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Chapter 5: Seeking Footprints
"I don't want anything to do with you!" A girl with deep amethyst eyes flickered with anger as the boy in front of her took a step back. "I am sick of you all following me around!" she yelled harder, balling her hands into fists.
"Don't blame him!It wasn't his fault that he didn't know! How are we to magically realize that you didn't want to be found! That you would want to stay with this kind of life? Tell me, how are we going to know that if you don't tell us!" A blonde girl fumed past the boy and slapped the other female after. "Do you even care?"
"Affirmative! She does share an unbinding feeling for the other boy!" Starfire told the television set while the show was on a commercial. She stood up and looked at the empty platter on the white table. "Shall I bring you another sandwich that contains this wonderful butter of peanuts and jammed strawberries, so you may continue watching little real people in a box?"
A little girl laughed while she lay on her bed, making it squeak a little. Starfire flew from the room and into the kitchen.
"Then what happened next Mr. Robin?" The little girl with dark brown hair took the arm of the boy wonder in one hand as the other one was with Cyborg.
"After that, she defeated the villain all by themselves! We were of course there, always ready to assist" Robin finished, a triumphant look on his face.
"Amazing! Ms. Starfire did all that Mr. Cyborg?" She asked, stars twinkling in her eyes, while she removed her hand from Robin's and grabbed Cyborg. "I always knew Ms. Starfire was so cool!"
Cyborg looked at her and then at Robin. His red eye adjusted itself and then he reverted his gaze back at the little girl.
"Starfire is great but you weren't listening to Robin's story well Angel" Cyborg told Angel in a soft voice that he rarely uses when it comes to other people. This girl was an exception.
"I don't understand Mr. Cyborg, I paid attention to the story, is it not Ms. Starfire that destroyed the big red monster?" Angel asked, her small voice slightly trembling, scared that she was at fault.
"It is not I that had vanquished the dreaded Trigon." Starfire entered the room with a large platter of sandwiches dripping with peanut butter and jelly. She went over to Robin and gave him a sandwich, which Robin accepted, his face slightly paled from the over filling now staining his pants. She went over to Terra and gave her one too but Terra declined. "It was Raven" Starfire finished her statement and had given the last sandwiches away to Beastboy and Cyborg.
"Then…where is Ms. Raven? I would love to meet her" Angel smiled a little, feeling sad that she could not meet the heroine of Robin's story.
"That is what we came here for, Angel." The green changeling made Angel look at him as he strode over to the bed. "The one that saved your life last morning…" he begun, taking an object from his pocket but thought about it and placed it back in "Do you know who it was?"
"Mr. Beastboy" Angel called out his name, taking his hand in her small ones "Is Ms. Raven important to you?" she asked, closing her brown eyes and placing Beastboy's gloved hand on her cheek.
"Very" Beastboy's green eyes softened while he answered the little girl who had seem to read his heart instead of his mind. She opened her eyes and looked at him. Taking his hand from her cheek, she placed it on his forehead.
"You can find her there," Angel whispered to him, sliding his hand to his eyes "You can see her" then moving his hand to his mouth "You can call her". Afterwards, she took the other hand too and placed them both on Beastboy's ears and giggled a bit "You can hear her" and finally she placed both hands in a cross position over his heart "You can feel her presence, can't you?"
"Yeah" He grinned at the little girl who still hasn't let go. He was about to slide away when.
"But Mr. Beastboy…" She said, voice still as soft as the wind "You only need one of those to find her and yet," the brown-haired girl paused, taking in a deep breath, like she was trying not to shed tears "you don't know where she is?"
"I-I-I" Beastboy stuttered a bit and looked away, he felt guilty about something. A pain in his entire body entered all of a sudden from what Angel had asked him.
"I don't believe that" She said before finally letting go of his hands and falling into deep sleep.
The sun had begun to slowly set. The Titans had spent 3 hours with the girl, making her feel happy, telling her stories, giving her the attention she had needed. They placed that smile on her face and they made her laugh with Beastboy's help; after all, laughter is the best medicine. Now she had offered them something that they couldn't have thought would be helpful until they saw Beastboy coming out of the gate with a small envelope in his hand and determination written all over his face.
"Beastboy, you know something don't you? You know where Raven is don't you?" The black haired teen asked Beastboy as they made their way to the tower.
"I wanted to make sure, I can't act aggressive any time soon can I?" The green boy replied before morphing into a raven and left the rest of the team in doubt. He flew over skies, the small envelope in his claw. 'She dropped this when she saved me, Mr. Beastboy, I think this would belong to you?'
The green raven landed roughly on the roof of the Titans headquarters the transformed back into a boy, the white object still in his grip. He ran down the stairs and into the common room where he took a seat on the kitchen table, eager to open the envelope. He tore it open and brought out the piece of parchment paper folded neatly inside. His bright green eyes read the paper slowly, his fingers began trembling when he reached the middle part, and finally he dropped one hand down to his side and scanned the paper a second time before the rest of the members had filed in the room.
"What did it say?" Cyborg asked, approaching Beastboy who seemed to be staring into space for the time being. The half-robot reached for the paper but the other boy moved it away from him, his eyes now glaring darts, like he was looking at something evil right in front of him.
"Is something the matter?" Starfire questioned, her voice slightly shaking for whatever news she would be hearing later on.
"Raven…" Beastboy mentioned her name, looking at Robin then at the rest of the team now gathered in front of him in a semi-circle formation. "Raven…she…"
"Where is she?" Robin interrogated the second time that day.
"Raven wasn't kidnapped" Beastboy finally said, dropping the letter to the floor and stomping it with his right foot.
Midnight kitten: That's it for now! I know it's short but plot bunnies are invading my head! Please review, I look forward to them. I'm really sorry if this is short and if the upcoming chapters would be a wee bit late. School is starting and well, I do have to concentrate there too Sorry again and hope you would still wait for this even if it takes a little long for the ending to come