Disclaimer: I do not own nor did I create the Teen Titans…but this is fan-fiction story is MINE!

Title: X'S AND O'S

CHAPTER FOUR

Where could she be?I was perched within the confines of a tree in the park. I was waiting for Ria to get here. Wait! What was that! I spin around quickly and almost fall off the branch I'm crouching on at the touch of something on my shoulder. A few leaves fall to the ground below. I see… absolutely nothing… I calm down a bit. "It's just you." I almost let out a sigh of relief. But I do not want Ria to know I had been scared shitless.

"Who else would it be?" –Ria.

"Oh…I don't know…the Titans!" –Red X.

"I am sorry, X." –Ria.

"You should be." –Red X. I'm a little…no I'm very annoyed.

Suddenly, There is a green explosion as the tree branch breaks and Ria and I fall to the ground. I lose sight of Ria during the fall. Uh Oh… I quickly twist around to land on my feet. Awesome, I can't believe I just did that! I hear a screech from the air behind me, and turn to see a green eagle diving towards my face. Beastboy! I duck. The eagle flies over my head and circles to begin another attack.

While I was focused on Beastboy, something hits me from the side and I slam into a nearby tree. Ow… Fuck… I look up to the sky to see Starfire, her hand glowing green as she smiles at me. I grit my teeth and prepare to fire some red X's at her face, hoping to do the same thing again by covering her face. But a flash a blue light hits me from the left. Cyborg… Damn it!

"Don't even think about it." –Cyborg.

"Think about what?" –Red X.

"I got memory banks of our last skirmish." Cyborg points to his oversized robotic brain.

I think back with a flash of anger to Ria. She gave me up! I can't believe it!

"TTFN, Titans." I press the red button on my belt and transport to my apartment. (TTFN stands for 'ta-ta for now' just in case you didn't know…)

LATER…

"I can't believe you would do this to me, Ria! You led the Titans right to me!" Ria ducks out of the way as I hurl a vase at her. Thankfully it wasn't the priceless Ming Dynasty vase…

"I did not know they would follow me." –Ria.

"But they did! I thought you said they weren't going to know!" I hurl a china plate at her but she lets it pass through her body as she approaches me.

"They did not. I tried to avoid them as best I could. They had been searching the city after the break in." She reaches towards my face lovingly. I let her hand touch my mask. "However, I still have this." She produces the Chi Stone from inside her pocket. I smile behind my mask.

"Good…" I lead her towards my room.

"I did this for you." –Ria.

Facing away from her, I remove the skeleton mask with the X on it and place it on the dresser. This shouldn't be happening. I promised myself this wouldn't happen.

"Think of this as a gift in return." I place my hand on her cheek and slowly caress it. I lean in and exchange a passionate kiss with her. I feel her body relax as we fall to the bed. This is how it was meant to be from the start…

BACK AT TITANS TOWER…

"Say what?" –Cyborg.

"Ria is in love with Red X." –Raven.

"What will we do now?" –Starfire.

"I don't know, Star. But once I get my hands on her I'll… I'll… I don't know what I'll do!"—Robin.

"Robin. She is our friend. We must do our best to do her no harm." –Starfire.

"But, Star! She likes Red X!" –Beastboy.

Starfire didn't know what to say to this. She was, for once, speechless. Robin turned to the computer screen in front of him. There was a map of the city on it. And on this map, Robin was trying to track Ria's communicator. So far there was nothing. Since the Titans had met up at the tower, Robin had been trying to contact Ria or at least receive a signal. That was not happening right now, and this was just aggravating him to the extreme.

"All I want to know right now is how could Ria keep this from us." –Cyborg.

"She used to work for Slade, remember?" Robin said with much bitterness in his voice.

"But why!" –Beastboy, "I thought she was our friend!"

"Apparently, she isn't anymore." –Robin.

"But how do we know? She could be…" –Starfire.

"Leading him on? I highly doubt it. I told you all what I found out from her mind." –Raven.

Starfire was silent once again. She could find no other reason to defend Ria's loyalty to her friends. They were too convinced that Ria had betrayed them. Like Terra did with Slade. Star didn't want to admit it but Ria could no longer be a Titan. If Ria stays with Red X…


I hope you are enjoying X's and O's everyone! I think I went a little too much into my dark side with this one. (I don't usually write this kind of stuff!) Romance is not my strong point! But... that depends on what you think! I love my readers and everyone who readss my stories! I feel so loved!