It was the morning of Batman's visit and everyone in the tower was feeling nervous and antsy, everyone except Raven that is. I guess being the first one in the Ops Room has its advantages; she saw the bustling of Beastboy and Cyborg fighting over what game they should buy in honor of 'the great Batman', she saw Star trying to comforting Robin about his mentor coming over, but what puzzled her was that Batgirl still hadn't come to the Ops Room yet. She tapped into everyone's minds to try and find out where she was exactly; just out of curiosity. She grimaced as she could not feel Batgirl in the tower and as she started towards the Titan leader to inform him; she felt a dainty hand on her shoulder.
When she saw that it was Batgirl, she put her hood over her head to hide her shocked expression.
Batgirl gave the empathy a small smirk and asked,
"Scared you did I?"
Raven took a deep breath to control her emotion of anger and confusion and when she felt as if it was safe, she turned to Batgirl and answered,
"No; actually just bothered. How the hell did you-"
Raven bit back her tongue before letting Batgirl know that she couldn't find the hero.
Batgirl simply finished her sentence,
"Avoid being detected?"
Raven just gave her a nod and looked away.
Batgirl crossed her arms and felt a smile come onto her face; finally she caught the attention of the empath. If there was anything she wanted to do before she left, it was to leave on everyone's good note.
Batgirl sat on one of stools in the kitchen and was surprised that Raven did the same. She put her arms on the Titan's shiny cold counter and turned to Raven,
"Well, it's thanks to Batman really."
Once she saw Raven's puzzled look she pulled up her thick red hair in a bun and sure enough, there was a silver earring- like clip on her ear.
"You couldn't expect me to come here on a secret mission and have a chance for an empathy to read my mind and figure it all out now." She said with a wink.
Raven was intrigued with this small device, never in her life as a hero as she encountered such a device. She didn't know whether to be impressed with the Bat family's stealthy ways or whether she should be offended that Batgirl expected her to read her; she decided to go with offended.
"I would never tap into someone's mind unless I have too." Raven stated firmly.
Batgirl let go of her hair and her smirk fell,
"Well you can't expect Batman to believe you; it's not in his nature." She teased hoping to relieve the conversation of it's now awkwardness.
Raven simply shrugged but couldn't help but ask,
"How come I was able to sense you the first day you were here?"
Batgirl cringed at this and said,
"You sensed me? Shit…uh you didn't go in my mind did you? The reason I didn't come out till' later is because Robin was helping me place it somewhere where you Titans wouldn't find it."
Raven just shook her head,
"Like I said, I only read someone's mind if I need too." And with that she got up from the stool and walked to the other side of the Ops Room to sit on the couch.
Batgirl slapped her forehead; the chance of becoming friends with the empath flew out the Titans big bay windows.
As she was about to leave the Ops Room, she looked at the clock above the sliding door and noticed that it was 9:00 and Batman was running late.
"Hmm…so much for his perfect timing." Batgirl thought to herself and as the sliding doors slid open, a green figure followed by a silver figure sped through the door and she heard the changeling scream out,
"Batman's here! Omg! Cyborg get your arm ready to record this!"
An: So to Edgar H. Sutter's request, I let Batgirl and Raven have a little one to one talk. I just couldn't picture Raven being friends with a complete stranger; she's not even completely opened up to her own teammates yet! Especially after the whole Terra incident, I dunno' I just don't think it would've been in her Raven nature. Hehe, I couldn't let Batgirl charm Raven into befriending her; I guess it only worked for Cyborg and Beastboy. ;) Anways, one more chapter left for this story to come to an end! *tear,tear*