Bit shorter this time around, hope you don't mind. Just some fun bits of fluff for you!

Flying: "Raven," Beast Boy said, his eyes wide and round and pleading. "Will you come flying with me?"


"Raven," Beast Boy said, his eyes wide and round and pleading. "Will you come flying with me?"

Raven calmly flipped the page of her book, wondering for the millionth time why she so frequently opted to read in the common room rather than her bedroom. It would be quieter, all her books were right at her fingertips, she would never have to worry about the sun in her eyes...It would certainly cut down on her interactions with Beast Boy. She responded to him without looking away from her book. "Why don't you ask Starfire? She'll go. She won't make you beg."

"She's busy." She raised an eyebrow at him, eyes just peeking over the tip of her book. Beast Boy blushed. "She's busy with Robin. C'mon, you've got to know that. Can't you feel it?"

"I focus very hard on Cyborg's emotions." She frowned. "He's the least likely to feel something...awkward."

"They're making out," he complained. "It's loud. It smells weird. I've gotta get out of here. Please come flying with me, Raven."

"Can't you go flying by yourself?" she snapped.

"How is it that your empathy works again?" Beast Boy inquired lightly, trying his best to look innocent. "Thinking about them usually makes you focus, right? So, Robin shouting 'Titans, go' or Starfire giggling, those kind of things would make their emotions louder, right? And, I mean, not just a little loud, but probably too loud to ignore. It probably gets even worse if you're in the same building with them or something."

Raven focused very intensely on her book, feeling a slight tingle down her spine. Not her own spine, she knew, but someone had fingers on someone else's back, just lightly scratching...She turned the page and wished Beast Boy's voice was more ignorable.

"That's got to be terrible," he said with a wicked grin, losing all semblance of innocence. "I mean, I can hear it and all, but feeling it has to be even worse - especially for you. You hate touching, but the more you think about it, the more you can feel exactly how they're-"

She slammed her book shut with a glare. "I hate you."

He laughed gleefully. "Do not."

She stood up without a word, simply rolling her eyes, and let him lead the way out onto the roof. The sky was cloudy and the sea was gray, but the wind was decent and the water was hardly choppy. Raven tried to console herself by thinking that it was nice to get away from Robin and Starfire's emotions, and that Beast Boy couldn't really talk in animal shape so she'd hardly have to listen to his constant talk. However, something was a bit off. Beast Boy stood on the edge of the roof, looking at her curiously. She looked back.

"Would you...do you want to try something different?" he asked, shifting uncertainly from foot to foot.

She looked over the edge thoughtfully. "Thanks for the offer, but I'll skip the double suicide."

"No!" he said, eyes wide, shaking his hands wildly in front of him. "Instead of just flying, we can fall, too. I do it all the time. It's really fun."

"Falling," she repeated. She remembered the team having a collective heart attack the first time he'd gone human mid flight, toppling down and down towards the sea, before his form twisted back into a bird and he zipped back up into the air. Starfire had zoomed off so fast she left a small dent behind her. Raven had left a long, twisted crack on the roof. "I do that all the time, Beast Boy. It's how we move to a lower altitude and land."

'Do you turn off your powers when you do that?"

She frowned. "Of course not. I'm not an idiot."

"Why? Can't you catch yourself?"

"If I have to," she said. "but why would I do that? It'll feel the same as a fast descent, but it won't be dangerous.

He laughed. "That's what makes it fun, Rave."

Her eyes narrowed. "I am not a party."

"Sure you are." He grinned. "I'm serious, though. Falling is way more fun. But, hey, if you want to be a-"

He immediately turn himself into a chicken and flung himself off the building, allowing himself a few awkward flaps before turning into a red tailed hawk and catching a thermal. She followed him, soaring quietly just a few feet behind.

When he turned human with a giddy cry, she propelled herself after him, watching him twist and tumble through the air. He beamed at her. "You should try it, Rave. Really."

"I am not-" but he was a hawk again, riding up and away from her. She flew quickly to catch up. "Beast Boy, we were both descending at the same nine point eight meters per second per second. I guarantee you there's no difference between whether I use my power or not to do it."

He was human again, doing somersaults in the air. "Then do it! Prove it!"

"There's no need," she said, a touch of anger in her voice now. "It's the same regardless."

Soaring up again. He was something small and quick that she didn't know the name of. She chased him, and then he was plummeting, again, almost quicker than she could follow. Changing direction was far easier for him than her, especially with the thermals.

"Then do it. Unless you're scared." He stretched, lying in the air as if he was on the couch inside. "Losing control is probably too scary for you. Y'know, 'cuz you're kinda a control freak."

She knew he was goading her. She knew. But knowing that didn't get rid of the flickers of agitation. His words crawled over her like she had angered a nest of ants. They soared up and this time, when Beast Boy turned human, she released her powers and tumbled through the air with him. The first thing she noticed was that, without her powers keeping everything more or less steady, her cape fluttered madly - even with her back to the wind. Her hair did the same, slapping at her skin just enough to sting.

Beast Boy was laughing, cheering. "Way to go, Raven! You did it!"

Her heart was flipping her chest chest as she eyeD the water. How long did she have until she needed to turn her powers on? She had to slow her descent. She'd hurt herself if she just stopped. Maybe if she curved near the bottom and didn't need to worry about momentum and…

"If I die," she said seriously, tearing her eyes away from the water just for a moment "I blame you."

He turned into a bird and she frowned a little as she followed him, realizing he'd stopped his fall far easier than usual. "You know, I was only joking. I can go down just as low as you. Farther, actually. I can go below the water with my powers."

Beast Boy shifted into one she didn't recognize and plummeted. He was going very, very fast and she wasn't about to try to catch up to him. She hovered, watching him go until he crashed into the waves, vanishing for a few moments before he bobbed to the surface, somehow managing to look cocky even as a bird. She rolled her eyes.

"Fine, you can go low too. Get up here." He gave a few awkward flaps before he took off and she crossed her arms as they ascended. "The point I was trying to make is you don't have to hold back for my sake. This may be a bit different, but I've had plenty of practice catching falling objects - myself included."

"You're chattier when I'm an animal," said the human boy next to her, grabbing her cloak and pulling them together in the air..

"You can't talk. Obviously, I have to make up for it." She knew she should have yelled at him for grabbing her cloak, but she didn't mind. She could always yell at him later, when they weren't having fun together. He always did something stupid, so it was only a matter of time before she'd get her chance to scold him.

He wiggled his eyebrows. "If it gets you to talk more, I'll totally shut up, Rae."

"Is that a promise?" She smirked, then frowned. "Beast Boy, my name isn't-"

But there was no point in finishing the sentence, though she could have if she really wanted to. He was a bird, streamlined by eons of evolution to break through the surface of the water, and she was surrounded by black magic, and there was nothing more than deep, soft rhythm of the ocean around them.