CHAPTER 2

"Beep Beep Beep...SLAM!" Beast Boy slapped the off button on his alarm clock and rolled out of bed. Last night had been a little too dramatic for his taste and he was in no mood to deal with any of the Titans this morning. But still, it was his turn to cook breakfast, so he had better get started on it.

BB put on some green pants and a loose while T shirt before he began walking down the hall. Since he didn't want to risk waking any of the other titans, Beast Boy turned himself into a mouse and crawled under the emergency door. He then took the emergency stairs up to Titan Kitchen. When he arrived the kitchen was filled with the smell of moldy dishes. "Robin was supposed to wash those last night." He grumbled, still half asleep.

Since cooking was not his favorite past time, BB had learned over the years how to make it more enjoyable. He took out a few pots, some pans and a couple feet of rope. He then tied the pans and pots to himself; one big pan over his torso, two over his shoulders and one pot on his head. "Now all cooking supplies shall fear me muahaha!" BB gave a fake yet surprisingly evil laugh. "Hiya...hiiiiiiiiiiiya!" BB imitated some of Robin's fighting moves. He jumped up into the air and attempted to do a kung fu kick...he landed on his back. "Ouch." But BB got up and once again started to fight more cooking supplies. He was having enough fun not to notice that Raven had just walked in.

She starred at him for a few seconds before asking, "Beast Boy, what are you doing?"

He froze; no one had ever caught him doing this during his breakfast shift before. What should he do? Act cool, or run away and hide. Act cool. "Ummm, nothing...just ya know...just chill'n...practicing some fighting moves."BB looked at his nails and tried to act like nothing out of the ordinary was going on.

Raven starred at him for a minute. "Well, I'm going to be reading on the couch. Tell me if you need any help fighting the invisible kitchen monsters." Then she walked away.

BB immediately took off the pans. His cheeks were bright red. "Well I'll just get started on breakfast then!" He called out to Raven; she didn't even turn around. "Stupid, stupid." He hit himself in the head. He had already made a fool of himself in front of Raven and it wasn't even noon.

BREAKFAST

"This stuff isn't too bad." Cyborge shoveled food into his open mouth. "BB I got to say, you've out done yourself this time."

"Thanx," BB didn't seem to really be listening to Cyborge. He was too busy looking at Raven on the couch. What did she think of him now?

"So what's in these eggs that make 'em taste so good?" Cy asked. "Bacon! It's bacon right?"

"Tofu bacon." BB still wasn't paying attention to Cyborge, but he answered anyway. "The eggs are tofu too. So are the sausage patties, and the cereal has soy milk in it."

Cyborge stopped eating. "Tofu?" He immediately spit out everything in his mouth. "Aww man that's just nasty! And you promised no more tofu junk! You promised!" Cyborge then noticed that his friend wasn't even looking at him; instead he had been staring at Raven. "Ugh. Beast Boy, just go talk to her."

"What?" BB turned around and looked at Cy.

"Go talk to her. You're never gonna get anywhere unless you just talk to her." He smiled.

"You really think I sould?" He asked. Cyborge just nodded.

"Why not? He went to the Fridge and started looking for the regular milk.

Beast Boy smiled. "I'll do it." He walked over to the couch and sat down next to Raven. "So...what's up?" He tried to sound casual.

Raven looked up from her book. "Reading." Was all she said, then looked back down.

"Ummm...what you reading about?" BB asked.

"Poems."

"What kind of poems?"

"Dark Poems."

"Any that I'd like?"

"Not likely."

Beast Boy turned around to look at Cy. He mouthed "What should I do next?" Cyborge shrugged. "Umm...you..." Beast Boy began to panic. What should he say? "Your hair is very purple." Stupid move. That had sounded a lot better in his head.

"No duh." Raven responded.

Beast Boy paused, if he was gonna asked her anything it was now or never. "Umm...do you think that maybe sometime you'd wanna-"BB was about to ask the question when metal doors flew open. Robin was standing in their entryway.

"Well, look who's here." Cyborge said in a fake cocky tone. He was obviously still pretty pissed off about Robin's rudeness last night. Cyborge didn't take disrespect very well.

"Are you going to be like this all day?" Robin asked as he walked in.

"Only until you apologize." Cy answered.

"Apologize for what?!"

"What do you think? How about apologizing to us for that outburst you had last night. We were just try'n to help you!"

"I didn't need help."

"Sure didn't seem that way." Cyborge muttered under his breath.

"Why were you screaming?" Raven asked from the couch; she had finally put down the book of poems.

Robin paused. He wasn't sure weather to tell the truth or dismiss the subject. But of course since this is Robin he said "The screams were just like sleep talking. Nothing is wrong, I was just screaming without knowing it." Robin put on a solemn face. "It will never happen again. And..." He paused again. "And I'm sorry about yelling at you guys last night."

"We forgive you." Raven said before Cyborge could get out whatever argument he was about to have with Robin. "Tell us about the nightmare whenever." Raven then went back to reading her book.

"I didn't have a nightmare!" Robin blurted out.

"Sure. Whatever Robin." Cyborge took a big scoop of cereal from the bowl in front of him.

"I didn't!" Robin was starting to get angry.

"Fine never mind then. Anyway, Starfire has been waiting for you; she's in the training room." Raven immediately changed the subject.

"Training room? But she never goes there unless one of us do." Robin commented.

"Does now." Raven said shortly.

"Okay, thanks. I guess I'll go find her." Robin left.

"What's his deal?" Cyborge asked aloud.

"Don't talk like that Cyborge. You don't know what went on in his head during the...not nightmare he had last night." Raven raised her voice.

Cyborge lifted an eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"

"Robin has had some really tragic life events." Raven got up. "Remember that time he thought he saw Slade? But he wasn't really there."

"Yeah."

"Well, when I went into his mind in order to see Slade through his eyes, I accidentally got a look at Robin's past.

"So?"

"He has had a really sad past. I think that maybe his...not nightmare has something to do with a part of his past."

"Raven, we've all had really disturbing pasts."

"Not like Robin's, just trust me on this. And just stop being so hard on him.

"Are you even gonna tell me what you saw in his mind?"

Raven gave one of her rarely seem smiles. "No." She then turned to BB. He had been surprisingly quite through out the entire time Robin was there. Almost like he was frozen. "And Beast Boy, what were you going to ask me?"

"Umm...never mind. It's not important." BB returned to the kitchen.

Read This too: OKAY! The end of chapter 2! This is not some of my best writing, but I felt like I really should write another chapter since chapter 1 was so short. And I know some of you might be pissed because this chapter hasn't introduced Batman, resolved all conflicts between the titans or even told you what Robin's dream was about. Don't worry. Two out of three of those things will happen in the next chapter! I just wanted to get this chapter out so that I could get begin the romantic relationship between BB and Rae. Or, sort of.