(A/N) I wanted to say thanks again to all those who reviewed. It's cool to see other people like my ideas like I do…well, at least somewhat like I do. This story seems like it's mostly about facing one's personal demons (no pun intended towards Raven), personal growth outweighing personal comfort, and anticipation versus patience. I try to keep my chapter titles a bit cryptic so that only after reading the chapter…or a few chapters in some cases…can you make sense of them. I think I like 'Nine in One' and 'What Color is a Raven?' for that reason. OveractiveMind, The Island Show with Raven Roth was cancelled after one episode. It beat out The Chevy Chase show for shortest-lived television series. forsakentruth, yes, Raven does have some form of affection for Beast Boy, but you can, and should for that matter, have affection for your friends. And finally, Regrem Erutaerc: The reason she doesn't act shocked after being asked out is simply because she isn't shocked. She knew he liked her in some way; the question she asked was to gauge that. And upon listening to the first part of his answer, she could deduce where the second half would lead. Raven's a smart cookie. ;-)

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

Tamed – For You – A look through the eyes of Raven on a Saturday.

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She had been left alone by the fire. He just stormed off after he said that tomorrow would be Saturday, so they'd just keep talking about this on Sunday. Raven furrowed her brow in concentration. Why can't he just let it drop? She knew why, but it was easier to wish what he was feeling wasn't really real. She couldn't lie about that though. She had started to probe his mind the instant he had changed into Robin. He was feeling so much pain and anguish just so he could give her what he thought she wanted. She felt his longing for her. His great desire to see her happy, even if it meant his own misery.

She heard a knock at her bedroom door and was startled out of her thoughts. It was a good thing she had gone to bed so soon after Beast Boy had left. It had rained for a little while during the night. Raven liked the rain at night. It helped to calm her down, so she actually had gotten a decent night's sleep. She opened her door to see Beast Boy already half way back to their fire pit. It looked like he had made breakfast today. It also looked like he had dried off their chairs and little tables, though his was back where it had been before last night. She walked to her table and sat eating her toast and fruit, drinking her tea, waiting for Beast Boy to talk. She desperately wanted to talk, but today he was going to change into his carnal self. 'Today will be a day of reflection while we are trying to perform our duties. We can think on the things Beast Boy said to prepare for the morrow.' Raven was glad that she didn't have to talk like Wisdom.

"Ready?" Beast Boy stood a little ways off, his back to her. "You should grab something to take food in, in case you get hungry. And don't forget to keep out of reach."

Raven glided back to her room and grabbed a small bag she could sling over her shoulder and placed a few pieces of fruit in it and some of the carrots that Beast Boy had found before she came out of her room. Going back near her chair, she levitated up a few stories above him. "Ready!" She called down to him.

Beast Boy just simply hunched over and was the beast nearly instantly. Raven watched as he just roamed around the camp, sniffing at various things. He sniffed the air and must have caught a whiff of her because he turned his head up to her as she hung in the air above him. He didn't look at her for very long, another smell had gotten his attention and he took off much faster than Raven expected.

She darted after, trying her best to keep him fully in sight, but it was difficult with the trees growing thicker. He seemed to be heading for the densest part of the island's forest. She finally pulled closer to him when he abruptly stopped. She wheeled around and saw him looking through the surrounding foliage at something. She risked moving in closer and she saw it too. A deer. It was tall and majestic and it made her think of how noble and grand nature could be. Movement caught her eye and she turned away just in time to miss seeing the beast's attack. She still heard it though, and the short, tortured cry of the deer was ended abruptly with some disturbing cracking noises. As the beast ripped and tore its meal apart as it ate, Raven could feel her own recent meal struggling to stay where it was.

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Raven was glad that food was a very brief part of this creature's plans for the day. It had seemed to be scouting out its surroundings. Finding water it had drunk only a little before moving on. The main thing it seemed to want to do was sleep, but it kept changing locales after tiny naps that only gave Raven enough time to eat a piece of fruit or a carrot before she was off trailing the great shaggy thing.

Dusk was drawing near and she had to fly a little lower than before so that she could still see his outline through the trees. Her stomach growled at the poor bit of food it had been given since breakfast. "A cheese burger would really taste good right now." Raven had decided to give him another hour before seeing if she could get him to change back. She had probed his mind and found that Beast Boy was still in there just as though he were asleep.

The beast was near the mountain now; it seemed to like the area. Raven was barely twenty feet off the ground though she stayed back as far as she could, ready to shoot off into the air if she needed to. He was just starting to head up the rocky side of the foot of the mountain when he shot straight to his left, tearing off at a terrific pace. Raven couldn't keep up with him; he had changed directions too much. She pulled higher into the air, not feeling comfortable with chasing after the uninhibited, untamed part of Beast Boy without knowing exactly where he was while she was this close to the ground. She cleared the tops of the trees and started moving around in an ever-increasing pattern in an attempt to find out where he'd gone. A rustle caught her attention and she sped to it. Trying to pierce the darkness she was looking through to see where he was along the forest floor, she was surprised to see him spring so quickly at her from halfway up the tree she was nearest.

His powerful jump had caught her so off guard that she froze. So this is what the deer felt like, she thought morbidly. He had grabbed her and was falling back to earth with her gripped tightly in his hands, her arms pinned to her sides. When he landed Raven wanted to scream, she wanted to fight and kick in an attempt at saving her own life, but the sounds and actions never made it out. He had just let go of her after he had touched down. He opened his mouth, not to attack, but to drop something he had in it at her feet. He leaned in towards her, fear and fascination struggling to take the lead in her mind. Dipping his large maw towards her face he sniffed deeply and then started to trot off.

Raven was so dazed that the beast had gotten almost completely out of site again before she placed a shield around him with her powers. The beast had been most upset by being caged and attacked in every direction in an attempt at finding a weak point through which he could eventually make his escape. Raven watched him for a few minutes, waiting to see if he would give up or wear out, but he seemed to only intensify his efforts as time passed. Leaving him to his own devices inside her prison, she bent down to look at what he had dropped. It looked like a dead rabbit. He had given her food? And, was that the reason he had darted off, to catch this? It was too confusing. "Well…I guess it would be wrong to waste it…but how do I cook it?" Hearing the beast's snarls, she decided to try and figure everything out back at camp.

Soon, she was flying off with the rabbit held as far away from her as she could with the beast in tow. It had finally given up on trying to escape and seemed to be brooding. When she landed she took the rabbit to the sink to wash it off. Raven felt very strange having a dead animal in her hands with a balloon drifting along behind her carrying a powerful predator. "I have no idea what to do with this." She finally gave up, laying the rabbit in the sink and figured it would be easier to get Beast Boy to change back.

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"So…you do any tricks?" She had been staring at the thing for the past half hour and realized that she didn't have any more ideas for getting him to change back then she did for cleaning a dead animal to make it fit for cooking. Wisdom came to the forefront of her mind and suggested probing the mind of the beast to see what it wanted so that she could give whatever it wanted to it. Robin had said that that might help. "OK, let's see…" She had never probed the mind of anything that wasn't at the same evolutionary level as her, so she had her doubts on being able to find anything. She felt her way through his mind and only seemed to find desires. He seemed to want very badly some out of the where he was. He wanted a place, no, a territory that would be his…with a cave or something else that was very dark inside. He seemed content with his stomach, it still being full of deer, though he had desires to see what other meat there was. She was still trying to find an overriding desire when he started staring at her. She felt the flood of his instinct course through her. He was looking at her almost predatorily, but it was more…possessive, as though he thought of her as a part of his territory. "That's just creepy." She felt herself say, though she knew it was just Crass voicing her opinion of his thoughts.

"So this part of you feels the same as the rest of you. Guess that means you're not making anything out to be bigger than it really is. But how do I get the normal Beast Boy back?" She thought about what she had been told. "Any means necessary…I still don't like it. I don't care if he can take it."

"Why do you care? It's not like you like me."

Raven's mouth opened and closed several times as she looked up at Beast Boy now watching her from all fours inside her shield. "How?" was all she managed to get out other than some unintelligible noises.

"Are you gonna let me out first?" He was still staring. Raven released him by having the sphere drift to the ground before allowing it to phase out. "Thank you."

"So, how did you change back?"

He looked around the camp. "I didn't trash anything? I thought I would have messed up all this stuff."

"You didn't do anything here. Just kind of smelled everything. So how did you change back?"

"Did I try to attack you? I remember being really close to you at some point." This brief memory had really unnerved him.

"You can remember things?" She asked in surprise.

He tried to recall something other than Raven being very close to his…well, the beast's face. "Not really…just really short things like with what I saw of you. I remember a deer…and some rocky place, but that's about it."

"If you can remember little bits like that, then there's probably a way for you to remember more." She looked up and saw him looking at her like he was trying to find the damage he had done. "No, you didn't hurt me. You kind of just grabbed me out of the air so you could give me something. Are you going to tell me how you changed back now?"

"Not yet…what'd I give you?" The question could be dismissed for a little longer; he wanted to finish sorting out how to explain it…if he didn't understand, how would she?

"You don't want to know."

"That bad, huh?" He gave a weak chuckle. "Probably a bird or something then. Cats will give birds or mice to the people who feed them or treat them nice as presents."

She quirked an eyebrow. "Why would it be a cat? I thought it looked more like a wolf or something."

He smiled shyly. "Well…with all the books I've been reading lately a cat just makes the most sense. The jumping, the claws, the loaner attitude…stuff like that. Cats are always what I feel the most comfortable changing into, so it made sense to me for it to be some kind of cat thing."

"Are you ready to tell me how you changed back?" Happy poked fun at Raven by telling her she had a lot of passengers who wanted off her one-track mind.

His sigh went through his whole body and his shoulders sunk a little. "Yeah…it's just, I don't know what was happening with it. It's the first time I've been awake in coming out of that change outside of in a big fight." He grabbed his shoulder just to have something to do with his hands. "I just heard your voice and woke up. It sounds kind of lame, but that's what it felt like. Like I was asleep and you were talking to me, so I woke up so I could talk back."

Raven frowned. "That's never worked before. Robin, Cyborg, and Starfire told me they tried calling out to you…even warned you before they attacked to get you to stop."

"Could be just 'cause you were calm. Animals can sense fear and smell what it causes in us. They get firmer in whatever they're going to do when they're around that kinda thing. Fight or flight. That's what the book I'm reading now calls it."

"So either the Beast has to be forced out of the way, or it has to be so calm that it just lets you back in?" This was good news…possibly.

"I think so. That would explain a lot…like why I can go back and forth between it and other things when we're in serious danger. Plus, if that's the way it works, then it means that I can get it under control. If I can shove the beast back down because of danger, I'm stronger than it is. Well…I'm stronger at that point. And, if it can be calm enough to let me back in, then I think it could be trained." The smile that had been building faded again. "You'd have to do the training."

"You want me to domesticate you?" It sounded even more bizarre after she said it.

His eyes went hard. "Not me. That thing inside me."

"Don't you think it's time you started admitting that 'that thing' is you? Just…a part of you that you don't like?"

He closed his eyes and Raven could feel his inner turmoil at whether or not he should argue about this with her or just storm off to save her feelings. He apparently decided the latter. "I'm going to bed. We're gonna be talking a lot tomorrow, why don't we just talk about this then?"

At least he wasn't trying to completely duck out of it all. "OK, you gave me time, I'll give you time."

"Thanks." And then he just slowly walked off.

Raven sighed. She wanted so badly to comfort him, but she wasn't allowing herself to for fear that he would get the wrong idea. She had a plan for how she would find out just how serious he was going to be about the whole dating thing, a plan that might just get her out of the whole muddled mess. "Tomorrow." She sighed again. "Why can't I just go back to the way I was? It was so much easier."

'You can never go back. Life always will carry you forward. If you fight the current, you will always be fighting against losing your course, but if you move with it, you can steer an easier path.' Wisdom was getting to be too brazen for Raven's tastes.

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(A/N) Shorter than what I had thought it was going to end up as. I guess dialog takes more writing than action. Though, I would hardly call this an action chapter. More like, a non-talking cause they're doing kinda bland stuff. Necessary, but still a little bland compared to fighting Slade or Trigon or Brother Blood. I still would like to see somebody flame this though. Since I might not get my wish cause you people who have read this far probably either like what you're reading, are too nice to flame, or just don't want to put in the time after wasting your time to get here, well…could somebody share what a flame is like? I'm dead serious; I've never seen one before. Something like, some jerk that just wrote one up on a story or something. Something like that…but with giant robots. Giant robots always make me feel like changing the channel. click