Chica De Los Ojos Cafe : did you mean to say you hate Starfire, not Raven. well i don;t hate Star, she just annoys me alot! lol
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Chapter 8: Tension and scheming.
Raven, Robin and Bumblebee all met on the Tower Roof at 1:00am that night. "You didn't tell anyone you were coming right?" Raven asked Bumblebee.
She shook her head signalling that she hadn't. "Right. Now what we've got to do is make sure that Starfire doesn't affect Cyborg and Beast Boy so deeply that they turn against us completely. I don't mean that they just snap at us every now and then. I mean we need to make sure that they don't take Starfire's side completely and end up hating us!" Robin said.
Raven and Bumblebee nodded in agreement. "We'll meet back here tomorrow night. We need to try and figure out what Starfire's plan is first before we start to make our own. Get off to bed and don't mention a word of this to anyone! Got it?" Bumblebee nodded and walked off down to her room. Raven went to follow then noticed that Robin was standing looking out into night. "You should get in you know." He said.
"Why?" She asked.
"It looks like it might rain."
"Okay. Are you not coming in with me?"
"Yeah. I was just thinking." He turned around with a smile forced across his face.
"What's wrong Robin?" Raven asked the masked hero.
"Nothing. Why would anything be wrong?" He said running his hand through his hair.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe because you always fun your hand through your hair when you're nervous and you seem out of it and you have done ever since Starfire returned." She said crossing her arms across her chest.
"I'm fine. Honestly. Are you sleeping in my room again tonight?" He asked her.
"Only if you stop acting so strangely!" She said, not dropping the matter of him acting uneasy.
"Look, I am not acting uneasy and plus, you have to because it is going to rain and everyone else is asleep. We can't take the risk of your window just 'happening' to open and water burn your skin. So you have too. No choice in the matter." He said taking her hand.
"Okay. Okay. I was only joking. You really are stressed." Raven said following him to his room.
She got into bed next to him and lay looking at his ceiling. He rolled over and looked at her, propping himself up with his elbow so he was on his side. "Look. I'm sorry. I'm just really stressed at the moment with Starfire being back in the tower and all." He said. "I can just Slade on her. She reeks of it."
"I know. I'm going to go and change my bandages. They're rubbing." Raven said getting up.
"Why? Don't you want to be around me? Don't you love me Raven?" Robin said angrily at her.
"Of course I love you Robin. I just need to go change them because they're rubbing." Raven said putting on her cloak.
"DON'T LIE RAVEN!" Robin shouted at her grabbing one of her bandaged hands.
"Robin. You're hurting me." His grip tightened.
"Robin please stop." She whimpered, tears starting to form in her eyes from the pain of him squeezing her hand. He let go of it and stared at Raven's tearful face. She fell to the ground clutching her hand, supporting it. "Raven… I am so sor…" He began to say but she cut him off.
"No, it's okay Robin. I know you're going through a rough time. I'll just and uhh go and change my bandages and stay out of your way." She got up, the tears now freely falling down her face silently. Still clutching her hand she went towards the door. "Raven! Wait! I didn't mean…to." He said, the last part quietly as she closed the door behind her.
Robin got up and took an elevator up to the med lab. He saw Raven sitting on a bed, bandages spread all around her. She sat with her hand out in front of her on her knee. She began to cry again. Robin stood in the shadows of the door. "How could I have done this? I hurt the person I love with all my life! I don't know why, It felt like something or someone took over me. That's no excuse though. I hurt her. I could have blocked the person out but I couldn't. I hurt her. That's my fault. It was my hands that gripped her burnt, bandaged hands until she cried out in pain. I should just let her go. She will be much safer and happier without me around, hurting her and messing up her life." Robin thought. He began to walk off back to his room and leave Raven in peace when he heard her give out a large cry of frustration and sadness. He walked back into the doorway and saw her still crying but a bandage strip lay untidy and weakly over her hand.
"Shall I help her? All I'll end up doing is hurting her more."
He decided against his thoughts and went over to help her anyway as she was having real big difficulties with the bandages. When she saw him walk in in his boxers (coz that what he's sleeping in) she wiped away her tear stained face and extra tears that were still falling with her bad hand. She flinched from the pain but tried to hide how much he had hurt her. "Do you want some help?" he asked her. He expected her to shout at him with major anger but she didn't.
"I'll be fine. Don't worry. Just get some sleep." She said.
"Look, Rae, I'm really sorry about me hurting you like that. I didn't mean to it was…"
"I know Robin. It's okay. You're really stressed at the moment and it doesn't help with me always questioning you. Really, it's okay. It doesn't hurt that much. The pain's already practically gone." She said, forcing a smile onto her face.
"Raven! I know that you are hurting. I can see it in your eyes, the way they mist over at the touch of your hands! And it was my fault! Don't you dare blame yourself. I know this gives me no excuse for what I did but it wasn't me back there. It felt as though I was fighting against another person in my body for control. It still gives me no excuse for what I did. It was my hands that hurt you." He said. "I will understand if you want me to stay out of your way. You don't need me around because if I'm around, I just complicate your life and hurt you. I hope you find someone who deserves you." He headed over to the open door.
"Robin! What are you talking about? Why would I want you out of my life. My life's already complicated. You make me happy and see the brighter side of my life which is you. Why would I want the person I love most out of my life?" She said, her head turned towards him, a genuine smile on her face this time.
"You actually mean that?" He said, turning towards her and walking back to her.
"Yes I do Robin." She said, still smiling. "Now can you help me change my bandages please?"
"Of course." He said. He pulled a chair over and sat on it. He took the old ones off and got some new ones. He began to wrap her hands up gently so as not to hurt her.
"So what were you saying about feeling as though someone else was you?" She asked.
"I just felt as though someone had taken control of my body and actions and I couldn't do anything to stop it." He said.
"Do you think she had anything to do with it?"
"I don't know. It was most probably something she has thought of."
"There finished. Feel better?"
"Yeah. A lot. Thank you." She said and gave him a quick kiss. "Better get back to bed."
"Yeah. I'll walk you back to your room." He said.
"Oh, so you don't want me in the same bed as you now?" She said standing up and raising an eyebrow.
"Of course I do, I just thought you wouldn't after earlier."
"Well let's go then." She laced her arm through his and walked with him to his room and got back into bed with him. He wrapped his arms around her. "I love You Raven."
"I love you too." She soon fell asleep in his arms once more.
"Slade! It has not worked. Robin and Raven are still together and stronger than before." Starfire whispered down her communicator.
"Do not fear my young apprentice. We will get to the rest of the team. They will work sufficiently as well." Slade's creepy voice said down through the other end.
"As you wish master." Starfire switched of the communicator and hid it in the wall where a tile was missing.
The next day, Robin and Raven walked down the flight of stairs and into the living/kitchen room to witness a blazing row between Bumblebee and Cyborg.
"SHE IS EVIL! SHE MINIPULATED YOU ALL INTO HATING RAVEN!" Bumblebee shouted at the tin man.
"THAT WAS WHEN SHE WAS EVIL. SHE'S GOOD NOW!" He yelled back at the overgrown bug.
"HOW CAN SHE SUDDENLY BE KICKING OUR ASSES AND TRYING TO KILL US ALL ONE DAY AND THEN THE NEXT DAY BE A SAINT IN YOUR EYES?"
"I TRUST HER. I TRUST THAT SHE IS NOT EVIL. I TRUST THAT SHE IS GOOD AGAIN. TRUST IS A VERY IMPORTANT WORD ON THIS TEAM. OBVIOUSLY YOU DO NOT TRUST ME!"
"I TRUST YOU. IT'S HER I DON'T TRUST!"
"WELL YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T TRUST HER!"
"NO I AM NOT!"
"FINE NAME TWO OTHER PEOPLE WHO DON'T TRUST HER."
"Me and Raven." Robin's calm voice from the doorway said. Raven was holding onto his hand lightly, her hood up.
"WHY MUST YOU ALWAYS BE DIFFICULT?" Cyborg said.
"Sorry Cyborg, I just don't get over things such as turning my friends, my only family I have against me easily. Robin can we go? I don't really feel like being yelled at today. Bumblebee?" Raven said.
"I'm gladly joining you two. I can't stand to be around this over grown tin for one more minute!" Bumblebee said storming out of the room.
"She's ruined everything! Me and Cyborg will never be together now!" Bumblebee said, collapsing onto Raven's bed.
"She hasn't we've come up with a plan to catch her out." Raven said, sitting on her bed also.
"Good what is it?" Bumblebee asked eager to know,
"Well, we thought that we could…"
OOOOO cliff hanger o.0
next chappy: plan goes underway. Slade and Trigon take something else away from Raven. Bumblebee sees no hope in her future with Cyborg.
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