A light inside

Disclaimer: I own the plot, nothing else.

The tower was unusually quiet for a Friday night, but then again, everyone was off on a date tonight, everyone but her. It wasn't that she didn't want to go out, no, far from it. It was that no one ever asked her out. Her dark personality had a way of putting people off, even those that she called teammates and friends.

She had decided to abandon her room that she had deemed as sanctuary on the lonesome Valentine's night, and headed towards the kitchen. Maybe there was some left over pizza, she thought to herself. Opening the fridge, she stuck her head inside and rooted past the tofu dogs Beast boy loved, the Rice Krispy Treats Robin tried to hide, the massive amounts of Hamburgers that were Cyborgs, and a squid looking thing that belonged to Starfire. Finally, all the way in the back was the box of cheese pizza she had claimed a few nights before.

Just as she was pulling her head back out, her hand holding her dinner for one, a sound came from behind her. Reflexively she threw up a shield and placed her captor in an orb of dark energy before turning around to see who had tried to attack her. A small 'o' formed on her lips as she released Beast Boy from captivity.

"Sorry," she mumbled, as she finished pulling the box from the fridge and placing it on the granite counter. "I thought you were out with Terra?" She did not apologize for placing him in the orb and he didn't look like he was going to say anything about it either.

The green boy looked a little confused at the entire events that had just happened before shaking his head almost comically and answered the raven haired teen.

"Terra took off yesterday, she said she didn't want a serious relationship and just left. Robin's taking it harder than I am. Starfire blamed him for not wanting to commit to her and that's why he took her out tonight."

Raven just nodded along to his sudden flow of relationship drama. If it wasn't him and Terra then Robin had screwed up something with Starfire and she was flying off in a huff. It was almost hilarious how predictable the two couples were. As for Cyborg, he was another thing entirely, liking one of their old enemies from the HIVE.

Beast Boy went to the fridge as well once Raven had moved to the microwave to nuke her pizza, and pulled out his tofu dogs. She tried not to wrinkle her nose in disgust, believing that it was his right to eat what he wanted, but he still caught the side of her nose slightly in and just rolled his eyes at her. The teens sat in a comfortable silence while he prepared the dogs and she removed her pizza from the microwave. She sat at the counter, chewing not only on the slice of cheesy goodness, but also on the inside of her lip. It wasn't in Beast Boy's nature to be so quiet and she was tempted to ask him what was wrong. Then again, that wasn't in her nature.

His dinner prepared, he sat across from her at the counter and proceeded to dig in. It was off-putting that he hadn't tried to crack a joke about their current state of aloneness or anything. Not even a small joke about it being Valentine's Day. She finished her slices in silence and proceeded to put her dish in the dishwasher. When she turned he was behind her again, only closer this time and she had to stop herself from throwing up a barrier between them. Raven didn't like it when people were close to her, inside her personal bubble. He had a weird look in his eyes, almost as if there was an unseen fire glowing in them and she felt herself being pulled in by them.

It's amazing the things the brain notices when a first kiss is about to happen. For Raven, she felt her heart race, noticed the distance between them was getting shorter, her eyes were almost half closed as were his, and she could hear him breathing, short breaths, almost as if he couldn't believe they were about to do this. Then her brain decided to be a cruel witch and she suddenly realized she was about to kiss Beast Boy, one of the few people who had been inside her mind and still was alright being in her presence, the only person she could confide in when she didn't want girl talk with Starfire. Was she willing to risk that friendship with him over a kiss? Just to find out what it felt like to be actually cared for on Valentine's Day?

She turned her body suddenly and went pawing through the cabinet next to the Fridge, leaving a bewildered and slightly hurt looking Beast Boy to almost fall on his face when she suddenly wasn't there.

"Uh…Did I miss something?"

"Do you want any candy?" She pulled out a bag of conversation hearts that Starfire had stocked the whole tower with. The little sugar candied hearts were in every available bowl which the Tamaranean seemed to constantly be searching through when she wanted to tell Robin some secret love message.

A still confused look was on Beast Boy's face, but the green teen nodded his head and sat back down at the counter. Raven spilled the bag out in front of them and proceeded to color sort without realizing it. Beast Boy was taking a different tactic and sorted them based on phrases. The large pile was soon separated between the two of them and Raven was about to place one in her mouth when a little purple heart drifted towards her.

'Smile'

She looked up at the teen across from her, a bewildered look on her face this time as he had a smirk planted firmly on his. She gave him a small smile before eating the purple heart and proceeding through her pile again. Soon a yellow heart drifted towards her though and she paused.

'Be Happy'

What was there to be happy about? She was alone on Valentine's Day, yet again, eating Candy with Beast Boy…and yet…there was that almost kiss.

Another purple heart slid towards her with a different message printed on it.

'Laugh'

Now that was funny…Raven hardly ever laughed, in fact she couldn't even remember the last time she had done so. She decided to respond to Beast Boy without a sugar heart.

"Why?"

"You look like it would help. It seems like your depressed more than usual. I mean look at your hands, the dark energy glow hasn't left them since you threw that shield up. Well, they faded when we almost…"

He stopped talking and looked back down at his candies, the tops of his spiked ears had a pink tinge to them. Raven could tell he was embarrassed and decided to drop the topic. Looking down at her hands, she did note that the dark energy they usually glow with when she was casting was surrounding them now. Probably just need to meditate, she thought to herself as she went to pick up another heart. She found one with a smiley face printed on it and slid it towards the boy sitting across from her. The tinge went away and he was soon searching through his candies yet again, popping random ones into his mouth as he went. A small smile touched her face at the sight before she clamped down on the emotions raging inside of her.

The clock in the kitchen chimed nine o'clock startling the teens away from their diminishing candy piles. Everyone was due back in half an hour putting both of them in a now awkward tension state. What would they tell the others when they asked how their night went? It wasn't as if anything had happened between the two but that almost kiss, that almost interaction between the two of them hung thick in the air.

Another candy heart was slid across the table towards Raven who picked it up almost instantly.

'Kiss me'

If her hood had been up, the expression on her face wouldn't have been as noticeable. As it was her eyebrows shot up and another 'o' formed on her lips. Her eyes flicked towards his and noticed that the unseen fire blazed in them again. Was he playing with her or did he really want her to kiss him? He had just gotten out of a relationship with the ever bi-polar Terra and now wanted to destroy their friendship? She narrowed her eyes at him, a serious look replacing her shocked expression.

"Are you serious?

"Of course I'm serious. Why would I joke about a thing like that?"

Why would he joke about that? He had no reason to be that cruel but there was still that small part of her brain that wanted to kiss him, to know how it felt.

She got up from her chair and proceeded towards him, Beast Boy's eyes getting wider with every step she took. When she finally reached his chair she swiveled it slightly so he could face her. As she leaned her face towards his, he did the same, starting to close his eyes in anticipation. Just before their lips met she turned her head and placed her lips next to one of his pointy green ears.

"Maybe next year Beast Boy."

She then turned on her heel and proceeded back to her room, a cloud of dark energy holding her half of candies following close behind her. The teen male fell off his chair at the sudden loss of closeness and turned slightly red at the realization that he had just hoped that the dark female member of the Teen Titans would kiss him, and he still wanted her to.

Hormones raging, Beast Boy stalked off to his own room, passing Raven's on the way, and almost knocked on her door to make her kiss him. He would just have to wait for the next holiday… St. Patrick's Day.

A/N: My first time writing a TT fanfic, but these two have always been my favorite pairing. Next chapter will be up around St. Patrick's day.