(A/N) Just as a little tip-off, don't expect any lemon in this story, I just don't do that kind of stuff, plus I have a hard time believing Raven would allow it and I have a hard time believing Beast Boy would actually be able to stay conscious if there was a less clothed woman in front of him…he's kind of timid about affection. Regrem Erutaerc, I forgot one of the reasons why Happy is last. How could she be truly happy if she still wasn't whole? ;-)

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

Tamed – Through the Eyes of a Beast – Cullen has something like a nightmare, and Raven comforts him.

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Raven walked up next to Affection who was still looking at the new pictures of Beast Boy. She looked down and felt her cheeks go red. The picture that Affection was sighing over was of the kiss Raven had given the green changeling. Raven looked more closely at it. "When did Beast Boy get to be taller than me?"

"He's always been taller, he just slouches a lot or he's hunched forward." Affection still didn't look away from the visual memory of the moment that had her captivated. "He probably does that because he's more used to standing like an animal does."

"I always thought he was just short. Oh well, I'm outta here." Affection only mumbled a farewell as Raven drifted lazily along the path that would take her to the forbidden door. After going through Affection's archway she stopped for a second to look around at the area that was in between her emotions.

There were now large boulders every so often, and they looked inviting to Raven. She drifted over by one of them and just laid, stomach down, on top of its smooth surface. While she idled there she let a little of her power out and doodled on the large rock, carving little figures into the stone. She got up after a little while and decided to finish heading out. She caught sight of the shirt that had looked like one of Starfire's that she had seen earlier sitting at the foot of a tree. "I'll get it later." And she flew on towards the archway that would get her back to her room.

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Beast Boy's mind was in a tumble. He still felt a lot of apprehension about what the Cullen had done to Raven and about what it had thought, but that was miniscule when compared with the tumult of happiness in his head from Raven's kiss. He kept replaying it in his mind, just to remind himself how real and…cool it had been. Raven had actually kissed HIM! He felt light headed at that and sat down, not wanting to repeat his earlier performances of the boy who couldn't stay awake. "I really hope it's confusing for her too. It'd be so not fair if she wasn't having to go through anything like this."

He let his mind replay the event again, and he smiled at the feelings that seemed to explode inside him. Then he replayed what the Cullen had done, and shuddered. Things were getting intense. The thing inside him needed to be under his control soon so that he could be sure Raven would be safe. A thought struck Beast Boy. "If I'm asleep most of the time when he's awake, he's probably asleep when I'm awake. And I could feel what he was feeling, maybe I can make him feel what I feel." He thought hard about this and sprang up off his bed. "Maybe Raven can help me figure out how to do it."

Crossing the short distance between their doors, Beast Boy knocked and waited. After nothing happened for a few minutes he knocked again. He heard some mumbling and then a sleepy looking Raven opened her door. "Oh, hey, BB. I was just taking a nap. What's up?"

"I, uh…did you just call me BB?"

"Yup…you call me 'Rae' all the time, it's only fair I get to call you some nickname too." She smiled at him.

"I didn't mind, it's just you don't use nicknames." She leaned against her doorframe, smirking at him. "Did you do something? 'Cause there's something really different."

"But, can you figure it out without any help?" She smiled a little mischievously and closed her cloak more tightly around herself so that her leotard wouldn't show.

Beast Boy looked her up and down, trying to think what it could be; her actions didn't make as much sense as they had before now. But all he could see that was different was the teasing smile she wore. He looked at her with a little mischievous look of his own. "I could always make you tell me."

"And how would you pull that one off? Annoy it out of me?" This ought to be good.

If she hadn't been so obviously kidding around, her comment would have stung like the ones she usually said when he was trying to make her laugh before they came to the island. "No, I'd do this." And he changed himself into a flea and quickly hopped into Raven's room. She still couldn't see him so he changed into a mouse to get behind her. He changed back into his normal form and hugged her around her waist. "Ha! I caught you so you have to tell me."

Raven jumped a little at being grabbed so unexpectedly. "Whoa…who said you could come in?" She enjoyed the warmth that being held by Beast Boy always brought. "And who said I mind being caught?" She said leaning into him.

This was more than Beast Boy had hoped for, so it caused him to panic a little. "Uh…uhm, OK." He tried to think more clearly and he remembered that he was supposed to be figuring something out…what was it he was supposed to be figuring out? Raven is too close for me to think. Then he remembered. What's different? Why's she acting like this? "Shouldn't I get some kind of hint since I actually surprised you?" He really hoped she would…he was lost.

"A reward? That sounds fair, I mean, it was actually pretty good to get in behind me like that." She thought about what might be an acceptable hint. "I called you 'BB', and I didn't get mad about you coming into my room."

The only people who had ever called Beast Boy 'BB' were Cyborg and…a few of Raven's emotions. He tried to remember which one was supposed to be next after she had rejoined Wisdom. He had been kind of staring at Raven when Intelligence had told her about it. The memory finally floated to the top of his convoluted intellect and he had the answer. "You got another emotion back!" He heard what he said and regretted it. "No, wait, that came out bad. I meant you fused with another emotion…you always had them; just you didn't always show it! And it's been a real shock out here since you've been feeling them all so much that I have to stare at your eyes or hair when I want to look at you 'cause the color of your cloak keeps changing and it gives me a headache if I stare at it." There, he thought, nothing wrong with a little rambling.

Raven laughed a little. "Good job, think you deserve a reward for that too?"

Beast Boy's eyes widened at what reward she might give him. He tried to sound calm. "Uh, sure. I got it right, didn't I?"

An impish smile came to her lips. "Well, too bad. You only got it half right. You forgot to say which emotion."

"Aw! No fair! I knew that it was Crass, and it was hard to figure out since she's not the only one who calls me 'BB' and she's definitely not the only one who wouldn't get mad at me for coming in your room." He rested his head on Raven's shoulder. "Since I got it half right, can I get half the reward?" He tried to look as pathetic as he could.

Raven smirked at him. She turned around and gave him a big hug. "That's about half of what you would have gotten. So, why'd you come over and ruin my nap?" Her pumpkin colored leotard was now showing freely after her hug had moved her robes out of the way.

He smiled at her. "Congratulations on having another emotion return where it goes, and on setting a fascinating new trend in Halloween-for-all-the-year clothing."

"I'll let that slide since I've been teasing you too, but come on, tell me what you came for already." She slumped a little to get the point across that she didn't want to wait for him to say whatever it was any more.

It worked. "I was thinking about the Cullen." His face losing the smile he had had almost the whole time he had been there talking to her. "When I was changed into it, I could feel what it was thinking. I want to know if you can help me figure out how to make it feel what I do. I think he's probably asleep when I'm in control like I was with him before today. So, I think we need to wake him up while I'm still me."

Raven's face had turned as serious as Beast Boy's while he spoke. "You want me to see if I can find him, don't you?" Beast Boy nodded. "I'm going to do what I did with Robin when he thought he was seeing Slade. You need to sit down. Use my bed; I need you to stay still. Laying down will help."

Beast Boy looked at her bed apprehensively. It was her bed, and this was her room, and they were alone. "You sure I can't use the chair?" He asked with a little quaver in his voice.

"It's better if you use the bed…this is a lot easier if you're trying to help me. Plus with Robin there was only Robin in his head." She watched him finally sit down. "Good. Now lean back and relax, I need you as calm as you can be." He did as he was told, laying his arms across his stomach as he let go of his tension. "Just pretend you're trying to take a quick nap." She floated in place and crossed her legs. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos." She closed her eyes in concentration, feeling her way through Beast Boy's mind. She moved past his foremost thoughts, ones that had him actively seeking memories of things that made him feel at peace. She smiled inwardly at the number of them that contained her as a main character. Pressing deeper into his psyche she located Cullen. It was sleeping, just like Beast Boy had been, a sleep that had no dreams. She probed the primitive bit of Beast Boy and she sensed a strong desire for independence, freedom, and territory. She pulled herself out of the other persona contained within her friend and found the same desires within him as Cullen had. They were gentler…he wouldn't do anything that would upset someone else in the pursuit of his desires, while Cullen, just acted on them.

Raven decided to try and wake him up. She was about to say something to him when she decided that it wouldn't work since Cullen didn't understand English. Instead she directed a strong desire for him to wake up. She felt his mind starting to become active.

Cullen was angry at first. There was something disturbing his sleep and he couldn't see anything through the dark. When he tried to stand he was afraid. He couldn't move. He couldn't even twitch. He couldn't even call out to his mate for help and protection. Other predators could find him and he wouldn't be able to fight. Slowly though, he had the feeling someone was watching. They were close and they smelled…like his mate. Safe. Then he felt something that he didn't understand. He suddenly saw his mate. He didn't understand, he still couldn't move, yet he was moving. He felt the strange feeling again. It was…words. Words were be made at him. They were like growling to him, but he started to understand them. His mate had done something to him…something to help him. She was calling him, like he called to her. 'Beast Boy'. 'Beast Boy' was her…name…for him.

Raven was looking deeply into Beast Boy's eyes. "Do you feel OK? He's awake now, but just like with you, he doesn't have control." She had backed out of Cullen's mind after his fears started…it made her feel guilty that it was scared because of what they had to do.

"I'm…" After thinking he said, "fine." He sat up on the bed, still staring at Raven. "I can feel him a lot more than when he's asleep. He isn't happy about all this, but…" He smiled. "He's happy you're here. It makes him feel safe."

"I don't like that it scared him." She rubbed her eyes with the palms of her hands.

Beast Boy rested his hand on her arm. "He's feeling better, like I said, you make him feel safe." Standing up and stretching Beast Boy was hit with a strong hunger. "You feel like eating dinner? I'm starved."

"Sure." She said as she stood and walked with him out the door.

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Beast Boy had been gone for an hour at least, and Raven was starting to worry. He had said he was going to get some things for dinner and be right back. So, when he finally did come walking back into camp with a couple of baskets hanging from his hands, she marched right up to him. "Why'd you take so long? I thought you were just getting some stuff and coming right back."

He looked at her incredulously. "I was! Look, I got us everything we need." He showed her the few fruits and vegetables he had in one basket and the two rabbits in the other.

"You got rabbits? I didn't think you would be doing anything like that for a while still."

"I got them so I could show you how to prepare it for cooking, like I said I would. Come on, we should do this at the sink." He started to walk off, and Raven trailed behind him. Joining with Crass was going to be proven or broken with what was about to happen.

They came up on their little faucet and basin and Beast Boy washed the vegetables and fruit free from any dirt on them. "You don't want to mix what's on the animals with anything else, so make sure you clean everything else you're gonna clean before the meat." He grabbed one of the two rabbits and showed her what to look for in getting ready to skin it. "You just go up the belly and around the neck. The fur pulls off and you help it get down the legs with your knife if it won't go on its own." He pulled out a knife and performed the actions he had spoken while Raven only watched with a slightly queasy look on her face. "Make sure you don't cut any thing around the tail, you can get gross stuff all over if you do. And, to get rid of the internal stuff, you just kind of pull it out and cut as little as possible, that stuffs full of things that smell really bad and can make the meat taste horrible."

Raven marveled at how disgusting it looked, but she kept down whatever was fighting to get out of her stomach the way it had gone in. "So…that's all there is to it?"

"Yeah. Except for the head. After you get rid of that, it's just like something you can buy at the store, only fresher and still a little warm."

The 'still a little warm' had pushed Raven over the edge. She ducked behind a tree and just let her stomach eject the objects that had been squirming around during the entire lesson. Coughing and spitting out as much of the nasty taste in her mouth as she could, she came out from her hiding spot to see Beast Boy with a towel and a glass of water. "Ugh, thanks."

Giving her a sympathetic smile was all he did while she finished drinking her water. "That happens to a lot of people their first time seeing it. It's why people like to pay more to get it prepackaged from a store than it would cost if they caught it themselves." He rubbed her back a little. "When you're ready to try yours, I'll help you with each step."

"I'm not touching that. I could barely hold back what I did while you were doing that." She was horrified that he expected her to still clean the second rabbit after losing whatever had been left of her lunch.

"I'm sorry, Rae, but it's the only way to learn. Just remember, it's only gross because you haven't done it before. Like how little kids think kissing is gross."

His joke and the smirk that accompanied it didn't have much of an affect. "Cleaning a dead animal is nothing like kissing."

He smiled. "True, but eating can be. Think of this part as the anxiety before kissing. The necessary evil."

She looked down at the freshly cleaned vegetables, they hadn't needed to be gutted or had any blood that came out as they would get cut up. "I'm starting to think about joining you in your no meat idea."

"Well, too bad, 'cause this guy is already dead. I cleaned one; you got to get the other. We're not wasting this like the last time. It wouldn't be right."

Raven had forgotten that it was Beast Boy who had caught the rabbits. He'd showed her just like he promised. She finally gave in and picked up her next meal.

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For being her first time doing it herself, Beast Boy had thought Raven had done an excellent job. None of the fur had gotten on the meat, and she hadn't thrown up again. But since she was still getting used to it all, he had offered to cook the rabbit's. He was setting a bowl of the stew he had made them into in front of her. "I hope you like it, it might be a little thin as stew goes, we don't have any flour to make it thicker."

"It's OK, Beast Boy, just don't mention what's in the stew. I know what's in it, I just don't want to hear it."

Sitting down with his own diner he gave a grin that showed off his one fang. "Deal."

They both ate in silence, Raven hoping that she wouldn't remember what she had just finished doing while she was eating, and Beast Boy hungrily speed eating everything he had in front of him, getting everything ready had taken at least two hours, and he had been starving even before he left to grab the main dish and its ingredients.

Raven looked over at her companion on the island and dropped her spoon. "Why're you eating the stew?"

Beast Boy looked down at his nearly empty bowl. "I don't know, just sounded like it would be really good right now. Don't you think it tastes good?"

"Yeah, but it's meat. Why're you eating meat?"

"Just wanted some." And he finished off the last he had by drinking it from the bowl.

Raven just watched as Beast Boy got up and refilled his bowl. She remembered the last time Beast Boy had eaten meat. "I think that Cullen is influencing you."

He looked up a little startled. "But…he's not supposed to be able to when I'm in control…unless…"

"He's you, Beast Boy. You're him. There's a reason why he chose me as his…yeah, but if you can do that to him, he can do something like this to you."

Beast Boy didn't even realize he had nearly eaten half of his second bowl already. "So…then I can control him, and he can control me."

"No…it's like…like with me and my emotions. They aren't really separate from me; just they're not in the right place. You probably eat meat with him because you liked the taste when you were a kid, and he's the part of you that just acts on what he wants."

A frowned creased his face. "So I need to accept him like you with your emotions, then I'll have control of myself…but it would probably change me in some way. I guess that's unavoidable."

Raven hoped he would have a much less frustrating time than she had had with Crass. It looked like it was going to be difficult for him.

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(A/N) Sorry if you didn't like the stuff about the rabbits, but those of you who have never hunted or fished should know, it's seriously gross. Don't do it unless you're prepared to learn. I'm one of those in between types when it comes to hunting. Hunting for food, perfectly cool with that, meat tastes good. Hunting for sport, evil, if we don't need it to eat, let it live. No problem whatsoever with eating it. And, dairy rocks. Love me the some dairy products.