Beast Boy: Ugh! How am I supposed to pick up hot Japanese girls with a big green stain on my shirt?
Raven: Your skin is green, you have fangs, and your ears are pointed. You're really worried about the shirt?
Beast Boy: Hey! Chicks dig the ears!
Yeah! How obvious was it that Raven liked BB in Trouble in Toyko? It's like a schoolyard crush... she couldn't keep her hands off him!
I started drabbling from TiT. I heard it was supposed to be between 4th and 5th season, but I don't buy it. But it doesn't matter. It's commenting on why Raven acted like she did...
I don't own Teen Titans
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They were back from Toyko. Raven retreated right to her room. Starfire and Robin found some alone time on the roof and Cyborg was out to restock the fridge.
Beastboy was bored.
He flipped through the pictures he got of him and his Japanese fangirls and grinned.
I know who'd really like to see these pictures! He thought to himself. Oblivious to the needs and wants of the girl who had spent almost every moment they were on the vacation finding some way to burn him with insults or to whack him one.
An undeserved one. He reiterated.
He sidled up and gave three short raps on the door "oh... Raven?"
There was a muffle. "What is it now?"
She missed the confines of her room and now realized he was impeding on her chance to reaccquaint herself with what she missed and settle down with one of the books she'd bought in Japan. Who knows? Maybe she'd even pick up some more of the language.
"Someone's got some pictures from the vacation you need to take a look at..." he said suggestively.
She took a moment before shooting back sarcastically imitating him, "someone's not coming out of her room unless the Titan's alarm goes off..."
Beastboy crossed his arms over his chest and leaned his back on the door, his fang sticking out from his lip in a protesting look. "Fine! Be that way!" He shouted angrily. "You spend the entire time hitting me all vacation and now you can't even spare five seconds to go through some happy memories!"
Raven tensed. Hitting him? He'd noticed? The last thing she would do was admit that she was hitting him so much just to have an excuse to touch him.
No, that wasn't it.
Was it?
Of course not. Touch? Beastboy? No. She could be convinced she was losing it just by making the suggestion.
His guilt trip apparently wasn't working. But it rarely did. He continued to steam indignantly.
"You know Raven, I try to be nice and have a good vacation... but the first thing you do when we get there is tell me that none of the Japanese girls would go for me because I'm green..." his eyes went dark "but you were wrong."
She was so wrong. Way out there wrong. He was popular.
Why did she have to be so mean all the time?
He didn't do anything to her. Yet she tried to make him feel like he could never be normal. Well, ok... he didn't care so much about being normal as getting chicks... but she didn't help much in that respect either.
"Look. If you don't go away I'll have to call you Garfield." She said calmly, pulling out that information as a last resort.
Beastboy was beyond it. "So what if you do?" He challenged.
He liked to push. He didn't know why he liked to push Raven so much. He just did.
Just like she didn't know why she always wanted to hit him.
"I'm going to count to three."
Beastboy shoved his fingers in his ears. "I can't hear you" he called.
"One..." deep breath.
"Two..." deep breath.
Raven got up, her eyes almost glowing from anger.
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CLIFFHANGER!!! OOOOOHHH!
What happens next... you'll have to review to find out...