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CHAPTER SIX
Patrick had gotten to sleep around five in the morning which gave him close to six hours before the loud repeated clanging of metal on metal and Cyborg's voice rousted him.
"Breakfast," he said cheerfully through the heavy steel door.
Patrick opened one bloodshot eye and rolled out of bed, landing hard on the semi-soft carpeted floor, cursing as he did so. He dressed haphazardly not bothering to make his hair presentable. It took about fifteen minutes before he was actually ready to stumble out into the hall, towards the appetizing scent of breakfast.
"Morning all," he said in as friendly of a voice as he could muster at this early hour.
He got a half-hearted greeting like the one he gave from most of the other members of the team; spare Starfire, who took the time to annunciate each and every one of her words. She even made eye contact with him as he walked towards the table.
"How'd you sleep Patrick?" Robin asked as he drank a cup of coffee.
"Fine," Patrick lied grabbing a plate of eggs and bacon. Beast Boy looked at him somewhat offended as he did it, but shrugged it off as he grabbed a tofu square, or at least something that looked like tofu.
Patrick looked around the room. Cyborg was in front of the stove cooking all kinds of meats and eggs. It smelt delicious. Patrick could only suspect that food on the table was what he made. Starfire, Robin, and Beast Boy were all sitting at the table, enjoying the meal their robotic friend had made. None of them were speaking and Raven was nowhere to be seen. Probably still sleeping.
Outside, the sun was shining brightly in a now clear sky. It was humid, but very cold as it was nearing winter. The rain of the previous night had saturated the ground of the entire city. The river's bank on the island Titan Tower had risen and was now very high. It was a perfect fall day.
Patrick finished his breakfast, considerably more awake now than he was before. He sighed contently and tipped back in his chair. Most of the other team members had already left the table and were now lounging about the living room.
He had been tipping back in his chair for quite a while before Raven walked in. Starfire was the first to notice this, causing the entire rest of the team to turn their heads to see what was causing her commotion. Patrick himself, too lazy to turn around in his chair, merely tipped a bit further back and rolled his neck back to get a good view of her upside down. Unfortunately, this was a too much weight on the back of the chair, causing Patrick to fall back. Nimble as he was however, he made it look as if he did it on purpose, rolling backwards and hopping up to his feet.
"Excellent, I give it an eight out of ten," Beast Boy said smiling as Patrick righted his chair.
"Really? I though I stuck the landing," Patrick said with a smart assed tone. He smirked and walked to the sink with his dirty plates.
Having been removed by gravity from his chair, he had no reason to remain sitting there. He walked over to the couch in front of the television and changed its channel, noticing that nobody was watching it. He turned on some science fiction thriller movie which Patrick recognized instantly as "Aliens". It was one of those "edited for content and time" deals. It seemed that Titan Tower did not have premium movie channels.
The sound of people screaming on the television drew the attention of the rest of the team, Cyborg and Beast Boy even taking the time to sit down on the couch next to him. They seemed to like the movie, but acted as if it was the first time they had ever seen it.
As the movie progressed, Starfire and Robin had also joined the team on the couch, leaving only Raven in the corner, reading a book, seemingly oblivious to the loud screams of the marine men as they were massacred by the xenomorphic creatures. All of this amplified by they perfect integration of a surround sound system.
The movie had ended around two in the afternoon, with a satisfied whistle from Cyborg as he and Beast Boy jumped up to talk to each other about how awesome it was. Starfire, however, looked as if she was going to be sick, more than likely from the scene involving Bishop, the robotic android, being torn in half and having his mechanical entrails strewn across the landing bay.
"Tell me friend, what will become of Bishop?" she asked Patrick in a worried tone, as if she was convinced it was the account of real events.
"He's trashed," Patrick said off handedly, "We'll have to watch the third one some other time."
Starfire nodded, having dropped any worry for a fictitious character.
"So, what is on the agenda for today?" Patrick asked with a warm smile on his face as he got heavily out of the comfortable couch.
As soon as he said that, there arose a beeping sound. Raven seemed to have the jewel on her cloak glowing red, Cyborg's eyes was doing the same. Robin glanced over and reached out of his pocket a communicator that was blinking.
"Something the matter?" he asked looking around. Beast Boy and Starfire each had an article of clothing that was now blinking and beeping. It was actually quite annoying due to the lack of synchronization between the five lights and sounds.
"Downtown Bank," Robin said shortly, "Titans, let's go."
Patrick stood there, not sure what to do.
"Yo, that means you," Cyborg said as Starfire picked him up to allow them to fly to their destination.
Patrick looked over suddenly and nodded. Apparently, he was a Titan, at least an honorary member of the team. He summoned his power and lifted off the ground, flying fast enough to catch up with the rest of the team as they moved quickly to the scene.