Chapter Two
"Where's, Rae?" Beast Boy questioned down at the breakfast table.
"She's cleaning her room." replied Robin, as he watched Beast Boy shove a half of a pancake in his mouth and swallow it whole. "That disturbs me, Beast Boy…"
"I know!" he laughed happily, gulping down the other half.
"Beast Boy perhaps that is not the healthiest way to eat. You should try some of my Uthranian Florthgar!" Starfire suggested. "It is much easier to digest in such a way that you enjoy doing so."
"Bleh." Beast Boy tried to hold down his pancakes. "No thanks, Star."
For a minute or two no one said anything. They just ate their breakfast. Beast Boy and Terra gave each other happy glances, their eyes twinkling in delight. What happened last night seemed to be a secret between them, and it was. But only nearly, because Raven had seen them through the window. Terra broke the silence with a cough. "Sorry. Juice (cough) wrong pipe…"
"That's all right Ya'll, happens to ev'ry one." Cyborg commented. He stuffed his mouth with bacon and eggs, yolk dripping down his chin. She laughed and coughed a few more times, flushing red. Quiet spread again, until footsteps were heard coming down the stairs. Raven appeared at the table.
"My room's clean." she said in her naturally flat voice. She moved to a seat next to Cyborg and pulled it out with her rhyme. After she was greeted, she took a seat and thanked Robin again for bringing her breakfast. "You know, my room was really dirty. But when you have powers, it doesn't take quite so long to clean." There was a murmur of agreement that circled the table. Terra's glass cracked in half and spilt all over her shirt.
"Oh, no!" she darted to the bathroom dripping orange juice.
Ok, my powers must run on emotion as well as rhyme. Crap. And yet somehow cool. I can get back at Terra without her knowing it's me. No, I couldn't…Nevermind…Raven thought to herself.
"That was weird…" the Titans said in unison. Every one look around at each other, as if to ask, did you do that? Starfire went to grab a clean shirt for Terra. There were a few more glances shot, then every one left the table. Beast Boy and Cyborg played video games, laughing uncontrollably and firing off mocking statements at each other. Robin sat at the computer, researching Slayde's past targets for patterns. And Raven left for her room.
Once there, she picked up an old book and scanned the pages for nothing in particular. She just needed a distraction to prevent her powers from doing anything else without control. Careful not to tear the pages she flipped through the book, still not reading but a few letters per page. Her mind was caught in a land far away from her body, so whatever she did she wasn't aware of, but every light in the tower flickered several times then returned to their normal state. Terra was worried it may be her, and in a way, it was. But it wasn't her powers, it was Ravens powers. Reacting to jealousy and hate. Most every one there blinked a few times and blamed it on the electric company. But that was no explanation for the splitting of the glass. I was perfectly cut, right down the middle. Glasses down just break like that. Some thing was weird. Too weird.
Raven tried too convince herself that she was not in love, but all the while, she kept saying over and over in her head. "I love him."