It was early one Wednesday morning in the Titans Tower, but Raven was already awoken from a strange dream she had had the night before. It went as so: She was cooped up in her room, executing her routine meditation practices, when an muscular, shining version of Beast Boy busted through the doors and proceeded to sweep her off her...air? Immediately after, he dove, with her in his arms, through a window, out into the ocean surrounding the Tower. Then, moments after landing in the water, he swam to shore and proceeded to passionately kiss her, until he was knocked in the head with a rock, thrown by an octopus, who was treading the surface of the water. He immediately turned into the same, and proceeded to argue in octopus while Raven, dumb-struck, slowly grew a beard while they spoke.
Raven debated to herself whether or not the dream was significant; she had beenfeeling slightly more nervous around Beast Boy lately; who had matured from a scrawny fifteen-year old goof-ball to a tall, skinny, but muscular 18 years old...goof-ball. She laughed at the thought of her and Beast Boy, together, but her forced laugh made her feel all the more empty.
She really did have feelings for Beast Boy, even though she didn't want to admit them. Her emotions were constantly pestering her, from wisdom murmuring metaphors of cocoons and birds, to Rude mentioning various, ehem, forward methods of showing her affections. But in the end, she always ended up keeping things to herself, locked away in her head...
Meanwhile, Beast Boy, also awake, was pacing back and forth in his room. If simple fact of him being up this early in the morning wasn't enough to give the air a certain tensity, then the fact he was pacing wildly back and forth in his room, with his un-gloved hands going from entwined in his hair to gripping his shoulders was a dead give-away. He paced back and forth, breathing heavy from the dream he had had a few minutes ago; (enter some deep, intense sexual fantasy, Raven, talking germs, his own unexpected pregnancy, and other various, awkward subjects) He shuddered with disgust at some topics, which evolved to excitement at others..."Dude!" he said, quietly, to himself. "It's just a wet dream, it happens to teenage boys all the time!"
He comforted himself with his own lame excuses, trying to avoid thoughts of Raven, the girl he loved, from snaking their way back in his head. He knew that if he couldn't control his thoughts of her, and his own hormones, it would happen sooner rather than later that Raven, being the empath she was, would discover his secret love, the one he had hidden from her for months, years now, and never be able to look him in the face.
He panicked at the thought of an emotional tension between the two, not knowing what he would do if her sarcasm and indifference, directed at his prodding and jokes, were not longer that, but rather discomfort and fear.
After much meditation and thought on the topic, Raven decided to ignore the dream, once again, (it being the fifth or sixth she'd had about him in the past weeks) and headed to the kitchen. She went to reach for a kettle to start boiling water for some herbal tea, but was surprised to see there was already a mug made up for her, sitting in the kettle's place. She looked up and around for unexpected aide, and felt a tinge of excitement when she saw Beast Boy, then Cyborg sitting at the table, devouring breakfast. She walked quietly over to the table, and looked up shyly. She just sat down, and began to sip at her tea.
Noticing her scent, Beast Boy looked up and made eye contact with her. He smiled a big grin, and said enthusiastically, towards Cyborg, while still looking at Raven, "You were right dude! Making tea wasn't all that hard." Cyborg laughed loudly, and said "But I guess finding the tea kettle was. He searched around for hours at that thing."
Raven smirked, but looked down quickly to hide her blush. "Thank you," she murmured. Beast Boy returned her gratitude with a toothy grin, before continuing back at his breakfast.
After all the Titans had retreated to their rooms, Raven began again to chant her mantra and meditate. Her mind was fluttering around the random act of kindness that Beast Boy had displayed earlier, and her thoughts were incoherent, as most of her emotions were expressing their opinions of the way Raven had been feeling towards the changeling lately. She just ignored their rude, yet tempting suggestions, and continued to chant. But, just then, there was a light knock at her door. She opened one eye, and heard Beast Boy's voice say "It's me, could I come in?"