After the strongest climax he'd ever had in his life started dying down, the haze started retreating, and to Beast boy's surprise he saw Raven flushed and panting naked underneath him smiling contently.

Beast boy gulped and sat up quickly trying and failing miserably not to openly stare at her breasts. "Rae, I'm so sorry."

She smiled warmly, and sat up as well, caressing his cheek. "Don't be. Gar, you know you can't do anything to me if I don't want you too. Why didn't you come to me sooner?" She asked softly.

Beast boy forced himself to look at the hood covered floor to answer. "And tell you what, Rae? That every fiber of my being wants me to mate with you? That I can't be in the same room as you out of fear that I'm going to assault you? That the Beast feels like it's constantly about to take my place?"

"And that you love me." She simply stated.

He gasped and blushed. "I... always have..."

That seemed to hit her, she laid back down and placed her arms behind her head as she stared out to the stars. "Yes, but, not like this. Not this way. This feels different, this feels permanent."

Beast boy was now the surprised one now, she was right, he searched for her gaze and found it. "Rae there's something else you should know..."

"I'm your mate." She softly but firmly stated. It wasn't a question.

Beast boy's eyes were wide. "You knew?!"

She sighed and looked up to the stars again "I guessed...I felt it."

"And you're okay with it?" He searched for her gaze again.

She looked him straight in the eyes and smiled. "Strangely, I am. Gar, you're one of my best friends, I trust you completely, even with my life, I love you deeply and Azar knows I find you attractive."

"You do?!" He perked up so much Raven thought he would sprout out a dog tail any second and wag it.

"Don't let it go to your head" She fake scowled at him.

"Too late." He beamed at her.

"Ugh." She covered her eyes dramatically with her forearm.

Beast boy finally took in his surrounding, they were no longer in the Tower, or Earth for that matter, they were on top of something that seemed like a large asteroid floating along in space, even though he didn't recognize any of the stars.

"Um...Rae, where are we?" He asked nervously.

"Pocket dimension. I can destroy the Tower if I get too excited remember?"

"Um did you… um get too excited?" He asked coyly.

"Empath, remember? If you do, I do too." She winked at him.

"Dd-did I hurt you?" He asked avoiding her gaze.

Raven sat up and found his gaze, she exhaled and calmly monotoned. "Gar, I'm not a delicate little flower you need to worry about. I already went through demon puberty. Remember a few years ago when I wouldn't come out of my room for days?"

"You weren't meditating?" He had no idea where this was going.

Raven continued staring into his eyes as she took in a deep breath and explained: "I was turning into my full demon form and had to portal to a dimension of Eldritch-like tentacled monsters which I would use to sexually satisfy me for days, only then being able to cleanse away my demon side, return to my human form and come back."

He stared at her in disbelief with eyes like saucers. "WHAAAT?!"

"I know what you're going through, Gar." She said staring intensely into his eyes emphasizing the word know.

Eyes wide he grabbed his head as if feeling it would spin clear off his neck. "Rae, why didn't you ever tell me?"

Raven smirked. "You were 15 Gar, we were barely friends, what could you have possibly done other than tease me about it?"

"Are you kidding me Rae!? I would have killed to be your tentacle monster...That came out wrong." He blushed furiously and covered his face with his hands.

She laughed, he followed.

"Wait, so, this was your first time with a "human"?" He asked smiling, making air quotes around the word human.

She snickered slightly. "I appreciate the air quotes, yeah it's my first time with a "human"." She said also doing the air quotes.

""Mine too."" He said using the air quotes again.

Raven's face was clearly stifling a laugh at the implications of those last air quotes before she just openly snickered, and they both laughed heartily until they both ended laying down, side by side, staring at the stars again catching their breaths.

"So, we didn't ruin anything back in the Tower?" Asked Beast boy taking Raven's hand in his and intertwining their fingers.

"Just some lights, and my uniform, we can use it to clean ourselves up if you want to." Said Raven absentmindedly, completely entranced in the way their hands looked, together.

Suddenly Beast boy squeezed way too hard. "Oh Crap! Rae, I didn't use protection!" He said panicking.

"It's okay Gar, I'm on the pill." She said soothingly.

Beast boy exhaled deeply, and joked snarkily: "What if I get some tentacle STD?"

Raven laughed. "If next time you're an octopus, you feel itchy, come find me".

They both laughed again not letting the others hand go.

Beast boy turned to look her in the eyes. "Rae, can we stay a while longer?

"You want to turn into an octopus, don't you?" Raven said straight-faced.

Beast boy chuckled. "Among other things."

"That's fine by me." She smiled.