Moon Angel

Raven pushed back against his arms. Her head lowered and her face covered itself behind the shadow of her hair. The moment gone and forever a memory, Raven positioned herself back to staring at the floor. She cleared her throat.

Beastboy still caught in awe by what he saw took a second to snap back to present time. "… Oh Raven. I- I'm sorry." He didn't want to apologize for kissing her, but felt that maybe he acted inappropriately considering her dream from only minutes before.

Raven stared up at him, almost sad. "Why are you apologizing?"

Beastboy's face conjured a deep blush. He didn't know how to respond to that. "Uh… I- uh… I'm… not… sorry?" It was more of a question because he wasn't really sure what she wanted to hear. His mind was all question marks at this point.

Raven blushed and continued, "After all, I was the one that kissed you."

Beastboy thought on that, remembering her leaning in first. "Hmm…Why did you kiss me?"

Turning even redder, Raven could feel her cheeks burning. She was completely blank when she tried to answer. Nothing came to mind. In a hardly audible whisper Raven tried to answer quickly to avoid further embarrassment, "Idon'tknow… Ijustfelt… pulledintoit." However, Raven could not flee from the intense searing on her cheeks as she felt more and more embarrassed and awkward about what she'd done.

A few moments of silence passed when a dreadful thought made it's way across her mind. Beastboy apologized, and didn't really show any indication whether he was okay with what happened. And Raven knew she didn't have the guts to ask. Rejection would feel like losing the one person she knew she could always count on. She couldn't bear to hear it from him. At least not with him knowing about her knowing about how he felt. She decided to break a personal moral just this once and dove into Beastboy's mind to pick up what she could about how he was feeling.

'Oh my God! She kissed me! Why isn't she killing me? Why would she kiss me? We just got over the part of our friendship where she doesn't hate me anymore. And why did I like it so much? Why am I feeling this way? OH MY GOD, SHE KISSED ME!' It was taking some time to really sink in. 'Oh man, this is gonna be so weird tomorrow. But maybe it was worth it. That kiss was just so… oh man, I just want to kiss her again.'

Raven fought as hard as she could to keep her face from going from deep red to purple. She was also quite impressed by how calm his face was with all that chaos going on inside. She couldn't help feeling the urge to mess him up and make him show it. Mustering up all the courage she could to ask her next question, while looking as innocent and sweet as possible, she made her voice very meek and cute, "Did you like it?"

Beastboy felt like his face was on fire. How was he supposed to answer that? "I… I-" Beastboy looked frantic, like he was searching his brain for any answer that would save him from humiliation and a possible Raven beatdown. Hanging his head ashamed he answer truthfully, "Yes…"

It took all Raven had to keep her mouth as straight as possible. Then without notice Raven spoke quietly and self-consciously, "I liked it too."

Beastboy's head jerked up. His eyes meeting hers trying to process whether he really heard that or not. He had to see her say it. "Wha- What did you say?"

Raven did not enjoy repeating herself. And having to repeat this particular phrase just made her feel more self-conscious. Saying it almost exactly the same way she had done the first time, "I… I liked it."

Then without notice Beastboy felt that familiar pull again. Leaning in towards Raven, he tried to stop himself. It was as if he was being pulled by some invisible magic. He couldn't move any other way except forward. Raven felt the pull as well. She, however, didn't want to fight against it. This pull, this magic, felt warm and comfortable, safe and right. She welcomed Beastboy's warm breath against her lips before his lips met hers ever so softly. His left hand moving on it's own to caress her cheek.

Breathing through their noses they embraced each other's lips without ever having to break. Raven leaned her entire body into Beastboy's, whose right hand encircled her small frame and held her close. Very slowly their bodies simultaneously leaned onto the bed. There they laid in each other's embrace, their kiss far from ending. Raven finally had an end to her nightmares, and Beastboy got his Moon Angel.