Hey thanx to everyone who reviewed...and any and all advice that was given. This chapter or one-shot is not as serious as the first. I thought it would be a good idea to let you see the smaller but still important moments between the two.ENJOY

Beastboy scratched his head as he looked around his room. The floor itself wasn't even visible through the piles of garbage; Pizza boxes, Clothes, Cd's...everything laid cluttered about the room.

"Where is it?" Beastboy wondered out loud, as if the object in question would suddenly reveal itself.

Sighing, he got down on his hands and knees and started moving things around.

"No...no...no," He yelled picking up random objects and tossing them behind him -through his open door and out into the hall. "Where is it?"

"Lose something?" asked a calm voice from behind him.

Beastboy let out a small surprised squeak before slowly turning around to face the owner of the voice. Raven, who was standing outside his door, crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow.

"Oh...hey Raven," Beastboy said with a nervous smile, jumping up from his spot on the floor. "So...heh...what's up?"

"Combat practice." Raven simply replied.

"Wow...is it three o'clock already?" Beastboy asked in mock surprise, looking at the nonexistent watch on his wrist.

"Actually...it was three o'clock 20 minutes ago," Raven answered. "But, then again, maybe your watch is broken."

Beastboy gave a false laugh at the comment, but Raven's dry expression caused him to stop and clear his throat.

"I'm guessing Robin sent you, huh?" He asked, his smile vanishing as Raven nodded.

"Yeah well...I was just ...um.." His sentence trailed off as he looked over his room.

"What did you lose this time?" Raven asked dully.

"I didn't lose it!" Beastboy exclaimed waving his arms about as he turned to her.

He stopped and smiled sheepishly.

"I just...don't know where it is."

Raven rolled her eyes.

"But I know it's in here somewhere." He stated with confidence.

"A lot of good that does you," Raven said as she glanced inside. "I doubt you can find anything in this mess."

"Huh? What do you mean?" Beastboy asked, looking around the room with a confused expression.

"Your room's a complete and total disaster." She replied evenly.

"It's not that bad," Beastboy said still glancing around, a small smile on his face. "It has...character."

Raven sighed, wondering why she had to be the one to come get him. Honestly, this was taking longer than it should have, and Robin was already a little upset about him being late.

"Are you coming to practice or not?" Raven asked, making it clear that she was running out of patience.

Beastboy sighed rubbing the back of his neck some.

"How mad do you think Robin will be if I don't show up?" He asked with a small smile.

"Mad." Raven replied.

"And...how mad do you think he'll be when I tell him I lost my communicator?" Beastboy asked.

"You lost your communicator."

"Sorta," Beastboy replied with a smile and a shrug.

Raven sighed...closing her eyes for a moment and shaking her head.

"Wait...I know," Beastboy said smiling brightly. "Why don't you come in here and help me look."

"I really don't think so," Raven replied in her usual dull tone. "The smell alone is likely to kill me."

Beastboy gave her a confused stare as he sniffed the air.

"I don't smell anything."

"I'm sure you don't." Raven answered looking away.

"Aw...come on Raven, Please?" he asked cupping his hands. "If I have to ask Cyborg to make me another one he'll kill me."

"And that would be my problem...how?" Raven asked.

Beastboy ignored the comment and puffed out his lower lip, looking up at Raven with wide pleading eyes.

She sighed.

"Here," Raven said taking out her communicator.

"You're giving me yours?" Beastboy asked confused.

Raven gave him a look of disbelief and annoyance before shaking her head and pressing down on one of the communicator's buttons.

Beep Beep Beep Beep

Beastboy's ears perked up at the sound of his communicator going off, and Raven watched as he looked around the room before jumping over to a pile of clothes. After only a second of watching the clothes fly by the door as Beastboy tossed them aside, he appeared, smiling triumphantly with the communicator in hand.

"Found it." He announced, holding it up for her to see.

"You're truly amazing," Raven replied sarcastically. "Are we going now or not?"

"Oh right," Beastboy nodded coming out of his room.

'Finally' Raven thought as she turned to walk away, only to stop when Beastboy didn't follow. She looked back at him as he stood there staring into his room.

"Well?" She asked.

"Actually... ," He replied thoughtfully, still looking back into his room,."Tell Robin I couldn't make it."

"Excuse me?" Raven asked a little surprised.

Beastboy turned to face her with an uneasy smile.

"Yeah well...there's something really important that I have do," he replied shrugging. "And if I don't do it now...I might never."

"Right," Raven said slowly, she was almost tempted to ask, but decided against it. "I'll be sure to let him know."

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Two hours later

"Man...now that was a work out." Cyborg exclaimed as they made their way into the main room.

"I think we made up for the lost time," Robin admitted, thinking briefly about the delay Beastboy had caused.

"I believe I have worked up my appetite as well." Starfire added.

"I'm way ahead of ya, Star," Cyborg replied already placing a rather large ham into the oven. "There's nothing like a heaping helping of meat after a hard work out."

"I think Beastboy would disagree," Raven said, though slightly surprised at herself for mentioning the changeling.

"Hey...it's not like he did anything." Cyborg replied sounding a little annoyed.

"He's definitely not getting off the hook that easy." Robin said in an equally annoyed tone.

After all, Beastboy had delayed training practice for almost half an hour, only for Raven to arrive and tell them that Beastboy had 'something important he had to do'. What could possibly be more important than training?

"I am certain friend Beastboy would not perform the ditching without good reason," Starfire stated, always one to stand up for her friends.

"At least...he thinks it's a good reason." Raven added.

"Still, I'm going to have to go talk to him about it." Robin confirmed.

Robin had always been more strict when in came to training and preparation, and Beastboy could be so irresponsible- it was no wonder the two of them tended to butt heads from time to time.

"You guys talking about me?"

Everyone turned around to face Beastboy, who looked almost just as tired as the rest of the team. He smiled triumphantly at everyone as he dusted some dirt off his costume.

"Only about how you ditched practice." Cyborg said.

"Care to explain why?" Robin asked trying to sound casual, though the authority in his voice made it impossible.

"I'll do better than that," Beastboy replied, not at all effected by Robin's tone. "I'll show you."

With that said, he turned and headed towards the door, leaving the others to exchange confused glances before following him out.

Finally they made it to Beastboy's door and he turned to face them.

"Okay, Beastboy, what's this all about?" Robin asked, now more curious than upset.

"Behold..." Beastboy announced opening his door. "TA DA!"

Hesitantly the others looked inside and their mouths immediately dropped open.There was nothing on the floor...no clutter on his dresser...the bed was made and everything had been wiped off.

Robin stuttered. "It's ...it's..."

"Clean!" Cyborg finished.

"Dude, check it out," Beastboy said pointing to his floor. "I had a carpet in here this whole time."

"This is most impressive," Starfire said. "I am no longer frightened by the mere sight of it."

"I have to admit," Robin replied. "You did a good job."

"I still can't believe it," Cyborg said. "You actually cleaned your room...YOU CLEANED!"

"Hey...it's not that big of a deal," Beastboy said smiling as he turned to face it. "But I did do a good job, didn't I."

Robin studied Beastboy for a moment in curiosity. It was definitely unlike him to do something like this...but it was long over due.

"Okay Beastboy...," He began. "I guess I can let you off this one time. Just try not to miss anymore practices."

Beastboy grinned and nodded.

"Considering how bad this place looked before, you must have worked up quite a sweat," Cyborg replied. "I'd take training over cleaning your room any day."
Suddenly Cyborg's arm began to beep

"AAHHH...My ham!" He cried darting off down the hall.

Robin, not wanting to be left behind to ponder Beastboy's sudden tidiness, took off after him.

"Cyborg wait up."

Starfire giggled at the two boys before her belly rumbled.

"I believe the food is also calling for me..." she blushed before floating off after the others.

Beastboy smiled as he turned to Raven, who had let to make a single comment on the room.

"Well...what do you think?" Beastboy asked eagerly.

"It's...definitely clean." Raven replied plainly.

"Come on, you haven't even looked around yet." He said, hopping on in.

"That's okay." Raven declined looking away slightly.

"Pleease Rae," Beastboy pleaded.

"I sprayed air freshener and everything," he told her, holding up the empty bottle for her to see. "Lemon Lime."

Raven sighed, knowing that he wouldn't take 'no' for an answer.

"Fine...but don't call me Rae."

Beastboy grinned and stepped aside to let Raven entered his room.

She glanced around and had to admit that Beastboy had done a really good job, despite this, however, the room felt strangely...empty. It didn't look like Beastboy even lived there anymore, and a strange feeling settled over her for a moment or so. She couldn't seem to understand what the feeling was, like someone had taken something very familiar to her and altered it completely; and not just the room.

Raven wondered if she was overlooking something- perhaps a hidden motive behind her friend's action. After all, It hadn't been too long ago that Beastboy had confined himself to his room over Terra's so-called return, shortly after returning from fighting the brotherhood of evil. Was this just a sign that Beastboy was no longer comfortable being in the tower; after all, Beastboy hated cleaning and he had never seemed to have a problem with his room before.

Raven looked over at Beastboy, who was admiring his room with a proud smile, and tried to force those worries away. It was just a simple act, it didn't mean that Beastboy was any different, it didn't mean that he was going to leave them.

'Probably just wanted to skip practice' her mind rationalized.

Beastboy turned to Raven, who had directed her gaze toward him with intent curiosity.

"Not bad, huh?" He asked.

Raven nodded thoughtfully, wondering why he was so interested in her opinion.

"I guess you don't have to be afraid to come in here anymore then," Beastboy said causing Raven to blink in surprise.

There it was, the hidden motive, the reason why he had done what he did- but it was so far from anything she had been expecting. Beastboy had cleaned his room because she had told him it was messy...not because he wanted to, or even because he liked it that way,...no...he had cleaned his room for her.

"Beastboy..."

"Yeah?" Beastboy said, grinning in her direction.

"Thanks."

"What for?" Beastboy asked looking genuinely confused.

Raven paused, as if not sure what to say, a very big part of her simply appreciating that he valued her opinion.

"For..." Raven paused again. "For inviting me in."

Beastboy gave her a strange look for a moment, as if he had been expecting her to say something else, but quickly shook it off.

"No problem," He said smiling again. "So does that mean you like it?"

"It's ... almost perfect." Raven told him.
"Almost?" Beastboy asked confused once more as he looked around his room. 'Dude...no way...what's she talking about...I did everything'

His ears drooped slightly and he looked back at Raven as she raised up her hand, which was engulfed in her black magic, and levitated the stack of Cd's Beastboy had placed on his dresser. Raven then scattered them around the room before knocking over some clothes, opening up the closet door (Where he had stashed most of his junk) and turning back to face Beastboy.

"Now it has ... Character," She said with a small hidden smile.

Beastboy blinked in surprise for a few moments before smiling too...a moment of silence went between them.

"Oh .. I almost forgot," He said picking up a box that was laying near his door and showing it's contents to Raven. She looked inside to find five titan communicators.

"Looks like I won't have to ask Cy to make me another for a while." he said smiling.

He sat them back down and suddenly paused.

"Do you... smell that?" He asked looking mildly disturbed.

"...Lemon lime?" Raven offered confused.

"Nope," Beastboy replied his eyes narrowing some. "Meat."
Raven rolled her eyes.

"Looks like it's time to defend my vegetarian honor." He said, cracking his knuckles.

"Must you?" Raven asked dully.

"Yep," He replied, flashing a smile at Raven who followed him as he marched out the door.

She stopped for a moment as Beastboy went on, then glanced back at the not-so-messy room...and smiled.

I'm not all that happy about how it turned out but I'm Hoping that at least some of the readers enjoyed it. The next one-shot is going to be more serious...and more of a Beastboy comforts Raven kinda thing. Please review!