Chapter 9: Out of Breath
Robin and Cyborg left to home but on the way, they stopped at a diner. They usually went there if they weren't going to eat pizza. It was a nice little diner that had the theme of the 50's. The place was cleaned everyday so there wasn't any food hazard. Robin waved at the daily-goers of the diner and then waved to the one woman waitress and cashier.
"Hey Millie!" he called out. Millie walked out of the kitchen curtains and cleaned the table of the customers who just left.
"Hey boys, should I get you the usual?" Millie asked. They nodded and took a seat by the window. Meanwhile, in the corner Jinx started choking on her burger. It was late and there were probably crime doings all over the city, what were they doing here?! She kicked Raven in the shins, followed by a glare from the half breed.
"What is it that you want?" Raven asked in a looming voice. Jinx threw her head to the side to indicate that the boys who were after them earlier were after them again or not so because they couldn't tell who they were in the dim corner the two girls were sitting at. The ex-Teen Titan member only nodded but preceded with the phrase: "We're only in trouble if we get caught." Jinx agreed with what she said and ate her food.
"So what're we gonna do about Raven?" Cyborg objected from his full mouth. Some bits of foods came sputtering at Robin. He spit out the piece that landed in his mouth and washed it out, dipping his tongue in the running water at the bathroom. He scrunched up his face in disgust while picking off the pieces Cyborg left on him.
"First of all, we need to find her and-" Robin began. Cyborg was all too cheerful about eating at the moment and then some.
"I know that, fool. How we gonna find her?" Cyborg spat. Robin used his forearm to wipe off the burger on his forehead.
"Ok, just stop that!!" Robin leaned over the table yelling at him. Cyborg apologized and Robin continued. "We're gonna find her, fight her, beat jinx, not kill her, force the deactivating word out of her and ba-da- bing ba-da-BOOM! We got the old, crazy Raven back!" He threw up his arms and started a victory dance until stared by everyone then sat down across from Cyborg. Jinx smiled and whispered to Raven.
"Now's our chance. Slade'll be begging to give us reward money if we get Robin in less than 24 hours. C'mon! We have to cream the big guy and kid nap Robin!" Jinx jumped out of her seats with Raven behind her, waiting to be introduced to a battle.
"Looking for us?" Jinx mused. She sent some of her largest purple rays attacking them. Millie backed away and escaped through the back door, leading to an apartment, running out of there. The costumers ran around screaming, shoving each other through the door. Raven grabbed a chair through telekinesis and continued to beat down Cyborg with it, operating to just make him unconscious. With him unconscious it was now two against one.
"Hey! Didn't anyone teach you to play fair?" Robin cogitated.
"No!" Jinx returned in laughs. She jumped from table to table chasing Robin. He suddenly stopped to a halt when Raven levitated in front of him. She raised her hands and punched him in the face. A bloody nose activated and red liquid ran down his face. He didn't want to hurt her, but he had to. He ran to her but she stepped to the side, making him stumble, but he regained his posture. He quickly crouched down and swung one leg around, tripping her from behind before she could fly up. Raven leaned on one elbow then sprang up before Robin could kick her in the neck, missing her by an inch. She flew out of the broken window that was labeled Millie's Diner. Robin chased after, falling for her plan. She flew over a passing truck, as Robin followed by jumping on the truck then climbing up stairs to the roof of a building. Raven was waiting up there. Jinx only stayed below, waiting for Raven to carry him down.
"Please! Don't do this Raven!" Robin cried out against December snow. She couldn't hear him though and sped into him, releasing one of the hardest punches he ever felt. He leaned over and she, using mind power, picked him up and brought him over there. He was floating in mid-air and was kicking his feet to get down anyway he can. She smiled in a menacing way and threw him against the vent. He grunted and landed down. He struggled to get up but she held him down with the weight of her body on her foot.
"I'll get you to Slade, anyway I can!" Raven growled. She took a napkin out and covered his mouth and nose, forcing him to breathe in the gas that was soaked onto it. He passed out finally to her luxury.
After she did that, she ripped the end of her cloak and tied it around his eyes, so if he became unconscious, he wouldn't see where Slade's hideout was. She got the rope supplied with her money and tied his ankles to his wrists. She carried him on her shoulders and jumped down to where Jinx was. They ran off to Slade's new hideout. When they entered, Slade was waiting for them, hands gripping a wine glass. He smiled so pleasantly, that it even started to scare Raven a bit.
"Ah, so finally, the infamous Robin has come to me!" Slade pronounced to them. He stood up and withdrew a custom made dagger from a holster handing off the arm rest. It was made of pure white gold with jade, sapphire, diamonds, aquamarine gems implanted on its surface. "I've been saving it just for him." He walked over to the limp body and raised it over Robin's ear. Jinx grinned with glee. Just as it came flying down, half an inch away from the frames of his face, the knife jumped out of his hand and landed in Raven's hands. She didn't know why she did that. They took turns on looking confused.
"Oh, sorry. I didn't know what came over me," Raven apologized. She handed the dagger back to Slade. Before he took it though, she cracked it with her mind. He glared at her, but all she did was glare back. She was pretty confused with herself right now.
"What was that for?!" he scoffed at them. Raven looked down at the gems and white gold in bits and pieces. "No matter. I'll just kill him with this," he took the blade of the dagger and closed his fist around it tightly. His poisonous blood oozed down his hand in command from the slices of the blade. He smiled, "This blood will mix in with his, and he'll burn until he reaches hell!"
Raven then felt something weird tingling the essence of her mind. Memories of when she spent time with him appeared. They were spending time at the beach last summer, which she didn't want to go to, but Robin forced her. The only thing she did was sit on the sand, in the same uniform as everyone else wore swimming attires. Robin tried getting her to play with everyone else in the water but she refused only sitting there in the sun on a towel. Instead of going to continue splashing Cyborg and taking silly pictures of each other, he sat right next to her. They didn't speak, they didn't do anything. They just stared at the vast beach until Raven made an attempt at staring at his face. She blushed at thinking of how wonderful he was. She knew this had been going on for a few months. First, when they met each other, they had their differences, but they weren't clones of each other. After a few weeks or days of convincing of herself, she figured she had a crush on him. Days turned into months as a crush turned into a liking. Half a year ago, it unexpectedly bloomed into a wonderful thing called love. But who was she trying to fool? Herself? She knew, that one day Starfire would announce her love to Robin and Robin would announce it back. It already happened at Batman's house though.
She had to stop this murder. Raven flung a back-handed slap at his nose hard enough, causing it to break. She then kicked him in the stomach then the neck, paralyzing him. She turned her attention towards Jinx. Jinx was taken back a bit but then attacked her with her sorcery magic. Raven fought back with her demon powers from hell. They were both equal to each other. Raven sent the chair to Jinx's back but falling cause something great to happen to Jinx. She saw the customized dagger and picked it up. She threw it so close to Raven's heart that Jinx couldn't tell if she was dying or not. One thing she knew, Raven was sure bleeding her way to her father. Or not. Raven gasped and sputtered for air as Jinx blew a hole in the wall, causing water to break in.
"Well, it doesn't matter if you're being controlled or not, so I might as well say it, huh? Heh, well, here it goes.
The mind of a powerful one, Different from the powers of the sun Control this being with all your might But never give the truth of the sight
It's stupid, my grandma made it up, but it works pretty damn well. Thanks for your help!" Jinx laughed, taking Raven's suitcase of money as well. The chip seeped out with her blood, never to be useful again. Jinx then escaped with Slade but caught by the police and the other Titans, when they made their way to the surface.
"Hey! Where'd you take Raven and Robin!?" Beastboy asked. Jinx laughed once more.
"She's drowning with her boyfriend," Jinx spat. Beastboy turned into a dolphin and swam down and grabbed Raven and Robin, dragging them to the surface. Robin sputtered after a CPR by a nurse saved him. Raven on the other hand was being taken to the ER. Robin rode with her to the hospital. He wasn't allowed with them to the operation room; he sat by the door even after he was told to sit in the waiting room with the others.
After hours and hours of waiting, the doctor came out with a look of half joy and half grief on her face. Robin just stared at her.
"She nearly drowned and the dagger-"
"Whoa wait, what dagger?" he persisted with knowing all the facts.
"It had poison in it. She was probably attacked with it while fighting whomever she was fighting. It was also dangerously close to her heart but we managed to recover her normal breathing and the poison was let out. The bleeding won't stop though." She finished.
"She has like an external bleeding kind of thing?" he asked grabbing her shoulders. His head bent down with tears dripping down. She loosened his grip.
"She might die from it, but we're working on closing the wound," Robin tightened his grip again. Another doctor ran out.
"The bleeding stopped, she's going to live, Doctor Jenkins!" he rejoiced. She thanked him. Robin smiled through all the tears. He tried to run in the recovery room that Raven was put in but was stopped by Doctor Jenkins.
"You can't rush into this-" she tried stopping him.
"Please, let me stay by her side! Just let me! Please! I'm begging you," Robin cried out in despair. She cocked her head and smiled at true love and agreed. He asked her to tell the others to just go home and that he'll be back in the morning. She also agreed on that.
After she left, he locked the door and sat next to Raven. She had her hand sticking out and with a sudden urge he entwined his fingers with hers.
"I love you," he whispered, falling asleep on the edge of her bed with their hands still holding each others' hand.
Robin and Cyborg left to home but on the way, they stopped at a diner. They usually went there if they weren't going to eat pizza. It was a nice little diner that had the theme of the 50's. The place was cleaned everyday so there wasn't any food hazard. Robin waved at the daily-goers of the diner and then waved to the one woman waitress and cashier.
"Hey Millie!" he called out. Millie walked out of the kitchen curtains and cleaned the table of the customers who just left.
"Hey boys, should I get you the usual?" Millie asked. They nodded and took a seat by the window. Meanwhile, in the corner Jinx started choking on her burger. It was late and there were probably crime doings all over the city, what were they doing here?! She kicked Raven in the shins, followed by a glare from the half breed.
"What is it that you want?" Raven asked in a looming voice. Jinx threw her head to the side to indicate that the boys who were after them earlier were after them again or not so because they couldn't tell who they were in the dim corner the two girls were sitting at. The ex-Teen Titan member only nodded but preceded with the phrase: "We're only in trouble if we get caught." Jinx agreed with what she said and ate her food.
"So what're we gonna do about Raven?" Cyborg objected from his full mouth. Some bits of foods came sputtering at Robin. He spit out the piece that landed in his mouth and washed it out, dipping his tongue in the running water at the bathroom. He scrunched up his face in disgust while picking off the pieces Cyborg left on him.
"First of all, we need to find her and-" Robin began. Cyborg was all too cheerful about eating at the moment and then some.
"I know that, fool. How we gonna find her?" Cyborg spat. Robin used his forearm to wipe off the burger on his forehead.
"Ok, just stop that!!" Robin leaned over the table yelling at him. Cyborg apologized and Robin continued. "We're gonna find her, fight her, beat jinx, not kill her, force the deactivating word out of her and ba-da- bing ba-da-BOOM! We got the old, crazy Raven back!" He threw up his arms and started a victory dance until stared by everyone then sat down across from Cyborg. Jinx smiled and whispered to Raven.
"Now's our chance. Slade'll be begging to give us reward money if we get Robin in less than 24 hours. C'mon! We have to cream the big guy and kid nap Robin!" Jinx jumped out of her seats with Raven behind her, waiting to be introduced to a battle.
"Looking for us?" Jinx mused. She sent some of her largest purple rays attacking them. Millie backed away and escaped through the back door, leading to an apartment, running out of there. The costumers ran around screaming, shoving each other through the door. Raven grabbed a chair through telekinesis and continued to beat down Cyborg with it, operating to just make him unconscious. With him unconscious it was now two against one.
"Hey! Didn't anyone teach you to play fair?" Robin cogitated.
"No!" Jinx returned in laughs. She jumped from table to table chasing Robin. He suddenly stopped to a halt when Raven levitated in front of him. She raised her hands and punched him in the face. A bloody nose activated and red liquid ran down his face. He didn't want to hurt her, but he had to. He ran to her but she stepped to the side, making him stumble, but he regained his posture. He quickly crouched down and swung one leg around, tripping her from behind before she could fly up. Raven leaned on one elbow then sprang up before Robin could kick her in the neck, missing her by an inch. She flew out of the broken window that was labeled Millie's Diner. Robin chased after, falling for her plan. She flew over a passing truck, as Robin followed by jumping on the truck then climbing up stairs to the roof of a building. Raven was waiting up there. Jinx only stayed below, waiting for Raven to carry him down.
"Please! Don't do this Raven!" Robin cried out against December snow. She couldn't hear him though and sped into him, releasing one of the hardest punches he ever felt. He leaned over and she, using mind power, picked him up and brought him over there. He was floating in mid-air and was kicking his feet to get down anyway he can. She smiled in a menacing way and threw him against the vent. He grunted and landed down. He struggled to get up but she held him down with the weight of her body on her foot.
"I'll get you to Slade, anyway I can!" Raven growled. She took a napkin out and covered his mouth and nose, forcing him to breathe in the gas that was soaked onto it. He passed out finally to her luxury.
After she did that, she ripped the end of her cloak and tied it around his eyes, so if he became unconscious, he wouldn't see where Slade's hideout was. She got the rope supplied with her money and tied his ankles to his wrists. She carried him on her shoulders and jumped down to where Jinx was. They ran off to Slade's new hideout. When they entered, Slade was waiting for them, hands gripping a wine glass. He smiled so pleasantly, that it even started to scare Raven a bit.
"Ah, so finally, the infamous Robin has come to me!" Slade pronounced to them. He stood up and withdrew a custom made dagger from a holster handing off the arm rest. It was made of pure white gold with jade, sapphire, diamonds, aquamarine gems implanted on its surface. "I've been saving it just for him." He walked over to the limp body and raised it over Robin's ear. Jinx grinned with glee. Just as it came flying down, half an inch away from the frames of his face, the knife jumped out of his hand and landed in Raven's hands. She didn't know why she did that. They took turns on looking confused.
"Oh, sorry. I didn't know what came over me," Raven apologized. She handed the dagger back to Slade. Before he took it though, she cracked it with her mind. He glared at her, but all she did was glare back. She was pretty confused with herself right now.
"What was that for?!" he scoffed at them. Raven looked down at the gems and white gold in bits and pieces. "No matter. I'll just kill him with this," he took the blade of the dagger and closed his fist around it tightly. His poisonous blood oozed down his hand in command from the slices of the blade. He smiled, "This blood will mix in with his, and he'll burn until he reaches hell!"
Raven then felt something weird tingling the essence of her mind. Memories of when she spent time with him appeared. They were spending time at the beach last summer, which she didn't want to go to, but Robin forced her. The only thing she did was sit on the sand, in the same uniform as everyone else wore swimming attires. Robin tried getting her to play with everyone else in the water but she refused only sitting there in the sun on a towel. Instead of going to continue splashing Cyborg and taking silly pictures of each other, he sat right next to her. They didn't speak, they didn't do anything. They just stared at the vast beach until Raven made an attempt at staring at his face. She blushed at thinking of how wonderful he was. She knew this had been going on for a few months. First, when they met each other, they had their differences, but they weren't clones of each other. After a few weeks or days of convincing of herself, she figured she had a crush on him. Days turned into months as a crush turned into a liking. Half a year ago, it unexpectedly bloomed into a wonderful thing called love. But who was she trying to fool? Herself? She knew, that one day Starfire would announce her love to Robin and Robin would announce it back. It already happened at Batman's house though.
She had to stop this murder. Raven flung a back-handed slap at his nose hard enough, causing it to break. She then kicked him in the stomach then the neck, paralyzing him. She turned her attention towards Jinx. Jinx was taken back a bit but then attacked her with her sorcery magic. Raven fought back with her demon powers from hell. They were both equal to each other. Raven sent the chair to Jinx's back but falling cause something great to happen to Jinx. She saw the customized dagger and picked it up. She threw it so close to Raven's heart that Jinx couldn't tell if she was dying or not. One thing she knew, Raven was sure bleeding her way to her father. Or not. Raven gasped and sputtered for air as Jinx blew a hole in the wall, causing water to break in.
"Well, it doesn't matter if you're being controlled or not, so I might as well say it, huh? Heh, well, here it goes.
The mind of a powerful one, Different from the powers of the sun Control this being with all your might But never give the truth of the sight
It's stupid, my grandma made it up, but it works pretty damn well. Thanks for your help!" Jinx laughed, taking Raven's suitcase of money as well. The chip seeped out with her blood, never to be useful again. Jinx then escaped with Slade but caught by the police and the other Titans, when they made their way to the surface.
"Hey! Where'd you take Raven and Robin!?" Beastboy asked. Jinx laughed once more.
"She's drowning with her boyfriend," Jinx spat. Beastboy turned into a dolphin and swam down and grabbed Raven and Robin, dragging them to the surface. Robin sputtered after a CPR by a nurse saved him. Raven on the other hand was being taken to the ER. Robin rode with her to the hospital. He wasn't allowed with them to the operation room; he sat by the door even after he was told to sit in the waiting room with the others.
After hours and hours of waiting, the doctor came out with a look of half joy and half grief on her face. Robin just stared at her.
"She nearly drowned and the dagger-"
"Whoa wait, what dagger?" he persisted with knowing all the facts.
"It had poison in it. She was probably attacked with it while fighting whomever she was fighting. It was also dangerously close to her heart but we managed to recover her normal breathing and the poison was let out. The bleeding won't stop though." She finished.
"She has like an external bleeding kind of thing?" he asked grabbing her shoulders. His head bent down with tears dripping down. She loosened his grip.
"She might die from it, but we're working on closing the wound," Robin tightened his grip again. Another doctor ran out.
"The bleeding stopped, she's going to live, Doctor Jenkins!" he rejoiced. She thanked him. Robin smiled through all the tears. He tried to run in the recovery room that Raven was put in but was stopped by Doctor Jenkins.
"You can't rush into this-" she tried stopping him.
"Please, let me stay by her side! Just let me! Please! I'm begging you," Robin cried out in despair. She cocked her head and smiled at true love and agreed. He asked her to tell the others to just go home and that he'll be back in the morning. She also agreed on that.
After she left, he locked the door and sat next to Raven. She had her hand sticking out and with a sudden urge he entwined his fingers with hers.
"I love you," he whispered, falling asleep on the edge of her bed with their hands still holding each others' hand.