Jump City Cantata
A Teen Titans Fanfiction by Jake McDonald
Opening Notes: Long time coming, but here it is. Those of you that visit my Livejorunal know what I've been up to. Those of you that don't... um... don't. Any way, I just finished my final project for the semester, so class should be out of the way until after Christmas. Yay. More time to write means more updates. Woot!
This chapter seemed kind of... rushed to me. Like I was trying to say too much all at once. Maybe I'm just too critical of myself, but I like to turn out a good product. The story really starts picking up here, so be careful... it might suck you into a black hole of plot development! Many things are resolved, but once again, expect a few bomb shells.
Standard disclaimers apply. I don't own Teen Titans like I don't own any food. So... hungry...
Chapter 6: Rebirth
Raven lay on the hard, cold pavement of a basketball court, dark rain drops falling from a black sky. The area that surrounded the court was dominated by shadowy buildings, a never ending cityscape of cold steel and cracked cement.
No one watched over her. No one was there to stay with her.
She was dying, and she knew it.
Blood pooled about her body, mingling with the rain drops that fell from the endless void that was the sky. The low hum of power lines played a base tone to her ragged breathing. Face down in a puddle of water and blood, she stared off to the side, seeing nothing but her own bitter defeat.
She was beaten and dying, and in this, her darkest hour, her friends had left her. Abandoned, she felt the sorrow crashing down on her. She deserved their scorn, deserved to be deserted.
She deserved to die.
"I'm sorry..." she whispered to the blackness, "I let you live, only to leave you... I'm sorry... Jinx... I'm sorry..."
The medical room of Titan Tower was illuminated only by the few flickering lights of the equipment, and the occasional flash of lightning on the horizon. There was no beeping from the heart monitor, because there was no heart beat from the figure laying on the bed. Raven was dead.
Jinx sat in a chair next to the bed, the remnants of Robin's uniform hanging off of her in tatters, the mask long ago removed and placed on the table next to the bed. She was leaned forward, her head pressed down into Raven's shoulder. Her breathing was regular, indicating that she was asleep.
The door sliding open was enough noise to startle her awake. Sitting up, she turned to see Cyborg silhouetted in the doorframe, the light behind him throwing his face into shadow.
"Come on, Jinx. It's been two hours. You need some sleep, and sitting here staring at her isn't going to made you feel any better."
"Don't you even care?" she asked in a bitter tone.
"Of course I do." he was speaking quietly, something she'd never heard before. It scared her. "It's just... I remember what she always used to say... people come, and people go. It's pointless to get all worked up about it. We'll mourn her once we've stopped whatever psychopath is trying to create an army of zombies."
"Right... because we're hero's."
"Right." Cybrog leaned against the doorframe, "Being a hero sucks sometimes."
"I'll come out in a minute. I just want... to spend a bit more time with her."
"Okay... I'm taking off... I have some things to do before I have to call Robin and tell him... God... I don't know how I'm going to be able to get through it..."
"You'll find the strength. You always do." Jinx smiled at him.
"Thanks, Jinx." he nodded at her with a sad smile of his own, "Go see BB when you come out... he's... taking this really hard."
She nodded and he turned and walked off down the hallway, the door sliding shut behind him. Turning back to Raven's still form, Jinx placed a hand over her friends forehead, "Raven, you idiot... couldn't you have just healed me part way or something?"
Jinx... I'm sorry...
Jinx jerked her hand back as her eyes grew wide as dinner plates. All of her arcane knowledge began to pour through her mind, looking for possible explanations to why she had just heard Raven speaking to her.
Raven had mentioned that Beast Boy and Cyborg had helped her defeat the Seed by entering her mind. That meant she had a personality matrix that she used for meditation and reflection. That meant that she could still be inside her own mind, trapped there by thinking she was dead.
"You're not dead... you're not... dead... Raven..." she stumbled back from the body of her friend, "Beast Boy!" she screamed as she turned and ran out of the room.
Beat Boy looked up as the door to his room slid open and Jinx came pelting in. He stared at her through tear stained eyes and she stared back at him with wide ones.
"Jinx... what's wrong?" he asked, his voice think from crying for so long.
"Raven... she's not dead."
"What?" he shook his head, "Jinx... she's not breathing her heart isn't beating, Cy's scans showed no brain activity, and even if there wasn't an actual wound, she lost way too much blood to still be alive." he glared at her, "She's dead, Jinx."
"No... yes... well, she is, but she's not."
"What are you going on about?" he yelled at her, furry blazing behind his eyes. His whole body began to shake, "She died to save you! Can't you just let go of it?"
"No, Beast Boy, just listen-"
"Don't fuck with me, Jinx! I'm so not in the mood for your shit!"
"Beast Boy, shut the fuck up and listen to me!" she screamed back. He was shocked into silence, so she continued in a calmer voice, "I was just in the medical room with her and when I touched her, I heard her talking to me. She said she was sorry. I felt... remorse... guilt... great sadness. Her mind is still there... just not her body. It's all shut down. The only thing keeping her mind where it is must be her power." she held up a hand to cut off his reply, and continued, "Don't ask me how or why, but I think her mind has retreated back into it's own personality matrix. She's punishing herself for something."
"Her personality matrix is where she keeps the other Raven's right?"
"Right. How did you get in the first time?" Jinx sounded eager.
Beast Boy jumped up, "Her mirror. It's in her room."
"Must be a Seeing Mirror. They're used for meditation and soul searching." Jinx snapped her fingers, "If her metaphysical mind is still active, we should be able to get in that way."
"Only one way to find out." Beast Boy strode across the room and stopped in front of Jinx, "You are quickly becoming my favorite person."
She grinned and planted a quick kiss on his lips, "Let's go save our friend."
"Yeah." Beast Boy nodded, and together, they set off for Raven's room.
Cyborg stood and stared at the apartment door for several minutes before raising a hand and knocking loudly. Several minutes later there was a thump as someone fell against the door, presumably to look out through the peep hole to see who was on the other side.
The sound of a two locks clicking opened followed, and the door was finally thrown open. A rather grumpy and disgruntled looking Sarah stood on the threshold wearing a pink tank top and gray sleep shorts. "It's 3:30 in the morning Cy."
"I know."
"What is so important that you need to come wake me up at 3:30 in the morning?"
He stared down at her for a full minute, his face deadly serious, before replying, "Raven was killed tonight."
All the color drained out of Sarah's face, and the sleep fled her eyes, "Oh God... Baby... come in." she grabbed his arm and dragged him forward, into the apartment. Guiding him over to her lone sofa, she sat him down and stood in front of him, now eye level. "How... who... what happened, Cy?"
"Red X. I guess he was trying to stop her from leveling Morro Bay after she kinda' went berserk. She snapped out of it just in time, but X was already coming at her again... Jinx took the hit for her, but Raven wouldn't have any of that. She healed Jinx, but... her healing powers have a back lash effect. They hurt her, or at least make her feel the pain the other person is suffering." he shook his head with a sigh, "It must have just been too much. Her heart stopped, and she died."
Sarah had covered her mouth with her hands and her eyes had grown wider and wider with horror as he had relayed his story. Now she dove forward and wrapped him in a hug. "I'm sure you did everything you could..."
"I couldn't revive her... I tried... she was just... gone." A single tear rolled down his cheek. "Damn it all, she's gone!" he slammed a fist into the coffee table and it exploded into cheep plywood splinters.
Sarah didn't seem to notice. She just wrapped her arms around him tighter and began to cry. "It'll be okay Baby... calm down."
"I know... she died... happy anyway. Helping someone." he finally hugged his girlfriend back, "Like she would have wanted."
"Like any of you would have wanted." Sarah crawled into his lap and he held her tightly.
"I still feel like shit." he said after a few moments.
"Yeah. Me too." She shook her head, "It's not easy to get over, but you have a job to do... you can't just give up the fight. She would never forgive you if you did."
"I know... just... right now, this is all I want." he squeezed her.
"Okay, Hunny. Okay." and she kissed him.
"Found it." Beast Boy picked up Raven's seeing mirror and inspected it, "All I'm getting is a reflection though."
"The connection is probably closed." Jinx walked over from where she was inspecting Raven's books.
"Can we re-open it?"
"I don't know. Let me see it." Beast Boy handed over the mirror and she searched it for any inscriptions. "Hmm... nothing written on it. Maybe she has a book that could... wait..." She walked over to the podium in the corner that currently held a spell book opened to the heading, 'Acne Removal Charm.' "Clear skin and perfect teeth, huh Raven?" she mumbled as she removed the book and placed the mirror on the podium.
"Dude!" Beast Boy was flipping through the book she had moved, "This thing has a spell for making your boobs bigger!"
"Don't even try to get me to use that on myself." Jinx gave him a scathing look, and he laughed nervously. "Now get over here and stand next to me. I don't know if this is going to work, but if it does, it'll be fast."
Beast Boy took up position. "Ready."
"Okay." Jinx turned to the mirror and shouted out, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"
The mirror lit up with black light and shot out tendrils of energy that pulled the two of them into the surface.
As soon as it had started the mirror stopped and was nothing but a mirror once again.
Beast Boy and Jinx found themselves in a twisted cityscape, full of broken buildings and cracked sidewalks. A basketball court sat next to them, and the sky was simply and endless black void. A light, cold rain fell from the cloudless sky, and no sound other than the pattering of the falling water could be heard.
"Look there." Jinx pointed to the other side of the fence, and Beast Boy looked. There, Raven lay in a puddle of her own blood, curled up in a ball with her face pressed into the cold cement of the basketball court.
"It wasn't like this before." Beast Boy said as they walked around the court, trying to find an opening, "It was blasted rocky plains, and there were creepy birds, and the other Raven's all running around..."
"This is her perception of death," Jinx explained, "she's trapped herself in her own mind, forever dying, never actually dead."
"Why?"
"She regrets doing what she did. Losing control and putting me in a situation where I had to give my life for hers. She's punishing herself for it."
"How do you know all of this?" he looked at her with concern on his face.
"I just... do. Like she told me... but not." she shook her head, "That's not it... like I know what she's feeling."
"She could be projecting emotions into you, like she did when she made me want to comp a feel back in the T-Copter." He blushed lightly.
"It's possible." Jinx sighed as they reached the point they had started at, "There's no way in."
Beast Boy frowned, then transformed. Jinx stood back, slightly shocked to see a huge green elephant standing next to her all of a sudden. Beast Boy jabbed his tusks though the fence, tore a huge section of it off, and tossed it aside.
Becoming himself again, he dusted off his hands, "So we make a way in."
"I guess..." Jinx arched an eyebrow and pulled her cape around her closer as they started to walk over to Raven, "It's cold here."
"You'd be warmer if you were wearing something more than half of Robin's uniform."
"Sorry, I didn't think to change before we came to save Raven's life."
They stopped next to the still form of their friend and Jinx knelt down, "Hey, Raven... we're here."
Raven pulled her face up off the wet pavement, "Jinx... I thought you'd left me..." she sounded weak and tiered, "I'm dying Jinx... gonna die soon..."
"No, you're not Raven. You healed me... that doesn't actually hurt you. You just think it did. Now snap out of it." she poked Raven in the shoulder.
"Dying..." Raven placed her head back on the ground, "Let you guys down... couldn't stay... alive."
"Raven," Beast Boy knelt on the other side of her and her half closed eyes drifted over to him, "Come one Rae... get up for me?"
"Beast Boy... you're a good guy, you know that?" He froze, not knowing what was going on, "You... you'll take care of Jinx, right?"
"Of course I will, but you'll be there to help. Just sit up and we'll all go home together."
"Jinx..." Raven reached out one blood stained hand and placed it on the side of Jinx's face. The pink haired girl cried silent tears as Raven stroked her cheek, "I'm sorry, Jinx. So, so... sorry." Tears sprang to Raven's eyes as well, "I left you... couldn't fight it..."
"You saved me Raven... don't die... just get up now..."
"Loved you..." Raven said as she dropped her hand, "All of you..."
"We know, Rae," Jinx grabbed the fallen hand, "and we love you too. Don't leave us... come on home."
"Home..." Raven closed her eyes and swallowed, "Wanted to tell you... how I feel..."
It was Jinx's turn to freeze and stare at Raven, "How do you feel?"
"Love you... but it couldn't work..."
"Raven." Jinx's tears fell freely, and her hand shot out and grabbed Beast Boy's, "I love you too. We'll make it work... just... don't die on us..."
Suddenly, Raven's eyes shot open and she sat up, looking around at them wildly. Both Jinx and Beast Boy were shocked by the sudden action, and even more shocked when Raven burst into tears. She lunged forward and buried her face in Jinx's chest, "I'm sorry!" she wailed, "Sorry I ever dragged you into this, sorry I made you worry, sorry the rest of the Titans had to loose me... I'm sorry!"
Jinx shushed her as a smile spread across her face, "It's okay, Raven. You're forgiven of everything."
"Yeah..." Beast Boy crawled forward and wrapped them both in a strong, protecting hug, "We all love you, Raven... I love you."
"So do I. I love you, Raven."
"Love..." Raven pulled away from them, and smiled through her tears, "They're coming back now."
"Wha-" Beast Boy stopped himself as the ground around them suddenly became the blasted plains of Azarath, and the rain stopped falling. The Hellish eternal twilight replaced the darkness of the sky, and the sent of blood and rain vanished.
As the three of them stood up, Raven's aspects started to appear, one by one. "Raven..." Beast Boy looked around at them as he turned in a circle, "What's going on?"
Raven replied in a voice most unlike her own. It was full of emotion, and kindness, "Right now, I'm unfettered by the limitations of my powers. I don't have any."
"So... you can feel?"
"Yes. But once I re-absorb my aspects, I'll have it back, and I'll go back to being just like I was."
"So... if you left right now, you could be normal." Jinx nodded, "You have an out. You don't have to be a super hero any more. You can quit."
"No... not if I want to stay with the people I love." Raven took a step forward and pulled them both back into her. "You two can be happy together... I know you can."
"But... Raven..." Beast Boy pulled away and looked at the two young woman, "You two... you're perfect together."
"No." Raven shook her head, "It'd be okay for a fling, or for sex," she smiled as Beast Boy reddened, "but I feel like I've known Jinx all my life." she turned and hugged her friend, "You're my sister, Jinx. I love you like one."
"So no chances for a relationship then?" Jinx smiled sadly.
"Sorry... maybe just... friends with benefits."
"Hey," Beast Boy interjected with a smile, "She's MY friend with benefits."
"Sure, dash my hopes like that..." Jinx stuck her tongue out at him, and then turned and smiled at Raven, "Can I kiss you?"
"Sure." Raven smiled back and the two of them shared a slow, tender kiss.
"Dude, I am so glad I came here now." Beast Boy was grinning like an idiot.
"Shut it, BB." Raven pulled away from Jinx and walked to the center of the ring her aspects had made. "I have to do it now," she glared over at the red clad Raven with four glowing eyes, "the Seed is impatient and wants a body again."
"Wait..." Beast Boy shook his head, "You're going to take that monster back?"
"I kind of have to." Raven smiled at him, "You never did understand it did you?"
"Not really." he scratched the back of his head.
"It's an all or nothing kind of deal." she supplied, "If I don't take the Seed, I don't get my power, and it looks for a new host." a grim look descended on her features, "I'd just prefer it be trapped in me, where I know I can cage it."
Raven lifted an arm and a large red portal appeared, "That's the way home."
"Okay... we'll come wake you up as soon as we get back."
"I'll see you there then." Raven nodded as her aspects started circling her in an ever tightening circle. As they touched her body, they vanished as one, leaving Raven standing where she was, her cloak and leotard pure white. Looking down at herself in wonder, Raven choked out, "You have to leave."
"What? Why?" Jinx took a step forward, "What's going on?"
"I'm... different. I need to have a chat with my aspects." Raven looked up at them and smiled, "I'll be along in a little while. Just wait in my room for me."
"Okay... but don't be long." Beast Boy smiled and took Jinx's hand, "Come on, Jinx. We can trust her."
"Alright." Jinx still looked worried, but she followed Beast Boy through the portal anyway, vanishing with a flash of light.
"You know exactly what happened." Raven turned around to see the yellow clad Virtue frowning at her.
"It was just a little lie, Virtue, don't be mad at me."
"Indeed." Wisdom appeared next to Virtue, "We've become one now. You've made your peace with the Seed, Raven."
"I know... it's weird. I can still feel it in me, but... I can control it now. It wont get out again unless I want it to."
"Great power has a great price, Raven." Wisdom looked at her mistress over the tops of her glasses, "Don't recklessly use the Seeds power."
"I wont. Not unless I have to." Raven smiled, "I can feel. It's... better than I thought it would be."
"Be careful with your emotions as well." Wisdom shook her head, "Just because you no longer have to worry about destroying things when too many strains are placed upon you, doesn't mean that nothing will happen when you're pushed to a breaking point. The power still needs to be tightly controlled."
Jealousy appeared to Raven's left, "Wow! Are we ever getting a work out! Everyone's finding a bunk-mate except us!" she pouted.
"Not true." Love smiled down at them as she descended from above, "We feel very strongly about the two of them. They can bring out the best in each other if we nurture their relationship properly."
"I don't like playing mom to those two..." Jealousy stuck out her chin, "We love both of them... why can't they share?"
"I agree." Passion smiled as she slinked up to Raven and put an arm around her shoulders, "Let's get 'em both in the sack..."
"Enough." Raven smiled and shook her head, "I have to go back. Thank you all for helping me when I need you." She closed her eyes and concentrated, willing herself back to her physical form.
Raven woke to the sound of the heart monitor beeping away. Sitting up on the medical bay bed, she smiled down at her blood stained uniform. "I need to change." she said to no one, and smiled.
Smiling made her face hurt. Bringing her hand up, she touched the gash across her cheek that Red-X had left her just after he distracted her by revealing he was the young man she had slept with on the roof top several nights before.
That was a whole can of worms she wasn't even going to try to touch just yet.
Hopping off the bed, she stumbled a bit. The blood loss must have been pretty bad if she was this weak. She took it slow the rest of the way to her room.
Stopping in front of the door, she took a deep breath and pushed out with her senses. Jinx and Beast Boy were both in her room, and they were both feeling concern. Raven smiled as she pushed the button to open the doors.
The two Titans looked up from where they were sitting on her bed as she walked in. Huge grins spread across their faces, and she smiled back.
"Hey guys!" her voice was cheerful, "I'm back from the dead!"
"Hey..." Jinx stared at her in wonder, "You're happy!"
"Yeah... seems dying did something good after all... I can... feel without consequence now."
"Oh man..." Beast Boy grinning like a fool, pulled out his T-Comp, "Cy is gonna flip."
Sarah sat with her back leaned against the arm of her couch, Cyborg's head resting in her lap. She had one hand laying against the side of his head, her thumb massaging the area just behind his ear. His human eye was closed, and his breathing was regular.
She knew he wasn't asleep. Cyborg didn't actually sleep. He powered down and recharged every other day or so, but his robotic body wasn't actually capable of sleep.
His eye twitched as the communicator in his arm started beeping. Raising his arm to his mouth without opening his eye, he spoke into it, "Go ahead Beast Boy."
"Hey dude. There's someone here that wants to say hello."
"Hello Speedy." Cyborg replied, guessing that the red haired archer had finally showed up.
"If you ever call me that again, I'm going to take a can opener to you." Raven's voice replied.
Cyborg shot up off of Sarah's lap and stared down at his communicator. Sarah jumped up and looked down at it as well. Raven stared back at them with a grin on her face. "I'm baaaaaack!" she sang at them.
"Raven!" he shouted, overjoyed, "But... how?!?"
"I had a few problems... Jinx and Beast Boy got into my mind and helped me sort them out."
"That's... vague." he replied.
"I'll explain it all latter." Raven nodded, "Hello Sarah."
"Hey, Raven... um... welcome back from being dead and all..." she sounded a little breathless.
"Yeah, it's nice." Raven chuckled, "Well, Cy, since you're already there, just go ahead and spend the rest of the night. We'll talk in the morning."
"Okay, but bright and early."
"That's fine. I'll be up." Raven nodded again with a smile, "Raven out."
After the line went dead, Sarah turned to Cyborg, "I've never seen her smile that much."
"Well she DID just come back from the dead..." Cyborg shook his head. The emotional roller coaster he had been on all night long had taken it's toll on him. "I think I need to power down for a little while."
"Oh good. I could use some sleep." Sarah smiled and took his hand, "The bed is this way."
"I know where the bed is, Princess..." he scooped her up in his arms and held her to his chest as he kissed her. They separated and he carried her, giggling, down the hall to her bedroom.
"I think he took it fairly well." Raven shrugged as Jinx and Beast Boy started giggling.
After a few moments, they all calmed down, "Hey, Raven..." Jinx glanced at Beast Boy, "We were talking before you came in, and-" she was cut off by Raven's T-Comp going off.
"Hold that thought." Raven pulled it out and flipped it open, "Raven here."
"Raven." it was Robin, "Hope I didn't wake you."
"No, I'm up. It's only 6:00 in the morning out there though... I can't believe Star let you get up that early."
"We're getting an early start on the Joker case this morning. I just called for an update. Is Speedy there yet?"
"Actually, no. I've been waiting-" she paused, "Well, no, the others have been waiting for him."
"You really don't want him there do you?"
"It's not that." Raven shook her head, "I was dead for a good three or four hours there." At Robin's blank look she shrugged, "What? I'm better now..."
"You... died?" Robin arched an eyebrow.
"Yeah. Red X showed up-"
"Red X showed up?!?" Robin shouted.
"Yeah..." Raven frowned at him, "Getting back to the dying part now..."
"Sorry." he had the grace to look embarrassed.
"Never mind. Concentrate on finding the Joker and get back here as soon as possible. Until then, we have another insensitive jerk on his way, so don't worry about us not filling our personal abuse quotas for the day." Raven rolled her eyes.
"Right." Robin shook his head with a chuckle, "Robin out then."
"Raven out." and she snapped the T-Comp shut as Beast Boy and Jinx burst into laughter. Taking a bow, Raven noticed the blood stained leotard again, "Hey, what was it you wanted Jinx? I kind of want to get out of this uniform..."
"Good." Jinx said firmly, "We were talking and we decided that we're both ready. We're going to have sex."
Raven blinked, "Um, good for you."
"With you." Beast Boy said gently as he placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Wait...." Raven tried to wrap her brain around this new development, "You want to have a threesome?"
"Yes." they replied in unison.
Raven thought about it for a moment. "Okay."
Robin placed his T-Comp on the bedside table and rolled back over to face Starfire. She smiled at him and ran her finger nails gently down his chest, "I believe you made me a promise last night."
"So I did." he reached out and pulled her to him, "Do you want to be on top, or should I?"
Star smiled what he was quickly beginning to think of as her 'sex kitten smile.' "I think I would like to be on top this time. We did not get to that before." Robin smiled and rolled her over so that she was on top of him, straddling his waist.
"Whatever makes you happy, Kori."
She smiled wider as she reached down and began to stroke him to hardness, "Whenever we return to the manor tonight after our work is done, I would also like to try 'doggy-style.'" She felt him stiffen immediately and chuckled, "I take it that you would like that also."
"Sure." he rasped out, his throat suddenly dry.
"Good. Now, let us see if you are always what Raven calls a 'marathon man' or if last night was a fluke..."
On top of a skyscraper in Jump City, a lone figure clad all in black stood in the strong early morning wind. His cape billowed out from his shoulders and his hair blew over to one side, obscuring his right eye. At his feet lay a skull like mask with a red X across it, splitting one of the eyes.
Staring down at the blood that still stained his right hand, he whispered to the rest of the city, "What have I done?"
His eyes were drawn out to the tower shaped like a 'T' that sat on a small island in the bay. He'd stuck around long enough to see that Raven had died in Jinx's place, and that had made him feel even worse. She had been a good lay, and he felt like they had connected briefly in that intense moment of passion. She must have felt something as well if she had been so upset about it.
He suddenly felt the urge to go see her. They would have brought her back to the Tower, and he could probably get through it's defenses again the same way he had when he'd stolen the Red-X suit in the first place.
Eyes narrowing, he picked up the mask and put it back on. Spreading his arms, he leapt from the edge of the building and glided down to a lower rooftop.
He had amends to make.
Raven gasped as Jinx worked her over. The girl had definitely done this before. Beast Boy was content to suckle her breasts while Jinx went down on her, but Raven wasn't about to let them get away with pampering her the whole time.
"Beast Boy..." she grabbed his head and pulled his mouth up to hers. After kissing him soundly, she pushed him away from her and sat up. She grabbed Jinx's head and kissed her as well. After retrieving her tongue from Jinx's mouth, she pulled the other girl up further on the bed and pushed her down so she was laying on her back, "Come here Beast Boy."
He crawled over and she smiled at him, "What's up, Rae?"
"You'll have to learn this eventually, so it might as well be under my tutelage." she pointed down at Jinx, "Get down there and stick your tongue out."
"Uh..." Beast Boy grinned like an idiot, "Okay!"
As he assumed the position, Jinx looked at Raven very seriously, "Have I ever told you, Raven, that you're my personal hero?"
"No. But after I'm done teaching Beast Boy how to give proper oral sex, you'll be calling him your personal hero."
"Alright, Rae." Beast Boy said as he stuck his tongue out, "Naw yawt?"
"First thing to do is find her clit." she reached down and rubbed a little, and Jinx gasped and threw her head back. Chuckling, Raven continued, "You might have to stimulate her a little to do that..."
Breakfast at Wayne Manor could be a lavish affair, with multiple courses, a butler waiting on you, and decedent food fit for a king.
Robin hated lavish affairs.
"Just a few bowls of cereal will do, Alfred." he said as he pinched the bridge of his nose. He was dressed in street clothes, just a simple black t-shirt and blue jeans. His feet were bare.
"Very good, Master Richard."
"Wait..." Starfire poked her boyfriend in the arm, "Do I not get to order for myself?" Alfred had supplied the guest room they had spent the night in with clothes for her (Robin had no idea where they had come from. It was just like Bruce to keep around clothes that would fit a seventeen year old girl 'just in case') and she now wore a simple brown skirt with a white short sleeved top. She too, had left her feet bare.
Robin sighed. They weren't going to get to the Batcave for another two hours at this rate, "Sure. Whatever makes you happy Kori." he smiled at her.
"I would like waffles then!" Star bounced in her seat and smiled up at Alfred.
The old butler lit up, "Very good Madam. I will begin immediately." and he rushed off, all smiles, with a bounce to his step.
"He seemed... very pleased." Starfire blinked.
Robin just chuckled, "Bruce and I don't usually have too much time for breakfast... or lunch or dinner for that matter." he shrugged, "Alfred loves to cook, but we're constantly telling him to make something quick and simple so we can get back to work."
"You two sound like you are very much alike. When do I get to meet Bruce?"
"Now would be a good time." They turned to see Bruce striding into the dining room in a rush. He wore khaki slacks and a button down white shirt with no tie. Starfire noted with interest that he too had left his feet bare. "Good morning, Kori. I'm Bruce Wayne." he smiled at her as she rose and shook his hand.
"It is a pleasure to meet you!" Outwardly she was polite and respectful but inside she was rather awed. All of the stories Beast Boy and Cyborg had told her of Batman were certainly true if it was this man behind the mask. He had a much larger frame than Robin, suited more for beating the daylights out of criminals than the acrobatics her boyfriend was prone to. Bruce had a presence that commanded respect, and he reminded her very much of some of the kings she had met while serving as Crown Princess of Tameran.
She also noticed how similar the set of his shoulders and the way he carried himself was to Robin. They even looked a little bit alike. This man truly was the Boy Wonder's father.
Robin seemed less impressed with him than she was, "Morning Bruce." He yawned.
"Morning Dick." Bruce replied with a grin.
Robin glared at him for a moment, then reached out and snatched the paper that the billionaire had been holding from his hands, "Alfred already took our orders."
"Damn. I'll just go fix myself a bowl of cereal then..."
"Don't bother." Robin grinned, "We're having waffles."
Bruce arched an eyebrow and turned to Starfire, "Your request I'm guessing?"
"Yes." she nodded with a smile, "Of all the Earth foods I have sampled in the four years I have been here, waffles are second on the list of my favorite foods."
"What's first?" he asked with a grin.
Robin smiled knowingly as she replied with a happy grin, "Mustard!"
Jinx moaned as Beast Boy moved against her with a steady rhythm. Her legs were up and bent at the knees, and he had one arm hooked under her left leg. The changeling's right hand massaged her breasts and held her shoulder occasionally.
Raven knelt behind Beast Boy, pushing gently on his lower back, forcing him to penetrate Jinx deeper. She pressed her breasts against his back and placed searing kisses up his neck and down his shoulders.
Jinx cried out as she had her second orgasm. As Beast Boy slowed his pumping, she gasped out, "Raven... down here on you back... you have GOT to feel this..."
"I've done this before, Jinx. I know what it's like."
"Not like this you haven't... not with Beast Boy..."
"True." Raven pulled her friend back and turned his head until she could kiss him. After a moment she pulled back, "How about it, Beast Boy? Want to fuck me?"
"I've wanted to fuck you for a year."
"Really?" she smiled.
"Really." He reached around and grabbed her about the waist, pulling her around and depositing her next to Jinx, who immediately started playing with her breasts. Beast Boy reached out and opened her legs, guiding himself in.
Raven gasped as he entered her, and clutched at Jinx's hair. "God damn..." she whispered as Beast Boy began to move. "Beast Boy..."
"Yeah?" he grinned at her.
She opened her eyes and glared, "Fuck me harder, damnit."
He grinned wider and started to fuck like his namesake.
Speedy walked up the path to Titan Tower with a sigh. Apparently no cabs ran to the island in the middle of the bay. He couldn't exactly blame them, but one would think the other Titans would have had a car waiting for him or something. Making him walk a few miles must have been Raven's idea of a joke.
Glancing up at the Tower as it was bathed in the early morning light, he saw a figure crawling across the vertical surface just below the cross of the 'T.' Frowning, he sat down his large gym bag and opened it. Pulling out his bow and a quiver, her slung the latter over his back and pulled an arrow. Aiming up at the dark figure, he let fly.
As the arrow reached it's target, it exploded into an energy net, trapping the intruder and dropping them the four stories to the ground. Whoever it was would be hurting when they woke up.
As he walked over, Speedy pulled out another arrow. No sense in being careless. He aimed it down at the still moving form of the captured intruder.
"Mind if I ask who you are and what you're doing here?" Speedy arched an eyebrow.
The figure rolled over and Speedy's eyes grew wide, "Name's Red-X, kid, and I'm here to pay my respects. Your pal Raven died last night."
The arrow buried it's self in the ground next to the thief's head, "You're a liar." Speedy growled, "Raven's not-"
"I saw her die myself." Red-X cut him off. He continued in a much quieter voice, "It's my fault she died."
"You're coming with me." Speedy bent down and eradicated the energy field with a counter arrow, "If she's really dead, I'm putting this arrow in your back." He pulled out another arrow and showed it to Red-X. It was labeled 'High Explosive.'
"We'll see." Red-X stood up, "I'm guessing I'll be in front of you."
"You guess right." Speedy placed the arrow in his bow, "March, fuck head."
Raven sighed with pleasure as she watched Jinx moving her hips on top of Beast Boy. The changeling had his eyes shut tightly as he gripped her hips, moving her faster and with more insistency every passing second.
"Raven..." Jinx moaned, "Are you with us?"
"Yeah..." the psion had pulled out her vibrator and was slowly building herself to orgasm. "I'm going to try something... tell me if it works right..."
She concentrated on the feeling building inside of her and projected it outward. Beast Boy and Jinx both gasped simultaneously and began to shake. Raven quickly looped the empathic flow, so she would feel their pleasure as well.
It only took seconds for all three of them to experience bone shaking orgasms that were compounded exponentially every second they continued. It took all of Raven's willpower to shut down the cycle so that none of them would die from the extreme endorphin release.
They collapsed into a heap on the bed, all of them breathing hard and feeling sticky. Beast Boy gasped out, "Holy... shit... Raven..."
"Yeah... what he said..." Jinx smiled and leaned over, kissing Raven soundly, "We'll have to do this again."
"We'll see..." Raven smiled, "You two should sleep."
"What about you?" Beast Boy asked as he pulled Jinx into his embrace and cuddled up against her.
"I was dead for a few hours earlier. Got all the rest I needed." Raven smiled, "I'm going to go to Jinx's room to take a shower. You two sleep here. I'll wake you in time for patrol tonight."
"Right... patrol..." Jinx rolled her eyes, "Even being dead doesn't make you any less of a work whore..."
"Yeah dude... you're more like Robin every day." Beast Boy yawned.
"That's not necessarily a bad thing." Raven shook her head, "Get some rest you two. We have a psycho bent on raising an army of the dead to deal with later."
"Oh." Jinx blinked, shut her eyes, and snuggled into Beast Boy, "Right."
Raven pulled her sheets up around them and kissed both of them on their temples, "Sleep well, Lovers."
She smiled when she realized they were both already asleep.
Standing on shaky legs, Raven grabbed a bathrobe from her closet and walked for the door. No sense putting anything on when she was just going to jump right in the shower any way.
The first place Speedy directed Red-X to was the medical room. Aside from a large red stain on the table however, there was no sign of a dead Raven.
"Maybe they moved her. Or buried her already." Red- X shrugged, "The only way we'll know is if we ask them."
Speedy poked him sharply with the tip of the arrow, and left if pressed against his shoulder, "You move and I blow this arrow right in your arm."
"Right, right." Red-X waved him off. Speedy growled and pulled out his T-Comp. He quickly punched in the sequence needed to do a location trace, and looked for Cyborg.
"Cy's across town. Must be with his girlfriend or something." he lowered his arrow and Red-X turned to face him.
"Decided to trust me?"
"I can activate the Tower security grid through voice command." Speedy looked up and grinned, "I'm not worried about you getting away. Even the famed Red-X would have a hell of a time getting past the grid in this place." He went back to work on his T-Comp. This time, he got a signal he could follow.
"Beast Boy's signal is in the Tower. In... Raven's room." he swallowed.
"Maybe they set it up as kind of a morning room or something."
"IF she's dead, which she isn't."
"You keep telling yourself that."
"Let's just go find out." Speedy started off down the hallway, Red-X in tow. They rounded a corner and started down towards Raven's room when the doors ahead of them opened. They froze as Raven herself walked out. Red-X made a strangled noise of surprise, and Speedy's eyes grew wide.
Raven was completely nude, and had a black silk bathrobe tossed over one arm. She stopped when she saw them and arched an eyebrow.
There was silence in the hallway for a full minute before Red-X blurted out in a voice that sounded relived and angry at the same time, "You're not dead!"
"No, I'm not. That wasn't the case about two hours ago." Raven turned to Speedy, "You bleached your hair?"
"Yeah... Raven, did you know you're not wearing any clothes?"
She looked down at herself, "Oh, that. I'm not too worried about you being offended by getting an eye full. I'm not THAT bad looking."
Speedy shook his head, "Well, no, you're actually pretty hot." He pointed back over his shoulder, "Did you know you're naked in front of a villain who claims he killed you last night?"
"Nothing I haven't seen before..." Red-X muttered.
"We'll be having a talk about THAT after I take a shower. Why don't you two go down to the kitchen and get breakfast ready. Cyborg will be home soon, and I don't want to have to tell the story three times for each of you." With that, she walked across the hall into the next room and shut the door.
Speedy turned to Red-X, "What was THAT all about?"
"I'll tell you while we get breakfast ready."
"You're actually going to stick around for Breakfast?"
"I want to hear her story just as much as you do. I also want to know how they knew to find me last night. The stuff I'm collecting for my client has to have some kind of meaning if they knew where the next piece was going to be."
"Right." Speedy arched an eyebrow, "You like bacon or sausage better?"
Starfire looked about in wonder at the Batcave. The cavernous tunnel system under Wayne Manor was extensive, and Batman had made good use of it. They passed a launch pad for a sleek looking hover plane, a small garage containing motorcycles and two different versions of the Batman's car, and finally came to an information and research area that contained more computers and investigation equipment than she'd ever seen in one place.
"The changing rooms are over here." Robin said as he walked towards a door off of the info room. "Alfred will have cleaned and brought down your uniform already. Change and met me back here in five."
"Right." Starfire nodded, wondering when Alfred found the time to do everything he did. Following Robin through the door, she admired his lean back as he pulled his shirt off and walked through the door that had a bat symbol on it. She turned to the portal next to it and saw an identical door, with one exception; someone had painted a pink bow on the head of the bat on her door.
Giggling, she pushed it open and found a locker room beyond. Three shower stalls with padded floors, as well as a vanity that looked fully stocked with cosmetics and beauty supplies gave the room what Raven would call a 'girly' feel. She was guessing that Babs Gordon was the only one who used this area.
True to Robin's guess, her freshly cleaned uniform was hanging in a small alcove across from the lockers, next to a spare Batgirl costume. She frowned looking at it, knowing it's owner would never be able to wear it again.
Clearing the sad thought from her head, Starfire went about changing and getting ready for a day of what Robin had assured her would be full of 'knocking heads' in order to gather information. She'd had a lecture over breakfast from both him and Bruce about how Gotham wasn't like Jump City. The bad guys here were really bad, and as a result the good guys sometimes had to be bad as well.
The conversation had left her feeling drained and tiered. Cruelty was not in her nature, and the fact that Robin had told her that they might have to 'beat information' out of people upset her. Still, this was Batman's city, and she would have to play by his rules while she worked in it.
Taking one last glance at the Batgirl costume, she steeled herself with grim determination and stepped back out into the Batcave.
Cyborg walked into the rec-room of Titan Tower at half past seven and was greeted with the smell of frying eggs and bacon. He could hear two people moving around in the kitchen, so, figuring it wasn't Beast Boy cooking the meat, he tossed his keys on the table in front of the TV and called out, "Yo! Jinx! Raven! I'm back!"
"How wonderful Dear!" he heard a male voice reply, "Why don't you just come in and put your feet up while we finish your breakfast!"
Cyborg shook his head with a chuckle as he placed the voice, "Hey, Speedy! Glad to see you finally made it here, bro!" walking over to the kitchen, he glanced at the counter and saw Red-X's mask sitting between a carton of milk and a case of eggs. "The hell..."
Stepping around the counter and into the kitchen he saw Speedy frying the bacon, and a young man with blond hair and a black body suit mixing up batter for pancakes.
"Uh..."
"X makes some mean fried eggs, dude." Speedy said over his shoulder as he poked the bacon in the pan."
"You want fluffy 'cakes or flat ones?" Red-X asked, glancing over at the robotic Titan.
"What I want," Cyborg leveled his arm at Red-X as it transformed into his sonic cannon, "is to know what the hell you're doing in my kitchen!"
Speedy and Red-X both blinked at him before X replied, "Um... I'm making pancakes man."
"I can see that, you-" Cyborg was cut off by a gentle hand on his arm. He looked down to see Raven standing next to him, wearing a black silk robe.
"Calm down, Cyborg. He's here by invitation."
"Right... so did you go crazy after you died?"
"No." Raven smiled at him and he backed away. "What?"
"You smiled."
"And?"
"And you don't smile unless you're about to hit me or something."
"I've changed a little. Now sit down and let Speedy and Red-X finish our breakfast. I'll tell the story while they work."
Cyborg glared around at all of them for a few moments. He knew that Raven could be trusted, and he knew that she could sense when others could be trusted, so he eventually gave up and heaved a grumpy sigh. "Ya'll are gonna' be the death of me, you know that?"
Raven chuckled as Speedy shrugged and went back to tending his bacon. Red-X turned around with the bowl of batter still in his hands, "So," he sounded annoyed, "fluffy or flat?"
"Robin," Starfire asked into her communicator as she flew above him, following his motorcycle through the streets of Gotham, "Where are we going?"
The reply was curt and tight, telling her that he was in full business mode, "The pool halls that Harley has supposedly been frequenting. Once we get there, we'll ask around and see if anyone has seen someone matching her description. Then we can narrow down the number of buildings we have to watch."
"Would it not be easier to go as civilians so as not to arouse suspicion?"
"It'll be more effective if Robin the Boy Wonder wants to know. People will talk with a little convincing."
Starfire definitely didn't like the sound of that, but let the matter be for now. She would have to play the game like Robin did now, and adapt to the situation as needed. Following his lead was the best bet while they were in Gotham.
"So now you can..." Cyborg searched for a word for a moment, "feel?"
"Without consequence." Raven nodded, "Or very little anyway. Extreme emotional strain might still force my powers out of control, but everyday emotions such as happiness and anger can now be expressed in full without the Tower suffering major structural damage."
"Wow." Speedy shook his head, "Being dead sounds like it sucks."
"It wasn't too much fun, no." Raven smiled grimly at Red-X, who paused with a bite of pancake halfway to his mouth while under her glare, "It hurts too."
"Sorry." he mumbled. "I wasn't trying to kill you..."
Cyborg shook his head and pushed his half finished breakfast away from him, "I'm suddenly not hungry." Speedy grabbed the plate and pulled it towards himself, happily digging into the leftovers. Cyborg eyed him and stood up, "I'm going to get some work done. Reports to file for Robin and all that."
"Right, right." Raven stood as well. "X, meet me on the roof when you're done, okay?"
"Um..." he swallowed his food, "Okay."
Cyborg looked between the two of them for a moment, shook his head again and stalked off. Raven followed him to the elevator, the eyes of the two young men remaining at the table following her the whole way. As soon as the doors hissed shut, Speedy turned back to Red-X, "Dude, is it just me or is Raven hot?"
"What? You just noticed?" X shook his head with a snort, "She's been hot for like, years."
"Yeah, well, I guess her personality always got in the way before. Now she's down right pleasant." Speedy arched an eyebrow, "Now what was that earlier about having seen her naked before?"
Red-X, blushed, "I think that's what we'll be talking about up on the roof. She was on patrol the other night and she caught me purse snatching. Not in my suit." Speedy looked at him funny, "What? I can't have fun every now and then?"
"Purse snatching is fun for you?"
"Getting back to the point, she caught me, made me give the purse back, and then we had sex on top of a building. She didn't know who I was."
"That's fucked up." Speedy shook his head and shovled some more food in his mouth, "Yovv bebber oo 'alk oo er." he said with his mouth full.
"Yeah." Red-X stood up and grabbed his mask of the counter on his way to the elevator.
Raven stared out at the Jump City skyline from the top of Titan Tower. It was amazing to feel wonder for the first time. To be truly impressed by the beauty of the architecture. All the new emotions she was experiencing kept crashing through her body like waves, forcing her to retreat back into her tightly controlled shell every so often so as not to be overwhelmed.
"Hey." Red-X walked up beside her, "It's beautiful in the morning like this isn't it?"
"Yeah." Raven smiled and basked in the moment of silence as an understanding passed between the two of them. Being an empath, she was acutely aware of such moments, but it wasn't until now that she could fully understand the significance of such times.
Red-X broke the silence a few minutes later, "Look, Raven... I-"
"It's okay." she turned to him and placed a hand on the side of his face, "You know, your voice is much nicer when it's not being run through that filter."
"I always thought it sounded kind of like Robin."
"It's supposed to." she smiled and lowered her hand.
"Yeah." They stared at each other for a moment more, then he blurted out, "Brian."
"Excuse me?" Raven blinked.
"My name." he clarified with a half grin, "It's Brian. I thought... well, I just wanted you to know."
"Red-X sounds more dangerous."
"Yeah, but now... you know." he shrugged and a blush crept up his neck.
"That night, when I told you I didn't want to know... that was fun. That was dangerous, and reckless, and it's not something I normally do. So don't expect it to happen again." Raven fidgeted. She wasn't used to feeling nervous.
"I don't! I mean... well... you know who I am now. It... wouldn't be right."
"Because we're enemies, or because I know your name?" she flashed him a grin.
He frowned at her, "You know what I mean."
As her grin faded, she reached out and touched his chest, "Hey, just once more, okay, then you have to get the hell off of the Tower."
"You mean you wanna... right now?" he looked over at the door that lead inside, as if he expected Cyborg to come crashing out any second and pummel him.
Raven giggled, "No, silly." she grabbed a handful of his suit and pulled him down towards her. He smiled into her mouth as she kissed him, and he kissed her back. After several seconds, they pulled apart. "That was what I meant."
"We never did that before." he pointed out.
"We connected though. We should have done that then."
"Yeah, I know." he smiled a sad smile, "Maybe in another time or another place... but not this one, huh?"
"No, not this time or place. I'll see you again, I'm sure. Just stop stealing the Arcana for whoever it is you're working for." she frowned, "Who are you working for?"
"What the hell are the Arcana?"
"The stuff you were sent to steal can be used with dark words of power to raise the dead." Raven waved her hand as zombie armies were unimportant, "Who are you working for?"
"I don't know his name... he's kind of tall, has this body suit that looks like... well, it's black and..."
As he continued his description, Raven's eyes narrowed.
Robin and Starfire stood outside the fourth pool hall in the row along a street affectionately called Ruffians Row by the locals. If there was a biker gang in town, this was where they would be.
Glancing across the street at the auto repair shop he'd been sitting on top of with Batman just two nights before, Robin frowned. The other three bars hadn't turned up anything, but this was the one his first lead had told him Harley had been hanging out in.
"Expect action." he told Starfire in a no-nonsense voice.
"I am ready." she replied, and they walked in.
A bouncer type just inside the door frowned at them, "No kids allowed, pu-" he didn't get the rest of his sentence out as Robin belted him across the jaw, sending him to the floor. Starfire, alarmed at her boyfriends unprovoked attack, still had enough of her wits about her to take stock of the rest of the bar.
Of the four pool tables in the center of the large room, only one was being played on by four other men. A bartender was reeling from shock as his bouncer was just flattened by a teenager.
Robin spoke into the deadly quiet, "I'm here for information."
"We aint gonna tell you shit kid!" one of the men at the pool table shouted and pointed his cue at Robin.
The top half of the cue fell to the floor a half second later and the bird-a-rang returned to Robin's hand, "Really? That's too bad."
"What the fu-" the man was looking at his chopped up pool cue and never even saw Robin's foot before it connected with his face, smashing him back across the pool table. The other three men all swung cues at him, but he blocked them all with a hastily drawn bo-staff.
"You guys really don't want this." he said in a playfully calm voice as another of the men was blasted from his feet by a well aimed swing of the staff. The other two lunged at him, but before they could grab him, a green blur interposed it's self between the combatants.
"Enough!" Starfire shouted, her eyes glowing green and energy crackling off of her in waves. "You cannot beat Robin! Stand down and you shall not be hurt!"
"Starfire!" Robin barked out, "Wait by the door. I'll handle this."
"Quiet Robin." she snapped. His mouth dropped open as she reached out and grabbed one of the men by his shirt front. Lifting him from the ground, she pulled a picture out of her belt pouch and showed it to him, "Have you seen this woman?"
The man looked at the picture for a moment, his face painted with fear, then nodded, "Yeah... yeah I seen her... she's in here almost every night with the Black Devil gang... they just got back in town from a ride up to Blödhaven... they'll be by tonight!"
"Then I suggest you NOT be here tonight." Starfire narrowed her eyes, "Things will be getting... loud."
"Okay! Just don't kill me!"
"I do not kill." she dropped him to the ground and whirled about to face Robin, her eyes still blazing with green light, "I prevent death from happening." With that, she stalked out of the bar.
Robin took a moment to meet everyone's eyes before he spoke, "None of you are here tonight. Got it?" Even the bartender nodded, "Good. We'll be back."
As he exited the building, he saw Starfire standing with her back to the door across the street. In a swirl of black cape he stalked over to her and began shouting at her back, "What the hell was that? I told you to let me handle the interrogation, and to just look menacing behind me. That was NOT a request from your boyfriend, Starfire!" she winced as he raised his voice a little more, "That was an ORDER from your LEADER!"
"You were hurting those men!" she shouted back as she whirled about, tears in her eyes.
"I needed information! That's how we get it in this town!"
"It wasn't that you were hurting them, Robin! It was how you were hurting them! Like you were out for revenge..." her voice trailed off and she hugged herself to ward off the chill of the Gotham air. They stood in silence for some time before he spoke.
"I am out for revenge Star. Babs needs some kind of closure."
"But that... that was cruel. You are not normally capable of such cruelty."
Robin turned away from her and started back towards his motorcycle. He spoke back over his shoulder, his voice full of disgust and self loathing, "You'd be surprised what I'm capable of. Especially in this city."
"Robin..." she flew up behind him as he reached his bike. He was just about to jam his helmet on his head when his T-Comp started going crazy. Pulling it out, he flipped it open with more force than was necessary.
"Robin here. What is it?"
Raven frowned at him, "What's got you so pissy?"
"Fight. What do you want?" he neglected to add that the fight had been with Starfire, and that he had clearly lost.
"Don't flip out on me. Calm down." Raven narrowed her eyes, "Calm."
Robin took several deep breaths and was surprised when Starfire rubbed his back gently. He looked over at her and she smiled weakly, nodding at his T-Comp. He turned back to it, "Okay, calmed down. Now what is it, Raven?"
"We caught up to Red-X and found out who he was working for. I convinced him to stop stealing the High Arcana, but that doesn't mean his employer will stop trying to get a hold of them."
"The High Arcana do what, exactly?" Robin arched a corner of his mask."
Raven sighed as if she'd explained this several times before, which he supposed, she probably had, "Together with the right dark magic words they can raise the dead."
"Like zombies?"
"Like really mean zombies." Raven nodded, "I'm not worried about zombies though... I'm worried about his employer."
"Why?" Robin narrowed his eyes.
"Get done in Gotham and get back here as soon as you can, Robin." Raven frowned.
"Who is it, Raven?"
"It's Slade. He's back."
Closing Notes: Yeah, like you didn't see that one coming. You didn't? Oh! Then I guess you're just going, "The fuck? Jake? You on crack?" Yeah. I'm like that sometimes.
Responces:
ChaosChampion- Jinx IS good. Just not as good as Robin and Red-X. Looking at DC stats, we see that Dick Grayson is one of the best martial artists in the world, just behind Batman, Lady Shiva, and Casandra Cain (the new Batgirl.) If Red-X is THAT good... well, Jinx always has her powers to fall back on, so she doesn't NEED to be as god as them. :)
BeautyOfTheRose- You owe me a biscut. :)
Kokuryu- I have done my tribal 'Star and Rob are no longer virgins dance.' Yay.
Firpi- You actually went back and read Sonata before finishing Cantata? Wow. You're... smart! Hey, are the rest of you reviewers smart? I mean, I figure MOST of you are, but it's so rare that people actually READ those warnings that say stuff like, "You HAVE TO READ SONATA FIRST!" I'm pleased to know that someone does. :)
skweeks- Thank you for understanding. Hope this came at a good time for you to read it. :)
Bonekahn313- Raven didn't stay dead. Oh well. Another cool chapter, hope you liked it. :)
goldfish demon- You guessed wrong. Sorry, no cookie for you. But if you ask BeautyOfTheRose really nice, I bet she might have some left over biscuts. :)
chickiidoo- Aw! The best conflic happens when people die! I'm killing... um.... ROBIN! In the next chapter! Just 'cause you told me not to! Okay, so I'm not, but hey, everyone has to die some time right? Expect some more. I'm so evil.
MOOgoestheCHICKEN- Yes! Yes! Yes! Raven DIED! But, um... I brought her back, so it's cool. And see? Raven got with Beast Boy. And Jinx. Whatever. It was hot, and that's what counts. :) But really, I made you cry? Damn. First I'm making people laugh, now cry... what am I, and evil bastard? Oh... wait... yeah.
sick with joy- Things are looking up for your pairing prefrences. Hope that makes you... less sick. Or more sick. With joy.
Nightwish13- Hey now! ONLY the good die young! That's why I'm so BAD! Heh. I don't always seperate out Char. POV, but I do always seperate out scenes. Like in a movie. Think of it like that. I did screw up once in the last chapter at the end. I should have switched to a new scene when Jinx woke up from where Red-X had shocked her. Sorry 'bout that...
Stolen Valkyrie- Damn. Take a pill or something! Simmer. Just repeat to yourself over and over... 'It's just fanfiction... it's just fanfiction...' Glad I'm keeping you on the edge of your seat. :)
Heaven's Angel- I expect an e-mail with full details on the reenactment. Seriously. I also had sex with my girlfriend for four hours straight this past weekend. Twice. Um yeah. Prolly shouldn't have typed that last part. :)
CHEENAMI Danny- Hope I cleared some things up for you in this chapter. Cleared them up like mud anyway. :)
dbzneon- Sex all around, and one good Alfred moment. Happy campers are we. :)
Sizeist- Like, there's the update dude, like yeah! Hows that like, cool for you and stuff? Sweet!
Brogramn- Always glad to hear from you. The sex in this chapter was a bit more extream. It made me hot though, so it's got to be good, right? :) KPAAF, yo.
AmethystAngel89- I hope this chapter pushed you fully into this story being your favorite in the freakin' world. That would rock socks. :)
StarryRavenFire- My first reviewer was the only one to hit it spot on. Raven/Jinx/Beast Boy WAS the pairing for this chapter, and you got it! Cookie for you!
So many reviewers! It makes the replying so much fun! I think I got everyone this time, so hey, visit me at and I'll see you around!
Next Chapter- Robin and Starfire turn up the heat, and Robin meets someone who will change his life forever. Raven and Speedy argue like an old married couple, Cyborg looks into hydrolic penis equipment, Jinx and Beast Boy crack jokes, Batman knows everything, and the shit hits the fan in Jump City. What are the Titans to do when the bad guys come out in force?