Just to let you all know, when I asked if anyone was too out of character, I meant extremely. I thank everybody who reviewed for the criticism. I take it all constructively, and I feel amazed and thankful that those of you that reviewed took time out of your lives just to let me know what you thought of the chapter. It may have only been 5 minutes of time, but it means a lot to me.

Anyway, back to characters being, well, out of character. I've gotten some remarks about Raven and BB both being way out of character. And I agree. Usually I wouldn't get why. But, since I know what I'm writing and what comes next in future chapters, I feel it only fair to tell you that there is a reason behind their unusualness.

You should get a peak at what I mean in this chapter. If you still don't understand why, which you probably won't understand fully unless your just psychic or something, but it the next few chapters should shed some light on the subject.

But I thought I should let you all know that I mean for Raven and BB to be out of character they way they are. Yes, there was a reason behind BB's outburst to Raven for no reason, and there was a reason for the way Raven immediately reacted.

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Miss Popularity Makes The World Go 'Round.

"…NO!" Her eyes shown white again. "What are you doing here?" Raven dropped the visitor from the powered embrace, curled her fingers into fists, and got back into her defensive position. Her eyes not once changed from the glowing white back to their normal color.

The blonde stepped forward with a wide smile on her face. Before she could even get a word out, everybody in the room heard the smallest of noises. "…Terra? What are you doing here?"

Beast Boy's voice was one of a lonely puppy. He had his body straightened up out of a defensive position. Standing before him was the girl he had once fallen hard for, maybe even too hard. Standing before him was the girl that had not only betrayed him, but had shattered his heart into a million pieces in the process. Standing before him was the girl he had eventually found after her whole self being turned to stone, and she'd turned him down, telling him that "things change." He'd been devastated. He hadn't been normal for days. Not a single joke was cracked for more than a week straight.

Raven had though it impossible for somebody to break Beast Boy that much. But here she was. Exhibit A, the evidence to the cause of a broken heart; standing there as if she expected everybody to welcome her in with open arms.

The next thing everybody knew, the bouncy blonde that had betrayed them all was running at Beast Boy. She jumped into his embrace and they hugged each other with vise like grips. It seemed like this greeting went on for years. Anyone watching could've been able to tell Beast Boy didn't want to ever let go of her again.

Raven was more than angry. But this time she didn't let it show like she had when the fight between her and Beast Boy broke out just less than an hour ago. She was mostly angry at the nerve the blonde had to show up after all she had done.

Raven let her eyes go back to their normal violet color, straightened her body, crossed her arms, and cleared her throat.

Both Beast Boy and Terra both jumped back, blushing slightly. Raven only rolled her eyes. She kept her arms crossed and watched from a distance in a shadow as the rest of her team bombarded the untrustworthy blonde with hugs and questions of why she was here. When everyone finally quieted down, she spoke her responses.

"School's ended…and I know I did you guys wrong when I worked for Slade. And I'm sorry for that, but I was wondering if maybe I could still have a second chance at being your friend? And maybe even a second chance at rejoining the team? Like I said, school's out for the summer, so maybe I could just leave it behind again…"

Cyborg immediately checked her over with his scanners as told to by Robin. "She's clean. She doesn't have any of Slade's goofy gear on her, and she's not bugged with anything. I say sure why not."

Beast Boy jumped with joy. Everybody knew they didn't need to ask him his opinion. He'd been the first to say yes the moment he'd seen her, even if he hadn't vocalized it. What else would you expect from him? For him to actually turn her down? Yeah, right. Like that would ever happen.

Starfire clapped happily and she floated in the air. She gave Terra one of her bone crushing hugs. "Yes, yes! I would love to have friend Terra back! And we could do the painting of the toenails and the braiding of the hair, and even go to the mall of shopping! It would be nice to have a friend who is also a girl who loves to do girly things together." She giggled. This made Raven slowly shake her head.

Excuse me for being different, she thought to herself.

Robin was next for his opinion. Raven hope he at least had some brain cells left to spare and saw right through another one of Terra's phony acts. Terra may have powers, but she wasn't one of them. She didn't deserve a second chance on the team. She'd blown her first second chance into pieces. She used her powers to hurt others, not to help them. Shouldn't somebody other than her see that? Was she the only one who ever stepped back to look at things for others needs, not her own? She'd done just that the day she was destined to be the portal. She'd tried doing things for her friend's needs, not her own. And here they were keeping the trader for their own cares and wishes.

"Sure, why not? It'd be great to have you on the team again, what with the powers you have and all. We could really use you and we'd be glad to have you rejoin."

Raven's eyes shot open wide at Robin's statement. She made them return to normal, and watched with crossed arms as everybody celebrated Terra's return. She spoke in her infamous monotone voice, hushing everybody and reminding them she was still there. "I though this would be a team decision. And even if it wasn't, have you all forgotten the last time we trusted her and let her rejoin the team? We trusted her and let her in on all our secrets, and what did she do? She used our weaknesses against us. She joined Slade and betrayed all of us. She tried to kill us all off. And then she comes back, and doesn't want anything to do with the past, with us. Am I the only one who remembers this?"

Robin looked at her, having must've remembered she was there, like everybody else. "Even if you said no Raven, it's four against one. So Terra stays. And if you remember, I too worked for Slade. But that didn't mean I was bad."

"Maybe not," she replied, "but you didn't try to kill us all. How do we know we can trust her? The last time we did, bad things happened. How do we know we can trust her if she didn't come running back the first chance she got?"

"The last time we trusted you on the team, it came to the end of the world." Everybody looked, surprised at Beast Boy's statement.

Raven's eyes narrowed slightly as she kept her arms crossed and straightened her posture a bit. "Excuse me, but that wasn't something I planned."

"But you were still involved, just as Terra was simply involved in Slade's schemes. It was a mistake she made."

Beast Boy hit something deep inside Raven. She still regretted that day. "I was involved against my own will. It wasn't a choice I made."

"You were still involved. So Terra stays either way, no matter what you say." Beast Boy was pressing his luck in Raven's eyes. But she didn't let anything show. Instead she simply rolled her eyes as the rest of her team went back to celebrating. It made Raven's temper rise at how easily her opinions were dismissed by her fellow team members, by her friends.

She couldn't stand how they all just blew her aside like that, like she didn't mean anything to them. Like…like she was replaceable. The thought lit something in Raven's mind. They must think of her as replaceable. She wasn't replaceable, was she?

She quickly shook the thought from her mind. She'd worry about that later. For now, she needed to handle the subject and hand. She looked back at the group of people standing in the middle of the room.

Slowly, Raven shook her head at the site before her, turned her back to them all, and made her way back to the roof. They probably hadn't even noticed she had left. What did it matter to her though? It's not like she cared whether they knew or not. Honestly.

When she got there, she returned to her meditation position, and repeated her mantra. "Azarath…Metrion…Zinthos…" She repeated these words slowly, over and over again in a calming way. It wasn't until a couple of hours later that Raven was interrupted by Starfire's gentle voice not far from where Raven was meditating in the air.

"Raven? I am sorry to have interrupted you, but we are all to go to the palace of pizza. Would you care to join us?"

Raven, keeping her eyes closed and her position in the air, replied. "I'll pass. I'm not hungry." Her timing was bad, because her stomach growled not two seconds after she declined Starfire's invitation. She winced slightly, for she knew there was no getting out of it now. Sure enough, the moment Raven opened her eyes and gently returned her feet to the ground, her arm was grabbed in a vise-like grip and she was hauled down to the others.

They all crammed into the T car, with Beast Boy sitting on Terra's lap in the form of a green kitten, Starfire in the middle in the backseat between Raven and Terra, and Cyborg and Robin up front. By time they reached the pizzeria, she could've screamed and pulled her hair out. But she once again, as always, kept calm.

They all sat down at their usual table and ordered their usual pizza. Raven ate her slices and sat back as all four of her friends socialized with Terra. They made separate plans with her that could've booked the girl's calendar for months. Raven, however, sat back and kept to herself. She watched intently at the reactions Terra gave her friends. They all seemed positive responses, but Raven still didn't trust the blonde. She doubted she would ever. How could she after all the girl had done to them? Her friends might not care, and Raven had temporarily given up on trying to get through to them on the subject, but that didn't mean she was going to sit back and openly let the girl back into her personal life.

Raven looked up at the sky as the temperature dropped slightly, and a nice breeze passed by. She could see small clouds in the distance moving in towards them. It would be a while, but Raven guessed a storm was on its way.

She was interrupted from her thoughts by the sudden bang on the table in front of her. Her friends were fighting over the last slice of pizza again. She smiled slightly at this. At least some things never changed. Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy's fists were slammed atop the table, each demanding the other give the slice to themselves. Raven's spirits lifted at the usually annoying exchange. She usually found these arguments pointless and annoying and a waste of time. And she still did. But not so much annoying now that she knew her friends hadn't completely changed. That was, until the tiny hand belonging to a small blonde girl was slammed down. Raven's spirits that had risen seemed to drop back down to her toes. Her smile vanished.

She looked away as three of her friends and Terra had a burping contest. The winner got the last slice of pizza. It was Terra's idea of settling the dispute. Raven highly disagreed, but said nothing. When Terra won, Raven wasn't the least bit surprised or amused. Raven had grown tired of sitting, watching her friends obsess over Terra…again. They'd done it when they'd first met her, and when she returned. And now they obsess when she comes back after a brutal betrayal.

Was there ever going to be an end to the confusion? She pushed down the urge for the second or third time that day to jump on the girl, just as she had done in the mud the day Terra tried to destroy them. She so badly wanted to, but she knew she couldn't, and morly shouldn't. She shouldn't even be thinking like this. Her emotions needed to stay down and in control.

When she took in a deep, calming breathe, apparently somebody had looked away long enough to notice. She suddenly felt a gentle, caring hand placed ever so gently on her shoulder. She looked to her right to find Robin was the owner of the hand on her shoulder. She hesitated for a moment, keeping her eyes on his hand, but when she looked at the Boy Wonder's face, she felt calmer. "You okay?" he asked in a tone only the two of them could hear. She hesitated, but nodded her reassurances to Robin. She loved him like a brother. He was probably her best friend. He'd gotten her through the times when she had had no hope the day the world came to an end. He'd helped her when her emotions had gone out of control. He'd helped her with everything, and hadn't made a parade into it.

He nodded slightly back, and removed his hand. He looked back at the group of friends around the table, but not before catching her look away again from the corner of his eye, much to Raven's unawareness.

When she looked back, the group of five were setting up for another betting game. Great. Just great. That meant they'd be here longer.

That was, unless she left early. Yeah, she could do that. And she could even get in some extra alone time.

Perfect.

***

As Beast Boy looked around his group of friends, he couldn't help but smile. They were all having a great time just hanging out, and the girl who had once stolen his heart was back, and was on the team.

Sure, it surprised him that she could beat him at a burping contest, and had at one time tried to kill him, but he was looking past all of that.

Or at least trying to.

Raven just kept on having to bring it up, didn't she? Why couldn't she let go like the rest of them? It didn't make sense.

No. He shook his head, clearly this mind of those thoughts. He was with a bunch of his friends, his family, people he cared for. He was out to have fun, not worry about Raven and her issues.

He looked at Terra and she laughed with his friends.

It just didn't seem real to him. He never thought she'd be here with them again, be here with him again. And it made him so happy.

He could feel the temperature drop slightly as a cooling breeze came through. It blew Terra's hair just the right way, and the sun was shining down on her, like she was the center of the world.

As the light hit her face, and the breeze blew her hair back, she smiled, closed her eyes, and lifted her face towards the sky.

She looked beautiful

Beast Boy couldn't help but smile. He didn't know how he'd gotten so lucky, and he didn't really care at the moment.

As long as he was with these people, his world was perfect. He had everything he could ever need.

He remember the time they'd snuck out and had gone to the closed carnival grounds. They'd ridden roller coasters, played games, taken pictures, and nearly kissed on the Ferris wheel.

Maybe…just maybe…they could get back to that.

One day at a time, Beast Boy, he thought to himself.

He didn't care if he was falling again too fast. He didn't care if he was in over his head. He didn't care if she was out of his league.

He simply just did not care.

They could all call him crazy.

He'd fallen for her once before, and here he was, repeating the past.

His heart was beating the way it was because of her.

Because she lives.

Because she breathes.

Tonight, he was sure there would be twice as many stars in the wide, never-ending sky, despite what the weather would be like.

When she looked at him and caught him smiling at her, she smiled back a smile just meant for just him.

He was sure his heart had skipped more than a couple beats.

He knew she wouldn't betray them again. Even if she did, he was here to live for the 'now', not the 'then'. Forgive and forget. Forgive her for the mistakes and forget they ever happened.

That's what he believed.

He also believed she wouldn't hurt him again. And he was sure he wouldn't hurt her. They were there for each other as friends, and maybe even more.

He looked around the table at each other his friends: Terra, the beautiful blonde who pretty much completed him, as cheesy as it sounded; Cyborg, his pretty much best friend; Robin, the leader of the team who almost always knew what to do in rough times; Starfire, the spunky, peppy girl full of spirit and pride 24/7; and Raven, the violet haired—

Wait…where was Raven? She wasn't where she'd been sitting.

Beast Boy looked around. No signs of the violet eyed beauty.

"Guys? Where'd Raven go?"

They all looked around, but found no signs of where she'd disappeared to.

They all figured she'd gone back to the tower to her room, like always. But once they got back home, Beast Boy snuck off to the outside of the tower. It was a nice night and felt like taking a starlit walk. Terra was inside unpacking her things in her room, which had stayed intact as she'd left it.

He looked at the stars.

They reminded him of Terra's room, and thinking of the room reminded him of when he'd tried showing her memories of her past, and when she'd refused to accept it.

His stomach curled and did flips, and his heart panged at the thought. He remembered how broken he'd felt. It hadn't seemed like reality. It all felt like a dream. But he'd accepted it. He really didn't have any other choice, seeing as Terra had denied everything he'd every tried to remind her of.

Even this morning he was reminded of that day. After they'd all gotten back form the mall, he'd been passing by her room and had stopped in, just to try and feel that she was still there.

It was the worst mistake he'd made in a long time.

It only made him feel worse and mad at himself. To him, he felt it was partially his fault she'd felt the need to join Slade's side. And because of it, she hadn't been there.

The thought of him being the cause of her decisions had made him seemingly blow over the edge.

When Starfire had blown up whatever she had been trying to make, he'd rushed downstairs to help. But the thought had stayed with him, making him yell at Raven.

He hadn't meant to, and he regretted it. He regretted hurting her, even more.

When they'd been stopped, and she looked at him with those almost horrified eyes, he would've thrown himself over a cliff. He'd realized that he'd hurt her. His eyes were attached to the cuts along the side of her face.

But what had surprised him all the same was why Raven had yelled back at him.

Usually her voice stays in its low monotone setting. Sure, she hadn't yelled. She raised her voice, most definitely. But she hadn't yelled.

Either way, Raven always keeps her emotions straight. So why she'd been involved in the fight was beyond him.

All he knew for sure was that it was a mistake on his part, he regretted every minute of it, and the next time he saw Raven, he would get her full attention and tell her all of this. He'd make sure of it.

He didn't want any bad blood to stay between them. Sure they argued, but he didn't want to be enemies with his friend.

So it was settled. The next time he saw Raven he'd make sure she understood he didn't mean anything he'd said or done.

As he looked down from the stars, he realized he may be making things clearer sooner than he'd thought.

A/N- Okay so, this chapter was longer than the last one. I hope I was able to clear some things up in this chapter without giving everything away. Lol.

Now for the reviewer replies! (Let me know which way of responding you guys prefer: open responses at the end of each chapter, or personal messaging responses. Whichever preference gets the most requests/votes I will use)

TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne- To answer you question about Raven and BB's fight, you were pretty close at guessing it was a case of frayed nerves. I can't and won't reveal too much, but basically the fight was the result of each others irritations, but also something else. You'll find out the rest later in the story. ;) Sorry I couldn't explain more.

Me (anonymous) - Yes, well, technically yes, this is my first fan fic. This is the first one I've ever truly gone through with as far as I've gone. I already had four chapter almost finished before I posted the first. Lol. I'm glad you thought it was good, and that means a lot to me when you say you're usually a harsh critic. I will most definitely keep up the good work! Lol.

Ninjacat- I too agree that BB got too mad too fast. But I hope I cleared up why in this chapter. If not, it should be clearer in the next few.

Too Tired To Log In- I know Raven seemed way out of character, but if it wasn't made clear in this chapter, it should be within the next few. I do take your criticism constructively.

Moving Mountains- I already pmed you, but I do agree it was a very action packed chapter. I felt it unique and felt it added an air of mystery as to why both BB and Rae were acting so out of the ordinary. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and will like future ones to come.