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Well here it is! Chapter Six.... Encircled.
Chapter Six - Encircled
The soft wheeling of the violently purple van made a sharp turn on the deserted two way street leading up towards Jump City's closest mountain, Mount Cabreastaly Benvoy.
"Where are where?" Raven asked a pair of hours later. Clay reluctantly turned the music down a notch to respond to her question.
"Umm... Cabreastaly Benvoy." Clay answered very much informed. Raven arched her eyebrows at the weirdness of the name.
"Okay... and in what city?"
"Well, it's about two neighboring towns from Jump City; umm...I think it's called Mauvaisville."
"These people MUST be weird." Retorted Raven puzzled at the oddness of the names. Clay shrugged and looked towards Raven. She noted the creeping and prickling feeling of the hairs standing strait up on her back.
Clay was watching her. She did not meet his eyes but instead turned towards the window. It was an uncanny feeling that she had never felt before. But it was the steep way of the mountain that brought major troubles... not really physically but mentally, in Raven's mind especially. She was in utmost confusion.
The way he looked at her made her knees buckle and unusually warm. Raven never knew how to feel any emotion. It was after she lost her powers that she also lost the ability to keep her emotions stable; they did harm if they were out of control.... But now.... She was encircled with all this... weirdness and... she liked it.
"Why?"
"Sorry?" Clay asked quite perplexed at the outspoken word.
"Nothing," Raven responded flushed. She hardly realized that she had been speaking aloud. But why was she feeling this emotion? Was she actually attracted to Clayton Reed?
Naw... it couldn't be... or could it be? She pondered on this thought for just a second and gave up on the idea. It was mentally beating her up. She knew she didn't know the answer. 'I guess I'll just go with the flow...' she finally concluded inwardly, not exactly satisfied.
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'Wonder what Beast Boy is dong right now...' a little voice in her head inquired. 'I wonder if he is worrying about my disappearance.' Raven sealed her [eye] lids at those thoughts. Since when did she even care what Beast Boy was doing? 'Since now.' Another voice responded.
She gulped hard and she let herself view the world once again as she opened her eyes quite slowly. What was wrong with her? Beast Boy wasn't normally jogging her mind. Heck... Beast Boy was never on her mind... except when he did something stupid.... Said something stupid... appeared stupid... or... was just plain being stupid.
'Wait... that was most of the time' she corrected herself. So... Beast Boy was on her mind a lot... but never in this way; never in a way where she was actually attracted to him. Or was it lust?
Raven coughed as she chocked on the thought. Lust? Was she actually yearning for Beast Boy? The short midget green guy that constantly annoyed her? The one she would occasionally beat up or spit [not literally] icy comments towards? Was it that Beast Boy?
No! It couldn't bet the Beast Boy that made the stupid jokes no one would laugh at... 'Well, they aren't as bad as Starfire's, but they aren't exactly kill me funny.' she thought satisfied with what she had conjured.
'Maybe' she randomly thought, 'maybe Beast Boy's in my mind right now... using my mirror!' she said inwardly fuming at the thought. 'nah. It has to be something else.' Her mind seemingly wandered over to one of those jokes of his.
'Hey Raven,' she recalled him saying 'I'm not going to stop until I make you laugh. Okay, why did the aardvark cross the road?'
And she remembered the comment she had retorted. 'To beat up the idiot making jokes about it'. She grinned and bit back a protruding giggle. It didn't help as she simultaneously giggled eventually heartily laughing.
The car stopped (at that night's destination.) and Clay arched a left eyebrow.
"Why are you laughing." He asked dumbfounded.
"Oh it's nothing. I was just remembering a joke Beast Boy tried to tell me once." She stopped dead at this. It was apparent that her usual mysterious character was averting its position. After her powers fled from her will her personality must have changed all together. Clay frowned at this.
"You must really like this Beast Boy." He said with much unease. "It seems to me that you are thinking a lot about him."
"How would you know?" she asked puzzled wondering if he read minds. He shrugged.
"Taking a wild guess I guess. Well anyway, I've never heard you laugh before." He said quickly changing the subject and putting much emphasis on the never.
"Not many people have..." she said calming down from her fit of laughter.
"I... I like it."
"I don't do it a lot... I mean... I never was able to. Up until I lost my powers I have never laughed aloud I think... I mean I would have normally blown off your head. I probably wouldn't have spoken to you either. My father... it's really all his fault. I used my powers for good and learned to control my emotions however."
His head leaned on a side with an irresistible earth warming smile.
"Maybe straying away from your powers would be a good thing."
Raven's eyes were now downcast as she dawned on the idea. Maybe not returning to the freak she once was would be a good thing.
She nodded in confusion.
"I don't know. I mean I've thought about it... When I was the Raven with the powers, I wasn't able to feel the way I do now. I wasn't able to express any emotion, I wasn't able to laugh, like, or for that matter love anything affectionately expressing what I wanted. That is with out causing any harm."
Raven looked up at Clay.
'I wouldn't have given you a second chance.' She said concluding. Their eyes connected, created an electric spark. Raven reluctantly ripped that link. "But, they need me. My friends, they need the Raven with the powers. They are my friends and that's pretty much the only thing I can offer."
Immediate comprehension fell over the features of Clay. He nodded unwillingly.
"I'll support any decision you'll make..." he said comforting her. "How do you gain them back?" he questioned. Raven sat there not exactly knowing the answer. She searched and searched and found a most reasonable solution
"The pendent... I think I have to use the pendent to regain all the power I once had. I'll use it to regain my control... and use it to destroy Trigon."
"But Rae, I think my father knows that I gave up on his plan. You have to get the pendent before anybody else does; before he does, because if he gets it, Trigon will come back, and my father will also rise yet again.
"Who's your father?" Raven cut in. Clay looked down most ashamed. He muttered a whisper that was heard in the quiet of the night.
"Slade."
Raven gulped. She thought, the Titan's had all thought that he was dead. They all saw him burn. Clay noted the expression and immediately went to her side.
"I thought, I thought we killed him. He's horrible, he should have died."
"Raven, I'm not anything like him."
"I know you are not. You're horrible at being a criminal..." she said in disbelief of the message that had just been delivered to her. How could she possibly like the son of a foe? She would be fraternizing with the enemy but then again she couldn't help it.
"Clay," she breathed out, "I'm so confused." She said finally building up enough courage to say so. Was she really going to tell him the way she felt about him? Was she going to unlock the mysterious bind that she had enclosed within? Was she going to actually tell him that she couldn't mentally choose whether the person she fancied was him or Beast Boy?
He absorbed every word that came out of her mouth. He absorbed it better then a sponge would.
"Exactly what about?"
"I don't know to tell you the truth... this whole thing... Clay, I'm so... new to these feelings..."
"So am I." he said admitting.
She looked immediately up and met his hazel eyes once more. They engulfed her with limitless happiness... but what really made her happy? Beast Boy... what about him? Was she going to leave him out in the dust? She didn't know yet.
They instantly became paralyzed. They were paralyzed to the world around them as they inched their way towards each other.
"Raven," he said after a minute or two being closer to her then he had ever been in his life. Surprisingly Raven allowed it. "I-I don-." But he cut off lost for words.
She could have possibly counted every minuscule freckle that did lie on his cheeks of his flawless features. Their eyes, almost as if instinct shut and their noses briefly touched as they were embracing on their first kiss.
Raven was first to pull away, her eyes were downcast. And suddenly... it was so clear to her. The obscure image that was dim enlightened. Her mind's puzzling decisions and questions were finally answered with that one affectionate kiss. It felt soo good, soo sweet, and yet so wrong. The words that came out of her mouth next were just right, if not perfect to describe what lied in her mind all along.
"Clay, I really... I really... can't do this to Beast Boy."
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I do truely feel VERY VERY bad for Clay... Move over Raven.. Ill take Clay.. lmao.. i guess i've created the kind of guy i want... lmao.. BUT RAVEN SOLELY BELONGS TO BB! OR DOES SHE?
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Cabreastaly Benvoy, spells Clay, Raven, and Beast Boy.... Have a pen? Check it out...and Mauvaisville equals to Evilville for Mauvais is French for evil! CLEVER RIGHT? Just kidding.. Now I am sounding conceited. Well anyway I'll be using some latin in the upcoming chapters! THANKS AGAIN! LOVE YOU GUYS ALL!
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