Okay, what's poppin'? I HATE SCHOOL! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! Anyway, I hope u guys like this chappa! I think it'll be as long as #2 or almost as long. The point is it won't be as short as #1. So, like RR!

CHAPTER 3

Raven never felt so horrible in her life. Her PJ's were ripped and torn, blood flowed like a river from her forehead from when he smashed her into her window. She also had other cuts and bruises along her body and face. She was chained to a wall. Her chains were special though, they glowed a dark red. Demon chains. Now raven had no hope of healing or using her powers. She lay there her body limp, her breathing cautious. Her whole body throbbed from his torture. She had to think of a way out. There was always a way out. She tugged on her hands and feet in an effort to break the chains. Yeah, no way. The side of her hair was matted and dripped blood.

"I'm glad demons can feel pain," Cain said. "You were fun to watch. When I saw you cry in your room I laughed so hard, especially when your litter lover came in and tried to comfort you. You are a demon Raven, no one can love you, and no one will ever like you." He grabbed her chin and forced her to look at him. She felt something cut her cheek. "You're just a stupid little demon."

"I'm only half demon, Cain."

"You're still a demon. I bet you're wondering who hired me to kill you."

She moaned and hung her head from the lack of strength. Somebody please come for me.

"I'll tell you before you die. I've already decided to put you in a fire." He therefore, took out a carton of gasoline and poured it all over the tiny chamber room and poured the rest on the front of her body.

Raven held in a scream as she felt the gas sting her wounds and burn them inside. She sucked on her teeth in agony. "Who hired you?"

"Some of Azerath's people. Arella, of course was against it. Even though she barely saw you. They wanted you dead so you wouldn't bring the End to all of them, to all of us. A simple sacrifice. Goodbye, little demon," he lit a match. "Fire in hole." He lit the ground and left.

Raven watched the flames come towards her helplessly. She started to cough as the smoke entered her lungs. With all her remaining strength, she tugged and pulled at her limbs, straining. She gave up when her last ounce of strength left her and she fell limp once again. Tears rolled down her eyes as she became groggy. She felt the flames starting to lick her bare feet. She suddenly heard a window crash and someone come in. Right then her mind went black and she fainted. There's no way out. Not this time.

He had sniffed her trail to an empty warehouse that was isolated from the town. He rubbed his wounds from when he crashed through the window to save her because the door and window was locked. Getting her out of those chains seemed impossible but then Starfire came and blasted them with her starbolts. He carried Raven out the door (Starfire flew them both) and set her on the ground.

"Raven requires the medical attention," Starfire said. "But, she is not breathing. Raven? You must awake now," she shook the lifeless body of Raven. "Raven? Raven!" she grasped her shoulders and started to shake her violently. "Raven, I order you to awake! You're scaring me! Raven!"

"Starfire," Robin grabbed her and held her while she cried. "Beastboy, do CPR."

Beastboy approached Raven. He held back tears as he performed the life attention that she so desperately needed. After five minutes, Robin found a weak pulse. He ordered Beastboy to take her to the Tower's infirmary. Now, he paced the room, waiting for her to awake. Anytime would be good right now. He wanted to do what Starfire had done and shake her awake. But, she lay there silent as a dead person. He sat down next to her and took her hand.

"You need to wake up, Rae. Please. The team needs you and so do I." He let tears fall into her hand. He looked at her. She had burn marks and raw skin almost everywhere on her body, multiple wounds that were now bound with gauze, and her clothes had almost burnt off completely. He had covered her in a blanket so that if she awoke she wouldn't be embarrassed that she was pretty much naked.

Her hand gripped his back. "Beastboy."

"Rae!" he grabbed her and hugged her in a Starfire hug. "You scared us all. It took me five minutes of CPR to make you alive again. It was that demon hunter, huh?"

"You're smarter, makes me think you actually have somewhat of a brain," she smiled. "I thought I was gonna die." She closed her eyes and started to float above the bed, healing herself.

It took her most of the day to get better, with the help of Beastboy. She was extremely weak though. She managed to get dressed by herself though. When she came out of the infirmary she held onto the doorframe. She levitated up to his height and floated next to him.

"Thanks," she muttered when he was walking her to her room. He wanted to make sure everything was okay in there.

"No prob Rae. I'm glad that you're okay. Do you want me to bring you up some lunch?"

"Uh, sure. You wanna eat with me? I kinda want some company. I feel nervous when I'm alone," she blushed and fixed her eyes on the ground next to him.

"Okay. I'll be right back," he smiled down at her and walked off. He fixed them both two sandwiches and a cup of herbal tea and got a pop. When he walked into her room he saw that she was ripping a wire out of her wall that led up to a camera in a corner in the ceiling.

"Can't believe I never noticed. I was such an idiot," she growled at herself. "What's for lunch?" she sat down on the edge of her bed. She took a sandwich and her tea and scarfed both of them. She ate the other sandwich slower. "So, uh, how are you?" she asked after the silence unnerved her.

"Fine, you?"

"I guess I'm normal. I'm kinda embarrassed and mad. I guess I should meditate. I'll do that once you're done." She watched him eat because she was out of words. He stared at her back then smiled.

"Why are you staring at me like I'm a lab rat?"

"Oh, sorry. So, what's your real name?"

"Why would you ask that? My name's Beastboy."

"So, your parents named you Beastboy?

"Maybe."

"You're weird."

"So are you."

"I have a reason to be different."

"More like an excuse."

"How dare he!" Rage growled. "Hurt him."

"No!" Brave snapped.

Raven ignored both of them and started to stare again. A new emotion suddenly flowed within her. It made her heart jump up and flutter around her throat and chest, her stomach turned upside down as butterflies took to fluttering like her heart. She sighed and then realized what she had done.

"Did you say anything?" he stared back at her with slight amusement in his gorgeous green eyes. He grinned at her.

Raven pulled her hood up right before the blush although it was pointless for the bright red tinge on her cheeks stood out from her half-shadowed face. "I didn't say anything."

"Yeah, more like a sigh." Mockingly, he breathed in hard and puffed out in a giant sigh. "You admiring the pointy ears?" he wiggled his green spock ears.

"No," she said plainly and monotone. "Not in the least bit."

"Liar." When she shot him 'the look' (that was plainly made specially for him) he shrugged it off and finished the last bit of his sandwich. He stood up. "I'll go now, see you later," he flashed a smile and walked out of her room. When he shut the door he started to count. "3, 2, 1-"

"Wait! Where are you going?"

"I was gonna go play videogames but if you wanna do something else, that's cool I guess."

"Wanna go to a movie?"

"Sure. What movie?"

"You pick."

"I'll surprise you. You go get dressed so nobody hounds us and meet me back in the living room." And with that said, he ran off towards his room.

Raven seriously wandered what the movie was. Probably comedy so he can brush up on his jokes. She hoped not. She dressed in black hip huggers, black sharp boots, and a black tight shirt. She wrapped a Nightmare Before Christmas hoody around her slim waste. She wondered if he counted this as a date, probably not. She tucked a roll of cash incase Beastboy spent all of his and she needed to pay. She walked downstairs and waited for Beastboy.

Five minutes later, Beastboy came down in a pair of baggy jeans and a large white t-shirt. He had a pair of white and green etnies on. He smiled down at her. She looked pretty in different clothes. He liked her hoody. (A/N: A Nightmare Before Christmas kicks ass!)

"Are you paying?"

"You bet," he took out a roll of cash then put it back.

"What movie?"

"You'll see," he took her hand and led her out of the tower. They flew off their island and walked the rest of the way to the movies. When they got in line Beastboy quickly tied a blindfold around her eyes and covered her ears.

"What movie would you like to see?"

Beastboy whispered the movie and handed him the money. Leading Raven to the snack stand, he bought them a large pop and a large thing of buttered popcorn. He sat her down in the back row and untied her blindfold.

"Thanks, I think. You didn't have to blindfold me," she said monotone. She took some popcorn and shoved it into her mouth.

"No problem and I wanted to surprise you. It's a good movie."

"It's comedy isn't it?"

"Not tellin'."

She waited patiently for the theater to grow dark slowly. She bounced her foot while she watched the previews (curse previews!). Finally, when the movie came on she was surprised. He said this movie was good but it was…a horror movie. Raven stared at him. He was shifting lower into his seat. A remake of The Poltergeist came on and started to play on the giant screen. She was suddenly flattered that he thought of her, that he would go through all this trouble (blindfolding, and being scared shitless in the first place) for her. She wanted to hug the living nightlights out of him (it was night).

"Do it! Hug him," an emotion in her head stated.

Raven didn't recognize her. Was she new? What emotion was she? She put it aside. A friendly hug couldn't hurt, could it? She inched her arms over his chest and gave him a hug. While he watched, he inched his arm around her and hugged her back. She knew he was already getting scared and it wasn't even scary yet. She breathed in his pine fresh scent and fell in love with it. She sighed hoping Beastboy didn't catch that one. Something inside her suddenly made her snuggle closer. Her stomach started to do the worm while the butterflies fluttered, as the same illness as her heart. She never felt like that before and it scared her.

A half an hour later…

Raven watched entranced in the movie. What they changed to make it more frightening was awesome. She still held Beastboy close and vise versa. She never felt it but he started stroking her hair gently. Beastboy didn't feel like confiding in her, how he felt about her, how he cared for her with every beat of his heart. What would happen to him if he got rejected? It would be the worst thing that would ever happen to him. He groaned in despair.

"What's wrong?" she started to pull away from him thinking that he was probably uncomfortable.

"Nothing, I was just thinking." Thinking. Thinking! Nobody thinks I can think! I'm so stupid!

A laugh from Raven escaped her mouth. She turned monotone a second later. "You, thinking? Is that possible?" she smiled.

"I can think, I just usually don't think about things that aren't important."

"What are you thinking about?" she asked curiously.

"About…something. You wouldn't wanna know."

"Yeah, I do. Come on, we can ditch the movie and rent it when it comes out," she grabbed his hand and led him outside of the theater where people were busy wandering around. "I confided in you, you can do the same."

A dude with a lot on his hands suddenly ran into her. He spilled a large, cold soda on her front with cheese from his nachos. "Dude, watch where you're going!" he shot a dirty look. "Look what you did!" he yelled turning everyone's attention to them while he pointed to the mess on her.

She got up. "You bumped me," she stated still monotone. "I'm not saying sorry to you. You should watch where you're going," she pointed a finger at his chest implying the 'you're'.

He took her wrist and flung it aside. "You were to busy talking and not watching where you were going." (A/N: throw a cuss word in after going.)

Rage grew growling. Raven clenched her fists together and bit her tongue. She didn't need things going haywire. "Let's just go," she grabbed Beastboy's hand who looked surprised yet angry at what the dude said.

"You should've inflicted severe punishment on him. It would've it been fun to watch. I still got the popcorn," he smiled and chewed on a kernel.

"It wasn't worth it." She stared down at herself. At least it was only her shirt that got most of the damage. "This shirt was new."

"Wanna go home?"

"No, just hold on," she put the best hoody on ever and skillfully took her black shirt that had food on it off and slipped it from under her hoody. She threw it in a dumpster when they decided to go through an alley.

"So, you like the movie?" Beastboy asked as they 'strolled' through the park. He kept staring down at her, luckily, not tripping and falling.

"Yeah, thanks. Did you?"

"It was scarier than the last time I saw it."

"What did you wanna talk about?" she looked up at him and lost some of her breath.

"It's embarrassing," he said proving to be truthful as a red blush made him look like one of Santa's elves. "We can talk about something else. How about, hmm… oh! I know. What is the most embarrassing moment in your life?"

"Umm, when I confided in you."

"Oh."

"What about you?"

"Usually I get mortified everyday from embarrassment. Okay, hmm…what is your favorite movie?"

"The Grudge so far. You?"

"Duce Bigalow Male Gigalow."

"What's your real name?"

"Beastboy," he said changing his eye's direction to a patch of grass.

"No it isn't. Tell me," she nagged. She was desperate to find out. Everybody in the Titans had an original name: Starfire, Victor, and Robin or whoever he was. There was no way finding that out.

"If I tell you what will I get in return?" he stopped and turned to her.

Raven thought. "What do you want?" she craned her neck upwards and caught his scent.

Beastboy suddenly grinned from ear to ear. "You promise to give me what I want?"

"Yeah, yeah. Promise. Now what is it?"

He stared at her for a moment. "If you don't I'll do something so horrible to you."

"Fine." It's probably going to be something stupid. "So, your name is-"

"Garfield," he muttered under his breath. "But don't ever call me that."

"Garfield? Like the lazy, fat cartoon cat?"

"Yeah, I'm named after a cartoon cat. I prefer Beastboy, okay?"

Raven bit her lower lip trying hard not to laugh. It suddenly burst out of her but she had enough time to cover it with a cough. "I like it," she lied.

"No you don't."

"I'll still call you Beastboy. I won't tell anyone."

"Now, you have to keep your promise," he smirked.

She rolled her eyes. "Okay, what do you want? A video game?"

"Nope, something better. But I'm gonna make you guess and maybe I'll surprise ya."

"Fine. You want, a comic? A new monkey? A movie?"

"No, no, and nope. Try again."

"Hmm…a pop? Me to go to the arcade with you? Me to play stank ball with you?"

"No to all. Give up?"

"Yeah. Now, what do you want!" she said impatiently.

He leaned down and kissed her. Raven's eyes nearly popped out of her head in surprise. But, then she started to kiss him back with equal passion that he was kissing her with. He broke away and stared down at her almost blushing. He took a shuddering breath and started to walk.

Raven stared after him and then realized that she had to do something. She ran up to him and held his hand, unsure. His fingers clasped around hers and he swung their hands back and forth, back and forth. Beastboy wanted to scream throughout the streets at how Raven was acting towards him. He smiled down at her, which she returned, then, they watched a trashcan melt in a black aura.

"So, this, uh, does mean we're going out right?"

"Mm-hmm."

"Okay," he breathed out deeply and kept swinging their hands.

They walked back to the Tower and went to bed. Raven had her first real dream and not a nightmare. Beastboy just crashed on his top bunk not even bothering to get into his PJ's. His snore could've woken up the whole tower but he didn't even snore.

After Raven ate breakfast, and meditated she flipped the channels not even glancing at them. UHH! She growled in her mind once she was done flipping. I'm so bored. Let's see, Starfire and Robin were shopping, Cyborg was at a car show, Beastboy was doing…well, she didn't know what he was doing. She barely saw her new boyfriend this morning. She got up and was a little surprised that she had called Beastboy her boyfriend. She could've laughed once she realized that Cain was wrong. People could like her. She smiled and knocked on his door.

"Beastboy?" she knocked twice more. "Open up."

She heard something inhuman and also not Beastboy. She couldn't describe the sound but she was suddenly worried. "Beastboy!" she tried opening his door but it didn't work. When she cried her mantra she was suddenly thrown across the hallway. She hit her back and slumped to the ground. The door had been blasted away revealing Beastboy fighting with someone. He was in his werewolf form. Raven got up and ran to him once a red beam threw him into the wall that she hit seconds before.

"Beastboy?"

"You must like his dark, evil form, Raven," Cain appeared and walked out of Beastboy's room. (A/N: is a werewolf really a dark creature. It's almost like a vampire, isn't it? Let's just say it is.) "Saw you at the park last night."

Raven clenched her teeth together. "Azerath, mentrion, zinthos!" black energy waves hit him and sent him soaring into Beastboy's bunk. She helped Beastboy up who was snarling and growling. "You okay?" her answer was a snarl and she hoped that was a yes.

"I came here for a fair fight in the Waterhole Arena. Your friends can watch but can't fight with you. If I win, I get to kill you, if you win; you get to do whatever you want to me. Kill me, torment me. Deal?"

Raven thought about it carefully. She would put her friends and Beastboy out of risk by putting herself in it. She knew it wouldn't be fair but this was her only chance to get revenge and make sure this never happens again. She shook his outstretched hand. "Deal. When?"

"Tonight, 6:00. See you there." He ran and jumped out of Beastboy's broken window.

Beastboy changed back. "Why did you do that? I could've taken care of him," he shot an angry look.

Raven also saw some worry and realized that he was mad because he cared. Happy sang: CAIN WAS WRONG! HAHAHAHAHA! She jumped around. Suddenly Raven burst into laughter and sang with Happy. "Cain was wrong, hahahahaha!" she danced around.

Beastboy had his mouth gaped wide open. He started to back away slowly. Raven ran up to him and hugged him, smiling. Her grip was fierce and hard to get out of. He had to change into a mouse and snuck away while she was singing. He went into his messed up room though he could barely see the difference except a broken window and the fact that half his top bunk was missing.

It took Raven a good five minutes before she could get Happy under control. Her powers nearly ripped everything apart. She probably scared Beastboy; her laughing even scared her. She would run away from herself too. She took to hiding in her room and meditated.

At 4:00 the rest of the Titans got back and Raven told them everything. Robin said he'd help her by practicing. They walked to the gym and started sparring. At first, Raven didn't use her powers but Robin was using everything he got. He even included some of his explosion toys, then told her to use her power. She didn't want to hurt him, but if he said so-

"Azerath, mentrion, zinthos," a 100 pound weight was levitated and it hit Robin in the stomach. He flew back and hit the wall with an umph! "Robin, are you okay?" she lent down a hand. He took it and she pulled him up. "You said to give you what I got."

"I'll be lucky if nothing inside me is bleeding or something," he smiled. "Let's keep going."

"Are you- "

"I'm fine." He threw a punch at her. They started to fight once again.

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Sorry it has been absolutely forever since I've updated. I'm moving, homecoming is comin' and hadda go shopping. Things at school came up. Well anyway, I hope you forgive me. Tear. If I don't update real soon then that means I'm either working on the chappa or moving or at homecoming with a hot date, or spending few precious moments with my friends and stuff. Tear. I'll try to start a new story though. Well lata!