Hey, here's a stand-alone continuation of the series' finale, Things Change. That episode has truly confused me to the point of no return, but I think this is really what happened, before and after. Anyway, I hope you enjoy and I think this isn't going to be your average Things Change continuation, in my opinion.

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Prologue- A month before meeting Beast Boy again

"Hello, how are you?" The young principal of Murkami High School seemed to have too many pearly whites as she stood up to shake Terra's hand. Her dark black hair was up in a tight bun, and her glasses were narrow enough to be pretty.

Terra smiled tiredly. "I'm doing fairly well, thank you." The principal smiled.

"So, do you want an application?" she asked, already getting the paperwork out. She handed it to her along with a pen. Terra leaned over and scribbled down all the necessary info to enroll in this private school.

"Are your parents here, honey?" the principal, who was addressed as Mrs. Higuchi, asked as Terra handed the form back to her. "No, ma'am. They aren't here," she replied. "Well, what's the number to-" "Oh, no. They're not here. At all," the blonde corrected.

Mrs. Higuchi looked at her for a long while, and nodded slowly. "I see," she said crisply, "Well, Miss... Markov," she continued, reading the form, "I am afraid that I need a parent or guardian's signature for you to enter this school for a full run, along with medical history and all records from previous schools you've been to."

"Oh, I'm not planning on staying for very long, ma'am," Terra interjected suddenly, a plan forming in her mind, "I'm only staying for first term." The woman's head nodded understandably. "Okay. That's more reasonable. Very well, Miss Markov. I will allow you to stay until we let out for the holidays."

Terra nodded, and Mrs. Higuchi smiled, but this smile was different. She cocked her head to one side, studying the girl.

"You look familiar," she stated, "But then... you look different."

Terra looked slightly confused. "... Maybe you just saw me in the streets or something," she suggested.

Mrs. Higuchi remembered her for another reason, but the girl sitting in front of her wouldn't understand. She shrugged and got up, walking towards a closet.

"What are you doing?" Terra asked, getting out of the chair. The woman turned around, holding something in her arms.

"You're a... small?" she asked, "Or smaller? We have extra small." "Try small," Terra asked, "I might grow." The bearer of the uniform nodded. "You might be right. You never know at your age when you're gonna grow overnight..."

She grabbed a few more things and turned to face the blonde. "All right. Here at Murikami High, we have uniforms, for both girls and guys. For you, a girl, you have a navy skirt, an Oxford short-sleeve, knee-high socks, a black tie, and Mary Janes." As she said each article, she handed them to the new student.

"And if those happen to be too big or too small, just tell me and I'll fix it for you," Mrs. Higuchi added. "All right, ma'am. I'll find a job so I can pay-" "No, this is on the house," the principal protested. Terra gaped at her. "Are you serious?" "Yep."

"Thank you, ma'am. I just need to get some schooling. I just got out of a hospital, you see," Terra said sheepishly. The principal looked at her with sympathy.

"Well, you stay here as long as you wish. Tell me when you are leaving, and I will withdraw you from the school. It's simple as that, Terra."

"Thank you."

The shook hands, Terra placed the clothes in her new bookbag, and she walked out into the sunshine, towards the abandoned motel that she claimed as hers on the edge of town.

She almost skipped as she walked, actually. This was the longest time she had been out in the fresh air since...

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"YOU... CAN'T... CONTROL ME... ANYMORE!.!"

I screamed as I felt the power overcome me, and Slade, whose hand was on my breastplate, holding me above his head... Then there was a flash of everything and nothing, and I was alone, with no Slade. I fell to my knees in exhaustion.

There was a rumble, and lava burst out of the wall. I looked up.

"No..." I groaned. A volcano. Triggered from my power. "Crap."

I floated down to where the Titans were, and Beast Boy reached out and grabbed my shoulders.

"Terra! C'mon, we gotta go." I kept my eyes away from him, as I whispered the truth, "I have to stay." There was a brief silence between us. We stood up straight as Beast Boy squeezed my shoulders a little.

"No!" he exclaimed, horrified. I looked around at the former lair. It was getting really bad. I had to move fast. "I'm the only one who can stop it," I pointed out. I needed to stop this. No matter what the cost.

"Please, Terra, you can't! It's too late," Beast Boy pleaded. I reached up, and tucked the right side of my hair behind my right ear, seeing him clearly for the first time since the carnival two weeks ago. Was it really two weeks...?

"It's never too late," I said, quoting him earlier. I gave him a small smile, the one I knew he loved so much. His hands trembled and I thought I could barely see some tears in his eyes.

I reached out and hugged him. I knew it would be the last. At first, he didn't do anything, but then he placed his arms around me, and I felt him squeeze, trying to store this in his memory. God, he was shaking...

Tears threatened me. "You were the best friend... I ever had," I whispered.

I broke us apart, and I shifted the rocks under his feet so he would join his team. His team.

They ran out, out to safety. Good. I felt the power surge through me, and the hair began to blow. I ducked my head, and my hair lifted up from my face so it flew around. Why did I keep this good ol' power inside for the past two weeks when I just used my fists?

I felt the heat increase. Was it the lava or just my power? I'll never know.

I raised my fists up, and let it all out. I screamed, feeling heat and pain just as one tear rolled out of my closed eye onto my left cheek... blackness...

Then, no blackness. There's this white, then red... Is this heaven? I thought you were supposed to travel through a tunnel with a white light at the end to get to heaven. Maybe this is hell. Oh, well. I deserve to-

Beeep.

Beep?...

"I'm getting a pulse. I have a pulse. Weak, but gaining," a strong male voice announced. He sounded like one of those doctors on TV dramas like ER.

I tried to open my eyes, but they felt like they weighed a ton. Why were they closed? Where was I... Who was I...?

I opened my mouth, and tried to speak, but nothing... nothing came.

Terra?

What? Who-?

Terra. They did it. You're alive.

Alive? What are you...?

You died, like, a moment ago. But you're in the hands of doctors in the best hospital in the state.

I died? But I can't be dead. I'm-

You're gonna be in the burn unit. Seriously, Terra... You're charred black and red. I can see you.

That bad? Blisters, too?

Oh, yeah. All the goods.

Ha ha. Listen, who are you? Why are you inside my mind?... Urghh... Wait a minute...

I freed you when I fufilled my prophecy, and when I freed everyone else from stone, I freed you, too. I didn't know until you died. Until a minute ago, you were laying down, comatose, in the former lair of your former master, Slade.

What? I don't understand...

I'm going to keep you a secret, okay? You don't remember now, and you might never remember. Maybe it's how... it should be... Oh, well. If you do, just call us. We'll help you.

Thanks. But... Hey, wait! Aren't you...

My name is Raven Roth. I'm a Teen Titan. Remember that.

Raven Roth. Teen Titan.

That's right. Good luck, Terra. Not many people get this second chance.

As she left me, I let myself slip back into unconciousness. Sweet bliss...

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"OWWWWWWWWWowowowowow!.!.!"

I screamed when I awoke to a terrible, peeling pain in a section of my leg. I tried to open my eyes, but I could only do it halfway. I saw two nurses on either side of me, and one came up by my head and held it.

She kissed my forehead gently upon a sore spot. "Take it easy, honey. I know it hurts. Only one more. One more and then you'll be done for the day, I promise." I leaned into her shoulder as the peeling came back.

"OW!" I howled again as another section of burned skin was peeled off. I leaned back into the pillows, breathing heavily, like I had run ten miles all of a sudden. I looked up at my nurse. Other than my eye area being swollen, my vision was actually clear. The nurse had a pixie face, with short green-dyed hair and purple contacts.

She smiled and handed me a water bottle. "You must be thirsty," she said, as I reached up with a bandaged hand to unlock the cap and take a long swig.

After a moment or two, I stopped drinking to set the bottle on my bedside table and look at the nurse.

"Excuse me, but who are you and where am I, exactly?" I asked, sitting up a little. She held my hand. "Well, I'm Zelda Jameson, your personal nurse, and we are at Halo of Love Hospital, in the burn unit."

I couldn't believe it.

"But... I never played with..." I clutched my head again. Lava, heat. Power, tear. Hair, earth. Surge... a scream.

What are these things?

"Do you remember?" Zelda asked gently. "My name... Terra..." I murmured. She nodded. "Do you remember the volcano?" she asked.

"Volcano? So that's where the lava and heat come from!" I exclaimed. It was all coming together now. Except for the surge, scream, and tear. And power... and earth. Weird, definitely. Maybe it'll come to me in a dream, who knows?

"I can't get anything else. I remember hair blowing, a power of earth or something... a scream, then I'm here," I said to Zelda as she took a tray full of food and placed it on my lap. There was Jello, a wheat roll, and some scrambled eggs. I grabbed the Jello and began to dish it out with a spoon into my mouth.

"Well, I didn't expect you to remember it all at once," Zelda assured me, "I know it'll come to you soon enough." With that, she left the room. "Try and eat. I've seen sticks with more meat on them."

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For the next month, I was peeled, fed, and therapied by the doctors and nurses of Halo of Love Hospital. After those awful weeks, I have come to remember that the power of earth was somehow connected to me (some bits were still unclear), and the hair that was blowing was my hair (when I had arrived, it was all gone, burned off. Now, it was at normal length, past my shoulders. My hair grew really fast), the tear was my tear, and the scream was my scream.

I stood in front of the mirror, proud of how far I'd come from the first day. I had gained some weight (I was still skinny), my hair was shiny and golden, my eyes no longer puffy (although there was still a faint scar running from the bottom of my left eye all the way down my cheek. I didn't remember how I got that, either). Other scars were speckled across me, in some areas more than others.

I hugged Zelda goodbye, and headed off for town. I wanted to go to sleep, and find a place to sleep.

Memories of my childhood haunted me, but everything beyond that was blank, in little pieces. I hoped that I would see something before my entire childhood was forgotten by the time I was twenty-one.

I came across an old abandoned Motel 6, and claimed it, with only the clothes and backpack on my back.

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