Ick, I let this go stale. Well, here's chapter two, for those of you who are still paying attention.
Again, if you don't like it, don't flame. No one forced you to read it. xD
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Bring Beast Boy in. That's what Raven wanted to do about a year ago, right after the Titans got back from Tokyo.
Now, people tracking her motives would not understand. This plan is delicate. Incredibly so. Beast Boy, in fact, is delicate.
Everything must be deliberate.
Raven fell back on her bed, next to her pile of...tools. She called them tools, just to be discreet. Unconsciously, she reached for a chain and chewed on the end, thinking. Wondering why she had waited so long without taking action. Soon Raven felt the metal of the chain grinding into the enamel of her teeth. It created a sound that sent chills up her spine -- an altogether pleasant chill, however.
Raven wondered how Beast Boy would react.
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"Beast Boy! That is most unbearably sickening."
Beast Boy chuckled as he continued meddling with the controller, twisting his character into suggestive positions over and over in a never-ending cycle. Of course, eventually, he obliged to Starfire's wishes and continued with the game's intended movements and events. He was not one to tease Starfire anyway. Not just because Robin was protective, but because Starfire was his friend. Naive and sexually wary, but his friend nonetheless.
"It worked, Star," Cyborg interjected. "Now tell him that he's a good boy."
The doors to the living room opened, preceding Raven's quiet entrance, then shut behind her. Raven simply stood at the door, as if waiting for something.
"Oh, should I give him verbal praise?" Starfire wondered, almost as if thinking to herself.
"Hey, try it," Robin suggested teasingly. "See if it sticks. Maybe he responds to verbal praise!"
"Hey!" Beast Boy scowled, almost embarrassed. "I'm nobody's pet."
Just then, Raven completed her otherwise short-ended entrance. "No, he isn't."
"Thank you, Raven." Beast Boy emphasized "Raven," implying that she was the only one on his side.
Raven simply smiled placidly, taking a seat next to Starfire on the couch.
Beast Boy turned back to his game, Cyborg turned back to the stove, and Robin turned back to his computer, leaving both girls in a bored void of silence. As the ice of silence froze and spread upon the room, Starfire melted it slightly with words of warmth.
"So, friend Raven," Starfire said tentatively. "Would you like to join me in the painting of nails?"
"We never did get to do that, did we?" Raven thought out loud. "Sure, sounds like fun."
"Glorious! We must begin right away!" With that, Starfire, as usual, forgot the force of her strength as she pulled Raven off of the couch and led her to her bedroom.
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Despite the pervasively tugging pain in Raven's arm from Starfire's vice grip, Raven's trip from the living room had set the gears in her brain turning, slowly at first, but then they began to accelerate at an alarming speed.
I'm nobody's pet...nobody's pet...
The words echoed in her mind, reverberating over and over again, accelerating the turning wheels in her brain with every collision into her mind's walls.
Of course. He is, indeed, nobody's pet. Not yet.