(A/N) I wanted to thank everybody who's read this and I also wanted to thank the people who had written up something on it all. OveractiveMind, very nice imagery with the whole tie-dye thing. And, lol61188, yes, you can always hope that I'll eventually make this more officially a BBxRae fic. Anyway, I was thinking about how this coming chapter would progress and I think that everyone will not know what's going to happen until they read it. It's not that I'm all that creative; it's just a logical conclusion. None of you are in my head. ;-) Besides, you wouldn't want in my head. I haven't cleaned in there in years, and I have a really strange filing system that seems to only make sense to me.

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

Tamed – What Color is a Raven? – A tale of woe…no, wait. I meant, a tale of 'whoa!' for Raven and Beast Boy. I got help with this chapter from Keanu Reeves.

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Raven and Beast Boy were seated on the floor, back in front of her mirror. She had taken his hand and bowed her head in concentration when they were again pulled into Nevermore.

"That is one of the weirdest feelings ever." Beast Boy said as he wobbled in place still holding on to Raven's hand.

After he had steadied himself Raven let go. "Come on. I think Affection's area is the best place to do this." She started walking towards the archway they were closest too.

"How come we didn't end up inside her place like last time?" He puzzled looking around at the barren area they were in.

"Since I gave them more freedom, I'm going to give them more respect too and ask to come in this time. Since she's me, she won't keep me out, but respecting my emotions is one of the things that I think will help in my training." She came up to the archway and laid her hand on it. The stones glowed from within briefly and then Raven stepped back and waited.

After a moment Affection came through the portal smiling kindly at them. "Hello, what is it you would like from me?"

"I need to talk to each of you guys one on one and I would like to use your domain for that." She stated plainly.

Watching the two of them talk Beast Boy noticed Raven was once again in the black cloak. "You're back in black, Raven." He had said while Affection was stepping to the side, giving them an inviting gesture.

Raven looked down quickly and saw that she was indeed in black. It had been the first time that she had been able to see the color on her for more than just a quick glimpse.

"So what emotion are you feeling? If you can figure out what it is, you'll know why you're in that color." Beast Boy had thought it might be some mix of Timid and some other dark colors.

Raven looked back up to Beast Boy. "But…I'm not feeling anything." Her cloak suddenly went through several different colors and shades and mixtures in rapid fire.

Beast Boy was sure that yellow, red, brown, and grey had been in the sudden flash, but he wasn't sure if there were other base emotions at play with the color changing too quickly for him to even guess at what had made each of them. "Rae?" He paused; she was looking at the edges of her cape with obvious anxiety. "I think you need to clam down."

Affection placed an arm around Raven and pulled Raven's head onto her shoulder. She started humming some tune that Beast Boy hadn't heard before. Her voice wasn't anything spectacular, but it was good enough to make the melody pleasant. Raven's cloak stopped changing colors and slowly became a vibrant blue that Beast Boy had never seen before.

"That's a cool color. What's that one mean?"

Raven left Affections embrace and looked down. She smiled. "It's blue and purple mixed."

"So it's your normal cloak color with a little bit of Affection in it?" He looked back and forth between the two who had very similar smiles now as they looked at Beast Boy.

"She was humming a song my mother used to sing when I was real little. It's always calmed me down." She smiled at Affection who gave a light nod of her head.

"Shall we go into my domain that you may begin speaking with each of us?" Again the welcoming gesture as she stood back at the archway. Raven walked forward and went through, Beast Boy following behind her.

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They were seated on the floor cushions near the pictures of Raven's mother. Affection faced them, awaiting Raven's questions. "OK, this isn't going to be some long interrogation, it's just a couple of questions I want you to answer without any influence from the others." Affection nodded her head at these words. "Good, well, first thing. What can I do so that you and I become permanently fused? Every time I merge with you all, it eventually crumbles."

Affection smiled warmly. "I am glad that you seek this. The main things that I believe will help you in this goal will be accepting me fully. Accept that you love and accept the love of others." At Beast Boy's look of confusion she smiled again. "I am Affection, Beast Boy. Love is part of my commission. As well as are things like gratitude, kindness, and passion." She turned back towards Raven. "You accepting that these things can come from you or be given to you will help you in your quest to rejoin that which was broken."

Raven smiled shyly at her words, her vibrant blue cloak turning to a purple deeper then even Affection's. "Alright, I think I can do that. Uhm, next question. Why aren't you expressing more fully through me? I'm feeling all my emotions, and letting them just happen, but nothing all that powerful has hit yet."

"I am unsure of how to really do such things. I have not been permitted to have full freedom since you were very little. I do not remember how to fully express into you what you are feeling." She smiled comfortingly at Raven's look of discomfort. "I am only out of practice. Do not worry that I will be permanently bound by my lack of ability. You will feel my influence more and more as I become reacquainted with this task."

Raven visibly calmed and went back to the vibrant blue color. "Thank you. Just one more question, do you know what it means when my cloak goes black?"

"I am afraid that I do not. I am sorry."

Raven felt that that was going to be the answer. "Thanks for answering my questions, Affection. Would you ask Anger to come here for me?"

Affection stood gracefully. "Certainly." And with that, she had slipped through the floor.

"Why'd you want Anger next? I would have asked her to come last."

Beast Boy's idea had merit, but Raven thought her plan would be easier in the long run. "I'm getting through the more difficult emotions first so that the other ones will make me feel better so that I'm in a good mood when we're done. Last thing I want is Anger getting under my skin right before I head off into the rest of today's work."

"What work? I thought you were done after this except for maybe another comic."

"I was reading that book on making tea, and I have to start drying the leaves now if I want them ready by the time my tea packets run out."

"Oh. Want some help later then?"

She smiled at him. "Sure, it makes it easier on me."

"What do you want with me?" Anger had arrived.

Raven sighed, turning towards the emotion that had just arrived, and tried to ready herself for the resistance she knew she was going to get from this interview. "Just a few quick questions. I need your opinion on some stuff."

"'Bout time you actually asked me about something. So, what is it?" Anger seemed to refuse to sit down and only stood in front of Raven with her arms crossed.

A sigh came out of Raven and Anger looked annoyed with it. "How do we join back together permanently?" Short questions for the short temper, Raven thought to herself.

"Do what you told me to do. Be honest about it when you're mad. Every time you push me down, you're blocking that from happening. You don't have to break anything, just admit it to yourself." Raven's look made her scowl. "It's what I want too! I don't want to be stuck in this waste! I want to be back where I was, so stop looking like I just tried to do you a favor or something."

Raven's cloak had gone red as well. "Fine. Why aren't I blowing up like that when I'm annoyed or angry? Lost your touch from being locked out so long? Or is it because you don't have help anymore?" Raven didn't know why she was trying to pick a fight with Anger, but she was tired of always backing down from her.

Anger looked furiously at Raven. "SHUT UP! What do you care? You sit there, getting to actually be alive while I get stuck living inside your messed up head and only get to 'suggest' what you should do when stuff happens that gets you mad, like when Starfire tries to curl your hair when you don't want to! And…" She looked like pure red fury. "He's YOUR father. The only reason he could do what he did was because you let him! Coward!"

Raven looked close to tears when she heard Beast Boy yell. "Stop it! Leave her alone!" He had jumped to his feet. "She's trying to give you what you want if you'd just stop trying to bully her!"

"And what are you gonna do, Beast Boy?" She looked at him mockingly.

Rather than answer her he had changed into a gigantic spider. The webbing he shot out quickly had Anger bound head to toe. Beast Boy set her sitting on the cushion and flowed back into his normal form. "You're gonna sit there till Raven's done with her questions." He moved his face close to hers. "And I know that you can't get out of that. Only Raven has control of her powers. You only made her lose her control, you never had it yourself." He stomped away from the livid emotion and flopped back down into his own seat, glaring at Anger with his arms crossed.

Raven had just watched the strange scene unravel. It had shocked her to see Beast Boy taking charge again. She had been ready to tell Anger to just leave when he had his outburst. She looked slowly from him to Anger. "I probably deserved some of what you said." Anger's face snapped back towards Raven's. "But…I don't deserve it like that." She took a few deep, cleansing breaths. "So why haven't I gotten all that upset at anything?"

Anger looked acidly from Raven to Beast Boy and back again. "I don't know how to make you feel it with things like this. There used to be this feeling that we were connected directly to you in some way, but now it feels like that connection isn't there. We can still get the message out, but it's harder now. Like we have to yell instead of using the phone." Anger had looked grumpy about having to be subjected to this, but Beast Boy was right. She'd never had control; she didn't know how to really get Raven to do anything without the connection that she had used in the past.

"The last questions really short. Do you know what it means when my cloak turns black?"

"No." She fumed. This was maddeningly frustrating. Being forced to be civil with the person who had ripped her out of life and set her in a cage.

Raven sighed. "Let her go, Beast Boy."

He stood and walked over to the prone figure. Changing himself into a badger, he bit through the thick webbing that had Anger bound. Beast Boy morphed back into himself as Anger stood. She glared at Beast Boy and he only returned her stare. She looked like she wanted to punch him so badly, like she wanted to tear him apart. Instead she turned her back on them. Just before she had finished phasing through the floor she looked at Raven maliciously. "Why don't you tell him your little secret? I'll bet he'd get a big kick out of it." With that she was gone. Raven only stared angrily at the spot of floor she had gone through. Beast Boy just went back to his seat.

"Don't worry about what she said. In fact, you shouldn't tell me, she wants us to fight because we put her in her place." Beast Boy's eyes had locked with Raven's. He could tell that she wanted to say whatever the secret was just to show Anger that she could. "You don't need to prove anything."

She was glad he was trying to help. It had been a good idea to bring him. "I don't need to prove it to her, but I should tell you anyway. I should tell you because you're my friend and you're helping me in some pretty intense ways. I want to trust you with my other secrets…I need to respect my emotions, and a lot of them tell me to treat my friends better."

"Raven. I saw that Anger had left and brought you Timid." Affection stood a few steps behind the two people seated on the ground, Timid peaking out from behind her.

"Thank you." She closed her eyes and just breathed for a few seconds. "Beast Boy?"

He turned from Timid and Affection to her. "S'up, Rae?"

She looked firmly into his eyes. "I do want to tell you that secret, but we need to finish here first. I want you to promise that you'll help me remember."

"I promise."

"Good." She looked back at Timid, a smiling Affection ushering her to the cushion. "Please sit down Timid. I just want to ask you some questions."

Timid only looked around nervously and nodded her head as she sat. "You're not going to yell at me too, are you?"

Raven smiled softly. "No. Just some questions, and there aren't any wrong answers."

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Raven was getting tired. The interviews had all been almost exactly the same. Each emotion had colored it their own way, but the three answers were always the same. Be honest with the giving and taking of the emotion she wanted to join back with, the way they fed Raven her emotions had changed and they weren't used to it yet, and no, they had no idea what a black colored cloak could mean.

So it had not been a strong shock when in the final interview, Intelligence being interviewed, that the answers sounded familiar. "You will not have trouble joining back with me when the time comes. You already accept facts from within and from without."

"I had figured it might be something like that, but why haven't we already joined back together?" She said rubbing the side of her head.

Intelligence just simply stated, "Because there is an order things must be done in."

"Do you know the order?" Raven looked doubtfully over to her yellow clad clone.

"No, I merely know that I am not to be first." Raven just slouched in response to this. "Though I do have a theory." Even Beast Boy's head perked up at that. He had been so bored because he hadn't been needed for anything after Anger had left and other than a few words in greeting from some of the other emotions, he hadn't been included in anything else.

"Well, what's your theory?" Raven asked a little impatiently.

Intelligence adjusted her glasses. "I believe that the order will be determined by color. The first emotion you must join with will be the one closest to your base color and then through the related order from there till the color closest to white is added, being last."

"So what color comes after blue out of all of you?" Raven looked eagerly at Intelligence.

"I suppose the order would go from grey to blue to purple."

Raven looked at Intelligence quizzically. "So which do I do first? Grey or purple?"

Intelligence cocked an eyebrow. "I am afraid you have misunderstood. It makes sense for the order in which you should proceed to be thus: brown, orange, yellow, green, grey, blue, purple, red, and then pink. This will bring you in a sort of spiral through the colors from your base color to the end goal of white."

"But blue IS my normal color!" Raven was getting annoyed with her smart side's answers, which only answered questions as they had been asked, and nothing more.

"You are mistaken."

This was infuriating. "Alright then, know-it-all. What's the right answer then?"

Intelligence smiled coolly. "The typical color of a raven is black." Raven's face went slack and Intelligence decided that there was no more logical way to finish this than to just proceed as though the questions had already been asked. Besides, she really did know what questions would be asked. "When you shattered yourself in an attempt at freeing yourself from the influence of Trigon you kept one of us bonded with you. You were too young at the time to fully comprehend what you were doing, but I, being free from the confusion of the others was not blind to it. You latched on to the blue clothed one of us as a further security effort against our father. The reason all of us have had a more difficult time reaching the outside with our efforts is that you let go of this security when you lightened the rules you had placed over us. This security was the only one of us bonded with you and we were working through her to broadcast our efforts. Without her, we have struggled since we are not bonded with you, nor do we have one who can give us a way to tune in on where to send our corresponding emotions. And, the blue represents…"

"Serenity." Raven's face was still empty as she toiled against the flood of thoughts and feelings that she was awash in. "How could I be so stupid? Of course I would have shoved down memories with all the emotions I've been avoiding!" She pressed her hands against her forehead.

"That you have. Serenity has been a good ally to you, though you have abused your connection to her at times, allowing yourself to remain calm and detached in spite of pleas from us to you about things we felt were important enough to take the risk." Intelligence was not trying to be mean, she was just stating facts.

"Why haven't I seen Serenity before?"

"She was at one with you for a very long time, so it was only since yesterday morning that you would have had the opportunity to do so, and you had said our rule changes did not go in effect until you and Beast Boy had returned from here. Also, she is Serenity. She is the part of you perpetually at peace. She does not feel the need to seek you out as we often do. She feels you will seek her, and that is only supported by the facts that you do that very thing."

Raven stood. "I want to talk to her. Where is she?"

Intelligence stood as well. "I will take you to her realm as you have never been there."

Raven started off after her yellow doppelganger. "Wait for me!" Beast Boy had been dumb struck hearing all the things that Intelligence had had to say so that he didn't notice when they had started to leave because of how deep in thought he had been.

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Serenity looks exactly like Raven when she's meditating Beast Boy thought. Raven looked like she was having the weirdest day of her life. Beast Boy could see the internal tug-o-war she was having. She hated it with a passion whenever someone would interrupt her own meditation, but she needed to talk to this blue robed Raven. In the end, logic helped her out of her problem by her realizing that Serenity would be calm no matter what.

She walked up to the gently floating girl. "I need to talk to you."

Her eyes opening slowly, Serenity touched down and just looked at Raven and waited.

Thinking that this was her invitation she started, "I need you to tell me how to bond permanently with an emotion."

"Bond with it and resist all things which seek its departure." She replied languidly.

"But, how do I bond with it?"

"You have done it before." Her eyes drifted from Raven towards Beast Boy. She looked deeply into him. "I have wanted to tell you that you are a great benefit to me." Beast Boy just gaped at her. "Raven has had much comfort and peace because of your efforts to help her. I thank you."

His mind caught hold of the easiest to understand part of what she had said. "Uhm, your welcome?"

Raven was annoyed about being ignored. "I may have done it before, but I don't remember how."

Serenity turned back towards Raven. "You must merge with the emotion and refuse to let it part from you as you did with me. You held us bonded for all of these years even though it is Wisdom that must be first to make you whole."

Raven thought about this as Serenity walked over to Beast Boy. "You are a calming influence. I am glad that you have escorted Raven through all of this. Do not let Anger confuse you, you are doing right." With that Serenity went back to her meditation.

"Come on, Beast Boy. I think it's time to go."

"'K"

Intelligence watched the two of them leave. "Why does Beast Boy calm Raven?"

"Because tranquility is found in the repetition of good things. He seeks for her to be happy. His continued effort has therefore become calming to her." She had not even opened her eyes.

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(A/N) Yeah, I knew it was going to be about the black cloak too. How many of you figured it out though? And, I mean before you'd read any of this chapter. I realize full well that I'm stepping away from what is considered cannon in some aspects, but they make sense to me. Raven is able to achieve her white form, but not hold on to it. Her emotions act as separate creatures from herself though they are contained within her. It's the ultimate split personality. Beast Boy though is more the classic split personality type. When one is active the other is asleep. The main personality typically not remembering the other's actions. Very cool stuff. I wish I had extra personas!