Dedicated to Sapphire, Vatala Darkmist, and my faithful string instrument, Cello #12. No other cello sings as sweet, or tunes the way you do.
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Over the years spent together as a team, it became apparent that if you wanted either Beast Boy or Cyborg's attention, one of the most effective ways to do so was to pull the plug on the video game console. As an added bonus, the ensuing ruckus often served to grab the attention of everyone else in the Ops room; which is precisely why Robin did just that.
"Hey!" Beast Boy and Cyborg protested immediately, "What gives?"
Robin paid their complaints no heed, instead addressing the Titans in their entirety - Central, East, and Honorary – "Does anyone here know how to play classical music?"
His query was met with more than a few blank and puzzled faces. "Nobody? Jericho?"
Jericho closed his hand into fist and rubbed it in a circle around his heart, before making a motion with the same hand that vaguely resembled a llama shutting its mouth.
"Sorry, no." Robin translated out loud, and Jericho nodded his confirmation.
"Dude, you ended our game to ask that?" Beast Boy inquired incredulously. But he never got an answer because at that moment Jinx piped up helpfully-
"Raven's got a violin."
Said girl stiffened as she found herself the apparent focus of everyone in the room. Kid Flash seemed to find this hilarious; laughing as he swiftly ran past her and pulled her hood over her eyes, he commented.
"Seriously? That's so cool! Jinx, maybe she can play for you when you draw your unicorns!" Dodging the resultant blasts of pink and black energy his words attracted, he continued nonchalantly "How'd you find that out?"
Jinx wisely decided not to answer, as she was already getting glared at. Robin, however, looked relieved, as if he had feared that the Titans weren't cultured enough.
"Great, I just need you to fill out some paperwork, come up with a false name and a few other details, and then we can enter you as bait in the competition next w-"
"She said I had a violin, not that I could play it. I doubt I remember how to hold the bow, let alone how to place the fingers." Raven cut him off firmly.
"That may be, but it appears that you're the only one who's even picked up a string instrument - excluding guitar," Robin added hastily. "It has to be you," He shrugged apologetically.
Raven's face was carefully blank as she nodded, but hidden in the folds of her cloak, her fists were clenched tightly.
"This is gonna be good," Beast Boy whispered to Cyborg, just out of ear shot of everyone else.
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Raven knelt as she retrieved a Spartan wooden box from the floorboards beneath her bed. It had been a long time since anyone had touched the box - years in fact, since no one had so much as glimpsed it since the HIVE had briefly taken over Titans Tower - so that now, as she brought it back into the light, it was covered in a thick layer of dust. Raven blew off its grimy coating, and carefully wiped it clean with the corner of her cloak. Then, slowly, she slid the cover down to reveal a very singular violin. What the violin lacked in adornment, the material made up for. It bore a semblance to wood; there was a grain, in any case, yet no tree on earth could produce wood with this shade of cobalt blue. As Raven placed the violin and its matching bow into her lap, it seemed to glint even as it drew the shadows closer, as if acknowledging that it was going to be played again soon.
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A/N this is kind of short, but it felt like a really good ending place, so think of this as a prologue. Please review! Tell me if you think this is OOC, or if you think I rambled, or if I made the slightest grammatical/spelling error. Oh, and I'd like to say that anything Jericho says in sign language, I can say too, which is cool because I'm going to have to expand my vocabulary now :)