I have got to make this clear to you guys. This is not going to become a Star bashing story. I'm just not the type to bash any character, let alone a character I like. Yes I like Star, so sue me. One of the genres of this fic is Angst, so obviously there is going to be some sadness. I'm not going to reveal much more except to say that all of the main parties are going to be hurt. However, as a sucker for happy endings, I probably won't be able to avoid one.
The characters may be a little OOC in this one. There's also a little explicit content but nothing R rated. Please enjoy.
Chapter 3
The next few weeks passed in uneasy silence, at least for Robin and Raven. They avoided each other when possible and ignored one another when they absolutely had to be in the same room. Luckily, their mutual ignorance went unnoticed due to a spike in the crime rate.
Robin spent all of his spare time with Starfire or playing video games. Soon it had progressed to where he was doing a lot of the latter and not very much of the former. The Tamaranean princess soon became aggravated with her boy-friend and initialized "the shoulder of coldness."
Unfortunately for Star, he hardly noticed. He chalked her moodiness up to "woman troubles" and other equally moronic suppositions that would have gotten him a mouthful of starbolts had he voiced them aloud.
Raven became more reclusive than normal, locking herself in her room for days at a time sometimes. Beastboy caught her at a bad time carrying a box of library books to her room and made an ill-advised crack about her reading habits. When she delivered a narrow eyed glower full of venom at him, he promptly turned into a deer mouse. It seemed appropriate.
Later he related the incident to Cyborg, who was highly unsympathetic, largely due to the fact that Beastboy kept waving his hands in front of the James Bond movie marathon that was currently running on a movie channel. As an aside, Cyborg's thoughts on the movies ran along the lines of "Big deal, I can do that with my pinky finger. Literally,"
"Dude, I swear, she was like a, a uh... Well like... Okay, I don't know what she was like. She just freaked out over nothing!"
"I'm sure it wasn't nothing BB. You probably offended her."
"Pft. Like I don't do that every day! She never went ape dung on me before. Hey, that one day didn't count! That was that red guy, remember? Hello!?"
But Cyborg had ceased paying attention. He had his eyes fixed on the present Bond Babe. Hallie Barry.
Beastboy rolled his eyes. Though had he not been so agitated he would have been oogling the actress in equal measure. Robin entered the room, just as Beast boy gave up on his engrossed friend.
"Hey Robin, do you know what's been bugging Raven."
The leader of the Titans stiffened imperceptibly. "No, I didn't know anything was,"
"Dude, where have you been living? Haven't you noticed that she, like, never comes out of her room anymore? And when she does she's a total witch with a -b-?"
"No, not really," Robin evaded. Talking about Raven these days made the Boy Wonder very uncomfortable. It didn't help that he couldn't stop thinking about the kiss they'd shared. Then he would feel guilty about betraying Star. The thing was when he tried his damnedest to make his mind recall that he was in love with her, his heart got a painful twinge. It wasn't right. He shouldn't feel this way about Raven. All he had to do was keep telling himself that over and over- then just maybe he might start believing it. Because despite the guilt he felt, the kiss had not seemed wrong at all. When she'd kissed him he had felt like he was... home.
"Yo, earth to Robin!"
"I, uh, have to go. There're alot of things in the evidence room that need my attention. It hasn't been organized in ages."
Starfire, tired of being cross with her boyfriend and always willing to forgive and forget, waltzed into the room full of smiles and sunshine then . "My friends and Beloved! I wish to treat you all to a large, unhealthy pizza! I will go procure Raven and we may depart."
"Sorry, Star, I have a lot of work to do in the evidence room. Organization and stuff like that. Go ahead without me. If I get done quickly I'll join you," he added from the elevator.
"Alright... darling," Star called, but her dejected sounding words fell only on the closed steel doors. "Friends, I do not think Robin wishes to be with me anymore," she whispered, tears welling up in her mournful green eyes.
"Don't be ridiculous, Starfire. Robin loves you."
"Yeah, don't sweat it. He just has a lot of work to do. He's probably stressing himself out over the explosion of burglaries."
Wiping her eyes and hope restored anew, Star smiled brilliantly. "I am sure that you both are right. I will obtain Raven and we may continue as I planned" She sailed up the steps and knocked on her dearest friend's door.
"Raven, would you like to join us in eating the delicious and fat-saturated pizza?"
"No thanks, Star. Maybe some other time. My powers have been giving me some... problems." No sooner had Raven said this than something on the other side of the door crashed. "Go ahead without me."
"I sha- if you wish," the Tamaranean girl sighed. She understood just how volatile those powers could be, so she didn't push. She only hoped that Raven would be alright by herself.
In her room, Raven was desperately trying to save her possessions. She didn't know what had happened. One minute she had perfect control over her emotions and powers, the next, things were flying all over the place, crashing into walls and other items. All she had done was allow her mind to think the name "Robin." Mustering all of her strength, she pulled back into herself and every thing in the air dropped. Struggling to maintain some semblance of order, she rushed out of her room and onto the roof. The moment she was in open air, she released everything and all of her excess energy was torn out of her. With nowhere to go, it dispersed leaving everything relatively unaffected, except for a few outdoor lights and a window.
Drained, and feeling dreadfully alone, Raven collapsed onto the roof. She absently wondered how long she would be out before her thoughts were smothered in darkness.
Robin wiped the sweat from his brow and looked at the clock. Nine on the dot. He'd been working for an hour and a half straight in stifling heat. The air conditioning cell must have malfunctioned, and without Cyborg there to correct it, the tower became sweltering in no time. Finishing up, Robin marked the last box and carried it to the storage closet. He then took the elevator to the floor that the team's rooms were located on, got a change of clothes (HOT DAY clothes, which for every boy in my family is a wife-beater and shorts). He took a cool shower and got dressed then made his way up to the roof.
Even though he and Raven weren't talking, he still used the telescope he'd gotten her. Tonight was clear and much too hot to hang out in any kind of building. Especially a building without air-conditioning. Mostly feeling his way, he started to where he remembered the telescope was. About halfway there, he tripped over something soft and sprawled over the ground. Using his pen-light, he ran the weak illumination over the figure of... Raven. She appeared to be sound asleep. That or passed out.
The others were out still, he knew. They were alone in, or out of the tower as the case was. This could be their chance to talk without someone overhearing and taking the conversation the wrong way.
"Raven!" he called quietly. He tapped her lightly on the face and called her name again. She groaned pitiably and mumbled something. Robin then shook her and said her name one more time. She shot up, slamming her head into his.
"Oww!" they cried in unison.
Raven focused her eyes in the dim twilight. The person's face swam before her as a result of her lightheadedness. The expulsion of power had really weakened her. She didn't think she could levitate a feather in her current condition. "Ugh... Robin?"
"Yeah. What happened to you?"
"Nothing! My powers kind of short circuited. What do you want?" she demanded, going on the defensive.
"We need to talk," he answered bluntly. "About the night of the meteor shower."
"Robin... Can't we just forget it ever happened and go on like usual? I can't do this right now. Maybe not ever," she pleaded, trying to rise. Robin stood and assisted her to her feet.
"As much as I'd like to do that, we can't. Or we'll always have this thing between us and we may not be able to be friends again. We have to talk. Why did you kiss me?" he fired, getting straight to the heart of the discussion, like always.
"It was an accident. It was the first impulsive thing I had ever done. I was only going to kiss you on the cheek. As a thank you. You must have turned your head, or I must have miscalculated you position. It was a horrible accident and now I'd like to forget it ever happened. Okay?" she railed, turning to leave.
Robin grabbed her arm and spun her back to face him. There was just enough light for him to make out her features. "You're lying. You wanted to kiss me that night." he accused.
"How do you know?" Raven charged him, on verge of tears. Knowing he was right.
"Because," he calmed his voice and spoke almost tenderly. "I wanted to kiss you too. Just like I want to kiss you now."
"No. We can't. It's wrong," she cried, tears streaming silently down her face.
"I know it is. But why does it feel so right when I hold you?" he asked, pulling her close. "I know I'm with Star, and God help me, I don't want to hurt her. But I can't get you out of my head. You're face is always there. That kiss is too, reminding me of how sweet you taste."
"Please don't. Star doesn't deserve this. We can't-"
Her words were cut off by a kiss that stole her breath. At first she couldn't move, then she began kissing him back. The guilt inside of her was smothered by the intensity of the contact. They sank to their knees and ran their hands over each other wildly. The act was wrong but it felt so right. Robin unclasped her cloak and spread it out on the hard concrete. Knowing that what was happening was inevitable, they came together as explosively as a supernova. Before unwelcome sanity could impede on this intoxicating feeling, they shed their clothes and made love under the countless stares of a billion stars. Nothing in the world existed except each other, as often happens when starcrossed lovers finally meet. Not current girlfriends, not team dynamics, not even the fate of the team as a whole. Nothing at all could interrupt the complete outpouring of emotion.
The entire ramifications of what they had done would not occur to the two until much, much, later.
Whew! How was it? I encourage and accept all reviews- unless your flame is absolutely pointless with no excuses to back it up. Yes I'm talking to you Mr... Gee, I forget what your name is! Well, you know who you are, and I would really appreciate it if you would leave this story alone.
The characters may be a little OOC in this one. There's also a little explicit content but nothing R rated. Please enjoy.
Chapter 3
The next few weeks passed in uneasy silence, at least for Robin and Raven. They avoided each other when possible and ignored one another when they absolutely had to be in the same room. Luckily, their mutual ignorance went unnoticed due to a spike in the crime rate.
Robin spent all of his spare time with Starfire or playing video games. Soon it had progressed to where he was doing a lot of the latter and not very much of the former. The Tamaranean princess soon became aggravated with her boy-friend and initialized "the shoulder of coldness."
Unfortunately for Star, he hardly noticed. He chalked her moodiness up to "woman troubles" and other equally moronic suppositions that would have gotten him a mouthful of starbolts had he voiced them aloud.
Raven became more reclusive than normal, locking herself in her room for days at a time sometimes. Beastboy caught her at a bad time carrying a box of library books to her room and made an ill-advised crack about her reading habits. When she delivered a narrow eyed glower full of venom at him, he promptly turned into a deer mouse. It seemed appropriate.
Later he related the incident to Cyborg, who was highly unsympathetic, largely due to the fact that Beastboy kept waving his hands in front of the James Bond movie marathon that was currently running on a movie channel. As an aside, Cyborg's thoughts on the movies ran along the lines of "Big deal, I can do that with my pinky finger. Literally,"
"Dude, I swear, she was like a, a uh... Well like... Okay, I don't know what she was like. She just freaked out over nothing!"
"I'm sure it wasn't nothing BB. You probably offended her."
"Pft. Like I don't do that every day! She never went ape dung on me before. Hey, that one day didn't count! That was that red guy, remember? Hello!?"
But Cyborg had ceased paying attention. He had his eyes fixed on the present Bond Babe. Hallie Barry.
Beastboy rolled his eyes. Though had he not been so agitated he would have been oogling the actress in equal measure. Robin entered the room, just as Beast boy gave up on his engrossed friend.
"Hey Robin, do you know what's been bugging Raven."
The leader of the Titans stiffened imperceptibly. "No, I didn't know anything was,"
"Dude, where have you been living? Haven't you noticed that she, like, never comes out of her room anymore? And when she does she's a total witch with a -b-?"
"No, not really," Robin evaded. Talking about Raven these days made the Boy Wonder very uncomfortable. It didn't help that he couldn't stop thinking about the kiss they'd shared. Then he would feel guilty about betraying Star. The thing was when he tried his damnedest to make his mind recall that he was in love with her, his heart got a painful twinge. It wasn't right. He shouldn't feel this way about Raven. All he had to do was keep telling himself that over and over- then just maybe he might start believing it. Because despite the guilt he felt, the kiss had not seemed wrong at all. When she'd kissed him he had felt like he was... home.
"Yo, earth to Robin!"
"I, uh, have to go. There're alot of things in the evidence room that need my attention. It hasn't been organized in ages."
Starfire, tired of being cross with her boyfriend and always willing to forgive and forget, waltzed into the room full of smiles and sunshine then . "My friends and Beloved! I wish to treat you all to a large, unhealthy pizza! I will go procure Raven and we may depart."
"Sorry, Star, I have a lot of work to do in the evidence room. Organization and stuff like that. Go ahead without me. If I get done quickly I'll join you," he added from the elevator.
"Alright... darling," Star called, but her dejected sounding words fell only on the closed steel doors. "Friends, I do not think Robin wishes to be with me anymore," she whispered, tears welling up in her mournful green eyes.
"Don't be ridiculous, Starfire. Robin loves you."
"Yeah, don't sweat it. He just has a lot of work to do. He's probably stressing himself out over the explosion of burglaries."
Wiping her eyes and hope restored anew, Star smiled brilliantly. "I am sure that you both are right. I will obtain Raven and we may continue as I planned" She sailed up the steps and knocked on her dearest friend's door.
"Raven, would you like to join us in eating the delicious and fat-saturated pizza?"
"No thanks, Star. Maybe some other time. My powers have been giving me some... problems." No sooner had Raven said this than something on the other side of the door crashed. "Go ahead without me."
"I sha- if you wish," the Tamaranean girl sighed. She understood just how volatile those powers could be, so she didn't push. She only hoped that Raven would be alright by herself.
In her room, Raven was desperately trying to save her possessions. She didn't know what had happened. One minute she had perfect control over her emotions and powers, the next, things were flying all over the place, crashing into walls and other items. All she had done was allow her mind to think the name "Robin." Mustering all of her strength, she pulled back into herself and every thing in the air dropped. Struggling to maintain some semblance of order, she rushed out of her room and onto the roof. The moment she was in open air, she released everything and all of her excess energy was torn out of her. With nowhere to go, it dispersed leaving everything relatively unaffected, except for a few outdoor lights and a window.
Drained, and feeling dreadfully alone, Raven collapsed onto the roof. She absently wondered how long she would be out before her thoughts were smothered in darkness.
Robin wiped the sweat from his brow and looked at the clock. Nine on the dot. He'd been working for an hour and a half straight in stifling heat. The air conditioning cell must have malfunctioned, and without Cyborg there to correct it, the tower became sweltering in no time. Finishing up, Robin marked the last box and carried it to the storage closet. He then took the elevator to the floor that the team's rooms were located on, got a change of clothes (HOT DAY clothes, which for every boy in my family is a wife-beater and shorts). He took a cool shower and got dressed then made his way up to the roof.
Even though he and Raven weren't talking, he still used the telescope he'd gotten her. Tonight was clear and much too hot to hang out in any kind of building. Especially a building without air-conditioning. Mostly feeling his way, he started to where he remembered the telescope was. About halfway there, he tripped over something soft and sprawled over the ground. Using his pen-light, he ran the weak illumination over the figure of... Raven. She appeared to be sound asleep. That or passed out.
The others were out still, he knew. They were alone in, or out of the tower as the case was. This could be their chance to talk without someone overhearing and taking the conversation the wrong way.
"Raven!" he called quietly. He tapped her lightly on the face and called her name again. She groaned pitiably and mumbled something. Robin then shook her and said her name one more time. She shot up, slamming her head into his.
"Oww!" they cried in unison.
Raven focused her eyes in the dim twilight. The person's face swam before her as a result of her lightheadedness. The expulsion of power had really weakened her. She didn't think she could levitate a feather in her current condition. "Ugh... Robin?"
"Yeah. What happened to you?"
"Nothing! My powers kind of short circuited. What do you want?" she demanded, going on the defensive.
"We need to talk," he answered bluntly. "About the night of the meteor shower."
"Robin... Can't we just forget it ever happened and go on like usual? I can't do this right now. Maybe not ever," she pleaded, trying to rise. Robin stood and assisted her to her feet.
"As much as I'd like to do that, we can't. Or we'll always have this thing between us and we may not be able to be friends again. We have to talk. Why did you kiss me?" he fired, getting straight to the heart of the discussion, like always.
"It was an accident. It was the first impulsive thing I had ever done. I was only going to kiss you on the cheek. As a thank you. You must have turned your head, or I must have miscalculated you position. It was a horrible accident and now I'd like to forget it ever happened. Okay?" she railed, turning to leave.
Robin grabbed her arm and spun her back to face him. There was just enough light for him to make out her features. "You're lying. You wanted to kiss me that night." he accused.
"How do you know?" Raven charged him, on verge of tears. Knowing he was right.
"Because," he calmed his voice and spoke almost tenderly. "I wanted to kiss you too. Just like I want to kiss you now."
"No. We can't. It's wrong," she cried, tears streaming silently down her face.
"I know it is. But why does it feel so right when I hold you?" he asked, pulling her close. "I know I'm with Star, and God help me, I don't want to hurt her. But I can't get you out of my head. You're face is always there. That kiss is too, reminding me of how sweet you taste."
"Please don't. Star doesn't deserve this. We can't-"
Her words were cut off by a kiss that stole her breath. At first she couldn't move, then she began kissing him back. The guilt inside of her was smothered by the intensity of the contact. They sank to their knees and ran their hands over each other wildly. The act was wrong but it felt so right. Robin unclasped her cloak and spread it out on the hard concrete. Knowing that what was happening was inevitable, they came together as explosively as a supernova. Before unwelcome sanity could impede on this intoxicating feeling, they shed their clothes and made love under the countless stares of a billion stars. Nothing in the world existed except each other, as often happens when starcrossed lovers finally meet. Not current girlfriends, not team dynamics, not even the fate of the team as a whole. Nothing at all could interrupt the complete outpouring of emotion.
The entire ramifications of what they had done would not occur to the two until much, much, later.
Whew! How was it? I encourage and accept all reviews- unless your flame is absolutely pointless with no excuses to back it up. Yes I'm talking to you Mr... Gee, I forget what your name is! Well, you know who you are, and I would really appreciate it if you would leave this story alone.