Teen Titans Fan Fiction ❯ Vindicated ❯ Worry Me ( Chapter 11 )

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Vindicated

Chapter 11

 

I must have been training for hours, because I was tired and hungry. Sure enough when I walked into the kitchen the clock said 9:30 pm. I can't believe I had been training for more than twelve hours straight. I had completely forgotten about Em and I started to make a huge meal. Like I said, I was hungry. I made the biggest tofu sandwich on the face of the planet. It was a quadruple decker with pickles, tomatoes, and lettuce in between the slices of whole wheat bread. I'm gonna be shittin bricks tomorrow. Lol.

 

The training had only been semi-successful and I have not completely mastered the technique, but I was well on my way. It wouldn't be much longer now. I only needed to figure out how to fully command it. The transformation, by nature, depends on unstable DNA in order to change into another animal. In order to make only a half transformation I have to try to isolate certain strands of DNA, while leaving others in tact. It is a difficult task seeing as how I am not a science wiz. HAHAHAHAHHA!!! I said wiz. That is hilarious.

 

After I had my laugh I started to chow down. It didn't take me more then two minutes before I finished the sandwich and I then went to the control room to check the security systems. Everything seemed operational and there was nothing serious to report on the police band. I guess our baddie is just taking the day off. Not that I'm complaining or anything. I'm tired too. I checked the cameras and saw that Em was still in the med lab. She was simply staring at the floor as if she was dying or something.

 

I turn over to the computer and begin to do some investigation. I look up “depression” in the medical search engine and find several entries. In fact, I found several million entries. I decide that I would have to narrow it down a bit, so I add the words “teen”, “sex”, and “female” into the search engine and get a MUCH narrower list of entries. I pick a few that look good and see that for many teenage females, after they have sex for the first time they can fall into a depressive state. It is very normal and they simply need reinforcement that it was a good decision. If a teenage girl becomes depressed, she probably thinks that the male will no longer want her and will leave her. Or she feels that she is a slut and should have waited longer or something like that.

 

I let the information sink in and also take a look at some of the monitors that are in the med lab. I could be wrong but it looks like its saying she has a small abnormality in her blood system. I keep reading different entries but can find no where that a depressive state can lead to blood abnormalities. I wonder if she had thee before. I suddenly remember that the computer was running a DNA analysis of her hair. That should provide enough DNA to compare to her blood system so I have some DNA from before last night. I download her analyzed DNA strand from the science lab and her blood sample from the med lab. After an hour of work I discover that she did not have anything wrong with her except an unstable DNA structure like mine a few days ago. I can't imagine why her DNA would be unstable, but that isn't what is important right now. I have to get a better analysis of her blood to figure out what is in it.

 

I start thinking of ways that I can get to her without her knowing, but can't come up with any ways to get a blood sample without her knowledge. I decide that the best course of action would be to get her some flowers to make her feel better and maybe the problem would go away by itself.

 

I fly to downtown where I see a flower stand and pick up a bouquet of lilacs (side note - I like lilacs, my personal favorite flower. -author) and make dash back home. I also cook up something nice for her and make my way up to the med lab. She is sitting there on the examination table and she looks dull and lifeless. She doesn't even turn to see me walk in.

 

“Em, I brought you something.” I set the food down and hand the flowers to her. She just throws them in the trash and knocks the food over. “That's it Em, I have had enough!!! I am trying my hardest to help you, but you have to let me in and tell what is bothering you. Em, I care about you and it hurts me to see you like this.”

 

She just turned and looked in my eyes. “You want to know what is wrong with me? Well, how's about the fact that you care less about me and more about my pussy. I know guys like you. You'll do anything to get to my pussy like saying things like `I love you' or getting stupid flowers. You don't care about what you just did to me do you?”

 

“What on earth are you talking about?”

 

“You're not the only one who knows how to read a computer screen.”

 

She points over at the set of computers that line the wall and I go over and sit down at one of them. I can see that she had been working here the entire time that I had been training. She had a screen that looked like a complete analysis of her blood taken earlier today. On the next screen she had an analysis of the abnormal component in it. It was a disease, and it was breaking down her already unstable DNA. At the rate that it appeared to be growing, she didn't have much time left before she would be unable to sustain her own organ's regeneration. The breakdown would overtake her body and she would die shortly.

 

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The woman who I loved so greatly was going to leave me in a flash. My eyes were beginning to tear up when I looked over at the next screen and my entire body went into shock. The disease in her body was simply a mutated form of the disease that gave me my shape shifting power. It had mutated so that it could be transmitted sexually. I could not believe my eyes. I killed my love. I didn't wear a condom. I am the monster here. My god. What have I done?

 

The rest of the night we spent holding each other in tears. Neither of us said a word to each other and we just collapsed into each others arms.

 

The next day I regained my senses. I gave up looking for the bad guy performing all of those crimes and to work trying to find a way to stabilize the disease. I decided that the best course of action would be to figure out how much time I had until it would be too late. I took a few more blood samples and got immediately to work.

 

The results did not look good. The disease's rate of replication was growing exponentially, so that meant that it was getting faster at getting faster. I can't believe it. I only had 36 hours left. She would be dead by sunset tomorrow.

 

The med lab was of no use. There appeared to be no way to cure that disease. I couldn't even find some sort of treatment that would stabilize it. There is no way I can save her. It's funny almost. I can save all of those people that I don't know and don't love anywhere near as much as her, but when it comes to the one person that I really care about she is so far out of my reach that she is only a dot on the horizon at dusk.

 

It's getting late and neither of us has eaten. I take her downstairs and we eat a large meal in complete silence. I haven't told her that I can't save her but she knows already. She knows.

 

Suddenly, the proximity alarm goes off. I run into the control room and see that riots have broken out all over the city. I can't believe that now of all times my city needs me. Em walks up from behind me and puts her hand on my shoulder.

 

“It's ok BB. I know that you can't save me. You can save them though. Just go.”

 

I look in her eyes and she doesn't have any life in them. The have grown listless and dead. I get up and walk outside. The riot is happening downtown so I race over in that direction. It doesn't take too long to deal with all of the rival gang members. The toughest part was taking out Johnny Rancid all by my self. I just imagined that it was his fault that Em was dying, and I tore him apart. Deep down though, I knew that I killed Em.

 

I even managed to use my new half transformation skill which I thought was amazing. I headed home as fast as possible. I didn't want to miss a moment with Em. It was almost nightfall. When I walked in she was eating and drinking incredible amounts of food. I guess her body breaking down was really taking the energy out of her. I sat down and joined in the eating fest. We popped Super Samurai Transformer Ghosts 3 in the DVD player and just sat there watching movies and pigging out. We fell asleep on the couch and in love. I love the smell of her hair. It was lavender.

 

We both woke up to the sound of the proximity alarm going off. I couldn't imagine what it could be and I ran to the control room. All of the security systems were disabled. I guess I lucked out when I decided to install the proximity alert on its own internal system. Em and I ran to the front door and opened it up I growled at the sight that stood in front of me. It was the one thing I didn't want to see right now. I just wanted to stay with Em and not miss an instant, now that couldn't happen.

 

For there standing in front of my doorstep, were the Teen Titans.

 

 

 

Author's note: Don't forget to tune in next time for the battle of the century. By the way, don't forget to review. I can't improve my writing without constructive criticism. See ya next time in “Vindicated Ch 12”