Day 6: Wearing Each Other's Clothes
It was a quiet day in Titans Tower. Robin was researching Slade, Cyborg was building his car, Starfire was in the kitchen cooking inedible Tamaran food, and Raven was meditating. Outside. Not in her room. Leaving her room completely empty.
Cue Beast Boy's endless curiosity.
The green shape shifter crept down the empty hallway, poking his head around the corner to ensure that he was alone. He never got the chance to explore Raven's room. She never let the Titans visit her, and he had seen everyone else's room except hers. His curiosity had gotten the better of him and he was dying to know what the she-demon's room looked like.
He knocked on her large steel door as a final check that the room was empty. Receiving no answer, he pried the door open, surprised and relieved to find it unlocked. He would have expected all kinds of security for getting into Raven's room.
Once inside, he quietly closed the door behind him. He looked around the darkness, surprised and slightly intimidated by the gloomy décor. Her large bed sat against one wall, neatly made up with blankets and comforters. Beside it was her dresser, and her black carpet was clear of clutter or trash. The walls were painted a dark blue, about the same color as her cloak.
Her cloak…
Beast Boy assumed she never went anywhere without it, but there it hung on the coat hanger that stood innocently by the door. He glanced around the room, ensuring that there were no booby traps, before reaching towards the midnight velvet fabric. He clutched it with one hand, gasping at its softness. It slipped easily from the hook and he took it with both hands, admiring it at arm's length.
A grin split his lips as he twisted his arms to hold the cloak behind him, draping it over his shoulders. He clasped the brooch on the front and pulled the hood over his head. He began dancing around the room, muttering incoherent words in a mocking voice. A chuckle escaped his throat before he heard footsteps outside. He slipped through the steel door and sprinted down the hall, forgetting to return a certain piece of midnight velvet in his attempts to run away from whoever was about to catch him.
Raven returned from her outdoor meditation, slinking into her room. She had gone without her cloak on this particularly hot day so that she wouldn't overheat and interrupt her process.
Once inside her room with the door closed, she turned to the coat hanger that stood by the door, surprised to find it empty. She pulled a spare from her dresser and slipped it on, pulling the hood over her head before leaving her room and wandering down the hall.
She made her way to the security room where a dozen monitors littered the wall. There was one feeding through a security camera in each Titan's bedroom, and several more monitoring the rest of the Tower. The purplette leaned over the table and peered into the monitor that offered a view of her room. Her hand rested on the "rewind" button, holding it down until it rewound to when she went outside that morning. She pressed "play" and let the security tape continue, watching to see if anyone had invaded her space.
Her eyes narrowed at a pointy-eared shifter that had crept into her room shortly after she went outside.
Of course it was Beast Boy. How had she not guessed?
She turned her attention to the monitor observing his room, finding it empty. She smirked to herself, knowing that the changeling was busy scarfing down waffles in the kitchen, and that would keep him distracted for a while.
She slipped out of the monitor room and headed down the hall to return the favor.
She knocked on Beast Boy's door to ensure that he wasn't there. When she got no answer, she pried the door open and crept inside, closing it behind her.
She cringed at the mess she found inside. Clothes, shoes, and other miscellaneous items littered the floor, making every inch a land mine. She hovered above it all, not wanting to risk stepping in anything. She floated over to his dresser, pulling open drawers to rummage through and hoping that the contents would be cleaner than what was on the floor. Her hand grasped something soft and fuzzy and she pulled it from the drawer, examining it in the sunlight that flooded in from the window. It was a black sweater that appeared to be way too big for the small green boy. She unclasped her cloak, setting it atop the dresser so she could pull the black sweater over her head. It was a baggy fit, the neckline falling off her shoulder and the sleeves extending past her hands, The hem reached her thighs and she found herself immediately calmed by its warmth.
Taking her cloak in her hand, she crept out of Beast Boy's room and down the hall to her room to put the midnight velvet away.
Beast Boy sat in the kitchen, pouring 100% pure maple syrup on his vegan waffles. He still donned Raven's midnight blue cloak, but the hood was back so that he wouldn't get food on the fabric.
"New look, Rae?" Cyborg asked, causing the changeling to look up from his plate and gawk at the purplette now walking into the kitchen. A blush stained his lime colored cheeks as he immediately recognized the fuzzy sweater she was wearing.
"Looking good, mama," he complimented after gulping down a bite.
She smirked. "Thanks, Gar."
She sat beside him, looking up at Cy. "Waffle for me?"
Cyborg raised a brow at her. Raven was never interested in waffles.
"Sure, Rae," he nodded, pouring batter into the waffle iron. It beeped a few minutes later, and Cyborg plated it up and set it in front of the she-demon. She then picked up Beast Boy's all natural syrup and slathered her waffle in it.
Beast stared at her, a grin splitting his lips. They sat together quietly, spending breakfast together for the first time in maybe ever.