Just a small short story based from one of my BBXRAE week submissions. Personally, this one was my favorite one. Although I did like when I had the T-Car destroyed.

Add to this the fact that HornedGoddess asked for a sequel. And a couple months later, I'm looking through it and liking the idea. And voila, here's a small short story for the idea.

This first chapter is from the submission. But it is going to look different since I'm now putting in the time to edit it. Like, really edit it. After this, I will probably add a good five or more chapters as to what happens in the months after this.

So here's to hoping you all like it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans.

The White Stick

Beast Boy and Raven.

Two members of a famous superhero group called the Teen Titans.

During the day, these two were their normal selves around the team. Or at least, their team's definition of normal for the two.

Whenever they were together around their teammates, they would tend to argue with each other over the simplest of things. From tea tasting good, and what was a better waste of time. Be it video games, or meditation.

They'd pretend that the other was getting on their nerves at times when the one told a lame joke, or when the other made some random sarcastic quip on his intelligence. He would interrupt her meditation at times. And she would call him an idiot on a daily basis. Even when out facing the villain. They would do this to each other.

Yeah, it was all pretty normal to their teammates.

They didn't even suspect a thing.

It was only during the night that these two would drop the act they played around their team. They'd stop acting the way their teammates saw them as. Two almost friends who always fought with each other. And start acting the way they really wanted with each other. The way they had been acting when alone together.

Ever since Tokyo. When she had confessed she had been jealous of all the girls who had fangirled over him. And angered her to the point where she slapped him to get his attention. She had apologized for what she'd done to him. And begged him to forgive her for hitting him on national TV.

After that, she had kissed him. And when he got over his shock, he had kissed her back. One thing led to another, and they had made up, alone, in the best of ways.

Ever since then, these two lovers would meet up in the dead of night. When they knew for sure that all their friends would be asleep. They'd meet anywhere, whether it be in his room, hers, in the Common Room, a dark hallway, or outside on the roof. It didn't matter to them. As all they wanted was to do something together. To show to the other that they still loved each other. Despite what may have happened in the day.

Whether it be in a small way, by watching a movie on her bed together, or a simple fly over the city. In large ways, by staying in each other's room to… do stuff for the night. Mainly hers since it was cleaner than his. And because it was less likely for someone to barge into her room than his. Or something in between, like a simple cuddle on the bed, or a make out session during the movie. Or even just studying the other while he/she slept.

They loved each other. Yet, they only showed their love in secret.

Why was it a secret? Sure, their teammates might have been shocked. But they would have also been happy that they were getting along better. So why would they keep this secret love of theirs away from their teammates?

Here is your answer.

Even though Tokyo had happened, and their leader had never seemed happier during their week long vacation in their opinion. As soon as they had gotten back, Robin had told all his teammates, with a heavy heart, that sexual relationships shouldn't be formed between teammates. Since they were still far too young for them. And since any villain could take advantage of it for their own purposes. By capturing one to compromise the other.

At least, that was his reasoning. Before he had walked out of the Common Room that day to catch up on the crime in Jump City.

Based on the look Starfire had on their face, they had been able to tell she hadn't seen it coming. Robin had essentially just broken up with her, without any warning.

She hadn't expressed any of the joy ever since.

And so, the two kept their relationship secret. In fear of what their leader would do if he found out about them. Robin would have either kicked them off the team at the least, or had them separated at the worst. Whatever it was going to be, they hadn't wanted him to find out.

So they had kept this secret for the past year. And so far, they hadn't been caught by anyone. They hadn't messed up in their night time meetings. Their love had always managed to stay secret, even from the media.

Yet, tonight would prove to the two lovers that all things good can't be hidden in the shadows forever. As reality always has to step in when the proper precautions aren't taken. Precautions they thought they'd never need because of their unique genetic structures.

Beast Boy was currently sitting on his girlfriend's hooded bed. Comfortable, despite the setting the creepy artifacts around him made. He had long since become used to it. Countless nights in here had even made him see the appeal in each of them.

He was waiting for Raven to come out of her personal bathroom. There was a movie on a big screen TV in her room, just waiting to be played. So he was waiting patiently for her.

She had said it was probably nothing before she left. And usually, he would have left it at that. But the look of worry on her face had told him otherwise. It also didn't help that it had been ten minutes since she had left. He just couldn't get that worried face of hers out of his mind as he waited.

Well, at least, he could tell that she had looked worried. The others probably wouldn't have noticed the subtle way her face slightly tightened. Or the way her thin gray lips barely twisted down in a small frown when she was worried…

Or when her eyes would light up when he actually managed to say something that was funny. Or how she'd smile slightly when he told her he loved her. Or how that smile would reach new heights as he made love to her. Or the pleased look on her face when he managed to steal a quick kiss or two out of her during the day, when the two were alone and could drop the act in the light…

Beast Boy found himself getting lost in his mind. Thinking about all the wonderful faces that he called the emotions of Raven. That small smile for Happy. The slightest of frowns for Timid. The lighted up look in her eyes for Love. The seductive grin for Lust. The four red demon eyes for Rage…

What? Just because they love each other, doesn't mean she still doesn't get seriously pissed at him now and then. No relationship can be that perfect. And sometimes, those arguments during the day aren't as fake as you might think.

Still, he loved all of her looks. All of the different faces she wore to express a certain emotion. Overall, he still loved her. Because she let herself show him these looks.

Personally, his favorite was when she combined both Happy and Love. As he swore when she showed them both, she looked even more beautiful than the moon in the night sky. His thoughts drifted away from her face of worry, as he let himself bask in all the emotions Raven showed him now.

'I wonder what we'll do tonight. Will she want to go out for a late night snack at a restaurant after the movie? Will she want to watch the movie this time instead of falling asleep? Or will she just want me to cuddle with her in bed for tonight during the movie?... or something better?...'

Before he could think of anything else after that naughty thought, he heard a loud gasp from the bathroom. He instantly got up and walked over to the door. Thoughts of the worry she was expressing before came back to him as he approached. He knocked on it to see if he could get her attention.

"Rae, are you okay in there? Thought I just heard you gasp or something." He called through the door. He pressed his ear against it, waiting for a response. She didn't say anything to reply.

He briefly wondered if he had just been hearing things. And turned to walk back to the bed so he could wait for her again.

Just as he was starting to walk away from the door though, he saw an item on her night stand become shrouded in her black energy. He recognized it as the remote before it was thrown against the TV. It hit with a loud smash that seemed to echo in the room. His eyes instantly bugged out.

She hadn't lost control in that way since they had gotten together. What could have caused her to lose control like that?

And that was when he heard a suppressed sob behind the door.

He instantly turned back around and started to pound on her door. "Rae, what's going on?! Are you okay?! Did you hurt yourself?! Are you sick!? Say something to me!" Beast Boy shouted as he continued to pound on her bathroom door.

He didn't care that someone else could probably hear him with all the racket he was making. He seemed to have forgotten about the need for secrecy now. As his worry for the dark empath behind the door overshadowed everything. He was debating with himself on whether or not he should wait for her to answer the door or not.

The sound of another object breaking behind him on her doorway made him make up his mind. Raven was in trouble, and he needed to get in there now! Whether she wanted it or not!

He morphed into an ant. And crawled along the underside of her doorway. Grateful the tile of the bathroom extended underneath it, as it would have been hard to find an entrance through all the carpeting by the door.

It took him only a few seconds until he found a hole small enough for his small size to crawl through. It took another minute for his small form to navigate the narrow tunnels of the crack inside the two inch thick door to get to the other side. But at last, he was on the tile surface of her bathroom. Where he morphed back into himself.

He saw Raven sitting on her toilet seat. Some item was clutched in her hand. Although he wasn't focused on it. He was instead focused on her face.

Her eyes were slightly red and puffy. Her breaths were coming in short gasps. And two trails of tears were falling down the sides of her still young roundish pale face. Another item exploded in the room behind him.

"Raven..." Beast Boy said. He was shocked at the amount of emotion she was showing. She was easily showing shock, sadness, fear, despair, and so many others that he couldn't even name them all. There was just too many for him to count.

All he could tell for now was that they were all negative. As if something was eating her out on the inside. Beast Boy was surprised the whole tower hadn't been leveled by now. As she had once explained to him that her negative emotions were a lot stronger than her positive ones. And here she was, expressing them all right in front of him.

Raven looked up at him. As if in a trance. Beast Boy was a little unnerved at how broken her amethyst eyes looked. She still didn't say anything to him. Beast Boy could already tell why.

She looked to broken to even try.

He walked up to her, slowly taking her free hand, while his other cupped her round face. Another item exploded in the room behind her. The sound of faint knocking could also be heard. Although Raven's sobs drowned it out this close. So he didn't register it.

"Rae, you know you can tell me anything… right?" He said in a soothing voice to her.

She barely moved her head up and down. Acknowledging that she had indeed heard what he said. Beast Boy took this as a yes. "Do you think you can tell me what the problem is then? Can you tell me what has made you this upset mama?"

Another sob racked her throat. Another item exploded behind him this time. Yet all his focus was on his ailing girlfriend. And his mind was occupied with what could possibly make her this upset. She shook her head a little from side to side. Indicating a no. She was too afraid to speak out loud. He let out a small sigh.

"Do you think you could show me then Rae? So I can help you."

It looked like she was taking some time to think it over in her mind. As if she was debating whether or not he should know. He squeezed her hand with his. Trying to reach through to her through reassurance.

"Please? For me Rae." He said in a soothing voice. As if no matter what happened, he knew everything would be okay. At least, he hoped it would be. Raven was scared, but he hoped that she would try to confide in him as to what the problem was.

And then slowly, she started to unfurl her other hand. She looked towards it so he would too. In what seemed like an eternity, which was only a few seconds, her small pale hand was open.

Revealing a small plastic stick.

A white stick to be exact.

Beast Boy's eyes widened. As he instantly recognized it. Before she could close her hand again, he took it from her with the hand that had been on her cheek. Facing it up so he could see what it said. His other hand was still holding hers.

One line for negative. Two lines for positive. It had shown on the left side as simple instructions. Just as a normal pregnancy test would show. He then looked at the right side. Where the results would be.

His breath hitched. Another explosion, not from Raven's powers. Happened outside in her room. Yet neither noticed. As he took in what was showing on the right side.

It was showing two lines.

Raven was...

'She's… she's…Raven's...'

It finally clicked in his mind after a few seconds of shock. He looked to the beautiful girl sitting in front of him on the toilet.

As joy burst through his being.

'Raven's pregnant! She is really pregnant! I can't believe it! Oh my god!... I'm going to be a father… I'm going to be a dad!'

Raven was sobbing into her free hand now. The other one in the clenching grip of her boyfriend. She took the clenching of his hand the wrong way though.

'He hates me now… he doesn't want to be with me anymore… he's just getting ready to tell me now that we're through… that he couldn't possibly raise a freak with a half-demoness... he's going to leave me alone… even though he promised he'd never leave...' All these, and more negative thoughts were coursing through her mind. As she continued to sob into her hand.

Beast Boy got over his joy in time to see his girlfriend looking so anguished. He took one last look at the test in his hand, and then to his Raven.

And that was when he finally realized why she was crying. Why she was so upset.

He instantly knew what he had to do.

He had to reassure her that her fears would never happen.

Raven felt his hand on her face again. Pulling away her other hand so he could look at her. She looked away, afraid to see the anger that would most certainly be in his eyes. Another sob wracked her throat.

He put his hand under her chin, making her look towards him. She started to cry harder. She could already tell that he was going to break it to her. That he was going to break up with her. She was so sure of it...

That is, until he kissed her. Catching her completely off guard. She blinked the tears out of her eyes as he pulled back after a few seconds. And saw a look of joy on his face that put Starfire's old look to shame.

"Y-You're not mad?" She said in a timid voice.

His smile was as bright as the sun. "Are you kidding me Rae! Mad is the last thing I'd feel right now!" He yelled out in joy. The sound of another explosion in the room behind them happened at the same time. Both of them again didn't hear it.

"B-But I thought…" His finger was over her lips as she tried to voice her fears. She shut up submissively. Waiting for him to tell her he was just kidding.

"Rae, I wasn't even sure if we'd be able to have kids. What with you and your half-demon half-human genetics and me and my unstable DNA complex. Just knowing that we worked, and that I do have a chance at being a dad afterall, well, I couldn't possibly be any happier than I am right now." He said in an honest voice to her. Making her crying stop completely.

"But we're too young… and you have so much to live for in your life…" She said in a small timid voice.

"Rae, I know we're young… but so what. You have a demon inside you that gives you crap whenever you go into heat and fail to produce a child. While I'm at an age where most animals would have created large families by now. And died ten times over in the process. We might seem young to others, but to the things we represent, it's a little late in the making." He said in a joking voice.

She sniffled. "So you're not mad at me? That I've basically tied you to myself through this kid?" She asked in a voice that was less sad than before.

He looked into her eyes with nothing but love. As his hand moved from her hand to the mark on her neck. "Rae, I already loved you more than anyone else before in my entire life. I was tied to you the moment I said I love you and made you mine. And this baby, (hand moves to rub her belly) will only strengthen what I feel for you in the end." His goofy smile appeared at the end. Getting her to smile as well.

"So you won't leave me for this? You won't run away just because you got me pregnant?"

Another kiss on the lips from him drove all the negativity away from her mind. As she allowed her mind to touch with his, feeling all the emotions he was feeling.

Sure, there was shock and uncertainty in the mix there. He had his own fears to about this. But there was also happiness, excitement, selflessness, and above all, love. He had meant every word he had said.

Raven allowed herself to melt into his emotions. Deepening the kiss all on her own as she did so. He let out a happy moan when she did that. They were both just so darn happy.

They wanted their little moment in that bathroom to last forever...

Another explosion sounded outside in the bedroom. Followed by the thud of something heavy hitting the ground. Shocking the two of them out of their kiss as they became aware of the outside world again.

"Yo Rae! Is everything alright in there! We heard some loud noises coming out of your room just now! And everything in here looks trashed!" Cyborg's loud voice could now easily be heard through the doorway now.

"Friend Raven appears to be in the bathroom. Maybe she is suffering from the PMS? And her emotions decided to take it out on her room?" Starfire's innocent alien voice was heard right after.

The two couldn't help but giggle to themselves. Despite how compromising their situation would be when they had to explain themselves to their teammates. But the two couldn't help it since they both knew Raven wouldn't be on her PMS for quite some time now. For about seven to eight more months to be exact.

They only hoped that Robin wasn't out there. Then they would probably stand a chance at getting through this without any more trouble than there needed to be...

"Raven! We know you're in the bathroom! Did something happen?! Is there a villain loose in the Tower?! Were you attacked?!" Robin's authoritative voice sounded behind the door.

"Well, there goes our chances of us getting off this easy." Beast Boy whispered in her ear. As they both let out a sigh. They knew their leader would likely go nuclear when he heard the news from them.

That is, until Raven smirked. Catching Beast Boy's attention immediately. This was one of his other favorite faces from her. As it held nothing but mischief. The core of his being in other words.

"Say Gar, since we know we're probably going to get kicked off the team after Robin finds out. Do you want to get kicked off in a blaze of glory?" She asked him in a quiet voice.

"Oh baby, you know I wouldn't have it any other way." He replied back. Catching her lips in another kiss after he said so.

Their three teammates were standing in front of her bathroom door now. Creeped out slightly by her dark room, the remaining undamaged artifacts made them cringe a little in fear. Robin was getting impatient. PMS or not, he was the leader. And no one should keep the leader waiting. Especially in the middle of the night. Even if it was a dark emotionless girl on her period.

"Raven, you have five seconds to open this door, or else-" Robin started to say.

That was when the door was covered in dark energy. And then slid open. Shocking him into silence. The other two stood quite dumbly behind him as well. At the sight of their two teammates in a very loving embrace.

Before he could think of something he could say. Like 'This is unacceptable!' or 'What the hell do you two think you're doing?' a white plastic stick covered in a black aura hit him in the face. Before it fell to the ground, face up.

The door slid closed again. Cutting off the couple inside from the outside world. The black barrier was still over it. As extra protection to keep anyone from breaking in on their little moment.

All three Titans now stood around the stick on the ground. Suddenly realizing why those noises must have happened earlier. Shock was etched into each one of their minds. But not as much as their leader's mind.

As they read the positive sign on the pregnancy test. And slowly connected the dots on what they had seen happening in the bathroom.

Cyborg and Starfire seemed to snap out of it first after a minute. And looked to Robin, where he was still standing in place. Staring in shock at the thing in front of him. Starfire looked to Cyborg with a look of worry, while he returned it.

The two of them ended up carrying their leader in his shocked state out of the room. Well, Starfire did that while Cyborg stayed behind and fixed Raven's door. Erasing the evidence of what had happened to the outside and from his mind as he did so. He didn't want his leader questioning him on this.

Starfire ended up carrying Robin alone all the way back to his room. With Robin still clenched up and staring down the whole way to it. As if he was still looking at the test that had been on the ground.

Starfire was hoping that he was in such a state of shock that he would forget what had happened. Like most others who showed a reaction much like the one he was experiencing. She was glad to see her two teammates had gotten together at last. That they had admitted rltheir love to each other. And she knew that if Robin remembered… the results wouldn't have been good for the two.

Starfire opened his door with the override, and set his still clenched body on the bed. He was staring down into his pillow now. She took a look at him, seeing he was still clenched up in shock. Maybe he wouldn't remember it after all. He had been in the state for a while now. Maybe his brain was rejecting what it had seen.

Starfire had walked out of his room, and had been halfway to hers, when it was proven that she had been wrong.

"BBBBBEEEEEAAAAASSSSSTTTTT BBBBBOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Robin's shout rang throughout the Tower. And across the bay.

Perhaps Robin had remembered after all.

Author's Notes:

Well, went through, fixed it up, made it better, and here it is. A ramped up version of The White Stick.

So… what do you guys think? Would this be a good story to work on when I'm not working on Justice League Vs. The Beast? Or on any of my other ideas really? I have plenty to choose from. Speaking of which, I just thought of an idea for a short chapter to I'm Sorry while on Tumblr. It will be a break from the action, and be a flashback sort of deal. So maybe I might bring it off hiatus for a little bit.

Till Next Time

Allen