AN: I do not own Teen Titans… if you didn't already know.

Chapter 4

Beast Boy had never been so frustrated in his life. Nothing was working! His brilliant plan was going down the drain with no explanation at all! Other than the fact that Raven countered every move he made. He couldn't understand it. He just couldn't understand it! It was impossible and yet it was happening. Every little move he made somehow had no affect on her, but she was able to turn it right around on him.

Like three days ago:

Raven sat in front of one of the large windows, meditating. It was very quiet in the tower and that meant only one thing. He was on the move. Beast Boy entered, saw her, and smiled smugly. He took a seat on the couch and stared at her intently. He knew that it may take a while, but she would fall eventually.

But she did not fall. He waited and waited, but nothing happened. She did all of her meditation for that day, then touched down, and walked out of the room, leaving Beast Boy stunned. He sat there, wondering what had gone wrong for a while, when he felt eyes upon him. He turned around and saw her lingering in the doorway.

"Were you staring at me?" he asked.

"No," she said casually, with what looked like a little smirk, and then left.

Or two days ago:

Raven sat on the couch, reading while the others were watching television. Beast Boy had quickly made sure to sit down next to her before anyone else could. And then, ever so slowly, he began to scoot over. She had her legs crossed and seemed to pay no mind to him. He moved so close to her that their thighs were actually touching. He knew soon she would flip out and yell at him.

But Raven did not flip out or even yell at him. She actually did something that absolutely caught Beast Boy off guard. She uncrossed her legs and ever so slightly brushed his leg with hers as she placed it down on the ground. He felt an odd sensation overtake him as she did this and he almost shivered. The weird thing was that it didn't seem like an accident, even though he knew it couldn't have been anything else.

Right after she did this she stood up and exited the room, leaving Beast Boy feeling flustered and confused. As soon as she was out of the room Robin and Cyborg began laughing. This just made Beast Boy mad and he quickly left to study his plans.

And then there was yesterday:

Beast Boy's plans were put on hold when the team had to go out and take care of Plasmus. Not that that was a hard job, just tedious and, well, messy. All in all it took them about fifteen minutes to take him down. And by the end, they were all covered in goop.

"I do not like fighting the Plasmus," said Starfire as she tried to ring the sludge out of her hair.

"Tell me about it," said Robin.

"Awe, man, it's gonna take me forever to clean my baby!" said Cyborg, looking at his thrown up T-car that Plasmus had swallowed at one point.

Raven stood off to the side, wiping her face and arms of the purple slime. Beast Boy saw her and quickly went over to her. She saw him for a moment, but didn't seem to care.

"Wow, Rae, you sure look dirty," he laughed.

"Please don't call me that," said Raven.

"Fine, you're filthy," he said, getting even closer to her.

"I meant don't call me Rae," she said. "But, you're right, I am pretty nasty right now, like we all are."

"Well, guess we should just head home and shower," he said. "Wouldn't want that pretty little face of yours to stay dirty." He slyly brushed a lock of her goop filled hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ear. She only rolled her eyes and walked away from him. He could have sworn that she would have at least sent him through a building for that.

She walked over to a fire hydrant and turned it on with her powers. The water shot into the sky and rained down on all of them, washing the goop away and into the sewers of the street. They were each grateful to her and cheered when they saw that they were clean. She turned the hydrant off and walked over to Beast Boy.

She flipped her hair forward and then back, pushing it back. Beast Boy's eye twitched as he watched her do this. She was soaking wet, as was he, and her leotard and cloak clung to her body. His heart raced at the sight of her and he knew that something must have been wrong with him. But, he couldn't help it. He was a teenage boy and she was a soaking wet, very well developed teenage girl. He quickly averted his eyes from her, but couldn't help catching one last glance of her. She was ringing her cloak out and then let it drape over her once more.

"There, now I'm clean," she said plainly and began to walk away.

Beast Boy felt very very odd now. And he couldn't get the thought of Raven out of his head for the rest of the day. Of course, those past few days he couldn't get her out of his head, but this time it was different. He wasn't thinking about what he was going to do to her next, he was thinking about… her!

And now he sat in his room, four days into his plan and no closer to his goal. And now, for some strange reason, whenever he saw her something other than a devious plan came into his mind. He got an odd sensation in his stomach and his mind jumped to her water drenched body and the way she had occasionally brushed against him lately.

Raven sat in her room, exhausted. These past few days had certainly worn her out. The amount of concentration it took to keep her emotions under control and her powers from going haywire was just about killing her.

She couldn't believe how well her plan was working. She also couldn't believe the levels she had to steep to, to achieve it. She felt cheap, but she was getting back at him and that was all that mattered. The odd thing was that now whenever he walked into the room she could feel something strange coming off of him. Something she had never felt from him before, at least not directed at her anyway. Whatever it was, she had a funny feeling it was helping her to make him feel awkward around her.

As for the other three Titans, they just sat back and watched the show. It was hard not to laugh or point out anything. They just had to keep their mouths shut and not reveal that they knew both Beast Boy and Ravens plans.

But now Beast Boy had the plan to end all plans and he called Robin and Cyborg into his room to reveal it to them. This was going to seal the deal and prove that he could make Raven have a crush on him.

"Okay, so what's this big idea?" asked Cyborg.

"Oh, it's not only big," said Beast Boy. "It's genius!"

"So tell us already," said Robin.

"Alright, here's what's gonna happen," said Beast Boy. "Tomorrow, around sunset, I'm gonna ask you guys if you wanna come to the park with me. You all have to say yes, got it?"

"Okay," said Cyborg and Robin.

"Good, and then when we get there Robin, you and Starfire go off so you can have a 'romantic evening'."

"And what about me?" asked Cyborg.

"You say you wanna watch the sunset from the T-car," said Beast Boy.

"Oh joy," said Cyborg sarcastically.

"Anyway, once you guys are gone I'm gonna turn the B-charm up to its ultimate power," said Beast Boy. "And then she's gonna crash and burn."

"And what exactly is this B-charm?" asked Robin, trying not to laugh.

"Well, I'm gonna try to kiss her," said Beast Boy.

"You're what?" asked Robin and Cyborg, shocked.

"Trust me, this is what's gonna do it," said Beast Boy. "And it's not like I'm actually gonna do it. I'm just gonna get really close and then I'll find out if she likes me or not. And when she says she does it'll all be over."

"I'm still not exactly comfortable with you doing this to her," said Robin. "You know she doesn't like being deceived."

"Dude, I'm not deceiving her," said Beast Boy. "I'm just tricking her into having a crush on me, what's the big deal?"

"Do you remember what happened to her last time someone tricked her and played with her heart?" asked Cyborg.

"Uh…" said Beast Boy, trying to think.

"Does Malchior ring a bell?" asked Robin.

"Oh yeah," said Beast Boy, remembering. "But this isn't anything like that."

"It's not?" asked Cyborg.

"Of course not!" said Beast Boy, almost laughing. "He was evil and I'm not. Look, I'm just trying to prove a point here. She thinks she's all high and mighty and that she deserves someone better than me."

"Has she actually ever said that to you?" asked Robin.

"Well… no, but I read between the lines," said Beast Boy. "Trust me; she thinks she's better than me."

"I just don't want you to do anythin you may regret, man," said Cyborg.

"Regret? What's there to regret?" asked Beast Boy. "I'm going to make Raven have a crush on me and prove a point. This'll probably be my greatest accomplishment."

"Well what happens once she does actually have a crush on you?" asked Cyborg.

"Huh?" asked Beast Boy.

"Didn't you think ahead?" asked Robin. "Like what's going to happen when she does develop this crush on you and now you're going to have to put up with her liking you all the time?"

"Well I'll just tell her that I was just proving a point," said Beast Boy. "Then she'll get over me and I'll be the victor."

"And what happens if you break her heart?" asked Cyborg.

Beast Boy hadn't thought of that. He suddenly began to feel horrible about what he was doing and wondered if he should just stop. No, he had to prove a point to Raven. Besides, when it was all over it wasn't going to be that bad, right?

Cyborg and Robin watched as Beast Boy slightly squirmed. They really had to restrain themselves from laughing. Tomorrow evening was certainly going to be interesting. The two just hoped that Raven was getting all of this.

Unfortunately, Raven did not hear any of Beast Boy's plans for the next evening due to a certain Tamaranean who was asking her how she knew how to flirt. She was quite curious as to how Raven knew how to make Beast Boy feel awkward around her. She wanted to do the same to her boyfriend.