Disclaimer: Don't usually do these things but...I added some stuff in here. Okay here we go, don't own Teen Titans, YM, Time, Consumer Reports, Maxim, MTV or my own sanity.
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Raven leaned her head up against the wall, numerous topics running through her mind as the silence surrounded her and Robin. She rested her elbows on her knees and her hands hung limply infront of her.
Robin looked over at her. "Well, aren't you going to start asking me a bunch of questions?"
She raised an eyebrow in the darkness, more to herself than him. "That's more of Starfire's game, no? I don't want to be rude..."
He smiled weakly. "No, ask away. We can learn a bit about each other..."
"Alright...first question...Why do you wear your mask all the time?" She decided to go with the easiest question first.
He thought about it for a second, even though he had been expecting it. "To hide my identity from villians, if they knew who I really was, they might go after my remaining family and blackmail me...It's complicated..."
Sixteen other questions arose in Raven's head at that response but she merely nodded. "Your turn..."
"Oh..." He said slightly surprised. He thought long and hard, a silence setting in for a good minute before he continued with, "Beast Boy...Did you or do you still have...oh I don't know...A crush on him?" She couldn't see it, but he was wearing a cocky grin on his face.
Raven actually let out a dry, sudden laugh. The elevator shook slightly from her haywire powers and she regained her posture. "Not now...but...Long ago, perhaps..." She admitted with a small smile to herself.
Robin was a bit surprised by this. He didn't say anything as Raven thought up her question. She turned herself in the darkness to face him completely instead of being at his side and narrowed her gaze.
"When you were with Slade...what did he do to you?" She asked quietly.
He flinched slightly, Raven could see it in the darkness. She wanted to take it back but he let out a long, painful sigh and began to speak.
"He's an evil man as you know...he blackmailed me...threatened me..." He paused, his voice becoming a pained whisper. "He tortured me and...and...took away all my dignity and privacy...he made me feel like I was nothing and that I didn't deserve anyone in my life..."
Raven's mouth dropped open slightly as his shoulders began to shake lightly in a sob. Never had she seen him cry. Not a single tear was ever shed from behind that mask. But now, a sliver drop was making it's way down his cheek, glistening in the smothering darkness. She slowly placed a hand on his shoulder, feeling sorry for ever asking the stupid question.
Robin looked over to Raven and a shaking sigh escaped him. "He did the same thing to me as he did you...That's part of the reason I'm helping you, because I would've done almost anything to have someone help me back then..."
The telepath's eyes softened and her grip on his shoulder tightened. "Thank you..." She said quietly.
He smiled dimly at her and realized it was his turn. His mind ran over some possible questions and he chose one. "Raven...Why do you have a picture of me and you on your nightstand and not the whole team?" It was childish to ask, but it had been nipping at his mind for a little while now.
An almost microscopic smile appeared on her lips. She had many reasons for having that picture of just them there, but she decided to go with the least embarassing, "Well...Because...You're the person I trust the most on this team...I'm glad to call you my...friend." She let the smile appear weakly on her face.
Even in the darkness, the rare smile was one of the most wonderful he had ever seen. Suddenly, the elevator began to shake a bit and the pair gasped in surprise. The lights flickered back on brightly and the controls began to beep dimly. Robin raised a masked eyebrow in suspicion and went back over to the controls.
"Are you two alright in there?" The man's voice came onto the speaker again.
"Yeah," Robin responded. "The lights just went back on..."
"Good, Good. The elevator should be running again within the next half hour...sorry!" A ruffling was heard and then the voice disappeared as suddenly as it came.
Raven sighed in annoyance. "God, it'd be faster for them to send firemen in here to get us, don't you think?"
The boy wonder nodded. "Yeah, but I don't think this elevator has one of those trap doors...thankfully, we'll be out of here soon.." He leaned back up against the wall, re taking his seat.
The both of them were glad that they could see again, the darkness had been making the atmosphere very dreary and almost scary. Robin ran a hand through his unkept hair and looked over at Raven. She was looking back at him, leaning back on her elbows for support, her face bored looking as ever.
"Robin..." She started, her violet eyes meeting his. "Does it bother you that Starfire is out with Beastboy?" Her gaze narrowed, trying to read him before he could respond.
He started with a dry laugh and a pained smile. "A little...but, I'm getting over it...Don't think that I'm into her that way anymore..." He then smiled more to himself than Raven, conversing with his own mind at that point.
She nodded, accepting his answer and understanding it. The silence surrounded them and they looked at each other carefully. Raven sat back up and moved a bit closer towards Robin, her eyes shadowing over with some emotion Robin couldn't pinpoint at the time. The elevator began to shake and they felt it move upward, working normally.
They both stood up briskly as the elevator finnished it's journey, the doors sliding open at the 15th floor. The pair stepped out and gasped at the crowd surrounding them, people running up and asking them if they were okay. After receiving a cup of water or two, they told the crowd they were alright and had to sign some release papers before they could walk down the hall to the doctors office.
"We were just stuck in an elevator...must we still go to the doctor?" Raven asked with annoyance lining her tone.
He looked back at her and raised an amused eyebrow. With a nod, he opened the office door and all Raven could do was follow, her head hung low. Robin went up to the receptionists desk and checked in Raven's name. They understood the elevator situation and said that they would see her in a few minutes. She was already sitting down, hiding her face with a random magazine. Robin took a seat next to her quietly and sifted through the magazines.
"Geeze, they sure have enough YM magazines...Why not some Maxim...er...I mean...Consumer reports...yeah..." He laughed nervously, picking up a Time magazine.
Raven lowered the magazine below her eyes and raised a slender eyebrow at him questioningly before going back to reading an article in the magazine. A quaint nurse poked her head from behind the door and looked around.
"Uh...Is there a Ms.Raven Roth here?" She asked.
Raven stood up and walked foward. Robin sat still in the chair, watching her from the corner of his mask. She turned around slowly.
"Aren't you coming with?" She gave a tiny glimpse of a worried expression.
Robin blinked, he haden't expected her to ask him to go in with her. He shrugged and stood up, following her and the nurse down the stuffy hall to a small room on the right. The nurse took Raven's heart rate, blood pressure and temperature and told them that the doctor would be with them in a second. The door shut softly and the pair looked at each other.
"So, what are we supposed to say?" Raven asked in a hushed tone.
He scratched his head and sighed. "Erm...Uh...I guess that we're a couple that had unprotected...ehh...intercourse and want to be checked for STD's?"
Raven gave a soft scoff in response. "What are you 60 years old? Who calls it 'intercourse' any more?" A mocking smirk appeared on her thin lips.
Robin sighed and glared at her. "What am I supposed to say? We're two teenagers that fu-"
The doctor walked in briskly, cutting Robin's sentence off. Raven peered at him playfully and then looked back at the doctor. He overlooked the chart and then the pair.
Scribbling down a few notes, he looked over at Raven. "So, Ms. Roth, What's the probelm?"
She cleared her throat and swung her feet a little over the table. "Well, my partner and I want to be tested before we decided to consumate our relationship. Those MTV ads have gotten to me. Knowing is beautiful, right?"
Robin pretended to cough, covering his laughter. Raven shot him a look that would scare the devil himself.
The doctor nodded and smiled. "Well, glad people are actually doing something to prevent the spread of this disease these days...Alright, let me fetch a few supplies and then I'll draw some blood." He promptly left the room.
Raven leaned against the nearest wall and sighed deeply. Robin gave her a weak, comforting smile and then the doctor came back in. He was holding multiple syringes and a large bottle of rubbing alcohol.
"All right, roll up those sleeves!" He exclaimed.
Robin and Raven did as they were told and the doctor took multiple drawings of blood. Raven felt light headed from so much blood loss and was rubbing her arm sourly by the end of the exam. Robin grumbled something about too many needles and the doctor sent them off. He told them that the results would be in the office within a week. They went out of the waiting room back down the hall to the elevator and the stairs.
"Uhh...Let's take the stairs..." Raven suggested.
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A/N: Alright- There's chapter 4. Hope you enjoyed it. I cracked upwriting Raven's line about the MTV thing...lol. Read and Review-Emmery.