Fragrant Soul

Sorry I haven't undated in a loooong while. T.T; School started, and I completely forgot about this! I'm soooo sorry.

I do have to note though: Thank you Gobeul for telling me Terra is a geomancer, and a geokinetic. I sincerely didn't know what the name was for those who had powers over rocks.

Disclaimer: I own not the Teen Titans, but I do own this lint! holds it up proudly

READ! READ! READ! - Incase you don't know, Beastboy's real name IS Garfield. I giggled when I learned that, because I thought of Garfield the cat. X3 Hehe. But, yeah, I'm using his real name in here a few times. JUST SO YOU KNOW.

Chapter Five: Mmm, Icecream X3

"I told you to shut up already, Beast!' Beastboy was sitting in his room, sprawled out on his bed and staring at the the bottom of the top bunk bed. His green eyes, glowing in feral agitation, glared ahead, not seeing anything.

'I was just saying that that Raven girl would be one good fu--'

"Shut up!" snapped Beastboy, reddening slightly as he already figured out what would come next. His left eye was twitching slightly in annoyance. The Beast was so rude sometimes! In fact, at the food court, the Beast was conjuring very perverted images as Terra ate a vanilla ice-cream cone. Of course, the creature was commenting on how Raven would look doing the perverse things that the animal was thinking, seeing as it was the empath's body, and not Terra's.

'How do you know I was coming up with those images at the food court though?' asked Beast, a smirk clearly in his voice. Beastboy was about to retort, but the Beast cut him off, 'I mean, you like her, don't you? Maybe you were coming up with them!'

'Well, she is really attractive...' mumbled Beastboy, as if embarassed to admit it.

'And you do care for her, don't you?'

Beastboy nodded, but felt the Beast was luring him into something he wasn't going to like. Yet, the Beast kept asking questions, and Beastboy answered. The smirk in the Beast's voice continued to grow with each question.

'Ah, so, you find the empath attractive. You love her smile, you adore her laugh. You'd do anything to make sure she's safe and happy, and away from harm.' The Beast paused to let all this float about Beastboy's mind, 'And you'd forgive her no matter what, right? Not like she'd actually hurt you though.'

'Okay, what the hell are you getting to, Beast!' snapped Beastboy. If this had been a normal conversatoin, the green changling would have thrown his arms up in exasperation. The Beast scoffed, and Beastboy could almost picture it rolling his eyes.

'Think about it nimrod! Being protective of one you find attractive? Always trying to make her happy? Don't you remember Malichior! You got so jealous the--'

Beastboy growled as he rolled over, and shoved a pillow over his head as if to drown out the Beast. Too bad for the young man that the Beast was, well, within him, and not prone to being muffled by a pillow. Angrilly, the young man ground his teeth together as the creature went on. Clenching his eyes shut, Beastboy tried to deny anything the Beast was insinuating.

'Shutupshutupshutup!' Under the pillow Beastboy's cheeks were glowing a bright red, 'Just be quiet and shut up, you stupid...jerk!'

'Oh, ow, that really hurt, Beastboy, really.' muttered the Beast sarcastically, as he snorted indignantly, 'It's not my fault you want to screw the living daylights out of the empath.'

'I told you to shut up!' Beastboy's blush intensified, as he mentally screamed at his other half. His eyes were clenched shut still, and he tempted to block out any thoughts that would follow that phrase.

'Then again, maybe she's just in heat, you know, letting off pheremones and you're just reacting to them. Of course, you're never this way to that Starfire girl, maybe it's because she's an alien and doesn't have pheremones? That Robin kid would wring your neck if you touched her, anyway.' the Beast went on, teasing and taunting his host, a smirk in his voice, 'Or maybe you are succumbing to hormones, like any other young man, and they're amplified by your carnal animalistic hunger?'

Beastboy groaned, and muttered something against the mattress of his bed. How his inner demon was starting to annoy him so. He wasn't sure how much more he could take of the Beast's jeering voice poking fun at him. In the back of Beastboy's mind, he wondered if Raven's emotions anonyed her this much.

'Dammit, I wish you'd just leave me alone, you jerkass!',yelled Beastboy, again mentally, although even his inner voice was strangled with confusion. How did he really feel about Raven? And what about Terra, 'Besides! Terra's the one for me! She's sweet, and beautiful in her own body, and fun.'

'Oh yes. The stickcommented the Beast, as if pondering something, 'She has no breasts, no butt, and is skinny as a twig. Oh yes, we could play fetch with her real well! But personally, that's about all you could do with her. She did betray you once, anyways, didn't she?'

The young green changling was quiet for a moment. For that silent moment his eyes burned with tears that wanted to fall, yet Beastboy held them in. But, slowly, Beastboy opened his eyes, and shoved the pillow off his head. Staring at the wall inches from his nose, he let a silent tear fall down his cheek.

'Ya know what, Beast?' mumbled the changling, voice cracking slightly. He waited a moment for the Beast to give a snippy retort, but when one didn't come, he finished.

'You ruin everything...'

There was more silence, as if the Beast had been struck dumb. Beastboy just stared fornlornly at the wall in front of him, trying to forget the harsh past that Terra had made. All that mattered now was she was here, despite the little problem with body swapping, and Terra was ready to stick by Beastboy's side no matter what now.

Finally, the Beast replied, his harsh, gravelly voice, softened with some strange, almost caring tone, 'Do I ruin everything Beastboy? Or do I help? Raven knows about me, and is still your friend. What will Terra do when you tell her a true Beast lies inside you? A carnivorious, ruthless Beast, that once protected someone he loved..'

Beastboy's eyes widened when he let the last echoes of the Beast's small speech ring thorugh his head. The last part kept echoing, and twisting around in the young man's head. 'Protected someone he loved...protected love...protected a love...'

'I am you, Garfield. You protected Raven. You love her. Face it.' With that last sentence, the Beast remained quiet. Beastboy slightly hoped it'd be a long hibernation. He didn't wish to speak with that Beast again. It seemed that every time the Beast surfaced, it was about Raven.

'Maybe I do love Raven.' thought Beastboy, as he sat up and looked arond his room desolately, 'But, to her, I'm just a friend. Nothing more, nothing less. Only a friend...'

"Only...a friend." He whispered to himself, as if saying it would confirm his position to the universe. He cringed as a jolt from in his body ran through his heart, painfully. Rubbing his chest, he sighed and collapsed back onto the bed, still just staring at nothing. His thoughts wandered by themselves, in the lonely, cold, plains of his mind, with no Beast to accompany them.

Sitting down, in the lush green grass of Happiness's realm, Raven stared at her emotions with little amusement. Sitting opposite of her was a her newest emotion wearing dark magenta. Love. Sitting on either side of Love was Happiness and Wisdom, while sitting besides Wisdom was Timid. Bravery was off in the background, making a ruckus by practicing her martial arts. Gross, for the sanity of everyone was left out of this conversation to do her own biddings in her own realm.

"So, let me get this straight," Muttered Raven, glaring at her emotions, "This...emotion showed up two weeks ago? That's when I started to 'love' Beastboy? Why hasn't she piped up though?"

Love grinned, a little too foolishly for Raven's tastes, "You started to love Garfield when that really bad storm came by. You remember?"

"Of course I remember that," Muttered Raven, rolling her eyes, "Beastboy was being a big chicken, and clinging to me. He'd even yelp when it started to thunder, and hid his face in my shoulder when the lightning started. I had to calm him down, and he fell asleep against me me during the storm."

"Right!" Exclaimed Love, smiling broadly, "Until then, I was just Infatuation! But, seeing as you have a huge wall of denial, I was hidden by myself in a different realm. That is, until you and Terra switched bodies. Because of that, your denial was broken during the confusion, and I was allowed out of the realm I was trapped in!"

Raven was silent for a moment. Her eyes stared at the green grass under her. It did make some sense. Vaguely, in the back of her mind, she wondered if her emotions found it strange speaking to Raven whilst she looked like Terra. Surprisingly, the emotions still looked like her original self. Pale, with purple hair and dark violet eyes.

"But why would I start to love that green bean while he was making a complete fool of himself?" Muttered Raven, glaring icilly at her newest emotion. The emotion just grinned back, but the grin was now slightly sly.

"Because," Said Love, her voice clear as a bell cutting through a crisp winter afternoon, "You saw how Garfield relied on you, and how he seemed so at ease with you! Seeing as so many people think of you as strange, and creepy, and unable to be comfortable around you. Remember, thought, you were infatuated with him to begin with, now you got the full blown case of Love. Infatuation actually began to form after the Malchior incident, when he hugged you."

Happiness giggled, smiling brightly at Raven as if this was the best thing in the world. Wisdom tried to look like she was ignoring the conversation by reading a book, however there was a cocky smirk on her lips. Timid just blushed a bit, and poked her fingers together. Maybe because little Timid remembered the time she met Beastboy face to face. Sure, he yelled, but besides that, he was pretty nice.

"There's no way in the seven circles of Hell that I could be in love with stuck a goofy, immature, green..." Raven trailed off, trying to find the appropriate word for Beastboy. Boy, in fact was too young of a term, yet she didn't want to use young man, so she settled on a different word, "Changling."

In the background, Bravery stopped practicing her martial arts, and glanced over at Raven, "Oh real smooth!" The green-clad girl laughed heartilly, before going back to praticing. Raven glared at Bravery, and grabbed the girl by her slippered foot with her powers. Bravery yelped as she was turned upside down. Timid watched, worried for Bravery's safety, as Happiness started to giggle insanely. Love just watched, amusement flickering through her purple eyes.

Wisdom glanced up from her book, and glanced from Raven to Bravery. Rolling her eyes, she shut her book, and tossed it none to gently at Raven's head. There was the smack of a leatherbound book bouncing off a skull, a fizzle as Raven lost concentration, and a thump followed by a yelp of pain as Bravery was suddenly introduced to the ground.

"Owh." Raven rubbed her head, and glared at Wisdom, "What was that for?"

"Oh nothing. Just seems like immaturity has rubbed off on you." Stated Wisdom airilly, as her book was engulfed in yellow light. Slowly, the book floated back to its master, and lightly fell into the girl's lap.

"What's that supposed to mean?" muttered Raven, an eyebrow raised. Wisdom just smiled at Raven for a moment. Then, taking another moment, Wisdom took off her glasses and started to clean them.

"It just seems to me," Started Wisdom, as she slipped her glasses back on, "That Beastboy's immaturity has rubbed off on you."

Silence fell over Raven, as her left eye twitched in annoyance. She was tempted to childishly yelp out, 'Has not!'. But, the empath realized that was a very Beastboy-like thing to do, thus it was too immature for her sophisticated status. So, instead, she remained silent.

Wisdom smirked at Raven, in a triumphant way, before opening her book, and finding her page again. As the yellow-caped girl started to read again, Raven sighed and looked up at the bright blue sky of Happiness's realm.

Timid and Love had started their own conversation, and were chatting with each other, while Bravery sat behind them, mumbling about her bruised butt. Happiness poked fun at Bravery, asking pervertedly what could make her rear-end hurt so much, which made Happiness receive a bruise of her own on her arm. Wisdom still read, usually adding to the sound around Raven by the soft crinkle of a page turning.

Finally, Raven glanced at them, and waited for a pause in Timid and Love's conversation to ask, "Are there any other newly-arrived emotions I should know about?"

This time, silence fell over the whole realm. Timid looked worriedly from Love, to Happiness, while Bravery rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. Wisdom ceased her reading, once more, and looked up at Raven. Love bit her bottom lip, and glanced at Happiness, who just stared at Raven with her head to the side.

Elbowing Happiness, Love muttered something to the pink emotion, and Happiness squeaked. Slowly, her purple eyes went back to Raven, and she smiled, nervously.

"Uhm, well, there is one." The emotion poked her fingers together, and elbowed Timid. Timid just stared wide-eyed at Happiness, and shook her head, not brave enough to share the information with Raven. Meanwhile, the empath stared at her emotions in bemusement. Finally, Bravery snorted and pushed Timid and Love aside to lean forward.

"Envy is back. Last time she was here was when Terra had joined the Teen Titans." Snapped Bravery, staring at Raven with a determined fire, "When Beastboy started to ditch you and spend more time with that blonde bimbo!"

The green emotion sat back on her heels, arms crossed, and got a wap from Wisdom.

"Has Envy infected you too?" hissed Wisdom, as Bravery ruefully rubbed her arm and looked away with a slight tinge of pink embarassment on her cheeks. Raven just stared at her emotions, her mind now just a whirlwind of thoughts at the moment. Sighing, the empath closed her eyes, and rubbed the bridge of her small nose.

In the background, Raven could hear her emotions shuffling a bit nervously. Finally, Raven opened her eyes, and sighed. Standing up, she brushed off her pants. The emotions hurriedly scrambled to their feet as well as Raven started to walk off.

"Where are you going?" Squeaked Timid, running a bit to keep up with Raven's quick pace.

"I'm going to confront this..Envy." Spat out Raven, glaring off at the distant archway that led to a different realm. Timid squeaked, and jumped in front of Raven, waving her hands.

"No! You can't go! She'll infect you if you meet her face to face!"

"Get out of my way, Timid." Muttered Raven, glaring at the gray emotion. Timid squeaked again, and slunk back a bit. However, the girl was enough of a distraction for the other emotions to catch up to Raven.

"She's right, Raven." Stated Wisdom, grabbing onto Raven's left arm, while Bravery grabbed the right arm, "If you go to see Envy, the suppression you have on her will be released, and you'll be infected with her envious nature."

"So you can't go!" piped up Happiness, holding a trembling Timid in her arms. Love stood by Timid, rubbing the whimpering emotion's back. The magenta-caped girl looked up at Raven, and nodded in agreement with Happiness, "Please, Raven, don't go! Who knows what you'll do to Terra if Envy controls you?"

Raven, up to now, had been struggling against the hold Bravery and Wisdom had on her. But, slowly, she relaxed, and sighed. Staring into the faces of her emotions, she nodded, and muttered, "Fine, I won't. But Envy was branched off from Rage, hasn't she?"

Quietly, all the emotions nodded and Raven sighed, letting her shoulders slump. Slowly, Wisdom and Bravery relinquished their grip on the girl. Envy, being branced off from Rage, was just another, if lesser, control her father still had on her. Raven just stared at the ground, feeling as if she was back to square one, after all these years of feeling at least semi-free of Trigon's grip.

Raven glanced up, feeling a hand on her shoulder. Love smiled weakly at Raven, her head tilted to the side. The empath just stared at her emotion, wondering how the emotion could smile, but remembered Love was new again.

New emotions were always optimistic, at least the positive new emotions. Negative ones, like Rage, or Envy as was the current case, were usually locked away behind bars of suppression to keep them from bringing Trigon out.

"Don't worry Raven." Love's eyes glittered with hope, and Raven almost felt the bile of pessmistic disgust work it's way into her throat, "Once you win Garfield's love, Envy will disappear!"

Shoving Love's hand off her shoulder, the empath took a step back and frowned. "I do not love Garfield! Nor will I ever!" Growled Raven, her eyes glowing bright white as she flew out of the realm of Happiness, and to the exit of her mind, leaving a cloud of dust in her wake.

The emotions were left, coughing as they cleared thier lungs of the dust. Finally, after the coughing fits were over, all the emotions looked at each other and then sighed.

"She's still in denial." Muttered Bravery, crossing her arms in a huff.

"Well, what do you expect?" asked Wisdom, her eyes filling with a slight sadness as she looked from Happiness, to Bravery, then to Timid, and finally to Love, "Last time she thought she was in love, she was betrayed."

A small silence fell over them, that was soon broken by Timid breaking down into tears and falling to her knees, "With Terra around, Beastboy will never love Raven! And we'll never be rid of Envy! Raven will be heartbroken again! And who knows if Raven will get her old body back!"

Bravery kneeled down by Timid and, a bit akwardly, hugged the grey emotion. Timid buried her face into Bravery's shoulder, and sniffled. Wisdom adjusted her glasses as Happiness shuffled from foot to foot. A sad, tense air had fallen into them, and no one was certain how to break it.

Finally, Love spoke up, a slight smile on her face as each of the emotions turned their purple gaze to her, "Perhaps, this body-swapping will be the key to Garfield and Raven becoming closer. Perhaps, even with Terra here, Garfield will fall for Raven. Perhaps.."

"Perhaps, you're a big ninny!" Shouted Bravery, as she tackled the mageneta emotion and wrestled with the girl on the ground good-naturedly.

Happiness just giggled, watching the scene, and Wisdom grinned, feeling slightly better about this whole situation. Even Timid cracked a grin. Away in the distance, peeking out behind a tree, Raven watched the emotions. She watched a small smile form on Timid's lips, and was slightly amazed.

"I guess being in Love isn't that bad." Whispered the girl to herself, as she silently left the mirror of her mind. However, as she stood in her room, all by herself, Raven gripped herself in a hug, and sat down. "But, Beastboy won't see me as anything besides a friend."

She glanced around her room, at the familiar scenery she had grown accoustomed to. In the corner of her room, the big chicken that Beastboy had won for her at a carnival sat, collecting dust. Slowly, getting to her feet, the girl walked over to it, and brushed the dust off the stuffed animal. Hugging the toy to her chest, she heard it weakly squeak.

"Only a friend. Nothing else." whispered Raven, burying her face into the absurdly shaped chicken. She fell to her knees, still holding the toy close. Her thoughts were scrambled in confusion, which was only intensified by the conversation she had with her emotions.

But, a knock on her door interrupted her as she attempted to sort out the whirlwind of thougts in her mind. Looking up from the stuffed animal, she saw the door open, and a figure's silhouette in the doorway. Shoving the stuffed animal away from her, the girl quickly stood up, and brushed her shirt off, trying to see who was standing in the doorway.

"What do you want?" she snapped, still trying to figure out whom stood there. The silhouette remained motionless though, and Raven could see the figure's head was hung low. After a moment of uncomfortable silence, she muttered, "Well?"

"Nevermind, Rae." muttered the figure, and the door shut as he turned to leave. Raven's eyes widened as she realized it was Beastboy. She stumbled to the door, and caught it before it closed.

"Wait, Beastboy!" yelped Raven, trying to get the young man to stop.

The young man had hardly gotten out of the door, when Raven came barreling out, trying to stop him. He turned halfway at the call of his voice, and squeaked just as the girl collided into him. With a yelp from Beastboy, the two collapsed to the ground with Raven sprawled over Beastboy. Both stared at each other embarassedly, as a light red blush crept it's way over their cheeks.

End Chapter Five

Weeeeee! That was uber long. O.O; Hope you all liked it. XD Sorry it's such a long read. Keep in mind, I have no specific storyline in mind or planned out save for the swapped bodies theme, and Beastboy falling for Raven.