(A/N) For those of you who haven't figured it out yet, I'll answer any questions you have here…well, I'll answer them or tell you why I'm not going to answer. ;-) I'm looking forward to this chapter, I'll explain why at the end. OveractiveMind, a fresh strawberry virtupie would be excellent. Star's-Fire, I don't know if I'll have the story continue into their reunion with the Titans and how the others adjust to their changes…but I won't say no since I want to leave the door open to it. pureangel86, 'will Raven love him back like she wants to?' Who said she wants to? ;-) Honestly though, that's one of those questions that would give away too much. You'll just have to keep reading as stuff comes out. (Learned that from J.K. Rowling who refused to answer any question that might, even slightly, give something away that she didn't want being known before the book was read. Her writing is excellent; by the way, you guys really should read her stuff.)

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

Tamed – Testy – Raven plots against Beast Boy's attraction to her. Kind of a messed up thing to do.

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Raven had attempted making breakfast again, with slightly worse results than Starfire's last 'pudding' that she had mistakenly tried. She forced herself to eat the mixture she'd fried up. It was the last of the food that came with them. It looked like it might be OK, like slightly burned hash browns, but it tasted like uncooked egg whites over burnt carrots and freeze-dried peas. At least it didn't really have raw eggs was all she could think of as she forced herself to eat the 'food'. She looked over at Beast Boy, expecting to see him trying to find out where he could throw his plateful so that he would never have to look at it again, but he wasn't. He was eating absentmindedly, staring off into space.

The taste must have just hit him, Raven thought. He had stopped looking at nothing and turned to look down at his meal. But all he did was study his next bite like he was trying to figure out what it was. He just ate it, having given up trying to guess the mystery food.

"You don't have to eat it if you don't like it." Could my cooking be any worse? 'Yes.' She felt a snickering Happy say within her.

"What?" Beast Boy turned to her like he was just noticing her. "Why wouldn't I like it?"

He looked genuinely puzzled by her statement, so she dropped it. "Never mind."

"When are we going to finish talking?" He had been turning everything over and over in his mind. The way he felt about Raven, the way she was starting to pull back because he had told her about his feelings, the beast being part of him, it was all in a turmoil inside him. And, he thought, what is the awful crap I'm eating? It tasted like snot on charcoal to him, but he was determined to make Raven not feel bad about anything he could prevent…and her cooking had been the thing he had thought he could do the easiest. He wasn't so sure after having eaten half of the current dish.

She sighed. "After lunch. There's some stuff I want you to do for me then."

"How does doing stuff finish our talk?" This sounded like she was trying to get out of it.

"It's just something that'll help me." She desperately hoped he would accept that. Her plan depended on him being cooperative.

"Alright, but you can't expect me to be quiet while we do your stuff."

She smiled in spite of herself. "I could never even imagine you quiet."

He blinked at her before his own smile crept onto his face. He laughed a little.

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Morning study had been the most difficult for either of them yet. Both found they couldn't concentrate because their minds wouldn't leave them alone about the coming afternoon. Lunch wasn't a big deal either since Beast Boy had cooked. The only disturbance in all the day leading up to the thing that caused them to feel anxious and worried at the same time was when Beast Boy had gone to do the dishes. His scream snapped Raven out of her distracted thinking and she flew quickly to him.

Beast Boy was standing near the sink holding his nose with one hand and the dead rabbit in the heavily gloved other. "You're not supposed to leave dead animals just lying around!"

Raven covered her mouth and a muffled "sorry," came through her fingers. Her hands dropped to her sides. "I kind of forgot about it after everything. I didn't know how to clean it, so I left it here to try and figure it out later."

"Well…fine, but you could have asked me, I would have helped with it. It's not any good now." His nose was starting to pick up the smell in spite of how hard his fingers were pinching down on it. "I need to go bury this."

He started to walk off when a black field went over the rabbit. He watched Raven float it off a decent enough distance. She then raised what she thought would be enough earth to hide the stench from anything and just let the present she had been given drop into the hole. She tried to put the dirt back into the hole quick enough to pack it down, but not violently enough to make her think about what she might have just done to a rabbit's corpse. "How do you know how to…well, whatever you need to do to get it ready to cook? You're a vegan."

Beast Boy grinned at her. "I wasn't always, Rae. My parents weren't, and we lived in Africa. If you want meat with dinner, you just hunt something. I never said I don't like the taste of meat, it's the whole eating something that I can look like…it's just too freaky."

"I guess that would be. But, if I want to, uhm…you'd help me?" It was uncomfortable to ask, but the idea of living off of fruits and vegetables and tea for what might be months just wasn't going to cut it.

"Yeah, I'll help, but I'm not gonna do it for you. I'll teach you how to do it and then you can do it yourself. It's kind of gross stuff though. Even if you DO like meat."

"I'll cross that bridge when I come to it."

"Huh?"

"It just means I'll work out if I can do it or not when you show me." Raven sighed. "Come on, I need you to do that stuff now. We'll do the dishes later."

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She moved her chair in front of Beast Boy's and sat down. Her brown cloak made him feel better, but not much. "So what am I supposed to do?"

"First you have to tell me if you're still in denial about the beast being part of you." Raven wanted to look away, but she forced herself to keep eye contact.

He sighed and slouched further in his chair. "I don't like it, but yes. You're right about that. I even told you that it was me before when I said that those chemicals 'awoke' something in me. It was always there; just…I don't like thinking that part of me put everybody in danger. That it could hurt them if they angered me. I don't want to hurt anybody." His face showed the sleep he must have lost thinking about all of this during the night.

"Good. I think it'll help you if you can admit that." She fidgeted for a second before standing. Now that it was time for her plan to happen she was very nervous. She wasn't sure if she wanted it to fail or not, and that thought only added to her anxiety. "Come on, we're going into Nevermore."

"Uhm…'K." He stood and followed her into her room. He took his normal seat on the floor and she brought the mirror over and sat down next to him. They grabbed each other's hands and then they were both moving forward and in through the mirror.

They landed in the middle of a barren field, an archway a little ways off. "We're going to do this in Wisdom's section. She said she would have everybody there waiting for us." Raven noticed they were still holding hands and quickly let go.

"Why are they all waiting for us? Are you gonna tell me what I have to do before it happens?" He missed having her hand in his…it felt nice.

She thought for a second. "No. I'll tell you when I tell them." She started walking to the archway.

Wouldn't they already know since they're in your head? He thought as he trotted after her.

She touched the archway like she had done at Affection's and it lit up. Wisdom walked through almost immediately. "I have been expecting you, the others are awaiting us inside. Please follow me."

They walked through the arch and found themselves in a wide area with chalk boards which had notes and equations of some sort scribbled all over them in neat, organized writing. The ground felt cushioned, like thick carpet. It turned out to be moss with clovers abounding as Beast Boy had discovered when he looked down at it. And trees of a very inviting nature grew well spaced apart. They walked into the only tight grouping of trees that could be seen and inside were all of Raven's emotions in various states of sitting or standing. Happy was even sitting on a low hanging branch, letting her feet dangle. "Hey, BB!" She called out seeing them enter. He waved to her.

The rest turned towards the newly arrived people. Anger looked over her shoulder at them from the tree she was leaning on, but quickly turned away again and mumbled under her breath. Raven looked at them all and nudged Crass awake with her foot. She turned towards Beast Boy and smiled in a worried way. "You told me that you felt like I could make you never feel alone again." She paused to gather up her strength, glad that Bravery was standing so close to her. "When you asked me to go on a date it was a little too much for me. I'm just barely getting used to letting these guys do what they want. I wasn't expecting to have to face that kind of flow of emotions from others yet." Bravery rested her hand on Raven's shoulder and gave a gentle squeeze. She smiled weakly and continued. "But, after I calmed down and thought a lot about it. I thought you might have been right about some things, and I overreacted a little." Anger snorted at this. "Fine," she said a little to forcefully, "maybe a lot. I'm willing to give things a chance, but only under one condition."

"What condition?" His mind was racing to try and figure out what kind of condition would be so bad that he wouldn't try it just so he could go on an actual date with Raven. Not finding anything bad enough, his hopes started to rise along with the corners of his mouth.

Raven found Beast Boy's slow smile a bit unnerving, but another gentle squeeze on her shoulder helped her to press forward. "I'm here so that I can become whole. All of them," she gestured at the emotions around her, "are me too. You have to tell me why you'd accept each of them before I'll accept your invitation for a date." She tried to look confident, but his smile had gone from hopeful straight into ecstatic and it knocked her back to her nervousness.

Beast Boy felt like he'd just won the lottery. "That's it? That's all I have to do and then you'll go out with me?"

The butterflies in her stomach made her even more nervous. Part of her had wanted this to make him change his mind about the whole date thing, but another part of her was excited at what he might say and anxious about the date, but in a 'I can't wait for it' kind of way. This didn't help her calm down, so she answered him with a very shaky, "Yeah."

Inside his mind, Beast Boy was doing back flips. "So who do you want me to start with?" His smile not showing the slightest signs of dieing down.

"Ooh! Me First! Me First!" Happy called out from her perch in the tree. She liked the look on his face and thought that she would get a good compliment from him since they had hung out the last time he was here.

He laughed a little. "OK. Happy has got to be one of my favorites of your emotions. I keep wanting to see you smile, and every time she gets one out it only makes me want to see you smile more. Plus, Happy likes my jokes and jokes back. She's fun and funny."

Happy beamed at Beast Boy while Raven hid face with her hood. "May I be next? I'd like to see what he would say about me." Intelligence said, leaning forward inquisitively.

"I like Intelligence 'cause she's the part of you that helps us figure out how to stop the bad guys faster. She's the part of you that likes to always read as much as Cy and I like video games." He grinned at Raven. "Plus the glasses make you look cute."

Raven's cheeks went a little pink. "Fascinating. I would not have thought that you would appreciate Raven's reading." Intelligence marveled.

"Raven wouldn't be Raven without a book somewhere near her…it's just part of who she is."

Intelligence smiled. "Very true. I think that Crass should be next so that she's still awake enough to hear it." She said looking disapprovingly at the emotion trying to make her orange cloak into a pillow.

Crass sat up at hearing she would be next. "So tell me why you like me so I can go to sleep."

For the first time Beast Boy's smile faltered a little, only to be put right back on with another giggle from the green teen. "You make me feel like Raven and I aren't so totally different. You're the part of her that lets her be the Stankball ref without her getting grossed out by it. You're the part that shows she can be a little bit of a slob like I am. Plus, it's funny whenever Raven burps." Crass just gave him a thumbs up and flopped onto her cape and started snoring.

This was really starting to feel like he wasn't going to have any problems getting through her little challenge. Raven could feel her emotion's appreciation for what Beast Boy had said about them and she could feel the desire that the rest had to see what he would say about them. It's a good thing they still don't have a full grip on how to make me feel all this yet, she thought. "Tell me about Bravery. She's probably an easy one." Raven was glad her hood was up; it meant she could avoid eye contact more easily.

"Alright…Bravery has saved my butt more times than I can even remember. I mean, how many fights have we been in when Raven has acted on Bravery's influence and saved us from the bad guy? Plus, she helped you come here to work on getting back together with everyone. And, she gets you to talk to me." He smiled at Bravery at this. She smiled full back at him.

Wisdom smiled calmly at how well things were going. "I believe it would be acceptable if I were to be next."

"I like you because you always have Raven's best interests at heart. You take care of her and you try to get her to become the best she can. You represent her desire to better herself to me." He liked the way Wisdom was smiling. "You planned this with Raven, didn't you?" Beast Boy eyed her, smirking.

"Yes, I did. I think you would agree that it was a sound plan for all concerned. If you weren't as serious about wanting to be closer to Raven, this would have shown that, but if you were serious about everything then Raven would be bound by her promise to move forward and give you your chance. I believe the possibility of finding love is worth the risk." She had looked over to Raven when she had said her last few words to make sure Raven was going to allow this to continue. It looked as though she would. Good, she thought to herself, then this seed will bare good fruit. It was, in her mind anyway, only Anger that posed any kind of a challenge, but Wisdom had faith in Beast Boy. Raven, though, was blushing deeply, but her bowed head and hood kept any of it from showing. Wisdom smiled lightly again, figuring out what was happening on Raven's hidden face. "What draws you to Affection?" She had directed this at Beast Boy.

Beast Boy blushed a little himself. "Well…I like her, but…she's the one who scares me the most."

Raven's head shot up. "Why would you be afraid of her?" She pulled her hood down to get a better look at him.

"Uh," he swallowed hard, "she's the one who has the power here. If she chooses one way I'd feel like I was invincible." He gave a hopeful smile. "But, if she chooses another way…" His face showed well enough how badly it could hurt without the words. "So, I guess she's my hope or my death. I want her to like me like I want you to like me. She holds my fate."

"Kind of melodramatic for Beast Boy, but very sweet." Affection stated plainly, giving Raven a warm smile.

Raven didn't have her hood up to hide the flush that hit her this time. Beast Boy thought she looked beautiful like that. "Just go on to Serenity…and stop staring at me." She tried to sound angry, but it only came out as flustered. Beast Boy turned away all the same, trying to help her feel more comfortable around him.

"Serenity said that I help her with you." He kept turned away from Raven by saying all of this at Serenity herself. She was sitting peacefully leaning against the trunk of a nearby tree. "If I'm helping you and Serenity is the one who says so, then I was helping you keep control of your powers before Trigon fell. Serenity gave me courage after she had told me. I can see why you worked so hard to keep her around. She allows you to face difficult things without them clouding your brain."

Beast Boy looked around and his eyes fell on Anger. She immediately sneered at him, almost daring him to try and find some part of her he liked. He only smiled, which annoyed Anger all the more. "You don't think I like you."

"I know you don't, only Trigon ever did." She spat back at him.

"No he didn't. Trigon didn't like anyone. Not even a little. He used you to get Raven to open the portal. That's all Trigon ever did…he used people." Beast Boy didn't let his eyes fall from hers even for a second. "But I saw you do something that made me think, 'maybe she isn't as bad as she tries to make me believe'. When I tied you up because you were being mean to Raven, you were furious at me. When I cut you loose, you looked like you wanted to punch me with everything you had because I had done that to you…but you didn't. You didn't even pull back your fist, and I'll admit that I was scared of what you'd do. But you didn't do anything, you kept yourself in check." He focused his gaze on her more intensely. "I told you that you didn't have control over Raven's powers, but you showed that you have control over yourself. And, whether you admit it or not, you're not bad; you're just the part of Raven that has to deal with how things upset her. With Trigon gone, you're showing just how good a person you really are."

"Shut up," was all that Anger said to Beast Boy. Raven on the other hand couldn't say anything. Beast Boy had just given honest reasons why he liked even Anger, but even more mind rattlingly numbing was that Raven was sure she saw a faint pink glow creep onto Anger's cheeks before she told him to shut up.

"How can you just accept me like this?" Raven's mind knew he was serious, she knew he meant what he had said, she just couldn't understand why. "How can you possible just think I'm the one who'll give you what you want? Do you even realize how screwed up I am?" She saw Beast Boy's calm demeanor and answered her own question. "Of course you know…how could you not."

"Rae?"

"What, Beast Boy?" She was feeling tired.

"I'm not done yet." She turned to see him walking to one of the trees just barely on the edge of the clearing. He knelt down near it and started talking in a calm, quiet voice. "Bet you thought I forgot about you." He smiled at whomever he was talking to. She was just out of Raven's sight.

Timid, she thought.

"I want you to know how special you are too." Beast Boy was talking to her with the care and tenderness a father gives to his favorite little daughter. "Did you know that you, more than anybody else here make me feel like I'm needed?" No one could see it, but she must have shaken her head. "Well, you do. You're the part of Raven that lets me help her when she's scared or confused or sad. You let me care for her because you're the part of her that needs it. You're also the part of her that says sorry when she says something she doesn't mean. Thank you for letting me help…it's one of the things that help me feel like I'm needed." He smiled again to her. "I'm just going to finish talking to Raven now. I hope you keep letting me help." He stood and walked back towards Raven. She looked like she was in between wanting to cry and confusion.

Affection, on the other hand, was wiping a tear from her eye while smiling her warmest smile. "That was an incredibly gentle and kind thing you just did." He could only smile sheepishly and look at the floor in response.

Telling people exactly how he really felt about something had always been easy for him; he never seemed to stop talking long enough to think up good lies. But with Timid he wanted to not frighten her, and he wanted to make her feel like she made him feel, so he had waited on her turn, allowing the others to go ahead of her, so that he could think about it, at least a little.

Raven was looking around at all of her emotions. Each of them had something on their face that looked like respect or appreciation, even Anger, though it looked like she was only doing it because he hadn't said anything to upset her. Happy just simply beamed at him. "So…I don't know what to do now…I'm not sure how this works."

"But I'm still not done."

"How could you not be done?" She asked exasperatedly. "I don't have any other emotions!"

He walked over to her. "No, you don't. But you're still a part of you. You're the part of you that made them all. The part that holds them all together. You're my favorite part of all because you're Raven, no matter what. With these wonderful emotions that you have or without them, and Raven is the girl I asked out."

Her face went redder than Anger's cape in under three tenths of a second.

He smiled at her and took her hand into his. "Come on, let's go back to camp." And with that, he led her towards the archway ahead of them.

Raven's brain finally snapped back into gear. "The forbidden door is the other way."

"Oh." Embarrassed, he smiled a little and let her lead the way, though he still hadn't let go of her hand.

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(A/N) See, the reason I was excited about this chapter was because, like I said in previous chapters, I don't know any of you well enough to write this story for you, so I'm writing it for me. I'm just banking that others will like it too. But, you may have noticed, I LIKE BEAST BOY WITH RAVEN. I'm a little bit of a romantic; I think that the guy and girl are supposed to end up together. With Teen Titans Robin and Starfire is too obviously one pairing (denying this is to deny nearly four seasons of episodes that almost all have some kind of StarxRob innuendo in them), and Beast Boy and Raven have something between them, even though it won't probably happen in the show. But, I like Raven too much for her to have to end up alone, and Beast Boy is such a great person when you really think about how he tries to make her happy…even though he does screw up an awful lot since he's the main comic relief. But here I can make it happen, so sue me if I try.