Chapter 2: Early Morning Talking

Beast Boy sat there for another moment "I think I'm going back to bed. I'm tired." He said he glanced over at the clock it read 2:57. Robin and Cyborg had changed the subject to Movies. Although Beast Boy liked the movies he just didn't feel like talking about them right now. Robin turned around glanced up at him "Okay.... And Beast Boy trust me and take my advice to just be yourself. So there are SO many TV shows that are based off guys trying to impress a girl... that it sicken's me! So just be yourself cuz you don't want Raven to fall in love with a person that really isn't you." Beast Boy looked at Robin. "Dude that's really deep.If I wasn't in a thinking mood right now that would be over my head. Thanks."

"Welcome." Robin then turned around and started talking with Cyborg again.

Beast Boy left the kitchen and headed towards his room. As he passed by Raven's room he stopped. He could feel her presence there it was just something he could tell he didn't know what maybe it was the air or just his gut feeling but he knew. He slowly crept towards her door and silently put his ear up against the cold metal. At first all he heard was his heart beating then as he listened closer he heard a light breathing sound. He slowly inched away from the door and began to walk towards his room.

Halfway there he heard a crash from Ravens room. He quickly walked back down the hallway and knocked on her door.

Raven looked over at her dresser where two of her vases had broken. She flung her feet over the side of her bed and stood up and started moving towards the vases when she heard a knock on the door she thought she had felt someone else present but didn't feel like finding out. But now she did she feel deep into her mind concentrating on who it was... It was Beast Boy. At first she was startled and one of her candles started to turn black and white but she calmed herself down and replied "Yes Beast Boy? What do you want?" there was silence, he was obviously confused on how she knew it was him, then he replied in a voice muffled by the door" I.... Umm.... I... hhhheaaard.... A.... a.... crraash.... Are.... Ummmm...... yyyouuu....ahhhh....okay???"

"I'm fine. But my vases aren't" she stood up and went over the door to open it" could you get me a broom please?" the door was now fully open and the faint light from the hall was shining in revealing to broken vases lying on her dresser.

"Ssssuuuurrreee!!" Beast Boy said slowly then rushed off towards the bathroom. Raven looked out the door at Beast Boy jogging down the hallway and then back at the broken vases. 'Why did they break?' she thought then thought harder but couldn't remember... it must have been her dream. She started to clean up the mess picking, up pieces with her hands, and putting them in a pile.

When Beast Boy came back with the broom he knocked and then entered because she had left the door open. "Thanks." Raven said while taking the broom from Beast Boy grasp. "Your welcome." Beast Boy beamed with pride. Suddenly his face went from happy to a face struck with horror. "Your bleeding!" he bent down and took her hand to examine the cut. She pulled her hand back "I'll be okay."

"No you won't there's a piece of glass in there. Hold on." He grabbed her hand and laid it in his. He examined it and placed his finger in a bit. She winced but then nodded it agreement to continue. He put it in further and pulled out the small piece of glass covered in blood.

"Thank You." She said with a slight smile on her face. Beast Boy grinned... that was a smile!! A SMILE!! SHE SMILED!!! "Your welcome!" he said still wearing that cheesy grin. "I almost forgot there's a old saying where when people are hurt you kiss the cut to make it better. Do you mind?" Raven looked at him and then the cut and then deciding whether or not her emotions would act up or not. She decided to take the chance and nodded her head giving him the okay. Beast Boy kissed it gently as soon as his lips touched her finger she felt warmth he pulled back and looked up at her. Her eyes were dancing with delight even though she didn't realize it. "It feels better already." He turned around and began to walk towards the hallway but before he left Raven called out to him. "Beast Boy?"

"Yeah Raven?" he turned around.

"Try not to stutter when you talk to me."

"Sorry." He then quietly shut the door and hurried off towards his room.

Okay that is the first part of this chapter. Instead of having it on the next chapter I'm just going to continue it on this one.

Raven meditated quietly in the corner of the living room although the rest of the room wasn't as quite as she was. Everyone sat on the couch Cyborg,
Robin, Starfire and Beast Boy all sat playing an adventure game. She thought back on what Beast Boy had done for her merely the night before ago. At times he can be really sweet and selfless and at others he could drive a psychologist insane. She thought for a second and a second again and her body started to tingle. 'I think I just got another emotion.' She thought about Beast Boy for a second how he smiled sweetly at her whenever she said something fairly nice and a couple of hours ago when his lips touched her finger and Sometimes though she felt as though the wall that she had built up around her, letting almost no one into her life, was nearly breeched by him. Sometimes she wished she could just weep and let all her unshed tears escape. Sometimes she wished that she could laugh without nearly killing someone in the process but most times she wish that she could tear down her wall and let people meet her... The real Raven.

But at the moment this wasn't possible. She slowly opened one of her eyes and glanced over to her right where a picture of the team was hanging on the wall... she starred at it opening her other eye. The picture had been taken on one of the many picnics the team had together.

Robin sat cross-legged in the middle on the bottom looking up questionably with that 'What the heck are you doing?' look on his face. Starfire, who had her elbows on Robins head, had and hands on her face smiling at the camera like the camera was making her laugh, Cyborg was on the left with food smudged on his face and tongue hanging out with his eye crossed. He looked like a big baby who just discovered food and was totally fascinated with it. Beast Boy stood next to Starfire with his faced screwed up into some weird position, a face that only a mother could love, and holding up bunny ears over the girl in front of him. The girl looked unhappy to be in the picture and as though you would have to fight with her to get even a smirk out of her. Her skin was pale and through her violet eyes you could see a glisten... it wasn't because she was happy though... it was because she was sad. The girl... was Raven.

'Why do I always have to be so sad??' the thought repeated itself in her head. Then a mysterious voice answered for you 'Because you have no Reason for life. It's what you need. It's what you crave.'

'Yes I do!' she yelled in her head 'I save people lives and...' her voice trailed off when she realized that it was pointless to add AND to that sentence. There was nothing else to add.

"You can't finish that sentence because you know that there is nothing else. And you can not hide from the fact... that it's true." The voice seemed to leave her head as she felt a tear fall silently fall down her cheek and emotional pain escaped from her body. The teardrop hit the floor she knew something was going to break sooner or later. She needed to talk to someone but she glanced back over her shoulder and looked at everyone watching and cheering on Beast Boy and Cyborg on the couch. She slowly let her legs down to the floor and stood up making sure that nobody could tell that she was crying she then started to walk fast towards her room.

A defeated Beast Boy turned around just in time to see Raven running full speed up the stairs. "Uhhh... Robin, Star someone wanna take over me for a sec?"

"I will!!!" Starfire said waving her hand around in the air.

"Thanks." He said as he gave her the controller then he ran up over the stairs chasing after her.

Beast Boy reached her room and knocked on her door. He waited a few seconds but there was no answer. He knocked again and a faint voice came through the door

"Go away Beast Boy." The faint voice vanished and he opened her door. He was surprised lying on her bed with her face stuffed in her pillow sobbing.

"Raven?" he slowly sat down on her bed and stroked her hair "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Go away." A weak voice answered through the pillow.

"If there's nothing wrong then why are you crying?"

She looked up at him with tear stained cheeks. "Beast Boy can I ask you a question?"

Beast Boy looked at her with a quizzical eye then nodded.

Raven sniffled and wiped a newly formed tear from her eye "What's my Reason for life?"

Beast Boy starred at her trying to think of a smart and good answer that wouldn't upset her more. "Well you save peoples lives and it may not seem that important to you at times but for the other person it means a lot."

Raven burst out in a fit of tears again and something in another room shattered.

"WHAT DID I SAY??"

"It's just..." she stopped to wipe another tear away "hard to explain."

"Okay... well... is there anything I could do to help?"

Raven shook her head as a voice from downstairs yelled up at them.

"HEY RAVEN CAN YOU COME DOWN HERE FOR A SEC THERE'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO SEE!!" Beast Boy got up off her bed and opened her door. "SHE'S BUSY RIGHT NOW CYBORG! SHE'LL COME DOWN WHEN SHE'S READY!"

There was a silence and Beast Boy knew if Cyborg was deciding to argue with him or not. Then he replied "FINE." Beast Boy then went back and sat down, in the place where he was before, on her bed.

"Now that that's over where were we?"

"At the part where I just refused your help."

"Ahhh... yes... that's right... well... maybe if I can't help you I could just show you that you life isn't as miserable as you think it is!" he looked at her with hopeful eyes.

Raven looked up "Although that excuse was really lame. I guess dinner wouldn't be that bad." She lifted her head off the pillow and sat up. "Umm... Thanks." She said with the tiniest smile on her face. "No prob."

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