I absolutely love this restaurant in the Hershey Hotel, but I have only ever gone for their breakfast. I have seen the dinners though, and they really are quite the event.
I took luvme0987's suggestion of Beast Boy taking Raven out to a nice dinner and borrowing a dress from Starfire and mixed it with one of my own. Thank you, luvm0987!
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Day 5:
"I am most excited for the round dinner!"
"What is she talking about?" Beast Boy leaned over to Raven.
"The place we are going for dinner is called the Circular Dining room, maybe she's confused?"
"Starfire, confused, no way." Beast Boy mocked.
"Knock it off!" Raven hissed before turning away so as not to let him see her smirk.
After the chaos caused by their not-so-good friend George (who had saved Beast Boy the work of attacking him and Robin the work of stopping Beast Boy by running into an opening door and giving himself a concussion), Robin decided the team needed to do something special. So, being the self-proclaimed class act that he is, he made reservations for one of the nice restaurants inside the Hotel.
Of course, having not planned this before hand, getting the proper clothing to wear to the black-tie dinner was somewhat of a challenge. Robin tended to travel with some decent-ish shirts, as a habit from his upbringing, and ironed two knowing that Beast Boy would not have thought of it. It went unsaid that Cyborg would be fine as he was. Starfire had clothes, and Raven had not said otherwise so they assumed she was set as well.
They were wrong.
"Starfire?"
"Yes, friend?"
"Um…" Raven had waited until the boys had gone out for something or another to approach her 'best female friend.' Naturally, Starfire's vivid Galaxy shirt and bright pink skirt she donned for the day did not comfort Raven about the prospect of a good outcome from their conversation. "I was wondering if… yohaanydrssIculdwer."
"I'm sorry?"
"I was wondering if you have any dresses I could wear?"
"Yes, of course! I am so happy you did the asking!"
Raven was dragged to the closet in which Starfire had kept her things during the vacation, and was quickly drowned by a pile of fabric.
"I have not decided what I should wear tonight, so we may pick any of these for you and I will wear something else."
Raven whimpered slightly as she looked over the array of sequins and bright pinks, yellows, and lavenders in her arms.
"Wait!" Starfire exclaimed suddenly before flying over to her suitcase. "This will be a fit of perfection for you. Make your eyes close."
Raven sighed as she shut her eyes, preparing for the negative impact this dress would surely have on her corneas.
"You may let your eyes do the opening."
Raven opened one eye, just a little, before letting her eyes open wide.
"Oh…"
Starfire giggled. "I knew you would do the liking. Try it on."
Raven dropped the other dresses onto the bed as she took the dress from Starfire and went into the bathroom.
When did she get this? Since when does she get something that is actually slightly subdued? I wonder if Beast Boy will like it…
Raven shook her head violently at that last thought. She may be willing to hold hands in public, but that was just too much.
Starfire squealed when Raven finally came our of the bathroom in the navy blue, one shoulder dress with quiet, reserved sparkles in the torso and strap.
"It looks marvelous!"
"It's a little tight."
"Beast Boy will think you have the warmth."
"It's hot outside, of course I'm a little warm."
Both girls paused, thinking over the past minute of conversation.
"Oh! You meant hot! He'll think I'll look hot. I don't care about that."
"Then perhaps you would like to wear your cloak over it so he will not look at you."
Raven narrowed her eyes at the smirk on the alien's face before marching into the bathroom to change until dinner.
"I'm sorry, we have you booked as one table for two and one table for three, was this incorrect?"
"Yes, it was incorrect, one table for five people, I was very clear."
"I will check our records for any mix ups, one moment please."
Robin huffed as the polite hostess looked through her records.
The team waited for a moment, in which Robin explained to Starfire how reservations for restaurants worked, Cyborg waived at a pretty girl about his age who was seated a little ways away from him with two people who appeared to be her parents, and Raven watched Beast Boy suspiciously as the boy seemed to vibrate in between stealing glances at her.
"No, sir I'm sorry, it is right here. You had originally booked one table for five, but then called only thirty minutes later and changed it to one table for two and one for three. You also specifically requested that the tables be apart from one another."
"Well, it wasn't me."
"We do not have any large tables left, but if you would like we could move the two table together, or give you two close to one another. We are so sorry for any mix up, is there perhaps someone who could have called instead of you?"
"Well, one, but I'm pretty sure he's still hospitalized."
The hostess paused, not knowing the story of George made that comment very concerning to her.
"It's okay, you guys can eat together and me and Rae can take the one for two, like, maybe. And just leave it where it is, you know, to save the trouble."
Robin's jaw dropped when he began to put the pieces together as Beast Boy stammered out his 'suggestion.'
"Fine, whatever, do what he said," Robin finally just told the hostess, not wanting to deal with it then.
"You look amazing tonight," Beast Boy said once they were seated.
"So I guessed based on the fact that you have been staring at me all night so far."
"Oh, sorry."
"You wouldn't happen to know anything about this table mix up, would you?"
"No! Why?"
"You just seemed a little jumpy at the hostess station."
"Well… I can't lie to you. Can you keep a secret?"
"Considering your behavior told it to everyone besides maybe Starfire anyways, it shouldn't be that hard."
"Robin has a lot of money… and I don't. I would have to save for probably like a year to take you to a place like this, and I still might not have enough for dessert. But that doesn't mean you don't deserve it. I just wanted to be able to have a nice dinner with you. Changing the reservations was the only thing I could think of."
Beast Boy swallowed as Raven looked stoically at him.
"Are you made at me?"
"No," she let a small smile grace her lips, "it's incredibly sweet, but you know I'm happy just to spend time with you."
"Well, yeah, but Robin takes Starfire to places like this like twice a month, at least, and I'm sure she tells you about how 'glorious' the dates are, and, well, stupid George got me thinking and I don't want you to think I care about you less or you're worth less than her!"
"I don't think that. I like our relationship, Beast Boy, and I cannot express it enough to you when I say I don't need this. I just need you."
Beast Boy and Raven blushed as they both realized what she had just said.
"Well, now that you're making me act like Starfire, shall we look at our menus?"
"Yeah."
"Beast Boy?"
"Yes?"
"…You look amazing tonight too."
"I can't believe he changed the reservations!"
"Robin…"
"I mean, who does that sort of thing? And how could they even mistake him for me, anyways?"
"Robin."
"My voice is way deeper than his!"
"Not right now it isn't."
"Where is their table? I don't even see them."
"Robin!"
Cyborg finally managed to get his leader's attention. "I know you're aggravated, but he just wants some alone time with Raven. He could probably never come to this kind of place on his own, cut him some slack."
"Did you know about this?"
"I being honest when I say I didn't, but I'm also being honest when I say I'm not surprised."
"But…"
Suddenly, Starfire grabbed Robin's face and pulled him in to kiss her… or several seconds… and then some more seconds… and a few more…
"What was that about?" Robin gasped when he finally pulled away for air.
"You were talking too much. What are you planning on getting to eat, Cyborg, will it be some sort of meat?"
"You know it!" Robin just blinked in surprise as Cyborg and his girlfriend moved on in conversation.