So here it is, the chapter I was stuck on, I would post it last except it specifically have to come second or third. I couldn't even think about writing the last chapter without finishing this one. Oh God Raven is so out of character in this chapter I feel horrible. Beast Boy's a little out of character too, but if you think about it, the whole point of his personality is that he's hiding the fact that he's really broken up about his parents' deaths.
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, just my OC Nix and a really weird obsession.
Beast Boy woke up the next morning around 6:30. Usually he slept in, but he had had some trouble sleeping the night before, mostly because of Starfire's yelling at the group of arguing teens. She was completely in the right to do it, but it still scared him. He sighed and got off of the top bunk of his bed. Today he'd have to spend a whole day with Raven, a fact that any other day he'd be perfectly fine with, but today not so much. The fact that she just assumed certain information about him after knowing him for years just pissed him off.
'Well if Rae thinks I'm annoying all the time, why don't I show her how annoying I can be?' He thought mischievously to himself. It was the perfect plan, once she saw how truly annoying he could be, she'd realize she was wrong and have to apologize to him. 'Hehe, time to go into stealth mode.' With that thought, he turned into a fly and flew down the hall towards a certain empath's room.
When he reached her door he had to squeeze through one of the cracks between her door and the wall, and upon entering the room he saw Raven, asleep, cuddling a giant stuffed chicken…yeah, he was not expecting that. He was expecting Raven to be wide awake, meditating. Not asleep, hair disheveled, blankets hanging off the side of the bed, cuddling a chicken he'd won her at a fair five years ago. To top it all off she looked kinda cold, feeling bad for his teammate Beast Boy changed back into his human form and went to cover her in at least one of her blankets. Then another thing he didn't expect happened, Raven woke up.
At first she looked confused, why was Beast Boy in her room so early. Then she realized, Beast Boy was in her room early, she sleeps with the chicken he won her years ago. Raven, in an out of character moment, threw the chicken to the other side of the room, then regaining her calm composure, grabbed Beast Boy by the collar and pulled his face closer to hers so she was sure he saw her glare. "What were you just doing?" She demanded.
Beast Boy awkwardly rubbed the back of his head, "You uh…looked kind of cold, so I was fixing your blankets?" He replied, more a question than an answer.
"You're in my room; you should never be in my room." Beast Boy could tell Raven was getting mad, and it wasn't just because sparks of black energy was coming off of her fingertips. "Especially this early in the morning."
"Heh, well we do have to spend all day together." Beast Boy offered.
Raven's eyes turned red and split into four, oh she was pissed now. "Get out!" She screamed; her magic caused a few light bulbs in the hallway to explode and teleported Beast Boy out of her room. Beast Boy just stood in the hallway outside her room for a few moments, obviously his plan wasn't exactly the best, especially considering the two of them had been in an argument the night before, he also couldn't help but wonder why she was sleeping with that chicken.
After a few minutes of meditating, Raven finally calmed down. She figured since she was up she might as well go make herself some tea. When she got into the hallway she sure as hell wasn't expecting Beast Boy to still be out there.
"Beast Boy can we save all interactions until noon? I'm not in the mood right now." Raven said as she walked past him as fast as possible towards the kitchen.
"Rae we're supposed to spend the whole day together, and since we're both up the day starts now." He insisted trying to keep up with her.
Raven just rolled her eyes and when she finally got to the kitchen she started to boil some water for her tea. "Really Beast Boy, what more do we need to know about each other? We had a fight yeah, but we can wait till I'm fully awake and ready to deal with you to fix it."
Beast Boy was frustrated with her response, sure a few minutes ago his whole plan was to piss her off all day till she realized he wasn't nearly as bad as she thought he was, but now he wanted to talk it out to make sure he got his message across. He watched as Raven turned to head for the cabinet where she kept the tea leaves. Another plan came across his mind, but he decided to question Raven before going through with it. "Raven, do you honestly think I'm as annoying as you described last night?"
Raven paused for a moment and turned to look at Beast Boy. She looked like she was thinking over her words as carefully as possible before she finally responded with. "No, I don't Beast Boy…I think you're ten times worse." (A/N: Ohhhhh that was cold, insert shot of Silkie ice skating on the coldness of Raven's words here….I'm serious people, try to imagine Silkie ice skate…would he be like in one boot or would he wear two tiny ones? Oh I digress, back to the story…if you have an idea though, let me know.)
Beast Boy frowned, that wasn't the answer he wanted to hear, and now he was back to his second plan, the revised version of his first. When Raven turned her back on him and went for the tea leaves cabinet again Beast Boy went back into the form of the fly. He flew over to the cabinet and went in through the tiny crack between the two doors; he then turned back into his human self.
Raven, who hadn't noticed this occurrence, went to open the doors to the cabinet and was greeted with the full sized human Beast Boy scrunched up in a very odd position in the cabinet. His legs were up in the air touching the top of the cabinet, his upper back hit the bottom while his neck went on a diagonal so that his head was touching the right wall of the cabinet, and his arms hung lazily at his side. "I'm sorry ma'am, but your tea leaves are in another castle. I do however have a tea bag if you want one…if you know what I mean." He winked at the end of his statement.
Raven just stared at him, not a single change in her expression, granted there was a light dust of pink now forming on her grey skin, but other than that she continued to stare at him un-amused. "You're repulsive." Beast Boy rolled his eyes before taking the form of a cat and jumping out of the cabinet, after landing on the floor he changed back.
"And you can't learn to take a joke." He said, crossing his arms over his chest and glaring at her.
"My emotions are powerful things; even if your jokes were funny I wouldn't be able to laugh at them lest I wish to destroy the world."
"I don't understand how you could destroy the world, a couple of light bulbs sure, but Trigon is gone, I fail to see how your emotions could destroy the world now." Beast Boy shot back. "Plus just because you don't like my jokes doesn't mean you have to constantly throw me out of windows to get me to shut up. I'm just trying to make sure everyone else around here is happy."
"And what do you gain from that?" Raven asked as she grabbed a non-crushed tin of tea leaves she could use for her tea.
"Happiness for myself…" Beast Boy responded. Raven, who was in the process of pouring herself a cup of tea, turned to look at the green changeling. That was a part of him she'd never seen before, he looked so depressed. She wanted to comfort him, but then she heard the unmistakable sounds of Cyborg and Nix arguing as they walked up the stairs into the common room.
Raven, without thinking, grabbed Beast Boy's hand and teleported them both to the roof. "What was that for?" Beast Boy asked as soon as she let go of his hand.
"I heard Cyborg and Nix walking into the common room…I wanted…I wanted to continue our talk up here." Raven said.
"Talk about what?" Beast Boy asked, playing dumb. He walked over to the edge of the roof and sat down, Raven followed.
"A minute ago, you sounded so sad saying you gain happiness for yourself by making other people happy. You're truly not a happy person, are you Beast Boy? When I sense your emotions, there's always this dull tinge to them, like you're happy, but you're not truly happy. What's wrong?"
Beast Boy was silent for a few minutes before speaking, "Last night when I told you that if you knew anything about my family you'd know why I'm always trying to make a joke, you said that what I said didn't need a dignified response because you'd already met my family…"
"Well yes…haven't we? I mean Mento and Rita are your parents right?"
"Adoptive parents yes…my real parents are Mark and Marie Logan." Raven looked a little confused, Beast Boy had never mentioned a Mark or a Marie before, who were they, and why was he adopted?
"My parents we scientists," He started as if reading Raven's mind. "When I was young the three of us went to Africa so they could do some research. While we were there I was attacked by a green monkey, it was carrying sakutia, also known as green fever, humans can't handle it. In a matter of 24 hours I was going to die. My dad injected me with some experimental medicines he had, it saved me…but it also turned me green." Beast Boy held his hand up towards the light, looking at it like the green colored skin was new once more. "About a week later I was walking with my mom when this snake was about to attack her, I don't know how or why I knew to do this, but I transformed into a mongoose (A/N: I think it was that…I haven't read the comics in a while.) to save her. Anyways, much later they died in a boating accident, I feel like I could've saved them, but I didn't. Now my friends being happy are the only things that bring me happiness anymore."
Raven stared at him; he wasn't acting like the Beast Boy she knew. She set her tea aside and figured it was time for her to do something out of character too. She pulled him into a hug. "Don't ever believe that their deaths were your fault, you were just a child you couldn't do anything…If you ever tell anyone that I just hugged you right now, I'm throwing you out of the tower again."
Beast Boy nodded, "Now it's your turn Raven, why do you always meditate even though Trigon is gone? Also while you're at it, why do you constantly throw me out of the tower and why were you snuggling with that old stuffed chicken?" He asked, flirtatiously cocking an eyebrow at her when he reached the last question.
Raven rolled her eyes once before responding. "We defeated Trigon, yes, but that doesn't mean he can't come back. I'm the portal that's true, but he may have other offspring, therefore he may have other portals. I need to keep my emotions in check in case something goes wrong…you're jokes…as much as I don't want to admit it, can make me laugh sometimes, so in order to stop myself from destroying something, I throw something indestructible out the window…you."
"And the chicken?" Beast Boy urged.
"The chicken is a story for another day." Raven said.
"Oh c'mon Rae, I wanna know!" Beast Boy whined.
"Keep complaining and I'm throwing you off the roof." Raven said as she turned to pick up her tea and take a sip.
"Oh come on, why can't I know now?" He insisted. As Raven promised, off the roof Beast Boy went. Cyborg and Nix looked up from their game as they saw a flash of green fly past the window.
Cyborg sighed and shook his head. "When's BB ever gonna learn?"
"Probably never." Nix responded before knocking his virtual car off the virtual road in the game and continuing towards the finish line.
So yeah…that's chapter 3…probably the most out of character I've ever written Beast Boy and Raven. I am disappoint in myself. Please R&R.