Four monthes went by without word from Beast Boy or Robin. Raven didn't know how she felt about that. Robin betrayed them, aure, but she wasn't entiraly sure it was by his own free will. Maybe he was forced. How she hoped that was true.
Beast Boy was a different matter. There was so much guilt whenever she thought of him. She thought about how she pratically forced him out, along with the other members. She should have been stronger, she should have fought it. Beast Boy knew how she felt about him, it hurt that she wasn't able to save him when it matter.
A set of footsteps could be heard coming towards the couch in the lounge, Raven looked up to see Cyborg walking towards her. He paused and looked at Raven, just staring blakly into space.
Cyborg thought for a few seconds before sitting down on the couch, his weight caused her to sink towads him just a bit. Raven wondered how Beast Boy xould handle so much time with Cyborg, he was always so loud. Until-
No, don't think about it.
"It doesn't help if you keep think about him," Cyborg said. Raven rolled her eyes.
"As if you don't,' she snapped.
"I do, I just don't blame myself. We didn't do anything, it was all Robin," Cyborg said. She knew his words were supposed to make her feel better, but all it did was make her feel empty once again. Why did everyone keep doing this to her?
"Look, I wasn't strong enough to fight him off, I see no reason why I can't blame this on myself," Raven said. She got up and wrapped his cloak around herself. Beast Boy and Robin were like ghosts, forever lingering in the hallways until someone could just let them go.
Nobody could, that was their problem.
"I'm going to my room now," Raven said, turning her back to Cyborg and walking up the stairs to the hallway, lost in the click-clack of her shoes against the tiles, ignoring the pleas of Cyborg.
"Wait, Rvaen. Come back!" she wished she could go deaf, because if she kept hearing Starfire and Cyborg, she was almost certain that she would go insane.
Beast Boy missed the Teen Titans dearly, but going solo might have been the moat fun he had in a long time. He got to travel to parts of the country he had yet to look at, to explore.
He met with old buddies, he fought with old foes, he saw the sights. The unit thing that weighted on his mind was Raven. Thoughout the entire trip, he made a mental list of where he was going to take her.
Oh, she would think this was cool. Oh, she would like this. Oh, look, a vodoo stand. That's right up her ally.
And the he would wake uo and remember that Raven left him for Robin. Probably because they were both birds. Yeah, you keep telling yourself that. It wasn't that he was annoying an was proabaly a terrible and emarbassing date.
Nope, it was because he wasn't named after a bird.
He always, at the end of every week returned to his little apartment. Within the first week, he cleared out the apartment, cleaning of the dust and cobwebs from every surface, fixing the walls, throwing out the broken furniture. He even managed to get rid of amost all the creatures, save for one cute little black mouse that he named Raven.
Raven became Beast Boy's sidekick. Mostly because every grate superhero had a sidekick, or at least the ones he could remember. This sidekick may have never left the house, but at least he could count on Raven being loyal.
Beast Boy stopped outside of his apartment building, glad to be back. He just spent the last week in Mexico and was beat. All he could wait for was to get back to his bed. He found it in another apartment when he went exploring.
He jumped over the stairs like a pro, after all, one does get good and dodging certain death traps after a while. He smiled as he reached the door and swung it open, smiling as he heard the squeek of Raven.
"Hey, Raven," Beast Boy walked over to the three-legged kitchen table that Raven was perched on. He stached the top of her head with his finger. He got another squeek in returned. He wa pretty sure that was a good thing.
"I'm going to lie down," he told Raven. Raven tilted her head to the side.
"Never mind," he said. Sometimes Beast Boy missed humans. Though if Raven could talk back to him,he probably wouldn't, as much. He yawned and streched, tired from lack of sleep and a lot of excerise. He missed the way he could change, he probably wouldn't be as tired. But now, he had to hop trains, hijack cars, the whole works.
Beast Boy walked over to his bed, stoppingnto open a window. The room got stuffy and smell carried itself here whenever he left for a bit. He couldn't leave his window open, though, for fear of stray animals and rain getting in. It happened before and was probably going to happen again.
He lied down, just about to drift off, when he heard a loud crash outside his window.
"Starfire!" the voice yelled. Cyborg.
"Sorry, its just I thought I saw something," she said, sheepishly.
"Well, you're going to wake the whole neighborhood," said another voice. The voice he was dreading and longing to hear every day since he left.
Raven.
"Why are we even here?" she asked.
"One of my friends believed they had saw something," Starfire replied. Beast Boy's heart sped up. This was it, this was the moment he was dreading. What if they found him. Would they drop him off where they took all the villians?
"I husks hope he alright," Raven said. Who? Robin? Beast Boy hadn't heard Robin's voice. Beast Boy got up, quitely, hoping that he wouldn't make the bed squeek and traveled over to the window, keeping low so nobody could see him.
"Where was it that you thought that you saw him," Cyborg asked. It brought a smile it Beast Boy's face just listening to him.
"I didn't see him, my friend saw him," Starfire replied.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Where did your friend see him?" Cybrog corrected himself. Beast Boy foight off a giggle. Maybe he should giggle, just to freak them out a bit.
Beast Boy wondered if they were looking for him or Robin. No, they had to be looking for Robin, after all, he saw them the last time. They wanted nothing to do with him. Yeah, they were looking for Robin, Beast Boy was sure of it.
"Are you sure," Beast Boy heard them say.
"Yeah," their voices were distance now, they were at the front of the building now, which kind of sucked. Beast boy was going to run, ut know, he was going to wait for them to come. He could care less, he was tried, he was lonely, he wanted some company, even if it was in prison.
He heard footsteps coming up the creaky, broken stairs. He stood up and walked over to the door, waiting for them to come. He wasn't afraid, he wasn't afriad.
He was.
"This ones locked," Cyborg yelled.
"I'll check across the hall," Raven yelled. Beast Boy was ready. He stood in fighting stance, ready to go done in honor. At least he could say he fought back.
All he could hear as the door slowly opened the door was blood rushing to his head and his poundinf heart in his ears. He dimly saw Raven there her hood up, the only thing about her face was her open mouth.
Beast Boy, she mouthed. She ran over to him at top speed. Beast Boy prepared himself for a fight, but was not ready for the tackle, or the hug that felt like she was going to break a few ribs, or the shower of kisses that she gave him, or after each one she would whisper, "I missed you."
This was quite possibly the greatest moment of his life.
"Raven?" Cyborg called out. "Rav- oh," he cut off when he saw Raven on top of Beast Boy. Starfire stopped next to Cyborg, a gaint smile on both of their faces. Raven got off him and stood up, rearanging her cloak, which fell down when she ran over.
"Aren't you going to arrest me? Or at least fight me?" Beast Boy struggled out. Trying to fight down the tears that could surface at any moment.
"What?" Raven asked, looking confused.
"What Robin said, I thought you guys hated me," Beast Boy said, struggling to talk.
"Robin was lying, he was controling us," Starfire said. Beast Boy tilted his head to the side. This didn't make much sense. After all, Robin doewnt have any powers, how would he be able to control them to think Beast Boy was their enemy.
They went over the events of the past few monthes. Telling how they fought off Robin. How they spent the past four monthes searching in vain until someone spotted Beast Boy. How they thought someone could have been controling Robin from behind the sences.
As the talked, Beast Boy felt less and less hatred for them. After all they did to find them, it was hard not to feel special, proud that they spent all this time looking for him.
He must really mean something to them.
That's why, even after all that they did to him, Beast Boy still went with them back to the Towar. That's why he left his old new home back to the comforts of electricity and running water.
Nothing could spoil his perfect mood. That is, until Starfire told him what she saw that night, four monthes ago.
That spoiled it.
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