Disclaimer: The Titans are not owned by me. Now, for the chapter you've all been waiting for... oh wait, it depends on what you've been waiting for...
Chapter 7- Playing Dress-Up
The early morning rays of golden sun glistened through the window and into the room. They lit up the once-darkened room with a bold determination to raise a sleepy teenage boy from the warm, cozy blankets of his friend's bed. The boy wearily awoke from the bright light shining in his face and rubbed an eye with a green hand.
"Leave me alone. I'm trying to sleep," He muttered to the sun, but the sun did not listen to him. The boy, once he opened his dark green eyes, numbly looked about the room as he tried to grasp his surroundings in a new light.
'Surely this isn't Raven's room.' He thought. 'She would never let so much light take over her room.' But on this day it seemed as if he were mistaken.
He sat up, sending a tangle of covers flying towards the bottom, and after a hesitant moment decided to check the time. He had noticed the previous night that one of the few, unsophisticated electronic devices that Raven did have was a clock.
Unfortunately for Beast Boy, it happened to be one of those annoying clocks with hands on them.
He sighed. Face clocks. They were all too confusing for him. If he wanted the time he didn't want its teller to beat around the bush, he wanted the teller to get straight to the point.
Which was why he liked digital clocks. You look at them; they say what time it is. Done. You don't waste two minutes trying to figure out the time with a digital clock like you would with a face clock.
"Forget it," He said as he pushed the rest of the bed covers off of him. He walked over barefoot to where he put his stuff on the floor the previous night and bent over to pick it up. He was just about to grab his silver belt when he hesitated and stood back up.
He had just remembered that he was Raven now. No matter how much he tried to avoid it the previous day, he would not be able to escape it today. Today, he would not be able to get away with dressing as himself. At least not after what Raven said to him the previous night in the main room.
And all he could say for himself that night, all he could say to stand up against one of his closest friends, his secret crush with an identity crisis, was "ditto."
"You wanna play dress-up, Raven?" He walked over to his friend's closet until he was standing right in front of it. "Fine. I'll play dress-up with you. But realize that when you're back to normal, you are going to owe me big time."
Beast Boy slid open the door to Raven's closet and smirked at all of its black and blue contents. He smirked at each and every single one of them. And they could not smirk back at him, try all they might, for that he was Raven. And these, oh lovely readers, were his new clothes.
Let's just say that this was going to be a very interesting day.
"It's 8:24 AM." Cyborg answered after taking a quick glance at the built-in digital watch in his arm, "Why'd you want to know, Ra- Beast Boy?"
The girl sat on one of the stools by the kitchen area, spinning herself in the chair back and forth. A few strands of badly gelled violet hair fell into her face. She stopped spinning with a fuchsia shoe and took the moment to push the stray strands back and out of her way with a silver gloved hand.
"I was wondering cause Raven's usually awake and in here by now. Do you think she's mad at me or something? I think I was a little too harsh on her last night," The girl replied as she resumed spinning on her stool.
Starfire, who was sitting in one of the neighboring stools, looked at her friend.
"Oh, I am sure that our friend Raven will be fine. After all, Raven did say that she was lacking the sufficient amount of sleep needed to be able to concentrate properly."
Blink.
"You sure about that, Star? Cause I have a feeling that she's hiding from me."
"Like Starfire said, she's probably just catching up on some sleep. Don't worry about it," Robin stated as he prepared breakfast in the kitchen.
Cyborg stood from his spot on the couch and walked over to the window.
"I'd be surprised if Raven was able to sleep with all of that light outside. There's so much sun out today that even the darkest corner of that room would be lit."
"Yeah, but don't forget, this is Raven we're talking about here, Cyborg. Her room's probably still dark no matter how much light you put in it," The violet-haired girl remarked.
"And you would know since you've been in there before," Cyborg smirked, not moving his eyes from the view of the city, having once again forgotten the identity crisis for a slight moment.
"What? Me? Sneak around in Raven's room?" The girl grinned. "No…"
"You BETTER not be sneaking around my room."
The four Titans turned their attention to the doorway. A figure stood in front of the doorway with green hands on his hips as the doors to the main room swished behind him.
He wore the entire ensemble: the blue cloak, the black leotard (even stuffed it to make it fit better around the top), the belt, the shoes…everything. His ears showed through the cloak's hood (like in Episode 257-494) and the cloak dragged on the ground due to the fact that he was shorter than the original Raven, but he didn't care.
Cyborg, Starfire, and Robin all gave a long, hard stare at their friend.
There was something definitely wrong about this picture. Something definitely wrong indeed. Such as the green of his skin clashing with the black and blue of the rest of the outfit. Though the boys were more concerned with trying to figure out how Beast Boy got his boxers to not stick out from underneath the leotard…
"Look, Raven, I'm sorry about last night," The violet-haired girl apologized.
"Whatever."
"Won't you please forgive me? Pleeeease?" Pleaded 'Beast Boy.'
"If it makes you shut up, then fine, I forgive you," Replied 'Raven.'
"Please. Stop of the arguing. Friends do not act like that," Starfire stated.
"We're done bickering now, but thanks for your concern, Star," The violet-haired girl said and turned her attention away from 'Raven' and towards the kitchen.
"Um… dude, Robin, are you trying to burn breakfast?" She asked the leader.
He quickly snapped back to reality and realized that indeed, breakfast was burning. He focused his attention to cooking the food instead of where it was before, which was on Beast Boy in Raven's outfit.
In the next half hour they ate their breakfast and decided to have double combat practice beginning at 9 AM to make up for what they missed the previous day.
So they ended up going to the gym. Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg anticipated the moment when a certain someone would not be able to use their powers...
I hope you aren't scarred by the mental image of Beast Boy wearing Raven's outfit... your views on this chapter and the story so far are greatly appreciated if you wish to share them with me in a quick little review. You don't have to review, but it would be nice if you did.
Oh, and crazybritoutforevangelooks, in case you don't recall, I said back in Chapter 1 how I finished writing this story before the new episodes in January came out, so therefore I didn't know that Slade was going to come back from the dead when I wrote the whole "Slade coming back from the dead" lines in Chapters 6 and 8 (which isn't posted yet, I know... but maybe I'll post it within the next week, (like, oh, I dunno, on my birthday) so the story's completely posted before the new episodes come out in America...:-D yay for new episodes!).