Jump City Sonata
A Teen Titans fanfiction by Jacob McDonald
Opening Notes: Part 3. Okay, here it goes. There is drug use in this chapter. Neither I, nor F F dot Net condone the use of drugs of any kind, including cigarettes, even for social smoking. They really are just nasty crap. Also, the breaking of traffic laws is fictional in this story, and should not be repeated in real life. If you can drive, please, stop for all red lights, and don't speed too much. I've been in enough accidents for all of us, trust me.
More OOC for Raven in this chapter. Like I said in chapter one, she's grown up a lot. Jinx is also OOC, but it works tons better for the story in the end, so deal with it. Read on, and please review.
Standard disclaimers apply. I don't own Teen Titans.
See bottom for responses to reviewers.
Starfire was impressed when a man in a suit led them to a set of stairs to the right of the bar, lifted a rope, and let them up. She was even more impressed when Rob opened the door at the top and they walked into a private room, complete with a viewing window that looked out over the dance floor. As soon as the door shut behind them, the thundering music became muffled, showing off the impressive sound proofing in the private room.
"Kori, these are my friends, Jake and Trent." Rob motioned to the two men in the room with them, who were seated in large comfy looking chairs. Both of them wore casual clothing, and red bandanas.
"How do you do?" she asked as she bowed slightly, grinning the whole time, "My name is Kori. Rob is showing me the town tonight."
"Way to go Rob!" the young man named Jake said with a grin. He motioned to the love seat across from the two chairs and Rob sat, patting the cushion next to him with a glance at Starfire. She quickly sat down, still smiling.
"So," Trent began, sitting forward a little, "you have the samples?"
Rob grinned and pulled out what looked to Star like a hand rolled cigarette, "Right here. You want to try it?"
"I'd be delighted." Trent took the small object from Rob, stuck it in his mouth and lit it with a lighter he pulled from his pocket. After puffing on it for a moment, he nodded his head and coughed a little, "Good stuff, dude."
Star watched in fascination as he passed it over to Jake, who also puffed on it a little before handing it over to Rob. Rob took a deep hit, held it for a moment, then let out the sweet smelling smoke in a large puff. He smiled and shook his head, "That's the stuff alright. You guys are gonna' be real happy with what I can offer you."
He then turned to Starfire, and extended his hand, the joint still between his fingers, "You want to try?"
Star's smile dimmed, but she reached out any way, "Perhaps just one little puff..."
"That's not your girlfriend, kid," the cabby said as Robin and Kia climbed into the back of his car, "things not go too well for you?"
"She left and went to a different club. I'm just helping Kia here get there so she can drag her brother out of trouble. You know where the Wayne Hotel is?"
"Kinda' a ritzy place to go clubbing isn't it?"
"There's a place called Rocco's in the basement. Some kind of heavy mettle club I think. I've only ever been to the hotel it's self." he had stayed in the Hotel for almost a week before Titan Tower was finished when he'd first come to Jump City. It was nice not having to pay for anything because you were in line to inherit a good chunk of the Wayne estate.
"How'd a kid like you manage to afford a place like that?" Kia asked as they took off.
Robin blushed a little, "It was free for me..." he mumbled.
"Free? Why would the Wayne Hotel let you stay for free?"
"Well, my full name is Richard Grayson."
"And?" Kia looked mildly peeved, "Is that supposed to tell me something?"
"Um... Richard Grayson, ward to Bruce Wayne, multi-billionaire owner of Wayne Enterprises, the home company that owns the Wayne Hotel chain?" Robin looked at her like she was a little slow. Jump City wasn't THAT far from Gotham. She had to have heard of him before.
"Oh... OH! You're THAT Dick Grayson?"
"Yeah. I'm that Dick."
"Oh, sorry..."
Robin just laughed, "Richard, remember?"
"Right, Richard. You know Bruce Wayne then?"
Robin arched an eyebrow, "I've lived with him for six years now. I'd say I know him pretty well."
"Oh... right.... he's such a hunk..."
Robin gaped at he, "He's twice your age!"
"So? Just give me a few more years, and he'll be putty in my hands. Especially now that I have an 'in' with his ward!"
Robin sat back and sighed. She was a gold digger. Great. "He doesn't really... date all that much. He's a pretty anti-social kind of guy really."
"Oh that's okay. I could get him to loosen up, I'm sure." She sounded so confident that Robin almost regretted doing what he had to do.
"Kia, in the interest of not being written out as Bruce's ward, I will probably never introduce you to him. He'd kill me. On top of that, let me tell you flat out; there isn't a woman alive who can get Bruce Wayne to 'loosen up.' He's just too... withdrawn."
Kia pouted as the cabby laughed and Robin grinned.
"Jinx," Raven said with a deadly calm, "you have ten seconds to explain why you're here, and why I shouldn't kick your ass." she glanced at a clock on the wall, "Go."
Too shocked to speak right away, Jinx wasted her first five seconds just gapping at Raven. When she did find her voice, she stuttered out a reply rather stupidly, "You... here... didn't... I'm not... hey!" Jinx suddenly seemed to remember that even if Raven was a super hero, she was a super villain, "You can't just start beating the crap out of me for no reason Raven. I haven't done anything wrong! I bought this tea with money I earned, working. I have a job you know."
Raven arched an eyebrow, "You have a job?"
"Yes, I have a job. I work for Canary Booksellers down the street actually." Jinx stuck out her tongue at Raven, "So there."
"Why do you have a job?"
"A girl needs to pay the rent somehow! We don't all get set up in a nice comfy tower with a great view by the Justice League you know."
"Well no, evil little fuck-twits who try to kill people generally don't fall under the category of super hero. You have to BE good to get the good treatment." Raven smiled a little grimly, "What happened to your last gig anyway?"
Jinx sighed and leaned back against the counter, convinced now that Raven probably wouldn't kick the ever living crap out of her. Probably. "You remember the last time we fought?"
"Yeah. Down on the South side. You knocked half a building on top of me."
"Right. Well, after you beat the snot out of Gizmo, Mammoth and I, we got shipped off to Arkham for evaluation and processing. Gizmo is still there I think, and Mammoth got shipped off to some place that could actually hold him." she shrugged, "I kept my cool, didn't get declared insane, and got paroled after four months. I'm still a minor after all."
"They paroled you after you destroyed several buildings, tried to kill the Titans, and were connected to the H.I.V.E.?"
"Well, I'm still on tether, and I still have about a million hours of C.S. to do yet, but yeah. I'm out, working a job, and living a free life, more or less."
"So you're reformed now, is that it?" Raven looked extremely skeptical.
"I didn't say that." Jinx grinned, "I'm just too smart to keep it up. You can only be bad for so long before they eventually toss you into the clink for the rest of your life. I'd like to live to see a ripe old age on the outside, thank you."
It was then that Raven noticed the tea in Jinx's hand, "Hey!" she almost smiled but held back, "We drink the same kind of tea."
"Really?" the pink haired girl looked at the small bag in her hand, "I didn't think any one else drank this stuff."
"I can't go on without it." Raven did grin this time, "When you have to deal with Beast Boy and Cyborg all day long, you need something to sooth your nerves."
Jinx laughed and winked at Raven, "I bet you do."
The two girls beamed at each other for a moment, but then the moment passed and they both scowled again, "So are you going to stand aside so I can buy my tea or not?" Raven walked up to the counter. Poor Yoni looked like he was about to piss himself, but he had Raven's usual order ready.
Jinx watched as the dark haired girl paid for her tea, then started to speak, stopped, started again, stopped again, and turned away, "Forget it." she mumbled as she made for the door.
"Hey," Raven reached out and poked Jinx in the arm as she was walking away, "What were you going to say?"
Jinx turned and violet eyes met violet eyes. Jinx held that gaze for just a moment before looking away, "I was just going to see if you wanted to take a walk. I'm bored." and she started back towards the door.
Raven arched an eyebrow at her retreating back. That was unexpected. Jinx really seemed to have grown up, but she also seemed... lonely. Something Raven understood very well. She was fortunate to have such great friends in the Titans, but Jinx was all alone without her H.I.V.E. buddies around. She needed a friend, or she was going to go right back down the path of evil and destruction, especially with the nature of her powers.
So Raven, for the second time that night, acted on impulse and called out, "Why would I want to take a walk when I've got a perfectly good motorcycle out there we can tear up the streets on?"
Jinx turned as she opened the door and looked at Raven in utter shock, "Are you serious? You ARE! No shit, you ride? Aw, that would be sweet!"
Raven gave her a fraction of a smile as they walked out together, "Hope you like to go fast."
Beast Boy gaped out the window of the T-Car as he and Cyborg pulled into the parking lot of a local auto parts store, "Dude! These cars are sweet! You come here often?"
"Naw," Cyborg replied, "it's actually only my third time, but the cars are sweet and the honeys are hot, so what better place, right?"
"Right on!" the changeling high fived the other Titan as they parked and piled out. People started to gather around them immediately to check out the T-Car and to meet the two Teen Titans that had just shown up out of the blue.
"You Cy-Dude!" one of the car junkies shouted from the front of the car, "Pop the hood so we can check out the tune job!"
"All in good time!" Cyborg replied with a laugh, "We want to meet some folks first! What's your name?"
"Jared. You can call me Jare though dude, I already know you're cool."
Beast Boy had been smirking and waggling his eyebrows at the small horde of girls that seemed to congregate around him, "And what's you're name, tall blonde and sexy?" he asked a young woman who fit the description perfectly.
"My name is Candy." she replied with a smoochy face and an eye wink.
Beast Boy was sure he'd died and gone to heaven.
Starefire had had a talk with Robin about the strange Earth custom of 'smoking' just a few months after she had arrived on the planet. He had told her that a little bit of 'social smoking' never really hurt anyone, but he still avoided it out of habit. Apparently Bruce Wayne was known to smoke a cigar or two when he was out at a social function, and it limited his lung capacity and he lost his breath easier if he went out right after as Batman.
Star was eager to make new friends though, and if a little puff on their hand rolled cigarette was what it would take, then she was willing to sacrifice a bit of lung capacity for the night. She wasn't expecting what happened when she took that short little drag however.
As soon as she took the smoke into her lungs she knew this wasn't tobacco she was smoking. She'd also had a talk with Robin about the plant Marijuana, and he'd told her of the evils of 'getting high.' She had told herself that she would never partake of something Robin seemed to despise so much, and now she was kicking herself for being fooled so easily.
"This is not-" Star coughed harshly as she shoved the joint back at Rob. Recovering after her coughing fit, she tried again, with a slightly more ragged voice, "This is not tobacco!"
"Well, no it isn't! It's the good stuff, babe, what did you think I was selling?" Rob grinned at her.
"I have been foolish to trust you..." Star felt something happening to her. There was no telling what the strange new chemicals coursing through her body now would do to her Tamaranien physiology, "I am sorry... I must visit the ladies room!" and she dashed out of the room and down the steps.
When she hit the floor once again, she looked around in a panic. Seeing the bouncer in the suit that had led them to the privet room, she ran over to him and tugged on his sleeve, "Excuse me sir! Where is your ladies room?"
The man took one look at Starfire and gasped. Her eyes were starting to glow green, and her hair was staring to flow around her body as if it were blowing in a light breeze. He pointed numbly to the right, and she nodded her thanks and dashed off once again.
As she banged through the bathroom door, several girls looked up from where they were fixing their makeup or washing their hands and almost all of them let out startled little noises of shock upon seeing what had just crashed into the bathroom.
"Fellow females! I need an empty stall!" Starfires's eyes gave a pulse of green light as if to emphasize her point, "Now!"
As one, the girls pointed to the last stall in the row, and Star ran into it, banged it shut, and threw the bolt. The assembled girls all watched in fear and awe as they heard Star's voice call out, "Oh Orglopetrog!" and green light poured out of every opening in the stall. There was a small explosion that shook the bathroom, and gray smoke rolled out from under the stall door, but dissipated quickly.
By the time the smoke had started to clear, most of the young woman had fled the bathroom, so those that remained were the ones who saw Star emerge just a few seconds latter, her hair frazled, but none the worse for ware. She shook her head, walked to a mirror and began to primp herself.
As she finished getting her hair to stay in place and fixing the light smudges in her makeup, Star became aware of the other girls stares. She glanced about at them, and then with her head down hurried out of the bathroom muttering, "Glemporks..."
"You're a vegetarian too? No way! You're like, the first one I've met in forever!" Beast Boy was chatting up Candy with a vengeance. She was everything he liked in a girl; tall, beautiful, and direct about what she wanted. She kept leaning forward to offer him a better view of her cleavage, or reaching out to touch his shoulder in a flirtatious manner.
As he was laughing at one of his own jokes, the image of a certain statue suddenly flashed in Beast Boy's mind. He stopped laughing and his grin eased down to a sad smile. Why had he suddenly thought of her?
Looking over at Candy, who was fixing her lipstick in a small pocket mirror, he thought to himself that maybe this girl was everything he liked in a girl he wasn't all that interested in.
Cyborg had finally popped the hood of the T-Car, and was going over it's modifications with the crowd around them, "... and with just a flick of a switch, it drops into eighth gear and booya! Fifty extra horses baby!"
"So what? I modified my ride up to ninth gear." The speaker was a rather cocky young man everyone called MadDogg. Cyborg thought he was a poser. Time to put him in his place.
"Did I mention that mine also has missal launchers, laser cannons, magnetic mine planters and can combine with two other vehicles to become a giant robot?" Cy arched an eyebrow at MadDogg.
"Uh..." the cocky young man seemed at a loss for words.
"Yeah, that's what I thought." the crowd around them all burst into laughter as MadDogg's face grew red.
Raven cranked the bike to a halt at a red light further down main street from the Seeing Eye Emporium, kicked the back wheel off the ground a bit and bouncing it back down a moment latter.
Jinx squealed with delight, as she had been for most of the ride so far. They'd hit the freeway for a short time, and Raven had taken her chance to really open up the throttle. She had hit almost 190 MPH before they had reached the last exit for Jump City, and had been forced back to the city streets.
Since then, they'd been completely ignoring most of the traffic laws, running red lights, breaking speed limits, and throwing some rather illegal stunts. Raven was surprised they hadn't been picked up by a cop yet.
"Any place you want to go?" Raven asked through the built in com system in the helmets they both wore.
"How about my place? It's not far, and you can see my new digs. I've already seen yours so..." Raven could hear the grin in Jinx's voice, even if she couldn't see the other girl.
"I'm still pissed you went in my room."
Jinx's laugh was all Raven needed to get even grumpier. When the light turned green she gunned it without any warning, and Jinx almost fell off the back. Laughing it off, the pink haired girl gripped Raven around the waist a bit tighter, "Take a left at the next light, down past the bank three blocks and I'm right there."
"Will do." Raven grinned as she saw the light up ahead turning yellow, "Hold on tight!" she felt Jinx grip her tightly and brace for what she knew was coming.
Raven kicked the rear tire out and performed a perfect power slide through the intersection, gunning it back down when she had turned completely left. She was up to 80 before she heard Jinx say, "What's going on at the bank?"
Slowing down and stopping just a few dozen yards from the bank, Raven watched in awe as one of the stupidest things she'd ever seen was going down. Two guys who couldn't be more then sixteen or seventeen were hooking chains to an ATM, getting ready to yank it out of the side of the bank with a pickup truck.
"Are you going to go all super hero on them and stop this?" Jinx asked.
"I guess. Wanna' help?"
"Uh..." Jinx looked at her as Raven turned around and waited for a reply, "Sure, I guess..." Raven nodded, kicked down the stand, and they both hopped off the bike. Tossing off their helmets, they both swept hands through their hair, straightening it. Glancing at each other again, they both laughed.
As they walked over to the two thugs who were about to hop in their truck, Jinx groaned. Raven glanced over at her, "What's up?"
"Those two... H.I.V.E. students... three years behind me."
"What are their powers?" This wasn't looking good all of a sudden. Raven didn't fully trust Jinx, and she didn't know if she could take on two H.I.V.E. students by herself, even if they were just sophomores, and the pink haired sorceress at the same time.
"Powers?" Jinx snorted, "The short one calls himself Armory. Aside from knowing how to use every firearm and explosive known to man, he's as dumb as a sack of hammers. The ugly one with the white hair is Flyte. Guess what he can do..."
"Fly?" Raven arched an eyebrow.
"How'd you guess?" Jinx couldn't have been more sarcastic if she had tried, "He also has the unique ability to rub both of his brain cells together and dodge a punch every now and then. Something most kids in his class can't seem to do."
"So this is going to be easy then, huh?"
"I'd say so. You could probably do it by yourself, but I want to spank these tossers myself." Jinx grinned an evil little grin before shouting, "Hey! Arms! Flyte! You guys wanna' have a good time tonight?"
The two would be ATM jackers looked up and saw the two young woman standing in the street looking at them. Jinx had her head cocked to the side with a wicked smile and one hand on her hip. Raven had rolled her eyes but followed along with the Charlie's Angles shtick and pushed her chest out as far as she could while leaning back a little, her hair tossed over one eye. She let her leather jacket fall off one shoulder just to emphasize the point.
"Hey, Jinx! Who's your hot friend?" Flyte asked as he and Armory jumped down from the truck and sauntered over.
The two waited until their quarry was within ten feet before straightening up into no-nonsense stances and glaring. Raven spoke in a monotone, her trademark voice, "Raven. Teen Titan. Charmed."
As soon as Flyte took off and Armory reached for a gun the two girls took action of their own. Raven flew up after Flyte, and Jinx took a few steps back from Armory, flinging a lance of pink energy at him.
Without really aiming (who needs to aim at point blank range?) Armory pulled the trigger of the .45 he had pulled on Jinx. The gun misfired, blew the bullet through the chamber, and scorched the young man's hand. He dropped the sidearm with a cry of pain that was cut off abruptly and turned into a solid 'oof!' when Jinx's foot collided with his gut. Falling to his knees, his head was in the perfect spot for the follow up kick, and he hit the pavement out cold.
Raven had followed Flyte straight up. Jinx was right in saying she could have handled this by herself. While being able to just up and fly was rather impressive, Flyte couldn't do it fast or with any kind of maneuverability. She easily passed him, threw up a black portal for him to fly in to, and then opened another one for him to fly out of, facing the other way: straight down.
By the time he caught himself, he was only seven feet of the ground, and Raven fixed that by slamming squarely into his back, smashing him into the pavement next to his buddy.
As Raven stepped away from Flyte, Jinx crouched down next to him and yanked his head up off the ground, "What the hell do you two think you're doing? It's mid-terms right now... is this for Grand Larceny 120?"
Flyte nodded weakly, and Jinx sighed, "Like Professor Ramtag would even pass you for this crap. You're not even using your powers! You kids have to learn that it's not all about money! You can just steal something valuable that meets the monetary amount needed, like a diamond or a painting! But no! You just have to try to get cash all the time! Stupid..."
"Since when did you turn Titan on us?" Flyte spat a little blood as he sneered at Jinx.
"I'm NOT a Titan... I just can't stand to see losers like you doing stupid stuff to disgrace the name of the H.I.V.E. You make me sick." Jinx dropped his head back to the ground and turned to Raven as she stood, "So now what? Do we call the cops?"
"They'll be here shortly. Why don't you wait over by the bike. It'll minimize the number of questions we have to answer if I just say you helped."
"Thanks. I'd rather not talk to any cops tonight any way."
Raven cracked a tiny smile, "Figured."
Starfire walked back up the stairs to the privet room slowly. She was planning on just telling Rob that she wasn't going to hang out with him anymore and that she was going home. This had been a bad night after all, and she just wanted to curl up in a ball and sleep the after effects of the weed off.
As she pushed open the door of the room, she heard a click. Shutting the door behind her, she looked about but saw only the man named Jake sitting in his chair.
And he was pointing a gun at her.
"Where is Rob?" Star asked, a note of fear creeping into her voice.
"Trent took him to where he keeps his stash. We thought it'd be best for me to wait and see if you came back, or if you went to the cops."
"I wouldn't want to see Rob get into trouble, even if he deceived me."
"Well babe, sorry, but he got in trouble the second you ran out of here. After we get his stash, we'll get his suppliers name, and then we'll have a direct flow, and we wont need him as a middle man any more. Then it's bye bye Rob." Jake grinned, "Now, why don't you just come on over here and wrap those nice full lips around my-"
Star cut him off before he could finish his rather rude suggestion, "Where did Trent take Rob?"
Jake suddenly lost any sense of politeness, "Look bitch, I told you, he's dead. Or he will be soon. Now you can either die where you're standing, or you can get over here and-"
Star took a threatening step forward, and Jake acted on instinct. He pulled the trigger of his gun.
The bullet was incinerated just inches from Starfire's body by a flare of green light. Star shot twin beams of light from her eyes, blasting the gun from Jake's hand and sending him reeling.
"Holy shit!" he shouted as Star rushed across the room, lifted him from his seat and slammed him into the wall.
"Where did Trent take Rob?" she shouted at him, her eyes still glowing green.
"Warehouse seven on the docks! A few blocks from the aquarium!" Jake looked as if he was about to die of shock, "I swear! Don't kill me!"
"Unlike you, I do not murder. Feel fortunate that I have little time to save my friend, or I would take you to the police myself. You're days as a free man are numbered, Jake. Enjoy them while they last." Star tossed him aside and ran off through the door.
Jake, slumped against the wall, stared after her with wide eyes.
As the cab pulled up to the entrance of Rocco's, Robin was shocked to see Starfire slam out through the doors, and take off into the night sky in a brilliant blast of green light.
"Kori!" he shouted as he bailed out of the cab, but it was too late. She was gone again.
"What the hell was that?" Kia shouted as she too jumped out of the back of the car.
"That," Robin relied, "was Starfire. She's a-"
"Teen Titan!" Kia looked amazed, "SHE'S your girlfriend?"
"No, just a friend." Robin didn't need this girl putting two and two together. She was too quick on the uptake for her to not realize sooner or latter that he was Robin. And he couldn't give away Bruce's identity, not on his life.
"So.... why'd she take off like that?" Kia sounded frightened, "And where's my brother?"
"Let's go in and find out..."
"I can't." Kia looked sheepish.
"Why not?" Robin looked back at her, confused.
"This is an eighteen and over club. I'm only fifteen."
"Don't worry. I can get us in." he winked and grabbed her hand, "Let's go." She smiled and followed him to the doors.
The bouncer at the doors asked for their ID's right away, "Sorry, buddy, but we're both too young to be in there. We just need to ask a few questions, and we'll get right out."
"No way, kid. Why don't you just-"
"Look at this." Robin shoved his Dick Grayson ID in the bouncer's face, "My benefactor owns the hotel up there. That means that some day, I'll own the hotel up there. This club is part of the hotel, therefore, someday, I'll own this club too." Robin held up a $100 bill and slapped it into the bouncers hand, "Get the point?"
"Uh, yeah. Go on in." the bouncer opened the door for them.
"Thanks man." Robin slapped his arm and grabbed Kia's hand again. One they were inside, he had to place his mouth right next to her ear in order to be heard over the loud hardcore techno music, "Look for any signs of your brother, but don't talk to anyone. I'll to the talking!"
"Okay!" she replied, and they were off. It only took Robin two minutes to pick out the bouncer in the suit. He walked over, and poked the guy in the arm, "Hey, you have a girl named Kori and a guy named Rob in here somewhere?"
"I'm sure we do, Sir, but-"
"How about a girl with glowing green eyes?"
The bouncer's eyes got wide, "She went back up to the private room last I knew, but you can't go up there when there's a meeting going on-"
"Like hell I can't." Robin shoved past him and dashed for the stairs next to the bar, Kia hot on his heels. They pounded up the stairs, hearing the bouncer right behind them, and Robin kicked open the door.
Lightning reflexes took over as he stepped into the room. Startled, Jake looked up from where he was picking up his gun, saw someone he didn't know and fired off a shot. Robin ducked and tossed Kia to one side. The bouncer right behind them took the shot to his left arm, and with a cry of pain, tumbled down the steps.
Robin lunged forward, jerking Jake's gun hand to one side, and giving a sharp twist. There was a snap and the gun went of again, followed by Jake's gasp of pain. The bullet blew a small hole in the glass of the window that over looked the dance floor with a sharp 'tink!' and the whole thing spider webbed.
Robin proceeded to work Jake over quickly. Two jabs to the stomach, and a kick to his knee put him down. A swift knee to the face, and Jake hit the ground, flat out.
"I hate guns." Robin growled as he tossed the firearm aside. Turning to see what had become of Kia, his face turned red. She had been thrown half way over the love seat when he shoved her aside, and now she was kicking her legs in the air, trying to right herself. He skirt had fallen around her waist, revealing her pretty pink panties, which were riding dangerously up around the cheeks of her shapely derriere.
Robin was embarrassed, but for some reason, found himself unable to look away until she had righted herself. She glared at him and he suddenly felt very embarrassed.
"Sorry." he mumbled.
"For what? Shoving me into a couch, or staring at my ass?"
"Both I guess. Though the whole shoving thing was to save your life."
"Forgiven then. But the ass staring... maybe you should return the favor..." she grinned at him.
"Right." Robin turned and bent over very obviously as he grabbed Jake and hauled him into a chair. As he was moved, the drug dealer came to.
"The fuck is going on?" he muttered as he tried to clear his head.
"A friend of mine was just here. Named Kori. Where did she go?"
"The fuck are you?"
"A friend of hers. Where did she go?" Robin was growing impatient.
"Not telling you shit..."
Robin's fist slammed into his cheek. It served to wake him up a bit more, and to remind him he was being interrogated by someone who had just kicked his ass soundly.
"She must have took off after Rob and Trent. Warehouse Seven on the docks.... just down from-"
"I know where it is." Robin grabbed Jake and hauled him to his feet, "Feel lucky that I don't have time to call the cops, or else I would-" he stopped talking as Jake started laughing, "What's so funny?" he gave the dealer a good shake.
"Same thing the chick said after she shot me with her eye lasers!"
"Yeah well, you deserved it, fuck head." Robin dropped him and turned back to Kia, who looked rather pale, "You know anything about this guy Trent?"
"He and Jake here head up the Redcaps. If Trent is forcing Rob to take him to his stash, then he'll know where Rob is getting his shipment from. He'll kill him and take over the shipping route! Richard! We have to get over there and stop him!"
Robin was thinking the exact same thing, "No worries. With Star on the way, he'll be fine, but I think we should head over there just the same." taking one last look back at Jake, Robin walked to the door, "Let's go."
Cyborg looked at the clock in his arm and noticed it was going on 11:30 pm. He looked up and caught Beast Boy's eye. He motioned his friend over, and the changeling excused himself from the girl he was talking to.
"What's up?" he asked as he stopped next to Cyborg and surveyed the gathered crowd.
"It's getting late. Almost midnight, and we have patrol tomorrow. We should head back to the Tower soon."
"That's cool dude. Hey, Candy said she wanted to see the Tower... you think the other's would mind if I had her over for a bit tonight? She's got her own ride so we don't have to worry about taking her home or anything..."
"Dude, if you bring a random chick home, Raven's gonna' flip. You know how she is. And Robin would probably go on about how it's a security breach of some sort..." Cyborg noticed the look Beast Boy was giving him, "You don't care do you?"
"Not really."
"Fine then. You ride with her, give her directions. I'll meet you back at the Tower."
"Alright! Hey, see you there!" and Beast Boy bounced off to tell Candy the good news.
Cyborg sighed. This was going to be an interesting night when Raven got home.
So remember kids, if you smoke pot, it'll act up with your Tamaranien physiology and make you explode. And if you deal pot, a super hero will find you and beat your ass. So don't do it. Punks.
NalaravatheRed- That enough for you? Will your eyes stop glowing now? Huh? HUH?
Terra basher- Read the summery. This is a Rob/Star fic. Of course I'm putting them together in latter chapters. It's getting there that's most of the fun!
AnimeHimeko- Yay! Another great review! Thanks for your warnings, and you continue to be helpful. Hope I worked with the drug use scene well, and yes, I always back up my work, so if takes it down, I'll just put it up on my Yahoo webspace. :) Looking forward to your next review!
CloudedDragon- I already wrote you an e-mail, and I hope it smashed your worries to little bits. No rape in this fic. Those fics kind of creep me out too. Remeber, you owe me a review for this chapter! :)
Chaotic da supa hedgehog- There you go. Another chapter. Happy yet? :)
VanyD- I publicly prostate myself and apoligize to VanyD. Got a review from her and didn't respond last time. Shame on me. Hope the fic is living up to your expectations!
StarfireRobin4ever- Robin will find her soon! I promise! And hey, she get's to beat the crap out of all the pysco guys, so who's complaining?
Brogramn- Hey, I reviewed your shorter fic! Still working on the longer one... writing this is sucking up a lot of my free time. Thanks for the review. And yes, we continue to get darker as we go. Wait for the sequal... it'll make you want to leave the lights on when you go to bed. :)
starfire ewing- Thanks for the review. Richard's eye color plays a bigger role latter on. Besides, I have yet to find an official color anywhere yet. I've been pouring through my Batman and Nightwing comics and can't seem to come up with one. I'll find it before I have to write about it though.
Heaven's Angel- I thought I did a pretty good job with the spelling, so I went back and checked and you were right... two misspelled words in chapter 2. :) I cranked this one out pretty fast too, so there might be a few in this part as well. Spell checker says no, but you can never tell, really. I'll prolly re-post all the chapters with updated spelling after I finish the story. It's good enough to get the point across for now, so I say, why make you folks wait? Thanks for the review, and I look forward to another one. I'm also going to read your story Study Lessons... maybe I can write that final chapter for you? Get back to me. :)
Next Chapter: Starfire races against the clock to find Rob, Robin and Kia run into some more set backs, Raven and Jinx find out why wine is such a sneaky drink, Cyborg and Beast Boy have a heartfelt talk, and then Beast Boy gets in over his head.