This one was a little tricky to write. I didn't know who's breakpoint to write...


Breakpoint

"RAVEN!" The empath turned her head to see the green teenager running towards her.

Wham!

Beast Boy froze in his tracks, his eyes wide. He hadn't alerted her soon enough. He hadn't been able to save her. Cinderblock had completely blindsided her and now he could see the blood dripping off of her from her crumpled form. He ran to her side where she had been knocked into a building. The force of the hit had been so powerful that the glass around her had shattered and wounded her even more that the blow itself.

"Raven! Oh my gosh, Raven, you have to be okay, you have to be okay!" A frantic Beast Boy immediately checked her pulse. Her heart was still beating, more faintly than it should have been, but beating nonetheless. He sighed with relief, she was only unconscious and was probably healing herself right that moment. But that didn't change the fact that Cinderblock had hurt her.

The changeling's green eyes flared with rage and he whipped around to face the monster who was now being occupied by the other three Titans. Upon instinct, he let out a bloodcurdling howl and his pupils became slits. Before his teammates knew it, the Beast leaped into the battle and was taking Cinderblock on single handedly. Slash marks from razor sharp claws appeared in the cement wherever the Beast had been and the concrete monster could only moan in pain and flail its arms around to try and knock off it's assailant. But its efforts were to no avail, in seconds the creature was on the ground, unconscious. Robin looked at the other two.

"It looks like we have two to restrain then. Cyborg, you guard Cinderblock, Starfire, help Raven. I'll see what I can do about Beast Boy." Robin soon found that his and Starfire's job was one and the same. A heavily breathing Beast was standing over its wounded mate and growling whenever Starfire tried to get closer. Robin put away all of his weapons and put his hands out in front of him as a sign of surrender.

"Beast Boy, I know you're in there. Calm down, we just want to help." The Boy Wonder took a step towards the empath only to receive another menacing growl. Robin stopped moving.

"Beast Boy," he said more forcefully. They were at a standstill, staring each other in the eyes. A minute or so later, the Beast's eyes narrowed and he shook his head, slowly shrinking back into Beast Boy. The teen slumped against the wall next to Raven, not caring about the broken glass drawing small rivulets of blood from his back. Raven's surface wounds had already been healed and he took her small hand in his own. She was safe, he could rest now. Before he knew it, he was unconscious as well.

Green eyes blinked awake to a bright unnatural light shining directly at them. He blinked quickly to dispel the fuzziness of sleep from the corners of his brain. Beast Boy tried to lean forward but felt a pressure on his hand that made it difficult. He looked down and saw that his hand was still linked with Raven's across the infirmary beds. It looked like Cyborg had pushed the beds as close as he could without disrupting the machinery that monitored Raven that sat between the two. Now noticing that there were no wires or IVs connected to him, he slowly disentangled Raven's hand from his and swung his legs over the side of the bed. He watched her briefly before looking at the monitors to see how her vital were. He smiled. Everything seemed normal. She would be awake soon. His powerful hearing caught the sound of approaching footsteps, but he didn't turn, he just kept watching Raven's peaceful face. When the door swished open, he still didn't turn. He could tell by the footsteps and the scent that it was Robin.

"Hey, Rob," the changeling greeted. Robin said nothing as he walked across the room and sat down in the chair next to the animorph, who still didn't look at his leader.

They sat in silence, Beast Boy watching Raven, and Robin flicking his gaze back and forth between the two. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the green teen turned to look at the Boy Wonder.

"So I guess you wanted to talk to me about today, huh?" Robin nodded. Beast Boy turned back to look at Raven and chuckled humorlessly.

"Yeah, I don't really know why that happened."

A pause.

"I do." Beast Boy turned to look at his leader with a confused expression on his face. Robin could practically see the wheels turning behind the boy's eyes.

"You do?"

"Beast Boy, you have a lot of animals inside of you that tell you to mate for life. Animals like that protect the one they've imprinted." A slight pink tinge dusted Beast Boy's cheeks and he looked back at Raven.

"How do you know about that?" he muttered under his breath.

"It doesn't take much to see that you're happy with her. Just because you've only been dating for a little while doesn't mean you weren't already attached to her." The changeling looked at his leader, searching his masked eyes for some comfort. He sighed. Robin was about as easy to read as a brick.

"Fine, I… imprinted on her a little early, but that doesn't mean anything…" A hard stare from Robin forced him to continue.

"Okay, yeah, it does mean something. I'm just… scared, okay?"

"Scared of?"

"Scared that… she won't… like me the same way I… l-l-like her. And then she'll break up with me and I'll break too."

"She wouldn't let you break."

"How would you know?"

"Remember when Plasmus almost suffocated you?"

"I was unconscious for a few hours, right?" Robin nodded.

"Well, she and her demonic side weren't happy about letting Plasmus live." Beast Boy's eyes widened.

"You mean she went all four eyes on him?!" Robin nodded.

"Its actually kind of a deja vu moment for me. I was having pretty much the same conversation with her as I am with you." Beast Boy could only stare at his leader as Robin stood up and put a hand on the animorph's shoulder.

"Believe me, she's just as attached as you are."


Daww...