Raventhedarkgoddess: When trapped in a hotel room in Canada, they cannot expect me to be social, can they? Good thing I brought this notebook...I think I'll work on an update.
Chapter Seven: Waiting At a Distance
Raven was bent over on the roof, one hand resting on her knee as they scanned the city one final time for Slade or either of the black cloaked figures. Robin was standing with both hands curled into fists and his teeth clenched as sweat poured down his face, anger written in every movement he made. "Robin, calm! We should all go home and try to track this from there." At the sound of her voice, Robin unclenched his fists, losing all will to fight as he slumped down next to Raven.
She put her hand gently on his shoulder as his heavy breathing and angry deminer subsided. He turned to face her. What is it about her that makes me listen so well, anyway? "You're right. You are absolutly right...Again." He stood up and turned to face everyone else. "Back to the Tower, team." He couldn't throw the urge to kick something, so he threw a hard kick at a nearby light set in the roof, shattering it. Starfire dodged a single flying shard and stood apart from the group. Why can he not control his anger when around Raven as he did around me? The thought slipped sullenly into her head, and then she noticed that Beast Boy had one hand on her shoulder. She turned to face him, trying to ignore the bitterness within her head.
Raven lead the group down the fire escape so that they didn't have to go through the main building and risk arousing someone. Robin climbed down after her and the two of them settled themselves onto his motorcycle, her telling him to wait for the others although she could tell he wanted to fly ahead. Everyone else shrugged and followed. Lecita let out a groan as her skirt caught in the fire escape. Trying to rip it away did nothing for her, and she held out one hand to her sister as she passed, trying to get Anna to take it. Anna completly snubbed Lecita, walking by as if she didn't see her at all. Hey, I'm here you know, she thought angerly. "Need a hand?" Cyborg smiled warmly.
Lecita took Cyborg's hand and used it to steady herself as she pulled her skirt free. Due to her high heels, she staggered directly into Cyborg's chest and he threw his arms around her in a supporting way until she could stand up straight. Lecita stood there a few extra seconds, taking in what she assumed to be the closet to a hug she would ever get from Cyborg. Blushing, she stepped back hurridly, almost falling again. "Sorry!"
"It's okay...Really," Cyborg responded quickly. It's more than okay, taunted a little voice that, as usual, nagged him from the back of his mind. Lecita is just a friend, he told it. A very good one? It nagged again. Go to hell, he thought, ending the argument in his head and then shaking his head to clear it.
"This car would go a lot faster if it had a driver," Anna cat-called from the backseat. The others were looking at Lecita and then back at him, and Beast Boy had a suggestive smirk on his face that made Cyborg want to punch him. Instead, the two got in the car without looking at each other and Cyborg sped off after Robin. Did she have to make such a desprite move in front of everyone? She could have told me first, Anna thought in a hard, unforgiving way about her older sister. Lecita watched Raven's foot curb out to meet Robin's shin and sighed. Why don't relationships ever stay in one peice? Or is that about how fast he's going? Who knows? I just want to have a love life, she thought, somewhat filled with guilt at the thought.
Parking about five minutes before Cyborg would, Robin hopped off his bike and stood in the rain with his head to the sky, enjoying the cold mist, seemingly unaware that Raven was staring at him. "Robin, tell me, what were you trying to do? Kill us, maybe? Slade is still at large and you want us both dead, is that it?"
"Raven, that's not it at all! I'm not suicidal or crazy or anything like that at all. You've got me figured for the wrong guy. I just have a lot on my mind right now. And I'll die in a fight with Slade before I die to AVOID it!" Robin noticed something rare: Her tone was ice cold again, not the kind, light tone she generaly used with him.
"I have plenty of things on my mind, Robin. But am I not here for you, at least somewhat, everyday? Relationships are hard, you know that as well as I do. I'm not Starfire. You can't push me back until you need me. I don't want us to hurt each other because I love you and, at least I think, you love me. But...If you need me to back off for a while...Condsider this relationship on hold." She pecked Robin on the cheek and ran inside, leaving Robin standing alone in the rain, face still turned upward to the heavy drops that threw his black hair over his face, ready to face whatever came next. It couldn't be worse, he thought unhappily.
"Friend Robin!" Dear God, he thought to himself, not her. Can't she see I want to be left alone? Apparently not, he thought as Starfire ran towards him. He wiped his hair away from his eyes, gratful for the mask he wore. I wish I had Raven's ability to hide what I'm feeling, he thought, then shook his head. You're half crazy, he told himself, just bringing up her name. It's over. Over. So quit thinking about Ra...Her. His eyes, agenst his knowlage or will, began to burn with unshed tears.
"...Raven done something? I understand she can be most upsetting and difficult sometimes." Starfire concluded whatever she had been saying in a light, sugary voice that almost made Robin want to retch. Beast Boy, from a distance so that he could not hear what was being said, watched Starfire talking to Robin in an almost warm way desipite his limited answers and cold way of standing. She just wants him to feel better, he told himself. Quit denying the obivious, he snapped at himself in his head.
Robin turned away and headed inside the tower. The others followed until only Starfire and Beast Boy remained outside in the storm, which was rapidly gathering strengh. "I am most confused. I am not yet over Robin and long for at least a converstaion between us two, and yet I love you. Whatever shall I do, Beast Boy? I want to at least be friends with Robin, but then I feel so cruel toward you! I cannot..." Starfire broke off, sobs heaving from her body as she kept her arms around the boy who she knew deep in her heart truly loved her. Beast Boy didn't say anything, stunned into silence by the fact that Starfire really loved him as the rain soaked them both.
Cyborg, for lack of better things to do, sat down next to the sullen Robin, neither of them saying anything as the rain came down the window pane in front of their faces, the lights off. "Women!" Robin finally said in a low, hiss-like voice. "Were we not cool ten minutes ago? And the next minute she goes all seregent on my ass. I mean, she tells me she loves me and then breaks us up, saying I can come back when I have things figured out. Normally she won't even tell me she cares, now look! She always told me she'd stay around and wait forever. Well, if she can have it now what's the point in waiting from a distance? And I don't have her down as Starfire!" He looked up at the watermarked ceiling of their home and yelled, "Raven, I do love you! Forever! DO YOU HEAR ME?" Cyborg silently pulled his friend back onto the couch and they sat together, both miserable for the sake of the women they thought they loved.
The truth was that Raven, sitting with Lecita on the roof, didn't hear Robin hollering in her name. Raven finally snapped her eyes open, knowing that although she still had the feelings dull in the back of her mind she could still control her powers. Supressing the tangled sea of emotions that were now her life, she hardly heard the small voice. "Do you want to ask about it?"
"What is there to talk about, Lecita? I just hope Robin will come back, we'll both try harder this time...It's all anyone can ask. So what happened with you and Cyborg? You seemed a little closer earlier, if you know what I mean," Raven said, her tone almost teasing.
"Not nice, Raven. Not nice at all! It went well for a while. But then you came and now...I dunno. Just don't have the heart to...And if he doesn't...And I doubt I can...What if...And I...If he doesn't like me that way...How can I...I can't...Raven, if he doesn't like me that way I think I'll be crushed. Really crushed. What am I gonna do?" Lecita didn't say anymore, but Raven nodded.
"I really don't know anymore. If I figure this out, I'll let you know. If being the key word." Raven and Lecita both watched the lightning that had begun to fork across the dark sky, seeing it snake down toward the lake before disapering as they mulled their problems over. Starfire came soundlessly up twenty minutes after, looking at the other two girls. Why do I feel so alone recently? Starfire slumped down on the roof, hidden from both of them, and wept for the second time that day in perfect sync with the thunder.
"Hey, Anna, where's Lecita?" Anna, who was sitting on the window seat and thinking about Cyborg and Lecita, jumped at the sound of Cyborg's voice. Anna preformed a shrug, not willing to talk with Cyborg. "If you see her, tell her I'm upstairs." Cyborg headed off, wondering if Lecita was avoiding him. Her sister certinly is...Kind, he thought to himself.
"Robin! Robin, dude!" A few hours had gone by and Robin was still laying on his bed, his face hidden in his pillow and his mask laying at his side. Tying it around his head without looking and checking his reflection in the mirror, Robin went to answer the door to his room before it was kicked down. He flung it open, smacking Beast Boy in the head.
"Dude! Not cool!" Beast Boy rubbed his forehead, where a large mark was already appering. "Listen, Raven came in and now she's looking for Slade's hideout on one of the comptuers. She wants you to come check something out." Before Robin had time to think about how he felt about seeing Raven at the current time, Beast Boy yanked Robin down the stairs.
Robin stared at Raven as she explained the small map that she had pulled up on the computer. "Sounds great," he said, hoping his timing was right to get back into Raven's good books. "But why don't we wait until tommorow? You look like you could use the rest. We all could." What's with the whole sweet routine, anyway? Raven accepted and everyone headed up to bed.
Another bad dream awoke Cyborg, who stood up and headed for the kitchen. Lecita had apparently fallen asleep, because her black braid rested over her arm, which clutched a coffee cup in one hand. Cyborg carried her out to the couch, gently dumping the coffee down the sink and covering her with a blanket. He turned to leave until she let out a moan in her sleep. "Don't leave..." She seemed to be having a terrible dream.
Cyborg reached her side and decided it couldn't hurt to stay there until she calmed down or awoke from her nightmare. He slid her head agenst his chest and sat there, slowly sinking down into the couch. "I just wish I could do this every night with you knowing how I feel," he whispered to her, his human eye closing slowly as he fell asleep.
Raventhedarkgoddess: Well, at least one thing is going right. There we go, my seventh chapter.
Chapter Seven: Waiting At a Distance
Raven was bent over on the roof, one hand resting on her knee as they scanned the city one final time for Slade or either of the black cloaked figures. Robin was standing with both hands curled into fists and his teeth clenched as sweat poured down his face, anger written in every movement he made. "Robin, calm! We should all go home and try to track this from there." At the sound of her voice, Robin unclenched his fists, losing all will to fight as he slumped down next to Raven.
She put her hand gently on his shoulder as his heavy breathing and angry deminer subsided. He turned to face her. What is it about her that makes me listen so well, anyway? "You're right. You are absolutly right...Again." He stood up and turned to face everyone else. "Back to the Tower, team." He couldn't throw the urge to kick something, so he threw a hard kick at a nearby light set in the roof, shattering it. Starfire dodged a single flying shard and stood apart from the group. Why can he not control his anger when around Raven as he did around me? The thought slipped sullenly into her head, and then she noticed that Beast Boy had one hand on her shoulder. She turned to face him, trying to ignore the bitterness within her head.
Raven lead the group down the fire escape so that they didn't have to go through the main building and risk arousing someone. Robin climbed down after her and the two of them settled themselves onto his motorcycle, her telling him to wait for the others although she could tell he wanted to fly ahead. Everyone else shrugged and followed. Lecita let out a groan as her skirt caught in the fire escape. Trying to rip it away did nothing for her, and she held out one hand to her sister as she passed, trying to get Anna to take it. Anna completly snubbed Lecita, walking by as if she didn't see her at all. Hey, I'm here you know, she thought angerly. "Need a hand?" Cyborg smiled warmly.
Lecita took Cyborg's hand and used it to steady herself as she pulled her skirt free. Due to her high heels, she staggered directly into Cyborg's chest and he threw his arms around her in a supporting way until she could stand up straight. Lecita stood there a few extra seconds, taking in what she assumed to be the closet to a hug she would ever get from Cyborg. Blushing, she stepped back hurridly, almost falling again. "Sorry!"
"It's okay...Really," Cyborg responded quickly. It's more than okay, taunted a little voice that, as usual, nagged him from the back of his mind. Lecita is just a friend, he told it. A very good one? It nagged again. Go to hell, he thought, ending the argument in his head and then shaking his head to clear it.
"This car would go a lot faster if it had a driver," Anna cat-called from the backseat. The others were looking at Lecita and then back at him, and Beast Boy had a suggestive smirk on his face that made Cyborg want to punch him. Instead, the two got in the car without looking at each other and Cyborg sped off after Robin. Did she have to make such a desprite move in front of everyone? She could have told me first, Anna thought in a hard, unforgiving way about her older sister. Lecita watched Raven's foot curb out to meet Robin's shin and sighed. Why don't relationships ever stay in one peice? Or is that about how fast he's going? Who knows? I just want to have a love life, she thought, somewhat filled with guilt at the thought.
Parking about five minutes before Cyborg would, Robin hopped off his bike and stood in the rain with his head to the sky, enjoying the cold mist, seemingly unaware that Raven was staring at him. "Robin, tell me, what were you trying to do? Kill us, maybe? Slade is still at large and you want us both dead, is that it?"
"Raven, that's not it at all! I'm not suicidal or crazy or anything like that at all. You've got me figured for the wrong guy. I just have a lot on my mind right now. And I'll die in a fight with Slade before I die to AVOID it!" Robin noticed something rare: Her tone was ice cold again, not the kind, light tone she generaly used with him.
"I have plenty of things on my mind, Robin. But am I not here for you, at least somewhat, everyday? Relationships are hard, you know that as well as I do. I'm not Starfire. You can't push me back until you need me. I don't want us to hurt each other because I love you and, at least I think, you love me. But...If you need me to back off for a while...Condsider this relationship on hold." She pecked Robin on the cheek and ran inside, leaving Robin standing alone in the rain, face still turned upward to the heavy drops that threw his black hair over his face, ready to face whatever came next. It couldn't be worse, he thought unhappily.
"Friend Robin!" Dear God, he thought to himself, not her. Can't she see I want to be left alone? Apparently not, he thought as Starfire ran towards him. He wiped his hair away from his eyes, gratful for the mask he wore. I wish I had Raven's ability to hide what I'm feeling, he thought, then shook his head. You're half crazy, he told himself, just bringing up her name. It's over. Over. So quit thinking about Ra...Her. His eyes, agenst his knowlage or will, began to burn with unshed tears.
"...Raven done something? I understand she can be most upsetting and difficult sometimes." Starfire concluded whatever she had been saying in a light, sugary voice that almost made Robin want to retch. Beast Boy, from a distance so that he could not hear what was being said, watched Starfire talking to Robin in an almost warm way desipite his limited answers and cold way of standing. She just wants him to feel better, he told himself. Quit denying the obivious, he snapped at himself in his head.
Robin turned away and headed inside the tower. The others followed until only Starfire and Beast Boy remained outside in the storm, which was rapidly gathering strengh. "I am most confused. I am not yet over Robin and long for at least a converstaion between us two, and yet I love you. Whatever shall I do, Beast Boy? I want to at least be friends with Robin, but then I feel so cruel toward you! I cannot..." Starfire broke off, sobs heaving from her body as she kept her arms around the boy who she knew deep in her heart truly loved her. Beast Boy didn't say anything, stunned into silence by the fact that Starfire really loved him as the rain soaked them both.
Cyborg, for lack of better things to do, sat down next to the sullen Robin, neither of them saying anything as the rain came down the window pane in front of their faces, the lights off. "Women!" Robin finally said in a low, hiss-like voice. "Were we not cool ten minutes ago? And the next minute she goes all seregent on my ass. I mean, she tells me she loves me and then breaks us up, saying I can come back when I have things figured out. Normally she won't even tell me she cares, now look! She always told me she'd stay around and wait forever. Well, if she can have it now what's the point in waiting from a distance? And I don't have her down as Starfire!" He looked up at the watermarked ceiling of their home and yelled, "Raven, I do love you! Forever! DO YOU HEAR ME?" Cyborg silently pulled his friend back onto the couch and they sat together, both miserable for the sake of the women they thought they loved.
The truth was that Raven, sitting with Lecita on the roof, didn't hear Robin hollering in her name. Raven finally snapped her eyes open, knowing that although she still had the feelings dull in the back of her mind she could still control her powers. Supressing the tangled sea of emotions that were now her life, she hardly heard the small voice. "Do you want to ask about it?"
"What is there to talk about, Lecita? I just hope Robin will come back, we'll both try harder this time...It's all anyone can ask. So what happened with you and Cyborg? You seemed a little closer earlier, if you know what I mean," Raven said, her tone almost teasing.
"Not nice, Raven. Not nice at all! It went well for a while. But then you came and now...I dunno. Just don't have the heart to...And if he doesn't...And I doubt I can...What if...And I...If he doesn't like me that way...How can I...I can't...Raven, if he doesn't like me that way I think I'll be crushed. Really crushed. What am I gonna do?" Lecita didn't say anymore, but Raven nodded.
"I really don't know anymore. If I figure this out, I'll let you know. If being the key word." Raven and Lecita both watched the lightning that had begun to fork across the dark sky, seeing it snake down toward the lake before disapering as they mulled their problems over. Starfire came soundlessly up twenty minutes after, looking at the other two girls. Why do I feel so alone recently? Starfire slumped down on the roof, hidden from both of them, and wept for the second time that day in perfect sync with the thunder.
"Hey, Anna, where's Lecita?" Anna, who was sitting on the window seat and thinking about Cyborg and Lecita, jumped at the sound of Cyborg's voice. Anna preformed a shrug, not willing to talk with Cyborg. "If you see her, tell her I'm upstairs." Cyborg headed off, wondering if Lecita was avoiding him. Her sister certinly is...Kind, he thought to himself.
"Robin! Robin, dude!" A few hours had gone by and Robin was still laying on his bed, his face hidden in his pillow and his mask laying at his side. Tying it around his head without looking and checking his reflection in the mirror, Robin went to answer the door to his room before it was kicked down. He flung it open, smacking Beast Boy in the head.
"Dude! Not cool!" Beast Boy rubbed his forehead, where a large mark was already appering. "Listen, Raven came in and now she's looking for Slade's hideout on one of the comptuers. She wants you to come check something out." Before Robin had time to think about how he felt about seeing Raven at the current time, Beast Boy yanked Robin down the stairs.
Robin stared at Raven as she explained the small map that she had pulled up on the computer. "Sounds great," he said, hoping his timing was right to get back into Raven's good books. "But why don't we wait until tommorow? You look like you could use the rest. We all could." What's with the whole sweet routine, anyway? Raven accepted and everyone headed up to bed.
Another bad dream awoke Cyborg, who stood up and headed for the kitchen. Lecita had apparently fallen asleep, because her black braid rested over her arm, which clutched a coffee cup in one hand. Cyborg carried her out to the couch, gently dumping the coffee down the sink and covering her with a blanket. He turned to leave until she let out a moan in her sleep. "Don't leave..." She seemed to be having a terrible dream.
Cyborg reached her side and decided it couldn't hurt to stay there until she calmed down or awoke from her nightmare. He slid her head agenst his chest and sat there, slowly sinking down into the couch. "I just wish I could do this every night with you knowing how I feel," he whispered to her, his human eye closing slowly as he fell asleep.
Raventhedarkgoddess: Well, at least one thing is going right. There we go, my seventh chapter.
