As Beast Boy stared at Robin's bedroom door from outside he couldn't help but feel like all this was pointless. He knew that Robin would probably forgive him, that wasn't what worried him. It was Raven he was afraid of. It was going to take a miracle for her to forgive him. But first things first, he had to apologize to Robin, only after that would he think about how many years it was going to take to convince Raven to forgive him.
He knocked on the door and it opened to reveal Starfire, who seemed to be waiting for a reason to his visit.
"Umm… Is Robin there?" He asked scratching the back of his head.
She turned around but did not move from the door, he saw Robin sitting down on the edge of his bed, he still looked pissed off. Only when he nodded did Starfire move from the door, although before she left she gave him an encouraging smile. He walked up to him. Robin did not get up or even say anything, so Beast Boy went straight to the point.
"I am SO sorry for punching you earlier, it will never happen again."
Robin just stared at him unconvinced, he even raised his eyebrow like saying 'That's it?' Beast Boy could tell he had to do better.
"Okay, I'm really really sorry…. you were right, I'm one of the dumbest guys in this world, but I swear that it will never happen again. I promise."
After a few seconds of silence Robin finally nodded and accepted his apology. They shook hands and even made a joke or two about the whole thing. However, before Beast Boy left Robin reminded him: "You know that if Raven doesn't forgive you that I'll have no other choice but to take you out of the team anyway, right?"
His ears dropped, but he nodded. He left the room thinking 'I hope your plan works, Cyborg.' As he headed towards the living room he saw Starfire who was staring at him, waiting for a reaction. Beast Boy gave her a thumbs up and she smiled, she was pleased to see that their friends had fixed things up.
While Beast Boy was apologizing to Robin, Cyborg went to talk to Raven. Well… TRIED to talk to Raven. Cyborg knew that Raven would be in no mood to talk with him, or anybody for that matter. And he hated being in the middle of other peoples relationships, but this time he would have to make an exception for Beast Boy. He knocked on the door.
Raven wasn't meditating, or reading a book, or crying. She had her hood up, and was simply staring at the floor, trying to calm herself. Raven heard someone knocking on the door. She decided to ignore it; hopefully he or she would leave. But whoever it was knocked again.
"Raven, it's me, Cyborg. I want to talk to you." He said from outside.
If it had been Beast Boy she probably would've just ignored him until he left. But the fact it was Cyborg caught her off guard.
"I'm not going to open the door, so whatever you want to say, say it."
"I think that if you really love Beast Boy you should forgive him."
'WHAAAT?' She thought to herself. Not only was that one of the stupidest things she ever heard, it was Cyborg who said it. She was furious. She ran up to the door and saw Cyborg:
"It's none of your business what I decide to do." She said angrily.
"Oh I know, Rae. And, believe me; I hate this as much as you do. But you should still forgive him." He said waving his hands.
She was getting even more furious by the second.
"Why? Why SHOULD I forgive him?"
"Because it's something he can't control…"
"What CAN'T he control? How much of a jerk he is? How dumb he is? I'm supposed to accept that he's an immature jerk just because I love him?" At this point she was crying again, but she was ready to smack Cyborg if he didn't answer her correctly.
"It's not immaturity what made Beast Boy do what he did, its fear of losing you."
Again, this answer caught her off guard. "But I've proven to him I love him, I've shared with him things I never thought I could share with anyone. And this is how he shows me that he trusts me?"
"YOU have, but the only other person he has ever loved didn't."
And with that Raven stopped crying, the image of Terra and how much he had hurt Beast Boy was flashing on her mind. She sat on the ground, with her back against the wall and continued to cry. Cyborg sat on the ground next to her and put his hand on her shoulder.
"You've got to understand, Raven. The only other person he loved abandoned him for something he didn't do, crushing his heart. Then she came back and Beast Boy fell in love with her again, only to be betrayed, his heart was broken for a second time. And finally, when she redeems herself she turns in to stone and later disappears, crushing his heart for a third time." He paused for a minute and the continued. "It took a lot of time and someone very special for him to fall in love again, but he is still afraid of being heartbroken for a fourth time."
Raven calmed down and took a deep breath.
"Thanks, Cyborg."
"Yeah well… don't get used to it." He said with a smile as he got up. "From her on, you two fix your own problems, you hear?" She got up and gave him a smile before he left towards the living room.
The thirty minutes Cyborg had said to wait had passed and Beast Boy was in front of Raven's door. He took a deep breath and raised his hand to knock but the door opened before he could. He stared at Raven which, much to his surprise, didn't seem mad. She had that emotionless expression on her face she usually had. Beast Boy didn't know what to say, luckily Raven did:
"We need to talk." She said in her monotone voice. Beast Boy nodded and went in the room.
"We talked for hours and reached an agreement." She looked with a grin on her face at her daughter, who was listening to everything like if it were a romance novel. "He would never, ever doubt of my love for him… and would make me breakfast every morning."
Paine looked at her mother in shock. "Is that why Dad always makes us breakfast?" Paine asked.
Raven nodded with an evil grin on her face. "And he will keep making it."
Paine laughed. "So, did you two ever have any other arguments because of jealousy?"
Raven acted like she had to think about it and said: "Nope, that was the only time we argued because one of us was jealous." Which was a lie, they had argued plenty of times because of jealousy, but she didn't say anything because in the other arguments it was HER who had been the jealous one (but that's another story).
Raven left Paine's room happy to see her daughter a lot calmer than when she went in. As soon as she had left, the phone rang and Paine answered it. It was Eric.
"Eric, are you alright? Where are you?" She asked worried.
"Relax Paine, I'm home and, besides a black eye and some bruises, I'm fine." Eric answered with his usual optimistic and happy tone.
"What about Oscar?"
"He's okay too. We talked it out and he apologized. He told me he was going to pay you a visit. So he should be there pretty soon."
"Really? You forgave him?" Paine asked surprised.
"Yeah… It's no big deal."
They talked for a few more minutes and when they finished talking she thought: 'Well… he IS cute.'
The End
This story ended with too many chapters in my opinion. I've had little time lately to write, which has made my chapters shorter and with even less description than I would've liked.
The good news is that the first chapter for my third story (Title: And a Happy New Year; Where Robin will be the main protagonist 0_0. But there will still be plenty of BBxRae moments) will soon be up so be on the lookout.
Thank you for reading, I hope you've enjoyed it.
