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Teen Titans: The Garden

Chapter 2

The emoticlones plan. A Garden!

Beast Boy leaned forward bringing his face closer to the bathroom mirror, confirming his original thoughts, he showed no signs of his injuries from the day before.

'Weird.' He thought to himself.

When Beast Boy had awoken an hour or so previously the first thing he'd noticed was the sound of rain coming from the outside, glancing out he saw the rain continue to fall and the wind still blowing hard, however neither were as violent as they had been previously.

'Weather's taking a turn for the better at least.' He had thought to himself before heading to one of the Tower's bathrooms for a shower, where he now resided. Beast Boy gently moved his fingers over his skin where his black eye had previously been, no pain, no swelling, no discolouration of his skin, nothing. 'Did Raven come back and heal me in my sleep?' he thought moments before laughing out loudly.

"Yeah right." He mumbled to himself, "And I'll be a monkey's uncle." He said before shifting into a monkey and dancing in front of the mirror before changing back and laughing at his own antics, before pulling off his clothes, turned on the shower, checked the water's temperature then stepped inside and let the grime and sweat that clung to his body be washed away. He felt his muscles relax under the warm continuous torrent, his mind felt clearer even if for those brief few moments, it felt like all of his problems were pushed aside and he could simply relax and allow himself some peace.

'Dude, I deserve this.' He thought to himself peacefully. 'Especially after everything that's been going on.'

Just before the freakishly bad weather there had been rumours spreading through the underground that Slade was back, which as one could guess put Robin on high alert and suddenly everything became related to Slade, from bank robberies, to super villain attacks, super villains whom had somehow been freed from their icy prison, each admitting to waking up in a different location and simply going back to Jump. So yeah, Robin was getting Slade-paranoid again which caused a bit of tension among the Titans, thankfully that had been some time ago and the terrible weather had ceased a lot of crime, thus putting Robin in a better mood. Then there was Raven, the demon girl, what she'd done was obvious.

'What the heck is going on with you Rae?' he thought sadly, they'd been decent friends once, what had changed? He didn't know but he wanted to, maybe it was his fault, maybe he did something really, really bad but couldn't remember, just anything that explained her behaviour, he personally didn't buy the "beating to improve him" theory, things like that never worked in real life.

'Maybe she's just a heartless demon who needs to be shown her place.' A dark voice spoke from within Beast Boy. 'If not simply put down like the monster she is.'

'DUDE!' Beast Boy though angrily as his eyes shot open letting the water from the shower pour onto them. 'That is not cool dude, as bad as Raven gets I wouldn't do that to her!'

'And that is why she knows she CAN do this to you, she knows you're spineless, she knows you will not retaliate in the way that needs to be done.' The Beast whispered. 'Show her our true self Garfield, show her whom she is dealing with.'

Beast Boy exhaled sharply and stared at the bottom of the shower, he didn't want to deal with him right now, didn't want to think about any of this anymore.

'Please, just drop it.' He begged. 'I'm not that kind of guy.'

There was a brief silence between the two.

'You and I both know the truth Garfield, but for now, I'll be quiet.' The Beast said, not unkindly, before Beast Boy felt its presence recede further into his mind.

Well suffice to say his mood was all but ruined and now he wanted to get some breakfast and get on with his day. Heaving a sigh through his nostrils Beast Boy shut off the water, stepped out of the shower and prepared himself for the day ahead.

"Something must be done."

"I know sister, but what?"

"The stupid, self-righteous BITCH is going to ruin EVERYTHING!"

"Calm yourself, losing your temper isn't going to help matters any."

"Well you tell me what we're supposed to do then, hmm."

"Well losing it again ain't gunna be helping him any, is it?"

"I suppose you're right. But why is this happening?"

It was a valid question that none of them could answer. Multiple figures stood in a realm of fire and brimstone with one of their own stood upon a pedestal, chained tightly against large stone pillars, the question hung in the air between them all as they tried to solve it.

"I don't know." One, cloaked in yellow, said as she pushed her glasses up to her eyes, the others looked to her without much surprise, frowns on each of their faces including one cloaked in pink.

"Well you still not knowing is a major problem." One cloaked in brown spoke out, all the attention then turned to her. "Nor do I sadly, everything she is doing is counterproductive to what we're all trying to achieve, and yet she somehow … she isn't feeling it."

"She's suppressing us too much." The one whom was chained said, her eyes shining as red as blood. "Is she continues this way she'll ruin everything."

"I know, we all know." The yellow one replied.

"I swear if she does just one more thing, I'm going to lose it." The red eyed one replied.

"You losing your temper will only make things worse, again." The brown cloaked one replied with a small glare.

All of them were frustrated, pushed beyond the limits of their patience, and a solution to their problem was nowhere in sight.

"We'll have to bring her here." The yellow one replied once more gaining all the others attention. "We bring her here, and we will deal with her."

"And how do you propose we do that?" the red eyed one asked.

"We're an intelligent and creative lot, I'm sure together we'll think of something." She replied.

The rest of Raven's emoticlones looked to one another questioningly, then questioning turned to curiosity, then acceptance, they were Raven, parts of a whole yet whole within themselves, evolved beyond their original design and use, they had become individual, yes they would make Raven come here and yes they would make Raven see the light, even if they had to burn her pupils with it.

"Then let's get to planning." Rage snarled in reply.

In the outside world the Titans were gathered in the common room having just finished breakfast not an hour ago; Robin was reading the morning newspaper "The Jump Times" talking about what celebrities had been saying and other trivial nonsense, some things were on the atrocious weather that had been plaguing Jump and a possible connection to a "Cape" or mutant, Robin himself had thought about that, but had found no solid proof, otherwise there was nothing much to be said in the papers.

Starfire meanwhile was looking through another magazine, the girl trying to broaden her interests past makeup, the celebrity gossip and cooking, the girl has always been interested on broadening her knowledge of Earth and it's customs, at the moment her latest interest was agriculture, or rather more specifically plant life and gardening, at times she would ask her boyfriend what a word meant or to explain a particular phrase and he would do so happily.

Beast Boy and Cyborg were excitedly playing a videogame, with the volume turned low as to not instil a certain half-demon wrath again, which left Beast Boy with another bruise. For his part Cyborg was only half concentrating on the game, his thought more concerned about Beast Boy and his relationship with Raven, sure they'd never got on great, well more Raven never got on with Beast Boy, but they'd been friendly at the very least, sure Raven would quip about his little buddy's intelligence or his height, or his bad manners, grammar, his hygiene- okay she had a lot to say about Beast Boy and would usually take out some frustrations out on him. But what the heck was going on now? Things had gotten worse since Tokyo, he'd noticed, heck a blind man could notice, something had changed in Raven she was far shorter in temper, with Beast Boy only it seemed, she was perfectly fine with everyone else. At first he'd thought they were in a secret relationship, and her being brutal was to hide it, but then the theory went out the window quite a while back, Raven wasn't hiding anything, she was just being plain brutal. He hadn't wanted to say anything to Raven in case he garnered her anger. He felt sorry for his little buddy, whatever he'd done to Raven he hadn't deserved this, and yesterday was only worse when BB got blamed for the prank he himself had done. But something had changed in Beast Boy suddenly, when Raven had demanded they turn down the volume, he'd expected BB to cower and lower the volume so Raven wouldn't hit him, but no:

"Oh, and what are you gunna do if we don't?" he said back with an edge to his tone.

His reply had come in the form of a frying pan, coated in dark energy, flying from the sink and smacking him in the side of face.

"That answer your question?" Raven replied with a slight glare.

Cyborg had broken them up before anything happened and turned down the volume, and he and BB had returned to their game, however he could have sworn he heard Beast Boy mumble.

"She'll get what's coming to her."

To say Cyborg was worried was an understatement, he knew it was only a matter of time before Beast Boy lost it, but what would happen? And would there be regrets later.

Raven was as usual reading, after her little disagreement with Beast Boy she had to close her eyes and silently meditated, her emotions were getting restless and very, very loud. To be honest she was rather surprised at Beast Boy's sudden attitude change, not that it was a welcome surprise, but she wouldn't allow herself to be scared of Beast Boy of all people.

'You're going to push him too far one day Raven.' A familiar voice, her own voice, spoke up from within her, the tone one of warning, in her mindscape she could see her brown cloaked emoticlones glaring at her.

'What's he going to do? Pull a prank?' she mentally replied. Raven mentally rolled her eyes and pushed down her emotions once more, however the emoticlone's warning might not have been too misplaced, even without her empathy she could see the anger in Beast Boy's face from the corner of her eye, not that she was worried, she was a half-demon and he could turn into animals, what did she have to be afraid of?

The tower's atmosphere seemed to settle down, the tension between Raven and Beast Boy all but vanished as he and his cybernetic friend continued their video game, peace once again settled in the tower, until.

"OOOHH YEAH!" Cyborg suddenly yelled out, none of the others flinching, now used to the half-machines' sudden outbursts, "IN YO' FACE GRASS STAIN!" he cheered victoriously and raised his arms like he were a champion.

"Awwwww MAN!" Beast Boy complained dropping his controller onto his lap. "DUDE, you totally cheated!" He added pointing an accusing finger at his friend.

Cyborg looked at his friend smugly. "That so, then how about a rematch?" he taunted.

"Alright Cy, consider it brunged! … Ugh branged!" he replied, messing up with his words.

"You've still got the grammar skills of a four year old." Raven spoke up beside them in a monotonous tone.

Beast Boy grit his teeth together and angry snarl forming on his face, he was about to turn and confront the Empath when a sudden squeal of excitement caught their attention.

"OH FRIENDS!" Starfire gasped with wonder as she began to float in the air from her joy. "Come look at this most beautiful of sights!"

"What've you found there Star?" Robin asked as he settled the newspaper on his lap.

"Look boyfriend Robin." Starfire exclaimed as she placed the magazine into his hands. The other three Titan watched as Robin looked over whatever it was Starfire had seen and nodded his head a little.

"It's really pretty Star." Robin said pleasantly and passed her the magazine back.

"Come look friends!" Starfire said as she turned her attention to her others friends and flew over to them and held the magazine so they could all see.

"It's a garden." Raven uttered without much care.

"I know that friend, but it is such a beautiful garden, and as it reads here, "Has been voted the number one garden in California"." Starfire read out. "I would love to have such a place of my own." She held the magazine closely to her chest and cradled it lovingly.

"You want a garden?" Beast Boy asked with a raised brow.

"Oh yes! I would love to grow and nurture my own plant life." She joyfully said as she spun in mid-air.

Behind her Robin scratched the back of his head, before speaking in an apologetic tone. "Sorry to say Star but, it'd be really hard to grow a garden here."

Starfire turned around, her joyful expression immediately replaced with that of sorrow. "It is? But why?" she asked.

"Well girl," Cyborg spoke up making her turn her head, Robin was glad someone else had to break it to her with him rather than he do it himself, he hated making her upset. "We're on a very rocky not much grass or vegetation around here, except moss, there's no place to put a garden, even a little one."

Starfire landed on the ground with a forlorn look and dropped her magazine. "Oh, I see." She whispered in defeat.

Beast Boy knelt down and picked up the magazine and flipped back to the page she had been on before, he looked it over for a minute before a thought came into his head.

"Actually, it may not be impossible." He commented while deep in thought.

Starfire looked to her little green friend as if he were a beacon of hope.

"What you talkin' about B?" Cyborg asked.

"Well it was just a thought but -" Beast Boy started to say.

"Be careful not to hurt yourself." Raven muttered sarcastically, ignoring the glare Beast Boy shot her way.

"Ha-ha, you're so funny." Beast Boy shot back sarcastically.

"Someone has to be." She replied with a small glare of her own.

"Alright y'all, movin' on!" Cyborg interjected loudly, before looking at his little buddy. "What were you thinkin' B?" he asked hoping to get back on topic.

Beast Boy grumbled something incomprehensible, before looking back to the magazine.

"As I was about to say," he began once more, "we may live on a rocky island but, it wouldn't be hard to make a garden." He stated, "the way I see it we have two options," he then turned his attention to Starfire, "Star or someone could blow a big enough hole in the ground, we could fill it with dirt, plant some grass seed, then whatever else Star wants and hey presto; a garden." He explained.

Everyone was silent as they let the information sink in and go through his idea, they stood stock; still enough to the point Beast Boy would have though time had frozen if not for the sound of their breathing.

Starfire hadn't taken her eyes from Beast Boy since he had begun, then upon hearing his suggestion turned her focus to Cyborg whom was looking rather thoughtful before he noticed Starfire looking at him for clarification. Slowly Cyborg nodded.

"Yeah, yeah it's possible I suppose." He shrugged.

That was all Starfire needed to hear. "OH FRIEND!" Starfire flew up to Beast Boy and hugged him tightly cutting off his air. "Thank you!"

"And the second option?" Robin asked.

Starfire remembered Beast Boy saying they had two options and thus lowered herself to the ground and released her friend. "What is this second option Beast Boy?" she asked.

Beast Boy meanwhile puffed and panted for precious air before standing back up straight, "We could ugh … we could build one indoors." He suggested.

"Just because your room is a mess Beast Boy doesn't another room should be." Raven stated.

Beast Boy turned around to say something to the grey skinned empath, only to be interrupted by Robin.

"Raven." Robin said, an edge to his voice like warning, Raven just huffed and turned her attention back to the changeling. "How would an indoor garden work?" he asked in a calmer tone of voice.

"Easy." Beast Boy replied feeling smug at Robin backing him up. "This tower is huge right? There's probably a few rooms we have that don't have any use, we could turn one or two into an area for Star's garden."

Cyborg looked to the ceiling for a moment, a look of deep thought spreading across his face.

"Why do we need a garden of all things?" Raven asked.

"Ugh hello Rae, because Starfire wants one, and wouldn't it be nice to see your best friend happy?" Beast Boy asked glaring at the girl.

"I would really love to have a garden friend Raven." Starfire stated with a small smile on her face.

"Ugh." Raven groaned and rolled her eyes. "Starfire is always happy." She replied.

Everyone ignored that statement as Starfire looked at Cyborg.

"You are looking awfully thoughtful friend Cyborg, what troubles you?" Starfire asked.

Cyborg pressed his lips tightly together before replying. "Just thinking is all, if we went with B's plan for an indoor garden, we'd need a place where plants would get plenty of Sun."

"You're actually taking Beast Boy seriously?" Raven asked a little disbelief slipping into her usual tone.

"Yeah." Cyborg replied finally taking his gaze from the ceiling and looked to Raven. "Why wouldn't I? It's a good idea."

"The phrases "Beast Boy" and "good idea" can't be in the same sentence without a negative." Raven replied.

"Oh come ON!" Beast Boy roared suddenly. "What is your DEAL Raven? Haven't you had enough shots at me for one day?" he complained and stood right in front of her causing her to glare at him.

"It's not my fault you're an idiot, this idea of yours is pointless, and the fact you thought it up makes it stupid." She stated.

"Oh so because it's my idea it's stupid, but if Robin or Cyborg thought of it, it'd be a good idea, right?" he retorted loudly.

"They wouldn't even think of it which is why they didn't, only you would say something like this, we're superheroes we have a duty to the people, we can't waste our time and budget being gardeners." She growled in return, her temper beginning to rise.

"Oh really, but Cyborg can work on his cars, and Starfire can get exotic foods from other planets to cook." He replied heatedly, his own temper beginning to flare.

"We actually use the T-Car as transportation and a weapon if need be and Starfire uses her own money to get her ingredients, the only one who wastes our budget is you, with your stupid pathetic videogames." Raven said coldly.

Beast Boy grit his teeth together and clenched his fists tightly causing the joints in his fingers to crack.

"ENOUGH!" Robin yelled, diffusing the situation. "Raven enough, Beast Boy …" he sighed to calm his nerves, "leave the room, you might wanna rest we've got training in an hour."

Beast Boy glanced back at Raven angrily before storming off, everyone was silent as they heard the door swoosh open then close. Raven noticed three pairs of eyes on her.

"What?" she asked indignantly.

"What was that Raven?" Robin demanded. "Are you trying to get a rise out of Beast Boy?"

"It's not my fault he's undisciplined and gets emotional easily, I was simply stating facts." She replied.

"No you weren't Raven." Cyborg accused her. "You were just being mean, and to be frank, you have been since Tokyo."

"I simply realised he wasn't pulling his weight, and that was putting us all in danger, I'm trying to get him to shape up." She defended herself.

"You're wrong Raven, you're dead wrong." Cyborg replied glaring at the girl before looking to the others.

Raven sighed. "Whatever." She said before sitting back down, opened her book and continued to read.

The tension was thick and the room was silent, the only sound being that of the rain pounding on the large glass windows of the common room.

"I'm gunna go look for BB, check he's okay." Cyborg stated after a minute or so then turned and left the room, he paused near the door and turned back to Raven. "Just for the record Raven, I love playing videogames."

Robin and Starfire nodded to the large teen. Starfire pick up her magazine and frowned, she hated seeing her friends fight, and prayed to X'Hal that it would blow over, she looked at the garden once more and smiled; her very own garden, how wonderful and beautiful she would make it.

'You'll regret this one day Raven!' A annoyed voice called to Raven from within her head.

Raven rolled her eyes with annoyance. 'Oh really?' she asked sarcastically.

'Just you wait Raven.' Brave glared at Raven from within.

'Regardless of Brave's threats Raven, you're attitude towards Beast Boy is uncalled for.' Wisdom chastised Raven, as if speaking to an unruly child.

'Don't you take that tone with me.' Raven warned, her eyes narrowing slightly. 'And I've told you, Beast Boy's shenanigans and his laziness will get one of us hurt or worse, I won't allow that to happen.' Raven replied.

'Are you so sure Raven?' Wisdom asked as if hiding some secret.

'What else could there be?' Raven mentally replied.

'Maybe you're just a BIG MEANIE!' Happy yelled while stomping her feet.

'And you are soooooooo mature.' Raven drolled out and resumed reading.

'You'll push him away forever Raven, is that what you want?' Wisdom warned.

Raven paused in thought, a sudden dread thought crept into her mind before it vanished. 'At least I wouldn't have to hear his stupid jokes.' She replied.

'HIS JOKES ARE FUNNY!' Happy yelled, causing Raven to wince at the sheer volume.

'Happy stop yelling!' Raven growled, though she was becoming concerned about her emoticlone's out of character attitude.

'Meanie.' Happy grumbled with a little pout and crossed her arms in a huff.

'So you want Beast Boy to be more mature Raven? To be what, more like you? A girl who grew up without friends or kindly interaction, you want him to be cold towards those who enjoy the simpler things in life, just like you?' Wisdom asked darkly, glaring at her originator.

Wisdom's words had struck a nerve close to Raven's heart, memories of her early childhood brought to the surface of her mind, being forced to meditate even though she didn't want to, being made to not feel for the good of the universe, Raven frowned ever so slightly.

'Of course not, but if he were more like Robin-.' She began.

'A workaholic with notable paranoia?' Interrupted Wisdom.

'As much as we like Robin, his faults are rather unhealthy for the mind.' Knowledge spoke up. 'And to be honest, we don't want another Robin on the team.'

'Enough!' Raven demanded. 'Beast Boy is immature, lazy and careless, he's fifteen years old and a superhero, and yet he still acts like he's a child, he needs to grow up for the benefit of us all!' she argued.

'BB is good as he is.' Happy spoke up grumpily.

'You're right he is fifteen years old Raven, but need I remind you that being a hero is a job, as far as the city is concerned, as long as he does his best at his job he can be as silly and care free as he wishes, why can't you accept that?' Wisdom replied.

'Being a hero is more than just a job.' Raven growled.

'Oh of course.' Rude replied sarcastically. 'Being a hero should take up your entire life, every moment you exist should be dedicated to it, from the moment you awaken in the morning till the point you pass out from exhaustion, of course.'

Thoughts of Batman and Mento arose in her mind, from what she's learned of Batman from Robin, the guy would've made her look sociable, and from what she'd seen of Mento, Raven shivered. She didn't like him, she wouldn't have been able to put up with him.

'And just think, Beast Boy was under him for several years, what does that tell you?' Knowledge asked.

Raven let out a wary sigh. 'Why are you all defending him? You are my emotions you should be agreeing with me.' Raven asked.

'Simply put Raven we are emotion, unadulterated by pride or ego.' Knowledge replied though her words were only partly truthful.

Raven closed her eyes and whispered her mantra quieting her rowdy emotions, when she could no longer hear them she leaned back comfortably against the couch and continued to read in peace.

Beast Boy growled angrily as he pulled his fist from his bedroom wall, a small indention the shape of a fist left in place, why had Raven suddenly turned on him like this, he knew her reasoning but what had he done to provoke her, he hadn't changed at all, was that the problem? Was he too immature?

"No, I'm fine, it's just Raven being a bi-jerk." He said quietly to himself. The Beast had been active during their confrontation it wanted action it wanted him to do something. But what would that have done? Caused noting but more troubles and even more arguments.

Beast Boy turned back to his bed and climbed up the first bunk then laid down upon the top bunk and stared at the ceiling, would he have to leave to resolve the conflict? Raven was always picking on him whenever he opened his mouth or did anything fun, even to alleviate the frustrations and settle his nerves that the job of being a hero brought. She always make him feel like he was nothing, always slapping him on the back of the head, or using her powers to hurt him, sure he could deal with being thrown out of a window he'd gotten used to that but now … he left like he was a ticking time bomb with a pressure sensitive trigger, the timer was up, all he needed was something or someone to set him off.

Beast Boy close his eyes and let out a long, drawn out sigh.

There came a knock at the door.

"Yo BB." came Cyborg's voice. "Can I come in lil' buddy?" he asked.

"Sure Cy." Beast Boy replied.

The door slid open, Cyborg looked around the bedroom, truthfully he'd seen it in a worse state than it was now and at least he could see the floor now. Carefully he made his way to his little buddy then leaned against the top bunk, behind him the door slid shut with a swish.

"You wanna talk 'bout it?" Cyborg asked.

Beast Boy shrugged before putting his hands behind his head. "What's there to talk about dude? Raven's just being Raven, I can't do anything right around that girl."

Cyborg looked him over from head to toe, or boot rather. "How long's it been this bad BB?"

"Since Tokyo." The young boy replied dejectedly, confirming what Cyborg had thought.

Cyborg glumly nodded, "Come on, come sit with me." He said before he ducked down and sat on the bottom bunk, a few seconds later Beast Boy dropped to the floor, landing gracefully on his feet before sitting next to him.

"What's her deal Cy?" the young green boy asked.

"I don't know BB, sorry." Cyborg patted his friend's back carefully. "But I just want to tell you B, what Raven said was uncalled for." He commented looking at his friend with unshakable confidence. "You've always had our back man, and when push came to shove, you've always been there." Cyborg patted his friends back.

"Thanks Cy' sometimes it's actually nice to hear something like that." Beast Boy replied.

"I've always got your back buddy." Cyborg replied, he had noticed Beast Boy visibly relax so decided to change the subject. "Soooo, this garden idea?"

"I know it seems stupid." Beast Boy groaned resting his hands under his chin. "But hey it's not as if it's a terrible idea."

"N'aw man, it's not a terrible idea." Cyborg conceded. "Just not one anyone thought would ever come up." The large boy shrugged. "We're superhero, what do we want with a garden?"

"I guess that's true." Beast Boy shrugged before looking up to his friend.

Cyborg looked down to Beast Boy, his eyes immediately going to the bruising around Beast Boy's eye, yet didn't notice how the bruising had lessened since he'd last saw his little green friend.

"You want me to take a look at that?" he asked pointing to his friend's eye.

"Just a bruise man I'll be okay." The green boy sighed.

Cyborg frowned, he hated seeing his normally happy-go-lucky buddy so down in the dumps, hated seeing the guy upset, the look of anything but irritation or joy just looked so wrong on Beast Boy's face. He decided immediately to change the subject.

"So, I was thinkin' we can't have a garden outside." He paused and looked back to Beast Boy. "Knowing our luck, Starfire would blast too big a hole and we'd start sinkin'." He joked wiggling his eyebrow for extra effect, Beast Boy laughed at the image his mind conjured up.

"So I'm thinkin' if you and I go have a look on a different level, we'll find a room or two to put it in yeah?" he offered with an enthusiastic smile

"We should get Starfire in on this, it is what she wanted." Beast Boy replied.

"Totally man." Cyborg began then looked and his internal clock. "Come on, we'll get her now, we still got training in an hour." Cyborg got up and looked to his still seated friend.

"But what about Raven?" he asked glumly his eyes narrowing.

"Ignore her BB, come on." Cyborg replied and walked to the door.

Beast Boy exhaled and jumped to his feet before following his friend out the door.

The other titans were reading quietly to themselves, the tension from before had faded to nothing. Raven hadn't been contacted by her annoying emotions since their last conversation and she was enjoying the peace, that was until she heard the 'swoosh' of the door open, she didn't turn her head but felt the presence of her two other friends.

'If you even consider Beast Boy a friend, bitch.' Rude spat out in her mind.

'Shut up.' Raven demanded mentally.

Cyborg and Beast Boy walked past Robin and walked up to Starfire who was sat at the other side of the couch just in Raven's peripheral vision.

"Hey Star," Cyborg greeted, causing the alien to look up and smile, "me and BB are gunna go look around the tower see where we can set up this garden of yours, you wanna help?" Cyborg asked with a smile.

"Oh yes friends!" Starfire cheered as she jumped and hovered in the air. "I would love to help"

'H-he's not even l-looking at us, now.' A whimpering voice came within Raven.

'Don't start, Timid.' Raven groaned mentally.

'B-but he may not be our friend a-anymore.' Timid said before curling up and crying.

'I think you're being a bit dramatic, it's Beast Boy, he'll be back to annoying us in no time.' Raven replied.

'You hope.' Rage hissed darkly within her mind.

Raven blinked and searched for the embodiment of her Rage, sure enough the emotion was still locked away where she should be.

'We told you things would get worse Raven, maybe you should think about apologising.' Wisdom suggested.

Raven forced her emotions down and glanced at Beast Boy who was talking to Starfire with Cyborg, not even bothering to acknowledge Raven's presence.

'Idiot.' Raven thought to herself but still didn't pull her eyes away as Starfire arose and floated beside Beast Boy and Cyborg as they walked out of the room.

"Don't forget guys we've got training in about half an hour, so be quick." Robin called after the departing Titans.

"Don't worry dude we'll be there!" Beast Boy called back.

When the door closed Robin turned his attention to Raven.

"We need to talk." He said sternly.

"If this is about earlier, save it." Raven replied in monotone.

"No Raven I won't save it. This is a serious problem." Robin shot back as he got up and made his way closer. "Look I know Beast Boy goes too far with his pranks sometimes, and I know he can be a bit much, sure I'd like to slap the guy a time or two but what you're doing is going too far." Robin crossed his arms.

"And I told you Robin, I'll keep doing this till he gets himself in better shape, till he's stopped being such a hindrance." Raven replied.

"But he isn't a hindrance Raven, I don't get where you're getting that idea from." Robin replied confused a single eyebrow raise just over his mask. "Nothing has changed with Beast Boy."

"Exactly that!" Raven shot back with annoyance and stood up. "He hasn't changed, he's still the annoyance he was when we started the team."

"You know that isn't true Raven, and don't even try lying to me about it, he's changed since then, but Beast Boy being a dependable teammate? No, that hasn't changed." Robin sighed and rubbed his forehead. "This bullying can't go on Raven, eventually something is gunna happen." He warned

"What you think Beast Boy actually retaliate." She replied sarcastically, Beast Boy would never retaliate.

"I'm just warning you Raven, if he doesn't lash out who knows what else he might do." Robin replied before walking back to his chair to read his paper.

'He might leave.' A voice whispered in Raven's ear causing her to pause before shaking it from her mind she looked back to her book continued from where she left off.

Elsewhere in the tower Starfire, Cyborg and Beast Boy walked the halls of another floor, Starfire came upon a door and pointed to it.

"What of this one friends?" she asked

Cyborg walked up to the door '47-G', code, his cybernetic brain listing all the coded doors and came upon 47-G itself.

"Storage area, it's worth a look." He commented before putting in the code and stepped in.

"Hey." Beast Boy exclaimed pleasantly as he entered right behind Starfire, his voice echoed slightly. "The room's big, spacious and empty. This could work."

Starfire floated around the room before hovering in the centre spinning slowly to take in the true size of the room.

"And by my calculations, if we put in some reinforced windows this room would get plenty of sunlight, what you think Star?" Cyborg asked as he crossed his arms.

"Oh yes friends! This is it!" she exclaimed gleefully, she landed on her feet while clapping her hands with excitement, suddenly a GLORIOUS thought came to mind. "OH! Friends!" She squealed. "What if we all did the planting of our own plants?" she asked excitedly.

Beast Boy and Cyborg looked at each other. "That could be cool. Then maybe we could all kinda have a section to ourselves." Beast Boy said speaking his thoughts.

"I'm not really one for flowers." Cyborg said as he turned his gaze from his buddy to Starfire.

"Well, maybe you could build like an, awesome water feature that looks cool and waters the plants, I dunno." Beast Boy suggested.

A new invention? Cyborg's smiled. "That's a good idea!" he turned to Beast Boy. "Who are you and what you done with my little buddy?"

Beast Boy looked at Cyborg with a sour expression but then chuckled. "Shut up tin man."

Cyborg chuckled with his friend.

"Right, okay, okay." Cyborg mumbled to himself his cybernetic eye scanning the area. "I think I got an idea, if we get no call outs like today I should have some plans done by … let's say the end of the week, sound cool?"

"Yeah dude!"

"Indeed friend it is frosty."

That was when the plans for the Titan's garden truly began, suddenly the alarm on their communicators started going off reminding them of their training.

"Well we better get down to the gym." Cyborg spoke up.

Beast Boy silently groaned, he wasn't looking forward to training mainly due to Raven being there.

'It may be time to put her in her place.' The Beast growled darkly in his mind.

Part of Beast Boy wanted to reply positively to that, but he didn't want to give his darker side any encouragement, not that he was deluding himself, he couldn't beat Raven, he never would.

'We shall see.' The Beast whispered.

To everyone my sincerest apologies for such a long wait, but between moving house, and all sort of other problems and writing other stories this one simply got overlooked, and don't worry, I'm not, repeat NOT abandoning it, not this one.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter which yes is just a rehash of chapter 1 of the original story, albeit slightly edited and updated. Hope you all enjoyed it.

Also if there are any errors, please let me know through a personal message rather than a review, thank you.

Your friend in the hockey mask - Jason.