Spitfire Chapter 8: Awkwardness and Admittance.
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'How is he?' Terra was standing outside the medical bay as Cyborg stepped out.
'He hit his head pretty hard; he spent the last fifteen minutes telling me how much he likes Greenday.' Cyborg explained, with a small smile.
'He's worse than I thought!' Terra smiled a little, herself, and then her face fell again. 'Why didn't his powers work?' She asked the mech-man.
'The adrenaline in his system, triggered by the jump, probably stopped him from concentrating enough to slow him down as much as he wanted. At least he's ok though.' Cyborg was eyeing Terra suspiciously; she seemed to be welling up at the thought of Charly injuring himself.
'You have a thing for him, don't you?' He asked suddenly, his face breaking into a large grin.
'What? No! Alright yes, maybe a little, we have history. But if you say this to anyone I'll kill you.' She gave up, something about Cyborg's smile made her unable to lie to him.
'Hey, it's cool with me, heck; if I was a girl I know I'd have a crush on him.' Cyborg joked.
'Oh really?' Terra's smile was back.
'Yeah, it's that accent. Girls go crazy for British guys.' (A.N. Just thought I'd mention that this is a complete generalisation about American girls that I got from way too much TV, if I'm wrong tell me in a review. If I'm right, tell me anyway.) He set off to report to the rest of the team. 'You can go in and see him if you like, but he's still a little confused.'
'Thanks.' She shouted after him, entering the darkened room.
She moved over to the bed, where the figure of Charly lay, looking very relaxed despite the bandage around his head.
'Hey Charly.' Terra pulled a chair over and sat next to the bed.
'Huh? Oh hi… erm… Damn! This happened with… thingy… as well.' He obviously meant Cyborg.
'It's Terra, how are you feeling?' Terra was fighting herself not to slap him for being so stupid.
'Sorry, Terra. To answer your question, I've been better, but I've had worse.' The sparkle in his vivid red eyes seemed to steady for a moment. 'I kinda float in and out of lucidity.' He explained to the blonde girl.
'Right, you know you were telling Cyborg how good Greenday were a few minutes ago?' She giggled slightly at the image.
'I what? Oh no, I'll never live that down, I'll have to listen to some death metal when I'm up.' His smile was massive, then it wavered.
'Why did you do it?' Terra asked, becoming concerned.
'Do… what?' Charly's eyes were flicking about the room in confusion again.
'Nothing, never mind. I can't bear to see you like this.' She stood, welling up again.
'I apologise if I cause you distress, my love.' She heard Charly again.
Spinning back around to look him straight in the eye, her face confused.
'What did you call me?' She asked.
'Ever since you let me sleep in your cave those years ago I've known I should be with you. You could say… I'm in love with you.' He whipped his head to the left and watched some invisible thing float around.
'I…erm… feel better, ok?' With that Terra practically ran from the room.
'Oh my god, what did he say?' Her mind was still reeling from what he had told her.
'Nothing, he's delirious, not himself, don't think about it.' A reasonable part of her thought.
'You saw his eyes, they weren't flickering, he was acting. He loves you!' A more irrational portion shouted.
'No he doesn't.' She said out loud.
'Think she bought it?' Devious shouted from inside Charly's head.
'I hope so, then if she doesn't feel the same we can blame it on the head injury. I like you devious, good idea to ask Cyborg to tell her we were delirious.' Charly thought.
'Yeah, but now there's someone who knows.' Timid piped in.
'Yeah, but it's Cy, he won't tell anyone.' Charly trusted the half-robot more than anyone else in the tower, at least with this kind of thing.
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'Dude, he asked you to do what?' Beast Boy was on the verge of hysterical laughter at the perfect scheme.
'I know, even you have to admit, Raven, that was fantastically devious.' Cyborg was chuckling as well.
'Yes, it probably was.' Raven intoned, without looking up.
The door slid open at that point, revealing a very confused looking Terra.
'How is he?' Robin asked from behind his newspaper.
'He's uh… still confused.' She told him, moving to the couch where she sat and stared at the wall for a long time.
'What was that word you said earlier, Cy? To describe how it's the same both ways.' Beast Boy was bursting to just blurt the plan to Terra.
'Mutual. Like if a feeling is mutual both people feel the same.' He explained this without taking his eyes off Terra.
Raven, bored with the hints, finally spoke up.
'Terra, your emotions are distracting. You like my brother, deal with it or take it elsewhere please.' She shot a knowing smile at Cyborg.
'I…' She was about to lie, but thought better of it. 'Ok, I do. I don't know why.' She turned to the rest of the team.
'You have history together.' Robin offered, again without putting down the paper.
'He is a kind person.' Starfire put in her point.
'He's cute,' Beast Boy's comment gained him stares from everyone, 'What, I'm not allowed to notice if a guy is good-looking?' He sunk into the sofa.
'The accent?' Cyborg shouted with a huge grin.
All eyes fell on Raven.
'You're asking me to describe why my brother is attractive.' Was all she said.
'Oh, sorry.'
'It's all of those and more.' Terra slumped back into the couch, 'But he probably doesn't feel the same.'
'Probably?' Cyborg's grin was so huge it practically ripped his face in two.
'Well, he said… something… while I was with him, but it may have been the bump on the head talking.' She explained, blushing very slightly.
'What did he say?' Beast Boy asked, wide eyed with excitement.
'He said that ever since we met he thought… I might be the one. He said he was in love with me.' She had turned a very deep scarlet.
The door slid open and Charly stumbled in, leaning on the wall for a second before trying to make his way down the few steps into the room.
'How is everyone, then?' He shouted suddenly, 'What have I missed? I want all the gossip.' His gaze rested momentarily on Cyborg, who gave him a nod, then moved to Terra, who was blushing madly.
'It worked!' He shouted in his head.
'You shouldn't be up, you're still out of shape.' Terra stood, looking concerned.
'Nonsense, I'm fine, I've been lucid since you left and I heal quickly. For the record, Greenday suck.' He grinned.
'You sure you're ok?' Cyborg asked him.
'Yep. But now I'm bored, so anyone want to catch a movie?' He asked the room.
'Sure.'
'Yeah.'
'Glorious.'
'Absolutely.'
'Raven?' He rounded on his sister.
'Sure, why not.' She gave in, putting down her book.
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'So, 'Attack of the Ooze-Monsters' or 'Killer Robots that can't be Destroyed'?' Charly looked at the posters for said films, but not really paying attention, he needed to think of a way to tell Terra about his feelings.
'Either, it doesn't matter.' Raven said, always positive.
'Ooze-Monsters!' Shouted Cyborg and Beast Boy together.
'The monsters of ooze do sound enjoyable.' Starfire had long gotten over her irrational fear of horror films and now enjoyed them, perhaps even more so than Beast Boy.
'Sure, fine.' Terra kept casting glances at Charly, she noticed whenever she looked he was looking back, often with a charming smile.
'Er… You guys go ahead, I'll catch up. Terra, can I talk to you?' He asked her, a oddly glazed look on his face.
'Charly and Terra, sittin' in a tree, K I S S I N… Ow! Charly!' Beast Boy's hair was singed slightly from the small flare.
The other Titans went ahead, leaving Charly and Terra alone.
'I uh… Did I say anything… odd when I was out?' He asked, fiddling with his shirt.
'You uh… You told me something but I don't think you were yourself.' Terra was beginning to blush.
'She's so cute when she does that.' He thought.
'You love her, she's cute when she does anything.' Love shouted inside his head.
Terra watched him with interest as his expression changed during his silent conversation.
'Did I tell you anything about my feelings?' He was trying the tactful approach, he wasn't good with girls.
'Yes, why are you asking me this?' Terra asked him, bordering on anger.
'I…wasn't out. Ever, I was totally lucid the whole time. I was going to see how you felt and then blame it on the delirium.' He admitted, blushing so much his eyes started to flicker with small flames.
She simply stared at him for a few moments, whilst Timid started whimpering in his head.
'I guess we should catch up with the guys, come on.' His face fell and he turned, his heart dropping like he did from the tower roof.
He was across the cinema lobby when he heard her shout after him.
'I feel the same way.' The phrase that proved, to him at least, that fate and life didn't hate him after all. He ran back to her.
'You feel the same? Wow, that's the best news I've ever had.' He looked as though he were about to collapse. Or explode. Or both.
'Since that first night, when you told me about yourself, I felt a connection to you. Charly…' She stopped.
'You needn't say anymore,' He placed his finger on her lips, 'I understand.' His smile was big enough to fit the whole theatre into.
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'How long are they gonna be? The movies about to start.' Beast Boy whined just as the door at the back of the cinema opened.
The Titans watched as their friends took two seats at the back, Charly had his arm around Terra, who's head was resting on his shoulder. They both held such contented smiles it was a shame to turn back when the movie started.
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Walking back to the tower after the movie, Terra's normally straight hair was messy and flyaway and Charly's eyes were glowing enough to light a small patch of ground in front of the group. He also seemed to now be wearing lipstick, Terra's shade.
Their hands intertwined, they lagged at the back of the group, gaining glances from the other Titans occasionally.
'So, are you guys like, dating now?' Beast Boy dropped back to ask them.
'Yes.' They said together.
'Ok.' Beast Boy obviously wanted a longer answer but was being denied.
'Are you ok?' Terra asked her new boyfriend, 'Back in the old days something would have exploded or incinerated when I told you I loved you too.'
Charly's smile gave something away, but she didn't know what.
'It was a little too bright when we came out of the cinema, wasn't it?' He chuckled, looking down at the girl next to him.
'God, she's beautiful.' He practically shouted mentally.
'No argument here.' Lust shouted.
Terra looked back at the cinema but saw nothing amiss, though it was a little brighter.
'The sky, my love, the sky.' He told her, she looked up and gasped, causing the other Titans to look and also gasp.
Floating in the night sky was an enormous flaming rose, underneath were the words; 'For Terra.' in red flames.
'It's magnificent.' The geo-kinetic whispered.
The other Titans nodded, except Robin who muttered something about a waste of energy and carried on walking.
'Lets get back to the tower, it'syou must becold out here.' Charly and Terra turned together and Charly wrapped his arm around her shoulder.
'Not when I have you to keep me warm.' she leaned into him a little more and they set off again.
'This has been the best few months of my whole life!' Charly shouted atthe sky.
Aw,how sweet, he was awkward and scared.
How romantic was that rose thing? Very.
This is going to be a fun situation to write.
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