A/N: Thank you again to all those who reviewed the last chapter. You have no idea how much I appreciate your feedback. A few people said the last one was very short so I wanted to explain that some oneshots will be fairly short but others will be pretty long. I want to say enough that it's a good story but not so much that I'm spewing word vomit because, really, who likes word vomit? Let me know if I'm writing so little that it makes a chapter hard to understand, though.

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014. Green

He knew he shouldn't have been in Cyborg's room—not after the solemn vow he had made after the Mega Monkeys 4 incident to never step foot into it again —but Cyborg was partly to blame. His mechanized friend should have known better than to make another pair of those rings in secret and then tell the green changeling about it.

Because now curiosity had gotten the better of Beast Boy, and he had to know. So he snuck into Cyborg's room while the metal man was out and took the rings. After an hour of just looking from the rings to his reflection and back, Beast Boy finally worked up the courage (or maybe it was cowardice) to put them on.

That was why, yet another hour later, he was still standing in front of the bathroom mirror, staring and trying to decide whether it would be more appropriate to laugh at the absurdity of the situation or cry because of the painful throbbing in his chest.

He looked so much like his father, so much that he felt tears as he saw his reflection. Sandy blonde hair and bright blue eyes. He remembered his former hair color but not his eyes. He had thought that they had always been green but now he saw they were the same blue as his father's had been. Cobalt, his mother had called them once. Cobalt blue.

So this is who he would have been. Who I should have been, he almost bitterly thought to himself as he fingered his light-colored hair. He was almost sure it felt a little softer than normal but wondered if that was only because he thought it should feel as different as it looked.

The sound of the door opening jerked him from his thoughts, and he gave a startled yelp before fumbling to get the rings off his fingers.

"Beast…Boy?"

The voice froze him for a moment. Slowly and with a feeling of impending doom, Beast Boy turned around to face the person in the doorway.

Stricken blue eyes met surprised violet ones.

"Uh…hi, Raven," Beast Boy mumbled. "I…uh…well, you see…um…"

"You need to remember to lock the bathroom door," Raven calmly informed him, having quickly recovered from her initial shock. "This could have been embarrassing."

Beast Boy blinked.

Raven gently shut the door behind her. "So I would ask what you were doing but it seems pretty obvious."

The young man before her held her gaze a moment longer before looking away entirely. "I just…I wanted to know what I would have looked like. Who would I have been if I had been Garfield Logan," he explained.

Raven raised an eyebrow. Moving to stand directly in front of him, she studied him for a long moment, looking him up and down. Beast Boy felt his cheeks heat up. Due to his fair skin, the blush was extremely noticeable.

Then without warning, she grabbed his wrist and gently but quickly one of the rings off.

The effect was immediate. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy in the mirror disappeared and the completely green Beast Boy was left standing in his place. He didn't know if he felt disappointed or relieved to be looking at his usual self.

But there was a tiny smirk on Raven's face.

"There," she said. "Much better."

"You think?" Beast Boy asked skeptically. He eyed the ring in her hand. "Isn't the green a little—well, a lot overwhelming?"

Raven shrugged slightly. "Maybe. But it's who you are."

She put two fingers under his chin and raised his head up so his eyes would be focused on hers. "And personally, I like Beast Boy."

They were silent for a moment as Beast Boy savored both the surprising warmth of her touch and her words. "What about Gar?" he asked quietly even as a smile worked itself onto his face.

Raven smirked again and dropping her hand back down to grasp his wrist, she led him out of the bathroom. "Last time I checked, you two were the same person."