A/N: Ok, we're actually movin' right along with this whole little story here, let's keep it that way!! Now, since this is already a LONG chapter anyway, we aren't gonna have a lot of the usual silly-stuff up here today, sorry!! The Amep misses you!!

Amep: Like hell I do...!!

CYS: gives Sango's patented death-glare

Amep: Ok, maybe a little... But only those of you who reviewed!! There, happy now??

CYS: Yes, very much so! Now give the disclaimer!

Amep: Don't push it!!

CYS: Fine!! I'll just have Starfire do it!! (since in this story I barely talk about her at all... heh heh... And she's suppossed to be my favorite character! Geez!! Oh well... )

Starfire: The Collision is not in the ownings of the Teen Titans, nor is she responsible for any damage, which includes leaving them out in the rain after she is done playing with them!

CYS: Very good, Starfire!!

Robin: Hey, how come we're not in here so much?

CYS: Because it's not your story!!

Robin: Oh...

CYS: Stupid birds...

Robin: Yeah, stupid- HEY!!

CYS: Ha ha!!

Enjoy!!...

...OR DIE!!! BWUHAHA!!

She jolted from sleep, momentarily dazzled by the stinging hanging lamp and flos-flourescent orange walls of some divergent room.

"Ugh," she groaned, laying back down.

"Where am I?"

"You're in the hospital Raven." Replied a voice that she shockingly found to be Beast Boy's.

Far gone were his rapturous smile and the unwavering sparkle in his eye, and he looked forlorn as a beaten puppy, who had just been abandoned by his master.

"I don't see why, it's not like i'm still hurt." And so she tried to prove, walking a ways towards the heart of the room.

"See? I'm- UH!!"

Flailing and gasping for breath, she felt herself lose her balance. The lack of blood in her legs was making dizziness a reoccuring fiend.

With seemingly inhumane (and knowing Beast Boy, it probably wasn't) he was suddednly behind her, waiting with arms that clutched her tightly as she fell. For what could have only been a second longer than it should have they stayed, untill once again she felt her body leave contact with the ground.

"Ah!-" For once she actually voiced her fears, gasping as another wave of sickness washed over her.

Beast Boy only looked at her in mild surprise at the diminutive outburst, before continuing to carry her, bridal-style, to the bed.

"Don't worry, I wont drop you! There."

Once comfortable (or as comfortable as one can be while surmounted in stiff hospital pillows) he took the time to scold her for the previous misuse of her battered body.

"What were you thinking, getting up like that? You really could have hurt yourself!"

"I didn't think I was still injured."

"Not injured? Dude, you're in a hospital! Did you hear me? HOS-PIT-TAL!! Anyway, you did lose a lot of blood after you, well... you know."

"It wasn't really anything..."

"No Raven, it was everything. You really saved my life out there, and all I did, all I could do..." He seemed almost at a loss of air, his breaths coming out ragged and shallow.

When once she had been reluctant to look at him, she was now so enamoured by the dreary tone of his voice that she finally managed to throw her gaze upon him. And the sight that she was met with as she beheld those bleak and unwaverring eyes was one so full of compassion, laced so tightly with the limitless confines of relentless agony, that she believed it to be the face of some mysterious doppleganger, and not that of the once so valliant boy that once fought so bravely beside her. She found things in his stare that no mortal nor god-like creature, weather on heaven or Earth, had dared to waste on the form of the unwanted demon girl.

Kindness. Worry. He was staring at her in this manner so intently that she believed that he had in fact been sucked into his own world of shameful misery.

He thinks it was all his fault...

"It's not."

"What's not what, Raven?"

"O-oh..." She stuttered, startled that she had outwardly responded after accidentally reading his thoughts.

"It's just that, a moment ago, I kind-of, well...um... Well any way, it's not your fault---" she trailed off, once again appearing to find the bedcovers more appealing than certain other beings in the immediate area.

"Yes it is." He stood to look out upon the glittering city below.

"It is my fault, and you know it."

"Don't be stupi-"

"NO!!" She was taken aback by his sudden, uncharacteristic outburst. Since when did he ever act this forcefully? It wasn't like him at all...

"No..." he repeated, softer than before, eyes watching his reflection with a self-penetrating stare... and loathing.

"If I would have been paying attention instead of goofing off, if only I wouldn't have been in the monsters way,---"

He slammed an angry fist upon the unsuspecting glass, pressing his head against it's cool surface before gathering his thoughts. Finally, he turned to face her again, and she could see that he had tears in his eyes. Ever-so painstakingly slow he returned to the bed and clasped her hand in his own, staring intently into her troubled eyes. She was slightly stunned at his erratic behavior, but was soon pulled out of her thoughts as he once again began to speak...

"Oh Raven, if I could have ever been smart enough to see what was going on around me, you wouldn't be here now. Not here, not in this over-done hospital room with the too-bright walls and fake smiles, hooked up to I.V.'s and draining blood. You'd be out there, with your friends, living your normal life!!"

She watched, helpless as more tears came, and he inadvertently squeezed her hand tighter.

"But I promise you Raven, I will try to get you back as quickly as possible. And I swear to you that I will not sleep soundly at night until I set this right!!"

And with that he turned, kissing her softly on the side of her cheek, before heading towards the empty door. She was happy his back was to her now, so he did not see her unusual blush.

But before his final departure he pivoted to face her once more. For lack of blood in her head or some other reason unbeknownst, she thought he might say something distinctly profound; but of course, this was still Beast Boy, after all, so she really shouldn't have been too surprised at his actual reply...

"And make sure you get to bed, Raven; you don't look good at all."

"Oh really?" She replied, some of the usual dryness easing back into her voice.

"Yeah, almost like Robin that day Starfire made him eat that Tameranian pudding!!"

They shared a genuine happy moment, and Beast Boy actually got back a glimpse of his old, care-free smile. But then the reality of the situation seeped back into their already exhausted brains...

"Thank you Raven." He said, as he finally made it out the door.

"You're welcome." She replied as it slowly clicked shut, leaving her once again in her nothingness of ceiling lamps and orange walls.

But even as she once again began to doze, one simple word of their conversation nested itself in her mind, a word that she had never, before now, been able to own...

...Friends.

And she had them.

And somewhere far from the pristine floors and odd-coloured walls, protected in his misery by the cool night air and twinkling stars, a weakened boy sat on the cold hospital steps,

and cried.

A/N: Thank you so much to all of the many.... wait a second, hold on!!!!! What's wrong with you people? Hey, idea! If you like it, tell other people about it in your reviews, so it will become popular!!

(and it desperately wants to be popular!!)

Oh well, thanks to all the... few (shudders uncontrollably) people who reviewed:

Jarekia: My very first-ever reviewer, YOU ROCK!!

Thorn Rose-Severus's Niece: Thank you for the compliment, I'm glad someone likes my style of writing!! (psst!!- tell your friends!! hint, hint!! -) Here's the other chapter you wanted, I hope you find it as good as the last one!

& to my good friend: Mira Hopesbane: I shall aquiesce to your wish for more fluffiness!! (I think I tried to incorporate it in this chapter a little, did it work??) & Thanks for the juice! SOOOO GOOOOOD!! Ahh... gets sugar-high like at school, only worse (if that's even possible...I don't think it is...) HEY!! LEAVE THE AMEP ALONE!! (were you talking about him or Hiei loving Kurama in my other fic? The review made it a little weird... and unclear.)

Ok, well... I'd best be going now, the dishes calleth!! looks at endless array of chores she's neglected. Oh dear, If I keep this up, my whole house will be joining ranks with the English Paper!!

AMEP: That's ALMIGHTY ENGLISH PAPER to you, human scum!! Why didn't you mention me more on the top??

CYS: Because I wanted to go swift into the story!! Besides, Starfire and Robin had to talk!! And don't be mean to me, I have a golden lighter!!

Amep: Gulps Ummm.... tune in for another instalment of "Green and Black Tears!!", coming soon!!

CYS: AND???

Amep: And review!! Please don't kill me!!

CYS: Fine, just don't get mad again if Robin and Starfire ever get more lines than you!!

Amep: ...bastards...

CYS: WHAT???

Amep: Nothing!!!...