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With those out of the way, I can now go ahead with the disclaimer. I do not own Teen Titans. I do not own any blond(e) hair die. I do not own a room at the Bellevue asylum in New Jersey. I do not own a giant robot rabbit called Rabbot. I don't own Larry, Moe, or Curly. I may own Vash The Stampede's soul, but I don't know yet. NOW ON WITH CHAPTER 7!

Robin and Beast Boy walked around the Gotham City mall, a few towns over from the Tower. It was raining outside, and they could see and hear the "pitter-patter" of raindrops on the glass ceiling above. The boys had some birthday shopping to do.

"Beast Boy?" Robin started. BB knew what question was coming up. "How can you not find gifts for EITHER of your two girlfriends?" Beast Boy held his head down. At the mention of "two girlfriends", about 15 teenage guys looked over at the Boy Wonder and his green elf-like buddy, and were silently applauding the odd, seemingly verdant character. Beast Boy looked over at his masked friend. "You need to get them gifts too! Plus you need to get something special for Star, remember?!" Robin nodded. "Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of lingerie or something of the sort - so let's go to that store!" Beast Boy frowned, knowing that this was a mistake.

The sight of undergarments told Robin he was at the right place, never mind the large sign that said Victoria's Secret. As he walked in, he unfortunately caught the eye of another shopper there that day - the ridiculously blonde (sorry, R&S) Kitten, who was hopefully shopping for herself and not her father.

"Why, what brings my Robbie-Poo to this store?" she cooed. Robin frowned. "Are you shopping for that red-headed wench of yours? I should hope not - this stuff isn't for her - she'd get confused and wear it as a hat!" Even though she was probably right, Robin couldn't exactly let Kitten get away with a comment like that. As he wound back to use his Robin-a-rang on her, someone tapped him and Beast Boy on their shoulders. His voice was oddly recognizable.

"Excuse me boys, but I do believe you are standing in front of the item I would like to purchase for myself." Beast Boy, who was green to begin with, turned greener. He was praying that the unmistakably familiar voice of Slade was not actually the unmistakably familiar voice of Slade. He turned around. It was. Robin grabbed the now-fainted Beast Boy and hurried out of the store. As he was running, he heard Slade and Kitten arguing over who had a better bust.

After Beast Boy regained consciousness, he looked at Robin. "Dude - I am NEVER going shopping in that place again."

Cyborg was driving the T-Car down a stretch of highway, with Aqualad in the passengers seat. They had already gotten the birthday gifts that they needed. The conversation that they were having quickly turned to BB, Raven, and Terra. Cyborg was really not looking forward to what would happen if either of the girls found out. Aqualad was hoping that they would, but let Beast Boy remain in the gene pool. He wanted to have the two girls instead. Okay - so he would have taken any girls. Except Speedy, that is.

"So, Fish-boy, if you were in Beast Boy's position, what would you prefer happen? Raven finding out and suffocating you with her mind, or Terra dropping a giant rock on you?" Cyborg's query was one that everyone sans Raven and Terra had been asking themselves. Aqualad frowned, and gave his best answer. "Um - yes?" This was not the answer Cyborg had been looking for.

Raven knew her birthday was that day. She had already taken some precautions. The first was that Starfire was locked in her room. There would be no barging in and yelling of "Happy Day of Your Happy Birth!" this year. There would also be no Tamaranean folk songs of 6000 verses. That lasted all the way into Star's birthday last year. Her second precaution was to lock herself in her room. That wasn't too difficult, as she usually did that. The last thing she wanted was all the Titans wishing her a happy birthday. She hated happiness. Most of the time, anyways. She wouldn't mind it if BB showed up with a card or something. As long as it wasn't Starfire popping out of her cake - for the third year in a row.

She thought of how much she had changed in the past year. First and foremost, she didn't know Terra at this point last year, and hadn't yet formulated her Blonde Hypothesis (yeah, I know). She also was barely getting to know the lovable green shape-shifter that had altered her life so much these past couple of weeks. She also thought Slade was a conniving super-villain, and not the psychotic cross-dressing man that he was. She also was moody all the time, and had serious issues with her 50 foot red father. One year later, she knew and trusted Terra (though they weren't exactly best friends), fallen for the same lovable green shapeshifter, and knew the truth about the mask-wearing fiend, Slade. She also still hated birthday celebrations.

Beast Boy and Robin continued their trek around the mall. It was only 8:45. BB wanted to take Raven to the beach and give her her present there. Robin wanted all the Titans to go to the beach, but that idea was vetoed by the unable to swim Cyborg. The two teen superheroes walked into another random store to look for gifts - little did the boys know that Kitten and Slade were both following them.

"So, is there anything Star would like here, ya think?" Robin asked. Beast Boy glanced behind him and turned back. "Dude - I'm pretty sure that she wants a pony. It's only written ALL OVER THE TOWER IN BLACK SHARPIE!" He stopped for a second to catch his breath. "Everywhere I look there's 'I want a pony!' scribbled in black sharpie! Do you KNOW how many of my CDs she ruined? Why did you have to show her that documentary on baby animals?!" He couldn't imagine a horse being around the tower, though he himself had done this many times to give Rae and Terra horseback lessons.

Robin looked over at Beast Boy again. "I thought that was Raven's handwriting." Beast Boy couldn't believe he actually said that. "Dude - I'm not even dignifying that with a response."

Terra was still sound asleep in her room, despite the banging on her wall from the next room over. Starfire had just come to the realization that someone had locked her in her room. She was banging on Terra's wall for help, but that girl could sleep through a tornado, and probably had. Star cried out for help. "Someone! Someone! Someone has locked me in my room on Raven's happy day of her happy birth and will not let me out! Someone has also stolen my grebnacks! I wish to know who this Someone is so I can invite the Rekmas to their happy day of their happy birth! I may even bring in the Gordainians or the Okaarans to find them! Then I shall call them a milnip-wusserloop!" She was unaware that the Someone who had stolen her grebnacks was different from the Someone who had locked her in her room.

Aqualad sat in the passenger's seat of the T-Car, clutching a bag of snow globes in his hand. The two guys were going to get Starfire a few more snow globes today, but they had no idea which ones she had and which ones she didn't, so they took them all. It didn't occur to them that Starfire would be pretty irritated when she woke up that morning.

"Well, Metal Man, I'm gonna ask you the same question. Which fate of Beast Boy's would you prefer?" The possibilities were not something Cy liked to imagine. It was like a car wreck. Kind of like the T-Car wreck from a couple of weeks ago - except the roadkill would probably be green in this instance. "Well... um... I think I'd take the.. Thing... with the thing." That didn't exactly clear it up for Aqualad. "What I'm saying is - LOOK OVER THERE!" As Aqualad turned to look out his window, Cyborg KO'd him and kept on driving. He knew that he was gonna get it too when the girls realized he had been keeping BB's secret from them. He also knew that he couldn't believe Aqualad fell for that trick.

Raven frowned. Her meditation wasn't going exactly as planned. A) No one had dared barge in her room yet. That was suspicious, especially today. B) The knocking coming from either Terra or Starfire's rooms was loud enough to reach hers. Whoever that was, they were interrupting her valuable power- controlling time. She couldn't let that gray-cloak Raven take command again and start sobbing on Beast Boy's shoulder. That was really embarrassing. She also couldn't let the ditzy pink-cloaked Raven out again. That was a disaster every time it happened. The orange-cloaked Raven wasn't one to let out either. That one was unsanitary and annoying. The green-cloaked one was okay, even though it had caused her to accidentally knock her favorite green one out of the tower one day while they were alone together.

The knocking grew louder. "What in the world is that noise?" She began to get off of her bed, but then realized that doing so would be a mistake. "There could be a trap outside." She was pretty sure Starfire was still locked in her room, and was probably the cause of the noise, but she could never be too sure. The gothic one decided to pull on her emergency earplugs. They really didn't do much good.

The boys continued their trek through the mall. It was now 9:15. Beast Boy and Robin were still looking for gifts. They had tried Spencer's, to no avail. They had tried Hot Topic. They had even tried Mad Mod's Institute For Bratty Teenage Do-Gooder Fashions. Nothing was there that might appeal to the girls. Except that pony. Robin had found a pony at the Discount Pony Emporium outside the mall. Why there was a Discount Pony Emporium at all, no one knew. Beast Boy looked pretty stupid clutching the reins of a horse in a shopping mall. Kitten could only laugh as she watched the sight from inside Mad Mod's Institute For Bratty Teenage Do-Gooder Fashions. Slade also laughed, but that's because he was watching Starfire's sister, Blackfire, dancing provocatively at the mall's gentleman's club.

"Dude - there's nothing in this whole mall that Terra-hon and Rae-Rae would like!" After chuckling at his pet names for the girls, Robin responded to his now downcast friend. "Come on, BB - there's gotta be something that they'd like here! It doesn't even have to be clothes of sorts! What about jewelry, and books, and trips to restaurants, and nicehotloving, and tickets to see a rock concert or something?" Beast Boy looked awkwardy at Robin. "Um... - what was that fourth thing you said?"

"A rock concert..." Beast Boy scowled. That obviously was not what he said, but BB decided to ignore it. He needed to find those girls gifts, and he needed to find them fast. It was 9:30 now, and he still hadn't picked out anything for anyone. He also wondered how he and Robin would be able to keep a pony hidden from Starfire for two weeks without her noticing. Then again, it was Starfire, so they might be safe.

At last he found a wonderful snow globe with a pony in it. He decided this would have to do for Starfire. Still remaining, however, were his girlfriends. What would he get them? To Beast Boy, they were the two most beautiful girls in the world, and they deserved something special. He was still unable to choose between them. He knew he'd have to decide one day - but doing it on one of their birthdays was not the way to go. Robin was looking through random necklaces and bracelets for gifts for the girls. He found a bracelet that matched Raven's forehead jewel and a pseudo-sapphire necklace that went with Terra's eyes. Thankfully for Robin, they were cheap.

Beast Boy and Robin continued their gradual walk through the mall. He decided that a trip to a rock concert could be good for Terra, but it really wouldn't work for Raven. She really didn't like the whole "people" aspect of life. She had already been to the restaurant, and really didn't like jewelry. She also had a lot of books. That left that fourth choice, and BB knew that that one would not fly. He had to think of something else. She preferred the darker things. Maybe she'd appreciate just a nice, quiet, dark night out or something. Maybe he could just stay with her on the beach - then again, she really didn't like the beach. Or the water. Or the sunsets. Come to think of it, it was a bad idea to take Raven to the beach. This girl was really hard to get stuff for. Then he found it. A private trip to the cliffs of Gotham City later that night. She'd love it. Or at least he hoped she would.

The rock concert would be kinda difficult too. What groups did Terra listen to? Who was she dying to see in concert? Who was playing between Gotham and Titans Tower in the next three days? Oh well - he'd ask before Raven's party, and she'd tell him. That brought Beast Boy to another thought. Raven was going to have a party, courtesy of Cy and Star. Raven really hated parties. At 10:00, the boys had their gifts, and they began the ride home via public transportation. Kitten was driving right behind them, and behind her still was the amazing Mumbo, carrying Slade on a mailbox full of bunny rabbits.

Raven looked at her clock. 10:20. That knocking had been going on for over an hour. She could not comprehend how Starfire had not thought to just put a hole in her wall. She also could not comprehend how Terra was still asleep. How that girl managed to do that was unbelievable.

Starfire looked at her clock. 10:20. She had been knocking on her wall for over an hour, trying to get out of her room to wish Raven "A happy day of her happy birth." It was unclear to the young Tamaranean why someone would want to prevent this from happening. She personally thought it was Beast Boy, preventing her from reaching his dark-haired girlfriend on her day of joyous celebration. Star also needed to get downstairs to make her pudding of happiness. She needed to figure out where she was going wrong with the recipe, as her pudding of happiness had the strange ability to make people sad. She continued knocking towards Terra's wall.

Terra looked at her clock. 10:20. She had been woken up about 5 minutes ago by someone knocking on her wall. She had absolutely no idea what Starfire was doing, or when it started, but it was getting irritating. She decided that at 10:30, she'd get out of bed and find out what Star was up to. It better not be hammering a poster of Robin into her wall, or there would be hell to pay.

At 10:30, Beast Boy's blonde lover got out of her bed and opened her door. She was astonished at the giant crackling black hand that was keeping Starfire's door shut. Terra had completely forgotten Raven's birthday after she bought her present, but this enormous fist had conveniently reminded her. Terra began the walk towards Raven's room, with Starfire still pounding away on her wall. Terra had managed to control all of her emotions from the meeting with Slade and had almost entirely forgot about it. Still, she felt a little twinge of doubt as she headed to the sanctuary of the purple-haired one.

Knock Knock - Raven could still hear the pounding of Starfire. She could also hear the knocking on her door. These earplugs were terrible. Knock Knock She wondered who it was at her door. Was it Cyborg, Aqualad? Terra? Beast Boy? Even if it was Beast Boy, she had no desire to get up and check, for the odds were much greater that it was someone else. Raven got the answer to her question when she heard Terra's voice through the door. "Raven! Let me in! I need to talk to you! It's urgent!" This was obviously a ploy to get her to come out and be "surprised". Not this year. She wasn't going to come out of her room until Terra's birthday, at the very earliest. Terra was standing outside Raven's door, huffing and puffing, when she heard the front door open.

Cyborg and the still-unconscious Aqualad had returned with Raven's birthday cake and a bag full of 25 Grebnacks. Thankfully, Starfire was nowhere to be found. Terra ran down the stairs to meet them, and was surprised by the size of the cake. She was hoping there would be another 5-layer cake like this one waiting for her in two days. As soon as she finished greeting Cyborg, the other two men came through the door, still wet from their excursion at the mall, and Beast Boy still holding the pony (How they got the pony in the taxicab is a story for another time).

Terra wrapped her arms around BB's neck and gave him a kiss on the cheek. She was eager to celebrate Raven's birthday today. Okay - so she was more interested in completely embarrassing Raven, but that was always loads of fun too. The five titans looked around. They knew Raven would not willingly come down to the main chamber, but they couldn't find Star anywhere. That's when they heard the knocking from above.

It was 10:45. Starfire had been knocking on that wall for an hour and a half. How the wall had not fallen over, she had no idea. Must be super- reinforced steel or something. She decided to try the door again. "Someone let me out of here! My door seems to locked from the outside in! I would wish that someone would let me out!" Then came the scream that she always did. The high pitched scream that resonated throughout the entire building, and completely broke Raven's concentration. The black hand dissolved and the door opened.

The titans all met Starfire upstairs. They had to approach Raven's room slowly, as the gothic one had now focused all her powers on keeping that door shut. As far as she was concerned, there was no party or celebration today. The boys brought the gifts from downstairs, and Terra distracted Starfire long enough to hide the pony somewhere safe. In order to avoid booby traps, Cyborg sent Aqualad to knock on the door first. As expected, a gigantic black bird's foot, complete with talons, chucked him through the roof. Cyborg went next, fearing the worse. Hmmm - this was odd. No black energy anywhere. He knocked on the door. The door opened for him. Cyborg looked back at the group with a worried look on his face. After he walked in, the next thing the Titans heard were screams and the sound of a hammer against metal. The next thing they saw was Cyborg, in about 25 pieces in the hallway. Robin would spend the rest of the morning putting him back together.

Starfire went next. She crept in very slowly, and snuck up right behind Raven before she was noticed. "HAVE A HAPPY DAY OF YOUR-"A large explosion silenced the Tamaranean girl before she was finished, as she went through the far wall at about seven times the speed of sound. Terra and Beast Boy were the only two left. Terra asked to go in hand in hand, but Beast Boy managed to convince her that it was not a good idea to show affection anywhere within 100 miles of Raven. Terra agreed, and she went in alone. She entered to find a Raven just about ready to fry her, so she told her she was just there for girl talk.

"Well, what is it you need to talk about?" Raven asked the blonde girl. "Well, Raven - how do I get my boyfriend to get me exactly what I want?" She didn't know Terra had a boyfriend - she thought they had broken up when Terra had gone a month without speaking of him. She also didn't know who the guy was, but she decided to give her advice anyway. "Don't." Terra was not pleased. "What do you mean, don't? Then how am I supposed to-"She was stopped. "He'll get you exactly what you want - or else he doesn't fully understand you yet, and it's time for a talk." She had no idea how right she was. Out of nowhere, Raven let out a black lightning bolt and completely fried Terra - then punted her out of the room.

Robin decided to give fixing Cy a rest and go next - then Aqualad landed on him. That left Beast Boy. He reluctantly walked into his more mysterious girlfriend's room. She was about to fry him too, until she saw who it was. She fixed all the holes in her room and let him sit down on the bed. She knew what question was coming. "Rae-Rae, why don't you just go downstairs and let us throw your party for you?" She looked him sternly in the eye. "I don't do parties. You should know that. I don't care if you invited Slade, Kitten, Blackfire, Nelson Mandela, or Larry. It doesn't matter. I don't do parties."

The green shapeshifter looked at her. "Raven - why won't you? You mean everything to me! Why won't you just go out and do this just once - for me?" He embraced her and they locked lips. It was a very sweet kiss, and it was soft and pleasant enough to convince Rae that she had to head downstairs, no matter how embarrassing it might be. He had his arm wrapped around her shoulder as they headed downstairs. Instead of being enraged, Terra just laughed. "Wow," she thought. "My Beast Boy is suave enough to convince anyone to do anything."

Raven expected the worst when she got downstairs and everyone was conscious. First came the "HAVE A HAPPY DAY OF YOUR HAPPY BIRTH!" Every year she got that. Starfire had never learned to say "Happy Birthday" or anything like that. She had also never learned to speak below 80 decibels, apparently. Robin began to bring out the gifts. There would probably be nothing she liked in there, but she would feign excitement anyway. She was right. Nothing anyone got really interested her, though Starfire's clay dolls would be useful for voodoo if she ever decided to pick up another hobby. Beast Boy claimed his gift was another horseback lesson. They were fun, but not something she exactly wanted to do. Unfortunately for Raven, she got the face. No one could resist the face, and she hopped on. After Starfire made a seemingly harmless comment about "riding him" that was taken in a way she could have never expected, the Titans all went inside. Those lessons usually lasted 45 minutes to an hour, so the group would have the cake then.

Beast Boy and Raven arrived at the beach. Raven was not looking too happy at all, because she hated the beach and had made this clear many times. He plopped himself down on the sand and took the tickets from his knapsack. The beach had just been a convenient halfway point. BB offered Raven the chance to swim, but she declined saying, "I don't do swimming."

It was silent on the Gotham Cliff front, and all seemed well. Beast Boy and his love sat down on the blanket he had brought so they wouldn't get dirty. Thankfully for Beast Boy, anyone in the tower, especially Terra, could not see him and Raven there. The changeling was trying infinitely hard not to let any hint of primal urge sift through - he wasn't there for that. He just wanted private time with Rae. He thought she looked unusually wonderful in her regular bodysuit today. It accentuated her figure and made her curves stand out. He couldn't get his eyes off her legs for about 10 minutes. Sure, they were pale, but they were nice and shiny and just the way that he liked them. He leaned in to give her another kiss when two figures emerged from the woods - Kitten and Slade.

"Why Beast Boy and Raven - what a pleasant surprise it is to see you two here, all alone, under the romantic moonlight, with the view of the city beneath you and the stars above, the wonderful orchard air coming in from the east..." Slade, complete with afro, who was by this time beginning to sound like a Gotham Cliffs Infomercial, was silenced by Kitten. "Beast Boy! I see you and your non-blonde bosom buddy have decided to visit the Gotham Cliffs for a little make out time?" That was not the reason at all, Beast Boy tried to explain, but there was no reasoning with a stereotypical blonde preppy girl like Kitten (yep, I did it again... lol). Raven was puzzled by the comment "non-blonde bosom buddy." That seemed a little misplaced to her. She wasn't talking about herself - was she? Or even Terra? No - that wasn't it. That couldn't have been it. She took out Kitten with a crackle of lightning before "The Afro Wonder" knocked BB unconscious with a well- placed kick to the head. (Yeah, I've reverted to that)

"Oh Raven - you're out of the loop, aren't you? Beast Boy is two-timing you, Rae-Rae. He's dating Terra too, you know. He's going to take her here two days from now. He hasn't decided which one of you he plans on picking, but you'd both be best to dump him. I've already informed Terra, and she wasn't happy in the least - oh no..." The "Oh no..." was caused by a tree surrounded by a black aura landing on the newly Afro-ized man. Raven could not and would not believe that man ever. That was just a Slade mind trick. He used them on Robin all the time, to no avail - and she was much smarter and much more strong-willed than Robin. As she sent Slade and Kitten tumbling down Gotham Cliffs, Beast Boy regained consciousness. Raven looked at him sadly. "Beast Boy - you do love me - don't you?" The gray-cloaked Raven was acting up again. Beast Boy could only stare right into her eyes and say "Of course I love you - why wouldn't you think that?" Raven was not sure she could believe him, but kissed him anyway. She also made plans to return to the Gotham Cliffs in two nights, just to make sure.

Over an hour and a half had passed. Starfire had already completed her pudding of happiness and was waiting for the duo to return. Terra was beginning to get very irritated. At that moment, the horse that Raven rode in on returned. Raven was right behind. Terra looked at Beast Boy. "What took you so long? We have to have cake, you know!" Secretly, she wanted to ask "What were you doing for that extra half hour?" Beast Boy explained that Slade had attacked them while he and Raven were resting on the beach before they went back. Since Beast Boy's lessons usually did stop at the beach, this was a good enough explanation. Robin walked in from the kitchen, having just finished Cyborg. "Alright everyone, cake and pudding is ready!"

After vomiting up the pudding of happiness again, Raven and Terra went up to Starfire's room. The three girls had a wonderful chat about boys, as teenage girls oft do. The guys were listening in on them from the other room, and had Beast Boy protected, just in case something slipped. Star almost slipped, but then made an even bigger mistake - suggesting that the girls wait to reveal their boyfriends' identities to each other until her birthday! Apparently, Star had forgotten that her two best friends were dating the same guy. That was Starfire for you.

Cyborg, Robin, and Aqualad looked at Beast Boy, whose eyes were focused on the calendar. Starfire's birthday was in 10 days. There was an awkward silence, which Aqualad tried to break by saying "So... can I have your stereo?" He was immediately knocked unconscious - again.

Terra's birthday in the next chapter! Starfire's birthday MAY be the next chapter! Will someone pop out of a cake this year? Will Raven or Terra finally snap due to Slade's pressure? Will Beast Boy even last 10 days? Why has Mad Mod decided to perform the Full Monty as a one man show? Will the Aqualad bashing ever cease? (No) These questions and more shall be answered in the 8th chapter of Double Trouble! (Man that was a long one!)

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