Let me first say I'm extremely sorry about the long wait. Especially to faithful readers, my sincere apologies. But I got this. And I'm sure you'll love this chapter. I had this disease called "writer's block" for the past week, but now I'm cured!

Disclaimer: Mas y Menos say: "¿Estás loco? Liz, no posee Teen Titans!"(In English, if you think I own Teen Titans, you're insane.) But I do own this story, and I'm sticking to it. :D

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Chapter 14:

Distance

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"Your… your daughter?" Beast Boy asked, becoming confused for the billionth time. He stood there in Raven's room, everything frozen. Time itself had literally stopped. A white-cloaked woman stood close by, a hand held out to the changeling.

The woman nodded. She dropped her outstretched hand back to her side. "My name is Arella Roth, mother of your friend Raven."

Beast Boy then understood. "You're the one that showed Raven that vision."

Arella nodded again.

"You brought her to when Malchior came back." Beast Boy said without realizing that he had basically said the same thing twice. Still, Arella nodded.

Beast Boy relaxed a little. He looked back over to where Raven was frozen in time on her bed. She was still turned slightly, just as she had been before the white flash. Carefully, Beast Boy walked over to where she was seated and tilted his head so that he could see her whole face. He gazed into her violet orbs that she called her eyes and noticed that they were frozen too. But not even time could prevent them from being beautiful in Beast Boy's opinion.

He realized that Arella was watching him closely, and he walked back over to her. Now he knew why she was so familiar. Raven was a splitting image of her mother. Arella looked just like her daughter with slightly longer hair and tanner skin.

Beast Boy reached the woman and looked up into her own deep purple eyes that told a thousand stories. He nodded at her and Arella smiled.

Beast Boy blinked.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself standing next to a golden water fountain in the middle of a very unfamiliar place. Rays of sunlight reflected off of tall, golden buildings. Wherever he was, it was beautiful.

Arella was sitting on the edge of the pool. She motioned for the changeling to sit by her. He obliged.

"Hey, uh, where are we?" he asked first, still studying his surroundings. No bells were ringing.

Arella didn't waste any time in answering. "Azarath." She said simply.

Beast Boy looked at her questioningly. "You mean the first word in Raven's chanty-thingy is a place too?" God. How many times was he going to be confused today?

"Correct."

"I don't get it. Why would anyone want to leave this place anyways? Not that I'm not glad she did…" Beast Boy asked, dipping his hand into the pure, blue water behind him.

Arella hesitated to answer him. But this was the reason she was talking to the shifter in the first place. He would understand. She inhaled deeply and began the story.

"Raven was cursed from her birth. Trigon, her father, is a pure evil demon. You are already aware of this. It was not out of love that Raven was conceived. Raven was then born with a destiny, and a terrible destiny at that. She was born as Trigon's portal, and she was going to help him end life on Earth and beyond. When Raven was old enough to understand, the monks of Azarath told her about her powers. They explained to her that although she was gifted with the incredible powers, her emotions would always pose a threat. She was told she was never allowed to express her feelings or show any emotion or else there would be consequences. They also told her of her destiny."

Beast Boy could only nod. But Arella wasn't finished yet.

"Because of the pain she was told she would cause some way or another, she was forced to detach herself from everyone around her. Raven has a good heart. She would never hurt her friends. The people of Azarath still loved her, but she was not about to hurt them by staying. She fled to another dimension; your planet Earth.

"When she made it to Earth, she was not alone for long. She landed in your city, as a matter of fact. That day, something unlike any human Earth has ever seen landed in that city. The Tamaranian…"

Beast Boy nodded, flashing his teeth. "Starfire. She landed right next to the pizza place." He smiled even wider, remembering the first day he had met the Teen Titans. The day his life changed forever.

Arella smiled, deciding that she's let him talk for a little while. "Why don't you tell me what happened?"

Beast Boy continued to smile. He would always remember that day. "Robin had just decided to fly solo. Heh. Get it? But not for long. Starfire had been captured by some other alien-ish people as a trophy-ish-servant-thing, but she escaped and landed in Jump City. Robin thought it was a green meteor crashing into the center of the city, so he went to investigate. Then, he thought Starfire was evil, so he started to fight her. That's when I came in. I kept calling him 'sir' and all that formal crap. Heh. My old leader Mento was big on that. Anyways, then the Cyborg shows up in his 'normal-person-and-not-a-machine' clothes. He later became my best friend. So, we were about to attack Star again, but this giant bird made out of black energy appears and blocks us. Raven came out of the shadows and told us that fighting wasn't the answer in this case."

He paused for a second and realized he was getting into too much detail. "To get to the point, Starfire kisses Robin after he frees her hands and tells him that he shouldn't go after her. But, of course, we end up going anyways. The lizard-king-dude pretty much declares war on us. We head into the alien's big ship and we start fighting; our first fight as a team. I end up getting hurt, but Raven helps me. She tells the dudes to stop hurting us and says her chant, blowing the entire roof off. In the end, we end up building the tower on the island that the aliens landed on with my recommendation. Heh. I remember that's when Raven told me I was kinda funny."

Arella wasn't really listening completely. What he had just said was completely irrelevant, but Arella had seen the way he smiled when she mentioned that first say. But now, it was back to her story.

"And after that, you banded together. Five heroes became one team. All was well on the outside for my daughter, but on the inside, Raven's mind heard the monks of Azarath's voices repeating over and over in her head every second of every hour of every day. She knew what she was capable of, and she was able to lose control at the drop of a hat. So she continued to distance herself. She tried to avoid her destiny at all costs. To her, the only way to protect her friends was not allowing them to grow too attached of her. But, you still did. When that fateful day came around the corner, Raven did all she could, but she couldn't escape her destiny. She was forced to try to leave your team, but you wouldn't let her. Thankfully, after all was done, my daughter was able to return to you the way she had been before. But because of the distance she made between the rest of you, she still felt as if she couldn't make up for it. She kept the barriers up out of habit."

Beast Boy listened intently. So that was why she wouldn't let herself become close to anyone. She was scared. Scared that she'd end up hurting someone. The last time Raven had been afraid, but wouldn't admit it, was when they watched "Wicked Scary". She was afraid, but she wouldn't admit it. All of the monsters in the movie had come to life through Raven's powers unintentionally because the emotion had found another way out…

And that's when everything clicked.

Beast Boy sprung to his feet suddenly. "The reason why Raven is so dangerous right now with her emotions is because she won't admit what she feels! Raven feels… something for me, but she's afraid that if she does, and she acts on it, she'll end up hurting me! But, the thing is, she's harming herself even more by keeping it to herself and denying it! Now I understand!"

Arella put her hand on the changeling's shoulder and got to her feet. She gave him a very satisfied nod. "The others may think of you as a mediocre thinker, but you are indeed very bright. That is correct. The emotion that Raven now feels for you is love, dear child. And if I am not mistaken, you feel the same way."

Beast Boy smiled larger than he had ever smiled before. Even larger than the pictures in him photo album.

"Raven and I have already been through so much. She and I have both been betrayed and heartbroken. But that kind of makes us understand each other even more. Even though we've pushed and pulled each other and got on each other's nerves, Raven's always been there to listen when no one else would. Maybe in the past, things weren't like they are now. But right now, I love her. There I said it. I love her! And Arella, if you're right, she loves me too."

Arella smiled, satisfied with his answer. What she had told Raven was true. The feeling was mutual. "Turn and look into the water, Garfield."

Beast Boy turned.

There in the water was his reflection. But, the most beautiful girl in the world to him had her head on his shoulder, all the previous worries of the world gone from her eyes. The actual Beast Boy could almost feel her head resting there. He turned to Arella with wide, sparkling eyes.

"I have to tell her."

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There you go, fellow readers. Chapter 14 is done, and hopefully, so is my writer's block. I got a lot of the inspiration from watching "Go". The reason I put that all in there was to show you guys the automatic chemistry BB and Rae had.

Beast Boy loves Raven.

Raven loves Beast Boy.

Is the story over? Oh no. It's not over yet. I'm planning somewhere around 2 more chapters. SO PLEASE KEEP READING.

Special thanks to everyone who gave me ideas for this chapter. I tried to add them in, and hopefully, I got it right.

PLEASE REVIEW! :D

With tons and tons and TONS of love, Liz.

(AKA, flightlessraven.)