Ok. First of all, I would just like to welcome you all to my first attempt at Teen Titans fan fiction, and fan fiction through fan Umm….like I said, this is my FIRST ATTEMPT, PLEASE take it easy on me. I am always open to constructive criticism, and encourage it. But, as I have APD, I am extremely sensitive to harsh criticism, like flames. I can not say that they will heat my tea kettle or roast my marshmallows, because I have a perfectly good stove for that and my fragile psyche it take it, multiple it by 100000000 and shove it up my nose. So just be gentle. I don't have a beta, and to tell you the truth, I'm not sure what the purpose of a beta is….sorry.
Ok. Disclaimer thingy: I don't own Teen Titans, uh….Radio U or anything else owned by Sky Angel Networks or anything else that you recognize, but I'm forgetting at the moment. (BTW, if I did own Teen Titans, this would SOOO not be the last season, but it would continue on for many years until I am old and gray.)
Umm….general stuff: This story is slightly AU as I have made my own character and giver her a background with another character. Um, I took some liberated where I deemed them necessary for the story, but tried to stick to the DC Comic version I have pieced together in outlines and stuff I've gathered from the series. This is a BBxOC! There is some slight Rob/Star, CyxBee, Rea/Aqua, KidxJinx and mention to BBxTerra, just slight homage, not in anyway really important to the story, just trying to add a little depth.
Yeah….I think that that's everything….um if not, lemme know and I'll address it on the next post.
Beast Boy looked around his room. He was thoroughly bored. The other Titans were preparing for a visit from Titans East, and while this would normally have excited Beast Boy to no end, he was dreading it to the same extent.
What caused this dread in our favorite little green elf you ask? One word: Love. Yes, our favorite heroes had reached that age with the birds and the bees, and well…you get the picture. The heroes of Jump City had all found love. Robin and Starfire had finally admitted the obvious and were now known to be "missing" for great lengths of time, coming back slightly dis-shoveled; Cyborg and Bumblebee were testing the strengths of a long distance relationship, with no snags so far. Even Raven had found love in the form of Aqualad, so they too were doing the long distance thing. But Beast Boy? No love for him.
He had just finished cleaning his room, at Robin's "request" ( the masked leader had threatened him with hours of extra training if his room wasn't at least decent when Titans East arrived as he wanted to give them the Grand Tour), and was at a total loss as for what to do. Cyborg was too busy cooking food for when their guests arrived to play game station, Raven was too busy getting in extra meditation to bug (he did NOT want to open That can of worms), and he didn't even want to think what Robin and Starfire were doing with the last of their free time before playing host and hostess. (He gave an involuntary shudder at just thinking of not wanting to think about that).
He ambled into the main room to find all of his predictions true, Cyborg was busy in the kitchen, Raven was in a corner, meditating and Robin and Starfire were no where to be seen. He gave a loud sigh and slumped over to the couch. He turned on the TV and the Gamestation. He spent a while on that until he grew bored of this and gave it up as a bad cause. He gave another audible sigh and channel surfed for about another half hour till he gave this up as a bad cause as well.
What to do? What to do? Beast Boy pondered this question for a while. It then clicked on him. His fail safe entertainment idea! The Comic Book Store! He dashed up to his room and grabbed his jar of comic and arcade money and grabbed a few dollars out of it. He then went back to the main room, told Cyborg where he was going and took off for his destination.
"Where'd he say he was going?" Cyborg asked the room. Upon looking around and only seeing Raven deep in meditation, he shrugged and thought, "Well, he better be back before Titans East Arrive, or Robin'll have his hide." then returned to his food preparation.
Beast Boy had arrived at the comic book store. "Good," he thought, "not too crowded. Bob won't mind if I read here." Beast Boy frequented this shop a lot, and knew that the owner, a man by the name of Bob, didn't like a lot of people in his shop and had a tendency to be very if-you're-not-buying-get-out-and-if-you-are-pick-what-you-want-and-leave-already! when the place was filled with people. But when there were only a few people there, he was a perfectly civil and nice man, even if he was a little creepy (he looked to be in his 40's and Beast Boy had the impression he still lived with his parents).
He walked in and was greeted by a happy Bob. "Hello Beast Boy!'
"Hey, Bob!" Beast Boy said in return, "Anything new?"
"Nothing much really. A few Mangas and a new Scooby Doo and Spider Man, but other than that." Bob shrugged.
Beast Boy laughed inside himself. Bob was one of those fanatics when it came to comic books, it took a bit to impress him as he had read all the greats, and probably all the comics there were actually, but that's beside the point. Beast Boy wandered over to the section that held his favorite comic book, Marvelous Monkey Men!. There he saw a girl who had her hair up in a hat, but put no thought to her. He scanned to shelves and found a new issue of the MMM! and reached for it. What he didn't know was that the previously mentioned girl was also reaching for it. They bumped hands and quickly withdrew.
"Sorry!" they said in unison, each blushing.
"Sorry." the girl said, looking at her feet, "I should have looked first."
"I could've looked too." Beast Boy said. At this time Bob poked his head around the corner.
"Hey, Beast Boy!" he called, "Come here! I wanna show you this new comic that came out; get your opinion on it."
"Be right there, Bob." he called, then looked back to the girl, who had grabbed a copy and was walking around the isle to where Bob had a sitting area set up for the less busy days.
Beast Boy walked over to the counter Bob was behind and asked him what he wanted him to look at. "This!" Bob said with a relish, thrusting a copy of a comic book toward Beast Boy. Beast Boy took said comic in his hands and flipped through it. It had a rather childish plot and was poorly drawn, not to mention that the costumes some of the girl heroes and villanesses were wearing were making HIM blush.
"I dunno." Beast Boy said, "The plot was a bit little-kiddy, but the costumes were borderline adults-only. What age group this for anyway?" Beast Boy asked.
"That's a good question." Bob said honestly.
"Come on, Bob. This hasn't even been approved by the CCA! How could you even think of selling something like this?"
"That's why I have you here!" Bob said cheerfully, "To tell me where when something will be a big mistake. I was thinking along the same lines as you though, but wanted an affirmation. Stan likes this comic book."
"Stan would." Beast Boy muttered, thinking of the oldest employee here, who Beast Boy KNEW was close to his forty's and stilled lived with his mom.
"But thanks, Beast Boy!" Bob said, tearing Beast Boy away from his musings about Stan, much to his relief.
"No prob." Beast Boy said, "If ya need me, I'll be over there." he said pointing to the sitting area. He then went back and grabbed the copy of MMM! he was getting earlier and headed over to previously mentioned sitting area. The girl was still there, by the looks of it, finishing up her comic. "Is it any good?" Beast Boy asked her.
"Of course it is!" she said, "its Marvelous Monkey Men!."
"Oh, yeah." he said then sat down to read the comic himself. Out of his peripheral vision, he saw her get up, taking her copy with her and head over to the graphic novel section. She came back and started to read from the back. "That's cheating, isn't it?" he asked her.
"Huh?" she asked.
"Reading from the back. That's cheating."
"Not if the back is the front." she simply said. He gave her a blank stare, at which she giggled. "This is read back to front, right to left."
"Oh." he said. "What the name?"
"Angel Sanctuary."
"What's it about?"
"Not sure entirely." she said, "I never read it before, but I had a friend back home who lived off it. I hope its one you don't need to read the first nine volumes to understand it, this place only has from 10 on."
"Back home?"
"Just moved here."
"Oh."
"Yeah."
"Well, how do you like it in Jump City?"
"I don't really know. I mean it's pretty enough, and I'm sure there's lots to do, but I've been here a month and this is the longest conversation I've had." she said.
"Really? Why's that?" he asked.
"I'm not good at meeting people." she said, blushing and looking at her lap.
"Well then," he said, holding out his hand, "my name is Beast Boy. What's yours?"
She looked up at him, surprise in her eyes. Slowly she took his hand and shook it, "Leia." she said.
"Well then, Leia, I am happy to be your first friend in Jump City." he said, that grin we all know and love plastered on his face.
"Thanks." she said, a small smile gracing her face. It was then Beast Boy really took the time to look at her. She was a little pale, but not nearly as pale as Raven, who almost looked gray, instead, she had the same skin tone as Robin. Her hair was up in a hat so he couldn't see it. She had an athletic build and wore comfortable looking jeans, tee shirt and tennis shoes. Her lips were a light pink that suited her tone and were slightly thin, but just big enough. What really caught his attention, however, were her eyes. They were blue, but not the same blue as Terra's, these were a lighter, almost icy-blue. They were absolutely mesmerizing. He was torn from his gaze into them when Bob asked to see him. Sometimes Bob really had the worst timing.
"What can I do for ya, Bob?" he asked.
"First off, sorry." Bob said, "I know you and the new girl were hitting it off over there, but I need you to tell Stan that the Comic I had you look over was a no go."
Choosing to ignore the first comment, Beast Boy turned to Stan, "Sorry, Stan, but that was a horrible comic, man! It was Awful!"
"I liked it!" Stan insisted.
"You only liked the costumes the girls were wearing! Face it, the comic is a bomb!"
Stan only mumbled incoherently to this. Beast Boy looked over to Bob, who thanked him. Beast Boy then headed back over to the seating area.
"Ugh!" he said, "I can't stand Stan!" he complained, "I don't see why Bob doesn't just get rid of him!" His new companion giggled.
"Oh, I think that's obvious." she said, "This Stan dude looks to be the stereotypical comic book clerk. Every Comic Book Store has to have one, its bad luck not to. He's most likely read every comic known to man in every language he understands-which you KNOW includes Cling-on." she said in a very serious tone which made Beast Boy fall into a fit of giggles which she soon joined in on. They quickly stifled their giggles when Stan ambled over to put out a new display.
Beast Boy heard a tinkling that indicated someone was coming in. He didn't think anything of it until a little girl came up to him and stared. "Uh. Can I help you?" he asked.
"Why are you green?" she asked, "Is it because you're sick?"
"No." he said, trying to think of something other than "I got a rare disease and this and the ability to change into any animal I chose were the side effects of the cure", and quickly came up with, "Its because I didn't eat my vegetables." he said with as serious a face as he could muster. He saw her eyes grow to the size of saucers. "Yep! So make sure to eat your vegetables, OK?" she nodded vigorously. "And always clean behind your ears, or they'll get pointy like mine!" to which she nodded again. At this time a teenage boy, presumably her brother, walked up.
"Emma!" he said, "What did I tell you about wandering away from me? And what about talking to strangers? If I lost you do you know what kind of trouble I'd be in?"
"Sorry." the little girl said.
"I'm just glad I found you!" he said, then turned to Beast Boy, "I'm so sorry if she bothered you."
"No at all." Beast Boy said.
"Well, good bye." he said, then lead the little girl out of the store asking her what she wanted for dinner.
"Something with a lot of vegetables!" they heard her say as they went out the door.
"That was sweet." Leia said, "Kinda corny, but sweet."
"What?" Beast Boy asked.
"You're green because you didn't eat your vegetables?" she asked him.
"It worked." he shrugged.
"Do you mind if I ask the real reason?"
"It's a long story that I don't really care to bring up." he said
"Ok then."
"So where you from?" he asked her.
"Ohio." she simply said.
"And what brings you to Jump City?"
"Another long story that is best not brought up."
"Ok then." he said and they fell into a silence. That was until his communicator went off.
"Beast Boy here." he said upon answering it.
"The question is why you aren't here?" he heard Robin's less than pleased voice. He glanced up at the clock.
"Oh, shoot!" he exclaimed, "Sorry, Rob, lost track of time. Lemme just pay for these then I'll be on my way."
"Just get here as fast as you can!" he heard Robin say, then, "Robin out."
He looked up at Leia, "I'm sorry, but I gotta go." he said.
"No worries, I should be on my way too." she said, standing up and picking up her two selections. They headed to the counter together. "So what's with the hyped-up walkie talkie?" she asked.
"My communicator?"
"Whatever it is."
"Its how the Titans communicate to each other when we're apart. They're a lot more reliable than phones."
"Oh. And the Titans are?"
"You are new!" he chuckled as he paid and explained while she was paying, "We're the local heroes. We take care of the stuff the cops can't or would just rather not worry about."
"Oh, so I'm talking to something of a celebrity here, am I?" she played.
"Sure are! Want my autograph?" he joked. She laughed. At one of his jokes!
"Maybe another time." she said, "You got Hero stuff to attend to."
"It's a deal." he said as they walked out of the store, "Which way you headed?"
She pointed to the stores right, "That way." she said.
"Well, I'm headed left. See you around?" he asked.
"Hope so." she said, "You're my only friend, remember?"
"Oh. Well, that will change, don't worry."
"Thanks."
"No thanks needed."
And with that they went their separate ways.
So, lemme know what you think, please! I have this finished, but am still open to ideas. Thanks for reading!
CrystalWillow