Summer Beach Read
Chapter Twelve

This stupid, ridiculous, damnable Garden Party.

Raven crossed her arms and stood under a small gazebo as her eyes darted through the crowd for any person who might not be a terrible conversation partner. She could see some celebrity socialites - no. There were mid-thirties yuppies - double no. A few professional athletes - what in the world would they talk about? And then there was just the normal, middle-age crowd of rich philanthropists who only donated money to come out to see the Titans and ogle them - Raven would rather let her demon run free than deal with that nonsense.

She paused as her eyes slid over the unmistakable clover-green skin, and a small smile graced her lips as she watched him from her secluded spot.

Raven thought he cleaned up surprisingly well for a person who transformed into a multitude of animals, including a pig. He looked tall in his black suit and deep blue button down. In fact (if no one was listening to her thoughts), Raven might say he looked… almost sexy. His hair was still a bit of a mess, chunks of it falling into his bright-green eyes, and his face still had that mischievous, boyish grin, but it only added to the overall appeal.

Raven blushed at that thought and quickly pushed it from her mind. Did she find him appealing? Certainly attractive, and equally arousing, but appealing…?

Well, maybe. It was hard to say at this point anyway.

She watched him over the edge of her champagne glass with humored fascination as he tried to properly insert himself into social conversations. It was almost amusing to see him fumble over boring conversations about weather and sports and business. She had to give him a little credit anyway, he really was trying.

"Everything good with you and B?"

She jumped and turned around to look at Cyborg, trying to hide her blush by taking a long swig of champagne. After she downed one glass, she snatched another one from a waiter walking by. What in the world was wrong with her? She felt strange and flustered, and not at all how she normally felt.

"Everything is fine." She tapped her fingers on the champagne flute and fidgeted under her friend's stare. "Why do you ask?"

"'Cause you two have been the weirdest I have ever seen for the last two weeks." He didn't even try to skirt the topic, and his forwardness made Raven uncomfortable. He shrugged and shook his head before continuing. "Look, it's not place to try and figure you two out or give you advice, but I want you to know that you're my friends."

"Okay?" Raven was thoroughly confused by that statement. "I don't understand what you mean by that."

He shrugged, as if his enigmatic statement was nothing to really concern herself over. "What I mean is that no matter what happens, I love you guys. That's it. That's all you need to know."

"Oh."

He shrugged, and Raven saw the corners of his lips turn up in a knowing smile. She blushed and knocked back another glass of champagne in embarrassment. Cyborg just laughed and walked away, seeing Robin and Starfire attempt to mingle with someone across the garden.

Raven looked back at Beast Boy and watched him again, keeping to her comforting shadows to keep off any unwanted attention.

During a particularly painful looking interaction with a group of older investors, Beast Boy caught her stare, and smiled softly, as if he had a secret. He tilted his head toward the back of the garden, silently signalling that she should follow him. Raven blushed and grabbed another glass of champagne from a nearby waiter. Swallowing her embarrassment and reservation, she followed Beast Boy towards the intricately designed rose garden in front of the massive hedge maze.

"Hey." He waved as she approached. "You looked lonely"

"You looked confused."

He chuckled and shrugged. "More like… frustrated. A lot of weird words about stocks and bonds and… hell if I know. Just a bunch of nonsense to me. I'm glad I saw you, I don't know if I could have put up with that for much longer."

"I haven't moved from my spot for this whole party and you know it." Raven took another sip of her champagne, feeling her stomach twist and flutter at his proximity. She cleared her throat and looked away. "Are you enjoying the party?"

"No. Of course not. Putting me a monkey suit and making me dance is not exactly how I want to spend a Saturday afternoon." He sighed and looked over at her. "But the mayor requested us for fundraising… so here we are, the freak show to the city's most elite crowds."

"Please don't remind me." Raven pinched the bridge of her nose and fought against the urge to down another glass of champagne.

"You look beautiful."

Raven's hands nearly broke her glass in half, and she heard a few rose bushes behind her explode in a shower of petals. Beast Boy just picked them out of his hair and laughed.

"And totally not like a misshapen cake."

"Thanks for ruining the mood."

"Awe, come on. I'm not that bad, am I?" He glanced around to be sure that no one was watching, and then leaned down to kiss her on the cheek.

Raven blushed and looked up at him, eyes narrowed. "Stop, someone will see us."

He shrugged. "Does it matter?"

Did it?

Raven shuffled slightly. "No. Yes. I don't know."

He chuckled and slid his fingers between her own. "Sounds kinda familiar… like we had this conversation a week ago or so."

Raven raised her eyebrow in defiance, but chose not to take her hand back from his grasp. He was, after all, quite warm. "I don't know if I like it when you choose to talk back to me."

"I can be sassy."

She rolled her eyes.

"Hey!" He snapped his fingers as if having a eureka moment. "I know where we can be alone. Come on, Rae."

He tugged on her arm and led her through the rest of the rose garden to the hedge maze behind it. The sweet smell of flowers gave way to the earthy scent of greenery, and Raven let him drag her through the complicated path, until they stopped at dead-end.

The hedges rose ten feet high on either side of them, and tucked in the corner was a small, stone bench. The place was little over grown and looked rarely visited, probably since the entire world knew that this was a dead-end and the middle should have already been reached by now. It wasn't a terribly complicated maze after all.

Raven turned at looked at Beast Boy in confusion. "This isn't the middle, you know."

He smiled down at her. "Who said I was looking for the middle? Maybe I just wanted us to be alone."

Raven downed the last of her champagne and set the glass down, moving closer to him. Her heart was beating wildly in her chest, calling out for him in a way that was uniquely her own. She wrapped her fingers around the lapels in his jacket and blushed.

"We're at a very public party." Her words where whispered into his ear, and she could feel his trembling skin beneath her fingers.

"And?" His hands slid over the curve of her hip and ran down the line of her thigh before disappearing under her dress. He smiled down into her face, licking his lips as he pulled her even closer. "But, maybe I can't wait any more." His hand reached the crease in her hip and danced his fingers over her skin. "Maybe I want to finish what we started last night. Maybe-" He leaned down and kissed her full on the mouth, pushing his tongue past her lips to taste her before bulling away. "-I want to have you right now."

Raven tried to think of any reason he couldn't, but nothing came to mind. Not immediately anyway. Later she would suddenly remember about a hundred reasons why this was a bad idea, but right now… not so much. She reached up and unknotted his tie, pulling it off of his neck with the ghost of a smile. "Maybe I won't object to that."

"I thought so." He leaned over her body and nipped at her ear, dropping his voice so low it practically vibrated over her skin. "Considering your lack of underwear." He speared her core and caught her cries with a kiss, silencing her before she could alert party goers to their entanglement. No, they needed privacy for a little while longer at least.

Raven felt her whole body immediately erupt in a fine sheen of sweat, and she dug her hands deeper into his lapels, pulling him even closer. The green scent of the hedges around them mingles with his earthy musk, creating something that Raven wasn't even sure she could name. Except for: delicious.

"I'm gonna eat you out."

Raven jerked in surprise, and her body tightened around his fingers. "W-what?"

"Here. Now." He pushed her down lengthwise on the bench, and bunched her dress up around her waist. "I have had the mostuncomfortable dreams about your taste, Raven. And I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life…" He kissed along the line of her thighs and smiled up at her from his position between her legs.

"Do we… have time?" Raven bit her lip to keep from crying out as he slid his tongue into her core. Behind her she could hear the faint sounds of the party still in full swing, and she knew that there were at least three other couples wandering the pathways of the hedge maze, looking for the garden in the center, no doubt. All of that added to the thrill of their very sinful and nearly public act, making Raven's skin prickle with anticipation.

But that thrill and excitement certainly did not take away the fact that their absence from the party was going to be noticed soon.

"We have as much time as I want to." He pushed her legs further apart to accommodate his shoulders, and dipped his head back down to her core. "Does it matter that much?"

"I…" Her words drifted off as he drank from her, feeling her body become more concerned with her pleasure than with arguing with her lover. Fire danced through her veins in a dervish whirl that made her head spin and her breath practically nonexistent. She ran her hands through his hair, trying to find something to cling to as the flames licked her skin with their fevered steps.

A strange, contented grumbling escaped from his throat and one hand pushed through the folds of her midnight-blue dress to find her bodice. He traced the swell of her breast before yanking the neckline down, and freeing her with the movement. Raven felt her back arch and her body shake with the sensations coursing through her body. It was as if the world around her was shaking with the force of her emotions, and she was helpless but to accept that this was her fate.

Her fate was to be pleasure without hope for reprieve.

Not such a terrible fate.

Her hands tightened in his hair, pulling him closer to her body as she felt her muscles contract and release. Her breath sounded like a windstorm in her own ears and she panted out his name over and over between clenched teeth, desperate for him to send her over the edge.

"Please."

He didn't answer, he just simply let her fall.

Raven bit into her arm to muffle her scream as her soul was tossed into darkness and light and darkness again. It was as if her soul no longer belonged to herself, but was now a part of something - or rather someone - else. They were forced together by this pleasure, and they would be lost forever in it. His ministrations never stopped until her body was reduced to a twitching puddle, staring up into his face as he hovered over her prone form.

"That good, huh?" He licked his lips as his hands slid down to lock onto the curve of her hips. "I'll be sure to remember that for future use."

Raven tried to ask him why he thought there might be future use for that particular skill, and then decided that she didn't care why, she simply cared that he used it on her.

Beast Boy gave her a few seconds to collect herself, and then he drug her body to a standing position, supporting her limp body with his own. He kissed down the column of her neck before turning her in his arms. He bent her forward and supported her weight on her hands, now placed on the bench in front of her. It was not exactly the most delicate position Raven had ever found herself in, but she was too dizzy to really argue against it.

"I'm going to fuck you."

Raven's body shivered and she looked over her shoulder at him, watching shadows of lust and madness fill his eyes. He had not said "I'm going to have sex with you" or "make love to you". He said quite blatantly that he was going to fuck her. This was not slow jazz and fireside rugs, this was wild and animalistic, and very, very close to being a charge of public indecency. A flash of remorse sped through her body, at the loss of their first time to blatant unabashed fucking. But then she remembered that her body was beyond hot, and she needed release more than she needed romance.

They could find romance later. Right now, they needed this.

He didn't give her another second to respond, and pushed forward into the sanctuary of her body. Raven buried her head in her shoulder, gasping for breath with each push of himself. This position felt nothing like their awkward attempts yesterday, this was so much more. Her body was bent in such a way that he seemed to hit everything at once, and each movement from him sent her body into waves of pleasure until it felt like she was drowning.

He was growling and snarling behind his clenched teeth, and Raven could feel the thump of his heartbeat straight through his erection. He was close to losing it and letting go of his own well-placed control, but he managed to hold on. One of his hands slid around to the front of her body, teasing her clit as he pounded into her without reservation. The sensation was too much, and Raven felt her back arch as her muscles tightened around him. Darkness filled her vision and she pushed back against his body, still moving inside her. He grunted her name into her back as his own body shook with pleasure, and he gave into the release.

They stood there for several minutes, forced together like two puzzle pieces that didn't quite match up, but it didn't matter anyway - the puzzle was complete and it was good enough. Beast Boy finally pulled himself away from her, collapsing on the ground as he leaned against the hedge closest to him.

"Sorry," he gasped as he hastily tried to put himself back into something that resembled his previous, not sexed-up appearance. "I didn't mean to be so fast. I just… I kinda lost my control."

"I see that." Raven sunk to the ground and leaned against the stone bench behind her, shoving her breasts back into her bodice and readjusting her dress. "Quality, Beast Boy, not quantity."

He smirked. "And was it?"

"Was it what?" Raven blushed and hunted for one of her high heels that had fallen off. Good Goddess, she was a hot mess.

"Quality." Beast Boy handed her her shoe. "Was it quality?"

"Twice, Beast Boy." She shoved her foot back into her shoe and sighed. "Twice. I would call that quality." She stared at him from beneath dark lashes and stepped up to his body, still warm with his sweat and smelling faintly of salt and sex. Raven practically purred as he looked down at her, refusing to move away.

"You were quality enough that I would certainly put in a request for a repeat performance."

He just licked his lips.

This game had clearly reached the second quarter.

)O(

Two weeks later…

It had been a fun game while it lasted, Beast Boy wouldn't deny that. It was easy and exciting and the next step had always been to see who could one-up the last performance. There were times of anger and frustration, and then times of joy and anticipation. It was all very much like a roller-coaster ride.

But still…

He looked down at Raven, asleep in his arms, a book dangling from her fingertips as her hair splayed across his bare chest. He pulled the sheet up over her shoulder and kissed the top of her head.

… still, he had to admit that he kinda liked this just a little bit better.

)O(

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