Robin looked down at Raven, unsure of what to do. He knelt down beside her as she had slowly fallen to the ground after sputtering out her answer
"Raven...When did this happen?" Perhaps this wan't the best time to be asking questions, but he felt it would be one of the few times she might open up.
The telepath looked up at Robin. His masked eyes were filled with concern and almost fear. Again, her mind ran a quick scan of him. He was loyal, compassionate and a good listener. She could tell him practically anything, and this was something that couldn't be bottled up forever.
"Couch..." She said, pointing.
Robin helped her up and they walked over, taking a seat. The boy wonder inspected Raven, peering his eyes behind the mask and waitng for her to begin. Her bottom lip quivered slightly and she finally regained a slight posture. Her eyes wouldn't leave her feet as she began to speak.
"You remember that day...when we fought Dr.Light and then you and I were all alone when I froze time..." Her voice was delicate, saying every word carefully.
"Yeah, how could I forget?" That had been a day that would always boggle Robin's mind. He listened on.
Raven's hands played nervously with the end of her cape as she continued, "Slade...He took me and showed me...My fate. I was overwhelmed with it and all I could do was just look on in disgust. I don't think I can change what I'm going to do...but that's a diffrent story." Her eyes darted up to Robin to see if he was still listening, of course, he was.
"Then...We stood up on a rooftop. I expected him to just drop me to the ground and let me think about what he had just shown me...but, no. My clothing became less and less. I screamed but no one could hear me...I couldn't even fight back, my powers were gone for some reason."
She shut her eyes tight and took in a trembling breath. "T-Then...He told me to close my eyes and I think he took off his mask...That's when..." She couldn't continue, her eyes swelled up with tears again and she felt her shoulders collapse foward.
Robin caught the telepath before she could just fall over in misery and looked down at her. Her eyes were still fused shut, tears streaming out of them at a top rate. She leaned her head against Robin's chest slowly and sniffled.
"When he finally let me go...that's when you caught me..." She said, finally opening her eyes to look up at him.
He paused for a second, bringing back the memory and blinked a few times. It all made sense now. She had looked so helpless and almost lifeless when he had caught her. She burried her face into his chest and her breathing began to steady a bit. He slowly put an arm around her, still unsure if she would attack him for a wrong move.
"I trust you not to tell anyone..." She said with a slight sniffle.
Robin nodded. "Yeah...I promise...I know Slade more than anyone else here...sometimes, I think I know him better than he does himself...It doesn't surprise me that he did something like this...I mean, after what he did to me." He shuddered slightly at the end comment, memories flooded back all too fast.
Raven looked up at Robin curiously now, she pulled back slightly to get a better view of him. Robin had always been so obsessed with Slade and no one ever knew why. But now, Raven had figured out, perhaps Robin was always after Slade for revenge. For something Slade stole from him...maybe the same thing that Slade had stolen from her.
"What did he do to you?" Raven asked in a slight whisper, peering her soaked eyes at him.
He shook his head, feeling the sickness rising in his stomach even bringing back any memory of Slade. "It's not important...What is important is getting you to stay here.."
The dark titan rolled her eyes. Always the team and work before himself. She sighed and took a look back at her discared backpack. She still had a reason to leave, so what was stopping her from getting up and running...
"You don't have to leave...We can get you some help and..." He began to offer.
"No! I don't want anyone else to know about this..." A dark wind, most likely from Raven's scattered emotions, flew through the room.
Robin gave it a thought. "No one has to know it was him...Just say that it's someone else's baby. Not like we know what Slade looks like..." He almost snarled at his last comment, the anger lining his eyes momentarily.
Raven blinked, studying the boy wonder for the umpteenth time that night. "But who would I say is the father?"
"Beast Boy?"
"He's Green."
"Cyborg?"
"Is he even capable of having children?"
Robin had to stop and laugh at that for a second. Raven raised an eyebrow at him.
"Well...What about that Goth kid you hang out with...or...ahh.."
"Robin." She said simply, staring at him.
He stopped his babbling and looked at her. Her eyes said it all. They were pleading, a first for Raven but probably not a last. Robin began to shake his head and put his hands up.
"Really...I can't..." He started.
She extended her lower lip a bit. "Ah...Please?"
"B-But...Then...The team will assume we...Ya know..." He coughed as if to try and get her to understand the point.
She rolled her eyes, of course he thought of sex first. Typical guy standards. "Robin, for me?"
Running a hand through his hair and giving an annoyed sigh he said, "Fine." The sigh was one of defeat.
Raven let a rare and somewhat dangerous smile creep up on her lips. "Thanks. I'd hug you...but, that's not my..ah, style."
Robin leaned back, a bit more relaxed now. He let a long sigh escape his lips and Raven stood up to leave.
"Wait!" He called, extending a hand.
She turned around, raising an eyebrow. "What?"
A smirk crossed his lips and a slight chuckle escaped him. "I need a late night TV buddy..."
Her eyebrow raised higher, but she didn't object to taking a seat next to him. He flicked on the television to an action movie. It was a new James Bond movie. He was zooming his high tech car, pulling out all sorts of gadgets on the brigade of robots following him intensely.
Robin looked over at Raven and smiled, "Thanks Raven..."
She blinked for a second. "Thanks for what? You're the one who was here while I was an emotional wreck..."
He shrugged. "Yeah...I've just always wanted a TV buddy."
She rolled her eyes and the movie went on for a bit before Raven finally spoke, "You can call me Rae now...if you want.."
Robin smirked. "Yeah. You can call me Bond. James Bond."
All that recived was a pillow to the face and a roll of the eyes.
-Next Morning-
Beast Boy groggily made his way into the main room. He opened the fridge for a glass of tofu milk when his foot hit a small, black backpack. He raised a dark green eyebrow at it and picked it up, inspecting it.
"Raven's?" He asked aloud.
He gave a slight shrug and placed it on the counter, assuming it was there for a good reason. He took out a glass of tofu milk and walked away. Then he stopped and turned around, staring at the backpack. He tried not to let his curiosity get the best of him, but it was anyways. Putting his glass down hasitly, he walked over to the backpack and opened it slowly.
"Hmm...Clothing...Toothbrush...and, what's this?" He asked, feeling something metal at the bottom.
He pulled it out and it was revealed as a photo frame. Inside the brass frame were a few select pictures. There was one of Raven, looking very bored and annoyed as Starfire painted her nails. There was one of Raven and Cyborg, working on the t-car together and a group photo. He furrowed his eyebrows, flipping the frame over.
"Where's Robin and I?" He muttered.
When he flipped the frame over, the loose back clanked loudly. Again, Beast Boy's curiosity got the best of him and he opened it. There in the back was a picture of Robin and Raven. It was bigger then all the others and they looked younger, probably from when the team had first started. The dark titan was actually smiling a bit as she stood next to Robin who looked all but nervous, yet happy.
"Why the hell are you in my stuff?" A calm, yet very scary voice loomed behind him.
Beast Boy cringed, knowing it was Raven. "Uhh..." He couldn't think of what to say as he turned around.
There he saw, Raven glaring down at him, but her eyes were red from lack of sleep and her temples throbbed with her anger. She hasitly grabbed the frame from him and closed it up, her hands not faultering a second. With one swoop, she took her backpack and teleported out of the room.
"That was close..." Beast Boy said, wiping beads of sweat off his head.
He began to walk towards the couch when he found Robin, awake and stretching on the couch. The changeling sat down and waved to him. He turned on the TV and yawned. The news casters flickered on, talking about a huge bake sale going on down town or something of the sort. Beast Boy looked over at Robin and began to speak.
"Hey Rob...Why did Rae have a backpack on the counter?" He asked, tilting his head.
The boy wonder stopped for a second and thought up the first reason he could come up with. "Umm...It was her laundry bag and she had brought it out here last night and forgot...?" He offered with faltering tone to his voice.
"Still doesn't explain why she had photos in there." Beast Boy said, peering at him.
Robin blinked and looked at Beast Boy. "She had photos in there? Of what?" He hadn't known of the backpack's contents, so he figured he'd change the subject.
Luckily, Beast Boy didn't catch on to this and continued, "Some individual photos of her and the team...Then a really huge one of you and her in the back. Seems that's what the frame was originally intended for..."
He peered at Beast Boy for a second. "Oh..." It seemed weird, Raven didn't seem the type to have photos framed like that. Perhaps it was something Starfire did for her...But why would the largest one be of them together?
'Because I was her first real friend...' Robin thought to himself. That was definately it, he smiled to himself slightly and looked back up at the green teen.
"Well, you know how Raven likes her privacy..." Robin said and sat up from the couch. He pretended to yawn and left the room before Beast Boy could protest.
A/N: There's your second chapter. I know, I'm not too happy with the lengh. But If I added what I wanted to, then the chapter would be like six miles long. Read and Review- Love, Emmery.