Alright so this is the second chapter today have a Ruth B song. This was not written by me. It was written by Myno. M-y-n-o. He is an amazing author and I advise you again to check out his story's. This one is based of Two Poor Kids. Now please enjoy this double upload.
Two Poor Kids
Raven
I take each of my steps slowly and carefully because I want to savor each one of them. Maybe that's not true. Maybe I just want to hold onto the memory of each one I take next to him.
I look over at him again. He's still wearing that sleek black jacket and that same pair of black pants. I just can't stop staring at him, hoping and fearing that he'll look back at me. I turn my head away, pull my hoodie up all the way up, and bury my hands into the front pouch.
It's just him and I walking down the street without any real purpose. Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire all thought that we've been working too hard lately so they forced us to have a day off.
So now it's just Robin and I alone together.
He suggested that we go on patrol as something might happen where our assistance would be needed, but the boy wonder stated that though neither of us would really enjoy the time off, it would be a necessary part of the job.
I couldn't really refute that so I just went along with it. He suggested we see a movie and then have a late night stroll around town. To me that sounded like a date, but I didn't say anything to him about it I just turned away so he wouldn't see my reddening cheeks.
So here we are. Me silently snatching glimpses of the boy I've liked for so long and him almost completely ignoring me.
Almost.
At one particularly quiet moment, I hear him start talking.
"What is it?"
He doesn't say it sternly or with malice, but my blood still runs cold at the sound of his voice. I try to respond with an even voice. "What is what?"
"You keep looking over at me like you want to say something, what is it that you want to say?"
Shoot! He saw me. "I was just thinking." I lie, trying to buy time for myself so I can think of something to say.
"What were you thinking about?" He says this in that neutral voice of his that I hate and love at the same time.
"The people we save." I blurt out, that gives me an idea. "We walk around like they do now, but how many times have we saved these people?" I gesture to those around us.
As I do, I find that I actually do recognize them from missions. There's one girl that was trapped under rubble that we saved. I see a family that I remembered Beast Boy and Starfire carried to safety. We've affected all these people in one way or another.
"These people walk right by us, but his many of them know our names? How many of them even remember us?" At first I was just trying to distract Robin from the fact that I was staring at him, but now I see the truth in my words.
"You're absolutely right. That's just the life of a superhero." He says cooly. "We give and give as long as they're willing to take. But isn't that okay? Because we get to see the smile on their face that let's us know that we did a good job, that we made that person happy, that we helped them to live another day."
He put my thoughts into words that I've never been able to express. That's why I love him.
I audibly gasp at the thought they just crossed my mind. I've never said that I loved anyone, I've never even thought the words but I thought them so casually just now.
I look over at him to see if he heard me. He doesn't show any signs that he did but I also didn't think he saw me staring so I could be wrong now too.
In all honesty though, that's probably why I'm so okay with the world never knowing our names. I feel as though that would ruin our relationship. I feel that if we were ever to love each other, our love would be ruined by things like money, power, and fame.
We keep walking in silence, Robin words ringing on in my ears. All of a sudden, he yelps and grabs at his eye.
I instantly take up a fighting stance, weight evenly distributed on the balls of my feet, muscles poised, mouth ready to utter Azarath Metrion Zenthos at any moment. I am ready to destroy the threat, at least until Robin pulls his hand away.
In his hand and covering half his face is a white and black substance that fell from the sky directly into him. I gasp at the realization of what it is but Robin, ever Mr. Calm and Collected breathes a sigh and walks into the nearest store to clean himself off without saying a word.
I am in such complete shock that I can't speak either, but once I collect my thoughts, I can't help but laugh. Of all of the possible landing places, Robin face is definitely the most humorous.
When he walks out of the store, I see he couldn't quite get all of it off so instead of it looking like what it is, bird poop, it looks like a smudge of mud on his eye. It makes me break into smile.
He sighs miserably again and starts to walk back to the tower without me. I catch up to him and smile without saying a word.
Once we get back to the tower he tries to hide his face from the others and just walk back to his room. That doesn't do much though because as soon as he leaves I tell everyone exactly what happened and then when he returns, Beast Boy says:
"Could this be considered bird on bird crime?" And all of them begin rolling around on the floor, clutching their stomachs.
Did you enjoy it? because I sure did. again this wasn't written by me. It was written by Myno. I am in the process of writing the next chapter of An Actual Fun Job so look forward to that. Thank you for reading. Bye Bye.