(A/N) Sorry about the delay in updating, I was at a friend's wedding reception. As a bribe to those of you who don't accept that I have a life on rare occasions, I offer you a crude map I made of the island. You can find it at http/windlane. if you want to take a look. Mike, a guy from my job says "Hi." He wanted me to put him in the fic, but he changed his mind when he found out the only way I could would be able to is to have Beast Boy name some animal he'd killed for Raven's diner, he changed his mind when he found out. Prince V, yes, I can let you know if your reviews are getting through. You can find out too by just checking out the reviews link that's at the start of the chapter you've reviewed for. BleachBurns, there's no swearing because they don't swear in the show and they don't swear in the comic. A rare thing, but that's the universe they're in. Plus…I have had them cursing themselves in their heads…though cursing yourself doesn't mean actual cursing. ;-) Star's-Fire, I have no plans for a sequel. It would have to involve the inventing of new villains so that the new and improved Teen Titans wouldn't have it so easy, and that doesn't appeal to me because it's not my show. I'm trying to keep things within what's already been shown. Yeah, I take liberties with what's there, you have to, but inventing new characters is something I shy away from because of the tendency to showcase the invention over the actual stars. Long answer, sorry. Elissar, nope, no villains know where they are. Plus, it's not likely that Robin isn't monitoring the island in some way when you take into account his busy body attitude and over bearing nature. And finally, to answer those who have been suggesting that a lemon would be likely or at least appropriate…you're not getting bupkis from me. I'm not putting one in not only because I don't write that kind of stuff, but also because I honestly don't think the characters would. I mean, the only reason Raven started her little make out session was because she was overpowered by a Crass centered need to have those good feelings while Bravery knocked all the worry out of her way. Expect cute love things, not heavy panting stuff. Though, there's nothing stopping any of you from writing it yourself. I'm only laying claim on the story, anything you add to it is yours. This was long.

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

Tamed – Stuck in the Middle – A boy, a girl, a date, and an amusement park made out of animals.

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Beast Boy was feeling hyper. His second date with Raven was going to start as soon as she finished the chapter she was on in the book Starfire had picked out for her. He had been planning it for over a week, so he was sure that Raven would like everything…unless her recent joining with Timid put up a barrier against enjoying stuff. He already had a picnic lunch packed with a special treat he had spent a whole afternoon preparing. Giddy with anticipation he leaped to his feet as soon as he saw Raven close the book, his own reading having been forgotten as soon as concentration had become unlikely. "Ready?"

Raven smiled as she rose from her seat. "Sure." She had noticed Beast Boy's energy level rising from minute to minute as soon as she had agreed on when they would go on their second date. Since he had only asked yesterday after they had come back from Nevermore, Raven almost thought about asking for another day, but after a moment's thought found she didn't mind the short notice.

"It's not far and you don't have to worry about anything, I've got it all set up." He practically skipped the whole way there. "I hope you like this, it took me a while to figure out how to pull everything off."

"I'm sure I'll like it. I really enjoyed your last surprise." She could see the river through the trees now; it looked like they were somewhere downstream from where they had set up the sink and shower. But after reaching the water flow, Beast Boy changed course to follow the river downstream. When he finally stopped where a few large trees blocked the path they had been taking and hid the next bend of the river from view, Raven felt unusually calm.

"OK, now you have to close your eyes. I want you to see everything all at once." Beast Boy was having problems keeping anything even slightly close to a straight face. He wanted to laugh, but it wasn't time for that yet, so he just smiled and held in his giggles.

Raven shut her eyes and felt Beast Boy take her hand. He led her carefully around the cluster of trees and on for a small bit. She could still hear the river flowing gently to her right. Beast Boy eventually had her stop and sat her down on what seemed like a smooth rock. The sound of the water was very calm, almost as though it was slowing down.

"Alright, open your eyes."

She did as he asked and as they fluttered in adjusting to the light he let out a gleeful "Tada!" There was only one problem with everything. There wasn't anything to look at. The river bulged where they were, creating a pocket of nearly still water along the steady flow. There weren't any trees that stood out, and on the whole, it just seemed like any other part of the river they'd been to. "What am I looking at?"

Laughter poured out of Beast Boy, the buildup finally being too great to hold back any longer. As soon as he had caught his breath enough to speak he explained, "This is your amusement park for the afternoon. After lunch, you get to go on all the rides." Another burst of giggles coming out of his mouth as soon as he had finished speaking.

"What rides?" Raven wasn't sure if she was being laughed at because he was pulling a prank of some kind on her, or if she was being laughed at because she didn't see something that he thought was obvious.

A last little giggle came and he finally settled into a nice toothy smile, his fang featuring prominently. "I'll be providing all the rides. I wasn't laughing at you, just so you know. I was laughing because I can't show you any of the rides…" The giggles almost took over him again. "…'Cause I am the rides." Raven just seemed to wait for the rest of his explanation, so he decided to just tell her the full deal. "I'm going to change into different things that I'm gonna use to fake roller coasters and merry-go-rounds and stuff."

"Sounds…interesting. What about lunch?" She watched as Beast Boy ran off towards some close by bushes and pulled out a couple of boxes and lugged them to where she was sitting. "Why so much?"

"It's not just lunch." He was grinning so much his cheeks were hurting. "It's also the stuff you'll need for the rides."

Raven eyed the box that Beast Boy wasn't pulling things from. "What do I need for the rides?"

Beast Boy set the blanket he had in his hands down and looked up at Raven. "Something to sit on, some harnesses I made so you have something to hold onto, and some cotton candy."

"Oh, OK…" Raven did a double take with a half gainer. "Cotton candy? How did you make cotton candy?" This was too much. It should've been impossible with the things they had.

He smiled sheepishly. "It's not really cotton candy, just a kind of prop to help with the look of being at a carnival. I took the cotton out of one of my pillows and stained it pink with some berries." Reaching into the second box he produced his little creation. "It's to help you pretend you're really there."

She smiled lightly at his admirable forethought. "Weird, but a nice touch."

Beast Boy finished unloading their lunch, another type of meat dish made from the vegetables they were able to get and just normal fresh fruit for dessert. They had a nice time just chatting about the things that people miss when they're away from civilization. Raven missed the more private feeling a full bathroom gave and supermarkets while Beast Boy missed playing video games and listening to music. After the chatter and food Beast Boy got up with a renewed gleam in his eye about the coming festivities.

"You ready to go on some rides?"

Raven thought that the only way he could have looked more mischievous were if he was an imp. He definitely had the smile of one. "Sure…what's first?"

"Something light first, just the merry-go-round." After Helping Raven to her feet Beast Boy led her to the edge of the water. "You won't need the seat or any harness for this one. It's pretty tame and it's easy for me to watch out for you." As he turned to face the little inlet from the river he morphed himself into a giant squid. He slid himself into the water and kept seven of his tentacles submerged.

Raven watched in fascination as Beast Boy reached one of the tentacles to her and offered it to her so she could sit on it without any of the suckers touching. She sat down gingerly and found it somewhat spongy though strong. Since he couldn't tell her what was coming next everything was going to be a surprise.

He gently raised her into the air and used his submerged appendages to rotate himself raising and lowering Raven as she went in circles a few feet over the surface of the water. He used his other arms to keep his balance.

"This is nice." She called out to Beast Boy, hoping that squids had ears that could hear above the water. The whole sensation of flowing through the air without it being herself controlling it was exhilarating in the newness of it. She smiled and let her feet sway in the breeze the revolutions caused. After a minute or two more Beast Boy slowed down and placed her back on shore. He took a couple of quick spins in the opposite direction and slunk back out of the water. He had quickly changed back to himself and sat on the ground, keeping his eyes closed.

"What happened?" She asked, a little concerned.

Hearing her, but still enjoying what he was feeling he waited for a moment before answering. "I got dizzy doing that. Spinning in the other direction is supposed to help, but I didn't do it very much 'cause I like to be dizzy sometimes." He sat there, still not opening his eyes for a little bit longer before he got up. "Ready for something a little faster? I'll even let you pick, you get the roller coaster or the water ride. The water ride is always better early so that the other rides dry you off."

She let her imagination wander through possible ways he would pull off each ride. None of it helped her make a decision, so she decided to go with what he suggested. "Alright, let me try the water ride."

"This one needs one of the harnesses." He walked over to the box he had been in to get his fake cotton candy and pulled out what looked like a knot of ropes. "This is the grip, you need to hold on tight, and this is what'll help keep you strapped in. "You pull this here," he said indicating a loose end near a large set of loops, "after you get these ones around your waist. Put your feet in these two loops, they'll be like stirrups."

"Care to go through that one more time?" She wasn't convinced of how safe this would be. Beast Boy went through everything she would need to do again and after she had it down pat he moved back to the river's edge. He laid down with his head over the embankment with his harness hung around himself. "OK, I'm gonna change now. You should probably take off your cloak and shoes. Just pat my head when you're in." His form remodeled itself and the harness was soon snugly taught around the body of a dolphin that was partly over the water.

Raven quickly ditched her superfluous clothing and walked over to where Beast Boy was. She slid herself in, tightening all of the ropes like she had been shown. She took a deep breath and patted him on the head. He bucked a few times to finish getting into the water. Raven was quickly soaked up to her armpits with the entry into the river, but she didn't have long to stay shocked at the coolness of the water since Beast Boy took off like a shot causing Raven's grip on the rope handle to increase substantially. He kept himself as shallow in the water as he could and took several sharp turns and hard cuts. Picking up speed, he dipped deeper and suddenly sprang out of the water. Raven gasped as they cleared several feet of river with the jump. The feel of the water parting as her body was slid through it gave her an added sensation to the ride Beast Boy was giving her. He picked up speed again and did several jumps in a row, though each was less high than the last. Every time they came crashing into the water Raven had to tilt her head up as the flow tried to reach her face every time. For his finale Beast Boy got going faster than he had previously and submerged briefly, the water rose to Raven's neck. With a terrific jolt upward Beast Boy climbed into the air with a very wide eyed Raven in tow as he performed a flip and splashed back into the water. The reentry was too forceful and she was pulled under the water's surface for a moment.

Sputtering and coughing a little, Raven found herself near the same bank they had come in by. Since Beast Boy had come to so full and complete a stop, she assumed he was letting her get off of his back before he morphed. The ropes were a lot harder to remove since they had all gotten wet, but she was soon out and back on dry land. Beast Boy soon followed by doing a quick jump onto shore, shape shifting himself before he landed.

"Sorry about the finish there, I thought I jumped so that you wouldn't go under." She hadn't coughed for very long at all, but he still felt bad about having caused it.

"It's OK, just a little water down the wrong pipe…that was fun."

She didn't sound mad, but she didn't sound really wowed either. It was confusing for Beast Boy who was sure that he would get a good reaction, especially from the flip. Pressing on just the same, Beast Boy grabbed another harness from his box. This one was much larger than the last. "You ready for the scary rides now? There're two of 'em and then one more tame ride that I want to be last."

Raven looked at the mass of ropes with a determination in her eye that was accompanied by a small smile. "I think I can handle it. What's this next one going to be?"

"The roller coaster. I'll change, you'll strap yourself in like with the dolphin, and we're off." He shimmied himself into place and changed into the familiar form Raven had seen on so many of occasions, a pterodactyl.

Again, a slight feeling of trepidation came on Raven as she walked forward and then flew up to the seat. This one had a pillow tied in to cushion her against the bony back of the ancient creature. After securing herself, she gave the signal and Beast Boy leaped forcefully into the air. Raven was seated farther down his back than she would have picked, but it made sense so that she didn't throw off his ability to maneuver too much.

They climbed into the sky and that same feeling of flying while not being in control came, this time in much larger and stronger quantities. Raven shivered a little from the feeling of the wind cooling her still wet skin even with the warm sun beating down on them. After they had climbed to a height that Beast Boy felt comfortable with he started flying like he was trying to get her to fall off. He would spiral and dive and swoop up suddenly. Barrel rolls and loop-the-loops were his favorite moves, but he only heard the smallest of gasps from Raven when he flew straight up till gravity won out and dropped straight backwards towards the earth. He pulled out of the extreme dive at the very last moment and buzzed as close to the ground as he could, even skimming the water and tops of trees.

When he felt good and tired, Beast Boy ended his aerial acrobatics. He landed smoothly back by the river where they had eaten their lunch, confident that he had thoroughly spooked the somber girl like a proper roller coaster should. He was disappointed when he saw that she merely looked windswept.

"I've never been through anything like that. It was breathtaking."

She almost had the appearance of someone who had just looked up from a book. Feeling that his last scary ride would surely get the rise out of her that he was going for, he pulled out his last harness. It almost looked like a ship's cargo net. "For the last one you just climb on in and make yourself comfortable, but you have to help me set this one up. All you have to do is float us up a few hundred feet into the air and let go when I say so. OK?"

She smiled lightly. "Sure. Just tell me when." She climbed inside the netting; the pillow from the last harness had been moved into this one. Beast Boy was attaching the topmost portions to his legs; there was a good five feet between Raven's head and his shoes.

"OK, lift us up, but make it over the water."

As tempted as she had been the whole time to take a peek into his mind, she resisted. Even now, during the event she found the most confounding in her attempts to figure out what was going to happen next, she kept her promise and left herself in the dark. She let her powers encase them and raised everything a good three hundred feet above the river's swell. She would have gone higher, but Beast Boy stopped her.

"This is high enough, just let go, I'll take care of everything else." This last ride would entirely depend on her trust. Beast Boy really hoped that she did have enough trust in him that they could enjoy the experience. She let go and Beast Boy changed himself back into the pterodactyl, but only briefly. As soon as Raven was dangling from his feet he changed back into himself and let the both of them plummet towards the water, gaining more and more speed. "You have to look down!" Beast Boy yelled as the floor came for them at a fairly good clip.

Raven obeyed Beast Boy's instructions and her eyes teared with how quickly they were free falling. With less than fifty feet before they would hit, Raven started to ready her powers. Before she could do anything though, she felt her descent slow dramatically and watched as the ground started to back away again at an angle. She looked up and saw the pterodactyl Beast Boy steadily flapping, carrying them back to as high as they were and then higher. Again, he changed back into his usual self and they dropped again. Beast Boy repeated the process three more times, each time carrying them higher than the last. Raven was glad to notice that he would change into the prehistoric flyer sooner than previous times to take into account the speeds they were achieving.

After Raven had dismounted and Beast Boy had freed his ankles from the bindings he looked at her with a huge grin on his face. "What'd you think of that one?"

"It was excellent. I really enjoyed it."

Beast Boy practically fell forward onto his face from pure shock. "That's it? No 'it was scary' or 'I don't want to ever do that again'…nothing?"

Raven's eyes widened some in what looked like, to Beast Boy, mild surprise. "It was absolutely terrifying…but I'm OK with that."

"Wait…what?"

"I just rejoined with Timid and Serenity. Anything I've felt beyond them is pretty hard to pick up…they're kind of off the charts right now. Though, Serenity was right, I'm adjusting to her much faster than the others. That's why everything has been so scary to me. Timid has almost as much kick as Serenity right now, and because of that, part of me wants to sit down and just rock myself for a little while, except that Serenity's counteracting it with calmness…so I was petrified by the rides, but I'm able to cope just fine because of that calm. It's also why I know that part of me liked the rides…a lot. Serenity is so at peace, even when she's broadcasting at full blast that I can even feel the emotions I haven't fused with yet. It's weird…this is the first time I've been able to see the drastic change the rejoining brings. Serenity's just quiet enough for that to happen."

Beast Boy studied her for a few moments. "That was sure a whole lot to say for somebody who's afraid, but coping."

"I've already got Intelligence back with me, remember? She's back as a normal part of me, so she can cut through the ones I've just merged with somewhat." Raven looked Beast Boy up and down while he was thinking everything over. She was really hoping that he lived up to his word and that the last ride would be tame. She had almost screamed a few times from those last two.

"I think I understand. Do you still want to go on the last ride?" He figured that since she wasn't really showing her fear because of how calm she felt it would be a good idea to give her an out if she wanted it. He might have overdone it a bit, trying to get some kind of reaction.

Raven smiled slightly sleepily. "I'd rather go on the ride and finish our whole date. I don't want to back out when there's only one tame ride left. It really is tame, isn't it?"

Beast Boy's smile grew largely when he caught the nervousness in her words, even though it wasn't reflected in the tone of her voice. The thrill rides did have an effect. "Yes, it's very tame…kind of a lazy river ride. Come on, I'll show you." He led her back up the river till they came to that same tight grouping of trees. There, lying on the shore was a crude raft made of several layers of tree limbs and logs. It had lashed seats and was fenced in on all sides. Beast Boy helped Raven into the craft and changed into a gorilla to push it into the water. He quickly changed back and stepped in, sitting down across for the lavender haired girl.

He had a pole to push them away from the banks if they drifted towards one or the other. The current wasn't very quick, and the two just lazed in their seats for a while as they floated along. "Raven…I wanted to ask you something…something kind of important."

The sun was making her sleepy. The other rides really had dried her off nicely, so she had never bothered to put her cloak back on. "What did you want to ask?"

"Well…" he said, swallowing hard. "I've told you that I love you…I need to know…do you feel the same?"

Raven sat up more in her seat. She noticed that Beast Boy was looking at her eyes; he looked resolved about what he was asking. It was like he was ready to accept any answer she could give. "I…" She tried to focus, but found that her calm mood was fading. Worry, uncertainty, and a strong pang in her stomach kept invading he thoughts. "I don't know…I…like you, very much, but I don't know if it's love. This is very new for me. I don't think I'll know until I can merge with Affection so that I have a way of interpreting all of this."

"You make it sound like a foreign language."

Raven sighed sadly. "For me, emotions are. If it helps…I hope that it IS love. I don't want what's been happening between us to end. It's just that…I don't want to string you along just because it makes me feel good. I don't want to hurt you."

"Then maybe we should head back."

The afternoon had been such a good one. It was a shame that things had deteriorated like this. Raven never wanted to join with another emotion more than she wanted to be joined with Affection. She couldn't think of anything she had ever wanted more. This boy loved her, and she wanted to love him back, but she was broken and couldn't, at least, not just yet. "OK…let's go back.

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(A/N) It was a beautiful wedding reception. Fun too, they had a bounce house that the adults were allowed to go in. Quite a cool thing for a big kid like me. Incidentally, I highly recommend that idea for any large group event. I hope you all are enjoying this, if not...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I'm still gonna write the rest. I should be back to updating daily all the way up to the final chapter, no major events coming up that I can see to stop me. Please review, it makes me smile…of course, I smile MORE when there's money involved, but they don't have a option for these things yet. I can dream though.