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"...and so that's what happened, hun..." Love said quietly.

She sat on the right side of her four corner bed, looking down at her pink boots as a very confused Beast Boy sat inches next to her. For some reason, being inside Raven's mind like this had made his entire time with Love rather awkward, and he found himself unable to make even the most basic eye contact with her.

"So...this Demon Lust girl? She wants to kill me?" he said, scratching the back of his head. Love giggled and gave her green hero a quick peck on the cheek, before blushing a deep shade of red.

"Not exactly, babe. See, Ravie and I love you, right? Well, not every bit of that big meanie Trigon went away when we kicked his butt." she said, still keeping her eyes from contacting his. "And when that last bit of demon in her mixed with my, I mean, our love for you, it made Demon Lust."

This was too much for Beast Boy to handle, as the green changeling had erased any thought of Trigon from his mind, thinking that the demon lord was gone once for all.

"Dude, I know this," Beast Boy said "but if she's not trying to kill me, why the whips and chains and candles and biting and stuff? How is that love?"

Love just sighed and shrugged, using the opportunity to scoot even closer to Beast Boy, the inches closing slowly, yet the changeling seemed completely unaware.

"Well, see...she gets off on hurting you, babe..." Love said softly. An awkward, tense silence hung in the air in all it's suffocating glory, before the pink clad emotion continued. "It's like she gets, um, pleasure from making you hurt." she said, her bare leg barely grazing against Beast Boy's leg.

"That's all kinds of messed up! But, I am kinda glad to know that it's not actually Rae doing this stuff to me..." the changeling said, his voice trailing off in the end.

"Yeah..." was all Love could respond with.

Again, another soul sucking uneasiness hung in the room surrounding Beast Boy and Love. Beast Boy's last trip to Nevermore had been chaotic, to say the least, which saw him teaming up with Cyborg and Raven to deal with Trigon's presence, but this was a bit different. A lot different, actually.

"You're cuter in person, you know..." Love said again, blushing a powerful shade of rose. Beast Boy blushed just as hard, staring down at his Doom Patrol boots.

"Uh, thanks. I appreciate that." he said quietly.

"Beast Boy? Can I...kiss you?" Love asked timidly. Beast Boy coughed a bit, suddenly feeling extremely shy, something he always hated.

"K-Kiss me? Why would you wanna do that? I mean, don't you kiss me and stuff when Raven kisses me" he said, feeling really uneasy about Love's proposition. Love sighed and glanced down at her bright pink boots, dangling them over the edge of the bed in a playful, almost whimsical matter.

"I've always kinda wondered what it would be like to kiss you in person, and not just experience when Ravie does." she said, brushing a few errand stands of violet hair behind her ears. "So yeah..." she added, not really meaning to finish the sentence. Beast Boy swallowed his spit hard as he tried to wrap his brain around the idea of kissing one of Raven's emotions.

"It's not really cheating, 'cause she is a part of Rae...at least I think." he thought. "Um, okay. I'll do it."

Love exploded with joy and clapped her hands together out of excitement, a mannerism reminiscent of Starfire.

"Oh BB! Thank you sooo much! I've wanted this for so long!" she said, her own amethyst eyes absolutely ablaze with happiness. Love closed her eyes and leaned forward towards her green beau, eager to experience when his lips felt like against her own. On his side, Beast Boy swallowed hard and closed his own eyes, his own brain wondering what one must feel like when making out with an emotion.

"His lips are so soft!" Love though, leaning into the kiss, her eyes still closed. Beast Boy was thinking along the similar lines, relieved at how natural kissing her felt.

"Dude, her lips feel just like Rae's cheek, which is kinda weird...wait a sec, her cheek?"

Opening his eyes, Beast Boy gasped in surprise to see that he had been kissing another emotion on her cheek, one that caught him a bit off guard. Her cloak and hood were both blood red, along with her eyes. She didn't have a leotard on like the rest, but rather a low-cut bikini top and a very skimpy thong, both of which were blacker than black. It was Demon Lust.

"W-who are you?" the confused changeling asked. "Are you that Demon Lust that Love was telling me about?"

Demon Lust just smiled seductively, slowly dragging an index finger up and down Beast Boy's chest, inching close to the green Titan who was now sweating profusely.

"Some call me that name, sure. But you can call me whatever you want." she cooed, being sure to lick her lips as each word spilled from her mouth. "But since we're all all cozy, how about a nice menage a trois, sexy?"

"A manager of what?" Beast Boy asked. Demon Lust could do nothing but roll her eyes.

"A three-some, you dolt. I'm saying, maybe all three of us should get better acquainted. Now where does that uniform unzip? The back?" she purred seductively. Beast Boy just stammered non-sense as he tried to scoot away from the glowing fire-red eyes of the lustful demoness.

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY MAN!" Love shouted and hurled Demon Lust across the room with a mere wave of her hand. The painfully erotic emotion crashed into a marble statue of Beast Boy eating a big plate of tofu waffles, sending the stature itself shattering into thousands of tiny pieces.

For a brief moment, Love's bedroom was deadly silent, with neither her nor Beast Boy making any sound. The changeling's mouth was slack, his eyes wide, his vocal chords desperately trying to form some sort of sound or utterance, yet nothing came out by a meaningless void.

As if a phoenix rising from the ashes of it's grave, Demon Lust exploded from her marble prison in a burst of flame so powerful, it seemingly melted the chunks of finely decorated stone.

"FOOL! Do you have any idea of what powers you mess with?" Demon Lust growled, her burning red eyes having grown an extra set, now all four eyes resembling the very burning embers of Trigon himself. "I had planned on letting you enjoy it, but it looks like I'll have to take it myself!" she funed. And from her finger tips flew a solid beam of flame, a swirling vortex of a fiery inferno that seemingly came from Hell itself. Love screamed out in pain as the fires licked her body, burning away her leotard and cloak, leaving her huddled to her knees, completely naked.

The Demoness slowly stalked her way towards Love, the formerly pink cloaked emotion covering herself with her arms and legs, finding herself frightened of this new, powerful emotion. Demon Lust stood over Love and grabbing her by her hair, hoisted her up to her feet, exposing her body to both herself and Beast Boy.

"Now we could have done this the easy way, and I could have gotten what I wanted without hurting anyone, but apparently, you want things the hard way." she said and leaned forward to crudely suck and nibble on Love's neck. Only that was her plan, till a green ram seemingly came out of nowhere and crashed straight into the Demoness, sending her reeling into the heavy wooden door of Love's bedroom.

"Leave my girlfriend...I mean, my girlfriend's emotion alone!" Beast Boy shouted, after having morphed back into his human form. His poise was alert and ready, his green eyes narrowed as he prepared himself to defend Love.

"Aaah!" Raven cried out suddenly, as she fell to her knees. The pale empath's hands clutched her temples tightly with her teeth clenched fiercely, as her eyes shut, blocking out any and all light to her pupils. Her mind screamed out in pain and agony, the most excruciating sensation rippled through her head like the aftermath of an atomic bomb.

Cyborg was quick to scoop her up into his arms, carrying the empath to the medical bay. He wasted no time in removing her cloak and hooking various wires up to her temple and forehead. The machines beeped and buzzed, the scanners showing massively high brain activity, nearly overloading Raven's nervous system.

"Rae, I don't know what's going on, but I hope you pull out..." he said quietly, as Raven grimaced and groaned in agony on the medical table.

It started off as a chuckle, then gained steam till it was a laugh, then it finally erupted into full blown cackling of a most sinister nature. Demon Lust slid her way up in such a manner as to violate any possible laws of human anatomy, a small trickle of red blood dribbling down from the corner of her mouth.

"Mmm...so you like it rough? Excellent. I can do rough." she finally said. She raised out her palms to attempt to bathe Beast Boy in her demonic fire. "Goodbye lover." she snarled as pure hellfire shot from her palm, shooting across the bedroom towards the changeling at a speed so fast, he wasn't prepared to morph or dodge out of the way. Except he didn't have to.

A solid wall of black energy seemingly came out of nowhere, shielding both Beast Boy and the naked, crying Love. Up from the ground morphed Knowledge, her hood pulled up over her head so that only the reflection from her glasses could be seen.

"Enough." she said plainly. "Stop it, Demon Lust. Now."

Demon Lust just smiled coyly and withdrew her hands to her sides, letting the flames die down completely.

"And why should I?" she asked. "You seem to assume I care about the well being of this shell."

"Because she's close to dying, that's why. Love isn't supposed to get angry or upset, she's supposed to love. It's her job, it's what she does. When she gets angry, the natural order is messed up and Raven's neural network overloads."

"You still haven't given me a reason, lover." snarled the demoness.

"And you never let me finish. If her brain overloads, she dies. If she dies, we all go with her, including you. And that would take away all of your fun now, wouldn't it?" Knowledge said. Her words obviously stung Demon Lust, as with a puff of smoke and flame, the demoness disappeared just as quickly as she had arrived. Knowledge sighed and let her shield down, kneeling before the still sobbing Love.

"Are you ok?" she asked quietly. Love wiped the tears away from the corner of her eyes using the back of her hand and gave a weak nod.

"I...I..I think so." she said weakly, her voice wavering and cracking. "Why does she do these things, Knowledge? Why? Why does she want to hurt us?"

"Because she's evil. She's from Trigon and all she knows is pain and misery. We've survived the prophecy, we can survive this. Why don't you get dressed and mediate, ok? Get yourself back in check. I'm going to go talk with Garfield."

Love gave a tiny, tear soaked nod and waved her hand a bit, causing one of her large, wooden dressers to open up and a fully matching pink leotard and cloak combo to arrive, floating safely to her hand.

"I'll see you later, BB." she said weakly. "I love you!"

Beast Boy nodded, still in shock over what he had just witnessed, but found him enough strength to softly reply "Uh, I love you too." and left with Knowledge out of the bedroom.

Beast Boy immediately was thrown into Knowledge's realm, a huge library with towering book cases stuffed with the knowledge that Raven had acquired throughout her life. The room was filled with the same musky smell that Beast Boy would get a whiff of from Raven's old books, with even more piles of books scattered among the floor in well organized heaps. Each bookcase featured a label such as "SPELLS", "ENCHANTMENTS", "MEDIDATION", "MEMORIES OF CYBORG", "MEMORIES OF STARFIRE" and so forth. In the middle of the library were two over-stuffed chairs, a simple table in between them, on which rested a pot of tea and two cups and saucers.

"Please Garfield, have a seat." she said. Beast Boy swallowed his spit and gave a weak nod, before sitting in one of the large, plush chairs. Knowledge sat across from him and poured herself a cup of tea, which she sipped calmly, before speaking.

"So I assume Love told you the story of Demon Lust, correct?"

"Dude, are all of these books Raven's memories?"

Love sighed at Beast Boy's lack of attention. It wasn't so much he was stupid, but rather years of video games and horror movies had whittled his actual attention span down to mere seconds, if that.

"Yes, Garfield, they are. And much more." she said after pausing to clear her throat. "Each book is something Raven knows. They could be something as trivial as how to make herbal tea properly, to something important, such as memories of you."

"But what about the books there? They ain't on the shelf or anything." he asked.

"Thoughts or memories I've yet to categorize." Knowledge said, although her lips didn't move, because she never said it. From the shadows walked Raven, her hood pulled up as to show only her deep amethyst eyes.

"RAVEN!" Beast Boy said, lunging for his girlfriend for a hug. "What are you doing here?"

Raven returned the hug and kissed her green beau softly on his lips, before forming a seat next to him with a gesture from her hand.

"I was talking with Cyborg in regards to your recent behavior, when I became afflicted with pain like I've never felt before. Once it stopped, I knew something was wrong in Nevermore. Oddly enough, I found my scared mirror on the floor." she said with an accusing tone, sitting next to Beast Boy on the chair.

"Whoa, slow down a sec...MY behavior? What's up with you?" he asked incredulously. Raven blushed slightly and let her hood down, letting out a long, deep sigh.

"Gar..I...I owe you an apology." she finally said after a bit of silence. "I had no idea I was doing those...things to you at night. I feel terrible.."

Beast Boy leaned forward and wrapped his arm around Raven's slender shoulders and pulled her close to him, with the violet haired empath resting her head on his shoulder and closing her eyes to bask in his presence.

"It's cool, Rae. I mean, it's not like you were doing it, right? It's that crazy demon chick. She's one of those dom...doma...domino people." he said.

"I believe the term you're looking for is dominatrix, Garfield." Knowledge corrected. The emotion couldn't help but smile at the sight of Raven resting her head on Beast Boy's shoulder, showcasing a tender display of affection between the two Titans.

"So, like, did you ladies figure out how to stop Demon Lust?" asked Beast Boy. "Cause I gotta tell ya...I miss getting a full night's sleep."

Raven sighed again and sat up straight, brushing some of her hair behind her ears, in exactly the same manner Love did before.

"While we you were fighting Demon Lust, Knowledge and I were attempting to find a way to stop her. The only answer we keep coming back to...is to fight fire with fire." she said. The phrase "fight fire with fire" went over Beast Boy's head at first, as he wasn't quite sure what Raven meant by it and why she seemed to be blushing slightly.

"Fire with fire...?" he thought, as he mentally repeated the phrase over and over.

"You seem confused, Garfield. Allow me to explain. As Raven and I were discussing, Demon Lust seeks one thing, sexual pleasure, which she derives from hurting you. However, we believe that this could possibly be a double edged sword, so that if she enjoys inflicting pain..."

Beast Boy's eyes lit up and widened as he finally grasped when they were trying to tell him.

"...so she must like being hurt and stuff, right?" he said. Knowledge nodded and took another sip of her tea.

"Indeed. The Demoness will not go away until she gets what she wants, which is gratification. This is where you and Raven enter the picture. You two must "combine your efforts", so to speak, in order to give the Demoness the satisfaction she craves. I would suggest you start immediately tonight, once the moon is out."

"No way, dude! I can't hurt Raven! I love her!" he said, his arms waving as they do when he tries to drive his point home. Raven leaned forward and kissed his cheek gently, stroking the back of her hand against the spot where her lips had previously made contact.

"I know this has to be awkward for you, Gar, and trust me, I'm not crazy about it either, but this is our only chance of ever having a normal life together. Demon Lust is powerful, more powerful that you could ever imagine and we have to stop her before she takes complete control." she said, her eyes pleading with him to follow through.

"Powerful? Rae, you kicked Trigon's butt twice! And once he was even inside your brain-thingie, so how is this crazy psycho chick any different?" he asked.

"Simple, really." Knowledge said after another sip of tea. "Trigon is an outside influence, a complete separate entity from Raven. Demon Lust is actually a part of Raven, buried deep within her pysche. It's an emotion, however undesirable it may be, and is still part of her. Her power comes from the fact that she is an emotion, similar to myself, Love, Sarcasm or even Rude."

Beast Boy sagged his shoulders a bit and looked at Raven, before smiling weakly and kissing her chakra, a non-verbal sign of his agreement.

"For you Rae, I'd try anything." he said quietly.

An uncomfortable silence wafted through the air in the bedroom, causing both Titans to stir on their satin sheets. The clock read 2:11 AM and neither Beast Boy nor Raven could sleep. They had planned on waiting till everyone else in the Tower had gone to bed before they tried anything, though that had been half an hour ago when Cyborg wearily shut the door to his room.

"So...uhh...should we start now?" Beast Boy finally said, cutting through the maddening silence.

"I suppose." Raven added, sitting up in bed. She sighed and threw the covers back, still in her usual PJ attire of sweats and a tank top.

"Is this the part where we get naked?" he asked innocently, unsure of what exactly Raven wanted him to do with this plan of hers.

"Yes and no, Gar. You have to get aggressive, firm, demanding, powerful..." she said, her voice trailing off.

"Okay, I think I can do that. Raven...take your clothes off, please."

Raven sighed and massaged her temples a bit. This was going to be harder than she thought.

"Gar, that's about as powerful as Dr. Light crying at a sad movie. Here, try this...remember the Beast?"

"Dude...how could I forget..."

"I want you to tap into that same primal rage, but control it so that you don't actually morph into the Beast." she said, stroking his arm softly. Beast Boy just shook his head.

"No way, Rae. If I change into the Beast, that'd be nasty and who knows what I'd do to you." he protested. Raven rested her index finger to his lips, a silent way of telling him to be quiet.

"I have faith in you, Gar. And for the record, I'm not exactly defenseless myself. If you cross the line, I can take care of it." she added. "Now, focus. Close your eyes and picture the Beast, but picture him acting through you, not transforming physically. Just his emotions, his psyche."

A moment or two past as Beast Boy sat there with his eyes closed, breathing a bit hard into the cool night air. What seemed like eons passed before he opened them, as his eyebrows narrowed down into an expression of power and control. It had taken a bit of struggling, but Beast Boy had tapped into his most basic, animalistic drive, a side of him he wasn't even aware existed, till the birth of the Beast. Even then these new emotions focused less on revenge and more on a intoxicating sexual rush that even in his wildest dreams, he never imagined himself capable of.

"Raven, take off your clothes. Now." he ordered. His voice was deep and booming, carrying an air of authority that the empath had never seen before. Following Knowledge's advice, Raven decided to press her luck, wanting to drive the Beast further out.

"No." she said flatly. "The clothes stay on."

Beast Boy growled with irritation and lunged for her, straddling her hips as he pinned her arms over her head.

"Clothes. Off. Now." he barked. "I won't tell you again."

"No."

Beast Boy growled even louder and with a swift jerk of his hand, completely ripped Raven's tank top off, exposing her breasts to the glowing hue of the moonlight. She gasped, not expecting him to take that course of action so quick and squirmed a bit.

"Your pants. Take them off."

"No."

Again, her transformed lover let his irritation be known, and seemingly ripped her sweat pants off with his bare hands, her nighttime attire completely reduced to shredded tatters of light blue fabric. Her body was now completely nude, as she found herself physically at his mercy. Granted, with a mere thought she could send him hurling across the room, but she deliberately restrained her powers, silently hoping that this would be the only time they'd need to do this.

Beast Boy looked down at the now naked Raven and grinned wildly before biting down on her neck hard, stopping just short of breaking the skin. Raven's eyes shot open wide as she arched her back as best she could, a mixture of pain and pleasure shooting through her body. The sound that escaped her lips was a blend of a moan of ecstasy and a groan of agony, a perfect symphony that send chills down both their backs.

"Garfield..." she said, hissing his name into one long syllable into the darkness of their bedroom.

Beast Boy sat back up and smirked, stroking his hands over every inch of her delicate frame.

"Beg for it." he ordered again.

"...what?"

"You heard me, Raven. I didn't stutter. Beg for it. Tell me you want it."

Raven swallowed her spit hard. She wasn't prepared for this, despite Knowledge's warning to 'expect the unexpected.' This was so far above and beyond what she was comfortable with and she knew with a simple plea, she could cut through the Beast's influence and reach him, putting an end to this, but Demon Lust had to be stopped. This was the only way. It had to be done.

"...take me..." she said quietly.

"What was that? I don't think I heard you." he taunted, mockingly cupping one of his ears.

"Take me, Garfield. Ravage me...I'm yours." she said again, almost choking on the words as they left her throat.

He smiled big, his sharp teeth seemingly shining brightly in the pale moonlight.

"I thought you'd never ask."