Little One, Little Danger
A/N: Hey you guys! Sorry to keep you all waiting on this chapter. I've just been busy with other things. Well this chapter is about exactly what the title says lol. So I hope you enjoy it and wait for the next one to come. Here is CHAPTER 8!
Chapter 8: A gift, a date, & an opinion
The next day was simple and quick. Starfire sat on top of her bed early that morning thinking of a way to ask Robin out on a date. "How should I ask him?" she thought to herself. It was 7:00 in the morning and all the titans were all asleep, besides her. She thought about the situation for 2 hours and finally came up with something. "That's it!"
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It was 10:00 in the morning now and the rest of the titans just started to wake from their slumber. Since Starfire was the first one up, she was in the kitchen cooking breakfast this time. The first one to walk in the kitchen was Raiden, "Hello Starfire."
Starfire quickly turned around startled. "Oh…hello little Raiden."
"Are you making breakfast this morning?" Raiden asked while teleporting on top one of the kitchen counters.
"I did not know you were capable of doing such a thing." Star said amazed at the little girl's teleporting.
"Well, Raven is my mama." Raiden laughed out.
"Yes. That she is."
"So, what are we eating this morning Auntie Star?" Raiden asked. Starfire looked at the little girl shocked by the fact that she called her "Auntie Star".
Her eyes filled with tears, "Well, this morning I have decided to finally make some of friend Cyborg's earthling dishes."
"So nothing extraordinary?"
"No friend Raiden, just regular earthling food." Star said getting back to the eggs she had on the stove.
The next person to walk into the kitchen was Cyborg who was about to cry because Starfire was cooking. "Star! What are you doing?!" He hadn't yet realized what kind of food she was cooking.
"Why, I am making the breakfast friend." Star said in confusion.
When Cy finally saw what she was cooking his mouth dropped open, "Star! You're cooking regular food!" His yelling drew the rest of the titans into the kitchen.
"Did I hear Star is cooking regular food?!" Beastboy yelled looking at the pots and pans on the stove.
"That's what I heard." Raven said while teleporting herself on the same counter as Raiden's.
"Well that's good." Robin said while giving Starfire a big smile causing her to blush.
"Friends, I am cooking the meal of morning and would like for you all to wait in the dining area until I am finished please." Star said with a big smile on her face.
The titans all looked at each other, "Okay." They replied at the same time, leaving to go to the dining room.
"Robin…wait…" Starfire said while pulling his wrist.
"Yeah Star…what is it?" Robin asked. The alien princess looked into his mask and became silent. Robin looked at her in confusion but then gave her a smile, "I'll be waiting with the others for your delicious breakfast." Rubbing the back of her hand, Robin then left the kitchen.
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When Starfire finished breakfast, she called Raven into the kitchen.
"Yeah Star, you need any help?" Raven said as she walked up to the counters.
"Yes friend Raven. Please, can you take the eggs and bacon to the table?"
"Sure Star." Raven replied while picking the two plates up with her powers.
As Raven left to the dining room Star picked up the rest of the breakfast items carrying them. "Friend Raven looks…kind of different." Starfire thought to herself while following the dark goddess out into the dining room.
"Wow Star!" Cyborg and Robin yelled in excitement drooling over the hot breakfast meal. Starfire started to blush again at the fact that she did something that Robin liked. BB was looking around, grossed out by the sausage, bacon, and eggs that was fixed.
"Oh!" Star yelled, getting up to hurry and fly to the kitchen, coming back with 4 plates of different varieties of tofu.
"Starfire, you're the best!" Beastboy yelled in excitement crying at all the tofu that was made for him and not having to share.
"Starfire you really out done yourself." Starfire heard Raven say before taking a bite of the pancakes on her plate.
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Later on that day none of the titans were really hungry from the big breakfast that was made earlier.
"Raiden!" Robin yelled from behind the couch trying to hide.
"Yes?!" Raiden yelled back, but not seeing the person that called her. She looked around the room and just shrugged her shoulders.
"Raiden." Robin whispered the next time. Raiden started to look around again.
"Yes, I'm here."
"Boo!" Robin yelled while jumping from behind the couch to where Raiden was standing. But to his surprise no one was there and he scratched the top of his head confused.
"BOO!" Raiden yelled while zooming through the ceiling floating in front of Robin's face. Robin fell backwards startled and surprised at the same time.
"You think you're so slick daddy." Raiden laughed out.
"Ha ha ha very funny." Robin said annoyed.
"Aww daddy gonna cry." Raven said while coming out of nowhere. Robin surprised that Raven saw what happened, hurried and got up off the floor and to his feet.
"No, I don't cry for nothing."
"So what were you calling me for?" Raiden asked Robin while lowering herself to the ground.
"Well, I wanted to give you your surprise." Robin said while crouching down to match her height.
"Really?!" Raiden yelled in excitement.
"Yeah, so close your eyes." Robin told the little girl while she obeyed.
"What did you get her?" Raven whispered into Robin's ear.
"You'll have to wait and see, so go into another room." He whispered back.
Raven gave him an annoyed glance and then gave out a big sigh, "Fine boy blunder."
As Raven left Robin pulled out a bag out of nowhere. He took out a little black box and a piece of clothing. "Stretch out your arms." He told Raiden. She stretched out her arms and he laid the piece of clothing into them.
"What is it?" She asked him.
"Hold on don't open your eyes yet." Robin said while opening the little black box, taking the piece of jewelry out and putting it around her neck. Raiden started to get excited which caused her to start floating, but Robin grabbed her by the shoulders laughing and placing her back on the floor. "Now open them." He told her as Raiden quickly opened her eyes looking at the gifts.
In her hands was a cloak just like Raven's, but the color was a darkish blue starting at the top, fading down into a lighter blue. Raiden became overjoyed looking at it. She raised her hand to the piece of jewelry around her neck and looked at the charm that hung from the sterling silver chain. The charm was the letter "R" in cursive.
"Thankyouthankyouthankyou!" Raiden rapidly screamed while jumping in the air.
"Whoa…calm down." Robin laughed to himself. Raven came flying out the other room looking at Raiden who charged into Robin's arms embracing him in a hug.
"What's going on? What did he give you?" Raven asked looking at the two of them up and down.
"Oh look mama! Look what daddy got me!" Raiden said in excitement still being held in Robin's arms.
Raven looked at the little girl's cloak and chain with the charm attached, "Wow. They're beautiful."
"Aren't they?! I'm going to go show Uncle Cy!" Raiden replied hopping out of Robin's arms and running down the hall to where Cyborg's room was.
"Nice gift dad." Raven said giving Robin a smile.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Oh nothing…"
"Really now…?"
"Well, you never gave me a gift like that." Raven said while folding her arms.
"Well, you never asked." Robin said while smiling slyly.
"Didn't think I had to." She said while putting her left hand on her hip.
"Maybe I haven't got around to it." He walked slowly towards her.
"Then maybe, you should."
"Should I?" They were now face to face, still smiling slyly.
"Hmm…" Raven sighed to herself smiling at him. All of a sudden realizing how close they were, the two hurried and move in opposite directions.
"Well, m-maybe I'll surprise you one day." Robin said facing the other way scratching the back of his head nervously.
"Yeah, you do that." Raven said messing with her hair facing the opposite direction.
As Robin walked away Raven began to think to herself, "That was weird. It was like me and Robin were hypnotized or something. I didn't realize what we were discussing. Like…we've been this way before. NO! What am I talking about?! I just need to meditate is all."
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It was 15 minutes till 7:00pm when Robin decided to get ready for his date with Karen at 7:30. Things seemed so strange to him nowadays. He even experienced the growing feeling in him not too long ago. Even though he's gotten used to it, it still bothered him a little. "Man I hope this girl's not obsessive." Robin smirked to himself while hopping out the shower without his mask on. He knew as soon as he would step into his room, though, that he'll have to put it on because Starfire has been popping in and out lately. When back in his room he put his mask back on. The outfit that laid on his bed was a beige LOGO T-shirt and a pair of khaki jeans. The shoes he'd be wearing were some regular white tennis. As Robin got dressed he looked at himself in the mirror.
"Damn I look good." He laughed to himself.
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Starfire crept out of her room quietly so no one would notice she was out. As she headed over to Robin's room, she saw his door slide open which startled her, causing her to duck around the corner. When she saw that it was him coming out, of course, she looked over what he had on and quickly flew over to where he stood.
"Hello friend Robin." Starfire approached him in mid air.
"Oh, hey Star."
"Where are you off to, on this glorious evening?"
"Oh…well I uhh…I'm going to have dinner with this friend of mine."
"OH! How wonderful Robin! May I join you?"
Robin rubbed the back of his neck, "Well you see Star…it's just going to be us two."
"Oh…that is fine then."
As Robin began to walk away he quickly turned around, "Wasn't there something you wanted to ask me?"
Surprised and happy he remembered Starfire replied, "Oh yes! I was going to ask if we can spend some time together, just as you and your friend that you are going to see."
Robin's face dropped, "This isn't another date is it?" "Umm…sure Star that would be great."
"Oh what a glorious day it has been!" Starfire yelled in excitement giving Robin a big hug in which he couldn't breath.
"How about Thursday Star." Robin said breathless after she released him.
"That would be perfect!"
As Starfire left for her room Robin headed to the living room to get to the front door. Before he could walk through the door he heard a voice, "And where do you think you're going?"
"Raven…I didn't know you were in here." Robin laughed nervously.
"Really. I'm sitting right there on the couch and you didn't notice me?" She said sarcastically.
"Okay you got me…I was headed out on a friendly outing."
Raven raised one of her eyebrows, "A friendly outing? With a girl you mean."
Robin eyes got wide, "Well…something like that."
"Look Robin, I'm not Starfire. If you're going on a date, just say you are." Raven said while focusing her eyes back on the novel she was reading.
"Look Raven…the girl and I are just friends okay." Silence surrounded them both.
Raven thought to herself, "Why is he acting like I care?"
"Why am I explaining myself to her?"
"Why do I feel like I'm being betrayed?"
"Why does it feel like I'm doing something wrong?" All of a sudden Raven slammed her book shut.
"You alright babe, I mean Rae." Robin asked hitting himself on the head.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking about some things."
"You sure?"
"Yeah I'm sure, go have fun on your little date okay." Raven said while standing up about to head towards her room.
"Okay…" Was the last thing Robin said before he went out the door.
"Get it together Raven. I don't know what's…did he just call me babe?"
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It was 7:50pm when Robin made it to the food court in the mall where he was supposed to meet Karen. Robin looked around and spotted the table she was at. It looked like she just got there herself.
"Hey! Glad you could make it." Karen said while standing up and giving him a hug.
"Glad to be here." Robin replied back.
"So what do you want to do first? Shopping, movies, arcade, you pick."
"How about we go in reverse and start with grabbing a bite to eat, then the arcade."
"Fine with me." Karen said while taking her arm into Robin's.
"Tonight's going to be a long night." Robin thought to himself while grinning at Karen.
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After the two teens ate some pizza, they headed to the arcade. Robin used a 10 dollar bill for tokens on him and Karen.
"What kind of games do you like to play?" Karen asked him.
"Mostly fighting or any competitive game that proves you're the best."
"Really? Me too, but I like the adventure ones too…mostly one player."
After spending "all" the tokens in the game room after 30 minutes and winning Karen a stuffed animal, they decided to go to the movies. It was about 9:00pm now.
"How about we go see a scary movie." Karen suggested while giving Robin her evil smile which made him laugh.
"Sure sweet villain, whatever you say."
The movie they went to watch was called, "Dead Man Rises". As the movie went on, the two teens mouths stayed opened and Karen would bury her face into Robin's shirt from time to time. When the end of the movie came the expressions on their faces looked confused and scared.
"What was up with the ending?" Robin asked as they left the theater.
"I know. You don't know if he rises again another time or what." Karen replied. Then she suddenly had a big smile on her face looking at Robin.
Robin looked at her suspiciously, "What? Do I have some tomato sauce on my face?"
"No…the movie is finished."
"Yeah so…?"
"We get to go shopping!" Karen yelled while grabbing Robin by his hand and running to the nearest store.
It was 11:30 now and the mall didn't close till midnight.
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"I knew girls liked to shop, but man, she's worse than Starfire." Robin thought to himself while chuckling.
All of a sudden Karen came out the 6th store they had been to and she was holding 7 bags while Robin was holding only 1, "Robin you need to know how to shop more." Karen smiled at him and his 1 bag.
"You would think I would know how, me living with Starfire and all."
"OH! I have to go in that store right there! You coming? "
Robin didn't answer her at first because he spotted a "Hallmark" store across from where they were.
"Huh…what did you say?"
"I asked if you were coming with me to the next store?"
"You go on ahead, I'm going to go run into "Hallmark" right quick."
"Okay, I'll meet you in there then." Karen said as she took her bags and ran to the store she was so anxious to get to.
As Robin walked into the store he was greeted by the clerk and he walked towards the back. Just then something popped up in his head, "Maybe I can pick up something for Raven here!" So Robin began to look around the store for something that he thought the dark teammate would like.
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It was 11:50pm now and the mall was about to close. Robin still didn't find a gift that he thought Raven would like. Suddenly his eye caught this small lavender box at the back of the store. He looked at it for awhile and finally picked it up. Once opened, he found two friendship rings, one was gold and the other silver. He closed the box and put it back down and turned away. But then he decided to look back at the box again and turned back to where it laid. "What are you looking at this for. You know Raven doesn't do all that friendship stuff." Robin thought to himself. Though, something inside himself was telling him otherwise. He picked up the box and, yet again, opened it, looking at the rings inside. Suddenly he noticed that both rings had an "R" engraved on each. Robin decided to take out the silver ring and noticed that it had another engraving on the inside which read: "Forever your bond, forever your friend." He put the ring back in the box and took out the gold one, revealing the same engraving on the inside.
"Beautiful aren't they?" Robin jumped at the comment Karen just made from behind him.
"Where did you come from?" Robin held his chest, trying to calm his rapidly beating heart.
"From the other store of course." Karen laughed.
"Yeah…I kind of forgot."
"So who are you getting them for?
"A friend of mine…I guess."
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Karen and Robin stood outside of the closed mall at 12:15am.
"I really had a nice time with you tonight, Robin." Karen said while lowering her head and messing with a strand of her hair.
"I had a good time with you too." Robin said while walking her towards her car, loading her bags into the trunk of it.
"We'll have to do this again sometime."
"Yeah, that would be nice." Robin said while suddenly feeling the embrace of Karen's hug.
"Umm…Karen…"
"Yeah…" The blonde-haired girl replied still hugging onto him.
"Well…I…" He stumbled over his words while Karen was finally letting him go and faced the other way blushing. "I want to tell you something."
"Me too." Karen said facing the opposite way of where Robin stood.
"I like you only as a friend." Both of them said quickly and then turning around to face each other.
"You do?" Both of them asked at the same time and then burst out laughing.
"Yeah!" Karen said.
"Yeah me too!" Robin said smiling.
"You're cool to hang out with, but I already have a boyfriend named Harry."
"Oh that's good because I didn't want to hurt your…wait, Harry what?"
"Osborne, why?"
"Oh nothing."
"Yeah, and plus I know you have that Starfire girl as your girlfriend."
"She's not my girlfriend." Robin said annoyed.
"I know, just messing with you." Karen smiled and winked at Robin which made him laugh.
"Don't worry, there's someone out there for you."
"Yeah I'm sure there is." Robin said while helping Karen into her car and closing her door.
As he began to walk away he heard Karen call after him. "You know Robin, whoever she is, she'll love you for who you are and will always be there for you. No matter what kind of gift you give her."
"Who?"
"The one you're giving the ring to." Karen said as she drove off.
"Oh she's just my…" Robin was yelling but stopped when he saw that Karen had already driven off.
"…my friend."
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When Robin got back to the "T" Tower it was 1:05am, he heard the television on in the living room. "Who could be up at this time?" he thought to himself. As he walked in the door, he saw the credits of a movie on the television, so he crept up from behind the couch and saw two figures asleep on the couch.
"It had to be you two." Robin said while smiling. Robin turned off the television and took Raiden of the couch quickly and quietly, putting her in her room.
When he got back to the living room he looked at the other figure that had been holding the smaller one. As he was about to wake up the dark goddess, leaning over her, she twisted and turned on her back. Robin looked at Raven and just smiled. He got up from over her and stood in front of the couch lifting her up in his arms, where he held her tight. "Wow she has a little weight to her." Robin thought to himself as he carried the teen to her room and placed her in her bed. While laying her down, he noticed that she didn't look like she used to. She did, but something was different. After he tucked her in he kissed her gently on the forehead, "Goodnight Rae." Robin said gently and headed for her door.
"Goodnight babe." Robin heard Raven say while turning on her left side sinking into her covers.
Robin smiled and walked out the room. As he got to his own room, he felt the same growing feeling, which was happening to get harder and harder to detect when it came. Robin jumped in his bed after changing into his pajamas. He pulled the covers all the way up to his shoulders and took off his mask closing his eyes. Suddenly opening them up he said, "Did she just call me babe?!"
A/N: Well that's it for this chapter. So tell me how you guys liked it and I promise to give you chapter 9 quicker than I gave you chapter 8 lol. Thought Robin and Karen was going have a little something going on huh lol. No sir, no ma'am, I didn't want it to go down like that. Next chapter coming up!