him the rest of the story: The story of Terra's return to the Titans.

A year later after Beast Boy had left, he was approached by Terra without the others knowing. Apparently she had been coming to grips with her past memories and her powers.

She convinced him it was still not the right time to reveal her return – that she still didn't feel ready. She needed time to figure out where she belonged, apart from the current life she had now been leading and the one she had led before.

He'd then recruited her as one of the newer team: Titan Underground members who worked on a more low profile basis.

But she would have to face the other pieces of her past eventually.

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Raven wasn't exactly basking in the quiet of the moment right now.

Even with the rain still pouring down, the silence on this floor of the tower was apparent.

Questions flew rapidly through her mind, but none that she could pick out that she thought would be appropriate for the situation she was faced with at present.

Just as she decided to say something at least, Terra spoke up at the same time. This resulted in them both falling silent again.

Faced with that dreaded awkwardness a sense of relief washed over Raven as a familiar squeal of surprise sounded from behind her.

Starfire appeared on the scene with Cyborg right at her side. A look of stunned wonder appeared on their faces as it dawned to them the identity of the person who stood in front of them. Though her once long blond hair had been reduced to a shorter length and she was wearing an all-gold-silver outfit as her uniform; there was no mistake about it.

"Is that –" Cyborg started.

"Terra. But how?" Starfire spoke in her concerned tone. For somehow, past events had taught her to become more cautious.

Terra herself felt overwhelmed with was happening. She semi-consciously wanted to back away from there. Though she knew this day was set to arrive, she realized that that knowledge had not quite helped her overcome her dread of facing the inevitable. And now to actually finally meet those she had avoided for so long…

She braved a smile and said softly,

"Hey, guys…"

"I see you've all met Terra."

Everyone looked up to the calm voice of Robin who had just arrived with Beast Boy.

Question marks appeared on his friend's faces as it was apparent that he knew something about this.

To Beast Boy, Robin said,

"I think you'd better take Terra for a walk. It seems I have some explaining to do."

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Dreamchild's SideNotes:

It's been one hectic week! Even the weekend is hectic (laughs in spite of self).

Ah, well, at least I managed to get this fic posted. Which reminds me, I've been watching the reruns of the TT episodes and I can't believe I missed out on some! Well, thank goodness on the reruns. Now if only I could get my hands on the comics…

Thanks again for the reviews – thanks especially for reading! Any ideas etc. are appreciated as well. Ja' :-)