Raven sat and watched the rain cascade down her window from inside of her dark room. Her mind was at peace, and she was able to stand and watch the storm with no troubles forefront in her mind. She unmindfully let a brief sigh escape her lips.
One could watch a storm like this for hours she mused to herself. As she pressed her figers to the glass, the heat escaped her fingertips and formed a delicate layer of fog on the window. Even watching the opaque white spread across the glass was enough to attract her gaze. As a flash of lightning erupted nearby, a reflection of a figure on the window caught her attention, and she whipped around to glare at the intruder.
Leaning in the doorway was none other than the Boy Wonder, carrying a questioning expression on his face.
"What are you doing here?" she questioned.
"Nothing much. Just the same as you, watching the strom I guess".
"How long have you been there?" she asked tentatively.
He shrugged his shoulders. "Long enough."
Raven flushed. She pulled her hood up with haste to disguise the evidence. Just how long had he been there? She walked over to the couch, and picked up her book, and plopped down on the couch. He wouldn't distract her. She had a good book to get back to, after all. With theatrical purposefulness, she opened the book and read.
"Is that my signal to leave?" he questioned.
"No. It's your signal to go do something besides stare at me."
"Well, then. Alright, I'll just sit and watch some TV..." he made his way over to the couch and sat beside her, "if you don't mind."
"It's your tower too. Do whatever you like." Her muscles tensed, and she channelled all her concentration towards the text in front of her.
With an exaggerated stretch, he put his feet up on the coffee table and picked up the remote. As he searched through the channels in a commonly male fashion, he took note of the glare aimed at him from over the book on Ancient Forms of Meditation. An easy smile teased the corner of his mouth, and he inwardly chuckled. Just a tester, he thought, as he inched his body closer to hers.
She stared in horror at the shrinking space acting as a buffer between Robin and herself. She couldn't just get up and walk away, that would be cowardly, and Robin would know that he got the best of her. She just continued to stare at the shrinking amount of couch until his arm was actually touching her thigh. Panic rolled through her system. It was like a physical shock, like nothing she had ever felt before.
The air around them seemed to get heavy and increasingly warm. Several things around the room started to rattle. Not two seconds after the initial contact, the room went black. The power had surged.
Oh my God, she thought, it's happened again! What kind of freak am I? What will he think of me? Thoughts and worries raced through her head; it felt like there were a handful of marbles rolling around, non-stop. She couldn't think of anything better to do than escape, so she fleed the scene as stealthily as a cat. I dont think he's noticed that I'm gone yet, she told herself.
What the hell happened? he wondered. It didn't take him long to notice that Raven had disappeared, but he still didn't draw any conclusions. It wasn't until the hum of the generator kicking in that he realized that it was Raven's powers that had caused the blackout. She was usually in perfect control of her powers, she thought. But now, he made her lose control. He smirked at the thought, he had finally made her lose her unflappable control.