WARNING: Do I have to say it again? Ok, I will...please forgive italics formatting mistakes, sexual themes.

Raven began to walk back slowly, feeling very much defeated. She'd walked into that situation wanting to beat lust into submission, and it was blatantly clear to her now that such a feat was not going to be achieved anytime soon. Raven even considered asking Beast Boy to help her, but that was quickly crushed in it's infancy. In this world her powers fell victim to theirs, Beast Boy was not an exception.

She couldn't even wrap her head around the feelings she would be forced to experience if lustgot her way...the last thing she wanted was for Beast Boy to know what she looked like naked; he'd probably run off and tell Robin and Cyborg after aswell. Humiliation consumed her just at the thought. She didn't want everyone to know all her flaws, and that's what sex was, right? Someone seeing and experiencing you in your most vulnerable state?

The idea didn't appeal to Raven in the slightest, but neither did the idea that he perception of what love and passion was had come from sappy romance novels where the heroine always finds her hero. She flushed with embarrassment and anger, such things gave her a stomach ache. Why couldn't lust understand that side of her argument?

"Raven!" a high pitched voice shrieked from a distance away.

She spun around quickly, trying to find where the voice had come from. She got a nervous feeling that one of her least favorite and most tiresome emotions was about to make her day even crummier.

Happinessslammed into her at full force, she wrapped her arms around Raven's neck and her legs around Raven's waist, "I found you!"

Raven pushed at her, "Stop."

Happiness laughed, "But I'm so excited! You talked to lust,yes? So you are convinced of the miracles of human intimacy now? You will allow us the experience the pleasures that lust has explained? You will be happier?"

Raven was so shocked by the words coming out of happiness's mouth that she shoved violently and happiness detached and they both stumbled backwards and onto their respective rears with an awkwardly pained oomph.

"Have you been talking to her?" Raven growled.

Happiness nodded quickly, that ridiculous smile still plastered on her face, "Oh of course…as soon as she escaped from wherever you'd been keeping her she called a meeting and explained all the wonders of her existence, everyone agrees that she should be in charge until you understand."

Raven held up her hands defensively, shock seized her body immediately and she found it difficult to control the volume of her voice, "No, no, no! That bitch had no right to talk to all of you...I can't believe you're all turning into such imbeciles, there must be no voice of reason when I'm absent." Though in all truthfulness there was no such thing as being absent from this nightmarish place...in a perfect world Raven would have control 24 hours a day and would never have to worry that her baser emotions were conspiring against her.

Happinesslooked curiously confused, "This is a good thing, Raven, embrace it."

"Not on your life." Raven growled and turned to leave.

"Not on our life." she corrected with a deceptively angelic smile and then continued, "I already like Beast Boy a lot...he's very kind and gentle and attractive...it makes me happy when he touches us and I laugh on the inside at all his jokes. Why can't you give him the chance to make us happy?" Happiness screamed after her.

By the end of the statement happiness had begun to lose her patience. It was always interesting to watch an emotions try to feel something other then what they were designed to be. Raven could always watch with a sick satisfaction while knowing that only she had the power to appease them all and quell their suffering (even though she chose to ignore them most of the time, favoring the serene and tranquil outside that everyone else saw).

This wasn't their decision, this wasn't a democracy; Raven made the decisions, Raven called the shots, and it was Raven's life to live and no one else's. She knew her anger was getting out of control but she couldn't force herself to calm down...the fact that lust had gotten to all of her other emotions before even considering addressing Raven made her burn with acute hatred...worse yet? All the others had apparently agreed.

She didn't even see it coming, hadn't noticed that suddenly happiness was nowhere to be seen; but suddenly a powerful fist crushed into the side of her face and anger was standing over her limp form. Raven cringed as anger kicked her harder and continued to rain punches against her face and body. Anger lifted her up by her neck only to toss her clear across the room again. Anger's four red eyes pierced her soul as she walked closer still and beat Raven harder.

It was happening so fast, and Raven didn't have the time or energy to consider defending herself. Being in this world drained her in many ways.

She knew why it was happening though…happiness used verbal reasoning and fought her case with words...rage wanted to bash the sense into her, even though that was nearly impossible; violence had never done much for an adoptive pacifist like Raven.

When rage was finished she leaned down and spoke into Raven's ear, her voice deep and masochistic like her father's, "Maybe if you would just listen to the little slut then this wouldn't happen as often, feel free to come back tomorrow and we can repeat this secession if you're not convinced yet."

"Move it, now it's my turn to tear her down a couple pegs." Rudeness laughed bitterly and used her foot to move Raven from her side to her back, "Open those pretty little eyes Sunshine, it's time for a much needed reality check."

Raven kept her eyes closed and averted her face.

"Fine, be a baby…" Rudeness sighed sharply, "First of all, you're not the hottest thing in the world, you need to take the chance now and pull Beast Boy in before he finds something better, which he will. Secondly, if you even expect him to want to fuck you then you need to lose some weight and start working out. And lastly, you in no way will ever be able to satisfy a man in bed or out of it, so I suggest you take lust's help...it won't make you perfect, but at least you won't be repulsive."

It wasn't true, Raven knew that in her heart, but it was hard to deny in the face of failure.

Raven sat up angrily and fought back against rude,but she'd forgotten rage was still there and almost immediately rude had her in a tight grip from behind and rage continued her assault on Raven's already broken and battered body.

Finally they grew tired and disappeared much like happiness had.

Raven lay there for what seemed like hours, dreading a visit from any more of her emotions. It felt like hours had passed.

Suddenly Raven experienced the sensation of chilled fingers against her face and flinched awkwardly in fearful response.

"No, it's ok Raven, it's just me." Timid spoke gently and collected Raven's broken body into her arms, "I'm so sorry I didn't step in...but they were beating you so badly and I was so scared…I called for help but no one responded, I probably wasn't loud enough."

Raven couldn't speak, her windpipe was too damaged, so she simply nodded.

Timid looked away, "I don't want to have sex either, please don't make me do it, I don't want to be exposed a-and-" but she couldn't finish the sentence and tears started to stream down her cheeks.

The other emotions always teased and tortured timid, she was easy to pick on after all, but Raven constantly felt her pain and was effected by it in the real world. Balance was almost never achieved in Raven's mind and timid always got the short end of the stick.

Raven watched as timid'seyes became unfocused and then she gave a gentle smile, "Purity is coming...she will help to heal the fatal wounds before you leave."

Raven could only nod.

"Not everyone agreed when lust spoke to us...purity, bravery, and I did and do not agree, we knew lust would only cause you pain. She is a vindictive and cruel thing...she's so similar to rage that its almost incomprehensible." Timidtook a deep, shuddering breath, "We thought that happiness would join us aswell but intelligence convinced her that she would benefit from lust's goals as well. Rage, jealously, arrogance, happiness, intelligence,and rudeness are all against us." The despair in timid'svoice was evident and didn't give a lot of hope for the future.

"Give her to me child, I'll heal her as I escort her home, it would be best for her to recover as close to the green fellow as possible." Puritytook Raven into her protective embrace.

"Goodbye, Raven." Timid murmured softly.

Purity began to heal her immediately and Raven felt the pressure as both of them were sucked into the portal that would take her home.

Beast Boy paced quickly next to where the mirror was set on Raven's dresser. It had been hours of waiting and nothing had come out, nothing had happened.

She's trapped, he thought in horror, I have to get her out of there!

Just as he approached the mirror, readying himself to go in after her, a light flashed through the entire room and he spun around to see a woman in all white place a very broken looking Raven on the bed.

The white woman turned around to face Beast Boy and he realized that she was Raven...or at least a version of Raven.

His heart pounded wildly in his chest as she approached gracefully, "Take care of her." She murmured softly and reached up to pull his face down towards her own, her soft lips pressed momentarily against his cheek, "She needs you." Then purity continued on towards the mirror and disappeared.

Beast Boy quickly made his way to Raven's side, she was bleeding heavily onto her bed and the cuts and bruises spared no part of her body, her unconscious form looked weak.

He didn't think, he just picked up her thin form and rushed as fast as possible to get to the infirmary. Once there he franticly pulled off her clothes and set her on an examination table.

Everyone assumed that Beast Boy would know nothing about medical treatment...and they were right, he didn't know much. But he did know a little something about healing himself. He took antibacterial wash and cleaned her entire surface quickly.

He was nervous that she would wake up and be unhappy with him, so he intended to work as fast as possible.

He picked up her battered left hand first and stroked the bruise and gash marred skin there. He didn't know that she'd had nearly every bone in her body broken and that purity had healed the internal wounds to the best of her ability.

Beast Boy got down onto his knees next to the table and pulled her hand carefully to his mouth. His tongue slid tenderly over her destroyed flesh...it tasted horrible because of the antiseptic but he watched as the open wounds began to heal before his eyes.

He'd always known about this ability, but it had never needed to be utilized...usually Raven was able to heal herself, Starfire was damn near indestructible, Cyborg was a robot, and Robin never bled on the battle field.

He worked his way up her arm and across her collar bone, after he was done with the right as well he moved down to her legs. Her torso was where she was the most tender, numerous times she flinched in her unconsciousness and Beast Boy worked harder to be gentle.

He sat her up and held her carefully so he could reach her back. His forearm supported her just under her large, soft breasts and he wished briefly that he'd had an excuse to remove her sports bra and underwear too.

He carefully laid her back down one he was finished and glared at her face, it seemed like that was the place that she'd taken the most damage. It was so swollen and contorted that she barely looked like herself. He worked over that part of her body very slowly, using all of his restraint and care.

Her eyes fluttered open as he lapped carefully at her split bottom lip.

"What are you doing?" her tone was irritated and relieved at the same time, he was shocked that she didn't throw him across the room for assaulting her in such a way.

He shifted, uncomfortable with the situation, his left arm was stretched across her body and resting beside her shoulder while his left hand lay under her head in ginger support. His right hand stroked her quickly healing face gently.

"I-you...someone brought you back but you were in bad shape so I brought you here," he glanced nervously at her appraising eyes and then eyes again, "you weren't healing yourself to I decided to do it myself, you had a lot of open wounds and I was worried because you were unconscious. And the white woman who brought you back kissed me on the cheek and told me to take care of you and that you needed me and I was confused!"

Beast Boy felt her try to nod but he held her completely still.

"Don't tell me your saliva is magic and that you licked my entire body." Raven murmured sarcastically, "That's the single stupidest excuse to assault someone I've ever heard."

Beast Boy blushed and Raven's eyes widened, she tried to struggle up but Beast Boy was too strong and kept her still.

"You're healing, aren't you? That's all that matters!" Beast Boy interjected quickly, before Raven had the chance to overreact, "Plus, it's not morbidly different from when I was kissing you!"

Raven blushed, "Are you saying you wouldn't be disturbed if you woke up from a painful sleep and found me licking your face, that you wouldn't be disturbed if I then told you that I'd licked nearly every part of your body?"

Beast Boy laughed, "To be completely honest, I probably would have gotten an erection...and if I woke up with you licking my face I'd probably take it as an invitation to do the same in return."

Raven tried to move again but he only held her down with more force. She refused to say anything more on the subject.

"Don't be mad, I wasn't doing it in a sexual manner, I just wanted all the bleeding to stop, that's all." Beast Boy argued gently.

But before Raven could respond they heard the door to the infirmary slide open and a voice flowed into the room.

Beast Boy reached down and scooped Raven up quickly, in nearly one second they were out of site and hidden behind a cabinet of medical supplies.

Raven gripped him tightly, her thin body pressed tantalizingly close to his own already overheated one. Pure dread spread through her system at the thought of her friends finding her nearly naked and covered in bruises with no explanation of why Beast Boy wouldn't and couldn't leave her side.

"We need to start working harder, just because Raven and Beast Boy decide not to show up to afternoon training doesn't mean we should get our asses beat. What if they ever fail to show up during a real battle? Are we completely screwed?" Robin was livid. He'd taken a shot to the shoulder which had dislocated it, and then not four steps later he'd taken another to the chest because he was trying to do too much at one time. He'd been trying to do the jobs of three members of his team.

"We've won fights before where one of us is absent or injured, that was just a really tough simulation and it didn't sink in till there at the end that we were minus two. Chill out and take a deep breath, I'm sure they're absent for a reason." Cyborg defended.

"One of them better be dead or dying, I don't want that to ever happen again." Robin growled bitterly as Cyborg scanned his chest for internal injuries.

Starfire laughed and gripped his shoulder, "Hold still, I shall preform the popping back in of the shoulder now." She didn't give him any warning, she simply applied the necessary pressure and cringed when he grunted in pain.

"Fuck...I'm going straight to Raven's room as soon as we're done, she has explaining to do...Cyborg, you go to Beast Boy's. I'm getting to the bottom of this." Robin got up stiffly and rotated his shoulder experimentally, "Thanks Star."

Raven shook with anger, what right did he have to be a complete ass when he didn't even understand the situation? But, then again, there was no way that she was going to share or explain the situation either.

"Don't let go." Raven mumbled roughly and teleported the two back to her room immediately.

Beast Boy gasped and shock, "Shit! Give a guy a little warning, I forgot to breath!"

Raven rolled her eyes, "I need to get dressed, put me down. He's gonna be here any minute and I look like shit and I'm not dressed...I need a shower…" She didn't sound panicked; in fact, she sounded serene and in control. Why should she care what Robin thought anyway?

Beast Boy was glad that she wasn't still angry, and also glad that she was functioning with a level head.

"Maybe it's better that you look a little...ill." Beast Boy added slowly, "If you look like you're under the weather he'll excuse your absence."

Raven nodded as he set her down carefully in front of her dresser, "You're right, but we can't both be sick, what's your excuse?"

Beast Boy shook his head warily and ignored her question, "Make sure you cover the bruises…" his eyes slid down her shoulders and back, she still looked like a mess, he couldn't believe he'd been stuck pacing her room while she fought for her life.

A/N

Golly, I hate to curse myself but I'm pretty sure my average chapter word counts went from 1,500 before authors notes to 3,000 before author's notes. Who's proud?

I just would like to throw this out there once again...I can't possibly express how fervently happy it makes me to read your comments, you are all so kind and amazingly creative and funny that I can't even express it in words. Thank You. (And thank you to my silent supporters aswell) lol. The response on this past chapter was so immediate that the next one wrote itself.

Wolvmbm: I understand completely! lol. I wish Raven wasn't so difficult, her character makes it really hard to take the easy route to a real life happy ending :P I think I may be a bit of a passive masochist when it come's to Raven satisfaction in life :P

ChildWhoIsCool: Insightful...your words are far too kind.

Kelly: Of course I care! If you guys were unhappy I'd simply have to change everything :P jk.

AngelicToaster: ;) :D

DarkFire: I kinda like her too! When she's not being a tyrannic whore :P And trust me, when they get there is will hopefully be all that in more. I'll try exponentially to work on "wild and rough" since gooey and gentle are my forte right now in that area.

Em: Lol I love vulnerable and protective...And thank you! I'm glad to have improved. Everytime I write a story I think to myself "I've reached the peak of my writing abilities" and then when I go back and read old one's all I can think is "I can't believe I posted this where people could read it" :P I'm glad you're enjoying it.

GrayAreas: Nevermore is so hard to write for! I never imagined how complicated and confusing it would be. I finally had to step back after the first draft of that last chapter and decide that less detail about the setting was more. Too confusing! Had to focus on characters only.

Vampire: I hate pain...and was born with a very low threshold. Sometimes when I'm writing it I feel bad :P lol. My belief? If Raven has to suffer so should Beast Boy (at least a little bit).

BlackRose: lol Jealous of Raven? ... don't worry ... I am too :P I won't tell anyone. (Think how hard it would be to type/write in a straight jacket!)