New story, again! So, the newest character obviously hasn't been met by any of you, so give her a chance! She's a very excitable, rainbow kind of girl. I've referenced her as "the girl" a lot for a reason, I thought it would make her seem more mysterious as, except for Robin, nobody even knew she was coming and by the end of the chapter, we still don't know much yet.
Anyway, give her a chance, cause I think you'll like her, and give me something to work with people! I really appreciate reviews, as well as ideas of what you want to happen later.
Lastly, there's a song reference in this chapter, if you know what song it is and who it's by, PM me with your answer! First one to get it right will get a shout out in the next chapter.
That's all folks!
She twirled up the stairs, which were hardly ever used, and burst into the room without any sort of warning, leaving everyone inside absolutely terrified that they were being invaded or robbed. Of course, they were the Teen Titans, but almost everybody would be on edge if a stranger just burst through the door in the early evening. A stranger to everybody there except one.
"Hey!" the peculiar creature greeted. She wore a white vest top and short blue denim skirt and her long, dark blonde hair with bubble-gum pink highlights was pulled up into an upsettingly messy bun, all perfectly normal for the heatwave they were having, except for the fact the skirt was belted with a lacy orange scarf rather than an actual belt and brightly coloured beaded bracelets graced her left arm. But the most colourful thing about her was her backpack, a black drawstring bag that's front was covered in rainbow sequins. Not in a tacky way, but in a cool kind of way. Although it was slightly odd at first sight, especially for a random fourteen or fifteen looking girl to be wearing when she invaded their tower, all the strange accessories worked and pulled together what would otherwise be a bland outfit into something more unique.
"This is...Clarice? Clarice. She's actually joining the Titans." Robin declared, rather nonchalantly for someone who was usually such a control freak. Starfire simply waved at the funky girl, and she waved back, observing her surroundings with interest. Cyborg, however, was much more surprised.
"Ok, but, and no offence here Clarice," he directed to the girl, who flashed him a grin to show she didn't mind, and then continued, "But why didn't we know about this before some stranger turned up on our doorstep? Some notice would have been nice!"
"Yeah, it just slipped my mind." he replied, slightly sheepishly.
"You just forgot to mention that a whole new person would be living here? Pretty big detail to forget!" Raven added, looking less annoyed than you would expect from her in this kind of situation. She sized the girl up, and finished, "And what's your power? You know, I'm half demon, he's a robot and you're...".
"Oh right! Psychic! Yeah. I'm, like, able to vaguely see the future. In terms of...if someone was planning to kill me, I wouldn't know until they'd make their decision fully. And even then, I can't do it all the time. I've gotta concentrate. Oh, and I can also...hypnotise people, I guess is the right word? So...let me try on you." The whole time the psychic girl was saying this, she gestured fully with her hands and pointed to Robin at the end. "Ok, you're pretty happy right now. So...wait a sec..." she took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and Robin started crying. Full blown, crying. "So, I just made him cry by changing his emotions. I can also send thoughts into someone's head, but that's much harder. Right, you now." This time, she looked at Beast Boy, and closed her eyes and took an even deeper breath. She clenched her fists beside her, and as she breathed out, Beast Boy leapt up like he'd been electrocuted.
"Wow. I was just thinking of food, and suddenly I wasn't! She made me think of a poem! What was it, The Highway Man? Yep. That was cool!" The girl now looked thrilled, but when everyone turned to look at her in amazement, she simply scratched her neck and grinned.
"Wait, but how did you know Robin was happy before you changed his emotion?" Raven questioned. The petite girl then answered,
"Oh, well I can sense people's emotions. I mean, not all the time. Again, gotta concentrate, but..." she trailed off. They all looked even more impressed, until Cyborg asked an important question.
"Where's she sleeping? We've only got five bedrooms, and they're all in use." Robin grimaced slightly at this, and tentatively replied, looking at Raven.
"Well, that's the thing. She was either staying with Raven or Star, and Raven's got a much bigger room. So...she's staying with her." To everyone's extreme surprise, Raven didn't lose her temper, or even get slightly angry. She just nodded, levitated the girl's suitcase, and started floating to her, or rather their, room. The rainbow coloured thing ran after her, an enormous smile on her face.
Later that evening, when everyone except Clarice was eating, Clarice perched on the end of her bed in her new room, which she shared with that other girl. She seemed a bit odd, but Clarice herself was too, so she knew she couldn't judge. Plus, she probably wasn't even that odd, just that Clarice didn't know her yet. Picking up her laptop, she typed in something and music filled the room. Soon after, her voice did. She even did the odd dance to it, but mainly just sang. Raven walked in, but stopped when she saw Clarice, so clearly caught up in the music, Plus, she had a beautiful voice and Raven quite wanted to hear more of it. Yes, listening in on someone when they were playing music was usually something that only happened in movies, and she certainly didn't want to be that creepy, but Raven promised she would only listen to one song. Unfortunately, procrastination is something that happens to everybody, and after three songs, Raven made some noise to make it look like she'd only walked in. After quickly whipping round at the sound of another person, Clarice tapped a button and the music shut off.
"Sorry." she apologised sheepishly.
"Don't be. It sounded nice. You sing?" Raven replied, interested in this curious girl.
"Well, I started when I was around ten. Carried on for four years, until...well, I was orphaned after that." she answered, looking sad at the last part.
"Here, everyone's eating. I came to get you." Raven took the girl's arm, and led her towards the kitchen.
"So, you can technically make anyone think or feel anything?" Beast Boy was interrogating the new girl, despite everyone trying to stop him so she could settle in first. Luckily, she didn't seem shy and was in fact, very outgoing, so his incessant questions didn't bother her. As she nodded through a mouthful of pasta, Beast Boy continued,
"So you could make someone like you?" She quickly swallowed her mouthful, and answered him with an amused look on her face.
"I could, but I don't. It's an invasion of someone's privacy, and it's quite rude. Plus, the longest I've ever kept someone thinking of something or feeling someone is like three minutes, so it'd be a pretty short love story." she giggled while saying the last bit, and Star and Beast Boy laughed with her.
"I mean, I wish I could! Be a great hit with the girls!" she continued, still giggling. Star kept laughing, and even wiped a tear from her eye, as she'd clearly taken a shine to Clarice. The others looked slightly awkward though. Except Raven.
"Oh you're gay? Me too." she monotonously replied. Even though everyone knew this, and they didn't react that much when she told them, it was different with this new girl, one reason being that they'd only known her for about an hour and a half.
"Well no, I'm not gay. I'm actually bi, but lean more towards girls. Shown very clearly in my relationships, as I've literally dated nobody." she laughed, joking at the end to try and take the edge off the situation, which worked. They giggled along, and it was normal again.
In the early morning the next day, Raven awoke to the girl perching on a chair, stretching to hang some multi-coloured fairy lights around and above her bed, and to hang some homemade tissue paper pom-poms, also brightly coloured, along the canopy she'd already strung over her bed. As Raven sat up in bed, she drily joked,
"We've been busy, haven't we? Want me to help?" Usually, she wouldn't want to take part in any kind of creative decorations, but she was in a good mood. "Also, do you really think you need the chair?" Blushing, the girl nodded and replied,
"Yes, I do. I'm so short! I sometimes get mistaken for a thirteen year old!" Trying not to smile, Raven asked exactly how old she actually was, and the girl told her she was going to be seventeen in two weeks, while rolling her eyes at Raven's little joke. Raven floated out the room and rummaged in the store cupboard, where she eventually found two buckets of white paint and one of a turquoise kind of colour. When she returned to the room with them, the girl jumped up and down excitedly, grabbed some newspapers from God knows where, and began painting the chair teal over the paper. As she was doing this, Raven picked up a brush and dipped it in the white paint, methodically spreading the walls with it. The girl's excitement was catching, and soon Raven found herself smiling while Clarice sung a song about a party going on two doors down. Almost five hours later, when both girls were tired out and had their hands covered in paint splatters, the room looked drastically different. One side had dark purple walls, with only black furniture, while the other had white walls, a bed with a duvet cover decorated with colourful fruit and random shapes and a fairy light canopy, a teal chair and bright pom-poms all over the wall. Whenever the others walked by, they always had a surprised look on their faces, but the two girls didn't notice, as they were too busy admiring their hard work and chatting to each other. Though the conversation was led by Clarice, she'd clearly brought out something in Raven, as she was actively partaking in it. Many odd things had happened in the past few days.