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TEN

Mind Games

He stood in front of the huge metal door, his small frame confident against the enormous entrance before him, for it was no obstacle. As the door slid open, what little light that was in the corridor fled as deep shadows emerged and seemed to pull the boy through the doorway and into the room. Undaunted by the darkness, he stepped in and gave a cheerful, if rather smug, nod to the girl in the navy cloak who was glaring at him.

"You made a promise," he said, as though the four words had enough power to stop her from leaping across the room and throttling his neck. But they did; they called to mind in both heads the memory of that sunny day when he had finally persuaded her to take up a video game challenge. They had made a bet, which she had lost, and now he had come to claim his prize.

Beast Boy headed to the dresser and picked up the intricate hand mirror resting innocently on it. "I'll be quick," he told the girl, who still looked as though she was regretting the entire thing.

"Just don't do so much damage."

He looked deep into the mirror and then his reflection was gone and something tugged at his shoulders. He went diving headfirst into the mirror, and the bumpy ride into Nevermore was pretty much the same as the last except now there was no half-teen, half-robot with him.

She was there to meet him in the place with red stars and dark asteroids cruising through some far distant space; her pink cloak ruffled gently although there seemed to be no breeze, and the smile on her cheeks lit up her purple eyes. He couldn't help smiling too. "Hey," she said, like it was the most natural thing in the world.

They talked about everything and anything as she walked him away from the tiny black crows with red eyes to the huge stone doorway, beyond which lay a brilliant landscape of yellow sky, pink grass and flowers. There was Raven, at his side, smiling and laughing at his jokes. And when she finally gave him a hug before disappearing in a cloud of pink just past the stone arch they'd crossed, he still remembered the girlish laughter that had escaped her lips and it hung like a song in the air around him.

The day passed by very quickly after that: he'd let her cry on his shoulder until it was his uniform that turned sopping wet while her grey robes stayed dry. He made a daisy chain for her to cheer her up, and just before he finished it she disappeared, but he was so sure he had seen the tiniest of smiles on her face.

He had great fun sparring with green-cloaked Raven, who knew all the cool moves and who taught them to him without hesitation. And, when he'd suggested that they take a joyride on a black energy disc, she immediately made one and sent them zooming around the air so recklessly they crashed onto the grass and rolled around in it in a tangle of arms and legs, hooting and yelling like hooligans. When Beast Boy picked himself up from the grass, she had gone.

He tried briefly to calm the red-cloaked Raven down, but her anger was much too strong for him to turn it into anything positive, and when the bespectacled version of her strolled up to him and made the remark, "You won't get a smile out of her anytime soon," he gratefully left the red and followed the yellow instead, and they went off to sit on a large rock, where she told him amazing stories he'd never heard before. He listened in rapture, and remembered every single word that she said. Before she left, she gave him a serious nod, and said, "You were a very nice listener."

The words were still ringing in his head when he came across the slouched figure of another Raven, floating horizontally in mid air, sleeping. He spent 15 minutes waking her up, and managed to convince her to levitate him as well so they could hover in the air together. After casting the spell, she went right back to sleep and no matter how hard he tried to get her to talk to him, she just would not wake up.

He spent the last few hours playing games with the one that reminded him of a child, and finally, when the pink-robed Raven came up to him to tell him that his time was up, none of him wanted to leave at all. But he picked himself up and followed the pink cloak back through the colourful meadow and into the darkness of the landscape he'd landed in when he first came through the mirror.

"I had a great time," he stuttered, feeling like they had reached the end of a weird but beautiful date.

"Me too. You have to come back again sometime, no matter what I say," she said, and suddenly leaned forward and wrapped her arms around him in a quick embrace.

A black claw was coming down from the sky – his ride back to the Tower.

"Wait! How come I didn't see –" As was lifted up, he shouted out the only question that had been running through his head the entire day, and below him Raven smiled again, sending his heart to the heavens.

"Ask me later!" she shouted back.

So when he was back on solid ground in Raven's room, with the girl in dark blue gazing bemusedly at him, he scratched his head and posed the question in its entirety.

"Hey, Raven? How come I didn't see your… I mean, I looked everywhere but I couldn't find the romantic version of you."

The side of her mouth lifted in a sly grin as she picked up the mirror in her hands and studied it.

"Oh, really? But she was here the whole time!"

And later in his room, he realized that when she had said that, she had been looking at her own reflection.

A/N: Hmm… I thought it would be fun to have Beast Boy go back into Raven's mind. Hope you enjoyed this update. It's strange but I seem to be getting a trickle of ideas for this piece of fiction, which is more than I can say for my other Teen Titans story. Anyway, thanks to all who reviewed the previous chapter.

beautifulpurpleflame – Thank you for reviewing! I'm glad the entry made sense… I think I wanted it to make sense most of all.

Brig.Seth – I doubt you'll be reading this because you reviewed the fourth story, but thanks for the review all the same!

KT – Thank you! Err… first kiss? Hmm… somehow the thought of young animated characters kissing turns me off. But I'll think about it!

El Queso de Malicioso – Hello! Well, better late than never I say. Glad you enjoy reading these oneshots and I hope you like the latest one.

AureliusXsoul – Hmm. Yeah, I can't believe you missed a chapter. But oh well, glad you liked it and reviewed all the same! Actually, if you have ideas and don't mind someone else messing with them because you don't have the time to write them out, I'd love to work on them (sad or not!). If you'd like to work on them yourself, however, I totally understand.

Hmm, yeah, I just realized that Beast Boy headed back to the Tower in that last episode. But oh well, perhaps he changed his mind in the night and slipped out? Haha… anything could have happened!

acosta perez jose ramiro – Yes, I definitely prefer Raven and Beast Boy, although Raven and Aqualad did cross my mind because of all the hearts she had around her during that episode… I think it was Deep Six?

silverxpearls – Yes, that's exactly what I wanted: sweet and sad. Thank you for reviewing!

Well, I thought I had an idea but I haven't got round to writing it down yet, so I can't place an exact date for an update.

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