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Jinx was ecstatic as she skipped the rest of the way to her apartment. She arrived at the door faster than any person would if they were sprinting. Her hood fell off as she typed in the security code and jiggled the doorknob. The guys were, probably, already asleep so no one was around to notice her strange behavior. She hummed as she reset the security alarms and bounced to the elevator. As the elevator slid down to the fourth level basement floor she exclaimed, "Ah, what a wonderful night!" Nothing could get her down from the high she was on. Her thoughts did not stray from the empath, "She looked good tonight... wonder if she would consider... NAH! There's no way..." She continued to roll the thoughts around. She stopped when the elevator doors parted to reveal Kyd Wykkyd standing in front of her room. "Hey Kyd!" she greeted in a bubbly tone. "Oh crap! I'm too happy... Well it's not like he's gonna tell anyone."

Kyd raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, I went down to that place with the awesome cake. Why wouldn't I be happy?"

Kyd continued to stare and shook his head; then he cocked his head slightly to the left.

Jinx understood the unspoken question and blushed as she nervously answered, "Y- Yes. I meet someone." She hoped that was the last of the questions.

Kyd rolled his right hand around, then toward her. She caught the gesture and it's meaning, 'go on...'

She stormed to Kyd and growled, "Why am I telling you this?"

Kyd smiled. It took Jinx a moment, but she realized he was saying, 'Cause I wont blab!'

Jinx sighed as she leaned up against the hallway and rubbed her temples, "Why are you here Kyd? You should be in bed."

She looked up and saw Kyd look at her critically; she took the look for one of concern.

She smiled, "I appreciate the thought, but I can take care of myself." Kyd shook his head and Jinx started to protest, "I can too! I used to lead this team, remember? Besides, she was nice-" She stopped mid sentence as Kyds' head whipped around to look at her. "Yes, I said she." Jinx looked down in embarrassment. When she looked up she saw Kyd leaning on the wall in a fit of silent laughter that would have mad a mime envious. She slapped him, "Stop laughing!" But this made his fit worse. It took many minutes of Jinx pummeling him to calm him down.

He stood up straight and looked at her seriously; she looked away, "I- I'm not sure if it's serious. I mean, I like her, but I don't think she feels the same way."

Kyd place his hand beneath her chin and swiveled her head to look at him. Jinx could read his eyes. 'Do you really want her?'

"I- I'm not sure."

Kyd lowered his hand and pointed to her and then put his fist in the opposing palm, "If she hurts you, I hurt her!'

Jinx shook her head, "Even if it comes to that I don't want her hurt."

Kyd nodded and pointed to her heart, 'Guard yourself.'

"I will." she smiled and they embraced, "Thanks Kyd." she murmured before they parted. She continued down the hallway and turned, "Oh, Kyd..." Kyd turned back to her. "Don't tell anyone okay?"

Kyd gave her a dorky thumbs up, 'No prob.' before he warped out of the hallway and, supposedly, into his room.

Jinx sighed, "If only the rest of the team was as supportive as him... Oh well." She entered her room and changed into her underclothes before plopping onto her pink covered mattress. "Raven didn't push me away, but that doesn't mean she feels the same..." the thoughts kept storming her head and kept her from much needed sleep. "Ah, screw this!" she threw her comforter and sheets to the side to enter the connecting bathroom. She went through her mirror cabinet that was filled with antibiotics and found what she was looking for. Sleeping pills. She dry swallowed them and went to her bed. Her thoughts were getting fuzzy already. "Raven... I hope I'm giving you as much trouble to sleep as you are me..." her mind completely blanked and she fell into a wondrous sleep. One that would put all other hours she spent unconscious to shame.

Roaring. Growling. Humming. Shifting trees. A scream. Blood thirsty cries of the hunt. This filled the mind of the apex predator as he roamed the wilderness. He encountered many creatures, all of them green... similar to his own color. He parted the fronds in front of him to reveal an open cage in a clearing; this put all of his senses on high alert. It was out. How did this happen? When did it happen? The green raptor did nothing, but analyze the cage and the surroundings for a few minutes. Then he heard it. A crashing noise coming closer and bellow of anger; from a creature that had no equal. Even the raptor knew when it was outmatched, but it stood its ground to wait for the freak of nature. There was silence. Movement to his left alerted him to the presence of the Beast, but he could not dodge it in time before it tackled him. The raptor landed on the ground with the best pinning him down. The raptor hissed, "Why?"

The Beast looked at his cornered prey and growled, "Because you are changing Little Beast."

The raptor stopped and gazed at the Beast. The raptor cocked its head to the side and gave a bird-like chirp, "You can understand me?"

A rumbling could be heard as the beast set himself away from the raptor; he was chuckling, "Of course Green One. All here speak the language of the wilderness. We are no exception."

The raptor got up and distanced itself from the beast he growled, "Why are you out? Who let you out?"

The Beast growled angrily, "I am a part of you! I am not meant to be in a cage! Embrace me, and you will come closer to knowing your true self!" The Beast huffed proudly; pride at what part of the Green Changling he represented.

"Never!" The raptor shook its head in rejection. "The day I embrace you, is the day that I willingly hurt my friends. I'll never let that happen!"

"Is it?" The Beasts' sudden question threw off the changling. "Am I really evil? I helped you when you face that girls' demonic father. I also helped you to save that same girl before that!" He pounded a clawed hand against the earth. "Do you truly reject a part of who you are? Do you know all the potential that you possess? Do not let your own desires be clouded. You need this. YOU NEED ME!"

The raptor snarled indignantly, "NO! I don't need you!" The raptor tackled the Beast and swiped it with a claw, "And I don't have a clouded mind!" He slashed again and kicked the Beast away, "And I already know what I want!" He rushed the Beast again and ducked a backhand. The young changling kicked the Beast repeatedly and drew him closer to the cage. "And I don't care that I can't have her!" The Beast swayed a moment, looking dizzy. "I WILL PROTECT HER!" With that the raptors' tail whipped the beast back into the cage. The door closed and locked.

The beast glared out through the bars and huffed, "Fine... But what about the others?"

The young raptor looked confused and cocked its head, "Others? What others?"

This received another rumbling laugh from the Beast, "Come now... Do you think I was the only one who would cause trouble?" He leaned up to the bars and gripped the cage, "No. Everything you are is in here... all the instincts of every animal that you've known to exist are here... Will you cage them all? Or will Instinct conquer you?"

The noises that seemed far away in the forest moved in closer and soon the young changling found himself surrounded by eyes, the rest of their forms were covered by the dark forest. The raptor jumped on top of the cage in the middle of the clearing and snarled menacingly, "Bring it!"

Animals of all shapes and sizes roared around him; the noise was nearly deafening. They all charged out into the clearing and the lone raptor looked up to the sky in forlorn hope, giving one last cry to the sky before darkness overtook the world.

Beast Boy woke up. Jolting into a sitting position in a hot sweat. He panted for a few moments and glanced at the clock: 2:30. he sighed and got out of bed. He looked at his shaking palms, "I'm not safe to be around anymore... I need to get away." He was about to start packing, but heard some footsteps approach his room. He shoved the half-filled pack under his bed.

The door opened to reveal Raven, "Beast Boy, you okay?" She was dressed in civie attire. That was the first noticeable thing. The second was that she was holding a tea cup.

"Drinking tea at this time of night?" Beast Boy would never understand her habits.

She looked down a the tea cup; then back at him, "This is water. I got a tea cup out of habit. And you still didn't answer my question."

He gestured to his desk seat as he plopped on the bottom bunk bed, "Yea- No I'm not fine... I'm just going through a rough... change." She sat and quirked her eyebrow up as she set her cup down. Before she could get in a word he protested, "It's not puberty! I swear!"

Raven smirked, but replied seriously, "So what is it? Your primal side?" She saw the changlings' shocked expression, "I'm guessing that's a yes."

Beast Boy shook his head, "How do you do it Raven?"

"Do what?"

BB looked up, "Control your powers? I mean I know how, I've been inside your head," this comment received a glare from her before BB continued nervously, "but I could never understand how you don't let things... you know, get out of control."

Raven was shocked, she didn't think Beast Boy paid that much attention to know much about her. "Um..." she coughed and found the right words, "Well, you've seen me lose control remember? I'm not perfect."

Beast Boy shifted through his memories, "Oh yeah." he chuckled, "You still scare Doctor Light a lot."

She smiled at that, but then frowned. "Beast Boy, whatever's bothering you... You know you can tell me right?"

BB reached over and patted Ravens' shoulder, "Relax, it's not that big of a deal." He leaned back and stiffened, "Wait... Why are you still up and why did you come here?"

"I need to leave." she got up and was bolting for the door, but BB got there first. "Move."

He shook his head, grinning like a Cheshire cat, "Nuh uh. Not until you tell me what's goin' on. I trusted you so you should trust me."

Raven sighed and fell into the chair, to exhausted to use her powers. "Fine, you win." BB jumped in victory and sat on his bed. "But I want to make a deal."

He leaned forward eagerly, "What kind?"

"I keep shut about you and you keep shut about me."

"Deal."

She rubbed her temples, "Where to begin... Well, I went to my favorite tea shop and ordered the usual."

"What the usual?" she glared at him, "Sorry." he rubbed the back of his neck nervously.

"Anyway... I was enjoying my usual and the silence, when a girl with a pink hoody walked in and ordered something, but she had to wait for it." She quirked up an eyebrow when the changling didn't interrupt her and continued, "The tables needed to be repaired, so she sat with me in the only booth. We talked a bit and ate the cake she ordered-"

"What kind of cake was it?" she didn't glare when he interrupted.

She smirked, "Angel food cake. I talked with her a bit when we left the diner and parted ways when she headed to her apartment. She was surprisingly entertaining."

"So let me get this straight... You ordered the usual." he ticked it off on a finger.

"Yep."

"Saw a pink hooded girl and talked with her."

"Two for two."

"Interrogated her before the cake arrived."

"You're deductions astound me." BB ignored the sarcasm.

"Realized that Jinx wasn't up to anything bad and ate cake with her."

"Uh hu- Wait! How'd you know?"

"And finally separated from said ex-criminal after you walked down an alley and she teased you."

"B- But-"

BB waved her off, "Don't bother, I can read between fact and fiction... You really can't lie that well when you blush. Oh, and you gave her away with the hoody color."

"I thought you were too dense to figure it out... I'll need to be more careful around you."

"Yep."

"And how, in your hormonal driven mind, do you think she teased me?" She regretted the question as soon as she asked it. But BB could see that she wanted to know how he knew so much.

He shrugged, "Maybe she straightened your hair... Or whipped some left over cake off your face." Raven grew redder. "Judging by the look on your face I'm guessing the second."

"Alright! That's enough." She got up, "Thanks for listening."

"No prob," he leaned back into his bed and yawned. "Don't worry, my lips are sealed as long as yours are."

Raven looked back at him; as she closed the door, "Don't worry. Your secret's safe with me." BB yawned again and got under the covers.

Then he remembered why he was up in the first place, "Crap, I was gonna leave." He yawned and his thoughts grew hazy. "I can't leave, they need me... if worst of to worst I always have that room." He rolled over and drifted into a more contented slumber than his previous one.

Raven smirked and sprinted down the hallway to her room. She quietly opened the doors and found her green cloak and leotard where she left them. She gazed at the sleeping form on the bed while she dressed herself. She had a smile plastered to her face, "Finally, some action... not the kind I would have liked, but still. Time to report!" She finished and touched the mirror on the wardrobe. She was sucked in and landed in the middle of a field of flowers. "Happy?" she called.

"Over here!" Brave looked in the direction of the cheery reply and saw a pink cloaked Raven waving her over to sit with the rest of the emoticlones. Brave took her seat near Knowledge. "Alrighty then sweeties, let's begin!"

Knowledge turned to Brave, "What did you learn?"

Brave cleared her throat, "Well BB is one hell of a crazy guy!" If Raven were there instead of me..." she whistled at the thought, "Not pretty."

"So you think he has courage?"

"I know he has courage. He knows what happened tonight."

Happy leaped and started doing cartwheels, "Woo hoo!" she jumped back into her seat.

Brave looked back at Knowledge, "I know I'm the best actress of all of us, but why'd he have to know?" Brave wasn't afraid of the little green guy knowing, she was honestly curious.

"It's imperative that someone knows. This will make the transition much easier."

Love spoke up for the first time, "We picked him because there has been a disturbance around him for the past few weeks. Raven has not sensed it, but we have; because we are the embodiment of her emotions."

"Why should that make a difference?" Sloth asked while picking her ear.

"Try doing that with a pointy stick." suggested Brave.

"Meh. Too much work."

"EW!" exclaimed Happy, "You need some manners. Ever since you and Rude merged-"

"SHUT UP!" bellowed Anger. "Love, continue before I feast on the entrails of these idiots."

Love cleared her throat and nodded her thanks to Anger, "We all are sensitive to strong emotions that surround Raven and since Beast Boy seems to be struggling with some inner turmoil he was chosen."

Knowledge nodded her assent, "Correct, shared information between the two could lead to mutual benefit."

Brave rubbed her hands eagerly, "Does that mean we get to hit stuff?"

Anger huffed, "No, it just means more changes for our hosts' emotional state."

"Aw..." whined Brave. Then she brightened, "At least we have her to look forward to."

Happy grinned from ear to ear, "YEA!" She started doing acrobatics with Brave and both started to sing:

Ravy and Jinxy sitting on a stone.

how many kisses can we get

before we go home?

One so sweet.

Two is a feat.

Three is a great, great treat!

The other emotions sighed at the two who would no longer take part in the meeting. "Well," spoke up Lust, "I don't know about you all by I need to get some."

The other emotions, with the exception of Happy and Brave yelled, "LUST!"

The black cloaked emotion raised her hand in surrender, "Alright! I'm gone." she faded to her zone of the mindscape.

"We should all depart." spoke Love, "She may be asleep, but if we're more active she could wake up suspecting something is amiss.

Knowledge nodded, "Agreed." She faded into he zone.

"Finally!" exclaimed Sloth, "I can get back to all the nothing I had planned." She yawned and faded into her zone.

A few other departed before Anger said, "This plan is stupid. There's not a snowballs chance in hell this could work! Why'd we tell the little green bastard?" Anger was venting.

Love walked up to her and ignored the revelry of the other two remaining. She cupped Angers' face with a hand, "Anger, you know this had to be done."

Anger looked away, "I suppose..."

"Good girl." she kissed Angers' cheek and Anger grumbled, as only Anger could, and faded to her zone.

Happy and Brave finally noticed that almost everyone had left, "Where'd they go?" inquired Happy. "Things were just starting to get fun."

"Yeah!" agreed Brave.

Love shook her head, "It's time we all headed to our homes." She came forward and kissed Happys' cheek. "We'll meet again soon Happy."

Happy beamed with enthusiasm, "Okay, can't wait!"

"Hey," Brave interrupted the two, "Don't I get one? You know, for the road."

Love smiled, "But of course, I am Love after all." She approached Brave and was about to peck her on the cheek, but Brave had other ideas. She pulled against Loves' neck and locked lips with the other emotion. Happy stared with, well happiness, as she watched the two. When they broke away both were breathless. "Wow." was all Love could get out.

Brave winked, "Later." she faded into her zone.

Love looked at Happy, "That was a mistake, I am not Lust."

Happy shook her head, "No, your Love and that's why we like you."

Love wrapped Happy in a hug and whispered, "Thank you." She faded into her zone. All was now quite and tranquil in Nevermore. Raven tossed and turned on her bed, little the wiser to the plan her emoticlones had set in motion. She sighed contentedly at the dream she was having. Anything of traitorous intent could wait. She was lost in her dream world, a dream of pink minxes and tasty strawberries.

Ah, the plot thickens! I was trying to project Love as a serene caring person... Did I do okay? Leave me a comment and tell me please! I actually started this chapter in a different direction, but I remembered Nevermore and the story flowed from my fingertips without my knowledge! I thought this would be challanging, don't get me wrong it is! But it seems like it comes easier as I go... I hope I'm appeasing my faithful readers...