So, apparently I forgot the disclaimer in the last chapter, oops! So here it is for these first two:
I have no ownership of any rights regarding the characters of the Teen Titans cartoon or any other affiliations relating to said cartoon. All of those belong to some other lovely person.
Intelligence
Why and how he had ended up in her room again was a mystery to her. She had been meditating after that day's training, clearing and calming her senses so that when the team went out for dinner, she could handle the social interaction without being what Beast Boy sometimes called a 'Grouchy McGrouch Grouch'.
Though recently, she had done fairly well with being more social. She had gone to the store with Beast Boy over a week ago and now whenever he had some miniscule errand or event, he would invite her along and most of the time she conceded.
However, she did not have much choice at the moment as to whether or not she wanted his company. He had knocked on her door and when she answered, he morphed into a gnat and squeezed through the small crack and into her room, only to change back into his human form and to start ranting about some comment she had made at training.
She sat on her bed for most of it, while he paced random patterns around her room.
"I mean seriously, Raven! The whole team thinks I'm some dummy! And all of you make those snide remarks about me not having a brain, or falling on my head as a baby. Or if I do have a brain, like you said 'it's as empty as a cracked egg'. It hurts y'know! And you are the worst about it. I can't think of a single day that you haven't gone and said something about how stupid you think I am!"
"I don't think you are stupid, Garfield." Raven interrupted.
"And then you had to go and get the rest of the team in on the joke, haha poor Beast Boy he's…wait, what?" Beast Boy stopped, his wildly moving hands coming to halt at his sides. "Did you just call me Garfield?"
"Just sit down before you hurt yourself." Raven said with a sigh.
"See that's what I'm-"
"Sit!" She ordered, dark magic crackling momentarily at her fingertips.
He clammed up and dropped into a cross-legged position on the floor. She pinched the bridge of her nose, regretting having scared him. She moved down to the floor as well.
"None of us think you are stupid Garfield." She repeated as she sat across from him, "You're childish and reckless, it's who you are. We only tease you for acting like a child, like you tease Robin for being a workaholic, and Star Fire a naïve goody-goody, and me…"
She tried to twist her face in a comical way, forcing a pronounced frown on her lips, "A Grouchy McGrouch Grouch."
Beast Boy laughed at that, "So you think I'm smart, huh?"
"Very smart."
"Smart enough to figure out a way into your room without you beating me to a pulp?" He grinned.
She sneered at that, recognizing that he had managed to come in without permission and had disrupted her meditation, all without due punishment.
She smirked at him. "Who says I still won't?"
For a second his grin faltered, then it filled his face again, "Gotta go, bye!"
He morphed back into a gnat and flew out the crack still left in the door before she had a chance to beat him into a pulp. She chuckled and with a slight hope he might overhear her say so, she muttered,
"Smart move, Gar, smart move."
