BBAre A Slippery Slope, A Green Horizon

9

The sound of a communicator going off, awoke the two later that day. It's insistent trilling cutting through one of the rare pleasant dreams that Raven had ever found herself enjoying, wresting her from the warm embrace of slumber, and more cruelly, the warm embrace of Garfield.

Raven reached for the irritating device as Beast Boy rubbed his eyes blearily, finding the act of awakening far more difficult than his companion.

"Yes?" She yawned, watching as Robin frowned at her through the tiny monitor.

"Raven? Why do you have Beast Boy's communicator?" He asked worriedly. "Is he okay?"

Raven froze, her eyes racing to Garfield in a panic, but he could only shrug helplessly.

"He left it in the bathroom." She lied, keeping the communicator close to her face so that Robin couldn't see the wall behind her and it's obvious paint scheme. "I was on my way to give it back to him."

"...Right." Robin said, his eyes narrowed. "Well, when you do return it, tell him that dinner is ready. Cy said he missed lunch and I don't want him distracted if we get called out because he's hungry."

"Okay, I'll tell him." Raven assured the Boy Wonder, watching from the corner of her eye as Garfield covered his mouth and heaved with silent laughter. "See you in a minute."

Beast Boy let his barely contained giggling free, holding his stomach and almost crying with laughter as the sorceress shook her head indignantly. "It's not funny Garfield."

"Then why are you smiling?" Beast Boy questioned, wiping a tear from his eye.

Raven quickly schooled her features, erasing any trace of amusement from her face. "I'm not."

This only served to bring on another bout of laughter from the shapeshifter, made worse when Raven tossed a pillow at him and rose in a huff. "While you're struggling to compose yourself, I'm going to join the others at dinner."

The changeling waved an arm, struggling to talk through his mirth. "Hold on! I can behave, honest." He said, his fanged grin and snickering doing little to convince Raven of that fact. "Besides, you're meant to be telling me about dinner right? It'd look suspicious if I didn't show up with you."

"I suppose…" The sorceress mused, gliding to his door. "I need to brush my hair, so don't feel in any kind of a rush."

She moved through the door without opening it, her shadowy energy swirled in the wake of her form as she left. Beast Boy found himself staring long after she was gone.

In the common room, they found the others already seated, a veritable feast set out before them. Starfire cut off her story about how she had mistook a cardboard cut out of Superman as the real thing one time, catching sight of the mismatched pair. "Friends, where have you been all day?"

Sliding into her seat, Raven replied with a simple "Meditation." Which the others took at her word, since such a thing was not uncommon.

Beast Boy laughed and rubbed the back of his neck. "I fell asleep, didn't get much rest out in the woods."

Robin stared at him from across the table. "And why did Raven have your communicator? You're not the most organised guy, but even you don't leave your equipment just lying around."