I'm back! Yes, so as I promised, avid writing from me. I will give you a heads up that I will be on and off being here, but I will write constantly. In a few weeks I will be gone to see the uptight country club grandparents (through no choice of mine) so I doubt, unless they somehow have an internet café, you will hear from me then. But still, avid writing. Also, I do have another story, "Behind the Mask" that I feel those readers should be granted with avid writing too, so I'm sorry for any wait. Also, I'm starting a one-shot, not my normal style or character layout, but a songifc, BBrae. Yes, you may be shocked. Yes, I do not love that pairing, yes I find it totally unlikely, and yes, it's a songfic. I'm sorry for sinking so low. But you can blame my carpooler's radio for playing the song.
In your reviews if you ever love or hate a certain thing I do, let me know, such as certain people love bashing of certain characters, and others may find certain things a character does good. Just let me know, I really want to make you happy after being gone.
Thank you all for the well-wishing reviews. In response to a certain reviewer's question: Raven'Teacher, yes it was.
Continuing, now. I'm sorry to those who loved it from X's point of view, this chap isn't, only because it wouldn't work. The next one will be, I've already got a plan for the beginning. Yes, the beginning paragraph is from last chapter, I had to remind you being gone. Also, sorry for the shortness, once again I had to work on the other ones too, and I wanted to give you something to know I was back.
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"Anxious, I see." A voice drifted up as she found herself face to face with X. She was in a spacious dining room, a large carved oak table with a white cloth cover and a few (ten, actually) chairs separated them. "I see you escaped. Not surprising in the least..." He trailed off, gesticulating with his hands with an air of power and stature beyond his years.
Raven swallowed, planting herself firmly, and saying with a tone of confidence larger than she felt, "I've had enough of your stuffy billionaire act."
"Stuffy billionaire? Really, Raven, is that all you think of me?" He stepped out from behind his ornately carved chair as he paced forward.
Raven's hands shot three swipes of black energy at him, which he sidestepped easily and and with poise. He fake-yawned, overly dramatizing it. "Really Raven, why not stop being a silly little girl, and come join me for some food... I don't want to be rude or blunt, but you really can't beat me."
Raven threw a few white candles at him, which he took a step foreword to dodge. She ran foreword, throwing the decorative white roses at him, which he dodged by bending over, to brush imaginary dust off of his shirt.
"You will have to try harder." He continued walking forward, easily missing the thrown chairs and assorted table decorations, all wrapped in black energy.
Raven growled, sending a candelabra and a chunk of the wall at him.
"Whatever you say, my love, whatever you say."
A chair stopped midair, crashing to the ground. "What'd you just say?" Raven's hands were dropped, eyes glancing about the room for an answer.
"I said 'Whatever you say, my love, whatever you say.'" He smiled amiably, but Raven saw the maniacal smirk beneath the trusting look.
Raven motioned about insanely, a few candles flying through the room. "But-what? me? I'm- I'm not-!"
He used this chance to sneak up right behind her, "It has a very simple answer, you know."
Raven's eyes widened and she flung an arm back that was stopped by his hand. He grabbed her other wrist and smiled, whispering in her ear, "I love you." He pulled her arms out, pinning her against him helplessly. "I love you..." His voice snaked around her his head right beside hers, her arms stretched away.
Memories flashed before her, images. Fire, clock, light, tower, Slade... SLADE. She remembered Slade doing the exact same thing to her above the city... Alone. Helpless. His puppet. No. Not again.
Her eyes opened, and she shot swoops of energy out her arms, tearing apart the room and throwing him against a wall. She ran over to his crumpled form, sending punching him across the mouth. "Don't ever touch me like that." She glared, staring into his dark gleaming eyes.
She pulled back her arm for another swipe, this time he managed to catch her hand, but not with the power he once had. He said it again, "I love you."
She threw candles at him, all missing in her shock. "Temper, temper. It only makes me like you more. And I do love you so."
She tried to ignore his words, finally throwing the table at him, which he broke in half with a kick. Love... Love... These emotions taunted her, and she imagined a giddy Nevermore Raven blushing and giggling. 'Come on Raven! You only hate it because you fear being broken!' She shook her head, 'No, no, It's because I can't! I can't let these emotions get the better of me!' But still the Raven giggled, and X still murmured he loved her.
"Come on, am I that bad looking?" He teased, bringing her back to reality.
Raven didn't respond, trying to look away.
"What? In love with someone else?"
Memories of the Titans flooded into her mind, and rage erupted. "No, okay! You want to know what it is? It's you! How can you think for an instant I could forget all you've done to me? How?" She threw him against the wall and turned to leave.
A quiet voice, no longer silky and mysterious, but lost and forgotten. "I'm sorry."
Raven wanted to scream it, drive her fists into the wall and punch him in the face, but it came out without the shock she felt, only quiet confusion. "What?"