"Alright…" Garfield started as he pulled a thick leather bound photo album from a shelf. "This way you can read my thoughts about the pictures and stuff." He plopped down next to Raven on their bed and opened to the first page.
Raven looked at the first few photos. They were from the same night as the one on the desk. It was their first date. Most of the pictures were of her looking annoyed while Beast Boy happily showered her with affection. There was one where she had a smirk on her face and Beast Boy had his arm around her. She brought her slim finger to point to the picture. "Gar, why am I smiling in this one?"
He laughed "Right after that picture was taken you launched me off the end of the pier." He laughed good naturedly "See, in the next one I'm all wet."
Raven tapped into his mind to see his thoughts. They were from his point of view.
"Rae, look!" he said happily, pointing upward "Fireworks!"
He then looked at Raven. She was looking at the explosions and her lips had curled into a slight smile. "They are sort of pretty." She said in a falsely bemused tone.
"Beautiful." Beast Boy said but didn't look back up at the sky, he was focused on Raven.
She turned to a new section of the photo album. "These are from when Cyborg asked Jinx out. I broke into the computer and printed them from the security camera." He pointed to one of his best friend kissing the pink haired witch "Black mail."
"What happened?" Raven asked as she looked over the pictures.
"Eh, they're engaged but taking their time planning a wedding. She quit the Hive for him." Garfield explained. Raven was shocked how much had happened.
On the next page were pictures of Raven and Beast Boy asleep on the couch. Raven looked slightly older and it was hard to tell Beast Boy's age because he was an animal in each picture. He was having a dream and changing his form in his sleep. In the first pic he was a kitten, curled up on Raven's chest. In the next, he was a tiger and Raven was using him as a pillow. The one after that he was a dog, laying across Raven's stomach. Then, a bear with Raven sleeping on him like a living bed. In the very last one, He was in human form and was holding Raven, her head resting on his chest. He did look slightly older as well.
"Hehe, Cyborg took those." Gar said and then pointed to the one where he was a cat. "You're a really comfortable pillow. I do that all the time." Raven blushed.
"A wedding." She said looking at the next set of pictures.
"Rob and Star. They got married before we did. Star's Conorf-whatever gave her away and you were bride's maid. Me and Cy were both best man. Bruce was there." Garfield was explaining but Raven just watched his thoughts.
"Are you really leaving the mask on?" Beast Boy asked.
Robin was in front of a mirror, fussing over his tux. "Do you think I should take it off?"
"No, It's not an important occasion, it's only your WEDDING." Cyborg said sarcastically.
"Alright, Alright. I'll take it off." Robin said and took off the mask he usually wore.
Then someone came in the room to fetch them and Beast boy followed Robin and Cyborg out of the room.
They took their spots at the alter and Beast Boy watched Robin who was very nervous. The music started and the flower girl started down the isle. She was followed by Star and her Conorfca. Beast Boy looked at Starfire, who was smiling and wearing a wedding dress for a moment but was quickly distracted. Raven had walked out, she was wearing a purple gown and her hair was up. She looked around for a moment and her eyes met Beast Boy's.
She blushed and turned away quickly. During the entire ceremony Beast Boy's eyes kept on wandering back over to Raven, and Hers to his.
After the vows they all rushed out of the church. As they all threw birdseed and blew bubble at the newly weds Beast Boy stood next to Raven. Star threw the bouquet and it hit Raven and she caught it without thinking. Cyborg looked amused at the bewildered expression on Raven's face.
They took the T-car to the reception, Cyborg Driving, the other two in the back. Beast Boy's hand somehow found Raven's. They walked into the reception Hall, hand in hand. Raven was never one for dancing so they sat to the side a lot. Talking or just listening to the music.
Starfire forced Raven to dance for a while but the dark haired girl managed to escape her best friend after a while. Beast Boy had watched the whole scene. When Raven went outside he followed.
"Rae… Raven…" He ran up to her and grabbed her elbow.
She turned around to look at him. "Gar… Why aren't you inside?"
"Because you're not" He laughed and put an arm around her shoulder "Are you mad at me?"
She shook her head and then raised her eyes to look at him "No. I'm not mad."
He leaned down and gave her a kiss. After that the memory got blurry.
Raven looked at a picture of herself and Gar outside on the veranda of the reception hall. It was their backs and she was wearing Beast Boy's suit jacket, he had his arm around her.
"Star took that one. It's one of my favorites." He smiled showing his fangs. "You looked better in my suit jacket than I did." He joked and turned the page.
On the next few pages were pictures of the tower decorated with fake palm trees and lots of party lights. There were a lot of pictures of Raven in a swim suit walking around the faux beach or swimming I the pool on the roof, which had also been decorated.
"What's this about?" She asked confused.
"When Robin and Starfire went on honeymoon to Hawaii you, me, and Cy decorated the tower so we could have a vacation too." He said with a laugh.
He knocked on her bedroom door. "Rae… Wakey Wakey." He said happily. She answered the door in her pajamas. "Go put this on."
She looked at the bathing suit he had handed her and raised an eyebrow. "How about no."
He got down on his knees "Raveeeeen. Pleaseeeeeee. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Pleaaaaaaaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."
"Alright, alright. Just shut up." She said and closed the door. After a minute she came back. She was now wearing the black bikini. "Are you happy now?"
Part of the memory was blotted out with an image of Cyborg in a dress.
When the memory stared again Raven was sitting in the kitchen next to a fake palm tree. Gar came over and handed her a tropical drink. "Here you go, Rae. Made special for a special lady."
She took a sip, looking bored. "Thanks."
"Smile you two!" Cyborg said as he snapped a picture. He was wearing a lei around his neck and had on Bermuda shorts.
The memory skipped a little and they were on the roof. Cyborg was lying in a beach chair. Raven was standing on the edge of the pool. Beast boy ran up behind her and pushed her in.
She screamed at the cold water and tried to get out of it by crawling up Beast Boy. Her hands were on his shoulder and her legs were wrapping around him as she forced herself out of the water. The end result was Gar standing in the pool with a wet, panicked Raven up against him. Her legs were wrapped around him and his face was buried in her chest.
A chunk of the memory was replaced with the thought of Control Freak cosplaying as LuLu from FFX.
This time when the memory started up again Raven was lying on a beach chair next to Cyborg. Beast Boy watched her breathing. She opened her eyes and glared at him for a moment then closed her eyes.
"What was wrong with that memory?" Raven asked and Gar blushed.
"Well, you see… I was… thinking of things so…. So I wouldn't…. umm…" He was stuttering and getting redder. "You know, when certain things happen… I think of other things to get my mind off of the certain things… so bad things don't happen."
Raven raised her eyebrow but then continued to look at the photo album. She flipped the page to see pictures of herself on a train. The photo was taken from outside the train. It was snowing and Beast Boy was standing there, outside, looking up at her. She placed her hand on the window and her lips moved from picture to picture as if she was talking. There were a few shakey pictures of the train getting farther and farther away with Beast Boy following it. Then there was a picture of the train speeding away with Beast Boy standing in the middle of the tracks.
"Do you have a ticket, Sir?" asked the porter.
Beast Boy just pushed his was past the man to the train. "RAVEN! Rae!" fought his was through the crowd. His shouts forming white clouds in the cold air. He spotted her in the window. Cyborg was following but getting lost in the crowd a little. His shoulder camera was going off.
"Raven! What are you doing?" He said agitated and she opened the window a little.
"Garfield, I- I have to go. I don't know where. I'm sorry." She said. She put her hand to the window "I- I love you, Gar."
"Then don't leave!" He yelled as the train started to pull away. He chased after it. "Raven! RAVEN!"
"I love you!" She called again as the train sped up "I'm sorry!"
"RAE!" He chased the train as far as he could. He changed into a leopard and continued but soon ran out of breath. He stood in the middle of the tracks panting. "I love you too."
On the page some words were scribbled down. They were out of context and smudged.
"Why did I run away?" Raven asked looking up at Gar. He looked sad.
"I proposed. You were afraid you would loose control of your powers and you didn't want anyone to get hurt. You ran away to Gotham City. I tracked you down and told you I didn't care if your powers killed me. I would love you no matter what." He said looking at the photo of him standing alone on the track.
He turned the page. There were a lot of pictures in the same place, a café, but on different occasions. Raven was in a lot of them, her hair cut short with bangs, he also had her ears pierced, not wearing super hero clothes. Beast Boy was in them a lot too, usually in cat form if the picture was taken during the day and in human form at night. There was also another girl in a lot of the pictures. She had black hair and her skin had a blue tint, she wore a lot of black, rather reviling clothes. A boy was in some of them too, he had red hair and freckles, glasses usually on his face, wearing t shirts with superhero logos on them.
"We lived in the city for a while. We got a little café, you, me, Toni, and Dan. We were living like normal people for a while." He said looking over the pictures, focusing on one of him in cat form sitting on Raven's lap as she sat on the couch reading. "Well, I had to be in cat form so people wouldn't recognize me… but mostly normal."
Beast Boy had his eyes closed but could hear two of his friends arguing.
"Toni! Be careful, will ya!" Dan yelled at Toni as she swept the floor of the café. She had her head phones on and was dancing knocking into tables as she went. "If you knock a candle over and this place burns down I'm NOT going to be happy."
"Yeah, Yeah, I'm being careful, Danny." She said and turned to face him, in the process hitting the table closest to her. The table had a green cat on it. Toni quickly formed a silver shape from her hand and stopped the table from falling over completely but Beast Boy still fell.
He morphed back into human form in mid air and was about to crash into all of the tables. Suddenly a black aura surrounded him and turned him right side up. "Toni! I told you to watch what you were doing!" Dan yelled again.
"I was watching until you distracted me, Danny!" She yelled back.
Gar stretched and yawned then walked over to where Raven dozed on the couch. He transformed back into cat form and hopped onto the couch and snuggled into her chest. Their breathing matched.
"Were we happy?" Raven asked looking at a picture of Toni and Danny fighting over something.
"Yeah, we were happy. Toni and Dan are now members of the Teen Titans. They joined up when we decided to come back. That was when we got married." He said turning the page to the one with their wedding photos.
"I do." Gar said and put the gold band onto Raven's finger.
"You may kiss the bride." The priest said.
"BOO-YA! Kiss her!" Yelled the semi-robotic best man, who had also been the one to give away the bride. Everyone laughed including raven. Gar pulled raven close and gave her a kiss. Everyone cheered and clapped.
They left the church and had bubbles blown on them. In the limo they kissed again and soon they reached the reception hall.
Despite the fact that Raven didn't enjoy dancing she was forced to. First she had her first dance with Beast Boy as husband and wife, to Kremlin Dusk. Then Cyborg said that it was his turn because he had given her away, to Rock the House by the Gorillaz. Cy danced a bit clunkily and spun Raven around a lot, joking that she needed to learn how to move. Then Robin said it wasn't fair and insisted that he had to dance with her too, they danced to No Not Now by Hot Hot Heat. Starfire, not fully understanding that the boys wanted to dance with Raven out of tradition and usually girls didn't dance with other girls then whined until Raven danced with her. They danced to Glass Vase Cello Case by Tattle Tale. Then the boys from Teen Titans East wanted to dance with Raven too. She first danced with Speedy, who was being a real gentleman. They danced to Feeling Good by Muse, and Speedy was an exceptionally good dancer. Next Raven dances with Mas and Menos. This was awkward because they insisted on dancing with her at the same time. They asked the DJ to put on Jump in The Line and Raven was spun around and turned so fast she almost got whip-lash. Everyone cleared the dance floor because they were afraid of getting their toes stepped on at high speed. She danced with Danny, he was a bit clumsy but they seemed to be having a good time, catching up. Then she danced with Aqualad who was a little bit too touchy for Beast Boy's liking. He had been watching her dance with every one while he was passed back and forth between the female titans. Star, Bumble Bee, Wonder Girl, Toni, and Jinx.
Raven was about to sit down when Bruce Wayne asked her to dance and she agreed. He was a nice, slow dancer, which was more to Raven's taste. There was a nice, slow song playing. Beast Boy could see him talking to Raven as Star attempted to waltz with him.
After that song he asked Raven to dance "I'm getting jealous. You've danced with everyone." Origin of Species by U2 came on. "May I have this dance?"
"Bruce said that if we ever feel like it we can move up to the Justice League. He said he's proud of us." Raven said as they started to dance.
"We'll do what ever you want, babe." Gar said and then leaned and gave her a kiss. A shout of 'BOO-YA' could be heard in the background. Then a certain ex-hive saying 'Shut up, Cy.'
Raven looked down at her ring silently and the flipped the page. There were some pictures of Raven and Gar standing in front of ancient ruins. And at little street cafés.
"That's our honeymoon. In Rome." He said and then laughed awkwardly "You might not want to read my thoughts on this one…" Too late.
Raven lay sprawled out on the bed. She was entirely naked and she was-
Robin in a Speedo… Cyborg in a Speedo. PLASMAS IN A SPEEDO!
"I told you not to look." Garfield said in a cross between a whine and the 'I told you so voice' when he saw the shock on Raven's face.
Gar turned the page. There was a series of pictures with Raven's stomach getting rounder and rounder. "That's Alexander?" Raven asked. Garfield nodded and turned the page. There were various pictures of Zander doing random baby things. Then there was another series of Raven's stomach growing. She had short hair in these ones. "That's Lydia."
Gar turned the page to show a bunch of pictures of Alex moving things with his mind and then a lot of pictured of an empty crib. "Aren't they adorable? That's daddy's little girl." He pointed to one of the empty pictures.
"No, that's an empty cradle." Raven said dryly.
Gar laughed "Nope, Lydie is in there, she's just invisible. That was the first time she used her powers." The rest of the pages in the Album were blank.
"Do you remember anything?" He asked hopefully. His eyes lit up.
"I remember not to shower when Aqualad's sleeping over." She said sarcastically.
Gar sighed. "That's not what I meant…. Oh well…" He got up and put the photo album back on the shelf.