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Unexpected
"Beast Boy … I remember what happened last night …" She finally said.
Beast Boy looked at her in surprise.
"You do?" He said, stumbling over the words.
Raven nodded her head as she slipped out of his arms.
"My powers … after we defeated Trigon, it took some time for me to be able to full regain my powers back." Raven turned away from her friend. "I even gained some new ones …"
"… what does that have to do with last night?" Beast Boy asked her. He was confused as to how her new found powers played in what had occurred the night before.
"It took some time for me to fully figure out how to use them, but I made a mistake …"
Raven trailed off while Beast Boy waited for her to continue. However, she just stood there, her back turned to him as she ran through her head if she should say what she knew. Beast Boy drew near to her and wrapped his arms around her.
"… After you told us about seeing Terra again … I-I … I was jealous … you were so happy to see her again that we didn't see you that whole week ... But she broke your heart again … I guess I couldn't see you torn up about her so I … I did something to you …" Raven stated.
Beast Boy let her go. When Raven turned around, she looked up into Beast Boy's green eyes. His eyes flashed with anger and disbelief that she had to stare down at the ground.
"What did you do to me?" Beast Boy demanded from her.
"I can control people's emotions … its psionic emotional manipulation. Because of my jealousy … a part of me made you fall in love with me …" She said, guilt ridden.
Beast Boy couldn't believe what she had just said. He thought back about how close they had gotten since that last day he saw Terra and could now see that it wasn't real, she had faked his emotions, and it was all a lie. But, was she still doing it to him at this very moment?
"So what happened last night was because of this … emotional manipulation thing? Did you just stop it now … or are you still doing it?" He said angrily.
"No … I realized this morning about it … I stopped it …"
Raven stayed quiet while Beast Boy stared at her. He was angry about it all; they were his own private emotions. Yet, for some reason, he couldn't help but see her beautiful face and his anger dissipated. He shook his head, thinking it must be her powers still.
"Are you doing it right now?" He calmly asked her.
Raven looked up at him and shook her head. She was nervous and stared back down at the ground with her indigo eyes. However, Beast Boy couldn't quite suppress the image of them together last night. Were the emotions he felt back then really just him being manipulated or something more?
"Raven … what I felt back then … was it all just fake?"
She stayed silent while Beast Boy anxiously waited for an answer. Finally, she looked up at him.
"My emotional manipulation … it only works if someone is already attracted to the other person …"
In the small evidence room, the small string light bulb flickered. Besides the rumbling of the generators in the other rooms, it was eerily silent. He thought about what she had said and noticed she hadn't apologized about what she had done. Perhaps, she really wasn't sorry, but that would mean she …
"… You liked being loved …"
Raven slowly brought her head up. It was true, ever since Malchior, she had tried to distance herself from such feelings, yet with Beast Boy she felt safe. She loved the way they would watch late night movies, how they always went out to the craziest places around town, and how she could actually have someone to talk to.
"Yes …" She responded.
Beast Boy walked forward and hugged her. Even though she had manipulated his emotions, he knew that he cared for Raven. In his own selfishness, he never realized how distant Raven was and how she could never trust another guy to care for her, the way she had felt towards Malchior.
"Rae …" He whispered in her ear. "… I would never break your heart."
He backed away from her as she stared at him. Tears formed in her eyes as she went over his words in her mind. Beast Boy smiled.
"Beast Boy …" Raven trailed off as she went forward and pressed her lips against his. "… I love you …"
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One last chapter to unexpected, sorry I didn't post this up soon … but I'll try to post up the next one ASAP! … don't forget the reviews!
