Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, at all. All I own in this story is Abby.
A/N: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! This is my gift to you because I haven't updated in awhile. Sorry 'bout that, I just had some major writers block, and still sorta do but I was able to write this, This is a Cyborg centric story because he just doesn't get pretty much any, and he's like my second favourite character, the first being Beastboy. So if its' not that good I have two reasons, I wrote this from 12 am to 5 am in the morning and I still sorta have writers block. Well hopefully you'll enjoy.
It's weird being the only person who's single in the tower, Raven has BeastBoy, Robin has Star and I have no one. At first I was totally cool with all of them getting together, and then the media hit, and blew it up out of proportion. For the past few months, all I've heard people say the most meaningless details of their everyday lives, and even making up so many stories of Raven or Star getting pregnant. All they ever talk about is Robin, Star, BeastBoy and Rae, I'm the one who isn't mentioned at all in this entire fiasco, I'm the forgotten Titan. Sure there's Bee, I like her and everything but I cant ever see her and I working out, she's just a great friend. Sometimes I wish that I could just live a day before this all happened, before the Titans and saving the world, I just wanna be me again. I wanna be Victor Stone all star athlete, honor roll student, best son in the world, and just be a regular guy, I'd give it all up just to live like that again just for a day. But I've got a duty to do, I gotta protect people, and that includes the annoying reporters, even though I really would just love to see one of them get superficially hurt. Well maybe I don't mean that, but just to see them get scared out of their minds will do.
"Yo Cy! I need you're help with something," great, it's Beastboy, banging on my door. " Cy! Open up! I need to get something for Raven! And I don't have a a car and you do so can you please drive me! Please! I'll be you're best friend!"
I opened it, and said with heavy sarcasm " Aren't you already " he seemed to smile at that and started dragging me to the T-car down in the garage. He's changed ever since he and Rae started going out, he's become more mature, I kinda like it. He doesn't do as many bad jokes anymore for her sake, and I along with the others are thankful for that. " So what are we getting for her, jewelry, chocolate? Or wait even better heart shaped waffles," he cracked a smile, at that.
" I'll tell you when we get to the T-car, I don't want her to hear," and he started tiptoeing around the tower, just like his old self, I guess some thing never change. When we finally got into the car he told me he was gonna buy her a wooden tea bag chest for Christmas, it would've been a really sweet idea, if he didn't drag me out to get it with him two days before Christmas. And exactly where would we even find one?
So he and I hit the town, so to speak, and well he was followed buy reporters while I walked ahead of him. Do these people ever rest? It's two days before Christmas, and they're still out here harassing him, though the questions they ask him are pretty funny, and others were pretty mean. Like one of them asked if he's being brainwashed into dating someone he called creepy, but a funny one was if he knew how Robin's hair could stay perfectly still like that. Sometimes you just gotta love reporters, no matter how annoying and life draining they are.
We pretty much spent one hour at three stores looking and fighting for a wooden tea bag chest, but every time the little old lady would win, when did they become so tough? This started to freak him out, " Dude! What am I going to do! Raven's gonna kill me if I don't get her a gift! I'll be dead, I tell you1 Dead,'' he almost looked like he was foaming at the mouth, like a rabid animal. This may sound a little sadistic but it kinda makes me feel a little less annoyed about being the " Forgotten Titan," though Raven wouldn't break up with him over something like a present.
" Maybe we should get some pizza into you before you have a hear attack," I started dragging his skinny little green butt to our favorite pizza joint, and we ordered a pie or two. He devoured four slices of veggie pizza in under a minute, now that takes some serious skill and nervousness to do that. It wasn't until his fifth slice till he started to calm down.
" OK, so I was maybe over reacting back there, you were right Cy, I did need a slice of pizza to calm down," he was starting his sixth piece while saying this. I muttered, "More like six pieces," and he smiled again. We were just hanging out there for another half hour, goofing off and wondering aloud what Robin and Star were doing with the mistletoe. Then there was a girl who walked in looking really confused and slightly lost, she went up to a random person, I couldn't really see what she looked like, but something looked familiar about her. " Yo Cy, I think we should start looking for Rae's present again, it's starting to" I started to tune him out, that girl looked so familiar. The person she asked shrugged her off, and she was asking someone else probably the same thing. Who is this girl and why does she seem so familiar? " Cy? Cy? Cyborg" he yelled at my face and was waving his hands in my face, and started snapping at me.
" Huh?"
" Dude what are you looking at," he started squinting at the direction I was looking at,and a sly smile crept up on his face. " Dude, you were checking that girl out! Don't worry, I maybe taken but I still have my way with the ladies," he pretended to crack his knuckles and attempted to walk with a swagger. I think I maybe doomed with any chance at finding out who she is, and he is doomed by thinking of finding another girl besides Raven. Seriously how can she put up with him?
The little guy has been there for some time now, probably five minutes or so, what could he possibly be talking about with some random stranger? Who am I kidding, this is Beastboy, he's gifted with the gift of gab, After a few more minutes he motioned me over to them, with a very happy look in his face. As I started getting closer and closer, I recognized who it finally was, and started running after her, almost like I didn't want to lose her again, and crushed her in a hug. " Easy there chief, some of us are just human, and have breakable bones," she said so sarcastically, but with such a sweet smile.
" Chief," Beastboy asked her, with his eyebrows cocked. She and started to laugh. I missed her laugh, her hair, hell I even miss her calling me Chief. I just overall missed her, she's changed a lot, she got rid of her waist length hair and now has it by her shoulders, and she's tanner then before, but that's what you get for living in Arizona I guess.
" It was the nickname I gave him when we were kids, I take it you guys don't call him that, huh? Jeeze Chief, way to inform your friends about your past," she lightly punched me on my shoulder, and started to laugh again.
" So Abby, why are you here again? I thought you were staying with your brother now," she looked a little uneasy and Beastboy just seemed confused.
" I'm just here saying hi to my family, and looking for you. It's been two years since well that incident, I think its the right time to see you again, and catch up.''
" Dude what incident? Did he almost kiss you or something! Cause I could see how that's an incident, and would make you scared of him for two years, " he started to laugh, but she was shooting darts with her eyes at him.
" No actually, the incident I'm talking about is what caused him to be what you see him as now," she motioned at me, " and what he did to save me," her voice went soft at the end and her eyes twinkled a tiny bit. She rolled up her pants sleeve, to show him her cybernetic leg, and then she took off her gloves to show him her cybernetic hand. " He and I are the same, both made from the same cybernetics, except I could conceal them easier," and all the little green twerp could say was Oh.
The three of us talked a little bit more at the restaurant, but Beastboy kept getting impatient so I lent him the keys to the T-car, so I could spend more time with Abby. She and I walked in the park, talking about what we've been up to. She's in college this year at Dartmouth, and she still plays sports like she used to, and well I just told her about every little I guess adventure I've had as Titan, and that's where things started to get awkward between us.
She and I walked to our old high school in complete silence, I didn't really like it. But when we arrived at the football field slash soccer field, everything started rushing back to us. Like our first day here as Seniors, she and I put the porta potties in the middle of the field with a bunch of other people, as the first prank of the school year or the time when our school marching band and some random kids had an epic war on the soccer field, as she and I kept reminiscing the more realized how crazy our school was. When we were done touring our high school we walked to our middle school, which was only down the street ans headed towards the playground, well actually we raced there, just like old times. I won, but she wasn't very far behind.
She sat on a swing and I did the same, we were just spinning in them until she suggested we play truth or dare. I said truth, and she asked if I ever thought about what would our lives would have been like if I didn't save her that day the lab blew up. I said that, she'd be the one mostly made of metal and I'd only have some prosthetics, and she chuckled at that. It was her turn now, and she picked truth, I asked her if she ever regretted leaving Jump after the accident and moving to Arizona instead, she said yeah, because she wasn't able to see me again. I asked her if she ever missed me, but all she did was laugh and told me she'll tell me at the right time.
We kept going on like this, asking similar questions until she asked me if I was dating anyone like any of the other Titans. I didn't really know what to think of her question, but I answered her truthfully and said no. I asked her the same thing, if she had a boyfriend back at Dartmouth, she said sorta. Apparently things between them are complicated and she just doesn't know what to do. It was my turn again and I chose dare. She wasn't as quick with a response to me this time, like she was thinking hard over if she should dare me to do this. She said in such a low voice, but it was clear as day in my ears, " I... I dare you to... kiss me," I nodded and our fingers started to lace together, and we started moving closer and closer to each other until our lips met. It was a very sweet kiss, I knew I wanted to do this with her since we were Freshmen, but this kinda exceeded all expectations.
And for another few milliseconds it was just the two of us, until we noticed the frenzy of flashing lights and people after our little moment. Great it was the reporters. But somewhere deep down inside me, I felt good, it was nice to know that I wasn't completely forgotten. They were asking the two of us all kinds of questions, that neither of us would answer. The paparazzi was following us for a good twenty minutes until we finally got the other Titans to rescue us. They stopped at her Aunt's house, and she and I both got out of the car so I could say goodbye. " Sorry 'bout the reporters, they never follo-" she cut me off and gave me a kiss on the cheek and then on the lips. " Umm so see you tomorrow huh," I fumbled with my words, and she hugged me and than she started to tear up a bit.
" I'm sorry Vic, but today was the last day I was gonna be in Jump for a while. I'm not coming back till next year, not even. I'm... I'm sorry. I just couldn't spend my entire vacation with you and being like what we were back then., it would just make this goodbye hard, hut I'm afraid I regret that now." Abby kept going on and on about how sorry she was, but started to tune her out and stroked my fingers through her hair, telling her we'll figure things out. I started to leave, but than she called out to me again, " Vic."
" Yeah?"
" I missed you, and I've been missing you," she ran up to me and hugged me for what seemed like a life time and slowly walked back to her house as I walked back to the T-car. I miss you too Abby.