Hey everyone, sorry for not publishing this on sunday like i said i would but my computer is still fucked up so i had to save it onto a disk. the disk wouldn't let me put on chapter 10, some problems on it or something so i'm gonna sort them out and chapter 10 will be up soon.
thank u to everyone who waited patiently, but u don't have to wait anylonger so on with the chapter:...
Chapter 9: Winning over Cyborg.
"Hey, Cyborg, what's up?" Raven said merrily walking up to Cyborg in the garage where he was working on his car.
"Uh, yea. How come you're so happy and things aren't blowing up?" He said appearing from under the car.
"New clothes let me show emotions. Duh!" She said, unusually happy.
"O yea. Must have slipped ma mind. Still, you're still acting strangely happy like Starfire happy. Not you at all."
"Nice weather, that's all." She said, bouncing on the balls of her feet.
"Rae, it's raining. How is that nice weather?" Cyborg said standing up in front of her and looking at her as if she were crazy.
"Is it? O well I love the rain. Well I am going to go out and play in it. Wish to join me?" She said being smiley smiley.
"You can't remember, Slade and Trigon took away your freedom to use water." He pointed out.
"O yea. Must have forgotten." She said, not dropping the happiness from her tone at all.
"You know, you really are creeping me out. You're acting just like happy did in your mind. O well. I can't hang out with ya Rae; I'm not really in the mood. Hang out with Robin or something." He said, disappearing under the car again.
"Oh, ok. Bye bye Cy Cy." She said walking off.
"Did she just call me Cy Cy?" Cyborg said to himself.
Raven walked back into her room. She shook her head a bit and Happy appeared in front of her in her bright pink cloak. "So how did it go?" Robin asked the emotion.
"He does not want to be happy and do happy things with us. He was not happy at all, he seemed kind of well depressed and distracted. Misery would get on well with him at the moment." She said, bouncing again.
"Okay, well thanks for trying happy." Raven said then happy disappeared back into the mirror.
"Well, shall we try Plan B?" Bumblebee asked.
"Well, I think we should try abit later. If we want Cyborg on our side, then we need to get him a good mood. Robin, try your part abit later. If that fails, Bumblebee you're our last resort." Raven said turning to bumblebee.
"I just don't know whether there will be any point in me trying. We had a pretty big argument yesterday. He probably hates me. I mean this morning, I just asked him to pass the jam and he turned around and started having a go at me by saying that at least the jam would never not trust the toast that it didn't have enough butter on it. He has some problems," Bumblebee said.
"Well, we gotta try and you'll only have to do it if Robin doesn't catch his interest." Raven said reassuringly.
"Okay then. Well I better get off, I have to go and patrol the city again. My turn on duty." Bumblebee turned and walked out of Raven's room.
"I need to go and meditate." Raven said to Robin and went to go up to the gym which seemed to be the only room that she was allowed to meditate in other than the main room because the gym had no windows in it so no water could leak in and the main room because everyone could keep an eye on her. The main room had everyone in it and Beast Boy was playing on his game with Starfire at a far too loud volume so Raven chose the gym. " Raven, what are you doing tonight?" Robin asked her, grabbing onto her arm before she left.
"Uh, I wasn't really doing anything, just thought maybe I would read or something. Why?" She said.
"I was just wandering if you wanted to go out or something. I got an invitation today through the post from Batman saying that he was having this dinner and dancing thing with all important people and people close to him. I just thought you might wanna go to, maybe get your mind off of her and stuff. You don't have to though coz I mean it is a pretty stupid thing to go…" He trailed off as Raven put a finger to his mouth and smiled.
"I'd love to." She said simply.
"Really. Oh my god Raven, I love you so much. I just really wanted to go and see Batman and stuff, I haven't seen him in so long and I really wanted you to be there with me. Be ready by 8. He said to call him and he would arrange some kind of transport for us. I'll se you then." He smiled widely at her, gave her a kiss on the lips and bounced off.
Raven smiled slightly at how happy Robin seemed. She knew exactly what she was going to wear.
Fast-forward a few hours.
"Hey Cyborg, what'cha up to?" Robin said sitting next to Cyborg on the couch.
"Not a lot bird boy. Wanna play against me? I'll go easy on ya." Cyborg said, grabbing hold of a controller.
"Bring it on Tin man!" Robin said also grabbing a controller.
They were racing each other intensely; Robin was winning then bought up the subject of Bumblebee. "So how are things between you and B?" Robin said.
"What, Beast Boy?" Cyborg said, knowing that was not who he was talking about.
"No, I mean Bumblebee." Robin said.
"Well, nothing really. We had a massive argument over Star and haven't really talked much since."
"Bummer. I know you'll make up though." Robin said smiling cheekily.
"Hope so. I really like her. I gotta go and sort my computer out Rob. Sorry to cut our little hang out short." Cyborg said, getting up from the sofa.
"But, can't I help or something?" Robin said, desperate to keep Cyborg talking.
"It's really a personal thing so not really." He said.
"Ok then." Robin said slouching down in the couch.
Cyborg turned and walked off to his room.
He hadn't really got anything out of him, just that he really liked Bumblebee but that wasn't exactly a secret. He hoped Bumblebee was more successful.
Robin fell asleep quite surprisingly soon after Cyborg left. He hadn't been sleeping much over the past nights, he was making sure that no came in to his room and took Raven from his arms. He woke up a few hours later and stretched his arms out.
He looked at his watch and saw that it said 6:45pm. "Crap!" He said before rushing off to have a shower.
He got in and sorted himself out. It took him ages to have a shower because the hot water kept going off and he was getting frozen the shower would cut out and he would have to wait 5 minutes until it came back on. By the time he was finished, it was 7:30pm. It had taken him 3/4s of an hour to have a shower!
He put on his tux, gelled his hair and adjusted his mask in 15minutes. He went out and sat back down in the lounge on the sofa. He watched Beast Boy and Cyborg battle it out on the XBOX.
At 8:00pm sharp, Raven drifted down the stairs and lent over Robin's shoulder and said to him, making him jump, "You ready to go?"
"Yeah sure let me just get my…" His voice trailed off when he saw Raven dressed the way she was.
She had a black dress on which fell just beneath her knees. It had three quarter length sleeves. There was lace at the end of the sleeves making them full and they fell a bit loosely over her wrists. The top bit of material covered most of her breasts apart from the top, exposing them abit. Lace covered the rest of her top bit up to her neck, creating a pola neck type effect. There were diamonds of lace cut out on the side of her body and there was a slit going from the bottom of her dress to the middle of her thigh. Luckily the burns weren't as noticeable on her thighs anymore. She had a silver ring with a violet gem in the middle on her finger. She also had black heals that were round and the toe and then strapped up to her ankle (Kinda like healed dolly shoes). She had a dark purple eye shadow on and some black eye liner. She also had a pale lip-gloss on, making Robin want to kiss her lips even more. Her hair was in a tight knot in the back. "Robin. Robin. Snap out of it." She said snapping her fingers.
"Oh, right yeah, sure. Here's your coat." He help open her coat and put her arms through the sleeves. It was just a black velvet type coat. He put on his and they were off. Cyborg and Beast Boy whistled as Raven left the Tower and Robin gave them death glares as if to say that he was hers and no one else's.
Raven walked out into the cool night air. Luckily it had stopped raining. She walked down to the pathway to see a limo waiting for them. She gasped and Robin came up behind her and took her hand. He led her down to it and into the limo.
He spent most of the journey-admiring Raven. The other part of the ride was them making out. When they finally reached the destination, Raven quickly reapplied her lip-gloss and got out of the car. Robin followed and laced his hand with hers.
"Ready?" He asked.
"Of course." She said smiling. They walked up the pathway up to the mansion and entered into the Entrance hall. It was decorated in a cream colour and had chandeliers and red roses all over the hallway and grand staircase. There were gold ornaments everywhere. Raven stared in wonder. "Welcome to Wayne Manor." Robin said cheerfully.
"Hello Robin. Haven't seen you in a while." A man in a tuxedo walked up to Robin and shook his hand.
"Same to you too Bruce." Robin said smiling.
"And who is this lovely young lady you have with you here tonight?" Bruce asked.
"This is Raven, my girlfriend." Robin said proudly.
"Very nice to meet you Raven. I am Bruce. You may know me as Batman." Bruce said.
Raven gaped. She was meeting the Batman.
Back at the tower.
"I'm heading off to bed you guys." Cyborg said yawing and stretching. "See ya in the morning."
Bumblebee chased after him. This was her chance. She had to succeed if their plan was going to work. Cyborg was the only one who could persuade Beast Boy. "Cyborg. Can I talk to you quickly?" She asked, catching him just before he shut his door.
"If it's about Star then no." He said bluntly.
"I just need to talk to you ok." She said, pleading.
"Fine." He said giving in. he lent against the doorframe and listened to her speak.
"I know I don't really know her that well and I know you are really fond of her but just hear me out. Me Raven and Robin, well we kinda heard Starfire talking to someone last night. We went into her room to check out that she hadn't bought anything dangerous into the tower with her. We found a communicator Cyborg. One of Slade's." Bumblebee said.
"Where's the proof, I see no proof that you found that. And you shouldn't have gone into Starfire's room. That's way out of order!" He said.
"Come with me and I'll show you. I need to show you. I can't stand you being upset with me. I care for you too much." She said blushing slightly.
"Okay then. I don't like this but I'll go just so that I can prove you wrong."
They walked off down the corridor to Starfire's room. Bumblebee punched in the code and walked in. Cyborg followed her. They knew Starfire was in the lounge so they had nothing to worry about.
Bumblebee began searching around in the draws and said "Aha!" She pulled out one of Slade's communicators and showed it to Cyborg.
"I don't believe this." He said.
"It's right in front of you. You can't get much more proof than that!" Bumblebee said in disbelief.
"No. I believe that she is communicating. I just don't believe that she could have done this to us. She lied to us again. Raven, you and Robin were right. I should have trusted them. I should have trusted you most. I am so sorry B." Cyborg said apologising.
"It's okay. We just need to tell Beast Boy the truth and get him on our side as well." She turned to leave the room when Cyborg grabbed her arm and pulled her into a warm kiss. She sank into it and smiled. She had him back. She could be strong again now, knowing that he trusted and believed her and was on her side. All they needed now for the next part of their plan was to get Beast Boy out of Starfire's web of lies.
Next Chapter: Problems at the ball. Beast Boy stays stubborn. Cyborg promises to never doubt Raven again.
