Note(s):

-I don't own Teen Titans, or any of the characters therein, yada yada

-M rating is just to be safe, I'm not sure how much I will actually use it.

-First fanfic, but not the first thing I've written/am writing. I have another profile under fictionpress if you want to read my stuff once I upload it. Same name, and quite possibly misspelled.

Anyway, onward…………….

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Raven awoke with a start.

Like always, this happened at 7:30 on the dot so she could meditate for half an hour before joining the rest of the Titans for breakfast. Except for Beast Boy, he usually awoke closer to the afternoon. And Starfire, since she was usually awake at 5:00 for some strange Tamaranian routine that involved singing. If anyone could be a polar opposite of Raven, it was Starfire. Nothing could be more annoying to someone who needed to control her emotions than that ray of sunshine. Beast Boy could come close, but he was more amusing. That was the closest to affection she could really allow.

As she sat up and brushed the hair out of her face she watched her reflection in the mirror. Her black hair was longer now than it had been before, and there were a few added red streaks, courtesy of some hair stylist in town Starfire had dragged her to. She used a comb to move it off her forehead, except for a few bangs she left over her eyes. She noted that it was nearing her shoulders now, and she preferred it longer. At 17, she was a bit taller than before, and had a very slightly slimmer figure that had filled out very well over the years.

She sat up, yawned, walked to the magical symbol on the floor in the middle of her room, and simply began floating cross-legged in the air. She focused on nothing, regulated her breathing, calmed her thoughts, and eventually her soul-self began to form as a black raven flying around her subconscious balancing out her emotions.

Time seemed to pass quickly, and she soon heard the other Titans stir (in Starfire's case come back inside), wake up, and walk down the hall to the kitchen. Cyborg came first, evident from the heavy, metallic sounding footsteps. Then Robin, who Raven noted was very light on his feet. Starfire didn't touch the ground, but raven could feel her giddy thoughts from her meditative state, flying over the potted plant on the edge of the hall. She heard an alarm sounding, and knew what was coming next. She mentally counted down from 5… 4… 3… 2… THUMP!!!

Right on cue, Beast Boy tripped over the pot and flew into Raven's door. After just waking up, he was almost as much in a trance as Raven had been. She called out good morning as her feet floated down to the ground and she stood up.

"Heeyyy… Raven. I'll see you at breakfast, heh heh… ow."

Raven smirked to herself as she walked towards the door and opened it to inspect the damage. Only a small mark, but oddly shaped like a horn. Looked like Beast Boy had tried to turn into something to stop his fall, but not in enough time. She started to stand up from a crouch and realized two things. One was that she should move the plant, but decided a mark in the door was worth it. Second was that she felt a breeze, and that Beast Boy had turned around at the end of the hall and was staring dazedly. She had walked out of the room wearing her in some areas revealing black underwear.

She quickly attempted to calm and control the reaction to blush, and ran back into her room to put on her jumpsuit and cloak, but not before having black tentacles of energy move a few picture on the walls and shake the plant. As she put clothes on, she remembered catching Beast Boy's eye as she ran in, and noticing that he seemed to come out of the trance as she realized she was almost naked, and looked away pretending he hadn't seen. It was obvious he was faking, but it was a nice gesture nonetheless. She decided to just pretend that it didn't happen, since she knew from Beast Boy's subconscious thoughts she dared to read that he was going to do the same. It was smart anyway. Whatever she may want, she can't feel strong emotion. She tried to avoid reading thoughts, it simply gave her more feelings to deal with, but she couldn't help notice Beast Boy seemed to silence some surface thoughts very quickly when around her. The Titans all did sometimes, but it interested her most with Beast Boy. Mostly because he tried the hardest to make her smile. She didn't always let him know, but he could succeed.

Glad he had left the hallway as she walked out; she strolled down to the kitchen. This was going to be an interesting day.

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Beast Boy continued to gawk out of the corner of his eye sheepishly but shamelessly till several seconds after she ran in. As he walked to the kitchen, he both stored the image to treasure forever, and decided it was better to not bring this up. He didn't want to embarrass her or make her angry with him or anything. He already put a dent in her door.