Authors: Snaptdragon and Lovely White Violets
Title: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Genre: Humor/Romance
Pairings: Starfire/Robin, Raven/Beast Boy, Cyborg/Jinx
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Starfire and Raven fall into a trap. With their luck changing from bad to worse, will the girls ever get out? Raven/Starfire friendship. StarfireRobin. RavenBeast Boy.
Disclaimer:
Lovely White Violets – "Do you own the Teen Titans?"
Snaptdragon – "Nope. Not yet. How 'bout you?"
Lovely White Violets – "No, not really, not as such, no."
Author Notes: Thank you for your support and for reviewing!
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Session 3: As Luck Would Have It
Raven opened her eyes, squinting as bright light greeted them. She was lying on the carpet of the Titan Tower living room. What was she doing there? The last thing she remembered was a bright white light...but where had it come from?
The cake!
She tried to sit up, but her head ached and she lay back down again. A figure to her right pushed his face concernedly in front of her own, shielding the overhead lights temporarily.
"Hey, are you okay, Raven?"
It was Beast Boy.
"Where's the damn cake?" Raven snapped.
"Cake?" Beast Boy asked, bewildered. His face blanked for a moment than dawned with recognition. "Oh, the bright pink one with the purple ribbons? Cyborg and I ate it."
"You WHAT!?"
"Calm down..." Beast Boy sat back on his heels as Raven sat up much too quickly for her already dizzy head which reeled in protest. Beast Boy kneeled next to her and supported her by slinging one of his arms around her. If anything, she felt dizzier. "You look sick. You shouldn't sit up."
"But, the cake..." Raven groaned, putting a hand to her head and struggled to get up. Beast Boy held her back. "You shouldn't have touched it!"
"Sorry, Raven. It was all Cy's idea to eat it. I wasn't going to, but we figured that you and Star must have made it for us..." Beast Boy paused thoughtfully for a moment. "Of course, it actually tasted good, so maybe you and Star really didn't make it..." He looked at her face, realized she was fuming, and nearly dropped her. "Not that you're a bad cook or anything!"
"No...that's not what I...oh, forget it." Raven felt it was safe enough to stand up, and did so. Beast Boy also scrambled to his feet.
The first thing Raven noticed standing up was that she no longer felt Starfire's presence near her left-hand side. In fact, she no longer felt Starfire at all.
"Where's Starfire?" Raven asked, lifting her left wrist, which weighed less now that it wasn't attached to another person's hand.
"Starfire's in her bedroom right now. Robin made the solvent about an hour ago, so we used it on you two." Beast Boy said, by way of explanation. He gave a sidelong glance at Raven who—much to his horror—had started laughing maniacally over the matter. He edged away straight into Cyborg, who was also giving Raven a funny look.
"I've never seen Raven that happy in my life." Beast Boy murmured, and Cyborg nodded as they both tried to back out of the living room but realized that a couch stood between them and the doorway.
"It's gone!" Raven said, failing to suppress her glee at her newfound freedom. She flexed her wrists happily. Then, almost as if the moment hadn't happened at all, she snapped to attention, glare settling on Cyborg and Beast Boy. "But, about the cake..."
"There's nothing left, Raven." Beast Boy said, apologetically. "We can make you another one..."
"No, I don't care about that." Raven snapped impatiently. "Only you and Cyborg ate it? No one else?"
Beast Boy nodded.
"Okay, good. Come on." Raven said, gesturing to the door. "We're going down to the lab."
"Why?" Beast Boy sputtered. He honestly didn't think she would make such a big deal out of it.
"There was something wrong with that cake. It was delivered to us, and when Starfire touched the cake, we both went unconscious. Or, at least, I did."
"Well, when we came home, both of you were on the ground, passed out." Cyborg said.
"Weren't you suspicious that something happened?" Raven asked.
"Yeah, but both of you looked okay. We were waiting for you to wake up to tell us what happened." Beast Boy replied. "And, during that time, Robin made the solvent. Then, we put Star to bed. We were going to get you to your room, but you woke up, acting all weird about the cake."
"Beast Boy, that damn cake knocked me out." Raven said in a deadpan voice. "And all we did was touch it. You two ate it!"
"Eh. It tasted fine to me." Cyborg scratched his head.
"It was probably just a joke, Raven. It didn't seem to hurt you or Starfire at all. It just put you to sleep." Beast Boy said. "Maybe it was just a surprise present from a fan? You never know. I once received a bomb in the mail..." Beast Boy trailed off. "That was a bad example, wasn't it?"
He didn't need Cyborg or Raven's returning stares to realize that in no way had it assured Raven at all.
"I'm going to run tests. Just to be sure." Raven paused on the step. "But, given the strength of your stomachs, I'm sure it's nothing to worry about."
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Raven ran four tests on both of them before she was satisfied. Nothing was wrong with either of them.
So, Beast Boy was right. They were fine, and the cake probably was just a joke. Raven relaxed, determined to forget about the whole incident, and looked forward to the peaceful afternoon.
Unfortunately, the afternoon didn't want to cooperate.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Raven." Robin said, trying to be reassuring. "It doesn't look that bad on you. The cape hides most of it."
"It looks fine to me." Beast Boy added.
Raven gave both of them a level glare before she turned to the mirror again.
She was adorned in an outfit. Not just any outfit.
Starfire's outfit.
Purple and silver with mid-riff exposed, a mini-skirt, and tall, thigh-high boots to match. It looked cute on Starfire.
It looked all wrong on Raven.
She had tried to hide the fact that parts that shouldn't be showing on her were indeed showing by wearing her trademark purple cloak over the outfit, but she couldn't walk without the cloak opening partially, and it was very obvious to everyone that she wasn't attired the way she normally was.
The person who created stomach-bearing shirts and mini-skirts needed to be harmed. Badly.
Raven wanted to blame someone, anyone, to lash out with her irritation and annoyance over the last few hours.
It had all started out with Raven simply noticing that the tea spilled from Starfire's greeting to Robin that morning had set into her leotard and had made a stain across her stomach and chest.
She had gone back to her room to change into a different, clean leotard, and had emerged a few minutes later...right into the pathway of four colorful water balloons that had decided at that moment to hit her square in the stomach. She fumed for a moment at Beast Boy and Cyborg who gave her guilty grins and turned roughly back into her room to change again.
Things seemed to be going well for her for a little while, but the lunch rush was determined to do her in. Robin had decided that he would let Starfire try some of the Earth treat "creamed ice" (as Starfire was apt to call it). Starfire didn't know what to do with it, but instead of eating it, she—thinking it was a blogroed—tossed it over her shoulder for good luck and straight into Raven's right arm.
Raven left the kitchen a minute later leaving behind an apologetic Starfire and a highly amused Robin and decided that staying in her room until her luck decided to change would be the best course of action. So, she remained in her room, reading a book, trying to ignore the sticky sugary substance on her sleeve.
That was until...
"Raven?" Starfire knocked. "Raven, are you in there?"
Raven didn't say anything, but Starfire opened the door anyway.
"I do not mean to be a bother, but I truly am sorry for what has happened in the kitchen with the flying creamed ice." Starfire paused and waited for Raven to acknowledge her. The goth nodded. "So, I propose a forgiving ceremony is in order!"
"What sort of ceremony?"
"I will take your garments into the machine of washings and the machine of dryings and then your clothes will be as clean as...the meadows of spring?" Starfire replied, as she struggled to remember what exactly it said on the detergent box.
Raven lifted an eyebrow. It sounded like a good offer. Raven hated to do the laundry. And, she had already had a full basket of dirty laundry in her basket, plus the three other ones ruined in all the accidents today.
On the other hand, what if Starfire managed to botch her laundry up? Raven eyed the other girl's costume. Starfire did her own laundry as well, and her clothes looked okay. Maybe Raven's would be okay, too.
Raven nodded, and Starfire eagerly swept up her laundry basket and ran to the laundry room.
It was only later that Raven realized exactly how badly her luck was turning.
Starfire had sheepishly come to her door an hour later, apologizing profusely without actually telling the dark-haired girl what exactly had gone wrong. But, Starfire didn't really need to tell her since Beast Boy did.
"Why is there a black bra in my laundry?" Beast Boy cried from the living room. Raven's eyes widened, and blushing bright red, she teleported into the living room and snatched the offending article of clothing from the shape-shifter's hands. Beast Boy took one look at the article then back and Raven, and his face soon turned the same brilliant red hers was.
"Is there more?" Raven snapped. Beast Boy toed his laundry basket over to her. She snatched her clothing from his basket. Okay, so Starfire had mixed her laundry with Beast Boy's. She could deal with that.
A moment later, she realized she couldn't.
She held up one of her trusty black leotards with a grimace, and Beast Boy pointed at it gingerly with a bemused expression on her face.
"What do you wear now, Raven? A size 0?" Beast Boy joked poorly. Raven glared at him then back at her leotard which was still in perfect condition...except for the fact that now only someone half her size could ever dream of trying to fit into it. Raven sighed.
"Do you wash all of your laundry in boiling hot water?" Raven snapped as she laid leotard after leotard down, only to find the same results.
"Well, it works for me."
"Doesn't your costume shrink?"
"Doesn't matter much since I can change shapes." Beast Boy shrugged. He grinned. "At least your bras didn't get smaller."
Raven was about to hit him.
Starfire cleared her throat from the doorway, and Raven turned an angry eye to her. Starfire blushed shame-faced, and held her arms behind her back purposefully as if she were hiding something.
"I am sorry, Friend Raven. I did not mean it." Starfire said, ashamedly. Raven grit her teeth, trying not to let her anger be known. "But!" Starfire brightened. "Not all of your laundry became smaller. I placed some of your clothing into another container..."
"Really?"
"Well..." Starfire looked down again, with a sad smile on her face. "Of course, while your clothing did not grow smaller..." And here, Starfire unfolded her hands from behind her and showed Raven the remains of her wardrobe.
"Burned? Ripped? Some of these look like they've been run over!" Raven replied, clutching at each of her leotards in disbelief. Evidently, in her attempts to iron the leotards, Starfire had been a little too exuberant.
"Do not worry, Friend Raven. I will make it up to you."
And, so, Starfire had done the only thing she could do. She lent Raven some of her clothing.
"Who makes this costume!? What kind of costume covers everything except for your stomach!?" Raven cried, as she tried the outfit on. Starfire just smiled.
"It looks good on you."
Raven shook her head and clasped her cloak on. "Hopefully I won't have to go out into public." Raven muttered, consoling herself in the knowledge that since she was shorter than Starfire, the mini-skirt was just a little longer. Just a little.
As soon as she uttered the words, the Titan Tower alarm went off, blanketing the Titans in red light.
Raven sighed.
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"Nice outfit, Raven..." Jinx mocked, unleashing two harsh pink stripes at the telepath. "Did you get lost in someone else's closet?"
Raven grimaced and dodged the attack with relative ease, but became distracted when her cloak flapped open again, revealing her ash-gray midriff and sending a whiff of cold air right up her skirt.
"Shut up." Raven sent two orbs to the pink-haired girl in retaliation. Or, at least she thought she did. Jinx watched as two gigantic black balls of power missed her completely and sailed right past her into Robin, who was not amused when he was thrown to the side of the building by his own teammate.
Raven stopped, eyes wide. She wasn't perfect, but she never missed that badly.
"What's the matter, Raven? Having a bit of bad luck lately?"
"That doesn't begin to describe it."
Jinx gave a silly laugh and flipped over the sorceress easily. Raven turned to face her enemy again, but, as luck would have it, her cape got caught mid-step and she fell flat onto her face.
It was Beast Boy who rescued her from the boulder Mammoth threw at her. While she had been conveniently tangled in her cloak, the HIVE oaf had torn off a chunk of the ground and hurled it straight at her. At the moment before it hit her, Beast Boy transformed into a gigantic dinosaur and smashed it.
Raven wished she could have at least given him a grateful look, but she couldn't even see a few inches past her nose since her cloak decided to wrap itself around her face. She could hear all three of the HIVE graduates laugh at her misfortune, much to her complete mortification. Even Beast Boy couldn't hide a chuckle, seeing the normally composed Raven flapping around on the ground trying to free herself.
It was Starfire who helped her find her way out. But, only by way of starbolt.
Accidentally, a green sphere had luckily—or perhaps, unluckily—hit the gem holding Raven's cape shut, and, with the brooch being little more than a piece of molten metal and melted glass, the cape fell apart leaving a bewildered, Starfire-attired Raven sitting on the ground, trying to figure out why her life was going so miserably.
On the other side of the fight, Robin and Cyborg dispatched Gizmo by short-circuiting a control panel on his belt and making his gizmos of the day useless. Mammoth was taken out when Beast Boy mistakenly rammed him against a construction site where some three dozen odd I-beams came crashing down on his head, rendering him unconscious.
Jinx was finally the center of attention now, but she didn't want to get involved with five super-hero teens by herself.
Not that she was running away or anything, mind you.
With a hearty "See you later, Cy!", a suggestive wink at said Titan, and a bright pink flash of light later, she was gone.