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Hearing a knock on her door, Raven walked over and looked through her fisheye peephole. Seeing Beast Boy and Cyborg standing in the hallway, she punched the button on her wall, causing the steel door to smoothly slide open.
Raven stepped forward and nodded in acknowledgement of her friends.
"Yes?" she asked.
"Hi! Can Cyborg and I," Beast Boy gestured towards himself, "borrow a few of your books?"
Raven lifted an eyebrow in surprise.
"Well.. Yes, of course, I suppose," she said, stepping to the side and gesturing into her room towards her bookshelves.
"Thanks!" Cyborg said, a chipper smile on his face as he and Beast Boy approached the pale girl's library.
"I never really pinned you two as avid readers," Raven remarked as she watched Beast Boy climb onto the shelf and start tossing books down to Cyborg, who stacked them up in his arms.
"Oh yeah," Beast Boy called back. "We're huge on literature."
"Can't get enough of it," nodded Cyborg in agreement.
"Well.. that's a positive change from all those stupid video games of yours," the telepath remarked as the two walked back towards her, heading for the hallway again.
"Yep! Thanks again!" they said merrily as they headed down the corridors.
Raven watched them for a moment and then stepped back into her room.
A few hours later, Raven walked into the common room in hopes that there would be something on the television. When the doors opened up, she saw an enormous, crudely made fortress fashioned out of piles of her books. As she approached slowly, she could hear Cyborg and Beast Boy laughing giddily.
"What.. the.. hell?" Raven asked slowly, dumbfounded as she looked over the fortress.
The two boys popped out from behind a tower of books and pointed.
"Hey! No girls allowed!" Beast Boy whined.
"What are you two idiots doing?" came her irritated reply.
"Get out of our fort!"
"How old are you two?!"
"Shut up!"
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A more serious story is coming soon, actually. :o