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JOO WILL BE SMACK'D WIT DA ANGST, YO.
That is all.
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YA RLY!
-Prologue-
He couldn't believe... no. She wasn't. It was all a lie. They were all lying to him. They had to be. She wouldn't... she would never. She couldn't. It... it just wasn't possible.
Garfield Logan stared at the wall in front of him. While normally shining with an over-abundance of cheer, his emerald eyes were narrowed, cold, completely lacking of any emotion.
She couldn't be.
She couldn't be gone.
She couldn't be dead.
Cradling his face in his gloved hands, the changeling shifted his empty stare to the tiled floor of the restroom of Titans Tower. He had been sitting here for well over an hour, and that wasn't because of any... digestive problems. He had locked himself in the room, as it housed the one item that he needed to stop it.
He knew what it would stop, but he was afraid of what it would start.
Gar sat up, leaning his back against the wall as he directed his gaze to the sink. Reaching up, he grabbed one of the razors sitting by the porcelain indent in the counter, holding it carefully in two gloved fingers. He turned it a few times, watching the light glint off of the metal blade.
Raven... you bitch.
The olive-skinned Titan flung the razor at the wall, pulling his knees up to his chest and wrapping his arms around his shins. Resting his forehead against his knees, Gar choked out a sob, his body shaking.
How could she do that? What the hell was wrong with her? That stupid, selfish, rude, thoughtless, protective, kind, beautiful...
He couldn't even mentally rant and insult her without his thoughts turning back to how wonderful she was.
No...
How wonderful she had been.
-In The Beginning-
"Say galorfnog!"
"Uhh.. gaforknoh?
The red-haired girl grinned as she held the camera up to her emerald eyes, closing one as she peered through the camera with the other. A bright light went off, and Raven and Beast Boy's image was captured on the film. Beast Boy grinned as he glanced up at his violet-haired companion, hoping she didn't murder him slowly and painfully for having proof that she had allowed him to drape his arm loosely around her shoulders. Instead, Raven shook her head, pulling away from the shapeshifter and folded her arms across her chest.
"Starfire, do you have to have that thing out?"
Starfire smiled brightly as she lowered the camera, nodding her head.
"Most certainly! I wish to record all of my time here on Earth!"
Robin's head snapped up from where he had been leaning against a tree, guarded from the sun by the shade that the large plant created.
"You're not going back to Tamaran, are you?"
Cyborg smirked as he walked over to his friends, a picnic basket tucked under one arm and a red-and-white checkered blanket under the other.
"Don't worry, Loverboy, I'm pretty sure your girlfriend is sticking around for a while."
Robin's face flushed a bright crimson, and he jumped to his feet, jabbing one finger towards their Tamaranean companion.
"She is not--"
He froze as soon as he saw Starfire's expression. Folding her arms across her chest, Star scowl deepened, and she tilted her head slightly to the side. When she spoke, it came out in a surprisingly frigid tone.
"I am not what, Robin?"
Robin visibly swallowed, his arm dropping to his side before he turned to glare at Cyborg.
"You set me up, you bastard!"
By this time, the mechanical Titan had collapsed on the grass, choking on his own laughter, and had almost immediately been joined by a smaller, green Titan. Raven, however, planted her hands on her hips, shaking her head.
"Morons. It's not that funny."
Beast Boy grinned, tilting his head back so he could see her.
"Yeah it is. You've just got the sense of humor of a... Star, what was that thing you told me about yesterday that looked like it had shoved a watermelon up its--"
"A woozlenorp?"
"Yeah. You've got the sense of humor of a toozlethorp."
"Woozlenorp."
"That."
Raven smirked slightly as she planted one foot on Beast Boy's back, giving it a shove and sending him falling forward onto his stomach.
"You don't even know what you're talking about."
Beast Boy shrugged a little as he rolled over onto his back, a confident grin squirming its way across his features. He waggled his eyebrows, hooking his hands together behind his head to act as a pillow.
"Maybe not. But I sound good saying it, right?"
Raven opened her mouth to respond, then frowned, glancing over at the other three Titans, who were all smirking as they watched her and Beast Boy. The dark-haired empath arched an eyebrow suspiciously. She had long ago learned to fear her friends when they were all wearing that look.
"What?"
Starfire, Robin, and Cyborg all looked at each other, their mischievous grins widening almost simultaneously. Robin, however, was the only one who spoke in response to Raven's inquiry.
"It's just pretty funny when you two start flirting like that."
Raven and Beast Boy's faces were almost an identical shade of maroon as they glanced at each other, both sets of eyes widening.
"We're not--"
"I didn't--"
"It's not like--"
"And there's no way--"
"Y-you guuuuys! You all suck!"
Beast Boy sat up halfway, propped up on his elbows, and his whine quickly cut off as Raven kicked him sharply in the head, her normally pale face bright crimson.
"Just shut up."
Cyborg sniggered, folding his arms across his metal chest.
"You two are getting almost as bad as Robin and Starfire used to be. Just go out already!"
Raven's mouth snapped open, ready to, no doubt, inflict rather offensive and mostly likely profane words upon her friends, before she realized that Beast Boy was looking up at her, a look of deep thought upon his face.
"You know, we should go out. Want to?"
Beast Boy grinned up at her, mentally kicking himself for how blunt the question had been. Stupid, he thought. Why didn't you wait until later? She's probably too embarassed to answer now, and if she does, it'll probably be no! Way to go, Logan. Your brilliance is equal to that of that... wigglethorp... thing.
"Um... okay..."
The green Titan blinked once with surprise, his grin fading as a look of pleasant surprise took over his face. Had he just been hearing things? ... Nope. Raven had her arms folded across her chest, her deep blue eyes directed to the ground, and she was shifting uncomfortably, just like she always did when something embarrassed her.
She had definately said it.
Beast Boy jumped to his feet, the cocky grin returning to his countenance as well as to the other Titans.
"Great! I mean, uh, cool."
The faint blush returned along with the grin as he realized how weird it was to show so much excitement over something as simple as a date. He barely had time to see Raven roll her eyes, muttering something that sounded vaguely like "I'm going to regret this" before Starfire had him and the Azarathean girl in a trademark Starhug.
"Magnificent! I am feeling much happiness for the both of you!"
Despite his inability to breathe, Beast Boy glanced over at Raven, offering her a tiny, amused smile.
To his surprise, Raven gave him one in return.