Raven's cloak fluttered around her like soft, silent black wings as she landed in front of Starfire.
"Hello, lover," she said to her.
"Hello, Raven," Starfire whispered back. Through the darkness of the night surrounding them, Starfire saw a soft smile lighten Raven's face, and a gleam in her eyes that spoke to her.
She could only smile back, and hope that her knees would not give out with such an alluring sight in front of her. The night seemed to compliment Raven in a way that made every movement sultry and divine.
Leaning forward, Raven asked, "Have you missed me?"
"We have not been apart that long," Starfire returned calmly.
"That wasn't what I asked." Raven leaned forward even more, till her lips were only a breath away from Starfire's. Starfire glanced down at them, wanting nothing more than to kiss them. She held back though, knowing it wouldn't be long.
"I have indeed missed you," Starfire said, shifting her gave back into Raven's violet eyes.
"That is good," Raven said.
She rested her hands on Starfire's shoulders, giving them a small, gentle squeeze. Starfire blushed, despite everything. Never had she been nervous, but she could feel her skin flushing at the touch.
Whatever had come over her, she did not want it to leave. It seemed so rare and perfect, and its effect on her was lingering. Like she had stars in her eyes and in her veins.
"We are about to spend some time together," Raven told her.
Her hands slid down and across her arms, before coming to rest on her shoulder blades. Raven's eyes moved down to take in the sight of Starfire's breasts. She seemed to drink in the very sight of her.
"We are?" Starfire asked her, her voice never raising above a whisper.
Raven nodded then floated down from her perch on the balcony ledge, her feet coming down to touch the ground silently. She always moved silently, like she was someone the world was trying to keep secret.
Starfire embraced her, holding her in her arms with no intent of letting go. Hooking her fingers around the soft black fabric of Raven's cloak, she pulled it around them both, letting it envelop the two of them.
"A lot of time together," Raven said and pressed soft, small kisses to Starfire's skin, in between her words. Her lips brushed up against Starfire's skin, whispering words as they trailed along. "The entire night, in fact."
Her lips paused.
She moved her head back, drinking in the sight of Starfire once more.
Starfire looked beautiful in the moonlight, Raven thought. The way the white glow illuminated her fiery red hair, making it shine. The light catching the curves of her body, casting alluring shadows all around her. And the bright green gleam of her eyes, emphasized by the shadows that had settled partly upon her face.
Starfire brought her hand up, touching it to Raven's cheek.
"All night together?" she asked, her voice bordering on the edge of something darker.
Raven nodded.
She closed her eyes, thinking a thousand things at once, all of them seemingly passing slowly in her mind's eye. Starfire, what she wanted to do with her, and the time that they would pass together.
"I do quite like the sound of that."
Starfire looked into her lover's face, still relishing at her touch. She gave a soft stroke with her thumb and kissed her lips against Raven's, slipping her tongue past her lips and feeling the incisors of her teeth. The slightest of her moans were echoed by Raven.
When they broke the kiss, they still stared at one another.
"Raven," Starfire said, and stroked her fingers against her neck. "I…" she paused. "The night suggests things," she whispered. "That is what I have read in pages, that is."
Raven tilted her head to the side.
"Trying to seduce me all over again, aren't you?" Raven asked her. Her hands came to rest on Starfire's shoulders once more. Her lips kissed at Starfire's skin, brushing over the sensitive skin lightly.
"That is what lovers do," Starfire gasped.
She leaned her head back, and her eyes fluttered closed. She savored the feeling of each one of Raven's kisses. "Raven," she breathed out.
"Lover," Raven said back, her lips still pressed to Starfire's skin. Her eyelids flickered open and closed, trying to decide which sight was better. Starfire or the darkness?
"We have all night…"
The words fell from Starfire's lips like a prayer.
"Lover," Raven whispered to her again, and brought her cloak up around them both. A sphere of dark magic enveloped them, and they were gone from the balcony, and alone with each other.
Within a breath of an instant, Raven's spiritual powers had brought them to the rooftop. All around them expanded the dark city, the nightly colors dim and calming, complemented by the softest of nightly breezes, cool against their skin.
Starfire felt Raven's hand come to her shoulder, his fingers applying the slightest pressure, and Starfire closed her eyes to let the feeling linger deeper into herself. Raven's caressing fingers tickled at her neck, and her thumb came up to her cheek. Starfire covered it with her hand, trying to hold Raven's gentle mood to her.
Much like wind, she could never hold it in her hands. But she could feel it, be embraced by it, be soothed by it. Raven she could embrace.
Starfire loved Raven.
And what was more, the two shared a bond. A bond that not even Robin and Raven had; it was so similar, and yet different in every way. She and Raven trusted each other in a way that could have been scary, if not for the years they had spent together.
"Tell me, lover," Raven whispered to her. Her voice carried on the soft wind, and Starfire leaned her head closer into Raven's.
"Yes, what is it you desire to speak of?" She still held her hand.
"Tell me, what do you feel when I kiss you?"
Starfire thought for a moment, searching through her collected memories to find the right words to describe it. Her silence lingered on as she thought.
"Perhaps if I helped you to remember?" Raven suggested. Her voice was quiet, almost shy, but Raven wasn't shy right now. Instead, she was teasing, gentle, luring Starfire deeper and deeper into the bonded lust they both shared.
Starfire loved Raven's voice as quiet and shy, for it sounded like a melody.
Raven leaned in, capturing Starfire's lips in an almost innocent kiss. It wasn't greedy or desperate, rather unrushed and passionate. Her tongue made a move to dart out of her mouth, but Raven thought better of it. That could be saved for later; right now, it was all about the romantic gestures.
When the two finally broke off the kiss, a blush crossed Raven's face, despite herself.
"Well?" she asked her lover, "what do you feel?"
Starfire licked her lips, savoring the feeling of Raven's lips on hers, and the sweet taste of her fruity lip balm. And the press of their bodies together, the warmth and intimacy, and the arousing feeling of Raven purposely pressing her breasts up against Starfire's own.
"It felt wonderful," Starfire said.
She still thought of words to describe it.
The shadows still reached forward to Raven, cloaking her in an alluring ambiance. She had always looked somewhat mysterious.
"It felt like we were touching more than just bodies…"
Raven slid her arms around Starfire, pulling her in closer to her. She pressed her breasts up against her again. Her hands slid up and down Starfire back, occasionally slipping under the hems of her clothes. Starfire hummed in satisfaction.
"It felt like…"
She just couldn't think of it.
Raven waited patiently, letting her lover think. It was nice, to watch her. Her eyes seemed focused downward, pointed at her breasts, but not really focusing in on anything. Her teeth occasionally biting down on her lip, and her tongue darting out to lick them.
"Starfire, you're making your lips dry," Raven said.
"I am?" she wondered, her eyes drifting upward to focus on Raven's features. Her violet eyes and hair, and her pouting lips that looked so beautiful in the moonlight.
"Here," Raven said, cupping her face and kissing her again.
There was even more passion in this kiss, and blood rushed to Starfire's face and neck. She was unhappy when their lips finally parted.
Sighing, Raven said, "I've missed you so much," and leaned her head onto her shoulder.
"As have I, Raven. But you are back now, and that is all that matters to me."
Pulling her hood down of her hair, Starfire laced her fingers through the strands, giving them long and slow strokes. She breathed in her scent, strong with tea and faint fruits and the perfume of strange flowers.
All earthen flowers seemed so strange, but Raven made them feel familiar.
She could have named a few, if she tried. Raven had taught her the names of some of them.
Far off in the distance, the echo of a siren could be heard. The sound waves echoed up through the air to finally reach the two lovers' ears. Raven, her eyes having closed, opened them once more at the sound, and turned herself to face the direction.
In the dark of the night, the flashing red, blue, and white lights were dazzling to the eyes. It lit up the streets below them like lightning lights up the sky during a storm. But this duration was much longer; the shadows shifting once they had had time to form.
"My least favorite sound," Raven said to herself.
Starfire ignored it. The sirens were fading away back into the night, and it was not her concern in the least. Once the flashing lights had disappeared within the labyrinth of the sprawling city, they embraced again, not a care in the world aside from each other.
The night was theirs, and nothing in the world could take it away from them.
As their kisses transformed into a new type of passion and their hands found each others' secret spots in the dark, as their bodies heated with every breath they took, and their minds melded together into a single thought of pleasuring one another.
Yes, the night was theirs.
The next day came far too swiftly, and the rising sun was like an intruder upon the secretive world the two had created. Sharp rays of harsh sunlight burned their tired eyes; they had stayed up the entire night.
Not even the warmth of the sun was welcome to them, for heat they had created on their own. The cool nightly breezes were preferred, instead of the hot burn from the blazing blue sky. Starfire, who was usually bright and perky and loving the earthen days, disliked the sun that morning.
"Most unpleasant," she said in a sleepy voice.
Raven's hand reached out to caress her shoulder, trying to ease the irritation that was surging through the both of them.
Though it did feel unnatural, to be upset by the natural sequences of day and night following one another. Sure, Raven could have hoped for an overcast day with a sky full of dark, rainy clouds, but very rarely can you get what you want from the weather.
"Raven, my lover," Starfire said, returning the caresses to her body, "I do believe we cannot linger upon this rooftop for much longer."
That was true.
Unfortunately.
It seemed like time was being ripped away from the two of them, the fabric of material space between them shredded apart and pulled in different directions. Of course, that could just be an overreaction from their still groggy minds, and the processing of their time apart from each other.
"Why must you remind me?" Raven asked her.
Starfire didn't answer the question.
"Shall we go back to the tower now or later? For, within eventual time, we must return to our home." That much Starfire did say. Raven looked at her, watching her motion with her hands and tug at her fiery red hair. It had grown so long since she had been away.
"We can go back now," Raven said with a sigh.
Everything was just as she had left it; her room had been untouched and no one seemed to have entered it. That was a relief to her. There was a thin layer of dust to everything, though, and Raven made a mental note to clean it sometime in the future. She tossed herself down on the bed, staring up at the ceiling.
"Yup, everything's just the same," she said aloud.
She was alone in her room, so no one could hear her.
It was quiet, and the sunlight was filtering in through her window. It gave her a headache, but the dullness of the colors in her room helped to subdue it well. Stretching, she comforted herself on the bed, her eyelids half-closing as she simply waited.
Waited for it all to feel the same again.
It would, in good time. Maybe a week, if that. Maybe only in a few days. She hadn't been gone that long after all, only a single month. And she had still had contact with her friends, and she had been kept updating to pretty much everything that was going on.
But still, she had this gut feeling in her that something had changed. Just didn't know what.
It disquieted her, and she just couldn't put the thought out of her head. But she couldn't pinpoint what the feeling was either. It was there, a vague feeling of something being off, but she just couldn't guess.
Shaking her head, she decided to store her thoughts away for later.
Raven's door slid open, without a knock, and in walked the alien, still euphoric from the night before. She didn't say a word, but only crawled onto Raven's bed with her, laying down beside her. Propping her head up on one hand, she let her fingers play across Raven's stomach, making small swirling patterns.
"Good to see you, too," Raven said absent-mindedly.
"Very much it is," Starfire said in a subdued tone.
Quietly, she pressed kisses to Raven's neck. At the gentle touch, Raven's lips parted. She loved having her neck kissed, and Starfire was about to make her erratic with desire all over again. Her fingers swirled up away from her stomach and came to her breasts.
"Raven, my sweetheart," came Starfire's whispered voice, "you have completely stolen my heart."
She feathered more kisses onto Raven's skin, making her lean her head back and close her eyes, indulging in the heavenly feeling that was working its way through her veins, seeping into her skin.
"Stolen?" Raven asked, when she found her voice.
"Yes," Starfire said back to her, lifting her head and laying down next to Raven upon the bed. Her free arm came back to Raven's body, and she let it linger upon her breast. Raven glanced her eyes down upon Starfire's caressing hand, trying to feel as much as her skin as she could through the thin black fabric.
"To take a heart is truly something remarkable," Starfire continued on.
Raven cast her eyes back up to look at her eyes. The lids were half-closed, and she was looking far away, as if within a memory.
"On my planet, to have someone's heart is the greatest means of love. And you, Raven, you have truly won my heart. I do not know how, but perhaps I do not wish to. For the allure lies within the mystery."
"You're speaking like a poet," Raven told her.
"Thanks you."
Starfire's swirling fingers paused, but only for a moment. She looked back up, straight into Raven's purple eyes. The hood around her emotions was gone, for now. There was no reason to hide this. Her powers had taken on a soothing effect, and they now hummed through her body without threat.
"You have taken my heart. And now, I am yours."
The kissing began once more.