Author's Note: Chapter two has now become episode one because thats the way it should have been and I'm just silly. The pilot Chapter should have been 'Pilot Episode'. I wanted it to be like a tv series affect.
Sorry if this creates any confusion. But at least you will know which chapters have been re-edited and which haven't?
Last Night.
Episode One.
-Beast Boy's POV-
dream
I entered the main room to find it empty aside from Raven, who was meditating by one of the large bay windows. I knew better than to interrupt her so I decided to just make some dinner and then maybe watch a movie, with subtitles of course. As I pulled out my tofu burgers and some soy milk from the fridge, I saw Raven's black energy envelope one of the cupboard doors and open it, then a large white mug emerged and was placed on the counter next to the kettle. The door to the cupboard closed quietly as I straightened myself up and placed everything I needed out on the counter next to the stove.
I looked up to see Raven on the other side of the Breakfast bar watching me from behind her large book that she had resting on her lap. I noticed that she still hadn't turned the kettle on so I filled it up with water and then turned it on for her. I glanced back at her to see she was reading a large, old book. It's spine was missing and the pages looked like they were about to fall out.
After I cooled in silence while she read I decided to annoy her. She had been in her room all day and the rest of the team was out, which meant I had been alone, bored. "What's that you're reading there Rae?" I asked her, trying to make conversation as I plated up my food and poured my soy milk into a large glass.
"It's called the Toro Musk." She said dryly. I sighed, wishing she would make conversation easier. Or at least try to have a conversation. But nothing ever was easy when it came to Raven.
"What's it about?" I placed one of her tea bags into her cup and added a small amount of honey, just like I had seen her do. Then I poured the steaming water into the mug and waited for the liquid to darken before I took out the bag and stirred the contents. I then placed her cuo infront of her. "Here. I hope I made it right."
She looked up at me and then down at the mug. A small smile graced her lips for a second and then she looked back at her book. "It's about another dimension similar to mine. Except the dimension is war ravaged and full of dark creatures that eat others souls." She spoke quickly, and quietly. Lucky I had my ears; otherwise I wouldn't have heard her.
"Sounds like a good read." I said to her, trying to sound interested, when I was anything but. 'A book about creatures that eat the souls of others. WAAAAAAY interesting.' I thought to myself as I took a bite from my burger. We both let the comfortable silence encase us as we did our own thing. As I finished my glass of soy milk I noticed that her mug had disappeared behind her book and I could hear her blowing on it. I turned and placed the dishes in the sink and then turned to face her, well her book anyway as I leaned against the counter.
"Thank you Beast Boy." Her voice was like music to my ears, she spoke so gently I almost wasn't sure it was her. "The tea is... Nice."
Cat Beast Boy stretched and then sat up. It then transformed into Beast Boy, who stretched again while he yawned. He looked at the clock on his small crowded desk. It read 1:37pm. He had slept most of the day already.
"I should probably get up and have something to eat." He said aloud. He looked out the window to see that the day had actually turned out beautiful. The sun filled his room, casting shadows along the ground from the piles of clothes and pizza boxes.
He stood up and stretched once more before he left his room and headed for the main room. The smell of meat danced in his nose as he fought back a gag. 'Cyborg must be making his lunch.' He thought as he neared the door. It opened as he approached it and saw the one person come through it that he really didn't want to see at that moment.
Raven.
"Beast Boy." She said when he stopped walking towards her. "I just." She walked closer to him before stopping a few steps in front of him. Beast Boy tried not to look at her, though he gave in, he couldn't resist the temptation. Once he did look at her, she gave him a small smile, one that he was sure he hadn't seen before. One that to him seemed to be a smile of pity. He clenched his fists at the thought; cold claws digging into his palms.
"You just?" His voice was sharp and Raven visibly winced at it. He softened his body and looked to the ground. "I'm Sorry."
"No please, I guess I deserve it." She sighed. "I just wanted to say I that I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left you the way I did. Will you come to my room later, so we can talk?"
"I.." He looked up at her and the pleading look in her eyes gave him no other option. He wanted so badly to say no to her. But that look in her eyes, he still loved her. How he loved her so. "I suppose I could do that." He tried to play cool.
"Come whenever you're ready. I'll wait for you." And with that she left him abruptly, again. Beast boy looked down and shook his head as he continued his way into the main room, where he could see Cyborg standing over the stove with what looked like five different kinds of animal. Starfire and Robin were sitting on the lounge watching 'World of Fungus'.
"'Sup BB? Hungry?" Cyborg had a smug look on his face as he waved at Beast Boy with an egg flipper.
"I've suddenly lost my appetite." He held his stomach as he walked over and sat down at the table. He folded his arms on the table and rested his head on his arms.
"What's wrong man?" he asked; his voice soothing and full of worry.
"Nothing."
"Friend, will you come join us in the watching of World of Fungus? They have a special on mycorrhizal fungi. It is most interesting to see it grow on the trees of Christmas." Starfire's cheery voice came from the lounge and he looked up to see everyone staring at him.
He forced a laugh, "No thanks Star. That show gives me the creeps." Then he proceeded to get up from his seat at the table and headed for the door.
'Maybe I just need some fresh air.' He thought to himself as he walked towards the elevator to take him out to the roof. The elevator ride seemed longer than it usually did, he hated having to wait so long. Once he finally reached the roof he took a deep breath. The fresh air soothing him instantly.
'No wonder Raven spends so much time up here.'
He took a seat on one of the air vents that stuck out from the roof and looked out onto the water. The buildings from the city were glistening with the afternoon sun and the water was lapping gently at the shore. He watched the clouds zoom past him in the sky and tried to make out what the shapes were. Toady they all appeared to be cloud shaped, and that angered him slightly. He lay back on the vent and continued to watch the sky.
-Raven's POV-
Once Raven had entered her room from her encounter with Beast Boy she had tried ever so hard to meditate, but found her self staring at the clock on her bedside table. Each time she glanced at it, only a few minutes or a few seconds had passed by. She had even caught herself watching the second hand go around and round the clock face.
Each agonizing second drumming into her head.
"Stop it!" She said to herself. She picked up the clock with her powers and threw it into her waste bin near the book shelf on the opposite side of the room. "You're only making this worse for yourself."
She decided that maybe a rest would calm her mind and so she laid her head on the pillow and watched the clouds roll past her in the sky. She began to see faces in the clouds. One face, to be exact. The face of a certain team member as her eyelids began to close slowly. Every now and then she would catch herself falling asleep, her eyes would shoot open, only to slowly close again. Until finally, she fell asleep.
dream
"Sounds like a good read." I heard him say, the way he said it was almost sincere. 'But this is Beast Boy, anything that didn't have monkeys in it just wasn't his style.' The sound of him eating meant that I would be able to read in silence for a moment, 'I must admit, it is rather nice to just sit together and enjoy each other's company, even if we weren't talking. Sometimes I preferred him silent.'
I picked up my tea that he had made for me while he was drinking his soy milk. I could hear him get up and place his dishes in the sink as I took a small sip from the hot liquid and let it trickle down my throat, the heavenly taste tingling my taste buds and I let the warmth cloak my body. He had made it perfectly. I couldn't believe my mouth.
"Thank you Beast Boy." I spoke, the voice that left my lips didn't sound like my own voice. "The tea is... Nice." I took another large mouthful to stop myself from talking in this ridiculous voice, I then placed the mug on the counter along with the book. The look on his face caused me to tilt my head to the side as if to question what he was staring at.
Beast Boy chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck and looked down at the floor. "Sorry." His voice filled with his childish innocence that I had grown to actually enjoy, despite my own mental protests. It wasn't one he used often and only usually on me, though I'd heard him use it with Starfire once or twice. "I'm just happy to have done something right."
"Beast Boy, you don't always do the wrong thing." I tried to sound reassuring, but I knew I didn't. "I guess it's just the way you handle a situation that runs most people the wrong way." He looked up at me briefly and then back at whatever it was on the floor that held him in a trance.
"So, uh." Clearly he was changing the subject. I "mm'd" at him to continue. "Where is everyone?"
I thought about it for a moment, Robin had told me, but I truly wasn't interested in what he was saying. "Robin and Starfire are... At the mall" I thought about it a little harder, replaying this afternoon's one sided conversation in my head. "And Cyborg is... Cyborg is.." I trailed off. I don't think I was even thinking about where he was, I just let my mind wonder, and then, "He's at Titans East for the day, he'll be back tomorrow morning." I finally answered.
"Oh." I watched his ears drop and then he stared at me for a while. I could tell I wasn't going to like where this was going. "Raven...?"
"Yes, Beast Boy?"
"Well. I was wondering. Since no one is home of course." I heard him gulp. "Did you wanna. You know maybe play a video game with me?"
"What do you think?"
"Ok, umm. How about a movie?"
'Persistent as always.' I though inwardly. "I'll watch a movie with you."
The look on his face was full of confidence all of a sudden and I knew I was in for a long night of horribly unfunny movies and lame jokes. "What did you want to watch?" Beast Boy said as he finally moved away from the sink. He came over to my side of the breakfast bar and I could feel him watching me. Waiting for my reply.
"Beast Boy, you asked me to watch a movie with you." I felt my monotone return and I felt his emotions shift from overly happy, to just plan old happy. 'How is he always so cheery?'
"Ok. I'm sure I can find something we can both enjoy." And with that he grabbed my hand, my face growing painfully hot as he linked his fingers through mine and dragged my to the couch where plopped me down and then proceeded to rummage through our DVD collection. Yelling out random movie titles that I had never heard of, constantly answering
"Whatever you want Beast Boy." And then he would continue to mutter to himself.
The sound of light rapping on Raven's door awoke her from her slumber. She slowly rubbed her eyes as she sat up in her bed. She looked out her window and saw that it was already night time and she had obviously slept longer than she had intended.
She grabbed her cloak from the foot of her bed and wrapped it around herself. The sound of knocking rang through her room again. This time louder and more impatient. She slowly stumbled towards the door in the dark. Raven inhale a deep breath to calm herself, then slowly slid the door open to a large pair of green eyes...
End Episode One.
So there this chapter is now updated. The rest will be soon. R&R x
-Moe x
