(A/N) This may surprise some of you, but I'm actually a clone of Andrew Johnson. Yeah, it's weird being the clone of the first president to ever go through impeachment proceedings, but I cope. I have this weird paranoia about letting my friends go to movie theaters alone though. Thank you for the good reviews, I really like the written out ones I've been getting. Regrem Erutaerc, I thought I'd let you in on a few things 'cause you seem to really think a lot about Raven's emotions. Happy is last in my ordering because pink is the closest color to white out of all of them. Also, I won't have very much of various emotions falling for Beast Boy, because I'm trying to hold them to their core set of emotions. They go to neutral when not in their normal field, except for very small shows of other emotions. Hence why Anger told Beast Boy to shut up after he complimented her. She was annoyed that he had an affect on her, i.e. the very slight blush. If I had Anger expressing love, she would be out of her element, and I'm trying to keep them true to those elements by just making the one in charge of whatever emotion that's supposed to be being felt more powerful in their expression of what was supposed to be felt. So if Beast Boy does get even Anger to love him, then Affection is gonna be pretty juiced.

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

Tamed – Of Moonlight – Beast Boy has a date with DESTINY! No he doesn't! He doesn't? No, he has a date with Raven. Oh yeah! Idiot.

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"We should really give it a name." Raven and Beast Boy had just finished discussing about what the beast might want after he had found some kind of den to lay claim to. Raven had gotten tired of just calling it 'it' or the 'beast'.

"A name? You mean like, Larry or something?" Naming it, when it was him, was too confusing.

She sighed. "I meant like giving a name to what kind of animal it is, but I guess a personal name would be OK too."

"So what do we call him? I like my name…I mean my real name, but it would be confusing to hear that part of me go by it. What are some good cat names?" He looked thoughtful while he stood.

Raven felt very foolish for a second; of course he had a real name. What kind of parents would have named their son Beast Boy? "I'm thinking that Muffin or Snowball just aren't gonna cut it for him."

Beast Boy laughed. "That's pretty funny, but yeah…so what name then? Something that kind of describes him? Yeah! A name that gives a hint at what he is or what he's like."

"He's big, predatory, cat like, but he looks a little like a wolf too, and he's very wild, everything is about carnal or primal needs." Raven pondered the points she had enumerated. "Cullen means young animal…does that work?"

"Cullen? Uh…yeah, that works 'cause it can be said like the creature is called a Cullen or its name is Cullen." Weird…it has a name now. "Uh, Rae? Can we do my changing drill now?"

"That sounds OK, but why so quick after lunch?" Raven didn't like thinking about her training. She was having a lot more trouble figuring out how to get her and Crass to feel like they completely needed to rejoin. She just didn't fully see why she needed Crass, and it had caused her a lot of headaches having to listen to the least cultured of her emotions.

This week couldn't have gone any faster. He tried to hold back his grin, but it was a pointless attempt. Not smiling when he wanted to was just something Beast Boy had never learned how to do. "I need time to get set up for tonight." He felt his cheeks go slightly pink and quickly looked away.

Raven stared at him for a second. Tonight. This is Friday. Tonight. The panic that she hadn't remembered to have during the week suddenly seemed to have caught up with her. She hadn't realized so much time had passed. How could she forget it was Friday already, she berated herself? She snatched at a passing thought. Beast Boy. He had kept them both so busy and had talked only about things she could talk forever about, things like her favorite Poe poems. He had asked her so many questions about things that she had read or studied. He was distracting her! Raven wanted to curse because of how obvious it was that Beast Boy had learned some things from Robin about manipulation. At least he used it in a good way. She was glad she hadn't spent the week stressed out in addition to her frustration with Crass.

Beast Boy just watched Raven as she seemed to be arguing about something. At least, that's what her eyes looked like. She had a panicked look, then realization, then something that looked like regret, anger for a brief bit, and finally calm. He thought it would be safe to talk to her again. "So is it OK if we do my training now?" He tried to look blank, he just wanted her to hear his question and answer it without thinking that his way of looking at her meant something. She would just take longer.

She sighed. "Yeah, come on…we didn't get to meerkat last time and I want to see what it looks like."

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Raven sat on her floor almost dreading going back into her mirror to talk to Crass all afternoon. Maybe she wouldn't be so bad this time, she thought hopefully, though she didn't really believe it.

When she landed in front of Crass'…well it was really a kind of slum compared with her other emotions, she just walked straight in through the arch. The week had taught her that she could waste almost an hour sometimes if she waited for Crass to answer her…well, knock would be close enough.

Crass' slum had books, laundry, and garbage littered about. Raven had no idea where she had gotten any of it, it's not like there were clothing and convenience stores in her mind. There were some rocks of a decent size here and there that Crass had graffitied. The thing she liked least about all of this was that she didn't know why she would ever want to do anything like what Crass did. It all seemed pointless at best.

She finally found Crass asleep on top of some shirt that looked vaguely like one of Starfire's. "Crass…Crass? CRASS!"

The orange cloak finally shifted. "Why'd you have to wake me up? I was having a good dream, gloom girl."

"Crass, you know why I'm here…why do we have to go through this every time?" Raven could already see the headache at the end of the tunnel.

"We have to do it every time because you still refuse to accept me out of stubborn stupidity." Rather than get up, she just rolled over to face Raven. "Why would I want to join back with you, so that I never get to take another nap again? You're so prudish that I'd be locked up worse than Anger was because of your dad." She rolled back over. "Tell me when you're ready to actually find out if you've got enough brains to figure out why you can't merge with me."

"Why didn't you just tell me this kind of stuff right off the bat? It would have saved a whole lot of time if you actually said what you wanted!" Frustration filled Raven's mind…all she needed to do was ask what Crass wanted to do and do it. It was wonderfully maddening to find out after a week of listening to Crass talk about every gross sounds she liked.

Crass rolled over again…a record for movement in an hour time span. "I thought you were supposed to be smart enough to figure it out. I WAS telling you what you needed. You're supposed to find out what we like and then you admit it to yourself enough that I can get back in. Instead, you just act like you always do when I'm around, like I'm the foreign emotion that prim and proper little Raven couldn't possibly have. Flat out denial is all you've ever given me." She rolled over again to get more comfortable. "You may have been afraid of most of your emotions, but you're not afraid of me, you're embarrassed. What kind of stupid acceptance is that?"

Raven rubbed the bridge of her nose. Crass didn't sound upset, she was just being rude about how Raven wasn't doing things right. "So what, I go around saying I think burping is funny and take naps at the drop of a hat? Yeah, that'll work great for me…trying to catch some bad guy, but oh…wait! I gotta take a nap now."

"Yeah, cause I'm just asking you to be lazy. I'm asking you to admit that you want to do this stuff sometimes. Admit it to me, yourself. Whatever. Just stop being an idiot." Crass sat up and pulled a bag of chips that looked well past their use by date and started munching them down. "I can remember the last nap I took before you broke me off of you. It was the most wonderful thing I can remember. I want back in, but you just want to pretend I don't exist."

Raven's eyes went wide. "You can remember before you were here?"

"No, gullible, but I can imagine. I think I'm right, but I won't know till you admit that I'm a part of you." She wiped her hands and mouth on her robe and just walked off.

"Hey! Who said we were done?"

"I did, deal with it. You gave me that freedom, so back off." And she flew off.

Raven sighed deeply. How could she let something like that back in? It felt like it would be a sure fire way to alienate herself completely from the others. Sighing again, she made her way to the forbidden door.

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Raven had just lain on her bed for the rest of the afternoon. She didn't feel like doing anything. She just wanted to sleep away her time rather than deal with that annoying, frustrating, doppelganger, Crass.

She was just drifting off to sleep when she heard a knock at her door. Beast Boy, the date…oh crap, oh crap, oh crap…

"Rae? Are you in there?" He hoped that she was, since it would be a lot harder to find her if she was somewhere else on the island or in Nevermore. He heard her call back through the door.

"Yeah, just give me a second." She had gotten up and quickly checked her hair. A sigh of relief at remembering that her hair just kind of fell into place. She checked her leotard and cloak to make sure there wasn't anything on them and seeing that there wasn't, she went to the door. "Hey, Beast Boy. I…" She had opened her door to be greeted, not by the green young man, but by a bouquet of wild flowers. There were lots of different colors and kinds; he must have really scouted around to find them all. She took them from his outstretched hand. "They're…beautiful." She inhaled deeply, they smelled very fresh. "Thank you."

He smiled at her and offered his hand. "You ready?"

She was glad that she only froze for a second. "Sure, just…let me put these somewhere." Ducking back inside she set the flowers on the little desk near her bed. She would need to remember water and something to put them in after…after their…she tried her hardest and let go of the fear and panic that kept trying to take over. When she got back to the door she saw him offer his hand again. She looked at it with a little trepidation, but took it anyway. "So…do I get to know where we're going and what we're doing now?"

"Nope." He smiled. "You get to know where when we get there and what when we do it!" He felt so alive! He was taking Raven on a date, no one would interrupt anything, and she was looking as nervous as he felt beneath his sheer excitement. "I think you'll like it though…I had to really work had to get us the good seats." He turned to see if she thought his little joke was funny and she smiled wanly at him. Good enough, he thought.

Raven didn't like to admit it to herself, but she was intimidated by how calm Beast Boy seemed about all of this. He had passed out after talking with her emotions, shouldn't he be showing something that looked like the anxiety she was having just holding his hand? She was still lost in thought when they stopped walking. It startled her out of her little reverie and she gave a small gasp looking around. He had found one of the waterfalls.

Her reaction to first seeing the place was exactly what he wanted. He wanted her to be caught off guard by how beautiful the scene was. He had moved their little folding tables and chairs earlier and set them under a weeping willow that stood about a little ways off from the base of the falls. There was a candle, and he had remembered to clear away the branches that would hang a little too close to them or the little fire once it was lit. He had even trimmed back the branches that would block their view of the falls. He guided Raven to the cozy little setting he had arranged and pulled back her chair for her.

Feeling overwhelmed by everything she still managed to thank Beast Boy for pulling out her chair. Once she was seated though, she found herself alone. She turned around and didn't see him behind her either. "Beast Boy? Where did you go?"

He called out from behind a tree a little further downstream. "I'm just getting dinner. I'm coming right back."

He finally emerged from behind the tree carrying two platters or plates of some kind, Raven couldn't tell, but the food was covered by something that looked like a makeshift lid made out of leaves. As Beast Boy set one down in front of her, she saw that she was right. He had taken some large leaves and tied a few of them together by the stem to make his plate covers.

After he had set his down he moved to where he could reach both lids and took them off with a flourish. "Tada!"

Raven laughed. "How did you manage to make a hamburger out here? Where'd you even get the bread?"

He reached out with a match he had lit and used it to light the candle. "I saved it after I remembered you saying something about wanting a cheeseburger, so it might be a little stale. I did everything I could to keep it fresh, sorry if it doesn't taste just right." He was proud that he had given her a surprise she liked so much, but just as much, he was worried she wouldn't like it once she took her first bite. "We didn't come with any cheese, so I couldn't do that part."

"Doesn't meat go bad if you have it around for this long?" It was a sweet thing to do, but not if it poisoned her.

He smiled, but looked away. "It…uh…it isn't…it's, uhm, fresh."

She stared. "You…"

"Yeah." Another weak smile came and went while he kept his face turned straight down at his food.

She was still staring at him. He had even gone against his own nature to do this nice thing for her and she was acting as scared as that deer had been when the beast…no, when Cullen had attacked it. "Thank you." She couldn't think of what else to say and she thought she better start eating before she looked ungrateful. She picked up her burger and closed her eyes as she bit down. It tasted fine. The bread hadn't gotten stale, and the burger itself was pretty tasty. "This is really good," she said after finishing her first bite. He had been staring at her closely as soon as she had reached for her food.

"You really like it?"

"Yeah, it's fine."

"You're not just saying that 'cause of what I had to do, right?" He eyed her suspiciously.

"No, it really is good."

"'Cause I would hate it if you were eating that when you didn't like it. I could give the thing a proper burial if you didn't like it."

He was getting on her nerves. "But I like it." She forced herself to smile even larger.

"It was a gof…"

"I said I like it! Knock it off!"

He quickly grabbed his fork and started eating his own food, various steamed vegetables. "Sorry." He just pushed at the broccoli he had. "I'm just nervous."

"Good. I was getting tired of feeling like the only one." She smiled lightly at him and took another bite.

He returned her smile and ate in earnest. It was nice to just enjoy her company. "It's kinda funny. Since we eat every meal together with just the two of us this doesn't feel all that strange."

She thought about that while she chewed and smiled. Raven felt calmer about the whole thing, they had been doing things like this every day since they'd arrived. Why had she been so nervous about this, she lightly chided herself?

Beast Boy couldn't help but look at her, she seemed so content. She seemed happy. His heart felt twice as large knowing that he had helped her to feel like that. "Rae?" He smiled, watching her taking a drink of the water that had been on the table.

"Yeah?" She couldn't help herself in smiling at him.

"After we're done here I have another place to take you, we kind of have to be there on time." He was sure he would pop from everything that was going on inside him.

"OK, I'm just about done. You want to go now?" Wait…he didn't say where they were going…he just said they had to be on time. Suddenly she wasn't so calm again. Surprises were nice, but they needed to be spaced further apart so that she didn't have this many butterflies fighting for air space in her stomach.

He smiled weakly. "We'll go when you're done."

Her appetite had abandoned her. "I'll just finish this later." Raven felt gratitude for being so permanently pale. She was sure that if she weren't that Beast Boy would have noticed the color drain from her face.

He got up quickly and covered their leftovers with his leafy lids. He then helped her out of her seat. Taking her hand in his he led her off towards the cliff that the waterfall was falling from. "We'll need to fly to get there, just follow me on up." He changed into a humming bird and started to zip straight up the rocky face of the mountain.

Raven wasn't expecting him to change into something small, she also wasn't expecting him to be so fast she thought as she glided up after the little green blur. "Slow down a little, Beast Boy. It's getting dark and I can't see you that well." She suddenly had a little pure green humming bird right next to her who easily kept up as she rose to the top of the cliff.

After they had reached the acme of the climb Beast Boy changed back into himself. "It's just over here." He took her hand again and led her past a few trees that had managed to find a place to hold onto the craggy rock. "OK, now we just sit here and wait."

All Raven could see in front of her was a dark, open horizon that stretched below the opposite side of the mountain they had just come up. The sunset was in the other direction she thought as she settled next to Beast Boy on a fallen tree.

"I thought you might like this more than a sunset. The moon rises just over there." He pointed out past a part of the island that dipped back in towards them. He then let his head rest on his knees and watched for the moon, looking at Raven out of the corner of his eye every now and again.

Raven watched where Beast Boy had pointed and after a few minutes the silvery orb started to rise out of the ocean. She smiled softly at the crescent form that slowly showed more and more of itself. "It's beautiful," she said as she took his hand. "Thank you for bringing me here to see all of this. It's been really nice."

He felt ready to faint when she had taken his hand with hers. "I want to tell you why I think the moonrise was a better thing for us to come watch than the sunset."

She smiled at him shyly. "Then tell me." She didn't like to admit it, but if this was how he was going to treat her, then she wouldn't mind this happening again.

"When I think of you I think of the moon. Your skin just seems to be kissed by moonlight. You can't really see colors at night, but when it isn't black, it looks like purple shades to me. Your hair and your eyes remind me of that night sky color. But your lips…" He turned away from her. "It's like you have the stars in your smile, you just let the stars go out too much. I think you should smile a lot more." He slid his eyes over to her, the feel of her hand in his giving him an urge to touch those stars.

Raven felt very odd. She had never felt this…drawn…to anyone, not even Malchior, and that scared her. But as scared as she felt, she didn't want the feeling that her fear was mixed with to end. She had never known what to do with a boy, she didn't even know if Beast Boy was going to do anything or not. Because of how unsure she felt, she decided to just do what she normally did when she felt this strongly in a situation and she grabbed Beast Boy in a hug. He felt warm to her and he was soon holding her in his arms, her head resting on his chest. She liked the feel of them sitting there like that, so she just kept on holding him while they continued to watch the moon rise higher and higher into the night sky. He was absentmindedly stroking her hair. "I wouldn't mind doing this again…you don't need to make me anything with meat next time." She smiled turning her face up towards his.

He saw her looking up at him. "I wouldn't mind either." Her face was so close to his, and she was holding him so tightly, AND she was smiling. It was more than his poor heart could take and he passed out.

Feeling him suddenly fall backwards Raven was pulled with his limp form over the back of the tree trunk. She Landed on Beast Boy, so she didn't hurt herself, but she didn't know what had just happened. "Beast Boy?" Seeing he was passed out she laughed at her rotten luck at having been on such a great date with a guy who passed out whenever he hit his 'being close to a girl and having her pay attention to me' maximum. "Guess we need to train you on that too." She helped him into a sitting position and sat next to him, waiting for him to wake up.

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(A/N) I finally realized why I empathize with the whole Beast Boy and Raven pairing. I was reading some old journal entries, and in the entry I had listed out a number of things I did as part of my personality that some acquaintance didn't understand about me. It read like a "Why Beast Boy jokes around and is generally a goof" essay. Kind of funny that I acted so much like he does, I still act a lot like he does (the whole, not liking people not laughing or smiling, corny humor, immaturity, and love of video games thing). And for the other half, girls like Raven are the ones I'm attracted to, sarcastic, smart, and a little dark. I don't know why, I just find those things appealing. So I'm probably just projecting myself onto the show, which is probably why I like it.