One Time

Prologue

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans.

Author's Note: This is part of a trilogy that I'm writing, this story and "Another Time" cover the same time span in two different time lines. When I have finished both of them I will start posting the last of the trilogy "Double Time". I hope you enjoy these, as I am working very hard on them.


"Oh come on Raven, it wasn't that bad." Beast Boy claimed as they walked into the tower, they'd just come back from a mission with the Doom Patrol. Raven's bag had ended up in a river, and then Beast Boy had been thrown into her and they'd both landed in that same river.

"Maybe not for you; you had dry clothes!" Raven responded through clenched teeth. She was currently wearing a doom patrol uniform that they had been kind enough to give her, she would have appreciated it more if three out of the five of them hadn't been laughing at the time.

"It's not my fault Robot Man missed your bag." He argued as they got into the elevator.

"It was your fault that it was thrown."

"I went into the river too!" he pointed out, switching tactics.

"You had something to change into." Raven responded. "Besides, if you hadn't tried to attack them from the side you wouldn't have been thrown."

"I was following orders!" Beast Boy argued. They were out of the elevator now.

Raven opened her door, "You should have enough experience to know they heard the order." She said before slamming the door in his face.

"If it makes you feel any better; you wear the uniform well!" he called, the door opened again and her bag of wet clothes smacked him in the face. "I'll just go wash these for you..."

--

Beast Boy sat in the foyer of the tower waiting to let Bee in, Cyborg was supposed to do it seeing as how he was the one dating her. But he was cleaning out the T-car. Robin and Starfire were already out on their date and Raven was well Raven, so Beast Boy had been elected by default. He didn't really mind that much, or he wouldn't if it was an occasional thing, but it was every weekend. It wasn't really his fault that he didn't have a date, why was he being punished for it? Raven didn't have a date either and she wasn't getting teased for it, she was getting sympathy despite the fact he knew full well that had she usually been asked out for Saturday night at least three times and just turned all of them down. Personally he felt bad for the guys seeing as he had been on the receiving end of that sort of thing more times then he cared to count, just not with Raven. She's a good friend but he would want anything more with her. So why was he thinking so much about her while he was waiting for Cyborg's date?

Eventually Raven herself showed up at the door to the rest of the tower, "Bumble Bee just called, she can't make it tonight. Apparently they're having a slight problem with a bank robber." she said still standing in the doorway.

Beast Boy frowned, "She called you?" he asked a little confused. But he got up trusting that Raven was telling him the truth, she rarely lied to them. At least he couldn't remember many times that she'd lied to them, but it was possible that she just hadn't gotten caught.

"She called Cyborg." Raven corrected coolly, "Why would she call me?" she asked .

"I don't know... I was kind of wondering that." Beast Boy said with a slightly sheepish grin as he rubbed the back of his head.

Raven rolled her eyes and started back towards the elevator, Beast Boy was used to this reaction from her and just followed. He considered asking her to come with him to check out that new tofu place that had just opened up but 1) he didn't think that she'd want to, 2) he had no clue why he wanted to ask her in the first place, and 3) he was afraid she'd hit him if he did ask her, he knew she hated tofu.

"So... Are you still mad at me?" Beast Boy asked hopefully.

Raven merely phased through the side of the elevator and effectively ended any potential conversation.

"That's probably a yes..." Beast Boy muttered as the elevator doors opened. He walked down the hall to his bedroom since he found that he wasn't really in the mood for a trip to the Tofu Kingdom tonight, maybe he'd go some other time. After all it would probably still be open later in the week, or even next week.

He kicked his desk and flopped onto his bed to think, and irritatingly his thoughts drifted back to Raven. He shook his head hard, he was starting to feel like he had been hypnotized or something, which he knew was easily done, Mad Mod capitalized on that every time he got out of jail. Which happened way too often, if you asked him. Shouldn't that guy be in a higher security prison or something? But at least Raven had smiled once or twice over that, and boy was it creepy how his thoughts kept drifting back to her.

Beast Boy jumped up deciding to go track down Cyborg to talk him into that video game marathon, even if he ended up losing as was almost guaranteed, it had to be better than the disturbing direction his thoughts kept taking when left on their own.

--

"Jinx, this is the last time I'm going to tell you; I am not going on a blind date! Not this weekend, not ever!" Raven said, as calmly as she could. Beast Boy looked up from the computer as she came into the common room, she looked like she was nearly ready to 'forget' that Jinx couldn't fly and throw her out a window.

"It won't kill you to pretend you have a social life." Jinx argued, showing no sign of backing off.

Raven's eyes narrowed, she took several deep breaths before she spoke. "If I agree will you go away?" she asked.

Beast Boy decided to rescue Raven, he knew she did not want to go on a blind date. "Hey Raven, I thought I was buying you dinner this weekend." He called over to them. He could almost think the look Raven sent him was grateful.

"He's buying you dinner? Why didn't you just say you had a date?" Jinx asked, she suspected that Beast Boy was just trying to help Raven out but she was also pretty sure she could work this to her advantage. "Never mind. Why don't you two come to the movie with us? It could be a double date."

Beast Boy and Raven locked eyes, he shrugged. 'In for a penny...' he thought philosophically. "Sure, why not." He said with shrug.

Raven sighed, "Why not?" she asked.

--

"You don't have to actually do this you know." Raven said to Beast Boy, for the sixth time, as they left the tower.

Beast Boy rolled his eyes, "It's too late for either of us to back out of it now." He said.

Raven stopped him, "Seriously Beast Boy, I owe you for this." She said.

Beast Boy grinned, "Don't throw me out a window for the next week, and we'll call it even." He joked.

Raven just shook her head as they started walking again, neither noticed the man in the shadows, watching them.

--

"Uh... That is not what I was looking for." Beast Boy said as a picture of Raven popped up on his screen, "Although... It looks very photo shopped."

Cyborg and Robin came over to see what he'd found. "Oh! Not something I wanted to see!" Cyborg cried when he saw it.

Robin actually went bright red when he caught site of the picture, "Definitely not something she would wear." He commented with his eyes on the ceiling.

Beast Boy shook his head as he hit the back button, "It's not even well done." He complained.

When the other two had left the room Raven came in, "Why are those two blushing?" she asked Beast Boy.

"We accidently found a photo shopped picture of you online, they didn't even get the skin tone right." Beast Boy responded as he tried another link.

"Wearing the pink string bikini?" Raven asked as she grabbed an apple.

"I don't think that counted as a bikini, but it was pink." Beast Boy responded, "Wait, how do you know about it?"

Raven just smiled slightly, "It's amazing what you can do with photo shop these days." She said as she walked back out of the room.

Beast Boy had to laugh; he would never have expected Raven to pull a prank like that. "You might want to take it down." He called after her.


Author's note: Yes, I know that this prologue is much shorter than the other. But the other had more that needed to be said.