Raven long left the Titans. Her reasons why. She fell in love. She fell in love with a criminal. And the rich playboy fell in love with her. The reason they met and fell in love, a puppy.
One year ago...
Raven was walking around the forest on the edge near the city. She heard a cry like a baby animal. Raven looked and found a puppy. The puppy looked like a wolf, husky, German Shepard mix. The fur was black with white specks in some areas.
"Hey girl, why are you out here?" She picked up the dog. It began to rain. Raven blocked the rain from them both as she headed back to Jump City.
When she got in the city the puppy began to squirm. Raven set her down. Grassin, as Raven calls her, jogged up to a man and pawed at his leg. The blond-haired women that he was talking to looked discussed and walked away.
Raven quickly changed her appearance to long black hair, dark skinny jeans, and a purple shirt with a hooded black jacket. "Is this your dog?" he asked angrily kicking it away.
"I just found her in the woods." Raven shot back. Grassin pawed at the man's leg again and whimpered. The man pulled a sandwich out of his pocket. The dog salivated and ran circles.
"Stupid mutt." He tossed her the sandwich. The puppy picked out the meat and the piece of bread that didn't have the mayo on it. "Hmm... smart dog."
Raven studied the man. he looked about twenty-two. He had shaggy brown hair and green eyes. Everything about him screamed self-confident rich playboy. They stood there for a while until the stranger spoke up. "Aren't you going to take your dog home?"
"My roommates won't allow me to have pets." She replied quickly. The man muttered something about women and animals.
"Well, I don't want it." They stood there in silence until Raven let out a sigh.
"I will get everything for her if you just keep her at your place for one night. Please"
"Why would I do that?" He began walking away, but Grassin followed.
"Because you feed her so she won't quit following you around and I am willing to find her a place to stay."
"Fine, but she is not getting in my car." he grumbled. He was actually intrigued by the girl who didn't bend to his will and was actually pretty. Not the blonds he usually went for.
In the car Raven sat with Grassin on her lap. Grassin didn't drool or even try to hang her head out the window. The only time she made a noise is when they came to a red light she would bark twice or if the stranger, known as Jason, went over the speed limit. Much to Jason's anger.
"Are you sure that is not your dog? This is the most highly trained animal I have ever seen."
"I wish I was allowed to keep her." `Rachel` said. "but my apartment is no place for any type of pet and my land lord hates dogs."
"So what do you plan to do?" Jason asked Rachel shrugged.
"I have a friend that she could probably stay with." Grassin shook her head no as Raven spoke. "That's funny."
"What?" Jason questioned.
"I think she can understand us." Grassin nodded her head.
"Can you talk?" shake
"Do you know where your owners are?" nod
"Do you want to show us where?" shake
"Can you show us?" A nod and shake. "What does that mean?" Raven wondered aloud.
"She doesn't want to go back." Jason spoke up. "My guess by how smart she is she was experimented on." The puppy nodded her head.
"Well that rules out my plan to find her original owners." Raven muttered. Grassin licked her face. Raven scold at her for a second than smiled.
"You seem like you had a dog before." Jason observed.
"One of my roommates would bring home stray animals all the time. This one dog that he was trying to keep got loose. So to catch him, my other roommates used me as bait." Jason laughed and Grassin yipped.
"Pull over here. I'll grab her some food and a collar." Raven said after the laughter died down.
She put Grassin on Jason's lap. "I hope Rachel grabs you some flee shampoo." Grassin started to whimper and lay on his lap as flat as she could. Three people walked by obviously angry about something. They all wore blank expressions but walked briskly into the pet store.
"Their gone." He said but Grassin just layed their trying not to be seen. Rachel came back a few minutes later.
"Got dog food, a red color, and some flee shampoo." Raven said.
"Good cause these flees are biting me up." Jason then explained to her the scientist people who walked into the store. Rachel was about to get out of the car to teach them a lesson but Jason held her back. "Don't do anything to get us in trouble with them. If those three are just making supply runs imagine how many we would have on our tail if we confronted them."
Raven nodded. Jason drove to his place in silence neither knew what to say. Jason's house was huge. It was a mansion, he looked over at Rachel to see if she was impressed. she wasn't. Jason wordlessly led Rachel into the house and the bathroom.
Raven drew warm water and soaped up Grassin. Jason came in a few minutes later. "I need you to be my fake girlfriend for the night."
"Don't you have some blond that can do that for you."
"They're only interested in the money and sex. My step mother is coming over for diner tonight. And she is bringing my greedy step sister and my sister."
"I don't do well with people." Raven said backing away.
"I'll keep Grassin for a week here." he bargained. Jason then sat down and rinsed off Grassin. "Please the only one I need you to be nice to is Kismet."
"O.K. but how is this going to work. We barely know anything about each other." Raven worried.
"Easy, how we meet? Grassin. Name? Rachel..."
"Roth."
" Todd, how long have way been dating?"
"Three and a half..."Raven was about to say minutes
"Months" Jason interrupted. "We can do this besides I don't care what my stepmother or stepsister think. The only reason they come around is because Kismet can't deal with them. They spend money like water and it was all our dad's money. Kismet is having a tough time because she lost both her parents and Judy and Crama hate her."
"I had a tough childhood to but I like the person I have become." Raven whispered.
Grassin shook off all the water off and ran around happily. There was a ding from the door bell. Jason sighed. "Ready to meet the bitches from hell." Raven nodded.