Got the idea after reading 'Missing You' by Raven's Favourite Emotion. Mainly because I think that Terra really did remember who she was in Things Change.
Thanks to RFE for the inspiration!
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"Terra!"
Today he found me.
"Terra! Wait up!"
I was really hoping he wouldn't.
I had to lie.
"Sorry. You've got the wrong girl."
It was the only way.
"You don't remember me?"
I do Beast Boy. How could I forget you? But please, please believe the lie I'm telling you.
Because I can't go back to being Terra. Not after what I've done.
I'm sitting on the roof of one of the skyscrapers next to the harbour. Titan's Tower is in front of me, but it's separated from me. Separated by water, lies and betrayal.
The titans are probably in there now. Cyborg's probably cooking a meat-filled dinner for himself. Star and Robin are probably doing something together. Raven's probably reading, and Beast Boy's probably disturbing her.
He wasn't supposed to find me. None of them were. I shouldn't have stayed in town. I should have gone somewhere else, far away. I never had any trouble skipping towns before I met them, but now, I'm stuck. I can't leave. No matter how much better it would be. No matter how much easier it would be.
It would have been better off if I was still stuck in rock.
I don't remember anything from been stuck inside, but I remember getting out. I don't know how it happened. I just woke up underneath Jump City. The first thing I saw was a plaque at my feet. They made a plaque for me. I don't believe it.
I enrolled at the nearest school, but even though I was still in the city, I never thought about one of the titan's finding me, until yesterday, when BB, of all people, did.
"See? I can still make you laugh."
Luckily for me he's so gullible. I know that from when I betrayed him. When I betrayed all of them.
Something I'll never forgive myself for.
"You haven't changed a bit."
I know. I'm still a traitor.
"Why would you want to be friends with someone who's so much trouble?"
"Because I know who she really is."
I don't think you do B. I don't even know who I really am.
"Why can't things go back to the way they were? You were so happy then."
"Things were never the way you remember."
I was working for Slade. I was giving him information about you. About all of you. I was lying to you the whole time.
I lift a rock with my powers and spin it above my hand.
"You can move the earth."
I clench my fist and the rock shatters, the leftover dust drifts down the side of the building.
"You don't belong here Terra."
I don't belong anywhere.
"Stop calling me that."
"It's who you are."
No. It's who I was. It's who I can never be again. I'm not Terra.
"You're my friend. You're a teen titan."
"You're wrong."
I'm not a titan.
"Maybe your friend is out there somewhere. I hope find her."
For both our sakes.
"I already have."
I'm not your friend.
"I'm not a hero."
I'm a nameless girl. I'm a titan enemy. I'm a traitor. I'm a villain.
I wish it wasn't true as much as you do.
"Things change Beast Boy. The girl you want me to be is just a memory."
Did she ever really exist?
Maybe. Once.
She's gone now.
I look up at the building in front of me. I said once that sometimes you have to leave a place to really appreciate it. I never realised how true it was however, until now.
I can see water starting to blur the bottom of my vision. I'm beginning to cry. I pull my legs from over the side of the building and up to my chest. And, looking at the only place I ever really called home, I whisper.
"I'm sorry, Beast Boy. I sorry all of you." The tears start to run down my cheeks.
"I really, really am."
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In case you didn't guess, italics are lines from Things Change
Please read and review. It makes me smile.
~Clair-Rae