Author's Note: More Maulers!
Disclaimer: Don't own Teen Titans, DC Comics does. =[
Twenty Five Days of Robrae
Day Twenty One
Gingerbread
Utter chaos. That would be the perfect way to describe the kitchen.
Raven had only left the room for just a few minutes. She even left Dick in charge. With no Gar or Kori in sight, it should have been fine.
She was wrong.
It started off fine. The Maulers expressed their wanting to help with the Christmas cooking. Raven figured a dessert would be the best option because it would be able to sit for a couple days before the dinner. After explaining that gingerbread cookies would be perfect, a certain Boy Wonder added his two cents. He claimed that those poor gingerbread people would need a place to stay, thus they would also build a gingerbread house.
Ingredients were gathered and measured out, before combined then mixed. The dough was rolled out before facing the cookie cutter in for round one. The excess dough was balled up and then rolled out and cut again, multiple times. The rest of the dough was formed into different house shapes before it was all baked.
While the gingerbread cookies baked, Raven used the time to gather various candies. She also grabbed the necessary ingredients to make icing to glue everything together.
With a ding, the cookies were done. She was off to the oven, shooing the kids away from the oven, not wanting them to get burned. Raven instructed them to open the candies and put them in bowls and motioned to Dick to grab some containers before turning back to the cookies. Quickly transferring the cookies from the cookie sheets to the cooling rack. After asking for what colors that they would like she prepared the icing, then adding the food dyes needed. When the cookies were cooled, that's when the nightmare began.
Raven knew that they were kids and kids did tend to make a mess. Though Dick was with her so she thought it wouldn't be that bad.
He was worst than the kids.
Making suggestions of adding more candies there and that no that needed more icing to it wouldn't fall down. Gingerbread people were drowned in icing before being layered in candy then with more icing and yet another layer of candy. The gingerbread house looked as if it was constructed of only icing and candies, no cookie to be found.
Just looking at it made her teeth ache.
Raven worked on her own, constructing various membered of the Titans. Trouble came when Kori entered and asked to borrow Raven for a few minutes. She trusted Dick not to let things go to hell.
She was wrong.
Arriving back into the kitchen, Raven was greeted to icing covered kids eating all the candies. The only good that came of this was that Dick wasn't even able to avoid their mess. He too was covered in icing. It was in his hair, dripping into his mask. Raven noticed bits of candy canes and various candies stuck onto dried bits of icings. He gave her a cheeky smile when noticing her ire
Letting out a sigh, she made her way over to her cookies which remarkably were untouched. Grabbing a cookie, she turned to faced Dick. Raven meet his gaze before biting the head off the gingerbread Robin.