Here's chapter 2, haha funny thing about this being chapter 2, this was supposed to be chapter 3, but I got major writers block for the Beast Boy and Raven chapter and this one was finished so yeah….XP

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans but I do own my OC Nix….did you know the blueprints for Titans Tower can be found on google? Beast Boy and Raven have a whole wing to themselves, the rest of the bedrooms are on the other side of the tower! XD

Cyborg unplugged himself from his charging station; he was still a little tired even though he was completely recharged. He groaned, remembering that today was the day he had to follow Nix around and vice versa until the two understood each other. 'Why couldn't I have argued with Beast Boy or Raven or something? It'd be a lot more fun than having to follow her around.' He thought to himself as he walked into the hallway.

When he finally reached Nix's room he knocked on the door, being very careful so as not to knock it down. "Yo Nix, get up, it's time for me to follow you around all day." When he didn't get a response he knocked again. 'Hm, she must be a heavy sleeper…I'll just find her later.' He thought as he shrugged, he then headed off in the direction of the training room, he figured he might as well work out until Nix was up.

On his way there he passed Raven's room and could hear her yelling about how under no circumstances does Beast Boy have the right to be in her room this early in the morning or at all for that matter, but he didn't really feel like eavesdropping today.

When he got to the training room he stopped short outside the doors, he could hear the faint sound of music playing. The song was slow and it was also very quiet, as if someone had been in here since early in the morning and was trying not to wake anyone up. It definitely wasn't Robin in there, because if he was in there training he'd make it known and he wouldn't be playing slow music like that. Raven and Beast Boy were definitely in Raven's room arguing right now, so it couldn't be either of them. That left Nix and Starfire, Starfire usually wasn't up this early, and Nix hadn't been around long enough for Cyborg to figure out her habits. He sighed, 'Well better get ready for a shit-storm of emotions.' He thought before opening the door.

When he opened the door he really wasn't surprised, there was Nix, standing on a mat in front of the training room mirrors…well not really standing, more like spinning. He was expecting yelling, or something like that, after all the two of them had been arguing the night before, but she didn't even seem to notice him. She just continued on her merry way, spinning in time with the music, she kind of looked like one of those music box ballerinas. 'Maybe if I leave fast enough I can go play some video games before I have to deal with her, and she'll never notice I was here.' However as soon as Cyborg turned for the door Nix spoke up.

"Going somewhere Cyborg?" She asked, still turning slowly in time to the music.

He turned back towards her, nervously scratching the back of his head. "Not anymore," He chuckled. "How did you know I was here? You were so focused on your spinning th-"

"Fouettes." Nix cut him off, finally not spinning anymore.

"Um…Gesundheit?" Cyborg more asked than said, cocking his head to the side like a dog and looking at her like she was crazy.

"Not a sneeze Cyborg, the term for what I was doing is a fouette, pronounced fwa-tay; it's a type of spin, technically I was supposed to be spinning much faster than I was considering fouette translated to English means whipped, I just prefer to do that spin at a slower speed." She said as she sat down and began to take off her pointe shoes, to be honest it was the first time Cyborg had seen her wearing those shoes while they weren't out fighting crime, it was also the first time in a long time that he'd seen her in civilian clothes, along with her pointe shoes she was wearing a blue tank top and a pair of grey sweatpants, and her hair was up in a messy ponytail, though that part was quite normal for her.

"Why do you always wear those shoes?" He asked as she untied the ribbon keeping her left shoe on her foot. "I mean it's understandable now since you're actually dancing, but when we're out fighting crime isn't it a little bit impractical?"

"It's impractical in the fact that the shoes add about an inch to my toes causing it to be awkward for me to walk and even run yes, but when it comes to dodging attacks I find them quiet useful." She spoke as she moved onto taking off her right shoe. "And anyways I'd rather not replace them with more practical fighting shoes…they're very special to me." She mumbled the last part.

"What makes them so special?" Cyborg asked as he walked over and took a seat next to her on the mat.

"Frankly that's none of your business." Nix said, suddenly getting up and walking out of the room.

"Hey, the whole point of today is to understand what went wrong in the fight last night!" Cyborg yelled as he got up and followed her out of the room.

"I'm well aware of that." Nix said sternly as she walked into the elevator and pushed the button that would take her to the common room floor. (A/N: I'm not sure if there's an elevator or what, I know there are stairs leading to the basement but when I looked at the blueprint for the tower there wasn't any signs of an elevator or a staircase to get to the upper floors of the tower…so I'ma use both.)

Cyborg stuck his hand in between the doors before they could close and forced them open. "C'mon Nix, the sooner we talk this out the sooner things can go back to normal." Nix begrudgingly moved over in the elevator to make room for Cyborg, but at the last second she pushed the "open the doors" button and darted out, making a break for the staircase.

Cyborg groaned, this was not going to be easy, he wondered how Raven and Beast Boy were doing. He pushed the elevator button that would take him to the next floor, and when he got there he waited by the flight of stairs for Nix to come walking and or running by. And not long after, she did exactly that. "Look Nix all I did was say that you tripped and caused us to lose the painting, you didn't have to point out that I'm pretty much powerless once my lasers are taken out!" He called after her after she ran past him on the winding staircase that served as another means of getting to the upper floors of the tower.

Suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks and turned around. The look on Nix's face was intimidating in itself; she looked as if she was about ready to murder someone, the fact that she was standing about three steps higher than Cyborg didn't help in the least, needless to say Cyborg was a little scared.

"And you didn't need to remind me that this team had a perfect record for catching villains up until I joined it. It's bad enough that my strong point is dodging and refraining from attacking. Do you think I was happy that I let Red X get away? Did you think I wanted to be reminded that it's my fault he escaped with the painting? Did you think I wanted to be a hero in the first place? Dammit Cyborg, I'm not a born fighter like the rest of you, I'm a dancer with a condition that causes me to manipulate water. I wasn't made for this life like you were!"

After an awkward silence that consisted of Nix glaring at him while also huffing from the lack of breaths she took during that outburst Cyborg rolled his eyes. "Yeah, well neither was I."

Nix's look went from anger to confusion as Cyborg pushed past her and headed towards the common room. "What's that supposed to mean?" She called after him. When he didn't respond she followed him into the common room and watched as he turned on the gamestation and starting playing his favorite robot fighting game. "Cy?" No response. "Cyborg?" Again no response. "Cyborg what'd you mean by that?"

Cyborg sighed as he paused the game, then turned his head towards Nix. "Nix, why do you think I'm like this?"

Nix blinked, the meaning of the questions flying over her head. "Like what?"

Cyborg let out a frustrated sigh, "like this Nix, half man half robot."

"Didn't your parents build you like that so you could fight crime?" She asked hesitantly, admittedly she knew nothing about why Cyborg was like that, this was her best guess.

"No…not at all." He mumbled.

Nix stared at Cyborg, she'd never seen him this down before. She walked around the couch and took a seat next to Cyborg, awkwardly putting her hand on his shoulder in an attempt to comfort him. "So…why are you this way?"

(A/N: Please excuse me for any creative liberties I take with Cy's story, I'm going to try to stick to the story from the comic books though.) Cyborg hesitated before beginning his story, when he was finally ready to talk, he did. "When I was still in school I was a pretty athletic kid, football team, basketball team, track, you name it, I was on it. One day I decided to visit my parents at S.T.A.R. Labs, Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Laboratories, they had been working on an experiment in inter-dimensional travel that my parents said I would find interesting and they told me to stop by any day. Well the experiment had some tiny problems, and by tiny problems I mean major kinks. When they attempted to actually use what they were working on, a giant gelatinous monster crossed over the experimental portal and killed my mother Elinore."

Cyborg paused, Nix looked horrified, after he choked down a few tears he kept talking. "Then the monster turned on me, according to my dad it basically melted off all the parts of my body where my robotic parts now are before he could force it back through the portal. After it was gone my dad set off to work on fixing all of my missing parts with some prosthetics he'd designed himself. It did the trick; I'm alive after all, but at a cost. Since none of these parts are easily hidden I was shunned by my friends because of my new appearance, even some of my family began to shun me, but not my dad, he never gave up on me. Even though he was grieving over the loss of my mother he was still happy to have me around. But I couldn't take it anymore; I had to escape from the life I was living, so one night I ran away from home, go figure that would be the night I ran into BB, Raven, Robin, and Star for the first time. I've been here ever since. I still talk to my dad, but we don't see each other much. And that's why I'm this way. Lasers weren't originally in my hand design, but Robin asked me to see if I could rewire my hands into lasers…and what d'ya know, I could."

At this point even Nix was fighting to hold back the tears, his story was so tragic, not that she really knew anyone else's stories to compare.

"So…" Cyborg said after a silence. "Wanna tell me about those shoes now?"

Nix looked down at her blue pointe shoes, almost completely forgotten during Cyborg's tragic story. After a time of not responding, she nodded. "Sure…" She began to nervously play with the ribbon of her left shoe as she spoke. "Well because of an incident that happened when I was pretty young, it involved me using my ability to splash some petty school yard bullies, my mom pulled me out of school and decided to home school me until it was time for college. Because of this, my best friend in the entire world had to be my older brother Kade. We did everything together, play at the park, go shopping, play video games, climb trees, set off fireworks in our neighbor's backyard, everything except go to school together. By the time he started middle school he started to get friends of his own, no longer having a reason to take his little sister everywhere I was usually left at home to mope as my mother taught me math, history, German, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, you name a subject chances are she taught it to me. When she noticed how lonely I was getting without my brother bringing me everywhere, she decided to sign me up for dance lessons, ballet only really but it wasn't hard to figure out how to dance other types of dance too.

"By the age of 14 I was taking pointe lessons, my mother had taken pointe lessons when she was younger, but her shoes were old and falling apart and I desperately needed new ones. Finally one day Kade came home from school, he was half an hour later than usual…I would know, I was counting. When he came home he was carrying a peculiar shaped box. My mom seemed to know what it was right away and urged me to open it. When I opened it, I found none other than these shoes inside it." Nix paused, pointing at both of her shoes for emphasis. "Apparently Kade had gone and bought me new shoes to replace my mother's old ones, these new shoes became my favorites right away. Sometimes I would go days without ever taking them off. A few months after that Kade and my mom were gone…it was a simple visit, they were just looking at a college for Kade, usually when anyone left the house I would tell them 'Be safe, have a good day.' But I had a cold that day and slept through them leaving, next thing I know their deaths are all over the news. Apparently one of their tires blew out causing the car to flip over the side rail of the highway and land in a lake at the bottom…they drowned. These shoes are the last things I have to remember them by, and I need them desperately, I'm starting to forget what they were like, the sounds of their voices, it's frustrating. I can't give these shoes up."

Cyborg nodded, "I know how you feel, sometimes I try to remember my mom's voice, and I think I start to hear it…but then it's gone…she's gone, and she's never coming back."

The two titans sat in an awkward silence for a bit. "Still think my shoes and my presence are a hindrance to the team's perfect record?"

Cyborg shook his head, "No, still think I'm worthless the second my lasers get disabled?"

"No…huh, maybe Starfire had the right idea here, having us take some time to try and understand each other." Nix said as she turned to smile at Cyborg.

"Yeah," Cyborg nodded. "Maybe she did…I bet Beast Boy's dead though."

Nix giggled, "Yeah, he probably is…care for a round of Street Fighter?"

"Haha-no, how about we play a game where you can't spam Juri's pinwheel attack until you win?"

"Oh you're so on!"

So there's chapter 2, please R&R! :D Btdubs, in the summary for this story I wasn't kidding about that Silkie joke. I'm highly considering having Silkie learn to ice skate on the side in the Robin, Batman, Starfire chapter.