I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING FOR A WHILE!
I was kind of stuck, and I hope people are still reading this… Oh, and I apologize for any spelling/grammar/other mistakes.
I don't own Teen Titans, and if I did… Well, let's just say it's probably a good thing that I don't, hehe!
Enjoy!
Raven groaned: her head, not to mention every other part of her body, was aching. Her arms and legs felt heavy, and when she tried to move, she felt pain shoot up her arm, and she let out a gasp. Taking a deep breath, she managed to open her eyes, despite the dull ache it caused.
The first thing she saw was green. Then orange, then blue, then black: her friends.
"Friend Raven! You are awake! Oh, joyous day!" Starfire cried happily, and flung out her arms to embrace Raven, but luckily, Robin held her back.
"Uh, maybe you shouldn't touch her right now, Star. I don't think she feels so good."
"You can say that again," Raven muttered, but it came out more like, "Mmmynatgai."
"What?" Cyborg asked, confused.
Raven fought the urge to roll her eyes, and then let Beast Boy help her sit up. His hand lingered, and she shot him a glance. He blushed, and stepped back.
"What is wrong with our friend?" Starfire questioned, looking puzzled. "She looks well to me."
"Well… Judging by her diagnostics…" Cyborg punched something into the computer. "I think basically every part of her aches."
Raven tried to nod, and let out another gasp as pain shot down the back of her neck.
"Maybe you should lie down again?" Robin suggested, and Raven shook her head firmly.
"You'll be fine by tomorrow morning if you goes back to sleep," Cyborg agreed, and Raven sighed. Beast Boy darted forward to help her lie back down.
"Well, I'll come check up on you later, Rae," Cyborg said, and left, grinning slightly at the fact she couldn't berate him for calling her "Rae" for once.
"Feel better, friend," Starfire said softly, and patted Raven's hand before she and Robin also left.
Beast Boy stayed put for a few more moments. Raven turned her amethyst stare on him, and he gave her a slight smile.
"Thanks," was all he said softly, and pressed a quick kiss to her forehead before rushing out of the room, leaving Raven staring after him, confused.
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By the next afternoon, Raven was able to hobble back to her room, only to drop, already exhausted, onto her bed. She lay there for a few more moments, until there was a knock on her door.
"What?" she croaked out, irritated.
The door slid open, and Beast Boy and Starfire stood there, looking slightly nervous. "Uh, Robin wants to talk to all of us, so he told us to come get you," Beast Boy announced.
"What does he want to talk to us about?" Raven queried, and the changeling shrugged. Starfire spoke up, however.
"He wishes to speak about training," she put in. "He believes that we should get up early tomorrow morning for another training session."
Beast Boy groaned, voicing Raven's feelings exactly. "Dude! Not more training! We're already heroes, we don't need to train."
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"Even though we're heroes, we DO need to train," Robin said seriously, and Beast Boy yawned. Shooting him something similar to the Bat-Glare, Robin continued. "None of us are really well trained in hand-to-hand combat, apart from me, of course, and if a time should come that one of you can't use your powers, you should know how to fight without them."
"I do believe Boyfriend Robin is correct," Starfire said, nodding seriously. She was the only one paying proper attention. Cyborg appeared to be sleeping on his desk, Raven was gazing blankly at the door, and Beast Boy was continuously yawning and cracking his knuckles.
Robin glared around at all of them, crossed his arms, and suddenly yelled, "The Tower's being invaded by intergalactic aliens!"
Cyborg didn't even stir, and Raven shot him a "Really, Robin? Really?" look.
"Boyfriend Robin?" Starfire asked timidly, quite fearing her boyfriend had finally lost it. "What are you…?"
"Shh!" Robin pressed a gloved finger to his lips, and narrowed his gaze on Cyborg. Then, "THE T-CAR'S BEING STOLEN BY INTERGALACTIC ALIENS!"
"NOOOO!" Cyborg actually jumped up, looking around wildly. "NOT MY BABY!"
Raven rolled her eyes, and Beast Boy snickered. Robin smirked, satisfied, and Cyborg, realizing that his car was safe, shot him a glare.
"Well, as Cyborg has had some extra time to sleep during my meeting, we can all get up at five tomorrow for our extra training," the Boy Wonder said smugly, sounding exactly like a teacher. "I guess I'll see you all then." He swept out of the room dramatically.
"Aw, good going, Cy!" Beast Boy whined to his best friend, glaring. "You know I hate getting up before nine!"
Cyborg folded his arms and huffed. Starfire giggled, and said, "Please, Friends, let us not argue."
"Easy for you to say, Star!" Beast Boy grumbled. "You always get up at, like, six. So it's not that big a deal for you!"
"Maybe if you got up before the sun actually set every day, this wouldn't be a problem," Raven put in dryly, and rose. "I'm going to go meditate." She glared at Beast Boy. "DON'T come and disturb me. I'll see you tomorrow morning."
She left, and the others filed out behind her, Beast Boy and Cyborg still arguing.
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"Dude!" Beast Boy managed to choke out. Robin was practically sitting on his neck. "I give, I give, seriously!"
Robin smirked, satisfied, and released Beast Boy from his hold. Beast Boy got up, groaning and massaging his neck slowly, but gave Robin a sheepish grin and shook his hand.
"Raven, you're up," Robin announced, and Raven made her way into the middle of the gym mat. She took a moment to concentrate, and nodded her ready.
Robin leapt at her suddenly, aiming for a kick to the shoulder, but she managed to dodge it, returning it with a fast punch to the chin. Robin stumbled, and grinned at her.
"Good job, Raven," he said quickly, his stance still defensive. "You're doing much better than Beast Boy did in his first ten seconds."
The mentioned changeling, seated beside Starfire, scowled and pouted.
Robin darted forward again, and jabbed her twice in the stomach with lightning fast accuracy. Raven felt the wind knocked out of her, and tripped backwards, landing on the mat with a slight thud. She scrambled to her feet, a little wary, and that was when it happened.
Robin advanced carefully, taking his time, and suddenly, Raven shrank back, making herself seem smaller.
"Please don't hurt me!" she squeaked. Tears were brimming in her eyes, and her cloak was fading from blue to a light teal.
Robin stopped, confused. "Raven, what's wrong? It's just training. Come on." He took another step forward.
"No!" Raven huddled inside her cloak, tears streaming down her face. "Please don't! I'm so scared!" She sat down on the mat, and put her hands over her head. Her cloak was now a pale grey.
"Whoa, Rob, what'd you do to her?" Cyborg asked, getting up and walking over to them. The other two followed, and Starfire moved closer to Raven.
"Please, Friend, we mean you no harm. This is just 'the training' we do to fight the bad people."
"But it's so scary!" Raven whimpered, and propelled herself backwards on the mat, away from Starfire, who looked confused.
"Robin!" Cyborg half-shouted at his leader, hands on his hips and his expression accusing. "What did you do to Rae?"
"I didn't do anything!" Robin answered, hands in the air, looking nervous. "I swear!"
"Boyfriend Robin!" Starfire looked disappointed. "See what you have done to our friend!"
"Star, I didn't—" Robin tried, mouth agape.
"Don't tell us lies, mister!" Cyborg seemed to be enjoying himself, but hid his grin behind a stern mask. "You have the right to remain silent, but anything you do say may be used as evidence against you!"
As Starfire and Cyborg interrogated Robin, Beast Boy crept up to Raven slowly, his hands where she could see them—just in case.
"Hey, Rae," he said, his voice soft. "It's me, Beast Boy… The idiot…"
"I'm sorry for calling you that," Raven sniffed. Oddly enough, she didn't seem scared of him. "And I'm sorry for calling up stupid last week! Oh, and I'm sorry that I called you—"
"It's okay, Raven," he said carefully, and then frowned. He had a feeling something like this had happened before, but when…? Shaking the thought away, he sat down in front of her, crossing his legs.
"I don't want to hurt anybody, but I don't want to get hurt either," Raven mumbled, sniffing slightly, but Beast Boy was relieved to see she'd stopped crying.
"No one's going to hurt you," Beast Boy reassured, putting his arms around her. She rested her head against his shoulder, and he tensed up slightly. She didn't seem to notice.
"You promise not to hurt me ever, right?" she asked instead.
"Of course," Beast Boy replied, patting her back gently.
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"I am extremely disappointed in you, Boyfriend Robin," Starfire said sadly, shaking her head. "I cannot understand how you could have done such a thing to Friend Raven."
Robin was spared from protesting again by Cyborg chuckling softly, and saying, "Check it out, y'all. Looks like B knew how to handle it."
They all looked over to that Beast Boy had his arms around Raven, who was leaning against Beast Boy, her head on his shoulder.
"Oh, they are so cute!" Starfire squealed joyfully.
"Dude, I'm only doing this because she's all scared and stuff," Beast Boy said firmly, though he was blushing.
"You know you're enjoying yourself," Cyborg taunted, and just then, Raven murmured softly to herself. Her cloak was slowly fading back to navy blue, and within a few seconds, she was glaring at Beast Boy, who practically jumped away from her, looking frightened.
"BEAST BOY!" the dark sorceress yelled at the boy, who ran away from her, noting quickly that her eyes were glowing black.
"DUDE!"
Ahahaha, crappy ending, sorry. Don't worry, Robin's not evil or anything, he just happened to be fighting poor Rae-Rae when it happened… Poor Robby…
And Rae's not ungrateful or anything, she just doesn't know what happened. Hopefully someone will tell her before she kills poor Beastie Boy, hehe.
NEXT UP: BRAVE!
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