"I…I can't believe this is happening!" Robin said, staring at his reflection in the mirror. "He was actually fucking taller than me!"

Robin had slipped into a Red X suit, and was now making sure it fit everywhere snugly. But unfortunately, the legs were a little longer than Robin's legs were.

"Damnit!"

Robin finished examining himself, and slipped on the mask, then starting his self-check.

'So…you ready to face Raven?'

'Yeah.'

'Nervous?'

'Wouldn't you be?'

'What are you going to say?'

'Let it flow freely.'

'Got all the gadgets down good enough?'

'Well we're gonna have to see now aren't we?'

'Boy have I got to stop talking to myself…'

"So…"

"…"

The table was quite once again. Robin wasn't there to start a new conversation, or answer Starfire's questions about the Earth. The group was kind of silent for the fact that they think Raven is a little on edge or depressed like always since the Red X incident. So basically theres a thick aroma of tension filling the air.

"Ok let me tell you guys my new joke!" Beast Boy exclaimed, hoping to break the tension.

A series of No's, heavy sighs and edgy glares were pointed at him, but he continued.

"Alright, so after the chicken crosses the road, hoping to be the first one there, he accidentally stepped in crap-" Beast Boy was already in a fit of giggles, earning an irritated glance from Raven.

"What does the chicken say right after he's stepped in crap?" Beast Boy asks.

Theres silence save for the scratching on forks against plates.

"Shit!" Beast Boy was laughing his childish laugh.

"What is this 'Shit' Beast Boy speaks of?" Starfire asked.

"It's a bad word for…." Raven stopped. Looking at the expectant stare from Beast Boy, she knew saying 'poop' always made Beast Boy laugh, especially when she said it.

"C'mon…say it!" Beast Boy laughed.

"Bowel Movements." Raven deadpanned, making Beast Boy's smile drop.

"Ohh…" Starfire resumed her poking of her food.

"That was a horrible excuse for a joke, man." Cyborg said, making steam come from Beast Boy's ears.

"Well I thought it was good, right?" Beast Boy asked.

"Yeah Beast Boy, it was so good that I swear I wet myself. Excuse me." Raven said, getting up from the table and heading to her room, purposely using that line to not be questioned when going to her room to escape the 'funny' changeling.


Raven arrived to the darkness of her room. It was actually pitch black, since she hadn't opened the already dark curtains.

'Maybe it's too dark.' She thought, not being able to see her hand in front of her face.

She picked up a near by lamp and turned it on in her hand. It was about the size of her hand, meaning the light wasn't very needed if she wanted to read. So she held it so the light was fixed at the floor. As she slowly walked through her room, only being able to see the floor, she felt a tap on her shoulder.

She gasped in surprise, and turned around, pointing the light out in front of her.

"Who's there?" Raven asked, uncertainty clearly visible.

Her eyes were starting to adjust to the light, but only being able to see the lining of huge objects, not even seeing the smaller ones at all.

She turned back around, hoping to get to the curtains near her bed before she went completely insane.

Raven's eyes widened as she stiffened, listening to the sound of a book being tripped on and low curse under the person's breath.

She immediately turned back around and skimmed the place she had already walked through with her light.

"Show yourself." She spoke, and again no answer.

Raven narrowed her eyes in anger, who ever it was was going to get it once she could see them. She kept her light fixed on the are she was skimming as she walked backwards towards the curtains again.

In one moment, she had felt the step up towards her bed against the back of her foot, falling backwards and dropping the light onto the floor. But before she was feeling the wind of her fall, two arms grabbed her flailing arms and held her from falling (AN: gosh that has been used a lot, sorry for loss of creativity.)

Raven recovered quickly and pushed away from the two arms. She made a quick dash for the fallen lamp and stood back up. Raven turned around, shining the light upward to catch the person in her room.

Raven froze, letting her grasp on the light loosen making the lamp fall from her hold. This time, making the bulb shatter into a million pieces.

"Hey, love."

Now it was Raven's turn to be silent. She stood there; mouth still agape, eyes still widened, hands still frozen as if still holding the lamp in her hand.

Raven had seen it. She saw the same chiseled chest and red x on it that were haunting her in her dreams. She heard the same voice that lifted her out of depression, yet sunk her back into it. She felt the same strong arms catch her when she was falling, except now it wasn't in a nightmare.

She slowly reached forward. This had to be another nightmare. There was no possibility he would come after her again after all the stuff that had happened. But her questions were answered as her fingers slightly graced the spandex-covered-chest. Her fingers pushed slightly harder, hoping not to tickle the chest yet not push it either.

Raven slid her fingers slowly downwards, feeling the toned abs of the person in front of her. She counted two…four…six. She let her fingers slightly insert itself in the small dip on the stomach, otherwise known as the belly button. Raven heard the slight chuckle of the person she was gracing as the person's hand gently held hers. She felt them lift her hand higher than her own, and after hearing the small rustle of clothes, she felt slightly wet and soft lips caress her hand.

Realization hit her, and she opened her mouth to let out a piercing scream to warn her friends, but as if the person knew she would scream, they put a hand firmly over her mouth.

"Shh…it's only me."

Raven started to close her mouth, feeling the hand slowly lift itself from her mouth.

"What do you want?" She said, venom now dripping from each hole in her body. Who ever this person was, they were trying to impersonate Red X. It wasn't him, Brian betrayed her.

"What are you talking about? It's me, Raven. Brian."

"You're lying!" she yelled.

There was silence, making the dark room even darker if it was possible.

After about a minute of silence, he spoke.

"I love you. And I'm sorry you don't remember, or if you don't want to."

"Whatev-"

Raven felt two hot lips push down onto hers, but before she could respond at all the lips were gone, and so was he.

She lightly touched her lips, they were still hot.

Not having her attention on an intruder, she was more attentive to her memory of where everything was, and ran towards the curtains. As she opened them, shedding light into he room, she found a note.

Raven-

Good. You found the curtains, I was wondering if you ever would. I was hoping I wouldn't have to take you by the hand and walk you towards the window. Meet me in the basement, around 2 am.

You know you want to.

Brian

She hated when curiosity got the best of her.


'Twas the night before Saturday, when all through the Titan's T shaped house.

Not a creature was stirring, not even a green mouse.

The Raven was tip-toeing to the basement with care.

In hopes that Red X soon would be there.'

Raven scolded herself for thinking of stupid parodies right now.

She opened the door to the basement, only to find it pitch black like her room was yesterday.

'Damn.'

She slowly descended the long staircase, hoping she wouldn't fall. She knew she wasn't exactly THAT quick of a thinker when she tripped to use her magic to catch herself.

"Well well well, look what the cat dropped in." Raven heard.

"Ok, I'm here. What do you want?" Raven asked, stopping at the bottom of the stairs looking into the darkness.

"Nothing really, I just wanted to see you." Raven heard from the left. She started to stalk to the source of the voice.

"Didn't you want to see me?" Raven heard the voice was now coming from her right. She turned, and started walking faster to the source of his voice.

"I missed you Raven."

Raven stood still, the voice was now coming from behind her. She closed her eyes; the darkness was making her dizzy.

"Show yourself." She mumbled.

Raven heard the sound of a match, and felt the heat of something near her face.

She opened her eyes to see the mask of Red-X, holding a mere candle in-between them. Raven narrowed her eyes, but before she could say anything, he started to talk.

"What's wrong, love?" Red X said, lifting up his mask to right under his nose.

"Tell me what you want."

He just smirked. Not a regular smirk, an 'I know something naughty' smirk.

"You're disgusting."

He continued to smirk, "You're beautiful."

"You're incompetent."

"You're luxurious."

"You're a jerk."

"You're stunning."

"You're obnoxious."

"We could go on." Red X stated.

"I wasn't finished."

"I never wanted to."

"Neither did I." Raven finished.

There was silence.

"How could you?"

Red-X's face faltered. The smirk that once gave him the dominant look, was now a sorrowful frown. But he continued to stay quite.

"How can you just leave, and enter my life as if I wouldn't be affected at all?" Raven continued, "Why did you do that to me. I loved you." She looked down, letting the tear roam her cheek freely. Realizing that he could indeed see it, she smacked his hand away from wanting to brush it away and did it herself.

"I didn't want to. Slade-"

"Slade? What about Slade?" Raven's voice was covered with venom. She had seen Robin go victim to Slade's antics, if what Starfire said was true, then so had her only love.

"He…used me to ruin the Titans. I would have attacked all of you by now…but somehow it stopped working, the injection that is."

Raven stayed quite. Somehow, she knew what happened. Woman's intuition, knowing her love wouldn't really do that. But what was she to think? So many depressing night, and uneventful days.

Red X lowered his head, "I don't want you to trust me yet, Raven."

Raven's tears started to flow a little faster now. She nodded, letting her lips grace him with a simple smile.

"Good." She answered.

He smiled back. If they were on good terms for now, it was good enough for him.

The comfortable silence was almost relaxing. Almost.

"Brian?"

"…Oh, Yes?"

"Come back tomorrow."

Red X looked up, right into her eye. Was she sincere?

"I'd love to."

"But…" She wiped away her remaining tear and gave him a smile, "Lets meet somewhere else. I already have to deal with this smell from Beast Boy."

Red X chuckled, "Sure."

Raven turned around to leave, but was tugged by the elbow.

"I made you something." He handed it to her, a simple note with a satin bow.

Raven took it in her hands, and looked down at it.

"Thanks."

She looked up to meet the smile of Red X, but it wasn't there. He was gone. Raven smiled, and teleported to her room.


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Sitting in my haven

Thinking about her amethyst eyes

This only could be Raven

Rare to see her pearly whites

She's the one I will be saving

Let me take your hand tonight

Show you through the darkness

Like you have shown me light

Go ahead, run away, and try to be the farthest

But I'll catch up and hug you with all my might

Try to look away, I dare you, try your hardest

But I don't care, let me look, because I will, you're a sight.

Don't be scared, I'll be there

Whether you're falling or you're diving from a cliff, because I swear

I'll push myself in between yourself and the earth, I'll be there

Taking the pain, taking the burden of the rocks against my back

But I don't care; you'll be there, letting me hold you through the air

As we fly, together, through the sky not caring for the earth below us.


She had never slept so well before. Infact, she had never gotten a poem that good about her before.

Raven read the poem the night before, over and over again. The only time she let it go was when she thought she wouldn't be able to read it because of all the stains of tears that were on it. After she tucked it back into the envelope and redid the satin bow best she could, Raven stuck in under her pillow.

That morning, she sat in her tub, reminiscing over that poem. Her hair wasn't tied up, she didn't measure the perfect amount of leisure stones or soaps/lotions she had always did when sitting in her tub relaxing. Who knows what she would look like when she came out? All she knew was that she had put too much soap, and there wasn't any area of the surface of the water that you could see.

'What did that mean? He told me he doesn't want me to trust me, but he gives me this poem as if he loves me. Is he so dense to the fact that you must trust in order to love?' Raven and Red X both knew that when they both said the word "trust", they weren't just talking about the definition. What they meant by trust was understanding, love, devotion, and all the things you give when you're in a relationship.

She slapped the water's surface, making a hole in the soap. All this thinking was getting to her. And that's when she heard it. The sound of feet being rustled against her carpeted floor. Raven strained her ears to maybe see if she can hear anything…nothing.

'Maybe it was just my imag-' She felt it now. The aura of someone unwelcomed in her room, coming closer to her bathroom door.

She quickly looked to her towel, wondering for a second if she had enough time to jump out of the shower and wrap on a towel, but it was too late.

The bathroom door swished open, only to reveal the easy-going stance of no one but Red X.

"Honey! I'm hooommee!" Raven could practically smell the smirk on him.

"Brian!"

"Hey love, taking a shower?" He said smugly taking a seat on the covered toilet, which was facing the occupied tub.

"GET OUT!" She yelled, making waves in the tub.

"Isn't it a wonderful day outside?" Red X said, completely ignoring Raven. He took out one of red x's and started to play around with it. "On my way here, I was playing with this thing. It was so damn sharp that it slipped out of my hand because I was too scared of holding it tighter. But don't worry, I'll hold onto it tight." He said sarcastically with a visible smirk under his mask.

Red X (AN: I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to switch it to Robin for this scene, since we all know it's Robin in the suit. Just remember it's him, ok?) Got up from the toilet, having a pair of narrowed amethyst eyes boring holes into his back, watching his every move, and he knew it. But he just kept going. He walked over to the sink and lifted his mask above his lips and under his nose. Turning on the water and letting it get cold enough; he dipped his hand under and used it as a cup, taking in a gulp of water.

"Some good water you got there." He said wiping his mouth with his sleeve and returning to his position on the toilet and playing with his red x. Raven noticed how he kept his mask above his mouth though. The whole time raven was glaring at him with narrowed eyes.

'What is he up to…?'

"So, Raven, how was your morning?" he questioned with an innocent smile.

"I just woke up…" Raven answered suspiciously.

"Oh. Me too…" And in that one moment, Robin 'accidentally' dropped his red x into the water.

"Brian!" Raven grasped the edges of the tub, about to stand up to avoid the sharp edges of the red x but remembered who exactly was watching her.

"Oh jeez…I am sooo sorry!" He exclaimed, trying his hardest from not laughing. "Don't move, I'll get it." He smirked, plunging his hand into the water before Raven could say anything.

"AHH!" She screamed feeling his fingers lightly run over her stomach. She grabbed it and twisted it as hard as she could.

"AHH!" It was Robin's turn to yell. Raven was holding onto his arm and was twisting it more and more. His back was now facing her in hopes that his arm would get less twisted.

"Get.OUT!" Raven's eyes were glowing an eerie white. And with the last of her strength, she twisted it as much as she could without breaking it off.

Wrong move.

"AAHHH!" They yelled in unison. Robin was pulled too much from the arm twisting that he fell backwards, right into the tub with Raven.

Half the water that was in the tub was now on the floor. Everything under Raven's stomach was securely covered by soap bubbles on the water's surface, but she made an attempt to bring up her knees so Red X wouldn't land directly…on her. Instead, she was a little late so he landed right on her shins. Her arms and forearms were safely covering her top area.

Robin's head was resting on t he tub's wall, while is legs dangled over the side. He sat directly on Raven's shins. He looked at her, covering herself, eyes still pure white and steaming. He simply smirked and looked ahead as he brought his hands behind his head and rested on them.

"You know Raven, if you wanted me to be in here with you so bad, you should have asked. I would have come in due time." He said, knowing she couldn't physically touch him without letting something show.

Raven's hair started to flow around her, even though there was no wind as she gritted her teeth, "Get out, NOW."

Robin looked back at her and his smirk broadened. "Fine, but remember to ask next time." He got up stalked over to the door, but turned around before he left.

Raven was sitting there in the same position, glaring daggers at him. Robin just snickered and grabbed a towel from a rack and threw it at her. "You look so cute when you're-"

"OUT!"

Robin laughed, shutting the door, but didn't exactly leave her room.

Raven held her glare even a little after her left. He wasn't leaving her room. She sighed and stood up, wrapping the towel around her and tying it securely.

She opened the drain and let the water run freely down it. After she stepped out of the tub, she shook her head violently and let her hair dry without putting a clip in it. Raven didn't know why…but she stopped before going out to look at herself in the mirror.

'What am I doing?' She stared back at herself for a second. She saw a girl with stringy purple hair, and purple eyes. Pale skin all over and red jewel on her forehead. Depression started to seize her at she thought at how abnormal she looked. Why was it that Brian came back for her? She wasn't normal. She wasn't anything that important. What is he thinking?

That thought was interrupted at the sound of books falling from a height and that reminded her of exactly who was in her room.

Raven stomped out of the bathroom to see Red X sanding there looking half-innocent.

"Why did you take your shirt off…?" Raven asked.

"I got wet too you know. My uhh….spandex shirt is drying on your window. Hope you don't mind." He smiled, making her roll her eyes.

Raven forgot all about her books, she suddenly had something else to study. Red X's chest. Firm and toned, just like she had thought.

Robin laid down on her bed and brought his hand behind his head to rest on.

"I like your ceiling." He said flatly looking up at it. Her ceiling had dark blue random swirls emerging from the corners of the ceiling and wall.

"Thanks." She turned away from him to go through her drawers to find something to wear.

Robin moved his head slightly to the left to look at her. Her back was still glistening from their 'tub-time' and her hair was still wet and stringy. She looked nice.

Raven turned around to find Red X staring at her, she could tell he was, even if he was wearing that mask on the upper half of his face. She looked back at him, neither one removing their glance.

Neither one knew how long they were looking at each other, neither one smiling, neither one glaring; just looking.

Surprisingly, Raven broke the stare by looking downward with a heavy blush and smile on her face. She tucked a few strands of her hair behind her right ear and pointed to the bathroom.

"I'm…uhh…going to go change."

"Good luck." He said, moving his head back to face the ceiling as closed his eyes as if he did care.


Beast Boy stood in the livingroom. Alone.

"WHERE IS EVERYONE?" He yelled waving his arms over his head vigorously.

Silence.

Beast Boy slumped over and walked back to his room.

'What a waste of walking…'


Raven shut her eyes and draped the towel over her head, then rubbing her hands into it trying to rid her hair of water. She has dressed herself in her usual wear, just without her cloak.

Raven used her foot to open the door and used her hands to get the towel off her head. She had a little trouble, but when she finally did she saw no Brian/Red X anywhere.

"…Brian?"

Raven heard a rustle next to her, and looked to her right to see Red X leaning against the wall; legs crossed at the ankles and arms crossed over his chest. He seemed to look down at something, and looked as if he was waiting forever for her.

"Gee, who knew Raven from the teen titans would actually take a while to change?"

Raven just rolled her eyes and threw the towel on her bed.

"Don't start with me."

That comment made Robin look up, mask still on and look at her. She was staring ahead of her, arms crossed over her chest.

"Anything wrong, love?" He asked.

"Nothing." Raven answered.

"Mhhmm…" He showed his teeth in a sly smile.

"Yeah." 'What's he looking at me like that for?'

"…"

More uncomfortable silence.

"…"

"Eep!" Raven accidentally let out as she was pulled backwards into the arms of Red X.

"Wonderful way to spend time together in the morning, huh?" He smirked, leaning her backwards even more.

She just looked surprised.

"Ill take that as a yes." Robin pressed his lips against her for a passionate 5 seconds, and pulled away. He held her back a little more and lingered, looking onto her beautiful face.

"You know…I bet you would make a lovely model."

Raven kept quite.

"Well...maybe. You might have to be a little taller though."

Raven looked up at him and narrowed her eyes. Making him back off on that subject a bit.

"Well…uhh…see ya!" he said before giving her a quick peck on the cheek and teleporting away.

"Taller? Ugh…"


Sorry its rushed…but I really g2g (I can hear my dad coming up the stairs)...enjoy!

M-

ps: disclaimer: dont own nothin.