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"What do you mean he isn't here right now?! What did you do to him?!" she said as she slowly backed away from the campfire.

"Woah woah woah, no need to freak out. Garfield is in our mindscape right now." explained the Beast.

"Then why isn't Beastboy back" she said still backing away.

"Garfield is releasing steam by destroying part of his mindscape, so he's allowing me to have the night out because I able to convince him that you were more important than beating that jerk to death, and boy, it feels great to be finally free again." he said as he stretched.

After hearing this, Raven finally calmed down enough to realise that she wasn't a hostage and free to go, but without her powers and having no idea where she was decided to sit back near the campfire. So there they sat in complete silence with her head thinking a million thoughts, but then she thought back to his scars. The beast did say this was his home so maybe he'll be able to tell me how those scars came to be, and with her mind resolved she finally broke the silence and asked, "Beast, if you don't mind me asking, but how did you..."

"Get these scars" he said cutting her off and with a sigh he responded, "but before I answer that question, I want to ask you this, what do you know about Garfield?"

"Well that's easy, he's dumb, annoying, tells stupid and horrible jokes, sleeps way too much, doesn't respect other peo-"

"I didn't ask about Beastboy, I asked about Garfield" the Beast said, interrupting her.

"Well what's the difference and what does this have to do about those scars?" she responded

"And here I thought you would be able to notice" he said thinking aloud.

"Notice what!" she practically yelled not liking that the Beast just thought of her intelligence being dull.

"Notice that Beastboy is a mask that Garfield hide behinds"he responded calmly.

"What do you mean Beastboy is just a mask?" she said quietly.

"I mean that something or multiple horrid things happened in Garfield's past that he constructed a mask to hide the pain and that's my guess on how he got these scars" he said while motioning the numerous scars on his body.

That can't be true he shows so much happiness that it's toxic, he even makes me hap-. Woah he does not make me happy, all he does is annoy me….but I guess he sometimes does… Ugh now is not the time to think about my emotions. "That can't be true, even if he was smiling on the outside I would've been able to tell his true emotions through my empathic abilities."she finally said.

"You have to understand that Garfield lived with Mento for quite some time and during that time he learned how to hide his true feelings extremely well. Well enough, that it even fooled you."he responded.

Is he really telling the truth? she thought, but with one quick look to see that the Beast's face was completely serious so it is true,am I that bad of a friend that I couldn't see that he was hurting with those sc- hold up. "What do you mean you 'guess' that's how he got those scars?" she asked narrowing her eyes.

With his eyes falling to the ground he responded, "I can only guess because he's locked up all of the dark things of his past and threw it under the protection of the mask. I once tried to look at it, but all I got was a peek, just a quick second, before Garfield forcibly moved me. Word of advice, never ever get Garfield mad with you, he could make your rage proud. He was so mad at me that he ignored me for months and never let me out until today."

"Well what did you see from your 'peek'?" she asked impatiently.

"Some very dark stuff, stuff so dark and evil and twisted that I understand why he buried it. Even with that second peek, I can tell you that if, for whatever reason, Garfield's mask shatters, at the very least, he will just enter a major depression." he said solemnly.

After that Raven was speechless, for what could she say, so they sat there in silence until a cold wind blew by making her shudder.

"You know sitting on this side of the fire will protect you from the cold wind." he said.

After a couple of seconds and with a little hesitation Raven moved over next to the Beast. Silently, they sat side by side until finally:

"Why are being so nice to me? The last time you showed up Beastboy was doing things he'd never do and acting like a jerk." she asked

He responded with a sigh and said, "That wasn't me. That was the mask's self defense system." After looking at the slightly confused face on Raven he continued, "Back then I was just his raw primal instincts, running a muck in his head. He was so distracted in stopping me that he couldn't repair the mask from the cracks that were left from that treacherous Terra." He stopped and snarled at the name before continuing, "It wasn't until Cyborgs serum gave me a concious that I stopped rampaging around, allowing Garfield to repair the mask."

Raven sat there digesting the new information being told until a question popped up. "So I can tell that you dislike Terra, but what do you think of the titans?" she asked with actual curiosity.

"hmmmm .." he said as his face changed from thoughtful to happy he continued, "I have got to say that Cyborg is one of my favorites. He's like the big brother that me and Garfield never had. He's fun to be around with and have a good laugh. He's trustworthy too, He knows about the scars but he has never told anyone knowing that Garfield will talk about them when he's ready. I'm just afraid young Garfield will never be ready." he said with his face drooping a little at the end.

His face then lit right back up and said, "Starfire and Garfield are so similar in my opinion. Their emotional spectrum can change so quickly and you can tell what their feeling easily, but don't let that fool you. Garfield and I have seen that her past was also horrible through her eyes, you can see quite easily what hardships a person has gone through by the look of their eyes, but unlike Garfield, I feel that she has come with terms of her past, instead of hiding it like Garfield, and decided, like Garfield, that the universe should be more happier. That ferocity hidden so well too that when she shows it you instantly remember that she's a warrior princess and you can't forget she's gorgeous too." After a quick glance from at Raven, he quickly added, "What it's true, but we don't like her like that! We see Starfire as a sister and nothing more and it doesn't change the fact that Robin practically marked her as her territory."

As he mentioned Robin his face immediately fell, "Robin is an overly obessive, egotistical jerk!" he said with a snarl.

"That's not true, sure he's obsessive at times, but he's not an egotistical jerk." Raven said trying to defend her secret crush.

"If you don't believe me then you've got open your eyes. You know he's partially afraid of Beastboy." he said and after looking at Raven surprised face he continued, "He's afraid that Garfield would take his role as leader, seeing that they were both trained young and by elite super heroes."

"That's not true." Raven responded again but a little less sure of herself.

"Don't tell me you've never noticed all those times, like the time he almost quickly threw Garfield when I first showed up, or not listening to Garfield when he said splitting up was a bad idea, or the giant relief that was on Robin's face when Garfield handed Robin leadership during the final battle against the Brotherhood." he said as he watched Raven looked more and more unsure of herself with every point he made and continued to say but now with a much quieter voice, "Or the fact that he was more concerned of Slade than he was for you safety when we found out that you were alive after the portal incident."

"No, no, no, it can't be true...he...I'm sure he cared for me more." she whispered in a very quiet voice.

"Well believe it, as soon as Slade showed up he went into his overly obsessive jerk mode and when Slade dropped the bomb that you were still alive and the rest of us were all shocked, Robin was still stoic, sure you could tell that he was still slightly shocked and relieved that you were still alive, but he was more concerned about Slade, so when Slade asked for someone to join him, Robin practically jumped on the offer before anyone else can voice their opinion." The Beast said with a bunch of venom in his voice.

"That double face, overly obsessive jerk! Here I thought they he went down there for me and only me! Hell, No one even told me that slade was the reason Robin came, I just thought he showed up later to help fight against the apocalypse!" She yelled as her eyes were turning red more and more, with her teeth getting sharper as she paced back and forth through the cave venting about Robin. That's when she noticed the Beast lying on his stomach with one head propping his head up and him swing his back legs with a dreamy face on. "What are you looking at!" she yelled with her face finally having 4 red eyes.

"Man, Garfield wasn't kidding when he said you looked kind of scary and sexy when you get all enraged." The beast said with still a dreamy face plastered on.

Now that got her out being being enraged as her eyes and teeth reverted to normal and clearly see the shock in her violet orbs. Did he really just say that but with one look at him she could tell that he did indeed say it and quickly turned her head to not show her light blush. Until she finally managed enough courage to look back at the Beast, who was now sitting back upright, and ask in a very timid voice, "Beast what do you and Garfield think about me?"

"Oh well that's easy you're our m-"he said as he stopped mid-sentence with a look of fear in his eyes and a shiver down his back, until he continued with, "What I mean to say that Garfield and I really do l-". He abruptly stopped again with another look of fear and a shiver only to say a whisper afterwards saying, "Garfield does not wish for me to distribute that information to you".

"Oh c'mon don't tell me you're afraid of Garfield." she asked pleadingly.

"If you forgot I mentioned that when Garfield is enraged you really shouldn't mess with him and since he's still enraged by previous events I'd rather not have that rage focus on me." he replied back with fear and a little hope that she'll drop the subject in his voice.

This will probably be my only chance in a long time to see what Beastboy actually thinks about me, but then she caught herself why would I care so much about what he thinks about. I mean I already know that he thinks of me as creepy, but I might as well find out what else and with her mind resolved she finally pleaded, "Please tell me, If he gets mad at you just tell him it was my fault."

The Beast took a minute to decide his answer and with a very nervous and jumpy look in his eyes he said, "Fine, Garfield and I have a -" he stopped once again, but instead of a shiver it was an ear twitch. With that he quickly stood up and with fangs and claws popping out he said "Food, I haven't had a hunt in such a long time" and with that he ran out of the cave leaving Raven all alone.

Great, I didn't find out what he thought about and I'm left all alone without my powers. Might as well sit and try to meditate and get my powers back. With that she sat by the fire and started to meditate.

30 minutes later, Raven was still meditating until she heard a growl. Finally the Beast is back she thought, but when she opened her eyes, she didn't see the Beast, no, she saw a pack of wolves at the entrance of the cave, and by the look and the growling she could tell that they were a very angry pack of wolves. She tried her powers, but to no avail they still didn't work as she watched the wolves slowly make their way to her. (So tempted to leave another cliffhanger here but I won't do that to you so soon XD)

Oh no, what do I do, what do I do, think Raven think…. Aha the Fire! She thought as she grabbed a partially burning log and started swinging it and yelling at the wolves to get back, but to no avail they continued moving towards her with even angrier faces and growls.

They continued their advance to the point that they were only 5 feet away from her when the leader, or who she thought the leader was, stopped and sniffed the air. He then growled a the rest of the pack and their advanced stopped. The leader started to sniff the air again and slowly made his way towards Raven by himself. Raven who was too panic stricken and confused did nothing as the lone wolf approached her and started sniffing her. After a minute or 2 of sniffing he stopped and rubbed his body and made a sound that strangely sounded like purring to Raven before it let out an ear piercing howl. That's when Raven heard a quieter howl coming from somewhere outside the cave and after that howl was heard all other wolves of the pack lost their hostility look and was replaced with a more curious look as they surrounded Raven and sniffing and purring against her.

Okay Raven, they lost their hostility towards you for some reason. That's a good thing now, all I have to do now is sneak away quietly when they get distracted she thought to herself until a dead deer, which was all bloodied, was thrown about 7 feet in front her. Raven, out of surprise of course, screamed.

"Gee all you had to say was that you weren't hungry" she heard a familiar voice say.

She looked up to see the Beast standing there with blood on his claws and all around his mouth. "Help me" she pleaded.

"Help you from what?" he asked with genuine curiosity

"What do you mean from what, from these wolves you idiot! They'll probably attack us when they get hungry!" She angrily whispered.

The Beast laughed at this and said, "They won't hurt you, because a few months back Garfield helped save them and their cubs and they've treated us like family ever since."

"So they won't attack us even if they get hungry?" she asked still skeptical of the wolves.

"No they won't attack you unless you try attacking them and they won't get hungry in some time because I bought a house warming gift" he said while pointing at the deer being devoured by the wolves and added an after thought, "oh if you're hungry I'll make sure they leave you some"

"um , no thanks" as she watched, not trying to throw up, as she watched the wolves rip skin and organs with blood and guts oozing everywhere.

"Suit yourself, I already ate some so I'm going to clean up at the river at the back cave and then go to sleep in a 'cleaner' part of this cave and the next time you see me I'll be Beastboy again." he said. He then moved a lot closer to Raven and brought a single claw, that was still clean, up to her face and said, with a sigh, "There was so much I wish I could've done with you, maybe one day….maybe one day, goodnight sweet Raven." and with that he left to the back of the cave.

What the hell was that! And why am I blushing! Ugh, when I get back to the Tower I need to have a serious talk with my emotions. She thought to herself and then she heard the wolves fighting over the scraps of the deer. Maybe sleeping in the 'cleaner' part of the cave would be good and with that thought she left towards where the Beast went.

Hey thats a wrap for chapter 3. I would like to personally thank Sailor Dragonball 87 for their review. When I saw that review it made me push aside the anxiety from the bank taking a 100 grand away from my family because of my dad's financial issues, it made me not worry about my 2 major tests that I have tomorrow and should be studying for, and it made me stay up 2 hours later than I would usually stay up on a school night just to write this story. So thank you Sailor for that review, without it this chapter probably would've taken much longer to take. So yes, the more compliments I get, the faster I will try to write chapters. Also other things about reviews before you can do too, also the choice of who cy is going to be with is still up so tell me who you want. This was an extremely long rant but I think it was a well deserved rant. TheBigK1 signing off till next time.