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Happy B-day, dude!

[Double thumbs up!]

...B-day?

[He is four and what is this.

But more importantly...]

Why is your skin green?

Uh, birthday?

[Come on, wake up!]

And let's just say, don't eat the pizza in the caf.

The pizza turns your skin green?

[!!!!! He takes this completely seriously.]

Totally!

[...sorry]

Tastes good, though. Mm-mm!

But it turns your skin green!

[Maybe he was right to refuse to eat all this time oh no.]

Does the other food turn you colors too?

[He puts on a spooky voice.]

Nobody knows!

[Congratulations BB you stunned him speechless.

And he is genuinely upset and unable to figure out why this boy will not help him through this disaster.

His hands are tightening uncomfortably around the wrench in his hands.]

[He is starting to realize something isn't quite right here. Is this dude not right upstairs? No one's this gullible all on their own.]

Uh, dude? You okay?

[Jack chooses not to speak, and just shakes his head quietly. He is most definitely not okay.]

[He feels kinda bad, now.]

Hey, I was just messing with you! Chill, I've been green for years!

[He takes a while to consider this. And then puts on a brave, serious face.]

Is the food here safe?

Edited 2014-09-07 06:55 (UTC)

Yeah! Could use more vegetarian options, but it's not half bad.

....Okay.

[He slooowly releases his wrench.

Really, Beast Boy should have noticed something was up when he saw a grown man holding a monkey wrench like a safety blanket.]

[He ain't the quickest cheetah on the savannah!]

Sooo. What's your deal?

Deal...?

[Cue a long pause.

A very long pause.

Okay, looks like he's not responding. He's not sure what to say.]

Let's start with a name? I'm Beast Boy! You?

Jack.

[He hesitates briefly before saying it, trying to decided which name to give. And then after another pause he slowly opens up a bit more.]

That's what's on my passport.

[The way he said that...]

Do you have another name?

[After all, the name that Garfield has on his passport isn't the one he's gone by in years, except for among family and in extreme circumstances. Maybe Jack is the same?]

[Jack takes a big breath and gathers strength for this. Beast Boy has been relatively nice, so he's earned some honesty.]

My passport is forged... It says Jack Wynand on it. But I used to be Subject WYK. [He thinks for a bit.] I like Jack. But my last name is really Ryan... I think. That's my... father's last name.

[He is so uncomfortable talking about this. A voice in his head keeps insisting people he knows are dead will kill him for saying so much.]

Whoa.

[Wild mad scientist theories fly through his head. He opens his mouth to ask, then shuts it again. He might be insensitive sometimes, but he feels pretty bad now for teasing Jack earlier. If he spent the last 19 years in a tube or something, no wonder he's gullible.]

...Did you get a cake for your birthday?

[Beast Boy has never been great at expressing empathy, but literally everyone likes cake.]

I did in... The memories they gave me. Every year.

There weren't as many years in real life. I spent half of them chained to a bed with... With.... [He shakes his head.]

...Nevermind.

[Okay, this? This pisses him off. He's already adding Jack's abusers to his list of people who need to be shut down ASAP.]

Think you could find these guys again? Or tell me how?

[Because he might be in his first week of school and flying solo for the first time in years, but this is why he's a hero. To get people like that locked up. Who cares about this dumb school stuff if those guys are out there?]

They're dead. I killed one of them - the man who bought me. I wanted to kill him the most. One of them was killed by another experiment. One of them...

[He wilts.]

Tenenbaum got away, I think. She was trying to help me. She fixed a lot of mutants they made. I don't know what happened to her, exactly, but...

...Oh.

[Beast Boy is quickly learning that his ideas of what a killer looks like are way off base.]

You want to find her, someday?

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