Tummyache

Ok, I gotta warn you people, it's pretty long as for me. It may have got a little out of hand. And I'm not really sure if it's at least half as good as it was a few days earlier in my head. But heck, no risk no fun, right?
Also I don't think it's gore or anything, so I didn't put a mature content on this one. But if you think I should, tell me. I may be a little insensitive.
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans. Just the story itself.
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It started with a stinging pain in her lower abdomen. It wasn’t strong nor constant. Just a short sting once in a while, mostly when she tensed her muscles. And that meant it was pretty common while fighting the criminals. The little sting in her belly didn’t alarm her though.
Three days later the sting grew to short waves of pain. It felt as if someone had put a lasso on her belly. At first she just shrugged it off. When it struck again she thought that something is going on with her guts. But go to the doctor? No. Or rather HELL NO. She hated doctors, hospitals, needles… and everything related. After the third stronger wave she asked Raven if he had put some curse on her for the last week when she sneaked into his room and messed up with his magical stuff, but he denied. Ok, he didn’t exactly deny, but she thought that 'I feel offended' stated for 'I would never put a friend in pain'. So she started to panic, like a hypochondriac that she was.
"I’m serious, guys, I’m sick! I think I might be dying!"
"Got any tens?" Cyber looked at Robin hopefully, ignoring Beast Girl’s statement. Robin laid two tens on a pile of cards, but she wasn’t happy about it. Cyber was about to win the game. Again. Robin suspected her cybernetic eye could have something to do with it.
"I got none" Beast Girl said, then drew a card form a stack. "But, hello! I’ve got a serious problem here!"
"Just make an appointment with a doctor" Robin advised. "I don’t want your condition to influent our job. Remember, we need you." She pulled out a card and put it on the pile. "Your turn." Beast Girl rolled her eyes and drew a card for she had no other move to make.
"Are you sure you’ve got nothin’ to put?" Cyber asked.
"Yep."
"Then MACAU, bitches!" she pulled her last card.
"DAMN IT!" Robin cussed shrilly. "You cheated!"
"How dare you?!"
Normally Beast Girl would join Robin in accusing Cyber but not this time. She had a problem. She’s dying, for crying out loud!
Two days later she couldn’t stand up. But she couldn’t lay on her bed either. And she couldn’t sit. Nothing. Walking back and forth in her room wasn’t helping. But she was unable to stay put. She had to be moving, otherwise she would not stand the pain. It was late afternoon, she didn’t eat a thing and she felt a little sickness in her stomach, but she couldn’t eat. She wasn’t that hungry actually. Then the alarm went off. Oh, great. And she wasn’t even dressed. She had no strength to go to the ops room. They’ll be fine without her. It’s probably cinderblock or something like that.Her communicator sounded with Robin’s voice.
"Beast Girl, there’s trouble, wake up!"
She got to her bed where the transmitter lied and pressed the red button.
"I’m awake. Go without me, I’m useless."
In the ops room there was awkward silence. Robin looked at all the remaining team members then furrowed her brow.
"Are you sure you’re OK?" she asked through the communicator.
"ARE YOU STUPID OR WHAT!?" their eyes went wide. "I TOLD YOU I WAS DYING BUT NONE OF YOU WAS LISTENING! AND NOW…!"
"Ok! Ok!" Robin yelled through Beast Girl’s loud, though miserable voice. She sighed. This was ugly. "You stay put, when we get back we’ll see what’s wrong with you. Robin out.
"Wait, Rob! Can someone stay with me? I don’t want to die alone…" She was on the edge. Her voice shook. What a mood swing, am I right?
"I’ll stay" Cyber said. "I’ll try to find out what’s…"
"Shut up, Cyber." Robin shot her an angry look. Cyber stopped talking but she didn’t like it. "Raven, will you stay with her?"
"What?!" Cyber yelled.
"Why me?" Raven was as shocked as Cyber was.
"Because you’re not a panicking mother hen." Robin said that looking at Cyber significantly.
"Excuse me?!" Cyber’s voice rose a few octaves.
"I’ll stay if I have to." Raven shrugged. Robin pressed the red button on her communicator.
"BG, Raven’s staying with you. Robin out. Now let’s go, team, we’ve got a job to do!"
"Ok, Raven, listen to me, I’m not gonna repeat myself" Cyber said, while Starfire was dragging her out of the Tower. "You make ‘er somethin’ to eat, somethin’ easy to eat, make ‘er some cereal or oatmeal! But remember ‘bout soy milk! Soy!"
"We don’t have the time, friend Cyber!" Starfire tried to persuade, but she didn’t even listen to him.
"Make ‘er down some painkillers and somethin’ to calm down. Or somethin’ to let ‘er sleep for a few hours!"
Yeah, totally not a mother hen type, right?
Starfire finally threw her into the elevator. And then the three disappeared. And in Raven’s head was only one thought. 'How the hell do you make an oatmeal?'

***

A knock on her door. Why, why it had to be Raven? Couldn’t she leave her with Cyber? Even Starfire was better!
"It’s open!" she said while walking past her door.
Raven opened the door slightly and took a cautious look at the room. A typical girl’s room. Few male celebrities posters on the walls, clothes all over the floor… Ok, maybe not so typical. But she was definitely a messy person. Raven entered, deciding he won’t say a word about her room. He would never admit it, but he got pretty scared of her when she yelled at Robin. Even if he didn’t get to see her.
"I brought you something to eat" he said standing in her way. She looked at the tray in his hands. A bowl with… something white in it, a spoon, a mug of some stinky tea and three different pills.
Raven got to look at her for the first time this day. She certainly didn’t comb her hair. It wasn’t even tied in two ponytails as usually. She was wearing some big green T-shirt with a WWF logo. She was barefoot. Not even wearing pants. He wondered if she at least wore panties. She was jumping slightly before him as if she couldn’t wait to start walking again.
"I’m not hungry" she said, evading him and keep on walking back and forth.
"You have to eat something" he said, walking to her bunk bed and sitting on the lower bunk with the tray still in hands. He observed her for a short while, but he just felt irked by the constant walking.
"Can’t you just sit?"
"No, it hurts more when I stay in one position."
He looked at her face. Her looks now matched her voice. Tired. Dark circles under her eyes indicated she really was awake for too long. He focused on her emotions for a second. Fear, uncertainty, anxiety, bitterness, sadness. Negative as hell. She was walking, but not perfectly straight. She was hunched a little with her hands on her lower abdomen. Her expression was screaming 'I’m in pain!'. Even her ears were down. And that said everything. Yes, she was miserable. Raven sighed.
"Come here and eat something" he said patting the place beside him.
"I told you I can’t."
"You have to. I was told to give you food then make you eat painkillers."
"Can’t I have just the painkillers?"
"On an empty stomach, are you mad?"
"Fine. I’ll eat. But I still can’t sit down."
Raven pondered that for a few seconds. He then put the tray on the bed and took the bowl and spoon in his hands. He got up from the bunk.
"Then I’ll have to feed you while you walk" he said as if it was no problem at all. And she knew everything was always a problem for Raven, especially when this 'everything' concerned her. She stopped in her tracks and looked at him with disbelief. His face was unreadable, as always. She quickly took the bowl and spoon from him and started eating and walking at the same time. Raven smiled to himself. He got her to eat – a success. And then his ego went down when she said.
"You didn’t put enough sugar in it."
"Well, I’m sorry for not being the perfect cook."
"Semolina isn’t that hard to make. And it’s instant."
Raven only scoffed.
"But it’s edible" she added.
When she finished her meal he gave her the small plate with three pills and started the lecture.
"This one’s a painkiller, this one’s to calm down and this one’s to put you to sleep."
Before he finished she put all three at once in her mouth and took the mug and tried to down them all at once, but she failed miserably and spat them at the plate again.
"What is this thing?" she asked indicating the tea.
"Melissa officinalis. Or just melissa. It’s good for many things."
"Like what?" she spat.
"Calming down, digestion, insomnia, depression, anxiety disorders, menstruation…"
"Ok, I got it, it’s good for me." She made a face indicating it really hurt right now. "Just let me get the pills."
"Just take them one by one this time."
She just nodded and then downed the pills. He decided to stay until the painkiller starts to influence her. So she was still walking annoyingly and he was observing.
"Maybe it’s a colic?" he began.
"It’s not a colic." She kept on walking.
"Gas maybe?" Beast Girl snorted.
"Girls don’t have gas, Raven" she said it as if she was calling him “silly”.
"Oh yeah? The elevator, before the fight with Mumbo, what was that? Perfume outta your ass?"
"It was you, not me!"
"Just because you blame it on me doesn’t mean it’s me!"
"It really wasn’t me!"
"You could’ve fooled me!" She laughed at this, then moaned painfully.
"Don’t make me laugh, it hurts more" she complained.
"Fine. But I know girls do have gas, otherwise they would explode after a while."
"Look" she said, stopping before him. "We tinkle with rainbows, our gas is a perfume, and for the number two - angels take it while we sleep."
"Angels take your shit at night?" he asked sarcastically. She nodded like a small child. Raven nodded slowly.
"Sure. Are the pills working yet?"
"I think they’re starting to…" she pondered.
"Then I’m free to go." He got up from the lower bunk and started for the door.
"Raven?" he stopped at the threshold.
"Thanks."
"No problem."

***

It was about two hours later. Raven was meditating when he felt a wave of fear and nervousness. Few moments later he heard nervous knocks on his door. He opened the door and, so help him all the gods he knew, he wasn’t ready to see such a sight.
Beast Girl was crying, ears down, her bare legs covered in dark blood (or maybe it looked dark on her green skin?). He looked down the hall. There were some blood stains on the floor. He looked at the crying girl before him. He didn’t say a word, nor did she when he scooped her in his arms and started hastily for the bathroom. She was just sniffing and moaning silently, being in pain again, as he sensed from her. Raven opened the bathroom door and quickly put Beast Girl into the tub.
"Clean yourself, I’ll be right back" he said and off he ran. First to the kitchenette to down a calming pill. Then to Beast Girl’s room…
"Why am I here?" he asked himself with a furrowed brow when he stepped on the threshold. "Oh, right, underwear." He looked over the room and sighed.
He was lucky, first drawer was holding Beast Girl’s undergarments. Raven closed his eyes and took a few big breaths with a huge blush on his face. He grabbed a random pair of her panties and hurried for the bathroom again. He stopped before the door and knocked loudly.
"Beastgirl, can I come in?" He heard a reluctant 'yes', so he entered. She had spread the shower curtain, good. Raven let out a silent sigh of relief.
"I, um… brought you clean underwear" She didn’t say anything. "Um… I’ll just put it somewhere…"
He then started to look after… the thing… in every shelf and cabinet they had in the bathroom.
"Um… Do you know where the, um… feminine products are?" he asked, his voice was a little shaky and he prayed that the blush on his face will disappear when she sees his face again.
"No." Beast Girl’s voice was also weak and shaky. A few things started to levitate out of the drawers and shelves. Something hit the back of Raven’s head. When he turned he saw a pack of tampons.
"Um… Are t-tampons good?" Raven stuttered like a hormonal teenager. Wait. He WAS a hormonal teenager. Geez, why him, why?!
"W-what?! No! Are you crazy?! It’s my first-… I don’t know!" she finished as if she was mad at something.
First? Yeah, that explains it. Now his hands started to shake. As if he wasn’t already a nervous wreck!
"O-ok, I’ll find something else..." He dived into a cabinet that the tampons probably flew out of. Few seconds of digging paid off. He found pads. If this wasn’t good, he didn’t know what was. All the levitating things dropped on the floor.
"Are pads OK?" he asked a little more confidently. She turned off the water.
"Yes, thank you" she said shakily.
"Why does it have wings for?" he asked looking closely at the drawing on the package. Beast Girl threw a shampoo bottle at his head.
"Ouch! What was that for?" He massaged his head.
"For innocence. I can read, I’ll be fine with the pads, now please get out." Yeah, she was nervous. Raven didn’t have to be empathic to feel that.
"Ok, I’m going" he stated and opened the door.
"Or, could you do one more thing?" he heard her voice from the tub.
"Yes?"
"Can you get me a clean T-shirt and a pair of sweatpants?"
"Do you really think I will be able to find them in the mess that is your room?" he asked.
"Don’t be an ass, all the dirty stuff are on the floor. The clean ones are in the drawers" she stated it as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"What a great system, did you invent it by yourself?" he asked teasingly. This time he saw the bottle of another shampoo coming his way and he managed to get out of the bathroom and close the door before the bottle hit him.
"You better stop throwing things at me!" he said from the hallway.
"Just go already!"

***

Raven knocked on the door, but before he could say anything the door opened slightly and a green arm emerged from within. Beast Girl showed the 'give me that' gesture and Raven obediently (he didn’t want to get a shot at his head again) gave her the clothes.
"Thank you" she said and closed the door. Just when Raven wanted to leave she spoke again.
"Could you get me some more painkillers?"
"Meet me in the kitchen" he said before he left.
Beast Girl came down to the kitchen like Raven told her to. He was sitting by the table, sipping his herbal tea. There was another mug beside him, and a small plate with 2 different pills this time. She went to the table and reached her hand out for the plate.
"You should eat something first." Raven said it so suddenly that she’d jumped. "At least a yoghurt."
Beast Girl looked at him. His eyes didn’t even open. He had this weird habit to speak with his eyes closed while drinking his tea. But this time it probably meant he was too embarrassed to look at her. Hell, she was embarrassed. She got her first period in a pretty hardcore way and the only person left with her was Raven. A GUY! Why did God hate her so much?
She didn’t say anything and obediently went to the fridge for some soy yoghurt. When she sat beside Raven, he spoke again.
"There’s no need to feel ashamed. It’s not your fault I was the only person in the Tower."
She stopped after opening the yoghurt.
"Actually, if you think of it, it’s Robin’s fault" he pondered but stopped when he heard a sniffing.
"Oh no, why are you crying again?" She didn’t respond. "Do you want me to leave?" he asked. Two sniffs.
"Yes" He got up from his seat. "No." He sat down again. "I don’t know!"
"No shit, Sherlock" he muttered.
He remained silent until she’s eaten her yoghurt and then downed both pills that he had prepared for her earlier.
"Wanna order pizza?" he asked after she finished.
"No."
"Chinese?"
"No."
"Italian?"
"No."
"Indian?"
"I’m not hungry."
"At all?" his brow arched, as usual when he doubted what he heard.
"Fine, maybe I’d eat something" she admitted.
"Great, what is it?"
"We don’t have it."
"Then I’ll order."
"You can’t."
"Why not?"
"If you know a place that delivers ice cream then, please, order a bucket of raspberry sorbet, thank you" she said and sat carefully on the sofa as if to not upset her belly more.
"You want ice cream? Seriously? You only ate a semolina today. And it was made by ME."
"Are you saying 'no' to a menstruating woman?" she asked giving him a murderous glance. He stared at her for a few seconds then finally gave up.
"Do you want anything else?" Raven asked starting for the elevator.
"You could take a movie" she said hopefully. Raven closed his eyes tightly and sighed heavily.
"What kind of movie? Just please, don’t make me take some romantic crap."
Beast Girl pondered for a few seconds.
"You know what? I’ve never seen a Bollywood movie."
"All right. So an Indian romantic crap" he muttered under his breath. "Got it!" he confirmed to her louder and got out before she got any other bad ideas.
He came back not so much later. He was sure he didn’t take longer that twenty minutes.
"I got your Bollywood movie" he said without any other introduction. She was still in the same position on the sofa in which he saw her once he was going out.
"And ice cream?" she asked turning her head at him.
"Raspberry sorbet, the whole big bucket."
"Great, give it to me." she reached her arms for the bucket. "And give me a spoon please. Not the small one, the big one. Where are you going with my ice cream?" she asked a little tearfully seeing that her ice cream (in Raven's hands) went to the kitchen.
"Just because you can turn into any animal doesn’t mean you should act like one when you’re..." He couldn’t say it. "… sick."
After a short while she saw Raven’s hands give her a small bowl with about two full spoons of her favorite sorbet. And a teaspoon.
"I’m gonna eat that in two minutes, you know?" she said taking the bowl form him.
"We’ll see" he responded and put the DVD in the player.
"What’s the movie? Is it classic Bollywood?"
"Nope" he said taking the TV remote and sitting beside Beast Girl. "I asked the assistant to recommend me something a guy could watch and not kill himself with a spoon."
"Oh. Too bad, I wanted a classic one."
"You should say that at the next girl meeting, I’m sure Robin and Cyber will love your idea." She didn’t honor that with any comment.
"What’s the title?" she asked. He showed her the DVD box. The title said 'I am here now'.
"Sounds cheesy."
"I know" he admitted regretfully. "I hope I won’t die watching this."
"Sh, it starts."
First ten minutes they both wondered if the movie was to be a Matrix parody. Then the first song appeared. Beast Girl loved it. She even started to “dance” a little with her hands. But Raven wasn’t so sure.
"Is this supposed to be his brother? Why’s he so gay?"
"Sh! I wanna listen to the lyrics. That language is sooo funny!" she giggled.
Raven was only glad that the painkiller worked on her and that she was starting to act like her normal self again.
"Oh dear lord, even his voice is gay!" Raven almost cried.
In the middle of the movie… And I mean it. Have you ever watched a Bollywood movie? They have this “Intermission” moments. Yeah, that’s what I mean. So, in the perfect middle of the movie Robin, Cyber and Starfire got back to the Tower. Raven paused the movie when he heard the elevator 'ding' sound. And then it started. Cyber sprinted to Beast Girl (who now had her whole ice cream bucket with her, Raven couldn’t handle her lamentations) and started to strangle her from love and other 'mother hen' feelings.
"Oh, Beastie Boo! I was so worried about you! Are you feeling well? Did Raven take proper care of you? Are you hungry? I’ll make you something! Do you want me to check you out in the infirmary?" Cyber was holding and squeezing the life of Beas Girl’s cheeks.
"No, I’m fime" she managed to say. "Cy, it really hutth."
"Oh, sorry, sweetie." She let go of Beastie’s face.
"So are you the OK now, friend Beast Girl?" Starfire asked.
"Well, the painkiller works so I’m fine for a while."
"Do you know what’s wrong with you yet?" Robin asked. "You seemed pretty upset earlier."
"Oh, for gods sakes, she’s fine, she just got her first period!" Raven rolled his eyes, but didn’t look at anyone. He was stubbornly staring at the paused movie scene. Beast Girl blushed furiously. Cyber and Robin exchanged surprised looks, then looked and their younger green friend and both asked simultaneously.
"Really?!" Beast Girl nodded sheepishly.
"A period of what?" Starfire asked confused. Cyber and Robin squeaked at the same time.
"That’s why you yelled at me! You were PMS-ing!" Robin said with audible tenderness in her voice.
"Oh, girl we gotta celebrate it!" Cyber screamed.
"Why?" Raven frowned.
"Yeah, why?" Beast Girl asked.
"A period of what?" Starfire asked louder this time.
"Are you kidding me? You’re officially a woman now!" Robin said, ignoring Starfire's question.
"Yea! We’ll throw you party!" Cyber promised.
"A Bat Miztvah!" Robin interjected.
"I-I’m not Jewish, guys." Beast Girl stuttered.
"Do you even know why they celebrate Bat Mitzvah?" Raven asked doubtfully. "It’s not for a first period, I can assure you."
"A period of what?!" Starfire was now screaming. But the girls were deaf for both of them.
"Oh no." Robin began. "I left you for your first period with a boy! I’m an evil person! I feel so bad, I’m sorry, Beastie!" she almost cried.
"It’s fine. He did pretty good." Beast Girl assured her, patting her on the head.
"Well! I did pretty WELL! Learn the language!" Raven was still raging about little things. They didn’t even pay attention to him.
"A period of what?" Starfire asked silently, landing on his knees rather than his feet. He was close to tears. "Why won’t anybody tell me?"
Raven looked at his miserable, the only male friend. He looked at the chattering girls on the other side of the sofa, sighed and tapped the place beside him.
"Sit here, Starfire, I’ll explain it to you."
The Tamaranean Titan sat at Raven’s right side at an instant, with his eyes glowing with the will to know more about the wonderful planet Earth. Raven sighed again. It wasn’t the first time when he had to introduce some earthly customs to Starfire. The first time was the very first day they all met. Raven had to explain why Starfire shouldn’t kiss girls randomly. Or rather he had to explain why did Robin hit him in the face after they all defeated the Gordanians. Yeah, good old times.
"You see" Raven began. "I don’t know about Tamaran, but here, on Earth, girls mature into womanhood when they get their first period." Starfire nodded vigorously.
"But what is the period?" he asked, fascinated.
"Well, it’s pretty ugly." Raven flinched. "They bleed from their.. um… secret parts." Starfire blinked, obviously waiting for other explanations. "You know. Their… personal area." Starfire blinked twice. "The genitals." Raven rolled his eyes. It bugged him that Starfire needed such literal words. If only he had kissed Robin a little longer maybe his vocabulary and understanding of the language would be better. But the cause is lost, Robin would never let Starfire near her after that. But Raven, being the smart guy that he was, purposely lied to her that Starfire didn’t explain to him why he kissed her in the first place. She will ask him herself one day. Now she didn’t need to know that.
"Ooooh!" Starfire said then furrowed his brow. "But… won’t they bleed out after a while?"
"No, you see, they only bleed for a few days per month."
"That’s why it’s called the period!" Starfire was as happy as a child that got a candy for asking the right question.
"Exactly" Raven confirmed with a nod.
"But, why does the period make a woman out of a girl?" the Tamaranean teen asked.
"It’s just a saying. Period is only a biological signal that a girl is fully developed."
"To bear a bumgorf?"
"A what?" Raven arched his eyebrow.
"A child" Starfire corrected himself.
"Oh. Yeah, I guess." Raven shrugged.
"Then I shall find friend Beast Girl a husband!" Starfire said loudly, hitting his fist on his other hand. The girls stopped the talking and looked at their Tamaranean friend as if he was an idiot. Raven tried to process this. But he couldn’t.
"You what now?" he asked with his eyebrow arched.
"On my planet, when the females are biologically ready to bear a child, they are also considered being ready to get married!" Starfire explained with a huge smile on his face.
"Well, maybe on your planet. But we’re not on your planet. So don’t even think about it." Robin stated firmly.
"Yeah, boy, what’re ya thinking? She’s only twelve years old. It’s illegal" Cyber said.
"I’m fourteen!" Beast Girl interjected. "I’ll turn fifteen this year!"
"Really?" Cyber and Robin asked simultaneously. Beast Girl gave them a murderous look.
"Do not fear, friend Beast Girl!" Starfire flew right at her face. "I shall think of you as of my little sister! And a good brother shall find the finest of men for his sister to marry! He will be brave, steady and I will make sure he will take the best care of you!"
"Starfire, I don’t want to get married!" Beast Girl yelled and screamed and whined and stamped her feet and even got another painful cramp after all of this, but Starfire didn’t think to ask her opinion.
"But where will I find the right man? I could announce a competition for your hand, sister Beast Girl! But how do I announce it for the whole Earth to see?" he was flying back and forth like a nervous person and pondered on his ideas to find a good husband for his little sister Beast Girl (who was no lying on the floor crying she’s too young to get married).
"You’ve got the internet, you know" Raven said. Starfire’s eyes brightened.
"That is a wonderful idea, friend Raven! Thank you so much! I shall announce the competition on the internet!"
"Is he serious about it?" Robin asked.
"I don’t think he’s gonna let it go, so you can quit it, BG" Cyber looked as Beast Girl was rolling on the floor. She suddenly got up and sat cross-legged.
"Then I’ll just go with the flow" she decided and called out to Starfire. "Don’t forget he has to be at least five inches taller than me, handsome, a gentleman, he has to care for me, make me laugh…" Starfire was writing furiously in a notebook (I have no idea where did he get it from…). "… has to always surprise me at some point, he can’t be boring. And he has to almost read my mind! Yeah. He has to be smart and intelligent, and he has to know my favorite things…"
"I understand." Starfire pondered. "So it must be someone who knows you really well. How many men do you know, friend Beast Girl?"
Beast Girl stuttered.
"I see" he said. "I cannot marry you, for I have the feelings of older brother for you…" he paused and looked at Raven who was reading on the sofa. "Friend Beast Girl, would you feel offended if the candidate had feminine hands?"
Beast Girl shrugged. "I don’t know why you’re asking, but no, I guess."
"Perfect!" Starfire clapped his hands. "Friend Raven, wouldn’t you like to marry friend Beast Girl?" he asked suddenly. Raven looked at him with a dumb look on his blushed face.
"What?" he managed to ask. 'Feminine hands'?
"Yeah, what?!" Beast Girl couldn’t believe what Starfire just said. "Raven is nothing like my perfect man!"
"I ask you, because you are the only man besides me who Beast Girl knows and who seems to know her pretty well, do you not?"
"I don’t know, maybe…?" Raven seemed unsure. The only thing in his head was now: 'Feminine hands'?!
"And you took good care of her today, correct?" Starfire asked again.
"Yeah, uh, as a FRIEND." Raven stressed the word. Do I have feminine hands?
"Exactly!" Beast Girl confirmed. "Besides, it’s all Robin’s fault! And Raven is soo totally not my perfect man."
"Oh, really?" Robin raised her eyebrow (what made her look a little goofy). "Raven, Beast Girl’s favorite ice cream?" she inquired. He looked at her still dumbfounded, and still thinking about his hands.
"Raspberry sorbet."
"See?"
"No fair, he just found out today!" BG exclaimed.
"Ok. Beast Girl’s favorite color?"
"Yellow" he said without a second thought.
"I thought it’s purple!" Cyber admitted.
"It would appear her favorite is purple because she wears it and it matches her complexion better. But her favorite’s yellow" Raven explained, still having that weirded out look and a pinkish blush, and not really revising his own words.
"Now you see?" Robin asked triumphantly.
"I don’t" Beast Girl said. "Raven isn’t fun at all."
"What?" Cyber asked shrilly. "Just yesterday I heard you say that he’s the most fun from all of us."
"Uh, yeah, to tease!" she rolled her eyes.
"That counts" Robin said.
"Does not!" Beast Girl screamed.
Raven looked closely at his hands now.
"I don’t have feminine hands. Do I?" He glanced at them expectantly. Robin and Cyber made faces as if they didn’t want to tell him he was wrong.
"I am sorry, friend, I did not mean any disrespect" Starfire apologized.
"There was no disrespect, Starfire. I simply don’t find my hands feminine" Raven stated coolly.
"Of course, friend, as you wish." Starfire smiled falsely and looked significantly at girls. Robin and Cyber nodded their heads.
"Raven doesn’t surprise me at all!" Beast Girl continued on how Raven wasn’t her perfect match.
"Aren’t you surprised he cares about his feminine hands?" asked Cyber.
"It don’t count!"
"Doesn’t" Raven corrected her, still glaring at his hands.
"See? He’s smart" Robin remarked.
"He’s annoying. He’s always correcting me."
"Always corrects me" he corrected ubsentmindedly again.
"See?" This time it was Beast Girl’s turn to ask that question.
"Well, he’s right, your grammar is awful sometimes" Cyber admitted.
"And you, British." Beast Girl narrowed her eyes on her.
"It’s 'Brutus', not 'British'" Raven said.
"I know that, feminine hands!"
"I don’t have feminine hands! Small, I can agree, but they're definitely not feminine!
"They ARE!" BG screamed.
"Oh yeah? So your chest is very UN-feminine!" Everyone gasped.
"Oh no, he didn’t!" Cyber said.
"Give me my ice creaaaaaam!" Beast Girl burst out crying.
"Look what you have done, friend! Shame on you!" Starfire scolded Raven.
"How could you tell her that while she’s menstruating?!" Robin yelled.
"I’m out!" Raven said and went out to his room for a loooong meditation. Or any form of relaxation for that matter. He groaned when he got out the door. They'll force him into apologies tomorrow. Damn him and his quick witty comebacks!