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Disclaimer: I do NOT own Teen Titans. Though I do own a dog...
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Raven awoke with a start, sweat trickling sown her forehead, her hair clinging to her face. Slowly she looked around the room she was residing in, her bedroom at Titans Tower, and looked for anything out of place. Her black drapes were covering her window, her bookcase was not askew, even her cloak which she had carelessly thrown on the ground earlier was right where she left it. Everything was as it should be. And this disturbed her. For nine years she had taught herself how to rid her self of nightmares and almost all her unwanted dreams, but lately she had been having the same dream over and over. But it wasn't really a dream. It was the last memory she had of Kyzein, when she had left Azarath all those years ago... so why now to have these dreams? It was not as if she had only been on Earth for a short while, it had been nine years. She was giving herself a headache. Knowing that it would be futile to try and let sleep reclaim her she crawled out of her bed and dressed, in her nightclothes, which consisted of a pair of black sweat pants and a black spaghetti strap top, left the comfort of her room to make herself a cup of tea. She slid the door open and shuffled down the dark halls of the tower.
As she entered the kitchen she glanced at the clock, 5:32 she would have awoken soon anyway. She grabbed the kettle from one of the top cupboards along with her favorite flavor of tea and quietly filled the kettle with water then set it on the stove to boil. Raven walked to the living room and sat on the couch and watched the sun slowly rise over the lake on which her home resided. Her home. She never thought she would call a place home. A place she felt content and wanted. Sure she didn't exactly get along with all her team mates but they co-existed semi harmoniously. She felt as if she almost belonged here, felt as if in some small way she was needed, even if it only was for battle. The kettle shrieked shaking her out of her thoughts and she got up to stop the noise soa s to not wake the others. After pouring herself a cup and setting the kettle back on the stove she decided to go to the roof and get a jump start on meditation. Passing by her room she steppped in for a second to retrieve her belt from off her nightstand knowing she would need it with the temperature drop with the start of October being only two days away.
The violet haired teen opened the door that lead to the roof and stepped onto the cold tiles. It was then she realized she was barefoot. Cursing herself for being so careless as to forget her shoes Raven focused on leaving the ground and levitated about three inches off the floor. She steadied the cup of tea and glided silently over to the middle of the roof and gazed out over the city. The sun was still rising and was a brilliant shade of crimson with just a hint of violet still lingering on the edges of the tall buildings. She sighed, took a sip of her tea, set it down on the roof top, pulled her belt around her slim waist and closing her eyes started to chant. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos. Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos..."
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The goth opened her eyes and was met with the blinding light of the morning sun, she immediately closed them again. After much debate she cracked an eye open and met the sun in all it's brilliance. Opening the other eye she let them both adjust to the light before floating down to the floor and headed back inside. She pulled open the door that lead back into the tower and walked down the flight of stairs that opened up to the hallway and started to head to the kitchen planning on grabbing something to eat and starting to reread her favorite book The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe . She stopped in mid step, turned around and back tracked to her bedroom hoping nobody had seen her as she slid into her sanctuary. She was still in her nightclothes.
Raven stepped in front of her closet and looked at her selections. Uniforms, uniforms, some "normal" clothes, and alas more uniforms. Sighing she picked up the hanger holding her nearest uniform, grabbed some as Starfire so daintily put it "the clothes under the clothes" and walked into the bathroom connected to her room. The bird opened the shower door and turned the water on to a to most an extremely hot shower, but she was used to heat. Undressing she stepped into the shower and poured a glob of shampoo into her palm and proceeded to wash her hair. After the shampoo she put in conditioner and then washed herself with soap. Rinsing off she turned off the water wrapped a towel around her and stepped into the warm bathroom. After drying she dressed in her leotard, brushed her hair out straight then walked out into her room. She picked out a clean cloak out of her closet and draped it over thin shoulders not bothering to pull the hood up, slid into a pair of boots put on her belt and walked out her door. She walked down the hallways casting glances at the shadows every now and then looking down the depths of the hallway. As she continued walking and heard the faint sounds of the morning arguement she couldn't help but let the smallest of smiles slip onto her face. Entering the living room she saw the usual. Cyborg and Beastboy were fighting over breakfast, Starfire was trying to get everyone to all be happy while Robin, was sitting at the computer arranging the files to suit his obsessive needs.
"TOFU!"
"MEAT!"
"TOFU !"
"please friends can we not-"
"MEAT!"
"TOFU!"
"MEAT!"
"I'm sure we could-"
"TOFU !"
"MEAT!"
"If we could only-"
"TOFUUUUUU"
"WE'RE HAVING MEAT BB, AND IF YOU KEEP YELLING TOFU I'LL TURN YOU INTO TOFU!"
Oh yes, how she loved the mornings. The changeling having been defeated in the battle slumped off to play his gamestation while Cyborg happily started cooking a hearty breakfast of bacon, eggs, sausage, ham, turkey and even some chicken. Starfire, happy that the fight was over between her friends, wandered over to the couch sitting by the green boy and watching fascinated as he played Madden 2004. Raven walked over to the opposite end of the couch closet to the computer and Robin, then using her powers summoned her book from it's nearby resting place on top of the stereo. As she opened the book she emmersed herself in her book drinking the words as if they were the elixer of life that is until...
"Breakfast ya'll !" Glancing up from her book the goth watched as all the titans were herded into the kitchen by the exuberant tin man.
"Well are ya comin' Dark Lady?"
"Actually i think I'll-"
"No you won't sit out another breakfast" came the strong voice of their leader. Looking to her right Raven saw the colorful teen standing in the doorway to the kitchen, arms crossed and with a determined look on his face. "You've sat out the last six days of meals with us, it's not happening again." She gave him a sour expression but not wanting to furthur dissapoint anyone allowed Cyborg to take her book away and lead her to the table. As she passed the spiky haired boy she whispered dangerously "Don't think you've won boy wonder." Before he had time to respond the girl was sitting in her chair between the alien girl and the half robot quietly observing the stack of food in front of her.
An hour and a half later the empath slowly walked to her room thinking of how many different ways she could murder Robin for making her sit through that meal, so deep in her thoughts she didn't even notice said boy walk up behind her. "Hey Raven,"
She about jumped fifty feet into the air by the amount of surprise but if you were to look at her face you would have just thought something mildly caught her attention.
"Yeah?"
"Umm, listen I just wanted to thank you for joining us at breakfast, we've all been kinda worried since you've been spending so much time in your room. Everything O.K.?" Sure everything's just dandy, I've only been having freaky memory/dreams at night which is causing me to stay up longer, which means I have to meditate longer, which means I must spend more time in Nevermore asking my emotions why I'm having these reoccuring dreams, which causes me to stay in my room even longer than I normally do which you all already think i spend to much time in there to begin with. But no, other than that everythings just peachy. But of course she didn't say this. "Yeah, everythings just super." And with that she transformed into her black raven, went through the ceiling and landed in her room safe and sound. Or at least for the moment.
BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP! oh how she hated that alarm. They could've just all had little pagers that went off when there was an emergency but noooo. They had to have the really loud one. The one that makes all the lights turn red, and just about gave you a heart attack when you heard it. How she hated the world. She morphed into the raven and appeared in the living room moments later along with the already awaiting team.
"It's the Hive," Robin yelled over the blasted alarm,"and it looks like they've got some new members. TITANS GO!"
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A.N.
Well there you go! The second chapter! Did ya like? Please say ya did or i might just give up.I promise Kyzein will make an appearance in the next chapter, and the next chapter WILL be longer. Oh and one more thing, I have a teeny weeny itsy bitsy really small dilema. I can't decide the pairing. Should it be Rae/Ky OR Rae/Rob. Please review and tell me!
Love,
TheAngelsShadow