A/N: Thanks for reviewing everyone! I replied to reviews this time, but it was only the ones who had comments & speculation on what would happen. That was fun.
Cyborg's idea is in here, and please don't get angry if the idea seems dumb.-sweatdrop- My sister and I used to do what it is when we were little and it fit with the way BB discovers something here. You can be embarrassed for me though…
Chapter Twelve: Discovery
In no time, Cyborg hopped out of the T-Car and opened the door for Beast Boy.
"Hey, thanks Cy—" he started, but was cut off when Cyborg pulled him out and dragged him to Raven's room. "Ya'll may be too old for this, but I just thought of something you and Raven could do," he said to the changeling, as they went down the hallway. "I don't mean to be moralistic or anything, but just because you two are different doesn't mean you can't hang out...book or no book."
Cyborg pounded on Raven's door and Raven, who was lying on her bed, turned to face the door. What did he want now?
"Raven, it's Cyborg," Cyborg called from the door. "I know you're feeling a little sick today, but I got something planned for you to do."
Cyborg's at my door? That's rare. Raven hopped off of her bed and opened the door to see both Cyborg and Beast Boy. "I'm not feeling good, remember?" Raven told them at the sight of Beast Boy, although she felt a lot better.
Cyborg shook his head. "Just because you're a little sick doesn't mean you can't have fun."
Raven raised her eyebrow. "What's that supposed to mean?"
Cyborg pulled Raven next to Beast Boy, so he could face both of them, and speak to them at the same time.
"Well, since your book is missing, I thought I'd have you to do something else for a change."
Raven looked down. Missing book, huh? Beast Boy probably told Cyborg because he still believes that it's missing... She felt a little guilty, until Beast Boy, who looked eager, spoke. "Well?"
"I don't know if I should tell you know or later," Cyborg grinned. "But I guess I'll tell ya now, 'cause I'm wasting time. You know that board game called Don't Wake Daddy? Well, when I was sick, my mother and I used to play to game in real life."
"Are you sure you want to play a game that reminds you of her?" Raven softly asked. Cyborg was such a good friend, but he sure didn't talk about his mother often, even if it was for his friends.
"It's ok, Rae. Anyway, it's kind of like a two player game, so I'll be the judge if anything goes wrong. Now, the sick person would lie on the bed and the other would start by standing at their room door. They would try to walk around the whole room—covering every inch—and get to the other side without waking the sick person. While doing so they have to tuck the sick person in. If the healthy player makes a sound—and I don't mean breathing—then the sick person has to say, "Don't wake Daddy…or whatever their name is. You don't have to get out of your bed Raven, and Beast Boy can prance around your room…since you don't mind him doing so lately."
When he was done, Raven and Beast Boy looked at each other, and Raven spoke.
"Interesting," she said to him. "I thought you were going to make us wash your car or something."
"That sounds like fun!" Beast Boy cried.
"Yeah, I think so too," Cyborg told him, while glowering at Raven, "But you're lucky that's not what I planned for you. I already told my idea so let's get started."
They went into Raven's room (Raven sighed, because Cyborg was right. She surely was letting too many people into her room these days) and Raven lied down on her bed. Beast Boy walked back towards the door and when Cyborg said, "go", he started to walk through the room.
Raven's room was fairly clean, so that made it easy for Beast Boy to walk through. He walked over to her bed and pulled her sheets up. Beast Boy's stomach turned at actually seeing Raven sleeping…or fake sleeping. It was still strange to see her this way. When he finished and made it to the other side without waking Raven up, he whooped.
"Your turn Raven," he happily said.
"Hey, now. She can't get out of bed, she's sick," Cyborg told him. "And you can't lie on her bed either."
"So how is Raven having fun?" Beast Boy asked.
"I get to yell at you for waking me up," Raven said, "Sounds pretty fun to me."
After a couple of more rounds Beast Boy got tired of it. He even tried to wake Raven up, since it was so easy to get through her room. He opened a drawer for sounds effects and laughed when Raven twitched. He looked down at the drawer while laughing, and gasped at what he saw. The book!
"Don't wake Raven!" Raven shouted, and Beast Boy quickly shut the drawer. He hoped that she only heard him and didn't see him.
"Finally. I was about to make us move to BB's room because it's more challenging (Raven got a look of horror on her face as Cyborg said this), but I'm hungry. You two want some food?"
The two nodded and went with Cyborg to the kitchen. They sat in the common room and ate a little.
In the middle of their eating, Beast Boy casually looked over at Raven. Why is she hiding the book? He thought, maybe she would say something about it, and if she didn't, he would.
"I'm sorry I didn't find the book, Raven," he said, with a tone that made Raven suspicious. "Maybe we'll see it another day."
"Yeah," Raven mumbled, and avoided his eyes. "I don't feel well again," she said. One of the main things she hated to do was act sick, and she was doing it now. "I'm going to bed."
"Have a nice sleep," Cyborg said to her. "I hope you had fun."
"Yeah, bye," Beast Boy mumbled. He was definitely going to get that book…and clear things up with Raven.
After a moment, Cyborg said, "I think I'm going to bed too." He waved to Beast Boy, and Robin and Starfire who had both entered and went to different directions in a frustrated manner. They seemed to want to rest too.
Beast Boy however, didn't. He watched TV for a while, to use up some time. Then, when about an hour passed, he went to where the Titans' rooms were located.
Beast Boy turned into a spider and crawled down the hallway. Once he found the right room, Raven's, he crawled under the door. Thankfully when he got in there Raven was already asleep. He just hoped that she was a deep sleeper.
Beast Boy crawled over to her dresser and changed back into a human. He slowly pulled open the drawer and like he saw earlier, the book laid there. He tried to open the book, and it did not. "What the—"
He tried prying more on the book. He wasn't sure if turning into a big animal such as a gorilla to open it would be a good idea, because it could wake Raven up, so he unfortunately had to stay in his human form.
What's going on here? "Come on...open you stupid thing. You never gave Raven any trouble," he muttered. "What do I have to say? Please?"
The book did not budge.
"Abracadabra? Open sesame?" Once again the book did not open.
Open sesame? Beast Boy thought. "Open sesame," he said slowly. He listened to it as he said it. It sounds like real words…
"Open, says me!" he finally cried, and the book opened to the very last page. Beast Boy gave all the restraint he had not to cheer and flipped to the page before the last. Apparently, it was right where he and Raven left off...which was supposed to be the middle of the book. It did not look like the pages were ripped out, and it looked good as new. Beast Boy's brow furrowed. So this is where it ends? He sadly thought.
He examined the text closely. It looked like common handwriting as it did before, but this time he was sure that it was common handwriting. It actually looked like a regular empty book, with the space filled up.
Beast Boy's stomach did a back flip. She couldn't have...could she?
But it all made sense. The incidents between Darcy and Lorenzo and he and Raven were not just a coincidence. The author seemed to do it on purpose. And whatever they wrote between Darcy and Lorenzo came to be between him and Raven...
He heard a creak and Raven sat up on her bed abruptly. She glanced around the room furiously and her eyes laid on him, filled with shock, anger, and fear. At first she was lost for words, but seconds later she spoke.
"Put. It. Down!"
Before Beast Boy could say anything, she flew out of bed and snatched the book from him. "Why are you looking through my stuff?"
Beast Boy gave a small laugh. "I—I saw the book in there and—"
Raven didn't think it was funny at all. "And you decided to sneak in and take it," Raven said coldly to him. "And read it," she added. She then clutched the book against her chest. She didn't even want to think about what he had just figured out.
"Get out," she commanded, in a whisper like way.
Beast Boy did not respond and quickly scrambled out of Raven's room, his heart pounding. His thoughts were so scrambled, that he didn't know what to think of first. The fact that Raven had yelled at him for the first time in a long time, or that he truly knew why Raven was hiding the book.
He ran into his room before anyone else woke up and questioned him, and plopped down on his bed. He needed to sleep on this.
His stomach lurched in anxiety.
Or not.
A/N: Yep, the game was based on the game "Don't Wake Daddy" created by the Milton Bradley company. Heh... anyway, believe it or not, this was the last chapter I wrote! I actually didn't write the story in order…chapters 17 and 18 were written right after chapter one. Just a fun fact. Thanks for reading, and please review!
Oh yeah...and I remember someone predicting that, "BB would be a retard and piss off Raven". I told them that wouldn't happen in responding to their review, but I forgot about the scene that just happened. XD So they were right after all. :)
