Author's Note: Here starts part three and final of this story. But not to worry: there're still ten chapters ahead of us.

Also, I know it's hard to keep up with the dates I put, but just to situate us on time: BB and Raven have been dating for one year and six months. BB's 22 and Rae's 23 years old.

Enjoy your reading!

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Chapter 27 – Secrets

March 2nd 2011, 7:25 pm

"Friend Beast Boy?" called Starfire, opening the door "We're going out to eat pizza and I would like to know if you… What are you doing?"

"Star, this is the bathroom!" yelled Beast Boy, shocked.

"But you're not using the bathroom" she said, since the changeling was in fact sitting on the floor and reading a pamphlet.

"Whatever, let's go eat pizza" he agreed quickly, walking to the door and putting the pamphlet in his back pocket.

"What's this?" asked Starfire, taking the pamphlet out of the changeling's pocket when he passed by her.

"It's nothing! It's a tofu coupon!" shouted Beast Boy, trying to take it back, but the Tamarean just floated out of his reach.

"Season's best rings selection…" she read out loud and slowly. Then she turned to Beast Boy wide mouthed and with a reverenced expression "Are you going to… ask friend Raven to realize the matrimony?"

"No!" he denied, picking the pamphlet out of her hand and stuffing it inside his shirt. "Listen, Star, I don't think you know that, but when we give rings, here in the Earth, it means we just… Want to go to a Chinese restaurant with the other person."

"Really?" she blinked with a smile, then thought and frowned "You are trying to trick me, aren't you? I've seen plenty of romantic movies to know that when a man buys a diamond ring, it is with the intention of asking the current girlfriend to marry him"

"No, no, it's the Chinese food things, I swear!"

"I'll just ask friend Raven" she informed, turning to leave.

"No! Wait!" asked the changeling, holding her legs "Okay, okay, you got me, I was trying to trick you"

"OH!" she clapped her hands and hugged her friend "So you really are going to marry Raven!"

"No, no, no! And you have to promise me you won't tell anyone, especially Raven!" he demanded with a finger on the Tamarean's face, making her smile fade.

"But friend Beast Boy, then what is your goal?"

"Listen, Star…" he started, sighing "I've already decided I'll marry Raven. But I know that if I ask her now, she'll just say 'no'. To convince her to say yes, I have to do something extra special, do you see?"

Starfire landed on the floor, thought for a few seconds, then nodded.

"So, I'm seeing the rings now… Just because I want to check how much I'll have to spend, you know, I don't want to give Rae some cheap thing" he continued, looking at his feet "She deserves the best. After I get the money and the ring, then I'll have to create the perfect situation for her to realize she also wants – and is ready to stay with me forever"

"That's very considerate of you, friend Beast Boy" said Starfire in a bittersweet tone.

"That's why you can't tell anyone yet, do you see?" he finished, looking into his friend's eyes "It's gonna take a few months, and if she finds out, she'll freak out, I know Raven… And don't tell anyone else, 'cause they will eventually let her know"

"All right, friend. I understand your intentions, and I promise not to reveal your secret to anyone" assured Starfire, serious "Raven is… how you say… a lucky girl!"

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March 10th 2011, 4:21 pm

"Star?" called Terra, waiting on the other side of the fitting room "Come on, I'm tired and I want to go home!"

"Just a minute, friend" asked the voice inside the curtain "This is the last one!"

Starfire came out of the fitting room in a magnificent green evening dress that really highlighted her eyes, pinned around her neck and leaving most of her back showing.

"Do you think I look good, friend Terra?" asked Starfire, looking herself in the mirror. Terra's mouth was wide open.

"Wow, Star, you look amazing! It's perfect!" she said sincerely.

"Glorious, so I will purchase it!"

Both of them came out of the store carrying bags and walked to the mall's exit.

"Star, may I know why you bought such a fancy dress?" asked Terra while they walked "Are you and Robin going to some gala party I do not know about?"

"No, friend Terra, I just bought it because I want to be prepared for the engagement party of our friends Beast Boy and Rav…" Starfire stopped suddenly, dropping her bags and covering her mouth with both hands. Terra stared at her with gigantic eyes.

"What? Beast Boy and Raven are engaged?" she repeated, not being able to hide her disappointment.

"No, no! I shouldn't have say that!" whined the Tamarean, squeezing her hands "Don't tell anyone, Terra!"

"Well, are they?"

"Not yet… friend Beast Boy wants to propose in a few months" she told, afflicted "But please, do not tell her or anybody else, I promised…"

"It's okay, Star" assured Terra with a hard look "Your secret is safe with me"

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March 10th 2011, 6:14 pm

Terra was walking back and forth in her bedroom, throwing everything she could put her hands on against the wall, her eyes glowing with yellow light.

"Damn…" she threw a wooden box on the wall, shattering it.

"Bitch…" she mumbled, casting a portrait of the team on the floor, the glass breaking.

"Why is this…" she yelled, turning her dresser on the floor with a bang "… happening to me?"

She stopped for an instant, breathing heavily. The she turned to her wardrobe, taking off all the clothes to the floor with anger. Until her hand bumped something heavy and smooth.

Terra blinked, her eyes coming back to normal, the anger being replace by curiosity. She put some clothes away and found the hourglass Beast Boy had given her when he asked her out the first time. The anger came back and she grabbed it, intending to destroy it.

When her hands touched the glass, however, the sand inside it glint with a yellow light vey alike her eyes and hands when she used her powers. She stopped, observing it. Suddenly, she felt a certain that this object could help her.

It brought Beast Boy to her once, it could bring him again.

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March 10th 2011, 6:15 pm

Raven was sitting on her bed's edge, biting her bottom lip in an extreme affliction. She didn't remind being this scared and anxious ever since her sixteenth birthday. In her hands, she had a little pink rectangular box.

On the box was written in blue letters: 'Pregnancy Test'.

She took a deep breath. She was late this month.

Raven had no idea what she would do if she was pregnant. Because of this affliction, she hadn't told anyone about her suspicions. Not even Beast Boy. She had to find out on her own. After she had calmed down, whatever the result was, she could talk about it with her boyfriend.

She read the instructions one more time, while in bed, next to her, the clock showed that two minutes had passed since she did the test. One more minute and she would know.

If she was pregnant, she knew when it had happened. A couple weeks ago, when she and Beast Boy went out to celebrate that their relationship was already one year and a half, they had been interrupted by an attack to the city of the HIVE. At the end of the fight, they realized it didn't matter where they were, as long as they were together. Her clothes had been ripped by Chip's apparatus, showing her belly, and Mamooth had threw Beast Boy when his shirt was caught by a wire, taking it off.

That made they too irresistible for each other, and in the eagerness of becoming one, the protection they used was a very old one that Beast Boy had for sometime already.

She felt a nice shudder along her spine to remember. Then she looked to the clock. The final minute was over.

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March 10th 2011, 6:18 pm

Beast Boy was concentrated playing video games in his room to go against Cyborg again when he finished taking care of the T-Car, in some hours. He would rather be with Raven, but the empath said she needed to meditate today and asked to see him at night. He got a little needy, but agreed. They needed sometime to themselves every once in a while. Especially Raven.

When he heard knocks on the door, he had a brief hope moment to think maybe it was Raven. But that was soon discarded, because her fragrance would precede her. He paused the game and opened the door. To his surprise, he found Terra, holding what looked like a gigantic hourglass.

"Hmm… Hey" he greeted her, looking at the hourglass. The sand's movements were strangely hypnotizing.

"Hi BB" answered Terra in an anxious tone "Can we talk?"

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March 10th 2011, 6:16 pm

Raven sighed and stood up, walking to the little piece of plastic that would decide her life. She looked at the box with the instructions again.

Interpretation of Results

Negative: Only one color band appears on the control region. Not apparent band on the test region. There is no pregnancy.

Positive: Distinct color bands appear on the control and test region. Both bands indicate that you are pregnant.

Invalid: No visible bands at all.

Next to the possible results there was an image illustrating how the test would be. She took the plastic stick and compared.

There were two color bands.

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March 10th 2011, 6:19 pm

"Do you remember giving me this clock as a gift?" asked Terra, raising the hourglass.

"What? No, I've never seen this thing before in my life" answered the changeling, looking at her with a weird expression.

"I see…" she muttered, disappointed "Maybe it just… Appeared in my room…."

"You should take it to Cyborg or Robin" he suggested "Maybe it was something from the evidence room that ended up in your bedroom."

"Good idea, BB. Thanks, I'll do that" she agreed with a smile, and turned to leave. "Oops…"

They looked down and saw that Terra's boot was untied.

"Could you hold it for me?" she asked in the most innocent tone in the world. Beast Boy thought for a second to tell her to put it on the floor, but figured that it would be quicker if he helped. He extended his arms to the hourglass.

When the glass touched his green skin, the sand started to go up, against the gravity that ruled it until then.

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March 10th 2011, 6:19 pm

Raven put the stick and the box down on her dresser with trembling hands, breathing by her mouth, the heart beating hard.

She was pregnant. A baby was growing inside her.

Before any other thought crossed her mind, one yelled in her head:

I have to talk to Beast Boy.

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March 10th 2011, 6:22 pm

The ring pamphlet, Raven in a ripped leotard, a colorful room, dogs in collars, a vegan restaurant, Raven singing next to him, a lilac blouse, a beautiful smile directed only to him – all of these things crossed Beast Boy's mind in an incredible speed going to the forgetfulness, to the folder of yet to happen.

Terra kissing a brown haired man, a gigantic piñata, The Brain, Doom Patrol, Trigon, Titans East – and then it stopped. It stopped in a night many years ago, when Beast Boy was at the door of the bond girl in front of him, and everything he wanted in the world was that she accepted going out with him.

"Hey, Terra" he said, confused. A part of his mind seemed to be fighting him, stopping him from what he wanted to say.

"Are you…"

No, It's not her.

"…free…"

Raven, remember Raven.

"…Tonight?"

Terra smiled. He noticed something weird, something bad in that smile, but pushed to the back of his mind, along with that annoying voice. He leaned, staring at the beautiful pink lips. The blonde took a step closer, kissing his lips, with a strange triumph look.

Then the door opened.

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March 10th 2011, 6:22 pm

Raven arrived at Beast Boy's door and found weird to hear voices. Her fist was raised to knock, but her anxiety was such that she decided to just open the door.

Only to find her boyfriend kissing Terra.

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