A/N: So this is the end of Demon On My Shoulder. I'm sorry for the slow update. I've started working and it took more time out of my schedule than I had anticipated. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to write next but unless I get any requests otherwise I think that I might hope over to the Losers fandom and write a Couger/Jensen fic. Thank you every one for reading my story and enjoy!

Warning! While there is no sex scene, there is two girls making out. If you do not like yuri then skip the section that is marked with xxxxxxxx.

A shadow slipped through the silent halls of Titan Tower. It stopped outside of Robin's room briefly and opened his door. The Titan team leader was asleep, his breathing deep and even. He was the lightest sleeper of the Titans. Once it was sure that it's late night wanderings had not awakened Robin, the shadow moved down the hall. It moved up the stairs, making sure to only step on the outer edge of the steps to avoid the sensors. It turned right at the top and zigzagged down the hall to avoid the randomly scattered pressure sensitive pads under the floor. It turned right then stopped at the infirmary door. It entered the security code into the lightly glowing grey electronic pad next to the door. The doors slid open with a soft whoosh and the shadow walked along the moonlight-dappled room. It stopped in front of the only occupied bed at the end of the room.

Starfire's bruises were less visible in the dark though the white cast on her arm stood out sharply against the shadows. She was breathing softly. The shadow reached out a hand towards her.

"Hey Rae." Beasboy said.

"Gah!" Raven leapt two feet in the air and fell on her butt.

Beastboy was sitting on the bed across from Starfire snickering. Raven had entered the infirmary all shadowy and sinister but now she just looked like a startled cat.

Nice entrance. It was so graceful and dignified.

Shut it.

Raven stood up and dusted some nonexistent dirt off of her shoulder. She glowered at Beastboy but he had a hard time finding her intimidating when she was wearing a grey nightgown with pink ducks.

"Nice dress. I thought you hated pink?" Beastboy chuckled.

"It was a gift from Starfire." Raven muttered. "Yours isn't any better.

Beastboy was wearing a black onsie with green dinosaurs on it. "Dude, you're just jealous that yours doesn't have a brachiosaurus on it."

It was silent for a minute. Raven watched Starfire, Beastboy watched Raven, and Starfire remained asleep.

"How is she?" Raven asked quietly.

"Her elbow's broken. She's got two cracked ribs. Her shoulder was dislocated but Robin popped it in back on the beach. But on a scale of one to what the Joker looks like when Batman is cranky, she isn't hurt that bad." He said.

Raven didn't reply.

We should have killed the fish freak.

Killing him won't heal her.

I don't care.

"So when did ya catch it?" He asked.

The question startled Raven out of her internal conversation. "When did I catch what?"

"The looooove bug!" Beastboy sang.

Raven didn't answer him but she did give him the Raven Look of Disdain: Beastboy Edition ©.

"Come one Rae, you can tell me." He wheedled. "Pretty pleeeeaaaasssse? With a tofu burger on top?"

"I don't know what you're asking." Raven said.

"When did you fall in love with Starfire?"

Raven stiffened. "I don't love her. I... I just..."

Love her with every cell in our body.

Beastboy gave her a patient smile when she trailed off. He patted the bed he was sitting on. "Well if what you feel for Starfire isn't love then tell me what it is."

Raven stared at Beastboy for a minute before slowly walking over and sitting down next to him. He was immature, bratty, and gross but he understood. He had the voices of hundreds of different animals running through his head; he understood what it felt like to sometimes lose control. He was the first person to stop treating her like a bomb waiting to go off after she blew up at Doctor Light. Though, he probable should be treating her like a ton of C4. The explosives were probably less dangerous than her.

"So dude, tell me what's your deal with Star?" He asked.

"Starfire seems so... pink." Raven started slowly. "She's always smiling and laughing and trying to do earth things. I thought she was simple minded, like you."

"Oi!" Beastboy protested. Raven was smiling.

"Then I started seeing her memories in my dreams." The smile slipped off of Raven's face. "I saw what happened to her on the Gordanian ship. I felt her fear and anger. I saw Blackfire selling her to the Gordanians and I saw her planet getting torched. I felt everything she did. I started to understand her. She spouts all that stuff about the importance friends and friendship because she knows what it feels like to lose everyone and to feel like you're all alone in the universe. She had nothing. So she smiles and laughs all the time because now she is alive, free, has a home, and a family and she appreciates how fortunate we all are."

Raven shifted and turned to look at Starfire. "I want to protect her. I want her to smile and laugh and bug me to go to the 'mall of shopping'. I want her to forget about Blackfire and the Gordanians. But I don't love her."

Denial is for weak idiots.

Shut up. It's all your damn fault.

"Why not?" Beastboy asked gently.

"Because if I loved her then I'd want to be with her. It'd hurt to see her with other people. And I can never be in a relationship with Starfire."

A pause.

"Why?" He asked.

"Do you remember when you and Cyborg went into my mirror?"

"Yes."

"You saw the different parts of me, of my personality. The red one, that one is my demonic half. It's what I got from Trigon."

"Yeah," Beastboy said, "And there was like also a green, grey, orange, yellow, brown, purple, and pink yous. Dude, weirdest sight ever: Raven giggling and wearing pink."

"Next time, try not to pick up strange mirrors that have horns coming off of them." Raven snarked.

"So the scary, glowy eyey, demony part of you?" Beastboy prompted.

Raven sighed. "She's not there anymore. Neither are any of the others. There's just one now. She looks just like me and thinks like me and acts like me but she's...not. Me. I think that somehow the demon me absorbed the other human parts of me. She's just as smart as me; she doesn't rage around stupidly like the original red me. She plans. She can love. She feels happiness. But she can murder every human in New York City without feeling a twitch of guilt or remorse. " Raven brought her feet up onto the bed and wrapped her arms around her knees.

"I can normally hold her back, lock her up. But as soon as Starfire is involved I lose control and we start to merge a bit." She said.

"Like that sparring match with Robin?" Raven slipped into the memory.

Robin had decided that the Titans needed to brush up on their individual combat skills. They were strong as a team but they were weak when they were isolated from each other. It was a weakness Jump City's criminals had picked up on quickly. They were in the training room and sparring one on one. Robin and Raven had been fighting. Raven had just ducked under Robin's roundhouse kick when Starfire asked, "Robin, can you show me how to perform the fist that rolls backwards another time?"

"Do you mean a rolling back fist?" Robin asked Starfire.

"Yes. Can you show me the fist that rolls backwards?"

He smiled at Star fondly. "Sure." Raven bristled slightly.

Robin had gone over to the orange girl and demonstrated the punch. Starfire tried it on her own but bent her arm too much. Robin laid his arm on hers and moved Star's arm.

Stop touching her.

"Here. Don't bend your arm so much or you won't be able to hit your opponent."

From Raven's perspective, it looked like Robin had whispered his correction into Starfire's ear.

Stop talking to her.

Starfire did it again, this time correctly. She stepped back from Robin and began to thank him in her normal over enthusiastic manner.

"Oh thank you Robin! It brings me great joy to learn more of earth's war arts! They are quite different than those from Tamaran but they are quite fun."

"Star, here we call them marital arts." Said Robin. He gave her another fond look and Starfire gave Robin one of her few, genuine, brilliant smiles.

Stop looking at her!

Her demon, who she had thought had been asleep, lifted up it's head and growled.

Back away, little bird, back away from our Star now.

She's not ours. Raven's usual protest was much weaker this time.

No, she's his.

Raven ground her teeth together and resisted the temptation to rip something into small pieces.

"Are you done yet, Robin?" She said tersely.

"Sorry Raven," Robin said. He noticed her cross tone but he didn't think anything of it. As the leader of a group of super powered and super hormonal teenagers he was used to mood swings. He walked back over to Raven and they both slipped back into fighting stances.

"Ready," He said. "Go."

They ran at each other. Raven wasn't as good of a martial artist as Robin but she was the only Titan strong enough to hold her own against Robin. Kicks, punches, blocks all wove together into a dance and for a moment Raven was calm. Then she heard Starfire cheering when Robin landed a hit or blocked her. She didn't hear Starfire cheering for her as well. All she could focus on was Starfire saying Robin's name with a smile in her face. She snarled.

Robin aimed another kick at her leg. He jerked in surprise when she surged forward faster than she had been moving earlier and grabbed his leg. She yanked him off balance. He twisted around and swung his other leg at her head. She ducked. She used his captured leg to drag him after her like a wolf dragging a dead dear behind it.

More like a cat dragging a dead bird. The demon purred.

Raven almost dislocated Robin's hip and Robin yelped.

"Watch it Raven!" She wasn't listening.

A fist to her face startled Raven enough to drop Robin's leg. Robin leapt back. He stared at Raven. She was crouched low. Her head was lowered and she stared up at him through strands of purple hair. She had a nasty smirk on her face. A bit of red glinted in her violet eyes.

"Come on Robin. Or are you tired already?" She goaded.

Yes, come her little bird. Come her so we can snap your little neck!

Robin's eyes narrowed. They started fighting again. In response to Raven's demon coming out, Robin began mimic Batman. Their earlier sparring had been a tango: fast but elegant. Now, it was a war dance. It was hard, sharp, ruthless, and bloodlust was bubbling just beneath the surface. The other Titans were watching worriedly from the sidelines. Raven through a punch and Robin ducked. If her fist had met it's target Raven would have crushed Robin's windpipe. Robin tried to punch one of Raven's kidneys and when that failed he swung a chop at her neck that would have broken it if she hadn't ducked.

"Guys, I think you've sparring long enough." Cyborg said hesitantly. They kept going.

"Raven, Robin, stop!" He yelled. He reached out a hand to grab Robin's soldier but he stepped out of Cyborg's reach and kept fighting.

"Dudes, enough!" Beastboy snapped.

"Friends, please stop fighting!" Starfire said. Robin and Raven were too far-gone to register anything other than their opponent's fists and the blood rushing through their ears.

Starfire ran to Raven and wrapped her arms around the other girl. Raven froze. She went limp and leaned back against Star. She breathed in and out slowly, focused on the warmth of Star on her back. Starfire slowly let her go.

Raven came back from her memories and glanced down at the infirmary bed in shame. "Yeah. Like that." She whispered. "I don't own Star. I have no right to fly off the handle every time someone else smiles at her. She can be with who ever she wants and I should smile and hope that she is happy but I can't. I can't date her. She deserves someone who doesn't act like a kid who doesn't want to share."

What the hell are you talking about? She is ours! She can't-

"Shut up!" Raven screamed. She stood up clutching her head. "Shut up!" She started rocking back and forth. "Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!" Beastboy was staring at her with wide eyes. She broke down.

"She keeps talking and taking and I can't make her stop. She's in my fucking head! She never goes away and never stops talking. I didn't agree with her or anything when this started but every day we start thinking more and more alike and I don't know what to do. I'm going insane!"

Beastboy pulled Raven towards him and held her. He waited for a second. Then Raven curled into him and wept.

"Shhhh, it will be alright, Rae." He whispered against her hair. "It's scary now but it will turn out okay. I'll teach you some of the exercises I use to keep the animals in my head quiet."

"I'm scared. Everyday I become more like the demon and I'm so fucking scared that I will turn into my father. I don't know what to do."

Beastboy pushed her back gently and held her at arm's length. "You are not Trigon. You are Raven. And the other Raven inside you? She is not Trigon. You said your self, she can feel happiness and love and she's smart. You can reason with her." He said sternly. Then he smiled and turned into Yoda. "You are not your father, Luke Skywalker."

Raven gave a small smile.

I'm sorry. The demon said in a small voice. Raven stiffened.

What did you say?

Sigh. I'm sorry. I don't want us to become daddy dearest. I hate him as much as you do. I am... frustrated because I am stuck in your skull while you have control of our body and yet you haven't done anything to woo our mate. Maybe we'll stay separate beings or maybe we'll merge together. Either way, it was not my intention to push you to this point.

Raven didn't know what to think for a minute.

You're forgiven. Maybe we can work out some schedule so that you can control our body for a bit. With restrictions.

Thank you, I would enjoy that. Focus back on the outside world. Our little green human is getting worried.

Beasboy was starting to look anxious. "Is everything alright, Rae?"

"Yeah. I think everything is going to be alright." She said.

Raven and Beastboy startled when an orange arm wrapped around Raven.

"I am here to help you as well, Raven." Starfire said. "You do not have to deal with this alone."

Beastboy shifted into a cat and quietly slipped away.

Silence.

Well that's awkward.

"When did you wake up?" Raven whispered.

"When you started talking about seeing my memories."

Raven deflated. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you."

"That is alright." Starfire hopped up onto the bed and sat against the headboard. With her good arm, she pulled Raven back to lean against her. "I did not inform you that I saw your memories and dreams as well."

Raven stiffened. She had been having dreams about Starfire for the past couple weeks that were kind of... a little bit... inappropriate. Really inappropriate. If Starfire had seen those dreams-

"You do not need to be stiff as a tree." Starfire said with amusement. "I did not see all of your dreams."

"What do you mean?"

"I did not allow you to see some of my dreams. I did not wish to be rude and see your dreams when I had been shielding you from my dreams with similar content."

This did not help Raven relax. Starfire sounded so innocent even when she was talking about sex dreams. "Wait! You mean you were dreaming about me! And not in a normal way but in that way!" Her voice squeaked.

"Well yes." Starfire replied. "I thought that it is normal to have those kinds of dreams about someone you love."

Raven stopped fidgeting for a second then pushed herself away from Starfire.

"Star, you don't love me." She whispered.

"Yes I do."

"No you don't."

"Yes I-"

Raven stood up sharply. "No you don't! She turned away from Starfire and lowered her voice. "You can't love a demon."

"Raven, I love you but you can not tell me what I am capable of doing or feeling." Starfire said. "You are a half demon. I am an alien. I do not see how that changes whether or not we can love each other."

Raven turned to face Starfire. "It changes a lot. When I'm around you my emotions spin out of control. Forget hurting Robin or Aqualad, I might hurt you."

Starfire crossed her arm across her chest and frowned. "Stop treating me like a weak earthling." She said tersely. "I am neither human nor weak. I am the princess of a planet of warriors and if you think that I am too weak to protect myself from a demon halfling then you are both underestimating me and overestimating yourself."

Raven stared at Stafire in disbelief and awe.

"But-"

"No." Starifre said firmly. "You are not scared for me. You are scared for yourself."

Raven flinched. Starfire's expression softened. She reached out a hand and held Raven's.

"I will protect you from Trigon as you protect me from Blackfire. If you start to fall into a fury I will catch you and pull you out. You are not alone."

Raven blushed and squeezed Starfire's hand. Starfire squeezed back.

"I love you, Raven." She moved her other hand to touch Raven's cheek. Slowly, she leaned closer to Raven until there was barely an inch between their lips. Raven closed the gap. Starfire's lips were soft and warm. A pleasant fuzzyness filled her chest. Her demon was practically purring. She pulled back a bit and stared into Starfire's green eyes.

"So, I guess I should ask you if you want to be my girlfriend now."

"You probably should." Starfire giggled.

Raven smiled and got down on one knee. "Star, would you be my girlfriend?"

"Yes. But according to the chicken flics that Beastboy has shown me, you must now close it with a kiss." Starfire said.

"Do you mean seal it with a kiss?"

"Yes."

Raven stood up and wrapped her arms around Starfire's waist. She had to tilt her head up to reach Starfire's lips and for a brief moment she was annoyed at how short she was. Then their lips connected. There were no fireworks or chorus of angels, just a warm wave of contentment.

It started off chaste.

We've been waiting long enough. More.

Then it became distinctly not chaste.

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Raven initiated it. She bit Starfire's lower lip and when Star gasped she tangled her tongue with the alien's. Starfire tasted like cinnamon and vanilla and something that Raven couldn't name that reminded her of sunlight. Little bolts of electricity jolted down Raven's spine into her stomach as the smell and taste of Starfire surrounded her. Starfire sucked on her lower lip and started doing something with her tongue that was rapidly melting Raven into a puddle of heat and hormones. Raven slipped her hands under Starfire's shirt one hand brushing along Stafire's sides, the other teasingly running a thumb along the edge of Starfire's breasts. Starfire pulled back from the kiss and laid feather light kisses up Raven's jaw until Starfire reached her ear. She sucked the lobe into her mouth and bit down hard. Raven moaned.

"Where did you learn to kiss like that?" Raven gasped.

Starfire's eyes sparkled. "The internet is a truly wonderful thing."

For whatever reason, the thought of Starfire googling how to French kiss made the heat and wetness between Raven's legs grow. She growled. Raven managed to get Starfire's shirt off without ripping it. Starfire pushed the straps of Raven's nightgown off her shoulders and it fell in a puddle around her feet. Raven pulled Starfire back to her. The feel of skin pressing against hot skin and their sensitive breasts rubbing against each other made both girls groan low in their throats. Raven left open-mouthed kisses under Starfire's chin, on her jaw, down her neck. She gave a gentle kiss to the hollow of Starfire's throat then sank her teeth into the junction between Star's neck and shoulders. Starfire arched her back pressing her breasts into Raven. She wound her hand into Raven's hair and dragged Raven up to her mouth.

This kiss was frantic and violent. Teeth dug into lips and tongues and clacked together. Tounges fought. Hands grabbed at hair. Each girl struggled to make the other submit. Finally Raven won. As Starfire relaxed and gentled, Raven pushed Starfire back onto the infirmary bed.

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"Shnorgraf!" Starfire hissed what Raven assumed was a swear. She cradled her injured arm.

Raven jolted backwards and fell over. "Shit. I'm so sorry Star. Is it okay?" She stood up but didn't come any closer.

"It is fine." Starfire smiled reasurringly. "But we should probably wait until it is healed before we continue to make in."

Raven scuffed her toe against the floor. "You... want to keep kissing? And stuff?" She asked shyly. "I mean, it didn't suck or anything?"

"No it did not 'suck or anything'" Starfire said amusedly. "It was very much the opposite of 'suck or anything'".

"Oh." Raven would deny the goofy grin and blush that spread across her face to her dying day. She picked up her nightgown and pulled it on and handed Starfire her shirt. "Well good night." Raven turned to leave.

"Where are you going?" Starfire asked.

"My room."

Starfire gave her an expression that very plainly said "no shit Sherlock."

"Why?" Starfire demanded.

"Because I'm tired and want to sleep?" Against Raven's will her statement turned into a question by the end of the sentence.

I'm... confused.

That makes two of us.

"Well then let us fall into sleep." Starfire stood up, walked over to her bed, and waited for Raven to join her. After a few minutes of Raven standing in the middle of the room and just staring at her, Starfire got up and led Raven over to the bed. She gently pushed Raven onto the bed then curled up next to her with her head on Raven's chest and her arm across Raven's waist. After a couple of minutes, Starfire sat up and readjusted Raven's position then snuggled back down again. Raven wrapped her arms around Starfire.

So how does the great, terrifying demon feel about being demoted to a pillow?

Our mate's happy, she is healing, and she has agreed to be ours. I can't really complain.

You and I are really going to have to work on your-

Our.

possesivness issues.

Shut up and enjoy the cuddles.

"Good night Raven. I love you."

Raven listened to Starfire breathing as it evened into sleep.

"I love you too, Star."