Housewarming

3. Housewarming

The Titans had gathered, all of them, for the first time since the end of the Brotherhood.  However, this time was different.  No one outside the Titans knew it was happening, as the all showed up in civilian garb.  While not everyone could make it, everyone who could did.

As the guys all stayed in the back yard - which included a garden AND a pool - the girls gathered around Raven to be showed around the house.  Bumblebee, Jinx, Argent, and even Terra showed up to join Starfire in looking at the new house (Kole couldn't make it, but she sent her congratulations.  Pantha was with the boys out back.)  Terra had regained her memories and was back in the Titans, though she had until recently been trying to get back together with Beast Boy...without much luck.  Raven wasn't exactly comfortable having her fiance's ex here at the housewarming, but she was a Titan.

"Over here is the kitchen," Raven was saying as she continued to guide them around.  She grinned then.  "I'm not allowed in here, ever."  Everyone laughed.  By now, everyone had heard about Raven's abysmal cooking skills, and Raven had learned to take it in stride.

"Does that mean you've gone vegan?" Terra asked.  She couldn't imagine Raven eating Tofu, even if Beast Boy did cook it.

"Nope," Raven said with a smirk.  "Melvin cooks."  Everyone laughed.  "And over here is Melvin's bedroom.  She has to sleep on the ground floor because Bobby can't handle stairs."  Inside the room, Bobby sat with Melvin in his lap.  They both waved at everyone as they moved on through the house.

When they had moved on, Bobby growled something at Melvin, and she responded, "Yeah...I don't think Mom likes her either."  Another growl.  "Well I don't know her yet, so we should give her a chance."  Growl.  "You never know, she might be nice."  Grumble.  "Well if Daddy says not to trust her then I won't, but I think we should give Terra a chance, okay?"  Bobby nodded reluctantly.

Upstairs, Raven gestured to the bedrooms.  "This is Timmy's room, though he's rarely in it."  Although the room was large, it was rather bare of furnishings, as they had only just moved in and Timmy didn't have much stuff yet.  Moving on, she gestured again.  "Once Teether starts sleeping through the night without waking, this will be his room.  In the meantime, his crib's in here."  She came at last to the only bedroom that had real furnishings.  Most of her stuff from the Tower was here, but the room had been painted in a pale blue, making it much brighter, and the statueary made the room eccentric rather than creepy.  It was a king sized bed with blue sheets.  There were two clothes chests, dressers, and closets.  As this was the master bedroom, there was an attatched bathroom with shower and tub.

Everyone looked around, impressed and pleased.  Only Terra seemed quiet.  After everyone calmed down, she spoke up.  "So...where's BB sleep?"

"Um...well..." Raven got a little flustered, then pointed towards the king bed, blushing.

Terra looked shocked and appalled, but before she could say anything, Starfire and the others had pounced.

"Friend Raven, you and Beast Boy are doing the sharing of the bed!  How wonderful!"

"Come on girl, spill!  What's he like?"

"Is he gentle?  Or is he an animal?"

"Come on, don't leave us hanging!"

Raven finally got them to calm down.  "We aren't doing anything.  It just...didn't seem to make sense to make up seperate rooms for us when the weddings only a few months away."  She slammed her mouth shut, knowing what was coming now.

"WHAT?!"

Instantly the girls pounced, and began going crazy with wedding plans.  Raven smiled and let it happen.  Her life was finally beginning to feel...normal.

Outside, the boys had heard from Beast Boy about the wedding plans earlier and had been congratulating him.  On hearing the commotion from the master bedroom.  They immediately started getting on his case about 'jumping the gun.'  They, however, were not so accepting of the 'didn't make sense to make up two rooms' answer, and were convinced that Beast Boy and Raven were 'getting funky'.  Only Jericho seemed to accept the explanation at face value, although he was - for obvious reasons - the silent minority.  Beast Boy was dreadfully embarrassed as he heard some of the boys making rather wicked speculation as to 'what BB isn't saying.'

*Note to self,* he thought as it got really graphic, *remind Raven to stop leaving doors and windows open.*