Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans. Would be cool though.
I will be continuing this story.
This chapter takes place three years later in the future.
Chapter 3
Garfield and Terra lived in Gar and Rae's old apartment.
Each day was hell. He had to live in the place where he cheated on his wife with the woman he cheated on her with.
Garfield knew Terra loved him. And he loved her. But the love he felt for Terra could not compare to the love he felt for Raven. She was a brilliant, beautiful, independent woman. She let him into her world. And he repaid her by crushing her surprisingly fragile heart. And he hated himself for that.
His life has been miserable ever since he last saw the beauty that was his wife.
The fight they had haunted him. All over a trip he didn't even end up going to. He quit. He got a new job doing a voice over for a cartoon of totally cool superheroes. The Teen Titans. They had decided to make him voice himself (Couldn't think of anything for a job. The job isn't really important. You can ignore it.) seeing as Greg Cipes couldn't make it.
He only wished he had quit when he still had Raven. Maybe they could have solved it together. But he knew it was too late now. He made an attempt to try to find her, but he didn't know the first place to look. He tried all her favorite places, he tried the closest and farthest apartments but still no luck. He knew she would "hide" from him. He knew that she wouldn't forgive him for what he did. But he still had hope.
He then tried to reach out to their friends. None of them gave her away. They were completely supportive of her. And to be completely honest, that made him smile a bit. He wanted Rae to have someone looking out for her. Someone who took care of her when he couldn't. When she didn't want to anymore.
Terra had been pressuring him to divorce her, but he had two reasons as to why he couldn't. First, he didn't know where she was, she would have to sign the papers too. Second, he wasn't ready. He didn't think he'd ever be ready.
Terra was trying to rush everything. She knew he was hurting. She saw it. And every day she tried to get him out of his funk. But he was just so unhappy.
Garfield was sitting on the couch with Terra, who had her head laid on his shoulder, watching Nickelodeon. Garfield's old Titan's communicator rang a tone. He was so surprised that he didn't even think to answer it. And before he even had the chance to Terra grabbed it off the small table that sat next to the couch. It was like a souvenir to him.
Terra quickly flipped it open. She saw that it was the mysterious do-gooder, Nightwing.
She was about to ask why he was calling, but Nightwing was looking elsewhere and didn't yet notice it was her.
"Garfield we need-" Nightwing had looked down into the small face- due to the communicator's size- and gave an agitated sigh. He hadn't called her for a reason. He had a talk with Raven. He needed to know if she was comfortable with him and Terra coming to help out with the situation. She said that she didn't really think she was ready to see Garfield just yet, but she'd try to be civil while he was there. As for Terra? She wasn't having it. "Oh, it's you."
"So nice to see you too Robin."
"It's Nightwing now." He growled through his teeth.
"I've heard. You're a big shot now?"
"You could say that." His face stayed straight throughout the whole conversation. She could clearly see that he wasn't very fond of her.
"So… what's up?" Garfield leaned a little closer, intrigued by the answer.
"Well. I was hoping to speak to Beast Boy about this."
"Actually it's Garfield now. And either way, he and I are together now. So anything you say to him, you can say to me." She said proudly.
"Well, I know his name. I'm aware that the two of you are together. Unfortunately." He muttered the last part, but Terra still caught it and frowned. "And the information is for his ears only. So please if he's there hand him the communicator, this is serious." He ground out.
By the angry twitch of his lip you could tell he wasn't in the mood for stubbornness, so Terra handed Garfield the communicator.
"Hey," Garfield said, in his now usual unhappy tone.
"Hey." Nightwing looked over him. He looked miserable. He didn't know if Raven would be happy or sad to hear that.
"So what's this 'information' I need to know?" he said making air quotes around information.
"We need you to come to the old tower."
"I thought they were going to tear that place down." Garfield said confused, dark eyebrows furrowed.
"They were. But I told them to break it off."
"It was that easy?"
"It did take some convincing." Nightwing said, a smirk on his face.
"Ah," he said, pretending he understood. "So why am I coming to the tower again?"
"Just come. I'll explain everything once you're here."
"O-kay, Mr. Mysterious." He said smiling.
"And Garfield," Nightwing said softly, "We have something very important to talk about. Someone very important."
"O-okay." He stuttered out. He closed the T-com. Was he talking about Raven? He wondered.
"So you're going?" the voice startled him. He had totally forgotten she was still sitting there.
"Um…yeah, I think I'll go."
"Well then I'm going too!"
"Oh crap," he muttered under his breath so that Terra couldn't hear him.
If Raven's gonna be there, she is not going to like this, he thought, imagining the outcome, he shuddered.
At least I might get to see my Rae again.
And that was chapter 3. It was short. And the next chapter might kind of be too, but the chapters after that should be longer. More drama, more danger, more romance, more characters, and more BB & Rae.
