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CHAPTER FOUR: CRASHING THE PARTY
The common room was filled with parents, children family and friends. Even thought Nightwing and Raven were on opposite sides of the room, the team noticed their thick strand of tension. To be on the safe side, Starfire kept Arella with her while everyone else entertained the guests.
Suddenly, the doors to the common room opened and Nebula and Jhun walked in. Nebula was still upset with her husband about the whole situation between Nightwing and Raven. As they walked in, they passed Nightwing talking to a father of one of the twins' classmates.
"Excuse me," Nightwing said, walking up to the tensed couple. "Hey, guys."
"Ennh…" Nebula said irritably, walking over to Raven.
"She knows about the affair, doesn't she?" Nightwing asked Jhun who looked like he was depressed.
"Yeah, she does," Jhun replied dejectedly. "I didn't mean to tell. I was trapped in a corner. Nebula told me about the disease and then how intercourse was the only possible way that she could have gotten it and then everything just blurted out…"
"Whoa, whoa…" Nightwing interrupted. "Disease? What disease? What are you talking about?"
Jhun suddenly turned white. "I think I hear my wife calling," he said quickly. "I'm coming, honey." He then walked as quickly as he could through the crowd.
"Jhun, wait!" Nightwing yelled.
On the other side of the room, Nebula had just found Raven. They were both sitting at the kitchen table eating some of the party food.
"Did you tell him?" Nebula asked, putting a forkful of potato salad in her mouth and then grimacing, realizing that Raven must have made it.
"No," Raven replied sadly. "I told him that I knew about the affair, but I didn't tell him about the…uh…" She tucked her violet hair behind her ear. "Did you know that Jhun…?"
Nebula clicked her tongue. "Knew about it and covered for your husband? Oh, yeah. Don't remind me. The more I think about it, the more I wish I could electrocute him, but my freakin' baby has pacified my weather powers, so now all I can do is fuss." She looked sternly across the room. "And fussin' doesn't work all the time. I need them to get God right then."
"Which is probably good given your reputation," Raven joked.
"Don't play, girlfriend." Nebula narrowed her eyes. "Especially since this is the most I've been irritable around people."
"Nebula!" Jhun yelled.
Nebula placed her hand on her hip. "What do you want?"
"You're going to kill me for this. I know it," Jhun said fearfully.
That was when Nightwing walked up from behind him. "Raven, we need to talk now," he said.
Nebula looked up at Nightwing realizing that her husband must have said something that he shouldn't have. "Jhun, before we got married, you were a man of many secrets," Nebula explained. "Why is it that now that we're married and having a baby the secretive part of you just vanished?"
"You told him?" Raven asked Jhun in disbelief.
"Accidentally," Jhun replied cowardly, hiding behind his wife. "And it was only because that I thought he knew already."
"That's none of your concern!" Raven yelled. The whole room grew silent.
Nightwing gently grabbed his wife's arm. "Raven…"
Raven snatched he arm back. "Don't touch me!" She yelled to him.
"Rae, keep your voice down," Nebula said as discreetly as she could, noting how everyone's attention was centered on the quartet.
"Please, everyone, do not mind us," Jhun told the guests. "We're just having a minor disagreement."
"Raven, what is going on?" Nightwing asked his wife seriously. "What did Jhun mean when he said…?"
Raven stormed out of the room before he could even finish asking his question.
Nightwing looked at Jhun and Nebula.
Nebula shook her head shamefully.
"Do you know how bad this is going to hurt me?" Nightwing asked them.
"Normally I'd give you a wise crack, but this is hardly the time for this," Nebula replied.
"I'm sorry, Nightwing," Jhun whispered. "I really shouldn't have let it get that far."
Nightwing nodded, walking out of the room. He could hear his wife crying in the distance. Following the sounds, he found her sitting at the main stairwell alone.
"What do you want?" She cried.
"To talk," Nightwing replied. "I know there's something about you that I need to know and it's scaring me."
"How could it scare you?"
"Because I feel like I'm losing the woman I love."
"In what way?"
"That's what I'm afraid of."
"I have AIDS," Raven said finally after a moment's silence.
"What?" Nightwing asked, hoping that he had just misunderstood what she had just told him.
"I have AIDS!" Raven shouted to him. "When you had the affair, she passed it on to you and you passed it on to me and possibly Arella!"
Nightwing was finding it very hard to stand up at that moment.
"I'm dying and if the test is positive you and Arella may be dying too. Are you happy, Nightwing?" She said bitterly. "One simple mistake can put a curse on the people you love."
"I don't…" Nightwing tried to say. "I can't…"
"You don't even know how to address this do you?" Raven asked, shaking her head.
Nightwing was silent. He didn't know what to say, what to do, what to feel. It was his fault.
"What? Are you feeling guilty? You weren't feeling guilty when you slept with that tramp!" Raven yelled. "I can't even look at you right now." She then walked off leaving a distraught Nightwing alone.
A/N: I'm sorry people. Please don't hate me. THings have been kind of hectic and the computers that I have been trying to use to upload chapters, are a piece of...let's leave it at that. That's why I uploaded two chapters this time. Au Revior! DN
