Title: Vignettes

Genre: General/Romance

Pairings: Cannon for me (see Author's Notes)

Rating: PG-13

Summary: A series of one-shot photographs of relationships between the Teen Titans.

Disclaimer: Don't own the Teen Titans.

Author's Notes: "Vignettes" to me are like the writer's version of an artist's photographs. They're snapshots of the Titans' lives.

I guess the idea of "Vignettes" came out of my penchant for never finishing stories longer than one shots (i.e. "Beast Boy's New Trick"), and I tend to get inspiration in spurts where there's this one really great scene that I want to write, but it has no context. Sometimes, I get lucky, and can fit a whole story around that one scene; most of the time, I can't. So, they become blurbs that never get aired, but stay on my hard drive, collecting proverbial dust. I think they're kind of cool, and sometimes, you don't really need the whole context to get the gist of the emotion. So, I decided to just post them for the hell of it.

Cannon romance for me, by the way, is: Raven/BB, Robin/Star, Cy/Whoever (probably Jinx now that "Deception" has aired). I also like writing Starfire/Raven friendship fics, and, curiously, Raven/Jinx relationship (not of the romantic sort) fics.

Vignettes

The Kiss

"It's been awhile." He murmured, as he put his arms around her waist and drew her to him. Her head fit in a nook just above his shoulder, and he pressed a cheek against her hair.

"We shouldn't." Raven said, but didn't try to pull away.

"It's just a friendly gesture. A symbol of our friendship." Beast Boy said, even though, at this moment, he knew that it wasn't. There was something more to it. He drew another breath inwards, getting her heady scent of lavender and all things dark.

Raven closed her eyes as he held her, but his warmth and his embrace were too comforting, and she drew away from him, increasing her distance from him as he gazed at her with a forlorn expression from his empty arms.

Sadness should not have been reflected in his eyes, Raven thought as she shook her head to clear it. But, the world was getting fuzzier to her now—had been ever since he had pulled her into his arms in the first place. In a minute she wouldn't be able to think straight.

"This is too much." She said, in a voice that had a dream-like quality to it. Beast Boy took a step towards her, and she backed away.

"Too much what?"

"We can't...we can't be like that." Raven mumbled as he continued his journey to her. "We both know what happened last time. It won't work."

Beast Boy sounded a bit desperate now as he closed the gap between them. Raven backed away straight into the wall. "Why not?"

He was too close, Raven noted, and they were barely half a foot away from each other. "Our arguments, our fights...don't you remember any of that?"

"Yes."

He was still approaching her. There was barely any space between them now. Raven wanted to relax into him, but managed to maintain control. Raven lowered her eyes as he pressed against her and whispered, "We weren't happy."

She hazarded a look into his face, and saw anger amongst other things flicker in his eyes.

"No, Raven." His voice was harder now. Strained. "You weren't happy. You told me so. And, I couldn't bear to make you unhappy, so being the fool I was...I left."

"There. You left. That was the end of us." Raven shut her eyes, as his face came close to hers. Beast Boy tilted her chin up.

"But, Raven...you lied."

And, he closed the distance between them, sealing his words with a meeting of the mouths.

She sighed, pangs of guilt and pleasure twisting simultaneously through her gut. He pulled away her from mouth and planted several kisses along the line of her jaw and nuzzled his mouth along the right side her neck.

"Why would you lie?" Beast Boy panted between kisses. His eyes were half-closed and heavy-lidded, and his voice had dropped an octave and had become very gruff.

"Hm?" She only closed her eyes, angling her head more properly and pressing herself against him.

"Why?" He asked again, more insistently. Or, at least, it felt more insistent. Maybe it was the fact that he had picked up the infuriating habit of kissing around her mouth instead of on it.

She made an impatient noise, and this caused Beast Boy to pull away from her quickly and put her at arms' length. She looked startled for a moment then sobered, touching her fingers to her mouth and giving him a wide-eyed frightened look.

"We shouldn't have..." She began, but couldn't find any words.

"There are a lot of things we shouldn't have done, Raven."