(trying to update fast! Please review!)

(Draco's Secret Lover: I don't like Terra either, it was for metaphorical (is that a word?) purposes that she said that. Also... well, you'll see in the chapter. Oh, and it suddenly came to my attention that you had asked what anime Raven was going to watch. I'm not sure, but maybe Full Metal Alchemist. Or Wolf's Rain.)

(Note: since so many people are asking about it, here's the reason there are leggos: I came up for the idea of this story when I was up really late one night. Playing with leggos.)

"W-what?" Beast Boy stuttered.

"Would, would you like to go out with me?" Raven asked, more formally this time.

Beast Boy cocked his head to one side. "You're not being sarcastic, right?" Raven shook her head. Suddenly Beast Boy grinned. For some reason, eveything seemed much simpler. "Where d'you wanna go?"

Raven smiled faintly. He was so cute. "Where ever."

Beast Boy's grin widened. "You asked for it! Wait here!" He disappeared into his room with an anime flash and reappeared an anime second later wearing jeans and a black T-shirt. "Come on!"

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It was twilight outside, and the dying sun cast a long, bloody arc over the water around the dock. But other lights danced on the silken black surface, too, small, yellow circular lights and flashing green ones. "The fair. Now why on Earth didn't I think of that?" Raven's voice dripped with sarcasm, but a grin was playing on her lips. She should have known anyways.

Beast Boy smiled. Raven was ravishing. She was wearing a black spagetii strap shirt over fishnets, with baggy black pants adorned with deep violet mini-bungee cord on the outer calves (I have those pants!) and combat boots. Black lipstick was the only make-up she wore, and purple fishnet half-gloves climbed her arms under the black fishnet. Beast Boy had never appretiated her skin's dark glow as now, the light from the fair, the setting sun, and the rising moon throwing a distortion over everything.

"So," Raven asked, "Do you want to go on any rides, or - "

"I should have known," Raven grumbled as she leaned against the edge of a game booth.

"It'll only take a second," Beast Boy smiled innocently. He tuned to the bottles stacked in the booth and threw a ball straight into the center of the pyramid. The ball bounced of with a resounding crack! but the balls remained motionless. "What the fu---"

"All these things are rigged," Raven cut in disdainfully. "You can't win by just hitting them."

Beast Boy scowled. "Then how, pray tell, are you supposed to win?"

"Hit the bottom left one, that's the main support."

"Prove it!" Beast Boy replied trustlessly.

Raven walked over to him, grabbed one of the two remaing balls (not like that, you sick minded freaks! I know you were thinking that!), took a pitcher's stance, and threw it into the left bottle, knocking the pyramid over with an earsplitting bang. She did the same for the last pyramid, the ball flying faster and the bottles scattering throughout the booth. Beast Boy gaped at her as she handed him a dragon plushie (plushies!). She smirked and, leaning close to his face, whispered, "Is that proof?"

She walked away, Beast Boy scrambling after her. "Where did you learn to do that?"

Raven blushed slightly. "I dunno, I guess I just picked it up somewhere." She would never tell him about the hours of trying to perfect her fastball while the other Titans rode rides.

Beast Boy shrugged. "Wanna ride that?" he asked, poiting to a ride labeled "Rock N' Roll". (incase any of you haven't heard of it, it's just a seat ride that goes really fast around this circle thing.)

"Sure," Raven said absently. They climbed into a seat, Raven on the inside and Beast Boy on the outside, and pulled the metal bar down with a clank.

Beast Boy grinned wickedly at her. "You might want to hold on."

Before Raven had time to ask why, they started moving. It wasn't so bad at first, but then they moved faster and faster, her hair whipped back from her face, and soon the force of the movement was pushing her to the outer edge of the ride, toward Beast Boy. She grabbed onto the rail in front of her, trying to brace herself, and caught a glimpse of Beast Boy pushing against the side, keeping himself from leaning too far out.

Before long, Raven's grip expired, and she was throw into Beast Boy's side. The momentum (did I spell that right?) of her body broke his right arm's grip on the rail, and he slid closer to the edge of the seat. Raven was now pressed against Beast Boy's body. She tried to sit up and slide back to her side, but the ride would't let her. Beast Boy, meanwhile, seemed to find all this very amusing, which he expressed by laughing at her, and to which Raven quickly expressed her unamusement by jabbing him in the ribs.

When the ride stopped, Beasy Boy jumped out, and Raven slumped against the side he had formerly occupated. "I hate you," she mumbled.

He laughed loudly. "It wasn't bad, Rae!"

Her head shot up and she jumped out of the ride, her face close to Beast Boy's again. "Never. Call me. Rae."

Beast Boy took a step back and did an anime sweatdrop. "Heh. My bad."

They were walking through the throng again. They past a ride labeled "Gravitron" when Beast Boy doubled back. "Come on, that's the most awsome ride ever!" he said, pulling Raven by the wrist.

Raven stopped short, digging her heels into the ground. "Oh, no. I want to know what this ride does, first."

Beast Boy rolled his eyes. "All it does is spin around really fast... okay, you stand on the sides not strapped in and it spins around so fast you can't move and the things you're standing against move up the wall, but..." he paused at the look on Raven's face. "Since when have you been scared?"

She scowled. "I'm not scared, I'm just... cautious."

Beast Boy stopped trying to pull her to the ride. "Does this have anything to do with your powers being gone?"

Raven looked down. "A little... I guess. I just... I don't mind spinning and heights and stuff, as long as, well, I'm controlling it. But when I lose control, when I'm depending on someone else with my safety, or the safety of someone else --" her voice broke off.

"So you have control issues?" Beast Boy said jokingly.

Raven pulled her wrist away angrily. "This is why I never tell you anything!" she shouted. "You can't take anything seriously!"

She started to stalk away, but Beast Boy grabbed her hand and pulled her back. His fingers twined into hers and their bodies were close again. "I'm sorry, Raven. I understand. You don't trust. Sorry, I'm just an idiot I guess," he said softly into her ear.

Her heart thumped heavily against her chest, and she had the uncomfortable feeling Beast Boy could hear it speed up. There was something singularly comforting in the fact that he understood her mistrust of everything. "You're not an idiot..."

But before Raven finished the sentence she became aware of whispers and murmurs, and pulled away to see people in the crown watching them, whispering, or a few talking plainly, to their comrades while looking at them. Raven felt a violet blush rise to her face. Beast Boy noticed the crowd watching too. "Come on," he whispered, pulling her into the ride and away from everyone's stares.

The ride was dark with little pallet-like things lining the circular wall. A man in the middle of the ride in a sectioned off, erm, section (sorry) was announcing that everybody needed to find a positon. Beast Boy pulled Raven over to where there were two empty pallets. "Just lay back on it. Don't worry, this is fun."

"Are you sure I'm not going to die?" Raven asked. She meant it to sound funny, but it came out much more timid than she had planned.

"Just trust me." Raven couldn't see his face in the darkness, but his voice was calm and gentle, and against her will she calmed down slightly.

She was tightly clutching the back of her pallet until the controler of the ride said, "...And whatever you do, don't hold on to the back of your seats." At this Raven quickly just clutched her own arms.

The ride started spinning, slowly at first, and for a second she thought she might be okay. Then it picked up speed, and before long it was spinning so fast it practically pinned her down. Suddenly she felt her seat start to lift up the wall, and though she tried not to, she screamed. This wouldn't have been bad if she had her powers, damnit, why did she have to lose them...

Then a hand grabbed hers and her scream died in her throat. She turned her head and saw Beast Boy smiling at her, and she couldn't feel the ride anymore.

Until it came back down again, Raven uttering a slight cry. When the ride finally ended, Raven staggered off, Beast Boy helping her walk. "Well?" he asked, looking a little concerned.

"I think I'm gunna puke," she said weakly, and his ears drooped. When she started laughing hystarically. "That was awsome!" she yelled, throwing her hands in the air. Beast Boy laughed. "I told you it was fun!" Raven grinned, before she realized she was, and it quickly disappeared.

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It was several hours later, and Raven and Beast Boy were sitting beside a conscession stand, Beast Boy eating a funnel cake and Raven eating a soft pretzel. Raven had lived through her fist ride on the flying swings and the Typhoon, laughed her way through her first haunted house, and refused to go on the Drop. "You having fun?" Beast Boy asked, looking over at her.

She nodded briefly and smiled vaugley. "You?" she asked in return.

He grinned. "Of course."

"Beast Boy, do you..."

"Do I what?"

"Do you... like me? Like, really like me?" Raven asked uncertainly.

Beast Boy looked sideways at her. After a pause he replied, "Yah, I really like you."

"Compared to who?" Raven asked as though saying it before losing the courage to. Beast Boy locked his eyes on hers immediately, and she looked purposefully away.

"Raven, who is this about?" Beast Boy asked seriously.

"What makes you think this is about anyone?" she asked indifferently.

"Is this about Terra?" he asked quietly.

Raven turned towards him. "And what if this is?" she asked threateningly.

Beast Boy looked over at her more intently than before, and Raven realized just how stong Beast Boy's gaze could be. "Raven, I had liked you before her, and while she was here. I had a crush on Terra. That's all she was to me. I care about her as a friend now, that's all."

"And what am I to you?" Raven asked harshly.

Beast Boy froze, his mouth open as if he wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say. "Raven..." he whispered softly, as if begging her to let him know what she wanted to hear, but her face remained icey and her mouth stayed closed.

So instead he leaned over to her, his breath mingling with Raven's until he saw her face change slightly, and he kissed her.

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It was different, Raven thought, this time, than last. Beast Boy's tongue grazed over her lips lovingly, and any of her previous worries were wiped from her mind, leaving her feeling slightly confused. She became acutely aware of his arms moving around her, and leaned in closer so she could feel his heartbeat. Everything seemed to build up inside her until she thought she would explode, till they both broke away for lack of oxygen. Then she heard it, Beast Boy's voice in her ear, still slightly breathless, "I love you, Raven."