Ch 1:
Cyborg's robotic and human eye scanned the crowd carefully. His eyes finally rested on Brock Ryder. The man loomed over his bride in height and mass, his muscles rippling from underneath the dark tuxedo. His short red hair was arranged neatly, his jaw was clean shaven, and his mustache was a neat line. The large man's green eyes gazed fondly at his new bride.
"Well, I could say a mountain of things about little Rae and Brock. How they met in Britain a cold and rainy autumn, or how Brock moved all the way to Jump to chase after her. I could talk about how Raven pushed him away, quite literally, but he finally won her over. I could say that we all hated him." The crowd giggled. "But I want to say how happy I am for them now," Cyborg finished his speech by raising his glass and nodding at the newly wed.
"Too kind, mate, too kind," a grin split Brock Ryder's face.
"My turn, my turn!" Beast Boy hopped up. "I seriously hated Brock when he first came here and started flirting with Rae. But then Brock taught me some cool British words and lost to me at video games. He is definitely an awesome guy and completely deserves Raven. So, on that, I declare this marriage sacred!"
A smile crept across Raven's lips at this. How she would miss the green changeling.
Starfire rose. "I am so glad that our Raven has found such a good man as Brock. All we can hope for is that our friend comes back from Europe with a little Brock junio—"
"Hey, Star, it's okay, just sit down." Robin eased his drunken girlfriend back into her chair and then rose to face the gathered crowd of superheroes. The attending had no need to disguise their identities. The groom had discovered long ago who the people in the crowd truly were. Robin smiled and then looked at the couple.
"I thought he was a stalker," Robin began, "and had BB and Cy capture and interrogate him before Raven explained that he was infatuated with her. They met in a café inside a bookstore in London two years ago and Brock followed her all the way back to the Tower. He bought a speedboat and stared up at her window for days from the water. Brock helped Raven get through things. With her father and Malch…Brock revived her. Even though his accent annoys me a bit, I wish you," Robin looked directly at Raven, "and Brock a happy and fruitful life together."
"Amen to that," Roy Harper called out and there was a collective clinking of glasses.
A few minutes later, Raven approached the Boy Wonder alone. She was truly beautiful tonight, Robin admitted. Her dress was dark and simple but it looked majestic and simply radiant on the dark Titan.
"Robin, I have to tell you something," her amethyst eyes bore into his mask with subtle hints of anxiousness and worry.
"What is it, Rae?" Robin asked as he sipped at his water.
"I—I need to make a life out of this, a normal one. I want to get a real job, maybe raise a family. Brock and I are moving to Massachusetts after the honeymoon, Rob…" Raven took his hand and placed something round in it. After a deep, resigned breath, the dark heroine continued with two fateful words:
"I quit."
this is just the prologue, but more is coming
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