Hiya again everyone! :o) Okay, here's the lowdown on the couples.
This will be a Star/Rob. I know hard to imagine w/ Rob being a Dick but don't worry, I got it all planned out. :o)
Now onto the slightly more complex one, the BB/Rae. Okay, here's what I decided on these two. Bare with me here, I'm going to try and explain this to the best of my ability.
They aren't going to be an official couple in my fic. However, the two aren't an official couple in the show, like BB/T or Rob/Star (Okay so they're technically not official since they haven't been on a date in the show, but come on, they're just so obvious I have to count them :oP) but people still see them as becoming a couple and can see romantic undertones in shows, such as Spellbound so that means, its up for interpretation.
That's right folks, interpretation :o), If you like BB/Rae and can see those moments in the show as being romantic, then you could see the BB/Rae interaction in my fic as being romantic. If you don't like BB/Rae then you could see the interaction as being strictly platonic and that they're just good friends.
So I'm basically making their relationship like the one in the show.
Okay, hope I didn't confuse everyone, I'm not the best at explanations. :o) But yeah, hope that somewhat cleared everything up.
Disclaimer: Dude, I don't own it. :o(
Putting up a Front.
Kori sighed for the umpteenth time, groaning and stretching herself on the desk looking around the bare, boring room. Nothing had changed in the past hour of just sitting there.
It was deathly silent. The only noise coming from the ticking of the clock, her frequent sighs and Dick's headphones when the music hit a crescendo. She resisted the urge to tell him that listening to the music so loudly would surely ruin his hearing.
Sighing yet again, she put her head on the table. How Dick was going to survive ten-no-thirteen, detentions, was beyond her. Kori could barely stand this one and she still had a little less than eight hours to go.
Then again...they seemed to be two completely different people. He was moody, mean, rude, mean and an all around jack—
Kori 'eep'ed, biting her tongue. Quickly trying to amend herself.
An all around—she struggled trying to think and just ended up stringing sounds together—glem...pork...She moaned at the thought.
She was creating her own curse words.
Banging her head on the table she lightly closed her eyes. This detention wasn't doing her any good at all...
9.12 AM
"Oy!!" Blinking groggily and stifling a small yawn, Kori glanced up rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
Mr. Mod was standing in front of the class looking peeved. Kori looked around the room.
BB was snoring lightly, head tilted back, a bit of drool escaping his mouth. Victor had his head in his arms on the desk, his chest rising and falling rhythmically. Raven was in the back corner, her hood still shadowing her face as she read from the same dreary looking book. Dick had either grown bored of his CD player or it had run out of batteries as they were off his ears and his eyes were closed as he dozed with his chin in his hand.
"OY! Git up!" Mod finally yelled.
Dick snapped awake, Raven glanced up from her novel glaring. Victor woke up startled then looked ashamed of himself while BB flipped, flying out of his chair screaming something about 'cow's' and 'tofu', falling to the floor and rolling to his knees in a karate stance.
Everyone stared strangely. Garfield seemed to realize where he was and awkwardly got up, clearing his throat and picking up the chair as though the incident hadn't happened.
It was silent.
Kori smiled at him awkwardly, rubbing her mouth, hoping he would get it. He didn't. BB just stared at her confused.
Widening her eyes, Kori over exaggerated the wiping of her mouth.
"What?" He questioned confused. Victor sighed behind him. "You don't have anything on your face," Garfield confirmed. Kori hit her head.
"She's sayin' you got drool all on your face!" Victor snapped, rolling his eyes.
"What?" Garfield wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, grimacing at the wet substance. "Aw man!"
Mod's eye twitched as he watched the scene unfold. Growling and rolling his eyes. Everyone seemed to remember that Mod was there and looked at him groggily, Garfield smiled and waved sheepishly. Mod rubbed his temples.
"Right then..." He cleared his throat. Everyone was looking at him with glossed eyes. "Who needs ter use the loo?"
All the chairs scooted back simultaneously.
Once they had returned from the 'loo'. Everyone seemed to be more energized. At least Kori did in any rate, even if she was only out of the room for a few minutes, it seemed enough to return her to her normal perky self.
She had taken out a piece of paper and a pencil and began to doodle absently. Pictures of flowers and kittens and rainbows and—
"Can one get detention for throwing a piece of meatloaf?" Kori looked up from her doodles toward BB who was trying to balance a pencil on his nose. He was doing quite well to tell the truth, until Kori interrupted his intense concentration; the pencil fell with a clatter on the table.
BB looked at her, mouth slightly agape, looking thoughtful.
"Dude," He finally responded, "It has the word 'meat' in it. It would be a crime to eat the stuff. Especially since it's from the cafeteria!" Kori tapped the end of her pencil to her chin.
"What if it was blue and furry and wriggly?" Kori questioned. BB let out a long 'Ohhh...' as though that was an entirely different story.
"Well, was it royal blue or navy blue?"
"It was more of a cerulean..." Kori answered uncertainly. "Perhaps a lighter blue..."
"Hmm..."
Dick couldn't believe what he was hearing. What in the name of all things holy were they talking about? Friggin' meatloaf. No, he amended, a cerulean to light blue colored, furry, friggin' meatloaf.
He looked around the room wondering if Raven and or Victor was hearing this. They didn't appear to be. Shaking his head, he returned to listening to Kori and Garfield.
"No way," Garfield had just exclaimed, eyes wide. Readjusting himself in the chair he continued enthusiastically, "So like, when it came at you was it more like alien blob monster or creature monster from Wicked Scary?"
"Um..." She bit her lip, "What is... alien blob monster?" She said, sounding like she was on Jeopardy.
"Cooollll..." Garfield grinned. Kori smiled looking happy. Dick caught her eye for the briefest moment before she turned back to Garfield. It was all over.
Dick couldn't help it. Before he knew it a small, ghost of a smile flitted across his face as he watched the two interact. He let his guard down for just a moment and soon his mind was flowing with thoughts.
Mainly Kori. He couldn't deny that she was hard to miss. Tall, a couple inches taller than him, though he would rather have a root canal before he admitted that. In the whole room he was probably only taller than Raven and was the same height as Garfield, maybe a bit taller...
He shook his head. And pretty. To put it bluntly, the chick was hot. Her hair looked like it could go in a Panteen Pro V commercial. All shiny and flowly, with lots of slow motion effects when she flipped her hair. And her eyes were big and sparkly and...green. Really green. Like an emerald green, or maybe a jade...
Oh no. He was repeating the stupid furry blue meat conversation...But surprisingly enough, although the hotness helped quite a bit, the thing he found he was most drawn in by was the way she...was.
He couldn't describe it, an odd thing for Richard Grayson as he was usually very articulate. It was like...she was just so...different...
His face immediately turned stony as he caught himself. What was he doing?! Stupid Richard! He let his guard down for a minute and he had already—Dick quickly squashed whatever he was feeling and stored it deep down where it belonged. He could just imagine what his face must have looked like...what it had given away...he quickly glanced around the room, and made eye contact with Raven.
His eyes widened a fraction. How long had she been looking?
Raven smirked from beneath her hood and broke the contact, returning to her book.
Long enough. He answered himself. Not that it mattered. He didn't do anything anyway. He just smiled. It wasn't as though he wasn't allowed to smile at anything! And—
"Are you trying to say that you got put in here for throwing a piece of meatloaf Princess?" Dick's cool, collected voice cut through his own anxious, uncontrolled thoughts. He spared a quick glance at Raven, but she was immersed in the book, seemingly unaware to all around her
Kori turned, decidedly ignoring the nickname.
"I believe I am...I do not know another reason for being here." She responded with a shrug and a smile.
Why is she smiling? I'm being a complete Dick. What's the deal?
"Sure..." Dick rolled his eyes.
"Well why are you in here, Dick?" Victor questioned, turning around and glaring.
"You wanna know jockstrap?" Dick raised his brows casually.
"Call me that again," Victor growled threateningly. Dick smirked, looking amused.
"Jock. Strap." Dick said slowly and clearly, a gleam in his blue eyes.
Victor's chair screeched out as he stood, towering over everyone menacingly.
"If we weren't in school—"He stopped eyes narrowed, looking too angry to continue. It was silent for a moment.
"Typical..." Everyone's head swiveled toward Ravens emotionless voice. She hadn't even looked up from her book.
Victor directed his glare toward the hooded girl.
"What's typical?" He questioned, eyes narrowed.
"You," She answered dryly, rolling her eyes and looking up from her book. "And him," She jerked her head toward Dick. Everyone stared expectantly, Raven returned to her novel.
"What do you mean?" Victor questioned when it became clear she wasn't going to continue without prompting. Raven sighed
"The fact that you have to ask just proves that the stereotypes for jocks are unbelievably true." Garfield burst out laughing at this, pointing at Victor.
"Ha! The stereotypes are true! As in, they're dumb!" Garfield burst positively howling. Victor narrowed his eyes viciously and the lanky teen stopped abruptly, face twitching from trying to hold in laughter
"Speaking of dumb..."
Garfield's face sobered as he looked over toward Raven, a scowl on his face.
"Cold..." He muttered shaking his head. "Ice, cold..."
"You still haven't answered my question," Victor noted, turning his attention back to the hooded girl.
"You're right, I haven't," Raven admitted monotonously, still reading from her book. Victor waited. Nothing.
"Are you going to answer?" Raven gave him a look that clearly said, 'No'.
"You brought it up, so spit it out. What are you trying to hide?," Dick declared accusingly. His mind still lingering on the fact Raven had caught him smiling.
"Nothing," Raven answered, her voice a tint angry and annoyed, her shadowed eyes focusing more intently on the book than was entirely normal.
"Well, if you're not hiding anything, why do you wear the hood?" Dick blamed.
"Why do you put on a front?" Raven bit back darkly. Dick's face remained stony. "You have your issues. I have mine. Leave it at that." Raven's tone held such a finality that no one made a sound for five minutes.
A loud grumbling shattered the silence like broken glass. Everyone turned to a sheepish Garfield.
"Duudddeee!! When's lunch! I'm staaarrrrvvving...." He whined holding his stomach.
Ooo
...groans... I dunno if its just me but I'm not too happy with this chapter. I revised it like 8 times and still... grr... Oh well... :o)
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Freaky PersonO.o- I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to offend or make anyone angry :o( I mainly chose it cause it was a term that Kori wouldn't know (seeing as I didn't know what it meant until just last year :oP) But again I apologize, I didn't mean anything by it other than to show Dick's er...jerky-ness and Kori's innocence. Though, I'm glad you liked the rest :o)
CloudsHalo- Thanks! :o) I agree as far as the fact that I find Raven to be more of a single character. She just seems so much cooler that way. But, there will be parts where Raven and BB bond or relate because I like it when characters that are foils become close. But, it's interpretive, you can either see them as respecting each others differences and becoming close friends or you can see it as something more. Like in Spellbound, the hug could mean the two are starting to realize their feelings for one another or that they both respect each others differences (BB respecting Rae's 'creepiness') and being good friends despite that. So yeah, sorry to bore you and all that :o) Heh, Hope you like.
TTReviewer- Thanks I'm glad you like 'em! Fluff's comin' but not for a while. :o)
JesusFreak9- Thanks! Need some Clearasil for those eyes? ;o) Just kiddin' I'll take those subtle hints :o) Definite Star/Rob in the future, You decide if it's BB/Rae when the moments come. :o)
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OKanayeO- Thanks a lot! And yeah, Robin is OOC, but for good reason (I think :oP) you can decide when the part comes. Though, I can see him acting like that under given circumstances cause let's face it, sometimes Rob is just O.o, if you know what I mean. :o)
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Tiny tinker- No not officially. But, there are BB/Rae parts that you could think of as romantic if you like the pairing, or just friendship parts if you don't. Figure I'd leave it up to interpretation. :o)
InsaneLynx- Thanks, and don't worry the BB/Rae stuff and whether it's romantic or friendly is up to you. So nothin' for you to worry about. :o) And as to why Dick is mean, the answers will be revealed. :oP
Chica- Okie dokie, here's whos who. Robin-Richard (Dick) Grayson; Starfire- Kori Anders; Beastboy- Garfield (BB) Logan; Cyborg- Victor Stone; Raven- Raven. And the couples are Star/Rob, and whether it's BB/Rae is up to you, you know, kinda like the show has it where their relationship can be interpreted as romantic or friendly depending on how you look at it. Well I went for that approach while writing it. :o) Hope that cleared every thing up.
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Jeanniestorm- Yeah he does. Hope you kinda saw another side of his character in this chapter. Though it was presented uber crappily... :o( I apologize. What's going on with Dick is revealed in later chaps but I felt the need to kinda tie it in with an earlier chapter you know. Er... yeah... :o) so before I go on rambling like an idiot, Thanks for reviewing! :o)
Tidus'luvr99- Thanks! And yeah it's a Star/Rob. As I mentioned in the beginning it's your own interpretation if it's a BB/Rae so...yep... :o) But yeah, I'm glad you like, thanks for the review!
Soldier of Darkness- Ahh! No need to jump out of a tree, don't worry, no Terra in this fic. And yeah, I've got it all planned out for Rob and Star. :o) As to Bb Rae, its your interpretation, kinda like the show you know? So if you wanna see them as good friends or as potential romantic interests is your choice. :o)
Sara- Thanks so much! I like that idea of friendship too, one of the reasons I really wanted to write this fic. Cause if you think about it, if they weren't all put together under the same roof as superheros, would the Titans still be friends if they all randomly met each other? Well, that was what I was going for at any rate, if that made any sense. :oP Anyhow, I'm glad you liked, thanks for reviewing! :o)
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Blonde shadowcat- Thanks! And yeah, I'm kinda showing that different side of Rob in this chapter. Badly, but still. :oP Anyhoo, thanks for reading and reviewing, I'm glad you like it so far :o)