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CHAPTER 4: DENYING
"Why does it have to rain today?" Beastboy sneered at the weather. "And what's up with the villains every day now. It gets snnoying. Not a day to ourselves."
Personally, Raven was content that it had rained today. She felt like the weather understood her. She didn't know why she felt that way, it just felt like it. She meditated, alone, today for three full hours! Since a week had passed since Josh came, every time something blew up when she was in his presence. She finally realized (with the help of Intelligence) that she had grown feelings for him. She didn't want it, though. She knew it couldn't happen because of her emotions and that she couldn't love. Yet, a red Raven always showed up when she went to Nevermore.
Raven had started prefered her hood up at all times now, especially in front of Josh. She didn't feel like being teased that she was blushing when she merely thinks about her best friend in all of Azerath and now Earth. Raven had trouble taking him shopping because she had to wait for him to try on the stuff he liked and showed her. When her jaw popped out at a stunning him she snatched her hood, jumped up, and walked to the Woman's Section to look at her clothes. She was deeply confused at what was happening. She also wondered why.
"Maybe no villains will show up," Josh stood by Beastboy near the window looking out. He wore baggy black shorts, a chain in one of the loops through another, a spiked choker, and a 'I See Dead People' shirt. He wore no socks or shoes. He spotted the glorious Raven suddenly leave the room. He knew she had been acting weird around him recently and was puzzled. He decided he wanted to know. Now. "Raven, wait. I wanna talk to you." The door hissed closed.
Raven's heart raced as she took the elevator to the roof. She kept pressing the closed button, but obviously it got stuck. With her powers, she shut it and it lifted her to her destination. Hopefully, he wouldn't go looking for her. When she reached the wet surface of the roof, she felt like she was going to spew puke all over in fear that Josh had followed her. She knew she couldn't tell him what was inside but if he asked, what would she say? I want to meditate, alone. Yeah, that's what I'll say if he asks. She took a deep breath and put a shield above her from getting her more wet. She started to meditate for another three hours.
Ten minutes later. "Raven? Why are you meditating in the rain? Are you crazy?" Josh appeared next to her with his own force field of his own so he wouldn't get burnt out like a candle. (A/N: okay, in case you haven't figured it out. Josh pretty much has the same powers as Rae, except his additional power is fire-even though it's his main power, like Raven is also an empath. But, in this story, there's no mind reading. Throws the whole thing off.) "Can we talk?"
"I…I…" good Lord, she couldn't even talk around him. Her heart skipped several beats. She slightly gasped as her stomach turned into threatening knots and butterflies were airborn.
"Rae, are you okay?" Josh laid a large, masculine hand on her shoulder. "Raven?"
"I…I'm fine," she flew away from him. She gave a heartless sigh, "I want to be alone," she replied, monotone. She teleported to her room and took out her Nevermore mirror. She gazed at her reflection for a few seconds then saw four, red, demon eyes. She held her breath as she traveled through.
Happy, immediatley turned up. "You don't look okay," she grinned.
"Where's Love?" she said vehemently. "I'm gonna kill her with my own two hands," she vowed. "Happy, where is she?" She tugged on the girl's pink robe.
"In the flower place," she teleported. No doubt she was going to warn Love.
Raven was there in a heartbeat. "Love!"
"Yeah?" a rosy red Raven appeared in front of her. She looked a tad bit frightened but Raven saw the love that covered every inch of her.
"Stop being so emotional. If you don't get that stupid emotion under control, I swear…"
She was interrupted by Intelligence. "But, you do love him."
"If it wasn't for her," Raven snapped back. She picked up Love by the neck. "If you so much as embarrass me again I'm gonna have Trigon (the red cloaked girl-redder than Love's cloak) kick your loving ass! Be like the others and get it under control."
"Looks like Anger is getting to you, Rae-Rae," Happy laughed behind her hand. She started to laugh so hard that she had to leave before Raven siced Trigon on her.
Raven walked out of her room. It had started to rain harder and lightning and thunder kept coming every few minutes. And, it was only lunch time. Raven popped into the kitchen and grabbed ingredients for a PB&J. Silkie jumped up on the counter and started to drule over the sandwich. Raven snatched it away just in time on Silkie's jaws. The room and her suddenly flashed red. She pulled up the map of the city while the others ran down.
"The Hive," Robin said.
"Again! Oh man!" Beastboy pouted.
This time the Hive group contained Mammoth, Ice, and Gizmo. "Titans, go!" Robin attacked Mammoth.
"Attack pattern ALFA," Ice said. (A/N: okay, this attack name bugs the $# out of me. It means like every single attack. It gets old really fast and I have no idea why I'm using it.) They split up in separate alleys with each of their loot.
"Titans, split up!" Robin and Starfire followed Mammoth. Beastboy and Cyborg followed Gizmo. Soooo, that left Raven and Josh to follow Ice. That was just Raven's luck!
"Azerath, mentrion, zinthos," Raven sent dark waves at him.
While they cut some of the bricks of an alley, they missed Ice. But, he was not easy to lose. His icy blue skin shone in the dark. Both Azerathians had a rainproof forcefield over their heads.
Josh sent rows of fire at him. Ice made a thin plate of pure ice and jumped on. Now, he could fly. He looked at Raven who kept staring at Ice. He automatically knew what she was thinking. He smiled.
The ice plate turned black and shook Ice off. He landed in a dumpster. Raven made it float back to where the Titans split up who, fortunately, had the other villains. Gizmo kept cursing at Cyborg and Beastboy. Both of them were smiling triumphiantly. Beastboy suddenly sneezed.
"Great! A cold. Thanks a lot," he cuffed Gizmo who muttered more blasphomies. Snot was mixing with the water on his face and his face was white-which clashed with his green skin, and he was shivering.
"Let's go home," Robin said as he threw the Hives' into a police car. "Raven, carry Beastboy. He might hurt himself," he added glancing at how many shapes BB took.
"Gross," Raven slung BB's arm around her shoulders. "Just don't get me sick." She held him as far away as possible.
Back at the Tower, Raven sat on the couch reading her one of her favorite books. (Make up a title.) The rest of the Titans entered and sat on the couch. Beastboy claimed it was movie night. He held out the choices. Duce Bigalow Male Gigalow, 50 First Dates- Starfire's choice, The Grudge, The Medallion, and Jaws.
They ended up watching 50 First Dates. Robin and Starfire seemed closer than usual, Cyborg and Beastboy laughed every two seconds- hello! Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore! However, Josh and Raven fell asleep. Raven's head rested on Josh's shoulder and Josh's head laid on Raven's head. He breathed in her lavender smell each sweet breath. He inched his arm over her shoulders to keep her there in case she pulled away.
"Friend Raven, friend Josh it is the waking up now," Starfire shook them gently. "You have not left for your rooms. Do you wish to stay here and rest?"
Oblivious to who Raven had snuggled up with, smiled and nodded. Josh kept snoring away. Josh lay on his back while Raven cuddled up next to him, resting her head on his chest. The couch, Raven inhaled, smelt like fresh pine. She had no idea why it smelt like that, maybe it was a new furniture freshener. She retreated to her dreams.
Two hours later, Josh woke up. He felt a weight on his chest and looked down. Raven was dreaming peacefully on him. He didn't want to wake her. He slowly stroked her back and fell into a light sleep.
A half and hour later Raven opened her eyes. She thought she would be staring at the dark comforts of her room but she didn't see that. She saw the living room and Josh. She shot up and immediately turned red. Her body seemed to be paralyze, she stared down at him, watching him sleep without a trouble. He suddenly opened his eyes and stared at her smiling down at him. He returned it and sat up. "Well, that movie wasn't for us."
Raven's eyes were wide and she looked almost fearful. She jumped to the other end of the couch. One of the windows shattered into small fragments and the end of the couch near Josh burnt off. They both stared into eachother's eyes. The silence began tounnerve Josh. Was something wrong?
"So, uh, sleep good?" wrong thing to say. But it was already out of his mouth before he could stop himself.
Raven disappeared. She teleported to the hallway that led to her room. She started to run to it. The walls started to crack. She suddenly ran into something hard. Josh had teleported in front of her. He had an intense frown upon his lips, questions in his eyes.
Raven flew on her back . She felt like she ran into a brick wall. She stared at him still thankful that her hood was still up. "I want to be alone."
"Not until you tell me what is up with you," he stood there waiting for his answer. She didn't reply. "Raven, tell me. You know you can tell me anything."
"Not everything." I will never tell him I love him! Never ever! "I said I wanted to be alone. Why did you follow?" she stood up and faced him making sure there was a good foot between them.
"You're acting strange around me. Did I do anything wrong? Tell me," he suddenly grabbed her upper arms so she couldn't run or teleport away from him.
His touch sent shivers down her spine and made her knees weak. She hung her head but didn't say anything. She couldn't give in and tell him. What happened if he turned her down? She would be embarrassed for life.
"Raven?" he stared down at her intently. He knew that both of them knew they were both alone in the hall and anything could happen. He looked into her eyes that stared into his. His head drew near hers and he finally kissed her on the lips real quick. She didn't pull away so he kissed her again but made it deeper and more passionate. His tongue stroked her bottom lip then eased into her mouth so it could duel with hers. She kissed him back equaly. He took off her hood and stroked the side of her face with his thumb.
She gripped the front of his shirt tightly. Her knees were weak and her heart couldn't stop, it was beating so fast and hard she was almost surprised that he couldn't hear it. She wrapped her arms around his neck and clung to him for support because she couldn't hold herself up anymore. The lights by them broke by both their power for there was nothing else that could break. Glass rained on their heads like it poured outside.
They pulled away and let their emotions try to get under control. He was still holding her face with both hands as his forehead rested on hers. His breathing matched hers, deep and restless. They were surrounded by darkness and all they did was cling to eachother. And all there was was silence.
Raven thought she should say something but she didn't know what to say. She still couldn't believe what they just did but she felt happy. "Why did you do that?" she asked her voice almost monotone.
"Dunno. Why did you kiss me back?" he asked back almost sarcastic.
"Dunno. I need to meditate."
"Wanna meditate with me?" he asked like he was asking her on a date.
"Okay. Where?"
"Anywhere, I don't really care. You pick."
"On the roof-no it's raining. Um, how about in the living room?"
"Fine with me."
They meditated for countless hours. When they were done they decided to see what the others were doing. Beastboy was in his room watching TV and blowing his now red and irritated nose. Robin was training. Starfire went shopping. Cyborg was working on the T-car. Everybody was busy as usual.
Raven barely said a word to Josh. He acted like everything was normal and dandy. Before cursed emotions took hold. Raven blushed even deeper- if that was possible. She kept her hood up and tried to stay away. Josh was surprised at how she was acting. After lunch he had it. He slammed down his sandwich and looked at her.
"Now, what's wrong?"
"Nothing," she replied in a small voice yet it was still monotone.
"It's because we kissed, isn't it? Of course that's it," he yelled in rage. "You're so…"
"So what?" she stood up and met his gaze. "Do you've realized what we've done?"
"What we did wrong, no. What did we do wrong, Raven!"
"Nothing will be the same now! That's what's wrong!" she walked off almost smoking from anger.
Josh, however, was smoking. He stared after her. He growled and decided to watch TV. He watched a horror movie and Josh rated it: lame. He fell asleep, snoring.
"Yo, Rae. Wanna help me with the T-car?" Cyborg said as he watched her walk through the garage.
"No. I'm going to my cafè."
"Is Josh goin'"
"He better not."
"Well, that hurts," Josh popped up in front of her. "I want to talk to you. Please."
"Why?"
"I need to, uh, tell you something."
"Tell me right now."
Cyborg dying to find out what they needed to talk about suddenly looked down. Raven and Josh kept looking at him to leave. "Fine." He stomped off.
"What is it?"
"You shouldn't be mad at what we did, Rae."
"I can be if I want. I didn't ask you to kiss me. So why did you do it?"
"You kissed me back," he reminded her. He got closer to her feeling lucky that she didn't move away. "You shouldn't be scared to let a little of your emotions out, Rae. Everybody does."
Raven understood and nodded. She walked closer to him. She suddenly threw her hands over his neck and kissed him. She couldn't deny it any longer, and wouldn't. She kissed him with more passion than before. They made out for what seemed hours but was only five minutes before Cyborg walked in.
"How long…" Cyborg's eyes turned to two giant circles and his jaw hit the floor. "I think I'll leave." He ran away feeling scared. No, his baby! He left his baby with the two most emotional lovebirds. He ran back. Almost everything was broken, except his car. "Phew!" he jumped in and drove off. "My baby is safe!"
Josh held Raven tightly in a hug. They stood there not saying anything but looking at eachother and being 'caught up in the moment'.
School is starting-HOW AWFUL! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY! Anyway, I guess everybody is saying that they don't own teen titans. So, I guess I should start putting it. I don't own Teen Titans but it's on my birthday list. Ta and I hoped you liked chapter 4. RR!