Chapter 2: Confusion

Late that night after all the Titans slept soundly in their beds, Beast Boy sat awake in his room, finishing his comic book. He closed it and threw it across the room, it fluttered to the ground near a large pile of junk across the room and a huge crash echoed across the room. He turned quickly to see if the comic book had caused it, but there was no evidence that he had knocked something important off anything.

"Odd…" he muttered as he turned over and pulled the covers over himself. Then, another crash came. He jumped out of bed, and shifted into a rabbit. When the next crash came, his massive ears picked up where it came from. He went to the door and opened it, walking out into the corridor. He kept following his ears until he pinpointed the source of the sound: Raven's room.

He shifted back to human form and knocked on Raven's door.

"Go away!" came Raven's voice from inside her room, out of her usual monotone.

"Rae? It's me… You OK?"

"I know it's you. So get lost!"

"Get lost? You sure you're OK?"

"Just dandy… Now go!" Something crashed into the door and fluttered downwards, it kind of sounded like the comic book Beast Boy just threw across his own room.

"OK… See you tomorrow?"

"Whatever," said Raven as another object hit the door and fluttered to the floor.

"OK…" muttered Beast Boy to himself as he walked back to his own room to get some rest.

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Beast Boy walked down to breakfast with a big smile on his face. The doors slid open to reveal Raven eating her own breakfast. She looked at him once, then glanced back to the book she was reading whilst eating.

"Hey Rae," said Beast Boy smiling and walking to the fridge. "You're up early."

"I fell asleep earlier than normal," said Raven, not looking up from her book.

"No, you didn't. I talked to you around midnight."

"No, you didn't. I fell asleep around nine."

"But I talked to you remember?"

"No Beast Boy. You must have been dreaming."

Beast Boy grabbed some tofu from the fridge. "I wasn't dreaming."

"I didn't talk to you. I was asleep. You were dreaming. Deal with it," said Raven, picking up her book and walking out of the room.

Beast Boy looked at her oddly, then shook his head, telling himself Raven just got a sudden case of bizarre amnesia.

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A couple nights later, both of which involved more odd incidents concerning Raven's behavior at night, Cyborg jumped in front of the television screen. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I, Cyborg, am proud to present to you… Wicked Scary 4!"

Beast Boy did a little woop-woop from his place on the couch, to which Starfire giggled cutely.

"How many of these films do they have to make?" asked Raven gloomily.

"Ssh!" said Cyborg. "Let's watch!" He hit the button on his remote and the opening credits began to flash across the screen.

Raven yawned loudly as the screen flashed the movie's title.

"Quiet Rae!" whispered Beast Boy harshly.

Raven yawned again. "I'm really tired. I think I'll go to bed early tonight."

"Alright… You OK, Rae?" asked Beast Boy.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just tired," she said, without slipping out of her monotone. Robin made a loud hissing sound at them, which Raven assumed to mean something along the lines of 'Shut the heck up!', and walked out the room, yawning once more. Beast Boy spared one look at her before turning back to the movie.

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The movie ended and no-one said a word for a second. Then, Cyborg flipped the light switch and light flooded the room. He was about to yell out loud when he realized that Robin and Starfire had fallen asleep, each one was propping the other up like a bizarre teepee.

Cyborg chuckled once. "I'm gonna hit the hay, K little buddy?"

"Sure Cy…" said Beast Boy. "Should I wake up the lovebirds?"

"Nah… Ooh… I should take a picture. I could tease Robin for weeks."

"Good plan. I'm gonna go to bed."

"Alright. Night man."

"Night."

Beast Boy walked out of the room, letting the automatic doors slide behind him and walked slowly up to his room. He reached it and was about to open his door, when he heard a clunk from down the hall, he quickly turned to see Raven, in her black, silk pajamas standing at the end of the hall. She had an odd expression on her face, one that wasn't hers.

"Raven?" said Beast Boy shocked, before Raven gasped once then ran off.

"Raven!" yelled Beast Boy, darting after her. He followed her, rushing through the corridors, never once using her powers to phase through the walls or float above the ground, just running. Every now and then, she'd stop and look around slightly confused, it was like she didn't know where she was.

Suddenly, Raven darted through the door at the very top of the tower. Beast Boy ran out onto the roof and into the pouring rain.

"Raven?" he repeated as Raven balanced herself on the very edge of the Tower, arms outstretched. "Look… Why don't you step away from the edge?"

She looked back at him and smiled with an odd look in her eyes, then a blue sheen covered her eyes, but then she blinked and it was gone.

"Rae?"

She stepped off the ledge, tumbling downwards into the abyss.

"Rae!" Beast Boy yelled, running as fast as he could to the edge and diving off himself before he shifted into a pterodactyl.

Raven was falling as she began to chuckle and she closed her eyes. Beast Boy grabbed her form, and stopped her descent, seconds before she hit the ground.

He flew back up to the top of the tower, shifted back to human form and held Raven in his arms. He brushed away her hair with his hand. "What the heck were you thinking, Rae? Oh, God, please be alright…"

The rainwater dripped from his hair onto the pale skin of her face. Raven weakly opened the eyes. "Beast Boy…? Where…? What the heck are we doing outside?"

"You mean…?"

Raven shied away from Beast Boy's arms, sitting up straight, and pushed her rain-soaked hair out of her face. "I mean what?"

"You don't remember?"

"Remember what?"

"Jumping off the building?"

"I never jumped off the building."

"But you did, Rae. You just did."

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"Are you meaning to tell me she just jumped off the roof?" asked Robin, taken aback.

"Dude, why would I joke about something like that?" said Beast Boy, who was sitting in a cold, uncomfortable chair in Robin's room whilst the Boy Wonder paced around obviously deep in thought.

"But Raven wouldn't…"

"I know, dude! I know Raven better than anyone; don't you think I know that?" He sighed heavily. "I just… I just can't figure it out, man. Nothing adds up. The way she's been acting lately. The way she looked like she didn't know where she was going. The way she laughed as she fell. And if she was gonna kill herself Raven would do it and none of us could have stopped it and you know it."

Robin nodded in agreement.

"And then, there was that blue thing in her eyes…"

"What blue thing?"

" I dunno. It was like you see on those movies where the guy's eyes go blue for a moment, and then they blink and its gone. Know what I mean?"

"It was blue?"

"Yeah. A shiny, light blue. What's up?"

"Light blue… That's something, I know it is. But what? What?" Robin muttered more to himself than Beast Boy. Then, as if suddenly realizing the changeling was still there said hastily: "I need time to think."

Beast Boy nodded and left the room.

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Late that night, the night after Raven's incident on the roof, the rain poured on the roof of Titans Tower. Every Titan was sleeping soundly in their beds except Beast Boy.

Beast Boy lay awake in his bed, keeping his animal ears sharply tuned to the noises coming from Raven's room next door. He wouldn't let something like last night happen again without him being there to stop it. He wouldn't let any Titan do anything like that, but especially not Raven.

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In the next room, Raven, in her silk pajamas, slipped under her bedcovers and sighed lightly. She slowly closed her eyes and let sleep claim her.

Not a minute after she had fallen asleep, the thunder crashed and her eyes snapped open eerily. Then a blue sheen covered them for a brief moment before it disappeared. Then, Raven smiled a deep and menacing smile.

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Beast Boy heard light footsteps and the sliding door creak open. His ears stood on end. Raven was up.

He went quickly to his door and put his ear to the large metal door. He listened carefully for Raven's footsteps to pass his door, then he very quietly opened his metal door.

There was Raven in her silk pajamas, wide awake. She walked to the edge of the hall, looked in a direction and turned towards the main hall. Odd, Beast Boy thought, she knew that turning.

He crept towards the end of the hall when a loud creak made him jump out of his skin. He breathed heavily. He looked slowly around.

"B?" came Cyborg's voice from behind him, making Beast Boy jump yet again.

Beast Boy groaned. "Dude, don't do that!"

"Do what?"

"Sneak up on me."

"You're the one doing all the sneaking. Why are you following Raven anyhow?"

"Just in case, well… you know… last night."

"Right. My little buddy got hit with the love bug."

"I did not! I'm just… just worried about that's all."

"I know, man. I am too. What do you think I'm doing up?"

Beast Boy had a moment of concern. "You don't…?"

"No, man. Raven's like a sister to me. But, you just gave yourself away."

Beast Boy stuttered for a bit with an excuse then gave up and simply said: "Dang it."

Cyborg smiled. "C'mon dude. Let's go." He motioned towards the end of the hall and the two friends walked slowly and quietly down the hall.

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Raven entered the main hall and walked towards the kitchen area. She opened numerous drawers until she finally found the one with sharp knives in.

She smiled evilly, and rolled up the sleeve of her pajamas. She ran her forefinger down the length of her wrist, then fingered a knife and raised it high above her wrist.

The door slid open with a crash. Raven turned the knife and saw Cyborg and Beast Boy bursting through the door in its reflection.

"Raven!" yelled Beast Boy.

Raven grunted then brought the knife down. Beast Boy pounced towards her but Cyborg reacted faster. His hand sprung out on its cable and grabbed the knife before its touched Raven's flesh. Then Cyborg let it whiplash back and the knife when soaring through the air, embedding itself into the back of the couch.

Beast Boy collided with Raven in ape form. He tackled her to the ground, pinning her tightly.

"No! Let me go! I won't let her…" Raven screamed as her eyes shined blue once again. Then her head hit the cold floor hard and she fell unconscious.

Robin, in a pair of white pajamas and an upside down mask (he's obviously been getting ready in a hurry), burst through the door followed by Starfire, who wore a revealing purple nightgown.

"What happened?" asked Robin.

Raven groaned and stirred as Beast Boy shifted back to his human form, but kept a tight grip on Raven.

"Beast Boy. Get off of me," said Raven, back in her monotone.

"Is that you?"

"Of course it's me, who else would it be?"

"I don't know," said Beast Boy.

"And that's the problem…" finished Cyborg.

The thunder crashed, illuminating the tower in an eerie light as the Titans stood bewildered in their main room.

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