Situations
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, but I do own Element and all other characters I create.
Element stood there, leaning against the door frame, as he and Raven gazed into each other's eyes. After a while he flipped the communicator into the air and caught it in his hand. "Sorry I disconnected from you, the communicators must be out of range, maybe you and I should get a little closer." He had a small smirk on his face as he said this last part.
Raven stepped forward, almost jumping into Element's arms, and kissed Element fully on the lips, finally feeling him against her after months of longing. Element wrapped his arms around Raven gently, as he always seems to do, and returned the kiss, being as deep as when he left and gentle as when they first kissed. After a few moments their lips parted, Raven had a small smile on her face as she whispered. "That was probably one of the lamest pick up lines that I've ever heard in my life."
A joking smile crossed Element's face. "Yet somehow here you are, maybe my romantic side added a lot to the line."
"Don't flatter yourself, I just missed you." She bent up again to deliver another kiss. As before, Element returned the kiss, getting in before she could reach him. They stayed like this for a good while, and probably would have gone for a good while more, if not for a little interruption.
Beast Boy walked into the hall, looking for Raven. "Hey, Raven, I saw you leave and was wondering if you were all..." As he saw Raven and Element in each others arms, he turned around and started to run while screaming at the top of his lungs. "Hey, guys, Element's back! Element's BACK!"
This jammed Element and Raven out of their kiss, causing a slight uncomfortable moment of not knowing what to do. Gratefully for Raven, Element was the first to speak. "So, uh, I guess that I should go say hi to the rest of the gang, huh?" A smile started to appear on both of their faces again.
"Yeah, I think that's a good idea, they've missed you. Here's a hint, don't say hello to them the way you said it to me, that would probably disturb them."
Element belted out a big ring of laughs and put his arm around Raven's shoulder, walking to the living room where the rest of the Titans awaited him. When he entered the Titans all ran towards him and surrounded him in a circle. Robin was the first to come up, he shook Element's hand and pulled it into a small hug.
"Glad you're back, there are a few things I've been stuck on with finding Slade, I was hoping you could help with them."
"Sure, sure, whatever you need from me. Cyborg, my man! How have you been doin', any new courses set up, there's some new moves I want to try out."
Cyborg shook his hand just like Robin, giving him an even bigger pulled in hug. "Oh, no, man," he started jokingly. "You aint trashing another one of my courses again."
As Element and Cyborg laughed Beast Boy came up. "Hey, dude, how's it been, you want to hear one of my new jokes?"
"Uh, sorry Beast Boy, I don't think I'm prepared yet for another one of your jokes." He pulled him into a handshake, no hug this time. He turned to the last member of the team. "Starfire, it's great to see your face again, how are you and Robin holding up. Wait, wait, wait!" He put his hands up as Starfire started to lunge forward into a hug. "Let me get ready first." He kind of flicked his arms out, like shedding water. Stone suddenly started to cover parts of his body, it started at the base of his neck and flowed to his chest, arms, and midsection. He flexed a little to test it. "Okay, hug away!"
Starfire lunged forward again, successful in getting her arms around Element. "Friend Element, it is so good to see you again, me and Robin are doing fine. You should try my cake, Robin said he loves it!"
As she let go Element examined his small suit of rock, finding that there were small cracks in it and that some pieces fell off. Robin leaned in to whisper. "Don't have her cake, it's horrible, I only said what I said to make her happy."
"Hmm, maybe I'll have some later, Starfire." When I'm near a trash can.
"Ooh, good, you must come and sit with us, tell us of your adventures." As soon as she said this everyone else joined in, pushing Element to tell of what's been going on with his life.
"Okay, okay, okay." He said as he walked over to the kitchen table. "I'll talk, but I want a cup of Raven's tea first, it's been so long since I've had one." He sat down, waiting as Raven to get him and herself a cup and sat next to him at the table. When everyone else sat down, he started to talk about some of his major adventures, mostly having to do with the characters of Vince and Valshar. Throughout the whole telling he had his hand upon Raven's, displaying to her how much he missed her when she was away. Although, he didn't bring up what had happened last night until he was done with everything else.
"Wow." Robin proclaimed at hearing about Element's catches.
"Yeah, dude, that was nice. You've definitely been doing good." Beast Boy piped in, amazed at Element's adventured.
"So, man," Cyborg added in. "Why'd you come back."
At this Element sighed and sat forward, about to tell his friends about what happened. "Well, it all started last night, when I was attacked." All the titans, except Raven, gave a small gasp. "It wasn't really the fact that he attacked me, it was how he did it. Usually criminals aren't that good of fighters, and even serious ones are just okay, except for a few certain ones here and there." He added in as he remembered Slade. "But this guy, this kid, was holding a certain weapon, I don't know if you've heard of it, it's that robotic arm that you fit over your own?"
Cyborg nodded. "Yeah, I've heard of it, supposed to be good, but hard to use."
"That's right, but if you use it well it becomes really dangerous, and this kid used it better than I've seen anyone else use it in my life. That's what led me to some other discoveries." He put his hand in his pocket and tossed the communicator he found on the table, the Titans slightly tensed as they saw what it was. "I got some information off of some guys, they said that it's from an organization called H.I.V.E. and that they're located in jump city, I was hoping you guys could help me."
Robin picked up the communicator. "Help you with what?"
"I need some information on these guys so that I can take them down, I was also hoping you could help me with that too. If they can make someone that dangerous, who's just a kid, I don't want to see what they can make with an adult."
Robin looked at him with some puzzlement on his face. "You do know that the place is a school for training criminals, right?"
"Yeah, of course I do, but don't worry, know matter how well trained these guys are, I'm sure we can take them out. Although I am surprised that they take in kids to train also, maybe it's something you start at an early age and go through to your adulthood."
Cyborg started to talk, a little laugh was in his voice. "Man, I don't think you get it, that place is an actual school, for teenagers."
Element leaned a little to his right and slightly turned his head, a surprised look was on his face. "Well, wasn't expecting that, and it does explain a few things."
Now Beast Boy had a puzzled look on his face. "Like what?"
"Oh." He looked back up. "The kid put some enunciation in he had good teachers, and he said he attacked me for extra credit, do you think that was a joke or was he serious?"
"Probably serious." Cyborg leaned his arm on the table. "That's how they work, oh, if you want some more information on the place, just ask me, I had to go under cover so I know a lot about them."
"Yeah, thanks. You know I think that's all I have to tell you guys, what time is it?"
"Well, let's see, it's..." Cyborg looked at his watch on his arm. "Whoa! We should be getting to bed, we've been talking for hours."
Everyone got up and started to walk towards their rooms, Raven and Element got up last, walking hand to hand as they went to her room. When they entered Element noticed that it looked the exact same as it did the last time he was here, except that there was one new addition. Near the window was added a pedestal like the others in her room, and on top of it was a box. It was covered in black velvet and hinged open, it looked like one of the things you carried a ring or other jewelry in, except a little bigger. In it was the necklace that Element gave Raven when he left, displayed so that the carving was easily seen.
Element walked over to it, touching he rim very gently, he looked back at Raven lovingly as she sat at the edge of her bed. In a soft voice, he spoke. "Do you remember what this means?"
Raven's mouth slightly perked up in a smile. "It symbolizes the connection that you and me share." She continued on as Element came over to sit next to her. "I also remember the other thing you gave me, and what it symbolizes." She held up her left hand, on the finger next to her pinky gleamed the dragon ring that Element had also given to her.
Element took her hand in his, he brought it to his mouth and kissed it, his hand gently caressed hers. "The promise I made that I'd come back, you've kept it on you all this time."
"I didn't want to lose it, it meant more than even the necklace, I couldn't even think of you not coming back." Her voice started to slightly, very slightly, choke up.
When Element heard this he let go of her hand with one of his and gently snaked it around her head, pulling her slowly into a reassuring kiss. After a while of that he stopped and rested her head on his shoulder. "I'll always come back, no matter what, god himself wouldn't be able to separate me from you."
Raven smiled as she heard this and as she felt his protective arms around her once more. After a while of this she slipped her hand from his and started to take off her ring. "I'm, guessing you want this back."
Element laid his hand on hers again, stopping her where she was. "Keep it, it looks better on you anyway." They both smiled again at his words and fell into another kiss. After a while they both fell on the bed and fell asleep in each others arms again after six months of being alone.
But no matter how contempt they were, they both knew the main reason Element wanted her to keep the ring was because he didn't want to have to give it to her again.
Ah, fluff and emotion, two of the things that make a good story. Hope you guys liked this one, I think it turned out okay, it could be better, but at least it's good enough to read, right? One thing I need to report, it might take awhile between chapters, actually I think I might just write them during the weekends. I know that it's disappointing, but I'm just a little stuck on what to write, not the ideas, of course I could use a few of those, too, I just don't know how to write them out. Oh, I need a favor, the thing is I'm not completely caught up with all of the episodes in Teen Titans, I don't have Cartoon Network, just regular TV, and that's only showed seasons 1 and 2, maybe even 3, I'm not sure. I was hoping some of you could review with information on Brother Blood and probably what the building of H.I.V.E. looks like, I've seen the episode with Cyborg, but I need a lotmore info. That's all I've got, read and review!
