I…I don't know what to say wipes tear from tear stained face I FEEL SO LOVEEEDD! Thanx reviewers!
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By the way, this chapter is called "A hand-to-mouth relationship" because of something kind of funny that happens later.
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'What the hell was I doing? This is some stranger named Red-X, I mean how weird is that name? For all I know, he just wants to get in my pants, even though… before I put this damn bracelet on I sensed nothing like that in him. He was an open book, but for some reason it seemed like he wanted me to read his mind. But anyway, I've got to stop this. He's a perfect stranger…' Raven thought.
'Your right, he IS perfect' giggled her emotion, Love. Raven was so startled at Love's second visit ever. The first time was when Raven and Robin were kissing in the water, but Raven was too concentrate to notice Love enter. Raven stopped walking and stared at nothing, as if something had shot her from behind.
Red X noticed and stopped.
"Did I offend you? I'm sorry, I didn't know you had any relation to that joke…" He said with deep concern.
Raven felt his wall, Pride and Ego, shatter into a million pieces. 'He was talking…?' She was a little confused, she figured she must have been in her own thoughts so deeply that she didn't hear anything at all. That clarified why everything was so quite for 2 minutes.
"No, nothing like that! I'm sorry, I was just…" She didn't want to say 'Thinking about something else', or it would tell him that she wasn't listening to him, " I got startled…I thought someone tapped me on the shoulder…that's all. Keep going." She said quickly.
His wall of Pride and Ego was now back together, as if nothing happened to it.
"Oh, at first I thought you weren't listening…" He said in a sarcastic tone. He smiled, "Because if you weren't, I would have had to kill you!" He laughed.
Raven went from a sorry expression, to a scared one, then to a surprised one. "W-what are you t-talking ab-bout?" She stuttered slowly.
"Raven? I was kidding…I thought you never got scared."
"I don't!"
"Mmhhmmm…" He hummed with a smile, as he kept looking infront of them. He noticed people staring at him, being in his outfit and all. He knew they didn't recognize them since they were comfortable with thinking that only people dressed like that were either Titans, or villains. Obviously everyone knew what the Titans looked like, but they couldn't say he was a villain. There he was smiling with a girl as if they were on a nice date. He ignored it and kept walking with Raven.
'Anyway, why is Love in my head? I don't think I even LIKE this guy.' Raven thought looking at the floor letting the silence consume Red X and her on their stroll to the movies.
'That's what you think.' Love said smiling, coming into Ravens mind. 'That's right, were allowed to talk if you really acquire my assistance. Here are a few answers to your questions young one. One, he is a mystery…and what do you think you are? Normal? I think not…finally, two of a kind. Second he obviously likes you…no hassle! Just go in for the kill. Let him take you to the movies…and you can decide to stay or leave him.' Piped up Love.
'Robin is a mystery too…' She said to Love sadly.
'Well duh…but he's also a jerk…go with what your heart wants, and that's me!' Giggled Love.
There was still silence between the two as they rounded the corner.
"So…what's your name Raven?" Red X asked plainly.
"Excuse me?" Raven asked confused.
"What's your name?"
"Don't you know already?"
"Raven is all I know."
"And that's all you will know." Raven said coldly crossing her arms under her cloak.
"C'mon, I'll tell you my real name if you tell me your last name." Red X recommended.
"No."
"How about I guess?"
'He will NEVER be right…might as well let him have his fun.' "Sure, be my guest." Raven said in her usual plain voice.
"Stop for a second." X said while tugging on Raven's crossed arm. She stopped and looked at him in the middle of the sidewalk.
He just looked at her. 'This is kind of getting uncomfortable…' Raven thought. He gently grabbed her arm and looked at her fingers. He moved his fingers through hers in a playful manner, and at the last second lacing them together. Her reflex was to flinch and look down at the ground, and he took notice of that. He let go of her hand and stepped closer to her. Their torsos were about 5 inches apart. He grabbed her chin and lifted her head to meet his. She tried hard not to flinch and to not look like a little girl waiting her future. While he tried hard not to take off his mask in a fury and press his lips against her plump, tender lips. He studied her facial features closely, every line, natural bump, and old scars from fighting. He ran his tightly gloved finger down the side of her face. He studied her beautiful big purple eyes. He stared at her lips, plump and full of life. He had the biggest urge to touch them with his own. He couldn't take it anymore and took off his glove. He ran his bare fingers down her face again greedily, in a grabbing massage. He moved his fingers over to her lips and traced her bottom lip. Raven didn't feel like moving, having his bare fingers slightly massage her face gave her tension, but she liked it. As his fingers were sliding up the arch of her nose, she closed her eyes. He smiled at the obvious small pleasure his fingers were tendering. He reached her chakra and felt it in wonder.
'What's this?' He traced the stone with his fingers. He stepped closer to take a better look. Raven opened her eyes to him stepping closer.
'Oh my god…he's gonna kiss me!' Raven thought urgently. His lips were now 2 inches away from her face, as she closed her eyes and pouted her lips. Red X gave her a cocky smile, 'She thinks I'm gonna kiss her…' He thought. He was actually just stepping closer to see her chakra. 'I didn't even think of kissing her…let alone bend down to do so! She must have closed her eyes when she thought I was leaning in. Haha…'
He decided to have some fun with her and took his hand off her face, and made his hand position itself to look like it could talk. (A/N: I don't know how to explain what it looks like, but you know how sometimes people make a loose fist and tuck their thumb in the hole, instead of having the thumb around the index finger, then they draw lips and eyes and make the hand 'talk'? Hopefully you get it…but that's what he did.) He slowly let the mouth of his hand and her mouth collide, and made his hand open and close as if kissing. Red X tried as hard as he could to not laugh, and ended up puffing out his cheeks to look like balloons. Raven suddenly noticed this obviously not being his mouth, and shot open her eyes. She looked at hand trying to French her!
"UGH!" Raven slapped away his hand held her mouth open in shock.
"Haha…It's not so bad, my hand had a pretty good time." Red X laughed. He lifted his hand in the same position that he kissed Raven with, "Was it as good for you, as it was for me?" He said from the corner of his mouth in a Spanish accent, looking like the hand said it.
She just shot him a cold glare and turned hot pink. Red X took notice of this and giggled.
"Don't worry, you'll have your chance soon." He whispered winking at her. He put his arm around her shoulders and they continued to walk, and she turned red this time.
"So, how many guesses do I get to guess your name?" Red X asked not taking his eyes off the sidewalk infront of them.
"Huh?" She had totally forgot about that. "Oh, uhh...how about 5?" She said in her plain, 'as if I care' voice.
"Perfect, ill guess it in time." He smiled.
"I highly doubt that." Raven said.
"I highly doubt that you should doubt that."
"…"
"That's what I thought" He chuckled victoriously. "Ok so…5 guesses huh? Ok…Raven…Atsaroth?"
Raven shook her head no…but was startled at how he knew an Azarath last name.
"Raven…Sargantanas?"
'How the hell does he know Azarath's demon names? Does he know I'm from Azarath? Does he even know I'm half demon?' Raven thought eyeing him weirdly. "No…"
"Hmm…Abbadoran?"
"No."
"Juvart?"
"Last chance to guess my name."
"Hmm…OH! I know! Roth! Right?"
Raven just stared at him. 'What the fuck?' "How the hell did you know that!"
Red X laughed, "Your from Azarath, right?"
She slowly nodded her head eyeing him as if he knew too much.
"The chakra gave it away. I used to study Azarath all the time. I thought their culture and people were awesome. I got into it and started basing my life into finding someone from Azarath." He now was smiling at her. "I found you. But just to make sure, I felt your extremely soft skin, gray tone, matching eye and hair color, and chakra. All of those having an origin from Azarath."
"Wow, talk about obsessed." Raven said.
"Yeah, tell me about it. I guessed your last name by origin first, since you're from Azarath I limited it to Azarathian last name. I knew you were a demon because you healed way too quickly in that last fight with that punk-dude to be a normal Azarathian. I can hear you going through my mind, another demon factor. So I limited your last name choices to demon-Azarathian names. Last, I just chose a few that might sound good with your name. And I was correct."
"Woaw. Looks like we've got a detective." She smirked. She had always wanted to say that to Robin, but she knew she would never get the chance to ever again.
"Your mind says there was another reason you searched Azarath. What is it?" Raven had gone through his information, but stopped as she got to this. She didn't want to know unless it came from his mouth, cause she would only search until her limit of 'not going through personal stuff' stopped her.
Red X rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment. "Someone told me…that uhh...Azarathian girls…uhhh…had hot bodies." He claimed quickly.
"…"
"And had beauty beyond what we can see. So I searched them up and was satisfied…"
"…"
"But, I must say YOU have the hottest-" He would have continued if Raven's hand hadn't come to cover his mouth.
"Don't…even…finish." She said totally bewildered. She was totally happy that boys thought she had a hot body, but she never thought of herself like that, and that made her uncomfortable. 'Now I remember why Boy Blunder was staring at me differently that one day.'
"Ok, but I will finish my other sentences. I've noticed you for a long time. I checked up on you sometimes when there would be an open crack in your curtains, don't worry I never came when you might have done something…else…but anyway, I loved the darkness you possessed. It never said that Azarathians were dark, only that they had dark powers, but I loved the difference in you. That showed me the beyond beauty they were talking about. Well…besides the obvious beauty of your face, that is." He smiled.
"You really think of me as…beautiful?" Raven said in the sweetest, yet in disbelief voice he had ever heard. No one had EVER called her beautiful before. More like creepy, funny looking, weird, and grouchy. Beautiful was not a word she knew well, but she was used to hearing it being around Starfire's name.
"Yes, and so should you. Besides, who wouldn't love this face?" He laughed holding her chin.
"A lot of people…" She murmured under her breath breaking from his grip and looking down at the floor. But Red X was pretty good at reading lips.
"Like who!"
"Huh? Umm...no one, never mind." She said quickly.
Finally they were at the movie theatre, but Red X pulled her to the side.
"We don't have to go in unless you really want to see something, other wise I wanna show you something."
"Are you saying we took that long walk for NOTHING?" She said trying not to lose her leveled head.
"Yeah, I guess so." He said giving her a toothy grin. Even if she couldn't see his smile, she knew it was a guilty one.
She sighed, 'This guy has some real personality…'
By that time her bracelet was worn out of containing her powers, and she took it off.
"Don't put another one on…you'll need your powers." Red X said formally.
He brought her to the edge of the bay, giving a good view of the Titans Tower.
"What are we doing here?" She said coldly.
"Whether you like it or not, you need to see something. It will help prove a point of mine." He said obviously knowing she didn't want to see the Tower now.
"But-"
"Come on kid, conquer your fear."
"I'm not scared!" She claimed, "And don't call me kid." 'Wait…did that mean he was 20 years older than me!' She probed his mind, and found out he was only 17 years old. 'Thank god.'
"Come here" Red X, said without giving her a chance to say anything. He grabbed her and hung on to her as their fronts collided, and with his other hand, he clicked a button on his belt and they teleported to the Titans Tower's roof.
"I could have done that myself, you know." She said stepping away from his sudden grip on her.
"Yeah, I know." He said giving her a cocky grin and moving his eyebrows up and down.
(A/N: Ok, just to make it clear, I KNOW he has a mask on, but I'm gonna keep saying 'he smiled' whenever is necessary. Raven can still see his cheek bones move, meaning she knows when he's smiling…but I don't feel like saying 'He smiled, even if Raven couldn't see it perfectly, she knew he was' everytime I say he's gonna smile. The same goes with moving his eyebrows up and down or when he gives her a weird look. Hope that's ok with you.)
Raven just rolled her eyes, getting the idea he was talking about.
"So why are we here?" Asked Raven.
"Don't you want to check up on your friends?" He said with a subtle sarcasm in his voice.
"Pfft…what friends?" She mumbled.
Raven floated to the big window, while Red X hung from a rope from the roof. She saw them having a better time than usual. They were all playing a game in the middle of the livingroom. Laughing, joking, talking…without Raven.
-In the Tower-
The 4 Titans were playing monopoly. Beast Boy was winning, while Robin was losing.
"Beast Boy, I do believe you are cheating!" Yelled Starfire.
"What! No I'm not!" Beast Boy said innocently.
"Robin! Beast Boy is indeed cheating!"
"He is? How Starfire?" Asked Robin as Beast Boy just sat there with his jaw dropped.
"I do not know…But I am sure he is, Robin!" Starfire was getting kind of used to this lying thing. She had gotten a lot of things that she wanted because of her new talent.
"Ugh, Star…I am not cheating!"
"Humph! I do not like liars and cheaters."
Beast Boy growled and stopped playing.
"Mean either…" He whispered eyeing Starfire.
Beast Boy stood up and walked to the kitchen.
"Yo man! It's only a game!" Cyborg yelled after him and also entered the kitchen part of the main room, where Starfire and Robin couldn't hear them.
"What's up?" Cyborg asked Beast Boy.
"The tall ditz over there! Ever since Raven left she's been lying about everything! I NEVER cheat in my games."
"Its ok BB, I've kinda noticed it too."
"One day she's gonna take it too far." Beast Boy said looking down in sorrow.
"Yeah, she'll probably get one of us kicked…(Cyborg started to think about Raven)…out."
Beast Boy's head shot up and gave an alarming look at Cyborg, and he returned it.
"What if…" Beast boy said, knowing Cyborg would already know what he's talking about.
"Raven…"
-In the main room-
"Uhh Star? Are you sure that you're not the one who's lying?" Robin said not being ashamed of his sudden brutality. He had to learn not to hold back his brutality, or else he wouldn't get anywhere in his life of villains and criminal.
"But Robin, I do not lie!"
"…Right."
"Robin, do you think we might have the night to go somewhere tonight?"
"What?"
"I think you would call it a 'Date'."
"Yeah Star, I know what you mean." He said slightly annoyed.
"Then would you like to accompany me to the moving of theatres?" The star asked the bird with a slight tint of pink on her cheeks.
'Should I? I mean…I know I should. Before I became interested in Raven, Starfire was my number 1. But I cant like raven anymore, that wouldn't be right.'
"Sure Star, when do you want to go tonight?" Robin said smiling at her.
-Back to Raven and Red X-
Raven was listening to Robin and Starfire's conversation; she didn't care about Cyborg and Beast Boy anymore, anyway. She had lost balance hearing Robin's answer, but was saved, yet again, by her shadow savior. Red X noticed her tear stained face and was surprised.
'I didn't think anything would make her cry that easily. She and this Robin kid must have had a good connection. He's a mindless idiot to let Raven just walk out. I am going to avenge her sorrow.' Red X was always taught that making a respected and beautiful woman/girl cry (unless you were another girl) was very disrespectful and should be punished for such doing. He wiped her tears and brought them back to the roof.
"I…I'm sorry, I shouldn't cry infront of you." She said fully wiping the tears away.
"Don't be sorry, love. He was pretty harsh." Red X said looking into her eyes.
'I love how he called me 'love', even though he doesn't have a British accent.' Said her emotion Love.
"Be strong, you'll tough it out. He's coming, I'll be back." Red X said jumping off the Tower.
Raven looked over the edge and saw nothing; she didn't even hear a splash. Raven heard a door open and close behind her. She heard the person take two metallic steps, and stop. 'Robin's metal shoes…' Raven thought.
"…Raven?"
Raven turned her head to look at him. Robin noticed a saddened look come upon Raven's face, and he felt like taking her up in his arms and kissing all her problems away.
"Robin."
"What are you doing here?" He said accidentally letting it come out harsher than he meant for it to be.
"I…uhh…I…"Raven sniffled and wiped a falling tear.
Robin inched closer and closer to her, until he was at a good talking distance (about arm length).
"Are you crying?"
"No…its just…something…"
"Raven, if you're crying, say it. Don't lie…again." Robin didn't mean to say 'again', but it blurted out. This struck one of Raven's nerves and she immediately went from full of sorrow, to over-the-top angry.
"WHAT! YOU STILL HAVEN'T FOUND OUT SHE LIED? WHAT KIND OF DETECTIVE ARE YOU!" Raven's anger cracked a bunch of rocks on the Titan's island.
"Listen, Raven I'm sorry-"
"Don't finish! I will not accept apologies unless you admit that Starfire is the criminal here!"
"Fine, I wasn't going to apologize about that anyway."
"UGH! I HATE YOU!" Raven pushed Robin by accident with her powers, but something caught Robin.
"Come now Raven, he's only a mere mortal." Laughed her savior.
"X!" She was surprised since she didn't even feel his aura coming.
Robin regained footing and looked at Red X. 'Who is this guy…?'
"Robin…this is Red X."
"Nice to meet ya." Red X said extending his hand, but Robin didn't shake it. Red X just shrugged it off and walked over to Raven putting his arm around her shoulders.
"Is there a problem here?" Red X said authority like.
Robin noticed how Raven didn't even flinch or move away, he knew she felt comfortable in this guy's arms. 'Is that jealousy I feel?' He asked himself, 'Nah it can't be…I don't like Raven anymore, and that's-' Robin was cut off at the sight of Red X moving his hand lower to Raven's waist.
"Something wrong kid? You look like someone struck you with a bullet." Asked Red X.
"Nothing." Robin grumbled.
"Robin, maybe we should finish this chat tomorrow." Raven said breaking his concentration on Red X. She noticed his face softening up to the sound of Raven's voice.
"…Robin?"
"Oh, yeah…sure."
"See ya" Red X waved as he teleported Raven and him back to Jump City.
Robin saw that right before they left, Raven gave him a look of sorrow, and could have sworn she mouthed the words 'I'm so sorry.'
Then Starfire ran upstairs to where Robin is, kissed him on the cheek and ran to the edge.
'I love you.' She mouthed, and jumped off to a gruesome and bloody death.
So, the legend says, if you keep really quite near any point rocks…you can still hear the shouts of Robin yelling, 'HURRAY!' or "WOOHOO!'.
Well not really. But I felt like killing her. Don't worry she'll be back in the next chapter and this never happened. But like i said, f i was in a weird/bad mood, i would have hurt her and killed her. (your lucky im not that weird!)
But besides that, thanx for the reviews.
A/N: This story is rated R for later…later….later chapters. : D
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