Seethe

[thebeastwithout]

[phone]
That's it.

[It is the day after his encounter with Tara. Beast Boy slams a fist down on a table. Given that it is a gorilla fist, it breaks.]

I've had it. I'm sick of this. I just did this. I just did this! Three months and we were finally friends again!  I'm not going through this... this crap. This is crap. This is bull. Crap. [This sounds like the first time someone has ever said anything harsher than heck.] I don't know what you guys are gonna do, but I'm not letting some crappy fake doctor do this kind of thing to my friends!

Starfire, Raven. We're still the Teen Titans, Robin or not. You guys in or out?

I'm gonna be at the dairy. I'm getting to that machine and I'm fixing it. I hope whichever one of you bozos went in and blew it up is happy.

[Yeah, that's right. He said bozo. What're you gonna do about it, huh?]

[action, dairy]
[Once again, there is a Tyrannosaurus Rex on the loose in Mayfield.  This time, it pounds itself against the walls repeatedly, a desperate, kamikaze effort.  Beast Boy is not one to give in to his bestial urges.  There is nothing feral in this methodical battering except insofar as a man may be so enraged as to lose all that distinguishes him from an animal.

This will continue until he is droned.
Or... until after an hour has passed, when he slowly shrinks back into a skinny, green-skinned, pointy-eared kid, sinks to his knees and tries not to cry in pain, rage and despair.]

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[thebeastwithout]

[He glances up in surprise.]

...You're not just making that up to make me feel better, huh?

[Another pause.]

All of that kinda stuff... It's like it was playing by different rules. This place seems different, somehow.

But...

[He finally takes her hand to stand up.]

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. What's the point in giving up? It's all the same thing, anyway. If we're gonna lose, we're gonna lose while we're still fighting.

We're not superheroes 'cause it's easy or 'cause it's a lot of fun or 'cause someone buys us free mopeds. We're heroes because the world needs all the help it can get.

[sarcasmandbooks]

No. I'm not.

[Too serious for that. She helps him up. And there's a rare, small smile on her face.]

Exactly.

[thebeastwithout]

Right.

...OK, first things first. I'm kinda hungry from all of that; let's get pizza.

[sarcasmandbooks]

Sounds like a plan.

[thebeastwithout]

...I'll race ya there.

[sarcasmandbooks]

[She floats up in the air.]

Loser has to buy.

[thebeastwithout]

Hope you've got enough on you, 'cause I'm pretty hungry after all that banging.

[Teen Titans, go!]

[sarcasmandbooks]

[And they're off.]