A Wilted Rose
Summary: Roses of our love, one rose wilts. (Robin/Raven/Red X) Raven is having weird dreams involving Red X. He comes back, but he's got a hidden agenda. Why is he seducing Raven and why is Robin acting weird around her?
Rating: PG-13+
Chapter 1: One Rose
Raven stared down a dark, dreary corridor, slowly she started walking. She heard a scream and her walk turned to a run. She arrived in a circular room with stolen items all over the walls. "Hello my little bird," a, slightly disembodied, voice spoke. Raven turned just to see a red 'X' heading towards her…
Raven awoke with a start. She got out a notebook and recorded down her dream, you never know when a dream might come in handy. She put a mild sleeping spell on herself. After all it was only 12:30, way too early to do anything.
She was back in the corridor, only it was full of rose petals. Raven walked down it again. She heard the scream, but paid it no mind. Her walk finished in the same room, but it too was covered with rose petals. Red X, or whom Raven had assumed was Red X, held out a bouquet of roses. "Flowers that can't surpass my little bird's beauty; for you my Raven," Raven stared at him incredulously. She felt something in her hand; it seemed in her shock she had accepted the flowers, in turn accepting him. Red X seemed to smile. He leant up and caught Raven's lips in a sweet, but chaste kiss. "Wake up my little bird, my Raven."
Raven opened her eyes and what she saw shocked her. The bouquet of roses lying right next to her head, Raven picked up the card on top of them, Roses for our love, one rose wilts. Raven stared at the card, what did it mean? She put the bouquet in a vase with water and went to do her usual morning routine. As she took off her clothes for a shower she looked down. "Great." She murmured sarcastically, "P-Plates, just what I've always wanted, not." After the annoying scene with her periods she finished what she needed to do and walked down to the kitchen.
"Hey Raven," Robin greeted her; "You're up early." He pointed towards the clock, 5:30. He was wearing his usual costume and mask. Secretly, Raven wondered what colour his eyes were.
"Morning Robin, I could say the same thing to you." She replied and started boiling some water. Robin grinned and walked to stand next to her.
Getting out a mug he laughed, "What's on the menu today?" Raven gave him a slight smile, though he couldn't see it due to her hood being up. This happened three times a week. Each time Raven would say something different.
"Coffee, had a bad night, I need an energiser." Raven replied yawning a bit. Rabin raised an eyebrow. Raven smirked at him, "I dreamed of you."
Robin smirked and ran a finger up and down her arm, "In what way?" He whispered in her ear. Raven hit him.
"Pervert, you're worse than Speedy." Raven rolled her eyes and hit him again as he gave her an offended look. The alarm went off; Robin ran and checked the computers. It was a simple bank robbery. "Why don't we just go?" Raven asked, "It's just a bank robbery." Robin nodded their agreement and they left, being sure to shut off the alarm.
Robin and Raven stormed into the bank to find… Red X! Raven gasped and nearly fell out of the air. "Red X." She gasped. Robin nodded and got into battle position. Red X and Raven mirrored his movements. Yet, Robin, being Robin, decided he would attack first. Raven mentally rolled her eyes, stupid Robin.
"Sorry Red X, but you can't buy your way out of a beating, by the Teen Titans!" Que flashing neon lights and a close up of Robin and I, Raven thought sarcastically. Robin and Red X started going at it. (A/N: That can sound wrong… yet so, so hot. Yum.)
"Where's the rest of your team, kid?" Red X taunted, "Did they get sick of you or something?" He dodged a swipe at the head and jumped a kick at the feet to trip him. Raven raised an eyebrow at their theatrics. She rolled her eyes, men and their one track minds. She thought unamused.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." She murmured and Red X was enveloped in black energy. He groaned and stared at Raven, half pleadingly. She looked away, why did her have this effect on her? "Time to get you to the police Red X."
"I could have taken him," Robin pouted. Raven rolled her eyes and directed the field of energy surrounding Red X outside the bank.
"Yeah and you would have also taken hours with your theatrics." Raven walked outside the bank to find a hole in her energy. She groaned, "Red X, you never cease to amaze me."
"That's what I'm here for, my love." She heard, turning slowly she saw Red X whom smirked at her. "One rose wilts." He whispered. Raven, for the life of her, could not figure out what he meant. When she moved to attack him he disappeared, almost like he was never really there.
When Robin and Raven got home that morning the team was up and ready to interrogate. Raven, whom anticipated this, sank through the floor and appeared in her bedroom. She looked at the vase which held the roses, one of them had wilted and died. Raven sighed and stared forward, what did this mean?
A/N: Oh! Getting interesting! Well hope you like chapter one of 'A Wilted Rose'. Which pairing should be the end couple, RobinxRaven or RavenxRedX or Robin/Raven/RedX all together? Please R&R!