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Tower

Story: Tower

Storylink: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2121482/1/

Category: Teen Titans

Genre: Humor/Romance

Author: The Hidden Girl

Authorlink: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/667832/

Last updated: 02/22/2015

Words: 148525

Rating: T

Status: Complete

Content: Chapter 1 to 27 of 27 chapters

Source: FanFiction.net

Summary: While Starfire, Robin, and Cyborg are away, Beast Boy convinces Raven to play a videogam e with him . Of

course, they make a friendly little bet about who ever doesn't win will be the servant to the other for a whole day.RavenXBeastboy m inor RobinXStarfire

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*Chapter 1*: Fuzzy Green Elf

After years of this story, I have gone back and done a revision on the chapters so they flow better, use better

grammar, and make more sense.

For those who are new to the story, this has been written over the course of a decade! There will be differences in

writing style but hopefully not so much that it distracts you from reading.

Please enjoy!

Timeline: After all episodes, with the exception of 'Things Change' and the movie.

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans.

The city had jus t awoken from its peaceful slum ber. Above, the birds and insects flew over ahead, the birds occasionallychomping at the insects trying to get their morning meal. There was a s light breeze that wafted by, carrying with it the

noise and smel ls of the city. Somewhat outs ide the city walls in the bay stood a tower in the shape of a "T" upon its own

little private island. This was the home of the famous Teen Titans.

Inside everything was quite, calm, and peaceful. No noise penetrated through the silence. All was s till as if no one lived

there. Peaceful and s ilent.

That was how she liked the Tower.

Raven, floating in mid-air, sat with her legs crossed. She peered out the giant windows overlooking city that she

protected daily—with the aid of the others of course. But she didn't want to think about the others now. She had to

meditate. She always chose this time in the morning to meditate. It was so tranquil, serene, and that's what she enjoyed

about it. That, and the fact that Beast Boy was not up yet.

…Which was why the Tower was s o quite.

It was almost 8 o'clock now and the rest of the Titans would be getting up soon. Raven floated back down to the ground

and stood up. She enjoyed her alone time and didn't want the other Titans to know she was up already since she didn't

want them to come in and try to converse with her. She wanted to keep her alone time secret.

Robin had almost caught her once. She hid behind the couch as he walked in and went to the kitchen to get a glass of

orange juice before leaving. However, he probably wouldn't have noticed her even if she was in plain s ight because he

seemed to be sleepwalking. Later that day, the whole team found him sleeping in the bathtub hugging the carton of orange juice and wearing Starfire's shower cap. Even later that day he was found throwing both Cyborg and Beast Boy

out of the tower for taking blackmail pictures of him . They said that even with double chores he was forcing them to do, it

had been worth it.

A faint trace of a smile appeared on Raven's face as she recalled the s cene. As quickly as it came it disappeared. She

stood at a precise point in the living room and floated up and through the ceiling until she came to her room. She then

decided to pick out a book to read for the day. She would read until she heard the other Titans up and running around inthe kitchen.

"Dude! I'm cooking today!" Beast Boy yelled as he saw Cy's frying pan full of meat on the s tove. "And I'm not cooking

meat!" With that, he removed the pan off the stove, replaced it with h is own tofu batch, and poured the meat-filledcontents of the other pan in the trash.

"Oh no you didn't do what I just think you did you little grass stain!" Cyborg yelled while his right human eye twitched.

"Yeah I totally put your meat in the trash because that's where it belongs!" Robin s ighed as he watched the two bicker.

Starfire, who sat on the seat next to him by the counter, watched the two with worried eyes. Every time there was a BB-Cy

morning fight, someone got hurt, whether it be Cyborg, Beast Boy, Robin, or even that guy 12 blocks away from them who

is still currently residing in the hospital.

Starfire was a lways the peacemaker between the two. Robin would help her at times , but his temper always got in the

way and he ended up making the situation worse. The last time he "helped" Cyborg's right hand was s tuck in the toilet

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"YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT!" Cyborg growled as he picked up a meat cleaver and chased after Beast Boy. The

changeling s creamed before running away from the psychotic cyborg. They ran around and around the kitchen never

stopping nor even caring that breakfast wasn't being made. Robin s ighed at their antics again before grabbing a box of cereal from the cabinet and a bowl from the clean stack of dishes. Starfire floated over to her feuding teammates.

"Friends, please do not fight over the feast of the morning like always." she pleaded. "I am a very patient person, but I do

not wish to s top your quarreling every single Earth day." Of course this had abs olutely no effect on Cyborg and Beas t Boy.

Starfire finally gave up and decided to empty the burnt pan of tofu into the trash before it caus ed a fire.

Again.

Grabbing another bowl from the cabinet, she s at down next to Robin and als o poured herself a bowl of cereal. She knew

Beast Boy and Cyborg would work out their differences…eventually.

"GET BACK HERE YOU TOFU-LOVIN' BOOGER!"

"NO WAY YOU ANIMAL KILLER!"

"FUZZY GREEN ELF!"

"TIN-MAN!" No one even noticed the taps on the s inks glow with a black-and-white aura.

"YOU SMELL LIKE NASTY OLD TOFU!"

"WELL YOU SMELL LIKE—" No one got to find out what Cyborg smelled like because both Cyborg's and Beast Boy'sankles glowed black, and both of them were lifted into the air, suspended ups ide down. A second later, they found

themselves head first into either side of the two-sided sink which had been filled to the brim with water. Their arms and

legs flailed around everywhere. A few mom ents later, both were pulled up again and dropped unceremonious ly to the

floor. They coughed up water and rubbed their sore bodies, looking up in time to see Raven enter the room.

"Dude! That so was not okay!" Beast Boy yelled. "We could've drowned!"

"One, no you couldn't, and two, you both des erved it." Raven replied as she grabbed a packet of oatmeal from the cabinet

and set a pot of water on the stove. Beast Boy glared at her back some m ore before getting up and searching for his

breakfast.

"Hey where'd my tofu go?" he asked as he scratched his head in a confused manner.

"Friend Beas t Boy I have disposed of your tofu breakfast." Starfire said as she happily munched on her cereal.

"WHAT?!"

"Do not be angry with me, friend. I only did the task because the tofu had become charred and d id not look ver-OUCH!"

Starfire squealed and clutched her jaw in pain.

"Starfire, what is it?" Robin asked, worriedly. Starfire didn't say anything, but continued to clutch her m outh. He pried away

her hands from her mouth and told her to open it. She complied, and Robin, using a small flashlight from his utility belt,

glanced into her m outh, sweatdropping at what he saw. It wasn't the half chewed cereal, or the fact that Starfire had 4

extra molars ; he sweatdropped at the fact that she had a little metal fire-truck jammed in one of her teeth.

"Err….Starfire?"

"'esh 'o'in?" Starfire replied, still with her mouth wide open.

"I think you tried to eat the prize that comes with the cereal box and now it's s tuck in one of your teeth." By now the res t of the team had gathered over.

"Oh…It 'asn't ah 'ash'allo?" Robin did his best not to laugh. His friend was in pain after all.

"No, it wasn't a marshmallow."

Starfire managed to swallow the res t of the chewed cereal in her m outh. "Can you re'ove it?"

"I'm not sure if I can remove it. It's pretty deep and far back. I'll try though."

"Oh 'lease, dear 'riend, becaus e ee 'iny 'ruck of 'ire is caus ing 'e 'uch 'ain." Tears had started to swell up in her eyes.


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Cyborg put a hand on her shoulder to try to comfort her as Robin s earched his utility belt for a pair of pliers.

"I know I have a pair of pliers in here somewhere….Ah-ha!" he triumphantly cried as he held out the pliers, but they were

suddenly snatched by Beast Boy.

"Hey! Why did you do that for?"

"Cause, dude, you're doing dentist work here!"

"And you're point would be…?" Beast Boy smacked his forehead.

"You're supposed to ask your nurse to hand you the pliers! Like a ll the dentists and doctors on TV!"

"Beast Boy, this isn't TV and I don't have a nurse, now give me the pliers!" He reached towards Beast Boy, but Beast Boy

had moved out of range.

"Of course you have a nurse! Isn't that right, Ravie?" he said with a wink. Raven jus t rolled her eyes, uncross ed her arms,

walked over, grabbed the pliers from his hand, whacked him on the head, and handed the them to Robin. Beast Boy

clutched his head in pain.

"Dude, you're not a very good nurse." he said to her. "Nurses are supposed to make people feel better, not HURT them!"

"Oh, did I hurt your head?" she asked, with false concern. "Well then, let me be a good nurse and make it all better by

bandaging i t all up." The nearest first-aid kit glowed and a roll of gauze flew into the air and s tarted wrapping itself

around Beast Boy's head, more specifically his mouth.

Ignoring Beast Boy's flailing, Robin set to work trying to remove the toy from Starfire's mouth. He s tarted out very gently

but soon ended up trying to rip it out of her mouth very angrily. Still the toy would not budge. Apparently Starfire had a

powerful bite. Robin sighed.

"Starfire, I think you need to go to the dentist." Starfire nodded, unders tanding what Robin had said. She had seen a

show about dentistry once on TV, but it was very brief because Beas t Boy and Cyborg had turned off the cable in order to

play videogames. From what she had seen, 'dentists' were people who dressed up in white or light blue, wore protective

mas ks around their mouths, and talked a lot about how to take care of teeth. They were talking about something cal led a

'cavity' when the guys decided to take over and play, so s he didn 't find out what it was.

"Awww man!" whined Cyborg, causing Starfire to come back from her thoughts.

"Nrrrgh, what's up Cy?" Beast Boy asked, now completely mumm ified on the floor and s truggling to get out. At least hehad gotten the bandages off his mouth. Raven had left a couple of minutes before and it was easier to remove the

bandages when they weren't fighting back.

"My arm-joint connector bolt broke!"

"And that would be….?" Cyborg held up his armless right stub and his left arm clutching the detached right arm.

"The major bolt keepin' my arm on! And it just busted!"

"Can't you jus t go to your room and put another one on? After helping me out of this thing?!"

"I used m y last one after our recent fight agains t Mad Mod! I have to go across the city and buy a new one!" Cyborgmoaned, waving his disconnected arm around in the air. Beast Boy continued to wiggle around.

"Chill Cyborg." Robin said, hoping to calm down his friend. "Just go and buy a new valve like you always do. And whileyou're out, why not take Starfire to the dentist?"

"You know the dentist clinic is on the oppos ite side of town. It would take too long to get her teeth fixed and m y arm fixed.

How about you take her?"

"I suppose that makes sense, as long as Beast Boy and Raven stay here so we're not too scattered across the city."

"Sounds good. There's been a low crime rate lately anyways. Just petty criminals s ince all the top dogs are in jail or

being tracked."

"Waaaaiiittt!" Beast Boy yelled. "Can't I go with you guys?!"


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"No we need you to stay here with Raven." Robin said.

"Yeah B. Just s tay here, we won't be gone long." Cyborg said. "Just a couple of hours , tops. Have fun while we're gone!"

And with that, the doors to the common room closed behind the three Titans. Still squirm ing around in his cocoon, the

only thing Beas t Boy could think about was …

'Man! I really need to pee!'

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*Chapter 2*: Player Two has joined in the game!


After realizing what a dummy he was, Beast Boy morphed into a snake and s lithered out from the bandages . He blam ed

his s low thinking on his lack of breakfast. Robin, Cyborg, and Starfire were all long gone. He had heard the T-car start up

and Robin's R-cycle rev up, and Robin telling the alien princess to hold on tight. Beast Boy ass umed that both Robin and

Starfire were on the R-cycle, which was a pretty good idea since Starfire was in pain.

And of cours e an excuse to hold on tight to the Boy Wonder.

He hadn't seen hid nor hair of Raven since she had tied him up and left for her room. Of course, he knew sooner or later

she would come down wondering why it was s o quiet and question about the others. He could almost picture her

reaction when he told her that they were out and only she and he remained. The first thing he pictured her doing was

picking up her com municator and giving their fearless leader an ear full about why they couldn't of taken Beast Boy with

them.

Beast Boy sighed. Even though he knew Raven thought of him as a friend, she s till tended to get annoyed with him, and

sometimes wished he would just go away and take his corny jokes with him. But then again, pretty much all the other

Titans did too at some point, but it never lasted very long. Except for Raven.

By now, Beast Boy had walked all the way to the bathroom without even noticing it.

"Oh yeah! I have to go!" he stated, finally coming out of his thoughts and rus hing in.

Now with an empty bladder, Beast Boy re-entered the living room expecting it to be em pty but it wasn't. Raven sat on the

couch with her book, glancing up at him as he entered.

"Where are the others?" she asked in a monotone way.

"Robin took Star to go see the dentis t and Cy went to buy a new arm bolt thingy 'cause his other one broke and hedoesn't have a spare." Beast Boy said while jum ping on the counter and grabbing an apple from the fruit basket.

'It probab ly broke when I dropped him this morning.' Raven thought to herself. 'He did land on his arm, after all.'

"So it's jus t you and me?" she as ked Beast Boy out loud.

"Looks that way." Beast Boy said with a m outhful of apple.

"Great." she said, sarcas tically. "I'm s tuck in the Tower with a hyper green elf with crummy jokes. Rem ind me later to

maim Robin, Cyborg and Starfire for leaving you behind and not even telling m e they left."

"Hey look on the bright side." Beast Boy said, finishing the apple, ignoring Raven's rem ark about him, and s tifling achuckle at her threat to the other Titans.

"And that would be—?"

"At least you're not stuck in the Tower with Soto's dog!" Beast Boy replied, remembering what the others had told him

after they had defeated Soto and explained their s ide of the story to him. He grinned s lightly.

"…Point taken." Raven said, sl ightly shuddering at the memory. She was never really a dog person anyways.

"Plus, you know I'm not that bad." he said, jumping off the counter towards the GameStation system. Raven raised an

eyebrow at his com ment. Beast Boy just grinned widely at her.

"So Ravie, wanna play a game with me?" he asked, holding up a pair of GameStation controls.

"One, don't call me 'Ravie'. Two, I would rather listen to Starfire recite the Poem of Gratitude, all s ix thousand verses of it,

than play videogam es."

"Come on Rav—" Raven glared at him. "—en! Just play one game with me! Pleeeeaasse!" He got down on his knees

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"No Beast Boy. You should know by now I find videogames to be pointless and I will not waste my time with pointles s

things."

"Pleeeaaaasss eee!" By now, Beast Boy had clutched onto her leg s till begging. Raven shook him off and whapped him

with her book.

"I said NO." she replied, a bit more forceful this time, though s till in a calm voice while remaining seated. He gave her the

saddest look he could muster in his human form.

"But Raven—!"

"What part of 'no' does your feeble intellect not comprehend?!"

"Uhhh…" Giving up on trying to figure out what Raven had jus t said to him, Beas t Boy decided to use another s trategy:

morphing. He morphed into a cute kitten, jumped on Raven's lap and purred. Glaring at him, Raven used her powers tolifted kitten-Beast Boy in the air and dropped him in the trashcan. He fell with a sm all 'mew' before he disappeared

inside. Reappearing in his human form, Beast Boy plucked the old apple core off his head and got out of the trashcan.

"Awww Raven! Please?!" he begged, yet again. Raven could no longer take his ins istent pleading. Finally she closed her book and stood up.

"Beast Boy. I. Will. Never. Play. Videogam es. With. You." she said very slowly and m enacing. "Do you unders tand that?!"

Beast Boy's eyes grew wide and sad, while his ears drooped and he nodded.

"Good. I'm going to my room now." she s aid, and waited for Beas t Boy to open his big mouth to try and s top her, but henever did. He just began to untangle the GameStation control wires, and set up the game. Not once did he look at her.

He had already started up the game by the time she had reached the door.

As s he s tepped across the threshold onto the other s ide, something caught her ear. It wasn't the senseles s theme

mus ic and sounds of Beast Boy's videogam e. It wasn't the clicking of buttons on the controller. Heck, it wasn't even the

sound of Silkie munching on Starfire's half-eaten cereal. It was what Beast Boy mumbled ever so s oftly to himself.

"I hate playing alone."

His words echoed through Raven's mind as the door shut behind her.

'I hate playing alone…'

'…hate playing alone…'

'… playing alone…'

'…alone…'

'…alone…'

Oh why did Beas t Boy have to say the one word that still haunted her dreams even after all this time? The word that broke

her heart all over again. It had been quite a while s ince the first time Malchior had shown up and made her feel like he

really cared and understood her. She felt her heart drawn to him, but in the end it had all been a lie. After seeing him for a

second time only weeks ago at their final battle with the Brotherhood of Evil, it had stirred up old memories and pain.

She hadn't told any of her friends the way she felt in hopes that the feelings would pas s s oon. Speaking of her friends,

they really were the one driving force that kept her sane s ometimes . As annoying as they were at times, she truly loved

them and knew they loved her back just as much. This made her think of Beast Boy and how mean she was to himsom etimes . She knew he only wanted to have fun with her, but her pride got in the way a lot. She sighed again before

disappearing in a black aura.

Back on the other side of the closed doors, Beast Boy sat on the couch playing one on one with the computer. Normally

he would be bouncing about on the couch yelling at the game and how unfair it was. But of course one of the other Titans

would be there to either cheer him on or make threats against him. Now he had no one. No Starfire bouncing behind him

telling him what a wonderful job he was doing of 'kicking the butt' of the virtual bad guys. No Cyborg boasting how he was

going to win. No Robin saying how winning was the only thing that matters. No Terra—

Beast Boy sighed and tried to forget the name that he had brought up in his mind. But how could he forget her ? He didn't


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want to, but he had to. She was gone now, and nothing would bring her back. The spell was permanent now. The team

mem bers had often visi ted her statue, and each time they always noticed something new about her. A scratch here, a

crack there, until finally, after their las t visi t the week after their battle with the Brotherhood of Evil, she jus t broke. Just likethat. The team had tried to put her back together, but eventually the pieces of stone turned to dus t and nothing more.

She was gone now.

'Gone to a better place.' Beast Boy thought, his eyes watering with pain and misery. 'I have to move on now. She is now

ust part of my past. I told myself I was going to be strong. Te-she would of wanted it that way. But I can't forget her

completely. I will always remember...Terra. No m atter what.' Beast Boy gave a very loud s igh. He wiped the tears from hiseyes on his s leeve. Dwelling on the pas t would not do anyone any good. He had to come back to the present and begin

to live his life anew. A life without Terra.

Suddenly he sat up right and slapped himself.

"Come on dude! Stop with the sappy stuff! This isn't you!" he scolded himself. "Okay let's see. What was I doing again?"

He looked at the television s creen which read 'Game Over' and at his long forgotten GameStation controller. The games

were not as m uch fun when you have played them a zillion times and there's no one to play against except the computer.

Overall Beas t Boy was still s ad even though he was trying his best not to be. Picking up where he left off in the game, he

watched as his videogame warrior died in another explosion. He s ighed again.

"Player Two has joined in the game!" cried the overhead announcer from the game, shocking Beas t Boy from his gloomy

mood. He quickly looked around and spotted Raven sitting on the opposite end of the couch, the second GameStation

controller in her hand. He opened his mouth up to speak, but Raven cut him off.

"This is a once in a life time thing, so don't say anything and jus t play before I come to my senses." A wide grin spread

across Beast Boy's face.

"So do you need me to teach you how to play?" he asked, scooting closer to her end in case s he needed help. She rolled

her eyes.

"With you, Robin, and Cyborg all shouting out all of your plays and the controller functions, it's hard for me not to know

how to play." Beast Boy sweatdropped.

"Soooo...I'll take that as a 'no' to my offer." She jus t gave him a 'look'. He sweatdropped again. "Okay. Shutting up now.

Let's play!" And so they began.

"I'll go eas y on you s ince it is your first time." he said, in a sort of egotistical type of voice while wiggling his eyebrows up

and down. Raven didn't even give him the satisfaction of knowing she was listening to him. Not even 2 seconds later her character was standing on top of Beas t Boy's doing a victory dance. Beast Boy could only gawk at the s creen. Raven

continued to have an impassive look to her face. Beast Boy shook his head and regained his composure.

"Okay, I see that you have some skills in the art of videogames, so I'm gonna get even harder." 9 seconds later, Beast

Boy's character was on the ground again, and Raven's character was dancing. This time, Beast Boy's jaw dropped.

"Hey no fair! I wasn't ready!" He yelled at her.

"You're the one who hit the s tart button. You had to of been ready." she s tated. 'Ready to get your butt kicked.' she

mentally added. After all, Raven did have a competitive s ide, however, she rarely used it.

"Okay, no m ore Mr. Nice-Beast Boy!" Beast Boy said. "Now I'm going to actually play the game and you're going down!"

He stood up and pointed to the floor for more of a dramatic effect.

"I'm shaking in m y boots." Raven replied, sarcastically. Grumbling, Beast Boy sat back down and then they continued to

play. Being true to his word, Beast Boy actually played good. He beat Raven a few times, but she would then just kick his

butt again in the next round. Raven remained as emotionless as ever while Beast Boy started making all kinds of boasts

and remarks.

"I'm gonna get you! I'm gonna get you!"

"You're so going down!"

"Who's da m an? Who's da m an? I'M DA M—Hey! That combo is supposed to be super-secret!"

"Dude, when I get done with you, they're going to have to use your DENTAL records just to identify your body! That is, IF


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they find your body 'cause I'm totally gonna destroy you!"

Speaking of dental records, both wondered how Starfire and Robin were doing...

Robin and Starfire had finally arrived at the dentist clinic. After both had safely gotten off, Robin chained up his R-cycle,

and turned on the alarm system.

"Well Starfire, we're here." Robin stated. Starfire tried to sm ile, but it came out as more of a grimace. Robin noticed this

and ushered her inside. But of course, the moment they entered…

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Both were startled by the noise and even more startled when 6 or 7 police officers dog-piled on them.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?!" Robin yelled from under the pile. Starfire whimpered as someone accidentally

elbowed her in the gut.

"Sir and Ma'am, I must ask you to remove all metal type objects from your posses sion and place them in the bowl." one

of the officers on the top of the pile said, while pointing to a large plas tic bowl placed near the entrance.

"What are you talking abou—" Robin started, but stopped as he noticed both him and Starfire had walked under a metal

detector. He sighed. Jump City sometimes had really strange security measures.

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*Chapter 3*: I promise


"Alright, that's it! Now I'm really going to kick your butt!" Beast Boy shouted at Raven as he los t for the 3rd time in a row.

With actual practice Raven was getting better each round. She s mirked. The videogames were starting to get to her.

"You mean like the las t time you declared that you were going to kick my butt, but got your own butt kicked instead?"

"Yes-I mean no!" Beast Boy pointed a finger at her accus ingly. "Stop putting words in my mouth!"

"I'm not doing anything of the sort." Raven glanced at the clock. "I can't believe I've been playing videogames with you for

a little over an hour. And why aren't the others back?" Beast Boy shrugged.

"I dunno. Cy said they'd be back soon." He thought for a minute and chuckled. Raven raised an eyebrow.

"What?"

"I was just thinking about what could be happening at Star's dentist appointment." Raven didn't see why this was funny to

him.

"And?"

"Well Star's like a little kid at heart, right? And you know how little kids get all freaked about going to the dentist, right?"Raven nodded and soon her eyes widened in realization.

Robin was the fearless leader of one of the greatest superhero teams around. He was brave. He fought all types of

criminals. He helped protect a city that villains always seemed to want to destroy. His intelligence was very vast indeed.

You could say he could accomplish anything once he set his mind to it.

Everything that is, except get a very frantic and scared Tameranian princess off a ceiling fan.

"IIIEEE!" Starfire squealed as s he hung onto the ceiling fan in the dentist office. The fan was off, but that didn't make the

task any easier. Robin was currently hanging onto one of Starfire's long legs trying to pull her down. The dentist, Dr. Amhers t, was s itting somewhere near his desk inform ing Robin that he charged by the hour.

Robin s ighed. Today was just not his day. First the whole metal detector scene which ended up in having both Starfireand him removing all metal things from their pos sess ion. It got rather complicated when they realized they both hadsome form of metal stitched into their uniforms. Robin felt the guards were taking things a little too seriously when he

had to be patted down. They were both Titans! And this was a dentist office, not a bank! He was also rather peeved at the

guard whom had patted down Starfire, but he felt better when she had given the guard a good s lap when he

inspected…certain areas.

Then of course they had to fill out many, many forms, and on top of that, some people as ked for their autographs. A few

fangirls tried to kiss and grope Robin while some fanboys hit on Starfire.

"Come on Starfire! He was only reaching for a pick! He's not going to hurt you!" Robin shouted, trying to calm down thehysterical gi rl.

"But look friend Robin! He wields so many sharp and pointy objects!" Starfire cried from up above. "These foreign objects

make m e feel uncomfortable and I do not wish to continue on with this 'dentist appointment' anymore! The tiny truckreplica has been removed so there is no point for us to stay any longer!"

"Star, Dr. Amherst already told you that the truck did som e dam age to your molar. You can't go around with a gapping

hole in your tooth! It needs to be filled or else it will cause more damage. You don't want that to happen, do you?"

Starfire's grip loosened a bit.

"I do not wish for that to happen."

"Then com e on down. Dr. Amherst is really a nice guy. He's not going to hurt you." Starfire let go of the fan and floated

down to Robin.

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"I promise." Robin replied and almost glared at the dentist in a threatening way to not hurt Starfire. Dr. Amherst obviously

got the message and jumped up out of his seat and grabbed his tools. Starfire sat back down in the chair and had

Robin's hand tightly in her own, not wanting him to leave her side. Of course, with Starfire clutching his hand so tightly,Robin would have to saw his own arm off to leave her side now. But why would he want leave her anyway?

More time had pass ed since Raven had looked at the clock. They both were tired of the verses m ode so they decided to

swi tch to a different mode in the game. Now they were each fighting various computer opponents. Whoever got the mostpoints after the timer ran out would be the winner. Beast Boy seemed to fair a bit better in this set-up, but Raven was

getting better in each pass ing game.

"I thought after playing this game for hours on end that you would be good at it now." Raven commented as s he knockedout one more opponent before the timer ran out and proclaimed her the winner again. "I guess I thought wrong." Beast

Boy was s ulking now.

"I'm just having an off day, that's all." Raven gave a bored yawn.

"I don't unders tand how Cyborg and Robin can play so long agains t you. It's rather boring defeating you every time."

"You didn't defeat me every time! What about that time I beat you in the ice caves?!"

"You only beat me because I sneezed and dropped my controller. There's no way you can beat me—which is pretty sad

since you've been playing this game much more than me." By now, Beast Boy had had i t. He stood up and faced Raven

head on.

"Well I bet that I can beat you in our next game!" he shouted, fire burning in his eyes. He was determined to do physically

anything in h is power (except cheat, of course) to beat Raven. Raven noticed his determination.

"Alright." she said. "What do you want to bet?" Beast Boy's eyes widened a bit. Raven wanted to wager on their next

game? That was so un-like her! Inside Beas t Boy grinned to himsel f. Raven, in her own way, was opening up to him , he

ust knew it! She seemed somewhat happy when she was playing with him, and s he looked a bit more relaxed than the

usual uptight Raven he knew. Her hood was down and Beas t Boy could actually see the express ions on her face. He

even thought he caught her smiling once, but it happened so fast that he wasn't sure she had.

"Are you going to say anything or not?" Raven asked, caus ing Beas t Boy to return to the current s ituation on hand. "Or are

you chicken?" And if to prove her point, she morphed Beas t Boy into an actual chicken. Beast Boy morphed back into his

human form and glared at Raven.

"Alright! That's it! Whoever loses the next game has to be the servant to the other for a full day!" he shouted before hecould take the time to think about what he just said.

There was a moment of silence between the two as Beast Boy's last words hung in the air. Neither knew what to say.

Beast Boy was mentally cursing himself for once again speaking before he could think. He knew Raven would most

likely cream him again in the game so he was basically digging his own grave here. But deep within his mind there was

still a little hope. If he could do his absolute best, he might actually have a chance at beating Raven. He just had to push

himself hard enough.

Raven, on the other hand, was thinking along the sam e lines as Beas t Boy. She knew her percentile at victory was m uch

greater than his, yet there s till was that chance that he would beat her, and Raven was afraid that he would. It wasn't like

before when there were no stakes and they were playing for fun. Now there was som ething on the line. But wasn't that

what a bet was s upposed be? When Raven agreed to his idea of a bet, she thought it would be s omething minor like the

loser would get the winner's next dish duty or if Beast Boy won, he would get to wear Raven's cloak. She often caught

him s taring at it so she figured he just liked it. Plus, it wasn't like she couldn't get a new one and burn that one later.

A minute more of s ilence pas sed before Raven spoke.

"So." she s aid. "That's really what you want to wager? You know that your chances of winning against me are almost

nonexistent, right?"

Beast Boy made a face. "I can soo beat you when I'm real ly trying my hardest so let's get one thing s traight." He moved

again so now his face was mere inches away from Raven's.

"You're going down Rae." Raven rolled her eyes and pushed Beast Boy back on his side of the couch.

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"You only told m e not to cal l you 'Ravey' and I'll call you whatever I want after you lose!" Beast Boy said, his confidence

and com petitive attitude returning.

"You do and you die." Raven hissed. Then Beast Boy thought of som ething.

"Hey, don't we need to write the bet down to make it more official? 'Cause we also need some rules too, like you can't

make me eat meat if you win." He emphasized on the 'if'.

"Okay." Raven agreed, pausing for a second. "Do you want to do it the Earth way or the Azarath way?"

"What's the Azarath way?" Raven smirked and summoned a sharp knife from the kitchen. Beast Boy paled and regretted

even asking.

"Errrr…Forget I asked. We'll do it the Earth way." he said, eying the knife, terrified. Raven put the back the knife while

Beast Boy pulled out a piece of paper and a pen.

"'Whoever loses the next round wil l be forced to be the servant of the other for a whole day.'" Beast Boy read as he wrote it

all down, including the part about Raven not allowed to make him eat real meat. "What else s hould we put?"

"You can't go into my room." Raven s tated.

"Awww….But—" Beast Boy whined.

"No buts, Beas t Boy. I won't make you eat meat and you won't go into my room." Still pouting, Beas t Boy reluctantly wrote

that down. They spent another mom ent writing down a few things like 'Beast Boy will be able to talk when he wants','Raven shall not kill Beast Boy for the things he does while she's under his control', and 'no frilly froufrou dresses '. Finally

they finished and both signed it before picking up their controllers once more. This was i t. The start timer counted down.

"Three…Two…One…GO!"

Cyborg had just about had it. Of all the days his arm could've fallen off it had to be the one day of the month when Trevor

was working at the repair shop.

Trevor was the most pin-headed person in the world. He had dropped out of high school when he was a teen, and spentmos t of his time s itting on a box in an alley, doing absolutely nothing. Just sitting. The guy made Beast Boy look like a

bona fide genius who taught advanced trigonometry at Harvard. Since he was com pletely dense and stupid beyond all

belief, Trevor's job at the local 'Fix-It' shop was just to greet the customers, fill out a sheet on what their problem was and

deliver the messages to the mechanics in the back.

And even that was too hard for him.

"So how do you spell your name, Sideboard?" Trevor asked from his chair behind the desk. In front of him was the little

pad and in his hand was a pen. A sheet of glass separated him from the customers and had a hole in it so they couldtalk.

"For the 10th time, m y name is Cyborg." Cyborg grunted, his teeth clenched in fury. "C-Y-B-"

"Snideblorg, you're talking too fast. Slow down. I only have one hand!" Trevor said from his s eat, waving his two hands in

the air. The robotic parts of Cyborg started to glow red wi th his anger as he glared at Trevor. He now spoke each letter

super clearly, loud, and slow.

"C-Y-B-O-"

"Whoa, I told you to slow down! Now what was your name again, Slidebar?" By now, Cyborg was glowing red with rage.

Quickly and angrily, Cyborg typed into his keypad, using his nose since his right arm was detached, his name and

turned his arm s o Trevor could read off of it.

"C-Y-B-O-R-G! CYBORG! THAT'S MY NAME!" Taking about a minute to write down Cyborg's name, Trevor finally finished.

"Okay Side-of-fries, what seems to be the problem ?"

Ignoring the name again, Cyborg said, "I need a new TechNut 2000 valve connecter bolt for my arm." He placed the

disjoined arm on the counter.

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"No duh. Now can you get me m y bolt or not?"

"What bolt?" Cyborg s lapped his face.

"The bolt I jus t asked for!"

"Well which one do you want, 'cause we have lots of them."

"TECHNUT 2000 VALVE CONNECTER BOLT FOR MY ARM!"

"Which arm?"

"THE ARM THAT'S ON THE COUNTER!"

"Which arm is that?"

"ARRRGGGGHHHH!" If Cyborg had hair, right now he'd be tearing it all out.

"Hey, did you know you were a robot?"

"OF COURSE I KNOW I'M A ROBOT. Well, only half, BUT ME BEING A ROBOT IS NOT THE POINT!"

"Cool, so can you give me a soda robot-man?"

"WHY WOULD I GIVE YOU A SODA?!"

"Because robots have sodas inside of them."

"THAT'S A SODA MACHINE YOU MORON!"

"Hey, I'm not a moron!"

"THEN TELL ME WHAT I JUST SAID!"

Trevor thought for a moment before saying, "Hi, and welcom e to Fix-It. I'm Trevor. Can I help you? Um mm ….Soda?

Where'd you go?" And as he leaned up agains t the glass , he saw Cyborg twitching on the floor.

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*Chapter 4*: Pineapple


"Three…Two…One…GO! "

And with that said, both Raven and Beast Boy were pressing the buttons on their controllers at the speed of light—or

Starfire when there was a sale on mustard at the store. They were pounding the snot/guts out of the enemies and quickly

moving onto new targets. Raven didn't immediately take the lead this time. Now their scores were fluctuating so much itwas hard to tell who would win.

'Beast Boy is putting up a really good fight this time.' she thought, still glancing at her screen. 'And it's quiet. Usually he'sbouncing around, b oasting that he's going to beat me, but all I can hear now is the clicking of the buttons.' Raven blasted

5 enemies at once.

'I'm gonna b eat her, I'm gonna b eat her…' Beast Boy thought, his character dodging two enem ies as they crashed into

each other. 'I can do i t! Just pretend Rae is Cy and think of how good it'll be to beat him after years of defeat! Yeah, so

Rae's Cy…Yeah, just like Cy…Only hot.' Beast Boy's character was slammed into a wall as his eyes widened. 'HOT?!

Whoa, buddy! Did I just think that? About Raven? Well…she is pretty…Even if she is creepy…Though her creepiness

factor does make her seem more…Uhhh…I need a dictionary….' Bang! His character was shot in the stomach. 'Guah!

What am I doing?! Play now, think later!' Now his full attention returned back to the game.

Too bad the same couldn't be said about Raven, for her thoughts were elsewhere.

Raven currently had a higher score than Beast Boy and she was confident that she would win. Already, she was thinking

up things that she would have Beast Boy do when she won. One of her original ideas was for him to eat vegetarian dog

food from a dog dis h, wearing a big puffy dress , but they had both agreed to rule out froufrou dresses. Of course, that

doesn't mean she couldn't have him wear a costume. Raven smirked, just thinking of all the choices she had for him.

This would be her payback to him for all the times he annoyed her. Sweet, sweet revenge.

Feeling cocky, Raven decided to spare a glance over at Beast Boy to see how he was fairing. His screen showed that

one of his enemies had found a chair and was beating BB's character senselessly. Internally grinning at her teammate's

mis fortune, Raven turned to look at Beast Boy himsel f. The first thing she noticed was h is eyes. Within them she saw

fiery determination to win. Beast Boy's eyes were always so expressive and she felt herself drawn to them like a moth toa flame. She felt herself get lost in his eyes, forgetting the game completely. It was like he was drawing her soul out of

her; she couldn't pull herself away from staring at him.

'I never noticed how beautiful his eyes are.' she thought.

"All done." Dr. Amherst said at last. He wiped the sweat from his brow and directed Starfire to spi t in the sink. She did as

she was told, and let out about ½ a gallon of spit and water into the sink. Both males in the room grimaced.

"And how long until the…..swelling will go down?" Robin as ked the dentist. He glanced over at Starfire, who at this

moment was wiping her mouth from any excess spit or water, and studied her a bit. Her Tameranian skin had not

reacted well with the Novocain which was only to numb her mouth, but in fact made the side of her mouth swell out into a

plum sized bulge. By this time, the bulge had even turned the color of a plum.

"I assure you that she will be fine within hours. The bulge will disappear and her skin will turn its proper color." 'At least, I

hope it will.' Dr. Amherst added to himsel f in an after thought. He had never worked his dentistry on someone foreign to

this planet nor had he ever heard of such a thing as this. He could only pray he was right.

"Grorious!" Starfire shouted, sounding m uch like a squirrel who had gathered its fill for the winter in its mouth. Her mouth

still felt numb, and she was feeling a bit drowsy, but still perky at the same time. The last time she felt like this was when

she drank a bottle of cough syrup she had found in the medicine cabinet.

"Well then," Robin said, as he stood up from the chair he had been s itting on for the past hour. "We should s tart heading

back to the Tower now." As he s lowly made his way to the door, a hand on his s houlder s topped him. He turned to look

at Dr. Amherst, eyebrow raised behind his mask.

"And when was the last time you had a check-up?" (1) Robin's other eyebrow raised in surprise.

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"I asked when the last time you had a check-up." Robin regained his composure and brushed off Dr. Amherst's hand

from his shoulder.

"Sorry Doc, but no one touches my mouth."

"Oh? So you don't care about your teeth?"

"I didn't say that."

"Then you should get a check-up right now." Robin glared at Dr. Amherst.

"We only came for Starfire's teeth, not mine."

"Well, s ince you're already here, why not have a check-up yourself?"

"Wes Wobin! Woo should get a keck-up! My teef have neber felt so quean!" Starfire exclaimed in joy. She flashed her

dazzling smile at Robin and was bouncing up and down like a giddy school girl. Upon hearing her agreement with the

dentist, Robin's shields lowered and he sighed. He could never say no to Starfire.

Despite every fiber of his being tell him to get out of this place, Robin hopped up on the dentist chair. "This better not take

long."

"Hey soda-machine! You're not allowed back here!" Trevor yelped as Cyborg nearly threw the door off the hinges when

he open it and marched into the backroom where Trevor was sitting.

"My name is NOT soda machine! It's CYBORG !" Cyborg fumed at Trevor while picking up the nitwit by his collar with his

only arm. "WHY CAN'T YOU GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL ALREADY?!"

"Oh wait! I know this!" Trevor put on his version of a thinking face. "Hmmm . Don't tell me. Does it have to do with spam?Or eggs? Or both?" Nearly face-faulting, Cyborg placed Trevor back down on his chair.

"For the love of BBQ, you s eriously need help." Cyborg told him .

"Barbie Q? Is that one of those new plas tic dolls that still doesn't taste good no matter how much ketchup you put on

them?" Not even understanding a word Trevor said (nor wanting to), Cyborg s ighed and tried to reason wi th Trevor a bit.

Well, more like dis tract him for a while , fill out the paperwork himsel f, sneak into the supply closet, get a Technut 2000

Valve Connector bolt for his arm, s neak back, pay, then leave before Trevor even noticed.

"Hey Trevor, can you do s omething for me?" Trevor looked around.

"Where's that voice coming from?"

"It's from me! I'm right in front of you!" Trevor gas ped.

"Dude! The candy machine's talking to me!" Slapping h is face again, for the millionth time that day, Cyborg decided, asRaven would say, to control his emotions and jus t to play along with Trevor.

"Yes. I'm the m agical talking candy machine."

"Cool! Can I have your autograph?"

"Later. First, I've got a job for you."

"Ooooh! Does it involve vanilla pudding and getting naked?!" Cyborg visibly twitched.

"WHAT?! What kind of job is—Never mind. I don't want to know. Now, the job I want you to do is…" Cyborg thought. What

meaningless task could Trevor do that he wouldn't mess up?

"I want you to s tare at this p ineapple until it blinks ." Cyborg placed a s tapler in Trevor's hands. "Okay?" Trevor mouthed a

silent 'oooh' as he stared at the stapler.

"So this is what a pineapple looks like." Trevor began s taring at it. Taking this opportunity, Cyborg filled out the form for

the bolt. Quietly and wary of the mechanics in back, he made his way to the storage room. After searching in a few boxes,

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"Booya!" he shouted, while doing his min i-victory dance. Of course, he was n't so loud as to attract attention by the

mechanics. Boy oh boy, he did not want to get their attention. For starters, they basically hated his guts. All of this

happened because he simply fixed something of a customer's which the mechanics could not. Yep. That simple. Andthey had never forgiven him since. But of course, this shop happens to be the only Fix-It shop that carries Cyborg's type of

bolt. Go figure.

After returning to the front of the shop and paying the correct amount for the bolt, Cyborg re-attached his arm to his

shoulder s ocket.

"I'm back in the gam e baby! I've got my arm back on, a fully charged battery and the T-car! How can this day get anybetter?!" An idea struck Cyborg and he grinned widely.

"PIZZA!"

And as he pulled away with the T-car, Trevor was s till s tarting at the 'pineapple'.

She was lost. Lost in those em erald orbs of his. That is, until the game announcer blared out the remaining time count

and awoke Raven from her trance.

"1 minute remains!" Raven's attention quickly switched back to her game screen. Because she was staring so long,

Beast Boy had pulled in to the lead, without either player noticing. Raven let out an inaudible gas p as reality hit her like

Beast Boy, the hippo, falling on top of her. Quickly, Raven picked up her controller and her p layer sprang into life. The

whole time Beast Boy had not noticed Raven's inactivity nor did he sense her staring at him . All he could do was take

down enem y after enemy after enemy. His eyes did not even move off his character to glance up at the scores.

"30 seconds remain!" the announcer shouted. Even with the loss of some of the time, Raven was slowly catching up to

Beast Boy. This game needed a great deal of concentration, and that's one thing Raven had a lot of. Her fingers

gracefully moved along the controller, wiping out enemies this way and that. But with her distraction making a big

difference in the score, Raven knew this would be a very close match to the finish line.

"10 seconds remain!" yelled the announcer.

'This is it .' They both thought. No one dared to glance up at the scores. It was too clos e. They had to keep going to beat

the other one. Raven was only trailing by a few points now, but Beast Boy was putting up a good fight. Either Titan could

win now. It all came down to luck…

BBBRRRIIIIIINNNGGG!

Time was up.

This was it.

All they had to do was look up at the scores.

Taking a deep breath, they sim ultaneous ly looked up. The final scores were:

Beast Boy: 11,583,128 points

Raven: 11,566,413 points

Beast Boy's m outh dropped to the ground. He had done it! He beat Raven! He won the bet agains t Raven!

Raven, on the other hand, looked up at the scores in horror. She had lost! He had beaten her. And now she would be hisservant for a whole day! Why oh why did she stare at Beast Boy? If she hadn't, she would have won for sure! But she

couldn't tell him that. She couldn't say 'Oh you only won because I spent my time not playing the game because I was

staring at you'. No. Raven would rather be his servant for a day before admitting that. Heck, she'd rather be dipped in

meat juice, get covered in pink fluff, step into a room full of dogs, and be licked to death while eating Starfire's Pudding of

Sadness. Now that she thought about it, why in the first place was she staring? Abruptly, her thoughts were cut off by the

door opening.

"We're back y'all, and we've got pizza!" Cyborg called into the living room as he entered, carrying 8 boxes of pizza. Robin

and Starfire both followed, Robin carrying another 2 boxes while Star had a large jar of mustard. Apparently Robin and

Starfire had the sam e idea as Cyborg, and had met up with him at the Pizza Palace.


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"Anything interes ting happen while we were gone?"

(1) Idea from disappearer/Syani

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*Chapter 5*: Does this look like junk to you?


"Anything interes ting happen while we were gone?"

Finally getting over the shock of beating Raven and winning the bet, Beast Boy jumped on the top of the couch with his

legs hanging over facing the others.

"Dude! Something completely awesome happened!" he shouted, accidentally spraying the others with a shower of spit.

"Yo, grass -stain! Say it, don't spray it!" Cyborg said as he wiped the spit off of his face. Starfire giggled at Beas t Boy's

antics whi le Robin looked annoyed. No one noticed a certain lavender haired Titan teleport out of the room.

"Sorry dudes and dudette." Beast Boy apologized. "But you'll never guess what happened!"

"You decided to give up your tofu junk and eat real food like a norm al person?" Cyborg asked as he began to set the

table for the pizza.

"Firstly, tofu is so not junk, and nextly, I'll never be normal ! Being normal is dull, plus I'd never be a Titan if I was 'normal'."

Beast Boy said.

"True, but I still s ay tofu is junk." Cyborg opened a box of meaty-meat pizza and ate the entire thing in one bite. Hopping

off the couch and forgetting all about the bet, Beast Boy stormed over to the eating half-robot man. He picked up a slice of

pizza with chunks of tofu and pineapple on it and held it right in Cyborg's face.

"Does this look like junk to you?! It's delicious and you totally don't know what you're miss ing dude." With that said, Beast

Boy took a large bite of the sl ice before the toppings ended up on the floor.

"Whatever you say, green bean, but I s till ain't eatin' it." Cyborg said as he swallowed another whole meaty-meat pizza.

Whoever said the way to a man's heart was through his stomach was definitely talking about Cyborg.

"Fwiend Brees t Broy, prease, what was the 'arwsome' news of which you wanted to tell us , and where is fwiend Waben?"

Starfire asked as s he sat down next to Robin and grabbed hersel f a slice of pepperoni pizza…and the jar of mustard.

Finally noticing Starfire's predicament for the first time, Beast Boy did the mos t Beast Boy-ish type thing; he pointed and

shrieked at the bulge on Starfire's face.

"Dude! It looks like you glued a plum to your face!" he shouted before he took time to think about what he was saying.Getting a death glare from Robin, Beas t Boy finally got the mess age and started to apologize to Starfire. To everyone's

surpris e, instead of tearing up and hiding her dis figurement like her transformation, Starfire sim ply giggled. Maybe it was

the Novocain, or the fact that Starfire had matured a bit more, but what ever it was, she jus t giggled.

"You are fowgiben, fwiend Breest Broy. I do, as you would say, wook most 'komical'. The doctooh Amhewust has as uwed

me that my facial stwucture shawl be back to its nowmal state within sebel Eawth houweres." Beast Boy just looked at

her confused.

"Umm…What did she say?"

"She said she will look norm al soon." Robin replied, still rather ticked about Beast Boy's reaction. "The effects of the

Novocain will wear off after a few hours , according to the dentist." Robin took a large bite of pizza and swallowed before

continuing. "She was also wondering what your 'awesome' news was, and where Raven went to."

"Yeah, where did that girl go? The pizza's gettin' cold." Cyborg asked, looking around. "She was here when we first camein. I saw her." Recollecting about what happened, Beast Boy's m outh broke into a wide grin.

"She's probably in her room sulking." Three human eyes, two alien eyes, and one robotic eye glanced over at the

changeling.

"Sulking?" Robin asked, suddenly narrowing his eyes and putting down his pizza. "What did you do?" It was a demand,

not a question. Grinning wider, Beast Boy pulled out his beloved chalkboard. Quickly doodling on it, he stepped out of the

way to show the others .

"Well after you guys left-" He pointed to a picture of a deformed Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg all going, leaving a sad

deformed Beas t Boy behind. "-I started playing video games-" Now he pointed at another picture, this one of himself


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playing videogam es. "-but I was s till sad because I had no one to play with-" He quickly drew a dark rain cloud over his

chalk self and m ade it look very sad. "-but then I was playing and the game announcer was all like 'Player Two has

oined the game!' so I look around and Raven has the other control in her hand!" He pointed to a picture of a deformedRaven holding a game controller while his chalk self looked surprised.

"Wait a minute! Hold it!" Cyborg said. "You're sayin' that Raven, our Raven, Miss Anti-Videogam es, decided to play

videogames with you?!"

"That's what I'm saying!"

"Did you blackmail her or somethin'? There's no way she would do that on her own will, man."

"But she totally did! Well, I did beg before, but she was like 'I'm never going to play videogam es with you' and left for her

room, but then she came back and played videogames with me!"

"But it still doesn't make sense!" Cyborg shouted.

"I know dude, but she did! She just s at down and said 'this is a once in a life time thing so jus t shut up and play before I

come to my senses' or something l ike that." He pointed to a drawing of Raven si tting on the opposite end of the couchwith a talk bubble near her head reading 'Shut up and play'. The Beast Boy in the picture looked like he was having a

heart attack from the shock of what she was s aying.

"What happened next, fwiend Brees t Broy?" Starfire ques tioned.

"Well Raven said she already knew how to play the game 'cause we shout out all the plays and button functions andstuff, so she didn't need help. I went easy on her at first, but she was better than I thought-" He pointed to a picture of

himsel f sulking on the couch while Raven held up a victory sign with her hand. "-so I started playing better. But sadly, she

still killed me." He pointed to a picture of hims elf as road-kill with Raven on a motorcycle doing a victory dance.

"Ha!" Cyborg grinned. "Even Raven beat you! That shows how horrible you're at videogam es, gras s stain!"

"Umm, dude. She broke your high-score."

"WHAT?!" Cyborg yelped, his voice rais ing a few octaves from shock. Quickly, he raced over to the gaming system and

turned it on. Just as Beast Boy said, the name 'Raven' sat atop the high-score chart in deep purple letters where

Cyborg's name should have been.

"I don't believe this." he said, s till wide-eyed and looking at the screen.

"Believe it dude. She's one awesome player. When Raven wants to win, she wins , end of story. Except of course, our las t

match." Beast Boy's grin had returned to his face. Robin raised an eyebrow.

"Oh?"

"Yeah! I totally beat her!" He pointed to a picture of h ims elf doing a victory dance while Raven sulked. "And that's not the

best part!"

"Oh pwease tell us , fwiend Bweast Boy! I cannot stand the wait!" Starfire exclaimed, bouncing up and down.

"Well Raven was like 'this is boring' and 'you're a loser 'cause I keep winning'—" He pointed to a picture of Raven

taunting Beast Boy while looking bored. "—so that made me mad—" He pointed to the next picture of himself erupting

into an angry volcano. "—so I bet that I could beat her in the next game. And she accepted! She even asked me what I

wanted to wager! She a lso asked whether I wanted to bet the Earth way or the Azarath way, but her way was scary." He

pointed to a picture of him cowering while a large knife floated near Raven who was smirking.

The others could not believe what they were hearing. Miss Gloom-And-Doom had played videogames with Beast Boy ,

beat Cyborg's high-score, and even made a bet with Beast Boy and lost ! Finally getting over the shock of everything,

Robin spoke up.

"So what was the bet? What did you win?" Proudly, Beast Boy held up the s lip of paper they both had signed in

agreement of the bet.

"Raven's gotta be my personal s lave for an entire day!" he said, spraying the others with another shower of spit, but this

time Starfire was prepared and b locked the flying saliva with empty pizza boxes; Robin and Cyborg were too shocked to

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"You're serious?! Man, that's…that's unbelievable! Lemm e see that!" Cyborg grabbed the paper from Beas t Boy and read

it over. There were m any things crossed out, re-written, and part of it had been charred. He pointed to the burnt portion of

the document.

"What was that?" he asked. Beast Boy grinned sheepishly.

"Well, I put something down about chicken costumes , but Raven didn't agree." He rubbed the back of his head

awkwardly. Robin and Cyborg gave him curious glances, but quickly shook their heads in the decis ion that they really

didn't want to know. Starfire was happily munching on her mustard-covered pizza. Unbeknowns t to them all, Raven

listened from the hallway.

Raven had been sitting outside the doors of the main room, hood up, legs crossed, for quite some time. Normally, she

would be up in her room faster than the oxygen depleting from the lungs of an unlucky recipient of Starfire's hugs, but

today she wasn't feeling 'normal'. She felt strange. Not like she was different, but som ething else. And Raven didn't know

what that was.

She thought back to the game. She could've eas ily won if she had kept full concentration, but she hadn't. Why had she

been staring at Beast Boy ? Nothing made sense. What had gotten into her mind to make her gaze at the green elf? Why

couldn't she look away from his gorgeous green eyes?

'Gorgeous?' She thought to herself. 'Since when have I thought his eyes were gorgeous? Nothing is gorgeous on that

green fuzz ball. Not his eyes, not his ears, nor even his smile.' Sighing to herself, Raven had to admit she was lying to

herself. 'Well, he does have a nice smile, I'll admit that. So full of happiness. He's had years to perfect his smile, while I'vehad to train myself to smile without break ing anything.

'… And last year, I smiled, and broke my heart.' Raven could feel the tears coming up again, but she s uppressed them.

After hugging her knees for a while, Raven looked up in fury.

'No! I didn't break my heart, He did. I made sure He paid for that, and He did. I cannot let this misery and pain control my

life any longer. I k now what I must do.' Finally standing up, Raven whisked away to her room. Upon arriving, she clos ed

her doors and set her sights upon the chest where the book He was ensnared in was held. He had been captured once

again after their battle with the Brain. Raven could have left the book som ewhere else but som e part of her just wouldn't

let her let him go. But now she would. Taking a deep breath, she opened up the chest and viewed the book she hadwished s he never laid eyes on.

Malchior's book.

Sensing her presence the mom ent she opened the chest, Malchior's voice called out to Raven.

"Why, could it be my dear sweet Raven returned to me?" He asked, his voice barely above a whis per, still weak from

being trapped in the book. The battle and his capture had caused him to be unconscious for a little over 2 weeks, and he

was slowly gaining strength.

"I am not yours any longer!" Raven glared down at the book. Summoning a large knife from the kitchen, Raven held the

book out in front of her.

"Hey, anyone see a large knife just go floatin' by or was it jus t me?" Cyborg asked the others .

"It's just you." Robin and Starfire replied, too engrossed in the TV to noticed. Beast Boy had headed to his room earlier to

'plan'. Cyborg jus t shrugged and went back to watching with them.

Grasping the knife in her right hand, she placed the book on her table. Sensing the metallic weapon in Raven's hands,

Malchior gasped.

"Raven, my sweet, think about what you are doing! I am the only one that understands you. I am the only one who caresabout you, Raven, my dear. You don't want to be alone again, right?" Raven was n't even lis tening any more. She was

tired of the lies , the trickery, and she was just plain tired of him telling him no one cared about her but him. That was the

biggest lie of all. Raising knife high above her head, she s poke to him one last time.

"You put a knife through my heart the day you betrayed me, Malchior, now it's my turn to repay the favor." And with that,she plunged the knife into the heart of the book. A bloodcurdling scream echoed through-out Raven's room. After a few


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moments, the scream died, and Raven lowered her sound proof barrier shield from her room. Seeing that the book had

become nothing more than a pile of dust, Raven smiled.

"Oh, and by the way, I have several people in my life that care about me. More than you ever did. I am never alone." And

with that said, she swept up the dust in one slick movement, opened the window, and tossed it out into the sea before

heading to the kitchen to return the knife and see if there was any more pizza left.

"Argh! That's no good ei ther!" Beast Boy shouted, crumpling up another sheet of paper and tossing it over his s houlder

into the paper laden recycling bin behind him. After he finished telling the others what had happened, Beast Boy haddecided to go to his room to plan on what he would m ake Raven do tomorrow. He needed planned ideas because his

on-the-spot ideas were always a hit or miss. Tomorrow he'd need them to be perfect.

The mom ent Cyborg had s tarted to rant to him about how meat was better than tofu, Beast Boy had started plotting. With

Raven's help tomorrow, he would be able to pull off the ultimate pranks! He might not prank Starfire, but Robin and

Cyborg were going down! Finally for once he would be the king while Robin and Cyborg would be the fools.

And of cours e, he was also planning on things Raven could do for him. Helping him with pranks was a given, but he

wanted her to do other things for him. After all, when would he ever get a chance to have Raven as his servant again?

Besides, Raven had been picking on him ever since they banned together to form the Titans. He'd get revenge on her

too. The ques tion was how? He needed a perfect plan of ideas. Staring at the piece of paper in front of him, Beast Boysighed.

"Why is this s o hard?! Even though this needs thinking, I'm usually good at making pranks, but I can't think of any now. Ineed inspiration or som ething!" Groaning in frustration, he let his head fall onto the desk. Above him, a glue stickwobbled from the impact and fell off the shelf onto his head.

"Ow! What was that?" Rubbing his head, Beast Boy looked around and spotted the fallen object. Just then, inspiration hit

him like...the glue stick did a second ago. Rapidly pulling out a fresh sheet of paper, the changeling scribbled down hisgenius prank. Beast Boy worked on his plans the entire afternoon, continuing into the night. Feeling accomplished and

happy with everything, Beast Boy went to bed. He wanted to have as much time tomorrow to do things as poss ible and

sleep was not one of them.

As m uch as Raven didn 't want tomorrow to come, she had also decided to cal l it a night as well . Knowing Beas t Boy, he

would have her doing things for him the mom ent tomorrow arrived, and in order for her to function tomorrow, she needed

as much rest and meditation as possible. Tonight Raven decided instead of meditating before sleeping, she would

allow herself to meditate while she s lept. She had only found she could do the two at once about a month ago, but shedidn't like to do it because it came with a price.

Her dreams would become m ore vivid and occur more often while she s lept and she was more vulnerable. She would

become more of a heavier sleeper so i f she were to be attacked, the attacker could be able to kill her before she even

opened her eyes, even if the attacker was as clums y as Beast Boy and knocked over everything in her room while

singing a Tamaranian folk song. Another reason was that Raven's legs would be as leep from being in the lotus position

for so long and s he would get a m ajor headache in the morning. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and

this definitely was a desperate time.

Pulling her legs into the lotus pos ition, Raven levitated herself and slowly chanted her mantra until falling into a deep

sleep…

Slowly but surely, each of the remaining Titans decided to go to bed. In her room, Starfire took off her boots beforesettling down in her very rounded and pink bed. The budge had indeed disappeared and her skin turned its proper color.

Starfire was very tired. She slept with one pillow under her head while s he had three under her feet to support them up.

On Tamaran, the beds always had a slant in them so the feet were supported higher than the head. Starfire found the

tradition to be very comfortable and would not sleep any other way.

After making sure the Tower was nice and secure, Cyborg went to his room and hooked himself up to his re-charger.

After stretching and giving a bit yawn, Cyborg laid down on h is flat-steel bed and went into s leep m ode.

Robin laid down in his own bed. His cape was put on his coat rack and his belt was on his desk. All the Titans were

asleep now. The Tower was quiet and everything was peaceful. Hours slowly passed, each of them as calm and tranquil

as the one before. The night was coming to a close and s ure enough, daybreak shown at the horizon.


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*Chapter 6*: Oh goodie

Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnng. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnng.

'Uggg…'


'…Whazzat?'


'…Five more minutes…'


'…Annoying sound, go away…'


Finally registering the fact that the 'annoying sound' was h is alarm clock, Beast Boy raised his fist and punched the

button on top. Immediately the ringing deceas ed, but the button triggered a recording.

"Dude! Get your laz y butt outta that bed!" yelled the recording of Beast Boy. The real Beast Boy groaned at the noise and

placed the pillow over his head. "I know—you're totally upset at the fact that this alarm clock thingy has 2 set alarms and

you're covering your head with the pil low, but dude, you have to get up! Rememb er the bet?" The real Beast Boy's ears

perked up. "Today's the day! Raven is your slave for an entire day!" The pillow was removed from his head. "And you

have to get up right now so you can pull all those genius pranks you geniusly thought up last night. So get u-" Click.

Stretching, Beast Boy got out of his bed, now fully awake and determined for some revenge. Today was going to be the

best day of his life. With Raven on his side, nothing could go wrong.

Quickly grabbing a comb and running it through his hair a few time, Beast Boy decided in the end to just mess it up with

his hands before giving his teeth a swift scrubbing. Like all the other Titans, he slept in his uniform, which was quite

comfy against popular belief, so he headed out of his room. Without making a sound, he walked slowly to his

destination: Raven's room.

Raven always locked her door during the night (and sometimes during the day), but that wasn't going to be a problem for

him. Using the mas ter key card that he lifted from the control room the night before, Beast Boy swiped it through the card

reader next to the door unlocking it. Cracking it open a bit without making a s ound, Beast Boy peered inside. He saw

Raven hovering jus t above her bed in a meditation pose with her cloak covering her body. Since he was forbidden from

entering his teamm ate's room by the contract he would have to try to wake her up from afar.

"Ravey!" Beast Boy called inside softly. "Time to wake up and greet the day!" Raven didn 't move a mus cle. Frustrated,

Beast Boy tried again, only a bit louder this time.

"Raven!"

Still nothing.

Irritated that this was getting him now where, Beast Boy was startled to feel something licking his leg. Looking down, hespotted the Titan's pet larva, Silkie, at his feet.

"Silkie!" Beast Boy whispered happily as he got an idea. Silkie gurgled cheerfully in reply. Starfire was the closes t in

relationship to the young larva, but Beast Boy didn't fall far behind. After all, he had been the one to bring the little guy

home in the first place. Wiping off his leg, the changeling gave Silkie a good morning pet before picking him up. Silkie

squiggled joyfully around in Beas t Boy's grip.

"Okay Silk, I have a l ittle job for you to do." He brought Silkie over to Raven's door so they both could see in the crack.

"We're going to play a little game of fetch." Placing Silkie on the ground again and opening the door a little wider, Beast

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"If I can't go to Raven, I'm going to make Raven come to m e." Grinning, the green-elf pointed at Raven. "Fetch Silkie! Bring

me Raven." Happy to comply, Silkie made his way further into the dark room towards the deep-sleeping g irl hovering

above her bed. Luckily for the larva, Raven's cloak hung off the s ide of her bed nearly touching the floor. Grabbing achunk of the cloak in his mouth, Silkie pulled the s till floating Raven towards the door. Raven took no notice of her

predicament and remained as leep.

By the time Silkie had gotten to the door, Beast Boy had opened it even wider, careful not to make a sound. The others

were still as leep and he d idn't want to wake them. But, as Beast Boy thought about it, the only light-sleepers in the Tower were Raven and Starfire. Robin, Cyborg and himself were heavy sleepers and that was one of the reasons why the

Tower alarm system was so loud. The only person Beast Boy had to worry not to wake up was Starfire. He decided thathe would prank her las t so in case she woke up and woke everyone else up, both Robin and Cyborg would already be

pranked.

Finally Silkie had dragged Raven all the way out of her room and now was happily gurgling again.

"Aww good job buddy! You're so good at fetch!" Beast Boy cooed at their pet, giving him a scratch under his chin—or where a chin would be if he had one. Reaching into his pocket, Beast Boy pulled out a ginger snap which Silkie had

taken a liking to, and gave it to him to eat. Silkie gladly ate it all up before wandering around the hallway some m ore.

Beast Boy set his sights back onto Raven again.

"Ravie!" Beast Boy said again, this time s haking Raven's shoulders a little bit. Still, Raven did not wake. Getting annoyedagain and thinking that Raven was pretending, Beast Boy jumped into her lap, his legs dangling over one of her arms

while his head laid on the other.

"Fine, if you're going to stay asleep, I'll just si t right here until you decide to wake up." He said from her lap while clos inghis eyes and placing his hands behind his head. Roughly 30 seconds went by before Beast Boy got restless again.

Opening his eyes, he removed his hand from behind his head and sat up. He was now face to face with Raven. He could

see every detail on her face…well, he would be if she removed that hood of hers.

'I've never really been this close to Raven.' he thought. 'Sure I've landed on her a few times in battle, but I've never really

been this close. I wish she wasn't wearing that hood of hers. I want to see her face.' Reaching up towards the hood, Beast

Boy gently pulled it back revealing Raven's lavender-haired covered head. It was at this time that Raven chose to wake

up. Blinking s lowly, it didn't take her long to realize she wasn't in her room.

Nor alone.

"Guah!" she cried, very startled at being woken up with Beas t Boy right in her face and los t control of her meditation

stance resulting in both her and the changeling to be sprawled on the floor, him on top of her.

"Beast Boy! What are you d-" She got cut off as Beast Boy placed both hands over her mouth.

"Shhh! I don't want to wake the others!" he whispered to her as she tried to pry his hands off of her. "Now you have to be a

good little servant and be as quiet as you can." Realization dawned on Raven as she recalled yesterday's events and

stopped struggling. However, before she could reply with something sarcastic or even a 'Get off of me', Raven received a

pounding headache and clutched her head in pain. Beast Boy, who before had a grin on the s ize of China, was now

looking concerned and worried.

"You okay?" he asked, waiting for a reply. When he got nothing but a glare, he realized his hands still covered her mouth.

With a sheepish grin, he removed them.

"Yes, I'm okay. I just have a splitting headache and a very bad wake-up call." Raven finally replied, still glaring at Beast

Boy. "Why am I out of my room in the first place and how did I get here?"

"Well you wouldn't wake when I called you so I had Silkie drag you here since I couldn't go in your room." Raven looked at

him skeptically.

"Right. So Silkie, the larva, dragged m e out here. Suuure, I believe you." Raven said, sarcastically.

"Well you were floating so all Silkie had to do was grab your cloak and pull you like a balloon. See." he said, holding up

the spit covered piece of cloak Silkie had in his mouth. Raven looked at it in disgust and sighed.

"Okay, I believe you. Now could you get off of me now?!" Sweatdropping, Beast Boy got off of Raven wai ting for her to get

up but she never did.

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"As m uch as I do wis h you fulfill your request, oh 'mas ter'," she sarcas tically remarked, "The lower half of me is still

asleep and I can't feel or move anything below my stomach."

"Oh, well…I see." Beast Boy thought about the s ituation. "Well…Can't you jus t levitate or som ething?"

"…"

"Rae?"

"Don't call me Rae." Beast Boy grinned.

"I can call you what ever I want today, remember? Raaae." Raven groaned at his enthusiasm. She might have been a

morning person but this was too perky for her.

"Now," he continued. "Get your s leeping butt in the air and follow me! We're going to Cy's room . But first, we have to make

a stop at my room to get stuff."

As Raven rose into the air, her legs dangling l imply under her, she said, "What kind of 'stuff'?"

"Wouldn't you like to know."

"Yes. Yes I would."

"…Oh…Err…Just follow me." And with that, the two Titans made their way to the pigsty of a room that Beast Boy called

his own. Clothes and junk were lying everywhere in large heaps. Paper plates littered the ground as well as soda cans.His desk, which had a big crack down the middle where Beast Boy had sm ashed it in rage, stood near his unmadebunk-bed and held his computer. Upon entering the room, Beast Boy scurried over to his bed and grabbed a large box

which lay underneath the bottom bunk. Raven looked at the room in d isgust.

"How lovely." she sarcastically remarked as she saw a moldy piece of bread somehow attached to the wall.

"I know, isn't it?" Beast Boy replied, obviously not catching the cynicism. He was too busy gathering all the neces sary

items for his pranks and putting them in the box. Super glue, pink markers, pink paint, grass skirt, coconut bra—

"Okay, do I even want to ask where you got that thing?" Raven ques tioned, starting at the las t object Beast Boy packed in

the box. "Nor do I even want to ask why you even have it in the first place?"

"No, probably not." Beast Boy replied as he packed more things into the box. After a few minutes of searching and

packing Beast Boy finished.

"Finally." Raven commented. She had regained feeling in her lower body and was s tanding near the door now. She

raised an eyebrow as Beas t Boy placed the box in her arms. "What are you doing?"

"You're my servant, remem ber? You carry all the things while I get to sit back and relax while we head to Cy's room."

"Hurray for me." said Raven, dryly as she turned to the door to leave. Beast Boy however stopped her just before s heexited.

"Wait. One more thing…" he said, with a devilish grin.

"Alright, we're here."

"Here already? That was fun. How about another lap around the floor?"

"Beast Boy, do you want to do your pranks before the others wake up? Now get off my back."

"I'll get off when I feel like it. I make the orders here, remem ber. But anyways, we do have to get started on the pranks." And with that said, Beast Boy jumped off of Raven's back which he had been rid ing piggy-back style for the pas t 8

minutes. Not only was Beast Boy a kid at heart, but he was a kid in his mind as well.

Signaling Raven to be as quiet as possible—not like she wasn't already—Beast Boy stepped inside Cyborg's room withRaven on his heels. Raven placed the box on the floor and crossed her arms waiting for her "master's" instructions.

Excitedly, the changeling grabbed the bucket of pink paint from the box as well as two paint brushes. He kept one for

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"We're painting Cyborg's room pink?" Raven remarked quietly. "You're going to need more paint than one little can."

"Who said we're painting Cy's room?" Beast Boy replied as softly as Raven had with a wide grin on his face. "We're

painting Cy!" Raven could only stare in wonder at the green little boy in front of her. Why in the world would anyone want

to paint someone pink? It just seemed ridiculous. But nonetheless, Raven complied with Beast Boy's request. She had

to, of course, no matter how silly. It was lucky for them that Cyborg was a heavy sleeper and that he was part robot which

meant he couldn't feel as well as a complete human.

They worked fast and were aided by the fact that Raven could pick up Cyborg and sus pend him in the air with her powers

so they could get his back. They were very careful as to not wake the s lumbering teen and as an extra precaution, theydid not paint his face. Instead, Beast Boy gave him nice white shaving cream eyebrows, a mus tache, and a beard. The

paint was fast drying and since they only gave him one coat, Cyborg's new make-over was done in about a half hour. ButBeast Boy was not done jus t yet.

Snickering quietly, Beast Boy grabbed the Hawaiian gear from the box.

"Don't you think this is going a little too far?" Raven remarked, standing near Cyborg's s teel bed with her arms crossed.

"Of course not!" Beast Boy replied, trying to find the clasp on the back of the grass skirt. "Do you know how many times

Cy has humiliated me?!"

"436 times, not including the time he poured sour cream on your head."

"See? Cy deserves all of this, maybe even more! I want payback, and I want it now!" he said, just a little bit too loud. He

clasped his hands over his mouth and let out a sigh of relief when Cyborg did not wake up.

"I still think it's too m uch." Raven said.

"Ya know, Rae," Beast Boy said in a thinking pos e, "You never did get revenge on Cy for giving you that wet-willie the first

time we met Mad Mod—"

"Give me that lea." Raven interrupted. Beast Boy grinned ear to ear.

"I knew you'd see it my way." Raven didn't reply.

Both teens had finished with Cyborg and after another piggy-back ride, they were standing inside Robin's room. Beast

Boy had jus t finished explaining his latest prank to Raven when she cut him off.

"I was okay with the fact that you used Cyborg as a l ive drawing board and a king-sized manikin, but super-gluing our

leader to his ceiling I just don't agree with."

"The glue's gonna only be on his uniform. He has lots of 'em if you remember straight, Miss 'The Mask Makes Me Feel

Cool'." Raven scowled at the nickname. She had to admit that Robin-ing was fun, but it wasn't something she was proudof.

"Okay, so s tart gluing-up Robin and sticking him to the ceiling while I go around his room toss ing around these babies."

Beast Boy said as he held up a large stack of photos. More specifically, multiple copies of the blackmail pictures he andCyborg took of Robin sleeping in the bathtub, hugging the carton of orange juice and wearing Starfire's shower cap.

Sighing, Raven levitated the bottle of superglue towards Robin's s leeping form. She unscrewed the top, levitated Robin

so that he was now facing the ground and poured the glue all over the back of his uni form, making s ure not to get anyglue on his spiky little head. When she was done, she carefully placed Robin on the ceiling like a stamp in a stamp

book. She held him up with her powers for a few moments before recalling her dark energy and allowing him to stick on

his own. The Boy Wonder slept peacefully on.

Meanwhile, Beast Boy started placing the pictures all over the room. On the walls , on the computer, on the floor, onRobin's bed, everywhere. He even placed one in Robin's picture frame, over top of a picture of the team. Robin and

Starfire were s tanding in the m iddle facing the camera, sm iling very nicely. However, the others weren't as photogenic.

Raven, who stood to the left with her hood on and arms crossed, had blinked when the picture was taken, making it

seem as if she had no eyes. Beast Boy had been talking

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