(A/N) ShadowRoth, nope, nobody has taken up my plea for a flame as yet. I remain only able to know what they are through others. And a nice thanks to anyone who told me what a flame was like. I want to take this little bit to offer something. If anybody wants a beta-reader/proofreader for their stories, then I would be glad to do so. Just tell me what kind of stuff you want me to read for (spelling, grammar, seeing if something is OOC or not, anything like that).

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

Tamed – Two To One – Where we demonstrate Newton's law of gravity…a lot of things go from up to down.

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Beast Boy helped Raven off of her floor and stared at her. "I'm glad we did this."

Another smile from him just made Raven more unsure about whether or not she had just done the best thing. Feeling his hand still in hers, she looked up at him. "Uh, Beast Boy? Can you let go of my hand? I'm not as comfortable with all this as you are."

He didn't like letting go, but he wanted to get her used to him being around her like this. It was a nice little sip of hope for things to keep getting better when she had said 'not AS comfortable', it meant some part of her was perfectly fine with it, just not enough for her to let go of being nervous. "Rae?"

He had been staring at her again. "Yeah?" A nap would feel really good right now. She just wanted the release of not thinking about all this for a little, and sleep would give that to her.

"I need to do one more thing. I just don't want to surprise you with it."

He was smiling almost manically. Her eyes went wide. He's going to kiss me, her mind raced, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap…

"Well, here it comes." And he fainted.

Raven's eyes had started to close when he fainted so that it was the sound of him landing on the floor that got her eyes open again. "Uhm, Beast Boy?" She looked down at him, and even though he was out cold, he was still smiling happily.

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Beast Boy woke up back in his own room on his bed. Raven sat in a chair at the foot of the bed, like she had done last time.

When she saw his eyes open, she asked, "What happened?" She was still berating herself for thinking he was going to kiss her and for her having been willing to let him.

He closed his eyes again. "I've never done that before…talk to a girl like that. I've talked to girls and asked them out before; just…it's always some big show. Plus, it's you…I always worry about how much trouble my mouth will get me in when I'm around you. I was holding back a lot of panic just so I could get through it all…I sort of went into shock after I saw that I didn't screw anything up. You're not mad at me doing something that made me pass out again, are you?"

Raven was thinking about how much trouble his mouth had almost gotten her into with her own self. "It's OK, I asked you to do it. I'm not mad, but I'm really worn out from it all. I used to always get out of anything that even looked slightly like what we just did. Since you're OK, I'm going to bed."

"Bed? What time is it?" He sat up a little more.

Raven had stood and was pushing the chair back towards the little desk. "It's after dark…it wasn't dark when we came out, but I think you must have been tired too…you've slept for a while now."

"Ugh, I hate this part of passing out. I keep finding out some big chunk of my day is gone, and on top of that, I haven't done my training today." He flopped back down, annoyed with himself.

"Do it tomorrow…but you have to do it in sets. Do the set you missed today in the morning and the other in the evening." She was telling him, and she wanted him to just do what she told him so that he wouldn't have one of those severe migraines again.

"Are you going to help me both times still?" He waited for the answer he felt would come, but he wanted to hear her say it.

A very tired, small smile lit in her eyes. "Yes, I'll still help you. Now go to sleep."

"'K…night, Rae." He turned onto his side, still smiling. He had been smiling so much that his cheeks were getting sore.

"Good night." Raven let herself out and quietly closed his door. She walked back to her own little dwelling deep in thought. She had felt so on edge about everything and now she had a date with Beast Boy. She stopped in front of her door. "I have a date…with Beast Boy." She did the only thing she could think of with how tired she was and how everything was hitting her, she panicked.

Moving quickly into her room she looked down at her mirror. Her mind was instantly remembering the afternoon's visit and everything he had said. Wisdom…she needed Wisdom to help her think of how to handle this. 'She got me into this, she has to help me deal with it.'

Sitting on the floor in front of the mirror she concentrated. When she landed in Nevermore, she was startled to see Wisdom standing near her as though she had been waiting for her. "Welcome, you were expected. Would you like to come into my grove to talk?"

"Uh…sure." Raven followed after her. "How'd you know I was coming to see you?"

"I guessed." Wisdom said smiling her in small, soft way. "Not what I would normally do, but Knowledge and I had talked about it, and it made the most sense that you would seek me once everything had finally registered."

"I want you to tell me why the plan backfired so badly." They weren't at her ring of trees, but Raven didn't want to wait anymore…she was still having trouble keeping calm about everything.

Wisdom smiled again. "You won't like the first part of my answer, though it is true." She turned to face Raven, who had stopped walking. "The first part is that you already know why the plan failed, since I am you, I would not have knowledge beyond your own, I merely have that same knowledge without it being filtered through anything else."

Raven didn't like this answer…she felt annoyed at Wisdom being right, it happened too often. "What do you mean 'filtered'?"

"I mean everything that seeks to suppress and distort truth. Vanity, denial, ego, envy, and any other petty emotion that comes from the darker sides of my sisters and me. And if you are wondering what pettiness Wisdom can bring, it is self-righteousness."

"All of you have downsides…understandable. Then Happy's would be mania?" Raven said thoughtfully.

She was grasping it quickly, good. "Among others."

"So what's the second part of the answer?" Wasn't anyone just going to tell her the first time she asked something?

Wisdom knew that as soon as she started Raven would see it. "The plan did not backfire. It was thought out so that both possibilities could be explored. You just wanted one result, what you received was the other. Your plan was that either he would see some part of you he could not really accept, and therefore he would back down, or he would not see any part of you he disliked and would only pursue you more fervently. The plan was to either discourage Beast Boy or ENCOURAGE him. There was no middle ground result sought for. If you wanted that, you should have left him outside whenever you came here."

Raven was mad at herself. Mad that she was blinding herself to what she had done, and mad at herself that she could risk hurting Beast Boy just because it felt nice for her to have a boy truly like her. She didn't know if she liked Beast Boy as anything more than a good friend. But she had so badly wanted to feel like she had with Malchior before he showed his true colors that she was willing to risk her friendship because of her desire to be wanted again. "He deserves better treatment than I've given him."

"Yes. He does." Wisdom resumed walking forward. "Come, the tree circle will be a good place to continue in."

She followed her brown self inside the trees that marked Wisdom's most solemn spot. This was where she went to focus and concentrate. This was a place of peace to think in without distraction. "So how do I keep from hurting him?"

"That should be plain. I will not answer what you can discover without me." She was not stern, just firm.

"I find out if I like him…I let him take me on a…a date…that's too weird. I've never been on a real date. And now Beast Boy is the first guy to ask me." The soft grass felt cool, but not cold against her legs as she sat Indian style on the ground.

"There have been others. You have just never accepted."

Raven glared at her emotion. "I know that. I've never been asked by someone…someone who I think really likes me. The others just wanted to get to know me for one reason or another, mostly because they thought I would say yes out of desperation. Beast Boy is different. He doesn't want anything else, and he isn't doing this for any other reason than simply because he likes me."

"And what would be wrong with seeing if you would like him the same way?" Wisdom liked Raven like this. She was unsure of herself, yet she was still being honest and looking at things in a realistic light.

Raven studied her shoes rather than look at Wisdom. "Nothing. Nothing whatsoever…except the fact that it scares me to death! How can he like me like this? He isn't like me; he hasn't even read half as many book TITLES as I've read books! It's confusing that someone like him could think that way about someone like me! I always saw him as ending up with a girl like Terra."

Wisdom felt that now would be a good time to illuminate Raven on things that her less than stellar self-esteem had hid from her. "You mean you pictured him with a beautiful, caring, loving person who had trouble controlling her powers?" She hoped that she had gotten the sarcasm right…Crass had been helping her learn because she thought it would come in handy…this was Raven she was an emotion for after all.

A thoughtful stare greeted this revelation. "What do you mean by that? What're you trying to prove?"

"That what you thought Terra was before she betrayed you all is what you are. Beast Boy may act in a very immature way most of the time, but he acts the way he does for good reasons. He IS immature, I will not deny that, but how many young men are not so in some proportion? But he is also very kind and tries to befriend everyone. If he sees anyone that is not enjoying themselves enough, or smiling enough, or laughing enough, then he takes it on as his duty to see that their deficiency is quickly replenished. He also likes to think of himself as a man, and he sees as part of the role of a man as protecting women. He protected you from Adonis and he tried to protect Terra from herself. I believe Beast Boy expresses his feelings for someone in a very MALE way…through action. What he does is just as potent as saying how he feels could be, and he's done more for you than any of the other Titans."

Raven blushed again and felt annoyed with herself for not being able to stop doing it. Her cheeks had gotten more than their fair share of blood today. A thought crossed her mind. "If I want to keep from hurting him, the best thing I can do is to like him back. Since I can't force myself to, what's the best course to take to find out if I do?"

"To let him treat you as he wishes and see what you feel from it. If you enjoy what he does, if you enjoy his company, then you have half of your answer. Liking what he does isn't everything. The other half is to see if you like doing for him. Find out if you enjoy making him happy."

Raven creased her forehead, deep in thought. "I want to do this right. I need to be careful." And then the skies opened and Raven felt as though her answer landed neatly in her lap with large letters that described exactly how to use what she had received. "Wisdom, I need you with me to help guide me, but it's not enough for me to just come here every now and then. I need to receive as much as you can give me so that I can use as much of your ability as I can. I think that we need to try merging, and I think we need to make it permanent. I think I would end up hurting Beast Boy badly in some way if I didn't put you back where you belong."

Wisdom smiled, almost excitedly, but it was too hard to tell with the small nature her smiles always took. "I believe you are correct."

Raven stood and thought for a moment. When she needed to join with all of her emotions there was always a great need driving it. She could think of no need greater than this. She focused on becoming one with Wisdom and closed her eyes.

Wisdom and Raven slowly lifted into the air. There was a sound of wind though it never seemed to arrive, for their cloaks hung limply in place. Wisdom focused on rejoining with Raven and started to be swung around in a circle. As the speed which Wisdom was orbiting Raven increased she became more and more of a blur. When all that could be seen was a brown ring encompassing the purple haired Titan it blindingly shrank in towards Raven and with a flash of light, only Raven remained floating gently in the air. She drifted down and as her feet felt earth beneath them she opened her eyes.

The landscape had changed. She knew she was no longer in Wisdom's grove of trees, she was in the in between place. The place that had always been so barren was now much greener. The ground looked like it was good soil, made for growing things. There were trees that looked to be the same kind as were in Wisdom's realm, though they weren't as close together. The path that led from archway to archway was now lined with clovers and moss covered small patches of ground, usually around a tree, but not always. "Then the barren land was always MY domain. And without emotion it laid in ruins…ugh, it's gonna take a while to get used to talking like that sometimes. Maybe after I rejoin with a few more emotions it won't happen anymore."

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The next morning found Beast Boy in an anything-but-surprising good mood. He had just gotten a date with prettiest girl in all of Jump City. Well…at least he thought she was the prettiest. Robin might not agree with me…but I doubt he'd admit who he thought was prettier; he smirked to himself as he continued washing the breakfast dishes. He had exactly the perfect place to take her. He'd found it last night after Raven had gone back into her room. He just had too much energy to sleep.

Seeing Beast Boy almost skipping back into camp gave Raven a small laugh. He must have heard it, because he came over to her, and he had stopped walking with so much bounce in his step. "Thanks for doing the dishes." She was determined to let him stay on his emotional high. Crass would have to just relax about how she thought he looked and Happy wasn't going to get any of her jokes told today, so she should just give up telling them to me, she thought inwardly.

"You're welcome, but what was so funny?"

She was glad to see that he wasn't apprehensive, just curious. "You just seem more up than usual." He beamed at her and went to his hut to get his animal flash cards. She smiled, taking in the wonderful high it was to see somebody so excited because of her. No one could deny how good it felt when somebody loved you…wait…back up…when somebody 'loved' you…did Beast Boy love her? He didn't ever say he did. But some part of Raven was telling her that he looked like somebody in love.

"You ready, Rae?" He had walked up expecting her to take the cards and start heading to the clearing, but she was still just staring off at something. Beast Boy turned to see what it was she was looking at, but there wasn't anything there. He kept staring at the same spot, hoping to finally see what she was seeing, but nothing popped out at him. He leaned over to Raven, still staring and asked, "What are we looking at?"

Raven finally heard Beast Boy and was about to answer that she had been thinking and wasn't looking at anything when she realized how close he was to her. She froze. She felt that if she moved he might move and something could happen. 'Something' remained conveniently vague in her mind, but she was sure it would have to do with what guys liked to do with girls they liked. She calmed down and saw that he was still waiting for an answer, giving him one was the best thing to do. "I was just thinking…sometimes I stare at nothing when I do that."

"Cool! I stare at nothing all the time." It was only after he said it that Beast Boy realized how wrong that had come out. "I meant while I'm thinking!" He tried to quickly add, but Raven had already smiled about what he said. She at least looked apologetic about it, turning her face away and then looking at him out of the corner of her eye.

"Don't worry about it…you ready to put on a few pounds?" A joke is what he needs.

"Huh?"

She sighed…figures it'd be a joke that only I think is funny. "Your first card says 'hippopotamus', I was just making a joke about how you take on the weight of the animal you change into and I think that this is coming out all stupid and I killed the joke by over explaining it." Having finished, Raven realized how idiotic what she said sounded like. "Ugh, what I meant was…"

"It's OK Raven! I just didn't get it at first, it's funny." He smiled at her. "See? It made me smile…that's a success story for a joke."

He had to be doing this just for her benefit, there's no way her lame joke made him smile. "Let's just start training."

"Dude! Your leotard's brown! When did you do that?" Shock and a large desire to hear if what he thought this meant was true or not filled his eyes.

Raven looked down at the clothing he had pointed at. She had seen that it changed color when she had gone to take her morning shower. She looked up at Beast Boy, still very proud of herself. "I rejoined with Wisdom last night."

"No way! That's awesome!" He started to dance and strut. "Go Raven…go Raven…you the Ma…uh woman…you the woman!"

She laughed again; she noticed though that it was a much stronger sensation than it had been since she had taken the cuffs off of her emotions. Wisdom is one with me again. They have one of their own to focus on like they did with Serenity. Guess this means I have to be on guard about what to do if they trigger my powers. Growing pains suck she thought savagely as she realized how much stress and anxiety she had gone through so far, and it was only the first day of their second week.

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(A/N) I thought I was going to have them talk to each other about the date in this chapter, but it seemed to not be quite right yet. With the busy schedule they have, a serious talk has to happen in the afternoon or at night. I have some surprises still in store, if I didn't, why would you even read this? Anyway, look for a more real threat to rear its head soon. Please review, it's a help to me no matter what you say, cause even if you only say "post soon" it's encouraging.