Dedicated to deadinside72

Chapter 8

Control

Beast Boy stared up at the roof while laying on his bed, smiling. He had to admit that when Rae didn't wanna be found, she wouldn't be found. She hid the last place they would've ever thought of; their own home.

Robin was still trying to get Rachel to tell them where Raven was. At that very moment he was at her door. He was practically begging.

Raven was on the other side and felt like she was going to burst out laughing but she took a sip of blood instead.

"Please Rachel, why won't you tell us where she is?" The Boy Wonder asked lamely.

"I'm not going to break my promise to her and tell you! Besides, why do you think she ran away anyway? Maybe I can convince her to come back but I'm not promising anything." She heard him sigh on the other side.

"She ran because she's hiding something from us. It might have something to do with the fact she almost killed me and how she's been acting strange lately."

There was a moment of silence.

"If I tell you where she is will you promise not to ask her about any of that?"

"Will she tell us on her own?"

"When she's ready."

"Alright, I promise. Where is she?" Robin asked.

Raven walked out of the room smiling slightly, her arms out as she pointed to herself, "I've been here the whole time."

BB had been listening and came out running and hugged the goth.

"Ugh! Damnit you little grass stain! He knows I'm me so knock it off!" Rae said angrily.

The changeling grinned like an idiot.

"You're Raven?"

"Aw, you mean I can't do that since he knows it's you?" His ears fell and he gave her the face.

"You're Raven?"

Raven rolled her eyes, "Kisama!" She stomped on the floor.

"You're Raven?"

"Fine you still can but not as much," she frowned at the green idiot.

"You're Raven?"

"YES ALREADY NOW SHUT IT!" Raven shouted.

Complete silence.

"Dude, what's going on?" Cy and Starfire came running toward them.

"You're .."

Rae raised her index finger as her eye twitched, "Ask one more time." She said slowly. Raven sighed when he didn't say anything. "Well, how about that game I owe you Beast Boy?"

He grinned, "I'll set it up." He ran to the main room.

Robin was still shocked as his jaw was still dropped.

"What is wrong with friend Robin?" Starfire asked concerned.

Raven raised a brow at him, "I would so win at hide and seek."

The Boy Wonder's expression changed into something between smiling, confused, and a little freaked out.

"Why do you say that?" Cyborg asked her.

"We'll there is no small way to break it to you but I am Raven."

Cy and Star stared at her.

"Girl, you really pulled it off this time. You were hiding right in the open!" The tin man grinned and gave her a hug.

"This is most glorious, friend Raven has returned!" She gave Rae a bone crushing hug.

The green teen walked in with a smile plastered on his face as Cy elbowed him, smiling slyly, "You knew it was Rae this whole time didn't you?"

He grinned at them, "Well not the whole time. Ok, Rae the games loaded."

Cy looked from the goth to the jokester and so did Robin. "Since when do you play video games Raven?"

She had started walking toward the changeling but stopped and raised a brow at them, "Since I owe Beast Boy."

The Following Morning

Raven was asleep and having a strange dream.

Dream

Raven heard him coming as she closed her book, "What are you doing here Angel?"

Angel gave her an insulted look as he climbed through her window. "What? I can't just come and visit?"

The goth rolled her eyes, smiling a little, "No."

He frowned, "I'm glad you think so highly of me. So are you going to tell him anytime soon?" Angel sat next to her and nudged her playfully, grinning.

Raven's face showed no emotion as she turned her head away from him closing her eyes, "Tell who what?"

"Oh, just a certain guy about a certain something," he said mysterious as his chin rested in his hand but tilted up in thought.

"I hope you don't mean you," she said bluntly. She stared at him.

Angel laughed, showing his fangs, "Nah, I think of you as my sister."

"Brothers," she muttered, pretending to pout with her arms folded, head lowered, and a frown as she stared at the floor.

The vampire shook his head, "Sisters." He had turned away and didn't see the pillow coming.

POOF!

Raven tried to hold in her laughter at the sight of her so called brother who now looked like a giant fluff ball and even had a mane of feathers around his neck.

Angel looked irritated until he heard Rae laughing. He smiled and growled like a lion while on all fours, "Grr! Now I'm really gonna get you!"

Knock, knock, knock

"Raven," BB called.

They both froze.

"Stay and don't say anything," the dark titan whispered to Angel as she opened the door about an inch. "What?"

"Oh, um, it's just that I heard…"

"Heard what?" She cut him off.

"Well I guess I was hearing things, sorry," he said as she shut the door and turned around.

Angel was doing his grass stain impression of being sad extremely dramatically without speaking.

"Knock it off, bro."

He merely smiled but stopped the act. "So why haven't you told your friends you can control your powers better and express emotions more. Except for that blush thing; you'd need to be alive for that." He joked.

"NYOB!" (None of your business)

Angel gasped, "Oh no, not the abbreviations!"

She rolled her eyes. "DA." (Dumb Ass)

"Oh please," he faked pain, falling to his knees, "No more! The paaaaaiin!" With that he fell flat on his face.

"Yes, you are," she smirked.

Angel lifted up his head, "Like sister, like brother." He grinned.

Rae raised a brow, "Excuse me but I was the one to drink your blood so if anything it's like brother like sister."

"So you admit you are then?" He smiled, laying on his stomach.

"I don't believe I inherited that part," she hissed.

End Dream

Raven yawned. Noon She mused as she took out her bottle of blood, "Well bottoms up." As she set the bottle down, she licked her lips. "Hm, I wonder where Angel is?"

Under Raven's Bed

I wonder when the sun's gonna leave ME THE HELL ALONE! Angel frowned angrily. Then he smiled at Raven's question. There was no doubt in his mind that Raven would get him for staying under her bed but he had got there a little late (early in the morning) but she had already gone to sleep.

Raven yawned as she heard a knock at her door. She opened the door to see the changeling.

"Hi Rae," he grinned.

"Beast Boy, what could you possible want this early in the afternoon?" She yawned again.

"I thought maybe we could hang out or something," his cheeks were tainted red.

"Um, I'm kind of busy but if you want to help then.."

"YES!" He shouted happily but then calmed down, "I mean, cool. I wanna help."

Raven let a small smile show.

BB smiled back, "You've been smiling a lot lately. You must be getting better at controlling your powers."

"Um, yeah."

So he noticed, huh? Angel smirked from underneath the bed.

"So what do you want me to do?"

"I don't know. This might be too great to ask of you since it includes thinking," she smirked slightly.

The green teen saluted, "I'll do my best."

"I'm looking for a book." She started.

"That's it! Man, I thought it'd be something hard!"

"I wasn't finished yet. This is a book from my mind that I'm looking for. It's lost and now is in somebody else's mind." Rae finished, "And since it wasn't in yours, that only leaves Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg."

I had to jinx it, didn't I? Beast Boy blinked. "How are you gonna get inside their minds? I mean, Robin's gonna ask a lot of questions and… what is this book about anyway?"

"It's the answer to me not losing control of my vampire instincts."

BB grabbed her hand and ran down the hall and stopped as he reaches Starfire's room.

"Beast Boy, what are you.."

"Robin might interrogate you but Star won't. Just tell her it's so you can get to know her better," he whispered to her.

She blinked. So he DOES have a brain? Where's he been keeping it all this time? Then she realized he was still holding her hand, "Beast Boy.."

"Come on, Rae, it's perfect." The green Titan said, thinking she didn't like his idea. "What could go wrong?"

A lot if you don't let go of my hand! "But that's not.."

Again the changeling took it wrongly and interrupted her, "Please Raven; just try it?"

"I just.."

"Are you nervous? Do vampires even get nervous?" He asked a little confused.

She growled, "Beast Boy, if you don't let go of my hand I'm gonna beat the crap out of you!"

His face turned bright red as he let go, "Sorry." He laughed nervously, "Hehe, was that what you were nervous about?"

(Now you know and I know that he knows and she knows he SHOULDN'T have said that because..)

That's it! Now I really am going to kill him! …… Calm……he wasn't thinking.

When is he? Asked Crass.

WHO asked YOU! Raven shouted back mentally.

Sheesh, anger management much? And she walked off into another part of Raven's mind.

Wait until the next chapter and you'll get to see what happened to Beast Boy as a punishment and what happens to Raven after she gets out of Starfire's mind. Hehe