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Raven let out a frustrated sigh. "I know I said that before, but I need your help. I need you to completely disregard what I said before and make it exactly how you made it before, please."
Starfire's eyes seemed to light up at this comment. "Do you wish to try it friend Raven?" The Tameranian asked eagerly.
"No," Raven answered slowly as her lips curved upward into a smirk. "But Robin does."
Chapter 14 'Mind Reading Revealed'
"But what if Robin does not wish to-."
"Trust me, he's going to try it," Raven answered as she and the alien traveled down the long hallway of the tower.
"Oh, but what if something horrible goes wrong. I do not wish for anything bad to happen to Robin, and friend Cyborg did tell me to throw it out when it began to glow and-."
"Starfire," Raven said stopping at the boy wonder's door and looking at her friend in complete annoyance. "Nothing happened to Beast Boy when he ingested it did it?"
"No," Starfire answered letting out a long sigh.
"Then I highly doubt anything will happen to Robin. I just want to see if Robin will act as strangely as Beast Boy did when first eating this…stuff," Raven answered glancing at the goop in the giant bowl Starfire was cradling in her arms.
Starfire opened her mouth to speak but was quickly cut off by her dark friend banging on the door before them. The sound reverberated through the hallway so there was no way Robin could have not heard that from the inside of his room. Slade leads or no Slade leads they would not be ignored.
Raven sighed somewhat impatiently and reached to knock once more but to her luck the door flung open and out popped Robin's overly gelled head of hair.
"Um, is everything…okay?" Robin asked searching the girls faces for some kind of hint as to why they had ran off on him in the first place.
"Everything is perfect Robin!" Starfire answered a little too quickly.
Robin raised a masked brow at the two girls before nodding slightly. "Alright, I see your uniform went back to its normal color Raven. Everything still okay with your powers?" He asked taking note of her change is clothes.
"Fine Robin," Raven answered evenly in her normal monotone.
"Good, then I guess I'll just be getting back to my Slade leads unless there was something else…" Robin drifted off staring at the two in confusion.
Raven quickly nudged the Tameranian as if to signal her that this was the moment.
"Oh, yes, um Robin if you do not mind I would like for you to…" Starfire paused feeling slightly apprehensive about her forthcoming action.
"What is it Star?" Robin asked softly in a slightly worried tone.
"I…you…please try!" Starfire squealed before taking her spoon of green goop that was now glowing its unnatural purple color and shoving it into his mouth before he could protest in any way, shape, or form.
Robin quickly swallowed the creation and held his throat looking at the girls with wide eyes. "Starfire, why did you just…" Robin paused processing the taste of the goop that had just slivered down his throat. "Actually, that's not too bad."
Starfire's eyes quickly lit up at this information and she enveloped the masked boy in a bone crushing hug. "Oh that is wondrous news Robin! I have finally perfected one type of food that I can prepare for you!"
"Uh, yeah, Star…can you not squeeze so tight…I think I'm getting a headache," Robin said as the alien quickly left go of her hold on him sending him falling to the ground.
"Uh oh," Raven whispered just now remembering how Beast Boy had acted right before he passed out from the food. She had just assumed at the time it was the shock of eating meat that had done so to him…but if Robin was getting a headache after the food too…
Both titans looked at Raven with complete confusion.
"Friend Raven…what do you mean by this 'uh oh'?" Starfire asked sounding somewhat worried.
"Robin, listen to me for a second," Raven answered stooping down next to the boy wonder as a blue glow began to shine around her hand. "You're probably going to pass out. I'm going to try to take away the pain the headache is causing you but…I can't promise much of a change." The empath raised her hand to their leader's head and just as soon as the blue glow made contact Robin's body went limp and he crashed back onto the floor.
"Friend Raven…you are sure Robin is going to be alright?" Starfire asked worriedly as she stared down at Robin's passed out form.
Raven had used her powers after he had passed out to move him to his bed where he could rest comfortably until he awoke again.
"He's going to be fine Starfire," Raven answered sounding as sure as she hoped she was. Robin you really need to wake up now or else your girlfriend is probably going kill me in the next two hours.
Robin, I would take you searching over five hundred Slade leads a day and continuing to ignore me than to be in this condition.
Slowly but surely the figure rose from the bed and sat up to stare at the two female titans. "Starfire," Robin whispered rubbing his head.
"Yes Robin, I am here," she said quickly flying to his side and taking one of his gloved hands in hers.
"You…you really think I've been ignoring you?" He asked looking hurt.
"What…I…I did not…I have never said that Robin," Starfire replied looking shocked.
"But…I heard you," Robin answered looking confused. "And Raven was saying how you were going to kill her if I didn't wake up. What exactly happened?" Robin asked.
I didn't say that though…did I? Raven thought to herself.
"Yes, you did," Robin answered not even bothering to notice that the Azerathian's lips had not moved.
Raven's mouth dropped open as realization hit her like a ton of bricks. "Starfire," Raven began as the alien looked over at her seeming very confused by this whole ordeal. "Could you do me a favor and think of a joyous thought."
"Of course friend Raven," Starfire replied happily. "But I do not see how…how will this help Robin?"
"Star, maybe you should just listen to her. I'm kind of confused what's going on too," Robin admitted.
Starfire gave them a small nod before closing her eyes and trying to think of a happy thought. Joyful thought…well the time spent in Tokyo is a joyous thought! But…now that we are home it is not so joyous. Robin would rather be in his room than spend the time with me and I do not know what we are anymore…Starfire opened her eyes and then quickly shut them again trying to shake the unhappy memories away. Silkie! Silkie is a joyful thought and the fact that Robin likes my new creation and oh! The union of friends Raven and Beast Boy as a couple! I could not be happier for them.
By the time Starfire opened her eyes she was levitating at least four feet off the bed from all of her joyful thinking. Raven was glancing at her with a look of confusion while Robin on the other hand was staring at her with a look of full on shock.
"Robin…what has become the problem?" Starfire asked lowering herself back onto the bed so she was sitting beside him once again.
"I didn't realize that I was spending so much time ignoring you Star," Robin confirmed. "I guess I'm just…I'm so worried that somehow Slade is going to come back and try to use you against me to do his bidding. But I never meant for you to get hurt."
"Robin!" Starfire gasped. "How could you know…have you just…"
"He just read your mind," Raven confirmed her expression going dark. "Just has Beast Boy has been reading our minds for the past two days now."
Robin turned to the dark girl, a sly smirk playing on his lips. "Yeah, I see how that would bother you Raven…especially because you two are a couple now I hear?"
Raven's eyes seemed to widen three times their size from under her hood. "Starfire," she hissed turning to the princess.
Starfire let out a nervous laugh that seemed all too frightened of what her friend was going to do to her. "You wished for me to think of a joyful thought! I have unbridled joy for you and friend Beast Boy!"
Raven's glare seemed to soften. She couldn't really blame her for doing something she had told her to do. "It's not your fault Starfire," Raven confirmed. "But I can't say the same for Beast Boy."
"But Raven! You cannot harm him. You are together now and-."
"That doesn't mean he shouldn't be taught a lesson," Raven answered.
"Raven, I don't think it's a good idea to for you to pent up all this anger towards Beast Boy about this. Why don't you talk about it with him? I'm sure he had a good reason from keeping it from you," Robin suggested.
"This is Beast Boy we're talking about Robin," Raven answered. "He knows that I like my privacy so why would he risk messing with my mind? The one thing I keep private from everyone. No, I'm going to fix this my way."
"Suit yourself," Robin mumbled. "Shouldn't we mention this to Cyborg at all? So he's been warned to stay out of your revenge warpath?"
"Trust me," Raven began, her eyes narrowing. "If Beast Boy's mentioned his mind reading ability to anyone, it's Cyborg, which is why I needed to test my theory on you instead of him."
"What do you mean theory?" Robin asked narrowing his eyes at her.
Raven let out a small sigh. "I wanted to see if the food Starfire had given Beast Boy had left any side effects and we needed a human to test this on. Seeing how you, Cyborg and Beast Boy are the only humans out of the team it had to be either you or Cyborg we did the testing on. But Cyborg and Beast Boy just so happen to spend most of their time together playing mind numbing video games and talking about who knows what so I assumed Cyborg would probably know what was going on with Beast Boy before any of us."
"And he probably wouldn't tell us if anything was going on, especially because Beast Boy's probably helping him to read whoever's mind he wants him to," Robin added finally catching on.
Raven nodded at her teammate. "So, all I ask is that you just not think about any of this while Beast Boy's around."
"I shall do my best friend!" Starfire answered smiling brightly at the half-demon.
"Uh yeah, what she said," Robin answered. "But Raven…what exactly do you plan to do to him?"
"He's been reading our minds," Raven answered smirking somewhat scarily at the boy wonder and the Tameranian princess. "And now I'm going to mess with his."
Mwhahaha, watch out for revengeful Raven. So what do you all think? Should I add more?
School starts back up in three days sooo hopefully I will be able to update this while I'm working on umpteen twenty page papers hah but just in case I can't I will say sorry in advance. But do not fear! I will return to this story and finish it eventually. I have a lot in mind for it now so hopefully I'll find time before spring break to update.
Xoxo-Megz
