Well hello there!

I'm so terribly sorry that this update is so late

but to be honest I didn't really know what

was going to happen in this chapter and so this happened...

I'll try to be more quick 'til next time, promise!

Now let's get to it, shall we?

Chapter 4: The Talk

They walked in comfortable silence until they came to Raven's apartment building. He was about to go into the building when Raven took hold of his arm with both of hers. He turned to her and raised an eyebrow.

"As you might have figured out, I live here and I would rather not you tell anyone that I do." she said. "Don't ask why, please."

He looked down at her strangely. "Okay, I won't tell anyone that you live here, promise." he smiled and then waited for Raven to lead the way.

She dropped her hands from his arm, opened the door and walked in with him right behind her.

They walked up the stairs until Raved led them to the door 4C. The door was painted black, clearly not its original color and slightly old. Raven muttered some words in a language Dick didn't understand and when he was about to ask what she said the door opened and she walked in.

He stood still a few seconds then shook his head and followed Raven inside and shut the door behind him.

The apartment was bigger (and neater) than he expected a normal (semi!normal) teenager to have. When he walked through the door he stepped right into the living room and from his spot at the door he could see a kitchen (who was right next to the living room) and two quite big rooms, one he guessed was the bedroom with a bathroom. He couldn't tell what the other room was (yet).

The living room was quite big with not so colorful colors.. Dark floorboards covered the wood floor until it changed to gray cement floor in the kitchen. The walls were dark and he couldn't make out if they were gray, black or blue. The kitchen had white walls and the furniture were black, the kitchen island were of black marble.

In the living room there was a dark grey sofa in the middle of the room, pointed towards a wall with bookshelves filled with all types of books (he thought he could see Edgar Allan Poe but he wasn't so sure). On one of the shelves was a small, sleek TV.

In front of the sofa was a black table with gold details.

A few feet behind the sofa was a glass dining table with four black chairs, again with gold details. On the walls were a few paintings and small neat lamps.

In the ceiling hung a very elegant black chandelier that gave light to the entire room.

The apartment smelled strangely enough not like her he noted, but like herbs and candles

Raven, or as far as he knew, Rachel walked to the glass dining table and locked her eyes with his. She gestured for him to come and sit down. He slowly and gracefully made his way over to the table to sit across from her.

For a few moments they just sat and looked intently at each other, waiting for the other person to make a move until Raven sighed and broke eye contact.

"What exactly is it that you want to know about me Richard?" she asked and he felt a shiver run down his spine from hearing his real name coming from her smoky voice and full lips.

"W-what I-I want to know?" he felt his cheeks heating up and cursed himself for stuttering and hoped that she didn't notice his not so smooth state.

She simply raised an eyebrow at him and he cleared his throat to (hopefully) get rid of his growing unease.

"I want to know what you can do." he crossed his arms over hi defined chest and leaned back in his chair. "I want to know how you're able to do what you can do."

The only reaction he got by his words was the slightly widening of her eyes which he wouldn't have noticed if he didn't pay so much attention on her.

"I don't want to know your entire life story, Rachel. Just what you can do and how. If anyone understands how hard it can be to open up, it's me. So I'm not going to force you to tell me something you're not comfortable in saying." he said and he could almost swear that he could feel how much she relaxed from his words.

"Okay." she said and the outlines of her mouth turned upwards to resemble some sort of a smile and he felt that same blush creeping over his cheeks again.

"My main powers would be…" she started but paused to think what her actual powers were.

"Empathy, healing, astral projection, telepathy, telekinesis, flight, teleportation and I have access to magic. All kinds of magic. " she looked over at him then and felt a wave of astonishment and wonder coming of him.

His eyebrows were furrowed in deep thought and it were quiet for a few moments after her so called reveal.

"What's asral protection ?" he asked.

"Astral projection," she corrected and he blushed. Again.. "is that I'm able to seperate my soul from my body and let it wander wherever I want to go."

"So, what you're saying is that you can make your soul go wherever you want it go while your body is still on the ground?"

"Yes, that's exactly what I just said." she told him with one corner of her mouth lifted up a bit. "To be honest, I'm actually you only asked what that meant. Not a lot of people know what empathy or telepathy is."

He smirked and she could feel his pride rollin of him in waves. "What can I say? I'm well taught."

She chuckled and his smirk turned into a frown. "What's so funny?"

"Just you thinking that you're so smug." she answered.

"What's that supposed to mean?!"

"Nothing," she said. "What else did you want to know?" her teasing forgotten.

He shook his head, forgetting about the weird exchange that just happened. "How does your powers work?"

She met his eyes again and took a deep breath. "My powers are controlled by my emotions. The more I feel, the more power I unleash. That's why I always have to be in control. If I'm not, people end up getting hurt." she said and turned her head away from him.

They were both quiet for a few moment, Dick was taking in what she said and Raven was waiting for some sort of sign that it really wasn't a good idea to talk about her powers with someone she just happened to go to the same school as, who just happened to witness her using her power and just happened to not be so normal himself.

"Now when I have answered your question, could you answer mine? her eyes turned to his again and

she saw more that felt his determination in his ocean blue eyes. What would he be so determined for?

He nodded and it drew her gaze to his sharp jawline and her gaze lingered there for a few moments until she caught herself and quickly met his eyes again. This time she saw (and sensed) his arrogance and pride meaning that he had caught her. She cursed herself and cleared her throat.

"Who are you? And who are your friends? 'Cause with this team thing you've got going on you can't just be who you say that you are." she said with her monotone back on.

"I'm Nightwing," he said like it would explain everything. She raised an eyebrow.

"You know Nightwing? The Nightwing?" she shook her head.

"You seriously have never heard about the superhero Nightwing?" she shook her head again.

He chuckled, "Well I'm Nightwing anyways. I used to be Robin, sidekick to Batman, do you know Batman?" she raised her eyebrow again. "Figured, well I kind of quit a while ago, tired of being the sidekick and wanted to try doing my own thing you know? I came here to Jump and found a couple people with special 'abilities' or what you want to call it, that wanted to make a difference like me and that's when we formed our team," he sighed and scratched his neck in a sheepish manner. "We uh, haven't really come up with a name yet so we're kina up to suggestions." he chuckled.

"So what you're saying is that you're a superhero named Night Wing-" "Nightwing," he corrected. "-and now you want to form a superhero team?" she asked with no emotions that could reveal what she was feeling.

"Yup." ´he grinned.

"Why?"

The question caught him off guard so the only thing that came out from his mouth was a very intelligent "Huh?"

"Why would you form a superhero team just to risk your lives everyday?" she asked with genuine curiosity shining in her amethyst eyes.

"Because I-no… We want to make a difference and help people. We want to do good." he said. "And I would really like to get to know you better Rachel. I hope you'll let me," he smiled and got up from his chair and made his way over to her door. Before he could open the door he heard her smoky voice call.

"Raven." she said.

"What?" he asked confused and turned back to look at her. She had her eyes locked on him and a real smile on her lips.

"My name. My real name is Raven."

"Raven…" he said aloud. He thought that the name fit her perfectly; mysterious, dark, beautiful.

"Goodbye Raven. I'll see you in school." he walked out the door leaving her alone with her thoughts.

Hopefully it wasn't horrible...

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Until next time, have fun -Alice