Alright guys. This is going to be the last thing I'm adding to the story. A nice happy epilogue with no more angst…

Nah! Just a small touch. I got plenty of practice in that department, but I have to add just a little more. But I'm still going to get to practice my next favorite thing in a story. Happily Ever After!

Yes Daniel, I remembered you for this one! Since you gave me your first review ever, I'm dedicating this chapter to you. Hope you like it!

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Disclaimer: I need to count how many times I've said I don't own Teen Titans after this update.

Why Do You Hate Me?

Love Is Worth It

You know, it's funny how things can change when a different event happens. Instead of the one from before.

How something that can seem so small and insignificant to the mass population, can affect someone's future so drastically. To the point of bringing about a change in the person altogether. And changing the events of said future for the better. Kind of like the theory of alternate timelines.

After the events of that one week, when everything was said and done. Something had changed within Raven.

Yeah, she was still sarcastic most of the time in her replies to idiocy. She still spoke in an emotionless monotone to her teammates. She still strived to try and keep her emotions under control to the best of her abilities. And yes, there was still times when she felt like blowing something up when she was pissed.

You might be wondering this. What exactly changed within Raven?

But first, I'd like to say what happened after Raven ran out of the room that day. And just what transpired in the Tower soon after.

To give you guys a shortened version of what happened. I'll just say that after Cyborg and Beast Boy led the demonic Raven on a wild goose chase throughout the Tower, Raven finally caught the two of them in the garage. Cyborg had still been smirking widely when he was caught. Although Beast Boy had a slight look of fear on his face.

Rage had demanded something simple from Cyborg. To delete everything he had seen in that room. This was what Cyborg had said to her.

"No way Rae! You can hit me with your best shot! Cuz I am so not deleting this juicy bit of blackmail ever!"

She had only smiled widely at him, making Cyborg confused for a moment. Before Rage gave Cyborg what I have personally dubbed: 'The Doctor Light experience.'

Yeah, he was sucked into the folds of her cloak, and shown the area of Outer Perdition. The exact spot that Doctor Light had seen before. All those years ago. And despite the defeat of Trigon, it was still as horrifying as ever.

This is all his cybernetic brain was able to process in the short time he was there. As most of it was too… disturbing for mortal minds such as mine to simply imagine.

Cyborg could hear all the wicked souls of the dead crying out in misery all around him. Suffering all forms of various punishment. From being gutted again and again by a demon with a bloody axe for a head. Large ugly vultures perched on top of others souls tied to chains by a lava lake. Being stabbed by them again, and again, and again. They got all the pain, but no death to relieve them from it.

The last thing he saw was a couple of big, ugly, yet scary looking demons. Whipping the wicked with chains made of the heads of their many past victims. Spikes were also attached to the heads for effect. Some of the wicked being punished were being hit over and over again in front of them. This is the worst part, most were being punished by a chain of their own spiked heads.

Did I mention outside the area of the lava lake, it was as cold as the middle of the Arctic?

After Rage had pulled Cyborg out from there, he had been pale all over. His cybernetics dim in their glowing colors. A look of profound fear having taken over the smirk that had been on his face. And he was holding his body to himself. Trying to get his heaters to kick in again.

"So Cy. Do you really want to keep that in your memory? Or do I have to have you live there for a whole day? (Grabs her chin in thought) Or a week?" Rage had sweetly asked him in a voice that held no sweetness in it.

Cyborg had ran like hell was after him out of that garage and back to his room. Where he then proceeded to delete all the experiences of the day from his mind. And for good measure, he also deleted those of the past week. To make sure there were no triggers to ever bring that up ever again inside his mind.

Cyborg had always wondered why Doctor Light had to go through therapy every time he so much as saw Raven when they battled. Well, now he knew. And Cyborg was only grateful he could delete such an experience from his mind.

Shortly after this, Cyborg sent an apology card to Doctor Light. Who was still tucked away in his nice little jail cell.

Cyborg would learn how important it was to never piss off Raven again. As even though he deleted the memories, he'd still have nightmares of some demon with an axe like head, hitting him over and over again with a chain made of his own heads with spikes in all of them.

Who knows the evil that lies in the hearts of men? Oh wait… (I do)

So Raven ended up punishing Cyborg. And most likely mentally scarring him for life. Not really sure about that last part there.

What the hell did she do to Beast Boy?

Do you remember what she thought before? How nice, his lips had felt on hers. How she hadn't even had the chance to kiss him back? Could you imagine how mad she might have been at that? That he had taken her first kiss away before she could give him a proper one back?

After Cyborg had ran out of that room, scared for his own life. Beast Boy's eyes had been wide with fear. Looking at the towering demoness hovering over him. A wide smirk on said demoness's face.

"Now, to deal with you." She had said in a dark ominous tone.

He knew she wouldn't kill him. Not after all the work she put into healing him a mere few hours before. But after seeing what had happened to Cyborg. He was wondering if death would be a better option.

Once Raven had been sure Cyborg was out of sight, she had lifted him up to her four eyed level. Bringing him face to face with the smirking face of Rage.

For all his credit, Beast Boy didn't cower in front of her demonic gaze. He just closed his eyes wordlessly. Waiting patiently for what he felt would be the start to years of much needed therapy. Or a quick painless death.

That is… until a pair of demonic lips had crashed onto his. And he lost the ability to think coherently soon afterwards. As he melted into said kiss.

Items in the garage were blowing up all around the two. But they didn't seem to care.

What had he been afraid of before? Why did he think he was going to need therapy for this? Unless it was to cure him of this newfound addiction he had now. Was this the hell he had been sent to? If so, then it was a most delicious form of hell.

Of course, the kiss had to eventually stop. And when it did stop, Beast Boy somehow knew that Raven was back in control. Had most likely been in control for a good part of that kiss. As his feet were back on the ground now for quite some time. Not held up by a dark tentacle anymore.

Beast Boy had a big goofy smile on his face when she pulled back.

That quickly turned into a frown when he saw the wicked smirk on her face. When the sound of a portal opening up came from behind him.

Next thing he knew, he was sputtering for breath on the surface of the bay. Already soaked through from the cold water. Not quite as cold as hell at least. He looked up after that in time to see the black portal close overhead.

Raven had just pulled one over him. Him! The master prankster of the Tower! And she had gotten him like a teenager teasing a little kid with a dollar bill.

Despite what had just happened, he had the goofy smile back on his face again.

"I knew she totally digged me."

Another portal opened overhead. He looked up in time to get hit in the face by a balloon full of motor oil.

Good thing he had all that water around him to wash himself off with. (badum crash)

In short, that had been all that happened that day. Well, everything that was noteworthy to be put down here. I'm not going to bother to tell you his reaction to the motor oil balloon. Other than the fact that his mouth had been open when it happened. You can very well guess what happened from there.

So yeah, you now know what happened after the original kiss that day. Cyborg is likely going to need therapy from his experience. Doctor Light received an apology letter. And Beast Boy didn't end up dying by the hands of Rage. Heck, he even got a free kiss out of it.

But I know what you're all wondering now. What exactly changed in Raven that day? What did any of what I just told you indicate some sort of grand change. Even though at the start I told you that she was still mainly her old self?

Here's a hint, Rage might have been the one that had kissed him, but there was a time near the end, where Raven herself was doing it. And not Rage.

She hadn't pushed him away like before. At least, not immediately. She hadn't tried to hurt him in any way. Besides the balloon of motor oil of course. Although I doubt she knew his mouth was open when she threw it in the portal.

Above all, she had allowed herself to feel her emotions.

You see, this was the change that occurred in Raven that day. She had allowed herself to open up to her emotions. She had embraced her emotions and let them out. Not knowing what they'd wreak havoc upon.

Raven had allowed herself to simply… feel.

However, it would be a long time in the making before another kiss like what they shared in the garage would come again. Yes, Raven may have thrown all caution into the wind that day. But it takes more than a kiss of passion to throw away years of teachings. Years of rules. Years of warnings, prophecies, dangers, the like.

Raven had talked to Beast Boy alone the next day. She had wanted him to understand just what he was getting himself into. That she really did love him. That she knew he also loved her. But that he'd have to be patient with her. To give her some time to allow her emotions to adjust. That she could still hurt him if they took things too fast. In the end, she voiced how her powers could even kill him if they went too far at once. And that she didn't want him to die because of her.

This had been his joking answer. Totally Beast Boy of him to be given a serious talk, and turn it into a joke. Right?

"Rae, if I die doing something that makes you lose control, to the point where you killed me. At least I'd know I died a happy man." He had said to her in a joking manner, a wide smirk on his face with a wink at the end. (Heh, you can try to determine what kind of joke it was to yourselves.)

He had only received an ice cold glare in response. Before he heard the sound of a portal opening, and was once again in the cold water of the bay. With that same smirk still adorning his face. Raven had left the room they had been in shortly after, a small blush forming under her hood.

And so started off the rocky relationship between Raven and Beast Boy.

At first, their teammates wouldn't really notice much of a difference. Other than the fact that Raven allowed him to hug her in front of them now and then. Without yelling at him of course. Although she was never the one that initiated the hug. And they never lasted more than a few seconds.

Or when she got pissed at something he did. Whether it be he pushed her emotions to far, made her feel more than she wanted, etc. She'd open a portal straight above the bay to send him in. Instead of just chucking him out the window, or have the portal lead to another dimension like it did before. Cyborg never had to replace another window because of her again.

If Raven was in a good mood during the day, or if Beast Boy said or did something really touching for her. She'd give him a peck on the cheek. Much to his delight. Although the first few times she tried it, this led to random items blowing up. Or becoming damaged if they were too large to be dealt with all at once.

Poor Cy.

The first time they actually pecked each other on the lips alone was in his precious T-Car.

It had been when Beast Boy had taken Raven to a hill outside the city at night to see the stars. She had told him it was a beautiful sight to see. He had told her he had something more beautiful than those stars next to him.

Apparently, that had been the right thing to say. As Raven had been the one to initiate the quick kiss that time. Catching him right off guard.

Cyborg swears Victoria could never run the same after Beast Boy had borrowed her for his and Raven's first date. Cyborg never knew that Raven had done a quick repair job on the car's engine so they could get home. Mainly because Victoria was destroyed in a fight with the Hive Five the week after. (Inspired by my submissions to BBRae week).

It did take some time, since it had been such a habit between them before. But their arguing did lessen somewhat. But didn't entirely disappear altogether. There was still things that would always be argued between the two, like getting Raven to eat tofu, Beast Boy lowering the volume on his new game console, or who got the last slice of pizza at the pizza parlor. Normal day to day things for the Titans in general.

In public, it was even less obvious that they were in a relationship. Since they had already spent the majority of their time in crime fighting guarding each other's backs. Saving the other when one got in trouble and all that. And because Raven still didn't like to show emotion in public.

The public was left clueless to the change.

The only thing that was different was when the battle would end. Where they'd proceed to immediately go to each other first to make sure the other was okay. Instead of checking with their other teammates first. But it was such a small change that the public didn't see it.

Well, most of the public. There was almost always a certain black haired brown eyed man in the crowd at every scene. Seeing it happen every time with his own two eyes.

He'd leave soon after the Titans left the area. Glad in his heart that the two Titans were finally together. As he'd go back to his boring life. Hoping for the best for the two.

Within the first couple weeks of the first day Beast Boy was fighting crime again, many letters were written by the citizens and sent to Beast Boy. Most of them being apology letters for what they said about him.

Beast Boy also received gifts of thanks from those he had saved before. One of which was a brand new moped to his delight.

One letter in particular though, held only a couple crayon drawings.

It was a couple of childish drawings of a couple of his forms. All of which were in green. A cheetah charging through a couple trees, a dog in a park, a cute little bird on a little boy's shoulder, and his personal favorite. A T-Rex, roaring at a crowd of stick figures. At the bottom of the last one, was a small note in childish writing.

I don't care what mommy says bout you. You are still my favorite Titan of them all. Rock on dude!

William

Beast Boy had it framed on a wall in his room shortly afterward. The biggest smile you could ever see adorning his face.

It still hangs there to this day.

It certainly took a long while in the making. With Raven having to be led by Beast Boy in the field of learning to accept and express her emotions. To help move their relationship forward.

He didn't have her feel everything with love all at once. But slowly took his time in helping her to come out of her shell. Like a turtle seeing the light of day for the first time. To help her expand her comfort zone in expressing herself. At least, to him alone and not in public.

It was slow.

It was painful.

There were many tears shed.

And there were a couple times where Raven pushed him away, time and time again.

Not to spite him this time. Or to purposely hurt him either. But rather, out of fear that she was showing too much emotion, and that it was affecting her powers. That if she were to continue, it could mean losing too much control over her powers, and harming him in the process.

During these times of self-doubt, she'd lock herself away in her room. Sometimes for hours, at most, a couple days. Depending on how big her fear was when it came upon her.

But Beast Boy would wait outside her door every time. Where he'd stay until she came back out.

Sometimes, if it took a while, he'd try to talk to her through the doorway. The subjects ranged from the weather, to the Titans, to his own dark past. Most of the time, it took him having to reveal something about himself, to get Raven to overcome her fears. And to come out of her room to try and continue where they had left off.

It was through these times when Beast Boy tried to talk to Raven through the door, when she came to learn much about him. Like when she learned about his murderous greedy uncle. Or the childhood he had taken away when he joined the Doom Patrol. And even when his own parents had died when he failed to save them.

With each secret about himself that Beast Boy shared, Raven came to appreciate him more and more. And tried so hard to smash her fears about her powers. To try and simply allow herself to feel. Her times of locking herself in her room became fewer and farther in between. All seemed to be going well.

Then, came a time when she had tried to get herself to kiss him in front of their friends. When he had finally read a full book series just for her. She had wanted to kiss him to show how proud she was of him.

The whole kitchen had blown up. And part of the debris from the waffle maker had made a small cut him on his arm. The other unharmed Titans had stared in shock at her.

You couldn't have seen anybody teleport out of a room any faster than she did.

Beast Boy had to talk to her through a now black shielded doorway for a whole week after that. Trying to convince her that her worst fears hadn't happened. That he was still just fine. That it was only a scratch he had gotten.

But as the days past, he didn't even know if she could hear him through the doorway anymore. He had tried bringing up things from his past that had gotten her to come out before. The first time someone saw his claws. The time he lived alone without any friends after the Doom Patrol. The day he had felt so alone when Soto had came and tried to kidnap him.

He even mentioned the time his parents had died again. Hoping that it would make her want to come out and get over her fear. But nothing worked. She was shutting herself from the world again. Trying to shut herself away from her emotions. The emotions that had just harmed her Beast Boy.

To have this next part make sense, as to what had been said on the seventh day, I'll stop the way I've been writing up to now. To give you a view of just how truly emotional this day was for the two. By going right into the interaction scene here.

Beast Boy was sitting on the opposite wall from Raven's door. Looking down at the floor. He could hear the thrumming of energy that was just a few feet in front of him. Keeping him from trying to get in to see his Raven.

He let out a small sigh. Nothing had worked in getting the dark girl to come out of her room. It had been a whole week, and her dark barrier hadn't relented in the slightest. He had tried talking to her through the barrier about everything. Like their time with the Titans. All the different criminals they had faced. Everything in his past, from the death of his parents, to the time when he first met the Titans. Trying to at least get her to respond. He had tried cooking some of her favorite waffles and other foods to coax her to at least have something to eat.

Yet nothing worked. Nothing could make her get over her fear and come out. Beast Boy felt like he was being chewed up on the inside. He knew it wasn't entirely her fault, but the fact that she was pushing him away again. That she was hurting him in order to protect him...

He got up, and started to pound on the force barrier with his fists. "Dammit Rae! It was only a small scratch! It was nothing serious enough to make you do this to yourself! To have you do this to me!" He shouted at the barrier of dark energy.

He got no response.

He continued to pound against it anyways. "Can you at least acknowledge in some way that you can hear me!? So I know I'm not talking to a freaking wall here! That you could show you still care about me!"

Still no response. Not even a flicker in the barrier. Nothing to show he was getting through to her.

An idea came to his mind, and he switched the area he was pounding on. From the doorway, to the wall to the right side of it. The wall that would still be part of her room, but wasn't covered in her dark energy. It was six inches of titanium, but the reverberations that would come off of it would likely be quite loud in her room. He was starting to wonder why he didn't think of it sooner.

Raven heard the pounding switch from the barrier she made over the door to the wall to the left of it. She briefly thought through her tears if she should extend the barrier she had made. So that way he wouldn't be able to get into her room. But decided against it. Beast Boy would know that she could hear him for sure. He'd know that she was perfectly capable of hearing him. And he wouldn't stop in his efforts until she came out after that. And she didn't want to come out, just to hurt him again when she felt some feeling..

Even with the pounding on her wall, Beast Boy got no response. He had tears of his own trying to form in his eyes. Although he wasn't exactly one to just let them fall. His hands were starting to ache, and the area he had been pounding on was full of dents from his fists. Some were just mere craters, while others reached outward into her room.

He stopped pounding on her now dented wall to rest his head on it. Through one of the dents he had made at eye level, he could barely see through the slimmest of cracks into her room. Could see her floating above her bed. Crying silently as items flew all around her room. He could faintly hear the sound of them crashing into the walls now. With the sound proof wall slightly breached.

"Raven, please. Just come out and talk to me Rae. I hate it when you do this to yourself." Beast Boy said in a tone verging on a whimper.

Raven didn't even move her eyes from the door. And remained silent. Although more tears were falling from her eyes. And the items in her room started to fly around faster and faster. She refused to make a sound though.

"Rae… I don't care about what happened back in the kitchen. None of the others care about it. It was just an accident. And you barely even hurt me. Please come out…"

Raven's body was shaking over her bed. But she still refused to acknowledge him. She refused to believe that he knew she was perfectly capable of hearing him. She didn't know he could see her slowly starting to crumble.

"Rae… you told me you feared that you'd hurt me because of our relationship. And I understood that from day one, there was always that chance… but Rae, you're hurting me now. Trying to keep me away from you… because you don't want to hurt me… but you're still hurting me Rae... just please, say something to me…"

She fell onto her bed, her concentration finally lost. The barrier in front of her door fell, and the items in her bed sped up in their ferocity. She was in the middle of the maelstrom. Crying heavily into her bed.

"Why can't you just give up on me Gar?" Raven said through her sobs. Unable to continue to ignore him anymore. He had said the one thing she hadn't wanted to hear.

"Why should I Rae?" Beast Boy asked back through the wall. Smiling slightly in his mind when he heard her voice reach his ears.

"I hurt you Gar! I couldn't even get myself to kiss you in front of our friends and I hurt you! What if I had managed to kiss you! You could have died for all I know!" She screamed out. Beast Boy shook his head, even though she couldn't see it. Wasn't Raven supposed to be the logical one here?

"Rae! It was barely a scratch! Heck, even the scab is healed over now! I'm perfectly fine! A-Okay! 100% healthy!"

"But I still hurt you Gar! I told you that this would happen! I told you what my emotions were capable of doing!"

"And I told you that I wouldn't care if you hurt me! I told you that if it got to the point where your powers killed me, at least I'd die happy! I might have sounded like I was joking back then Rae! But I was serious when I told you that! I love you! And I don't ever want to give up on you! Even if it meant the death of me! Because without you Rae, MY LIFE IS BETTER OFF DEAD!"

Pause "Why me?"

… "What?"

He saw her look up from her bed. Looking straight at the dent where he was positioned. Through all the flying items in the air. "Why me? Why love me, when I can't love you back without hurting you?... Why couldn't I have been normal so I could love you without hurting you? Just why Gar?" Her crying intensified at the end.

Beast Boy hated to see her cry. It was so unlike the strong emotionless person she made herself to be to others. He decided to take a risk, and morphed.

She was crying into her bed still, when she heard a large thump on the floor in front of her. She looked up, only for her violet eyes to widen in fright. Beast Boy was now standing in front of the dented portion of her wall. Looking straight into her own eyes.

He walked calmly across her room. Through the trail of destruction. Her astonished eyes following his path. As she saw him for the first time in over a week. How gaunt and tired his face looked from lack of sleep. He appeared a little thinner from lack of eating as well. She felt that at this point, she probably looked in about the same state as him. If not worse.

"Rae, you aren't a monster... Even when I was face to face with your Rage for the first time, I never saw you as a monster." He sat down beside her on the bed. None of the items in the maelstrom in the room had touched him. Her teary eyes were still focused on his green emeralds.

"I fell in love with you for who you were Rae. Who you still are now. One of the bravest, strongest, most selfless heroes I've ever known... I love you Rae." He then brought her rather thin body close to his. Engulfing her small form in his warm embrace.

She cried into his chest for a long time. Far longer than what had been in the Infirmary. The items of her room flew all around the pair. She was feeling so broken from her fear. The fear of her own powers turning on him again. Yet here he was in her room now. Comforting her when she felt she couldn't have been comforted. And she wasn't even thinking about teleporting him out of there away from danger. Not when he was being her anchor in a sea of chaos.

The warm feeling coming from his soul engulfed the cloud of misery in hers. And she felt herself starting to slowly relax against him. Her tears becoming a gradually slower trickle down her face.

"Gar. Don't you ever wish we were normal? That we could have gone through our lives without the powers we were given? And be just like other people?" She asked him. He started to chuckle.

"Rae, I can tell you from experience that normal is pretty much overrated. No super strength, no sharp hearing, no ability to turn into animals, and my favorite, no ability to fly."

She blinked in confusion at him. "But if that monkey hadn't bitten you, you could have grown up normal. You could have had a childhood. You wouldn't spend most of your time each day fighting crime in a city that hardly showed you any respect to you in the past. You could have fallen in love with someone else who couldn't…" She drowned off at the end. The fear already starting to make an appearance inside her again.

He just pulled her closer to himself. "Rae, I could have grown up rich for all I cared. I could have had all these wonderful things happen to me. God himself could have been throwing me all the luck and blessings available in the world… but it could have never made up for the fact that I never would have been a Teen Titan. That I never would have gotten to meet, much less, fall in love with someone as wonderful as you."

"But-"

"Rae." Ever the interrupter. "Just please… stop letting your fear control what you think will happen. I just walked through a maelstrom of flying projectiles to get to you. And not a single one touched me."

She looked around them, seeing nothing flying around this time. She had to admit to herself that indeed, her powers hadn't even touched him… this time. "But what if-"

He put a finger over her lips. Her fear was being replaced by anger at being interrupted yet again. "There is no what if. There is no guessing. And there is certainly nothing to be afraid of. It's all in your mind Rae." He said, cupping her cheek at the end. "You just have to let go of that fear." He whispered.

She shook her head at him. "Gar, why do you have to choose now of all times to make sense?" She said in an exasperated tone. Which actually made Beast Boy start to laugh. His free arm pulling her closer.

"Because you wuv me mama." He said in a childish voice. One she hadn't heard in awhile. Her tears finally stopped, as she found herself chuckling at him.

"Act your age Garfield. I'm being serious." She tried to snap at him, but spectacularly failed to achieve the right voice. As she was still chuckling. He was laughing along with her.

She didn't see it back then, neither did he. But as they talked to each other, comforted each other, laughed with each other, and basically shared in their feelings with each other.

Not a single item had blown up. Been engulfed in black energy. Or basically acted in any strange way at all.

As her cloak had visibly whitened.

Raven had finally let go of her fear to feel. To cry. To be happy. To get enraged.

And above all, to love.

As the fear that the dragon had placed in her before, vanished into the air of that day.

Now back to normal. There shall be no more angst!

Beast Boy and Raven's relationship changed that day. Thankfully, for the better. Their teammates started to take more and more notice of the two's relationship. As it started to become more and more obvious to them. And to the other honorary Titans that came to the Tower.

Like when they entered the Common Room in the morning. To find the two cuddled up to each other under a blanket on the couch. Having fallen asleep watching some late night movie together. Or from reading to each other. Or on the rare occasion, when he got her to play a video game with him. Cyborg would wisely make sure he and the others never told Raven they ever found them like this.

He didn't want to wipe his memory again. Or grieve over the smoking remains of his baby again. Like he had last time they had made out in the garage.

There were other things too. That the others began to notice. Like when they could barely see the corners of her lips curl up at the sight of Beast Boy for a second. Or how she always seemed to be seeking him out. Even though she'd heavily deny it to her teammates. And whenever she was around him, her hood was always down. It was never up around him.

The most visible change to them though, was when her outfit had completely turned white. She was finally happy, and in love. Her fear of hurting him was never brought up again inside her mind.

The only thing that didn't change between the two was the fact that they still argued from time to time. But like when she pushed him away, it wouldn't be long until they met up again to apologize to each other. And get back to where they were.

They didn't want to revert to what they had been before ever again.

Finally, about two or so years after the day they got together, the public finally became aware of their relationship. No, it wasn't her getting mad at meeting Adonis again. No matter how hilarious it would have been. It wasn't a life or death situation either. Where he told her I love you in front of a crowd of people. Before charging head long into the danger. It wasn't when they were fighting crime period. It wasn't even when her outfit color changed.

It was when he took her to a movie theater. To see Wicked Scary II.

The ticket guy up front had recognized the two. This being their first date inside the city and all. They didn't think that people would care much about the two of them going out to see a movie. A movie that had been in the theaters for awhile at that. That was slowly becoming part of the dust heap in the theatre's storage room.

The ticket guy had totally fanboyed all about them being there on a date together. And he ended up telling every person that came after that how the famous Beast Boy and Raven were on a date together in the theater! Watching Wicked Scary II.

The movie instantly became popular again that night. As swarms of people came in to also see the movie. And see if the rumors were true.

They never did find the two heroes.

Rafters up above, the ability to fly, and a dark scary room. All add up to give you the ability to watch a movie without being seen. And make the people too scared to look towards the ceiling. Afraid that some scary thing would pop out from the rafters up above.

So the two heroes managed to watch the entire movie. No one pointing them out at all from below. They even enjoyed a little make out session during the credits.

The two wore holo-rings every time they went out together after that incident.

In the years that would follow, Beast Boy would change his hero name to Changeling. Although he went by his real name around his teammates. His uniform design didn't really change, other than the fact that he changed the normal colors to mainly white with a little red mixed in. Raven would get rid of the hood on her white cloak, but otherwise she remained mostly the same.

Beast Boy never really did grow much in height. Only barely managing to surpass Raven by a simple inch. Still, he was happy that he had grown at all. And Raven certainly didn't seem to mind being the shortest on the team anymore. Changeling had also managed to keep his playful, yet serious personality as he grew older.

Raven, despite having full control of her powers, would still take a little time out of each day to meditate. Whether in their shared room, in the Common Room, or up on the roof. It didn't matter to her. As she still did the exercise to put her mind at peace. And liked doing it in the places where she felt closest to herself. Or to him in general.

Robin, now known as Nightwing, was surprisely the first one to propose to his girlfriend. As the other honorary Titans had made a bet saying Changeling would have been the first in doing so with Raven. There was a lot of money given to the smug winners that day. And a lot of empty pocketed heroes who went to their homes pissed off.

In fact, Changeling had proposed to Raven only a month later. But due to the damper effect of the many lost bets, their engagement hadn't been as well received by their fellow teammates. Who had still been a little pissed at how much money they had lost to their teammates.

The public had taken it well enough though, with everyone throwing their entire support to the four Titans. Especially for Changeling and Raven. Who seemed the most popular for some reason. (If you look it up on this site, BBxRae is actually the most popular pairing. Even more so than Rob/Star. Who knew?)

Well, almost everyone.

There would still be the very few who felt the four Titans were making a mistake. And were with the wrong partners. They would take their cries of outrage to the internet. With their writing, with their art, or with their barbed tongues in general.

But their cries of anger and anguish, would be forever lost in the uproar of approval from the oh so many others that outnumbered them. As it always would be, past, present, and future. The crowds just loved their BBxRae and RobxStar for some weird reason.

And so, Nightwing was married to Starfire in a church in a Protestant ceremony. While Changeling was married to Raven in the Tower in a simple Azarathian ceremony. Cyborg, would eventually marry Bumblebee in a Catholic church. Although it took another year for them to tie the knot.

Robin and Starfire would eventually move out of the Tower with their three kids to Gotham. Just as they would have done before if Changeling had died. Heck, Nightwing was still given the title of Batman from his mentor shortly after getting there. It was as if nothing had really changed in this time line for them.

Raven and Changeling would come in to see them now and then. Thanks, ironically, to a Wayne Industries jet. But they were usually the only two Titans to really come and visit, to babysit, or to chat with them in general. Even though Changeling lived, Batman and Starfire would continue to become distanced from their teammates.

Of course, Cyborg and Bumblebee still adopted their little girl, for obvious reasons. In fact, it was the same girl they would have adopted if Changeling had, or hadn't died.

Cyborg would still have the juicy blackmail of Raven playing Super Baby with his little Bee. Cyborg would also still work on his T-Car when he could. Bumblebee would still like to call him Sparky for old times sake. And the teasing contest that would ensue would drive Raven out of the room from annoyance. While Changeling would stay to watch the show unfold with bright eyes.

And yes, Cyborg and Bumblebee's daughter was still capable of making Raven smile. And spent most of her time with the parents who had adopted her.

So, what was different? What changed? What is so special about this timeline that doesn't seem so obvious?

You see, what was different this time around, and what made this so special to me. Was that Garfield 'Beast Boy/Changeling' Logan, was most certainly not dead. No, not even in the slightest.

Although, every day of his marriage, you would hear him say how it felt a lot like he was in heaven. Ironic considering who his wife was. *slap* OW!

He and Raven would surprise every single Titan. As the two who were thought to be made sterile by their given powers, thus the least likely to have their own kids, would actually end up having the largest family out of all the other Titans. Totaling in at six healthy kids. A daughter, followed by two sons, and then two more daughters, followed by one last son. The last three being triplets. All of which were their own making. Or her own making as she put it.

*slap* WHAT! I'M TELLING THEM WHAT YOU TOLD ME TO WRITE! CAN YOU AT LEAST LET ME FINISH SO I STOP BREAKING THE FREAKING FOURTH WALL HERE! ... Okay, thank you Raven.

Now, where was I... oh yeah!

Apparently, despite Raven's female hybrid nature, and his Sakutia inflicted male system. Both of which should have made it impossible to reproduce with other people. Actually helped them to make it possible for them to have their own kids with each other.

Raven's body was immune to his diseased genetics. While Beast Boy's unstable DNA and genes actually shifted when in contact with her egg to match what would be needed for the making of life. In other words, their own given powers and abilities were able to help them to have kids. Who would have known?

Raven's fear of her emotions was a thing of the past. Granted, there were times in her interactions with others that the imprint of the dark Titan would certainly stick out. Or when they visited a foreign place, she would seem a little withdrawn from the strangers around her. She still upheld the title of dark Titan after all while outside of the Tower.

But around her own family, it was anything but that.

There was always a small unique Raven like smile on her face. A smile she found that both her husband, and her own kids loved to see.

She was never reclusive around them. As she always seemed involved with whatever it was her kids were doing. Be it homework, sports, or god forbid... video games!

She never had her head stuck in a book, unless she was reading to them.

And sometimes, at night when one of them couldn't sleep, she'd use a spell to alter her gravelly voice. And then sing them a lulling lullaby. Sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish, and after she learned it from her husband; Swahili. That last one always did the trick with each and every one of them.

She was a completely different woman than that of her teenage years. Than what had been seen in the alternate timeline shown to us earlier. A time line where the young Beast Boy had died. And left a heartbroken, guilty Raven behind in his wake.

This Raven still had her powers. Made more powerful by the acceptance of her emotions. And by the love she embraced with her husband and kids. They were no longer a pure black as they had been before. But were now as white as snow. With no need to ever keep them trapped up, ever.

This Raven didn't suffer from the guilt of being unable to save her love. Who had to suffer for countless years of living without him. Without his laugh, his smile, his lame jokes, everything that made him the man he was. Everything about him that she had grown to love. To need.

No, this Raven was the one who had worked through the trials in her life. The one who had gotten over her fears. Who had a family she could finally call her own. Through hard work, determination, and a little bit of prodding from her love himself.

All because of him.

All because of Garfield. And his willingness to stay with her.

No matter how bad it had gotten for them.

She and her husband would still take turns whenever a crime alert came from the city. Or go together if Bumblebee and Cyborg both stayed behind to watch the kids. Or if a visiting Titan offered to watch over them. When they missed the old days when they had fought back to back with all their friends.

Of course, the other Titans in the world followed their natural course in life. Moving on to the Justice League, retiring, or starting families of their own. Although, like I said, none were as big as Raven and Changeling's.

And that was okay.

Yes, there was some nights where Raven would wake up. Crying from a nightmare where everything had been different. Where she had either not managed to save him, or where she had never gotten herself to get over her fears from back then. And had pushed him away, to the point where he had left her alone. Never to see her again.

But every time this happened, every time she felt like her world was ending in front of her eyes. He was right there for her. Hugging him close to his still lithe green body. Comforting her until the effects of the nightmare had long gone away. And they'd fall asleep in each other's embrace. Both glad to be with the people they loved.

And with every passing year, those nightmares would come less and less often. There presence trounced away by the love she felt from those around her.

From Garfield.

From their six kids.

From their many grandkids.

And all those nice nieces and nephews from the kids of the other Titans.

But this last thing, was the biggest difference from the Raven of this timeline. To the Raven of the other timeline. And as I believe, the most important.

Every night, of every day, in their long, long marriage. Of their long, long lives.

No matter how tired they were from the events of the day.

No matter how old they got in each other's eyes.

No matter how sick they became from the effects of old age.

Raven would always tell him every night.

As they were about to fall asleep.

The same words that always came to her mind.

For reasons unbeknownst to her.

As if, put their from some outside source.

Or as an urge to fulfill some odd dream from her past.

A dream that always involved a faint glowing green star.

A star that seemed to look like her old Beast Boy.

A star of hope.

A star of longing.

And a star of love.

And these were the words she'd say.

Right as they'd fall asleep.

That would always put her mind at peace.

And bring a small smile to his face.

I never hated you

I love you

Ending song: 'Arms' by Christina Perri

*The End*

Author's Notes:

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I have no idea why it took me so long to write this epic masterpiece ending. I have no excuse for delaying this for so long. And I'm sorry for how long it took.

All I can ask is that you all enjoyed this fine work of art. And to review your thoughts to this story overall. And to favorite this if you liked it that much.

I'm surprised that even with only 5 chapters, this has already reached almost 4000 views. And that this last chapter is likely to make it break 5000. I'm so glad that so many of you are wanting to read this, or reread it! Chapter wise, this is 2nd to Forgive Me in popularity!

This was the message I wanted to give from this story. So read this carefully.

It is wrong, just to hate someone by what they show to the world. As is the case from what I've seen so many people say about Beast Boy. Or Raven. Or any other character in the show for that matter. Although I've found it is rather focused on Beast Boy in particular.

Everything I put in here, all those insults that those people said to him, are the ones I've seen the most on this site. And is the basis I've seen in people that hate him for the stupidest of reasons. Being that he of all people was who Raven liked. Or even loved if you've read the comics like me.

What I'm saying here, is stop looking at what he shows on the surface. And for that matter, what they all show on the surface. Stop looking at what they portrayed themselves to be. And search deeper into each of them to understand who they really are.

And if you still hate them, even when you understand everything about them. Then I'm sorry that you could hate such great characters like them in general. Because they truly are great characters, even with all their many faults.

That is my message. I hope you all take it to heart.

Till Next Time

Allen