Chapter 5: Unknown
The titans were all assembled in the medical bay, waiting for Cyborg to complete the tests on Beast Boy who looked more than a little nervous. Beast Boy was hooked up to several machines, some beeping, some buzzing and some silent. Cyborg checked each monitor not saying a word, he was obviously concentrating hard. The tension eventually became too much for a certain little changeling who decided to break the silence.
BB: Soooo… what's wrong with me?...
It was silent for a while and all the titans looked at Cyborg for answers. Cyborg turned to them all with a relieved expression.
Cy: There's nothing wrong with you BB, your vitals are all normal, 'cept your blood pressure is a little low. Nothing to stress out about. Some rest and you'll be back to normal.
Relieved sighs filled the room, everyone except Beast boy seemed happy with the answer.
BB: Nothing to stress out about? Are you kidding?! I'm tired, I'm sweating and I'm falling all over the place because some dart or bug or whatever decided to sting me and mess my senses up!
Cy: B, those are common symptoms for low blood pressure, it's not really dangerous, in fact, it's said to be a good thing… The "falling all over the place" part is kind of bad though, since I'm guessing that means you're feeling dizzy, and that suggests it's a bit to low.
BB: S-so?
Cy: So I'll give you some medicine, we've got pills for that kind of stuff...
Cyborg walked over to a cupboard and looked through it until he found what he was looking for. then he walked back to Beast boy who sat nervously on the bed twiddling his thumbs.
BB: Good, that's good.
Cyborg put the bottle he'd fetched in Beast boys hand and spoke.
Cy: Take one each day before breakfast.
BB: Oh... okay...
Cy: What?
BB: ... Are you sure it's just low blood pressure? Are you absolutely 100 percent positively certain that there's nothing else wrong with me for sure?
Cy: B, I-
BB: Because what if you're wrong? I mean... I don't know but... I just don't think... What happens if you're wrong?
Cy: Beast boy, if I'm wrong the medicine won't work. and then we'll check on you again. Chill out man, you're not dying...
BB: But I...
The other titans watched their friends in silence, not knowing what to believe. Surley Beast boy was just over thinking things, overreacting, it wouldn't be the first time. But what if Cyborg was wrong… Then again Cyborg was hardly ever wrong, and Beast boy seemed to be wrong all the time… So of course they all decided that…
Robin: Beast boy you're fine. You just need some rest.
Raven: And a brain…
Star: I am so happy that you are feeling well friend.
Beast boy couldn't believe that his friends couldn't see how frightened and sick he was really feeling, and it got worse by the minute. he went from feeling cold enough to shiver to hot enough to burn up. When had he even started feeling cold in the first place? He felt his blood pressure rise along with the speed of the beeping coming from one of the machines. He clenched his fists as he snapped at his friends.
BB: I am not feeling well! And quit it with the "Beast boy has no brain" jokes I get it already I'm stupid! I'm stupid and don't know anything, I'm stupid and immature, my jokes are bad and stupid and I am stupid!
When Best boy saw the shocked expressions on his friends faces he calmed down. He turned his head down to look at his gloved and clenched hands, relaxing them and letting go of the air he seemed to have tried to hold on to moments earlier.
BB: I just wanna know for sure... that's all...
Star: Beast boy…
Robin: …
Raven: …
Cy: Okay, okay… If you really feel like there's something else going on with you, whatever it is, it's not showing on my monitors… I can't pick anything up. In other words, it is unknown to me and my machines. Which means I can't help you, you need to see a doctor…
Beast boy jumped at the word.
BB: D-doctor!?
Robin: Are you sure that's a good idea Cyborg?
BB: Yeah, are you sure that's a good idea Cyborg?...
Cy: I can't think of any other solution… but just any doctor won't do… I mean, if I can't find out what's wrong with you, no ordinary doctor ever could…
Beast boy could feel sweat run down his body as a flashback flew through his mind, a syringe, a crocked smile and a cynical laugh. He shook his head and got out of the med-bed.
BB: You know what guys you're right. Perhaps I kinda probably might have actually maybe jumped to conclusions… I-I should at least try to get some rest first. I mean, I already got medicine. Once I've taken it I'm sure I'll feel better and then there'll be no need to see a doctor at all, right… in fact I'm feeling a lot better just holding the bottle… I'll go hit the sack right now and you'll see that things will be all better tomorrow after I take one of these pills okay? Don't worry so much guys seriously, I'm okay, okay Good night see you tomorrow!
Beast boy almost ran out of the medical bay, wait, when had he unstrapped himself from all the machines he was hooked up to? His friends just stared at the door for a few seconds before exchanging confused looks with each other.
Cy: Uuuuum… okay…
Raven: We shouldn't worry?...
Star: Oh glorious, friend Beast boy is feeling better!
Robin: I don't think that's it star. If I wasn't worried before, I think I am now… a little…
Cy: Why's the little guy so scared of doctors?
Raven: Do you really wanna know?...
Cy: of course… I mean, he was convinced that he was sick seconds before I mentioned anything about a doctor… He turned pale just at the word… Something must have happened to him…
Raven: or he's just a coward…
Robin: Beast boy is not a coward Raven…
Star: Will Beast boy really be well friend Cyborg?
Cy: I'm not sure, but I think he will. He's probably just overreacting…
Raven: Like always…
That said Raven teleported herself to her room. The others wished each other good night, went to sleep in their rooms and then the tower fell silent. Everybody seemed to have no trouble falling asleep, except Beast boy. He wriggled and turned and squirmed in his bed. He lay in the bottom bunk for once, he had been too tired to actually climb to the top one. He had been running all the way from the medical bay back to his room and once the door closed behind him he had let the tiredness and sickness he was feeling take over his body. He had leaned back against the door and slumped down to the floor. As the blood rushing in his veins slowed down he felt cold gnawing at his form again. He hadn't paid any attention to it before the check up in the medical bay, but now that he thought about it he had been feeling cold ever since he'd woken up from his nap earlier that day. He sat there for a while, trying to catch up to the world which seemed to be spinning endlessly. He had eventually picked himself up from the ground and forced his body over to his bed. Once he had reached it he just tipped himself over it. He was cold, dizzy, scared and oh so very tired. He didn't want to go see a doctor. He couldn't let himself trust any person who wore a white robe. He couldn't let himself be fooled and captured. Though the risk was very small, well actually no, it wasn't, it had happened before, and he never wanted to be locked up and hurt that way ever again. He didn't want to be separated from his friends. Beast boy eventually fell asleep from exhaustion, he had no clue what awaited him the next morning.
Notes:
I presume most of you know at least a little bit of BB's past... I wouldn't say I know everything about it, but I do know something about a green monkey, a sickness and some scientists... I don't know If I'll eventually write a short back story about it in this fanfic... though if I did, it'd be my version, meaning it probably wouldn't even be close to how things really went down in BB's past.
Anyway, so yeh... the first day of Beast boys little predicament is over. So far he's been...
* Itchy.
* Tired.
* Dizzy.
*Sweating.
* Falling. (due to fall in blood pressure. Or something else?)
*Feeling cold.
That's all... I think... Can't remember my own writing... in my defense... theese are still old chapters... so yeh... eat me...
Side note:
In the last chapter, anybody notice how, at the end, Raven is being all like "he's faking it." and seems to not think much of her friend at all, (Continues in this chapter with the "He's just a coward" remark.) yet she's the first one to follow Cyborg and BB to the medical bay? Yeh... I noticed... I probably put a lot of thought into that when I wrote this some years ago... haha!
Btw... I don't plan to make this a love story, ok... It's gonna be a friend story...any somebody x somebody else hints you might detect are not intentional on my part, but you are free to interpret things however you want... =)
