Chapter 3
X Marks the Spot

Dropping the note Raven went in search of Speedy, it was obvious that he and Bumblebee had arrived. Speedy often did this, ever since the team got back from Tokyo. He would at least give her some sort of gift whenever he was in town. They had even been on a date.

Raven firstly checked the gym, Cyborg and Bumblebee were doing a few practice matches, showing off the moves they had learnt or upgrades they had made. Beast Boy was still fast asleep. Starfire was feeding Silky in her room. She eventually found Speedy with Robin, running a few laps of the obstacle course.

Speedy was leaning against the wall, catching his breath as Robin gave it his best. "Thanks for the roses," Raven stated, standing beside him. She would have given him a hug had he not been coated in sweat.

"Roses?" he asked her, giving her a bewildered stare. "I didn't give you any roses." This concerned Raven, if Speedy hadn't given her the roses, who did?

"Oh," Raven said, trying to work out who could have sent the roses.

"Anyway, it's been three weeks since our last encounter," Speedy moved so that he was standing in front of her, with his hands on either side of her using the wall to lean on. Raven placed her hands on his elbows. "Wanna hit up the arcade?"

Raven took this into consideration, she didn't mind going to the arcade. She quite enjoyed it. She gave Speedy a curt smile. "Sure, I could use a day of normality,"

Speedy had a quick shower before they left which gave Raven time to think over the roses. She had moved them into a vase and had sat them her room, with the card. If Speedy didn't leave her the roses, who did?

Kyd Wykkyd.

She instantly banished the thought from her mind. He wouldn't. He didn't have a reason. They weren't even friendly toward each other, except for those few times. Unless. Unless he actually liked her. And maybe last night wasn't him returning the favour.

Speedy brought her out of her thoughts as he knocked on her door and lead her down to the garage, all thought of Wykkyd gone.

Their first stop was the arcade, they played almost every game except for one that a kid refused to give up in the end Speedy had managed to annoy the kid so much that he slammed his ice cream cone on Speedy's head. One Speedy had attempted to clean it off they decided to grab lunch at the pizzeria, of which Speedy managed to spill the entire jug of soda on himself. Raven couldn't stop laughing for ten minutes straight. Afterwards they went to a park where a wild goose chased Speedy around the entire park. After they went to a good tea café where they listened to a few poems and had a few cups of tea, as they were leaving a girl who was rushing out with a cup of steaming hot tea ran into Speedy tipping her drink all over him. After he had cleaned up, Speedy surprised Raven by taking her to the fair that was in town. They had dinner there and spent most of their time on the go karts and the bumper cars. They went up in the Ferris wheel once but Raven was called by Robin saying that they needed her help. Speedy, who had just been hit by a wild ball from the milk carton game decided to return to the tower to clean up, making sure that Raven was more than happy to walk a block, waved as Speedy sped down the road and turned out of site.

Raven took flight and arrived at the crime scene in a matter of minutes. It was a museum and it come to Raven as a shock that it was Red X. When she found Robin battling it out in the priceless jewels exhibit, Starfire was already down for the count.

Raven muttered her spell, knocking Red X off his feet and giving Robin the upper hand. "Thanks Raven," he was panting, in a split second Robin was flying back, stuck to the wall by a big fat X and Red X himself had taken off.

Raven followed. Every time she went to use her powers he managed to dodge it. She followed him out of the museum and a block before she managed to knock him off his feet. He grinned up at her. "Hello Sunshine," he said cheerily. "Good night for a run." Before Raven could respond she noticed his eyes and jumped back. "What's the matter? Not scared of me are you?"

"Your eyes… their red," Raven stated, surveying her surroundings. It could just be paranoia with Blood's unwelcomed arrival.

"Ah yes. A new improvement, you see. I decided that it worked better with the outfit, sunshine," he smirked at her as he got to his feet and dusted himself off.

"Now, hand the bag over and I might go slightly easy on you," Raven hissed, gaining a smirk form her opponent.

"Well, now sunshine, that just won't work with my agenda. You see now that I have the bird in the cage I shall be going." with that he turned on his heal and begun to walk away but Raven couldn't see the bag in his hands.

"Wait!" Raven called running to catch up to Red X but a hand appeared on her shoulder, preventing her from doing so.

"You're coming with me, birdy," it was Blood's chilling voice. It was a trap. Raven should have known better than to trust the red eyed, brainwashed Red X.

Raven fought to break his grip but had no such luck. "Let me go," she seethed through her teeth.

"Not this time," There was a rushing of wind around them, he had her in his snare. Raven knew there was no escaping this time. She kept muttering her spell under her breath but it wouldn't work. The winds surrounding them become ferocious. She didn't have any of the other Titans with her. Suddenly, the winds stop and Bloods grip was broken.

'Run!' it was Wykkyd. Raven stumbled forward before spinning on her heal to see Blood boiling in rage as he tried to hit Wykkyd. But Wykkyd was barely dodging his attacks as he whipped his cape at Blood.

Raven was able to summon her spell her again and threw Blood into a wall. Wykkyd ran at Raven but Blood was back on his feet and used Wykkyd's speed against him, he grabbed the back of his costume and wheeled around causing Wykkyd to collide with the wall, Raven heard a loud crack as he bounded to the ground.

Blood crouched over Wykkyd, seizing him by the throat. He heisted a moment, seemingly taking in Wykkyd's state. "You're not stopping me, Bat Boy," Blood seethed with a triumphant smirk on his face as he dropped Wykkyd and moved towards Raven. She threw all she could at Blood but his fore field was back in place allowing none of her magic to hit Blood. He was just about to grab her shoulder when Wykkyd came out of nowhere, hugged Raven causing them both to disappear.

Splash.

Icy cold water seeped through Raven's clothes as they appeared somewhere else. The shock of the cold water made Raven gasp. Water filled her lungs and she couldn't move. After a moment a hand grabbed hers and pulled her to the surface.

Wykkyd had saved her again. Together they both exited the pool and Raven could see the blood on his face. His nose was broken. "Thank-you" she whispered, shivering.

Wykkyd didn't say anything and instead blushed as Raven took in their surroundings. They were in a backyard. The house in front of her was gigantic and Raven couldn't see any lights on. Wykkyd walked up to the door, used his power and unlocked the door.

Raven followed him inside and watched as he begun to move around. He first moved to the couch and looked at her, smiling slightly. Raven moved over and took off her cloak, which was dripping wet. She draped it over a chair and looked at the couch as Wykkyd appeared again and laid out towels.

Once the towels had been placed he vanished again and Raven sat, he appeared again with a stack of blankets and offered them to Raven, who thanked him and wrapped a few around herself. When he appeared again he held out a cup of herbal tea.

He then stood there awkwardly. Raven took a sip then sat the tea on the coffee table. "Sit. You're injured," Wykkyd sat next to her, shuffling his feet awkwardly. Raven leaned into him, her hand emanating a blue glow as she held it to his nose. After a moment it healed.

'Thank-you' he blushed as he looked at the ground and Raven got to her feet, she went in search of a wet cloth before returning to Wykkyd and wiping the blood off his face. She only noticed the bag of jewels on the coffee table when she sat the cloth down. 'I noticed it in the alley and thought you would want to return them' Wykkyd explained, noticing her confused look.

Raven nodded slightly and looked at him, smiling. "Thank-you Wykkyd,"