Those Little Talks
By: I'm InTeReStInG
A/N: Here we go again. Nutin' to say so…So I'll say nutin'…nutin'…
This is the edited version that was done for 'Snuggle-Puppy''s wishes. She did not like the original version. So I have changed it for you. I only changed the part that she didn't like, the rest I have not touched.
Chapter Dedication: To my teachers, for believing in my abilities, not that they would even get to read this story but…
Review Responses:
xNightstalkerx: To tell you the truth…I have no idea…
Queen-morganalefay: I understand what you mean, and I'll look out for that, okay? I just can be lazy sometimes, and I like to take short cuts…and I also see what ya mean about the whole summary thing…I'm getting there a'ight? I like to take things slow, especially when it comes to my stories…glad that you like Spyke, I like her too, she's different…you know?
Legolover: glad to here that you might enjoy this story, that's pretty much all I have to hear in reviews. (I have absolutely to no problem hearing any of the other stuff).
Silverwinged-Raven: Spyke is NOT…and I will repeat… NOT another Raven…though they do have similar characteristics, like the dark past thing (that I will get into in later chapters). Terra is just desperate…that's what her problem was…she traveled the world for people that would accept her, and when a group of people did, she expected them to be perfect, that's where she really messed up. She failed to realize that no one was perfect, and when the Titans 'failed to live up her standard' she ran away. She was at her lowest, and Slade knew, so he used his knowledge and took advantage of her…and so on…Spyke already knows that no one is perfect, so she won't expect anyone to be.
…and that's all I have to say… here we go…
Chapter Two: Just A Great Big Friggin' Mess
Okay, Recap Time…
(A/N: I know there are mistakes… I did not proofread… I really wanted to get this chapter out.)
She said first wrapping a bandage around Aqualad's right arm, then his left. "There! Now sit up."
He did so, and she started wrapping the bandage around his lower chest where the spikes had pieced him. "Good. So we're alone." He said.
"Wha-" Spyke started, but was interrupted by Aqualad taking off her mask, she quickly ran to cover her eyes.
"What's the matter? Is there some thing wrong with your eyes?"
Spyke turned around, and exposed her eyes, they…there…there was none.
"I don't' have eyes, okay? No big deal." Spyke said, taking her mask back, trying to play it off.
"But how can you…" Aqualad stuttered standing up.
Then eyes appeared on Spyke's face. "You make pranks sooooo easy" she said laughing.
"Ha ha, very funny." He said.
"I know!" she said falling into another fit of laughter.
"Okay, okay. That's enough. Now come here."
She walked over to him. "What?"
"You eyes…they're beautiful…" Aqualad said, looking deeply into the new comer's eyes.
"Uh…thank you…I appre - " But before she could continue, Aqualad had his lips pressed to hers…
She pushed him off. "Look, I just got here. you don't know me. How can you - " Once again Aqualad interrupted her word with a kiss, and once again she push him away.
"What is up!" She asked.
"Please, just one little kiss? It won't hurt. I promise I'll be nice."
"It's not you…it's me…I can't do that…"
"Why not?"
"Because…I…I have to…" she began.
"Please…"
"Why?"
"I don't know! I'm attracted to you I guess."
Spyke sighed. (Edited part) "No." She said putting her mask back on.
They paused not knowing what to do next. Then Aqualad spoke. "I'm going to lay down" Not waiting for a response.
"Hey, y'all! I'm back!" Cyborg shouted. "I got pizza!"
"Bye!" Spyke said rushing out the door.
In The Living Room
"Bout time you go here." Spyke said walking into the room.
"Bout time you got here." He said back. "What took?"
"Oh well…you know…Aqualad had me tied up."
"Oh…Well…here you go. I had 'em made right there. that way I knew they were fresh, that's what took so long." He said stuffing his first slice into his mouth.
"Oh, ok."
"So tell me, why do you wanna become a Teen Titan?" he asked.
"Well, I've always wanted to become a super hero, and this was the next place on my list."
"What you didn't make the cut on all the other ones?" Cyborg asked, sipping soda.
"No…didn't you hear me earlier?"
"Yea, but I wanna hear it again."
"Well, it's a long story. I've been to just about everybody, and no one will test me…probably because of my family history… they probably think I'm a spy."
"Are you? I mean you said so ya self, you document everything. Maybe they're getting the impression that you wanna find their weaknesses or something."
"That's not why I have Kareem. I have her because I've never been able to keep a diary, and I've always wanted to record my daily life, Kareem is just my way of doing that, and plus she's like my sidekick."
"Well, I'm guessing you're thankful that some hero group decided to give you a chance." Cyborg said looking at her…deeply.
"Yea…I'm happy that most of you are ok with my being here." She said looking down, but she felt eyes on her, so she looked up and saw Cyborg looking at her. "What? Do I have something on my face?"
"No."
"Then why are you looking at me like that?"
Cyborg's trance was broken. "Huh?"
Spyke giggled, and he moves closer to her. "Cyborg…"
"Spyke…" he said leaning forward.
"What are you doing?" she asked leaning back.
"This…" He said finally, getting fed up of leaning, grabbed her face and brought it to his, where their lips met. Spyke melted. She'd never felt so helpless, he was like the powerful autocrat, and she was the innocent, helpless damsel.
"How was that?" He asked.
Her only response was a faint. "I'll take that as an amazing." Then he picked her up to take her to a bed.
Raven's Room
"Rae, it's alright if Spyke crashes in ya room?" Cyborg asked, from out side Raven's room.
"No." she said plainly.
"Please she's asleep already.."
"Take her to Starfire."
Starfire's Room
"Star, it's alright if Spyke stays in ya room tonite?" Cyborg asked Starfire.
"No, she hurt friend Aqualad. She is not welcome in my room." She shouted back.
Bumblebee walks out Starfire's room. "She can sleep in my room. I have a trundle bed anyway. She can sleep on it."
"Thanks, Bee."
"No prob."
Bumblebee's Room
"Just rest her on the bed over there." Bee said, lying on her own bed. "Now what where you two doing that bored her so badly that she fell asleep?" she asked resting her head in her hand.
"Well…I guess she was just tired. We weren't doing something that should make her bored."
"Oh."
"When she wakes up, tell her to go see to me, alright?" he asked.
"What ever, just leave."
"Thanks again, Bee."
"Why do you care so much, Cyborg?"
"What do you mean? I'm just looking out for her."
"Okay…"
"Night."
"Night." Bee sighed when Cyborg walkout her door. She pulled out her secret diary, and began to write.
Dear Diary,
Another day and Cyborg again fails to realize that I am madly in love with him. Why must men be so oblivious? I tell you, they can be so coy…or is it me that's coy…coy when it comes down to telling Cyborg how I feel. He's so…I don't know… It may be just a weakness… somewhere… in my flawless self; I have a soft spot for something…something that he has…
Why do I love him so? Why am I still holding on to the hope that someday he'll grow to love me also? I hope that in due time I will get over him, and move on.
There's a new girl here. She's sleeping in my room tonight. She wants to become a Titan… and I have to fight her…well, we all have to fight her. But I'm a little scared. She took down Aqualad just with 7 needles. But then again, they were underwater, and you can't exactly swim with huge needles sitting it your skin. He's in the recovery room…recovering. (LOL)
I'm not sure what I think about her yet…but right now, I think she's alright. I understand that Aqualad got in the way when she was trying to hit the fish. What I don't understand is why it seemed like Aqualad wanted to protect the fish…they're just fish! But hey…you can't change a guy's passion…or what ever the fish are to him.
I don't have anything else to say… I get a weird feeling everytime I think about Cyborg… which is every second of my life…I have to go…I think she's waking up.
Bee then stuffed her diary in to her drawer before Spyke could open get up.
"Hey! Cyborg said to tell you to see him when you woke up." Bee said as soon as Spyke got up.
"Uh…thanks…I guess I'll go see him…" Spyke then walked out the door, leaving a very sad Bumblebee.
Robin's Room
Knock, Knock, Knock
"Come in." was Robin's only response.
Then a man walked in to Robin's room with a stern look on his face.
"W-Who are you?" Robin asked shaking, something he didn't do often.
"My name's Keith. And I have a proposition for you…"
"I'm listening." Robin said a little more confident.
"You give Spyke anything she wants when she wants it, ya hear?"
"Or what?" Curious Robin asked.
"…you'll have to deal with me…and I don't wanna hear about the other titans knowing about our little deal…especially not Spyke, ya feel me?" 'Keith' said with a threatening tone.
"What's she to you?"
"That doesn't matter. What does is, you taking good care of Spyke. This is the first place I'm gonna allow to keep my- Spyke, and you better make the best of it." Keith said leaving.
Robin couldn't say a thing, he couldn't tell the others, that would put them at risk…no… he, himself, had to see to it that Spyke was treated the way she deserved…and according to 'Keith' she deserved special treatment.
In The Hallway
Raven was out to get tea, when Spyke stepped out of Bee's room to go see Cyborg. And for a moment they stood there staring at each other.
"Why do you hate me?" Spyke asked breaking the silence, although she loved it when it was silent, she wasn't used to it, and, despite her love, this situation was awkward.
"I'm always this hard on someone new." Raven said in return.
"But you seem to hate me with a new kind of hate…"
"Oh really? Do tell…" Raven encouraged.
"It seems that like a part of me, but the rest of me you seem to find fault in."
"You have a way with reading people."
"…But one thing puzzles me though…what part of me do you like?"
Raven levitated to the kitchen and put water in a kettle then put it on the stove. Curious, Spyke walked over to Raven and looked at her hopefully.
Raven sighed. 'I guess I need to fess up…' she thought. "I like how you seem to understand the dark, I don't know how I got that out of your 'animated' attitude, but I did. I also like how you seem to be hiding something, I think that that's…cool" Raven said, that last word uneasy.
"Whoa!" Was all Spyke said at first. "I see you have your way of reading people too."
Raven shrugged. "It one of the things I do." With the kettle taking a little whistle, Raven turned around, to prepare her tea. "Do you want any?"
"What kinds do you have?"
"Just herbal…but I do have some Postine (I love Postine), I don't like it, but it's only for backup." Raven said picking up the kettle and starting to poring water into her cup.
"I'd love some of that! Do you have powered French Vanilla cream?"
"It's somewhere in the fridge." Raven said poring hot water into the second mug in front of her. She took a tea bag; put it in her mug, then left. "There's sugar in the cabinet, with the Postine."
"Thanks!" Spyke got all the necessary ingredients to make her cup of Postine perfect, and began to put them into the mug, when Starfire walked into the kitchen. "New friend, what are you making? Are you making tea like friend Raven?"
"No…not really…but close. It's Postine. It's not tea, but it is a hot drink." Spyke explained.
"Oh, is it nice?"
"Yeah, I think so. You might like it."
"Next time you make it can you make me a cup so that I may take part in the drinking of Postine with you?" Starfire asked.
"Of course, Starfire. I would be delighted."
Starfire jumped, and ran back to her room, leaving Spyke to sigh at her. Spyke then wrapped up her trash and threw it away, and then she packed way the sugar and the rest of the source of her beverage. She was now ready to drink, when Beast boy walk into the kitchen. He sat at the counter.
"Spyke…" He called.
"Yeah…" Spyke asked him before taking her first sip.
"Why did you hurt Aqualad?"
"I didn't mean it on purpose. I was aiming for the fish, I guess, while getting out the way he got in the way."
"…mmm-hmm." Was all he said.
"I like you." Spyke said smiling at Beast Boy.
"…huh?"
"You're fun, you know...I like that!"
"…Some people don't think so." He said gloomily.
Spyke got the picture. "…so you think, 'Why try?', huh?"
"Why should I try? Everytime I 'try' she always either just looks at me or speeds away."
"Did you ever think that she might runaway because she doesn't want you to see her laugh?" Spyke asked leaning on the counter.
"I never thought of that…" he said sitting up hopeful. "…but that couldn't be true…" he said slouching again.
"And why not?"
"Because…she doesn't laugh…she said so her self…"
"You hang on every word she says don't you?"
"No…maybe…okay, yeah…but that's not bad…is it?"
"No…but it can make you do stupid things. You have to watch out, okay? And you shouldn't stay 'in love' with Raven too long…"
"Why not?"
"Because…it's unhealthy; and it can lead to stupid things; like suicide, cutting yourself, and other crazy things that people do when their love isn't returned. You have to watch out."
"…but what if she never returns my love…"
"I hate it when people say stuff like that…it sounds so corny."
"But it's the truth. And I wanna know."
"…Then you'll have to…stop…"
"What! Loving her!"
"No, well, like that yeah. You have to keep loving the person, but you have to let them go."
A/N: This is deep…I don't know WHERE this is coming from. I only watch two romantic movies. 'Titanic' and 'The Notebook', but maybe they're enough. They are the greatest romantic movies I've ever seen. So…
"I see what you mean?" Beast boy said.
"…w-what? Y-you do? I thought you were way behind me!"
"That's wrong, Spyke!"
"Raven seems to be having a bad affect on you…"
"Why you say that?"
"Because you haven't cracked one joke since I've been here." Spyke said, walking closer to him.
"Really? You want me to?"
"I wouldn't mind."
"Okay. Here's one. There was a church that had problems with outsiders parking in its parking lots, so they put up a sign: CHURCH CAR PARKING - FOR MEMBERS ONLY, TRESPASSERS WILL BE BAPTIZED! That took care of the problem!" Spyke giggled.
"I have one too." Spyke said. "I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it. So I said "Implants?" She hit me." BB laughed.
"Okay, okay, here's another one. An ad for one Church has a picture of two hands holding stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments are inscribed and a headline that reads: "For fast, fast, fast relief, take two tablets."" Spyke laughed.
"I got one, I got one, I got one. A good friend will come and bail you out of jail... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Darn...that was fun!""
Beastboy and Spyke spend the whole afternoon laughing and just having fun telling each other jokes. It was weird for that part of the house to so quiet, but it was, but they didn't seem to care. All that mattered to them was that they were having fun.
Eventually someone came down because they were making too much noise. "Hey, you guys think you could keep it down a bit, hmm?" Robin asked. "I'm trying to train."
"Could I join you?" Spyke asked.
"Y-you really want to train? One would get the feeling that you didn't need to train…"
"Yeah, I really want to train…what that comes ask a shock to you or something?"
"Well, yeah…if you want to…"
"YAH! Come on, Kareem!" She motioned for Kareem to follow her.
"Wait…Kareem was there the whole time?" Beast boy asked.
"Yeah…what that's a problem?"
"No…but no one's gonna see that right? 'Cause I said a few stupid jokes there and I don't want…"
"Don't worry. No one's gonna see it."
"Good." He sighed.
"Alright, you ready?" Robin asked directing her to the training area.
"You bet!" she said in response…
A/N: That cliff wasn't that bad. Hope you liked this chapter, tell me if you do in your review…so that means review…now…today…not tomorrow…not the next day…today…why are you still reading this…the story is over…review…now…LIKE RIGHT NOW!