I do not own the Teen Titans.
Beast Boy P.O.V.
She was scared there was no doubt about it, but she also seemed kind of mad at the same time. Did she really hate me that much? What exactly happened with the incident? The look in her eye told me if I mentioned that day again she would throw me out the window, and as I haven't shifted in 5 years and I am 15 stories up, I don't think that it would be good for my health. At least Raven was willing to talk at all, that's more than I usually get from her.
Where do I start? There was so much I wanted to know. Now that I found my Rae I don't think I will ever let her out of my sight again. She took my silence as an opportunity to break the spell that she had on herself. Her hair changed back to purple and her skin became grayer Even her eyes underneath the glasses turned back to their original violet, she took the spectacles off and placed it next to the mirror. As she took of her hood I gasped and stared at her open mouthed. She had on her old uniform and did it fit like a glove or what. I could see every curve, with her flat stomach with the belly button visible due to my animal senses. She was beautiful she had only grown more so over the years, she looked less childlike. I looked up at her face and noticed for the first time that it was thinner and angular, her lips had grown more full.
She reached into her backpack and took out her cloak before taking off the baggy jeans and putting the hood up, blocking her full face from my view, I didn't like it. "Uh uh, Rae. You will not be able to hide under your cloak this time, please put the hood back down, I want to be able to look you in the eye with no shadows blocking my view." She swallowed and took down the hood, clearly nervous about showing herself in her uniform again.
"Then can you please stop staring at me like that? It's reminds me of an animal hunting it's prey." Raven winced at her own words, clearly something happened the day of the incident that she did not want to share.
"Sorry I did not mean to stare, its just that we all didn't know what happened to you. What have you been doing these past five years? Seriously Rae, a doctor? Shouldn't you be like 30 to be one?" She smirked at my stupidity, probably glad that she was on familiar ground with me. Me being stupid, and her being a genius.
"It doesn't really matter what age you are, just that you are smart enough to pass the courses. Yes I am working on my second PhD now. I went to Brazil for a year to master my powers and find out more about my kind and my father. That's why all my belongings aren't shattered right now. I am also still in the hero business, I even worked with Nightwing for a while, he just didn't no it was me. He tried his hardest to figure out who it was though."
"I think that I heard about this from him. Seriously that was you? Didn't you scare all the prisoners that escaped from the prison so badly that they all couldn't move? There was like 500 prisoners there! How the heck did you do it? Nightwing was obsessed about finding you to thank whoever did that, he wouldn't have been able to handle it without you."
She shrugged like it was no big deal. "It wasn't that hard. All I had to do was show them my full demonic side and they couldn't stop shaking like a leaf and turned paler than me." Had I seen this demonic side? I had seen a little bit of it when she scared Dr. Light but was that her demon side full on. Probably not. Did I even want to know about it or see it? Again, no, the prisoners were still in therapy. They haven't tried to escape since.
But she still had not answered the big question that was on my mind. "Why did you just disappear Raven? I missed you so much, we all missed you. We didn't even know if you were still alive."
The calm that she had had a few moments before was now gone, replaced by a defeated and scared look. She wasn't going to tell me, that much was obvious. Maybe I could get her calm again because now she was trembling. "Sorry I won't ask that again. Can we pretend like I didn't ask that? I want to be friends again Rae, you look like you could use a friend too. Can I ask a different question?" She took a deep breath and nodded her head. "How the heck did you get so rich? How much money do you have anyway? Do you even have a job?"
She look relived that I kept my and did not ask about her running away again. "I don't have a job, except for tutoring. I am the princess of a former planet and I am good in the stock market." She was a princess? There was so much that I did not know about her.
"What is your full name? I never really thought to ask you. Some friend I am, I don't even know your name." She gave a sympathetic small smile at my attempt to make things lighter in the room.
"It's Rachel Roth. Do you have any more questions or can I go now? I don't want to have to cancel the session. I will just magically put you in the french video, I will even make your accent not perfect and sound like you." Was there anything more that I wanted to ask her? Now that my outburst was over I didn't really know what to say. She just left me there in the room and entered a room that looked like a kitchen with all black cabinets and furniture. She came back out with a cup of tea in her hand. "Huh. Usually I can't get you to shut up."
"I actually do have three more easy questions."
"Okay, care to elaborate?"
"Why are you taking french one if you are clearly ahead of the class? Will you see the rest of the team with me? Will you run away from us again the second I am not looking your way?"
"Because I want to add a tenth language to my list and I thought the kids would be smarter. No, I don't want anyone to know that I am still around. And yes, I will. You know me to well and I like to stay unknown."
She was dead serious when she said all of this, I had no doubt that she was going to follow through. The problem was I didn't want that to happen. "Than you are never going to leave my sight." She cocked an eyebrow and her head to the side, surprised at my words.
"You can't watch me forever. I am easy to lose in the shadows." She tossed me one of the keys from a hook on the wall. "Give this to the doorman and he will give you a car that you can use to get back." Raven snapped her fingers and her appearance as a human resurfaced. Then she sunk into the shadows before I could even get a word in. Yes she was going to be tricky to keep an eye on, that was certain. But it was also certain that I would not lose my Raven again. Not this time.
