Thank you guys sooo much for all the reveiws! I got like ten from seven am to 3:30! Anyway the reason BB is so afraid will be revealed later on. And this might be a BBxRae ship. If there are any plot twists or ideas you guys have plz tell me and I'll include them.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans but if anyone wants to sell them… (muffled shouting followed by a loud crash and screams) I have two kittens, a hair band and three dimes!
Beast Boy tried to calm down as Cyborg's car pulled up to the large iron gates. His hands were shaking so he clenched them into fists
"You guys ready?" Robin asked. He was wearing normal clothes and a dark pair of sunglasses. Cyborg was wearing civilian clothes and so was Star
"As ready as we'll ever be." Raven said getting out of the backseat. Beast Boy took a deep breath and followed her. The five of them were admitted through the gates and directed to a large stone building. A tall, sharp looking woman was sitting behind an office desk and looked up as they came in
"Ah you're here to meet President Peterson I presume. He and his daughter are in that room." the Titans headed into the room and found a tall man with sparkling blue eyes sitting in a large armchair. Beside him was a blonde girl who was popping bubbles with her gum loudly every few seconds
"You must be the Teen Titans." the man said getting to his feet "It is a pleasure to meet you. I can not thank you enough for helping me."
"It's what we do." Robin said unsure of how to deal with this man. Starfire was floating a few inches off the ground in excitement and she shook the man's hand easily
"It is a pleasure to meet the president of my second home world." she said pleasantly
"Actually Star he's only in charge of the U.S." Robin said. Starfire looked confused but didn't say anything else
"Anyway this is Raven and Beast Boy. They're the ones who are going to be staying here." the girl looked at them and snorted
"How are a Goth and a skinny teenager supposed to protect me?" she said haughtily. Raven glared at her. Her hair was newly dyed black and it now was longer and framed her face elegantly
"Raven is a telepath and Beast Boy is a changeling. He just has some holorings on so he won't stand out." Cyborg said casting a sharp glance at Raven who had resumed her normal bored look
"Very interesting. I thought telepathy was science fiction." Raven shrugged and wished for her hooded cloak. The garment was like a sanctuary
"I can assure you my powers are quite real." she replied in her usual monotone
"And what can Beast Boy do?"
"I'm an animal changeling." he held up both hands and took the rings off. A circle of light went from the top of his head down to his shoes and revealed his green skin, hair, his elf like ears and his sharp fang
"Amazing, and you can turn into any animal?" Beast Boy nodded
"Pretty much except I can only turn into the teenage form of the animal so some aren't as powerful as I'd like them to be."
"In other words your daughter is in good hands." Robin said cutting him off. Beast Boy slipped the rings back on. His skin turned to a light tan color and his hair turned blonde and his fang disappeared. But his eyes were the same deep green color
"Well that is comforting. Now I'm sure Miranda would like to get to know Beast Boy and Raven so why don't the rest of us go have something to drink and they can talk." he left with the other Titans leaving Raven and Beast Boy with the blonde girl
"So how'd you get your powers?" she asked pointing at Raven who averted her gaze carefully
"That would be put under the category of none of your business." she said softly. Beast Boy smiled comfortingly
"It is my business. We you experimented on or something?" Raven turned to the girl violet eyes blazing angrily
"If you must know my father is Trigorn the Terrible otherwise known as the eighth devil. I'm part demon." suddenly she looked away and retreated to a corner to look out a window
"Smooth." Beast Boy said absently. This girl had managed to get on Raven's bad side right off the bat. He hadn't even done that
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Raven's not exactly the greatest person to have as an enemy and you just brought up a really painful subject for her."
"So? Why am I supposed to care? She's just hired help." Beast Boy growled under his breath and went over to Raven. To his surprise there were several small tears on her face
"What's the matter?" he asked softly. Raven stiffened then brushed away her tears angrily
"Nothing, I'm fine." Beast Boy grabbed her wrist
"You're crying. I've only seen you cry twice and that was because of that jerk Malchior. What's wrong?" Raven looked out the window
"I don't want to talk about it." Beast Boy patted her on the shoulder gently then went to sit down in a chair. He pulled his legs underneath him and closed his eyes. Memories flooded his mind and he sat up breathing hard. Raven and the other Titans were staring at him
"Are you okay man?" Cyborg asked. Beast Boy rubbed his eyes and nodded
"So what's up?"
"Well you and Raven are going to stay here for until school starts. Do you guys mind at all?"
"No it's fine with me." Raven said. Everyone seemed surprised that her answer wasn't a shrug or a one word reply
"I'm staying too." Beast Boy said trying to sound normal. Starfire smiled and gave them both a bone crunching hug
"We shall contact you everyday friends. Please stay safe." Raven looked a little out of it until Cyborg snapped his fingers in front of her face
"Make sure BB stays out of trouble."
"I'll try." after a moment she hugged him and Robin carefully. The two boys looked surprised. Raven had only hugged people twice in their knowledge and both of them seemed like spur of the moment hugs
"Just don't kill each other." Robin said. Raven rolled her eyes and hugged Starfire
"Just be careful and call the Titans East if you need help." the Titans drove through the gates and they clanged shut loudly. Beast Boy shivered; he had heard that same sound once before and he had hoped to never hear it again
"Well let's go get settled into our rooms." Raven said shouldering her bag and heading towards the girl's dorm.
She opened one door and found Miranda already there reading a magazine on one of the beds. Her jaw dropped as Raven opened the door
"You've got to be kidding me. I've got to share a room with you?"
"Apparently yes you do." Raven said putting her bags on the vacant bed carefully. She pulled out her meditation mirror and laid it face down on the small dresser
"What's that?" Raven ignored her and pulled out figurines and began setting them on the bedside shelf
"What are those things supposed to be?" Raven glanced at the four eyed bird
"Have you ever heard of the saying that curiosity killed the cat? You would do well to heed its warning." she finished putting out her delicate figurines and pulled out her only toy. It was a stuffed raven Beast Boy had gotten her for her birthday. She smiled slightly and placed it lovingly on her bed. After that she shelved her various books and scrolls. Miranda watched in silence
"Those look really old." she commented hoping to get the girl to say anything. The silence made her nervous
"Most of them are. Some are over two thousand years old." she knew Miranda wouldn't believe her but she didn't care. Raven pulled out her newly purchased clothes and started putting them away carefully in her dresser. Most of them were black and dark blue but there was a few gray or even a green shirt among them. She pushed Miranda's clothes over and used half of the space for her uniform clothes
"Hey, you're going to wrinkle my clothes!"
"I get half the space and so do you. If you didn't have so many clothes it wouldn't be a problem." there was a knock on the door and Raven opened it slightly. Beast Boy was standing outside
"Hey need any help moving in?"
"Actually your help would be appreciated, otherwise I might kill the girl we're supposed to be protecting." Beast Boy chuckled and stepped inside the room
"Boys aren't allowed in the girl's dorm." Miranda exclaimed. Raven rolled her eyes
"Oh ya he's really dangerous." Beast Boy laughed and looked around the room. His eyes fell on the stuffed raven on the bed
"I thought you got rid of that thing. You said you did anyway." Raven shrugged and levitated her compressed sheets and comforter onto the bed then placing black pillow cases over the pillows
"It was the first birthday present I'd ever gotten." she said bluntly. Beast Boy smiled then started handing her a few more things out of the bag
"So what do we do after this?"
"I was going to meditate then go for a walk."
"I was planning on going to check out the school shop." Miranda put in. Beast Boy shrugged then absently blew a strand of blonde hair out of his eyes
"This hair is getting annoying." he grumbled trying to spike it without success. Robin had refused to let him bring any hair gel
"Here." Raven said tossing him a bottle. Beast Boy caught it in amazement
"How'd you-?"
"Did you honestly think Robin would be able to search my bags?" Raven asked sitting down on her bed and closing her eyes. Beast Boy shook his head then set about starting up Raven's laptop and looking through a book that levitated itself into his hands. He sat on Raven's bed a few feet away from her and began to read
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos. Azarath Metrion Zinthos." Raven chanted. Miranda stared at her for a moment then turned back to her magazine
"So are you two going out or something?" the book dropped to the floor and the sheets threw themselves around Raven and Beast Boy tying them up. After awhile they got out and Raven made her bed once more
"No way, we just live in the same place with our friends." Beast Boy said
"Well as they say when someone denies something they really mean the opposite thing." Miranda said flicking her magazine once more. Raven growled in annoyance and settled back into her meditation leaving the other two in silence
"You like her don't you?"
"Who Rae? She's my best friend." Beast Boy said absently. He flipped a page in the book, studied it for a moment then wrote something on his hand
"I don't want to have to heal ink poisoning." Raven mumbled still in her trance "There's paper in my bag." Beast Boy sighed and took out the paper. He wrote a few things down then took to staring out the window. Ten minutes of silence except for Raven's soft chanting and the occasional flipping of a page. Suddenly the door was thrown open and two girls ran in laughing. Raven woke up and stared at them angrily
"Do you have any respect for privacy?" she grumbled pulling a book off her shelf and making Beast Boy move over
"You guys are going to get in trouble. Boys aren't allowed in here." one of the girls giggled noticing Beast Boy's (I'm going to try and call him Gar which is his name while he's at school) presence
"Technically school hasn't started yet so the rules don't apply." Raven said opening her newest horror novel and leaning against her pillows
"Are you like obsessed with the color black or something? Look at these clothes." the closet door was open and one of the girls was shifting through Raven's clothes. She stood and shut the door loudly then sat down once more
"What in the heck is this thing?" the other girl picked up the mirror. Raven snatched it away
"Never touch this." she hissed placing it carefully in a drawer. Gar watched the whole display without comment. Raven picked up her new wallet with a black chain that had blue raven links on it and stowed her book
"I'm going for a walk. If anything has been moved, touched, or even breathed on I will personally put all three of you through a paper shredder." with that she walked out the door
"Jeez is she crabby or what?" one of the girls said (they're names are now Clara and Shari okay?)
"Who is she anyway?"
"A nobody." Miranda said. Gar gripped the sides of his book. He counted to ten in his head calming himself down. He was to keep a low profile and there was no need for things to get out of hand
"I think we should try to find out more about her. Maybe you could tell us a few things." Clara said batting her long lashes. Gar blinked a few times then chuckled
"You could spend your entire life trying to figure Raven out and you'd never even get close." he said getting to his feet and heading out the door after Raven.
Later that evening the kids that had already been dropped off all gathered in the lounge to talk and meet up with old friends. Raven wore black cargo pants and a black T-shirt for the occasion. Beast Boy wore jeans and a purple shirt that said 'undercover clown' in green letters. He found Raven sitting in a large pink furry bean bag in a corner
"This place officially frightens me." he said. Raven snorted
"Remind me why we had to be selected for this job?"
"Because Robin wouldn't trust me and Cy alone by ourselves and Star isn't exactly the best at pretending to be a teenager."
"It was a rhetorical question. You weren't supposed to answer me." Beast Boy shrugged then sat down cross legged with her. An icy chill struck a nerve in Raven's mind. Beast Boy's fear was ebbing off onto her
"What the matter?"
"Nothing why do you ask?" Raven raised one eyebrow
"I'm an empath. I can feel other people's emotions and you are really scared of something right now."
"I'm fine okay?" he snapped. Raven stood and left quickly. Gar slapped his face then headed up to his dorm.
Raven buried her face into her black pillows. Why was he so snappy? All she wanted to do was help. Was this how she acted all the time? Thoughts raced through Raven's mind and they wouldn't quiet down
"This is just plain annoying." she grumbled crossing her legs. She wasn't able to meditate and that only made things worse. For awhile she read but the words went out of focus and gave her a headache. Finally she settled to thumping her leg to an invisible rhythm. Then she realized someone was singing. She closed her eyes and strained to hear the words but they were too faint. Raven opened the widow and took of her soul form and flew up. A dark figure was sitting on the roof singing to the sky. She walked behind the figure and listened. The words seemed to be in a different language and she could feel sadness and happiness radiating from the figure. After awhile the singing stopped
"What are you doing up here Rae?" Raven stood there in shock. That voice couldn't be Beast Boy. He had sung so well and so…
"I heard someone singing so I came up here to see who it was." there was a small snorting sound
"Well it was me. You can go to bed now." Raven frowned and sat down next to him
"What's the matter? It's doesn't take an empath to figure out you're upset about something. You've been real droopy lately."
"It's nothing Raven." the darkness hid their faces from each other so Raven couldn't see the tears that dotted the changeling's face
"If you say so." she made herself comfortable "So what were you singing?"
"Something my mom taught me. It's in African." Raven smiled slightly
"Well she taught you very well. I've never heard anything like that." they were both silent for a long time then Raven stood up
"Well I'm heading to bed. See you in the morning."
