I am reposting all these one-shots into one big story that is still going on. Once this is up to date the one-shots will be deleted.

Raven found herself shivering in the darkness. She detested extreme temperatures. They just didn't suit her. She was not blind to the darkness around her, though. As she dashed through hallways that had been darkened only moments ago, she felt the temperature drop more and more until her breath came out in large clouds. She scowled, her face stoic.

Why was it so cold here, underground?

The rest of the titans weren't with her. She was by herself.

She knew he was here, he was always here somewhere, doing this or that.

Red X would not get away so easily from her in the darkness.

Though she concentrated, she could not indicate any signs of life. This irritated her, because she knew he was here. She could feel it in her bones, if bones could feel anything but pain.

She halted, listening as she had been about to round a corner when she heard soft footsteps. She didn't hesitate. She sprang at him, knowing where he was in the darkness, knocking him to the ground, kicking whatever he had tried to steal in this underground laboratory out of his arms. It was thick and heavy, but she didn't have time to examine it now.

"Didn't think you'd show," Red X laughed as he used a small explosive to send her flying against the wall of the metal hallway. She rose to her feet and began chanting, but was cut off by a sharp blow to the back of the head. She slumped against the wall, whatever vision she'd had in the darkness was blurry.

"So close," he said. She could feel his breath on her face and restrained herself from using her energy to send him three floors down into icy, winding hallways. It would hurt him, yes, but it would satisfy her need to prove that he wasn't the best. "Yet so far."

She struggled to stand, but she was too dizzy. She glared at the masked thief in front of her. "You'll pay." she said, her face stoic.

"I'm sure I will," he said, smirking in the dark, "but not any time soon I'm afraid."

She knew he was walking away from her because she suddenly felt colder.

She scowled. So he was going to leave her here to freeze to death underground, where her none of her teammates knew of her location? She had expected something like this, but it wasn't comforting to know that she was going to die with a throbbing headache.

"Oh, and by the way," she heard him say, and he was suddenly lifting her off the ground and was carrying her. She struggled, chanting threats, but her powers didn't work, not with her chilled, weakened state. "I don't think it's a gentlemen-thing to leave a girl out in the cold."

She actually snorted at this. She stopped struggling, realizing he was helping her.

Red X? Helping her, of all people?

This was ridiculous.

She lost track of how many corners they turned and how many stairs they climbed, and when she felt a rush of warm, fresh air hit her, she managed to shove him away and land on her feet, finally free of the cold.

"You didn't have to do that," she said, watching him carefully, readjusting her cloak so it shielded her eyes. It had come down, revealing her face, when he had carried her. She owed him now.

"You're right," he said, walking closer to her. She took a step back, glaring. "I didn't."

"Then why did you?"

"Because it would be a shame to have someone as pretty as you die to something as little as frostbite."

Raven's glare intensified, and she somehow managed to hold back a surge of anger.

"I was complimenting you," he laughed, and began walking away.

When he was almost out of sight, almost disappearing into the wooded area in which the laboratory was stationed, she called out reluctantly, "Thanks for saving my life."

He stopped, and she wanted to take her words back.

He turned around and saluted her, and her face tinged pink.

Why pink?

He walked away, leaving Raven fuming.

Debts weren't good.

Being in debt wasn't good, either.

Owing Red X was even worse.