(I don't own TT. I don't own myself. I gave myself to Hiei. O.O That didn't come out right...)
(Well, this story is starting to draw to a close. It'll only have a few more chapters after this one, but I'm contemplating a sequal because this'll end very differently than I had originally planned, though I love the ending I'll have! Thanks, all who reviewed, and all who will review. You guys rock!)
(Ryan: Yah, I know. All Rae-BB stories seem to make Cyborg and Robin out to be evil chipmunk people who ruin relationships.)
Raven turned restlessly in her sleep, the problems of daytime invading her nighttime peace. Images of Cyborg and Beast Boy playing a video game of last night's excursions danced around before being replaced by a view of Starfire holding up a very fake picture of her and Beast Boy and asking what they were doing, while Robin was yelling that they shouldn't leave the Tower without making sure that all photography equipment was clean and put away. She herself was a little kid, playing with a lego model of Titans' Tower and making little peices of it explode by touching it. Raven tossed around a few more times
Beast Boy was in his room, also dreaming, though his dreams had a rather different theme. He was sitting in a strange room he'd never seen, playing Tetris with Raven on a Gamestation II, when suddenly she jumped up and shouted that she could do much better than him, that Orlando Bloom gave her Middle Earth and Johny Depp gave her the Black Pearl, a she suddenly walked out with the two of them as Jack Sparrow and Legolas, as Stafire appeared beside her dressed as Paris Hilton, accompanied by Brad Pitt. Beast Boy moaned softly and rolled over for the umpteenth time.
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"I'm worried about them," Robin stated simply. "They've been acting really weird lately."
"Please," Starfire asked. "What do you think is wrong with our friends? I think they have been acting the weird as of late, also."
Robin shrugged and picked up the days newspaper, when Cyborg said, "BB seemed okay when we were playing X-treme Boxing, so it can't be anything too bad. But I do think it's something more than just him and Rae losing their powers..." Cyborg paused. "Wait. Him and Rae losing their powers? Robin, you don't think-"
"No," Robin stated grimly, holding out the paper. There, on the front page, was an article labled "Romance From Titans' Tower", right next to a very incriminating picture. "I know."
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Beast Boy walked into the kitchen yawning and opened the fridge lazily. "Hey, BB!" Cyborg said suddenly, and Beast Boy froze at the tone of his voice. Without moving, Beast Boy asked, "What?"
"We think you need to see something," Robin replied grimly.
Beast Boy finally turned around. Robin was holding up a newspaper, and on the front page there was a picture he had been afraid would be there, but not today... He grabbed it and quickly scanned the first few lines.
Raven and Beast Boy, two Teen Titans residing at the well-known Titans' Tower, were found late last night, just leaving a little-known cafe... Our resources indicate that they were recently drained, temporarely, of their powers. However, they don't seem too concerned in this exlusive picture brought to you by John Mathews... This kiss followed a romantic conversation between the two in which Beast Boy promised Raven, "I'll never forget you, Raven. I'll never hurt you; I'll never let you fall..."
Beast Boy let the paper fall from his hands, but instantly wished he hadn't as he had no other choice but to meet the gazes of his fellow male Titans. "Is that true?" Robin asked, his voice even and unaccusing.
At that moment Beast Boy really wished Robin weren't so fair. It would have been a lot easier if Robin had started yelling at him about sneaking out, and Beast Boy could have angrily matched his yelling. Now Robin, just looking at him calmly and patiently, made him feel like a misbehaving child. Things that he should have thought of earlier came now, about how much danger he had put Raven, and himself, in, about how he would never have been able to forgive himself if Raven had gotten attacked, about how stupid it was for them to get involved in the first place; all this raced through his mind, with Robin holding his gaze, easily able to read his thoughts, but waiting for an answer.
Beast Boy turned his head away, unable to bear Robin's stare, and murmured quietly, "Yes."
There was a silence that felt longer than it was, before Robin said, "You know I wouldn't have told you guys to stay here without a reason."
Beast Boy nodded, his eyes not meeting anything but the floor. "I know."
There was another long pause, when Cyborg said suddenly, "I know this is probobly a bad time to bring this up, but... you and Raven?"
A small laugh lifted the frown from Beast Boy's face, and Robin smiled almost sadly. Beast Boy finally looked up, smiling at Cyborg. "I know, right? What are the chances?"
"Did you really say all that stuff in the newspaper?" Robin asked, looking slightly curious.
Beast Boy blushed lightly. "Uh, yeah. Wow, that was pretty mushy, huh?" He and Cyborg laughed, and Robin smiled distantly. He didn't want to ruin Beast Boy's happiness. He would bring up the necessary later.
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Raven heard a light knocking on her door, and slid it open to see a slightly anxious-looking Starfire. "Friend, may I come in?" she asked quietly.
Raven nodded silently and stepped out of the doorway, letting Starfie enter. "What's wrong?"
Star shifted uncomfortably. "Well, you see... In the paper of news this morning, I and the others saw..." She trailed of into uncomfortable silence, but she didn't need to continue.
Raven let the door slide softly back into place behind her. "Oh," Raven said numbly.
"We are all fine with it!" Starfire assured her hurriedly. "Robin just wished me to tell you that we know, he thought that I would be best suited for the job... he looked the worried, but I believe it was because you two did the sneaking out, and he was merely concerned."
Raven nodded her head slowly, trying to sort out how she felt about this. Suddenly Starfire burst out, "Was that your first kiss?"
Raven glanced over at Starfire, and she was shocked to realize she looked estatic. Raven shook her head no. "Well, was the paper of news truthful? Did friend Beast Boy really say those things about never forgetting you?"
"Um, yeah," Raven replied, blushing.
Anime hearts appeared in Star's eyes as she floated almost a foot off the ground. "Oh, that is so wonderfully romantic! How did this get started? When did you first kiss?"
Raven truely grinned. She had never before imagined that she would be talking to Star about this. "Well, on the night we lost our powers, I went out of my room to get tea," Raven started, as Star made herself comfortable on her bed.
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Raven felt something brush her face as she drifted in her half-sleep. Opening her eyes blearily, she heard a voice whisper, "Hey, hottie, how's it goin'?" She slapped a green hand away and sat up, scowling playfully. She hadn't seen Beast Boy all day; not only had it taken that long to satisfy Starfire to every detail of her getting with Beast Boy, but she had been a bit embarrased about everyone finding out. Now that he was sitting there on the edge of her bed in the dark with her just in pajamas, she thought it a little immature to be embarrased before.
He leaned back so that he was lying next to her, on top of the blanket Raven lay under. She blushed, but in the darkness Beast Boy couldn't tell. She could tell he was grinning, and Raven immediately knew he wasn't thinking anything suggestive. Beast Boy was so cute! Raven smiled inspite of herself.
"It's kinda weird, huh?" Beast Boy asked her.
Raven stared away absently. "Them knowing? Yah, I guess so."
"No," Beast Boy said, and Raven turned her attention to his shadowed face. "Everything. I mean, come on, if someone had told me two weeks ago that I'd be sitting on your bed in the dark, I'd have said they were crazy!" He blushed suddenly with realization. "Oh. I think I might be the crazy one."
Raven snickered lightly. "You're such a dork."
Suddenly his eyes got wide and his mouth formed a pout. "B-but... I'm a cute dork, r-right?"
Raven grinned again. It was strange; she hadn't known she could smile this much. "A very cute dork."
Beast Boy broke into a wide grin and gave her a peck on the cheek. "Robin was acting kinda weird," he said after a moment.
Raven shrugged. "Star says he was just worried about us sneaking out."
"I guess so," he replied easily.
"Beast Boy," Raven said slowly, "when we get our powers back, we can still be together, right?"
"Of course!" he grinned. He jumped up quickly, striking the Pokemon pose. "We can be a superhero couple, like Superman and Batgirl, or..." he paused, scratching his chin thoughtfully, then returning to the pose, "InuYasha and Kagome!"
Raven sweatdropped, not sure which was more frightening; the fact that he thought Superman and Batgirl were together, or the fact that he related InuYasha to a superhero. Or maybe the fact that he wasn't shutting up. "Yeah, and then we can have freaky mutant kids who'll join the X-men, and... um... I know! They'll be named- are you ready for this? - SuperBat and InuGome!"
Raven let out something between a snarl and a choked laugh, half annoyed and half amused-- when her lamp blew up. Both Titans jumped, then stared at the fragments for a few moments, before Raven breathed out. "Crap."
(Whoot, tis an update! Wow, I don't know what happened to me up there... I think I was hyper and trying to be Beast Boy... never a good combination...)