Ok, I thank you for reviewing, even if I can't remember your names. I'm actually quite surprised that you should call my story "fluffy and cute," april4rmH-town. I'm not that much of a fluffy person, although I do have a small romantic side that sometimes comes out when I'm writing stories. Enough chit-chat about me, though. The show must go on!

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Chapter 2

If You're Sleeping

Raven woke up suddenly as a particularly large clap of thunder sounded. "Dratted rain," she mumbled as she got up, her cloak slightly rumpled. She looked at the clock, which read 12:38am, and sighed. She couldn't go to sleep with all the noise, so Raven decided to go down and get a cup of tea to soothe her frayed nerves.

She quietly slipped of her room and proceeded down the stairs. She didn't need a light to guide her as she knew the inside of the Tower like she knew the back of her hand. Reaching the main room, Raven headed for the kitchen part and quickly made a cup of herbal tea, which she took to the couch and sipped at leisurely. The hot and calming tea, combined with the soft couch and the fact that the storm was dieing down, started to lull Raven to sleep. Giving in to the urge, she laid down her head and quickly nodded off.

At that moment, Beast Boy woke up from a bad nightmare. Hearing the growl of his stomach reminded him that he was hungry, so Beast Boy went down in search of some tofu to appease his growling tummy. As he was in human form, Beast Boy couldn't see that well in the dark, so he had a fright when he nearly tripped over Raven's prone form.

"Wha… YIKES! Raven! If you were trying to scare me, then you did a pretty good job of… Raven? Hello?" Beast Boy finally noticed that Raven was asleep. He fell silent, watching her closely. Raven was tossing and turning, apparently in a nightmare of her own.

"No… please… this can't happen… I destroyed you…" she muttered, thrashing about. Beast Boy sat down beside her, unable to do anything besides watch. In the midst of her thrashing, her head fell into his lap. Out of instinct, Beast Boy clutched her tight, mentally willing the bad dream to go away.

In her dream, Raven was trapped in a ring of fire while Trigon was wrecking Jump City. She saw her friends dying one by one, helpless against the Lord of Chaos. "RAGE SHALL CONSUME YOU!" he roared as he came towards her, smashing buildings with every gigantic step. Suddenly, the nightmare faded, a new dream taking its place. Raven was in a giant, grassy field, with Beast Boy right beside her. He didn't say a word, just smiling at her. She smiled back at him, with an aching longing in her heart, a longing to stay with him forever, to always be with him. She took the knowledge that she loved him and made it a part of her, filling the part of her heart that he had stolen when she first realized she loved him.

Beast Boy watched as Raven's thrashing stopped almost immediately, a calm taking its place. She smiled suddenly, a happy and sad smile at once, a smile that made the heart wrench, the smile of a person longing for something that they know they cannot have. That smile tore Beast Boy's heart in two. He knew in his bones that part of him would belong to her forever, all because of that smile. Slowly, oh so slowly, he bent down and kissed Raven on the lips. He gently laid her down, covered her with a handy blanket, and sneaked off to bed.

The next morning, Raven woke up, the sun shining in her face, a feeling of great contentment in her. Somehow, she knew that as surely as she loved Beast Boy, he loved her back.

Well, that was a long chapter for me. Please remember to review! Thanks!