Chapter 12: White and Red
A/N** Ok- OK! This isn't the last chapter after all, but it would be more than 13 because I plainly just don't like the number 13, not that I believe in any of that. Ok so I do, you can't blame me. ^^;; Here's the not last
chapter!
A/N** And I got the cold idea from Fruits Basket. ::sniffs:: I love that anime, you should watch it- if you like fluffy pure stuff! :D Thanks Orrie, for introducing that show to me! Yay! Go read her stories, her pen name's Orrie, or you can just look her up at my favorite author's section. Also, read Joy-chan's and asianbabygrl03's stories! They are freaking awesome!!!
Look them up at my favorite author's section.
Robin cocked his head to side to take a quick look at Raven resting at his shoulders. He laid her body out and took off his jacket, placing it on top of her, to keep her warm. Avoiding the drunk and sleeping bodies, he carried Raven to her room and rested her on her bed. Being as tired as she when she was awake, he sat on the ground against her bed and fell asleep there.
Several hours later, Raven woke up with a slight head ache, pulsing against her temples. Her face was ever so pale but she tried to keep up her usual appearance. Almost tripping over Robin, she telepathically set Robin on her bed, covering him with all the blankets she owned, making sure he didn't catch a cold. Raven didn't know it, but he was still a wink awake and sniffed her pillow. It scented like dew on watermelons. He remembered the smell before he fell into a slumber.
She took off her high heels and set them to the side, luckily, she locked her door before anyone entered her domain and before it was trashed as the halls were. She stepped over spilled pop, and cautious of stepping on a person, she floated over them, to the locked away Christmas presents. She opened them and was carrying Starfire's gifts and closed the lock again, in case anyone was too wake up.
"Starfire, wake up. It's me, Raven," Raven sternly let out. Starfire woke up, in her little pajamas and gasped.
"Raven! It is the holiday of Christmas today!" Starfire chirped. She ran up to Raven and squeezed her, making Raven drop Star fire's presents, "Merry Christmas!"
"I came here to drop off your presents, in case anyone might steal it," Raven informed truthfully. Starfire raised an eyebrow, but leaped in with a surprising yet helping advice, "Why not store the assorted presents in the locker and then we shall open them when everyone is gone? It shall be easier!" Starfire yelled in joy. Raven nodded, it wasn't a bad idea after all. After that, Raven took a shower and dressed up in the clothes Starfire forced her to wear.
Flash back
"Raven, we shall wear these assorted clothes! Let us rejoice in the holiday!" Starfire clasped her hands together after dropping a traditional yet skimpy and fashionable Ms. Clause suit in Raven's hands. Raven shook her head and dropped it at Starfire's feet.
"No. It's pathetic and pointless to celebrate in those!" Raven bit. Starfire whimpered.
"But Raven! Please!?! I shall weep now, I am very sad!" Starfire moaned and wailed out loud waking a few people around them. "Please?" Raven couldn't take one of her wailing and agreed making Starfire happy. "Thank you, Raven! I will see to it that each and everyone of us will be happy this holiday!"
Raven only groaned.
End Flashback
Starfire and Raven dressed alike but Starfire got a shawl while Raven got a scarf. Starfire's Santa dress looked nice on her but better on Raven. The aliens dress stopped high at her thighs like her skirt with trimmings on every open end of white fluff. The red velvet only graced at the edge of the curves of the body while on Raven, it hugged every curve. The bottom was the same but the top was different. It was spaghetti strap with the trimmings of white fluffies as well. Her scarf covered her elegant, slender neck; her gloves decorated her fingers and she had black leather boots on, wrapped around her petite foot with zippers on the inside of her legs. It had the same border at the end and was also velvet red.
In one hour, Raven and Starfire woke the people and forced them out, considering that there were at least 55 people. After they were done, the girls cleaned up the trash that was spread across the halls and the room. Making it easier for the both of them, Raven pushed all the waste in one corner in each room. Starfire would put them in the garbage bags. After taking the trash outside, they came back in and re-paired all of the broken strings of fake snow and replaced the broken ornaments.
"Now what shall we prepare?" Starfire asked. Raven thought for a bit but was interrupted by a few sneezes.
"I think lunch would be a good idea," Raven injected, with that, Starfire followed her to the kitchen. They baked loaves of bread, placing them in a wooden basket. The two team mates positioned the butter and sugar next to it. Starfire made ginger bread men and made a stand for each of them. Raven, on the other hand, was making spaghetti and meatballs, clam chowder, and for Beastboy, rice with tofu, soy sauce and soy milk. She set them down at the table and went to help Starfire who just set the turkey on fire in the oven.
"Raven? What do we do? I don't know what to do!" Starfire whined. She was scared. Raven muttered an 'azarath, metrion, zinthos' and ceased the fire to keep burning. Starfire yelped and hugged Raven. Raven only waved her hand.
"Just don't do that again. Erm- don't touch the stove, oven or toaster again," Raven ordered. Starfire looked down and nodded. "You go get them, Robin's in my room."
"In your room? Why?" Starfire now became suspicious of her. Raven blushed.
"He fell asleep on the floor by my bed. Go-"
"How did he fall asleep on the floor by your bed in your bed room?"
"I fell asleep outside and he put me inside, and he fell asleep on the floor," Raven answered. Starfire's hands automatically smashed Raven's cheeks. Raven held tight to Starfire's wrist and pried her loose. "We didn't do anything!"
"Oh," Starfire chuckled as Raven watched Starfire go up the stairs.
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For Starfire, it was hard to wake anyone up especially Cyborg, but Beastboy was already up, exercising his legs as a dog. When she entered Raven's room for the first time in her life, she suspected it to have rats and bats but she seemed surprised to see a globe.
"Why would she need a globe?" Starfire asked herself. She ventured a few more steps until she saw Robin lying under her blankets. She shook him lightly and he groaned in sleepiness. "Assorted cuisine and beverages are waiting at the table, Robin." Robin looked at her from under the piles of blanket and nodded.
"I'm going to take a quick shower first, Star," he muttered. Starfire nodded and followed him down the hall until she reached Cyborg's room. The door slid to presence of a team member and she woke him up quickly.
While that was going on, Raven waited by the table like she and Alfred did at the playboy millionaire's mansion. Beastboy and Starfire walked out together, Beastboy telling lame jokes while Starfire, not getting it, laughed. Raven shook her head.
"Where's Cyborg and Robin?" Raven asked.
"Um, Robin has gone to wash up and Cyborg had also," Starfire replied. She smiled and sat at the couch to play games with Beastboy while they waited. Raven, taking advantage of the time, went to her room and made the bed and sniffed the pillow. The essence of his body peeked out and his hair gel smell was spread across the top of the pillow. She sighed though, he never told her how he felt about her, or at least, she never heard it. Sitting on the ground, meditating relaxed her nerves of Christmas preparations. There was a few knocks at her door.
"Raven? You in there? It's time to eat!" Cyborg yelled then left. Raven took a quick look at the clock on the wall. 4:28 PM. 'A late lunch, but oh well,' she thought.
Gliding down the stairs, she smelt the food she cooked. If it weren't for her control emotions, she's be drooling. Cyborg, Robin and Beastboy looked at her from the dining table, mouths stuffed. Cyborg swallowed his spaghetti noodles whole.
"Uh. did Starfire make you wear that?" Cyborg asked. She nodded and sat next to him, which was the only seat left. All the guys stood up, which made her pretty confused. "She made us wear this," he added. They all had the same yet fitted white Hanes shirt with the same material pants as her dress with black army boots. She smirked at them. All pants were a little baggy but the Hanes shirt showed a hint of their muscles.
They proceeded with Christmas day by eating and opening the presents. Raven's slight head ache grew worse by the minute. She only nodded as they opened the gifts from her. They were surprised to see how generous Raven was this year. All her gifts were the same, horror books and soothing music for meditation, although she liked the music better this year because last year they had bought her gothic music, something to disturb her thoughts. She shuddered. Robin bought her something different, a diary with a note inside. She didn't notice it and as she stood up to go to her room, the note fell out.
She looked at the diary and quotes and poems written inside of the cover. Under it were little side notes from Robin. Sure, it was book, but a different kind of book. She coughed maniacally, and tried to resolve the fit of coughs with water. Unfortunately, she dropped the glass of water and slumped down to her knees and palms. As by Fate, Robin walked in and worried by her sickness, helped her to her room and brought in left over calm chowder. He sighed through his nose and tucked the blankets under her chin. Her face red with fever appeared in eyes tearing from coughs. Robin told her to get a few naps and she obeyed.
"Ay," Raven grumbled. Her headache was slightly less pounding than the last, and she looked at the glass of warm tea next to her bed, she picked it up and drank. Jasmine, one of her favorites. While she was enjoying this hot beverage, a knock came at her door. "Leave me alone!" she replied coldly, thinking it was Starfire. She didn't want any excited cheers about Christmas so soon. Against her wish, the door slid open and there stood Robin with another hot bowl of soup, this time it was chicken noodle soup.
"You need to eat this," Robin told, putting it on her nightstand. She shook her head.
"I'm fine," Raven lied, "I've healed." Robin, knowing she was being too modest, put a hand to her forehead. Raven blushed, sending heat to spread around her body.
"You're burning," Robin said. She only looked away, as if she never heard his statement.
"I don't need anything, I'm fine!" Raven shouted at him. He stepped a few paces backwards and watched her stand up. Her knees turned to water and she collapsed, but her fall stopped as strong arms held tight to her. He lifted her up and hugged her. Her face buried in his muscular chest, her arms were to the side but lifted up and grazed his elbows. His nose was digging deep into her soft hair, arms around the small of her back.
"Do you know what would happen to me if- if you ever got hurt? Do you know how I'd feel?" He blurted out loud to her. She looked up at him, softening her hard, dark eyes. It seemed forever they looked at each other that way. She pushed him and away.
"It's alright, I'm fine. There's not much to worry about me, Robin," Raven told. She walked out of the room. And found Starfire looking over something. "What're you reading?" She interrogated. Starfire shook her head and replied with a 'nothing.' Starfire only lied, but the headache in Raven's temples scratched at her health, making it hard for her to read minds, or even stare at them while they talk to her.
Starfire watched her go down the stairs as Starfire slouched against the wall, re-reading the note that she noticed falling from Raven's diary.
'To: Raven
Every year, I noticed that you got books and CD's. This year, I didn't think you would want any more books, since you still haven't touched the one we got you last year. It struck me that you probably were sick of reading the same plot over and over, so I got you this diary. Something you can write your thoughts in, instead of meditating all day.
I don't know when you're going to read this. But when you do, I want to talk to you. Soon.
From: Robin'
Starfire held it to her heart, pretending it was to her. She wanted to meet him and she wanted to be the one to get the different gift. She wasn't though. Even when she was sad, she smiled. These past few weeks, emotions began to show in Raven's eyes, and Starfire noticed the soft glances she gave to Robin or the ones he gave to her; or how they saved each others lives, risking their own. Starfire knew this was true love. She couldn't interfere, especially with this special bond, but she would play a part in their coupling by pretending to not know. Beastboy and Cyborg already knew about Raven's feelings towards Robin, but they didn't know about Robin.
A/N** Ok- OK! This isn't the last chapter after all, but it would be more than 13 because I plainly just don't like the number 13, not that I believe in any of that. Ok so I do, you can't blame me. ^^;; Here's the not last
chapter!
A/N** And I got the cold idea from Fruits Basket. ::sniffs:: I love that anime, you should watch it- if you like fluffy pure stuff! :D Thanks Orrie, for introducing that show to me! Yay! Go read her stories, her pen name's Orrie, or you can just look her up at my favorite author's section. Also, read Joy-chan's and asianbabygrl03's stories! They are freaking awesome!!!
Look them up at my favorite author's section.
Robin cocked his head to side to take a quick look at Raven resting at his shoulders. He laid her body out and took off his jacket, placing it on top of her, to keep her warm. Avoiding the drunk and sleeping bodies, he carried Raven to her room and rested her on her bed. Being as tired as she when she was awake, he sat on the ground against her bed and fell asleep there.
Several hours later, Raven woke up with a slight head ache, pulsing against her temples. Her face was ever so pale but she tried to keep up her usual appearance. Almost tripping over Robin, she telepathically set Robin on her bed, covering him with all the blankets she owned, making sure he didn't catch a cold. Raven didn't know it, but he was still a wink awake and sniffed her pillow. It scented like dew on watermelons. He remembered the smell before he fell into a slumber.
She took off her high heels and set them to the side, luckily, she locked her door before anyone entered her domain and before it was trashed as the halls were. She stepped over spilled pop, and cautious of stepping on a person, she floated over them, to the locked away Christmas presents. She opened them and was carrying Starfire's gifts and closed the lock again, in case anyone was too wake up.
"Starfire, wake up. It's me, Raven," Raven sternly let out. Starfire woke up, in her little pajamas and gasped.
"Raven! It is the holiday of Christmas today!" Starfire chirped. She ran up to Raven and squeezed her, making Raven drop Star fire's presents, "Merry Christmas!"
"I came here to drop off your presents, in case anyone might steal it," Raven informed truthfully. Starfire raised an eyebrow, but leaped in with a surprising yet helping advice, "Why not store the assorted presents in the locker and then we shall open them when everyone is gone? It shall be easier!" Starfire yelled in joy. Raven nodded, it wasn't a bad idea after all. After that, Raven took a shower and dressed up in the clothes Starfire forced her to wear.
Flash back
"Raven, we shall wear these assorted clothes! Let us rejoice in the holiday!" Starfire clasped her hands together after dropping a traditional yet skimpy and fashionable Ms. Clause suit in Raven's hands. Raven shook her head and dropped it at Starfire's feet.
"No. It's pathetic and pointless to celebrate in those!" Raven bit. Starfire whimpered.
"But Raven! Please!?! I shall weep now, I am very sad!" Starfire moaned and wailed out loud waking a few people around them. "Please?" Raven couldn't take one of her wailing and agreed making Starfire happy. "Thank you, Raven! I will see to it that each and everyone of us will be happy this holiday!"
Raven only groaned.
End Flashback
Starfire and Raven dressed alike but Starfire got a shawl while Raven got a scarf. Starfire's Santa dress looked nice on her but better on Raven. The aliens dress stopped high at her thighs like her skirt with trimmings on every open end of white fluff. The red velvet only graced at the edge of the curves of the body while on Raven, it hugged every curve. The bottom was the same but the top was different. It was spaghetti strap with the trimmings of white fluffies as well. Her scarf covered her elegant, slender neck; her gloves decorated her fingers and she had black leather boots on, wrapped around her petite foot with zippers on the inside of her legs. It had the same border at the end and was also velvet red.
In one hour, Raven and Starfire woke the people and forced them out, considering that there were at least 55 people. After they were done, the girls cleaned up the trash that was spread across the halls and the room. Making it easier for the both of them, Raven pushed all the waste in one corner in each room. Starfire would put them in the garbage bags. After taking the trash outside, they came back in and re-paired all of the broken strings of fake snow and replaced the broken ornaments.
"Now what shall we prepare?" Starfire asked. Raven thought for a bit but was interrupted by a few sneezes.
"I think lunch would be a good idea," Raven injected, with that, Starfire followed her to the kitchen. They baked loaves of bread, placing them in a wooden basket. The two team mates positioned the butter and sugar next to it. Starfire made ginger bread men and made a stand for each of them. Raven, on the other hand, was making spaghetti and meatballs, clam chowder, and for Beastboy, rice with tofu, soy sauce and soy milk. She set them down at the table and went to help Starfire who just set the turkey on fire in the oven.
"Raven? What do we do? I don't know what to do!" Starfire whined. She was scared. Raven muttered an 'azarath, metrion, zinthos' and ceased the fire to keep burning. Starfire yelped and hugged Raven. Raven only waved her hand.
"Just don't do that again. Erm- don't touch the stove, oven or toaster again," Raven ordered. Starfire looked down and nodded. "You go get them, Robin's in my room."
"In your room? Why?" Starfire now became suspicious of her. Raven blushed.
"He fell asleep on the floor by my bed. Go-"
"How did he fall asleep on the floor by your bed in your bed room?"
"I fell asleep outside and he put me inside, and he fell asleep on the floor," Raven answered. Starfire's hands automatically smashed Raven's cheeks. Raven held tight to Starfire's wrist and pried her loose. "We didn't do anything!"
"Oh," Starfire chuckled as Raven watched Starfire go up the stairs.
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For Starfire, it was hard to wake anyone up especially Cyborg, but Beastboy was already up, exercising his legs as a dog. When she entered Raven's room for the first time in her life, she suspected it to have rats and bats but she seemed surprised to see a globe.
"Why would she need a globe?" Starfire asked herself. She ventured a few more steps until she saw Robin lying under her blankets. She shook him lightly and he groaned in sleepiness. "Assorted cuisine and beverages are waiting at the table, Robin." Robin looked at her from under the piles of blanket and nodded.
"I'm going to take a quick shower first, Star," he muttered. Starfire nodded and followed him down the hall until she reached Cyborg's room. The door slid to presence of a team member and she woke him up quickly.
While that was going on, Raven waited by the table like she and Alfred did at the playboy millionaire's mansion. Beastboy and Starfire walked out together, Beastboy telling lame jokes while Starfire, not getting it, laughed. Raven shook her head.
"Where's Cyborg and Robin?" Raven asked.
"Um, Robin has gone to wash up and Cyborg had also," Starfire replied. She smiled and sat at the couch to play games with Beastboy while they waited. Raven, taking advantage of the time, went to her room and made the bed and sniffed the pillow. The essence of his body peeked out and his hair gel smell was spread across the top of the pillow. She sighed though, he never told her how he felt about her, or at least, she never heard it. Sitting on the ground, meditating relaxed her nerves of Christmas preparations. There was a few knocks at her door.
"Raven? You in there? It's time to eat!" Cyborg yelled then left. Raven took a quick look at the clock on the wall. 4:28 PM. 'A late lunch, but oh well,' she thought.
Gliding down the stairs, she smelt the food she cooked. If it weren't for her control emotions, she's be drooling. Cyborg, Robin and Beastboy looked at her from the dining table, mouths stuffed. Cyborg swallowed his spaghetti noodles whole.
"Uh. did Starfire make you wear that?" Cyborg asked. She nodded and sat next to him, which was the only seat left. All the guys stood up, which made her pretty confused. "She made us wear this," he added. They all had the same yet fitted white Hanes shirt with the same material pants as her dress with black army boots. She smirked at them. All pants were a little baggy but the Hanes shirt showed a hint of their muscles.
They proceeded with Christmas day by eating and opening the presents. Raven's slight head ache grew worse by the minute. She only nodded as they opened the gifts from her. They were surprised to see how generous Raven was this year. All her gifts were the same, horror books and soothing music for meditation, although she liked the music better this year because last year they had bought her gothic music, something to disturb her thoughts. She shuddered. Robin bought her something different, a diary with a note inside. She didn't notice it and as she stood up to go to her room, the note fell out.
She looked at the diary and quotes and poems written inside of the cover. Under it were little side notes from Robin. Sure, it was book, but a different kind of book. She coughed maniacally, and tried to resolve the fit of coughs with water. Unfortunately, she dropped the glass of water and slumped down to her knees and palms. As by Fate, Robin walked in and worried by her sickness, helped her to her room and brought in left over calm chowder. He sighed through his nose and tucked the blankets under her chin. Her face red with fever appeared in eyes tearing from coughs. Robin told her to get a few naps and she obeyed.
"Ay," Raven grumbled. Her headache was slightly less pounding than the last, and she looked at the glass of warm tea next to her bed, she picked it up and drank. Jasmine, one of her favorites. While she was enjoying this hot beverage, a knock came at her door. "Leave me alone!" she replied coldly, thinking it was Starfire. She didn't want any excited cheers about Christmas so soon. Against her wish, the door slid open and there stood Robin with another hot bowl of soup, this time it was chicken noodle soup.
"You need to eat this," Robin told, putting it on her nightstand. She shook her head.
"I'm fine," Raven lied, "I've healed." Robin, knowing she was being too modest, put a hand to her forehead. Raven blushed, sending heat to spread around her body.
"You're burning," Robin said. She only looked away, as if she never heard his statement.
"I don't need anything, I'm fine!" Raven shouted at him. He stepped a few paces backwards and watched her stand up. Her knees turned to water and she collapsed, but her fall stopped as strong arms held tight to her. He lifted her up and hugged her. Her face buried in his muscular chest, her arms were to the side but lifted up and grazed his elbows. His nose was digging deep into her soft hair, arms around the small of her back.
"Do you know what would happen to me if- if you ever got hurt? Do you know how I'd feel?" He blurted out loud to her. She looked up at him, softening her hard, dark eyes. It seemed forever they looked at each other that way. She pushed him and away.
"It's alright, I'm fine. There's not much to worry about me, Robin," Raven told. She walked out of the room. And found Starfire looking over something. "What're you reading?" She interrogated. Starfire shook her head and replied with a 'nothing.' Starfire only lied, but the headache in Raven's temples scratched at her health, making it hard for her to read minds, or even stare at them while they talk to her.
Starfire watched her go down the stairs as Starfire slouched against the wall, re-reading the note that she noticed falling from Raven's diary.
'To: Raven
Every year, I noticed that you got books and CD's. This year, I didn't think you would want any more books, since you still haven't touched the one we got you last year. It struck me that you probably were sick of reading the same plot over and over, so I got you this diary. Something you can write your thoughts in, instead of meditating all day.
I don't know when you're going to read this. But when you do, I want to talk to you. Soon.
From: Robin'
Starfire held it to her heart, pretending it was to her. She wanted to meet him and she wanted to be the one to get the different gift. She wasn't though. Even when she was sad, she smiled. These past few weeks, emotions began to show in Raven's eyes, and Starfire noticed the soft glances she gave to Robin or the ones he gave to her; or how they saved each others lives, risking their own. Starfire knew this was true love. She couldn't interfere, especially with this special bond, but she would play a part in their coupling by pretending to not know. Beastboy and Cyborg already knew about Raven's feelings towards Robin, but they didn't know about Robin.