Mi corazón
My heart
Raven slowly woke up remembering the feeling of Cyborg's big strong arms around her. Just thinking about it made Raven want that feeling again. She rolled back a little to lean deeper into Cyborg comforting embrace but just ended up on her back. She was alone, lying in the still warm imprint that Cyborg had left. His not being there was disappointing but the fact that his side of the bed was still warm was a comfort. At least Raven knew that Cyborg hadn't run off the first chance he had gotten. Raven felt a smile touch her lips faintly. 'Maybe, just maybe, Cyborg likes me just like I li.'
Raven stopped herself in mid thought. 'I can't be thinking of him like that. He only did it because he owed me a favor and he always keeps his word.' Raven reasoned with herself. They were, after all, teammates and they didn't have the same kind of love connect Star and Robin had. They may have a stronger bond with the other then the rest of the gang but that didn't mean anything, did it? 'No, it can't mean anything. I can't love. It's just that simple. Plus he deserves more then some short, flat, stick of a girl.' Raven berated herself. 'He deserves to be with someone that can make him happy. Someone who could love him back the why he should be. I can't do that for him. Besides, this was just a favor, a one-time thing. I was emotional and not in my right mind. Thankfully Cyborg isn't the type to take advantage of people.'
That last thought made Raven blush as she made sure her costume was on like it should be. Finding everything in order Raven was relieved and a little disappointed. Her first time in bed with a guy and nothing happened. Star had made it to second base with Robin. But the fact that Cyborg hadn't even tried anything just reinforced her own thinking; he didn't want her. Raven thought of this even though she knew perfectly well Cyborg wouldn't do anything like that. Thinking like this just made it easier for her.
Sighing as she accepted her fate for the umphteenth time Raven crawled out of bed and looked at the clock. It was 6 in the evening. Somehow she had managed to sleep the day away in Cyborg's arms. There she was at it again, her thoughts roaming back to him again. Raven exited her room and headed towards the kitchen. Perhaps some supper and a cup of herbal tea would help her get her mind off of him.
Supper turned out to be a self-serve deal. Robin and Starfire had already eaten and were stargazing on the roof. Beast Boy was playing some stupid video game that gloried the entire Vietnam fiasco. According to the game the US seemed to be in control and Beast Boy was blasting away the computer generated men to the cries of "DIE you VC Bastard!"
Raven shook her head. Let Beast Boy do as he wanted and be as ignorant as he wanted to be. The group was really worried how he would react to all the bloodshed he had partaken in but in the last two days he seemed to be fine.
Luckily Cyborg was nowhere to be seen though there was a steady, rhythmic pounding of metal coming from the deep recesses of the basement. After eating a sandwich and brewing some tea Raven decided to find out what the pounding was all about. Partly because she wanted to get away from Beast Boy's maniacal statements and laughter and partly because she was curious.
Hot cup of tea in hand Raven followed the pounding sounds all the way down into the basement. Despite it being November and the fact that she was going underground, it was actually getting hotter.
Finally Raven saw a flickering light in a room and moved to take a look. What she saw took her breath away and made her heart speed up.
Cyborg had awakened with Raven in his arms. Much as he didn't want to leave he knew he had to. It was early evening already and he had a few things to do. Cyborg, as quietly and softly as he could, unwrapped his hands from around Raven and eased himself out of bed before bee-lining it for the door. Outside of Raven's room Jacob had caught Cyborg. Apparently he had managed to get his hands on enough Dark Metal to begin and a forge had been made in the basement. Seeking an activity what would take his mind off of Raven, Cyborg decided that he would begin. Besides, just beginning on that parts that would remake him wasn't the same as putting them on. Cyborg could deal with that part when it came.
Knowing a forge was a hot place Cyborg decided to change. Off came all the heavy armor and plating. On went his left sneaker, a pair of sweatpants and a tank top. Once dressed Cyborg made his way down to the depths of the Tower to begin work. Soon the rhythmic pounding of his hammer on the black molten metal echoed through out the building.
But having worked on repairing things so often Cyborg's arm literary went on autopilot, and despite the intense heat his mind wandered back to the warm bed upstairs. Upstairs had been a comforting warm, a pleasant warm, with Raven in his arms but…
It was a one-time thing. A one-night stand that happened during the day and nothing happened.
'She still doesn't know how to handle emotions given her new freedom, she was emotional, she just wanted to be comforted. And if all those reasons fail to convince me then I can just blame it on her period. Girls get weird around that time.' Cyborg reasoned with himself.
She didn't love him like he loved her. He knew that what they had was a strong friendship and one his end it was a platonic love. Not because he was incapable, but because who would honestly want a half man, half machine freak like himself? He weighed a metric (1000 kgs 2200 lbs) ton to boot. Who in their right mind wanted to sleep with a metric ton behemoth?
There was Cyborg, in just sweat pants and a tight tank top, hammering away at a red-hot piece of metal. Sweat glistened off of his skin matching the light of the forge as it reflected off of his titanium arms.
Raven's mouth went dry. She had admitted to herself that Cyborg really did look good in the morning; but that was nothing compared to how he looked to her now.
Raven sat down on the step that was just by the door. That gave her the advantage of seeing without being seem. Her dark cloak and leotard helped camouflage Raven as she settled down to watch Cyborg work.
Cyborg pounded away at a quick pace but progress was slow. The metal was light, lighter than the one that adorned him now but its tolerance to heat was so much higher. He had to have the blast furnace stoked well and worked quickly before the metal cooled too much. Its strength was amazing; it took Cyborg and his titanium muscles a full hour to hammer out what would be the replacement for his face.
When he was done Cyborg was admiring his own work and the metal from which it had been made. The deep black of Dark Metal made his skin look lighter against it but Cyborg could tell that there was something about the metal that made it special. It had to have some sort of special alloy mix that Man didn't know about.
"Quite a fine piece of work you have there."
Cyborg looked up. He hadn't heard the ping of the elevator or the hiss of the doors opening to allow Jacob and Tear in a wheelchair exit the lift.
"Not bad for an hours work I say. Rather stubborn metal to work with." Cyborg commented turning his attention back to the jet-black mask. He was trying to think of how he would look with such a contrasting color to the silver he wore now.
Tear laughed. "That's why only the Tanar'ri wear armor and wield weapons made from that. It takes a long time to make even a small piece. Your mask would have taken a master smith an entire moon to finish." Tear said with an almost playful tone.
"Great. I can't wait until I work on the breastplate. That will be heaps of fun." Cyborg said sarcastically.
"Don't mock the metal or yourself. It is very rare and difficult to attain the purest alloy from it. It takes the soul of an innocent to properly purify just a kilo (2.2 lbs) of the Dark Metal. That is what gives it its awesome characteristics." Tear said in a very serious voice.
Cyborg could acted shocked or asked how Tear had obtained the metal in the quantity he had but Cyborg decided that something was even more pressing. "If it is so hard to get this stuff then why are you having me make an entire new body for myself? Why not just make a suit for Raven. I would just need her measurements and then I could hammer her out a suit in just a day. All I would have to make is the breastplate. She doesn't need a helmet or leggings." Cyborg asked.
"She will need to be protected but how can you protect her if you are injured?" Tear asked. Ask per the norm his reasoning was very good.
"Fair enough." Cyborg answered. "But there is something I need to talk to you about. I can only be her guardian for as long as it takes you to recover. I won't be around for much longer."
A very faint gasp came from the door. Tear nodded to Jacob and Jacob went to the door and brought back a very surprised and somewhat embarrassed Raven. Seeing that she was already caught she didn't see why she couldn't confront Cyborg on this rather new and shocking development.
"What do you mean you won't be around much longer?" Raven asked in a curious and slightly shaken voice.
"My thoughts exactly." Tear added.
"Look, in 9 months I turn 20. No longer a teen, get it? How can a 20 year old be a Teen Titan?" Cyborg asked them the rhetorical question.
"Why should that matter?" Raven replied.
Cyborg sighed. "Let's discuss this someplace more comfortable. Let's meet in the conference room in 20 minutes."
20 minutes later all for of them had gathered in the conference room. Cyborg had showered and was wearing his normal attire. They all sat down around the table and Cyborg started speaking.
"Look, Rae. I'm going on 20. I can't be Big Brother for everyone here forever. Besides the team won't last long anyway. Starfire and Robin are getting married. I know Robin is ready to stop fighting and settle down. Boom; two parts of the team gone just like that. I want to get out and see the world. Take a break from it all. Three parts of the team fragmented. You and Beast Boy can stick together if you want but the Titans, just like in the mythology, will fall. I knew that from the beginning."
"You can't leave." Raven told Cyborg in a small voice.
"Why not. It's my choice. I'm just staying because Wheelz over here asked me to fill in for him." Cyborg replied.
"Why you?" Raven asked. She didn't like the thought of the team dissolving and Cyborg leaving. So she asked a question that was off subject.
Tear answered the question. "Several reasons. His size makes him an ideal human shield. His strength and prowess in combat makes him difficult to defeat and lessens the odds of someone getting to you. And he is the only one willing to kill to protect you."
Raven's eyes widened at the last reason. She looked over at Cyborg who was trying to bore a whole into Tear with his stare. His jaw was locked, a tell tale sign that Cyborg hadn't liked Tear sharing that certain piece of information. That meant that it was true; Cyborg would kill to protect her.
Tear watched Raven look over at Cyborg. Cyborg looked at Raven and his face relaxed to a sheepish smile. "And I have gathered that you don't mind each other's company making him ideal in everyway but…" Tear trailed off.
Both of the Titans looked at Tear. "But what?"
"You said you would be you guardian until I recovered correct?" Tear asked Cyborg.
"Yes." was the cautious reply. Cyborg knew those words would come back to haunt him.
"I had originally gone down to the basement to talk to you about this; my injuries are very extensive and my fighting days are over. For the next century or so anyway. But my presence here will draw unwanted attention. I had thought of penning a letter but I thought you would like the chance to yell at me instead. Maria, Jacob and I will leave, taking some of the heat off of Di'Candra. However there is a slight problem with her being alone." Tear began explaining.
Raven raised an eyebrow. She had been fine on her own before and she didn't see why Tear's leaving would make that a problem.
"The legions of Hell will never bow down to a woman, much less the child that the Di'Candra is now." Jacob said speaking for the first time tonight.
"And with the Teen Titans dissolving in the near future it only justifies my thinking further. The only way the minions of the Nine Hells would accept the Di'Candra as their Di'ra would be if she had a Di're ruling with her. The perfect match would be you two because Cyborg would have an excuse to be by you night and day while you gain better footing with the unholy population or your future realm." Tear explained as if he was explaining how to butter toast.
Cyborg and Raven had no idea what a Di'ra o and Di're were but they could guess, and if their guesses where right then…
"Let me get this straight. In order for Raven to be accept by the demonic population and in order for me to protect her longer you want us to get married?" Cyborg
"Yes that is the plan as it stands now. It is far more logical then the other one I originally had in mind." Tear said complacently.
"And that was?" Cyborg leaned forward staring Tear straight in the eye.
"I would have take the place of Di're. Perhaps get a few children out of the relationship as well."
Cyborg had a sonic cannon right in Tear's face instantly.
"Never… talk about Raven like she is just some damned breeding toy." Cyborg said angrily. "Now get the hell out of here before I send you there." Cyborg growled.
"Tapped a nerve I see. Most interesting." Tear said flashing his sly grin.
Cyborg powered up his sonic cannon; the sound of it sending a chill through the room.
"Leave. Now. " Cyborg said in two very distinct sentences.
"I will warn you of this; my leaving will make Telir think that Di'Candra is vulnerable making it seen like the perfect opportunity to get rid of the last legal claim to the Blood Throne. Be wary Cyborg, be very wary. It would be such a shame to let such a prize get killed." Tear motioned to Jacob and in a blink of an eye they both disappeared a piece paper fluttering in the air where they once had been.
"ARRGGGHHH!" Cyborg slammed his fist into the steel table denting it. He sudden movement made Raven jump out of her chair. Noticing what his actions had done Cyborg just closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair.
"Sorry about that. I just couldn't believe he had the gall to talk about you like that. And he wanted us to get married"
Cyborg missed the blush at crept up on Raven's cheeks.
"as if it was going to be a casual thing. All because he couldn't do it anymore himself. That asshole, I swear Rae, I will never let him near you ever again." Cyborg finished his speech in time to notice that Raven moved so that she was standing behind his chair.
"Thanks for speaking up for me." Raven murmured.
"No problem Rae." Cyborg replied.
Raven gently placed her hands on his shoulders. Cyborg tensed at her light touch but he relaxed as she slowly began to massage his shoulders. "When… when are you going to go?" Raven asked in a soft voice, the hurt evident in her voice. Raven didn't want the Titans, her family, to break up even though she had known it would be inevitable.
"I had figured that Tear would be fine after Robin and Star's wedding. But since you blasted him just as he deserves and put him out for a century, I'll stay until the wedding. Robin will need his best man after all."
"Oh." Raven replied. That only gave her until the wedding to convince Cyborg not to go, to not leave the team.
"I'm also going to stay as long as it takes to make sure you'll be safe Raven. I may have told that antediluvian cripple that I would protect you and I plan to keep my word, not that you really need me. I'm sure you'll be able to take care of yourself, Rae." Cyborg continued. He knew that Tear hadn't really done anything really. If anything he created a need for Raven to be protected because of his hidden political past in the Hells.
Both Raven and Cyborg smiled though neither could see the other smiling as Raven's hands continued to mead Cyborg's broad shoulder muscles. They both were enjoying their time alone together, a commodity that seemed to have increased in that past two days.
"Your hands are doing wonders for my shoulders." Cyborg commented.
"Thanks." Raven replied sheepishly.
"Hey you have dinner?" Cyborg asked.
"Yeah, but not much." Raven answered quickly.
"Me neither. You want to go out and get a bite to eat?" Cyborg inquired. He had his motives to ask Raven out. It would keep her in his sight and get her out of the Tower; Cyborg didn't trust Tear to just get up and leave like that. He knew something was up.
"Sure." Was all Raven managed to squeak out. Despite what she had told herself earlier she couldn't help her heart from beating faster. Cyborg had just asked her out after all.
The letter that had been appeared rest on top of the conference table. Tear and Jacob reappeared and Tear motioned Jacob to fetch the letter. "I'm sure he is just bring her out to get her out of the tower and away from me. Cyborg is smart kid, wouldn't you say so Jacob?"
"Of course sir."
"But he will fall into my plans anyway. They are both so caught up in each other to do other wise."
The two teens exited their rooms and went to their respective rooms to grab a few things before going out. Cyborg had to fetch his car keys and get some money that he had tucked away.
Raven raced to her room once she was sure that Cyborg couldn't see her. She bee lined for her closest and flung it wide open. She had several dilemmas facing her and she didn't know what to do. Should she get some money, or was Cyborg going to pay for both of them. If he did then did that make this a date? If this was a date, should she change into something nice or would that seem too awkward? Raven quickly browsed through her wardrobe and cursed her lack of other clothing. Uniforms hung dominate, normal clothes being few and far between. Raven did have a few dresses that could pass off for smart casual but would that be too formal?
Cyborg knocked on her door, loudly, just in case he walked in her half naked again.
"You can come in." Raven called out as she hastily nabbed a few bills from her purse and tucked them up her sleeve.
"Having trouble deciding what to wear or something?" Cyborg joked earning himself a small smile from Raven. "You're a lot prettier when you smile, you know." That remarked got Raven to blush. To cover that fact she turned to her closet so that her back was to Cyborg.
"Well maybe if you weren't here I could pick out something to wear a little quicker." Raven retorted playfully. Cyborg chuckled as he glimpsed into Raven's closet. She really didn't have much in the way of casual dress save her uniform. There was an elegant lilac gown that caught Cyborg's eye.
"Why not try this on?" Cyborg walked up behind Raven and reached past her to take the dress off of its hanger. "I think you'd look great in this, Rae."
Cyborg's close proximity to her made it difficult to do anything but just nod yes.
Cyborg smiled. "Good, I'll go put on a suit and we can make a formal date out of this."
Raven spun around, her eyes wide open as she stared at Cyborg. He had just said that this was a full-fledged date, hadn't he?
"If that's alright with you." Cyborg very hastily added, his confidence having suddenly turned to nervousness. He knew that Raven couldn't accidentally blow him up because of the little marble, but he did know that she could do it on purpose.
Snapping out of her initial shock Raven put on her best sexy look, just glancing up at Cyborg from underneath the curtain of her hair, as she ran her hand up Cyborg's chest and beckoning him to lean down.
Cyborg suddenly remembered that Raven disliked formal functions and only dressed up when it was an absolute must. The sparkling in her partly hidden eyes told Cyborg that she was up to something but he still leaned down at her hand's beckoning.
"Make it worth my while and I may just make it worth yours…" Raven whispered hotly into his ear. And then she nibbled on his ear for just a second.
Raven immediately grabbed the dress from Cyborg's stationary hand and disappeared into her bathroom to change. She had planned to tease him with just words alone; the last bit had been purely on impulse. What made her do it, she didn't know but the end results of it were worth remembering.
Cyborg had stood there in a stunned state for a few moments after Raven had retreated to her bathroom before he quickly went to his room. Once there he couldn't help but yelling "BOO-YA!" He didn't care if the entire tower heard him. He was too caught up in the fact that he had a date with the untouchable Raven to even think about remembering the things he had told himself earlier in the day.
The next 20 minutes went by rather quickly. Both teens took quick showers, got dressed and applied accessories as needed, Raven even ventured as far as to put on some mascara, a little eye shadow and grape lip balm as she didn't own any lipstick.
Cyborg met Raven outside of her room and nearly fell over at the sight of the woman that step out of her room. Raven saw the expression that Cyborg was sporting and blushed. He had his jaw hanging and his eye was bulging at the sight of her. Even though he had seen the dress before hand Cyborg had no idea Raven would look so good in it.
It was strapless; with a low enough cut in the front to tease, showed most of Raven's back, and had slits cut in the sides to allow Raven to walk with some freedom. The rich purple of her dress and high heels glittered in the light and matched her eyes. A purple shawl was draped over her shoulders; just incase Cyborg brought her some play cold. The royal flush that Raven wore made her mysterious amethyst jewel that decorated her forehead fit right in as if it was meant to be there.
"You look great as well Cyborg." Raven muttered as she blushed under Cyborg's gaze. He was in a tailored three-piece suit, his unique build requiring all his clothes to be tailored just for him, but he looked very sharp nonetheless.
Cyborg snapped out of it. "You look like a goddess, Rae."
Raven smiled and blushed a little once more but she didn't try to hide it this time.
"You are truly beautiful when you smile, Rae. You should smile more often." Cyborg told Raven as he offered her his arm. She took it and the two made their way down to the garage.
In the living room they spotted Robin and Starfire coming back from what was just supposed to a lunch date. Starfire and Raven owwwed and ahhhed over Star's engagement ring. It was sliver with medium sized ruby set in the middle. Two smaller rubies rested on either side.
Robin and Cyborg stood to the side passed the time talking.
"Finally asked her out, eh?" Robin said nudging Cyborg in the ribs.
"What do you mean finally? The sexual tension between you two is to thick you could cut it with a knife." Robin replied.
"At least we keep yourselves under wraps. You and Star were dead obvious from the get go and you two can't keep your hands off of each other. I'm surprised that you haven't knocked her up yet. I mean you've had 6 months to do it." Cyborg retorted. If they were going to play each other's relations at each other the Cyborg knew he had plenty of ammo.
"Hey, we aren't animals you know. We can control ourselves. I'll have you know that Star is the exact same as she was when she first got here." Robin replied.
Cyborg raised his brow. "Really? You've spent 6 months in bed with her, stripped down to however far you two go, and nothing? Either you are crazy, secretly gay, or have some great self-restraint."
"Look all of this stuff, even kissing seemed new to her. I just want to go slow with her, is all." Robin told Cyborg. The reasoning was good but Cyborg remembered something that made him see the real reason why Robin and Star hadn't gone all the way yet.
"Dude, just how far have you got?" Cyborg inquired.
"Dude." Robin replied giving Cyborg a look.
"Base wise."
"Maybe second. Why?" Robin asked. He didn't like the glint his Cyborg's eye nor the sly grin.
"You, my friend, haven't gone all the way because you're nervous." Cyborg accused Robin.
Robin kept his face poker worthy but a very small twitch of his eye gave him away.
Cyborg laughed.
"Will you shut up!" Robin growled in a low voice so that Cyborg could only hear him. "Look everything on Earth is new to her"
"But you don't know if she's unsure because she doesn't know or because she doesn't know how they do it on this rock. You don't know if you can compete with any past boyfriends, right?" Cyborg cut in triumphantly.
"You're pushing it Cy."
Cyborg laughed. He had remembered that 6 months ago, when Robin had been unconscious on a bed in the sick bay that both Raven and Starfire and confessed to being virgins. Cyborg toyed with the idea of telling Robin but he decided to let his younger friend find out.
"Just go for it. I'm sure Starfire will love you for it."
Robin began to protest with some lame excuse ready but Cyborg cut him off. "Look, I made Beast Boy take a sedative, he's been having bad dreams, and he'll be out until tomorrow morning. Rae and I won't be back for several hours, and you will have Star just to yourself." Cyborg told Robin.
"Fine, I'll have sex with Starfire, but only because you told me to." Robin joked.
"You covered?" Cyborg asked.
"Yeah."
"Go get her so I can go on my date." Cyborg chuckled. "Hey."
"Yeah?"
"Want some pointers?"
"I'll manage." Robin called over his shoulder.
The girls only cooed over Star's ring until they managed to separate themselves from the guys.
"Raven?" Star asked nervously.
"Yes?"
"Can we have some 'girl talk' now? There is something I have to ask you." Starfire asked.
"What is it?" Raven inquired.
"I remember long ago that you told me that on this planet people do not engage in sex until they are married. Robin has told me that being engaged is almost like being married and I was wondering if it would be all right to, how do you say it, 'make love' to Robin." Starfire asked. Her nerves showed in the fact she was pointing the ends of her fingers together.
"Look Star, that's up to you. Most people nowadays don't wait, have sex with lots of people, and spread diseases and die. But if you know you are only going to, um, 'love' Robin then it should be ok, if you are ready for it that is. You could get pregnant, Star, and you're only 17. You're not even an adult on Earth yet, are you ready for all of that?" Raven told Star.
"I've been thinking about it for a long time now. I know Robin loves me and I him and that he will take care of me. I… I just want to show him how I feel; that I want to be with him. I know you said I had to find out about sex on my own and that you don't have any more experience then I do."
'Even less more likely.' Raven thought.
"But I was wondering if you could tell me about the things you have heard. Though Tamaranians and Humans are not very different in appearance, I have no experience dealing with a man in this matter." Starfire told Raven.
"Look, I can't tell you much but they say that a girl's first time hurts and that they never get much out of it. I'm sure that Robin will do his best and be gentle with you. Just trust him, ok?" Raven told her nervous friend.
"Ok. Thank you, Raven." Starfire gave Raven a hug before the girls made their way back to the guys.
A/N: Hey, I'm still breathing and back. Here are some 8 pages for your wait. I think, just off the bat, I should get some long reviews for this. I have at least 3; count them, 3 major events. I don't want reviews that say "good job" or "update" I want reviews that react to the righting. If you want to tell me that you like my work then react to the writing. Pick at it, it helps me write better and gives me ideas of what to write. Ok I'ven't update in a while because my Internet got knocked out but here we go! One last thing, I have had two people refer to someone named "Rain." Who is this character? I haven't named anyone that. I have Tir'eir or Tear for short, Maria and Jacob. They are my OCs. No one named Rain. Everyone look at the SIZE of BlackShield's and Talon's reviews. THOSE ARE REVIEWS!
Lucifer: Hades, good to hear from you. Thanks for the review. I know my grammar isn't perfect and I really don't care. I don't have a beta nor do I have time to regularly write. I write when I feel like it. Yes my writing is good. Everyone is telling me that, which I'm happy to hear but can we please not do it unless you want to label me king of the section or something huge like that. Now the comment about Robin asking Cy for money, that is more like it.
Athen884: Ah the niece of the Devil. Tell me, just how just a man give birth to a kid via having a headache and being smacked on the head with a hammer? Thanks for the vote for a small wedding. I was thinking about a small wedding too. I mean they are young, don't really have families to invite and they aren't all the rich either. Unless you want to do with what some people say, that Robin is being taken care of by Batman/ Bruce Wayne, then they could have a big wedding. AH! A convert! WHOOPPEEE! See CyRae does work. Plsu I know that BBRae doesn't really work and there are tons of them out there. So pick; quantity or quality? Plus Cy is the coolest guy character hands down.
BlackShield: TeenTitansGirl14, I've seen a few fics of yours dedicated to person. From what I gather you, Talon, and this other person are the real drivers for the CyRae pairing. I may have mentioned this before but this was originally going to be OCRae because I didn't like BBRae, and RobStar are just set in stone no matter what those other people say. ie RobRae. But after reading a few of your fics I found that CyRae really did work out and looking over the shows there are hints at it, just like there are hints at RobStar. So I changed things some though Tear will be useful later on.
TerraBasher: Elope is when two people run away and get married in secret. So you don't care what kind of wedding they have? Even if I had them married in midair over a lake then make Star drop Robin into the lake?
meditaion6: Long time no see. Have you been working on your fic? Perhaps I answered your question in this chapter about Tear. Sneaky old bastard isn't he? Maybe, if you read into the lines you can see what I had originally planned for Tear and Raven. Keep writing, it took my two years of writing crap fics to write this one, and this is only half decent.
The Raven's Wings: Esta verdad, es muy dificil para usar la regla en una novela pero era necesario. But hey, it's the perfect excuse. Stereotypically speaking girls get all moody and unpredictable around that time and therefore I can make Raven be very unRaven like. We guys don't have such an excuse though I have heard girls complain about that fact. According to some female friends it's unfair. "You know when we are all moody, we never know if you guys." Though we don't follow a cycle that has such obvious effects, like excuses to get out of swimming (I know girls that use that all the time), we guys do have a 5-day cycle we go through. Hasta manaña.
Nightwish13: Rain, again with the Rain. Who is Rain? I think you mean Tear. The though had crossed my mind before but rape just disgusts me. I have the stomach for most other things but the Romance (era) part of me just can't take it. (Therefore most of America and the world disgust me. You sick perverted, horny little buggers. You spread all sorts of diseases, jack up drug prices and should die horrible deaths without soothing drugs!) I drop stories that have it even if they were good up to that point. As to who Tear raped; I meant it in an abstract way. He's over 5000 years old and rampaged, pillaged and raped for over 4000 years. So, lots of people I guess. I thought that came across when I wrote it. The place I got the quote from said vici, not vinci. Either way I can see "Victoria" being born from both of them. Tear and Raven were going to hook up but I changed it. What their relationship is now, I don't know. Messy at best, I guess.
Flashcrazy07: I'm the same way; I read the whole thing through to the last chapter then review. ¿Puedes leer los titolos? Muy bien, it's true, Spanish is a very rapid growing language. So you like Cy and Rae together as well. Glad to see that there's people out there that agree with me and that I can help build up the support for the pairing.
D-I-WaRrIa: Big wedding and it gets crashed. That could happen. I had thought of that as a possibility. I have need for another combat scene but where I am in the plot would just ruin all the fluffiness of it all. I couldn't bring myself to do it but there will be more blood, tears, and death later. Keep watch of Tear, he is very important. With Cyborg being the main love interest with Raven I've made Tear very mysterious, more so then originally planned, had he been Rae's lover.
DarkDepths: Very interesting idea. I am looking for a way to end this fic soon but the writing, and reviewers, won't let me. I do have something planned for Starfire's and Robin's wedding. Thanks for the comment about their characters. I don't watch regularly since football practice takes up my Fridays so my gauge for their characters is all from reading other fics and what little I've seen.
TalonTheSky-Liner: There is text in the gaps, highlight and make the text black if you want to, you may not like it. Yes grammar, the bane of all men. Originally Cyborg wasn't going to play a big part, I treated him like most people, and ignored him and BB since they weren't really needed. But BlackShield made me change the course of the fic and I had to write Cyborg into the fic bit by bit. Plus in the beginning I had toyed with a triangle of CyRaeTear with Tear winning, thus explaining the very small hints of CyRae in the very beginning. And I will continue to bash the US because I can. It is the same reason that Bush invaded two other countries without declaring war on them making the whole deal illegal! He bloody can. Of course there's other reasons like, I don't know, oil. Cough. And to protect the Saudis. Cough. But you don't hear about that. Well the thing about 12 year olds getting married must be true someplace. In my defense I have the Guinness Book of World Records. Youngest marriage was between two babies. Their parents got them married. The drinking thing. I find it absolutely insane. You can vote, drive a car, buy firearms, sign up for the military and get shot at, but you can't drink. Well this is my fic and in my fic you can drink at 18, because that is when society says you are an adult and responsible for your actions. Well America is 238 and she's still not responsible for any of the WAR CRIMES she has done. Examples you say? The genocide of the Natives Americans, the fabricated causes for war, such as the Spanish-American War or the Gulf of Tonkik in 1968. Both cases of the US staging the attacks. Or all the democratically elected governments we have toppled to put in our own dictators. Back to the fic. The Spanish titles were originally to spell out other worlds. The first chapter says Mira, or Look. Then the first letter of all the chapters after that spell out; "A devil is good." Then I stopped but kept the Spanish titles. Yeah Tear got a lot of attention. He does seem invincible but I had planned to make his vulnerability known once he and Raven were together. Now I'm making go back to the shadows where he can be mysterious. And I don't see why everyone makes Cyborg so mechanical. He's human too, just with mechanical bits in him. And I figured that his torso would at least be human, how else would he have survived long enough to get rebuild other wise?
"Information is a very dangerous trading commodity. The truth is often too much for most to handle." LockDown over and out…