Alright thanks for the kind reviews.

This chapter will be my longest yet, I promise.

Chapter Eight: Full of Emotion

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Ranve awoke with a start. She didnt remember falling asleep. She sat up and stared at the books infront of her. The last thing she remembered was reading up on a spell. A spell for what? O ya, Robins problem. Robin! She jumped out of bed and headed to his room. He wasnt there, and he bed looked like it hadnt been slept in. She headed for the gym. to find that he wasnt there. She sigh'd and headed for the main room. When she entered, she saw him standing by the window, staring at the sunrise and drinking something from a cup. She walked up beside him and stood, staring at the sunrise alonside him. Robin took a sip from his cup, then handed it to Raven. She was still tired from the day before, so she just took it and sipped, surprised to find it was her herbal tea. Then it hit her. She looked over at Robin's hands to find them glowing with dark energy. They seemed to be pulsating, and when she looked closer, she noticed something else. When her hands were engulfed with her power, which was a solid black, they were black, but you could still see her hands outlines in white. His were differnt, way differnt. They were like a fog or mist, gently sliding over his hand's, and they were an onyx black, nothing could be seen through it.

Robin looked down at his hands, then gave off the gentlest of smiles. "You havnt slept all night now have you?" Raven said gently, suddunly feeling guilty for the few hours she had gotten. Robin slowly shook his head, staring back at the sunrise. Then he slowly streatched his tired muscles, only to snap his arms back down, but it was too late. The stack of newspapers in the corner exploded in a shower of paper shards. Robin sighed, shook his head, and slowly lifted his hand. To Raven's shock, the paper mess was cover'd with dark mist and floated into the trash been at the far corner of the room, where she noticed that it was full, along with small piles of other scraps around it. Robin let the pile of paper gently float over ot one of the small heaps, then let them drop. Raven looked back at Robin, who was staring back at the sunrise, his face unreadable.

"You...how...when...what...?" Raven stammer'd out. It had surprised her to see that he had her power, but it had shocked her to see that he could use it. Robin just looked at her with unmoving, almost cold, eyes.

"It only took me a few hours to learn how to use these power's. You know, now that I think about it, it was actually quit simple, give or take a few busted items. And the good thing is, I have control over my emotions. They dont control me anymore." Robin smiled, but it was made of steel. "After an hour of experementing with them, I found that if I blocked emotions, it was much easer to control them. I didnt blow up anything anymore." Robin said coldly. She was still shocked by his control over the power, but what shocked her more was that...he was acting like her when she had to suppress her emotions. Is this what she sounded like to everybody else? This cold? This heartless?

"Robin...what happend to you? Why are you so...cold?" asked Raven.

Robin just looked at her. "Your one to talk. You walk around like your all high and mighty, as if you dont have a care in the world. You treat the rest of us as if we were your slave's. You dont care about us." Robin said dryly. This hurt Raven. Hurt her alot. She felt as if her heart had be slashed with a razor. She could feel tears well up in her eyes as she turned and walked away.

Before she could make it out the door she heard Robin call out her name. She turned sharply, ready to make a harsh commet, when she saw Robin crouched down by the window, holding his head as if it were in pain. "Im...sorry...Raven..." Robin whispered, barly auidable, but she heard it.

"Robin...whats wrong?" Raven asked, still hurt from what he had said to her before.

Robin just started to shake his head slowly, as if trying to get something out. "I...dont know...iv been like this all night...I cant control it... it hurts Raven...god it hurts..." was all he said, before he collapsed. "Robin!" yelled Raven, as she ran over to Robin. She felt for a pulse, and was relieved to find on. But she had to find out what was wrong with him, and she knew that it wasnt a normal sickness, so she teleported them to her room. She placed him onto her bed after she removed the books, then sat next to him and started probing his mind gently to find the cause of this.

She was surprised to find that she couldt touch his mind. Every time she tried, her powers were thrown back into her face. She sighed, there was always another way to get through a closed door. She had a hunch, and she hoped it was right. She brought over her mirror and started chanting. Almost immedately, she enter'd her mind, along with Robin. When she got there she noticed that her emotions were all conversing amongest eachother, but when she showed up, they all stopped and stared at her. Raven looked to her side to find Robin was standing next to her, a look of confusion on his face. "Where are we?" he asked simply.

"My mind. I was hoping that my emotions would have an answer to whats going on." Raven answered. Robin nodded, which surprised Raven but at the same timed calmed her. She didnt have to play twenty questions, like Cyborg and Beastboy had done. Raven walked up to her other selfs, Robin trailing her.

Before Raven could say anything, Knowledge spoke up. "Your here to find out whats up with Robin."

"Yah, and myself. Whats up? We havnt been action like are normal selfs latly."

Knowledge stepped out of the crowd. "Its simple. Once Robin admitted how he felt about you and you him, a part of you was transferred to him, as a piece of him to you. You got to feel us without your powers going over the deep end, while Robin got your darker power's and emotional control. The outburst eirler today was his emotions adapting to us."

Robin looked around quizzicly. "Your saying that are mindsets were switched? Why?"

"Its abit complicated, but to put it simply, this is a 'test.'" It shows us if Raven can keep her sanity after so long of being without emotion, while its a test to see if Robin can break through the mental shields that Raven had and if he can control her powers. Thats why he felt the pain a few minutes ago. His mind was trying to break through the barriers you had put up in your mind."

Raven looked about in understanding. "What did you mean when you said 'darker powers?' Iv never read about this in my books."

"And you wouldnt," answered Knowledge, "this type of thing isnt recored in normal books. Its only for the top archievs back on Azarath. And the only reason I know this was you read about it a few years ago. No, you dont remember, you were just glancing through the book and it only mentioned something like this. And what I mean by darker power's is this. Your power's are basicly us. The more you feel of us the more powerfull you become. And depending on what emotion your feeling, your power's act on that. Robin's new power's are differnt. They only act on two separate emotions."

"And what would those be?" asked Robin.

Knowledge shook her head. "That is up to you to figure out. When your power's go overboard like Ravens do from time to time, youll know."

Robin looked down thoughfully. "O...K...so you mean I just wait around untill something blows up?"

Knowledge nodded. "Basicly. But until then I suggest Raven help you to try and control what power's you do have."

Robin nodded, then looked at Raven. She shrugged, then headed for the forbiddin door, Robin trailing her. After they crossed over, Raven looked back down at Robin, who was just waking up. He opened his eyes, then looked around.

"Nice place, you live here?" he asked, putting her mind at rest. He had his emotions back under control.

"Yes I do, most of the time, the rest of the time im out helping a certain Boy Blunder on the streets, trying to keep him from killing himself."

"Hmmm, then you sound to busy for a stroll in the park then, well, I guess I could ask some other girl. It would be pretty easy, just say a few cheesy lines, batt my eyes, and she'd be hooked."

"You wish now dont you?"

"Ahhh, a guy can dream. Come on, weve got alot to talk about."

Thirty minutes later Robin and Raven were strolling though the park near the beach. They were both holding hands, but not saying anything yet. They were each thinking about what Knowledge had said. And they both knew that if Robin's new found power's suddenly went beserk, something bad would happen.

Robin sighed. "What to do, what to do." he mumbled, but Raven heard him none the less.

"Well, I can teach you how to control some of that power, then maybe when you go overload, it will be less. I just hope it's not a destructive type of burst." Raven shook her head, she knew that if she ever lost control of her power, the pretty planet called earth that she now lived on would implode, or explode, or both, thanks to dear daddy. Knowledge had said that his power's would go over board on two emotions. What could they be? There are so many.

"You know...if im to have control over these power's, and for you to better understand them...I think its time to tell you of my past." Robin said, bowing his head. He had never told anybody of his past before, with the exeption of Batman. This was gong to be tough, butif was going to tell anybody about his darker side, he would want Raven to know it. When she had entered his mind a few months ago, she had seen his past, but only bits and pieces, so he felt that he should fill in the gaps for her. She nodded. Before he could speak though she pulled him toward the beach.

"You know, if your going to spill your guts, then I guess I will to." Raven said quitly. They both took there seats on the beach, the waves lapping at there feet, as they stared at the setting sun. For a full two hours they spilled there hearts out to eachother, hugging eachother when something painfull came up, laughing when something

funny was said. When they finished, the sun was just about to set, but what light left drifted toward the two birds, seeming to play with there features, warming them slightly over the chill of the ocean breeze. They sat there, content, for a few minutes, just hugging eachother, Robins arm around Ravens waist, while her's was around her shoulder.

They were about to get up and leave when...CLICK, they heard a flashing camera. They both turned around to see some kid grinning wildly at them with a camera in his left hand and waving a picture in his right.

"Yes! Finally! This picture will make headlines, and ill be the star!" Before the two titans could say anything, he put the picture into his back pocket and ran off.

"Damn, im going to kill him. Whats going to happen when that picture gets public?" asked Raven, alittle desprate. She wanted to keep this relationship with Robin out of the public, but it seemed that that was ruined. She then heard a loud banging.When she turned around she saw that Robin was nailing something to a nearby tree. When she walked over to him, she noticed that it was the picture that that teen had taken of them.

"How'd you get that?" she asked. Robin just looked over to her and smirked at her.

"When you live on the streets for a few years, you get to be pretty nimble handed, expecially when you get dark power's to enhance that effect."

"But why are you nailing it on a tree? I thought we wanted this to be a secret."

Robin only chuckled and continued hammering. When that was done he put his hammer away and slowly made a spell in the air. After that he mumbled a chant that Raven had showed him. When this was done he touched the picture, then nodded. "Dont worry, nobody's going to see this. It will only appear when we get on, lets carve are names here."

After about four and a half minutes of chisling into the bark of the tree with there power's, the stepped back and admired there handywork. They had carved there initials into the bark just above the picture. The picture showed Robin and Raven holding eachother, with the sunset in front, casting it's gental light around them.

Robin nodded. "Come on, lets go eat, im starving." Raven chuckled. It felt good to release some emotion, and to show it to Robin made the waiting worthwhile.

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Alright, sorry there wasnt any action in this chapter, but there will be in the next.

Its were the Boy Blunder blows up, big time.

I told you this would be a long chapter.

And another little something will happen that youll just have to wait to find out about.

Thank you all for the reviews, they really get my mind thinking.

The more I get, the more ideas come to mind and the more...explosive or romantic the chapters are.

O, another thing, this story is almost done, and I know im going to write a sequel, so you can expect it soon.