Raven watched as the mysterious person finished and turned around to leave. It was dark, and Raven couldn't really make out who the person was, but he... or she... looked familiar.
'But that's... No, it couldn't be. It's just my imagination,' Raven thought. Then the person who had been going through their fridge saw Raven. They were gone in the blink of an eye. Raven paused a moment, to make sure she was really alone, then turned on the light to inspect the food.
It all looked, smelled, and probably would have tasted normal had she been fool enough to try some. There was absolutely no sign of anyone messing with it. All of a sudden, Cyborg burst into the room in a hungry rampage.
"FOOOOOOOOOD!" he cried.
"No!" Raven said sharply. "Someone was in here just now, messing with the food. We'll have to get rid of it all and get new food."
"Does that mean... we don't get breakfast?" Cyborg asked tearily.
"Not for now. So go wake up the others and get them down here so I--"
"Goooood morning everyone!" came a bright voice from the kitchen door. Beast Boy came in, in his usual optimistic mood, and Cyborg left to wake the others as Raven had instructed.
Beast Boy headed towards the fridge, as mot people do in the morning, but Raven cut him off. "Don't even think about it. Someone was in here last night and they contaminated everything in the fridge, and probably everything else, too."
"Does that mean... we don't get breakfast?" Beast Boy asked tearily.
'Whoa... dejà vu much...' Raven thought. 'Boys are all the same...'
"Yes," she said in response to Beast Boy's question, "we don't get breakfast."
"Aw man, I'm so hungry! Well, I guess you'll have to satisfy my hunger..." Beast Boy looked at Raven sneakily and before she knew what was happening, Beast Boy had flung his arms around her and was kissing her like crazy. Raven was startled for a moment, then she got her head back in order. She fully realized what Beast Boy was doing and although there was a little voice in the back of her head screaming 'GET HIM OFF YOU! NOW!', it was as if her free will had been taken away and she couldn't pull back. Then, again, before she knew what was happening, she was kissing back. She felt Beast Boy grin.
There was a sound from the doorway. Cyborg had returned from waking up the rest of the Titans, and the three of them were standing there. Raven broke away immediately and blushed an impossible shade of crimson. Beast Boy, however, looked rather pleased with himself.
Raven pulled her hood over her head and walked over to the other three Titans. "You can explain Cyborg... I'm gonna stand over here..." she added as Beast Boy walked over and stood beside her. She moved over a few steps, but Beast Boy followed her nonetheless. She sighed and decided to ignore him. Cyborg held in laughter as he started to explain what Raven had seen earlier that morning.
"Raven says she saw someone messin' with the food... So now we hafta throw it all out and miss breakfast and prob'ly investigate or sum..." Cyborg said glumly.
"Hm... We'll have to throw it all out and get new food, but first we'll do some tests. I want to know what that someone put on it... Cyborg, Starfire, while I'm gone, keep an eye on those two. Make sure they stay outta trouble." Robin nodded his head toward Raven and Beast Boy. Raven gave Robin what was most likely the coldest and most threatening glare anyone in the entire universe ever gave. Everyone took a step back from her.
"Um. Yeah. Got to go... Test. Yes. Test. Bye." Robin picked up the fridge and ran at top speed out the door. Raven continued glaring at the rest of them. They all sat on the couch as she took a seat on an armchair. They all sat in that awkward silence until Robin returned with the results a few minutes later.
"Raven was right. Someone put a very high-potent chemical on the food. It's called sarameila and it has many dangerous effects depending on how it is prepared. I was unable to find out how the sarameila in our food was prepared. But in any case, anyone who ingests it is forced to answer any question they're asked truthfully for nine hours, until it wears off," Robin paused from his explanation.
"Whoa man, d'you got an encyclopedia in there?" Cyborg poked Robin's head. Robin gave him an irritated look.
"I wasn't finished," he said. "Depending on how sarameila is ingested, it is also sometimes used as a drug, a relaxant, a painkiller or a... a..." Robin faded off there and looked away slightly.
"It is sometimes used as what, Robin?" Starfire inquired.
"...A sexual enhancer..."
Everyone fell silent, and there was an uncomfortable moment. Beast Boy was snickering silently as the others' eyes twitched.
"...And we needed to know that why?" Cyborg asked after the silence had passed.
"Because it could be a clue. We need to know why someone put sarameila on our food..."
There was another slightly shorter awkward moment, but this time Beast Boy's snickering wasn't silent.
"I'm guessing they wanted us to tell the truth," Raven supplied as Beast Boy's snickering turned to loud laughter.
Beast Boy recovered from his laughing fit. "Unless they wanted--"
Before he could finish his sentence, Raven trapped him in her sphere of dark energy. He didn't seem to notice and just kept laughing.
"I apologize for the interruption, but have we not forgotten to scan the fingerprints?" Starfire put in when nobody else had anything to say.
"That's right! We were supposed to do that yesterday. Let's go!" Robin led the way to the analysis room and the rest followed, Raven still dragging Beast Boy along in her energy sphere.
Robin took the fingerprint samples and put them under the screen of the print scan. They were uploaded onto the computer and the five teens watched with bated breath as the search engine narrowed down the DNA structure to the owner of the fingerprints...
"Terra!" Robin cried. "That's impossible!"
"Actually, I thought the person putting the sarameila looked like Terra, but then I thought it must have been my imagination..."
Robin paid no attention. "It can't be Terra! She was trapped when that whole Slade/Terra apprentice thing happened!"
Beast Boy spoke guiltily. "Actually, there's something I've been meaning to tell you..."
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Ooooo! Cliffhanger! ... Yeah I know it sucked. Sorry.
Raven: TOO RIGHT IT SUCKED! YOU WROTE THAT FOR ME AND BEAST BOY?
Hmm... I think maybe you kinda liked it...
Raven: I DID NOT! And you had better not write stuff like that again!
You know you're not obligated to do this. Why don't you just quit? There's nothing I can do about it...
Raven: -smiles evilly- 'Kay. I quit. -runs away-
NOOOOOO! COME BACK! I DIDN'T MEAN IT! I NEED YOU FOR MY STORRRYYYYYYY! -runs after Raven-
Beast Boy: Haha... sarameila...
