Chapter four: Purple is the new black

Robin's eyes glistened as he reached for his Red-X suit that was leaning against his wall.

Turning to the mirror that hung beside his bed, Robin leered and slid off the mask that, if truth be told, was and has never been taken off in front of anyone.

It had taken less than a few hours, three at the most, to assemble his plan. The Titans didn't disturb him during that time; heck, they didn't even really notice he was gone; they were irrefutably used to Robin's late-night fixations with Slade, the Titans believed any free time Robin gave himself, he eagerly transferred it to tracking down the identity of Slade.

With a quick look at his bedside alarm clock, Robin knew that besides himself, not one of the Titans would be awake at quarter-past three in the morning. Placing his Red-X mask across his face, Robin unlatched his bedroom window and with a quiet chuckle, sincerely hoped he wasn't making the biggest mistake of his life.

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The Titan's earsplitting security alarm blasted through the tower making Raven awake with a jolt.

"TITANS!" Robin's voice shouted through the Tower's main communicator, "RED-X IS HELD UP NEAR THE PIER AT THE CITY'S EAST. I'M ON MY WAY NOW WITH THE BIKE. TITANS GO!"

Raven speedily flew out of her bed, and quickly threw her robe that hung loosely around an armchair over herself and ran to the door.

Raven sighed in aggravation, as she tried to release her bedroom door. It wouldn't budge,

Raven could hear the haste footsteps of the Titans passing her bedroom.

"Cyborg! Beast! Star! I'm locked inside!" Raven yelled, as she banged on her door.

The footsteps soon died out as Raven continued to scream out to them. Raven growled under her breath, cursing the Titans for their lack of hearing.

With a sudden chant and thrust from her hands, Raven charged an explosion of dark energy to her door, leaving the air murky from the floating black mist.

Raven gaped in shock as a scratch was barely made to her door.

Raven growled in frustration as she summoned an energy force around herself and flew towards the wall. On any other occasion, or any other wall for that matter, Raven would have passed right threw it, instead, with a great thump, Raven collided with the wall.

Raven let a vicious screech, as she beckoned all her power and charged it at all of her surroundings.

Raven was irrefutably caged within her own room.

If she wasn't so consumed with anger, or confusion for that matter, Raven wouldn't have missed the swift shadow that flew past her bedroom window.

"Azarath Metrion Sinthos!" Raven continued to recite all her power and drive it in a tyrannical manner, when, all of a sudden, a dark figure crashed through her window, sending himself directly at Raven.

In one speedy motion, the intruder had Raven beneath him, her arms pinned by her side by his knees, and his leather glove-covered hand held tightly across her mouth.

Raven stared into the colorless eyes of Red-X.

With a soft chuckle, Red-X leaned into Raven's ear, his palm still firmly placed on her mouth.

"I'm not here to hurt you", Red-X gently whispered, turning to face Raven, who displayed no emotion whatsoever.

"I'm going to let go of your mouth to prove it, but you have to promise me that you won't hurl any of that creepy black energy stuff at me?" Red-X continued.

Robin stared at Raven, waiting for any sort of reaction, but the female Titan, it had seemed, turned into a ferocious glaring statue.

"I'm going to take that as a yes", Robin held, as he slowly took his hand away from Raven's lips.

At the exact instant Red-X slid his hand away Raven conducted a shadowy energy field around herself, and shot Red-X to her wall.

Raven hurriedly stood up and raised her arms above her head and began to propel inanimate objects at the fallen Red-X.

Amid dodging the rapidly flying objects, Red-X kicked himself against the wall and threw himself high in the air, and over Raven.

Landing behind Raven, Robin knocked her to the ground with a low swift kick, and found herself in the exact position moments ago; her arms pinned down from his knees, and her mouth resolutely covered.

Robin couldn't help but smirk at how predictable Raven chose her attacks.

"Raven", Robin enigmatically whispered, "you do not want to do that agai-ARGH!"

In one fast plunge, Raven brought her knee roaring up Red-X's crotch, and pushed the groaning villain below her; his arms now pinned by her knees, and his face inches from a dark glowing energy sphere swaying in Raven's palm.

"I'm going to give you one minute before I cast you into a dark place where no-one will ever hear you scream", Raven spat.

Hardly uncomfortable, Robin smiled to himself at the situation he now found himself in.

Not so predictable after all, Robin thought, as he, intentionally gazed above.

Raven's dark lilac hair seemed a dim cobalt shade in the faint light of the moon as it fell across her, Robin saw it to be, smooth cream face. Her eyes, clearly enraged, were the exact shade of an amethyst stone; as her pale crimson lips, though turned down from a forming grimace, seemed unquestionably edible.

Robin had to bite down on his bottom lip to strangle a moan as his eyes ravished Raven's lips.

Why the hell couldn't I see Raven before, Robin deliberated to himself, she's now so…she seems to now be so…so…so-

Robin broke his thoughts, as Raven brought her hand an edge nearer to his face.

"30 seconds…"Raven scowled.

"Considering the position you have me in now and when the rest of your Titans arrive, you can blast me wherever you want me too in say…three minutes."

"What?" Raven hissed.

Robin beamed, as he finally caught her full attention.

"Well, if everything went as planned, the Titans will back in the Tower in around two minutes, take or give ten seconds, depending if the security force field is let down by then, they could come running in here in one minute and thirty-five seconds."

Robin felt a cold stinging sensation on the left side of his face as Raven eased her hand closer.

"You did locked the Tower down!" Raven cried.

Robin tried to shake his head, but decided against it as Raven drove the energy ball even closer.

"No, no. Just your room" Robin said, a smile playing across his lips.

Raven crawled her hand even closer to Red-X, irritated at his newly said words.

She was utterly confused, dumbfounded at the least.

Here she was, practically lying atop a villain and savior.

A villain in much, much more aspects, but her savior none the least.

It was as though a cat caught her tongue, Raven was bowled over as her emotions took charge.

She brought her knees in tighter burrowing deeper into Red-X's arms as she heard a slightly louder groan.

"Ok now you're really asking for it", she heard Red-X mutter through a chuckle.

"Why are you here? What do you want from me?" Raven snarled.

"RAE! RAVEN!"

A forceful pounding erupted outside Raven's bedroom door, making her abruptly turn.

Robin knew this was the only chance he was going to get.

Lifting both of his legs, Robin pulled himself out of Raven's hold and pushed her back with a quick blow towards the broken window, reaching for her hands as she staggered on her feet, nearly falling out of the shattered window.

Raven's eyes darted towards the long fall beneath her and then back up towards Red-X.

"a kiss", Red-X anwered, as he placed both of Raven's wrists in one hand and slowly rolled up his mask just above his upper lip.

"Come any closer", Raven threatened, "and I'll drag you down to your own death. I can fly…you can't."

Robin felt his mouth go dry, as he heard Raven's door bursst open and a flutter of green and blue energy blasts shoot across the room.

"That's a chance I'll just have to take" Robin grinned and hastily leaned forward, crashing his lips to Raven's.

A/N: Seriously apologise if it didn't live up to your expecctations guys, it's 2am down here and I got too excited with the chap to just leave it for the weekend...have a good one! :)