One Day Raven Woke Up Gay

Teaser for Chapter Three

6:14 AM

Raven somehow managed to keep herself very still, and very quiet.

In the shadows, two figures moved. With the distance and the darkness, Raven couldn't tell many defining features— one was probably male, or a very unfortunate female, and the other was definitely female. That was all she could tell.

She would need to hear their voices to guess who they were. But when they spoke, their voices sounded different. She didn't recognize them at all.

"What else may we do?"

"The JLA won't be happy with us, if..."

"But what choice do we have? He has made it such that this is the only step we can take. We swore vows."

Who was 'he?' What vows?

Silence for a moment. Raven drooled into her hand to keep from swallowing.

The probably male figure said, "It feels wrong."

"Do you fear that your actions will displease your mentor?"

But the probably male figure said nothing. This led to more silence. Raven rubbed her hand on her thigh.

The woman said, "Is it not exquisite irony? The Child is the Father of the Man, yet you drive your father to become your enemy."

"The situation feels less like Wordsworth and more like Kafka, to me. Where did you learn about Ode's epigraph?"

A Wordsworth quote? What on earth? Who were these people?

She wished she knew this team. She wished she knew her team, because she had the vague recollection of Beast Boy liking Wordsworth, but she wasn't sure.

"From whom do you think?"

Silence.

"I see. You learned it from him, of course."

"Of course. Explain your reference to Kafka, please."

"Read The Metamorphosis. If you've The Metamorphosis, the reference explains itself. Besides, I'm not a child."

"Are you not? But you are no man yet, either. What then do you call one who is neither Child nor Man? My people would term such a person a Child."

"A teenager."

"I was not speaking of the physical."

"Whatever. Can we stop the riddles and go back to the original subject?"

"I proposed the only reasonable course of action. I do not understand why you dislike the idea of taking it."

"It isn't reasonable, it's ruthless."

Silence.

Were they talking about murder? Or were they talking about something more sinister?

This felt like a dream from which she wanted very much to awaken.

"We swore vows."

"I swore another vow before I swore to you. I'm not going to break it."

Neither the woman nor the probably male figure said anything. They faced each other, in silence.

Probably a stare-down.

"We have an additional complication," the woman said.

"I've noticed. Do you want to solve the other complication the same way?"

"I propose nothing of the sort. What if we could convince the complications to cancel each other?"

"No, we would still be left with that last complication."

"Why must she meddle? Does she delight in...?"

"Who knows?"

"Do you think we could convince her to cancel out all our other complications?"

"No. She's too..."

The male figure made a gesture.

"I understand."

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End Teaser

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