Moon Angel
Beastboy's head rested against the shower tiles in front of him as the nearly broiling water cascaded over his neck and down his slender, muscular body. He just couldn't shake what happened earlier out of his mind. 'Why am I thinking these things about my teammate? And the mean one for that matter.' Beastboy, thought about that remark. 'Well,' he supposed 'I can't really call her mean. Okay, not user-friendly.' Beastboy smirked at what he thought was a clever quip.
Raven had not moved from her position on the couch for nearly fifteen minutes, and still had yet to see any sign of Beastboy coming back. 'Why would he come back anyway? He seemed to be in such a hurry to get away from me. He won't come back.' Raven sighed in self-pity as she stood up from the couch and headed for the common room doors.
Raven finally made it to the floor and hall that led to everyone's rooms. Before going to her room she decided to make a pit stop at the bathroom. She assumed Beastboy was using the one on the same floor as the common room, seeing as he was in such a hurry to bathe. 'Yea, right. When has he ever been that 'excited' to shower? Probably isn't even taking one. I bet it was just an excuse to get away.' Being so consumed in her thoughts Raven didn't hear the bathroom door open as she approached it. And before either could make out each other steam surrounded that small portion of the hall.
UNF! "Oww," came Beastboy's voice through the steam.
Raven just moaned and grunted and she rubbed her lower back.
The steam cleared. Raven and Beastboy locked on each other's faces as soon as they came into view. "You ran into me." Raven stated, though not accusingly. She said it as more of an observation.
"Sorry. Didn't think you'd be standing right outside the door." Beastboy said facetiously.
Raven couldn't reason with herself for why she did it, but her eyes decided to stroll along Beastboy's form. Noticing his broad shoulders, his slender shape, the just visible six pack, the V— Raven nearly slapped herself, and thought better of it if she had. 'What the hell is wrong with me?! I'm going insane! I'm checking out Beastboy! Beastboy for Christ's sake!' And then she noticed… His towel. Upon Beastboy's crash to the ground, his towel had slipped from its tuck and was now laid out beneath him.
Raven's face went crimson. Beastboy followed her gaze, seeing his still erect member out in the open. Beastboy's eyes grew to the size of ping-pong balls. His hands flew to his member pushing it down as he tried to hide it, his face covered in a grimace, as it was painful to do so. Being without any free hands, Beastboy decided to leave the towel, jumped to his feet and haled ass to his room. Raven sat there, face red, and completely stunned.
Swoosh!
Beastboy sat on his bed, face blood red. He had never experienced something so embarrassing in his entire life. 'And it front of her, of all people. How am I ever going to be able to face her?' Beastboy rested his face in his hands, sulking.
Once Raven got her mind straight, she stood and walked into the bathroom. After completing her business, she washed her hands and walked out in direction of her room.
Swoosh!
Raven sat on her bed. The scene would not stop repeating in her head. Keeping her face at a constant crimson. Also realizing that she had checked him out was not helping any. Raven crossed her legs, rested her upturned wrists on her knees, closed her eyes, and tried to meditate. The scene played again from the beginning: the steam, Beastboy's naked body, the V, his erect- GASP! Raven's eyes flew open to diminish the thought. Staring at her sheets, Raven's face calmed. But it only lasted so long until anger dropped from her eyebrows slanting inward over her eyes to her mouth, teeth bared. She brought the heel of her palm to her forehead in one swift and powerful movement – Raven extreme face-palmed and fell backwards on her bed. She was angry at herself. Angry for looking. Sigh.
Raven spent the next few hours pretty much just staring at the ceiling. The scene continuously replaying in her head, though she tried to will it to stop.
Knock, knock, came a soft rapping on her door. She pushed herself up off her bed and walked to her door. Knowing it could only be one person she did not have an excuse to open her door only three inches as she always did. Opening it fully she saw Beastboy standing on the other side, clothed. Just standing… not speaking.
"Yes?" She asked quizzically.
"I came back… just like I said I would?" His sentence came out as more of a question, as if saying 'remember?'
Raven's cheeks tinged pink slightly. "Oh. Right." She said uninterestedly, so as not to seem at all embarrassed. She turned and walked back into her room. Beastboy followed.
"You don't sound too enthused." Beastboy observed, sounding disappointed.
"What do you want me to say?" Raven asked rhetorically. Turning around to face him once she reached the foot of her bed.
Beastboy just shrugged, as Raven turned on her heel toward her window, pulling the curtains open when she reached it.
Raven sat on her bed, scooted backwards toward the headboard, crossed her legs, and sighed. "I was thinking about catching some sleep, seeing as it's the early morning." Raven was looking out her window and could see the sun coming up over the curve of the earth. "Sleeping all day seems to be my sleep schedule lately." Raven yawned.
"Would you like me to stay?"
Raven stared down at her sheets, not sure what to answer with.
Beastboy walked to the left side of her bed, near the window, pulled the shades closed, and sat down. "I'll sleep down hear if you'd like?" Beastboy suggested.
Raven continued to stare at her sheets.
"Or not…" Beastboy questioned. Not wishing to overstay his welcome he stood up and headed for the door. "I suppose I'll just go?" Beastboy questioned still unsure what to do.
Raven's head jerked up and she outstretched her right hand toward him. "No wait!" Beastboy stopped and turned to look at her. "Don't go." Beastboy couldn't help but smile inside. Although he felt bad that his teammate was suffering from a dream ordeal, he couldn't help but notice how innocent and cute she looked, reaching out to him, her face relaying her fear of letting him leave her sight.
Raven brought her hand back to her body and once again continued to stare at her sheets. "I'm afraid of having another nightmare."
"Well, how about I sleep on the floor, and if it sounds like you're having another nightmare I'll wake you before it gets worse?"
Raven didn't move. Beastboy walked back to the side of her bed, laid out on her floor with his hands behind his head, and closed his eyes.
Raven stared at Beastboy. She sighed, scooted under her covers and turned onto her right.
It didn't take long for sleep to steal her consciousness. As she fell deeper into a dream state, fuzzy pictures moved about, soon coming into focus. Raven started to make out pieces of furniture in a gray room. Gray room, gray furniture – 'Oh no!' Raven was right back in that room. She was right back at the point before she turned around. Raven wanted to run, but her dream wouldn't let her move. As Raven slept, she did not move in real time, her eyes just moved frantically beneath her lids. It seemed as though her body was paralyzed from the horror that was encasing her unconscious.
In Raven's dream, she was finally able to force herself to turn. To see her tormentor. However, as her eyes scanned the area behind her, there was no one. Raven looked around frantically, movement coming with more ease seeing as danger was not as apparent or immediate in the moment. The room was empty. Raven sighed with relief. 'Now, if I can just find a way out.' Dream Raven tried to stand. That's when she became aware of her limbs. They were tied in the same fashion as in her nightmare before. Once again, panic rushed over her. She tried struggling to loosen the ropes that bound her. But dreams don't always work out in your favor as Raven was realizing.
After a few minutes of panicked limb-seizuring, the door opened. Raven froze immediately, and slowly looked up. She nearly melted when she saw her teammate, Beastboy, standing in the doorway, 'Oh thank god! I'm saved!' Beastboy closed the door behind him and went to Raven's side.
Beastboy looked over her, asking, "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
"I'm fine. I'm so glad you're here." Raven could not help but smile at Beastboy. She had never been so happy to see him before.
Beastboy smiled back at her.
Raven waited for Beastboy to go to work and untie her. He just sat there staring and smiling. His smile was off though. It wasn't love-struck like it had been the first night he woke her, it was like an empty happiness. And it wasn't really aimed towards her. More like he was proud of himself.
"Um, Beastboy. What's taking so long."
Beastboy's smile transformed into a smirked sneer. "Oh. You thought I was here to rescue you? How cute," he mocked her.
Raven's face drained in blood and expression. "No…" was the only whispered word that escaped her lungs before Beastboy had his left hand pressed down on her chest, pushing her down on the floor. On her back she was looking at the one person she thought she could trust no matter what. The other Titans had had moments where they betrayed the team, or seemingly so, but Beastboy never did. He always stayed the same.
As Raven lay in terror, Beastboy leered at her body, tracing her curves so intently with his eyes Raven could almost feel it. She squirmed beneath his hold. "Mmm, I like it when you squirm beneath me." Raven nearly gagged when she heard him say that. And that's when she felt his other hand gliding up her thighs. Feeling his fingers squeezing between them. She felt his claws rip the fabric that came between him and her womanhood. As his fingers slid up and down her slit she shook and shuddered in complete disgust.
Beastboy stopped his fingers at the lower part of her lips, right in front of her hole. Before the tears could well and cascade down her cheeks, before Beastboy's fingers could probe inside her she screamed, "BEASTBOY, NO!"
Beastboy's eyes shot open as he heard Raven scream his name. This time it wasn't telepathic. Beastboy scrambled to his feet, wanting to wake her before she screamed again. The other Titans didn't need to be alerted or concerned.
Beastboy started to shake Raven, almost violently. He just wanted to save her from the pain. He couldn't watch her suffer. It hurt too much.
Raven's eyes shot open. She looked over at Beastboy and her eyes widened more than he thought humanly possible. "G-GET AWAY FROM ME!" she screamed at Beastboy.
Beastboy reached out to calm her. "Raven…"
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" Raven screamed as she scooted away from him, her eyes terrified.
"Raven, what's wrong!" Beastboy questioned before Raven had the chance to cut him off by screaming at him again. It hurt to see her look at him like that. Like she was afraid of him. He could handle her being angry with him. That was a common enough occurrence that it no longer fazed him. But to see her absolutely terrified of him left him heartbroken.
Raven continued to glare at him from the other side of her bed. She had scooted off the side onto the floor.
"Raven!" Beastboy demanded. "What the hell did you dream this time? I wanna know because apparently it involves me now!"
"You" Raven started in a low growl. "It was you this time."
"What was me?"
Raven did not respond. Her eyes split into four and started to glow neon red.
He just stared at her incredulously. That was it, he wasn't going to take this. 'It was just a dream for God's sake!' It was ridiculous for her to be acting this way. Beastboy gathered all the courage, and anger, he had and walked over to her. His eyes stern. His teeth shown, bared. Raven's glowing eyes started to dim as he got closer. She couldn't sense fear and that was potentially dangerous. Beastboy stood right in front of her, holding his expression. He reached down to her, grabbed her wrists and pulled her to her feet. When she was face-to-face with him; he stared her down.
This was her teammate. She questioned why she was suddenly treating him like the enemy. Real life Beastboy hadn't given her any reason not to trust him. Raven's eyes formed back into their original two and dimmed back to violet. "You…" Raven had to look away. She couldn't face him while she told him. "You tried to… take advantage of me." Raven's eyes started to well.
Beastboy's face and voice softened, "How do you mean?" Beastboy clearly wasn't getting it.
Raven jerked her wrists from his grasp. Her arms stood stick-straight at her sides with her fists balled. "What do you think I mean?!" A few teardrops flicked out.
Beastboy motioned back a bit, his expression now conveying a sense of pause and thought, waiting to see if she'd say anything else. She just stood there. Her anger still fresh. Beastboy looked at her trying to process what she could have meant. But only half his brain was really working at it as his other half became rather distracted by Raven's body in front of his. Her cloak was open again and he couldn't tear his eyes from her curv- then it clicked. Beastboy knew what she meant.
Beastboy hung his head and spoke low, ashamed, "I took advantage of you… sexually, didn't I?"
Raven calmed and returned to a normal posture and deadpan expression. She took a seat on her bed and responded with a sigh, "Yes."
Beastboy lifted his head to look at her. She was staring at the floor. He walked to her and lowered himself on the bed next to her. Raven looked at him. A subtle fear was flowing over her eyes. "I'm afraid to go to sleep." Raven choked back tears.
Beastboy looked into Raven's eyes, "Raven… I would never, ever hurt you. And I will do every thing I can to keep you safe. Even from nightmares. I will always be here for you to rely on." Beastboy's face was determined, genuine.
Raven was so shocked to hear that coming from Beastboy. It was the last thing she would ever expect from him. The sincerity, the honesty. As she continued to stare into his eyes she couldn't help but feel drawn to them. Like they were pulling her in by some unseen force. Her heart started to pound in her chest 'Why am I feeing this reaction from Beastboy? I don't understand.'
'How is this happening?' Beastboy noticed her moving forward and couldn't help moving in towards her. His eyelids lowered. His breathing started to come out ragged. 'Oh Raven.'
Their lips joined. The kiss continuing softly, gently, slowly.
Raven poured her heart out through their kiss. Rejoicing in the love of another. Feeling her body go weak. She caved in and her body fell into Beastboy's. The kiss still continuing.
Beastboy's heart was beating a mile a minute. He couldn't believe how soft her lips were. How incredible she smelled. His heart nearly stopped when he felt her body push into is. He wrapped his arms around her. Determined to protect her.
When Raven felt his arms encircle her. Protecting her. Her powers unleashed. Books slipped off shelves and thudded to the floor. Anything glass popped and shattered. The curtains flew open. At that very moment Beastboy broke the kiss and looked down at Raven. Her eyes slowly opened as he gasped inwardly at the sight before him. The moon was shining upon her face once again. But this was different than all the previous times Beastboy had witnessed. Her face was illuminated, her skin looked like porcelain, cheeks tinged pink, eyes shimmering, her hair shined with brilliance, and it must have been a trick from his eyes but he could have sworn he saw white wings behind her for the briefest of moments. Her beauty rivaled with that of angels.