"I don't mind."

"Ok, why do you care about me so much?" she asked. This was, to her, the most important question that she was asking, and she was eager to hear the answer.

"How can I not? You're a mystery to me and everyone else, and I find that interesting, I always want to attempt to figure you out. And you're my beautiful friend and teammate. What more reason do you want?" he answered.

Raven snorted at that. "Me? Beautiful? Yeah right, try again Beast Boy."

"I'm serious! I love your pale, ivory skin, your deep violet eyes, your perfect body; fit, slim, and curvy, very nicely proportioned, and filled out in all the right places." He was practically drooling now. Then, his eyes, which had been clouded while he was talking, cleared and widened, realizing what he just said. He screwed his eyes shut, waiting for her wrath that he sure to come.

But all that happened was Raven staring at him, speechless. Then, regaining her wits, she asked softly, "So you really do think I'm beautiful?"

Beast Boy slowly opened one eye, and then seeing that the coast was clear opened the other. "Gorgeous. If you want to see ugly, just look at me, that should make you feel better about yourself." he said, feeling a bit gloomy.

Raven, in response, pulled back the covers and looked him up and down. "I am looking at you, and what I'm seeing," she continued, "is far from ugly." Raven smiled to herself. Beast Boy just stared at her with one raised eyebrow.

"What? I like your cute pointy ears, your sharp little fangs, stunning emerald green eyes, and nicely chiseled body. Very nice." Raven said without thinking. She clapped her hand over her mouth, comprehending what she just said.

Beast Boy just smirked and chuckled at her. "Wow, for once, I wasn't the only one being a big mouth." he joked. Raven just glared at him. "But seriously Rae, thanks, it means a lot to me that you don't think I'm ugly." he said, looking down.

Raven, after a moment's hesitation, slipped her arms under his and enclosed them around his back, pressing her face to his chest.

Beast Boy tightened his arms around her waist and felt better. He could feel her hot breath on his chest and it felt soooo good! He groaned and his eyes glazed over. "Rae, you're driving me crazy!" he was practically panting now.

Rae pulled away slightly, but couldn't pull away completely because Beast Boy's arms were holding her there, not letting her get away from him. "What did I do? Am I hurting you or something?" she asked anxiously.

Hearing the worry in her voice, he regained his common sense and eased up on his grip a little. "No, sorry, it's just…just…well…" he stammered. 'How the hell am I supposed to tell her that her breath on my bare skin felt so good I felt like I was gonna go insane?' he thought to himself.

Well, apparently he hadn't completely regained his common sense. As it turned out, he had murmured that to himself, out loud, he didn't just think it. Raven stared at him, dumbfounded. "What are you staring at?" he asked. "Oh shit, I just said that out loud didn't I!" he whispered. Raven nodded, still staring.

"I'm sorry Raven! You definitely did NOT want to hear that," he said real fast.

"On the contrary Beast Boy, I'm glad to hear that." she replied, with a mischievous glint in her eyes.

"Uh, Raven? Are you ok? Um, uh oh I don't think I like that look," he said nervously.

Raven just grinned and pulled herself closer to him again, until she was just as close as before. This time, instead of just breathing on his skin, she instead started kissing it, beginning at the top of his chest, and working her way slowly, agonizingly slowly, to his collar bone and shoulders, showering him in sweet soft kisses. 'Oh my God! I can't believe I'm actually doing this! Mmm…but it feels so good, and so…right. And from the sound of it, Beast Boy is enjoying it even more than I am.' She thought, her mouth twisting into a smirk, hearing his panting and soft moans. She then resumed her previous actions and went from his shoulders to his neck, every once in a while, flitting her tongue out to taste his skin, which tasted very nice mind you.

Beast Boy was certainly indeed enjoying Raven's ministrations. 'Geez, I had no idea, this would be the result of getting up to get a glass of water cuz I couldn't slee- Oh my.' he thought, losing all ability to think clearly when Raven once again darted her tongue out to graze the skin on his neck right below his jaw.

When she finally finished flooding his neck with kisses, she pulled away, staring him in the eyes. They were both breathing hard and very much aroused. Beast Boy was staring at her, astonished.

"Oh my God. I'm sorry Beast Boy," she said, looking down, ashamed. She felt as if she had somehow taken advantage of him, or done something wrong.

"Geez! For what?" he asked in amazement.

"For what I just did, I did it without your permission, it was wrong." she said looking away.

"What are you talking about! If that was wrong, than I don't think I want to be right! God Rae! You have my permission to do that whenever the hell you want!" Raven was still looking down. Beast Boy slipped his finger under her chin and tilted it up until she face to face with him. Her chin was trembling, and her eyes were slightly wet.

"Oh Raven." He murmured gently in her hair, hugging her to him again. "Really, it's ok." She started crying. "It's ok Raven, just cry, you need it," he said, sitting up and pulling her into his lap. He placed his chin on her head and started rubbing her back, holding her tightly to him. He wanted so much to protect her from anything that could ever cause her harm, but it seemed like he was the reason she was crying in the first place. He had almost forgotten how vulnerable she had been all night. He buried his face in her hair, ignoring his own tears; they didn't matter, what mattered was comforting the one he loved. He inhaled her scent, the scent that was hers, no perfumes or anything, just Raven. God she smelled absolutely wonderful, of lavender and clear, clean, night air, which was so many other enticing, pleasing scents all combined into one amazing aroma.

Raven was letting out all the tears that she had kept bottled up for so long. She slipped her arms under his strong ones, slid them up the back of his back, and gripped his shoulders from behind. Her fingers were peeking out at her from atop his shoulders. Catching sight of the dried blood from her knuckles, she started crying even harder. Beast Boy's arms tightened around her protectively, making her feel better and worse at the same time. She felt better, because it reminded her that he was there and that he cared so much about her. And worse because she felt as if she didn't deserve him right now. She pressed her face to his shoulder and wept.

"God I'm so sorry Rae. It's most likely my fault you're crying." Beast Boy said, feeling heartbroken.

Of course Raven didn't answer to that, but she forced herself to calm down, for Beast Boy. Finally her sobbing was reduced to small hiccups. "Beast Boy, it's not your fault. It's just that I've kept those tears locked inside for years now, so once I started again, I couldn't stop. But you…you let me cry." She said in wonder. "You didn't tell me to quit it, or snap out of it, or pull myself together or anything like that. No, instead you held me and told me it was ok." She looked down and said quietly, "No one has ever let me know that it's ok for me to cry. I really appreciate it Beast Boy. Thanks. A lot."

"So…so it wasn't my fault?" He asked hopefully.

"No, far from it." she replied, smiling now.

'Yes! Geez, I thought I was like gonna die, making the girl I love cry.' Beast Boy thought to himself, relieved. He smiled back at her.

Raven, in his lap, rested her head on his shoulder again and inhaled Beast Boy's amazing scent. It was somehow…wild, if smells can be described that way. Although she had never been to one, she had a feeling that his scent resembled that of a forest. Suddenly, she was glad that he didn't wear cologne like so many guys did at their age, cologne is so friggin strong and annoying, and most guys put so much on it didn't even smell good. Raven thought it never smelt good though, it made her want to gag.

"Beast Boy, can I ask you a favor?" she asked.

"Sure, what is it?" he responded, curious.

"Never wear cologne."

"Um, ok. I wasn't planning on wearing any anyways. Personally, I don't like it." he said, kinda confused.

"Good." she answered, not explaining further. Beast Boy just shrugged lightly.

Now that was all over, they both realized that when Beast Boy pulled Raven into his lap, she ended up straddling him. Both blushed, but said nothing and didn't move, pretending either to not notice or not care.

Raven pulled her arms off Beast Boy and cradled her hands to her chest. She once again nestled her head under his chin, and he once again buried his face in her hair. They sat there for a while, content just to be there with the other.

Then out of the blue, Beast Boy remembered Raven's bloody hand. "Rae? Can I see your hand that you hurt?"

As a response, Raven gave him her hand to examine. The blood was pretty much gone, and what little of it was left was dry. The knuckles of four her fingers were injured. He took her slender hand in his own and placed a light kiss of each hurt knuckle.

Raven's heart was pounding. 'I am sitting in Beast Boy's lap, straddling him and now he's kissing my wounds.' The sweetness of his gesture almost brought tears to her eyes again. Beast Boy had finished with her hand and looking at her. "Rae, I have a question for ya."

"Well go ahead and ask it then."

"Are you afraid to love?" he asked softly, looking away.

Raven was slightly taken aback. She had planned on saying no, but her mouth betrayed her. "Well, now that I think about it, yes I am." For some reason, she couldn't seem to lie to him.

"Why? If you don't mind my asking that is."

"Well my powers, what if they like go haywire or something?" she said, kind of worried, thinking about what could happen if she let Beast Boy know how much she loved him as well.

"Raven, I think your powers only react like that if you don't accept your feelings. Like the time when you were scared after watching 'Wicked Scary.' he informed. "Because you sure as hell have been feeling a lot of emotions tonight, but you've been allowing it and letting yourself feel, you didn't deny it. And look, nothing's happened." (I know this probably isn't how it usually is, but it is in my story.)

She pondered this. "Yeah," she said thoughtfully, "I guess you're right. Thanks."

"No problemo. Glad to help where I can."

"Well, what about you Beast Boy? Why are you afraid to love." she questioned.

"Hey, I never said I was afraid." he said indignantly, going to cross his arms, but then remembering Raven was in the way, stopping in mid-motion.

"You also never said you weren't," she told him gently. "And I have a feeling you are."

"You're right, I am." he admitted, his ears drooping. "It's because of Terra. She acted like she liked me back as much as I liked her, then ended up betraying not only me, but you too, and the rest of the team. For that, I don't think I'll ever forgive her."

"Well, not everyone's like that little bitch, just remember that," she said soothingly.

"Thanks." Beast Boy smiled at her, that heart-melting smile that Raven had come to absolutely, positively love in this past hour.

She couldn't help but smile back at him. 'She's even more beautiful when she smiles, it's a shame she won't do it more often.' Beast Boy thought, unconsciously leaning toward her slightly. 'Mmm, it makes her lips look even more luscious and succulent.' He couldn't take his eyes off her mouth. The next thing he knew, his lips were on hers.

Beast Boy was just as surprised as Raven, even though he was the one that started the kiss. He pulled away quickly. "Oh God. I'm so sorry Raven. I didn't…I mean…Oh geez…well-" Raven cut him off by pressing her own lips to his.

She wasn't quite sure of what she was doing, but Beast Boy helped, kissing her back. The kiss started out gentle and shy, but very rapidly turned heated. Beast Boy's tongue was soon at her lips, begging permission to enter. Raven moaned and gave him access, tightening her legs around his waist, which were still straddling him.

Beast Boy's tongue eagerly explored Raven's mouth, memorizing every detail. After a moment of hesitation, she did the same. Before long, Beast Boy was pushing Raven back onto the bed, while the battle of their two tongues proceeded. He was on top of her, supporting most of his weight with his elbows when they finally broke the kiss for the need of oxygen. They were both panting for breath, and very much aroused again.

Realizing the position he had put the two of them into, Beast Boy rolled himself off her, somewhat reluctantly. "Sorry, I don't think you exactly appreciate me laying on you. Hehe." he said sheepishly. "Well, I seem to be full of apologies tonight don't I?"

Raven laughed, and Beast Boy joined her shortly after. It felt so good, just laughing at her friend, but was that really all he was? They had just been practically making out, was he still just a friend? She dismissed the thought for the moment, she didn't want to think right now, it was good enough just to laugh with Beast Boy.

Abruptly, Beast Boy stopped laughing. "Hey! You just laughed! At me! You've never done that before! Well, not counting the time I was in your head and your happy side was laughing at me all the time." Raven rolled her eyes at him. "Just shut up now Beast Boy," she said. "Or what Raven? You'll make me? Well, if you're going to use the same method you just used a few minutes ago, I think I'll just keep right on talking." he said, with a suggestive undertone.

Suddenly, Beast Boy quit joking around, and his expression turned serious. "Raven…there's something I want, no need to tell you." he started, nervously licking his lips and swallowing. "I…I love you. And I know that you don't feel the same way about me, but I had to tell you." It all came out in a rush, but Raven heard every word of it. He continued more slowly and softly. "And I thought you'd need to know, that even though this probably sounds really cheesy, contrary to what you seem to believe, someone does love you, and would die for you, or even just your happiness."

After getting over the initial major shock from this statement, Raven put her arms around him, burying her face in his chest. He put his own tightly around her. It was a lot for her to take in, but once she finally completely and truly comprehended and understood his words, her heart swelled. She pulled back and opened her mouth to talk to him, but then shut it again quickly. Beast Boy was crying. "Oh!" she exclaimed softly. "Beast Boy…why are you crying?" she inquired, slightly in awe for some reason. "I actually don't really know. Pathetic huh?" he replied, accomplishing a small laugh amid his tears. "I seem to be doing about as much crying as I do apologizing today, as well." he said, attempting a smile but failing miserably. His smile was wobbly and ruined by the pain along with tears in his eyes.

"Please don't cry Beast Boy. It hurts." she said gently. Raven looked at him, seeing him try to stop, for her. She leaned up until she was face to face with him. She traced the tear tracks down the right side of his face lightly with her finger, stopping at his chin where they ended. Then she kissed away the tears, tasting their salty tang. Beast Boy was shocked out of his crying. "I had hoped that would work," she said with a small smile. "Now you listen to me. Thank you for your confession. But…" His ears drooped. In his experience, 'but' never turned out having good results. "But, there's one thing I didn't like. I didn't like the part about you dieing for my happiness. Because for one thing, that's not even possible. With you dead and gone, there would be no more happiness in my life. And you really shouldn't assume you know everything about me, because…I do feel the same way about you. I love you too Beast Boy." It was hard for her to actually admit her real feelings, but she did, and was rewarded. She watched as his cute ears perked up again. His mouth turned up into the brightest smile she'd ever seen and his eyes lit up with many different feelings, the main ones being happiness and astonishment. "Wow…Raven, you have no idea how wonderful this is for me," he said quietly, in amazement.

Raven smiled coyly. "Oh, I think I do, but why don't you try to show me." she said, slightly suggestively.

"Gladly." Beast Boy replied, smiling.

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Closing Notes: This wasn't even intended to be this long. It's over, though I might feel like adding more a little later (wink wink).