A/N: I would like to mention that this will not be a romance story, and any intimacy you read is actually stimulated from friendship, not actual romance. You can interpret it how you wish, as long as you don't hound me with the fact that you don't understand "who is coupled with whom." There are no couples and there is no intended romance. Thanks for reading!

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Beast Boy's fist hovered over the pneumatic door, shaking slightly from anxiety. In his other hand he held a box in ribbons and a single rose. "Come on BB," he whispered. "Just knock." He could see the other gifts piled outside the door, each labelled "To Raven, Happy Valentines!" from each of the other Titans. Starfire had even written another note on heart-shaped card that said "From Silkie." Like Beast Boy, the other Titans had been far too scared to hand their gifts over personally.

The changeling could still clearly remember the day that Raven had lost control of her anger, the same day that he and Cyborg had accidentally transported themselves into Raven's very mind. He'd been sure that she hated him, and had been shocked to discover that she thought the same of him. Ever since, the changeling had felt terrible that he'd ever given Raven that idea. He was determined to show her that he cared for her, not just as a teammate, but as a best friend.

So now, he was going to bite the bullet and hand over his Valentines' present straight to her face, along with a smile and a classic, "Happy Valentine's Day!" He was going to show her that he really could care, even more than Starfire, who was usually all about gift-giving.

His arm began to ache; his fist had been hanging in the air for so long, an inch from Raven's door. "Come on," he hissed again to himself. His knuckles neared the metal, closer...closer...

BEEM. BEEM. BEEM. Inside, Beast Boy's heart dropped. The alarm. Of all the times it could have gone off!

Raven's door hissed open, and he was suddenly face-to-face with the dark girl. She scowled at him after her initial look of surprise. "What were you doing?" she asked suspiciously. Beast Boy hastily hid the present behind his back and waved nervously with his other hand, grinning stupidly.

"Er, just wanted to say...um..."

"Spit it out, Beast Boy." Her voice was harsh.

"Erm," he gulped visibly and cleared his throat. "I wanted to say...Happy Val-"

"Trouble!" called Robin, who had appeared in the hallway. Raven turned to him and closed her door behind her. Beast Boy sighed. So much for his heroics. As the other Titans began towards the garage, Beast Boy placed his gift beside Raven's door, opposite the others'. Maybe he could say it later...

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Raven was in a particularly bad mood. She'd hardly slept due to nightmares, and the other Titans noticed as she emanated more anger than usual on the drive to downtown, Jump City. There had been a scramble for the front seat – no one wanted to sit beside her in her mood. Eventually, Cyborg himself was the one to suffer as Raven sat beside him in the front seat. She sat with her arms folded and hood covering her eyes.

As the car sped across the bridge, Cyborg tried to make conversation. "So umm..." he glanced awkwardly at Raven, then at Robin in the back seat. "Who are we dealing with, again?"

Robin looked thoughtful as he speedily typed into the T-car's onboard computer. "Not quite sure, but his work looks familiar. At first glance, I'd say it was Mumbo, but Mumbo is too flashy, and he loves the attention. This guy is acting far too quietly."

"Maybe he's a copycat," Beast Boy grinned. "I bet he's just as weird."

"If it is, in fact, a he." said Robin quickly, noticing as Starfire glared at the changeling.

"What is it that makes you believe that this criminal is similar to Mumbo?" Starfire leaned over and peered into Robin's screen. "What has he or she-" she shot a look at Beast Boy. "-been doing?

"People are disappearing and then reappearing at ridiculous locations."

"Such as...?"

"Such as among the pins in the bowling alley, and inside drainpipes. There are also – strange as it is – ghost-like duplicates of normal people running wildly arou-Beast Boy, what's so funny?" The green boy had been giggling silently, now he burst into hysterics.

"Haha! Are you serious? Drainpipes! Oh man, haha that's crazy. And people are suddenly finding long lost twins? Wow, this is even better than Mumbo!"

"Shut up, Beast Boy," came a voice from the front. Everyone fell silent; Raven was speaking. "It's not funny. Unlike you, people can't transform when in trouble. I'd imagine being stuck in a drainpipe would be awfully painful."

"I know, I was just..."

"You were just shutting up," she snapped in an unforgiving tone. Beast Boy closed his mouth and looked down sadly. Robin gave him an awkward pat on the shoulder, but gasped as the car suddenly crashed into something solid, before skidding to a stop, the rear end swinging around in an arc. The momentum caused the door to fly open, and Beast Boy tumbled out, dazed. Robin fell out too, but rolled onto his feet quickly.

The T-car's front left-side had smashed into what appeared to be a large, translucent prism. It was made of clear glass, which may have been why Cyborg hadn't seen it. The glass hadn't even cracked from the impact; in fact it had barely moved across the ground, but the front of the T-car was completely totalled. As Starfire and Raven climbed out, shaken, Cyborg angrily pushed the wreckage away from the offending structure.

"You'd think they called it 'reinforced steel' for a reason," he growled. The prism was at least five metres tall and as wide as his entire bedroom.

"What is this thing?" called Beast Boy, as he walked around the giant prism, inspecting it. He peered at his reflection, which to his surprise appeared be standing on the other side of the glass. Not in the glass, like a mirror, but standing next to Robin on the other side of the prism. "Weird mirror," he mused.

"WHOA!" Cyborg turned to see Beast Boy grinning at him weirdly. Hadn't he just heard Beast Boy call from the other side of the giant prism a second ago? "What's with the stupid face, BB?"

He didn't answer, just continued to smile widely, showing all of his teeth. Then, to the Titans' astonishment, a second Beast Boy appeared from the other side of the prism.

In the stunned silence that followed, Raven moaned audibly. "That's all we need. Two idiots."

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Sorry for the strange beginning. It will get much better, I promise!