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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[spinningorange]

(She's simply staring at the ground, tears dropping down on the street. Her words are filtered between sobs.)

I...I lost my friends by leaving them alone. I flew away to the sk-skies to save myself...I didn't p-p-protect them like I said I would...

(And here, she drops to her knees.)

It's all my fault...

[thebeastwithout]

[When a little girl is crying, it is hard to feel good about crying yourself. Beast Boy simply struggles for a few moments to control himself before turning his head away.]

Yeah?

Don't be too shook up about it. ...Nothing you coulda done, anyway.

[spinningorange]

(There's a difference between not trying and not being able to do anything, but Chen can't bring herself to explain it past her tears.

All she can manage to do at this point is hug Beast Boy's leg. She can't think of anything to say; her head is too filled up with confusion.)

[thebeastwithout]

This is kinda not leaving me alone.

[His voice drops to a dull mumble as he pulls away a little half-heartedly. All his harsh emotion has died away, and there is nothing to feel now but a dull sort of resignation.]

[spinningorange]

(Her tiny little grasp slips and she simply kneels there for the moment. Her head sinks down as she floats up, readying to fly away and give Beast Boy the space he's asking for.)

Will I at least see you later...? Friend?

[thebeastwithout]

[......He would facepalm a little if he weren't so tired. Beast Boy sighs instead.]

Yeah, sure.

Later.

See you around.

[spinningorange]

Mm.

(Chen wipes her eyes and nods slowly, flying off into the skies once more.)

[thebeastwithout]

[Beast Boy watches her float away silently. After she is nothing more than a black speck in the skies, he turns back to the dairy... Turns again, leans against the wall, and sinks to the ground with a sigh.]