This coming chapter has to be one of my favorites.

It's touching, emotional, and has just the right amount of fresh fruit.


Update 'son'? I know you mean 'soon', but son...interesting typo, as I happen to be female. :) Everyone commit that to memory, I am female! And yes, that was the ghost. I have a GREAT storyline planned up there.
Chapter 12: Moon Prisim Power (sorry, couldn't resist, surviving Sailor Moon sortafan here)

Beast Boy looked at his now spotless wall. He sighed.

His shoes were shined. He had organized the 112 girls he had crushes on (many of which did not exist) by the third letter in their middle names, then thrown the whole list away and scribbled 'Terra' on a peice of paper until his marker ran dry. He had cleaned his sheets, then cleaned them again. Nothing worked.

He flopped down on his bed. May as well just go to bed, as well as anything. His head hit the pillow, but he wasn't going asleep for a LONG time.

Meanwhile, Raven slunk up the hall to his door. She knocked as quietly as she could. "Beast Boy?" she whispered. "Are...you awake?"

"No," came the muffled response.

"Yeah. Sure." She eased the door open. She was blinded for a bit by the cleanliness, but after the spots dissappeared fromher eyes, she was ready to confront the lump in the top bunk. She walked over gingerly, instinctively avoiding the junk that wasn't there. "Look...Beast Boy...there's...something...we need to talk about."

The lump shuffled. It did not respond.

She sighed. "Okay...I...don't really know how to do this...but...I...just want to know what's going on. You always want to know what's going on with me...so...it's...well..."

"Yeah." He shuffled again. "I'll tell you. On second thought, I won't."

She shrugged. "At least you're not referring to yourself in the third person anymore. Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." She flew up to the top bunk. Time for Plan B."Beast Boy...there's...something I want to show you."

"Show away."

"It's...outside the room." She didn't give him time to respond. She grabbed his wrist, pulled him out of the covers, and dragged him out of the room and down the hall.

As they flew, Raven looked down at her green...teammate. He was wearingnothing except his glow-in-the-dark boxers. He now looked more sullen than ever. The sadness in her heart grew. It killed her...to see him this upset. She felt like just...stopping and giving him a big hug right there. Of course, there was the chance someone could walk down the hall, so she resisted as hard as she could.

Finally, two flights down, Beast Boy spoke-feebly. "Raven...where are you taking me?"

"Somewhere special. Speaking of, we're here." Beast Boy looked up.

"It's a window."

"I know." She sat on the floor, cross-legged. "Sit down."

He did-ackwardly. "Now what?"

"Just...look." They did.

The night was beautiful. Clear. Cloudless. For once, everyone in town decided to go to bed early, so many lights were out. Almost every star could be seen clearly, twinkling lights as you've never seen before. The moon hovered too, full, like a watcher over all the little lights.

They just sat there, watching, for what they didn't know was hours. The others had given up and went to bed. They were unaware. They were absorbed, mesmerized, and...sharing this moment. A smile crept across Raven's face, only to dissappear when Beast Boy broke the uncomfortable silence.

"Raven...do you remember...when Terra died?"

Raven glanced over. "Stop trying to make yourself feel miserable, Beast Boy."

He pretended not to hear her. "How...I locked myself in my room for a week, and then emerged completely normal?"

Oh yes. Raven remembered very well. As soon as they had gotten home from placing flowers at Terra's grave, Beast Boy had run upstairs, and didn't emerge for a week. But the wierd thing was, when he finally allowed himself to be seen, he was a normal, pre-Terra BB. It was like...he didn't even remember that she existed. Any mention of her name was ignored by him. It had bamboozled the Titans for a week, then they just gave up and assumed BB had just recovered very quickly. She hadn't dwelled on it since then.

"Er...yeah."

"It was an act."

"Eh?"

He sighed noisily. "I didn't want you guys to worry about me. So...I tried to act normal. Totally shut Terra away. You guys bought it, but really, I was hurting inside."

Raven's eyes snapped away from the view and over to Beast Boy. Him...talking so deeply and movingly...it was abnormal. But so was everything else in her life. "How long did you act? I mean...before you got over it?"

He looked into her worried eyes, his wet with tears. "I never really did get over it. But I did stop acting...seven months later. Around the time when Titans East formed. When Cyborg left...it gave me something else to concentrate on. After that, I was just being myself."

"That long?" She tried to look away, but she couldn't stand it. "Umm..." She stood up. "I think we should get to bed. It's really late. And...we have a surprise for you in the morning."

His eyes lit up-she was happy to see this. "What kind of surprise?"

"The...good kind. G'night." She floated down the hall back to her room.

Beast Boy just stared at her, smiling. Yeah. He should get to bed. He walked up to his room, forgetting the elevator existed. He needed the walk.

But not all of his thinking would be resolved in that one stroll.


Seems kinda shortish to me. In the next chapter, which I bet is even shorter, you'll get even more emotion, once again little to no mention of our heroes, and a little paragraph explaining the canon role of Melanie and Jason, two seemingly now-uncanon characters of mine that will be reappearing soon.

-SP