"You know you're naked, right?"

"Eh?" The changeling placed his hands on his cocked hips. "Ah!" He yelped, suddenly realizing. Scampering to where he'd left his disheveled uniform, the green superhero tugged on his pants. Hiding his scarlet cheeks, he continued to face away from his teammate while he explained. "I overslept! I was rushing… forgot to put on my uniform. Okay, so I sleep in the nude. So what?" Turning his shirt rightside in, his mind raced for further explanation on why he wasn't a complete oddball.

She'd been tuning him out, honestly, too busy fighting the warmth flushing over her own pale cheeks. This was the first and only time she'd ever seen Gar naked, or any man for that matter. It was a little unnerving, although she'd be wrong to deny that she wasn't a little disappointed as he tugged his shirt over that sculpted emerald abdomen. Crossing her arms, Raven huffed. So the green skin was kind of like a magnificent jade statue of the ideal anatomy of a human body. So what?

"Animals sleep in the nude," he reasoned, "And I'm the entire animal kingdom crammed into a single, magnificent specimen."

As his words dragged out into long, swooning syllables, the empath's attention snapped back to reality.

"You're something crammed into something." She scoffed, though her voice held no venom as she lifted a brow and tugged her hood further to shadow her face.

"Oh?" Catching the movement from the corner of his eye, Gar's lips quirked up into a mischievous smile. He had to applaud her on the subtly of her shyness, but he'd been watching Raven too fondly for too long to let it slide. "Who knew Raven could be bashful," he commented lightly, stepping closer to his suddenly silent teammate. Her light amethyst irises shifted quickly to the ground between them and her biceps twitched with uncertainty.

"I-I'm not." Attempting a cold, toneless argument was futile; Gar simply laughed it off and stepped closer, pinching the thin material of her hood with his left fingers. Standing eye to eye with Raven, the changeling took his other hand and tipped her chin, forcing their eyes to meet. Suddenly, the irrate tone was back. "Gar, what are you-"

"Aha!" In a swift sweeping motion, the hood fell backwards, revealing her shiny black bob and cherry blossom colored blush. "I knew it," he grinned, his index finger still tucked firmly beneath her chin. "You're a bit pink there, aren't-cha Rae?"

"Oh, shut up." Came her weak retort.

Chuckling, the changeling tilted her chin closer, running his tongue over his fang. Taking her hand in his free one, he pressed her petite, cool palm over his abdomen, right where he'd seen her eyeing minutes before. Her response was immediate, as her hand went rigid beneath his and her cheeks an even darker shade of magenta.

"G-Garfield stop." Came another limp protest.

"Sorry, Rae." Offering a quick, flirty wink, Gar brought her trembling hand to his lips, pressing a light kiss to her knuckles. "But pink is kinda a cute color on you."


a/n: this scene is a rewrite, canon divergence obvi, from the movie Justice League v Teen Titans! the main ship in this movie was a variation of robrae, but there were plenty of nice bbrae moments too... so i recommend it! xoxo!