The Truth Of Life- BBRAE One-Shots

Meeting the Parents

The Tower occupiers were bored out of their minds. A crime alert hadn't hit the city in days, and while some might find that good, the Titans found it to be capital b-o-r-i-n-g.

Robin of the Teen Titans was locked in his room, polishing his weapons for the fifth time that week. The squeaky clean weapons sighed as they endured another back-wrenching cleaning.

Cyborg of the Teen Titans was in the garage, polishing the T-car for the seventh time that week. His car roared in protest at the prospect of another wiping.

Starfire of the Teen Titans wasn't bored. She was making a new kind of pudding she hadn't heard on Tameranian- vanilla. She had found a human cooking book amidst her alien cooking books and found the pudding section (Robin had nothing to do with that). She was in heaven, and the rest of the Titans were relieved.

Beast Boy of the Teen Titans was with his girlfriend for the twenty-seventh time this morning, and they were talking together. Terra was quite funny to him, and he laughed at her jokes and encouraged her.

Raven of the Teen Titans was sulking in her room, wishing her room wasn't quite so close to Beast Boy's. She could hear them laughing and talking while her gut twisted and things exploded around her. Once she accidentally exploded something in Beast Boy's room, which made everything go quiet, so she really wanted to do that again.

She didn't know why she felt this way. The way he talked to her, laughed with her, made her sick. She really wanted to go into his room and banish Terra to another dimension where she would eventually get eaten, but Beast Boy would go berserk. She would probably get kicked off the team for doing that too. It's a shame.

She wasn't jealous. At least, she hoped she wasn't. She tried to just read, but their laughter would get in her head constantly, so much that she couldn't read romantic books without her brain laughing at her. It was torture. She longed for the nighttime, but she knew that if Terra moved in with Beast Boy, it would get even worse. For now, she knew herself that they hadn't even kissed yet. She's not a stalker. Not at all.

She knew it would happen eventually; their relationship was going well. If she wanted to put an end to it, now- she would have to do it discreetly. And that was a problem. Because of Beast Boy's amazing, dreamy pointy ears, he could hear the slightest movement. Once she'd gotten up from bed and opened the window in the middle of the night and he had come running over to ask what was wrong. He was still in his boxers.

She laughed at the memory, his face growing red. She had assured him she was fine and he had rubbed his ears, a clear sign that he had heard the window creak open.

Now, sitting in her room, her ear to the wall as she listened to them talk, she wished she had gone straight over there and kissed him.

Wait...WHAT?!

She took her ear off the wall at this revelation. Did she really want to kiss him? Would he let her?

Raven left her room, feeling worse then when she had entered it, knowing Beast Boy was next door with his girlfriend. She had a book in hand- Romeo and Juliet, and she tried to act like she wouldn't start crying in the common room if she read this.

The door to the common room hissed open and Raven took a deep breath, rearranging her face to monotone.

The monotone face didn't last long, it dropped as soon as the common room doors opened to be replaced with one of surprise.

Sitting on the couch with Robin, Cyborg and Starfire was the Doom Patrol, Beast Boy's old team. He came to this team after being on the run. People had wanted his powers, but Rita, better known as Elasti-Girl, found him huddled behind some trash cans. She and Steve, better known as Mento, took him in and basically adopted him, and the rest of their team accepted him too. So basically, Beast Boy's parents and other friends were in the room.