In the hall Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy were playing "Super Ninja Fury", shouting and laughing. For two of them, the laugh were real, but for Beast Boy every laugh hided his preoccupations: he finally asked Raven a date, but she'd accept? And now that she knew his feelings, what would have changed between them?

"Hey B.B! You lose another life! Where are you?" said happily Cyborg.

"Uhm? Really? Damn! Watch out guys, I'm arriving!"

Robin felt good: finally he knew that Starfire wasn't angry with him, and that she loved him like he loved her. All the worries were gone: the life hadn't seemed so beautiful since long time.

"You're playing like my grandmother!" he said happily.

Unexpectedly, the light gone and everything went dark.

"Hey, what's up? Why everything is dark now? Where's the game? I was winning!!" shouted Beast Boy.

"You? I was winning" replied Cyborg "This is not important now, guys. We have to repair the damage... And to find out the others, we may be under attack" said Robin slowly.

The atmosphere filled with tension and worry.

"Cyborg, you can see in the dark, no?"

"Yes, thanks to my electronic eye..."

"All right, so reach the main computer and try to repair the light... Beast Boy, try to find out the others and tell them to go in the hall... I'll check the basement if I can find some villain..."

"Pay attention, guy!" said Cyborg "if there's some problems call!"

"Miao!" said Beast Boy.

"A cat! You're a genius Beast Boy!"

"Miao miao miao"

"But now cut it!"

The three guys moved, following Robin's orders. Cyborg started typing as fast as he can on the computer, but first, (A/N of course) connected his battery to the computer, to turn it on. Robin moved slowly to the basement, using his the x-ray vision of his mask, armed with his bo staff.

Beast Boy was nervous: he had to look for the others, but he didn't knew where they were. First of all he checked out Raven's room, looking for Raven. He was really worried for her, because she was wounded and she couldn't fight well. To top it all, he didn't knew that she could see in the dark, and he thought that she was lost somewhere in the tower with an unknown villain. When he finally got near Raven's room he sighed with relief. He morphed back in human form and knocked at the door. He waited for a while, with is worry growing up every second he stood in front of the door, stopping breathing to catch the littlest noise, but he couldn't hear nothing. When he was ready to kick down the door, he heard someone descending the stairs, he silently morphed back in a cat and hided in the dark. He waited until the noise walked away from him, then left his shelter and looked who the hell was. It was Raven. Beast Boy's heart made a jump, he was unsure about what to do: morph back in human and call Raven? But then what she would have said? Something about the date he asked, or, in the worst hypothesis, nothing? He took a long breath and morphed once again in human form.

"Raven! Stop!" said shyly.

In a second that seemed the whole eternity to Beast Boy she turned and looked him. In the deep of her heart she smiled, but Beast Boy would have never knew it, because he didn't saw nothing in the darkness.

"So you're here" replied she, quietly "where are the others?"

"Cy is in the hall, and he's trying to repair the light, Robin is somewhere I basement, you're in front of me and I'm in front of you..."

Maybe Raven would have laugh at Beast Boy's joke, but she was worried for Starfire and so she replied coldly:

"And Starfire?"

"I dunno. I was looking for ya two when I meet ya..."

"So, let's search her together..."

"Just give me a second to morph into cat... But... You can see me?"

"Of course... Never wondered why there are no lights in my room?"

Beast Boy morphed to avoid the answer: at least he hadn't to talk her. He realized that he didn't really knew her: how could he fall in love with a person he didn't know? Maybe their soul were designated to fell in love years before their born... He smiled: those were just new age's stupid inventions, he didn't believed in fate.

Raven was walking slowly behind the green cat, looking him and thinking.

"So, he asked me a date... What I have to tell him? I'm not sure of what I feel for him... I have to accept for Starfire, but it's right playing with his feelings?"

Finally they reached the hall, guided by Cyborg's typing on computer, both absorbed in their thoughts. Beast boy morphed back in human and waited in the darkness, silently, like he was trying to say something too difficult to be expressed by words. He turned to Raven, trembling, and looked her black profile. Slowly, he moved a foot towards her, always looking where he supposed there were Raven's eyes.

"He won't kiss me!?" thought Raven, half disgusted and half frightened.

Suddendly, voices and lights broke the dark silence were the two Titans were immersed:

"Hey guys, what the hell are you doin' here in the dark? Kissing?" said Cyborg in a mocking voice.

Beast Boy made a jump toward Raven and collapsed with her; they both fall on the ground, and Raven hit the floor with the wounded side: she felt the pain on her body like an electrical shock and screamed. Immediately everyone got around her and tried to help her. Even if she her mind was full of pain, she felt a strange warm in one of her hand. She looked down and saw two things: one good and one bad. In her hand there were two things: her blood, coming from the wound opened again, and Beast Boy's hand, who was trying to move her on the couch. Inside, she felt a nice warm: the one on her hand wasn't caused by her blood, but by Beast Boy's hand. She smiled. She had finally understood what she had to do. Before fainting, she thought:

"It seems like someone had decided for me... Well, I think I'll accept Beast Boy's date, after all..."

and all went black.

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