(A/N) To those who wonder about the next post and the like…uhm, deep breathing exercises are cool. It's just a story. Regrem Erutaerc, to answer your question…you'll have to keep reading as I update.  Sorry, it would give something away. See if you can figure it out before Beast Boy or Raven do. Please read and review, but only flame if you mean it.

Disclaimer – I don't own the Teen Titans, some guy with lots more money than me does. Lucky punk.

Tamed – Technicolor Teens – Where a green man and a rainbow woman go through the motions of a first day on the job…except the job is on an uninhabited island and the boss is several hours away.

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"Uh, Happy?"

Raven smiled up at Beast Boy, her apple half gone. "Actually, yeah, I'm feeling really good right now. It's like everything in me is saying we just did a really good thing." She frowned a little and her cloak faded into a light purple. "I still worry about things getting out of hand, but I'm not going to let it get me down." Her cloak again phased, back again to pink.

Beast Boy blanched. "…Uh…Dude, what's up with your clothes?"

"What's wrong with them? You don't like them?" Her face fell and her cloak slid straight into a solid, bland grey. "Sorry, I'll just go to my room then."

His mind was sputtering out nonsense to him. It wasn't helpful. "No, wait! I didn't mean anything like that. It's just that you keep changing colors. You look like Timid right now."

"I look like Timid?" Her cloak went black as she looked down then quickly to yellow. "Of course." She looked up to see a confused green man staring. "It's my emotions. Since they aren't restricted right now I manifest which I am experiencing by my cloak." She smiled and pink flooded Beast Boy's view. "Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves, I get to wear it like a Halloween costume!"

"So, you're still Raven, you're just feeling happy right now and that's why you're in pink?"

"And the Beast Boy is on the board, but can you answer the bonus question? How'd you know I was still Raven and not just Happy?" Her cloak went yellow again as she waited for an answer.

"Uh…I don't know." He stared at Raven for a bit trying to figure out why he could tell it was Raven. Then he saw it. "It's your leotard! It hasn't changed color, but all your emotions wore leotards that matched their cloaks!" He smiled hugely, proud for having figured it out.

"Ahh, of course. That would make a lot of sense. So I outwardly show what's happening on the inside through my cloak." She was still thinking about this when she spoke next. "So why does my leotard change colors when I'm whole?" The yellow turned dirty as soon as she had said 'whole', but it soon passed.

Beast Boy had no clue what the answer to that one was, but instead of thinking about any possible answers, he only had another question. "So why did you change to a light purple? None of your emotions wore light purple…Affection wears solid purple though."

Raven eyed Beast Boy while she calculated her response. "A mixture. I was probably feeling more than one emotion at a time and their colors mixed. Pink and grey would have made a light purple. I must have been happy, but some worry popped up that didn't stop me from being happy, just sort of put me in between the two."

"That's kinda cool actually. What colors mixed together to make your cloak black?" He asked, curiosity getting him more interested. Seeing what Raven was feeling and her not only not being able to hide it, but broadcasting it was going to be kind of cool.

"Black is the absence of color." Raven frowned as she thought this over, the dirty yellow color returning. "What does black mean? My cloak is normally blue. Shouldn't it have gone to that color when I wasn't feeling anything?"

She had said this to herself, but it made Beast Boy think too. This was going to be really strange for both of them, even scary. He frowned himself.

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Having not been able to figure out what the black cloak meant Raven had taken up Beast Boy's offer of the comic book. After she was done reading it and had written about what her emotions were doing to her in her journal they had talked about working on Beast Boy's speed changing drill. He had made a deck of three by five cards that had the names of creatures on them. He had also written brief descriptions of each on the card so that Raven would know if he had gotten the animal right.

Raven couldn't tell if this was going to boring or not, she kept feeling like it might be annoying, but her cloak never turned anything approaching red. She'd find out if this would be all that bad by the end of the half hour they had set aside. She looked at the first card as Beast Boy waited for her to call it out, his back turned to her so that he couldn't accidentally see any of the cards. "Gopher."

A really easy one first, good. Beast Boy shrunk down and chattered a little as the signal to Raven that he thought he had done it correctly.

Raven had read the card and saw that he had all the main characteristics he written for a gopher. She flipped to the next card. "Platypus." He changed. "Aardvark." He didn't change to this as quickly, but was now snuffling to show he thought he had it right. "Sheep." A change. "Chimpanzee." A change. "Frog." A change.

Beast Boy felt he was going at a decent clip when he started to notice Raven's cloak. He had gotten turned sideways some, as he had changed from one animal to the next. He tried as hard as he could to keep concentrating on what he was supposed to be turning into next, but it was hard with Raven's robe going from pink to yellow to blue and to several colors in between. He kept up the pace as best he could, but his focus was waning. He didn't normally work this hard at anything unless it was a bad guy they were fighting or unless he had a controller in his hands. As they neared a half hour he knew that he wasn't getting through his changes as quick, though he had managed to not make any mistakes.

"Beast Boy." He changed into himself.

"Whoa…" He fell onto his backside holding his head. "Ow."

A purple Raven walked over to him. "Are you OK? What happened?"

He was rubbing the sides of his head, his eyes closed. "Just…just a headache. I can't feel them when I'm an animal. Plus I went from four legs to two without really being ready for it and lost my balance."

Raven's cloak went into a peach color as she helped him to his feet. "Why don't you feel headaches when you're something else?"

He groaned as he stretched and straightened out. "It's 'cause animals don't have as many pain sensing nerves as people do. That's why I can get hit by something and change back into me and still be OK." Her cloak was changing colors again, and it irritated his headache, so he just kept his eyes closed and sat back down on the ground. "Rae? Think you could just kind of float me back to camp?" He knew she wouldn't, it was something she would think was an inappropriate use of her powers.

She stared down at the green man rubbing his temples with his eyes shut smiling about asking for a lift and she thought about why he would want it, he didn't look sore or tired, just a headache. "What is it? Too much light around?"

"Nah, you just keep going from purple to yellow and back again and it's making my eyes go funny. Too much of a color swing." He felt her drag him back to his feet.

She took his hand and put it on her shoulder. "I don't want to use my powers, but I'll help you back so that you can keep your eyes closed till we get to your room. Just follow me." Her purple cape flowed behind her as they walked.

"Thanks, Rae. I think I just need to rest for a bit. I've never done that many changes in one day, and I just did all that in a half hour." A thought struck him. "Why'd you say my name while we were doing that anyway?"

"We were done, I was trying to tell you." She looked back over her shoulder at him. "You did really well. I've never even seen you do some of those before."

He had his free hand cupped over his eyes still rubbing his forehead, but his smile could easily be seen underneath. "That was my easy set of cards. It's all the animals I either change into regularly or the ones that I used to change into at one time or another. Some of 'em were kind of new to me, but they weren't creatures I'd never seen before, just ones I'd never changed into." He laughed a little. "I've got three sets. One is what we just did. One is mostly stuff I've never done before, but that I know about. And the last one is gonna be the animals I learn about from the books Robin gave me. If I get good at this, I'm gonna just mix all three together."

"Cool, that sounds like a really good idea. You kind of made stairs that get you up to your goal." She took his hand off of her shoulder and at seeing that he was confused she said, "We're here. I made sure the lights are off. Want me to make dinner so you can sleep?"

An intense image of her last attempt at cooking flooded his mind. The 'pancakes' had been the kind of disgusting slop that only Starfire could love. "Sure, just remember to keep mine meat free." The 'pancakes' had been nuclear waste on a griddle, but she was trying to be nice to him, he wasn't going to make her feel bad by not letting her. Besides, how bad could it be when all they had was canned stuff? The darkness felt great for his sore head and he quickly fell asleep.

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"Beast Boy." Raven knocked on his door again. "Beast Boy, wake up, I've got dinner ready." She still didn't hear a single sound that meant he had heard her, so she cracked his door open. "Beast Boy?" He was still fast asleep on his bed, though he didn't look like it was peaceful. Suddenly he changed from his sleeping form to a kangaroo to an alligator to a turtle and then back into Beast Boy. He mumbled something and rolled over. As Raven moved into his room she smirked at the pile of junk that had already started to build up. His craft he had called it. When she got to his bed she shook him a little. "Beast Boy, wake up…you're dinner is…" He had rolled back over and looked up at her.

"Dinner?" He smiled in content, though sleepily as he came out from under his blanket.

Raven's purple robe deepened by several shades as she turned around and started a little hurriedly out of his little house. "Yeah, so come see if it's edible." Her cheeks felt flush. He needs to sleep with a shirt on when he knows I'm going to be coming to get him, Raven thought to herself.

Beast Boy scratched his shoulder and not feeling any clothing he looked down. He laughed, embarrassed at himself. "Guess that's why she left so quick." He quickly put his shirt back on and went out to where they usually ate dinner. Raven had just set a plate of something on his tray. He looked over at her tray and saw the same thing. He was getting used to her color shifting now, it kind of reminded him of Cyborg changing the channels all the time. "Sorry about my shirt. I just wanted to cool off." She had sat down, still not looking at him. Her cloak changed a kind of cranberry color.

"It's fine, just eat your dinner before it starts to go bad." She still hadn't looked at him.

He peered down at the plate. From his seat he could tell it was just some kind of paste. "Uh…Rae, what is this?" He may have not wanted to stop her doing something nice for him, but this stuff looked a little too strange to just dig right in.

Seeing his apprehension she smirked and added with a mischievous glint in her eye, "You'll just have to try it and find out for yourself."

Beast Boy tried looking at her cloak to see if it would help him figure out something about the weird paste dinner on his plate, but it was another mix of colors that he didn't know which of her eight emotions had come together for it. He thought it looked red, but not the blood red that anger wore. Not knowing enough about how colors mixed he turned back towards his plate. He picked up his spoon, scooped some of the food up, and smelled it. It didn't smell bad, kinda fruity with some other things mixed in. He took a taste and he felt like he was going to cry. "Where did you get humus from?"

"We had a can of garbanzo beans in the food…isn't humus just those made into a mush?" She was half done with hers.

Beast Boy looked back at her excitedly. "Yeah! Humus fruit mash! Where'd you find out how to make it? It's mostly a middle eastern food…not exactly Azarath stuff."

Raven looked down and smiled her robes fading from purple to orange. "You sure learned a lot about Azarath with all the study you've never put in." She dragged a finger across her plate to get the last of her paste into her mouth. This had been the only thing she'd ever learned how to make of her home world's food. They used different beans and fruits, but it had a real similar taste and texture. Starfire would probably think it wasn't salty or sour enough. This made her smile and her robe faded to purple again.

Feeling like he'd just been shrunk, Beast Boy had just taken to eating the good dinner and watched Raven as she flowed through different colors while her mind wandered. After he had finished licking his own plate clean and seeing that Raven was done too, He got up quickly and gathered the dishes and headed for the sink.

"Thanks, Beast Boy." She said absentmindedly as he had come by to collect her plate, spoon, and teacup. She sat there lost in her thoughts when something kind of clicked into place in her head. "Wait. Don't leave yet."

"What's up, Rae?" He watched her pace a little before she finally answered.

"We're going back into my mirror tomorrow. I want to try something new." Yellow draped over her shoulders.

"What, did you figure out what the black cloak meant?"

"No."

"Then you know why your leotard doesn't change colors?"

"No." Her red cape gave Beast Boy the hint that he was annoying her by bringing up things that she hadn't figured out yet.

"OK, just tell me when you're ready." He figured backing out of the questions totally would be the safest thing he could do for himself. Raven angry wouldn't be anything he wanted even with Trigon gone.

She looked over to him. "I just think that it will help me to ask each of my emotions what they want and to find out what they know that I might not." She folded her arms; it wasn't as big a deal as she had felt it was originally. "I think some of them might not be telling me things."

"You mean like they're suppressing themselves?" This was a really strange idea, but it made sense because it was Raven. Just like she was really all of them together, they were her, in part at least. They would have the same thinking process she did, just colored by the emotion they were.

Raven stared off into space. They were repressing themselves. Each of them was keeping themselves in check for some reason or other. She needed to find out why. She looked over at Beast Boy who had gone back to gathering up the rest of the dishes they hadn't cleaned earlier. Tomorrow. We'll do it tomorrow after some sleep. Sleep sounded really good right now. "Beast Boy!" She called out to him in the dark.

His reply came from beyond the light of the fire. "Yeah?"

"I'm going to bed. See you in the morning." She trudged off to her bed.

"Night, Rae."

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The sun needs to be shot for being this bright, Raven thought as she pulled her curtains more tightly closed. It was too early. Beast Boy would still be asleep and she would have to start the fire herself. She was grumpy from having a bad night's 'rest' where dreams only made her wake up enough to forget what she was dreaming but enough that she would have to fall back asleep. It also didn't help that when she had opened her window during the night to let in the cool air that that same window faced due east and caught the sun's first rays at too early in the morning. She decided to just go out and get things started.

Beast Boy waved a jovial good morning to Raven as she came out of her hut. "Want some breakfast? I made you some eggs and toast 'cause I wasn't sure what you liked besides your tea." He handed her the cup and went back to coring and peeling the apples that he was going to have with his own toast.

Still feeling grumpy she just accepted what was given to her and plopped down into her chair. She eyed her eggs and toast and chose to just munch on a piece of toast while she drank her tea…if more of an appetite hit her then she would eat some of the eggs. She looked over at Beast Boy who was happily eating the peels of his apples like it was spaghetti. "Why are you so happy?" She may have said it with annoyance in her voice, but she felt envious that he could be in such a good mood while she felt crummy.

"Had dreams about running last night." She eyed him incredulously. "Seriously! Some people have dreams about flying that make them feel like this the next morning, I have dreams about running. Running as fast as I can without worrying about running into anything. Running like I did in Africa. I don't get to just run like that…somebody put a city in my way." He giggled at his joke, hoping Raven would too. She looked like she was having one of her bad days…the kind where Anger had woken up first.

She did smile, but it looked like a tired smile to Beast Boy.

"Didn't get much sleep, huh?"

"Nope. And it was dreams that were waking me up, but I can't remember any of them which is even more frustrating." She pouted at not being able to pull up something that had been strong enough to snap her out of sleep. She saw Beast Boy staring at her out of the corner of her eye. "What?" She snapped out.

He smiled like he always did when he didn't want to get in trouble with her. "Nothing. Just, how come you don't date? I remember you going off with that guy at that club Blackfire took us to, but nothing else like that."

She closed her eyes to keep them from showing her surprise. "Why would you want to know about my dating life?"

"I don't know, just always thought guys would ask you out, but you don't seem to go out much except to that café with the poetry and stuff."

She opened her eyes and looked at him, but he only looked like he really didn't understand why she chose not to date. "We're kind of busy a lot of the time. Hectic schedules don't make for good relationships. Besides, I was worried about my powers too much to really date. I would just talk to guys at the café and then turn them down if they asked me out. I've kind of got a reputation there as a tease." She smiled in spite of herself, her cloak shifting from the red it had been to pink. She liked that she could be thought of as playing with the boys. It made her feel like she wasn't just scared of herself, but that she had a reputation that she liked since it allowed her to be like she wanted to be. Friendly with the opposite sex, and let it end there.

He was glad Raven was smiling now. "That makes sense. You were always doing the same thing with all of us at first. Friends, but by your rules so it would be safer for everybody. I guess that's why I always try to make you laugh or smile. You give up a lot of fun so that you feel others are safe around you."

"Anyway, enough about my self sacrificing nature. We need to get started since it'll probably take a while. I want to talk to each emotion individually. Come on, Beast Boy."

He liked when she wore pink. She was always so much more relaxed. She'd been overstressed for most of her life. She deserved the break. "I'm coming'." He answered and he scampered up to her door.

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(A/N) OK, show of hands, how many people thought it would end after they both had said goodnight? I don't know why, but I wanted them to have their morning together in this chapter. Made it longer, but I'll live with it. Look for days to pass more quickly after Saturday…Saturday in the fic, not real life. Think of this first week that they're on the island as the comfort week. They still have canned food and other amenities, but they'll run out eventually. I'm going to have fun with that…any of you who have camped for longer than two nights will understand. And, to wet your whistles, I'll give you a peak at something. I'm going to either have black-cloaked Raven explained, or have the beast's first night out next chapter. Depends on my mood.