Brother's

Chapter 1: Just talk to her

Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this story except for the plotline, sadly.

He started to pace around the living room again, trying as hard as he could to pluck up the courage to knock on the door and talk to her. The Sun was already up and the oranges and yellows it made glared through the wall sized window, onto the couch and coffee table. It was around 7.00am and he knew she would be awake by now, (even though he usually gets up around 10). At least the others weren't up yet to see him in this state. His hands were shaking and his stomach was turning from the thought of rejection. Finally he decided he was ready and it was time to tell her.

Easier said than done. He held his head up high in determination and he marched through the sliding doors, into the hallway and up to the door marked Raven. He stared at the door for about 2 minutes and started to pant with anxiety. He psyched himself up then raised his clenched fist to the door when swoosh, the door opened and he fell backwards in shock.

As he rubbed his back, attempting to heal his injury, he heard a very familiar voice.

"Beast Boy? What on earth are you doing?" He whipped his head up to see a dark cloaked figure with a confused and slightly annoyed expression on her somewhat pale face.

"Uh nothing, I'm just uh… goin' to get some breakfast. Yeah that's it so um see ya." He stuttered getting up off the floor and rubbing the back of his head nervously, before almost running back to the living room/kitchen. Raven just tilted her head and returned to her room, deciding to wait until the others awoke so she wouldn't be bothered by her green friend.

"What the hell was that?!" Beast Boy shouted at himself in frustration, his hands running through his short, dark green hair. "Why didn't you just ask her?" As he paced the bright room, he failed to notice a certain half mechanical being enter the room and stand on the stairs watching him.

"Yo, what the hells wrong with you, man?" he asked half joking around. Beast boy yelped and turned on his heels to see Cyborg with an eye brow raised.

"Uh nothing just… taking my morning walk." He said attempting to be innocent.

"Well you might wanna slow down cause your burning out the carpet." Cyborg replied walking to the fridge to fix himself breakfast.

"Oh yeah, hehe, sorry." Beast boy laughed nervously, walking over to join his friend in the kitchen. The doors slid open again to reveal the boy wonder drag himself down the few steps followed by Starfire.

"Hey." Robin murmured as he went past the kitchen, grabbed the paper lazily off the glistening side counter and sat down on the couch, he was still half asleep. The other two titans just nodded in reply.

"Hello friends, Beast boy and Cyborg" Starfire said enthusiastically, flinging her arms in the air.

"Hey Star" they both said trying not to be too blunt. Starfire quickly scanned the room then said, to no one in particular, "Where is friend Raven". Cyborg just shrugged but Beast boy scratched his head and said,

"Uh I don't know, why would I know". Fortunately, he was completely ignored by everyone except Starfire who just nodded and turned back out the doors to fly to the roof in search of her friend.

"So, you want a chicken or turkey sandwich for breakfast?" Cyborg asked with a grin. Beast Boys face turned green, well greener than it is usually, and he held his hand to his mouth to stop himself from throwing up.

"Dude, that's not funny, you know I don't eat meat!" he shouted at his snickering friend. At that moment, none other than Raven walked through the doors, with her hood down for once, and flew to the kitchen, not so much as glancing at anyone. She briskly walked to the counter top and started to open a sachet of her herbal tea.

"Morning Raven" Cyborg said politely (sort of) as he walked past her to join Robin on the couch and eat his rather meaty breakfast.

"Morning" Raven muttered quietly in response.

Beast boy swallowed and slowly edged his way closer to her. She gave him a side way glance and he gave her one of his trademark grins.

"Hey Rae, what's up" he asked half expecting a reply. She just looked back to her herbal tea, picked it up and hovered over to the corner of the room where she usually meditates.

"My name is Raven" she replied in her usual monotone voice before setting down her tea on the side table and preparing to meditate.

"Right" he agreed before dropping his head in defeat and dragging his feet to the couch to play on the game station with Cyborg. She opened one eye to watch him make his way over to the TV then gave a small sigh. Stop it, she told herself then shook her head to get rid of the thoughts and carried on meditating.

The room was quite for a few moments, all except for Beast boys yells of defeat, Cyborgs loud victory dance and Robin shouting at them to keep it down. Raven ignored all of this and carried on meditating, until the doors whooshed open once again then she opened her eyes to see who it was.

"Oh good morning friend Raven, I have been on a search for you" Starfire tried to word normally.

"Why" Raven asked only slightly interested. Starfire stopped in her tracks and realised that she hadn't needed to search for Raven and simply done it from boredom.

"Umm" she hesitated her answer.

Meanwhile, Beast boy had given up playing video games and handed his controller to Robin, who was waiting patiently for his turn. He walked over to the kitchen and leaned on the side to watch Starfire and Raven (who had finished meditating and was now reading one of her ancient books). He sighed lightly, why cant you just talk to her, he thought to himself. Starfire flew away to join Robin in the "shouts of victory".

Cyborg seemed to just appear next to Beast boy and immediately started to taunt him after realising what Beast boy was staring at. "Oh my god, you like Raven, oh the shock" he mocked at a unimpressed Beast boy.

" I have no idea what your talking about" he replied in a calm voice.

" Oh come on dude, you haven't managed to take your eyes off her all morning"

" Would you keep your voice down!"

" Oops sorry lover boy" Cyborg said, trying his best not to shout from the rooftops. "Man why don't you just go talk to her. If it doesn't go well at least it's a nice day for a swim!" he grinned hinting towards the ocean that surrounded the tower. Even though the city was only about a mile away it would still take ages to get to dry land.

" I cant" Beast boy frowned absentmindedly.

" So you admit it" Cyborg replied excitedly.

" No I didn't mean that" he almost yelled but it was too late, he had already retreated back to the couch. Damn he thought to himself before going back to Raven.

She was still reading, her book was propped against one of her legs and her eyes were scanning every word, taking in every detail she could before moving on. She gently reached out and took the cup of herbal tea that was carefully placed on the table next to her. Finishing off what remained of it before resting it back onto the table. Not taking her eyes off the pages once.

As she held the delicate, old pages of her book she could feel someone watching her every move, she already knew who it was but instead of looking up to face him she decided to have some fun.

" Your staring" she said still refusing to look up. Beast boy panicked and turned to the countertop he was resting on to pretend he was doing something, but all he could see was a kettle, a toaster the cupboards on the wall and… yesterdays newspaper! It was the only thing there since Robin had taken today's. He grabbed it and spun back around to prop himself on the counter again and to face Raven. She had glanced at him once to see him frantically search for something… anything to prove he was not looking at her. She tried with all her might to stop herself from smiling, after all she didn't do smiling, but she still couldn't help a small smirk spread across her face.

He looked up from the paper to see if his clever plan worked, it didn't, but he saw something else that caught his attention. A smile, after all the years of telling stupid jokes, trying to get her to laugh or even smile and she finally was, sure it was a small one but it was one at least and it was created by him. Suddenly he had a new found sense of courage and he slowly glided his feet over the red carpet and past the couch, who all its occupants were now watching him make a move, and clumsily sat down next to Raven who was now a little nervous, but couldn't figure out why.

He swallowed hard then turned his whole body to face Raven, though he did not look her in the eyes. She too did not make any attempt to look him in the eyes.

"Uh, Raven"

"Yeah"

"There's something I've wanted to say for a while now… well.." He hesitated for minute which caught her attention and she looked directly into his eyes, forcing him to look into hers too. As indigo eyes met dark green eyes he started to speak again, still totally unaware that he was being rooted on by the other three titans watching from a safe distance, no one took Ravens powers for granted. He took in a deep breath.

"Raven, I…" He started but was cut short by the alarm sounding.

BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP

" DAMNIT" he shouted out, witch knocked back Raven a little so Beast Boy apologised and offered her a hand up. A loud sigh of disappointment from the couch was heard and they turned to see three faces staring at them. They quickly scattered and Robin went to the computer near the window to see who it was.

"Someone's broken into the docks!" he said in a somewhat surprised tone, well the docks were not really a main target for thief's anymore. Beast boy, in an attempt to impress Raven, ran up to the back of the couch and leaped over it with surprising agility, to join Robin but failed to remember that the coffee table was in front of it and he tripped over it and landed on his front. A little dazed he got up rubbing his head only to meet his friends shaking their heads at him.

"Titans, Go" Robin yelled as he lead them to the docks to find this new 'villain'.

Little did they know that one of the team members were already quite familiar with this new intruder…