Hey dudes and dudettes! I know, I shouldn't but I started another one, I just can't help myself borrowing them from their rightful owners... Anyway, enjoy and SMILE!

Vegas, beware

Just to help those over the confusion who don't read my other stories of the more adult Titans, here a short help:

Nightwing = Robin = Richard/ Dick Grayson

Starfire = Koriand'r = Kori Anderson

Cyborg = Cy = Vic/ Victor Stone

Changeling = Beast Boy = Gar/ Garfield Logan

Raven = Rae = Rachel Roth

Bumblebee = Bee = Karen Beecher

Flash = Kid Flash = Wally West

Jinx = Jinxy = Jess Nixon

Arsenal = Speedy = Roy Harper

Tempest = Aqualad = Garth of Shayeris = Garth Ayers

Màs = Marcos Alvarez

Menos = Miguel Alvarez

Chapter 1: Make a wish

"No" Nightwing stated indifferently.

"Ow, come on, man, you know you wanna go!" his youngest team mate tried to lure him. "Besides, it's my birthday wish you asked for, I'm finally turning twenty-one, and you promised five years ago…"

"Changeling, we are not going to Vegas!" the leader huffed. Their argument had been going back and forth between the two young men for hours. Sure, they both had become more adult over the past few years, physically and mentally, but it doesn't mean their characters were much different. Nightwing, formerly known as Robin, sometimes called Richard or Dick, was still very earnest, controlling and overcorrect, while Changeling, formerly named Beast Boy, sometimes going by Gar (but never Garfield except for his foster mother Rita), was still fun-loving, joking and light hearted. And both were very stubborn.

"Nightwing, listen, you promised! And as our leader it's your duty to stand to your word!" the green man empathized. He didn't whine anymore to get things, he had learned from Raven how to talk people into it.

The other sighed: "You know that I only said it to make you stop asking me. You were a real pest back then when you wanted something…" and maybe still are sometimes, he added in his mind.

"Dickie, you should know me better than to promise me things you won't hold…" Changeling scolded playfully.

"Yeah, sure, but seriously, Gar, come on! We are heroes, we can't just go to Las Vegas, it's wrong and you know it! And I won't pay for a trip to that city, it's so low on morals…" he scowled.

"Just let me explain how I plan this, okay?" the younger offered.

Nightwing raised an eyebrow: "You have planed it?"

"Always so surprised by my abilities…" he snorted, than explained in a hurry: "Money won't be a problem, I have now officially access to my heritage, trust me, it's no big deal and I even checked it with Rita. Fine, Steve wasn't so fond of the idea either but after explaining he agreed too. Second: I talked Vic into making holo-rings for all of us. I just had to let him Bee come along, so he won't be the fifth wheel and he has his best female friend around and so on… I think he'll try to make a move on her because he obviously has a crush on her, but whatever, I don't care. Anyway no one will recognize us. Wally and Jess will cover for us at Jump City, so no problem with hero-stuff for those few days. Kori and Rae helped me book the flights and the hotel rooms, so all you got to do, oh fearless leader, is to say yes and come along!"

The black haired man gave him a long thoughtful look. Changeling knew he only had to play his last trump cards to finally make his friend agree.

"Just to let you know, you and Kori have a stretch limo for yourselves, VIP-Passes, a honeymoon suite and a candle light dinner on your own. She is really looking forward to the trip, but I also got you two tickets to one of her favorite live shows she follows on TV. She doesn't know about that yet and it's made up so it will appear it was your idea. But you know, we need to get there for this…" he informed him in a conspiratorial whisper.

Nightwing gulped heavily. "It would make her extremely happy…" he mumbled, already imagining how she would show him her gratefulness in their honeymoon suite…Or the stretch limo…

The green man grinned, knowing exactly that he had won. Now he just had to give him the last little push…

"I see, if you are thoroughly against, I still can cancel everything and tell the others that you don't…" he said sadly already turning away, until a black clad hand grabbed his shoulder.

"You know what, Gar? I think I really should stand to my word. I promised you we would go to Las Vegas on your twenty-first birthday, so we will go to Las Vegas! It would be a shame to cancel it after all the effort you and the others seem to have put in, right?" the leader declared in one of his high-and-mighty smiles that should feign generosity, but didn't fool his friends at all.

Nonetheless Changeling grinned widely: "Thanks, dude! I'll tell the others! They will be so excited! I bet Kori can't sleep from happiness for weeks!" he added with a smirk before he left.

Nightwing remained for a few minutes dreaming of a sleepless Kori who would want to express her gratitude for his allowance. For weeks, the green shape-shifter had said, for weeks…

It took a while before he could go on and continue with his former task, a huge smug grin plastered on his face.

Two days before the departure, in Steel City, Bumblebee was desperately trying to leave the reports that needed to be done to her second-in-charge Tempest (formerly known as Aqualad, often referred to as Garth). But since she had been invited to tag along for Vegas, he gave her the silence treatment, crossing his arms over his chest and sealing his lips in a thin line whenever she entered the same room as him. For the umpteenth time she wondered if she did the right thing leaving him the leadership during her absence, considering how childish he acted lately.

"Garth, seriously, this is important! This is about our job! You can't ignore me for the rest of your life just because I got invited, not you!" she yelled in frustration.

He only gave her a death glare that would have put Raven to shame, clearly getting his message through, which said 'watch me' all over, before he turned his face away again.

"Garth!" she bellowed with a desperate sigh. This was leading to nowhere and she was tempted to trade places with him, even if she would miss out Las Vegas with some of her best friends and her secret crush. She wished so much to go there, but apparently it was in vain. Until her savior butted in…

"Garth, this is stupid" Arsenal (formerly known as Speedy and often called Roy) chided his boyfriend of two years in a calm and serious tone, "if you would talk to Gar you would know why he invited Karen and not you…"

"But he is my friend and he invited her for his birthday! This is not fair!" Tempest pouted in such a childlike manner you wouldn't think him already twenty-three.

The archer leaned down on the armrests of his lovers' chair and towered over him.

"Now listen to me: Gar wanted to explain you why, but you were busy pouting at him and Karen, so I'll decipher it for you in easy words so it will enter your thick skull.

First, Gar is getting there with his surrogate family known as the Titans, namely Kori, Dick, Vic and Raven. Dick and Kori are practically glued on their hips, Gar and Raven have the hots for the other since forever and I bet he'll try to make a move, leaves Vic as the fifth wheel. The sixth participant would be dragged along as his company. You know Vic as well as I do. Vegas is a gourmets paradise, Vic loves food, including sea food, and he won't miss it out just because of his company. He won't even miss out on eating animals on Gar's birthday so he surely wouldn't do it for you. You see, tons of your friends, disappearing in the tin-mans stomach. You don't want to witness that.

Second, Las Vegas is known for his luxury, luxury always includes showing off, especially the possession of rare, wild animals, preferably in a water tank. Your fishy friends, mermaid, are living imprisoned there in great number. It only would hurt you to see them.

And last, but not least…you know as well as me how Karen feels about the love-machine. Let her have some fun, just for putting up with us fools for so long. Girls talks, gala dinners, flirts with Vic… She totally deserves it and you know it! So stop acting like a spoiled brat and look forward to the time you're in charge. I'll have to do everything and anything you say…"

Tempest had listened in silence and unmoved, but at the last words he finally looked into his lovers eyes and gave a slight smile, calmly asking: "Everything?"

"And anything…" the archer replied with a smug grin. He knew he got his points through.

Finally, the Atlantean got up, took the sheets from Karen and apologized: "Sorry that I was such a dumbass, Bee. I'll read those and afterwards you can give me your instructions for your absence. And I guess I should make a call to an old friend…"

He left, Bumblebee still staring dumbfounded after him. After a while she turned back to Arsenal, the baffled expression still on her face.

"The hell, when did you become the reasonable one in this relationship?" she inquired.

"I'm always reasonable when it comes to reaching my targets" he said nonchalantly.

After working together for so many years she could read her team like a book and knew exactly what meanings lay between the lines they said.

"You didn't want him to go there in first place, Shafty, am I right?" she probed while grinning her malicious cheshire grin.

He frowned: "You've seen enough movies about that city with us to know that nothing good happens there to a naïve guy like him! I won't let him get rape-married after getting drunk-drugged with a transvestite stripper with a baby or something! Be happy that I let you go there!"

"Of course you would let him go on a vacancy with another guy if it would be to any other city" she snorted sarcastically.

"Over my dead body" he announced in a gravely serious tone, sounding like it came out of a tomb.

She pitied every guy who would ever have to face Roy Harpers' jealousy.

"Make a wish, birthday-boy!" Vic bellowed as he held a giant vegan birthday cake with twenty-one candles on it in front of Changeling.

The five original Titans were assembled in the kitchen of their tower, their luggage packed and ready waiting on a pile not far away. After a slice of cake they would soon depart for Vegas. Bumblebee would meet them at the airport.

"Already have, guys! Vegas, beware, we're coming!" the green man replied joyfully. Although in reality he had an entirely different wish for this, and after a side glance to Raven he blew out the candles in one breath. His look didn't get unnoticed by any of his teammates – except for the woman in question – and they shared a knowing smirk. If everything turned out well, they maybe could help those two realize that wish. All they needed was a little push into the right direction…

Soon after Flash and Jinx arrived in the living room area to take the last instructions and send them off.

"Have fun, but don't take anything from strangers" the fastest man alive chided.

"Yeah, and if you get lost you immediately seek out a policeman for help" his girlfriend snorted sarcastically at her lovers behavior.

They shared some handshakes, the girls hugged, but Changeling, last in the row, made a show hugging Jinx longer than the others, whispering a few words to her along with the line: "Have fun you two" and held her hand in his hands for a moment after releasing her while they shared a conspiratorial grin. Then he patted a glaring Flash on the shoulder and entered the elevators with the others. He didn't react to the strange looks he got, but as soon as the elevators' doors closed, Flash turned to her.

"What was that about?" he scorned. He was rather possessive when it came to her and he didn't like it when anyone beside him touched her more than absolutely necessary.

With a wide and vicious grin she wielded a thin, rectangular plastic object in front of him, chanting: "Gar insisted that we two should have some fun…"

"Is that his credit card?" he inquired curiously.

"Nope, better. It's Richards. We agreed that if Gar had to pay for his own birthday holiday, Richard should at least provide the replacement with everything they'd need…" she explained.

Already forgiving his green friend for the show he asked with a grin: "I guess Dick wasn't informed about that little detail, was he?"

"We thought of it as a matter of course, so no one directly asked him. But I'm sure he won't mind" she persuaded with a sweet voice.

"Yeah, sure!" he chuckled. Railing up Nightwing was one of the most Titans favorite free time activities and Flash made no exception in this, neither did his girlfriend.

"Sooo, Wally, I was thinking what we needed" Jinx said as she stepped closer to him, her voice getting lower with every word, exciting and alluring him with every syllable, "and unfortunately I forgot all my clothes, including my undergarments. Would you mind to purchase some with me?" Her arms had sneaked their way around his neck while his lay around her waist and at the end of her line they were so close their lips almost touched.

Breathing deeply and gulping heavily he answered huskily: "Of course not, Jinxy…"

He was wax in her hands, everyone knew, but he didn't mind at all. He never had been happier in his live than with her at his side. And if his happiness included obedience to the petite woman, so be it.

"But first I'll need you to take my measurements, so everything would fit perfectly. I heard they needed them to be exact in the luxurious boutiques in the city, and we can't debit Richards' credit card with anything less than the most luxurious items, can we? I mean, what would the bank clerks think of him if we bought some cheep junk in his name? And we should stop by a good restaurant after that." she continued.

"I love the way you think woman!" he declared with a more hungry tone, as if he would want to devour her, "But first, the measurements… Shall I help you get out of your clothes?"

Finally the gap between them closed and their lips locked as the heroes' hands started roaming to 'measure'.