CH3

"And when my I woke up , the serum had forced my Sakutia dormant and turned me green. Later, when my mom ran across a cobra I just…changed, I changed into a mongoose and killed the snake. My mom was so proud. She hugged me even though I was still a bloody mongoose. Once I calmed down enough I changed back. They died in a boating accident and I escaped, that's all I'm gunna say right now. Animals mature quickly, they have to in order to survive, everything matures quickly. After I was infected, my muscles, my mind, my senses, they all evolved and became enhanced, more intense. The first year after my powers, I got something else from my animal side, something neutral, that didn't go with the good stuff or the bad stuff."

"Bad stuff?" Argent this time.

"Uh, never mind." Bee wouldn't let him get off that easily though.

"Nuh-uh, you brought it up BB, now you gotta spill."

"I-I don't tell anyone this because it makes them uncomfortable around me, they tend to avoid me afterwards…promise me it won't be like that after I tell you?" Argent nodded immediately, Bee nodded after a few seconds...and Jynx…looked at him. She decided that she trusted him and he could trust her, so she nodded. "Uh, my senses are the best in the world. Every time something makes the smallest noise, I hear it. If you whisper I can hear you. Across a football field, and I can hear changes in voice too, like hesitation, strain or tension. Heavy breathing, even if it's only a little bit. But I'm not always paying attention so…yeah. And uh…I can…see the changes in your body, blood flow, eye dilation, muscle tension, basically I'm a human lie detector." They were paying attention now. "I can smell…everything about you. I know what you ate, what you were around, who you were around, what perfume you're wearing, how you naturally smell, the last time you took a bath, uh, relieved yourself, and when someone is…attracted, to someone. And what the uh…well, I know what everyone smells like. Like dogs do. I have a perfect scent memory." Argent stiffened.

"Wait, 'like dogs do'? Are you saying that you know what our lady-bits smell like?" they all looked at him now and he hung his head.

"Yeah, but not just you, I know how everyone I've ever met smells like. It's not like I make an effort, I just notice it as part of peoples smell and I know what…girls, smell like, as opposed to what a…guy smells like. I mean, I don't make an effort to smell someone, it's just part of breathing for me." He looked at them expecting rejection and saw…they were thinking about it. But Jynx spoke up first.

"What else can you do?" he looked up, and saw…caution.

"I can taste your emotions on the air, and each person's emotion tastes different. Like a drink with a different fruit dropped in." there was silence and Beastboy looked down again. Jynx saw this and knew she had to keep him talking so she cast a small spell on him.

"Is that all the 'bad stuff'?" she asked and he shivered for some reason.

"No, that's the stuff that explains the bad stuff." He said. He fell down on his stomach and decided he needed a cookie. "I need a cookie." So he ate one, and when he was done…he ate another, all the while the spell took root. "I can taste your sympathy, your pity, your excitement... and your fear." He looked up at them and saw they were staring at him, "It's the last one that always gets me. It brings my mask crashing down and my beast to the surface." He looked down, and away from their fear. His voice took a deeper cast, almost as if someone else was speaking. "The predators in me suppress the prey in me. I'm actually a very violent person. I'm very basic. All I really need, is to sleep and to hunt for food. To kill." He smelled their fear pour out of them, their adrenalin. "Do not be afraid, I have a lot of practice not killing people. I have a constant bloodlust. I have a constant urge to defend my territory, with extreme violence, but I don't act on it. I even eat tofu and drink soymilk so the blood I want to drink, the meat I want to tear…it doesn't tempt me. I say it's because it's like cannibalism and it disgusts me, but in fact it's just too…good. I fight crime so I can release my violent urges on criminals. But it's not enough, so I hunt in the forest. It's my guilty secret." He looked at them and saw their faces. "You're afraid of me now…and just a little aroused. It's primal and some part of you likes that. Why am I telling you this? I shouldn't be telling you this, this just makes you more afraid, and it excites me. It makes me want to kill you, to tear you and drink your blood, to be victorious, to mate. Why am I telling you this?"

"I…" she was afraid, and excited, but…she knew she had to tell him. "I may have cast a tiny subconscious truth spell on you to merge your conscious and subconscious to bring the full truth forward." She said sheepishly "I should probably un-do it."

"That would be good. My Beast, the most primal part of me resides in my sub-conscious, and he has no restraint except when it's time to mate and then only barely."

"Beastboy," Bee was hesitant, but she had to know. "what did you mean by 'mate'?"

"I mean kill anyone that comes between me and my chosen mate, bask in their death, and then claim my prize, by force if necessary." The girls backed away a little. "You shouldn't ask me questions if you aren't ready for the answers.

"Is that all mate?"

"No Argent, and you should not use that word for me right now, my mating season is coming up." She blushed realizing her mistake "I've suppressed it for the ridiculous laws of this country for years, and each year it has gotten worse. I lived in hell for that time because I could not freely mate as I might wish but with your help I may be able to indulge finally. My pheromones will arouse all females close to me. Attract them to me specifically, and I will have my pick. I can control myself one more time but I don't want to."

"What help did you want from us again?" she asked nervously

"I have proved too intense for women in the past, and would like to be more manageable so I may indulge. That is part of my problem, the other is my size, it has proved…difficult when coupled with how intense I am, in the past. Bumblebee can change size freely and Jynx is magic, I had hoped they could help, either make me a less feral or a more…appropriate size for my passion. I sure as hell wasn't going to go to Raven with this." Jynx remembered undoing the spell. She snapped her fingers, and he seemed to come back to himself. He actually shifted back to himself, no one had realized but as he was talking he had been ever so slowly shifting into the Beast, and now that he shifted back the change became evident "Dudes! Not cool! You didn't need to know all of that! Oh man! I've never told anyone all of that. You don't even know how close the Beast was to-! I'm not dealing with this right now. Do you like cats?" Jynx hadn't meant to make him feel bad

"Look Beastboy I'm sorry and I didn't mean to-cats? I love cats, why?"

"Because I'm not going to talk about anything until tomorrow, so I'm going to sleep, right here, right now." And so he changed into a panther. He put his nose up in Jynx's face, put his forehead on hers and pushed her down onto the bed. Then he put his nose onto her hip and began to sniff her, he worked his way up to her neck zigzagging back and forth across her until he got to her neck and the top of her head, with her giggling and twisting the whole way.

"Beastboy!" she giggled "Stop!" another giggle "That tickles!" he stopped when he came around right in front of her face and looked her right in her eyes and then they froze. He broke the tension as licked her face from her lips up over her nose to the top of her eyebrow "Oh gross!" she pushed him back and sat up wiping her face on her sleeves, meanwhile he circled and rubbed up against her, still circling. Eventually curled around her, his back up against hers and his head in her lap. "As cute as you are you big lug I can't sleep like this." He opened an eye at her in askance "Get up so we can change into our pj's ok?" he didn't respond, he merely got up and loped off of the bed, stretching like only cats can do and collapsed onto the floor, purring. Argent spoke.

"He is pretty cute." And so the girls went and changed, brushed their teeth and did their whole night time ritual. Bumblebee had on plaid pajama pants and a big Stealers jersey. Jynx was wearing a loose lavender tube top with straps and pink boy shorts. Argent was wearing a very short and loose slip…and nothing else. Everyone looked at her. "What? I sleep all nat-u-ral, you're lucky I put on this much. Speakin' o' which, Beasty-boo, ain't you gunna take off your uniform before you come to bed with us?" Bumblebee wasn't going to have that however.

"Speak for yourselves girls, I'm goin' to my room, you can play with him all you want tonight but I need my sleep. Goodnight girls, and Beastboy?" she said turning to him "Try not to tire them out too much."

If a panther could be said to blush, then this one did, he left the room before coming back with his bag and went right to the bathroom. his shadow showed him becoming human and removing his uniform, which he tossed out of the bathroom leaving him in only his boxers. He came out in green and purple boxers and they giggled. For a green guy, he was pretty muscular, and he had scars all over him.

"Nice boxers, I don't think I've ever seen you without your gloves on, are those claws? How did you get all those scars?"

"What? Oh yeah," he said waving his fingers "they're real sharp, I hurt people unless I wear my gloves, and I'd rather not talk about my scars, they're not important right now. I have to warn you…sometimes when I sleep I do things I don't remember, like sleepwalking, but with sandwiches and clothes and stuff."

"Sandwiches and clothes and stuff?"

"What's that mean Beasty-boo?"

"Uh, sometimes I eat, sometimes I destroy my clothes and other times I sleepwalk. Once I did it all and scared Robin." He chuckled "That was hilarious, but yeah, this is just fair warning so, yeah."

"Don't worry sweetie, I don't mind. Might just liven this place up a bit. What d'you think Jynxy?"

"What's life without a little adventure?" Beastboy sighed, maybe this would be alright "But if you try anything I don't like I'm going to kill you, understand?" but then again…he nodded and went back into the bathroom.

They heard him do his night time ritual and somehow he ended up tripping and landing on his head, upside down against the wall opposite the bathroom practically naked, for everyone to see. As soon as he heard the giggling and saw them he let out one of his 'eep's and changed back into a panther. He padded over to the bed like nothing had happened and he jumped up between the two girls. Argent lay down on him like a pillow and Jynx curled up on his side, and soon, they all were asleep.