Here we are, last chapter! This one was a real struggle to finish-I kept worrying about how certain things would be perceived but now it is done at last! Thank you for all the positive responses and reviews-you guys know who you are and you are the best! Please enjoy!

I'm really in the doghouse now, Beast Boy lamented. He was sat on the grass at the edge of the city, on top of a rugged cliff looking out over the calm blue ocean. He had been watching its soothing constant motion and listening to its soft crashing sound for almost the whole day but it hadn't helped him to forget what deep trouble he was now in.

He had had his communicator on him when he had bolted from the Tower and a few hours ago he had had a very short and unpleasant conversation with Robin. Cyborg had managed to calm Raven down and assure her that Malachior had not found a way back and he was now attending to the damage in her room. Raven was now being comforted by Starfire but she was still incredibly angry with him and Robin hadn't sounded impressed either.

"I'll call you when you can come back." He had said stiffly, in a stern voice that had made Beast Boy's ears droop a little. "Use this time to think about what you did."

He probably thinks I did it on purpose as some sort of prank, Beast Boy thought sadly. The call hadn't come through yet but he was also waiting for something else. He picked up a stone and threw it over the edge of the cliff. Both Starfire and Kid Flash's advice had majorly backfired and now he was getting desperate. He sighed deeply. He had a bad feeling about this and he knew if he had any other options he would have taken them but now he had no choice. This was his one last attempt, his Plan C. No, he thought bitterly, more like his Plan Z.

He chucked another stone, more violently this time, and he heard a dry chuckle from behind him.

"Well, somebody has anger issues."

Beast Boy turned around sharply. Casually leaning against a random footpath sign was a young man in a tight red suit and black and white face mask, with flat orange hair and a smirk on his face. Slung over his back was a yellow bow and a quiver of arrows. He stepped forwards and Beast Boy scowled at him.

"What took you so long? I've been here for hours."

"Wow, you really are in a bad mood." Speedy chuckled again. "I heard about your lovely idea for a present by the way. You really do have a way with women."

"Shut up." Beast Boy growled. The day had already gone awfully and Speedy wasn't exactly helping with his dumb remarks. "You know why I called you."

Speedy's mask twitched and his face broke into a smug grin. He was renowned for being the worst womaniser in the whole of the Teen Titians and was notorious for trying it on with anything that was female and had a pulse. Bumblebee and the others despaired of it but for some reason it made his fangirls even crazier and he hardly did much to discourage them. Things had gone badly for him several times when he had tried to flirt with the wrong girl (Starfire had punched him through a wall with Robin's clear approval and he had almost been dropped in the ocean by Kid Flash when he had attempted to hit on Jinx, only saved by the quick intervention of Cyborg and Bumblebee) but he never learnt his lesson.

"You need my help getting Raven to like you." Speedy said with another grin. "I admit, it'll be harder after all those stunts you pulled earlier-why didn't you come to me first?"

"Because I know you Speedy." Beast Boy looked at him and saw he had a cut on his arm that looked very fresh and was making little drops of blood dribble down his arm. He pointed at it. "Where did you get that?"

Speedy looked down at it and wiped some of the blood away. He winced a little. "Let's just say I had a bit of a scrape. That girl was crazy, I didn't realise she could move so fast…"

"A girl did that to you?" Beast Boy said, wondering why he felt surprised. "Is that why you were late?"

Speedy looked a little guilty and Beast Boy felt even more uneasy than he had when he had first called him. "God, Speedy, I don't know about this…"

"How about you hear what I have to say first?" Speedy said quickly. "Then you can make your mind up."

Beast Boy looked away but hesitantly nodded. Speedy took that as a cue to informally walk over and heavily drop his arm around Beast Boy's shoulders, knocking the wind out of him. "Think about it. What does a woman look for in a guy?" he asked him.

"If I knew, I wouldn't be asking you, would I?" Beast Boy said grumpily.

Speedy ignored him and went on. "C'mon just gimme a guess."

"Looks?"

"No."

"Style?"

"No."

"Money?"

"Partly but no."

"Niceness?"

"God no! C'mon Beast Boy, think!"

"I dunno, just tell me!"

"Humour! A sense of humour!" Speedy shouted exasperated in his ear. "Women like funny guys! How do you think I get so many? Of course looks do help…" He slicked down his hair and smiled broadly.

Beast Boy shoved him off. "But Raven doesn't think I'm funny at all! She hates my jokes; she's thrown me out of windows before because of them!"

"That's because you haven't shown her what you're really good at," Speedy said. "Think about it, if that's not too dangerous for you…" Beast Boy glared at him and said nothing. "Urgh, you're no fun. Pranks, Beast Boy, you're good at pranks!"

"Are you crazy? Raven already thinks I pulled a prank on her and that's why she's so angry with me! How is another prank going to help?"

"This one will be better, I assure you!" Speedy said in his usual cocky tone. "Trust me, I've done this before. Women will forget everything if you impress them. Show some backbone and get in there!"

"I don't know about this…" Beast Boy backed away warily. "This doesn't sound good…"

"Believe me, it'll work." Speedy said positively. "I didn't get my reputation for nothing, you know. And you do want to get the girl, don't you? But ah well, I guess if you don't want to, you can try something else…go to some of your other options…" Speedy started to swagger away, determinedly looking straight ahead.

Beast Boy frowned after him. Speedy's plan sounded so stupid but he did have more experience…the image of Raven's face swam before his eyes and he bit the inside of his cheek. This could go oh so horribly wrong like the others had but if it worked…

"Wait." He said and Speedy stopped mid-stride, his leg kicked up into the air like he was in a marching band. "What exactly were you thinking?"

Beast Boy returned to the Tower later in the afternoon and went straight to the living room. What confronted him there almost made him want to be back on that cliff by the sea. Robin, Starfire and Cyborg were standing in the kitchen. Robin had his arms crossed and a cross expression on his face, Starfire looked to be trembling a little and biting her nails anxiously and Cyborg just looked terrified for him as all their eyes went to the front of the room. Sitting cross-legged in the air by the huge window was Raven. She had her back to him and her eyes closed like she was meditating but Beast Boy could see in her reflection the flicker of anger that blinked across her face when he entered the room. He gulped. His heart felt like it was beating out of control and the contraption Speedy had clamped to his arm now felt really tight, like a boa constrictor around his arm. His brow felt sweaty and hot as his legs somehow made their way over to her. All his limbs felt like jelly as he stood behind her. He was so close to her he knew if he reached out his hand it would get tangled in her cloak. He took a long deep breath.

"Raven, I am really, really sorry about what happened this morning." He said in a great rush, his nerves making his voice whoosh out like air from a deflating balloon. "I never meant for you to freak out; I was just trying to do something nice for you. I guess I didn't think about the connotations that it would have…"

He spluttered to a halt as Raven turned around slowly like she was spinning around in an office chair about to fire him. Her eyes opened and he felt like she was burning a hole in him.

"No, you didn't think, did you? You never think." Her icy voice cut through him like a knife.

"Anyway," He went on bravely. "I'm truly sorry Raven, can you forgive me?" He held out his hand for a handshake, feeling sick to his stomach. Ever since he had left Speedy, he had been feeling worse and worse about his plan but he was too far gone now. He plastered a smile on his face as Raven raised an eyebrow at him.

She looked down at his palm. "This isn't a joke is it?" She asked.

"No." Beast Boy only just choked out an answer.

"Beast Boy…" Raven warned and he knew instantly she had seen right through him.

"C'mon, Raven there's nothing there!" He tried to joke but she didn't laugh. He could feel the tension in the air gripping him like iron bars. "See!"

He gripped both his hands together, his thumb clicking the off switch on the long metal device like an exoskeleton attached to his arm. He made to draw them away but suddenly the switch slipped and volts of electricity were sent pulsing through his body. He let go of his hands but it did nothing. His body shook with the force that was being sent through it and he let out a howl of pain as he started shifting uncontrollably into other animals.

"Beast Boy!" Raven got to her feet, her face twisted in fear. She turned to Cyborg in a panic. "What's happening to him?"

"He's being electrocuted!" Cyborg shouted back, trying to get closer to his friend but unable to due to the varying sizes of the animals he was becoming.

"How do I stop it?!" Raven screamed. She could feel his white hot pain on her own skin just from standing near him and seeing his face as it was warped in agony was more than she could bear. Sparks were shooting out from his arm and they could all see from the way it was spasming that it was broken.

They were all paralysed with horror as his body stopped convulsing and fell to the floor, now back in the form of a human. Raven collapsed by his side and pulled up his sleeve, ripping the metal device from his arm. She looked at the fried thing in disgust before she threw it at Cyborg and tried to revive Beast Boy.

"It's one of Speedy's prank machines!" Cyborg exclaimed. "I told him those things were death traps! When I get my hands on hi-Raven?"

Raven was bent over Beast Boy's limp body, her chest heaving and her eyes filling with tears as she slammed her hands down on his chest. "He's not breathing!" She wailed. "He's not breathing!"

Black magic started swirling around the two figures on the floor, engulfing them in a tornado of dark-coloured wind that picked up objects in the room and flung them around like toys. The other three tried to get to them but could not get anywhere near them. They yelled their friend's names but their voices were blown away and went unheard. Raven kept pumping her hands on Beast Boy chest, magic shining on her hands and her tears glowing as they poured down her face.

"Beast Boy, please, come back!" She shouted at him sobbing. "Please I can't lose you like this! I'll do anything I'll…I'll eat your fake meat, I'll play your dumb video games, I'll laugh at your stupid jokes, I promise, just don't die on me!"

She begged him desperately as her motions grew slower and more tired but still she couldn't feel him move. Her weeping consumed her as she slumped over him. "Please," she whispered in his ear, her wet grey cheek pressed to his green one. "I love you."

"You…do?" A croaky response replied.

She shot her head back and saw his big green eyes staring up into her own. Under her fingers she could feel his heart fluttering like the wing of a trapped bird as his chest moved up and down. He smiled up at her weakly and she gasped delightedly in response.

"Beast Boy…" she whispered in disbelief. She cupped his head in her hands and her thumbs ran across his cheeks before her lips fell on his and kissed him long and hard.

The magic around them died down and the other three saw them lying on the floor with their lips locked. Their mouths all hung open until Cyborg broke the silence.

"You guys are seeing this too, right?"

"Yes!" Starfire burst out loudly, nearly bursting the eardrums of the two boys standing either side of her. "And it is most wondrous!"

Epilogue

It was now late evening and the stars and the moon were beginning to show in the orange sky and the sun dropped slowly below the horizon like a coin disappearing into a slot machine. Watching the sunset with his arm in a white sling and a soppy grin on his face was Beast Boy. Next to him was Raven who was still berating him.

"I can't believe you went to Speedy!" She went on furiously, like she had for the last ten minutes. "And you let him put that buzzer on your arm! I'm going to kill him when I see him, that was just stupid! He clearly doesn't know women at all! Why didn't you just come to me first?" She looked at him, her eyes still pink with tears. She hadn't known you could cry that much, first with grief then with joy.

"Love makes you do crazy things Rae-Rae," He said, pulling her towards him with his one good arm. "Like take advice from Speedy or charge at a giant sludge monster…"

Raven laughed and shook her head. "Oh dear Beast Boy." She suddenly looked serious and said. "I do owe you an apology though. I was a real bitch then and I shouldn't have yelled at you like that or spoken to you the way I did earlier. I'm so sorry for putting you through all that, maybe if I hadn't you wouldn't have resorted to this. It was just…you so nearly were sucked in by that thing. If that had happened…"

"Don't worry Raven," He said. He kissed her cheek and he felt it go hot as she blushed. "I'm sorry too. You're right, I should have just told you. If I had had any idea you felt the same way…"

"We've both been idiots." She said as she reached her hand up to where his was resting on her shoulder and clutched it tight. "Still at least we can make it up to each other now."

They looked at each other and saw the stars in each other's eyes. They leaned in and kissed softly and sweetly, barely noticing when the sun did withdraw from the scene and the darkness gave them complete privacy.

All done now! Please leave a review whatever you have to say (constructive criticism is good, I won't get mad)! CursedRedRose out!