"No. You are lying. You guys are me! You can't lie to yourself." Love, Wisdom, Happy, Anger, Timid, Lust and Brave all sat in a half circle in front of her. Wisdom glared at Raven sternly,
"Raven, we are not lying to you…me…no you! We aren't lying to you." She declared,
"You're telling me, in the short amount of time that I've been here that I've head over heels for a immature archer?" she snarled the last part, but distress lined her face. Anger curled her lips,
"A stupid archer, who is just as bad as Beast Boy." She growled Beast Boy's name. Happy giggled,
"He's funny! Both of them are! But Speedy is a different funny, he makes us want to spin in circles and dance!" She sighed happily afterwards and anger growled at her. Lust spoke up next,
"An archer with abs…meow! Imagine being held in his arms and him staring into your eyes with those beautiful eyes as he-," Wisdom quickly interrupted her before she could complete the inappropriate thought,
"An archer who is a player, he could rip our heart out and stomp on it. He made out with that random blonde fan-girl on the news after that battle." She countered, voicing Raven's fears.
"Yes but you did see it didn't you! The way he stared into your eyes? Raven he wants us, he wants to love us! He just doesn't know it yet!" Love declared, pleading with Raven.
"W-what about…M-Malchior?" Timid stammered from behind Brave's cloak. Brave glanced at her before standing up and kneeling beside Raven, taking her hands in her own,
"Love is about chance. Everything is about chance. It's just chances we take, it's not every day that you meet someone you fall in love with." Raven nodded, accepting what her emoticlones told her,
"I'll be back to Nevermore soon." She declared and vanished bringing herself to reality. She took a few deep breaths and placed the mirror back on the dresser before realizing someone was banging on her door yelling her name.
Pulling up her cloak and hood over her head she walked over to the door and slid it open. Obviously unprepared for the door suddenly opening Aqualad tumbled in and fell into Raven. With a grunt Raven shoved her off him and raised an eye brow,
"Yes Aqualad?" she asked monotone. A sweat drop dripped down his head as he embarrassingly rubbed the back of his neck. He finally cleared his throat,
"Actually, we wanted to know if you wanted to come with us, we are going out for pizza. But we could bring it back here…" Raven smirked at hi obvious discomfort,
"No thanks. You guys go out and enjoy yourselves." Aqualad nodded before walking next door to get Speedy. Raven levitated toward the common room and went into the kitchen. She sighed and looked around the kitchen, opening cupboards and the fridge, intent on finding something to eat she didn't turn when she heard the boys walking out the door. A few moments later she heard the car crank up and them drive off.
Raven stood up cautiously and made sure they were away from the tower before running back to her room. She slid open the door and grinned, maybe she would find something in Speedy's room that would act as a turn-off and end this foolishness for good, them going out for pizza was the perfect opportunity for her to search his room without him knowing.
Glancing at the clock Raven saw it was 7:15, she contemplated for a moment before deciding to take a shower before going into his room, so her scent wouldn't be left behind. As she was climbing into the shower her thoughts flowed back to her, 'scent?' was he an animal? No! He couldn't smell her! She shook her head at her ridiculous thoughts. Sighing she scrubbed down quickly and washing her hair, not wanting to spend too much time in there in case they came back early. Getting out quickly she dried off and threw on a gray tank top and black sweats.
Cautiously she snuck out and checked the hall way. Good. No one was home yet. She jogged back into her room and slipped through the bathroom and checked the door handle leading to Speedy's room, it wasn't locked. Smirking Raven opened the door and walked in his room, Speedy's masculine smell instantly wafted over her and she blinked a few times trying to stay focused. She couldn't help it, she inhaled deeply, enjoying his scent.
Allowing a ghost of a smile to tug at her lips she began to search his room for anything: Playboy magazines, pictures of nude girls, left behind girl under garments from…ick… she didn't know…a diary maybe!
Raven sighed, closing the door leading to Speedy's room. She had searched his room inside out, finding nothing of the sorts, the only things she found that caught her eye were a half drawn picture of someone, who? She didn't know. And a pair of clean Green Arrow underwear. Raven smirked again remembering her giggling when she found this, who knew? Though it wasn't that much of a surprise, Robin had a pair of Batman underwear she had found when folding the Titan's laundry. She had black mailed him for months until he had found her singing to Taylor Swift in the shower, he had stood outside the door and recorded her…ugh! She had wanted to strangle the Boy Blunder!
Raven frowned as she curled underneath the covers, why did Robin send her here? Then her thoughts shifted to Starfire, what if she had been sent here? What if it had been Starfire that Speedy crashed into this morning, would Star be in love with Speedy? Did he like Star? She felt Jealousy creep over her and she breathed deeply, chanting her mantra silently to herself, forcing those green thoughts out of her head.
Shaking her head Raven clenched the covers tighter around her, why was she the one who was sent here? If she hadn't been sent here then she wouldn't be in this mess of emotions for Speedy…right? With that last thought echoing in her mind she fell into a welcoming sleep.
"Hello?" Raven called out cautiously. She was still in the tower, but something had waken her up. Raven tentatively got out of bed, not noticing that she was somehow back in her uniform. She creeped toward the bathroom door opening the door cautiously and peered inside the dark room, upon not seeing anything raven floated forward and tried the door handle leading to Speedy's room, she opened the door slowly and looked inside,
"Speedy?" she called out for the archer. Not hearing a reply she walked inside and instantly wished she hadn't gotten out of bed. The room was a disaster, everything was torn and bloody, claw marks ran down all the walls, the bed was torn and the sheets where tangled and bloodied. She gasped, and ran forward searching for the archer,
"Hello daughter." Trigon, she growled in her mind and she spun around and gasped. Raven found herself on the edge of a cliff, the scene changed from Speedy's room to an over view of Jump City. The buildings where all broken and on the ground and Trigon was using the Titan Tower as a seat. It was the exact same scene like before when Trigon took over; except he was bigger and uglier,
"Trigon!" she screamed at her father, "What are you doing here?" she demanded, "I beat you once! Don't make me do it again!" Trigon just laughed,
"Insignificant little fool! I merely came to tell you that I will return, and this time I will start with your friends." He laughed a deep booming sound that screamed in her ears. He looked up and Raven followed his gaze realizing that her team was dangling in the air, Starfire had tears streaming down her face as demons slashed at her stomach. Beast Boy was wailing as he received the same punishment. Cyborg screamed as two demons attacked him, one using there claws to tear at his flesh, the other slowly taking apart his robotic parts. Robin withered underneath a demon as it slowly cut him open.
'Don't show emotion. Don't let him win.' She chanted to herself in her mind,
"Robin!" she suddenly heard and looked down to see Speedy running toward Trigon rapidly firing arrows at the demon. The arrows harmlessly bounced off Trigon, she couldn't hold it in,
"Speedy no!" she screamed, Trigon suddenly snapped his head up and grinned evilly. With a nod of his head two demon shot forward and grabbed the archer and brought him beside Trigon,
"Daughter, does this human mean something to you?" Raven frantically shook her head but her stupid tears gave him away, Trigon laughed and chanted something and the demons dropped Speedy and he fell to the ground,
"NO!" Raven screamed as he landed deftly on the ground in a motionless heap. She tried to fly off the cliff but she couldn't fly, she looked down desperately at her hands and tried to conjure up her powers but nothing happened. Raven looked up at her father, "Don't do this!" she begged and cured herself, and Trigon smirked,
"I will return daughter."
Raven sat up with a jolt, a storm raged outside the window she gasped and looked around the dark room, using her powers she tried to turn on the lights. She let out a pathetic whimper as the lights stayed off and shadows reached out for her. A sudden clap of thunder boomed ahead and Raven dove out of bed and ran through the bathroom and flung Speedy's room, 'It had to be a dream, it couldn't be true…' she choked back a sob of relief as she saw Speedy lying in bed, peacefully asleep.
Raven's head spun and she collapsed against the door, tears streaming down her face. Why did Trigon visit her dreams? Was it a warning or was it just her paranoid dreams. A sob shook her body and she covered her face with her hands, suddenly strong arms lifted her up and hugged her against its warm chest. Startled Raven looked up and met the green eyes of Speedy,
"Shh…what's wrong Raven? It's okay… shh…" he soothed the demon-ness. Raven couldn't stand it, she should have demanded he put her down and let her return to her room, instead she wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her face in the crook of his neck and fought the tears. Speedy had walked back over to his bed and cradled Raven in his arms and let her cry while he stroked her hair and tried to sooth her,
"I-I'm s-s-sorry Sp-Speedy." She choked out between sobs. Raven felt pathetic, one dream and she broke down in front of Speedy, and she felt weak. Speedy didn't answer she continued to stroke her head and sooth her. She felt her eyes begin to droop but she didn't demand him to let her go back to her room she just held on tighter.
"What the HECK?!" Raven jolted awake at the yell. She looked up and saw Aqualad staring at her like she had grown a pair of devil horns, 'oh no.' she thought as she reached her hand up to feel her head and make sure she hadn't. Upon not feeling any she stared at Aqualad,
"What are you doing in my room." She muttered groggily. Aqualad shook his head,
"I'm not in your room." He declared his eyes still wide. Confused Raven opened her mouth to argue when she felt something around her waist. Stupidly Raven looked down and stared at the arm that encircled her waist. She squinted at it and followed the arm up and turned to follow it and found herself staring at the sleeping face of Speedy. Raven screamed and jolted back and fell off the bed with a thump.
At her sudden scream Speedy jolted awake and flew out of bed with a dagger in his hand, eyes narrowed. Upon seeing Aqualad he put the dagger back under his pillow, and turned to Raven and extended his hand to her. Raven accepted his hand but still looked weary and shocked,
"What happened?" he demanded once she was standing up, she suddenly turned to him with a glare,
"I don't know! You tell me! Why was I sleeping with you?!" she demanded and hated herself when she felt heat rise up to her cheeks. Speedy opened his mouth but Aqualad cleared his throat awkwardly,
"I'll just umm…leave you to that…I guess." He stammered and ran out the door hastily. Raven turned back to Speedy and raised an eye brow in question and crossed her arms,
"Well?" she demanded. Speedy's green eyes narrowed,
"Don't yell at me! I wasn't the one who broke in your room last night and had an emotional breakdown!" he replied with a glare and crossed his own arms over his bare chest. Memories of last night flooded into her mind and she relzed her arms and looked down ashamed,
"Oh…I'm sorry, I'll just leave then, sorry I bothered you." She muttered and turned to walk out of his room.
"Raven, wait." She paused but stayed turned away. Speedy walked forward and grabbed her arm and turned her toward him, violet eyes met green and Speedy allowed a small smile to tug at the corner of his lips, "I'm sorry I didn't mean to snap. And I'm glad you came to me last night, it's always better to have someone beside you through hard times." She thought she saw something flash in his eyes but it was gone as quickly as it came.
Raven let a ghost of a smile pull at her lips and she looked down, unable to meet his eyes, "I'm sorry I snapped to. I just thought…" she didn't finish hoping that he could complete the thought in his head. She glanced back up at him and he looked confused before a faint pink began to creep up his neck,
"Oh! No Raven! I wouldn't take advantage of you like that!" he said and a mischievous glint appeared in his eyes and he was back to normal, "Although," he continued his eyes roaming her body, "I wouldn't complain…" he trailed off as her eyes widened. Inside Love and Happy were screaming while Lust purred. Only Wisdom remained calm, 'he's a player' she whispered.
Raven allowed Brave to control her movements for a few moments and she smirked, "Is that so handsome?" she purred smoothly. Speedy's eyes widened at the sudden change in Raven but he covered it quickly,
"Yes that is so." He told her in a husky whisper. Raven felt her heart flutter. She reached forward and laced her fingers behind his head and pulled him down and leaned up. Raven's smirk grew as they're lips neared, but right as they barely grazed each other she laughed and teleported away. Speedy stumble forward, off balanced from the sudden disappearance. Raven reappeared at his doorway. With a wink and a giggle she teleported out of his room, leaving the confused archer.
Reappearing in her room Raven shook her head, what on earth had gotten in to her? Giggling? Winking? Even smiling was unlike her. She groaned as she dug through the closet grabbing a new uniform, she needed to get control of her emotions. It had been kind of fun teasing him like that, but he was a bad idea she chided herself. Raven frowned as a banging echoed through her room. Latching her cloak on, she slid the door open to see a disgruntled Aqualad, "Yes?" she inquired while coming out of the room and heard the door slid shut behind her.
"Robin wants to talk to you." He informed her. Raven's eyes widened momentarily in excitement,
"He's here?" she asked unable to mask the excitement. Aqualad shook his head and walked toward the common room. Frowning she followed him and saw Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Bumble Bee and Cyborg on the big screen 'oh no' she groaned in her head. Raven walked forward and walked forward until they could see her. Instantly Robin's mouth set in a grim line. Cyborg crossed his arms. Bumble Bee followed in his example but her eyes sparkled with humor. Starfire's eyes where excited and she was smiling. Beast Boy looked greener than usual,
"Hey guys." She greeted in monotone, "Is something wrong?" horrid thoughts flooded into her mind, what if something happened to her city? Robin's lips curled down frown,
"I don't know Raven, you tell me." Raven frowned confused and looked at the five other Titans on the opposite side of the screen. Raven glanced at the hallway door as it slid open to reveal Speedy walking in. Raven watched as he made his way over to her and looked up at the other Titans,
"Hey guys! What's up?" he asked a lopsided grin playing on his face, "Hey Bee!" She started to smile but a look from Cyborg had her frowning again. Beast Boy stumbled forward and took up the whole screen,
"Dude! Him?! Why did you sleep with him?" Beast Boy said gagging at the last part. Both the archer and the demon-ness spun around and glared at Aqualad. Robin pushed him away and glared at the two teens,
"You know relationships between team members are bad." He declared. Raven paled at his words but held her gaze,
"No, Robin, you don't understand, I di-," Cyborg pushed forward interrupting her,
"Boy!" he shouted glaring at Speedy, "I will kill you when I see you if you hurt my little sister!" he growled at him. Speedy took to cowering behind Raven and she glared at him. Starfire suddenly pushed forward her green eyes brimmed with happiness,
"Oh friend! I'm so happy you found love finally! At first I thought you and Beast Boy would make a good couple but now I see you and Speedy were meant for each other! Otherwise you wouldn't produce babies with-,"
"GUYS!" Raven scream effectively gaining there attention, "Yes I did sleep with Speedy but I didn't…no!" she yelled in frustration glaring at Aqualad before turning back to the Titans,
"Why were you sleeping in his room?" Robin finally broke the shocked silence. Raven took a deep breath, bracing herself before growling,
"Trigon decided to visit me last night in my dreams."