(Disclaimer: don't own TT, Legos, or the name Azura (that's from "Morrowind").)
Beast Boy laid in his room, contemplating last night, or this morning, actually. Did he really make her laugh? It was more of a snicker, a disdainful laugh, and it was because he called Robin the Boy Wonder…
Wait; did he just think bigger words than usual?
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Raven, too, laid in her room thinking. Why did she stay up all night with Beast Boy? And why did she have the urge to do it again?
Do it! she heard a voice in her head, she didn't really care what's, yell.
No don't! You'll just get hurt again! He thinks you're a freak! she heard another one shout.
Make-out with him! another cried.
"Ah!" Raven yelled. "I did not just think that!"
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Beast Boy sat at the table at noon that day, eating a bowl of cereal and soymilk. He had fallen asleep at five that morning and slept till eleven, which was about as much sleep as he usually got. No one knew he had been up all night.
Suddenly the alarms sounded. Beast Boy jumped up out of reflex the same time Raven ran out of her room. "No," Robin said, stopping them both. "You'll be no good to us without your powers. You'll just be putting yourselves in danger."
Beast Boy and Raven started to object, but Robin held up his hands. "We'll discuss this when we get back," Robin said, and ran out the door.
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"How can he do that?" Beast Boy shouted, pacing around the TV room. Raven looked up from her book. Beast Boy had been ranting like that for the past fifteen minutes.
"He's right," Raven finally said. Beast Boy looked at her awestruck. "We're useless without out powers," she continued. "We'd just be holding the others back."
"Well, I see losing your powers hasn't made you any less cheery," Beast Boy said sarcastically.
"And I see it hasn't given you any brains, smurf boy," Raven replied coldly.
Beast Boy stood up and stalked off to his room, slamming the door behind him.
Raven sat on the couch, stunned. She hadn't meant to make him angry. She never did. It was her reflex to be cruel to people. To keep people away. To stay safely at a distance. It wasn't in her nature to let anyone think for a moment that she was someone you could care about.
But then why do I want him to think he could? Raven thought.
You don't, a voice sounded harshly from her head.
Yes you do. You're tired of being alone, another voice said firmly.
Raven leaned back and sighed, wondering vaguely why she thought of herself in third-person. Maybe I should apologize…
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Beast Boy laid in his room playing with Legos (Yes, Legos! They are the toys of the gods!). He shouldn't have gotten mad at her like that. She always acted that way. Did he seriously think that just because she had watched some movies with him to pass the time that anything was going to be different?
Beast Boy's hand quivered over his little Lego city. With a growl he smashed his hand down, destroying the walls and houses of the little fortress. "Damn it," he muttered, and cast the rest of the Legos cascading across his floor.
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The other Titans came back an hour later. There had been a robbery across town on the behalf of Adonis, and an attack by Killer Moth. They looked exhausted, so Beast Boy, who was flipping randomly through the channels, couldn't help but say mockingly, "Did you have a tough time beating all those bad guys by yourselves?"
Robin gave him a silencing look. He sighed and spoke to both him and Raven, who was watching the TV absentmindedly on the couch. "Look, I know that you guys don't appreciate me telling you to stay here. And yes, it is harder for us to fight without you guys. But the fact is that someone could take advantage of this time. You know how many enemies we've made. Without your powers, you're in real danger."
Beast Boy hadn't thought of that before. People would really try to hurt him while he was helpless? Because he really was helpless. Without his power, he had no power.
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Okay, she thought, fully awake. One cup of herbal tea, then you're going to bed. I can't afford another sleepless night… Raven's thoughts were stopped when she saw Beast Boy in the middle of the main room floor. Did he plan this? Or did I?
No matter who planned it, whether fate or human, Raven flopped down next to Beast Boy and saw that he was constructing something out of Leggos.
"What're you building?" she asked dully.
"A giant mini pyramid."
"A giant mini pyramid?" Raven asked scornfully.
"Or maybe it's a mini giant pyramid… No, it's a giant mini pyramid."
"May I ask why?" she asked, wondering why anyone would bother with toys like Legos.
"I dunno," he replied as if that should have been obvious.
Raven looked at the pyramid and smiled faintly, old memories trickling through her mind. She picked up some gem thing, apparently meant to be some form of treasure. "I'll bet it's to protect the Stone of… Disaster, yah, the gem that can spread a deadly disease throughout the world, from the evil…"
"Tomb raiders?" Beast Boy offered with a gin.
Raven snorted. "Sure. From the evil tomb raiders."
"Ah, but I was going to be evil!" he whined jokingly.
Raven smiled. "You better change, because the wheelchair man is your greatest enemy." As she said this, she pulled out a Lego-human torso attached to a block with wheels.
Beast Boy laughed. "Fine then, I'm…" Beast Boy pulled out a person dressed in black with blond Lego hair, "Garfield!"
"Isn't that your real name?" Raven asked skeptically.
Beast Boy scowled. "You weren't supposed to know that. Who are you?"
"I'm not playing!" Raven said quickly, standing up. Just get your herbal tea and go.
"But Raven, you have to!" Beast Boy grabbed onto her legs as she tried to walk away. "You started it! Please!"
"Raven looked back at the changeling and slowly sat down. Gingerly she picked up a brown-haired Lego woman. "I'm Azura."
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I finally updated! No, I didn't think of the name Azura like Azarath, Azura is a goddess thing in "The Elder's Scrolls Three: Morrowind". I love that game so much!
I'm taking a vote, so listen (well, read) carefully. I'm planning on changing this story's name (I'm an obsessive-compulsive namer), and I need you to vote on which one. If you vote, I will put your name in my next chapter! (all votes are confidential. Lol.)
A) keep the name what it is
B) change it to "The Color of Life" (green)
C) change it to "The Color of Humanity" (violet is the color of humanity)
D) Other (put title here)