Behind Cheshire&#x27;s Mask

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"Jaaaaaade," Speedy called from his spot on the sofa. "Lian just pooped on me," Roy whined as he gingerly removed the toddler from his lap and held her at arm’s distance in front of him. "Well, not on me, it was in a diaper, but she was sitting on me… Just… Just come here and help me!” he demanded.

"Good girl, Lian." Jade smiled as she took the child into her arms, running a hand through her hair. "Maybe later you can do it on him, forget the diaper. Go cammando." She said this all in a loving, mommy-esque tone. "Alright, Roy, get the wipes and a clean diaper." She pulled her Cheshire mask on. "I don't want to smell this."

Cheshire just narrowed her eyes in anger. “You fucked Aqualad’s emotionally unstable girlfriend?” She yelled, at first slamming her fists in a sort of threatening manner in the air. “You know what? No. I’m not going to be jealous and catty. No pun fucking intended. I’m going to let this go until Lian can walk so I can break your shins and she can teach you how to walk. Daddy.”

Speedy cringed and prepared for the pain that was bound to be inflicted on him. Amazingly, nothing was injured. If he hadn’t been so concerned for his well being, Roy would have found Jade’s reaction amusing (and perhaps even kind of… cute). He did feel guilty about not filling Cheshire in, but he had put what had occurred in the past and for the most part, it was like it had never happened. “I’m sorry Jade, I mean you do have a right to be mad, but can you…. calm down?” He hoped his words wouldn’t further anger her.

"Since you asked." She said, bitterness dripping from her tone. "I would give you a rant about loyalty. I would give you a rant about your blatent disrespect of three people, but I've already got a punishment for you. It calls you daddy."

"Roy. You know me. You know me very personally. You know what I’ve done. What I do. Do I ever withold information vital to our current well being? No. Since I expect you to have the basic common sense to not piss off a hormonal teen mom assassin."

"Uh, of course you wouldn’t. Which is why I’m telling you this. Well, uh, once upon a time, way back, like right before I found out you were pregnant, me and Terra… Me and Terra had this thing where we, well, did things that I’m not proud of. Can you, uh, use your imagination for that part?"

Cheshire just narrowed her eyes in anger. "You fucked Aqualad's emotionally unstable girlfriend?" She yelled, at first slamming her fists in a sort of threatening manner in the air. "You know what? No. I'm not going to be jealous and catty. No pun fucking intended. I'm going to let this go until Lian can walk so I can break your shins and she can teach you how to walk. Daddy."

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"Uh, I mean, ahaha, you know I’m a joker Jade, I’m just kidding around, you know I’d never, ever hide anything from you… Yeah, uh, I was going to tell you, uh definitely. In fact, I was just on my way to inform you on all of my life when you went on about boob-feeding… Yeah that’s it, how dare you accuse me of withholding information."

"Roy. You know me. You know me very personally. You know what I've done. What I do. Do I ever withold information vital to our current well being? No. Since I expect you to have the basic common sense to not piss off a hormonal teen mom assassin."

"Uhhhh... did I say something about the past? Don't listen to me, I can't even remember what I had for breakfast. Besides, time is relative. Einstein said that. Yup. Uh, just forget anything I've said in this conversation."

"Scrambled eggs on toast because the eggs have protein and protein helps with your hair. The same thing you've been having. Roy Harper I will break a comb in your ass if you chicken out of anything right now."

ROY—!

If Terra is going to get squeemish each time I wip out a tit to feed this thing, there’s going to be a problem with me staying here.

"Hey now, are you sure it’s Terra gettin’ all grossed out? I mean, she’s pretty disgusting herself with her practically rolling around in dirt and her food combo stuff and whatnot. Also, human anatomy never really seemed to weird her out that much, at least not when we had our little thing way back when."

"It sure isn't Aqualad. Or Mas or Menos. I mean, your Bumblebee walks around in a belly shirt, but the sight of a nipple and everyone goes up in arms." She paused. "Your little thing way back when?"

#arrowsaremything #yes #perfect

ROY—!

If Terra is going to get squeemish each time I wip out a tit to feed this thing, there's going to be a problem with me staying here.

Stranded - Team 3

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For a moment, it didn’t seem like anything was terribly amiss. Beast Boy was… well, okay, he didn’t exactly hold a candle to the most brilliant intellectuals of their time usually. But this was… a whole new level of stupid, and would be worrying if she hadn’t been annoyed at the idiocy of it all.

Raising her eyebrows, Raven’s snide comment was seconds away from her tongue when Beast Boy swayed violently beside her, and after hitting himself, reached out her arm to grab his upper arm, steadying him perhaps a little more sternly than she needed to.

It certainly seemed easy for Cheshire to just stride away, but Raven wasn’t having any of the assassin’s bad temper right now. Expression sliding into more resembling a glare than a neutral stare, Raven listened to the other woman in full before speaking up, tone dripping with annoyance.

"Agreed, but we’re not going anywhere quickly right now.” She replied, gaze pointedly moving to Beast Boy. "Just hold on for a second."

Looking her teammate over with a glare as she gave it some thought, she had forgotten just how hard Beast Boy had hit the barrier above them. Perhaps it was just because he seemed so hard-headed the majority of the time, but the idea that he could be seriously hurt hadn’t managed to cross her mind until now. Breathing deeply, Raven raised her other hand, drawing on her strength to find her healing abilities and call them to her hand…

And coming up blank. Immediately clamping down on the panic and dread that was rising as the reality of her being unable to heal sunk in, Raven closed her hand in a fist as she lowered it to her side, still holding onto Beast Boy. "Looks like I can’t help you right now. Just hold on for a bit, alright?" She muttered, snapping at her teammate.

"Best I can tell, the nearest person is just a few minute’s walk that way." She mentioned, pointing beyond Cheshire into the slightly forested area. Raven couldn’t tell exactly who it was - or whether they were friendly, but she knew no matter what, they were at a significant disadvantage right now. The headcount: A concussed Beast Boy, an assassin with questionable loyalties, and herself with her own weakened powers. No, her mood was not about to be the most chipper, and she could really appreciate some good news right about now.

Beast Boy wavered slightly, looking up at Raven with a dopey smile. “Alright, Raveeeen. We’re gonna go fight the bad guys, let’s— let’s do thiiiis. Yeah.”

He’s never been the smartest, but now was probably one of his worse moments. The changeling looked around at the— Was it foggy before? Whatever— area, taking in his surroundings… And promptly let go of Raven to go exploring. This was an adventure, after all! He’d have to be the big, brave, Indiana Jones character, ready to swoop in and save everyone at not a moment’s delay.

Of course, his headache worsened with every step, a fault he ignored at first, until he nearly walked into a palm tree.

"Oop— My bad," He said under his breath, patting the tree’s bark like he’d bumped into a person. “Your… your face feels funny. Anyhows, onward with our expediti… Exped… Er… Wait, there’s somethin’ o’er heeeeere!”

Now, if Beast Boy were in a right state of mind, he’d probably have a very loud and obnoxious freak out at this point, involving a lot of screeeching and quite a few slaps to the head from Raven for being so loud. Instead—

"Look at the shiny thing, Cheshy," he murmured, rubbing a gloved hand over an unconscious Cyborg’s kneecap.

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Immediately she regretted not letting Beast Boy drown. Or getting eaten.

"Alright, Raveen, let's do this." She muttered under her breath, following both Raven and the seemingly brain dead changling. She sighed with each word he said, marking the tree he had fondled just in case they somehow went in a circle. She made a note of her surroundings when

Don't kill him. Was her first thought. Put up with the concussion for Lian, just, "Call me Cheshire or don't talk to me. It's a simple choice." Was all the assassin said at first, tucking her silver claws back into the fabric of her sleeves. "Yes, Beast Boy, shiny thing at 9 o'clock." Taking a step forward, she did indeed see the shiny object in question.

"Wait a second." She muttered, leaning closer. "No, Beast Boy, that's not a shiny thing..." Raising one leg, she put her heel on the Titan's chest. "It's your teammate."

"I know. I saw. No need to fret."

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“Hm.. “

“Creepy mask.”

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"We can't all be models, honey."

Stranded - Team 3

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Widening her eyes for a second as her expression remained neutral, Raven cast a quick, cursory look over her teammate to be sure he wasn’t harmed before rising again. At the very least, they had a little more information now than they’d had when they’d started - there was something keeping them in.

And that meant that someone had put them in. Her thoughts must’ve been weighing on her features, as she felt her face drawn into a frown as her eyes narrowed, but she turned to Cheshire as the assassin spoke up, her mood only growing worse with the passing moments.

"It’s not aliens." Raven finally snapped, wondering just why she’d had the misfortune of being landed with the pair that thought extraterrestrial beings were a valid concern right now.

"I can’t tell exactly who it is, but there are a lot of them." The empath folded her arms across her chest, trying to see just how far her vision could decipher what was on the island from their current vantage point.

"We should try and figure out who else is here. Either they’re also trapped, or they can give us answers. But staying here is pointless."

{So much for that idea. Beast Boy sat up and rubbed his forehead again; yeah, whatever was keeping them in did a number on his head, he felt the bruise coming already. Raven continued talking and he nodded once, twice, thrice— why couldn’t he stop nodding. Beast Boy grabbed his head, blinking sluggishly.}

"Well, whoever these dudes are, I’m gonna— I’m gonna hit ‘em. Hard. With my foot."

{What an intelligent sentence. Wow. The changeling stood up and swayed back and forth involuntarily, putting both fists in front of his face and managing to hit his nose.}

"Jus’ watch me, man. It’s going to be super inteeeense.

{He looked to Raven with a wide grin, eyes half-lidded.}

"We needa’ find these people, Rae! We gotta find out where we… Where we are."

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"You mean kick them." Jade sighed, before walking a bit. Her boots made a subtle imprint on the wet sand, yet no sound as she walked. Past Beast Boy, past Raven, and finally glaring at the distance.

I need my daughter back. Was all she could think, but she said something else. "If there are other people on this island, we should find them. Put your sexual tension aside, you two." She glared back for a moment.

"We all have a common goal. Finding out where we are. And then using that information, which I intend to do. Therefore, I say we go with Raven's instincts. And yes, it is a we thing, now, since I saved your green butt from turning into a shark's next Happy Meal."

Stranded - Team 3

There was a light… A very small light, something was blocking the way. Beast Boy tried to raise a hand to push the shadow out of the way, but all he could see was… Green? A little white? Was this an out of body experience? Could he see himself?

"Listen to me you big green anthropomorphic booger, if you need mouth to mouth, I will drown myself again."

Nope, never mind.

"I’m awake, I’m awake!— Ugh…" Beast Boy tried to sit up but his senses were overwhelmed by a throbbing in his head, and he brought up a hand to rub a finger to his temple. Eesh, that was a fall. What the heck happened? He opened his eyes slowly, trying to ignore the pulsing behind his face. The first thing he saw (after Cheshire’s nightmare-inducing mask, at least) was Raven, and the very small smile thrown his way. He tried to return it but had a feeling it was more of a grimace. Oops.

"We’re… We’re not alone?" He repeated the statement slowly, his mouth working at a lesser speed than usual. The hit to his head didn’t usually hurt this much, and he tried to wonder why, but wondering made him wince.

"Whuh… Is it aliens?”

Thinking was, after all, a dangerous pastime, especially for possibly concussed and usually not very bright changelings.

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Everyone was alive, there was a big thing above them, and Cheshire was still angry. Two out of three things were new. She held herself since she couldn't hold her daughter and turned away from the Titans, festering in anger.

"I need to get off this island." She said at last. "If it's aliens, I will kill them, steal their magic space shuttle and leave. And no, Beast Boy, you cannot ride shotgun." The assassin sneered.

"We're not alone. It's either more deserted people, or the bad guys." Apparently she took an open position for self appointed leader, since everyone else seem incompetent. In her masked eyes, anyway.

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Honestly, if Cheshire hadn’t started threatening Beast Boy, Raven would have. The indigo Titan was pulled away from her musing on what the assassin had been about to reveal by the sudden appearance of a threat - and at once, Raven’s body tensed up with the shot of adrenalin. To reflect, it hadn’t even been that large of a threat - just a reminder that Cheshire was armed and didn’t have a track record of working for the good guys, but Raven was taking no chances.

She didn’t miss how sluggish her body was to respond to the threat, but outwardly, there was only a slight delay between the light glinting off of her claws and Raven’s powers surrounding her clenched fists. Maybe she was being hyper-sensitive, but they were on a strange island with no explanation, with people she didn’t entirely trust, no telling how they got there and no telling how they’d get back. She wanted answers, and she wanted her team back, and she wanted them now.

And she was about to voice her concerns along those lines when Cheshire did for her. Blinking in confusion as her expression was frozen in one of distrust, she let the words sink in before straightening up, slowly, and let her powers fade from her fingertips.

"Agreed." She felt no need to mention that she would personally be sure that the right heads would roll, and she certainly wasn’t thrilled with the language matching Cheshire’s weapons, but she’d let it slide. Not about to disclose her own feelings of sluggishness, Raven would rather wait to see if it was a unique symptom just to her - instead, taking a look around, she noticed the sky.

"Anyone want an aerial view?" She said, pointing upwards to the sky. It’d help to get a bearing on where they were, and she wasn’t exactly volunteering… but if it came down to it, her powers of flight would help get answers fast.

Well, that was disconcerting. Beast Boy stepped back from Cheshire and cautiously glanced at the very (very very) sharp looking claws she wielded with wide eyes, silently thanking Raven for stepping forward when she did.

"Yeah, uh, good idea—" Beast Boy followed the empath’s finger and stared upwards at the sky, squinting against the harsh sunlight."Hm…"

He glanced back to Raven and noticed she wasn’t exactly jumping up at the idea. On another note, she seemed… Slower? Something was off.

"Hey, I’ll do it!" Now that he thought about it, he seemed a little lightheaded too. But he couldn’t back out now, he’d look dumb and Cheshire might slice him into next week’s lunch if he messed around. Beast Boy gave the two girls a salute and switchesdinto a bird, taking off into the sky, feeling better as the wind ruffled his feathers and he soared up and up and— —

THWACK.

— — and down and down he came after a rather nasty hit to the head on something he didn’t realize was even there. What the heck smacked him in the head? It felt like glass and metal and darn, the water was coming up really fast…

Splosh!

Ooh, that’s gotta hurt.