Disclaimer: I don't own teen titans... If i did, there'd be 6th season. and a 7th one.


The next day, Beastboy was up very early. For Beastboy, that is. Raven was sipping herbal tea and reading her book, and everyone was already having a breakfast of eggs and bacon. Robin, sensing the overnight tension between Beastboy and Raven, tried to think of a way of…neutralizing their feelings toward each other. It wasn't the first time they had had a fight, but Beastboy seemed to be the Titan that Raven was closest to, male-wise. Suddenly, there, was a loud banging at the big doors at the main entrance, waking Robin from his planning state, which Robin actually had a state for. Beastboy jumped up to get it before Robin could even shake himself off from his plotting.

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The door opened a little bit. Beastboy peered outside, and whispered, "Great, you made it on time! Okay, come on in." The visitor outside inched in slowly, making as little of a disturbance as possible, but the damage was already done. Everyone had gotten up from their seats to see what had caused Beastboy to be so alert this 'early' in the morning.

Everyone had congregated in the big room in front of the doors.

"Ummm, hi guys!" he smiled cheesily at his fellow Titans, his voice going up at the end of his greeting.

"What are you hiding, Beastboy? Your voice rose at the end of your sentence, so stop lying." Raven said suspiciously.

"Nothing!" Beastboy squeaked nervously, "But look at what the cat...err...dragged in.."

"Hi!" Mariana waved at the four dumbstruck Titans. She was wearing the top of Beastboy's suit, Starfire's skirt and belt, and Raven's blue boots.

"Did someone invite you?" Robin asked slowly.

"Umm," Mariana glanced at Beastboy and said, "No, no one invited me."

Beastboy gulped animatedly, and confessed, "Okay, okay, I invited her! But I totally blanked on the security systems! By the way, how did you get it without setting the alarms off?"

"Well, I----" Mariana began, but then she was cut off by Raven, "Why are you wearing my boots?" Raven's voice sounded dangerously calm. "Who gave you my boots? Beastboy," Raven continued, her voice crescendoing to an enraged shriek, "Why, in the name of AZAR, IS SHE WEARING MY DAMN BOOTS?!!"

Her eyes began to glow red. "You could've asked, you nasty green asshole. But no…" She said mockingly. "Why can't you repsect a person's privacy? Their belongings? And to bring HER!" She glared at Mariana, her voice growing inhuman. It seemed extremely odd to everyone that Raven was flaring up at something so trivial as clothing. "It's like bringing an foreign object into a human body. Soon enough…" Raven's eyes spawned another pair, and she started to rise high and higher, her body starting to engulf in black magic, "The immune system will attack." With an enraged yell, she pulled chunks of the wall off, sending it hurling off at Mariana, and Raven's fellow Titans, her family.

"Uhhh, that's bad, right?" Beastboy asked no one.

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"Titans, GO!" yelled Robin as Starfire flew up She shouted down to Mariana, "It is alright, friend Mariana, I am not bothered by your borrowing of my clothing!"

Beastboy, looking guilty, partially because he had brought Mariana, partially because Raven was right, and partially because he felt he had failed at something for angering his best female friend. He stepped in front of Mariana, ready to defend the innocent civilian, even if it meant hurting his comrade, his friend. Cyborg, meanwhile, was wondering how he was going to fight his friend, almost his own sister.

Mariana put her hand on Beastboy's shoulder, knowing he felt ashamed and responsible, "It's not your fault, Beastboy. It's mine. I shouldn't have come. I shouldn't have intruded."

Beastboy looked back with guilty green eyes, "But I should've known better than to do this to Raven. I know how much she's new to the idea of change. I mean, her whole life, she spent living out what she thought was her fate. But we helped change her fate, and she's just not ready to accept too much change after that. It's still new to her."

"I'm still so--"

"--But you're here," shouted Robin, who was trying to fend off Raven's attacks of flying sofas and chunks of the wall, "So help us, or get out of the way!".

Mariana jumped into action.

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Starfire was trying to bring Raven down without hurting her, and was losing horribly. She couldn't hurt her fellow Titan, no matter how unreasonable she was being.

I must calm friend Raven down, or she will hurt someone, and she will be taken to jail, she thought frantically.

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Cyborg, stood there, not knowing what to do.

How can I hurt my 'sister'?

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Beastboy pushed past him and quickly morphed into an eagle, trying to get to Raven, to calm her down, to send her good vibes, anything. Raven, meanwhile, was trying to attack Mariana, while simultaneously trying not to hurt her friends and calming herself down. She didn't understand why she abhorred Mariana so much. Yeah, she was sort of trespassing on her friends, whom Raven had become possessive of, but they were her friends. Why would they choose some new girl over her? And logically, Raven knew love would be added to, not divided into smaller bits. As if I were even meant to feel anything, including love, she thought bitterly. She'd been through more with them than Mariana had. Mariana had no way of being more taken in…more liked than her.

Then why was she so insecure?

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Beastboy, remembering Mariana, turned around, and squawked in confusion. Where was Mariana? She seemed to have disappeared, or something. Or something, he decided, when he saw her leaping around, dodging all of Raven's debris. He morphed back into his old green self, and raced towards Mariana, who was getting into the whole leaping thing. She's pretty good, he thought.

"Hey, Mariana, need a ride? Away? To safety?" He asked, panting.

"No thanks," she cried, doing a smooth 'bridge-leap-flip' and hiding behind a wall, dragging Beastboy with her, "This is WAY fun, and all that gymnastics paid off!"

"You like this?" he cried, completely taken by surprise, "You like having weird things from our house thrown at you by dark magic?"

"Yeah, sure, I kinda wish this happened everyday." She replied, peering around the corner as a starbolt blasted inches from her head.

"Get down!" Beastboy yelled, pushing himself and her behind a counter as the wall they had been hiding behind collapsed exactly where they had been.

"Thanks." Mariana breathed, looking up at Beastboy, who was on top of her.

"Yeah…umm…I should get up…" Beastboy squeaked embarrassedly, noticing how his arms had pinned her shoulders to the ground.

"Sure..sure.." Mariana said awkwardly, wincing as something exploded nearby.

Beastboy rose, brushing his leg against her arm.

"Sorry.." Blushed Mariana.

"No problem."

"Yeah…"

They crouched behind the couch for a while.

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Starfire finally pulled out the happiness and courage to generate a green solar force field, and rose up to Raven, engulfing her black in with her green. She wrestled with Raven's arms.

"Friend Raven! Stop!" She cried hysterically. "You are hurting us! If you feel strongly towards friend Mariana, please do not take it out on us, your friends! We do not want you to injure a civilian, because then you will go to the jail! Please friend Raven, calm down!" She sobbed, pressing the wriggling Raven against a wall.

"Argh, Azarath…No…Mariana, I don't want...No…" Raven lowered herself, sobbing as well.

"Raven! Friend Raven! You have returned! Oh, great joyousness! Bless X'Hal! Raven!" Starfire hugged Raven in a waterfall of tears.

"Starfire.." Raven said bleakly, tears running down her face, "I'm back. I'm calm. Thank…Thank you."

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"Raven! Are you okay?" Beastboy shouted along with Cyborg and Robin. Mariana stood in the corner, feeling shame wash over her for causing and intruding on this scene of pure emotion, saved only for close friends and family. But these Titans didn't have any present family, so they were each other's families. Mariana felt like just running out the door, she was intruding on a scene of pure innocence, caused by herself, and started and ended by the princess of darkness.

Raven was on the ground, her body wrapped with Starfire's long arms. Her eyes weren't red, nor were they glowing. They were back to their normal violet colour. She untangled herself abruptly, stopping the involuntary flow of tears, put her hood up, and flew quickly out of the room.

"Wait Raven, we need to talk!" Yelled Robin, chasing after her