Secret Identities
Chapter three
The alarm clock started blaring at 6:15 Monday morning. Raven was about to blow it to pieces but then she remembered Robin's reaction the last three times she had done that. It hadn't been very pleasent. And then she remembered way the alarm was even going off in the first place.
"Oh, dear God. Please for the love of Azar, tell me what in the seven hells did I do deserve having to do this? Any, any other mission, sure. But why this one?" Raven sleepily mumbled to herself.
After a quick shower, Raven dried her newly dyed long hair and changed into artfully ripped and frayed dark jeans. She wore purple and gray striped stockings under these and slid a v-neck gray shirt over her head. She carefully applied black eyeliner and mascara without poking her eye out or smudging to much and went down stairs to grab some herbal tea before she needed to get to school at the ungodly hour of 7:15.
When she got down to the kitchen, Robin was already there, dressed in just his red plaid pajama pants, eating a bowl of cereal and reading the newspaper. The pot of tea was already on the stove. She grabbed herself a cup and went to sit across from Robin.
"Thanks."
"No problem, Rae." Robin replied. "Here's your stuff," he slid a black, beat up looking messenger bad across the table towards her. "I took the liberty of putting everything together for you last night." Raven nodded her head in appreciation. "You've mentioned before that if you meditate long enough, then you will be able to show more emotions, right?"
"Yeah. I thought about that and that's what I was doing all last night. I'm hoping that two, two and a half hours straight, I'll be able to show emotions for about the whole school day without blowing something or someone up." Robin chuckled, "At least, that's what I'm hoping for."
Still smiling, Robin said, "Well, here's your student I.D. You're going by Violet Roth. Hope that's okay with you. I'm willing to take however long this mission takes to capture Red X," his voice softened slightly, "but right now I have no proof that Jason Hillman and Red X are the same guy. I want Red X behind bars. I know he is my creation, and that I should be the one to bring him down, but I couldn't think of a good way to do it myself, and the team still needs a leader."
"It's okay, Robin. I'll be fine. It's just high school, how bad can it be? But, you never really told me what you want me to do…seduce him?" Raven smiled when she said this, showing Robin she was joking. But then why did a weird tingling sensation shoot down his spine when she said this? He wondered what it was but he just shoved it to the back of his mind to ponder later.
"Sure, if you want. Just make sure you use protection." Robin grinned as Raven scowled and threw a balled up napkin at him. "Or you could just become close friends with him and eventually sneak it out of him. When you agreed to do this, you did know this was not going to be some quick and simple mission, right? This might take the whole school year." Raven nodded. She had thought about this mission last night, while she tossed and turned in bed, anxious for the next day.
"Yeah, I thought about it and it's cool. Now I'll be able to say that I know what its like to just be a normal teenager for a while. And I won't be risking life and limb out there every day like you guys will be. I gotta go. Don't want to be late for the first day of school."
Fin
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