REBECCA

Chapter 3

By The 2nd Founder of FAT DORIS

AKA Bowan'arrowchick

(That Evening…)

Rebecca hummed idly to herself as she lay on her back, half-way off the bed, in the small room she had been confined to. It had been nearly seven hours since she had been locked in, and she had barely moved the whole time. Impulsively fiddling with her necklace; twisting the chain and the strange looping 'R' between her fingers.

Then there was a knock at the door. She didn't even look up. Robin came in, shutting the door behind him. He stood directly above her (she's lying on the bed with her head and shoulders, etc. hanging off the bed; don't ask, she's being weird).

"It's almost 6:30," Robin stated.

"So?"

"Are you gonna eat, or what?"

"No."

Robin sighed. "Look, we'll let you out for dinner, but you can't try to get away again. We've notified the authorities of your wareabouts."

"And you didn't get a reply from them yet."

Robin looked at her confused, wondering how she knew that.

"Uh, right… but we don't- Never mind. Just come and eat."

She stood up, and Robin lead her downstairs.

"Hey," Rebecca said and stopped walking. (They're in the upstairs hallway).

"What?"

"Um, about earlier… I'm sorry. I just… didn't want to, you know… let my guard down too soon; I didn't want to seem like an easy target, for… anything. But then I saw who you were and… it's hard to explain; never mind. Let's just leave it at I'm not that good with first impressions," she said shyly, not looking Robin in the eye.

He smiled. "It's fine."

They walked through the kitchen and into the den where Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy were watching TV.

"I thought you were making dinner?" Robin asked Beast Boy.

"Dude, it's vacation. Cyborg's gettin' Chinese, or something."

"Japanese," Raven corrected.

"Same difference."

"Not really."

"Okay! Enough!" Robin said, getting irritated. He muttered, "Sheezus, if you two flirted any more, you'd be dead by now..."

"I heard that!" Raven and Beast Boy yelled at the same time.

Robin scoffed. Then thought, Wait a minute...

"Rebecca!" he yelled.

"What, what? I'm right here."

He turned to see her sitting in a chair behind him. That same seductive smile of hers crossed her face. "I don't run away every chance I have. There'd be way too many chances, with all the distractions you guys have here."

Distractions... That's her key. Noted.

Robin smiled uneasily and sat down on the couch by Starfire.

Then Cyborg came in carrying a bunch of take-out bags. "Food's here."

He came into the den, stopping when he saw Rebecca. Robin waved it off, mouthing 'She's fine.' Cyborg looked at them both unsurely, then set the bags down on the coffee table.

"What'd you get?" Beast Boy asked, beginning to snoop through he bags.

"Like, four of everything with meat, and two of everything without it," he answered, sitting down opposite Rebecca.

"Doesn't it all have meat?" Robin asked, trying to cause a distraction; testing Rebecca.

"No," Raven answered, pulling random sushi out of a bag and starting to eat it.

Everyone started eating except Beast Boy, who was still skeptical, and Rebecca. Noticing this, Robin handed her a bag.

"Look through it. Some of it's edible..."

She snickered and took the bag.

"Beast Boy, are you not going to partake in the ritual of eating?"

"No, Star. He's anorexic," Raven answered. Cyborg choked on his food, laughing.

"Shut up! I'm not anorexic!" Beast Boy retorted.

"Vegan, anorexic, same difference. Like Japanese and Chinese, remember?" This time everyone laughed, except Beast Boy. (Starfire didn't really get it, but she laughed anyway.)

(A/N: I'm not dissing anyone anorexic or Vegan. That'd be a little hypocritical of me; I'm not anorexic, but I'm sort of vegetarian/vegan.)

"You suck."

"Deal with it."

Cyborg threw a napkin with a message scribbled on it at BB.

"DUDE! WHO'S SIDE ARE YOU ON?" Beast Boy yelled at him after he read it, blushing slightly.

Raven tried to read it over his shoulder, but he stood up and headed for the kitchen.

"What're you doing?"

"Getting rid of this." He walked into the kitchen, and a few minutes later, they heard the blender turning on.

Rebecca laughed at nothing in particular. They looked at her questioningly.

"What's so funny?" Robin asked.

"What the note said."

"You read it!" Raven asked unbelievingly.

Rebecca nodded.

"What'd it say!"

"Can't tell you."

"Why n-"

"Because Cyborg's telling me not to."

She turned to Cyborg, who was in the midst of mouthing, 'Don't say it!' to Rebecca.

Raven scowled.

"But... in a nutshell, Cyborg agrees with Robin about the whole 'if you flirted any more, you'd be dead' thing."

"I'm not flirting!" Raven and Beast Boy yelled at the same time (Beast Boy walked in as Rebecca was speaking).

"Okay, fine! Just saying, one of you needs to ask the other out so we can get you outta here," Robin said, smiling to himself.

"Okay, I take it back; you suck!" Beast Boy said, pointing at Robin.

"Uh, guys? Where's Rebecca?" Cyborg asked.

"Awww! Fff- I mean... darn..." Robin said, trying not to teach Star any more words. He sighed. "Okay, split up."

They all took to searching the house and neighborhood. After about a half-hour of searching, Robin headed upstairs to check her room. There she lay asleep on the bed, with her hand at her neck, clutching the necklace.