Chapter seven: Pie.
There was a vast array of cuisine that seemed to be traditional around the Christmas season, despite the fact that many of these foods were available all year round. Pie was one of them, sweet pies, savoury pies, pies with fruit and nuts and meats.
It reminded Raven of a guilty pleasure of hers. Now, Raven was not one for musicals, she found them gravely irritating and unnecessarily happy with far too many over-actors. However, she did have a soft spot for 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.' It had far more dimensions that was typical of a musical and for unknown reasons it was always on TV around the festive season. And it contained pie.
Beast Boy was the only one who knew that Raven favoured the adapted play, he'd become rather good at reading her since his feelings for her had blossomed. She did not know of his affections and was oblivious to how closely he watched her. It was a week before Christmas when Cyborg was flicking through channels, Beast Boy registered how Raven's eyes widened an infinitesimal amount and flared in the light of the screen, he noted how her lips turned up at the corners, only ever so slightly. He quickly zoned in on what had caused such a reaction. There in the channel listing was Sweeney Todd, and he was rather surprised that this was something that caught her interest, though he didn't utter a word. He watched Raven deflate the tiniest fraction when Cyborg skipped over it, finding no entertainment in the production. Beast Boy frowned to himself.
Pies were not a part of Christmas at the tower, and every single pie that was sent by adoring fans was sent to the bin. This, of course, was not because the Titans feared they were made by Mrs Lovett, but rather because they feared the pies did contain a person, a person in particular. Of all the things the Titans desired for Christmas, a mother was in fact not one of them.
Cyborg was never going to live it down. The Mother Mae-Eye incident had scarred them all.
I greatly apologise for this, I don't know what this is. But, when I thought of pie, the only things that came to mind were Mrs Lovett and Mother Mae-Eye, and I feel that the Titans would not wish to discuss that particular occurrence in length, so I could only attempt to bring it up briefly and perhaps in comedic fashion, so I was only left with Mrs Lovett to work with, and believe it or not, Sweeney Todd does tend to be on over the Christmas period.