I know I am probably on the hit list for many of you here because of what I pulled back in the last chapter, but I swear to all of you this will remain faithful to the Raven/BB idea. It will not stray into a Raven/Robin relationship, just wanted to see how the story would go with a little twist like that. Anyway, I now present the newest chapter, Chapter Thirteen: Robin's Plan.
Robin stand there with a broken heart, the one he truly loved was gone. He wanted to hold her, be with her, love her as much as Beast Boy did, however he knew that she was in love with Beat Boy and he couldn't change that.
'However, there's no harm in a little competition.' Robin thought sneakily to himself as he left the kitchen and entered his room. He had a lot of thinking to do, for there was a lot of preparation in letting Raven know that he loved her too.
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At the mall, Raven and Beast Boy walked around and shopped a little bit. As they were walking down the halls of the huge mall, they received many odd looks.
'What in the world are people looking at?' Raven and Beast Boy though simultaneously. The two new lovers looked at each other and smiled.
'They want to see something…'Raven thought.
'Then lets give them a show.' Beast Boy finished her sentence in his own head. As he did this, he leaned close to Raven's face and kissed her, full on the lips. In their deep kiss, they heard many gasps of bewilderment.
'That's right, Raven and me are going out. Is that a huge deal?' Beast Boy thought to himself as they were kissing.
When they had finished, the two of them turned and looked at the crowd that had formed behind them during their kiss. As soon as they looked at them, the crowd turned and dispersed back into the shops of the mall.
Raven and Beast Boy turned back to each other and smiled at each other with satisfaction and continued on their walk thorough the mall.
They walked a little bit more until they came to the movie theater area. Beast Boy stopped, still clutching Raven's hand and Raven continued forward not knowing that her boyfriend had stopped. She took on step forward too far and nearly popped her arm out of her socket.
"Hey Beast Boy!" Raven called.
The green changeling turned to his girlfriend with a questioning look on his face.
"Why don't you tell me before you decide to stop. You nearly took my arm right off." She said playfully.
"Sorry there Rae. I'm just looking at what's on right now. You want to see one?"
"Hmm, let's see here. 'Attack of the Space People', I don't think so. 'The Story of Edgar Allan Poe'." She said turning to Beast Boy as she said it.
"Umm, sure?" Beast Boy said.
Raven, giddy with excitement, hugged Beast Boy hard as she grabbed his hand and ran into the theater to buy the tickets.
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There came a knock on Robin's door.
"Yes? What do you want?" Robin called out to whomever it was in the doorway.
"Robin, it is I, Starfire." The beautiful alien girl said as she entered her leaders room. "I was wondering, since Raven and Beast Boy are out doing the 'hanging out' and Cyborg is gone as well, I was wondering if you would like to 'hang out' as well." She asked with a rather large smirk on her face, hoping that the answer was yes. For deep in her heart, she had a love that burned like the combination of one thousand white-hot suns.
Robin, not acknowledging her presence continued on his work. "Hmm?" He said turning around to finally see Starfire, who had been in his room for nearly five minutes before he noticed her. "No, I'm sorry Starfire, I can't hang out now, I have a lot of work to do, and unless I hurry it won't be done in time for when Raven gets home. Erm, I mean before the night is done." Robin said hastily as he realized he almost let the truth slip. 'No one must ever know, not yet, it's too early.' He thought to himself.
Starfire, heartbroken that her secret love, left Robin's room. She got out of the door and began to sob very lightly. "Why does he not like me, I will never know. I long to be with him, yet he does not wish to be with me. I shall make him mine, he has to know the true feelings that I have for him." Starfire said, just outside of Robin's door. She retreated to her own room to prepare how she was going to confess her love to Robin.
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Raven and Beast Boy now came out of the theater. Beast Boy was a little more pale than he normally was, he was almost the same colour as Raven.
"I never knew Poe was such a messed up guy." Beast Boy said as they were walking out of the theater.
Raven elbowed Beast Boy in the side to quiet him down. "He was not a mess up guy! He was a brilliant poet who expressed his true feelings at all times. His poems are a window into his mind and tell us how he actually feels about himself, the world around him, or what have you. For example, take "The Raven", he expresses, at one instant, his love for his late wife, Lenore and how he misses her." Raven said, with a certain satisfaction.
"I still think he's weird." Beast Boy said in response to this as they began their walk back to the tower.
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Back at the tower, Robin was nearly finished what he had been working on all the time that Raven and Beast Boy were away. He had gathered the necessary components and was finally finished.
"Beautiful. Raven is going to love it." He said with a smile on his face. He picked it up and headed to his door. He walked out of the door only to be greeted by the beautiful face of Starfire. "Oh hey Star, didn't know you were there." Robin said
Starfire said nothing, she was looking at what Robin held in his arms, it was a very large bouquet of roses with a large card that read "I love you." She just stood there for a little bit, taking this all in at once was hard for her. She looked up and stared right into Robin's eyes. He could see that she was crying a bit.
"Starfire is everything ok…" Robin said, trying to finish his sentence, but he couldn't because he was in a tight embrace from the alien.
"Oh thank you Robin! I never knew you though of me like that! I love you as well. I always have loved you! You do not understand how long I have felt this feeling inside of me, it goes back all the way to when we first met!"
"But Starfire those…." Robin began, but was cut off from the continually speaking alien.
"I am going to put these away and we are going to go into the living room and talk." Starfire said as she flew down the hall towards her room, leaving a bewildered and awestruck Robin in her wake.
"But those were for Raven…" Robin he called out to Starfire, who did not hear him in her extreme excitement.
