Beast boy moaned as the light streamed in through his window and he pulled his blanket tightly over his head, the night before running through his head.
Robin had been the first to stop chasing them, than Cyborg. Starfire didn't given up until Raven reverted back to her normal self and managed to calm the young Tamaranean down "I can't control my actions Starfire but I am sorry." She had said.
Starfire's eyes had glowed for a few more seconds before they returned to normal. "I am sorry too friend Raven. I do not know what came over me." After squeezing the life out of her, Starfire had turned in, yawning.
Beast boy himself had still been hiding behind Raven until the redhead was gone. They were left alone in the common room and she had turned to him.
"Thanks Beast boy." she said softly.
"For what?" he asked, slightly confused.
"For all the fun we had today." she smiled slightly. "I wish I could do that more often"
His ears had perked up at her statement. "Just out of curiosity. Who's... lust?" he gulped, slightly afraid of her wrath.
She blushed but looked slightly dumbfounded. "You don't know what lust is?" she asked.
"No, I know about that." he reddened slightly. "I just was wondering if she was going to... ya know, show up"
Raven relaxed slightly. "I very much doubt it. Lust is sort of an evolution of love. If passion reaches a certain level, she'll appear." she stated.
He nodded absentmindedly. "Well, I don't know about you but I'm tired from all that running so I'm going to turn in"
She nodded and followed him as they walked down the hall in silence. They had reached his room first and Raven had hesitated before taking him by the hand and pulling him back, preventing him from entering his room.
"Something else you need Rae?" he had asked.
She paused for a moment before kissing his cheek. "Thank you for everything you've done for me in the past few days. I... I'm just happy"
He had smiled at her and reached out, caressing her cheek. "I told you that you were never alone, Rae. I'll always be here for you, no matter what"
She closed her eyes, leaning into his touch and placed a pale hand over his for a moment before realizing what she was doing and pulled back, her face a tinge of red. "G...goodnight." she said in a rushed voice before walking quickly to her room.
Beast boy smiled happily into his pillow at the memory. He had come so close to kissing her at that moment, if she hadn't pulled away.
It also gave him a small glimmer of hope that she liked him by the way she had responded to his touch.
Forcing himself out of bed, he threw on a pair of jeans and t-shirt and walked out the door, noting that it was almost noon and headed to get something to eat. He was slightly startled to find Raven sitting on the couch, furiously tapping out combo's, all resulting in Cyborg's demise.
"Nooo! How could you beat me!" he said, staring at the screen as Cyborg's name was crushed by Raven's.
"boo ya!" she yelled jumping off the back of the couch and gave Beast boy a high-five. "In yo face!" she yelled, dancing in a circle. "I can beat any of you fools any day of the week"
"She has the highest score in like, the history of gaming!" Robin said, dumbfounded as he stared at the screen that was still flashing Ravens name and score.
"Congratulations friend Raven!" starfire said, hugging her tightly. Everyone was surprised when Raven hugged her back, just as hard.
"Come! I will prepare a lunch with breakfast foods as a feast in honor of your winning." Starfire said excitedly.
"That's alright Star!" Robin said hastily. "We'll go out for lunch"
She squealed. "May we get little round wheels of dough?" he nodded and she hugged him tightly. "Let us go"
"This was a really good idea." Raven said, munching on a sausage, egg, and cheese on a croissant. Beast boy nodded in agreement as he shared a large box of doughnuts with starfire, careful to not lose his fingers as she stuffed them in her face. Robin and Cyborg were sharing the other box, they had played a game of rock paper scissors to see who would share with Starfire and Beast boy had lost.
"I believe we should do this more often." Starfire said, burping rather loudly. People around them glanced in her direction and edged away as she started feasting once again on the doughnuts.
"Uh, why don't you slow down a bit Star." robin said slowly.
"I think we should go to the arcade so I can kick your butts in games." Raven said, finishing off her meal.
"I bet I can beat you on mega mutant III!" Beast boy said, standing up quickly, looking for any reason to get away from Starfire.
"I bet I can beat you there!" she cried, racing from her seat. Beast boy transformed into a cheetah and they raced off to the arcade around the corner.
Beast boy was jamming buttons and trying to push Raven aside so he could get better access to the controllers. She shoved back at him. "Your hogging the control panel"
"I am not!" he denied.
"Are too"
"Are not"
She finished him off with a few fancy moves and started to dance in a circle while chanting. "I win, I win, I win." Beast boy grumbled and spotted DDR. He brightened and grabbed Raven's hand, pulling her over to the machine. Her eyes lit up as he put in the quarters and selected one of the faster songs.
"See if you can keep up." he smirked.
Raven said nothing as the moves started coming up on the screen and she matched pace with Beast boy through out the song. A crowed had gathered and was watching the pair as they continued with two other songs. When they finished and got S's for their scores, the crowed cheered.
"How did you do that?" beast boy asked panting slightly.
Raven pulled him towards the door. "I come here with Starfire sometimes and practice. Plus Cyborg put up a DDR machine, at our request, in the game room but he had to take it out a few days ago to upgrade it. They stopped at a stand and got a couple of water bottles before wandering around the mall. As it got later, they met up with the others outside of the mall.
"So where are we going to eat. I don't know about everyone else but pizza is really starting to get old." Raven said.
Robin nodded. "Any ideas"
Beast boy jumped up. "What about that new place? Where they have music and stuff like that"
Cyborg nodded. "That sounds like fun. What about yall"
Starfire jumped up. "Let us go"
"Beast boy, I must admit, this was a good idea." Robin stated as he munched on a burger. Beside him, starfire was drinking her mustard and eating fries while Cyborg was chewing on a triple burger.
"Uh, thanks." he made a face at Cyborg and ate his tofu burger.
"We have a special treat tonight folks." came a voice from the manager on the stage. "We have here with us, Lonestar and they say there going to be playing a few songs for us"
There was a bunch of cheers and applauds as Lonestar gathered on the stage and started playing.
Every time our eyes meet
This feeling inside me
Is almost more than I can take
beast boy gulped and glanced at Raven who smiled at him. "Wanna dance?" she asked.
"Uh... sure"
She smiled and led him to where the other couples were dancing.
'Couples... get a hold of yourself Beast boy. She doesn't like you that way'
She smiled and guided his hands to her waist before sliding her arms around her neck.
Baby when you touch me
I can feel how much you love me
And it just blows me away
He tried to suppress his feelings for her as they danced slowly, he couldn't meet her eyes in fear that they would show her how much she meant to him.
I've never been this close
to anyone or anything
I can hear your thoughts
I can see your dreams
The lights dimmed and a few, small colored light balls came on. He risked a glance at Raven and was stunned by her beauty as the colors flashed across her features.
I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you,
it just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life
with you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you
She looked him in the eyes and smiled. "I won't bite you know, you can dance closer to me." to prove her point, she pulled him closer so that their bodies were touching. She smiled even more and rested her head on his shoulder, sighing.
He hesitantly hugged her and closed his eyes, breathing deep and taking in her lavender scent and the softness of her hands rubbing the back of his neck.
"You're the best, beast boy." she muttered in his ear.
The smell of your skin
The taste of your kiss
The way you whisper in the dark
Your hair all around me, baby you surround me
You touch every place in my heart
Oh, it feels like the first time every time
I wanna spend the whole night in your eyes
He sighed happily and hugged her tightly. "No rae, you are. I haven't been this happy in a long time"
She smiled and hugged him back just as tight.
I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you,
it just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life with you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you
She pulled back slightly and kissed the tip of his nose with a soft laugh at his dumbfounded expression. Just as the last chorus started, screams sounded from the street over and the Titans looked up to see a giant T-Rex swinging it's tail against a building where the screams were coming from.
"Titans..." Robin started.
"GO!" Raven finished, teleporting herself from the dance floor to the building. She used her powers to gather all of the people on the damaged floors and place them out of harms way.
"Aw, goth girl takes away all my fun." Johnny Rancid said from atop his metal dinosaur.
"That's right, your going down boy." She replied, summoning a shadow raven and forcing it toward Johnny who fell from his perch and slammed into a garbage bin.
The other Titans arrived and tried to take down the metal monster, only to fail as it swept it's tail and slammed against each of them in turn.
"No one hurts my friends." she growled, her eyes glowing white. "AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS"
The dinosaur became engulfed in black light as her powers started tearing it apart piece by piece. Johnny saw what she was doing and started running away.
"I don't think so!" she enveloped the guy in black and suspended him upside down in the air, shaking him a bit for extra effect. "You'll never hurt my friends again!" "Ok, ok! Just please don't hurt me." he whimpered, his pants becoming wet as she growled at him.
The police arrived and Raven held Johnny long enough to get handcuffs on him. She grinned as Robin and starfire came up beside her along with Cyborg and gave her a high five.
"Nice going raven." robin said.
"It was good to see you open up a can of the butt whoop." Starfire said, punching her fist in the air.
"Not half bad for being emotionally challenge." cyborg concluded.
She smiled but then it faltered "Where's Beast Boy"
They looked around and it wasn't until Starfire gasped and pointed did they see him lying on the ground, a large break in the stone wall behind him.
Raven paled even more than normal and rushed over to his side. "Beast boy!" she carefully picked his head up and laid it in her lap, her hands going over his visible bruises and healing them. "Beast boy.." she whispered, caressing his cheek gently. "Wake up, please"
"Oh, I would like to know that our friend is alright now please." Starfire said, clinging to Robin's arm.
Cyborg knelt and held his arm out over Beast boy's limp body. "I think he'll be fine star, just a little bit of bumps and bruises but just to be sure, lets hurry up and get him back to the tower"
Raven nodded and encased beast boy in her black power as Cyborg pressed a button and the T-car came squealing around the corner and stopping before him. Raven crawled into the back seat and levitated Beast boy's body in the car, laying his head back across her lap. Cyborg jumped in as Robin and Starfire got on the R-cycle. The trip was silent in the T-car as Raven sat in the back, one hand caressing Beast boy's cheek and forehead and the other running fingers through his hair, trying to sooth her frayed nerves.
'Your supposed to be brave.' she scolded herself. 'He'll be fine, it's not a big deal. It's just like Cy said, a few bumps and bruises'
"He'll be fine Rae rae." Cyborg assured her.
She nodded and glanced out the window as the Titans Tower came into view in the darkening night and Cyborg took the ramp that led to the underground tunnel and into the garage.
"Take him up to the med lab and I'll be right up." Cyborg said.
Raven nodded and melted into her shadow form, enveloping Beast boy's limp body in the darkness before shooting up through many floors to the med lab.
She gently laid his body on one of the beds and waited impatiently for Cyborg to show up. When he finally did, he hooked a few wires up to Beast boy and checked his vital signs.
"He'll be fine, he's got a few bruised ribs but they'll heal soon if he takes it easy." Cyborg stated.
Raven nodded and slid her hand into beast boy's limp one. "I'll stay here with him Cy, why don't you go to bed"
He nodded. "If he wakes up, he can go to his room but tell him to take it easy, alright"
She nodded again and got comfortable as he left. Her eyes never left the green changeling until she started to doze off. Her head nodding a few times until she laid it down on the bed. A green essence came from her body and turned into an orb before shooting out the door down and down the hall, into her mirror where it belonged.
Raven took a deep breath as she sat back up and hesitantly reached up, caressing beast boys cheek. He moaned softly and grabbed her hand, his eyes opening slowly. "Hey Rae. What happened?" he asked.
She tensed slightly at being caught touching him. "The t-rex." she said plainly.
"Oh yeah..." he rubbed the back of his head and winced, his hand going to his side.
"Cyborg says you have a few bruised ribs and that you should take it easy but if you want to go to your room you can"
"Can you help me there Rae? I don't think I can alone." he muttered, blushing.
"Of course." she helped him sit up and slide off the edge of the bed, an arm planted firmly around his waist. She helped him limp down to his room and opened the door for him.
"Interesting combo number." she commented with a small smirk.
He paled and said nothing as he laid back on his bed. "Thanks Rae"
She nodded and turned to leave but he caught her hand. "You wouldn't... want to stay with me would you?" he asked quietly.
She froze, torn between saying no and running off or accepting and crawling in next to him, wrapping her arms around his waist and resting her head against his chest.
"Um..."
He noticed that she was uncomfortable. "Never mind, forget I asked." he said, carefully rolling onto his side, his back to her.
She frowned. 'Bravery has taken many chances with him today and it's not like he rejected them...' She sighed and carefully crawled over him, plopping down next to him.
He looked slightly baffled and she responded his questioning gaze. "You stayed with timid, it's only fair that I stay with you when you need it"
He nodded and smiled, pulling the covers up around her shoulders and wincing. She shook her head and sighed, reaching over and attempting to heal some of the damage done to him.
"That's as much as I can do. It won't hurt so much but you'll still be sore & have to take it easy." she said, slightly winded.
He nodded and kissed her cheek. "Thank you Rae." he whispered.
She blushed and nodded, turning her back on him. He smiled and curled up, drifting off into sleep with the thoughts of her nearby soothing him.
AN: Woo 8 pages!
This chapter is dedicated to JeRkY for all his help, even if he does sometimes delay the writting process.
Also, just a reminder I will be gone next week then all of next month so don't expect many chapters if any at all to appear. Sorry!
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