Mending Of Old Fences

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Robin and Cyborg were sitting in the back yard when Beast came and joined them. "Hey." Cyborg grinned seeing Beast, "Hey. Can we talk?" Beast grinned sitting down, Robin looked at him guiltily and admitted, "I've been struggling with my leadership since you left. But I think I went wrong when I started laying into you."  Beast sighed tiredly, "d**k-."  Robin patted his friend's shoulder, "No I was unfair to you. We had all grown up and changed in some way. You were consistent, the unchanging sweet dude we could count on to make us smile and feel better. Your antics, while childish, kept us going on the roughest days. And I took it for granted." Robin coughed and looked down, "I love Raven like a sister. Being in her head, being close to her had been a privilege. But in being close to her I got on you for trying to do the same thing. Just be there for her, help her with whatever's bothering her. Love her. I guess in a way I was trying to protect her from the feelings I didn't think she was capable of expressing."  Sighing Robin admitted, "All your sweet flirting and nice guy antics had been met with dimension tours and rock tosses from the common room window to the ocean. I was concerned if you had kept liking her, like how you liked her, you'd wind up resenting her for her inability to like you back. Or be kind about it."  Beast nodded before honestly confessing, "I can see that. Sometimes I felt I did hate Raven, I've trashed my room a couple of times out of anger or frustration at her. I tore up a punching bag too not because I would hurt her or even think about it. It was just what jumped out of my body. Sometimes, Raven had been cruel. But I know now it was just because what she had wanted...what she had truly wanted to do wasn't something she was capable of then."  Cyborg looked at his baby brother and whispered, "I'm sorry bro." Beast shook his head, "YOU do not owe me an apology Cy! You've always had my back." Cyborg scoffed, "Until of course, everyone was getting on you about changing. About growing up, and I said nothing! I stood there and just let you be mauled by the pack of hungry wolves. It's f****d up man, you would have stuck up for me."  Beast shrugged not at all believing that, "They were kind of right. I was a d**k, I threatened Starfire, and I wasn't being respectful to my team leader. Not to mention almost getting into a fight with kid flash and jinx." Cyborg looked at Beast curiously, "Did you ever see Bumble Bee after leaving? She told me once she went in on you pretty hard for abandoning us." Beast snickered bitterly at the unwarranted ass-chewing he had gotten, "Yeah about a year back now, I lied to her and told her I was on vacation and she got on me. Telling me how you dumped her because you were too distraught over me to focus on her. How I was a d**k for trading my team for a life of luxury and then she proceeded to shrink down and zap me." Cyborg sighed in complete mortification, "I'm so sorry B." Beast shrugged before asking, "Is that why you two broke up? Because of me?"   Cyborg shrugged, "More along the lines of I just stopped caring. She was always blowing me off to do something for the team, I was cool with it. She never came to see me, not even when I called her balling my eyes out. She instead went to the north to take care of some metahuman twins breaking in and robbing stores. And so calls went unanswered, no words were said, and then she hooked up with Aqualad." Cyborg nodded at Beast's shocked face remembering the cold hollow feeling he had from the call at two in the morning. " When she told me and saw on my face I didn't care what she did or who with, she just told me never to speak to her again. So I haven't. It wouldn't have lasted anyway."  Beast sighed, "I'm sorry bro, I know you liked her." Shaking his head Beast mumbled, "I didn't think my leaving would be that big. ME. I thought...I thought I had long stopped being important to you guys." Robin shook his head as he looked at his friend, "Beast you leaving left a huge ass hole in our team, and in our family. We were never the same." Beast bit his lip worried, "Is everything okay with you and Star?"  Cyborg looked at Robin since he knew the answer to that, "We fought a lot. She worried for me more than love me with my reckless missions and lack of precision. We didn't replace you and just the four of us left the millions of reasons why we needed you open for criminals to walk through. Which drove me crazy. She threatened to leave once, go home to Tamarian and be with her own people. But after begging her to stay she relented." Beast huffed, "I'm so sorry Robin." Robin shook his head smiling, "Since being here we've been great though. I apologized, we've talked, hung out like how we used to. Had s*x like we used to which was very enjoyable." Beast laughed as Cyborg chimed in, "And I met someone, this girl, she's a cyborg too and we have a date tomorrow night." Beast grinned at both of his friends, "That's great guys." Cyborg coughed before awkwardly asking, "And you and Rae? What's going on there?" Beast groaned in embarrassment, his cheek turning red, "It's...we're...I don't know. We had been changing before I left the tower. It was like I knew she was starting to like me, become attracted to me. But then I left and we've both changed... I guess we're in love but not official. Does that make sense?"  Both men nodded making Beast fall back in the grass and sigh. "Do you want to be official with her? Did she tell you about...?" Beast nodded sitting up on his elbows, "Her emotions taking residence her body now and not categorized in her brain? Yeah." Robin shook his head, "It was f*****g hard seeing her go through that. All her emotions, emotions she hadn't felt in years suddenly coming back and at the time you lost the person who loved you the most. I couldn't be around her when she was sad, it was like a cloud of f*****g depression. Like listening to Billie Eilish as it rains, contemplating suicide, depression." Beast whistled at the very dramatic image Robin pieced together before he shook his head, "To think we were both miserable without each other this entire time." Robin smiled, "You really didn't stop loving her." He marveled in awe, "I couldn't."  Beast admitted not even bothering to lie, "It was when I got here that I realized no girl mattered to me, nothing mattered at first. I worked myself to sleep and pushed myself to think of nothing but work so I wouldn't think of her. Two years of loneliness and wanting nothing more to turn back time and just say I was sorry." Beast dragged his hand down his face tiredly, "Loving Raven while challenging and difficult as hell sometimes shaped me and molded me in ways I didn't think possible. And now she's mine, the girl I've wanted since I was thirteen, the girl I planned my days around to make her laugh, the one person I wanted to see the most."  Looking at his brothers Beast admitted, "Leaving her, leaving ALL of you had been rough. But I thought I'd die not knowing how she was doing, if she was okay, was she still single. And it's not like she's on f*******: couldn't exactly look her up to find her." Cyborg laughed, "Ha Raven on f*******:! I'd pay big money to see that!" The three men shared a laugh but then Robin asked the burning question, "So what happens now?" 
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