A/N Sorry it took so long for an update. I didn't get a chance to access the internet for about a week so... I apologize profusely. I also apologize to all you wonderful readers and reviewers for...let's say grossing you out. I still cannot believe I put dear Raven through such icky agnoy. But this chapter gets somewhat better for her.

Raven A. Star: I'm sorry, I love writing cliffies, it makes people want more. And I love reading cliffies too (provided I'm not left waiting three years). Cliffies are fun. Thanks as always for the (quick) review!

mew-xena: They were embarrassing you? They were embarassing me! Tsk, boys. So immature, especially BB and Cy. They needed to make up sooner or later.

Instant Coffee: Really? You liked how I put Raven in a position where she can't fight back? That was one of the things I didn't like about the last chapter. Seemed too contrived to me. But I'm glad you liked it, it makes me feel so much better about the last chapter. And I still can't believe I put Raven in such an icky position...am I really the first to do that? Yay for originality then...I think. I just hope people don't think I'm a Raven basher, she's my favourite. I'm glad I've managed to keep the characters in character. I worry about that since I've only seen a few random episodes in the first and second season and won't be able to see any more in the near future. (Sigh) Eeps, I'm rabling... again. One more thing my friend, (I hate to do this) could you R&R my other TT stuff too...when you get the chance of course. I need more critique on them than I've been getting and your reviews ROCK! Oh and update "Mind Games" ASAP please, I'm always checking. It's awesome. And I giggled with giddy glee when you quoted me on your profile. Oh and I hate typos! They're the evilness! Thanks as always for the review!

Clouded Dragon: Yay! Cookies! Thanks a bunch! And yes, Control Freak is a freak. A big freak with a remote control. Thats why his name is fitting. Thanks for the review!

Philosopher: While I'm glad that I wrote something memorable, I'm sorry it had to be waking up in the car to that. I don't know what it would be like to be adored by three guys either. But I think if it's anything like this story, it would definately suck. Thanks for the clarification on the recommended fics...thing. Sorry about the cliffie. Thanks a bunch for the reviews.

Scorpio Serpent: Not much to say but thanks for the review.

Kuramie: You're not crazy, it's everyone else who is normal. That's what's crazy. Thanks for the review!

Keystone: Thanks for the CC. I agree about the chase. But according to reviews I've recieved in the past, my strong points are writing emotion and dialogue and my weak points in writing is writing action. I love good action, and detail is great. I like good detail. Most of my stuff has more detail but I wanted to keep the pace up in this though. I truely appreciate the CC. I'm so pleased that you liked the last chapter even though for the most part I didn't (maybe I am too critical.) And dude, you totally spoiled my ending! How did you know Raven was going to chose Slade? Did you hack into my computer or something? (Kidding. Raven's real choice will be revealed soon.)

SuNsHiNe10: Thanks for the review. You like Rob/Star huh? Then you will love this chapter. (I hope) Now before you bite your nails off completely in anticipation, I have updated. Thanks for reviewing! Sorry for the ickiness.

NatashaTeenTitan: Your review made me laugh. So random! I'm glad you enjoyed. Sorry to gross you out.

Kat097: I'm sorry for giving you nightmares! Though that is I suppose an incredible feat. I like writing scary stories, but I never anitcipated this would be the one to cause nightmares. Whadd'ya know? You want more? Here it is!

Beast Boy and Cyborg stopped and watched Control Freak carefully, eyeing the dagger in his hand, and the crazed look in his eyes. One sudden move and his dagger would slice Raven's throat, "Hey man, whoa take it easy, don't hurt her," Beast Boy begged as he dared to take a step.

Control Freak pressed the dagger's blade against her skin, drawing a small amount of blood, "One more move I swear..." Raven watched Beast Boy and Cyborg with a calm expression on her face. She wasn't afraid, but she was still disgusted. She could still taste his kiss. She stood still, trying not to move or breathe.

"I thought you liked Raven," Cyborg said, "I thought you wanted to make her love you..."

"I do!" Control Freak hissed.

"Well what good is there in killing her then? All your efforts would be in vain!" Beast Boy added.

Control Freak paused, "Not really, I have proof to show my friends that we were together. This time tomorrow, the picture of her and I making out will be all over the net and everyone will know that I can be a ladies man. Besides, like I said, a sacrifice I am willing to make!" He wrapped his arm around her neck and squeezed, blocking off her air as he backed up a step. He still had the dagger in his other hand pressed against the exposed skin on her neck. Raven was leaning back into him awkwardly, her hands were holding his arm that was strangling her, feebly trying to pull it away.

The Titans were all in an undesirable position. Raven, for reasons that were obvious and the boys for being in a position where they couldn't get to her or help her. One move and Control Freak would kill her and he was using Raven as a shield so Cyborg couldn't blast the weasel. If only there was a way to distract him, to get Control Freak away from Raven, or at least release his grip... Beast Boy and Cyborg exchanged conspiring glances, "Way to go Cyborg!"

"What did I do?" Cyborg demanded.

"Oh you know perfectly well! This is all your fault!"

"My fault? My fault?!" Cyborg chortled, "No BB, this is totally your fault. If you would've just let me go rescue Raven in the first place instead of slowing me down like you always do, I could've saved Raven before it came to this!"

"And let you be the hero and get the girl? No way!" Beast Boy snapped. Raven looked utterly betrayed and horrified, she couldn't believe they were starting up again at a time like this. Control Freak looked confused, "You know I could say the same thing about you! If I didn't have to save your sorry metal butt back there..."

"Hey! You know I don't get you! You seem to think that you can have Raven when everyone knows I liked her first!" Cyborg hissed.

"Nuh-uh! I liked her a lot longer than you did!"

"Oh yeah? Well I liked her for over a year! I liked her since we went in Raven's head!"

"I liked her longer than that! Ever since we first encountered the HIVE so there!!!" Beast Boy blew a raspberry.

"So you went out with Terra when you liked Raven? Obviously you don't like Raven as much as I do, because I would never date one girl when I liked another. Raven and I should be together because at least I'm loyal!!!" Cyborg said, "So then it's settled, Raven is mine!"

"No way man!" Beast Boy hissed, "She's mine!"

"She's mine!"

"She's mine!"

"She is not!"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

Control Freak lowered his dagger and loosened his grip around Raven's neck. She gasped and coughed as she caught her breath. "Enough!" Control Freak snapped, yelling over Raven's coughs and the boys arguing as he waved his dagger around. They stopped to look at him. Seeing as though Control Freak finally had their attention again he said, "In case you haven't noticed, Raven is mine! She's my girlfriend now!"

"No way!" Beast Boy hissed.

"Hey man, she's with me! I'm the villain, I'm the one who has her in my arms! I'm the one who made out with her!" Control Freak pointed out. All three Titans gagged from the last statement, especially Raven who wanted to hurl.

"She's mine!"

"Mine!"

"No she belongs to me!"

"Fine!" Beast Boy said, "I propose we made a deal."

"What?" Cyborg asked.

"We fight over her," Beast Boy replied.

"Isn't that what we're doing?" Cyborg asked, sounding like a lame potential buyer in a commercial.

"Yeah, isn't that what we're doing?" Control Freak raised a brow.

"So glad you asked that!" Beast Boy exclaimed sounding like an infomercial announcer. "I say we have a little contest."

"Winner take all?" Control Freak asked. Beast Boy and Cyborg nodded. "What sort of contest?" Control Freak let go of Raven giving her a shove and stepped towards them curiously. Raven glared at the three boys furiously.

"I am not a prize to be won!" Raven hissed. She grabbed Control Freak's remote and kneed him in the groin. As he doubled over in pain, she backed away a few steps. In a fury she threw the remote on the ground and stomped on it. The cord unravelled around her wrists and fell harmlessly to the ground. Beast Boy and Cyborg looked relieved to see her free from his grasp at last but stopped when they saw the look in Raven's eyes as she glared at all three of them. She looked beyond mad.

"I do not believe you! How dare you guys fight over me as though I'm some sort of thing, an object you can use! Have you even once considered how I feel about all this? No! I'm a human being damnit! I am not anyone's trophy!" A black flame rose up behind her and she held her arms out to the side sending a wall of black energy to encase the four of them in a small space.

"Raven what are you doing?!" Cyborg demanded as all three boys cowered in fear.

Raven smiled wickedly, "I'm going to give you boys a crash course on women. You want to win over a girl's heart? For starters you try to show some interest in her!" A couple of streetlights exploded. "You show interest in what she wants, in who she is, in what she likes. You form a relationship, you make sacrifices, you treat her with respect and dignity and she will do the same in return. You do not scald her, make her sick, stand by idly while she chokes to death, you do not kidnap her and hypnotize her into liking you and you do not disregard her feelings and fight over her like she's some prize to be won!"

Control Freak's car was thrown at them, they ducked and it missed, but it seemed like she was aiming to scare. They all figured that she wasn't going to kill them until after her speech.

"You do not ruin friendships for her by fighting over her behind her back! If you wanted to go out with me you could've just asked!" A few more streetlights exploded as Raven turned to Control Freak, "Well not you, you're a villain and a vile one at that, and I'd never give you the time of day... willingly." Control Freak frowned despite the utter fear he was feeling. "You guys said you want me to choose? Well guess what! I choose no one!!! You all disgust me with your methods!! Now give me one good reason why I should show any mercy? Goodness knows I haven't seen any from you the past few days!"

Beast Boy and Cyborg erased all fear from their expression, though they were still terrified, and both looked at her sincerely. "You're right Raven," Beast Boy said, "we've been jerks lately. I'm so, so, so sorry!"

"Me too," Cyborg added, "We didn't really realize how big of jerks we were until Control Freak came into the picture and put things into perspective. BB and I made up and apologized before we got here. I think we get it now. I mean, now I think we understand what we put you through."

"Yeah, we only kept the act up to distract Control Freak," Beast Boy said, "And it worked, I mean it did give you a chance to get his remote." he grinned slyly.

"Hey!" Control Freak snapped indignantly. "You guys tricked me?!"

Raven's face softened.

"We don't blame you if you hate us now for what we did," Cyborg continued. "we were wrong."

"And we were both being really selfish. You shouldn't be forced to be with anyone," Beast Boy added.

Raven relaxed, partially because she was beginning to forgive them, and partially out of exhaustion. Her wall of power began to wither away.

"We promise we won't put you in this position again," Cyborg said.

"We just hope that you forgive us," Beast Boy bowed his head.

Raven replied, "I forgive you, on one condition..." they both gave her their full attention. She smirked slightly, "Make that two. First and foremost, you two have to promise to never let me or any other girl get in the way of your friendship. Seeing you two go at each other like enemies on my account was probably the hardest part. Secondly, you two owe me big. Say...hmmm... I can't believe I'm saying this but... say, dinner at a restaurant of my choosing?"

Cyborg and Beast Boy brightened. Control Freak growled in jealousy.

"No!" Control Freak cried, pulling out another remote, "Ha ha! I'll bet you didn't expect me to have a spare!" He pressed a button and reanimated the power cord which flew towards Raven, "You are mine Raven!" Control Freak hissed, "I am not going to give you up that easily."

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven attacked and black energy surrounded the cord, stopping it mid-air. As she spoke Beast Boy transformed into an eagle and flew up behind Control Freak and grabbed his coat collar pulling him back, as Cyborg blasted the remote out of his hands.

Raven sent the cord after Control Freak and telepathically wrapped it around his hands tying it securely, "This isn't over!" Control Freak muttered as Raven firmly grabbed the slack of the cord so he couldn't run away.

"I think it is," Raven spat as she made his camera explode, destroying the evidence of their encounter, "I wonder what the sentence will be for kidnapping, assault, reckless driving, and attempted murder?"

"You's goin' to jail Control Freak!" Beast Boy taunted like a hillbilly, "and you're going to be there for a long time!"

"Shut up!" Control Freak hissed before he suddenly sneezed. And sneezed, and sneezed, and sneezed. He sniffled.

"Oh by the way," Raven said, "I'm still getting over a nasty cold. I guess you caught it now."

Laughing, Beast Boy and Cyborg high-fived each other. In a last, pathetic attempt at escape and revenge Control Freak lunged into Raven pushing her to the ground. She landed on her back with a hard thud. "Ow!" she muttered as Control Freak started to run away.

"Hey Raven are you OK?" Cyborg asked while Beast Boy started to go after Control Freak.

Raven nodded as she pushed herself to a sitting position and mentally tied up Control Freak's legs with the slack of the cord, stopping him in his tracks, causing him to fall face first into the pavement. She was about to push herself back on her feet when Cyborg reached out his hand, "Here let me help you up!" She reached for his hand when Beast Boy stopped him.

"No!" he exclaimed as he ran over and outstretched his hand, "Let me help you up!"

"No me!"

"Me!"

Raven looked appalled and recoiled her hand and glared at them. The boys laughed, "We're just kidding!" Beast Boy grinned.

They both held out their hands and Raven put one hand in Cyborg's and one hand in Beast Boy's and they both helped her to her feet. "Real funny," Raven rolled her eyes dryly but smiled slightly. They headed to the T-car which miraculously survived Raven's temper tantrum unlike Control Freak's pile of junk as the police arrived to take Control Freak away.

"Come on, let's go home," Cyborg said.

"Hey, where are Robin and Starfire?" Raven asked.

Cyborg and Beast Boy looked at each other. Truth be told, they forgot all about them. "Uhhhhhh....."

Elsewhere, Robin and Starfire, having given up long ago trying to break through the force field trapping them in the box office at the movie theatre, sat lazily against the wall. They had no idea the force field was long since disabled. To pass the time they had been playing Rock, Paper Scissors before they got tired of that and unexpectedly began having a surprisingly deep conversation about friendship and love, but now they sat in thoughtful silence. Robin had his arm around Starfire who rested her head on his shoulder while fiddling with a paper clip she found on the floor. "Robin?" she asked.

"Yeah?"

"What do you suppose is taking the others so long?"

"Well my guess is that either Control Freak, Cyborg and Beast Boy all killed each other in this giant free for all, or Raven went all Carrie on their butts and killed them all," he replied.

Starfire put her head back on his shoulder and sighed sadly, "I imagine you are correct."

They sighed and then smiled at each other. Neither of them really believed it would go that far. Looking away quickly, his cheeks pink, Robin frowned, "I'm bored. What do you want to do now?"

Starfire shrugged and once again their eyes met. They held their gaze for a moment. Suddenly Starfire giggled slightly and gently placed her lips on his cheek.

"Um, is it me or is it getting hot in here?" Robin asked, nervously giving her a kiss on the forehead. Starfire grinned, her green eyes sparkled with giddiness.

Meanwhile the T-car pulled into the theatre parking lot again and Beast Boy, Raven and Cyborg jumped out. "Hey when can we go back in?" the manager asked. "Is the threat over? I've got a business to run you know!"

"Soon," Cyborg said, "We just have to double check to make sure it's safe." With that the three Titans ran into the theatre to rescue their friends, should they need it. When Robin and Starfire didn't answer when he tried to contact them a few moments ago they had begun to worry.

"Do you think maybe that force field thingy is still activated?" Beast Boy asked.

"I don't know BB," Cyborg replied, "If it is I'm sure I could..." He stopped when they looked inside the box office and saw, more like caught, Robin and Starfire in an embarrassing position. Starfire was partially leaning against the counter wall and Robin was lying beside her, partially on top of her in the middle of a rather passionate kiss. Starfire's hands were on Robin's chest and Robin had one hand placed behind her neck and the other reaching up her shirt. The boys began to snicker.

"'Just friends,' huh?" Beast Boy smirked, interrupting them.

Robin startled, "Guys! Hi! You're alive! Great! We were getting worried!" Both Robin and Starfire were red in the face, completely embarrassed.

"Uh huh," Raven nodded dryly, "It sure looks like it."

Starfire regained her composure as she jumped to her feet, taking Robin's hand and pulling him up with her, "We are elated to see that you are safe!" when she realized she was still holding Robin's hand they let go and blushed.

"We can see that," Cyborg snickered. "Come on, the force field should be deactivated."

Smoothing her hair Starfire led the way as she and Robin walked out of the small booth, their cheeks were still flushed from embarrassment.

"So are you three cool now?" Robin asked, desperate to change the subject. They nodded.

"Yes," Cyborg grinned, "I can't believe it, while we were busting our butts trying to defeat Control Freak, you two were getting it on in a movie theatre box office!" He and Beast Boy burst into a fit of laughter as they high-fived each other.

"Shut up!" Robin hissed.

"Are you all right Raven?" Starfire asked, as Robin chased Beast Boy and Cyborg out of the theatre.

Raven nodded, "Yeah. Let's go home now. I have to brush my teeth."

A/N OK folks! One more chapter to go! Coming soon to a fanfiction site near you, the exciting(?) conclusion to "Tug of War"! Yay!

You know, I didn't realize how gross Control Freak could be until I wrote this . I mean, I only saw him once in the show so I had to make up his character and I based him on someone I know who is already a lot like the Control Freak we got to see in the show. I only used him as a way to unwittingly repair BB and Cy's friendship ultimately, and I used him because he has the distintction of being the first character (hero or villain) that I saw. (Yep, first eppie I saw was "Fear Itself") I also chose him because it was in a Raven episode that he appeared and was it just me or did he seem to be more focused on her than the others? I dunno. All I know is that I liked that episode. I'm rambling yet again. Oops. Oh well, who actually reads author's notes anyway? (Besides me?)

Since my 'please review' ditties seem to be popular, here's my latest cheesy desperate attempt at getting reviews! This time in a form of the most highly distinguished and dignified form of poetry known to mankind: A limerick! (and all the people groaned)

A young reader from Timbuctoo

Once read a story but didn't review

His dog ran away

what more can I say

Just don't let that happen to you!