Countdown with me...

"One..."

"Two..."

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"Three" She blasted open her door and he toppled over and landed in a heap on the floor.

Beastboy was unpreturbed. "Raven!" He shouted reassembling himself and putting an arm around her shoulders before she could sulk away. "Now you're up you can come look at the pictures of Toyko. Even help me decide which of the girls I'm going to contact when we go back."

She practically steamed but couldn't find a way out of it. He'd won.

"Fine" she said grumpily. "I'll help you sort out your fangirl club."

Beastboy grinned and wagged a finger at her "Somebody's jealous..."

She leaned over him sticking her finger in his face this time. "Somebody doesn't know what's good for him."

Beastboy squealed and put up his hands in a surrender sign.

"Nice" Raven said, reffering to his squeal. "The girls must love that."

"You have no idea" he retorted cockily.

He sat down on the couch with her. She wrapped her cape around her. "OK. What do I have to do?"

"First you could tell me..." he shot out of sight for a moment and returned with bundles of pictures. "Which is the best one for the fanclub? Just pick one that highlights all my best features." He said excited.

"All of them?" She asked sarcastically, picking up a photo and throwing it aside, before moving onto a new one.

"I must really like you to be doing this" Raven said absently, as she looked over a picture of Beastboy so covered in girls all she could see was a blur of green. Then a milisecond later her hand shot to her mouth.

Did she just...?

No. She couldn't have.

Of course she didn't mean it to mean... that. But she did say it.

Beastboy wagged his eyebrows "really like me huh?" he asked hopefully, it was supposed to sound like a mock-hopefulness but after all the attention he was getting the week before, it came off a little desperate.

Raven thought she was about to gag. "I was speaking comparatively." She frowned. "You know, compared to watching you play video games or Robin and Starfire kissing."

The weird thing was that she hadn't hit him yet. Hadn't even gotten close. It was like they got back and the physical contact went back to normal. The bare minimum.

"Yeah. Robin and Starfire" Beastboy let out a chuckle "didn't see that coming."

She looked at him deadpan.

Didn't see that coming?

It had been coming for years. Right under their noses. Raven sometimes wondered how much videogames had really destroyed the working capacity of his brain.

She continued to sort. "No. no. no..." she kept a verbal track of all the goofy shots Beastboy had taken. That was the reason that the Titans didn't go on vacation. Never mind a heavy day job... it was all about how haywire Beastboy would go with a camera.

After what seemed to be a ton of badly shot photos she finally found one of him on his own. Him not striking a stupid pose or putting his hands in weird places.

A photo where he actually looked... dare she say it...

decent.

"This one. Highlights your eyes."

He stared at her and then at the photo. "My eyes?" He asked dumbfounded. Was this a compliment? Coming from Raven?

She didn't hold back and whacked him one upside the head. "Yes your eyes, genius. Do I have to repeat everything three times for you to catch on?"

He took the picture and inspected it closely. "What's so great about my eyes in this picture?" He asked naively. He was fishing, but he tried to make it look as conspicious as possible.

"They're... nice" Raven finished lamely. Not wanting to push the compliment.

Beastboy closed his mouth that was gaping open and looked at her. A deep look. But what she'd said just earned it. A break from all his superficial looks that he regularly gave her.

"Uh... your eyes are nice too" he said.

Yeah. Smooth Beastboy. Real smooth. He thought, wanting to whack his head on the table a few times.

She looked at him and blinked. Obviously dumbfounded herself.

Checking for negativity. Checking for negativity. Clear. Raven thought. Validifying the compliment.

So what next? They both had nice eyes. Big deal.

It was becoming uncomfortable and the last thing Raven wanted was for them to become all like Robin and Starfire. Googly eyed and illogical.

With Beastboy, Terra was the only girl he'd ever really fell for. And the truth was, he was still getting over it.

She'd released him, to be free again... but anything with Raven was dangerous waters to be treading in.

He couldn't help to be amazed by her sometimes, though. Terrified. But amazed.

Beastboy plucked up the courage and tried something bold. He put his hand over hers. She'd already shook him free and walked hastily away.

He'd either just made the faux par of the century, or he she didn't even notice.

He hoped it was the latter, but he knew no guy was that lucky. Confirmation of that was evident when the door to her room slammed loud enough to hear moments later.

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For some reason... yeah, the layout it all weird esp. in the 1st chap... but I don't care. Call it apathy. Review for more.