Chapter 4 of this beloved story! Thanks to all you wonderful people who reviewed!!! The world is definatley a better place with you all!
Dedication: DarkGirlRavenGrayson14 – she reviews most of my fics, and that's another reason why she rulez!
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN THE TEEN TITANS! Do you want me to shout it even louder and make myself cry?
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Voice Of Emotion
Chapter 4 – Party Time
Wednesday
Robin groaned in frustration. It was past 10:30am and none of the Titans were up yet, apart from himself. He wondered if it was because Wednesday's meant that it was training day. Raven was usually up around six and she still hadn't come of her room so he decided to go and check on her.
Cyborg slept in on purpose on Wednesday's and Starfire should be leaving her room soon. She'd grow bored of her pink room after a while and Beastboy… was probably still fast asleep, not knowing what day it was or not caring.
Raven was reading in her room, not wanting to train with the other Titans. She knew that Beastboy and Cyborg were asleep and Starfire was probably talking to her fluffy pillows, bored out of her mind, also not wanting to train.
A sharp knock on her door caught her attention but also shocking her, causing her book to fall onto the floor with a silent noise, considering that her room was carpeted.
"Raven? Are you awake?" Robin's voice came through the door. Knowing that she'd have to come out sooner or later, she got up and opened her door. Robin smirked when he saw her; her hair was still messy from sleep and was sticking up all over the place.
"Great hairstyle Raven…"
Raven immediately grabbed a brush from her desk and began brushing her knotted hair. Robin walked into her room, not wanting to stay in the hallway on his own. Without realising what he was doing, he placed his hands on her shoulders, causing her to blush as she put her brush down.
She was beginning to enjoy this feeling that made her stomach seem to have butterfly's flying around inside her. They stayed like that for a few minutes, the silence wasn't uncomfortable, but peaceful. Just the way it was supposed to be.
"Raven, do you think we should get something to eat, and then start training. Or we can wait for the others after breakfast."
Raven took his hand and led him off to the kitchen, obviously wanting to eat and not caring about what they were going to do later. Passing Cyborg's door on the way to the kitchen, they heard a power supply being cut off. Cyborg had unplugged himself and was awake now.
Before they could react, Cyborg's door opened wide and he stood there frowning and saying rather loudly,
"I'm so damn hungry! How's 'bout I'll make ya'll some meaty breakfast?"
He stepped in front of them and they followed him towards the kitchen, wondering what his meaty breakfast for them would include.
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"Beastboy! It's your turn!" Robin yelled down to the changeling.
The titans were finally in their training session and Starfire had just finished her practice. Beastboy lazily slumped onto the court. Apparently, Cyborg had woken him up from his greatest dreams.
Suddenly, lasers began to shoot at Beastboy, but he changed into a pterodactyl and dodged them, causing them to strike one another, destroying them. Then a large amount of water came gushing out of the walls and Beastboy transformed into a dolphin, swimming around excitedly. His favourite forms were; tigers, dolphins, and different species of dinosaurs.
A bomb began to tick next to him, under the body of water and Beastboy swam to the surface, and began to change into different forms of birds, escaping the obstacles that Robin had Lid out for him.
"Friend Beastboy! I see much improvement in your skills!" Starfire exclaimed, hugging her green friend joyfully. His timing was 2:04 seconds and last time it had been over 5 minutes.
It was Raven's turn next. She wanted to impress Robin badly. Today, she would do the best score ever.
"Raven, here's your countdown; 3, 2, 1, GO!" Cyborg said into the speakers. Robin was doing the timing on this round, because Cyborg had been desperate to do the talking on Beastboy's turn but everyone knew that he'd disctract Beastboy, so Robin had to speak on that round.
A huge rock that weighed around 6 tones came hurling towards Raven behind her, but picking up no the sound, she quickly took control of it and broke it up into smaller pieces, laying them gently on the ground.
Soon, a water pipe burst somewhere to her left and the flow of the liquid nearly drowned her, it was so fast. She quickly stopped the flow with her powers and straightened the pipe back up, sending the water back into it.
Just as the test finished, Raven looked up to find that her timing was 1:01 seconds. Beastboy made his way up to her with the other titans said to her smiling widely,
"Dude! That was… totally cool!"
That was the best score any of the titans had ever seen! Raven felt proud about that fact. Robin felt proud that his love interest and team mate could have such ability. Cyborg felt proud because his 'little sister' was becoming a true female hero. Starfire felt proud because her only girl team mate was really good at this hero stuff, and Beastboy felt proud because… Raven made up a celebration, so it was time for a party!
Happily, the titans walked into the tower, deciding that a party would be taking place. Raven hated parties… but she'd do this for the team, if it meant that they'd have fun.
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The dark teenage girl was reading one of her favourite books, Eclipse, By Stephenie Meyer in her room, waiting for one of her team mates to call her down for the party. Starfire ordered them all to get dressed up and to have Titans East over for the party; even her new boyfriend would be coming, despite the fact that he wasn't a Teen Titan. Even some other members like Argent and Kole were supposed to be coming to the party.
Raven was dressed in a dark blue v-neck top and a black miniskirt with boots. She hoped that she'd dressed up well enough. It was only a party after all…
"Friend Raven? I believe that the party is going to commence within the next half hour, so I recommend you to help set things up. Friend Beastboy is busy blowing up the plastic balls or air (balloons) so you may help to put on the music."
Raven opened her door to face Starfire and saw that her alien friend was wearing a bright pink sweater and white trousers with pink flowers on the pockets.
"Friend, you look… nice?"
Raven nodded thanks; Starfire didn't like dark colours much but she'd make an exception for Raven, considering she was one of her closest friends. The two teenagers walked down the hallway, as Starfire started rambling on about how excited she was that the Titans would finally meet her new boyfriend and all that stuff.
Beastboy had blown up around 70 balloons and was looking pretty exhausted. The main room was full of brightly coloured balloons; red, blue, green, yellow, purple, orange and white. Cyborg was in the kitchen, baking and icing cakes at the same time, and Robin… was nowhere to be seen. Raven looked at Starfire quizzically. Understanding her facial expression and silent question, Starfire replied simply,
"Friend Robin is – "
At that precise moment, the doors swung open and in walked the Boy Wonder, carrying many party poppers, soda bottles, sweets and crisps. He placed down the load onto the table, when he noticed Raven was there. He gave her a cocky grin before going back to setting everything up.
"Raven, I believe that your job is to be attending to the music player, is it not?" Starfire inquired Raven, not liking that Raven was still staring at Robin mindlessly. Raven shook her head, coming out of her state and walked over to the sounds system.
She glared down at the CD's. Starfire had obviously picked them. They were: Spice Girls, Westlife, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, NSync, Aqua, Madonna, Take That, Shania Twain and other things in the pop genre. Raven decided to get some of her own CD's added to the collection of ones that were going to be played during the course of the party.
Raven quickly teleported some of her most prized CD's into her hands and placed them down next to Starfire's picks. Raven's CD's were: Green Day, Evanescence, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, All American Rejects, Bowling For Soup, Letters To Cleo, Avril Lavigne, The Killers, Goodnight Nurse, Linkin Park, Alice Cooper, and Skillet.
Wanting to express her music now, Raven turned the volume on loud and started playing Skillet's song Whispers In The Dark. Robin and Beastboy seemed to like the music as they started to nod their heads along to the beat. Starfire wanted to listen to the Spice Girls, so she angrily stomped over and took out the Skillet CD, replacing it with Spice Girls' Wannabe.
Starfire smirked in accomplishment and walked off to help Beastboy hang up the balloons in random parts of the room. Raven stared after her dumbstruck. How dare Starfire do that?! Oh well, Raven could deal with it. Raven neatened the pile of CD's and went to help Cyborg ice the cakes.
"Hi, Rae. Can't wait until the Titans East arrive! Do you think Bee likes me?" Cyborg asked Raven.
Raven looked at him thinking about this question. Bumblebee did seem to be flirting with Cyborg lately and so Raven nodded in response to his question. Cyborg was overjoyed! Bumblebee seemed to like him back! Woo!
"Raven? The others are going to be here soon… could you just put these near the couch and then I'll go to the door with you" Robin told her. Raven did as her leader ordered and came back quickly. Robin laughed at how quick she done it and how eager she was to open the damn door, and the two walked off to the front door.
Just as Robin opened the metal door, a car pulled up and the Titans East ran up to Robin and Raven, greeting them before going off to the main room. Just as the door was closing, Kole, Argent and many other Honorary Titans came marching up to the door, coming for the party.
When everyone was gone and Robin and her were walking back, she frowned. She didn't deserve a party, just for getting a good score on her training. Robin noticed this and asked,
"Rae? What's wrong?"
"Nothing" Raven tried to say but only air came out. Robin could read her lips though. Robin stopped and looked her in the eye, raising an eyebrow.
"Raven there's something wrong. Now we aren't going anywhere until you… mouth or explain to me somehow what's bothering you. Raven chose the easy option of moving her mouth, as if she was talking when only nothing came out. She mouthed'
"I don't deserve this. For training? What the hell!"
Robin chuckled before telling her,
"You know Star and Beastboy are; they would have any reason just to have a party."
Raven could understand that, so beginning to walk again, Robin followed her to the room that held the so – called party.
Cyborg had explained to everyone about Raven not being able to speak because she gave away her voice in order to feel emotions. Aqualad and Speedy were glaring at her as she walked into the room with Robin.
They loved hearing her voice. It was like bells ringing into their ears. Of course they also loved Starfire's voice, but they wanted to hear Raven's sarcastic comments and without her voice, she would be like a different Raven, a different person.
"Hi Raven." Speedy said to her, trying not to let out his anger at her for doing such a stupid thing.
Raven grinned in return and both Aqualad and Speedy stood in shock before remembering that she could show emotion safely now.
"So, uh, wanna dance?" Aqualad asked her nervously. Raven took his hand and they walked into the dancing area. It was only the space that the couch had been in before Cyborg had moved it to the corner of the room, where he and Bumblebee were sitting at the moment.
Robin was fuming in rage. That should be him dancing with Raven not Aqualad. Speedy saw his friend shaking in fury and decided to step back, knowing things were going to get nasty. Robin walked up steadily with his fists clenched to Aqualad and told him through gritted teeth,
"Hey fish boy, I would like to dance with Raven now. So if you don't mind me saying; clear off!"
Aqualad quickly got the message and as he left Robin with Raven he muttered,
"She's all yours. That girl can't even talk so I dunno why you wanna even dance with her…"
Both Robin and Raven heard this and stopped to look at him, Robin's shaking frame was with anger, while Raven's shaking frame was with hurt and upset that Aqualad could say something about her in that way, especially when she was right in front of him! Raven immediately felt tears welling up in her amethyst eyes. Quickly trying to hide them, she ran out of the room, into the hallway to let out her crying freely.
Casting a dark glance at Aqualad, Robin exited the room too, rushing after Raven. He saw her leaning against the wall, tears falling from her eyes. Robin wrapped his arms around her in an embrace and comforting her.
"I'm sure that he didn't mean it… I mean just because you can't talk, it doesn't mean you're a disease or something. You're so much more than what people give you credit for. Even than what you give yourself credit for!"
Raven nodded against his muscular chest and dried her wet face before looking up at him. Robin began to lean, as did Raven. Raven's emotions were going hysterical! She was finally going to break the spell! Well… she was until there was a knock on the front door. Robin let go of Raven in alarm before turning three shades of red.
"I – I better see who that is…" Before Raven could even blink, he was at the door and talking to the person standing there.
The teenage boy standing there was dressed in jeans and grey shirt and had his short blonde hair gelled, presumably to look smarter. He had hazel brown eyes and slightly tanned skin. Explaining that he was Starfire's new boyfriend and had been invited to the party by her, he walked into the tower and towards the party room.
Robin walked straight past Raven, back to the party and as he walked past, Raven could sense the feelings of embarrassment of some sort come from him. Smiling softly, the gothic girl smelled the scent of aftershave radiate from him. Why was he wearing aftershave if it was only a small party and not a nightclub or something? Then again she was wearing perfume herself...
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Entering the party once more, Starfire was gladly introducing her boyfriend to everyone, speaking through the microphone. Speedy was literally on fire, the way that smoke was coming out of his ears in jealousy. The alien princess' boyfriend was called something like… James? Or was it John? Maybe it was Jacob? Raven wasn't quite sure.
All of a sudden, as Starfire and her blonde boyfriend were locking lips, an arrow landed on the table beside the two, breaking them apart in fear and shock. Speedy was approaching them slowly. Cyborg, Beastboy, Aqualad and Robin were all trying to stop him but he shoved them aside fiercly.
Starfire gasped, scared and yelled at Speedy,
"Friend Speedy! What has become of you? Why must you hurt me and my boyfriend Jack?!"
Oh… that was his namethought Raven. Her mind was quickly turned back to reality when Speedy dived onto Jack and the two went flying across the table. Jack was helpless. He was tall and skinny, but not strong in any way. Thus, Speedy had an advantage. Bumblebee was continuously ordering Speedy to stop while Aqualad tried to save Jack before his death came. It was all a hectic mayhem. And thank the Lord that Raven wasn't in it.
The only way that they stopped was when Starfire finally shouted in a high pitched voice,
"STOP! I DO NOT APPRECIATE THIS ARGUMENT!"
Many pairs of confused faces looked at Starfire in question. She looked at them blankly and stated;
"What?"
Robin shook his head and told Speedy to calm down. Sighing, Speedy stood up and helped a scared to death Jack up from the hard floor. Jack was still shaking but Beastboy cheered him up a bit with lame jokes. Jack found them bizarrely funny though… how strange?
Starfire was telling Speedy about how he had ruined her life and whatever, but he was just enjoying watching her in front of him. Starfire eventually forgave him, remembering why she liked him so much, and about her crush that still hadn't gone away yet – and she had a boyfriend now aswell! Gah… she loved two hot guys at the same time (I don't think they're that hot but she does, lol)! This was frustrating.
Speedy hugged her for her forgiveness – which made her blush - and he made up with Jack. The three were now in an extremely awkward position, but that was soon settled as Jack noticed Kole in the corner and immediately went to chat her up, leaving Starfire. Starfire told him that they didn't have to break up but he told her that Kole seemed more like his type. Starfire wept but she had Speedy's shoulder and so the two became a couple… and all this drama happened within a space of 10 minutes… how weird?
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Robin was looking for Raven. He needed to talk to her urgently. He had just realized now that, being without her for any space of time, he felt insecure. Searching for answer as to why this was happening to him, he began to look for Raven for two reasons – 1) to feel happier and more comfortable 2) to find out why he felt uncomfortable without her near him.
"Raven!" he said when he spotted her standing in the shadows of the room, the lights reflecting dimly off her features. She saw him and smiled.
"Rae… I think I'm going insane."
Raven raised an eyebrow in question to his weird statement.
"I'm feeling… as if I need you around me all the time, and that when your not with me, you're unprotected and… I feel that I need to be with you…"
Raven looked at him carefully, studying his anxious face. How was she meant to know why he was feeling like this?!
Raven shrugged before glancing at the clock to find it was past 9pm and that most people had already left the Tower. Wrapping her arms around Robin to say goodnight, she felt strong vibes of… an emotion that she couldn't identify come from Robin. She should know what emotion it was! She was a bloody empath for God's sake! Quickly walking to her room for bed, she began to think, not coming to a conclusion yet…
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Raven awoke with a start, her eyes opened wide in shock. She muttered a few words before lying back down on her comfortable bed;
"The emotion… was… love."
Confused, Raven struggled to sleep but also overjoyed that Robin returned her feelings. Tomorrow, she would flirt with him until he kissed her, breaking the curse. But for now, she'd think more about it in the morning.
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This was the most detailed boringness I've ever written. Please review and I swear the next chappie will be so much better. It's just I felt tired and now it is currently 10:30pm, meaning that I've been writing this for well over 3 hours – for you lot! The things I do to keep people happy… honestly.
Lol, bye!
raerobgal ;)
