EARLIER THAT SAME DAY

Addison's head fell into her hands. She felt hopelessness sink in like a pit in her stomach. Vicki and Kailey were a powerful force to be reckoned with in this school, especially with elections right around the corner. But they had truly done the unthinkable. They cut off a chunk of Addison's hair. They cut it.

'I always thought you'd look better with bangs. Guess I was wrong!' The red headed girls joke rang in her ears. Vicki.

A wave of anger rushed over Addison. The shock had finally set in as she ran a hand over the shortened, lousy bangs the girls had given her. Her hand fell to her pocket and traced the cylinder within. Finally, with the correct words coming to mind, she pulled out her pen and began to graffiti the bathroom stall.

WHO WAS THAT?_

"Wait- Rae- You mean like- an undercover mission!?" Beast Boy chimed, his eyes lighting up. Raven nodded slightly, trying to pay more attention to the puzzle before her. What did the people at the school really know? Why was the principle so nervous?

"This is AWESOME! I can't wai-" Beast Boy was about to begin a rant.

"Woah, I didn't mean 'we' as in 'you and me.'" Raven cut him off. Beast Boy's mouth turned into a frown, his one tooth protruding from his bottom lip.

"Beast Boy, you're green." Raven stated, perceiving his disappointment.

"Oh- right..." Beast Boy muttered, his ears drooping miserably. Raven felt his pain.

"Let's just get back to the tower and report to Robin." Raven said. They reached the front doors of the school and took off.

Raven and Beast Boy entered the meeting room of the Titans tower swiftly. Starfire had already examined a large portion of the city and was back, along with Robin and Cyborg who were still trying to pinpoint the cause of the massive noise.

"But if the sound waves are moving in that particular pattern-" "Cyborg, if your sensors are off, then how do you know that the sound waves are moving like that?"

"Listen man, I don't build faulty equipment! It had to be thunder-"

"Where are the clouds and lighting? I don't see anyone wearing a 'Thunderman' outfit. Who could've manufactured Thunder that well to make it seem-"

"He is correct, I did not see the Man of Thunder when I did the browsing of the city." Starfire chimed into Robin and Cyborg's argument.

"Us neither." Beast Boy said pointedly. All three heads swiveled around to look at Raven and Beast Boy.

"Can I have a turn?" Raven asked the group.

"Yeah, sorry team, I'm just worried about finding the source of this so we can get ahead of it. Who knows what or who caused that massive sound wave." Robin started to trail off toward the end of his sentence, running a few fingers through his hair.

"Well, Beast Boy and I have the beginnings of a lead. At the High School. I felt an energy mass coming from the school, and Beast Boy heard the noise from there. After only a few minutes the energy mass completely dissipated. We need more time to investigate and see what is really happening there, I suspect a large conspiracy. I was thinking that we should go undercover but being that Beast Boy is green, maybe you would like to join me inst-"

"No," Robin cut her off. Raven did not welcome the interruption, but listened intently to the words that came next.

"I need to stay here and follow other cases we have going on. I don't want to extend our team too far, but if you're powers are right about what you felt in that building, then it's too dangerous to send just one of you. Beast Boy will go with you." Robin then looked to Cyborg.

"Cyborg. I need you to go get Beast Boy and Ravens rings." Robin said intensely. Cyborg nodded and headed out of the room.

"Woah woah- I just wanted to go to school with Raven not get married to her-" Beast Boy was yet again cut off by a pillow flying off the couch and slamming into his jaw. Beast Boy smartly feigned death as he lay on the floor.

"What rings?" Starfire asked before Raven got the chance to.

"Well, I uh-" Robing scratched the back of his head. "I just wanted to be prepared in case a time like this came for any of us. So I had Cyborg make you all rings that portrayed the human version of yourselves, like the ones he used to infiltrate The Hive. It was just a precaution, but I'm glad it worked out."

Cyborg was back within a couple of minutes. "Two Holorings, comin' riiight up!" He smiled as he walked up to the new table in their living room that was now covered in plants. Beast Boy was carefully watering the Purple Crocus's while the others talked.

"Oh sweet!" Beast Boy forgot what he was doing and ran up to Cyborg, taking the green colored ring from his hand.

"Well- wait, Beasty- I think-" Cyborg appeared anxious. "I think you're going to want to stand in front of the window. You know, at an angle where you can see yourself." Cyborg remembered what it had felt like to see his real body. The way it would have been if he wasn't made of metal now. The way it was meant to be.

"Okay." Beast Boy shrugged, turning to see himself in the window. "I bet I'll look super hot." He shoved the delicate metal ungracefully onto his left ring finger. He blinked for a second. And then he saw someone else staring back at him.

The boy he was looking at had strawberry blonde hair and bright blue eyes. His freckles from when he was young had mostly disappeared. A world of emotion flooded his senses. This was the boy his mother would've raised. Who he was supposed to be. This was how he would've grown up in Africa, maybe how he would've eventually moved back to the states. Maybe he would've gone to class like this, or to the movies. He would've learned to drive, get a job. He would've been normal. This is the boy that wouldn't be judged by his skin, called a freak, monster, or a beast. They would've called him Garfield.

Everyone in the room saw the look in his eyes. They knew what he felt. Oh, how they knew what he was feeling. The sacrifices everyone had made, willingly or unwillingly, that made them a part of this team would always be the great "what if?" of their lives. But Raven felt what he was feeling greatest of all, being the empath she was. Every emotion that was coursing through him, she felt moving through her own heart. The despair he felt. What he could have been. Beast Boy was still looking in shock and regret at the window when Raven took her violet colored ring from Cyborgs open palm. She placed it onto her finger. Her facial features remained the same, but her hair was now black, her eyes a hazel. Maybe if she weren't half demon she would look like this. But she was half demon, she had never been fully human. The way she looked just didn't bother her like it did Beast Boy. She had to admit, she wasn't green, but she wasn't normal. And that was okay with her.

Her hand reached up to his shoulder. She set her fingers on his collar bone, palm on his back. "We're in this together Beast Boy. Are you going to be okay?" She noticed his emotions start to settle. A part of her sighed comfortably when she realized he was going to be okay.

"Yeah... Yeah, I'm fine." He said, starting to grin as to reassure her. She lightly smiled back at him. She expected him to make a silly joke after this but instead decided to go to his room and attempt to further calm down.

The next few hours were full of paperwork for Cyborg as he filled out their immunization and transfer papers. Beast Boy was still hidden in his room and Raven was in her own room meditating and making a list of things to observe at the school.

Cyborg hastily sent in their transfer papers to the school, asking that 'Rachel and Brian Bennett' immediately be put into the system so they can start school tomorrow. When Cyborg called to verify the request had been processed, the school counselor told him 'it doesn't work like that.' Cyborg then hacked their system and put both Rachel and Brian Bennett into the system, assuring that they would both have the same classes, six hours a day. He also took a scan of the required clothing and programmed the rings with the outfit. They were ready to go.

THE NEXT MORNING

"You mean we start today?! How awesome is that?!" Beast Boy yelped at Cyborg, spilling some of the cereal out of his bowl.

"Whoopee." Raven muttered by the kettle.

"Stop being so negative Rae, this is going to be great! I've never been to high school, I just wonder if-" Beast Boy stood up and started a long rant about things he wanted to do and see in high school.

Raven poured her tea and sipped it discreetly. She remembered what he had felt when he saw his truly human form. He wanted a normal life. And here he was in freak tower with the rest of them, happy, but with dreams that fell short.

"Alright Beast Boy. Name just one thing you'd like to do when we're there." Raven smiled.

He grinned mischievously. "I want to kiss a really pretty girl." Raven did everything she could to not spit out her tea. Cyborg laughed.

Beast Boy stood with a hand on his hip waiting for Raven's response. After about thirty seconds later, she was still quiet, and Beast Boy started to feel fear creeping up on him.

"Beast Boy."

"Yeah?" He gulped.

"Sit down." Raven said with authority. Her eyes were still hidden under her cape.

"O-okay." He agreed. He raced to his seat at the table and his butt was about to hit the chair with record speed when Raven's magic enveloped the chair and pulled it out from underneath him. Beast Boy hit the floor. Hard. Raven quietly exited the room, leaving Cyborg in tears of laughter while Beast Boy tried to recover from his new injury.

An hour later, 'Brian' was pacing the Meeting Room floor while waiting for 'Rachel' to be ready to go. He looked down at his blue pants and dressy shoes. It felt so- regular. He wanted to see what that felt like now. He looked down at his watch to see it was already 7:45am.

"We're gonna be late! What has she been doing? Let's just go." Beast Boy began stomping toward the exit when Cyborg grabbed his shoulder.

"Wait, Beasty-"

The doors opened not a second too late. 'Rachel' stood in a short blue skirt and white blouse with a black tie. Rachel's skin was just as pallid and fair as Raven's ordinarily was. She had been confident walking into the Meeting Room, but was a bit unsure of herself when she looked into Beast Boy's eyes. His mouth was slightly ajar, pupils dilated. What could he possibly be thinking? She was almost too scared to use her empathy skills. Almost. Her emotions reached out and her heart started to beat faster at what she found. In fact her heart was beating almost as fast as his. Then Cyborg leaned in.

"You know siblings usually don't look at each other like this." Cyborg joked. Beast Boy's brain caught up to the moment. He muttered a quick 'whatever' and looked away to hide his blush.

Raven cleared her throat. "We need to leave." The boys agreed and they all headed out.

They arrived at the school at 8:20, twenty-five minutes before they needed to be in class. Cyborg had parked the T-car about three blocks away, so the 'siblings' then walked to school together.

Raven knew it wasn't right, but she couldn't help using her empathy powers on the walk into the school.

Ever since this morning she was perceiving only a fraction of something wonderful emanating from a bizarre source- Beast Boy. Beast Boy was consciously, fully enjoying something. It was a sweet honeyed aroma, an aura of goodness, like taking a bath in a waterfall, or like eating candied fruit on a hot day. The emotions that he was experiencing were tenacious and alluring. The rush that Beast Boy was feeling was addicting. Was this flood of enthusiasm and emotion really directed at his excitement to be at school or maybe...?

Raven didn't want to think it. It was unthinkable- but she was already thinking about it.

'Is he thinking about me?' She rolled the thought over. While absorbed in the idea, she lost track of where she was going.

Raven's foot caught on a stair step while they walked into the school. She grabbed onto Beast Boy's arm out of habit, to steady herself. Beast Boy stopped walking and allowed her a moment to regain her composure.

But Raven didn't dare look him in the eye. She didn't say a word. Because she knew what he was feeling. As soon as she had touched him, his spirit had spiked, like it had reached the summit of a mountain in mere second. His heart beat faster than before. There was a field of emotions stirring within him, and she knew she was only smelling the breeze. He was feeling so much because of her? Was that even possible?

'Does he suddenly like me because I appear more human?'

This compelled her to glance at him. Her wide, hazel eyes stared up at him in surprise, wonder, and fear. His bright blue eyes widened as well when he gathered the look on her was not the look of a girl who had tripped. It was the look of a girl who had used her empath ability.

He had been caught.

He knew from the look she gave him that her empathy skills had picked up on what he was feeling. Before this Beast Boy hadn't had too difficult of a time disguising his feelings. He just had to think of something gross. Or go to another room and decide on another topic for his mind to follow. To act like his emotions were guided toward something else- anything but Raven. But this morning was different. He was by her side for hours, with nothing else to think very hard about, and... she was beautiful. She was normally beautiful, but this look was giving him a whole other view of her. Beast Boy cleared his throat and did the cowardly thing. This was not a conversation they needed to have on their first day of an undercover mission.

"It's just cause you look nice- I don't like you or anything." Beast Boy defended himself. Raven simply nodded as she took her hand off of his forearm.

She couldn't help but turn away and smirk as she felt the dissatisfaction and anguish flow through his veins. Whether he realized it or not-

He was lying.

Their first period was English. As Brian and Rachel walked into class and took account of the students. Their classmates seemed to notice they were there, but just barely. They took a couple of empty seats in the back and Raven began to observe. Beast Boy on the other hand tried to check "falling asleep in class" off of his high school bucket list, though it seemed like class was a few minutes from starting. Raven tuned into a quiet conversation in front of them that was going on between two girls.

"Did you see Vicki, I can't believe she-" The blonde one said.

"I know! Somebody totally got a video of her freak out-" The brunette interrupted.

"I'd like to see that video." Raven stated from behind them. The girls gave her a look of disgust.

"Do we know you?" The blonde queried impolitely.

"Well no-" Raven started.

"Hi, how are you, my name's Beast- uh-" Beast Boy cleared his throat. "Brian. My name's Brian."

"Oh- hey." One of the girls smiled.

Within a minute he was getting information out of them.

"So who's Vicki?" He asked. Raven rolled her eyes at the rude girls, and at how easily Beast Boy had tricked them. It was like watching some kind of Blonde Joke.

"She's just the most powerful 9th grader in existence. But it's not who she is- it's what she did." The blonde smiled. Her brunette friend cut her off.

"Look I found the video! They say that everything was quiet in class and then all of a sudden Vicki leans down and THIS happens."

Raven raised an eyebrow and leaned into see a girl- Vicki- chewing on the hem of some mans pant leg. Some people were laughing. Someone was yelling about zombies.

"When did that happen?" Beast Boy asked.

"Hmmm, well the video was posted yesterday, a little bit before that huge boom noise." The girl said aloofly.

Raven and Beast Boy met each others eyes. Were the incidents somehow related?

WERE THEY KISSING?!_

She was still oblivious to what she had done. When she did find out, she would have one of the longest, hardest laughs of her life time. But for now, Addison capped her pen, and leaned back to admire her handiwork before leaving the bathroom stall.

Therein her masterpiece was etched:

VICKI EATS PANTS

Author's note

Hi again! I got so excited, I decided to update again today! Thank you for any reviews and follows, I will always appreciate them!

Again, the bold is a hint to the next chapter! I basically figured I would make line breaks teasers so I hope that makes you want to keep reading.

Anyways, thank you so much for reading, there will be more soon! :)

Terra is making her appearance in the next chapter by the way! Love you all, have a good day! :)