Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans or James and the Giant Peach.

I want to dedicate this chapter to my good friend B/k because she's awesome. (And it's fun watching her get an ego-boost and squeeing.)

Ernie of the Jump City news team pushed his cart down the aisle in a bored manner. He and his cameraman Carl had not found a story all day so they had decided to stop in at the supermarket to buy a bag of chips and some dip to split since they were hungry.

"Sometimes Ern," said Carl as he fiddled with his camera's lens-cover, completely bored. "I wonder why we don't strap some tracking device to the back of one of them Titans. They always make big news, yah know, with all their fighting whacked-out criminals and supernatural powers and junk."

"You know we're not allowed to do that, Carl." replied Ernie, who tossed a second bag of chips into the cart. "We'd lose our jobs if we ever said that near the boss."

"I know that, but it's not like a story is going to fall from the sky or anything…"

Crash!

Both members of the news teamed jerked their heads in the direction of the next aisle over and Ernie was barely able to dodge a canned object that had flown over the top of the shelf aimed towards his head.

"What was that?!" Carl questioned. Ernie shrugged and both hurried to the end of the aisle to see what was going on. When they reached the end, they were met with a sight of two teenagers rolling around on the floor. On closer inspection they realized it was two members of the five-membered Titans team. What were their names? Cyborg and Starfire? No, Robin and Raven? Well Raven yes, but the boy was definitely not Robin. Even covered in all the mess there was no mistaking that green skin.

"Hurry Carl!" Ernie said, pulling his microphone out of his pocket. "This is what we've been waiting for! 'Titan vs. Titan: when members turn on each other'." Carl quickly turned on the camera and started filming, the two fighting teens oblivious to the two men's actions.

"This is Ernie Barker coming to you live from downtown Jump with breaking news." Ernie spoke in a low voice to the camera. "Two of our beloved city protectors known as the Titans are currently fighting right behind me." Stepping aside, Ernie allowed the camera to be focused on the pair instead of him.

"We're not sure what caused the fight between Titans Beast Boy and Raven but apparently it was something that was of vast importance." Ernie continued narrating to the camera from off screen. "This is really a rare sight indeed since we have never seen the two together like this without the other Titans near them. Why are they here alone? Why are they fighting? And more importantly…Where the heck did Raven learn to put someone in a headlock like that?"

"Well that's a stupid question to ask." Robin said his eyes glued to the TV screen where he watched two of his friends wrestle. "I'm not the only one who knows hand-to-hand combat maneuvers, though I do have to say I'm surprised at some of the things they're doing."

"Oh, please do not hurt our friend too badly, friend Raven." Starfire begged hoping that somehow Raven would hear her.

"Don't worry Star," Cyborg reassured. "It looks like the little green bean is putting up a good fight of his own." Indeed, for Beast Boy had just turned the tables on Raven and had gotten out of the chokehold and flipped Raven on her back. Robin had his brows furrowed.

"What I don't get is why neither of them are using their powers. Raven conjures at least 5 shields in hand-to-hand with me and I've never seen Beast Boy fight without turning into some sort of animal." Taking a closer inspection of the screen, Cyborg slowly noticed something.

"Call me crazy but does BB look like he's smilin'?" he asked. Instantly Robin and Starfire turned to look at the screen and they discovered that their young friend was indeed smiling.

"But why is friend Beast Boy smiling?" Starfire asked. "Raven is delivering a can of the butt-whoop to him. That is not a usual activity one smiles at, yes?"

"You're right Starfire." Robin said, completely puzzled towards his green friend's actions. "The closest thing I can come up with as to why he's smiling is that he's considering their fighting to be…fun."

"Perhaps a game?" Starfire added hopefully. "Our green friend has been prone to make such serious activities, for instance fighting, into acts of recreation."

"Well if the little grass stain thinks fightin' with Raven is a 'game' then he's got more mental problems than I thought." Cyborg stated.

"Whoa! Look at that!" someone near the front shouted. "Beast Boy just flipped Raven and landed on top of her! Now that's awesome!" The trio stared wide-eyed at the screen.

"Rob, did you teach BB how to do that?" the mechanical teen asked. Robin shook his head 'no' and continued to gape at what was going on in front of him. Everyone in the bakery watched in amazement as Raven tossed Beast Boy off and under her. It was like watching to professional acrobats in action. It simply could not be described in words.

This was it! This was her big chance to be on television in hopes that some famous producer was watching and would see her and want her to be the next famous actress in Hollywood! Irene held in her excitement as she rung up her current customer's groceries and waited for them to pay. She could see Beast Boy and Raven (still covered in corn goop) at the end of her customer line and it was not the fact that they were famous that excited her but it was the fact that they were being secretly followed around by a hidden news camera. How did she know about the camera? She had been watching everything that happened on her mini television that was stashed under her register station. In a few moments, the two Titans would be up at the front and Irene would have to be in the view of the camera. It was a perfect opportunity for her to show off some of her acting skills and talents.

"And then the possum says, 'That's no pinecone, that's my wife!'" Irene heard Beast Boy exclaim to Raven as she pushed the cart forward. The only response that he got was the most robotic sounding laugh he had ever heard and his roommate was a cyborg!

"Rae, that wasn't even close to a laugh!"

"Well that wasn't even close to being funny. If you want me to give you a genuine laugh then you need a genuinely funny joke." Raven started loading the conveyor belt with all the groceries they had carted around. "You only said that I had to laugh at your jokes; you never said I actually had to find your jokes to be funny. They're still as bad as usual." Deciding to take a chance, Irene interrupted their conversation.

"Hi, I'm Irene Stillwater!" she said with a huge smile that glistened with cheer. Raven almost swore she saw a rainbow behind the red-headed teenage girl. "I'm so glad I could be of service to the infamous Teen Titans. It makes me s-s-so happy th-that I could cry!" Turning around, Irene did her best imitation of crying. Beast Boy instantly bought it but Raven could sense it was faked. She continued to load up the conveyor.

"Aw, don't cry miss." Beast Boy said, putting a comforting hand on the back of Irene's shoulder. "I know it's not every day you get to meet a handsome hunk like me and a cool spell caster like Raven, but seriously, ya don't have to cry." Taking a quick glance down at her little television she was elated to see that the camera had refocused off of Raven to her and Beast Boy. Turning around, her wide smile returned and no traces of tears could be seen.

"Hey, do you want me to show you an awesome trick I can do?" Before either Titan could speak, Irene had picked up several of their apples and started to juggle them all. Beast Boy watched in amazement but Raven's patience was thinning. Snatching all the fruit in the air with her telekinetic powers, Raven put them back on the conveyor belt.

"All we want you to do is ring up our total and let us leave." she growled, forcefully opening up a package of paper towels that they were purchasing. She started to clean herself up, something that she had wanted to do but never got a chance to until now. Beast Boy had licked himself clean—in the form of a cat of course—but he had missed a huge spot on the top of his head but Raven wasn't obligated to tell him that so she didn't.

"Oh, I should ring your purchases up so I'll do that now!"

Everyone seemed to return to their business as they had gotten bored of watching the two Titans wait for all their purchases to be rung up and their cashier only making it worse by going into songs and dances. It was amusing at first, but now it had gotten annoying. Speaking of annoying…

"Jingle Bells! Starfire smells! Robin laid an egg!"

…Trevor had started singing.

"The Titans-mobile lost a wheel and Cyborg takes ballet! Hey!" Oh dear X'Hal! Would someone shut him up? Not only were his songs degrading, but he had a singing voice that not even Starfire could like. The Titans clamped their hands over their ears in hopes of drowning out the sound of Trevor. However, it was no use and they heard it anyways. The people around them seemed to actually enjoy Trevor's song, mostly for the fact that he was poking fun at the three superheroes in front of them and they could do nothing about it. They were not allowed to attack Trevor because he was a civilian and it went against their pledge to the city and to keep all of its civilians safe.

Why didn't they just leave the bakery then? It's not like Trevor had barricaded the door and wasn't allowing them to leave, right? So why hadn't they? It was because of one simple reason: They wanted to see the end of the story going on with Beast Boy and Raven.

Speaking of which…

"Hey, look Rae! We're on the store's security cameras! Let's make funny faces."

After watching the historic moment of Raven making a funny face, it took all of the Titan's willpower not to laugh at their beloved friends who were obviously going to suffer mass humiliation after this so being the good friends that they were they restrained themselves from laughing and—

Who am I kidding? All three Titans fell off their chairs and laughed themselves silly along with the rest of the customers in the bakery.

No way. This couldn't be true. There's no way on Earth (or even Azarath) this could be true. She was just dreaming. That was it. Just dreaming. Soon she was going to wake up and find that none of this ever happened. She had just fallen asleep while meditating so none of this could really be happening. They were not in the grocery store, they had not fought in a large spill of a canned vegetable, Robin had not been glued to the ceiling, she had not played videogames with Beast Boy yesterday, and there was no bet.

It was all a dream…

…At least that's what Raven wanted to keep telling herself.

When she had made that face for Beast Boy, that's who she was doing it for. Only him. She thought she had been out of the view of the camera but apparently it wasn't a stationary camera. By now probably all of Jump had seen it, and by that meaning—

"You see that, bloke?" Punk Rocket asked, clutching his sides, tears streaming down his face from his laughing.

"Heck yeah!" Johnny Rancid laughed. "Dark Girl's hysterical!"

"Indeed." Puppet King added. "It was most…intriguing." Punk Rocket and Johnny Rancid shot a downward stare at the Puppet King.

"We weren't finished with your swimming lessons yet, Wooden-Man. We still need to see if you'll float." Rancid said, an evil smirk forming on his face. Nodding to Punk Rocket, they both got up and grabbed Puppet King and headed to the bathroom.

"Get your putrid hands off of me! You do not control me! I control you, for I am the Pup—"

Fluuuuush.

"Ah, now that's what I call beautiful music, chum."

—all of Jump. So what was a girl like Raven supposed to do in this situation? She reacted in a way that was very normal for her. She pulled her hood over her head. Even though she did get the result she wanted of hiding the embarrassing reddening of her face, she also got a result that she didn't want. You see, when Raven and Beast Boy had been rolling around in the giant puddle of mushy corn—

Squish.

—her hood had picked up some extra passengers. Now Raven was in a supermarket, completely embarrassed, being filmed on television, and just poured a hood-full of corn on top of her head which was now visibly streaming down her face and to the floor. She could hear Beast Boy chuckling next to her as well as a few more people in the store that had turned their attention to the pair. Now that Plan A hadn't worked so well, Raven voted for Plan B.

She fled.

Well, she transported—grabbing the groceries as well—and flew back to the Tower. Beast Boy would be able to get back on his own and she felt like being alone just for a little bit. Raven had to get home now or she might do something she would regret or possibly lead to an arrest in her near future.

Flying though the windows of the Tower, Raven let the groceries all fall to the floor in the kitchen and out of her soul-self and continued to make her way to the bathroom so that she could clean herself properly. When her soul-self disappeared, Raven found herself facing the water control taps to the shower. The pink curtains were already pulled closed and the light had been magically flipped on. Sighing, she was about to unclasp her broche to her cape when suddenly she felt a light pressure on her right shoulder.

"Uhhh…R-Raven…?" Turning around, Raven was shocked to see Beast Boy standing right behind her, in the shower with her, his hand still raised from being on her shoulder. Giving a yelp of surprise, Raven leaped back a few inches but due to the minimum amount of space inside the shower, she backed into the water tap, turning it mostly on. Cold water sputtered out of the once dry showerhead, soaking the two teens standing beneath it. Giving off an alarmed yell of his own due to his surprise and the coldness of the water, Beast Boy was startled and lost his footing on the now slippery wet bottom of the tub. Beast Boy's legs slid down the entire length of the tub eventually crashing into Raven's. Losing her balance, Raven fell forward and landed atop of the fallen changeling, her forehead knocking into his, head butting each other into a moment's daze before anyone could do anything.

After a moment, Raven was able to readjust her vision. Her legs were tangled with her teammate's and most of her midsection was laying on his, but her head was off to the side of Beast Boy's, resting on the tub. By now the water had turned warm and was slowly washing off the residue stuck to her uniform. Beast Boy's eyes were unfocused and she could feel his breath on her face, his lips barely an inch away from hers. Raven felt her face heat up from their intimate position. Before he could take notice how close they were, Raven got off of Beast Boy, flinging open the curtains and stepping out of tub. She turned around to face him.

"What are you doing here?" she yelled, dripping water all over the floor from her soaked body. Finally refocusing, Beast Boy pulled his drenched upper torso out of the tub and hung over the side, spitting up about half a pound of water on the floor.

"Ugghh…Right now I'm trying not to drown." he replied, still a bit dazed from both the transportation and their spill. Water continued to fall on his head until Raven had enough sense to turn off the shower with a wave of her hand. She then grabbed the front of Beast Boy's uniform and pulled him up so she could glare directly in his face.

"No, I mean what were you doing in the shower with me?!"

"Oh no, don't you blame that on me." Beast Boy said angrily, getting out of Raven's grip and waving his hands in the air. "I just went to see if you were okay and when I put my hand on your shoulder you sudden decide to teleport away causing me to become a helpless carry-on! It wasn't my fault that you didn't know I was there." He was right. It hadn't been his fault after all. Raven had been so distracted by the thought of getting away from there as fast as possible that she didn't take the time to realize she had transported an extra being.

"Oh." Raven said, mentally scolding herself for jumping to conclusions. Not meeting his gaze, she added, "Sorry I yelled at you."

"It's okay, but just don't let it happen again young lady." Beast Boy said in a mocking tone of an adult chiding a child as he dried himself off with a towel he grabbed from under the sink. All the spots of corn that he had missed before had been washed away. Raven narrowed her eyes at him and was about to speak when Beast Boy cut her off.

"And I can talk anyway I want to you today since I'm your master, sweet-cheeks." He wiggled his eyebrows up and down causing Raven to nearly gag. She wanted to grab that towel of his and stuff it so far down his throat that it would take numerous days of hacking up hairballs for him to get it back.

"Well, since we're now both all squeaky clean, onward to the kitchen!" Beast Boy said, point a finger in the air, directed towards the ceiling.

"Can I at least dry myself off first?"

"Hmm...Master says no."

"And why not?"

"Because—" Morphing into a large green elephant that barely fit in the room, Beast Boy took in a huge gulp of air and blasted it out of his trunk which was pointed at the still dripping teen, completely air-drying her off within seconds. Beast Boy morphed back into his human self. "—you're already dry. Now march!" With a grumble and an 'oof!' as Beast Boy hopped on her back for yet another piggyback ride, Raven marched to the kitchen while attempting to get her hair out of the wind-blown look.

How could Beast Boy stay so calm? They just had been humiliated on television! If her predictions were correct (and they normally were) then the camera had been recording them since the creamed corn incident. Well, the one of the best ways to find out something you want to know is the direct way: ask.

"Permission to whine about your childish antics?"

"Permission denied!"

"Permission to speak?"

"Permission granted."

"Why weren't you embarrassed about being secretly followed around and filmed for television? You didn't even seem upset." Jumping off of Raven's back, Beast Boy slung an arm over her shoulder.

"Raven, Raven, Raven." he said. "You of all people should know that looks can be deceiving. Of course I felt embarrassed but I'm so used to being ragged on and the butt of jokes that things like this don't hurt me as much. You're not used to it so that's why."

"Well…I suppose that makes sense." Raven said as the two entered the main room. Beast Boy dropped his arm and made his way to the counter where he sat on it and faced Raven.

"Plus, I'm not the one that poured a hood-full of corn over my head." Raven growled but Beast Boy seemed to take no notice. "I mean, seriously! Your face was priceless! It was like 'Oh no!' and 'Did I really do that?'! I guess that'll teach you for pulling up your hood so much now won't it?" He chuckled to himself for a moment, reliving the scene in his head. Raven scowled at his enjoyment of her embarrassment and started to put the groceries away before the refrigerated items spoiled. As she finished with the last of the foodstuffs, she got a very curious sensation about something Beast Boy had said.

"Beast Boy?" she asked.

"Mhmm?" he replied, examining his canine teeth in the reflection of the toaster. They had been a little painful ever since he bit Cinderblock in the leg as a snake last week. Not one of his better ideas.

"Why did you say that of all people I should know that looks can be deceiving?" Looking up from his reflection, Beast Boy turned his full attention to Raven.

"Well, one, you have a delicate-looking female roomie that can bench-press a bus probably with her tongue, two, not only am I devilishly handsome human but I can be devilishly handsome animals as well." he boasted. "Seriously, have you ever seen a better looking hippopotamus in your life?"

Raven rolled her eyes. "Yes."

"Pssh, yeah right. And finally, reason number three: you're you." Raven raised an eyebrow at the green boy.

"And what is that supposed to mean?"

"Rae, no offense but at first glance you look super intimidating, cold, dark, and—"

"Creepy?" Beast Boy rubbed the back of his head rather nervously.

"Uhhh…Yeah. But once someone gets to know you, they know you're not like that though you still are rather intimidating…"

"Your point?"

"Well, you may look that way on the outside but I've gotten to know you. You care about your friends so much that it would take like five gazillion trucks just to load up all that care. You know how to cheer someone up when they're feeling down but you do it in your own way. Even though I know you're not trying to be funny you really are, even if like every bad comment that comes out of your mouth is about me or related to me in some way."

"Not every comment. I reserve many of my sarcastic remarks for Dr. Light who needs more help than all the starving children of the world combined." Beast Boy laughed.

"See? Now that's what I'm talking about. You made me feel better AND you were funny." Raven just 'hmmed' and leaned against the counter with her arms folded. Soon silence fell upon the kitchen while Beast Boy thought about what he would have Raven do next for him. Well if his back would stop hurting him from all those various spills he had today then maybe he could think properly. With the kind of work Beast Boy and the others went through they couldn't help but come out with bumps and bruises. The Titans were tough but not indestructible. A lot of times Beast Boy wished that they had there own personal massage therapist that would cure their aching—Hey, wait a minute!

Grinning, Beast Boy hopped off the counter.

"Ohhh Raaa-vie!" he said in a sing-song voice. Instantly Raven knew she wasn't going to like what was coming next…

"Ahh, that's the spot." Beast Boy said, smiling happy as he got his back rubbed by the half-demon sitting on the couch. She was sitting on the center of the couch facing the giant plasma screen and while Beast Boy lay across her, his stomach on her lap. His head was to the left of her and resting near her thigh on a red fluffy pillow. He had his legs stretched straight out onto the rest of the couch while one of his arms was tucked under his head and the other held the television remote. Beast Boy happily flipped through the channels and enjoyed his massage.

Raven, on the other hand, felt…weird. Here she was, sitting in the living room, rubbing the back of one of her male teammates. The only thing Raven had massaged in her life before this event was her temples. It was such an odd feeling to her to touch her teammate in this way. Never before had she given any of them—any person in her life—that much contact that didn't have a malicious reason behind it. She had been sitting there for roughly 10 minutes now just rubbing Beast Boy's back. Raven had given Beast Boy an insane look when he first requested a massage from her. In the literal sense of the words, Raven was not a touchy-feely person. She kept physical contact down to a minimum. When one can telekinetically throw a bus at an opponent, why should they get physical? Seems like a waste of energy.

"You ever see this movie Raven?" Beast Boy asked, finally stopping his insistent clicking of the remote on a channel that was playing the movie, Jimmy and the Giant Apricot. The current scene that was playing was one where the protagonists were stuck floating on their giant apricot in the middle of the ocean. A metal shark had caught interest in the apricot and was trying to eat them.

"Do you really think I've watched a movie like this?" Raven asked, hinting at the fact that she hadn't seen it.

"You should. It's a good movie." Beast Boy said. "I haven't seen it in a while but it's so fun to watch. I really liked it."

"Probably because you can relate to the characters." Raven remarked as they watched the big-mouthed Mr. Millipede wave Mr. Inchworm around like a bat in order to get the attention of the seagulls so they could capture them to fly the apricot out of the ocean and away from the shark.

"Because I can morph into animals?"

"No, because you're loud and obnoxious."

"Hey, any more of that talk and I'll totally have you rubbing my feet next."

Needless to say, Raven shut-up.

Beast Boy had decided to watch the movie with Raven. They argued about how fake it looked, how scientifically impossible it was, how horrible the plot was, and they even gave each of the Titans a character on the movie: Beast Boy was Mr. Millipede for obvious reasons; Robin was Jimmy because of his leadership skills; Starfire was Mrs. Butterfly because of her kind nature; Raven was Ms. Black-Widow because she was secluded and dark but held strong friendships with the others (except she seemed to hate Mr. Millipede); Cyborg was Mr. Cricket for his intellectual nature and because he was very prone to fight with Mr. Millipede; and Silkie was Mr. Inchworm because he was a worm…and there were no other characters left except Firefly who really didn't play a part in the movie and was female.

"Hey, sailors! Looking for some kicks?"

Beast Boy laughed as he watched Ms. Black-Widow swing down on her string to kick one of the dead pirate sailors that had been under the water away from the helplessly tied up Mr. Millipede. "You punned Raven." he said. Raven groaned. She had been rubbing Beast Boy's back for 30 minutes straight. Her hands and arms were getting a little bit tired but she knew she couldn't complain. Plus, said a little voice in her head that sounded remarkably like Robin, this is a great workout.

"Why don't skeletons play music in church? 'Cause they got no organs!"

"And there's you, making one of your classically unfunny jokes."

"That was totally funny! They're skeletons, they don't have any organs and organs are the type of instrument thingies they play in a church. That joke couldn't get any more funnier!"

"It couldn't get any more worse either."

"Now you see here—" Beast Boy started but trailed off as he watched Ms. Black-Widow's reaction to Mr. Millipede after he rose from the water when all the others had thought him to be dead. He was sporting some new clothes that he had taken from the pirate skeleton captain he defeated.

"How am I lookin', kid?"he said, grinning widely. Ms. Black-Widow grabbed him.

"Millipede, I do not know whether to kill you or…" Leaning over, she placed a soft kiss on his check making him turn red. "Kiss you."

Beast Boy had forgotten about that part and Raven never even knew about it. There was a very awkward silence in the living room as the rest of the movie played on without a pause. Raven had ceased her hands for that moment and each of the Titans had a blank stare on their faces and even though Raven couldn't see it, a small blush painted itself on Beast Boy's cheeks. The funny thing was that Raven could feel Beast Boy's heart speed-up from where his chest lay on her legs. Raven didn't understand why. Sure, the two characters on the movie that they had portrayed as themselves had kiss (on the cheek mind you, but still kissed) but that didn't mean it would happen in real life. It was only a movie after all.

Returning to her commanded duty, Raven felt Beast Boy tense up when he felt her hands move along his spine. His heart began to race again and she stopped.

"Beast Boy?" Raven asked. "Do you want me to do this any more? You tensed up."

"Ah, oh, uh, you just kinda spooked me. You, like, stopped and then suddenly you started again." The changeling relaxed once again and his heartbeat returned to normal but to Raven he still seemed a bit uncomfortable. She was able to sense his emotions and she could feel them flying around in his head at light-speed. Being part animal, Beast Boy was a very hard person to read making it difficult for Raven to tell what he was feeling. There were only two emotions that she could read properly from him: anger and sadness. The rest was a blur for the telekinetic teen. Right now the only thing she could pick up from Beast Boy was that he was neither angry nor sad.

Looking slightly down, Raven could see the hint of a disappearing blush on his face. He was…embarrassed? Hadn't Beast Boy recently told her that he was better with embarrassment than she was? She wasn't embarrassed—though she had become slightly uncomfortable for a moment—so why was he? Maybe it was a different emotion Beast Boy was experiencing but what was it? There were only a few things that could cause a blush to come to his face: embarrassment, foolishness, fever, I-got-caught-with-my-hand-in-the-cookie-jar, love—

Wait. No, no, no! That last one was definitely ruled out. Beast Boy would not think about her in that manner. She was his teammate, his friend, his family—

But did he really think of her as his family? Surely she did of him…right? It was a very odd sense to her to be thinking about where this boy who lay across her lap belonged in her life. She and him shared a most bizarre relationship where they felt the most neutral poking fun at each other while Beast Boy told her the most horrible jokes—if they could even be called jokes—and she promptly would roll her eyes at him. However, there was an old saying she had heard before that was used on a show Starfire had been watching while Raven read her book in the corner couch.

A girl that picks on a guy typically does so to hide their own romantic feelings for the guy in question.

Did she like Beast Boy in that way? She was shocked when she realized that she hadn't immediately replied 'no' to that question. Did that mean she did harbor some…feelings for the green boy? Not necessarily. Beast Boy was really growing on her and she enjoyed the few moments that they could bond over and when he wasn't acting like an immature idiot.

Her thoughts were cut off as she heard a tiny noise from somewhere in the room. Snapping out of her trance, she saw that the movie was now over and the credits had begun to roll across the screen while an overhead narrative voice began to explain the upcoming feature that would appear next on that particular channel. That wasn't the noise she had heard for she had learned to tune out the incessant drone of the television quite a while ago. Looking down once more, Raven found the source of the strange noise. Some time during the time that Raven was thinking, Beast Boy had fallen asleep, softly snoring and cradling the pillow to his head. She had been subconsciously rubbing the changeling's back continuously as she thought and stopped now. Beast Boy gave a slight whimper in his sleep and started to fidget. Placing her hand back on his back, Raven saw Beast Boy calm down and continue with his sound sleeping until he realized that Raven's hand wasn't doing anything and began to fidget again, his best attempt to try to get Raven to rub his back again.

Sighing, Raven massaged his back once more but this time she was a bit more focused in what she was doing. The television annoyed her and without anything else to distract her she just looked at the elfin boy that rested on her. Raven decided to take this time to observe her green comrade on closer scale. His face was calm and would be completely motionless if it wasn't for his soft breathing and slight snoring. Not being able to see the left side of his face, Raven could not see his little fang that jutted out of his mouth ever so slightly. It was one of the things that she found interesting in Beast Boy. His physical animal characteristics made him unique and Raven always enjoyed looking at all the different qualities of people around her. It made her feel less different and more included in the world.

His green skin…What did it feel like to be green? She had always wondered that but she knew it was a silly thing to think about so she constantly pushed it aside. Sure she had landed on him quite a few times and smacked him upside the head, but that wasn't really feeling. And practically all of his skin was covered up by his uniform. But now she actually had the chance to find out. Beast Boy was asleep and she wouldn't have to suffer the humiliation of asking if she could feel what his skin felt like. Like that was a great conversation topic. 'Plasmas is attacking the city and we need to get to the center of town as fast as possible. Oh, by the way, can I feel what your skin feels like?' Beast Boy would probably think that she had taken a blow to the head too many times and finally lost it. Maybe she had.

Slowly, Raven's hand slid up Beast Boy's backside and stopped just before his uniform came to a halt. Reaching out with her pointer finger, Raven brushed the back of the sleeping boy's neck and sent a visible chill down his spine. He made the most unusual sound Raven had ever heard from him. It was a mix between a whimper and a…purr? Odd. Curiously, Raven scratched the back of his neck again but this time there was no chill down his spine and his whimper subsided and became a constant purr as Raven continued to brush the back of his neck. His skin was baby soft like green velvet, not at all what Raven expected. She thought it would have been a bit rougher than her own skin which was no where close to being this soft.

For a moment, Raven was jealous of Beast Boy and his soft, green skin.

However, that jealousy passed as curiosity took over once again. Gently, Raven swept the entire back of her hand across Beast Boy's cheek. Giving off a sound that more like human enjoyment than animal bliss, Beast Boy pulled out one of his gloved hands from under his head and grabbed Raven's hand and made a make-shift teddy bear out of it, cuddling it under his cheek that was lying on the pillow. Tensing, Raven attempted to recoil back her hand but at that moment something small and flying at a breakneck speed flew through the open living room window and smashed into Raven's head, sending her into unconsciousness, her body crumpling over onto Beast Boy's.

He continued to smile in his sleep, unaware of anything that happened.

"I think she sent that one into the bay near the Tower." Cyborg observed, glancing outwards, his hand shielding his human eye from the sun. Robin just groaned and covered his face in his hands.

"Starfire." he said, his words slightly muffled as he spoke. "That was the eighth one you've completely out-shot. The key to doing this is to gently tap it to where you want it to go, remember to look where you are aiming, and stay calm—"

"How anyone of your planet is to remain calm while doing this is beyond my comprehension!" Starfire fumed, completely aggravated and furious. "If I do not position it just right, it wobbles and goes into a direction I do not desire! If hit too softly, it merely travels back towards myself while too hard sends it flying in the air! It does not enjoy being sent to where it is supposed to go and avoids it all together! I do not understand how Earthlings find this activity to be enjoyable. To me, this is torturous and for it not for the charming childish sculptures and landmarks I would be more unpleased than I am currently. I cannot take it any more!" With that said, Starfire smashed what she was holding into the ground, causing to become bent and unusable before storming off to the exit. Cyborg and Robin looked at where the Tameranian princess disappeared before glancing at each other.

"Sooo…I'll give a 6 for Starfire on this hole." Cyborg asked, marking the score down on a little piece of paper. Groaning, Robin bent down and picked up Starfire's now mutilated golf club that was sticking out a peculiar angle.

He was never taking Starfire miniature golfing again.

Please review and have a nice day!