Identity Crisis

Old Friends New Leads

"You have a serious problem," said Raven, rolling her eyes as she walked by the couch were beast boy had been lying for the past hour.

"It's just the way she looked at me," sighed Garfield wistfully, "I was ready to give up but then she yelled my name and..." he sighed once more and smiled blissfully.

"Good for you, now can I sit on the couch?" she glared down at beast boy, who didn't respond, and finally knocked him off the couch.

"Hey!" he yelled, rubbing the back of his head.

"I think it is glorious that you have found my best friend!" exclaimed Starfire.

"Beast Boy, we're all happy for you, but..." Robin hesitated before dashing Beast Boy's hopes, "I really don't think you should get your hopes up."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, what if it's not her?" Robin sat down on the couch and Beast Boy let out an exasperated sigh.

"I know what I saw," he said as he walked out of the room. He wasn't in the mood to talk to his friends right now. None of them seemed to understand how he felt; it was almost like they didn't want Terra to be back.

He sat on his bed to think. He'd talked to her, seen her, and he knew it was her, the same old Terra. There was no mistaking her, he loved her too much. A knock on the door brought him out of his thoughts. "Go away," he muttered.

Cyborg stood on the other side of the door. At first, he hadn't believed Beast Boy either, but after a while, Beast Boy had started acting weird, like, serious; and Cyborg knew that something had to be wrong. He sighed and knocked again.

"Go away!" Beast Boy yelled.

"Do you really think it's her?" asked Cyborg. Beast Boy looked up in surprise.

"You believe me?" he asked, opening the door a crack. Cyborg nodded, and Beast Boy let him in.

"So, what are you gonna do?"

"I dunno," sighed Beast Boy, "The truth is, I don't even know if she wants to see me again. She said she didn't but... The way she looked at me the last time I saw her..." he buried his face in his hands, "I don't even know anymore, maybe I should just give up."

"BB if there's one thing I know about you, it's that you're not a quitter," he reconsidered this statement afterwards, Beast Boy was a quitter. "Well, at least not when it comes to your friends," Cyborg added, "If you really think it's her-,"

"I do!"

"Then just keep trying," he said, "She will remember you."

Beast Boy nodded, "Thanks Cyborg," Cyborg patted his best friends' shoulder.

"No problem," he said, "I know how you feel." He sighed as he remembered her, Serafin. It had been a long time since he'd been sucked back to the past and met her, and he'd mostly forgotten, but he still felt like no one could fill her place in his heart.

"Bee?" asked Beast Boy wiggling his eyebrows.

"What!"

"You heard me!" Beast Boy smiled mischievously, "Bumble Bee!"

"No!" Cyborg yelled, trying to keep himself from blushing, "She's just a friend!"

"Sure," Beast Boy smirked.

"I'm serious!" he yelled, Bumblebee was just a good friend, and he didn't even talk to her that often; she was always busy leading the Titans East, "Where did you even get that idea?"

"Whatever," Beast Boy shrugged, "Just don't miss the boat." Cyborg huffed and crossed his arms, he was definitely not in love with Bumblebee, but he couldn't help but wonder...

"Does she like me?" he asked, quickly regretting it after seeing the face that Beast Boy made. But there wasn't time for Beast Boy to answer, one of the towers alarms went off and the two of them rushed off to the main room.

"What is it?" asked Raven.

"An intruder entered the tower," Robin answered her, getting into a fighting stance, "Be prepared, it could be anyone, Slade, or Cinderblock, or..." The door opened, and the Titans stood ready to face their adversary.

"Terra?" Beast Boy's jaw dropped, she was honestly the last person he'd expected to walk through that door. Tara smiled and waved awkwardly at the awestruck Titans, then uttered a single word.

"Hi."

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Vicky slumped to the ground on the pavement outside the amusement park. She'd taken every bus route there was from Tara's house to the amusement park, which had taken patience and money, but still no phone. Now here she was sitting on the sidewalk next to a highway after searching an entire amusement park.

There was one bus route she hadn't taken but that was because it was temporarily out of commission. There was a huge hole in the concrete by the bus stop and a bunch of those construction vehicles around it, making it impossible for anyone to pass through. At first Vicky thought nothing of it, it was probably just some random construction project, but as she purchased a tuna sandwich from a street vendor she noticed something weird out of the corner of her eye. She hastily payed for the sandwich and shoved it in her mouth as she peered around a bulldozer to get a better look.

It was a weird looking guy with a skull mask and a red x on his chest, he seemed to be inspecting something in the rubble. Vicky tried to sneak over quietly, but as she tiptoed around the hole she accidentally kicked a small pebble off the edge. The masked man looked up and saw Vicky standing at the edge of the hole, and Vicky turned still as a statue, eyes wide and face pale with fear. She thought that this was it, this was the idiotic way she was going to die. The man stood up and she flinched just a little, closing her eyes to prepare for the end, but after a few moments nothing happened; she opened her eyes just a tiny bit only to see an empty hole. She breathed a sigh of relief and quietly slipped into the large hole. There wasn't anything really, just a few broken pipes, it was another dead end. Vicky kicked a chunk of rubble in frustration and was surprised to find something shiny beneath it. She reached down and brushed the remaining rocks off of it. It was Terra's phone!

"Hey! What are you doing here!" someone yelled. Vicky looked up at a construction worker towering above her and made a break for it. The man tried to catch up with her, but he was too slow, by the time he made it across the hole, Vicky was already out of the construction site.