Chapter Eleven: Midnight Answers

Raven blinked at the speed the child ran out the door. BB laughed as she ran out the door and yelled after her.

"You be good you hear! I don't want to hear from your Daddy that you've been bad. Stay on the path you hear!" Raven looked at Beast Boy with a mixed look of confusion and pride.

"So you're a god parent, when did that happen?" Beast Boy looked sheepish complete with the hand behind his head.

"Oh she's like four now so for about three years a guess. I got the letter and I said yes I didn't know he still wanted me to do that." He smiled at the thought of his best friend wanted him to be his little girl's god father.

"So why did she run off so fast?" Beast Boy laughed at her for a second before answering.

"I wouldn't be surprised if Tonto didn't ask you to be the god mother tomorrow when he meets you." Raven blushed at the thought.

"You mean she really went to go ask her parents if I could be…" Beast Boy nodded and Raven began to panic a little. "That little girl has no idea I'm half demon and her parents oh what they will think when they find out." Beast Boy smiled and shook his head as he walked over to the couch.

"Come sit down Rae. Everyone in the village knows all about you guys. I've been here for what two months now. I've told them everything, and to be honest Tonto was thinking of asking you anyway." Raven looked at him a little frightened by what was implied there.

"I couldn't be a god mother, I don't even know if I could be a good mother." Beast Boy looked at Raven with sad eyes.

"I think you'd make an excellent mother Raven. I mean you're smart, funny, intelligent, and beautiful. You also have the instincts of being a mother by how you take care of the team." Raven blushed at all his comments and looked away. "So Raven, what is your real reason for being up so late?" Raven took a deep breath before answering.

"I wanted to ask you if you knew why I couldn't sense that magic you have. It may not be like other magic but it is magic none the less." Beast Boy looked thoughtful for a second before answering her.

"I think it might be because I didn't want you to know. I mean really I'm not even sure how long I'll be able to use this lighting power. Normally for non-natives of Africa this power only lasts a little while. Now I know now that the healing power won't disappear but the lighting just might." Raven nodded it was the most reasonable answer to that question. A person can hid a magic signature if they want to.

"Okay, how about your shifting and healing powers. I understand your healing powers now come from a copycat effect you were given. But your shifting is not something I can explain at all. Plus I have several questions about said shifting." Beast Boy looked at her and motioned for her to go ahead and ask. "First where did you get your shifting powers?"

"Well let's see, I'm assuming since you found me you asked Mom about my real name or she just gave it to you. Thus you discovered four articles about me and my family. Let's see the first one about me surviving Sakutia. That is true but it was the disease that turned me green not the cure. The cure gave me my powers of shifting. The cure was really animal DNA injected into mine. The infected part of my DNA was switched with the animal DNA so I became part animal after words. In being part animal my DNA couldn't decide which of the animals in the kingdom I'd be so, after about a year of an internal warfare where I remained very sick, I held the whole animal kingdom. Now if I see or hear, or even read about an animal I can turn into it. My DNA just rearranges to that animals code." Raven took this all in trying to remember every last detail.

"Okay so last two about your powers. First does it hurt when you shift and second your healing powers, have you been healing us when we don't look?" Beast Boy smiled a very sad smile to Raven.

"Well the first question is easy to answer in my mind but out loud not as much. If you want the truth, which I bet you do, the answer is yes. The pain is unbearable, but it doesn't last long and normally its over so fast I've already begun to shift to the next animal or charging the enemy. The second question, the answer is either going to make you mad or happy. Again the answer is yes. I do heal you guys of your minor cuts and what not. I heal you all the time, first in fact. You always heal us first and normally become too tired to heal yourself. So I do it for you a little bit. Not enough you notice it too much but I speed your powers along a little bit."

Raven looked up into his eyes and gave a small smile to him. She didn't know what to say about that. He cared enough to make sure she was safe from too much pain. He was right she never healed herself and she had been wondering why she was almost always completely healed by the time she woke up in the morning.

"Thank you Beast Boy. I don't know what to say, you didn't have to do that." He nodded slowing in acknowledgement but said nothing else. He would allow her to continue the conversation. This was like a moment for them and he would enjoy it this time, no jokes. "Beast Boy I wanted to ask you one more question, about the village." Again she looked to Beast Boy and saw him move in such a way to tell her to continue. "How important is this place to you? I mean will you come back with us or will you stay here? It seems the village really likes you and needs your help."

"Raven, this place is very important to me. It's where I grew up and where my parents died. Their souls are still here and it is true the people here in the village love me and treats me as if I was one of them, so in a way I am one of them. I've gone through the rights of man hood with my friends here. But as important as this place is to me I couldn't stay here. Robin, Star and Cyborg are like the siblings I never got from my parents. Jump City needs me more than here could ever need me; so I would go back with you all." Raven nodded but noted he never said anything about going back for her.

"What about me, what am I to you?" Beast Boy took a deep breath and looked at the photograph of his parents and smiled a little bit.

"You Rae, you are my Best Friend in the world. We are the complete opposite but work together like two peas in a pod. I know I can go to you for anything and you'd be willing to help me just as I would be willing to help you. My Master thinks I'm crazy for talking about you so much. I mean I think it's gotten to the point he could point you out of a crowd and he's never met you before. Though you did give him a scare with that growl of yours, he said he had never heard any human growl other than me." He smiled at Raven before standing and stretching. "Well Raven, if you don't have any more questions than I think we should head to bed. I have a really early morning." Beast Boy stopped at his open door and looked at Raven. "Hey Rae, I umm, well Good Night Raven." With that he walked into his room.