AN: So, this is something I've wanted to do for a while. I'm not sure whether or not somebody has already written this out, but I wanted to try my hand at it. Fair warning-Beast Boy and Raven may be a bit OOC in this chapter. *Sighs* It's a challenge, trying to keep the characters' original personalities intact while keeping with the events of the original episodes...well, anyway, I hope it's not too horrible.

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans. If I did, BB/Rae would've been canon by the end of the series.

Birthmark

All Beast Boy had wanted was to make Raven happy. Ever since the day he had first met her, when she had laughed at his joke and said that he was funny, he had made it his personal goal to make her laugh. So he was understandably disappointed when she blew up all the birthday decorations and food he and the others had prepared and stormed off.

"Raven, hold on!" He wiped a slab of cake off his head and ran after her. Raven mentally sighed as she stopped in her tracks.

"Look Raven, I get that you're probably mad at me for looking at your restricted files, but..."

"It's not that." Raven said, cutting him off.

"Then what is it?" Beast Boy asked. "Why wouldn't you want to celebrate your own birthday?!" Raven sighed.

"Just trust me on this, Beast Boy. There's nothing to celebrate." And with that, she walked back to her room to lock herself away from the world. Beast Boy didn't understand it. He knew that Raven didn't like parties, but it was her birthday. Surely even she would enjoy getting cake and presents.

"Raven!" Beast Boy shouted, throwing her room door open. He knew that she didn't like people coming into her room, but he had heard her scream.

"B-Beast Boy?" Raven asked, obviously shaken. Beast Boy's first thought was that Malchior had come back to torture her.

"Raven, are you..." Luckily for Raven, the alarm sounded.

"Trouble. Let's go."

Raven wasn't sure why, out of all of her friends, she went to Beast Boy. All she knew was that she wanted someone with her. She laid her hand on him, and the effects of her new time-stopping powers wore off. Beast Boy, who been in mid-morph when frozen, turned into a tiger, then, looking around and seeing that everyone and everything else was frozen, turned back into his human form.

"Raven, what happened?" Instead of answering, Raven wrapped some shadows around herself and Beast Boy that transported them outside, where she flew them over the city as a giant shadow raven. After Raven dropped them into the streets, Beast Boy looked around at all the frozen people. He couldn't take it anymore.

"What's going on here?! Why is time frozen?! How is Slade back, and how does he have those powers?!"

"I-I'm not sure." Raven answered. "I never wanted this day to come. And when it did, I just wanted it to stop. I guess I got my wish." Beast Boy walked over to her.

"Raven-what's happening?"

"It's my birthday." Raven answered. Shortly after she said this, Slade jumped off a building in front of them.

"Raven, get out of here!" Beast Boy said before turning into a bear and charging at the evil man. He tried grappling Slade, but he was just too powerful. Slade shot waves of flame at Beast Boy that knocked him into a building. Raven used her telekinesis to rip a piece of concrete out of the street and throw it against Slade. She then ran to her injured friend.

"Beast Boy!" She put his arm around her neck and led him into a church across the street from them. Once inside, Raven laid Beast Boy down. He groaned, trying to stay conscious.

"I tried not to let you get dragged into this, any of you." Raven said, her eyes full of sadness. "But you're in. I might as well tell you. On this day, the day of my birth, they looked into my future. They saw that I was supposed to do something very bad." Beast Boy stared up at her. It all made sense now.

"Raven...I had no idea..." Before he could say any more, however, they were once again interrupted by Slade.

"We'll be in touch." Slade said as he threw Raven off the building. "Oh, and Happy Birthday." Beast Boy, as a pterodactyl, flew over and caught Raven in his claws before she could hit the ground. He landed on top of another building and changed back into his human form.

"Are you alright?" he asked Raven.

"I'll be fine." Raven said, though she wasn't so sure herself. A small smile spread across Beast Boy's face.

"Let's go home."

"Um...surprise?" Beast Boy said, giving Raven puppy dog eyes.

"Look, we know you didn't want a party," Cyborg started. "But after today-"

"We hoped that you might reconsider." Starfire finished.

"You may not like your birthday, but we're all happy you were born!" Beast Boy said sincerely. There was a brief silence before Raven said

"We're going to need ice cream." Beast Boy could feel his heart soar. As the others went to get the ice cream and other things, Beast Boy dropped his smile and looked at Raven seriously.

"So...about what you said about your birthday and something bad happening-I'm really sorry about that, Rae." He looked down at the ground sadly. "I wish I could stop it."

"No one can stop it." Raven said simply. Beast Boy just smiled weakly at her.

"We'll stop Slade, somehow. For now, just try to have fun? It's over now." Raven forced herself to smile, for his sake.

"Okay." As soon as he walked away, however, she looked down at her hands, where red markings automatically burned themselves into her palms.

"No. This is only the beginning."