A/N: It's been a long time hasn't it? Anyways, thank you to those who reviewed; especially missy rod for all her wonderful support of this story. I've decided to continue this, but only as a side project for myself. It just means that I'm not going to stress over completing chapters weekly, or monthly, or based on the number of reviews I get, like some authors on this site :) I ideas are welcome as always (I have a feeling I'm going to get stuck a lot), and I'll just get to the story now.
The next couple of days at the tower were interesting. Wednesday; Elle won the boys over when she made blueberry, strawberry, and yorkaberry (for the Tamaranian of course) waffles for breakfast. Beastboy got his butt handed to him again at Guitar Hero after lunch on Thursday and she helped Robin and Cyborg with the modification of the training dummies at night. The team practiced on said modified dummies on Friday morning and lounged around the rest of the day until they went out for pizza.
Today was Saturday and unfortunately Bruce Wayne's last day in Jump City until he could catch his next break in Gotham. As always he'd prepared the previous night, saying his goodbyes before taking off bright and early this morning. Elle and Robin were a feeling a little down as saying goodbye to their mentor was never easy – the two teens unconsciously took turns wondering near the giant window, eyes gazing at every plane and wondering if Batman was on it…
"That's it!" Raven randomly stated slamming her fist on the kitchen counter and standing up after a unified sigh passed from the down duo, "It's getting too depressed in here, and you know it's bad when it's coming from me."
Robin, startled out of his thoughts, asked what she planned. Raven hadn't thought that far ahead… she was about to give them some tough love and exclaim simply that they need to shape the hell up… But luckily, Cyborg was there suggestion in handy.
"Two words. The. Mall."
Both of Batman's prodigies shook their heads in unison… actually it was almost weird, "Why? (I don't know…)" They tried to speak at once and shared a small laugh.
"We need to go because; the Titans just got this totally bad ass member to join and she's still running around in black jeans and a sweater. Matter of fact, I almost feel guilty we've let in bunk in that bare room of yours for so long." Cyborg suddenly reappeared by Elle's side with blue print sketches, "So, I was playing around with some motifs for your room yesterday, and I was thinking…"
And then Beastboy clad in a purple suit, green undershirt, and fake goatee popped up on her other side with a tape measure, fabric spools, and sketches messily scattered, "And I was playing with some ideas for your costume. See this first one is made out of fire truck red latex – it fits a little tight, but…"
Poor Elle looked over whelmed between the two; she looked over to Robin for help.
"Alright, alright, call it off guys. Well, go to the mall – but," he stared pointedly at beast and machine, "We're only getting stuff for Elle. That means she gets to pick it out, and that means no one is going to pressure her. Understood?" When everyone cheered, and ran out to the load up in the T-car, Robin was sure he signed his sanity for the day away. Elle and Boy Wonder were the last to get to the lower level, neither seeming too ecstatic...
"Elle, is this not glorious attire?" Starfire handed her the ugliest jump suit in probably the existence of jumpsuits; it was dark blue and really bright hot pink with an underlying dark green and brown paisley pattern.
The new addition, not wanting to hurt Star's feelings, smiled politely, "It's beautiful Star, but I don't think it would suit me…"
"Oh, no worries friend, I got you all of these to try on!" the alien girl gestured to one hell of an impressive stack full of bright florescent colors mixed with horrible non-complementing shades of darker colors.
Robin came to Elle's rescue for the second time today, "I think we should just look for materials here, so that we can assemble it back at the tower, and Elle can design something that attributes best to her abilities. Actually, I heard Cyborg needed a little help picking out bed frames or something..." He ended tapping his chin looking up at the ceiling.
"Maybe there I can offer some assistance!" Starfire then flew up three stories and over to where they had dropped Cyborg and Beastboy off an hour ago.
Elle visibly deflated with a shy smile on her lips, "Thank you. I didn't know she would be this enthusiastic about something so simple…"
Robin laughed a little bit, "Sorry about that, the good news though is that this doesn't happen often. If we're lucky, we can run through that material store and go grab some Oreos with peanut butter from the grocery section before we deal with everyone in Bed, Bath, and Beyond."
"No way, Alfred got you addicted too?" Elle laughed as they maneuvered their way around the crowd.
"More like I got him addicted, see there was one time where everyone was too busy to go grocery shopping. I mean it got really bad. We got hungry and Bruce was in the middle of something big – even the cave was on lockdown; so Alfred and I started experimenting with the few things left in the cupboard and…"
The Titans were fortunate enough to make it out of the mall in one piece – although there were several hearts broken when Elle declined most of what the team had mapped out for her quarters… The team learned that Elle was a rather simplistic girl who chose to live a modest life style, and has a passion for painting; rather than to choose a base color, she dragged them to a crafts store so that the walls could become a canvas to paint murals.
"Really, just a bed comforter, window shades, and crafts paint?" Cyborg had fake tears running down his face, "All my planning – for nothing!"
Elle smiled from her middle seat between Starfire and Robin. Cyborg's attempts to make her feel guilty failed each time.
Due to it being summer and the number of tourists on the road; traffic was extremely heavy. Somewhere between Beastboy's complaining that it took one hour to move five feet, Raven's threats for quiet, and Cyborg and Starfire's keeping the peace… Elle fell asleep on Robin's shoulder, who in turn did the same against her head.
The T-car made it home some time well after midnight. Unfortunately, Elle woke up a few seconds before BB could snap a picture, surely to be used for blackmail later, and caused enough commotion to wake Robin as well.
All in all, Elle was certain to fit in just fine.
A/N: Okay, so there we have Elle and Titan fluff. Yaay! It took a lot more out of me than I expected; so enjoy, re-read chapters, and leave me reviews ;)
Also, while I taking notes off of the news bulletine; I have another story! It's a Twilight called August Rush - go check it out on my profile. I know some of you went and looked at The Second Time Around, so thank you to all.
Until next time...
~RenaJ159
