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Recap:

"Hey Beast Boy?" Raven lifted her head off his shoulder to look at him. "Yeah Rae?" He asked, curious about what she wanted and hoping that whatever she had to say would make the doubt go away. "Don't call me Rae...," Beast boy felt his thin hope shatter.

Raven noticed Beast boy's shoulders drop. She smiled. She couldn't help it. For the life of her she couldn't figure out why he liked to call her that stupid nickname.

Ignoring his hurt expression, she continued, "...in public. It's bad for my image." The huge grin reappeared on his face and Raven tried to ignore the butterflies that suddenly appeared in her stomach.

"You got it Rae!"

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Raven resisted the urge to roll her eyes. This was just typical. Beast boy was now chattering on about how he would use the nickname. Sigh. She should have known he would say something to ruin the moment. At least, Raven thought that they were having a moment. But now she wasn't so sure. Obviously Beast Boy didn't feel the same way, but then again, he was usually oblivious to these types of things.

A rush of something…a feeling? came over her. Raven blinked surprised. What the …? It was strange, new. She couldn't remember feeling it before. Actually, she shouldn't be feeling anything, but that was explainable. Her control was probably a little unstable right after the accident.

This feeling though…It wasn't anger, at least not all of it, thank the gods, but she wasn't familiar with either.

The emotion, it was like a mixture of sadness, anger, and frustration.

But WHAT was it? New feelings were almost never a good thing and they almost always led to complications. Something her life didn't need anymore of.

Raven racked her brains, trying to find a name for it. Beast boy was still chattering on, making it difficult to concentrate. Arms waving as he continued to babble, Beast Boy blathered on, the subject had somehow shifted to nicknames in general. Raven resisted the urge to sigh. Didn't he ever just shut-up? She was beginning to regret giving him permission.

Wait…That was it! This feeling, it was regret. And it wasn't the feeble kind of regret like she had meant about the whole name thing either, NOT that she actually regretted it. But that was more of a 'I need a word and this word works even though I don't really feel it' kind of situation anyway.

Was she babbling?

'Odd' Raven thought, 'my thoughts don't usually carry on like that. It must be a result of spending too much time with Beast Boy. Goddess knows he never seems to shut-up and listen. But that's beside the point.

Focus!'

Raven distantly recalled having felt it before, but that had been a long time ago too. Way before she had even met another Teen Titian.

But even that wasn't what was really confusing her.

Why WAS she regretful about something so small? How was she regretful at all? So what if Beast Boy did not recognize that they were having a moment? Why did he matter at all? Why did any of it matter? Why…

Raven suppressed the urge to scream. She had already developed a slight headache from her unsteady control over her powers and all the unanswered questions just made things worse.

'This is illogical' Raven thought. 'My thoughts shouldn't be this confused or disordered or…or…? What's wrong with me!' Raven felt the beginnings of panic and quickly squashed it down. 'It doesn't matter', she decided 'I just have to get out of here and meditate before I really lose control.'

Having decided on a course of action, Raven opened her mouth with the intent of getting rid of her green companion, but then oddest thing happened. Beast Boy grabbed her hands and with a huge smile on his face, told her to call him BB so it would be fair.

Now Beast Boy himself wasn't acting that odd. In fact, it was odd if Beast boy WASN'T smiling. No, what was odd was the psychic's reaction to the whole thing.

It left Raven speechless. With just one look at his happy face, Raven couldn't force herself say the cruel words in her head and wipe that stupid smile off his silly green face.

Raven didn't know why she couldn't. What was more worrying was that she couldn't think of one thing that was keeping her from speaking, except, well, he just looked so happy and his smile... Her voice caught in her throat again and her heart skipped a beat.

All Raven could see was his green face beaming down at her. And as the cruel words in her head were slowly lost, newer, much different thoughts took their place.

How often, she wondered, did people smile for her?

Not at her, like Starfire usually did because the alien girl herself was happy, but smile because of something she did or said?

It didn't take the psychic long to come up with an answer. 'Almost never' she thought and then something else occurred to her.

'And it's usually Beast boy who's the one smiling.'

Before today, if asked, Raven would say that the person on her team she was closest to (though the term close was stretching it) was Starfire. But now….now Raven wasn't so sure.

Raven noticed her thoughts drifting off again and quickly redirected them to a more logical path. However, this just brought up more questions the psychic had no answers for.

Why was Beast Boy so happy? And around her? Because he could call her Rae? Idiot. How could he be happy because of something she did? And why was it affecting her so?

Raven knew a name held power, it was a common fact in the magical world, but that was only for spells and curses, it wasn't that important otherwise and last time she checked, Beast Boy wasn't really into the whole magic thing. The only other use a name had was just for labeling for a person. A name was given so everyone wasn't going "Hey you" all the time.

What went on in that stupid head of his anyways? At this point Raven could practically feel the happiness radiating off of him and while she couldn't help but noticing how nice the sensation felt, at the same time it confused her even more. WHY was he so happy? Didn't he get it? She was cold. And cold things can't give the warmth of happiness.

Raven glanced up at his face again, and seeing that he was still smiling at her, nearly gave into her urge to scream. Why wouldn't he stop smiling? It just didn't make sense!

Confusion, frustration, panic, and similar emotions all welled up inside her, fighting her already fragile control.

Raven froze then took a long deep breath. Calm. She must be calm. Emotions were bad. Feelings were bad. Emotions prevented one from making a logical decision. And in her case they also had the potential to kill someone. They had to be squashed and once they were eliminated, she would be able to think clearly and rationally, giving her the ability to solve the several problems currently plaguing her mind and sanity.

Yet, Raven couldn't help remembering a peculiar thing that she had begun to notice. Whenever she smiled, or just seemed less gloomy than normal, Beast Boy got a weird grin on his face that wouldn't come off for hours. What the hell did it mean? Was there some kind of connection?

Knowing that she was getting frustrated again, Raven decided that a distraction from her thoughts, questions, and her companion would be a good course of action. Forcing herself to turn away from the smiling boy, the psychic gazed around the messy room instead.

Raven began to analyze the damage her powers had caused this time and if anything could be salvaged. Taking her first good look around, she fought the urge to wince. The room was a disaster.

Once again tuning out Beast Boy's pointless chatter, this time about tofu? Raven made a list of things that would have to be replaced. Some towels had holes or were frayed, but most could be fixed by some needle and thread.

A few bottles of shampoo and conditioner had exploded leaving an unpleasant mess, so had some bars of soap. The showerhead too was beyond repair and the mirror was cracked meaning it would need to be replaced also. Her clothes would need a good washing and ironing, probably some mending….

Wait.

Pause… Rewind….Stop.

Her clothes?

Raven's violet eyes widened in alarm when her brain finally caught up with her sudden realization. She wasn't wearing her clothes. Then, just to be spiteful, her brain decided to go a step further. She, Raven, had been sitting in a bathroom soaking wet with BEAST BOY for the past ten to fifteen minutes, give or take a few, and not wearing a scrap of clothing.

Just great.

It was a well known fact that Raven was a private person. VERY private. And on the very long list of things she considered private, her body had always been in the top three. Her room and past occupying spots 1 and 2.

But that wasn't the point here. The point was that she was not wearing any clothing, sans a towel and there was another person in the room. A male person. She felt her teeth clench together in annoyance.

She wore a long, big, billowy cape for a reason damn it and it wasn't because it made a great blanket come bedtime.

And this was of course when her brain decided now would be a great time to remember all of the things she had done since she had woke up. Reminding her of all the unanswered questions still waiting to be answered and her embarrassing actions, like hugging, an act she was now seriously wishing she hadn't done.

She then remembered how close she still was to the current main source of her problems.

Luckily for Beast Boy, some deity out there had moved the towel to cover everything that needed to be covered before Raven actually did lose control. Again.

'Oh Goddess.' Raven thought. 'How the heck am I supposed to get out of this without embarrassing both of us even more?'

Quickly deciding discretion was the best course of action, Raven tried to pull the towel up to cover herself a little more, hoping to wrap it around her better. However much to Raven's frustration the towel wasn't very big.

'Damn it'

Raven took a deep breath. On to plan B.

"Umm... Beast Boy," Raven began cautiously, hoping that for once Beast Boy would do what he was told without asking questions. "can you turn around please?"

A confused look crossed his face for a moment before his eyes suddenly widened, his face turned pink, and he jumped away like her body had burned him.

The loss of contact bothered Raven. His arms had felt nice, and for a few moments she had actually felt safe and less cold… but she couldn't dwell on it for more than a second as her teammate spun around to face the doorframe.

Of course never quiet for long, Beast Boy then began garbling awkward, unintelligible apologies from his spot in the hall. And as was custom, Raven ignored most of it as she quickly grabbed her rumpled clothes off the floor.

For a split second, she debated warning him what would happen if he turned around to sneak a peak before deciding that he wouldn't be interested enough in her body to risk her wrath and at this point all she really wanted to do was get dressed. So Raven kept her mouth shut and began to pull her clothes on as fast as she could.

She finished quickly, not bothering with her shoes and checked her appearance in the cracked mirror.

As Raven had noticed earlier, her clothes were dirty and wrinkled. There was a small hole in the middle of her leotard and bigger one that exposed her lower back. It had probably had caught on a hook of some kind when she had lost control. The sleeves too had small tears here and there. Thankfully, the changes weren't too noticeable with her cape on, though the dark material was also wrinkled, wet, and sported several small rips of its own.

Resigned that this was as presentable that she was going to get, Raven resolved to change as soon as possible. She hated being dirty.

Then knowing she couldn't stall forever, Raven braced herself for whatever was going to happen next and quietly told Beast Boy that she was done dressing, half-hoping that he wouldn't hear her.

However, Raven already knew that this just wasn't here day.

Beast Boy turned around slowly, eyes glued to the floor. For once silent, having run out of apologies long ago. The huge blush on his checks clashed horribly with his green face. Despite her best efforts Raven could also feel a blush spreading on her own cheeks.

Both didn't know what to say. Each one wanted to sink through the floor, to flee but both didn't want to make this more complicated by leaving things unresolved, so both said nothing. Each one waited for the other to make the first move.

The crack in the mirror widened.

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Uh Oh! Raven's emotions are getting the best of her again. And poor Beast Boy! He looks like a Christmas decoration.

Well what you guys think? Review please!

Well this chapter took me forever to re-write. As you can see it's about 1,500 words longer too. Chapter 5 is next and then I can finish typing chapter 6. YAY!