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Chapter 3: The Flaw in the Plan
Previous Chapter: After a very odd behavior of Cyborg and Beast Boy, Raven gets suspicious. Cyborg finally leaves and Beast Boy, knowing he can't come up with an excuse for that kind of conduct on the spot, tells Raven he needs to use the bathroom, morphs into a ladybug and zooms out of the room from under the door.
Beast Boy flew as fast as he could once in the hallway, morphing into a peregrine falcon and taking a direct right into his bedroom. Once inside he presumed human form, shut the door, and took out his communicator.
"Beast Boy calling Cyborg, over" he said to it, seconds before Cyborgs head appeared in the circular screen.
"What's up B"? Cyborg asked, appearing to be in one of the countless hallways in Titans Tower.
"Cyborg get in my room now!" Beast Boy quickly said back, careful to not be too loud, but enough so that Cyborg knew it was urgent.
"Ok I'm coming, what's up?" Cyborg said as he started running while holding his communicator out in eye's view.
"We need to think of the supposed prank we're pulling on Robin, and why your behavior was so weird! Even I don't know why you lost it back there" Beast Boy said turning his back to his door and looking away from his communicator. Behind him his door opened and in stepped Cyborg, looking a bit out of breath.
"B I'm sorry I don't know what happened back there either I just kind of panicked" Cyborg explained.
"You're not even the one that has a crush on Raven though; you had no reason to be nervous! All you had to do was say that you needed to work on the T-Car; that's what you do in every other fanfic!" Beast Boy yelled, getting slightly annoyed.
"Dude I think you're over-reacting a bit, let's just think it through ok?" Cyborg offered, trying to calm Beast Boy down a bit.
The only reason I'm over-reacting, is because who knows what Raven will do when she finds out I lied!" Beast Boy said, shivering slightly at the thought.
"B it's if she finds out, not when" Cyborg said. "All we have to do is come up with an excuse! How hard could it be man?" Cyborg said with a small chuckle.
Meanwhile in Raven's Room
Beast Boy sure is taking a while. Perhaps another Titan is already in the bathroom Raven thought. After all it's happened before. Ah whatever… Raven shifted her attention back to the music, which had changed from "Give Up the Ghost" to "How to Disappear Completely". The eerie sound filled Raven's ears and filled her with a feeling she had never felt. She felt tingles across her body, but they weren't sexual tingles (Yes Raven has masturbated every so often as she's gotten older), she felt her body play host to goose bumps. I wonder what song this is Raven thought, making a mental note to ask Beast Boy when he returned. I've got to get Radiohead on MY iPod
Back in Beast Boy's Room
"Ok, how bout this…" Cyborg began, his arms extended in visual motion "We take Starfire's perfume, and we pour it…. into Robin's cologne bottle!" he said, rising the suspension up for the joke punch-line and smiling widely. Beast Boy laughed his higher-pitched laugh and said;
"Dude! That's sweet...But I actually want to do that so let's think of another to lie about."
"Mmmhhhhhhh" They both said, putting their hands on their chin.
"I've got it!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "Do you know where Robin and Starfire are and are they together right now?" he asked.
"Yeah, they're together in the Living room" Cyborg said, a look of curiosity mingled on his face.
"Alright how bout I tell Raven that we both snuck up on them with a camera, and that they thought they were alone in the building because Raven was on the rooftop meditating so she's been out of sight for a while, and we told Raven that we weren't supposed to be seen by Robin because of the prank! I could tell Raven that we both told Robin we were going to the bowling alley, and that's why we "aren't supposed to be seen by Robin!" Beast Boy said, laughing at his own brilliance.
"Dude that sounds acceptable" Cyborg said back smiling, and after thinking a few seconds he said "And since Robin and Starfire thought they were the only ones there, how bout you say we got Robin touching Starfire's boobs and Robin with her hand In Robins pants on video film." They both laughed at the thought, thinking it was gross but funny to have on tape.
"And if she asks to see the film, which she probably won't, we could say we both couldn't contain from laughing and they heard us, and that we ran but Robin caught us and Starfire shot a star-bolt at the camera and shattered it." Beast Boy said quickly.
"Yea, that'll work, well good luck I hope she buys it!" Cyborg said while patting Beast Boy on the back as they both left the room.
Back in Raven's room
Ugh, what is taking him so long! It's been 10 minutes! Relax Raven; I'm sure he has a good reason. I still have to ask him what every song was that played. Raven looked up at the sound of a fly entering her room from under her door and morphing into Beast Boy.
"Raven I'm sorry! It turned out me and Cy had to do the prank right then and there or we would lose the chance. And I went to the bathroom too." He added, sitting back down in his chair, noticing that the song playing was now "Bullet Proof….I Wish I Was".
"It's alright Beast Boy, now tell me what the prank was and what all that was about, what with you and Cyborg acting all weird." She demanded, still floating in midair.
And so Beast Boy began telling Raven all about the made up prank he and Cyborg had just come up with. It went well; Raven seemed to believe it anyway. But Beast Boy and Cyborg had forgotten to come up with an excuse for why Cyborg had acted so strangely. Beast Boy however, with experience in the past of Cyborg acting very strange indeed, told Raven;
"Oh I asked him about that; I didn't know what that was all about either. He said a bunch of rocket science sounding stuff, and I had no idea what any of it meant."
"Well with your brain, that's understandable" Raven joked, smiling slightly, before realizing it was the first time she had made a joke about Beast Boy's "small brain" or "low intelligence" in ages.
"Very funny Rae, anyways after inserting this chip thing into him he got better, and told me in "English" that his battery was low and he had to switch some of his memory energy to back-up power. He's better now though" Beast Boy added, seeing the concerned look on Raven's face.
Phew, she seems to believe what I'm saying…aw fuck what if she asks Robin or Starfire about the prank or notices that they aren't acting angry towards me and Cyborg or something! Beast Boy made a mental note to tell Robin as soon as he could, to pretend they really had played that prank on them.
"Well that's good to hear, remember the last time Cyborg had trouble with his internal system?" Raven said, beginning to laugh. Beast Boy thought back and started laughing too, harder than Raven.
"Yeah, I totally saved him with my brilliant idea of turning into amoeba!" Beast Boy said, giving Raven a big smile, as if trying to impress her and waiting for her compliment. This caused Raven to laugh more however, and say throughout her laughter;
"Are you kidding? It was your fault he was like that in the first place! You wanted to play that stupid monkey game or whatever." Beast Boys attention wasn't on what she was saying. While she spoke, Beast Boy was busy thinking;
She's so beautiful when she laughs, it's the cutest sound in the world! I would give anything to have her laugh at my jokes!
"Yeah well, whatever" Beast Boy said in defeat but smiling nonetheless. "You said it was "pretty clever""
….."For you" Raven said back dryly, causing both the Titans to laugh, remembering that that is what she said after "pretty clever".
"Alright Rae, you win" Beast Boy confessed, looking up at the victorious beauty.
"I know" she replied, getting that feeling that you can tell the conversation has nowhere to go on the current topic. Remembering she wanted to ask about Radiohead, (currently playing "Pyramid Song") she changed the subject.
"Alright Beast Boy, let's finally play our game of chess, and afterwards I want to know the names of all the songs that have played." Raven said.
"Sure Rae" Beast Boy said sweetly, "You must really like Radiohead huh?"
"Yes, so far I do very much like them. I am interested to hear more of them."
"Yeah, maybe you could come to my room some time and I could put them on while we did something together" Beast Boy offered, starting to get that really hot rush feeling and sweat.
"I'd like that" Raven said with a small but sweet smile, turning Beast Boy's insides to Jelly. He was so relieved! Beast Boy acted as if he had just asked her on a date and she said yes.
"Well Great!" He said, way louder than he meant. "That's settled then!" he said, bringing his hands down on the table, accidently smashing his chess pieces all over the place and onto the floor, some bumping into Ravens and knocking hers over too. Raven started to giggle and said "Smooth Beast Boy, good strategy."
"Hey at least we hadn't started yet!" Beast Boy exclaimed, going a bit red and bending under the table to pick up the pieces.
It'd be perfect if Raven was wearing a skirt and actually SAT when she played chess Beast Boy thought, disappointed. Emerging back from under the table, Beast Boy re-set up his chess pieces, and said politely after noticing;
"White goes first Rae"
"So it does" Raven replied, encasing her left knight with black energy and moving it two spaces up, and one to the right, keeping her long defensive line of pawns still without a weak point. The two friends played a fierce game of chess for the next 53 minutes. Raven won un-surprisingly, but not by much, which caught Raven off guard, and slightly impressed her. Beast Boy knew it too, during the game he saw once or twice a look of low level fear etched on Raven's face.
Many Radiohead songs played during their game; Raven asked for the name of each and every song (except Fitter Happier, Radiohead fans will understand), and with every song she fell more and more for Radiohead. With the chess pieces put away, and Beast Boys iHome and iPod in hand, Raven walked Beast Boy to her door and said
"This was fun Beast Boy; I really enjoyed your company and listening to Radiohead. Thanks for introducing them to me."
"No problem Rae, I had a lot of fun too. I really enjoyed your company too; I always do." Beast Boy said back, and as he walked out her door he said playfully "Next time I'll totally kick your butt at chess!"
"You wish!" Raven called after him smiling, equally playfully. With Beast Boy out of sight, she walked to her bed and laid down, looking up at the ceiling. To this point she was still unable to contain her smile. As well as that she couldn't stop thinking about Beast Boy and their time together that day.
Beast Boy is actually kind of funny when he's not trying to be. He's a very nice person and a very good friend ….Today was a really good day...
Little did Raven know, there were plenty more "good days" to come
End of Chapter
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