Chapter five: Unwanted House Party

Author's notes: I'm am sooooo sorry I've been so busy, my reviewers! Not only that, but I got sick, then I got WAY busy AGAIN, and I've been busy babysitting a pregnant cat. -.- I wrote the first half with a cold, and the second half sleep-deprived. I hope it didn't affect my writing ability...anyway, time to reply to my awesome reviews!

BlackDragon1126: Lol, thank you! This MIGHT be a party you don't want to take part in, though! XD

RonLuver2005: Lol, thanks. Hope your week(s) went well!

rikagirls: Sorry I took so long!

TameranianRaven: Yeah. See, my message board is going through the roof with posts (in my opinion) so I always have to swing in and make sure everything's running smoothly. O.o So that's partly why this took so long!

moo: That's right! Limbo! I probably WILL go into the Hope matter, since it would be a borderline cliffhanger if I never attended to what happened to her.

Regrem Erutaerc: You didn't miscount. I just threw Hope's name in there for a later on chapter...thank you!

DragonGirl: PLUSHIES! YAY! (huggles them)

Lizard Lad: That's an awesome idea, you've got there! So awesome, I'll use it! Thank you!

hollywoodstarsandeyes: I love to surprise! It was fun throwing something this unexpected into the story:)

Regrem Erutaerc: Is that so? Oops. I didn't know that. I'll keep that in mind in the future. Thank you! Your help with the emotions is really making my job easier! XD

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Myu-Ichigo: Yeah, this chapter and the next few chapters are going to be a bit angsty...but things'll clear up. :)

Okay, well, I'm so proud of all of my reviews! I can't tell you how excited I am! On another note, I got, like, all the spoilers in the world for "The Prophecy." It's going to be cool, but unfortunately, some portions of it contradict a couple of my other (in the works) fics. What a shame. Oh well. I still can't wait to see it! And here's some GREAT NEWS! The Teen Titans are getting a direct-to-video movie! According to my caluculations, we should expect it by late 2006, or early 2007! (see my Raven shrine for more details) Big thanks to Regrem Erutaerc who pointed out that I got Knowledge and Wisdom's personalities mixed up. I DEDICATE THIS CHAPTER TO LIZARD LAD WHO HELPED ME WITH A SCENE!

Raven studied Beastboy's expression and suddenly a wave of understanding hit her in the face. "Oh, gosh, you didn't..." Raven said just above a whisper.

"If I told you I have a good explanation, would you listen before hurting me?" Beastboy asked, wincing ever so slightly.

Raven inhaled deeply. "Probably not. But this is important, so this time, yes. What did you do?"

"Well, you see, it all started with your emotions..." Beastboy paused mid-sentence and his eyes met those of Raven's. Then Wisdom's words flew to his head again: "I'd think we'd know who she thought fondly of." What if it was true? What if Raven really did think fondly of him? What if-

"Beastboy, are you okay?" Raven asked, more in a tone of annoyance than of in concern. She waved a hand in front of his blank face. A sudden crash from the living room caused both teens to jump out of their trances.

"BEASTBOY, GET OUT HERE!" Robin's voice boomed.

"That's your cue," Raven said cynically.

Beastboy only muttered "Oh, crud..." and ran out of the room to see what was going on. Raven reluctantly follow, but picked up her pace after remembering something was going on with her emotions.

The empath and the changeling entered the living room/kitchen, horrified as to what they saw. Brave, Happy, and Starfire where grouped together and talking, while Anger, Timid, and Knowledge were all arguing next to a seemingly unconscious Cyborg. Robin, Wisdom, and Affection were having what appeared to be a very serious conversation, and Lazy? She was on the couch with a bag of chips, but let's not go into that.

"Tell me what the object of the game is, please?" Starfire asked.

"It's simple. You bend backwards and go under the pole!" Happy explained, holding one end of the pole while Brave held the other.

"Oh, we have a sport very much the same on my planet! We call it m'phorple because we usually tie a m'phor around our neck while playing!" With that, Starfire pulled out some kind of...fish-on-a-string from her pocket and tied it around her neck like a necklace. "Would you like one?" she offered to the two aforementioned emotions.

"Pass," they both answered in unison.

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"He had it coming to him anyway," Anger scowled, kicking the half robot who lay on the floor.

"Don't you realize that he could be seriously injured?" Knowledge snapped.

Timid was on the verge of tears. "Why'd you hit him over the head with that frying pan, Anger?"

"He TOUCHED me! On the shoulder!"

"He only tapped you, you know. That's no reason to attack someone," Knowledge sighed, shaking her head.

"I hope he's okay," Timid said sadly, nudging Cyborg gently with her foot. Cyborg moaned and muttered something about revolting frying pans.

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"Wait, start again. You're not making sense," Robin said, hands on hips.

"Well, you see," Wisdom said, starting her explanation again patiently, "Raven kept holding us in, but the less she used us, the more we manifested."

Robin nodded with understanding. "Go on."

"And when we manifested, she lost control of us."

"All right."

"When she lost control of us, we clouded her memory."

"I see."

"But when Beastboy released us, we manifested even more."

"Okay."

"And that's why we're here."

There was a brief pause, but then Robin broke the silence.

"But I still don't understand."

Wisdom sighed deeply. "What's not to understand?"

"Well, I don't see why Raven was holding you in, or why Beastboy released you."

Wisdom rubbed her temples, getting annoyed. "Raven held us in because Affection here-" Affection waved, "-was becoming immensely strong."

"Why?"

"Because...Raven feels affection towards someone."

"Who?"

"Why is this important to our conversation?"

"Wait, start from the beginning again."

"ARGH!"

Affection giggled and watched their dialogue repeat itself.

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Raven glanced around the room. "Oh, God..." she said, saying a silent prayer.

"Don't worry, Rae, we'll fix this..."

"Do NOT call me Rae," Raven snarled with an edge to her voice. "What in Azarath gave you the idea to release them!"

Beastboy was taken aback by her cold question. "I just wanted to help...Robin was gonna put you in a straight jacket, and I was worried about you, so I hoped I could reason with the emotions."

Raven's expression went from annoyed to...embarassed? Was that a blush creeping across her face?

"Well, I appreciate your concern...at least I'm out of my emotions grip for now."

Wisdom's words flickered across Beastboy's thoughts once more. They would make sense in this situation. But he didn't have time to muse right then. He and Raven had to take care of the emotions.

Instead of shouting for the emotions' attentions, Raven whistled. The high pitch overrode all of the arguing, giggling, etc. Beastboy didn't even know Raven could whistle.

Everyone's attention was turned to Raven, who wasn't exactly excited to be in the spotlight.

"Lookie! It's Raven!" Happy blurted.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, it is," Raven stated, arching an eyebrow.

Wisdom (who was more than happy to leave hers and Robin's conversation hanging) stepped forward to explain everything. She put her hand up and whispered in Raven's ear for a minute and when she was finished, Raven moaned and sat down on a earby chair to regain composure.

Beastboy placed his hand on her shoulder. "It's okay, Raven...you didn't do stuff that was bad, or anything."

Anger seemed indifferent to Beastboy's gesture, and even grumbled and folded her arms. "This IS Raven's fault."

Everyone now looked at her.

"Why?" Starfire asked.

"Raven had to go and become affectionate towards Be-"

"Shush, you big mouth!" Affection hissed, covering Anger's mouth.

Anger glared at the hand over her mouth, but didn't bother to fight it.

Raven flinched at the thought of what might have been said had Anger finished her sentence.

"Friend Raven, are you okay? You look...rather pale," Starfire asked worriedly, feeling Raven's forehead.

Raven gently pushed Starfire's hand away and stood up. "I'm fine." She then motioned to her emotions, and they followed her to her room. Beastboy trailed after them, and Robin and Starfire went to go attend to Cyborg's head injury.

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Now in her room, Raven had to convince her emotions to go back inside her mind.

Wisdom arched an eyebrow and looked at Raven skeptically. "But...what about your-"

"Shh," Raven hissed, nodding towards Beastboy. "Certain people don't need to know."

"But we all could get seriously hurt!" Happy said, not looking as cheerful as usual.

"I'll deal with it myself. Now all of you, back into the mirror."

The seven emotions sighed/groaned and with a flash of light, were gone.

"What were they talking about?" Beastboy asked Raven curiously.

"N-nothing. It's not important. Just...get out of my room, please..." Raven said, turning away.

"But what if you can't control your emotions and they take over you again?"

"That's the least of my concerns right now..." Raven said, just above a whisper. "Please leave."

Beastboy begrudgingly obeyed and left. Though he wasn't quite sure, he thought that he heard crying as he left...

End of chapter five
Next time, on Finally Snapped...
Beastboy wants answers, and he'll do anything to get them...but the team gets sent on quite the obscure quest. But in the midst of their travels, Beastboy gets the answers he wanted. And they're quite shocking. How long has Raven been keeping this from the team?
"Hotel Findings," on Finally Snapped. See ya then!