I've had this idea stuck in my head for several months, but have just now been able to bring it together and put it into words. Then I decided, while I'm at it, why not do more than one holiday at Titans Tower? So enjoy, and expect more holidays soon.

Summary: Christmas. Raven knows a secret hatred of Robin's, but surely she wouldn't use it to her advantage, would she? She just might. Humor.

War of the Holidays

Chapter 1

Christmas

Raven paused as she entered the main room in Titans Tower to take in the scene presented to her. The holidays were fast approaching, and with them came a drastic change inside the tower. Everything was much…shinier. And more colorful.

Beast Boy was decorating the huge Christmas tree against the window and trying to covertly hang ornaments on Cyborg's metal parts without his noticing. Cyborg, meanwhile, was trying to simultaneously hang Christmas lights and keep ornaments off of himself, which occasionally meant dropping his string of lights and attacking Beast Boy. Robin sat on the couch, furiously untangling a huge ball of lights, which he then fed to Cyborg. Starfire excitedly flew around the room, hanging tinsel from the ceiling and other random places. She had Christmas carols playing loudly, but no one stopped her. It was better than what she did her first Christmas on Earth.

Beast Boy and Starfire wore Santa Clause hats, and Cyborg had a long strand of tinsel draped across his neck, no doubt placed there by their resident alien. Even Robin was dressed festively in red and green…and some yellow and black.

Raven felt a smile overcome her. She didn't celebrate the holidays and usually looked upon them with indifference. But this year was going to be different. She would make sure of it.

She levitated over to the kitchen area and opted to make herself some hot chocolate rather than tea. Starfire's Christmas CD came to the end and stopped. Before she could restart it, Raven started humming her own carol. Her smile broadened as she hummed, and she had to hide it behind her cup.

Keeping one eye on Robin, she began singing, just loud enough to be heard. This caught his attention immediately, and before the fifth word was out of her mouth, Robin had dropped his tangled mass of Christmas lights, vaulted over the couch, dashed across the room, and had slapped a hand over her mouth.

This sudden action caught the other three Titans off guard, and all was suddenly silent, everyone standing frozen where they were. Raven looked down at the gloved hand covering her mouth, then raised an eyebrow at Robin. They both knew perfectly well that she could blast him all the way into town without raising a finger if she wanted to, but still neither moved.

Finally, Starfire broke the silence with a quiet but honest question. "Friend Raven does not sing that horribly, does she, Robin?"

Robin forced a smile and dropped his hand. "No…of course not." For a reason the other three Titans couldn't figure out, Raven was smirking. Robin cleared his throat nervously. "Well, this is nice, isn't it? The five of us friends, all decorating our home together for the holidays? …Now where was I?" He jumped back over the couch and busily set to disentangling lights again.

The rest returned to their activities likewise, leaving three confused, one slightly rattled, and one exalting in her success and planning her next move.

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Raven peeked around the corner of the hallway, waiting for a certain someone. Finally she saw him coming in her direction, and she stepped out around the corner, casually walking toward him. When she was within hearing distance, she innocently began humming the same song she had the previous morning. His eyes narrowed behind his mask and he stopped in front of her.

"Yes, Robin?" she asked with a tiny smile she couldn't quite conceal. "Is there something—"

"I know what you're doing, Raven, and I want it to stop," he told her.

"Humming?" she asked in apparent confusion.

"You know what I mean."

"I'm afraid I don't."

"The song!"

"What song?" She nearly smiled again, but managed to smother it.

"You know what song," he replied with a frown. "And you know that I hate it."

"But how can you hate it? It's a Christmas classic!"

Robin was clearly getting frustrated with her. "Don't play games with me, Raven!"

"But you like games, Robin. Remember?" Robin couldn't help but feel that the last word was more a threat than a reminder, but before he could say anything in reply, Raven sank through the floor in front of him with a parting smile.

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That evening, the five Titans sat in the main room together. Beast Boy sat under the tree, shaking his presents—and all the rest of them—and listening to them with a canine ear. Raven sat at the table with Starfire, trying to teach her how to knit. More than once, she felt that Starfire should be grateful for her tough Tamaranian skin, as she repeatedly jabbed herself with the needles. Robin and Cyborg were playing a racing game on the big screen, but Robin was clearly losing. Every minute or so, he would glance nervously back at the girls, causing Raven to smile back when he ran into a wall.

All was quiet except for the soft sounds of Raven's instructions, the game, and Beat Boy's rattling, so Raven again began humming. Robin looked up sharply at her and crashed into a wall. Raven smiled and hummed louder.

Starfire also smiled. "I cannot quite decide, but I think that may be my favorite carol of the Christmas."

"Oh really?" Raven queried with a wider smile.

"Yes. It is simply…fun to sing."

"You don't say."

Robin fearfully noted the evil gleam in Raven's eyes.

"You know, Star, I know a different version of that song. I could teach it to you sometime if you'd like," Raven offered casually.

Robin's eyes widened and he dropped his controller.

"Delightful!" Starfire exclaimed. "I would like that very much!"

"Great." Raven stood, setting aside her knitting. "I'm going to bed now. Goodnight, everyone." She cast a special smile at Robin, who still watched her with wide eyes, before leaving.

She smiled to herself as she walked toward her room. Tomorrow she would teach the song to Starfire, who would not understand the significance of it and undoubtedly sing it night and day. She figured that might be enough revenge.

Raven's smile melted as she remembered discovering that all her cloaks had been dyed pink while she was sleeping. Upon confronting Robin about it, he confessed that he had known in advance what Beast Boy and Cyborg were going to do, but had let them anyway. After all, he had said, they didn't mean anything by it. It was just a harmless prank—a game to them. Raven didn't think it was a very fun game when she had to go out in public and fight crime in pink, or when she saw the pictures in the paper the next day.

But now one revenge was served, and only two remained.

The smile returned to Raven's face as she began humming, then singing to herself.

"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg…"

End of chapter. I plan on doing more, but they will not be related to this one, so you will have to imagine for yourself what her revenge on BB and Cyborg was. I imagine it would be worse than Robin's, though.

Expect either Valentine's Day or St. Patrick's Day next. Please review! Oh, and if you have any other reasonable holidays you would like to see me write about, please tell me in a review!