Teen Titans: The Art of Indifference
By SRC
Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize.
Raven liked to accomplish things at the newest hours of the day. An hour was devoted to cleaning. Thankless task including laundry, dishes, straitening up the common room, and making sure anything that had been damaged or destroyed or shattered that week was cleaned up and recorded on a list of items that needed to be replaced.
These were the tasks that the others didn't even know existed. In fact, she had a feeling that the teens thought a cleaning fairy came in and magically everything was spotless, like most teenagers thought. Sure, she grumbled about the others lack of cleaning skills, but truthfully she didn't mind doing these things for them. It made her feel useful, like she had purpose among her peers.
Robin was quite obviously the natural born leader of the group, maybe even the brains of the operation, although Raven thought that was being a bit to generous. He had the level head on his shoulder, most of the time, and all of the titans, Raven included, looked up to him with something akin to being star struck. And why not? He was patient, calm, and charismatic, the perfect leader for a bunch of kids.
Beast Boy. Oh god, Beast Boy. The biggest kid of them all.
But as annoying as Beast Boy was Raven knew he was basically what held the team together. Robin may have been the foundation, but Beast Boy was the glue.
The annoying, not funny, too sticky glue that stuck to everything glue, Raven thought, affectingly.
Fellow gamer to Cyborg and Robin's personal sidekick; He was the girlfriend to Starfire that Raven couldn't and wouldn't be. He was enough emotion for Raven and he combined and that was the type of person/friend the bubbly alien needed. Not Raven's biting tongue and monotonous demeanor.
Cyborg was the muscle. The muscle with the perfect pearly white, dazzling smile and sterling, charming personality. The second in command and the All-American good guy. Every girl had a crush on him and every guy wanted to be him. He was the big brother of the group. Always the first to compliment his Starfire and Raven for anything and everything. The charmer he was, Raven knew that, in her mind, no girl would ever be good enough for Cyborg; and Raven was hardly ever wrong.
Raven was probably the closest with Cyborg. Not that she was very close with anyone.
And last but absolutely not least was Starfire.
Starfire was like hearing your favorite song on the radio; when you hear it, you get giddy/excited and you just feel lucky that you heard it, no matter how many times you have heard it; it just gets better and better. That was Starfire. That was the best way to describe her; by the things she did and the wonderful emotions she illuminated.
Star also gave the best hugs. She hugged with her whole body, heart and soul. Her hugs could probably bring about world peace. Raven had only been hugged by Star a few times, but she had watched the alien give billions of hugs.
Her hugs were powerful.
Plus, she was a hot chick with superpowers. Raven felt like that really gave her an edge.
So to Raven, picking up dishes and folding everyone clothes and shopping was the least she could for these amazing people. They put up with so much; her bad attitude (scathing wit), her lack of control of her powers (Random combustion of personal possessions), and her bad luck (Malchior, The whole fear repression thing, the list is really endless.).
Notes:
I don't own anything you recognize.
Of course we, as the viewers, know that Raven is appreciated for who she is, I feel like she would feel the need to make it up to them.
Dialogue and more of Raven's biting wit in the next chapter.
So, the first thing I would like to say is, don't expect an update every three days. I'm on spring break right now, so I had a lot of time to formulate plot and text and such. Maybe once a week depending on my schedule.
No plot yet, I know. But I swear it will have a plot. A great plot, even. I was reading a teen titans message board/forum yesterday and was totally re-inspired by something someone said. But I don't want to give anything away. :smirk:
Thank you to all reviewers:
Gladdecease – Thanks for the wonderful review! I'm really glad that someone else agrees with me, that it isn't always a good thing to jump right into the plot. I love introductions and description so this works well.
Canislupis89 – Haha. "Nauseous". That's how you spell it. I am the worst speller in the world. I was the kid who was always out first in a spelling bee. Thank god for spell check! But as it turns out, I added that sentence in during the preview editing process in so no spell check function.
As for the couples thing: I doubt it will be RaeRob even though I enjoy reading them. To be perfectly honest, I am not a fan of inter house relationships. I feel like they are a family, brothers and sisters. Why screw that up with romance? But I refuse to write any specific couple out of the picture entirely. :grin:
Sapphire – Thank you for your kind review. It means a lot to me, that you think I keep the characters… in character.
Moo – Thank you! I'm sure your vocabulary is fine. Hope this is soon enough for you!
Ace Grey Manx – Wow. That means so much to me! Hope you enjoy this next little bit.
Mysti-eyed – Thank you so much! Hope you like this next part!
Please continue with the review and constructive criticism!
