Hi all, here is a collection of possibly unrelated one-shots. I hope they keep you entertained while I finish writing the next chapter of G.I.B.B.R.I.S.!
Some of the stories will be related, while others will be things completely out of the blue. Some stories will be set when they were in their teens and some will be set when they are older.
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Enjoy!
Hundreds and Thousands
Chapter 1
Hello
Beast Boy, or Gar as he liked to be called now, lay awake in his bed staring up at the ceiling. No longer a Titan, his life had become less stressful and less harmful. He now had time to enjoy the good life, get married, have kids, start up a business and do things that superheroes had no time for. Gar thought his life couldn't get any better.
Trying not to wake the sleeping body next to him, Gar rose quietly from his bed, he made his way down the hall and sleepily downstairs. Entering the kitchen, he opened the fridge and gathered all of the ingredients he would need for breakfast, tofu bacon and eggs. Getting the frying pan from the cupboard beneath the stove, he placed it on the hotplate. Hearing the sizzle of the artificial bacon as it met the hot metal, Gar got out the apple juice and some glasses. He poured the liquid into the cups. Hearing muffled footsteps, he looked up. What greeted him was a sight that would never cease to amaze him.
Raven walked sleepily into the kitchen and wrapped her arms around Gar's waist and gave him the customary kiss on the lips.
"Hello." She said while leaning her head on his shoulder. "You know, I was thinking we could go and see Richard and Kori if that's-."
"Shut up. Just shut up...You had me at hello." He couldn't help the large cheeky grin that spread across his face.
She only rolled her eyes in return. "How romantic of you Gar." Her tone was playful and her features carried the characteristic scowl but with a hint of a smile playing at her lips.
"You know that I'm your lean, green loving machine. It's my job to be romantic," The grin still plastered on his face as he turned around to face his wife. "You know you love it when I get all romantic."
"I must admit that I do love the romantic you, when you're not being an idiot."
"I knew it!"
Obliged
"Why do you think there are superheroes?"
"What kind of a question is that, Beast Boy?" Raven said incredulously.
"I mean, who said that we have to do something with our powers? Like Superman or Batman, they didn't have to become heroes, so why did they?" He asked, genuinely curious.
"Well, I suppose they had their own personal reasons. Superman saw the good in humans and thought that they perhaps just needed a little guidance. Batman, I think, wanted a sort of revenge. You do know about his parents, right?"
Beast Boy shot Raven a look that clearly meant, "how stupid do you think I am?".
"I'll take that as a yes then." She paused and thought about her words clearly. "Well, maybe their deaths made him want to do something good with his life, prevent the horrible event from happening to anyone else."
"So are you saying that just because you've been through a tragic event, you're obliged to become a superhero?"
"That's not what I mean. I don't think that we're obliged to become superheroes, we do have a choice after all. But having gone through that traumatic event, I'm sure that anyone would have a change of heart. And having the abilities to cause change certainly helps."
"Okay, I think I get you now. Do you wanna play some stankball with me now?" Beast Boy asked as a hopefully mischievous grin began to stretch across his green face.
"No."
"But living with me means that you have the obligation to play with me." The grin didn't even falter.
"Yes, but you forgot about the free will." Swiftly grabbing her book and mug of tea, she glided out of the common room, leaving a slightly disgruntled Beast Boy in her wake.
Nocturnal
The whoosh of the automatic doors opening and closing was the only sound to be heard
throughout the tower. The hushed footfalls would have been barely audible had there been any. Raven thought that this was one of the very few perks to having her abilities, they allowed her to move about the tower without a sound.
Gliding silently through the corridors, she made her way to the common room for a much needed cup of tea. Having been awoken by a very intense nightmare that left her shaken, she thought that a soothing hot drink would do just the trick.
Entering the large room, she was surprised to find that she wasn't the only one awake. In the pitch blackness she could barely make out the silhouette of one of her team-mates. He sat at the island, completely in his own little world, apparently he hadn't heard her come in for he didn't even look up.
"What are you doing up?" She asked, feeling a little peeved that she probably had no chance of having a little quiet time now that Beast Boy was here.
Startled, his eyes widened comically and upon discovering that the intruder was only Raven, he laughed nervously. "Heheh, nothing much. But what are you doing up?" He replied, taking in her slightly dishevelled appearance and blood-shot eyes.
Debating internally whether she should tell him the truth, she stumbled over her words. "I...umm...I couldn't sleep." That was partly the truth, so not a complete lie.
"Mmhmm, right, sure and I'm not green or have pointy ears." Although his tone was playful, Beast Boy couldn't help but feel a little hurt that after all the years that they had lived together and saved each other lives everyday, she still didn't trust him. "You're not the only one who can read people, Rae. I've known you for, how long now? 5 years, you'd think that I would know when you're lying."
A little shocked that he has been so forward with her, Raven did nothing but mindlessly walk over to the island and lean on the counter opposite him.
"You can tell me anything. like I've said before, we're all here for you, I'm here for you, Raven, you don't have to suffer alone." He gave a small smile, different from the usual boyish grin that he normally wore.
Gathering her jumbled thoughts, she quickly tried gaining control over the situation. "You didn't answer my question. What are you doing up?"
Heaving a sigh, Beast Boy looked down at his hands, seemingly finding his knuckles extremely interesting. "I couldn't sleep either."
"Really? Why?"
"Well, you know how I am sometimes influenced by the instincts that I've morphed into? Well, I can still be influenced even in my human form."
Raven found this piece in information quite intriguing. Perhaps she didn't know that much about him after all.
"What do you mean?"
"You know how some animals sleep at at night while there are others that are nocturnal. I have to keep both of them happy don't I?"
"But I've seen you go off to bed. Do you just stay in your room then?" Raven asked, her face displaying confusion.
"Sometimes, but I usually sit on the roof or go flying."
"How come I've never seen you in here before?" She couldn't help but sound a little accusatory.
"Well..."He was hesitating, never a good sign. "I hear you in here, and I thought that you would want your quiet time." He said bashfully, still avoiding her piercing gaze.
Raven felt her cheeks grow warm and she hastily grabbed her box of teabags from the shelf to hide her blush. Busying her self with her task allowed her a distraction and a way to avoiding the awkwardness.
Beast Boy was regretting he had ever said anything at the moment. He felt that he had just ruined one of the extremely few peaceful moments that the pair shared. Getting up to leave her alone, he stopped as he heard her voice.
"Wait." She paused and look bewildered for a while as if only realizing that she had said those words aloud. He turned around slowly, he was sure it looked comical and he would of laughed at his own stupidity had the situation been a little less serious. "I...umm...You don't have to leave just because I'm here."
"Ok then." He took his seat at the island and stared at nothing in particular. Raven continued making her tea albeit extremely slow.
"So..." Beast Boy began, growing restless with the lack of sound. Raven had finally finished making her hot beverage and carried it over to the island counter. All was silent except for the occasional sip of tea.
"So what?" Asked Raven, her piercing gaze once again focused on Beast Boy.
"So...are you going to tell me the truth about why you're up?"
"Not really," Seeing the hurt look that instantly washed over her companion's features, Raven immediately regretted er words. "It's not that I don't trust you or anything like that. It's just that I don't want you to worry abou-"
"Don't want me to worry?" Beast Boy interjected, anger lacing his words. Raven said nothing and instead focused on her mug. "I- we worry about you every day. There's nothing you can do to make us not worry about you. And not telling us what's bothering you makes it even worse."
"I know." Raven murmured, placing her finished mug of tea in the sink.
"Come on, let's head to bed."
The duo made their way to the large automatic doors.
Walking side by side, Raven felt the need to say some words of comfort to the green Titan. "You know, you don't have to spend the nights alone. I'm nocturnal too."
The pair shared small sincere smiles before parting ways for the night.
Drug
Sometimes it all became too much for Raven. Her powers, her life and her own troubled emotions took control of her thoughts. Sometimes she felt that she was sinking further and further into what she had sworn she would not become. The darkness within her would never be quelled or silenced. It would always be there to remind her of what she is and she could be should she lose control.
But she remembered that there truly was light at the end of the tunnel. As long as she would need and want him, he would be there to pull her out of her abyss. He was her drug, a drug that made the darkness recede back into the confines of her mind. It kept her in control of her body; kept her humanity intact. The darkness was the disease and his light was the drug that kept the evil within her at bay.
Kids
"Hey Rae? D'you reckon you'll have kids one day?" Asked the green elf-eared Titan as he stared up at the sky.
"I guess so, if I can of course." Added Raven, a tinge of sadness to her voice. Had Beast Boy not lived with the empath for 5 years, he never would have picked up on the teeny tiny hints of emotion that his friend expressed.
"What do you mean if you can?" Beast Boy suspected the reason, but he was hoping that he was wrong.
"Well, there's never been a human-demon hybrid before, so no one knows whether I'll be sterile or not."
"Oh." Was all Beast Boy could come up with. So his suspicions had been correct, but he still felt horrible. "Wanna hear a fact?"
"Uhh, okay." Raven said slowly, wondering Beast Boy was up to something.
"Cyborg said that my genetic code is so unstable, I could probably be the cure to infertility!" Beast Boy shouted happily.
Raven watched his display of triumph, only sharing a small smile, but on the inside she was practically dancing for joy.
I hope the stories weren't too bad, I wrote this at 1 in the morning!
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Sincerely,
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