None of these characters belong to me(big surprise), and I'm only borrowing them and will give them all back nicely pressed and dry cleaned I promise. I'm not making dime one off this, it's only done for the enjoyment of myself and others. Please don't sue. All character names and places are copyright DC Comics.
SYNOPSIS
This is just a plain ol' fic, mostly romance, a little humor, and a teensy bit of angst.
Teen Titans: Dreaming My Dreams With You
Chapter 7
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Raven sighed as, for the second night in a row, her meditation was interrupted by a knock on her door. Vainly, she tried to ignore it for a minute, but then gave in as the knocking continued. She growled in frustration as she went to open the door, thinking to herself that Starfire had better have a good reason for doing this twice. She hit the keypad and opened the door.
It wasn't Starfire that had been knocking. It was Dick Grayson, Robin. The boy Raven had admitted to Starfire that she was in love with. Oh, God, Raven thought, did Star say something?
"Uh, can I come in, Raven? I wanted to ask you something."
With a tremendous effort of will, Raven kept herself under control and stepped to one side as the door closed. "What?" she asked in the most bored tone she could muster.
Dick had decided that he wasn't going to drag things out, so he cut right to the chase. "Star and I aren't dating anymore."
Raven blinked in surprise. "Really."
"Yeah," Dick replied. "She wants us to just be friends."
"Huh." Raven said neutrally.
Dick looked out the window for a moment before turning back to Raven. "She said you like me."
"Yeah," Raven replied automatically, before her face evinced horror at what she'd just said. Dick grinned a bit.
"Well, that was easier than I thought it'd be."
Raven gulped nervously as she attempted to think. "Uh...Rick, I don't know what Star's been telling you, but--"
"She told me you said you liked me," Dick said.
"Uh, well, I..."
"Was she lying?" Dick asked.
"No," Raven said. "But--"
"Were you lying about me to her?"
"No, but--"
"Do you like me?"
Raven sighed in nervous frustration. "Rick...it's not that simple. Yeah, I like you, but--"
"So I'm not seeing the problem here," Dick said good-naturedly as he sat down on the foot of the bed.
Raven covered her face with her hands for a moment, breathing deeply to control herself. "The problem is that I like you, and Star likes you, but you like Star. And I'm not going to mess with that."
"So you'd rather be miserable, is that it?"
Raven just glared at him.
Dick got up and began to walk around the room. "Actually, I like you both."
"But you asked her out," Raven said, her arms crossed. "Even if you're not dating anymore."
"Well, it was really Star that asked me out," Dick chuckled.
Raven just blinked. "Huh?"
"She told me that she liked me, and asked if I'd take her on a date, like a normal Earth girl. That's like her favorite phrase this month." He shrugged as he kept walking. "You know how hard she's been trying to assimilate, to understand and fit in here. She found out that normal Earth teenagers date and she wanted to. If I'd said no, she probably would have asked Beast Boy or Cyborg."
"But you said yes," Raven said, again crossing her arms. In her view, this sequence of events wasn't doing much to improve his standing.
"Of course I said yes," Dick responded. "Those big, puppy-dog eyes, and hey, newsflash, Star's hot." He walked up to Raven and looked at her. "But newsflash: so are you."
Raven glared at him again. "Oh, so now that the princess dropped you and told you about Raven's pathetic crush you thought you'd make time with me? Think again, BirdBoy." She turned and stalked away a few paces. "Like I said, I like you, but so what? It's not as if you like me."
Dick was silent for almost a full minute before he spoke. "I do."
Raven turned back around, still annoyed. "You do what?"
Dick looked her in the eye. "I do like you. Figured it out earlier, with a little help from Starfire's dating service."
Raven's face shifted to neutral. In her heart, she so wanted to believe it, but all her defenses against his not liking her in return were still up. Add to that, his classification of both her and Starfire as 'hot' hadn't gone over so well. Had Raven been thinking about it, she would have realized it was a typical teenage girl response, but right now she wasn't in the mood for introspection.
She looked at him, slightly askance. "So...let's say I believe you like me. Why?"
Dick frowned. "Why what?"
"Why do you like me?"
Dick took a breath before responding. "Well, obvious thing out of the way: you're beautiful. Your hair, your eyes, your face, your body...you're just so pretty. And you're funny. I always get a kick out of your sense of humor." He took a step closer. "And you know why we do what we do, that there's times and reasons to lay your life on the line for innocents." He took another step closer, and now his and Raven's faces were barely a foot apart. "You help keep me in line when my head gets too big or I endanger the others, but you don't take yourself too seriously."
Raven bit her lip and turned away. After a minute, Dick couldn't wait anymore. "Raven?"
The purple-haired girl turned back around. "Look, Rick...I need to be alone for a while, okay? We'll talk in the morning." She walked over to her door and opened it.
Dick nodded. "I understand." He walked out, then stopped just outside the door and said "Good night" before it closed.
Raven stood at the door for a moment before she went and sat down on the bed. Her mind was going a million miles an hour, her heart beating a speed-metal rythym in her chest. Rick liked her...It was all she'd wanted to hear him say, for so long. I like you. Three little words that she'd been dying to hear for weeks, and tonight he'd said them.
So why was she so frightened?
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To be continued
