AN Alright here's the deal, I've become addicted to Teen Titians I can't focus on any other characters at the moment so here is what a lack of sleep and lying awake in the dark came to enjoy…
Somehow or other they talked us into this game called KISS (Keep Idiots Sleeping Soundly) no actually that wasn't what happened. According to Raven they actually trapped all of us together in a sort of communal dream world. It's made up of the whole teams dreams and nightmares. It's taken awhile but we've finally reached the end of it now these annoying little pests are going to tell us where the key is hidden…
"Alright we've made it through your games now tell us how to get out of here." Robin demanded and the two little fairies giggled and clapped. The one that we knew as Tinka tossed her cotton candy pink pigtails over her shoulders and flashed one of her innocently flirtious smiles at him. Her sister Linklee covered her mouth with her hands while her soft yellow curls bounced around her mischievous blue eyes. Tinka waved on finger in the air back and forth and tsked.
"You didn't say the magic words…" her voice was sing songish and a muscle in Robin's jaw clenched and he took a deep breath then his voice icy let the word slid out through clenched teeth.
"Please…" The two small creatures looked at each other and smiled in a way that made all of us look at them warily. I glanced over at Star who was dressed in a light violet nightgown even she had begun to think we'd never get out of here. I hadn't been there when she played she had been partnered up with Robin. I had been partnered up with Bee while Raven and Beast Boy had been together and looked ready to throttle the two little pixies.
"Wellll…" Linklee looked at Tinka, " since you asked so nicely we'll tell you. The Key is in the Kiss." Everyone stared at them in disbelief
"The key is in the what?" I snapped in disbelief and the two pests giggled.
"You heard us. We don't have the key, it's in the Kiss."
"What Kiss?" Robin asked warily looking at them and their innocent smiles took on less innocent shades.
"Their kiss." they both pointed at Raven and Beast Boy and twin blots of light flew from their hands hitting them centre in the chest. The two teens looked at each other for a moment then leapt back as though the other was plagued.
"No way-" Beast Boy said looking horrified.
"Not a chance-" Raven gave him a dirty look.
"I'm NOT kissing him/her!" they finished together the pixies just shrugged.
"Well that's the only way to get the key." Their smiles were smug and Linklee snapped her fingers and the two titans disappeared.
"Raven!" Robin cried.
"B!" I shouted but it was too late, our world dissolved to blackness leaving the remaining four standing together. The pixies were gone.
"We're doomed," Bee said sitting down with a sigh, "they never wanted us to leave and they just found the way to keep us here forever."
"Why is that? It is just a kiss is it not?" Starfire asked confused by Bee's logic. But Bee and Robin shook their heads.
"Think about it Star. The whole time we've been here they've been putting us through all of our fears and our most embarrassing and humiliating thoughts." Robin told her and we all nodded in agreement.
"Going by that theory I doubt a peck on the cheek is going to work." Bee finished and everyone nodded feeling hopeless.
"Why us?" Beast Boy groaned leaning his head back against the cold rough stone dungeon wall. He sat with one knee drawn up to his chest and he linked his hands around it. He kept his eyes closed and let out a sigh.
"Do you really want an answer to that?" Raven said sitting down beside him closing her eyes against the looming threat.
(time passes)
Beast Boy leaned close to Raven their breath mingled and Raven gave a nervous chuckle.
"You're shaking." He gave a wane smile in return.
"Nerves I guess," he said his voice wavering only the slightest little bit. Raven nodded slightly and hesitantly unsure she leaned a little closer their lips a hair apart now. They both closed their eyes and leaned in, then Raven turned her head away and jerked back.
"I can't do it." she said quickly nerves having overcome her. Beast Boy groaned and leaned back against the wall in frustration. Raven quickly went defensive and glared at him. "Well it's easier for you you've at least kissed someone before!" she suddenly clapped a hand over her mouth and her eyes went wide in shock as she realised what she had said. Beast Boy turned to her in surprise.
"You've never kissed before?" Raven leapt up and walked away from him.
"I didn't say that." she said sharply keeping her back to him. Beast Boy looked at her then stood up as well.
"That's what you implied." he told her and she flinched away mortified that she had said what she had.
"Well it's not like I have guys lined up round the block." she muttered, "gezz Beast Boy, the one boyfriendish person I had turned out to be a evil dragon alright! God…" she breathed and Beast Boy walked up beside her and this time she didn't flinch or pull away from the comfort he offered as he wrapped his arms around her awkwardly, instead she leaned into it needing the comfort even while the rest of her tried to pull her away.
"Well it's not as though I do it everyday either Rae," he said softly his breath tickling her ear. "Now if this was Robin and Star they'd probably be half naked by now." Raven let out a weak chuckle and the green teen wrapped his arms tighter around her hearing the slight edge of hysteria in her voice. Unconsciously he rubbed her back and both of them were so wrapped up in their own thoughts that the way Raven buried her face in his neck or the way her hands went around him clinging to him like a life line went unnoticed. They stood in the centre of the room for a long while in the same position till Raven felt the hysteria pushed away and Beast Boy felt her racing pulse slow.
"So, it's just one kiss right." Raven nodded her eyes still closed her head still resting on his shoulder. "Well that can't really be the problem right? I mean people kiss all the time." Raven nodded again and Best Boy continued to look over her shoulder. "So then where do we run into the problem?"
"I think I hit a wall at the tongue." Raven muttered and she felt his body shake slightly at a laugh he kept inside.
"Well I can tell you that while I've kissed a girl before I'm not expert on that either." He ran a hand down her back and whispered softly. "What are you scared of Rae? I'm not going to hurt you and I doubt that it'll mean anything to you." he said softly and Raven pulled away from him reluctantly and sat back down against their wall.
"I don't know Beast Boy, I-I, I just don't think that a kiss should mean nothing. It always means something to someone."
"Not always Rae," he told her sitting down next to her again. "It doesn't always have to mean something."
"I'm scared alright!" She snarled at him hating having to admit it. His emerald eyes looked at her with a deep patience, and hidden in their depths she saw a knowledge that was far older then either of them.
"Then you kiss me Rae, then it'll be your choice." Raven arched an eyebrow determined to avoid it.
"It's not my choice Beast Boy, it'll never be my choice, we're forced into the situation so there really isn't any choice."
"Then take some control over it Rae, take what control is offered to you." she looked at him wondering when he got to be so wise.
"I don't know how to kiss…" she trailed off her last argument beast Boy sighed and she closed her eyes and hung her head.
"It's a dream Rae, none of this is real. Haven't you ever kissed someone in a dream before?" he asked her and she shook her head.
"No, not that I can remember." she paused as a thought occurred to her, "Wait everything in this world is taken from one of our dreams right? So whose dream are me and you kissing from?"
"Maybe it isn't necessarily me and you maybe it's Robin or Starfire's dream." he said but the answer didn't ring true. Raven opened her eyes and turned to him.
"Try again B. This dungeon is from my dreams, this dress is from someone else's." she said and unwillingly Beast Boy felt his eyes drop to the dress she wore. The fabric was the clue of her cape and designs were sown onto it in black thread. It hung off every curve she had in an incredibly seductive way that seemed vaguely familiar.
"That isn't from a dream…" Beast boy said softly staring at the dress, "it's from a memory…"
"A memory? Yours?"
"Yeah… I sort of remember seeing it when I was little," his eyes had unfocused and were staring into the past now, "my dad had it in his office it was a newspaper clipping, of, him and my mother at some sort of party. A, fundraiser of some kind or other." he struggled but the more he saw of the memory the further away it drifted. "That's all."
"Did you ever kiss someone in your dreams?" Raven asked and Beast boy looked at her.
"Not usually. The forest that we ran through remember, that was from my dreams. But it's a guy thing they usually do see and kiss girls in their sleep."
"Male hormones, did you ever kiss me?" Beast boy thought for a moment.
"Do you really want an answer to that?" he asked and Raven looked at him and crossed her arms over her breasts.
"Did you?"
"err, no…" he answered thinking back to the dream, nope they'd donesomething else but he didn't specifically remember kissing her…
"Then why was I in your dream?" she demanded. Beast Boy felt a sweat drop roll down his back.
"Kiss me and I'll tell you." he said then slapped himself mentally this was how he usually got in trouble with Raven.
"No." was her silted reply.
"Fine then I don't have to tell you." He flopped onto his back and closed his eyes this was hopeless they wouldn't ever get out of here.
I glared at him frustrated and mad at myself for a moment I had let my curiosity slip and now it was seething and whispering for me to kiss him so he'd tell me. I remembered the smug look on his face when he had said "Fine then I don't have to tell you." Bastered! I snarled in my thoughts and felt a reckless urge rise up he wanted a kiss then he was damn well going to tell me. I crawled over to him his face was relaxed and it was the last straw. If he was so unconcerned about this mess then I was going to damn well make him uncomfortable. I leaned over him and his eyes snapped open in surprise as my hair brushed over his face.
"So you've never kissed me in your dreams." I said feeling a strong emotion, Jealousy? Run through my thoughts.
"No-" he said but I brought my mouth down on his silencing him.
It wasn't innocent, and it wasn't gentle it was more of a so-there sort of kiss. It wasn't what I had anticipated, his lips were soft and warm against mine and there was a taste there that I couldn't identify, and a scent that was there and gone in an instant. Whatever they were they made me want and I raised my head in denial.
His eyes were half closed and his breath was fast, like mine I belatedly noticed.
"So tell me why I was in your dream?" I demanded when suddenly he rolled over trapping me under him, I felt something hard press against my hip as one of his legs pressed between mine. His lips found mine and this time they weren't gentle and exploring anymore, now they were demanding. Knowing what they wanted and rough to find it. I bet his lip and he chuckled shifting his angle his tongue slipping between my teeth coaxingly soft and gentle, the panic I felt vanished and something else took it's place, a hunger that scared me even as it thrilled through my body. As though he sensed the confusion of my thoughts his lips gentled and the hands on my sides left braceing themselves on either side of my head easing some of his weight off my body but it wasn't needed anymore, and belatedly I realised I wanted it back, wanted his mouth to demand some more his hands rough not gentle I wanted…
… "Raven" I breathed against her lips, they parted for me on a shaky sigh and I felt the tension leave the body under mine I struggled and managed to get control of myself gentling the kiss letting it deepen on it's own. She shifted under me restless wanting more and the sinuous feel of her under me began to push me towards the edge again but I held on, this was Raven, and all I would do was show her a kiss. Her scent was subtle, lavender and twilight… "Mine," I whispered against her lips lifting my head for only a second. "Yours" she echoed, "yours…"
I opened my eyes and shifted against the cold stone, that was something I couldn't understand was how we could fall asleep and dream when we were already asleep and dreaming. Beast Boy hadn't moved and laid on his back his breath deep and even, I felt my face flush suddenly as I remembered what I had just dreamed of. Okay so now I had kissed a guy in my dreams. Was it anything like that in reality? Was it that terrifying and freeing? I was to scared to find out. But at the same time watching Beast Boy lay there and hearing the simple sound of his breathing seemed to somehow calm me.
He was nervous to I thought remembering how after we had stopped snarling and snapping at each other and cringing at the thought kissing the other that we had tried to find ways to make it seem like no big deal, how we had tried to but always one of us had pulled back. How disappointed we both felt when we finally got up the nerve and did a quick peck on the mouth barely even a kiss at all and were hit with the full knowledge of just what kind of kiss was needed. The hand he had brushed through his hair after making a lame joke about it had shook and so had he the last time we tried. We were both nervous so did that make my fears any worse then his, did my insecurities wrap me in more chains then any of his own? He shifted to his side and whispered something to soft for me to understand interrupting my thoughts. I took a deep breath and made up my mind. Here went nothing, here went everything.
His eyes snapped open as I tapped him on the shoulder my hand nervously shaking.
"So you never kissed me in your dreams." I asked him and his eyes focused on me for a moment and he shook his head trying to clear the rest of the sleep out of his thoughts as he sat up.
"Now I have." he said simply and I looked at him and then I laughed and laid my head on his shoulder. He put an arm around me and said softly.
"What?"
"You just dreamed of kissing me." I told him and he chuckled softly a little nervously.
"I did. But Rae tha-" I pressed a finger to his lips cutting him off.
"I just dreamed of kissing you to want to give it on last try?" I asked him he looked at me then laughed for a moment as well.
"Well since your asking why don't we see if a dreams dream holds up against a plain dream?" I laughed at his attempt at humour. We looked at each other suddenly quiet feeling the familiar pitch and roll in our stomachs then hesitantly we leaned towards each other. Our noses bumped and we paused and both of us gave a nervous laugh, we looked at each other for a moment then I closed my eyes and hesitantly our lips touched. It was my dream again but it was nothing like it either.
His lips were warm and soft, but at the same time hesitant, unsure like my own of exactly what they were allowed to do. His arms went around me drawing me closer and I felt him draw back and opened my eyes. His were dark and curious and I smiled and put a hand behind his head and pulled him down whispering, "We haven't found that key yet."
"We haven't found that key yet," she whispered softly taunting me I felt like I was drifting, this was the real dream it wasn't real but I could feel her in my arms and her scent swirled through my head drawing me closer to the temptress smile that had slid onto her lips, I could hear the pulse within her and it was a dream the fooled even my enhanced senses so be it. I dropped my lips to hers and let the kiss linger this time then softly gently I parted her mouth as her breathing increased and slipped my tongue into the virgin territory of her mouth. She started for a second stiffening then she relaxed and allowed it, willed it even suddenly I felt something hard and cold on my tongue and we both stopped in surprise and drew back. She opened her mouth and put a figure on her tongue and pulled out the small silver key. Then she laughed.
"The Key was in the Kiss." she whispered and we both cracked up.
I walked into the common room the next morning to find that everybody else was up as well. Robin sat at the table and cyborg and Starfire were fighting over the remote. Raven glanced up from her book when I came in and looked at me for a moment her eyes shuttered from me.
"Hey Beast Boy we were wondering if we were going to have to wake you up or not." Robin said and I shrugged.
"Guys I never get up much before noon you know that." I told them and flopped onto the couch.
"So did you two… You know." Cyborg asked me his eyes eager. I just looked at him.
"It was a dream Cy. It was all a dream." though I had woken up to the smell of lavender and twilight on the bead beside me that morning.
"Well you know I was just curious." he said defensively. I shook my head.
"I'm gonna go shower." I told them and left the common room. After I turned the corner of the hallway I ran face first into Raven.
"Morning Beast Boy."
"Errr, Morning Rae." I told her as she shifted till I was boxed in.
"Remember what you said about it all being a dream and how we'd see how a dreams dream compared to a plain dream." she asked I looked at her not sure I liked the light in her eyes.
"Yeah I remember that."
"How about we compare Dreams to reality?" I looked at her then laughed and she backed off hurt rising in her eyes but I caught her arm and pulled her back to me.
"Rae, Block the camera and we'll see." she smiled and our lips touched.
"No, no,no,no,no,noooo!" Cyborg said as Robin and him watched the security footage and a large bird blocked the lens. "Jezz this sucks first we miss it the first time now we miss this." the two teens looked at each other.
"Bet I can beat your record." Robin said holding up a controller.
"Your on!" cyborg said taking up the challenge.