This is my first foray into the world of Teen Titans fan-fiction, below is more of a prologue than anything else, just to set the scene.
I own lots of electronics and some outrageously brightly coloured socks, but alas, Teen Titans does not belong to me.
"I WILL KILL YOU BEAST BOY!"
The scream echoed through the tower, causing Cyborg, Starfire and Robin to look at each other and gulp.
"What do you think the little grass stain has done to her this time?" Cyborg wondered aloud.
"Please friend Cyborg, I am not sure it is Beast Boy we should be doing the thinking about" Starfire replied, a troubled look on her face.
"Star's right, Raven has been on a hair trigger warning for the past few weeks, I've seen her explode at Beast Boy just for asking her if she wanted some tofu." Robin replied, also looking concerned. "Has she spoken to either of you?"
"Man, I bet it's nothing. Every time BB offers me some of his nasty tofu I wanna throw him into the bay as well!" Cyborg laughed. "I'm not sure it's in his nature to learn, he's just a glutton for punishment when it comes to Rae."
"Uh, Rae? I swear that that wasn't me." Beast Boy begged the sorceress in front of him to believe him.
"My name is Raven! And of course it wasn't your fault! It never is!" Raven shouted furiously. "My books go missing, it's not you. Things are taken from my room, it's not you. Anything at all goes wrong, and it's not you. There's just one problem Beast Boy: it's always you. Whatever goes wrong around here, it's your fault. It always is! And I'm sick of it!"
Beast Boy shrank backwards away from Raven as she began to float higher in the middle of the common room, black tendrils beginning to seep out from under her cloak, thrashing and lashing around.
"I'm sick of all of your nonsense. I'm sick of YOU! Playing your little pranks and telling your dumb little jokes as though you're funny, or as if anyone cares what you have to say."
Beast Boy stumbled as his legs hit the coffee table and he sprawled backwards over it, landing on a heap on the floor. Raising his eyes, he whimpered slightly as he made eye contact with four very angry looking red slits that marred Raven's normally attractive features.
"I understand that you are not at the level that people around you are at. I understand that you don't understand most things, and with your limited intellect, juvenile activities like video games and pranks are basically all your tiny mind can come to grips with, but I've just about had it. It's pathetic! I can't even tell you to read a book, because I'm pretty confident you can't read! How you've survived this long is beyond me!" Raven continued to rip into the cowering changeling, advancing towards him even as his back hit the wall.
Beast Boy frantically looked from side to side, becoming painfully aware that he was now cornered in the room, with the only exit being through his clearly unhappy teammate.
"What I can't understand, and I'm not sure why I'd bother to tell you because if I can't understand it, Azar knows that you won't be able to either, is how you've managed to gain entry to not one, but two superhero teams! Granted, the Doom Patrol got rid of you once they had the opportunity, and unfortunately said opportunity has not yet presented itself to us, but you managed to get in at all, and it's frankly mind-boggling!"
Beast Boy looked down as Raven's words hit home, even now his separation from the Doom Patrol being a clearly sore topic. As a powerful empath, Raven was more than capable of feeling the hurt that her words were causing but, far from bringing her regret, his feelings of hurt and anger did nothing but make her angrier.
'How dare he?! After all I've put up with with him, and he doesn't even have the decency to feel sorry about it. He's getting angry… at me?!'
"Do you not notice a pattern emerging around you? No parents, no family, abandoned by one team, pitied by the other, no friends outside of those who are willing to spend time with you because they can find literally nothing else to do...Terra?"
Raven's last word struck Beast Boy like a slap in the face, and he gazed up at her in shock.
"Considering how much time you two spent alone together, I'm not even surprised that she tried to kill us all. Azar knows if I thought that all of the Teen Titans were like you, I would have wanted to wipe them out as well and do the world a favour! In the end, her conscience was too strong to allow her to go through with it, but I would bet that she willingly chose to turn herself to stone to make sure she never had to deal with you again! If I had the option to do so, and I was being hounded like some pathetic, lovesick puppy like she was, I probably would have done the same!"
Beast Boy tears were flowing quite freely now, the anguish in his heart more than able to quiet his fear in the face of his frankly terrifying teammate. He admitted to himself that previously he had found her a little creepy, but once he got to know her, found himself enjoying her company more and more, to the extent that he found himself closest to her, alongside Cyborg. That fact made her words all the worse.
"We're your teammates, we spend more time with you than any other, so we've seen your worthlessness in full force. You boast and brag, but when it comes down to it, you're all bark. I can count on one hand the times when you have actually achieved something, and I can comfortably double it with the number of times you've had the opportunity to really do something for this team, and screwed it up!
"Do you remember the mission to find those missing boats in the ocean? How you went on and one about being the greatest, having skills that no-one else in the team had. And then what? You chased down an ally, leaving us to be attacked by the enemy. You then tried to save us, but were outdone by a few animals; animals which you have the ability to become, you just weren't smart enough to figure out that that was the best option! You then spent the rest of the mission complaining and arguing with the person that actually saved us, and were nothing but a hindrance. Like always!
"Even your most powerful form-" At the turn the tirade had taken, Beast Boy closed his eyes and shook with suppressed emotion. Emotions that Raven could feel all too well. "-you can't even control. It's just a mindless animal, which admittedly is not too different from your normal state. It's just bigger, uglier, faster and stronger. No, that's not fair. It's not possible to be uglier than you already are! Quite frankly, I'd prefer to have the Beast as a permanent teammate; at least he can hold his own in a fight and doesn't talk!"
Having said her piece, Raven settled down to the floor and her face resumed its normal two-purple-eyed state. Beast Boy opened his eyes to look at her, face blotchy and tear-stained.
"Rae-"
An explosion of energy ripped from under her cape and gripped Beast Boy around the throat, closing so tightly there wasn't even a hope of breathing, let alone speaking.
The inky-black tentacle swung him around the room, smashing through furniture, windows and more than a few walls before dragging him back and dangling him in front of her, his eyes wide as he gasped and grabbed at the grip around his throat, the body's desperation for air overriding the pain from the multitude of cuts and several broken bones.
The glowing four eyes stared deep into the changeling's green ones, seeming to drill all the way down to his very soul.
"MY NAME IS NOT RAE!"
With a whipping motion, Beast Boy's body was cannoned through the remaining window and launched thousands of feet across the bay and out into the sea.
Turning away from the gaping hole in the wall, Raven flipped up her hood and calmly walked from the room.
"Don't come back"