The 24 hour Titan Christmas Special
Chapter 1: The complicated morning
12:00 A.m. Midnight- 6:55 A.m. December 24, Thursday
We find ourselves in California, Jump City. Now as you likely know, Jump City is home to the Teen Titans. If you didn't know that, you wouldn't be reading this now would you? So of course there's Titan's Tower, the bay, and the usual pizza place. However, this morning half the bay is frozen, the pizza place isn't serving food outdoors, and Titan's Tower is covered in snow. But this particular morning was special, because it would lead to a more special day. For one, it was Christmas eve… morning. Considering the early hour, no one was awake, not even the villains. Maybe even super villains take the holiday off, who knows. Villains are not really all that important right now. What is important, is the five heroes who are all asleep for once, the five other heroes who are coming for the holiday from Steel City, and a single pacing girl who will be joining us shortly. Normally I would explain to you in detail what these 11 people are doing, but they're all asleep, so we're skipping over that part. Anyway, let us just see what goes on in Titan's Tower at Christmas.
6:56 A.M. (Or 7:00)
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!!!!!!!
Robin got out of bed, walked to his desk turned off his alarm clock, then walked back to his bed, and attempted to go back to sleep.
Attempted, but failed.
He did this daily, turn off the alarm, then try to sleep more, and then fail. He always did it, even though he knew more sleep was an impossible goal. He though maybe he should just set his alarm for later, but never did. He was kinda a morning person anyway, just not the first 10 minuets of the morning. Everything after that was fine. Usually.
He got up, made his bed, and dressed in his normal uniform. It wasn't really normal, most guys don't ware spandex and call it normal but it was everyday to him. Before he left his room, he checked to make sure his mask was in place. Good, it was. Even though his friends knew his secret identity, he still liked to keep it on. He could always pretend thy didn't know.
Robin went down the stairs into the communications room/ living room. Once there, he discovered no one else was awake yet. He shrugged and sat down in front of the T.V. and as usual, he just clicked through the channels. Why was there never anything on? He continued to click through most of the morning programs until about eight. After that he just turned off the T.V.
1200 channels and still nothing to watch.
8:00
Robin had started breakfast for everyone, with the exception of Beast Boy who wouldn't eat meat. He had just about finished, when he heard the familiar swoosh of the door. He looked up to see Starfire standing in the door. She must have smelled the food; she was always hungry in the mornings.
This was the main reason he was cooking anyway.
He walked from behind the counter, and stood a few feet In front of her.
She smiled when she saw him. He smiled back. It was impossible not to smile at that face.
"Good morning Robin, I trust-"She stopped mid sentence, froze. Then shot past Robin at a speed of unthinkable quickness towards the window, pressing her face up against the glass.
"Oh! What is it? What is it?" She squealed in delight. Robin, who was still trying to recover from nearly being run over, looked at the window. It was snowing outside. Robin hadn't thought anything of it, he'd seen snow plenty of times. But Starfire hadn't ever seen snow, no wonder it seemed so amazing to her.
"It's snow Star. It's frozen water." He chuckled at her excited face. She ran over and grabbed his arm. She jumped up and down like a hyper kid.
"Let's go outside! I want to see it!" She begged.
"After breakfast, sure." He smiled.
Soon after the other Titans joined them, and they all ate. With of course the exception of Beast Boy, who wouldn't eat it because the food involved meat. He made his own breakfast. Tofu. Everyone else shuddered at the fake meat.
Robin left Cyborg to clean up the kitchen, it was his turn anyway, and Robin had promised Star. They had just made it to the door when Cyborg yelled, "And don't let me catch you two making out up there!"
Cyborg wasn't sure but he thought he saw Robin blush. He though so, but he wasn't sure. He finished up in the kitchen, and went to play video games with BB.
And by play I of course mean beat.
Shortly after that the communications room was filled with shouts following something along the lines of-
"Dude I passed you!"
Or,
"Your gonna pay for that you little grass stain!"
The two of them yelled at each other for at least a half an hour before it finally got on Ravens nerves. She was trying to be as patient, seeing as it was Christmas and all, but enough was enough.
"Can't you contain yourselves for 10 minuets, at least?" She retorted, glancing up from her book.
Cyborg and Beast Boy looked at each other, and then back at Raven.
"Nope." They said in union before turning back to their game. Raven let out a heavy sigh, and tried to distract them.
"Does anyone know what time it is?" Raven asked.
"Time for you to get a watch!" Beast Boy laughed.
"Oh you're original. Seriously what time is it? We have guests coming later; I'd like to have the house clean by then."
"You're such a mom sometimes." Beast Boy Raven used her powers and took the controller away.
"Yeah it's almost nine. Don't worry they won't be here until like four." Cyborg supplied.
"I don't care; we should at least try to look presentable. This trash on the floor, the messy bathrooms? Unacceptable." She shook her head.
"Sure… mom." Beast Boy smirked. Raven broke the controller. The look of utter pain on his face almost made her feel better.
9:00 (On the Roof)
Robin sat with his legs hanging of the edge of the roof, and watched Starfire twirl around in the snow. Small flakes caught in her hair, and made her giggle when they landed on her nose. She turned to look at him, her cheeks slightly flushed, her innocent smile. She could make him melt. Even though it was freezing outside, Robin still felt hot. After a few minuets she came and sat back down next to him.
"What causes the snow?" HS asked out of breath from spinning so much.
"Those clouds up there," He said pointing up "They have water in them, them water freezes and falls down here and becomes snow."
"Oh! It's beautiful." She fell backwards into the snow, and rolled around.
"You're beautiful too." He heard himself say. She looked at him with her big green eyes. The second the words left his mouth, he almost wished he could have taken them back.
She cuddled next to his knee.
"Really? Am I?" She questioned innocently.
"Yeah. You are." He answered nervously.
She sat up and leaned her head on his shoulder. He leaned back on her too. In truth she made him, nervous. But he like the way it felt. The way she made his pulse race, his blood burn. And even though it was a little bit scary, it was great. It was… a thrill.
They sat there for a long time, leaning on each other, and at one point, Robin even got brave enough to put his arm around her. He couldn't tell, but he was pretty sure she liked it. Besides she giggled. That had to be good. Right?
"This is what you call nice, correct?" She asked. Robin remembered that Starfire's planet didn't have 'nice', it still seemed foreign to her.
Before he had time to think, he picked up her chin in his hand, and brought her lips to his. He kissed her. She was, obviously taken back, but still, she wasn't about to tell him to stop. She'd been waiting for this for two freaking years! She kissed him back.
When they pulled apart Robin actually answered her, "Yeah, this is nice." Before either said anything else, they kissed each other again.
(Meanwhile downstairs where things were far less steamy)
After Raven broke the control, the game had been over, and she had demanded they begin cleaning. Cyborg was in charge of getting the floors, Beast Boy the windows. Which doesn't sound like much, but when you think about how big Titans Tower is, and how many windows there are, it really starts to suck. Thankfully he wasn't in charge of all of them, just the ones in the guy's bed rooms, and the big ones in the communications room. He was almost done wiping the soap off, when he thought he saw something. At first he ignored it. It couldn't have been. But he kept seeing it out of the corner of his. When he was done he actually looked, and what he saw shocked him.
His ears perked up, and his eyes widened.
He dropped the cleaning solution, sped past Raven, and ran out the door.
"What's his problem?" Cyborg asked as the door closed.
Raven shrugged, "Who knows."
Beast Boy all the way to the first floor, to impatient to wait for the elevator. He finally burst through the door too the lobby, just as the front entrance closed shut.
There standing in front of him, was Terra
(TBC…)