Hey, I'm back with 6. I'm postponing reviewer responses due to difficulties on going on email… Sorry!

I am also sorry for this chapter taking two weeks… I had TONS of HW! Well here is Chapter 6…

Chapter 6!

Cyborg sighed as he walked through the long halls towards the elevator to the basement. He had wanted to go to his room and look at his picture of Jinx, but he had responsibilities. And he wasn't even responsible!

"Oh man! I'm starving! Why did Beastboy have to piss Raven like that?" He patted his stomach, trying to console it in its' pain.

He walked into the elevator and whistled on his way down to the basement. To his surprise, in the basement there was a table set up for two with candlelight, and a familiar girl was sitting at one side of the table.

He walked up to the table, rubbing his eyes. The spare light bulb lay forgotten. "Jinx? Is that you?"

Jinx was brimming with happiness. "Yeah, Tin Man. I'm back."

He sat at the chair. "Let's talk. What happened to you and the HIVE?"

Jinx answered. "I left. I felt…"she blushed, "that something was missing in my life that I had to find. I think I'm about to find it right now."

His face was one of shock but he continued his questions. "And why would this be the moment that you'd find what you're missing." His eyes flooded with hope.

Jinx felt her blush grow. "Because I-"

Now of all the interruptions that Beastboy had made in his life, this was the best one. He and three other titans

entered the room. Beastboy started off with a French waiter accent and language. "Bonjour, Madame. Bonjour Monsieur. Vous-desirez?"

Raven and Robin rolled their eyes. Star said joyfully, "So new Friend! What would you and Friend Cyborg like to eat? We are to, what is the term of earth, to serve you."

Jinx looked questioningly at Raven. "How did you get the Boy Wonder to agree to this?"

Beastboy answered, "Ohhh… It was nothing. We just threatened to tell everybody that Robin like St-"

Robin coughed rather loudly, a faint redness appearing. "I don't think we need to discuss all the details, Beastboy. So if you don't mind, SHUT UP!"

Beastboy said in his nonchalant voice, "Dude, don't worry. Your secret about St…:cough, cough: I mean that special person is safe with me…"

Starfire danced around, not hearing what Beastboy had said, and stopped in front of Cyborg. "So Friend Cyborg, as I said before, what you and New Friend Jinx like for the eating?"

Cyborg grinned," Now that's what I'm talking about!" He ordered meat, meat, and more meat. Jinx ordered spaghetti with Alfredo sauce.

"Okay Friends." Star said. "I shall prepare the food for you."

Raven sweat dropped. "Umm… Star. How about today I do it? Besides I believe there is a table for you and the Boy Blunder to sit at." Suddenly another table appeared.

Robin raised an eyebrow. "And what about you and Beastboy?"

Raven just glared. "I'm cooking. He's serving. That's it. Now you couples talk while I prepare the food." She left the room, a little angry at what Robin was implying. She had no such feelings for Beastboy. Right?

So while the two couples were discussing random topics with Beastboy interrupting every now and then, Raven decided now was the time to prepare the food.

She had had very little experience with cooking because her childhood had been spent on maintaining control over her powers.

She finally reached the kitchen, walking toward a cabinet at the edge of the kitchen. She opened the cabinet and found dusty old cookbooks inside. She took the third book from the bottom and closed the cabinet. Inside the book were recipes for Italian dishes. She knew Cyborg had wanted meat only, but it would be more… ummm… romantic if the dinner was Italian with music playing.

While waiting for the pasta to heat up, she thought about her emotions of late. Anger had been laying low, which

was a great surprise to her. She had given Anger many opportunities to let out its fury, but it hadn't. Now that was something worth checking.

She felt herself calm down, her breathing slowing as she looked deep within herself for the one called Anger. It wasn't very hard though. All she had to do was look at the darkest part of her mind. She found Anger on the ground, reading a pink book with great interest.

"Anger, what are you doing?" Anger made her best movements to pretend that the pink book wasn't important, but she made it seem a hell lot more important than it looked. "Anger, what is in that book?"

Anger answered back mockingly, "Why should you care? It's not like your life is important to you in any way.."

Raven looked at the pink book in Anger's hands, as if in a trance. "Give me that book."

Anger shook her head and disappeared. Raven shook her head. For a moment she had believed that that book held the key to all the hidden secrets. But that was impossible. Nothing important could be withheld in a pink… euh, she detested the color… a pink colored book. She decided to overlook this…

She left the depths of her mind to hear someone's footsteps and turned to see Beastboy enter the kitchen.

"Hey Rae-ven, what happened? We've been waiting a little over half an hour."

Raven was unhappy about the tint of pink on her face. "Sorry," she muttered, getting the food together. "I seemed to have lost track of time."

Beastboy walked over to where Raven stood and helped her. Raven was surprised to see him prepare food that was not tofu with ease. He looked up and saw the question on her face. He calmly, though at the same time sadly, said, "When I was a child, my mother thought I should know how to prepare all sorts of food. She told me I should always know about cooking if I was to take care of myself. She also taught me how to make food from only a few resources like grass or plants. After my parents died, I had to find work to support myself. I had no one else. If not for my mother, I don't think I would have lived this long."

A tear dropped down his face, leaving Raven confused of how to console him. She had never seen this side of him before. She always thought it impossible for Beastboy to feel down. But now you stood before her, in a sort of trance, maybe stuck in memories.

After a few minutes of this silence, she asked, "Are you okay?"

His ears perked up, Raven's voice knocking him out of the strange trance. "Yeah, I'm fine," he said, back to his normal self.

They slowly finished preparing the food, working as a team to achieve their goal of preparing the food. "Hey," Beastboy finally said, "This doesn't look half bad." He was grinning, the familiar toothy grin Raven knew and saw everyday.

She spoke quietly, "It must have been really hard for you when your parents died. When my mother died, my father saw his chance to take complete control of me. He fell in to a trap my mother had created. I guess she knew all along what he would try to do."

Beastboy was puzzled. Raven had never before revealed anything about her past. She was always secretive about such things. "Why are you telling me this?" he asked. He looked at her, seeing her stare ahead of her, not looking at him.

"I guess," she admitted slowly, "that I needed to tell somebody. I told… him… and he betrayed me. I needed someone else that I could trust."

Beastboy knew she was talking about Malchior when she said him.

They walked the rest of the way in silence, deep in their own thoughts. They, however, did not know that their growing friendship would evolve into something more…

I had had more planned for this chapter but I'll just do that all in another chapter. I'm sorry again for the hold up. Yes, I know, two weeks yet again. But as we all know, homework gets in the way a lot of the time. I have a lot of HW next weekend so it might be another two weeks. I'll try hard not to do that though.

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