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"What kind of movie do you want to watch?" She was annoyed. Of course she was annoyed. It was Beast Boy.

"Don't care." Why did he have to be SO annoying? Nearly every other word out of his mouth was some stupid joke nobody was ever going to find funny or the plan for some stupid prank. And if he wasn't talking about that stuff he was trying to get her to show some emotion, or trying to include her in activities she really, really did not want to be included in. Like Stink Ball.

"How can you not care?" His voice grabbed her from her musings and she snapped her attention back to the mutant boy sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of her seat on the couch, an array of DVDs spread out around him.

"I don't care. Caring is not an option for me. How many times do I have to tell you? Now, if you'll excuse me.." Enough was enough. She didn't have to sit here and be annoyed. She could go find a different place to read her book, or mediatate, or..

"Raven, please..." And then there was that damn, annoying voice. That voice that pleaded with her to stay before the words even came. The voice that made her painfully aware of his past and his issues and his own little spot of darkness. That voice that was increasingly becoming something she could never refuse, but she didn refuse to acknowledge any sort of feeling for the boy.

"Please don't go. I don't want to be alone." There. Now, he'd done it. Damn him. Damn him and his ability to make the emoto-clones in her mind go beserk. She hated it. He would be alone if she left. Cyborg and Bumblebee were out on some sort of date (The entire city should know about it by now since he wouldn't shut up about it) and Starfire and Robin were off doing something coupley as well. They were the only two in the tower, and neither of them had any really outside friends that they could call. Sure they were friendly (Beast Boy more than Raven) with the other honorary members of the Titan-dom, but Raven only had so much room in her doom and gloom for other people. She wasn't quite sure why Beast Boy hadn't made better friends with other people or didn't have a girlfriend, but he didn't and she was all he had right now. She turned sideways and risked a peek over her shoulder. And there were the puppy-dog eyes. Literally. Resistance was futile now. Sighing she trekked the two feet back to her spot on the couch and plopped herself down unceremoniously. She tried to ignore the excited singing coming from inside her head from Happy and Affection when she saw the too big smile stretched across his too green face, revealing his fang.

"So, what kind of mo-"

"Raven. Beast Boy. Trouble in Alaska. Doctor Light again. Bring your coats." And then as abruptly as the dark screen had been filled with their leader, he was gone. Why he had felt the need to put himself on the screen and not just use thier communicators was beyond Raven.

"Why is there never a hello? Or a goodbye? Or anything? Who raised him? Batman, King of Smiles?" Quickly, a pale hand was brought up to her mouth to cover the giggle that was tugging at her lips at his wildly flailing limbs. The boy was at his funniest when he abandoned the jokes, but she didn't dare tell him that.

"Actually yes. Batman did raise him." She deadpanned and he turned around, a dumbfounded expression pulled his jaw down towards the floor. The giggle softly escaped and his smile returned, even wider than before if at all possible.

"Want a shortcut to your room?" Gratefully he nodded and jumped into the black hole she provided on the floor next to where he was sitting, landing on the floor of his room. Jumping up, he did a quick and uncoordinated victory dance as he replayed the sound of her laugh in his head. He loved to make her laugh. He craved it like he craved tofu dogs. There was just something about hearing that raspy sound that made him immensely happy. He supposed it probably had something to do with the major crush he had on her while he gathered his gear made for snow and ice. Slapping the purple heart he had taped to his door for good luck, he left his room. Mentally she cursed herself as she went into her own room and grabbed her fur-lined cloak. She hadn't meant to actually be nice to him. Together, they climbed into the T-car with Raven in shotgun and Beast Boy in the back. The ridiculous grin spread across his lips was still there causing Raven to huff and pull her hood up, preparing for the ride ahead of them.

"No. No, no, no, no, no, no , no, no. No! C'mon Beast Boy. You can't... No..." The girl in the blue cloak sat huddled and crouched around the green boy. A circle of friends surrounded the somber scene, fresh snow beginning to fall over the arctic landscape.

"Raven..." The Tamarian tried to approach her friend, but soon there was an inpenetrable black dome of energy seperating the sorceress from the alien.

"Robin!" The startled girl called out to her boyfriend uncertainly. She wasn't used to being completely shut off from her friends in this way.

"Leave her be, Star. Raven's got healing powers. If anyone's going to help him, it's her. I need help repairing Cyborg. His circuitry-"

"Is not built for this cold, I know. You told me, Robin."

It hadn't seemed like an altogetherly too difficult or life-threatening mission when they'd left the tower. It was only Doctor Light. And then it was Doctor Light and the High Five, and then a giant wall of white death was crashing down towards them. An avalance. Robin suspected the High Five of intentionally setting it off, but it had gotten out of control. Doctor Light and Mammoth had been both been buried along with all of the Teen Titans. Trapped in the Alaskan wilderness with Beast Boy unresponsive, Cyborg's systems shutting down, and their communications jammed. Life seemed pretty bleak outside of Raven's dome, but inside was worse.

"Beast Boy, please hang on. You idiot. You can't die on me. Not now." The changeling had saved everyone's lives, but he should've known better. He should've known not to morph with his mouth open while he was buried beneath the snow. He should've known to morph into something warmer if he was going to dig them all out. He should've known to wake her up so that she could help him. Or Starfire. Or Cyborg. Or anybody! Anybody would've been better just so long as he wasn't doing it all by himself. He just should've known, but he was an idiot. So now she was covering him with her cloak inside an energy dome to keep her friends out so that she could focus. Cyborg needed saving too anyways. She was pleading with an ice-cold, unconscious, stupid, stupid boy. Sniffling, from the cold or not she didn't know, she extended her hands over his body. Soon they were glowing white as she tried to heal him. Her energy and strength drained away while she focused slowly on the boy in front of her, as she grew indifferent to the time that passed.

"Raven, he's dead." She didn't answer her leader. His words were inconsequential. Beast Boy could simply not be dead. She wouldn't allow it. She'd defeated Trigon. She wasn't letting this stupid boy kill himself trying to save her. No. She refused.

"Raven, he has no pulse. You're spending all your energy on something worthless." Worthless? Beast Boy was not worthless. He'd saved all their lives. It didn't matter if she could hear the rawness in her leader's throat as he tried to hold back tears. It didn't matter that she knew he spoke the truth because even she couldn't reanimate a corpse, but Beast Boy wasn't dead and he certainly wasn't worthless!

"He is not worthless." She didn't break her spell to speak to the boy. She didn't stop looking at her teammate and so she missed the completely stunned look on her leader's face as he realized the error in his words.

"Raven, I didn't mean..."

"He's not worthless and he's not dead!" The dark-haired boy in the mask was suddenly and unceremoniously flung backwards away from the girl.

"Raven.." The normally loud girl was now speaking in a soft and gentle voice. A talent she so rarely used outside of speaking to Robin.

"No! Leave. I won't give up on him." Her normal monotone was slowly crumbling away. Since when had she felt this strongly about Beast Boy? She'd known she'd been growing more and more fond of the idiotic prankster, but this? This was an emotion beyond her. An emotion she very rarely felt and she didn't know how to deal with it. It was breaking the calm plaster that was her face.

"Do you love him?" Raven stopped. Raven stopped breathing and thinking, but she didn't stop healing. "Your powers are controlled by emotions like mine, yes? I do not know an emotion more powerful than love." She heard the other girl's footsteps as she crunched away through the snow. Love? It took a moment for the words to completely register within Raven, and it took another moment for her to gather the courage to venture into her mind to consult the emotion. It wasn't necesarily a lengthy conversation.

Do I?

Yes.

Beast Boy?

Yes.

How long have I..?

A long, long time. Now, save him please. I do not wish to die without ever having been expressed.

The Raven in the white cloak turned away and Raven was back in Alaska, kneeling next to Beast Boy, her arms cramped and sore from being held aloft for so long. Could this work? Well, there was only one way to find out.

"Raven, he was my best friend, but I think we need to-" She didn't even both to let him finish his sentence.

"Back. Up." It came out as a growl and her friends knew better than to not do as she said. When she tried to stand, her muscles refused and she fell back down to the cold, hard, unforgiving ice. Robin had to hold Starfire back as Raven struggled to her feet once more, joints and bones creaking and groaning in protest.

"Azarath. Metrion. ZINTHOS!" Her team was amazed as a pure white light blazed forth from Raven, illuminating her in beautiful light. They went slack-jawed as they saw a familiar shape in a non-familiar color rise up from behind their friend, and they had to shield their eyes from the intensity of the light as the white raven covered Beast Boy's body with its wings. Robin only dared to open his eyes when he heard the all too familiar sound of a body falling down to the ground and he found Raven lying face down on top of Beast Boy. Immediately he was by their sides, checking for pulses on both of their bodies. Star was waiting patiently nearby and Cyborg hadn't moved, waiting with baited breath.

"He's... They're both.. alive." They sat in shocked silence as the news broke through, but the silence was short lived.

"Robin!" He turned and saw Jinx on the back of Kid Flash as they appeared on the scene. Happily, she jumped off and pulled her communicator out, speaking into it.

"We found them! We found them all!"