Cyborg
The morning light pressed against Beast Boy's face, he cracked an eye then snapped it closed in pain. Flinging the blankets off he viciously rubbed his eye, "Dude, earliness. Not cool." He turned the shower on to a nice temperature that wasn't too extreme for his just awakened mind. 'I wonder what Raven's doing right now.' He mused as he rubbed soap on his arms and stomach. The contradicting voice that had been there last night spoke up, 'Admit it, you do like her! You're standing naked in the shower spreading soap on yourself while thinking about her! It isn't like that! You know what, shut up.' He cranked the shower up hotter burning himself forcing his mind off of Raven.
Raven on the other hand sat on her bed, a large book resting on her legs as she read it. She hadn't turned a page for several minutes, in fact she was looking at the top of the book where no words were written. She was sitting in nothing but her undergarments having just gotten out of the shower herself. 'I wonder what he's thinking of if he's even awake.' Her alter-ego perked up, 'You do realize that you're sitting almost naked with nothing but a large book obscuring a complete view of you if anyone, such as Beast Boy, were to come in. Are you suggesting that I put clothes on? No I'm just saying, it'd be a crying shame if Beast Boy did indeed come rushing in here.' Raven glanced down at herself and groaned, "I guess clothes did have to go on sooner or later." She slipped into her leotard and cape, her feet were free from the boots.
Raven hesitated at the door, should she go down barefoot? Would Bea... her teammates get the wrong impression? 'I heard that! You almost said Beast Boy!' Her alter-ego screamed. 'Don't know what you're talking about.' Raven could almost hear the sing-song way she said it in her head. The alter-ego went from screaming to grumbles. 'You still like him though.' Her alter-ego said, if it had been a person she would have said it under her breath but being in Raven's head it was loud and clear. 'I don't know what you're talking about.' She pulled on her boots and walked out the door, sounds from the kitchen drowned out the person inside her's words.
"Dude! That was tofu!" Cyborg shouted, Raven sat quietly down at the table watching her two roommates yell.
"Tofu is so much better then real meat! Think of the animals!" Beast Boy yelled, he went just a little on tip toes to yell in Cyborg's face. Even though Beast Boy had indeed grown several inches he still wasn't as tall as Cyborg.
"I don't care, I like the taste of REAL meat." Cyborg glanced at Raven, "Morning Raven."
"Real meat is bad for you!" Beast Boy looked at Raven longer then Cyborg had, he sat down beside her. "Hey Raven. Sleep well?"
Cyborg sensing that Beast Boy didn't want to argue anymore sat on the other side of Beast Boy, Starfire floated around making herself breakfast.
"Yeah actually, you?" Raven slipped out of the seat and began making herself some tea. She looked over her shoulder at Beast Boy while he answered.
"Not really, tossed and turned quite a bit." He shrugged and said, "But ohh well it's morning and I'm fine."
"Beast Boy, what is this turning and tossing you speak of?" Starfire asked, giving a puzzelled look to Beast Boy. "Were you practicing your changing abilities last night?"
"No he means that he couldn't sleep so he moved around alot." Cyborg offered.
Starfire's face lit up with understanding, "I understand! But could friend Beast Boy not sleep?" Starfire puzzelled again.
"I had thoughts on my mind, nothing important." Beast Boy said, looking at his orange juice like it was very interesting.
"Please, tell us of you thoughts!" Starfire said enthusiasticly.
"Okay... I was thinking about this girl." Beast Boy said timidly. Raven's head shot up but then she disguested it as turning around to lean on the counter. 'HA! I told you!' Raven screamed at her alter-ego. But she felt a lump growing in her throat, 'Damn it.' Raven growled, she imagined large black hounds growing wickedly. 'Isn't it obvious that he's talking about you?' Her alter-ego said in a tone that any snob would be proud of. 'Just shut up.'
"Beast Boy likes a girl! Who is she? Does she know?" Starfire said excitedly, she acted like a puppy that ODed on pixie sticks and caffine pills.
"No she doesn't know." He turned back to his juice. 'What a pretty color.' He thought raking his mind on ways to get out of this.
"What is her name, Beast Boy?" Starfire asked, Blinking her huge eyes at him. Her blinking like that made Raven feel just a tad bit jealous.
"Who do you like Star?" Beast Boy said quickly, it was obvious that he didn't want to talk about it in mixed company.
Starfire fell silent, "I... I like a boy." She said, keeping her gaze on the table.
"Ohh really, what's his name?" Beast Boy asked, truth was they all knew. Robin.
Robin walked in, Beast Boy grinned, he turned to Robin and said. "Hey Robin, Starfire here was just telling us who she liked. Who do you think it is?" Starfire's cheeks turned a steady shade of red, and Robin coughed in his hand.
"I don't know Beast Boy. Raven, who do you think?" He turned to Raven, anything to get the heat off of him.
"Hey, don't drag me into this. I just want to make tea." She turned back to the stove.
Cyborg's human eye got that glint that all people get when they know they're about to do something that is particually nasty. "So Raven, who do you like? Now that we are all sharing."
"We aren't all sharing, we're all avoiding it. Besides I don't share." Raven jumped onto the counter, she wished her tea would hurry up and boil.
"Then why don't you start and we'll all share?" Cyborg said, he smirked knowing that Raven was uncomfortable.
"Because I don't share." Raven said in a low voice, plainly saying, 'You're asking for it Cyborg.'
"So you do have feelings for someone, just give us a name. That's all we want." Cyborg said it in a sweet voice, he was trying to persuade her. It wasn't working.
"And you Cyborg? Who do you like? Bumble Bee?" Raven asked knowing that Cyborg did indeed have feelings just not knowing if they were the right feelings.
He's mouth turned into a flat line, he was pissed. "I don't like this subject." He turned and started leaving.
"But Cyborg, if you share, I might." Bribery, even if there was a better chance of penguins ice skating in hell in the summer.
"You will? Okay then..." He took a deep breath and said really fast, "IlikeBumbleBeebutIdoubtthatshelikesmeinthesamefashion. There happy? Who do you like?"
Raven blinked at him for a second then turned back to her tea which had finally begun to boil. "Knew it." She said softly, but she didn't even if he didn't know that.
"So who's your secret crush Rave?" Robin asked, he was very interested.
"I don't share secrets." Raven said bluntly, she turned to go to her room.
Cyborg's jaw dropped to the floor in shock, "WHAT? YOU SAID!" He screamed, he had just shared a secret for nothing.
"No I said I might tell, not that I definately would." She continued out to her bedroom, where she sat and counted slowly to three.
'One... Two... Three.' A bang came at the end of three, Cyborg shouted from the other side of the door. "RAVEN! RAVEN THAT ISN'T FAIR! RAVEN OPEN UP!"
Raven got up from her bed and said more to herself then anything, "Ohh look, a visitor." She opened the door, Cyborg was about to blow her door off with his sonic cannon.
"You have to tell me!" He switched his arm back to an arm. He glared down at her, he had alot of height to Raven, maybe a foot...
"I don't have to tell you anything." She glared up at Cyborg.
His anger fell and she saw defeat in his eyes, "You're right, you don't have to tell me anything but since I told you, you should tell me." His voice was gloomy, it ripped at her insides. 'Nice going ace, you're going to make him cry!' Her alter-ego said.
Growling under her breath she sighed and pulled Cyborg into her room. "You have to swear on all the machinery in the world that you won't tell a soul. You have to swear on you X-Box, if you break the promise I get it!" She poked him in the chest to emphasise her words.
"Deal," He held out his hand, she took it, his hand enevloped her's completely.
Growling again under her breath she mummbled in a barely audiable voice, "Beast Boy," She looked around her room.
"What was that?" He turned his ear towards her to hear her better.
"Beast Boy." She mummbled just a little louder.
"Huh? One more time and don't mummble." Cyborg leaned closer, turning up his hearing volume.
Angry Raven shouted right in his ear, "BEAST BOY!" She clapped her hand over her mouth in surprise. 'Shit, hope he didn't hear that! I donno, I don't think that people in Azarath heard you either'
Cyborg rubbed his ear violently, "I think you broke something, but that doesn't matter. You did say Beast Boy, B.B., the little green annoying changeling that's been running around."
"Yessssssss, that one." Raven hissed, things began to float in mid-air. "You promised you wouldn't tell a soul, or I get your X-Box."
"I know, I know, it's just surprising. Beast Boy and you... wow." Cyborg blinked several times.
"And your point is...?" Raven growled yet again, she was in a bite-you-head-off-eat-your-brains-and-will-make-sure-no-one-ever-finds-your body type of mood.
"Nothing, it's just surprising, that's all. Does he like you?" Cyborg looked at Raven from the several inches between them.
"I doubt it, you heard him this morning he likes someone else. He said so himself" Her mood dropped into depression, she fell face first into her bed and groaned loudly into it's layers of cloth.
"He could have been talking about you, you know." Cyborg offered sympatheticly. "I could find out for you, do some snooping."
Raven looked up at him from her bed, "You'd do that?" Her voice held awe.
"Yeah, that's what friends are for right? I'll find out and tell you later." Cyborg hugged her and walked out her room. She watched him go in shock, Cyborg doing something for her, Raven? 'Well he is your friend bone head. SHUT UP!'
Beast Boy walked towards the kitchen, Cyborg ran right into him. "B.B.! Just the changeling I wanted to see! Tell me, who do you like?" 'Much too casual, he'll see right through that.' Cyborg thought.
"Uhh... Nice to see you too, why do you want to know?" Beast Boy was instantly suspicious. 'Dare I tell him about Raven? Yes you bone head! Do it!'
"Well since I told everyone who I liked, I just wanted to know who you liked. I'm doing it to everyone." 'That was nice!' Cyborg commented to himself.
"Who else have you gotten to tell you?" Beast Boy asked.
"Raven, I haven't tried anyone else yet. But you know that Star and Robi-" Cyborg began.
"WHAT? RAVEN told you who she liked? Our Raven?" Beast Boy couldn't believe his ears. 'Raven, the queen of secrets told Cyborg who she liked?'
"Yes our Raven, do we know another Raven?" Cyborg asked, 'I have him in the palm of my hand!' He thought excitedly.
"So... You could tell me... right?" Beast Boy tried, maybe he could beat the guy up or something.
"No way! She'd take the X-box and probably do damage to the other game systems!" Cyborg said in total shock and horror.
"Alright..." Beast Boy grummbled. 'I wonder who she does like. YOU!'
"So... Who do you like B.B.?" Cyborg asked, trying to be sweet like he was to Raven.
"What do I get out of this?" Beast Boy asked, again suspicious.
"What do you want?" Cyborg asked, not quite sure what he'd ask for.
"Who does Raven like?" Beast Boy asked quietly, she might be listening.
"Dude, I can't tell you that. She'd kill me, turn me into a crater!" Cyborg said imagining himself as a huge crater.
"But you can give me a hint!" Beast Boy said, "She never said you couldn't write it down and 'accidently' leave it laying around did she?"
"Well... I smell a loophole! Alright give me something to write on!" Cyborg said quickly. He wrote down 'Raven likes Beast Boy,' on a scrape of paper then folded it.
"Give it to me, dude!" Beast Boy whined, 'I want to beat him up!' He added quietly in his head.
"You have to tell me first, who do you like?" Cyborg held the paper out of reach.
Beast Boy groaned then said, "Raven," under his breath. Cyborg blinked at him for a second then handed the paper to Beast Boy.
Beast Boy opened the note greedily, then stopped and blinked at the note. "Seriously?" Beast Boy asked, too shocked to say anything.
"Seriously, I have to go talk to Starfire. Don't talk to her about it today, she was pretty mad when she told me. It might expand you life expentency if you do." Cyborg lied, though it would probably expand his own life expentency.
"Good thinking!" Beast Boy ran off to his room fast as a jack rabbit... though I think he might have even changed into one.
"Raven is going to kill me!" Cyborg moaned under his breath. He made his way to Raven's room. If she found out another way, she might be more mad but she willl be very, very mad.
Cyborg knocked on the door, inside he heard a groan and Raven's voice said. "Who is it?" In a bored tone.
"Cyborg, found out about... uhh... that!" Cyborg said quietly. He heard a patter of quick feet, and Raven's delicate face showed in her door way.
"Come in, come in." She hurried him into her room and slammed the door behind him. "Who! Tell me who now!" She shouted, she blushed then said in a calmer voice. "Please tell me."
"Okay, this is a good news, bad news situation. Which would you like first?" He looked at her as if she might explode.
"Bad news," She said flatly. Raven crossed her arms cradling her breasts.
"Well you get good news first. He likes you," Cyborg said happily.
Raven's jaw hung open and she said in a voice that closely resembled Starfire's, "Really? Oh my god, oh my god... wait. What's the bad news then?" She squinted at him.
'Damn this girl just doesn't get distracted does she?' Cyborg said in his mind. "Well, to get him to tell me who he liked I had to... uhh... umm..." He trailed off, instant rage filled Raven's face.
"Cyborg what did you do?" Raven asked in a quiet voice, rage filled the words. She was going to hurt someone.
"Ihadtotellhimthatyoulikedhimtogethimtotellme! I'm so sorry don't kill me!" He sobbed to the girl, kneeling infront of her.
"Get. Out." She said, her voice straining not to explode. Her voice might not have exploded out of her but things around her did. Her bed quivers, candles exploded sending fire and wax everywhere, book ripped themselves apart and things flew all around the room.
Cyborg didn't need to be told twice, he dashed out of her room fast then the eye could follow. There was no doubt in his mind that if he stayed he'd probably not see tomorrow.
Cyborg ran down the hall at lightning speed, Starfire had been heading towards Raven's room. He scooped her up and ran as fast and as far as possible before a scream that could make an alley cat die of fright rang through the halls.