Chapter 2: Bad Dreams and Blackmailing

No owneh deh Teen Titans... RAWR!

…Raven faced her father Trigon. He was flaming and had a malicious glint to his eyes. "You will destroy the Earth!" he shouted, "It is your destiny, your future, your fate! And I will make sure you full fill it!"

"NO!" Raven screamed back , " You forget, the future can be changed! I will NOT betray my friends! I will NOT destroy the planet! But I WILL destroy you and be free once and for all!"

She flew up into the air and started to chant, "Azarath Metrion Zin-" But she was cut off by her father taking a swing at her. His fist connected with her fragile body and she fell to the ground with a loud "thump".

She opened her eyes weakly to see Trigon laughing, and dozens of red eyed birds flying towards her to finish her off…

"NO!" screamed Raven as she woke up out of her nightmare. She sat up quickly and looked at her surroundings. She was still laying on the couch and all the Titans were crowded around her with worried looks on their faces.

"Oh friend Raven, you are unharmed!" squealed Starfire, as she gave Raven a bone crushing hug.

"We were all real worried about you." Said Beast Boy with a sheepish grin on his face.

"What happened?" asked Raven to the group.

"You were having a nightmare and we couldn't wake you up, you were screaming and kicking..., It rerally scared us." said Cyborg. "And," added Robin, pointing to his right eye, "You gave me a black eye."

Raven grinned a little at that, "Sorry about that." She said, but not really meaning it.

"Ah, that's OK, I've had worse." said Robin.

"So…" said Cyborg looking around, "who wants waffles?"

"You fixed the power?" asked Raven, bewildered.

"Yup," replied Beast Boy, "we have been up since 8:00 this morning and now it's about 10:00."

"Oh." Said Raven quietly,

'Does this mean that they saw me curled up in Robin's arms?' thought Raven. 'I certainly hope not, they'll never let me live it down if they did.'

Raven decided to go with Starfire and they headed into the kitchen to start making a late breakfast but Cyborg and Beast Boy hovered around the couch.

As soon as Raven and Starfire were out of earshot, Beast Boy whipped a picture out of his pocket and flashed it before Robin's eyes.

Robin swore his heart stopped beating for a moment as he saw it, it was a picture of himself and Raven snuggled under the blankets, on the couch.

He gasped, "You didn't."

"We did." Said Cyborg, letting a big goofy grin spread across his face.

"We were thinking of sending it to the 'Jump City Times'" started Beast Boy, "But," Cyborg finished, "we will keep this to ourselves on one condition."

"And what would that be?" asked Robin, trying to keep the anger out of her voice.

"You have to ask Raven out and kiss her too." Said Beast Boy with a crazy grin on his face.

Robinfrowned, that was unfair, but he didn't really have a choice in this matter. "And what will you do with the picture if I do accept?" asked Robin.

"We will give it to you after you come back from your date with Raven." answered Beast Boy, starting to crack and smile a little bit.

It was inevitable, Robin sighed and replied with a pained expression, "Fine."

Cyborg and Beast Boy grinned and happily headed off to the kitchen to help with the waffles.

Robin decided to go help with breakfast too and Raven chose to go back to her room and change.

Twenty minutes later, Raven appeared in the kitchen, showered, and wearing some comfy jeans and a black shirt with the words 'Back thebleep off or face the wrath of my evil sock puppet minions.' written on it. It was one of her favorite shirts and was a Christmas gift from Robin the previous year. (I really need that shirt)

Robin smiled at her as she walked into the room and Raven couldn't help but smile to, his smile was contagious.

Raven headed over to the stove to make her tea but found it was already made.

"Beat you to it." Said Robin from somewhere behind her and Raven thought, 'Why is he being so nice today? This is weird.'

She than poured her tea and sat down at the table with the others. They were talking about video games and pizza, what a surprise. Robin got some waffles and sat down next to her, she pretended not to notice this and continued to sip her tea slowly.

When she was done with her tea, she decided to go to the bookstore and get a new book to read. She no longer wanted to finish the book she had been reading the other day because she was now convinced that it was cursed.

As Raven walked out the door, Robin surprised her by asking, "Hey Rae, can I tag along?"

She shrugged and replied, "Sure."

Robin than smiled, grabbed her wrist and took off down the hall towards the garage. Raven was once again surprised but let herself be led to their destination.

When they reached the garage, Robin hopped on his R-Cycle and patted the seat behind him. "Hop on." He said, smiling.

Raven arched an eyebrow and replied, "You have got to be kidding me."

But Robin only smiled and shook his head no.

Raven sighed, and climbed onto the back of his motorcycle.

"You'll want to hold onto me, we'll be going very fast." Said Robin, and his smile grew wider.

Raven shook her head, "No way." So Robin decided to take off right at that moment. Raven felt herself slipping and frantically wrapped her arms around Robin, who was laughing his head off at her.

Raven, feeling enraged, pinched his stomach, hard.

"Oww!" she heard Robin cry, and she just smirked.

The wind whipped by them and Raven closed her eyes and rested her head on Robin's back so she wouldn't have to see how fast they were actually going. Robin was perfectly happy zooming along with Raven's arms wrapped tightly around him. In fact, he was so distracted by this that he accidentally drove right past the store and had to turn around.

Robin parked the R-Cycle in front of the store and they headed inside. The store was nice and warm compared to the chilly conditions outside and he sat down on a leather couch to wait for Raven to find a suitable book.

As Raven wondered the aisles Robin looked around the store and wondered why he had never noticed the place before.

'Well,' Robin thought 'I never used to pay any attention to Raven or where she would go off to when she would leave the Tower. This is probably where she would come.'

After checking out the new books they had got in since she was last here, she came to the conclusion that there wasn't any book she wanted here so she walked back over to Robin and sat down. He was leaning back and had his eyes closed but somehow knew she was there.

"Find a good book?" he asked.

"No, there was nothing I wanted or seemed interesting enough to read." Replied Raven in her characteristic monotone.

Robin remembered what Beast Boy and Cyborg said and decided to ask her now, since this may be his only chance. "Doyouwanttogotothemovieswithme?"

"What?" asked Raven, thinking she heard it wrong.

"Are you really going to make me say it again?" asked Robin, blushing slightly.

Raven was shocked that he had actually asked her out but hid it well.

"What the hell," said Raven dryly, "sure, it won't hurt."

Robin let out the breath he didn't know he had been holding and smiled his 100wat smile at her.

A smile started to play on her lips, but Raven forced it away, trying to make her face remain as emotionless as possible. On the inside, Happy kept giggling and dancing around, just bursting to get out. Raven was having a hard time controlling her too.

"So…" said Raven, breaking the silence, " lets go back to the tower, I need to meditate and we can figure out what movie to see."

Robin nodded in agreement, and they headed back to the tower.

OK, that's the second chapter. Hope you liked it and if you review than I will update soon. Oh, and for evilsangel who seemed a ltiile confused, this is a rewrite of a story i did before, but deleted... so... yeah, hope that helps .