Well, this is interesting.I don't know if you guys liked it or not, but isn't a shortfic traditionally one chapter? Dunno, but some of the reviewers wanted me to add, so.I did. I had had an idea for a sequel chapter so that's where I got a lot of the inspiration. Anyway, I hope you like it!

Thanks for all the reviews I received. As of writing this, I don't really know how many that is, but it's at least 5! However.there was a bit of a slump, and I'm not even sure I'll continue this work. But I'm posting this to see how it will do, so go ahead and tell me what you think, whatever that may be.

NOTE: I just found out that the text transfer from Microsoft Word to fanfiction.net archives is imperfect.Some of the paragraphs after transfer are blobbed together into huge chunks. Sorry. I've done what I can about this right now. It's still very readable, just an inconvenience. Sorry.

Ruptures

The eagle flew over vast expanses of trees, trees, and more trees. If not trees, it was lakes, and if not those, then it was rocks. It traveled swiftly over hills and through small valleys, moving on and on.

The bird landed on a jutting rock that stood many feet above the ground, and stood there for a moment. When a small tremor occurred and subsided, it lifted off and flew on in the direction of the near by city. The sun was just beginning to rise.

The bird eventually landed on the roof of the Titans' tower, transforming back into Beast Boy, who looked back over the city, tired and forlorn. Looking defeated, he turned around and walked back into the tower. (A/N: Confused? See author's note #1 at the bottom.)

Beast Boy trudged along the hallways, more tired than anything else now. When he finally arrived back at his door, he smiled, and sighed.

"Sleep."

Just as his hand was about to touch the button to open his door, however, another hand grasped his.

"Very glad I am to have found you, friend!" piped Starfire, an undeniable, blithe expression on her face, "Now you may join our other friends in the tradition of social breakfast at a round table!" (A/N: I know I used "!" marks, but she's not really yelling or particularly excited, that's just Starfire (did that go without saying?))

Despite Starfire's cheerfulness, Beast Boy looked somewhat bummed.

As Starfire dragged (flying) Beast Boy down the hall she continued, "And a wonderful breakfast it will be, for I have prepared scrongabuls for everyone!"

Beast Boy gave a weak moan as he was dragged along.

At the breakfast table, though, things were not going so well. It was silent, and no one had touched their.scrongabuls but Starfire.

Starfire was indeed looking disappointed, and looked to Cyborg for comfort, "Tell me, how is your opinion of the scrongabuls."

Cyborg froze, his right arm in the form of a vacuum near the scronga.stuff, and sweatdropped (A/N: No, I do not know if Cyborg has a vacuum arm (but that would be cool!)). He promptly began vacuuming the chair next to him. With his left hand, he took up a fork of the stuff and said, "Why, they're." seeing there was no way out of it, he took the bite into his mouth. Robin and Starfire stared intently. ".awesome." he squeaked.

Robin looked unsure. As a matter of fact, so did Starfire, but she was not concerned with the edibility of their meal. She looked at everyone, who had again fallen into silence. She jumped from her seat in frustration after a few more moments.

"Friends! Why do we not converse? Is there a matter here which I am not aware of?"

Cyborg said, "Dunno."

Robin said, "Beats me."

Starfire said, "Hmm."

And Beast Boy played with his scrongabul while Raven did nothing.

The three who had spoken looked at the two who had not, causing Beast Boy to move his fork around his food faster and harder until Cyborg said, "Well?" and Beast Boy threw both hands in the air, dangling the gelatinous alien food on his fork from one of them while brandishing a finger with the other.

"What are you guys staring at! Can't a guy eat in peace?!"

Raven got up and levitated out of the room.

Starfire tried to soothe Beast Boy, who still looked annoyed, "Beast Boy."

Beast Boy sat there with a vein popping out of his head for a moment then got up and left the room where Raven had.

The three titans left sat there uncomfortably until Cyborg pushed his plate away and said, smiling, "I guess that means breakfast's over?"

Beast Boy walked into the living room and plunked down in the middle of the semi-circle couch, looking troubled and irritated. Only moments later Robin sat down next to him rather conspicuously, trying to hide his intentions. Beast Boy ignored him, even when he suddenly looked up at Beast Boy, and, as if he hadn't known he was there, said, "Oh, hey, Beast Boy!"

Obviously Beast Boy wasn't fooled, and Robin looked away again in defeat.

Then Cyborg came along and sat next to Beast Boy without saying anything, just looking straight ahead. Then he gripped Beast Boy's shoulder firmly, looked at him (Beast Boy was still trying to ignore both of them, though), and said, "BB, you got problems." (A/N: Isn't Cyborg a great friend?)

Beast Boy's annoyance intensified.

Robin, seeing the opening, joined in now, "Yeah."

Cyborg continued, "But we're here to help."

"That's right."

With each sentence, Beast Boy was getting redder and angrier.

Cyborg started, "Now why don't you do us all a favor." and both he and Robin finished it together, yelling into Beast Boy's ears, ".and go and say you're sorry!"

This took Beast Boy by surprise, and he retained a dazed look as they continued.

"Why don't you just go and say it to her face?" Cyborg asked.

Beast Boy regained his footing now, but still didn't look at either of them, "She isn't talking to me."

So Robin suggested, "You could skillfully lure her into a conversation."

"Yeah, right, Robin."

Then Starfire popped up immediately behind Beast Boy.

"I think you should write her a poem to remind her of your loving friendship!"

Robin and Cyborg stared at her, while Beast Boy looked at her upside down. They all raised their eyebrows, and Starfire sweatdropped.

Beast Boy resumed his stubborn posture, crossed his arms, and said, "Forget it, guys." He then got up and began to walk out of the room.

The other three were more serious now, displaying concern. Robin called after him, "Beast Boy."

Beast Boy stopped and sighed. He said, "She.wouldn't listen to me." and left the room, leaving Robin, Cyborg and Starfire looking even more concerned than before.

Beast Boy was sitting on one of five rocks jutting out of the water at the base of the tower. He was skipping stones across the water. He looked back at the tower behind him, which began about ten feet above him and soared up to the sky. He sighed and looked back at the city far in front of him with hard eyes. After a moment, a particularly large tremor began to shake the rock he stood on. He looked down at it, made a face like he was making a decision, and jumped off the rock as a hawk and flew towards the city.

Fifteen feet higher, looking through a window that overlooked that entire area, a hooded Raven watched as the rock on which Beast Boy had been sitting collapsed, and then at Beast Boy moving quickly towards the city. Though she held no expression, she clasped the book she was reading tightly.

Beast Boy was soaring over more forests as a hawk, searching hopefully, but he had still found nothing. He was disappointed, but as he was gliding low over a clearing in the forest, he spotted one of Slade's ninja-robots. It saw him as he swooped low, but could not get out of the way before Beast Boy grabbed him with his talons and threw him against a tree.

Beast Boy changed back, demanding, "What are you doing here?!"

The robot recovered, and took a battle posture as two more of his kind landed next to him from nowhere.

Beast Boy was taken aback for a second, then, infuriated, he jumped into the air, spinning, turned into an octopus, and 'round-housed' the two new ninjas, who landed twenty feet away. He changed back into a human before he landed, and glared at the last, less confident ninja-bot until it leaped at him. Beast Boy did not change. As the bot approached, Beast Boy viciously put his fist to the thing's head, and Slade's minion skidded on his back several feet behind Beast Boy, in submission.

Beast Boy soothingly rubbed the fist he had punched the bot with. Suddenly, he heard someone step on a twig behind him. His face immediately hardened again, then grew angry as he growled, "Slade!" and, as he turned into a gorilla, threw his fist at the person behind him.

It stopped inches from Raven's face, and from what Beast Boy could see under her hood she looked pretty shocked. Beast Boy transformed back staring at her.

"Raven?" he said, looking pretty sorry.

Raven's surprise disappeared, and her eyes became stern.

"Tense, Beast Boy?"

Beast Boy seemed to take this pretty hard, saying, "Maybe I am. What do you want anyway?"

After a moment Raven replied "Forget it." coldly.

As she turned around the go away, though, Beast Boy's face changed back to the way it had been the previous night as the same thing was happening.

"Wait, Raven I didn't mean that!" but when she didn't stop he became desperate, his eyes glistening, "Raven." he stuttered, "Don't go!"

When she stopped, he nervously but determinedly continued, "I.I didn't really want you to go.It's just.I.When you go away like that."

Raven was half-turned around now, watching him from the air with lightly drooped lids.

Beast Boy was still, he couldn't think of what to say, and was even more ashamed that he had been so cruel to Raven twice. But as he stood there, Raven suddenly landed in front of him. Beast Boy was a little worried, but Raven asked, "When I go away like that.?"

Beast Boy's worry slowly disappeared, but turned to nervousness.

"I.feel like I can't follow you. If I was a cheetah or an eagle or even a fox.like I couldn't catch you.and, I'm sorry." he said, looking to the ground ashamedly.

A strong wind came by and blew Raven's hood off, and Beast Boy could see that she was almost smiling, "You are forgiven, Beast Boy."

Beast Boy threw a dumbfounded face and said, "Really?!"

Raven ignored his silliness, "Of course. To be honest Beast Boy, I've known you were sorry since last night. But.things have been a little different ever since." For another rare moment in Raven's life she again could not find the words.

".Since I started acting like a jerk?" Beast Boy finished with a regretful face.

"Beast Boy, you weren't being a jerk."

"Something tells me the others wouldn't agree." Beast Boy looked even more discouraged.

"Yes, they would-" she sighed, "-Beast Boy, you should know by now."

Beast Boy looked up at her, curious.

Raven looked for a way to phrase her sentence. "There are no such things as 'your' problems, and if there are problems, they're all of ours."

Beast Boy was looking infinitely happier now, with a hopeful look and quivering eyes.

"And if you ever need help with them, you can always-um-'catch' one of us."

Beast Boy looked like he was about to cry, but in a good way. "Thanks, Raven!" he said as he jumped up and hugged Raven. That was the last thing said for several seconds. Figuring Beast Boy wouldn't have enough guts to break the awkward silence, Raven did so by conjuring a large hand and prying a panicky Beast Boy off.

"Sorry, Rave."

Raven raised an eyebrow and was about to ask whether or not Beast Boy had just called her 'Rave,' but before she could there was a quake. Larger than the others, it did not subside. Beast Boy looked up from his position locked in Raven's 'hand,' and saw a large rock mounted by a person floating above a large, steep nearby hill.

"Terra!" Beast Boy yelled.

As soon as he said that, the figure quickly disappeared farther beyond the hill.

Beast Boy struggled for a moment, then yelled, "Raven!"

She looked at him, away from where the figure had been, taken slightly aback at her address.

Beast Boy saw her face and said, "Please." gesturing the hand, which then disappeared.

Beast Boy transformed into an eagle before he hit the ground, and followed the figure as quickly as he could, with Raven close behind him. The figure entered a narrow ravine full of lengths of rock connecting between the sides, and Beast Boy was having a hard time avoiding them all. He managed narrowly until he saw the ravine end with a wall and the figure floating there on her rock. He landed as a human and looked up at the figure.

"Terra!"

Terra looked more unsure than anything else, she stared at Beast Boy, not saying anything.

Beast Boy couldn't stand it any longer, and tried to get her to say something.

"Terra."

She looked away now in doubt, and then a part of the wall behind her suddenly exploded, and she flew through it on her rock, while a rather huge boulder on top of the cliff rolled off so as to block the tunnel.

Beast Boy yelled, "Terra, wait!" as he transformed into a mammoth and tried to catch the boulder, but was being crushed by its weight until Raven seized part of the rock with her powers and helped him lift it aside.

Beast Boy transformed back into a human and threw a 'whew, close one' face, then looked at Raven, who smiled, and Beast Boy smiled back. When Beast Boy looked back to the tunnel entrance, however, Slade himself dropped down from nowhere to block his way. Beast Boy was taken by surprise, but then jumped back in a defensive posture. In the meantime, Slade did nothing.

Then Slade said pompously, "Tacky, Beast Boy, making a little girl run like that. Even I thought you had more charisma." He laughed as would fit his character.

"Shut up!" Beast Boy roared. It was beginning to quake continuously again, but slightly.

"Oh." Slade continued, "Not in a laughing mood, then? Very well, on to business."

"Which is.?" Beast Boy questioned.

Slade tilted his head up slightly and looked down at Beast Boy.

"Go home. She's mine now."

Beast Boy's eyes shot wide and he exploded, roaring as he flung himself at Slade, fist first. Slade easily caught him though, and threw him into the wall next to him.

Beast Boy recovered, still furious.

"She's no one's to control!"

"Sorry Beast Boy, but I have a method of controlling whomever I want. It's called manipulation."

Beast Boy lunged at Slade once more, but was again deflected into a wall.

"Speaking of manipulation, Beast Boy, I have a proposition for you-one which you will accept unconditionally."

Beast Boy glared, but said nothing.

Slade continued, "Don't ever come near her again."

Once again Beast Boy charged Slade, this time with a flying kick, but, again, Slade caught the attack, and then held Beast Boy upside down by the ankle.

Though at a disadvantage, Beast Boy said, "Sorry to disappoint you, but I could never keep that promise."

With a flick of his wrist, Slade hurled Beast Boy by the ankle several feet away onto the ground.

"For your sake, I hope that 'never' is very soon. Or, perhaps." Slade whipped around and reached into the darkness of the tunnel Terra had made, roughly pulling out a startled Raven and binding her arms and mouth with his hands.

".Perhaps now."

(A/N: If you have no idea what just happened, go to the bottom really quick and look at note #2. To come back to this point quickly, look for this:)

"Raven!"

Raven struggled but could not respond to Beast Boy.

"Raven I'll-"

"-Shut up!" Slade interrupted, "Now Beast Boy, be logical. Do we have a deal?"

Beast Boy stared helplessly at Raven, her captor, and finally, the ground. With a last, hateful look at Slade, Beast Boy dropped his head in defeat.

Wordlessly, Slade tossed Raven hard onto the ground in front of Beast Boy.

"Raven!"

Beast Boy went to help her up, but she did it herself. They both looked at Slade, who was retreating slowly into the tunnel. He turned around and faced Beast Boy, saying, "I'll tell her you said 'goodbye.'" Beast Boy snarled and went after Slade again, but before he could, Slade pushed a button in his left hand, which caused a bomb on the roof of the cave to detonate, sealing it with rocks. Raven grabbed Beast Boy's shoulder and held him back so he wouldn't get buried.

Beast Boy struggled mindlessly against her pull for a moment, staring at the pile of rocks. Eventually Raven's voice got through to him, "Beast Boy!" He stopped struggling, but nothing was said for a few moments.

"I'm sorry." Raven said.

The tremors continued.

Terra was sitting in a fetal position in the center of a huge crater-like area of the mountain. She was wearing a strange hair clip in the shape of a golden 'S.' All around her rocks were flying through the air and exploding while rifts continually appeared in the ground. Her whole body was emanating a yellow energy as she cried.

"Beast Boy."

She winced as a particularly large explosion occurred to her right. A tornado began to form around her.

"Somebody." the winds around her began to pick up.

All at once the tornado doubled in size and large rocks began to be lifted by it, pulled out of the wall and from the ground.

"Somebody help me!" she screamed as she too was lifted by the tornado. The walls of the crater began to crack and the cracks began to spread all through the area. Suddenly Terra's hair clip began to glow yellow, as well, and soon it was glowing brighter than her body. Some rocks fell lifelessly and the winds began to quell. Eventually, Terra fell from the air completely, nothing on her glowing but her hair clip and her eyes. She landed on her hands and knees, panting.

"Terra." came Slade's voice.

Terra looked up and her eyes settled to normal as she stared at Slade. Slade said nothing as Terra stood up. Then Terra noticed her hair clip and took it off. It stopped glowing as she watched it.

"What did I tell you, Terra?" (A/N: Confused again? Check #3)

Terra did not answer, or look at Slade until she asked, "Where's Beast Boy? I saw him."

Slade said nothing for a moment, then, "Beast Boy is not here." as he took the hair clip and put it back into Terra's hair. "Come Terra." he said putting his hand on her shoulder. Looking a little unsure, Terra looked at their feet and then the tip of the pillar on which they were standing broke off and they levitated into the night.

It was late enough for the stars to be out when Raven and Beast Boy got back. Raven landed on the roof and Beast Boy followed suit. Beast Boy seemed to be zoned out, and headed automatically to the door that led into the tower until he realized Raven wasn't following.

"Raven?"

She looked up at him disconsolately from under her hood.

"Raven." Beast Boy wasn't up in his spirits, either, ".I already told you it wasn't your fault."

".I'm fine, Beast Boy." she said as she glided past him to the door.

Beast Boy said "Goodnight, then." to her as she passed, then stood there, looking defeated for a moment. Then, though, gained some new determination and caught Raven down in the hallway.

"Raven, wait! I said goodnight! That means we can't go to bed with you all mopey and me all sheepish like this!"

Raven gave a frustrated sigh and turned around, only to find herself staring into the eyes of a fluffy green sheep. She looked down, and was completely concealed by her hood.

Beast Boy waited, then gave a hopeful, "Ba-ah?"

Raven shook once, and then as she looked up her hood fell off, revealing a weak smile. She walked over and patted the sheep on the head.

"Goodnight, Beast Boy."

As she walked away, Beast Boy resumed his human form, and in his classic frog-posture, said, "Goodnight, Rave."

It's not that I think you guys are dumb, but just in case you didn't understand those parts:

Author's Note #1: Beast Boy was searching the countryside for Terra.

Author's Note #2: I'm just going to write what Raven was doing after Slade arrived. When Slade dropped down, Raven quickly hid, then phased into the tunnel to sneak up behind Slade. As she approached him though, he apparently realized she was there, and when the time was appropriate, used the fact that she thought she was hidden to sneak attack her, and used her for the ensuing 'deal.'

Author's Note #3: The hair clip was a device given to Terra by Slade that could supposedly increase her control.

Now just a few notes and such. About Raven's nickname in this fic, 'Rave.' I just made it up, but I was wondering what you all (my readers) thought her nickname should be. Include it in your reviews, if you make them. Thanks.

Speaking of reviews.please send them! They don't have to be good reviews, to be honest I don't think this was the best fic I've ever written, but I just want to hear from some people, thanks. (Keep in mind the more reviews I get the easier it is for me to keep writing)

Speaking of that, I just wanted to let you guys know the next chapter will probably be the last one of this story, but their may be other stories (depends on how many reviews I get). Until next time.