Ghosts of the Past

Chapter One

Raven sat on her bed tapping her leg impatiently. She couldn't sleep. She just couldn't. she didn't know why, she should be tired. After fighting Cinderblock, Plasmus, and Control freak. The battle with Control Freak had been particularly grieving after Beast boy had accidentally knocked over a row of movie cases, successfully knocking Raven and Robin out, allowing the geeky criminal to escape. Not to mention the whole fiasco with Terra happened just three weeks ago. But no matter how hard she tried, sleep would not come. So now she just had to wait. She stared at the alarm clock on her nightstand, it was 3am. She sighed as she felt a headache coming on. Finally she got up to go make herself some herbal tea. She was clad in a black Spaghetti strap tank top and her purple underwear. Her hair was haphazardly pulled back and she was barefoot, the chipped nail polish Starfire painted on her toes exposed. She would normally never dream of going out like this but, she figured no one was awake anyway and she didn't feel like changing. As she neared the common room she jumped at the sound of breaking glass through the crack in the door she found a figure hunched over the table several bottles scattered everywhere.

"what the-" Raven paused and stared.

"Beastboy?"

"hey what are you doin here?" Beastboy slurred his words.

"Beastboy! Are you drunk!" Raven gasped.

"hey I know.....why you came.....down here. Dressed like that....you came to see me." He smirked and stood up.

Raven felt self conscious as Beast Boys eyes raked her body. She wanted nothing more than to teleport away, but she couldn't just leave with her friend in the condition he was in. He was lucky someone else didn't find him, especially Robin who would have a fit.

His uniform was wrinkled which matched his ruffled hair. He was slightly hunched over and he stumbled around.

"Beastboy! What are you doing?!" Raven stared at him angrily.

"Hey now no.....need to....yell mama."Beastboy grinned and started walking towards her.

"Don't call me that! Stop! What are you doing?""Raven went to back up.

Beastboy roughly grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards him.

"Beastboy!"

"Stop your drunk and you don't know what your doing! Why are you even drinking in the first place?" Raven yanked out of his grasp and pushed him down on the chair.

"Hey..now.""Beastboy said reaching for a bottle but Raven slapped his hand.

"Beastboy whats wrong? You can tell me." Raven pleaded.

Beastboys eyes became sad.
"You know.....this whole team thinks I'm a joke. Rob's always berating me, acting like I'm stupid. Today with Cinderblock.....I knew I messed up, but he didn't have to keep reminding me the whole way home. Terra finally made me feel like I wasn't just some dumb jokester that was there for comic relief. And you."

Beastboy stared at her with cruel eyes.

"me? What did I do? Raven said confused.

"You don't know? Every day you insult me. And bring me down, and yet I still love you." Beastboy laughed humorlessly.

"Love me?" Raven stared at him incredulously

"Beastboy slowly got up and moved towards Raven until their faces were only centimeters apart. Raven could smell the alcohol on Beastboys breath. He slowly moved in and softly kissed her.

"Raven stood frozen in shock with her eyes wide. Beastboy smirked and walked to the door calling behind his shoulder.

"if you want some more you can come to my room."

The next morning Cyborg came downstairs to find Raven still standing in the kitchen.
"Aw come on Rae put some pants on!"

AN: ok, so I'm trying my best to revisit each chapter and revise it because I had a lot of grammatical errors. Also I'm adding a few little details here and there. Thanks for the read!