Hey guys. So now that I got a few of those things out of the way now, I have some free time again! So I'm writing this chapter while still working on the other story as well. Sorry it's taking so long for the other at the moment. I'm not very good at writing action scenes so I'm trying to at least make it half decent for you guys. While also maintaining the BBxRae and other pairings at the same time as well.

What time is it! Mailbox Time:

RPGPersona: Maybe I'll have a Beast Incident later, but certainly not now. Hey, when your heart's broken repeatedly, it leaves a mark. I know that better than anyone. I just wanted to put in something to surprise people, and punching Beast Boy seemed like something Raven would do. Let's see him try and give her more space, knowing him, he'll epic fail on it.

HornedGoddess: Glad to know you like it. I always look forward to more BBxRae fanfiction. There just isn't enough of it for me. And here's more of it (careful, more drama).

Wjso: Thanks for telling me you liked it. I appreciate it when my readers take a little time to post how they feel about it, so again, thank you.

Invader Johnny: What I wonder is how is the freaking empath clueless? Isn't liking, or even possibly loving someone, supposed to be a strong emotion. Maybe she just isn't as good an empath, or is she?

Now, to the next chapter of this story!

Disclaimer: Same as last chapter (kind of sick of writing these).

Forgive Me Chapter Three: To Push Away

Titan's Common Room (Also Main Ops Room)

'Ugh… why can't I ever get her out of my freaking mind!'

Beast Boy was currently sitting on the couch. In the Common Room. Nursing a warm cup of soy milk in his hands. At 3:00 in the morning. Mainly because he still hadn't managed to fall asleep. The reason... Raven.

'Come on Garfield! Try to at least think about something else other than her! Think about running through forests, or flying on an ocean breeze, or burrowing in the desert…'

As he listed off all the different stuff he could do in his animal forms, he finally, slowly, found his thoughts drifting away from a certain pale, beautiful, violet haired… never mind.

'God damn it! Why isn't this freaking working for me! I want to give you space, yet I can't even get you out of my head!'

He found his anger slowly increasing inside him at a steady pace. He tried to again empty his mind of his different thoughts about her… and was still failing at achieving it.

"Why won't you get out of my head!" Beast Boy shouted to the ceiling.

His mind seemed to be mocking him at this point, bringing up every possible memory that it could find of Raven. Raven floating in the light of the setting sun on the tower rooftop. The times she showed that small special smile of hers. The one time she had willingly hugged him outside of her room.

It wasn't all good though. There was also times when he had made four eyes come out and beat the snot out of him. Times she had blown his breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, you name it, in his face and then proceeded to float away. The worst thought had been when she had slapped him on live TV, for no particular reason really. Now that one had been a particularly low blow for him. And it only helped to fuel the anger building up inside of his mind.

'All right! That does it!' He thought as he threw his cup of half full soy milk into the window. The cup shattered as it sent it's contents splattering all over the window and the tile floor in front of it.

'I'll clean it up later!' he thought, not particularly caring about it now. Or what a certain pale empath... 'FREAKING DAMN IT!'

Beast Boy opened said window and jumped out, desperate to rid his thoughts of her. He was heading towards the ground at a faster and faster speed as he fell. Then, at the last second, he morphed into a hummingbird and came out of his dive three feet above the ground. He started to fly laps around the tower, going up and down in height as he went. Sometimes flying slightly above the tower, other times going as far as skimming the ground with his wings and belly. He kept on accelerating, going faster and faster as he flew. When he couldn't go any faster in his form, he morphed into a faster bird and kept on increasing his pace. Pretty soon he ran out of birds to turn into that were faster than his current choice, a Pergrine Falcon. But, his mind was still thinking about none other than Raven. Despite how exhausted he was feeling from flying so hard for so long.

Still, he kept on pushing and pushing himself. Trying in vain to push her out of his mind… and still... failing.

Finally, giving up, Beast Boy flew back in through the open window of the tower. He turned into himself and collapsed onto the couch. He was breathing in and out really hard, exhausted from all the flying he had just done, and it felt like he had possibly bruised his ribs in the process.

But he still couldn't stop thinking about Raven. Despite the exhaustion dragging on him.

'What will it take to clear my mind! I just want to sleep this off!' he thought, anger giving way to despair. Suddenly, a memory of her from two days ago came into his mind and stayed. It had been of her meditating in the air to the side of him, when he had been planning on grabbing her attention.

'Raven, If this doesn't work, I'll be hitting myself in the head until I pass out.' Beast Boy thought as he sat up straight, and crossed his legs in front of him. He then proceeded to copy everything else from his memory to the last detail until he had it right.

'Raven, I really hope you don't do this for nothing.' he thought as he prepared himself to meditate for the first time in his life. He tried to focus his mind on other things at first, but found he was still drawing back to Raven each time. Then he had an idea. He started to murmur three words out loud, three words of his own, words that had been special to him for a long while. Words that he thought would drag his mind off her.

"Africa, Jump, Marie. Africa, Jump, Marie. Africa, Jump, Marie…"

Africa, the place he had grown up as a child, and inherited his shapeshifting abilities.

Jump City, the place where he finally found a family that had accepted him.

And Marie, the name of his mother. The one person that he at least knew that had loved him. Even after he had changed into... well Beast Boy, she had still loved him. And had let him know that one last time before she and Mark, his dad, fell over the waterfall.

Slowly… as he repeated these three words over and over, he finally found his thoughts, of Raven, clearing away from his mind. Uttering three of the most precious words (other than her name) to him over and over again. He felt himself finally relax in his space on the couch as he continued. Raven finally pushed out of his thoughts as his mind started to shut down.

Sleep, merciful sleep, was finally coming to him.

(This author isn't feeling any remorse at all for what happens next. Just so you guys know)

The Klaxon Alarms suddenly started going off. Bringing him out of his center and making him fall off the couch in surprise. Anger, and thoughts of Raven, came into his mind all over again.

Raven, who had woken up to the Klaxon alarms, teleported into the common room and ended up behind the changeling. That was when Beast Boy started his ranting, which had surprised her. "Why in hell's name can't these stupid criminals ever go to sleep at night! Why can't they be like normal people and let people like me sleep!" he shouted at the mission console in front of him as he typed furiously into the dumb thing, trying to figure out who he was going to be beating the crap out of tonight.

"Uh… Beast Boy…" Raven said, unsure of what to really say for this situation.

"And what the hell do you (bleep)-ing want now!" he shouted back to Raven in anger, not even realizing who he was yelling at in the first place.

This caused Raven to blink in shock. Hurt starting to show on her face. "What... did you, just say to me?"

This caused Beast Boy to turn around, ready to give whoever the hell it was a tongue lashing for being awake at this god forsaken hour. That was when he realized three things in that slow, tired mind of his. One, he and Raven were the only ones left in the tower at the moment. Two, she was standing in front of him, showing more and more hurt in her expression at his statement by the second.

And three, he had just managed to mess up again.

'Aw… CAN I EVER GET A BREAK!'

"Wait, Raven, I didn't-"

Her face became as cold and hard as stone, erasing the hurt she had just been showing. This stopped the changeling from continuing what he was going to say as she then spoke. "Let's just get this criminal(s) put away so I can pretend I never saw you tonight." she said in a cold, dead voice to Beast Boy. Causing him to fill up with guilt for what he said. He knew even though she was trying to hide it, it was still there.

"But, Raven…"

Her face turned into the famous Roth four eyed glare, shutting him up immediately. He turned around, and tried to operate the mission console with his tired, guilt filled mind. Miraculously, he succeeded in doing it, and figured out it was just a bank robbery/hostage situation at the Central Bank in Jump City. Something both of them could easily handle.

Turning around as he spoke "Well, it's just a bunch of dumb criminals thinking they can rob a bank at night, we can easily handle this. Right… uh… Raven?" Raven was nowhere in sight. He saw the wide open window with the soymilk stain still underneath it. He ran to it and saw her black raven flying out over the bay in the distance towards the bank.

Sigh "Why does it seem like everything I do... it only causes her to hate me more?"

Beast Boy morphed into his Peregrine Falcon, and then flew through the window, trying to at least catch up to Raven in his tired, worn out state.

At Central Bank

It was still dark since outside since it was only 4:00 in the morning. The bank had recently opened up with an early morning shift for those who needed to grab some money before they went to their early morning shifts. It was also the time when the bank had the least security. A group of eight individuals had taken advantage of this, and were currently in the process of robbing the while holding the early morning customers hostage. They had used the cover of the night to sneak in all the stuff they had needed for the heist.

Now, there was a police barricade out front, and about the whole Jump City Police Force was stationed behind it. There job was simple, keep the robbers pinned down long enough for the Teen Titans to come in, save the hostages, and take down the criminals. They would then transport the criminals to the prison where they would await their trials where they were either found guilty, or let out on a technicality. It was, unfortunately, more often the latter than the former for some odd reason.

Out of the sky, a black bird came down and stopped just a few feet above the roof and looked around itself with it's mystic looking eyes to examine it's surroundings and find any possible threats. Finding nothing, the black bird changed shape until Raven appeared, floating in it's place. Beast Boy was no where to be seen at the moment.

Coming out of the change, she opened up a portal beneath her and then sank down into the roof. It was then a green bird finally arrived, almost crash landing into the roof as it looked around. It seemed to hear something in the building beneath it as it morphed into a mouse and climbed into the ventilation ducts.

A black portal opened up in the roof above the main lobby. From it, Raven's head made an appearance as she examined the scene beneath her.

Directly beneath her was a group of people, bound and gagged, so they had to most likely be the hostages. There was two armed men on opposite sides of the scared hostages, keeping a watch for any police officers that were trying to be heroic. The vault, located behind the clerk's desk, was wide open with three more men lugging bags of money out in front of them. And, after using her empath senses, she found another three men behind a door to the side of the vault, using a machine to drill into the ground. Probably making an escape tunnel into the sewers or an underground cavern as there was many of those from the time Slade tried to sink Titan's Tower.

She silently moved with her portal towards the wall to her right, and came down in the shadows of the wall. The thugs, whoever, they were, still hadn't seen her, which was good for her. She moved onto the floor, fully emerging out of her portal at last and proceeded to silent glide towards one of the men. Still hiding most of herself in the shadows.

"Hey Jim, after we're done with this heist, what'll you do with your share of the money?" One of the two asked the other.

"I'd go and get myself a new house for myself Mac. What about you?" Mac had been facing away at this moment, so he didn't see it, much less, realize it, when Jim suddenly disappeared into the ground on the opposite side of the hostages. Knowing what was about to happen, they did the wise thing and stayed silent.

"Why I'd go to one of the best bars in town and drink my money away again." Starts turning around "Why would you even need to ask me that J-" he stopped. Finally realizing his buddy in crime wasn't at his post anymore. Before he could shout out, a black band appeared around his mouth, effectively silencing him. As a portal opened up beneath his feet in which he dropped into. He came out, now unarmed and bound in dark magic, at the foot of the bank, right in front of a group of police officers who had already cuffed his partner, Jim. Another portal opened, dropping out the group of now relieved hostages that they had were supposed to guard in the first place.

This was when Raven finally showed up in front of the two, who seemed to realize what had finally happened to them. "Do criminals ever learn from their mistakes?" Raven asked in a bored tone as she opened a portal and appeared above the vault doors. Leaving Jim and Mac to their fate with the grinning police officers.

Back inside, the three guys who had been taking bags of money out of the vault had noticed that their two comrades had disappeared. Along with the all hostages.

"Where did all our hostages go?" One of them asked.

"Well they're obviously not here Chase!" One of the other two yelled in anger at him.

"Well I can see that John." Chase said sarcastically. "I'm just asking what happened to them is all."

"Can't you tell? They obviously escaped you freaking moron!"

"Hey! I'm no moron!"

"Are too!"

"Are not!"

"Are too!" They continued arguing back and forth like a bunch of little kids to each other.

"You're both morons! You got it! Now shut up and grab the money! We don't want whatever happened to them to happen to us now!" the third guy finally shouted at his buddies behind him.

The other two grumbled their displeasure, but moved forward to grab the bags of money. Before they could grab them though, a portal quickly opened up underneath the pile and closed after the money had fallen through.

"Who's there!?" the guy named Chase shouted out.

"You idiot! Do you really expect an answer to just pop out of thin-" John was interrupted as he suddenly found himself bound and falling into a portal beneath his feet. Before the third guy could react, he also disappeared in the same manner as his partner.

Chase, who was now alone, started shaking in fear as he waved his gun around desperately. "Who's out there?!" he shouted, trying to put on a brave face but failing to do so.

His weapon became covered in a layer of black magic before it was torn from his outstretched hands into the darkness surrounding around him. Upping the fear factor for poor Chase.

"Show yourself! You coward!" he shouted into the shadows around him. That was when he seemed to realize something. The shadows around him around him were actually moving (let me just clarify that what he is seeing is actually Raven's powers at work here. Just in case anyone was confused by this). The fear started to spike inside Chase as he debated on what to do. Finally, he decided to try and run for the door that led to the escape tunnel his companions were supposed to have dug.

They hadn't finished it though, because they had been knocked out by some weird green animal while they had been distracted with the drilling. Said green animal was now walking toward's the door the other guy was making a run for.

Chase was just about to reach the door, thinking he was going to make it, when it opened up, revealing a very tired, yet very angry green gorilla behind it. This Made Chase stop in his tracks at seeing the tired, yet menacing animal in front of him.

It took a step forward, and then another, getting closer and closer to the unarmed, scared out of his mind criminal. The gorilla let out a menacing growl just a couple feet in front of Chase, promising pain and misery if he didn't surrender at the same time. Chase finally decided that the heist he and his buddies had planned for months now, wasn't really as worth it as he had thought after all. He dropped to the floor.

"Please! Don't kill me! I'm too young to die!" he yelled out as he pulled himself into the fetal position in front of the menacing animal in front of him. He was finally granted mercy as a black portal opened up underneath him, dropping him in front of the police outside the bank, away from the scary shadows and the scary miscolored gorilla. He'd have to have years of therapy before he finally recovered from the scary ordeal that night.

For now though, he was handcuffed, and put in a car with the rest of his crime buddies. There was the other four that Raven had caught, and the last three that Beast Boy had taken by surprise. They were still knocked out on the floor of the van. The van drove off, the last criminal of the night being taken care of by the two heroes.

Back to Beast Boy

Beast Boy was now currently leaning by the flagpole in front of the bank, super tired from the night's ordeals. Raven was giving the police officer the status report on what had happened while they had both been inside the bank. Also reassuring the officer that not one dollar had been stolen this time, and that there wasn't all to much damage for once.

This was something Robin normally did, but since Raven had handled the majority of the criminals, and because Beast Boy was to freaking tired to really speak for a period of time, she was doing it instead. Even though he was beyond tired, he still couldn't stop feeling guilty about what happened before they left.

'Why did I have to be an idiot again and just yell at her again? And since when do I even cuss like that to anyone? I didn't even do that to Terra when she had freaking betrayed us back then!'

Sigh 'She's hurt again because of me, I must be worse than Malchior in her mind by now.'

The changeling had let out a sigh, drawing slight attention from a certain empath who had just finished giving the officer her status report on what had happened. She had almost forgotten up to that point that Beast Boy had even been there in the first place. Even though she had teleported the criminals he had knocked out to the police, she had still forgotten that he was still there. And unfortunately for him, she was still a little pissed off at what had transpired a little while ago.

Beast Boy opened his mouth, as if to say something to her, when she flew off. Not even sparing a glance his way. Beast Boy sighed again, reluctantly morphing into a hummingbird as he tried to fly on his own toward's the tower in the distance.

Her feelings had been hurt, badly, by what he had said to her earlier. Inside, her emotions were a real mess. Her Rage wanted to act out on Beast Boy, while Affection simply wanted to talk to him and ask why he said such a thing to her.

She kept on flying towards the T-Tower in the distance. To the side, she saw a green hummingbird zigzagging through the air in the same direction she was going, almost hitting her as it passed by her on it's course. Oh how easy it would have been for her to take her emotions out on the flying green idiot, and send him plummeting into the bay below.

But still, her Affection, and the memory of what had happened just two days ago, managed to keep her anger in check inside her mind. Raven flew on, not really caring about the tired changeling in front of her.

She didn't care how badly he had hurt her earlier.

She didn't care that he had tried to apologize to her back in the tower.

She didn't care about how tired he'd looked when she saw him pass by her.

Heck, she even didn't care that Beast Boy was flying in front of her at the moment anymore. Or that he was starting to slow down, and losing height, and morphing back into himself-

...

(Okay I guess I lied about that part)

'Beast Boy!' Raven thought as she suddenly did find herself caring that he was currently falling from the sky towards the bay below, and that he was doing absolutely nothing about it either. She reached out with her powers and grabbed the changeling in the air just before he would have slammed into the waves beneath him at lethal force. She then used her powers to lift him up beside her and flew them both back to the tower still about a half-mile from them.

She phased them both through the windows of the infirmary and examined him to see what had happened to him, and was therefore puzzled, when she found no visible injuries whatsoever on him.

She reached out with her senses towards his mind, and found that it was mostly inactive. Apparently, the changeling had finally gotten his wish and had fallen asleep while he had been flying back towards the tower. If Raven hadn't been there though, Beast Boy would have hit the water at a speed that would have severely injured him, at best.

Raven let out a sigh of relief, realizing that he was still mainly okay. He was just asleep for now. Badly needing it after the last two days.

Knowledge spoke up in her mind. 'Maybe, Beast Boy had been angry earlier, because he hadn't fallen asleep after you left him in the infirmary. He was in the Common Room well before you were, so he had to have been having trouble falling asleep. And when the alarms had went off he finally lost it.' Raven was still a little hurt about what he had said, but decided that maybe her Knowledge was right this time. She'd have to speak to him about it when he woke up, but she didn't want to stay on bad terms with Beast Boy, although she still didn't want to pursue her feelings in fear of being rejected by him. For if he did reject him, her emotions could reach out and harm him in the process. No, she didn't want anything like that to happen at all.

For now, she grabbed a couple blankets from the closet and gently placed them over him, covering his whole body up to his chin.

She stared at him for a moment, entranced at how peaceful he looked while sleeping, before she turned around to go back to her room to sleep as well. After all, she hadn't gotten much sleep either because of the crime alert.

But then, before she reached the doors, Raven heard Beast Boy tossing and turning on his gurney. Thinking he was just burrowing into his blankets, she didn't really pay it much thought and continued out the door. She was just starting to close it.

And that was when she heard him start to whimper. She slid the door back open and hurried back into the infirmary. As she approached again, she realized that the changeling had tears running down his cheeks as he was thrashing about on his bed. Almost as if he was trying to escape something.

'He's not dreaming, he's having a nightmare!' Raven realized inside her mind. She thought that she should just let him be at first, it was something private for him after all, and she didn't want to mess around in something that didn't involve her. But then he started talking out loud while still in his nightmare.

"No, please, don't hurt her, just kill me instead, please! Just don't hurt her, take me instead... I beg you… No... JUST STOP HURTING RAVEN! I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU WANT! JUST STOP HURTING HER!" she couldn't stand by anymore, whatever was happening in his nightmare, it involved her in some way now. And he was suffering from whatever was happening to her while inside it.

Making up her mind, she quickly got in her lotus position and floated a couple feet off the ground to the side of his gurney.

"Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" she shouted at the end as she put forth power in her words. Her head slumped forward as her soul self came out of her body. Raven, now in her soul form, looked towards Beast Boy and carefully examined his mind first from a distance so she'd know where to go inside of it to get to Beast Boy. And then, she flew the short distance that separated them and traveled into the depths of his mind.

'I'm coming! Just hold on Garfield!'

Author's Notes:

So… my website got finished, and I got caught up in Calculus and my Senior Project. I felt like I could finally spare some time to write tonight. I got this chapter done, and I managed to type up part of the fights for Jump and Steele City in my other story. Still have Titan's North and Central City, but it's getting there.

Also, I'm going to write a One-Shot story for Valentine's Day. Not sure when I'm posting it though (I still have to write it). Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, because I most certainly did. It was new, doing it from the perspective of the criminals themselves, but I think I got it down pretty well. Also, I don't really cuss much, so when you see this (bleep/beep) just insert a random cuss word of your choice. It's your mind doing it and not mine.

Finally: I want you guys to guess just what's going on in Beast Boy's nightmare! I already left a hint that it involves Raven, and it sounds as if someone or something is hurting her. I know what it is, and I've also dropped other hints from the last couple chapters as well. Next chapter will start in Beast Boy's nightmare!

Till Next Time

Allen