[video]

[changelingdude]

[Beastboy flicks onto screen, he's on the street outside the newbie housing and it's late. He growls and sounds...harsh]

If anyone sees my fat coward of a partner tell me! She ran off bawling like a baby and wouldn't let me get the last word. I WILL have the last word. She needs to deal with the hard truth.

Comments

[video]

[for_granite]

No, because I'm your best friend I can tell you when you're being a jerk and an idiot! And I'm not great at being normal, I'm not great at being anything, stop trying to remind me!

Re: [video]

[changelingdude]

You're great at running away.

You're great at acting.

And you were really great at totally wrecking me in every single way.

[video]

[for_granite]

[Oh. No, each of those hurt. Her voice dribbles from a yell to almost a whimper, sudden, fast.] Not all of that was acting.

Re: [video]

[changelingdude]

Coulda fooled me with how fast you blamed me and bailed!

[video]

[for_granite]

Did you miss the part where you disowned me?! You wouldn't even let me explain! Why do you think I didn't want to tell you anything back home?!

Re: [video]

[changelingdude]

Because you were scared and ashamed and obviously WAY happier without me around to keep reminding you of how totally screwed up everything got!

[video]

[for_granite]

Because if you tried to talk me back into being a hero, I'd probably listen to you, jerk, and I'd just screw up and get everyone killed!

Re: [video]

[changelingdude]

Oh good so you're selfish ontop of being a chicken and a heartbreaker! Awesome. I feel SO much better about that!

[video]

[for_granite]

How do you see that as selfish?! Even though I am-- Where are you?! This is getting us nowhere!

[And she's already leaving her room, literally slamming the door on the way out.]

Re: [video]

[changelingdude]

I DON'T KNOW! I got so angry yelling things I don't even mean at this stupid girl I like that now I'm lost!

[video]

[for_granite]

Well, stop yelling and look for a landmark! [Out of the apartments, where is he, just listen for the yelling.] I don't like this either!

Re: [video]

[changelingdude]

It's dark...STUPID MOON! Don't you know I can't see in the dark anymore!?! Stupid eyes. stupid Digital World.

[there's a voice off screen. Someone shouting at him to shut up]

YOU SHUT UP! I'm ruining my life out here!!!

[he drops the D-terminal as whoever he was yelling at starts throwing balls of fire at him and the camera end up pointing down the street. Looks like he wandered into one of the housing districts. ]

[video]

[for_granite]

[Terra gasps, and she keeps an eye on the feed, listening for yelling, for fireballs, for all that...

She runs, trying to find him.] Hey! Hey, answer me, keep talking!

[Only way to tell where he is.]

Re: [video]

[changelingdude]

[sorry Terra, the shapeshifter you are trying to reach is no shouting things about this Digimon's mother. And if they are true she must be very popular at parties. The Digimon is responding in kind with more fire. And now more Digimon are getting into the action rolling up their windows to shout back at Beastboy, or throw things at him]

[video]

[for_granite]

[You know what's easy to find? A budding mob. The shouting leads Terra to the actual event, and she runs up to stand in front of him, holding out her hands to-- there is nothing you can do why do you try

Well. Stand there.]

Hey! Heeeeyyy, look, my friend here's just feeling a bit under the weather, 'm sorry for this, I'll take him off your hands, yeah?

Re: [video]

[changelingdude]

Where'd you come from?!

[The Digimon are still angry and one of them throws a rock. Beastboy shoves Terra out of the way to take the rock between the eyes and stumble back cursing like a sailor]

[action] IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ACTION FROM THE LAST TAG WHOOPS...

[for_granite]

[And that tears it. Her shock turns to anger and she clenches her fist, and if she could, she knows, knows a rumbling would start up.]

HEY! STOP THROWING THINGS, NOW! [She wishes she'd brought Gotsumon with her. A hand gropes behind her to try and steady Beastboy.] We get it, and we're sorry, and we're leaving, right now.

[Action~]

[changelingdude]

You're all losers!!

[hanging off her as his eyes cross and uncross]

I've seen scarier things in my fridge! I've seen tougher looking stuff getting thrown by numemon!

[Action]

[for_granite]

[AND SHE SLAPS A HAND OVER HIS MOUTH, GLARES AT HIM, AND STARTS TO DRAG HIM AWAY.

The mob's still on edge, but she's at least got enough of an opening to get him out of there, before he makes it even worse. ...Like he's already done.

Out of the corner of her mouth:] If you don't stop you're going to get us both killed.

Re: [Action]

[changelingdude]

[he makes some muffled protests and it's probably better that Terra can't make out what words he's saying. He doesn't resist though and lets her drag him away, going effectively limp. The mob grumbles and lets them pass, muttering rude things about humans]

[Action]

[for_granite]

[And you know, she doesn't stop dragging him until they're somewhere she recognizes, near Roaming Park. Then she pulls her hand away and starts looking at his forehead.] What the hell were you thinking? Antagonizing them that much, and then-- you didn't have to do that. [She's touching his forehead; obvious what she means. But she doesn't sound angry, just worried.]

Re: [Action]

[changelingdude]

Oh sure! Cuz it's SO easy for the princess to blame me! Just like last time.

[his face is twitching though and his angry eyes are starting to look horrified, he's going to have a great big goose egg where the rock hit]

[Action]

[for_granite]

I told you, don't call me that, I hate it, I hate what I used to be, what I still-- [She's able to cut herself off; she's realized that yeah, this thing, it has her too. But what she focuses on is his face.

Her hand's still at is forehead, brushing at it gently.]

...Can you understand what's going on? [She says it. Slow. Careful. Trying to control what she's saying.]

Re: [Action]

[changelingdude]

Yeah I understand what's going on her! Some blond bimbo who loves to stomp on my heart is being all sweet again right before she breaks me again!!!

[and he may have a voice full of venom but that rock must have knocked something loose because he's shaking his head no and flailing his arms in panic]

[Action]

[for_granite]

[And she understands what's going on. And sees that he's becoming more and more lucid too, but yet she grabs his shoulders, both of them.]

Listen to me, okay, I'd rather be stuck as a stupid rock for another bunch of months than do anything like that again, ever, 'cause you're the most important person in the world to me, in any world, and I need to stop saying this stuff so just look, if you don't speak you can't keep saying this stuff, okay?