Chapter fourteen: home sweet home
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Raven sat on the common room couch, trying to occupy herself by reading a leather bound book, but found difficulty doing so. Reason why? Beast boy.
Yes, it had been over a year since his departure, and the team had only gotten scares amounts of letters saying he was ok. That is what worried her. He barely left any reason why, he left in the first place, and now he was gone way over his time limit.
Cyborg sat on the couch, playing single mode on the latest Mega Monkeys video game, and he had to admit, he did miss the grass stain. Sure, he didn't mind not being pranked, or rearing his non-funny jokes, but now after a year of not hearing them, he actually started to miss them. A lot.
At least on good thing did come out of this. Bumble bee had been asked to fill in for Beast boy until he returns from his trip. Since then, he and Bee really hit it off.
At this moment, Bee and Star had walked in, just getting out of some quality 'girl talk'. Bumble bee walked over to the couch and placed her hands on the top of it, watching her boyfriend, leap lean in the direction of his animated character.
"C'mon Sparky, you can do it!" she cheered on. With a determined look on his face, he finally beat the level, moving on to the last one. He paused the game, and turned to the bee.
"Hmm, I wonder who that could've been cheering me on." He said as he rubbed his chin, pretending to be deep in thought.
"Wasn't me." She said as she crossed he arms. "But if it was, what would I get for helping you win?"
Cyborg shrugged, and instead of answering, he gave her a kiss square on the lips.
Raven looked over with a disgusted look on her face.
"If you are going to have a make out session, please get a room." She scolded.
"Hey, if BB were here, you two would be swappin' spit day and night." He defended. Raven was going to make a smart remark, but was interrupted as the doors flew open again to reveal Robin carrying today's mail.
Every time this happen, Raven would tense and would hope that there was some letter from Beast boy, hopefully for him coming home.
"Junk, junk, bill,-"Robin called as he threw the letters on the coffee table. "Bill, trash, junk, bi-hey!" everyone stop what they were doing, and stared at the bird for brains. "Guys come here; it's a letter from Beast boy!"
Raven was there in a flash, startling Robin. It still surprised him how she seemed to be in one place at one moment and then another the next. Even though he new perfectly well she could teleport. He just guest old habits never die.
"What does it say?" Raven asked, with little emotion. Although on the inside she was bubbling with excitement
"OK ok, let's see…" this one was by far the longest. Robin read, "Hey guys guess what? I'm finally comin' home! I will be back in a couple of days, and I have a lot to tell you. Arg, my pen's running out. Anyhoo, from…well you know who. P.s, I miss you Rae- Rae." Robin finished.
At the end, everyone was looking at her with a sly smile, and she could feel her face heating up rather quickly.
"What?" she asked clearly annoyed. Everyone shot their heads away, muttering "oh nothing's'. Cyborg clapped his hands suddenly, startling everyone.
"Well, are we just going to sit here like a bunch of bumps on a log, or are we going to get this party started!" Cyborg yelled as he pointed to the ceiling as a bunch of balloons and streamers fell out of nowhere.
Robin picked up a balloon and popped it in his hand.
"Uh, Cyborg…when did we install all this stuff?"
"Oh yeah, 'bout that…" Cyborg began. Thankful, the bubbly tameranian could not contain her excitement.
"Oh glorious! Friend Beast boy is finally coming home. I was just beginning to miss his unfunny jokes. Now I can make a fresh glorka berry pie! Please Robin, may we do the home welcoming party?" she asked her boyfriend with hopeful eyes.
"Why does everyone judge me as the bad guy? He's just as much a friend to me as he is to you guys, of course we can have a welcome home party." He gave a small smile as his girlfriend twirled in the air.
A few days later, everything was in place and ready for Beast boy's arrival. There was a huge banner saying welcome home Beast boy! Streamers and balloons stuck to the ceiling, and as Starfire promised, there was glorka berry pie.
"Everything looks punctual for Beast boy's arrival, yes?" Starfire asked as she placed down her pie on the already food-covered counter.
"I sure hope so. We spent way too much time puttin' up all this stuff." Cyborg said as he dusted his hands off. Raven walked up beside him, and nodded.
"It looks fine, Starfire. If anything, we over did it." Starfire nodded, but adjusted her pie, just a bit. Raven rolled her eyes, and walked to the couch, where she stared out of the window. Secretly, she didn't know how to feel when he arrived. Sure, she would be thrilled that he was home, but things do change. What if he change, and for the worst. What if he lost that happy, care-free spark that made her love him all the more?
With all these things running through her head, she didn't notice the couch shift.
"Raven," said a voice all too familiar. Raven snapped her head to the sound of the voice, and let out a long sigh.
"Oh...hey Bee."
"You've been staring at the window for some time, something wrong?" Raven shook her head.
"No…I was just thinking." She said quietly.
"About Beast boy?"
"Yes." Raven said before she even knew it. Bumble bee smirked, as she leaned back on the couch, placing her hands behind her neck.
"Figures." A few moments of silence later, Bee spoke up again. "What's bugging you?" normally, this would be the time of 'girl talk' between Starfire and Raven, but since she was too busy preparing for Beast boy's arrival, Bumble bee would have to do.
"It's just, it's been a year…and three months, six days, five hours…" Raven counted off.
"Yeah, I get it; he was gone for a while. Can we skip the part why you're starring off into space?"
"It's just…I'm worried that he changed. And he may have forgotten me, and found a new girlfriend."
"Raven, as far as I know, Beast boy is not the type of guy to do that. And by what Cyborg tells me, he had eyes for you ever since that Malcior biz. You have nothing to worry about." Bumble bee tried to reassure.
"Your right." Raven said, giving her a small smile. There was a loud beat that echoed through the entire room, and the sound of shuffling could be heard from nowhere.
"Attention all titans," came Robin from the loud speaker. "We can see Beast boy, I repeat we can see Beast boy. Go into your positions." The speaker was cut off, and the two girls exchanged glances.
Raven sighed as she stood up.
"Don't worry." Bee said before shrinking, and flying off. Raven stood there for a couple of seconds before teleporting to the hallway.
Just then, the entrance doors swished open, and someone walked in, carrying a green bag. He dropped it on the floor and stretched before slumping over, and trudging his way over to the couch. He flung himself over it, letting out a long sigh.
Taking a quick scan over of the room, he noted that there was no one in sight. He turned back around, letting out another sigh.
His head sharply turned back around, finally noticing all the food, balloons, and streamers. His facial expression turned to one of confusion.
"SURPRISE!" suddenly, all the titans popped up, wearing a big smile on all the faces. Beast boy let out a muffled screamed as he was lunged on by Starfire, who gave him a gigantic bear hug.
"This is most joyous! Friend Beast boy is home, please…tell a joke!" she said as she stepped back, jumping slightly.
After a few moments to regain his breath, he answered, "Um…hi guys?" Starfire giggled and flew beside Robin. Robin stepped up and patted him on the shoulder.
"Welcome home." Robin said with a small smile.
"Gee thanks." Beast boy said, returning the smile. Cyborg was next, and stepped up, giving him a bro hug.
"It's about time you came back! I was missin' beatin' your butt at video games." Beast boy chucked slightly.
"Yeah right." Cyborg stepped back, revealing a blue clad girl. She wore a small smile on her face. She slowly made her way towards the changeling. Once she was in front of him she gave a long hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"I've missed you." She whispered me his ear, so that no one could hear.
"Same here." He whispered back. Raven took a step back, wiping away a small tear.
"Alright yall, enough with the welcoming ceramony. Let's start the party." Everyone cheered, and the party began.
An hour later, the titans were circular around the changeling, waiting for I'm to share his whereabouts.
"You said that you had something important to tell us?" Robin said, taking a sip of his root bear (A/N: still under age here!)
"Oh yeah…" Beast boy said, suddenly growing serious. Raven placed a hand on his hand for comfort. "Well…I got new powers!" the crowd gasped.
Cliff hanger! I'm sorry, I was planning for this but if I continued it would've taken me another month to word it out! I'm not kidding. I have no excuse for my lateness and I am not going to deny it either. Personally, I hate this chapter. I'm sorry if you do too.
I just felt I haven't updated this in a lifetime and I just wanted to finish it. I still have an essay due by the end of the summer, and I haven't even started it yet! I will try to update this sooner. Same for my other stories.
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