OMG, I am soooo sorry I didn't get this up sooner! You see, I wasn't able to post because...

The other day I was playing dolls with my little sister and the leg fell off her doll and she started to cry so we had to go to the store to buy her a new one and on the way there some hobo who had stolen a car and then loaded it with stolen waffle irons was driving down the street like a lunatic and he hit our car but we were all okay but then one of the waffle irons hit me in the head and knocked me unconscious and since it hit me reeeaally hard I wasnear-comatose in a hopital bed for the past week and then when I woke up and they were ready to release me I got food poisoning from the hospital food and then when I finally got home I couldn't get on the computer because my little sister just HAD to play dollies with me, except this time her dolly was hospitalized we had to reenact every single little thing that happened while I was in the hospital from the time theybandaged me up to the time the intern nurse accidentally hooked me up to the wrong IV and...

...Oh, wait. I don't have a little sister.

In that case, I must just be really lazy. So I'm sorry that I didn't get this up sooner.

Thanks to all that reviewed! Thank you thank you thank you!

"Dude, I love this place!"

Beast Boy glanced over at Raven in surprise. She'd been acting weird all day (to everyone's confusion but his) but he still couldn't get used to it. Having Raven enter an amusement park, exclaim that she loved it, and use the word 'dude' was weird, even to him…and he was the one that had messed with her head in the first place!

Not messed, Beast Boy thought to himself, trying to bury the guilt he was starting to feel at screwing around with his friend's emotions, just…improved. Sort of. I kinda did her a favor. I mean, she's having the time of her life… At that very moment, Raven was tugging at his arm, trying to drag him somewhere.

"Puh-leaze?" she whined. "I haven't had any in like, ever. And it looks sooo good!" She zoomed over to the cotton candy stand with Beast Boy in tow. "Hiya! I'll have…mmm…a blue one! No, a pink! Nooooo…wait, yes, pink! Jumbo sized!" She paid for her treat and immediately stuffed her face. She was happier than Starfire had been when she had first tried the wonderful confection. "Oooh, BB, you gotta try this! It's so SWEET! And it melts in your mouth! It's like, there, and then…it's not! This stuff is rocks!"

Beast Boy just stood there, staring. He had expected that Raven would change a little when he had tampered with her mind, but this was just…whoa. Her hair was pulled up in a high ponytail, and she had a huge grin on her face. Watching her finish the cotton candy in 15 seconds flat, he vaguely wondered what Raven was like on a sugar-high.

"Oh, hey, look, that's where you and Cy won me that big chicken!" she exclaimed, pointing towards a game booth. As she laughed, one of the giant chickens exploded. "Oops, stupid powers! Ah, well, let's get outta here before they figure out that was me. Hey, bumper cars!" She dragged him over to the ride and handed the man two tickets, one for each of them. "I call the purple one!" She jumped into a bright purple car with '13' emblazoned on the front in glitter decals, and Beast Boy followed suit, getting into a green one with the number 6. Other fair-goers soon joined them, picking out cars of their own. "Watch out, BB, I am so gonna get you!"

"Nuh-uh! You're talking to the bumper car master!" He clicked his seatbelt in place and placed his hands on the steering wheel. He poised his foot just above the gas pedal, ready to floor it as soon as the ride started up. He and Raven glared at each other, playful smirks on their faces. They heard the sound of the machine whirring to life, and Beast Boy jammed down on the pedal, headed straight towards Raven. Giggling, she veered off at the last second, and he slammed into the wall, lurching forward. He glanced back, only to see that Raven was now backing up. He heard a thud and the car jarred as the purple car made contact with it.

"Okay, that's it! No more Mr. Nice Dude!" He backed up into her until her car was pushed out of the way, and he made his escape. Manuevering around, he turned until he was his car was facing hers, and he came at her, laughing at the look of mock terror on her face. She laughed as he rammed her, side-on.

At the sound of her laughter, there came a small explosion from one of the unoccupied cars off to the side of the small arena. Raven's eyes went wide with shock, but then the expression of surprise cracked into more laughter. "Whoops, sorry, dudes! I'll pay for that!"

Get in control of your emotions, Raven thought sternly to herself. Letting them out of your control will just lead to someone getting hurt. Get a grip. But she just couldn't shake the swelling feeling of elation that she felt. She felt indescribably happy, she felt like she could do anything, and…she felt something else…She suddenly realized that, as she had been gazing off into space, she had really been staring at Beast Boy. Shaking her head as to avert her violet eyes from his emerald ones, she snapped back to reality. "You are so gonna pay for that," she said, a sly smile on her face as she spun the steering wheel and floored the gas pedal.

"Sooo…whaddya wanna do now?" Raven asked, swallowing her bite of corndog. She took a big sip of her cola, making odd slurping noises as her straw sucked up the last of the pop.

"Uh…" They had already ridden the Ferris wheel, the merry-go-round, the Cyclone, the Spider, the Hurl-A-Whirl, and had played most of the games. Raven had won the last one, a game that involved shooting water guns to make their horses run, and after her victory and punched her fist into the air shouting, "Booyah! I beat you, I beat you, I beat yoooouuu…" Her prize was slung around her neck: a bright green monkey with Velcro-fastening paws ("Which," she had pointed out to Beast Boy, "looks just like you, BB! 'Cept, ya know, just when you're a monkey…thing…")

"How 'bout the House of Mirrors?" Raven suggested, pointing to the carnival attraction of which she spoke.

"Um…" Contrary to what he had said earlier, he had been to the amusement park since they had been there when Blackfire came to visit. He thought sadly back to this time, which had started out as the best night night of his life, but quickly turned to his worst. It was the night that he found out that his crush, who he thought liked him back, was really selling him out for one of his biggest enemies. He couldn't stand to go back in there, not now…

"Beast Boy?" Raven looked at him curiously. "Earth to Beast Boy…?"

"Huh? Oh, sorry. Uh, I'm not really in the mood to go in there, if that's okay. I just…you see…well…that was the place-" He sighed. "-the place where…I found out that she…"

"Terra?" Raven asked softly. He nodded. "I understand. I miss her too."

He looked up at her, surprised. "Really? But…I thought you hated her."

"Well, I did but…she was my friend, too. Before, y'know…" Raven sighed. "At first, I really didn't like her. She was so-…everyone liked her so much. She was pretty, she was funny, she was like…replacing me. Everyone liked her better than me. Truthfully, I was…jealous." Beast Boy was shocked. He never realized that Raven was jealous of Terra. He just thought that she was being her cold, mean, Raven-y self. Raven spoke again. "Then, when she came back the second time, and became part of the team, it was even worse. The look on your faces when you saw her…you guys were so happy to see her, Starfire and you were practically fighting over who got to hug her first. No one would ever, ever do that for me. No one was ever happy to see me. And…I worked so hard to conrol my powers, so hard…and she just came back, suddenly able to control them. She puts on some spectacular show for all of you, and you're all amazed. You thought my powers were creepy, but hers were amazing. She came back, and...I trusted her. Not at first, but…we became friends. Friends! And then, when she betrayed us, and I went back to hating her…you got mad at me for it. I hated her for betraying my friends, and you were mad at me for that. Not mad at Terra, who tried to kill us all. Mad at me, who hated her for trying to kill my friends. That's how much more you liked her to me. It was like…she was so much better than me. She was the nice, pretty, fun girl, and I was the dark witch that nobody liked." And with that, Raven broke down in tears.

Beast Boy stood, gawking at Raven. Raven never cried. She was Raven. But then, he remembered, he had been messing with her emotions. But wait…that didn't make sense. Why was she sad? Beast Boy was confused. In Raven's head, well, he wasn't quite sure what he had done, but he knew that he had shifted the power balance, that he had made some of her emotions stronger than others. And sadness was definitely not one of them. He had made it so the overpowering emotions were…What were they again? he wondered to himself. I know I made Happy strongest, but there was also Brave, 'cause she was so cool, and…who else? Oh, yeah! The purple one, the one who was really nice to me. He had guessed that she was Niceness, the one Raven never used. She had seemed kinda…surpressed. But then why was Raven acting sad? Was her newfound happy-go-lucky attitude causing her to be less restrictive of her other emotions?

Raven sniffed. "Eh, I guess I'm just acting like an idiot," she said, trying to crack a smile. "So...you wanna go on the Hurl-A-Whirl again?"

"Raven..." Beast Boy looked up at her. "I'm really, really sorry."

She quirked an eyebrow. "Sorry? What for?"

"For, uh-" he rubbed the back of his neck, "...I never realized how bad you felt about the whole Terra thing. And I'm really, really sorry that I made you feel worse. I didn't mean to make you feel like I liked her better than you. None of us did. So, I'm sorry." And then, in a move that surprised even him, he flung his arms around her in a big hug. He blushed at his own brashness and quickly backed off. "Oh, sorry, I forgot how much you hate hugs...please don't kill me...!"

Raven giggled. "I don't hate hugs. Hugs are nice, silly!" To demonstrate her point, she hugged him back. "And why would I kill you? You're one of my best friends! Now, c'mon, let's go get some more tickets." She started to float off, but stopped and turned around. "Oh, and Beast Boy?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks."

NOTE: Iam aware that the purple emotion is not Niceness. That's just Beast Boy's assumption. Can't wait to see what happens with that.

I'm sorry if this chapter sucked. Truly, I am.

I'll try to get the next chapter up sooner. Really, I will. I will go to all costs to avoid all the waffle-iron-wielding hobos of this world.

Thanks for reading!