Okay, so I lied. I'm procrastinating doing my homework. I'll probably end up doing it at six, when I have nothing better to do.

*EDIT* I was spot on for this. I did end up doing it at six. I'm freaking psychic. AND I'M SO SORRY! MY PARENTS TOOK ME OFF THE COMPUTER FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS!

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Chapter 6
"The Help Of A Butterfly"

I think Raven kind of had a feeling I wanted to talk to her about something. After a couple hours of my friends interrogating her, embarrassing me, and her asking them questions back with her own little fire and sarcasm (that they seemed to like) she said she was going to go take a nap and got up to leave, saying her goodbyes. I heard her shut the door and but after that I wasn't sure if she'd actually fallen asleep yet. But soon after, having no real reason to stay anymore, since we'd gotten all our talking out in Raven's presence, they left, shouting their profanities of all the things Raven and I could do, and warning me about protection as they ran out of the house. I shouted half-hearted threats after them as they ran before slamming the door shut, laughing to myself and shaking my head. I then heard someone clearing their throat and turned.

"I figured you weren't asleep," I said to Raven as I now saw her watching me from the hallway.

She nodded before walking over and sitting on the couch, waiting for me to sit next to her. So I guess she had known. I sighed before doing so, leaving a few inches of space in between us for her comfort. It was time we talked. This would take a while.

"Alright Beast Boy, what's on your mind?" She asked quietly, looking at me with concern.

I sighed again. "Raven . . . I need to talk to you . . . about you and me . . ." I couldn't look at her to see her expression. So I continued. "I mean . . . you seem to like it here . . . and I would very much like it . . . if you wanted to stay with me . . . for how long that's up to you of course!" I added hurriedly, finally looking up at her. Her eyes were unreadable. This somehow made me uneasier then before, if that was possible.

"Beast Boy . . ." She said finally, ever so quietly. Then she smiled. Just a little bit. "I would like nothing more then to stay with you."

"Really?" My ears, formerly having been slumped like a kicked puppy, now poked back up as I grinned at her. "You would?"

She nodded, "Of course." Then she looked down. "It's not like I ever really had a home back at the castle . . . this place with you . . . it's just to much better." She concluded, looking up at me and still smiling. "So yes, my answer is yes."

My grin calmed. "Are you actually tired?"

"Nope, I'm okay." Raven replied before suddenly she stretched her arms out. "Chasing Jinx wasn't that hard."

My eyes widened, "Wait, I thought you were running together."

Raven nodded, "At first, but then we started fighting and she was running or, well, dodging me."

"Oh," I smirked at her then. "So, she looked pretty beat up. How hard did you fight, Raven?"

She glared at me. "She did not. She was completely healed."

"I was talking about her clothes, Rae." I replied, then paused. "Wait, can I call you Rae?"

She shrugged, "I guess so. But . . . alright fine, I kicked her butt."

I laughed loudly at this. As far as I knew no one ever beat up Jinx. "Nice!"

She nudged my shoulder. "Oh shut up."

Jinx:

As soon as I walked into the meeting room, all eyes were on me. The kidnapping of a Titan had never happened before. I was there information pump. Starfire jumped to her feet and was in front of me in an instant.

"I haven't found anything, Starfire," I said before she could start. The false hope in her eyes died completely and she nodded, allowing my to pass. Starfire was Raven's best friend, if she knew that I actually did know where Raven was . . . I had to stop a shiver from crawling up my spine.

"Jinx?" Kid Flash said, behind me as I walked up to the podium. "Do you think Raven's okay?" He asked, quietly. I knew what he meant by think. He wanted to know if I knew where Raven was. He wanted to know if I knew. But if I told him . . . he'd be in danger.

And he knew that too.

"I hope so," I replied, giving him a look. He stared at me. So he finally knew now, I saw it in his eyes. I ignored that look for the moment before getting up on the platform. We weren't at the castle. This was way to big a gathering to fit. Even the adults the had started it were there. No, we were at Base. The Base. The place was HUGE.

"Our new potential kidnapper, Jane, gave us more information." Only read what's on the paper. Only read what's on the paper. Don't add anything. It's not like Beast Boy ever had enough of a personality around you to begin with. "Whatever it is, it isn't human." Or at least not totally human. "Our informant, Jane Patterson, made it known that it is literally a monster. It's hairy, has huge teeth, and once again, the eyes have taken a new color. This time ice blue. So that once again becomes irrelevant. It's also extremely fast and muscular." I looked up blankly from the papers. "And that's honestly all we have on this thing. It's buff, fuzzy, and fast."

Starfire looked truly disheartened and raced out of the room, Robin quietly got up and followed her out. I stepped down from the pedestal, leaving out the back door and leaving the information behind with my false notes scribbled out to make it look like I'd done something.

Soon after I heard the doors open behind me. "Jinx!"

I turned, that blank look still plastered on my face. I swallowed, "Yeah?"

Kid Flash looked around before picking me up (as he liked to do when he wanted to talk to me seriously) and just started running. It was a weird feeling. The air just washed over your face for a couple seconds and you got really cold before everything just stopped. We were just around the most secluded spot of the Base, the garden-gate. The graveyards of heroes were nearby. People thought it too sad to come here. Perfect.

"Alright Jinx, I've tried to be oblivious but that's not good enough anymore. A Titan is missing and I have a feeling you know where she is," He said, but not unkindly. His face had now softened. He took my hands in his. "Jinx, you know I won't tell anybody. But I gotta know. What happened to Raven?"

I was quiet for a long time before I fell to the floor, my expression that of someone in traumatic shock. Kid Flash waited in silence before I murmured, very quietly.

"He loves her."

His head snapped up. "What? Who loves her?"

"That thing we've been tracking, he's part of my group of friends I'm in. We're like family. He's been looking for Raven." I looked him deep in the eyes. "He loves her. I can see it when he looks at her."

"But is she okay? What's this guys name anyways? Is he-?"

"He's a shape-shifter. He changes into animals. His name is Beast Boy. And Raven loves him too. She saw me and we fought but she won," I added this begrudgingly, "So I told her everything. She . . . she won't turn him over Kid Flash. She wouldn't even turn me over! She even thanked me for helping him!" I looked away. "I can't break that bond between them. Even if the Titans find him, which they won't, I would protect that bond."

He squeezed my hand. "I think I can understand that."

We smiled at each other.

I didn't know what Raven was doing. I was tired, so I'd said I was going to take a nap. If she needed anything she could wake me, although I had a feeling she wouldn't. But I wasn't sure how long I was asleep before something very soft and soothing woke me. At first I was curious as to something so nice had woken me but that didn't matter. I just liked listening to that soft little sound. I slowly opened my eyes for the humming sound and then got up. Was that Raven? Well no duh, who else could it be? I felt stupid for even wondering that in the first place but just kept on walking. I didn't want her to stop though, so I kept myself hidden.

I paled. Raven was walking outside. Oh crap, was she leaving? I turned into a fly at once, following her out the door and just missing being crushed by the door. My little fly body shivered at the thought. Raven, I then noticed, seemed in no hurry at all. So maybe she wasn't leaving. Then what else could she be doing?

Raven was wondering around the forest, just looking until she began heading off to a spot I myself had visited many times before. The only thing that worried me was that Raven would have to do a bit of climbing. She currently stared up at the very tall, large, and completely vertical wall of jacked but easily climbable (if you had any common sense, which I had every confidence she did have) wall of rock. Then, to my utter shock, she smiled, placing a hand on the rock. I silently turned into a butterfly, following her.

"She lives in a fairytale, somewhere too far for us to find-."

I stopped on a rock near the waterfall. I hadn't realized we'd been traveling for so long together (without her knowledge) now. Two hours maybe? I didn't know. But the waterfall was well away from home. Almost halfway to humanity. Ha, that sounds weird. But Raven was singing. That shocked me more then anything.

"Forgotten the taste and smell of a world that she's left behind. It's all about the exposure- the lens, I told her . . ."

Raven was singing as she climbed and I felt entranced by that sound. With my colorfully green wings, I flew up to a rock next to the one she'd grab in another step or two. She hardly noticed me until she saw the butterfly, completely harmless, and grinned at me.

"The angles are all wrong now. She's ripping wings off of butterflies."

I was tempted to move at that last statement, but did not. It would be suspicious and she kept climbing, leaving me be. Then I saw her smile wipe off a little as she paused, looking off into the sky. "Keep your feet on the ground . . . while your heads in the clouds."

Raven then shook it off and turned back to the climbing. "Well go get your shovel . . . and well dig a deep hole. To bury the castle, bury the castle. Yeah, go get you shovel . . . and we'll dig a deep hole. To bury the castle, bury the castle. Ba da ba ba da ba ba da!"

I liked Raven's voice. It had that scratchy tone, like her real voice to it, but it was oddly soothing, just like when she was talking. Quiet enough to calm everyone, but odd enough to get the point across. He then saw Raven pause, and, still a butterfly, flew up off to the left of her. She didn't seem to notice him as she looked oddly crestfallen.

"So one day he found her crying, coiled up on the dirty ground. Her prince finally came to save her and the rest you can figure out." He then noticed Raven continue and a scowl of complete disgust appeared on her face as she kept climbing. "But it was a trick, and the clock struck twelve. Well make sure to build your house brick by boring brick or the wolves gonna blow it down."

Raven once again shook it off as she continued her trek, not caring how louder her singing was. If I could've smiled, I would have."Keep your feet on the ground . . . when your head's in the clouds. Well go get your shovel . . . and we'll dig a deep hole. To bury the castle, bury the castle. Go get your shovel . . . and we'll dig a deep hole. To bury the castle, bury the castle!"

The rest of her endeavor was much quicker and the only singing she did was vocals that echoed back, doing odd things to anyone who was listening. It was . . . it was like she knew exactly how to make things pretty. And then I remembered.

Pretty was her specialty. Raven reached the top, scrambling over the edge and heading towards the river that would leak into the waterfall as soon as it met the edge. She looked down at her reflection, sitting upon her legs. Then her eyes narrowed.

"Well you built up a world of magic because your real life is tragic!" She slapped the water away, rippling her reflection to where it no longer existed and turned towards the sun as she let her cloak billow out behind her. "Yeah you built up a world of magic . . . If it's not real, you can't hold it in your hand. You can't feel it with your heart . . . and I won't believe it. But if it's true, you can see it with your eyes. Oh, even in the dark . . . and that's where I want to be, yeah!"

I'd flown over to a stray flower, blending a little into the grass. But I could see her uncovered face, which broke my heart. She was crying, shouting her words to the wind itself as if accusing it for whatever wrong-doing that happened at whatever time to whoever.

"Go get your shovel! And we'll dig a deep hole! To bury the castle! Bury the castle! Go get your shovel! And we'll dig a deep hole! To bury the castle, bury the castle!"

"Ba da ba ba da ba ba da. Ba da ba ba ba da ba ba. Ba da ba ba da ba ba da. Ba da ba ba ba ba ba ba!" She was crying freely now, but somehow . . . I don't know, she just didn't look all too sad either. I morphed into a human, having flown behind her and just watch and listened, sitting in the grass.

"Ba da ba ba da ba ba da. Ba da ba ba ba da ba ba. Ba da ba ba da ba ba da. Ba da ba ba ba ba ba ba-!"

I'd gotten up. She froze and turned around. We watched each other for a moment or two.

"Did you write that?" I finally said, deciding she wasn't going to be breaking the silence anytime soon. She seemed to snap out of it, turning around and frantically trying to wipe away the tears as she pulled her hood over her head. Her hands continuously moved across her face and all she did was shrug as a response to my question.

I felt sad. For her and for her actions. I was sad she wasn't comfortable enough around me to feel it was okay to cry while I was there. Didn't she know it didn't matter to me?

I walked up behind her, touching her shoulder. "You know Raven, you can cry if you want. It's okay. Really."

Raven didn't say anything, just tensed up under my hand. I sighed before dropping it to my side, standing next to her and remaining quiet. After a second she said, "Beast Boy?"

I turned my head to her. "Yeah?"

She was looking down at the floor, as if ashamed. "Do you ever feel . . . alone?"

I probably looked pretty shocked. If Raven felt alone, then I wasn't doing a very good job at at least being her friend, however much I wanted more then that. But . . . I was sad for her once again.

"Yeah, a lot of times before you were here," I admitted. And then I realized what I'd said as Raven's head snapped up to look at me. "Uh, I mean-." Then I stopped and looked away. I meant what I said. I wasn't about to change it now, however embarrassing it was. I wasn't a liar.

Raven was staring at me. I could feel it. "W-What do you mean by that?"

I rubbed my neck shyly. "Eh, well, before you were here, I felt sort of . . . empty. None of my friends have acted like they did today around me in a really . . . . really long time." I turned to smile weakly at her. "Them finally knowing I was happy . . . because you were here, that changed that completely. But you'll always be my first real friend Raven." I promised, my voice a little more serious. "They pitied me for a long time. You never have and never will." I smiled a little wider. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." She said quietly. We stayed like that for a moment or two. "So, how'd you find me?"

I grinned at her. This was one of my favorites things to do to people who asked me that.

Rhyme.

"You know, I really didn't have to try," I began, bending town to pick up a bug that happened to be flying by. For some reasons, animals seemed to know I was one of them. Or at least almost one of them. They trusted me. "All I needed was the help," I showed her the bug with that smile still upon my face. "Of a butterfly."

It took Raven a moment, staring at the bug that expanded and then retracted its wings very slowly before she got it. She let out a groan, putting her hand on her face as she realized what had happened. "You were the butterfly," She managed to moan out, plopping onto the floor.

I laughed, sitting down next to her and placing my hands out behind me, smiling at the sun. "Yep." I then turned my head to smile at her. "But I was a pretty butterfly, huh?" She punched my arm lightly."Hey, what was that for?"

"For . . . I don't know, just because," She muttered, hugging her legs against her chest.

I gave another chuckle before sighing. "You know something Raven?"

"Hmm?" She replied, turning to look at me with curiosity in her eyes. As I looked at her I realized something; everything I done, even if I ended up getting into trouble, was worth it just for finding her. She was my everything. She had to be protected.

Even if that meant protected from me. That made me afraid.

But I hid it with my smile. "You're one of the few things I truly care about."

I didn't know how to respond to that statement. Instead I smiled back and then leaned into his shoulder, pretending that didn't make my head spin as it was. I also pretended I couldn't feel what he was feeling, because it scared me. And I would never admit to fear. But however I pretended, I still knew.

He was scared for me; why, I didn't know. But I prayed I'd never find out.

Little did I know, I would very soon.

So, just to let you know, that passage was from Raven, case ya forgot or didn't notice. Again, I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING IN TWO WHOLE DAYS. And I'm sad to say, it's probably gonna stay like that because my parents are getting mad about me on the computer all the time. But don't worry, I'll prevail. FIGHT THE POWER! (HAHAHAHA)

I also had this dream about another story I might start soon instead of the Jinx/Kid Flash one because I STILL don't know the plot for that one. Anyways, hope you liked it. My apologies for it being so short.

Later!