A Bird's Reality
Chapter 4: A raven's tears.
In the dark goddess' room she sat meditating on her problems as well as her team mates'. "Why must he be so difficult!" she thought to herself in meditation. She shook her head to ridden the question so she could concentrate on what she was doing. "I'm trying my best to help him, but he can't depend on me to know everything!" Shaking her head again she lost meditation and tried to get back into it. "I know I care for all my team mates but he's putting so much pressure on me. Sure I like to talk to him, but that doesn't mean that since I let him into my mind that he has the right to act like a jackass!" All of a sudden the mirror in her room shattered. "Oh great, just what I need." she thought to herself.
Robin came running to her door asking to be let in. When he heard no answer he let himself in and looked into the eyes of the one he called Raven. "I heard something break, are you okay?" "Well, well, well, wouldn't you like to know?" "Look Raven, I don't want to start an argument, I just wanna know if you're alright." "Of course I'm alright oh fearless leader of ours." "You know what, forget it." Robin said as he started to walk away. "Wait." Raven said after him, "I'm sorry for acting like this Robin, it's just all this stuff you're putting on me." He turned his head to the side and said, "I'm sorry for putting my issues on you."
Starfire met him in the hallway after he left Raven's room. "Robin, Hi!" he could hear his girl yell. "Hey babe." "Is everything alright with Raven?" "Sure Star, everything's cool."
At practice the next day everyone was doing their part and Robin was in the mood for some Starfire. When a missile was headed for Robin she powerfully shot it away with a starbolt. Another one came his way but Starfire wasn't no where in sight so it was up to Raven to protect him. He called her name three times and she almost didn't make it because the missile came within two inches of his body.
"What the hell was that!" he yelled. "I'm sorry; please do not raise your voice at me." Raven said in her emotionless voice like she always did. "Sorry, that's all you can say is sorry? I could have been killed!" "What else you want me to say, let me be your slave." "Well it would be a start!" "Dude, calm down, she said she was sorry." He heard this from BB. "Don't tell me what to do." "Robin it's obvious that you need some professional help." "Maybe I do, to get away, and stay away from you!" "Why you son of a bit..." "Don't say it." Cyborg said. Now everyone was fussing at each other, then Robin yelled, "WHY CAN'T YOU BE MORE LIKE STARFIRE?" There was silence between the whole team. Robin looked over at Raven and noticed she now showed an emotion in her face, sadness. Some of the equipment shattered at the emotion she released while she teleported to her bedroom.
Now looking all around Robin saw the expressions on his team mates faces and noticed what he himself had really done. "I'll go talk to her." Beastboy offered, but Robin held him back, "No, I'll do it since this is my fault."
As he knocked on her bedroom door he let out a small plea, "Rae?" but there was no answer. So of course he let himself in quick enough to dodge a vase that was thrown at him. "Get the hell outta my room." He could hear her say so coldly and meaning every bit of it, but he knew he wasn't going anywhere. "Raven…I'm sorry…I didn't mean…" "Well if you didn't mean it then why did you say it?" He thought he heard her sob, but she was holding back the tears. "I was just caught up in the moment alright; you know I never really mean those things." "But you said it like you meant it." Now he could see her clearly and she was crying and he was mad at himself for doing this to her; he jumped a little when one of her statues broke. "Didn't I say I was sorry and you wanna pull some bull crap like this?" "Well my bad for not being your precious little Starfire." With those words she cut him deep and he didn't know what to say. "Rae…I…I" "You what?" He went to sit beside her on her bed but noticed she turned her head the other way. She now felt weak and she hated to feel weak especially around him. "Rae...we been through the best and the worst of times and I know we can get through this so please, I'm begging you, (gets on both knees) find it in your heart to forgive me." There was no answer. "I see." As he was leaving a smirk came across her face and all of a sudden he heard her call his name. Right when he turned around, in the blink of an eye he felt Raven embracing him with a hug. He was shocked at first but calmed down embracing her back. "Thanks for understanding Rae." "No problem, just don't let it happen again okay?" "Okay."
"How is she?" Cyborg, BB, and Starfire asked as the boy came into the living room. "She's alright, and we had an understanding about the whole situation." "Whew! I'm glad that's over, so anyone for pizza?" asked Cyborg. "Oh yes! I and Robin will meet you outside." As they were sitting on the couch, (starfire/robin), she asked him a question. "Robin…do you…love me?" He almost choked on the question. "What?" is the only thing that came out of his mouth. "Do you love me?" "Of course I do Star, why wouldn't I?" "I just wanted to make sure is all?" He finally said it; he finally told her the truth. He knew it was the truth to her, but was it the truth to him. Yes as far as he knew from the beginning, but all he could think about was looking into Raven's hurtful beautiful eyes as he begged for her forgiveness and how she happily accepted it. He never saw her like that before where actually the sadness came out and how he would like to see the happiness more often than he got to. I mean they were just friends he told himself so it wouldn't be like he LIKED the girl, anyway he had his princess and she had him her darling prince.
Author's note: I know I made Raven seem kind of weak when she's not, but I did bring out how she hated the way she was feeling about the situation. I love this chapter because it has a little raven/robin time instead of the regular star/rob.