YAY! LAST CHAPTER BEFORE GOING BACK TO NIGHTRESS AND RAVEN!...woah...too much rowdiness
btw: the Chapter title refers to the ending of this chapter.
ps: IF YOU HAVE A STORY, READ THIS: Fan fiction has updated the Teen Titan's section of this website. If you didnt already know, when you click 'Edit Story/Chapter Manager' and then click your story, right below the 'Catagory' section, is an added section 'Characters' where you choose the main characters, or if a romance story, the main couple. (Example: my story's chosen characters would Raven and Robin)
So if you do that, people searching for a specific couple will actually find your story. I remember looking for a cool RedX Raven story, and there was only one! So do this for your story, so it'll be a lot easier to find chosen stories.
pss: im changing the rating. The awesome stuff (you know what i mean) is going to be in the sequel.
Oh, SHIT! did i just give that away?
(blinks eyes in wonder) What was i doing...?
Raven fell asleep that night without dinner, without changing, and without company. She set the gifts from X back into the shoebox and set it beside her in her round bed.
That morning was dreadful. Another rainy beginning to the day was nothing to look forward to when you wake up.
Robin woke up early that morning. After dreaming of his Raven, the night had been wonderful. But he wanted to see the real thing.
After changing and doing his necessities in the morning, Robin was about to jump into the elevator, when he saw the door to the stairs beckon him.
'I do need a good burst of energy…'Robin, full of smiles and positive energy, ran to the stairs and jumped each floor landing in a crouched position and standing up to do the same each time.
As Robin finished his 'exercise' he strode into the livingroom. Walking closer and closer, he saw a small purple, but shiny head barely visible from where he was.
"Raven?"
Raven didn't answer. At the sound of his voice, he eyes only narrowed. She was sitting on the couch, legs up as she hugged them to her chest while she laid her chin on her knees.
"Is anything wrong?" Robin walked over to her and sat down. He noticed how her expression changed from slightly angry, to false happiness when he was in her line of view. Robin knew what was fake, and what wasn't.
Raven smiled slightly, "No Robin," She turned to look at him, "Everything's ok. I was just looking out the window hoping for the rain to go away."
Robin remained silent; he also knew when he was being lied to.
"Oh, well if that's all, then why don't I make breakfast for us?" If she didn't want to talk about it, or wasn't ready, he wouldn't push her.
Raven looked back at the window and smiled a little wider. Telling him that would be nice.
Robin smiled back at her profile, noting how her profile gave her a lot of credit on beauty. Robin stood up and walked over to the kitchen-like area and got out the pancake mix.
"Was there anything I missed while I was gone?" He asked.
'Nothing you already don't know about, Red X.' She thought. Raven gritted her teeth and narrowed her eyes as her muscles tensed. 'Should I just come right out and say something?'
"Nothing important." Raven did a skim of what happened besides 'Brian' coming back. She went from her awkward dream of Brian and the cut on her arm, to Robin not even letting Mad Mod finish his sentence when he was about to say something cruel towards Raven.
Her mind lingered on that thought. The images replayed in her head of Robin popping out of no where and slamming Mad Mod into a nearby wall.
"Watch your mouth." Robin had said.
Raven could have taken care of Mad Mod on her own, but Robin was so territorial. And she wasn't even his territory! But she couldn't deny the warm feeling going through her veins at the knowledge of being watched over by a territorial guard dog. She could only imagine what it would be like if Beast Boy even hugged her again. Robin just might slap him to Asia. That brought a smile to Raven's face.
But Raven had proof that that was his ways. He had shown it for the whole group. Raven remembered a time for each of the other Titans he showed his 'affection' for.
'Cyborg, WE need you. And no one is going to take you, and change you. Or else he'll have to go through me. I'm your friend Cy, I wouldn't let anything happen.'
'Were here for Beast Boy whether you like it or not. If you even touch him, you'll be the one suffering.'
And Raven remembers how mad he had gotten at Raven for what Starfire claimed she did to her. (AN: The whole slapping and homicide deal in earlier chapters. By the way, those other quotes for BB and Cy...lol they were made up for the story. )
"…Raven?"
Robin had jolted her out of her thoughts. She had forgotten he was even there.
"Oh sorry, spacing out."
The rest of the morning was either filled with questions with short answers, forced smiles or silence. It lasted like that even after they had finished their breakfast.
"If there is anything you would like to talk about Raven, you can with me." Robin assured her before giving her shoulder a tight squeeze and left her to her thought in the living room.
Raven waited until she couldn't feel the vibrations of his metal shoes against the floor and lay down fully on the couch.
It was still early; the rest of the Titans would be getting up in an hour or so.
"What if it's not Robin? What if it's some stalker who just wants to play some cruel joke with me? Who ever it is, they had better wish they didn't even know about me."
Back at square one, Raven was sitting on her bed staring at the evidence. She had left the comfort of the large room when the rest of the Titans started to file in.
Raven studied the two notes again. They were definitely different.
"Why would someone even dress up as him? Who ever they are, they must have known about us. About him. How would they have known where his stuff were? And why wasn't Brian killing them for taking his clothes?"
Brian was still a mystery to her. Right now, all she was listening to was that Brian might be under control of Slade. She knew, or wanted to know nothing more.
'Who are you…?' She asked, thinking of the man that kissed her yesterday.
Raven heard a knock on her window. She quickly stored away her precious items and showed the box under her bed as the window lifted itself and in came a man in black.
"Hey love, What's up?" He asked, wet from being outside, but to too wet.
Raven rolled her eyes and fished out a towel and threw it at him.
"You're getting my floor dirty." She narrowed her eyes and brought her hood over her head.
"Well excuse me." He joked. Robin had came from his room window to hers to see what was wrong. He had noticed her awkward behavior that morning, and came to console her.
"Can I help you? I'm kind of busy." Raven deadpanned, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Not in the mood to talk today I see. Why is that Raven? Is there anything wrong?" Robin asked, lifting his mask above his lip.
Raven noticed that little move. Then a lightbulb went off in her head. 'I have the perfect plan.'
Raven walked up to him slowly. "You're right I'm not in the mood to talk." 'Eh…I'm not exactly that good in seducing people, but heck, I'll give it a try.' Raven wrapped her left arm around his waist while the other came in contact with his chest and soothingly stroked it. "But there are other things we can do."
Raven almost barfed; this was definitely not her.
'Something must be wrong, this is definitely not her. But who's complaining?' Robin thought as he smirked down towards her and wrapped both of his hands around her lower back."Yes, there are. Have any in mind?"
Raven just smirked and stood on her toes to reach his too talkative mouth. Robin was already leaning downward, so she didn't have to go up too far.
Though this was only a trick into finding out exactly who this fellow was, electricity soared up her veins when their lips slightly brushed over eachother.
'My body must know who this is before I do…' Raven thought as she slowly rubbed her hand upwards until it was resting on his shoulder.
Robin titled his head to the left slightly before plunging into her already opened mouth with his tongue. Their tongues battled fiercely. Robin barely noticed her hand slightly messaging his nape, slowly going upwards towards his scalp.
Raven made sure to give him enough to think about while she slowed in for the kill. Her other hand sent shrills down his spine as it slowly ran over his stomach and to his chest, pressure added with every sensual movement. She shifted her head suddenly from left to right and she brought the battle of the tongues into his mouth.
Robin had already knocked off her hood to touch her overly soft amethyst locks. As Robin was about to shift his head, he felt a tight grab on the top his head.
He felt raven fiercely pull away from the kiss, "Who the hell are you?" She said menacingly.
His eyes shot open and before her could say anything, the mask was ripped from his head.
Raven had pulled so hard, that she had felt a few hairs being tugged as well. But suddenly the ripped hair wasn't the concern now. Raven's eyes widened as she saw two icy blue orbs staring back at her.
"Raven…"
The voice was so familiar. But it…nobody…it wasn't possible that she was actually looking into the Ever so famous Boy wonder, Robin, just as mysterious as his mentor's eyes. But they were so beautiful. The color was astounding. It was as if the purest water reflecting the most cloudless sunny day was in his eyes at this very moment. She bet that if his mask were off while he fought in battle, his icy blue stare would freeze any villain.
"Robin." She gasped.
Robin looked down in shame and closed his eyes fully.
"I'm sorry."
As soon as his eyes closed, Raven snapped back into reality as if coming back to earth from being hypnotized. Everything was spinning in her head, and the literal squeeze on her heart was tormenting.
Raven's narrowed eyes flashed a deathly white before is resided and she calmed herself. Through gritted teeth she grabbed a fist full of Red X's claimed suit on Robin and brought it closer until they were eye to eye.
"WHY?" She growled.
Robin's eyes slowly opened, expecting everything that was happening at this very moment. 'He was right, I am a bad actor.'
"WHAT?"
'Did she just hear that…?'
"YES I DID YOU ASS." Raven let go of her grip on him and shoved him backwards harshly.
"Who do you think you are? Obviously not Robin."
"…How did you know?"
Raven directed her deadly gaze under her bed and she fiercely tossed away sheets that got in her way after bending over to reach the shoebox. As she claimed the box in her hands, she threw it harshly towards him and fell to her knees and looked down in stress.
Robin opened the box gently and grabbed the first two things he saw. A note that he didn't recognize and a poem that he did recognize. 'I am getting so sloppy. I didn't even think she would look, or even have past notes from him.'
"Where's Brian?" Her saddened, yet almost calm voice caught him by surprise.
"I know you know where he is, and what he is doing. And I want you to tell me." Raven ordered.
Robin sighed audibly. This was going to be hard. Robin looked down at his shoes. How was he supposed to say this? Robin ran a hand through his now exposed hair and looked back up to see Raven's sleeve pulled up, while her other hand stroked an X looking scar.
"What's that?"
"He…he gave it to me."
"He what? When?" Robin asked frantically. Had Brian really hurt her?
"I thought I was dreaming. He had said that he was glad I was dreaming of him, and that he wanted me to know that I loved him no matter what." Raven's emotions were flowing in and out so quickly; it was like an opened wound. She felt as if she was bleeding to death, she wished the scar would open up and pour out her lifeblood. Too many memories that had brought back rain, pain, and feigned happiness. Raven didn't care if her emotions flew out o her own mouth; she was going to speak her mind.
"We were communicating through a mirror. And when I tried to touch and see if he was real, my touch made the mirror shatter. As the glass was crashing down, one scraped me. And when I woke up, I was bleeding. It hasn't gone away since, and it still looks as red as the dream when I first cut it. The thing is, when it was bleeding right when I noticed it and it immediately stopped. Does it not look like the insignia of Red X?" She said, showing him the mark.
Robin saw it; it was indeed his mark. It was as if Brian was marking her to say she was his territory, but he didn't want to say anything.
"It does." 'I think I need to tell her now.'
"Raven? Can…Ok, you need to hear this."
Robin told her everything. Starting from that night he had found Brian laying there, through his childhood, and to his dying wish. Robin noticed how Raven didn't look up from her nervous, twitching fingers. But he did notice how at time, her eyes would narrow and her lips would turn into a firm line, and how other times her eyes would widen and she would stop playing with her fingers in shock. He was glad, atleast she was listening. He knew that he probably would have tuned her out or atleast got up and left if it were vice versa. It had been 2 hours since he started the story, and he hoped she would talk and tell him something sooner or later.
"And…Raven?" She kept quite, "I need to give you something."
Raven didn't even look up from where she was, but she noticed Robin teleporting out of the room.
In 5 minutes, Robin was back with silk in his hand, and that's when Raven looked up.
"He told me to give this to you, if something like this ever happened. He wanted you to have it, so here, I cleaned it for you." Robin handed Raven the folded silk.
Raven looked at it curiously. She slowly unwrapped it, and found a beautiful scalene triangle shaped gem at the end of a silver chain. The gem was red, and was the same height as her thumb.
"That necklace is actually the same necklace he told me about in the letter that Vancilence gave him. The one that helps half vampires and humans alike. I did some research on it, it's really really rare." Robin informed her.
"It is rare. How much did your source say there were on planet Earth?" Raven asked, speaking for the first time in a couple of hours.
Robin's eyes were wide for her first words, but the shock quickly deflated, "I think there were only rumored for only 9 gems on Earth."
Raven looked down and unhooked her belt and held it in her hand.
"Lets see…1…2…3……….8…then theres one on my cloak…and one in my hand…but theres also one on my forehead…" Raven mumbled, but Robin understood what she was saying when he saw her count her belt stones.
"Yeah that's an 'ok' estimate, but they forgot the one on my forehead." Raven said, hooking her belt back on.
"…Are you saying…?"
"Yeah, the one Vancilence gave him is a stone from Azarath that was only rumored to help humans and any sort of demons alike. It was tested correct by a group of scientists on Azarath. That's when 'The red gem' hunters came looking for them. It's along story."
Robin nodded his head and turned towards the door. "I'm going to go change now. If you need me, I'll be in shouting distance."
Raven nodded her head and watched him walk out the door. Once she saw the door close she dropped to her knees and started crying.
'Brian…why couldn't I save you?' She thought.
Things started to shatter, and bed covers were already in shreds, and that's when the necklace in her hand from Brian started to float. Raven gasped, hoping her powers wouldn't destroy his last gift, and grabbed it.
She forced herself to compose herself before it broke in her own hand. She tried so hard, her eyes hurt from closing them in concentration. Finally she came out of her semi-meditation trance and was able to preserve the necklace.
Raven wore the other stones, not only because they were from Azarath, but also because her mother gave it to her. Though, her mother had warned her that the stones would not work for any spawn of Trigon, for the stone was made by the heavens for any sort of demon who did not want to be a demon, and for any human. The heavens didn't think that even the spawn of Trigon himself could hate their father, so the stone does not work for anyone who has Trigon's blood within them. But even after that warning, her mother gave it to her for memories of Azarath.
Raven clutched her head in agony as the realistic memories of Brian came flooding into her mind without warning.
'Please…don't make me…I don't want to relive this…' She mumbled through gritted teeth.
She slowly stood up, knowing exactly where her mind and heart was telling her to go. Raven broke into a run, not stopping for anything.
Raven wasn't even thinking of her powers now, her feet would be as reliable as her powers now. She ran passed the other titans and their curious glance.
"Raven?" Starfire asked.
Raven ran all the way down the stairs, jumping a couple in the process. She was running so fast, she could almost hear the wind being cut through, like when you slash a sword so fast you could hear the air rip.
Raven slowed down, out of breathe and calves burning, she had reached her destination; The graveyard.
Before Robin had left her room, raven found it necessary to find out exactly where Robin had buried Brian.
After about 10 minutes of searching, she found it.
Brian Romano
1988-2005
A Son. A Boyfriend. A Friend. A Brother.
Forever will he be remembered
As a boy, yet a man
As a fighter, yet a lover.
"I'm not afraid."
Raven gasped at the beautiful words on is grave. But she wasn't totally surprised; Robin had indeed written a wonderful poem and was capable of this as well.
She slumped down near his stone, being careful not to sit on the dirt directly 6 feet above his decomposed body, until she was holding her knees to her chest.
Raven had spent the night there, find it pretty comfortable leaning against the tree almost perfectly behind Brian's tomb stone. She had spent hours talking to him, praying for him, and even laughing for him. She felt so free from the burden after spending hours on end near his stone.
And that's where Robin found her the next morning, lazily leaning against the tree near Brian's stone. He knew she would be there, but got worried when she didn't come back.
Raven opened her eyes slowly, taking in her surroundings. A white, blank, ceiling.
"Where…"
"Oh, Good morning Raven."
Raven tilted her head back a little more, to see the boy wonder looking down at her. She shot up and looked back, Robin was sitting there, where her head should be. She couldn't help the blush from her cheeks into thinking she slept on Robin's lap.
"How did I end up here…?" She asked, wondering how she got from the cemetery to the Titan's living room.
"I found you at the cemetery. I got worried after finding out you didn't come home last night."
Raven smirked; he sounded a lot like a father, or a boyfriend. A mixture of those two was a perfect fit.
"I knew you would be there. You're the only one I know brave enough to stay over night in a cemetery, and actually find enough comfort to seriously sleep there as well." Robin smiled at hers.
Raven's face faltered immediately from content, to angry. Here she was, joking with the man who pretended to be the only man she ever loved. Here she was, actually ENJOYING it as if nothing had ever happened. Here she was, ignoring his faults. How could she let this fact run by her? Brian was the only one she had ever loved, the only one who had ever taught her to love. Then there was Robin, who found it necessary to pretend to be the most important person in Raven's life and act as if it were no big deal with her. How far did he think he could get? Did he use Brian's well-earned image just to get whatever he wanted from her? This made her blood boil inside.
"What the hell am I doing. Why am I even talking to you?" Raven said through gritted teeth and stood up, walking away from him.
"What? Wait…hold on…where are you…what are you talking about?" Robin asked, also standing up.
Raven turned towards him, "What am I talking about? You should know Brian. How long do you think this stupid game would have lasted? Do you think I wouldn't have noticed because of our passionate kisses? Is that all you wanted from me? Where you planning to get in my pants, while having your mask on? WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" She yelled.
Robin stood there, trying as hard as he could to match the glazed-over-in-anger stare she gave him, but it wasn't exactly working. He looked down in defeat.
Raven turned around, and walked away. Unknowingly stomping her feet in the process.
Her bags were packed, her furniture was teleported and her memories were stored away in a precious place within the deep cells of her mind.
Raven looked around at her empty room, and looked back down at the one duffel bag she had with her, letting one tear slide down her cheek before pulling her hood over her head and grabbing her duffel bag.
'This place has only given me horrible memories. I don't even remember being entirely happy anymore. (chuckle) actually I don't think I was ever ENTIRELY happy, but content enough to act like it. Ok, so maybe before I actually turned 15 I was pretty happy, being a teen in this place is killing me. Friendship, boys, judgement, having to save the town, birthdays, demon fathers, and death is really getting to me.'
'What is this? Joking, are we? Well, I never would have thought Raven would be in a joking mood around the time she is actually moving out of this place.'
Raven's eyes widened at that voice, it was her favorite to talk to emotion, Knowledge. Infact, raven hasn't had any of her emotions talk to her in a long time. 'I guess I'm was going back to normal.'
Raven had successfully left the Titan's tower, and to the mainland. But she only made it to the shore before turning around and admiring it's justice looking beauty.
"Who knows, maybe I'll come back one day. But for now I—umff." Raven was turning around, when she smashed into a hard chest.
Raven realized who's chest it was, and immediately tried to squirm away, but the person caught her in a firm grip by the forearms.
"Raven, don't."
"I have to! Robin, let me go!"
"Please, Raven…" Robin tried to reason.
"Robin! I said let me go!"
"Raven…" Robin looked down to the gravel between them, staring at her blue slip on shoes. "Please, don't do this."
Raven gave up on trying to get out of his grasp. "If you don't let me go, I'll do something we'll both regret."
Robin looked up, and took off his mask. "I'm begging you raven, don't leave. We need you, your town, the Titans, me. Everyone!"
Raven was hesitant to talk, knowing his eyes were indeed hypnotically beautiful, but she managed to look away. And when she did, her eyes glowed an eerie white.
"LET ME GO."
"Raven, please don't." Robin said, trying as hard as he could to ignore the scary looking woman infront of him. He hugged her tightly, for two reasons; one, so she wouldn't be able to run away from him again, and two, this was the only way to be close to her, without exactly seeing the scariness of her.
Raven almost immediately settled down at his touch. One of his hands were barely stroking her hair, while the other wrapped itself firmly around her waist. 'He's holding me as if he were alone in t he dark with only the comfort of his teddy bear.
"Please don't leave us." He begged again.
Raven closed her eyes, and lightly touched his shoulder. Before he could look at her and see if her eyes were still glowing, She stood on her toes, and using his shoulder as a handle, she kissed his cheek.
"Bye Robin." And with that, she left, dissolving into the ground into the form of a shadow.
"…Bye Raven."
Whoosh! FINALLY, huh? Well if you didn't read before, or may have forgotten…This was the last chapter before we go back to Nightress and Raven. That chapter should be coming soon too, cuz I'm eager to right that one.
I hoped you liked it so far, there aren't many chapters coming after, probably 2. And I'm sorry to say, the last one I can tell is probably going to be pretty short.
So tell me what you think!
M
PS: Theres one more unanswered question that you will find out in the next chapter.
PSS: you know what really sucks? I was so psyched I would finally see, 'The Prophecy'.
I was visiting my grandparents house, so you know how grandparents are…either they don't have cable, or had their kid (your dad/mom or uncle/aunt) buy one for them without their permission. But luckily my grandparents had one beautiful large TV with cable.
BUT it was 7:57 (my time) and my grandma was still using me as a mannequin for my graduation dress (that's right, you heard me correct, our school didn't finish yet). I was telling her to hurry up so much that I didn't even hear the doorbell ring downstairs.
So anyway, its 8:02 and I'm finally back in my normal clothing when I race downstairs and hear my grandmother's b.f.f. sitting on the couch, talking loudly, infront of the sacred television. So I figure, 'oh well, I'll try to tune them out', cuz you know how you and your bff are…talk, talk, giggle, talk, talk louder, laugh, laugh some more, talk, talk, talk, laugh hysterically.
So I'm sitting there, already pissed because I missed 2 minutes of this wonderful episode, trying to tune them out as hard as I can. I have the TV volume on 14 (which is pretty loud for this TV) and I can still barely hear it! I don't want to be rude, because that's how I am, so I don't turn the volume any higher. I'm just happy I can hear a couple of words…then…all of sudden…they start talking to me! They're like "why don't you go try on the dress so my friend can see it"…"Did you know we were best friends cine 1st grade?"… "What is that you're watching?" AHH! So I'm just mumbling little answers that they probably cant hear like, "….yeah…." "….uh huh…".
So, basically the point of this story is to tell you that I basically missed the whole episode. I did see the episode though, and I must say Azarath is cool looking, on a cloud/rock thing and all. And I like how Arella was with doves and in white…I ALSO LOOVEE how Raven KICKED.SLADES.ASS. at the end. But I hate how the Titans were all scared of her a little afterwards, I mean, if I saw my team mate actually do that, I'd be like, "Wooh dog! Wanna share some of that 'kick butt' juice you got there?".
Alright, did I warn you or did I warn you? So now we all saw Beast Boy's hand draped over Raven's shoulders, even if it were for only a second. Lol, I was laughing at how it looked funny since they made him a little shorter than her…haha.
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Well, that's enough of my rambling for now. See ya in the next chapter.
BTW: I don't really say, "Wooh Dog". Just to tell you.
