No, I don't own the Teen Titans. If I did, I wouldn't be writing Fanfiction, would I?
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Raven was sitting at the bed of a dark lake, her purple cloak wrapped tightly around her. Her hood was down and she actually had a wide smile on her face. Shadows lingered over her face and she twirled a dead leaf on the still water. Like anyone who knew Raven, Beast Boy was worried. He approached the humming girl cautiously, as if she were about to turn around and attack him.
"Raven…Is that you?" She didn't reply. She continued to hum and happily splashed the water with her bare toes. She giggled as If that was the most fascinating thing in the world and clapped. Finally, she turned around to Beast Boy. There was still a pleasant smile on her face and she had a white lily in her dark purple hair.
"Of course, silly! Don't you know? I -"
"BEAST BOY! WAKE UP!" Raven screamed, throwing a pillow at the snoozing Titan. He jolted upright and rubbed his throbbing head. Raven was seething angrily next to him, her hair ruffled. It wasn't exactly how he pictured to wake up with Raven, but it'll do. Raven smoothed out her hair and glared at Beast Boy.
"What? What did I do?" Beast Boy said, shielding himself from Raven. He scanned the room and found that his desk was overturned, his clothes were all on the ground and his boxers were clinging to Raven's cloak. He blushed and rubbed his head, smiling cheekily. Raven rolled her eyes and peeled his underwear from her cloak.
"You. That's what happened. Come on, we're going to the grocery store with Cyborg." Raven said. She dragged Beast Boy from his bed and led the confused Titan to the living room, where Cyborg was pacing around. He had a blue duffle bag in his hand and he nervously looked at Raven, as if she might bite his head off.
"Why do you have a duffle bag?" Raven asked, panic in her voice. She really hoped Cyborg wasn't ditching them again for Titans East. The only reason he was there was because of Bumblebee anyway. It's not like they needed help with anything. Raven let go of Beast Boy's sleeve and floated near Cyborg. His eyes widened and he took a slight step back, worried about what the angry empathy was about to do.
"Titans East needs my help. I'm going there and I'll be back tomorrow." He said. Raven's eyes widened and she grabbed Cyborg by the shoulders. Leave it to Titans East to not be able to fight a simple villain. Amateurs.
"WHAT? You're leaving me here with him!" Raven whispered the last part and jabbed her finger at Beast Boy, who was picking his ear with a bored expression on his green face. Cyborg took Raven's hands off his shoulders.
"You'll be fine Rae. And I'll be back tomorrow." He said. Raven sighed and frowned.
"Fine. But you owe me one."
"Got it! See y'all later!" Cyborg said, patting Raven on the head. She growled and then turned back to Beast Boy, who still looked clueless as ever.
This is it Raven, no one's here but you and Beast Boy
Knowledge? When did you get involved with this? Was it Happy? I'm so gonna kill that emotion!
What? I've been bored. Happy tells great stories.
"Grab my hand." Raven sighed.
"Wh- Why do I-" The pair was engulfed in blackness before Beast Boy could continue talking. In a split second they appeared in front of a super market, a horrified expression on Beast Boy's face.
"So…many…horrors." Raven rolled her eyes and pulled Beast Boy through the doors of the market, showing a shopping cart at him.
"Now, make yourself useful, and push the cart." She said, he hand on her forehead. People had already began to stare at the odd pair, whispering amongst themselves. She could feel the crowds' fear, and excitement at the same time. She was perfectly used to it.
"We can hear you." Raven said darkly, to the crowd of people. They immediately dispersed and Raven growled.
"Jeez, Rae, calm down!" Beast Boy said, waving at the people who'd left in a frenzy. They looked at him with prettified expressions and he looked, confused, at Raven. She sighed, and slapped her hand on her forehead.
"They're not used to seeing a green person just stroll into the super market and wave at them." Raven explained, levitating milk and eggs into the cart. Beast Boy's ears drooped and Raven winced, feeling the sadness radiating from him. That was one of the most difficult things about being an empathy and being near people; whatever they felt, she felt too. Even if she didn't want to.
"OHHH! RAVEN! I WANT THIS!" Beast Boy said suddenly, grabbing a box of cereal, cookies and gummy bears. Raven rolled her eyes and glared at the child like changeling.
"No. We're here to get things to make actual food with. Not junk food." Raven said. Beast Boy morphed into a small puppy and looked at Raven with sad, innocent eyes. She sighed and looked away from Beast Boy. Affection was right, he was too much to just look away from.
Ha! I knew you'd admit it!
"Alright. Fine. Just stop giving me those eyes. And you only get one of those." Raven growled. Beast Boy looked at the junk food as if he was about to make a life changing decision about which family member he should kill, and which family member he shouldn't. Raven rolled her violet eyes and Beast Boy hugged the box of cookies. Typical Beast Boy.
"If it isn't 2/5ths of the Teen Titans!" an annoyingly familiar voice said. A brunette woman wearing navy blue pantsuit smiled a fake smiled a the two and Raven frowned. She was Trisha Norman, a.k.a an annoying news reported who just adored documenting the Titans. She quickly grabbed a notepad from her leather purse and a red pen from behind her ear.
"So, what're you two doing here? Shopping for a date?" Beast Boy's jaw dropped and Raven blushed, angrily glaring at the reporter.
"NO! We are shopping for food for the Tower! That's all!" Raven said. Trisha jotted something down quickly and inched closer to Raven.
"Are you sure?" she said, winking. This time, Raven's jaw dropped. Suddenly, a box of cereal in Beast Boy's hands exploded and Raven sighed.
"I guess you are getting your cereal after all, Beast Boy."
"WOOHOO!" He said, fist pumping in the air.
(…*)
"Hey Raven, are you-"
"Can't talk now. Busy." Raven said quickly, rushing to her room. Beast Boy shrugged and went back to his Gamestation. Raven threw the around her blankets until she found her meditation mirror underneath her pillow. She took a deep breath in an nodded, as if assuring herself that everything would go back to normal when she came back from her mind.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." She muttered. Raven was suddenly whisked into the mirror, a blur of red and black flashing around her. She landed on the cracked gray ground, expecting to see a riot of colorful emotions nearby. Instead, she found that she was all alone and that her emotions had apparently gone elsewhere. Groaning, the empathy picked herself up the ground and flew in any general direction, looking for a least of glimpse of Happy's cloak. Wow. Actually wanting to see Happy? This was getting way to weird for Raven.
Suddenly she heard the same yelling she heard before and saw Knowledge trying to calm everyone down. But it wasn't working. Hell, even Serenity was arguing! Instead of telling everyone to just shut up, Raven flew directly to Knowledge, who had a flustered looked on her face. When she saw Raven, she slid her glasses up and took a deep breath.
"As you can see, your emotions are in complete turmoil."
"No duh. Now what is going on!" Raven said, as Knowledge led her through the crowd of arguing Ravens.
"Well, it all has to do with-"
Raven felt herself being pulled away from Knowledge and screamed as she was pulled through the blur of red and black. Her hair was disheveled and she looked even more pale than usual. There was a loud knocking at the door and Raven glared at the steel door. Leave it to Beast Boy to interrupt her just when she was about to learn what the hell was going on.
"Uh, Raven, we have a problem." Beast Boy said. Raven slid the door open to find a worried looking Beast Boy, twiddling his fingers.
"What now?"
"Well, there's, uh…there's a girl in front of the Tower." Beast Boy stammered.
"What? Is she alive?"
"Well she looked pretty dead with me, but you're pretty good with death and stuff so I thought I'd ask you!" Beast Boy said, panicking.
"Gee, thanks." She replied sarcastically. She disappeared behind a veil of darkness and Beast Boy sighed. Raven seemed distressed when she answered the door, like she just discovered something. He couldn't help but wonder if Raven was harboring a secret. Shrugging, the green changeling morphed into an eagle and followed Raven downstairs.
(*…*)
In front of the T Tower was a limp girl. She had tan skin and fiery red hair, the ends bleached white. There were scars carved into her skin and she looked bruised and malnourished. To say the least, this girl was on the brink of death.
"OH MY SHIT!" Beast Boy screamed, gasping at the dead looking girl lying in front of him. Raven rolled her eyes.
"Calm down. She's not dead. Now grab her legs." Raven said, picking the girl up by her arms. Beast Boy shuddered, but picked up her legs nonetheless. The three of them were absorbed in darkness and they reappeared in the infirmary. Beast Boy shuddered again and dropped the girl on the bed.
"I will never get used to that."
"Good, I didn't ask you to." Raven said coldly. She pulled out her communicator and called Cyborg. The girl was still motionless, and her breathing was shallow, but she was alive and that's all that mattered at the moment.
"Hey Rae! What's shakin?" Cyborg said with a light laugh.
"I see you defeated that villain." Raven said dryly. Cyborg's smile faded and Raven smirked.
"Anyway, we found a girl in front of the Tower. She's in bad condition. Any chance of you coming home right now?"
"Uh, no can do Rae-Rae,"
"Don't call me that." Raven said through gritted teeth.
"There's a snowstorm here in New York. I probably won't be back til late tomorrow." Raven groaned and looked at Beast Boy, who was poking the girl in the side. She rolled her eye and turned back to her communicator.
"Well, what should I do with this?" She said, showing Cyborg the body. He made a disgusted face before recomposing himself.
"Well first-" Suddenly the communicator turned went static and Raven sighed.
"I'll guess I'll just have to heal you myself." She muttered. Raven closed her eyes and chanted her mantra while beast Boy looked on curiously. Raven opened one violet eye and narrowed it at Beast Boy.
"What are you doing?
"Watching you?" he replied contently.
"Why?" Raven said, losing focus completely. Beast Boy shrugged and smiled happily at Raven. Unbeknownst to Raven, just sitting next to her made Beast Boy happy. He loved everything about the dark girl. He just wished that she loved him too.
Raven could feel eyes and her and she angrily opened one of her eyes again.
"Why are you staring at me?" she said irritably, losing her concentration and making her fall on the ground. Beast Boy laughed and she used her powers to throw a pillow at his head.
"Did you just-" Raven threw another pillow at him and this time he fell to the ground with a reassuring thud.
"Now, leave me alone and let me c-" Before Raven could finish her sentence, Beast Boy threw the pillow back at her, sending Raven falling down from midair. She growled and threw the pillow at Beast Boy again, this time, sending blankets at high velocities too. Soon an all out pillow war was born. Raven threw anything soft she could find at Beast Boy and he dodged them in different animal forms. Raven was actually smiling and giggling and they seemed to forget about the half dead girl on the bed.
"Where am I?" A groggy voice said. The girl with the fiery red hair was sitting up, her hand on her head, looking around, clearly confused. Suddenly, the pillows Raven was levitating dropped.