Beast Boy went into defensive mode. his eyes dilated, his ears twitched, every muscle in his body went rigid, he bared his teeth.
"who did this to you?" he growled through clenched teeth. he saw the lines crisscrossing her arm, and assumed both were like that. the scars had to have been from too many at one time to heal all of them, or else they would never had showed up like this. She healed too quickly. even life threatening injuries only left her drained.
"I will destroy those that have picked this form of attack on anybody." he said, not noticing the look of horror on her face. he only realized something had changed when she pulled her wrist away from his grip, and phased away.
Wake up garfield, wake up.
There it was again. except this time he was wide awake, and she had just left. why didn't she just say it to his face? why was all this happening? What were those scars from? why did it seem like she was afraid of him?
All these questions zooming around in his head, he didn't even realize Cyborg had picked him up and was carrying him the the car over his shoulder till he was thrown into the back seat.
That was also when he noticed being stuck between Starfire and the blonde who would not stop talking to him, but he wasn't listening to a word being said in the vehicle. his mind had overheated and couldn't handle anymore crazy stuff. therefore, he passed out.
When he finally awoke, he found himself in his own room, on his own bed. the familiar scent of brimstone, lavender, and old books wafting over him from his over-crowded desk.
deja vu man. that was weird. i'm not even going to acknowledge that for now. He walked out into the hallway expecting to run into raven glowering at him for getting in her way. But she wasn't there. he walked to the common room, and what he saw made him turn red with anger.
"Come on Mr. Tomato, join in the fun, come play a game with us." Terra said cheerfully.
"Mr. Tomato?" Cy asked not understanding the connection.
"Yeah, Green at first, Then when it matures it turns red. Although, i think he might need a bit more maturing still." she said with a huge grin. and of course cy was about to blow a servo laughing so hard and wondering out loud why he didn't think of it first.
"Do you not remember what she did? You all act like you never knew what she did! Like she is welcome back without question. What is wrong with all of you?!"
By the last sentence he was yelling almost at the top of his lungs.
Every person in the room was speechless. except Cyborg who was still rolling on the ground laughing hard enough to not have heard his words. Beast Boy stormed out of the room back to his room not understanding why she was here. and where was raven? she should have been just as angry as him.
You are not a tomato, but if you don't believe me, go look in a mirror.
That stopped him dead in his tracks. those words in his head, were not his own. He knew that voice, he knew that feeling inside his head. what he wasn't prepared for was the pain, the fear, the depth of emotion that he felt knocked the wind out of him. he staggered to his room and locked the door behind him, not trusting himself to not go ballistic on her again. He didn't know why she was welcomed again, but he wouldn't lose his temper again, at least until he figured out what was going on. his nose told him a good place to start. as his eyes scanned the contents of his desk, they finally found what was out of place, and the only object that could hold her scent that well in all this clutter. an intricately carved silver hand mirror with a letter attached to the handle.
He didn't know why it was here, he didn't know why she would bring it to him like this. he wasn't sure he wanted to know just yet. Everything that was going on was starting to wear out the overweight hamster in his mind, and it really needed a break. well, back to instinct for a while until something clicks. he thought as he changed into a falcon for the speed and the ability to focus on everything and nothing at the same time. He flew. The sun set. He flew. The sun rose. He flew. He decided he wouldn't land until he figured it out. animals made sense, people were strange. he knew how to deal with animals, whether they were in his DNA or out and about. he remembered one time when they were tracking slade through the amazon, a jaguar had taken Rae by surprise, and before she could react he had changed into one himself, and tackled it into the underbrush. after he explained the human that smelt of darkness was a friend, he was able to get some details on slade and his minions, returning to a furious Rae that was about to rip him a new one for, as she put it "frolicking with the natives". He almost missed the days where she would throw him out of windows and yell at him compared to this running and hiding from him. She was the one person who kept him from taking things too far with his pranks. which means, no holds barred against the walking lightpole and tin can man, haha! he thought to himself, his mood lightened a bit.
Always the jokester huh? he heard her voice, and felt her pain. You know you could be a great inventor if you put your mind to it instead of the stupid pranks you pull. you could help others by making things that will save people instead of just getting a laugh out of life.
She doesn't get it. i will show her. it's the only way i know. i can't explain, but i can show her, i can show her why i do what i do. He thought with determination. he knew what he had to do. No matter where she was in the city, he would find her, and show her what he couldn't tell her.
He changed his course to fly lower to spot her better in the crowds and alleys where she was likely to hide. Let the hunter become the hunted he thought as he picked up her trail going down between a goth looking store and a bar.
So again, i don't own anything, and the tomato joke? anybody read it before? it's from a story called Box of Little White Lies by CleoArrow. go read it, it's a funny and serious and insightful and excellent read. go read it. and while there, read some of the rest of the stories, they are very well written. and i have to say thanks to CleoArrow for giving me permission to use that in my story. i have been through this chapter a few times, and it won't turn out exactly how i want it, but i hope you all enjoy it. more to come as soon as i can.
