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Chapter 5: Advice can be a pain
Sara was getting use to life in the tower. The morning arguments, the late nights of fighting crime, and even Starfire's pudding not to say that she ate it just that she got use to the fact that Star made it. What she had trouble with was the way Robin was acting.
Normally when he came to visit her he would tell her about life with the Titans and would then ask her about how things were going at school and with her friends, but seeing him on a daily basis has given the young girl a new perspective on her protector. Robin seemed more brooding and closed off that even she suspected he would be. A couple of weeks after she moved in Sara noticed the change in her friend and asked him about it.
Flashback
" Richard what's wrong?" Sara said watching him train.
" I can't get over the fact that Raven's emotions are in control of her actions and not her heart." The young ninja said while he threw a couple of punches at the bag.
" Aren't they the same thing?"
" No. If Raven were speaking from the heart then her emotions wouldn't be taking control of her body without her permission. And Love it seems has gotten a good hold over her, although maybe I should be grateful that Lust isn't the one in control, knowing her she would probable tie me down in my sleep and have her way with me." Robin joked.
" Well why don't you tell Raven this why do you always come to me with your problems." Sara said sounding annoyed but in truth knew that Robin had a hard time opening up to anyone else. It was an odd relationship the two shared, Robin could let down his defenses and Sara would have to be on her toes when giving the 'boy wonder' advice. For a ten year old she's a perceptive little bugger.
" I have told her that but I don't think she got the message." Robin said having another go at the punching bag.
" Why?"
" Because she tried to get me out of my pants at the time." Robin said with a slight blush at the memory.
' Oh boy if we don't find a way to calm down her emotions we're going to have a problem.' Sara thought as she looked back to her math textbook with disgust. ' God I hate multiplication'
End Flashback
After that conversation Robin barley came out of his room again except to get some food, train, and of course lead the team on missions. Raven on the other hand was more outgoing then ever especially when Robin was around but by now everyone knew that relationship between the resident birds.
As usual Robin was in the gym getting in another work out when Raven teleported in the room. The moment he felt her soul self enter the room Richard disappeared from site along one of the walls (for all of you who have read or seen Naruto you know what I mean. yep the old poster painted like the wall routine). When Raven emerged from her soul self she looked around the room and saw it empty. And she couldn't find him from his aura because he trained himself to hide all aspects of himself whether it is physical, emotional, or spiritual.
Looking disappointed Raven walked out of the room to try another spot he would most likely be in. Raven tried the evidence room, his own room, the rec room, and even Sara's room but still found nothing. " Damn where could he be. I thought for sure that he was in the gym but I found nothing. I really need to get this relationship going or well never get around to the great sex.' Raven thought or rather Love and Lust thought since they were in control of Raven's body. Meanwhile Raven's main personality was locked up in Anger's old cage.
" Let me out you traitorous emotions or so help me I will kill every last one of you. Raven shouted to an empty crowed," but no one came, " Damn, why did I let my guard down again? Love and Lust are going to be in so much trouble when I get out of here."
" And they will just do this again you know that." Intelligence said coming around the corner.
" Spying on me again Intelligence?" Raven glared at her yellow robed counterpart.
" No just going for a walk and I heard you yelling." Intelligence said pushing her glasses up on the bridge of her nose.
" Then leave me alone or help me get out of here." Raven said.
" If I did that I would get yelled at by the others. You know that they even have Anger on there side now, the frustration that Robin's giving them is giving her an outlet unlike what you did. So it looks like you're outnumbered in here so I think you need to find a way to get out yourself." Intelligence said walking away.
' So Robin is giving them the slip now. Well I could have told them that would happen since he's the only one who can tell if I'm in control or not.' Raven let herself smile a bit knowing that Robin wouldn't approach her unless it was her in control.
Back with Robin he noticed when Raven left and breathed a sigh of relief letting himself relax a bit before going to his room and washing up after his workout. Relieving his arms and legs of the leather bindings he let the warm water wash over him felling the tension release from his shoulders and back. Going over the last few days in his mind he notice that Love and Lust were now in control 24/7 and it was worrying him as to why Raven would give up control and let her emotions run the show.
Deciding to talk about this with Cyborg and Beast Boy about this he finished his shower, dried off and re-dressed. Opening his communicator to a secure line to Cyborg, when the metal man answered with, " Yo what's up Rob?"
" I need to talk to you and Beast Boy alone," he stressed, " in the evidence room please in five minutes." Robin said.
" Sure but I think Raven will notice if me and BB aren't in our usual spots." But was cut off by Robin's glare.
" I don't care about that just be there in five minutes, just the two of you." He stressed how annoyed he was and Cyborg got it.
" Okay, okay I'll get the grass stain and we'll be there." Cyborg said cutting off the link and went to find the green shape shifter. In his looked for Beast Boy he ran into Raven. Quickly trying to go the other way without being seen, he failed and Raven ran up to him.
" Hey Cy have you seen Robin I've been looking everywhere for him."
" N..nope I haven't seen him or know where he is Rae." He tried to lie but he's not very good at it.
" Okay I know your hiding something Cy, now spill." Raven gave him the glare of death if he didn't answer he was in trouble.
" Okay he asked me and BB to meet him in the evidence room, ok, happy now?"
" I'm going too." Raven started to walk to the evidence room when Cyborg stopped her.
" No you're not Rae. Robin asked me and BB to meet him there alone so that means you don't go."
" And why should I do that? He's my boyfriend!"
Shocked a bit at her emotional outburst Cyborg quickly steeled himself and went on, " Stop and think for a sec Raven if Robin wanted to talk to you don't you think he would have invited you to the meeting?" he said looking down at her, " Besides it's probably just guy stuff so don't sweat it." He said before getting Beast Boy and meeting Robin.
In the Evidence Room Cyborg and Beast Boy entered the dark room, when Cy flicked on the lights it showed all the different items that they had collected over the years in there various battles. Control Freaks remote (even though he always makes a new one), Slade's mask, and various other items. As the duo walked into the room Robin was behind them.
" You're late." He said.
" Well I ran into Raven on my way to get Beast Boy and had to convincer her that you wanted to talk to us alone. I'll tell you man it wasn't easy for her to let it go." Cy said.
" That's exactly what I wanted to talk to you guys about," Robin started, " it seems that Raven's emotions have taken over and her main personality is repressed somehow."
" You mean like when her anger got out and me and Cy got sucked into her mirror?" BB said.
" Yes, and we need to get her back in control so I can stop hiding from her." Robin said.
" Dude what do you need to hid from her for, you can just use that cool substitution thingy and get out of there like that" and Cy snapped his fingers.
" I've tried that but is seems that Raven has found a way to track me when I do that so it doesn't work anymore." Robin hung his head in defeat.
" Man you have problems if you're running away from your girlfriend." Cy stated.
" What did you call her?" Robin arched and eyebrow.
" What your girlfriend? That's what she's calling herself man, I think if you're having problems with that you need to talk to her and not us."
" Well how about and option on how we can get Raven back to the way she was?" Robin asked looking at the others.
" Well we could always try to use that mirror thingy again." BB piped up.
" Ok that's one idea. See if you can come up with more while I try to talk to Raven ok." Robin said leaving the room.
BB looks to Cyborg and says, " Man Robin gets a good looking girl and he runs away. Man sometimes life isn't fair."
" Man if you say the look in Raven's eyes you would understand why he's running. So beat you in "Robot Ninja Monkeys 6" Cyborg said smiling.
" You're on trash can." And the two made a beeline for the rec room and the game station.
Raven was walking down to her room when she felt Robin's aura in his room. ' Finally he slips up' she thought and ran to his door, which was right next to hers. She teleported into his room as quietly as possible looking around for her pray. She spotted him on the bed sitting with he's back to her. Every so carefully she levitated herself trying to sneak up on him, but she got to the edge of the bed and not even turning around Robin said, " Nice try Rae but your going to have to do better than that."
" Well if you knew I was there you should have invited me in so we could get started," she cooed smoothly.
" Look we need to talk Raven," he said removing her arm that she was wrapping around his neck, " I need to speak with Raven not Love or Lust right now okay."
Love and Lust thought it over quickly and replied, "No, we think you need to settle with us for a while, if we let you talk to Raven she might not let us out for a while and when that happens we want to at least have had you first." Raven or rather Love and Lust said through Raven seductively and lunged at Robin trying to pin him to he bed. Robin however was too quick and easily moved avoiding the emotionally crazed teammate.
" Look you two I need to talk to Raven NOW and if you do that I'll ask her to go easy on you two okay?"
The two emotions thought this over and decided to agree as long as he got Raven to let them out once and a while.
With Raven back in control you could see the anger in her eyes. " Damn them I'm going to throw them away and break the key into a million pieces." She said full of distain.
" Well hello to you too Raven. It's been a while since I've seen you." Robin said sarcastically.
" Well what do you expect me to say Robin. Hi good to see you. Having fun taking advantage of my emotions." Raven spat at him.
" Well actually no I haven't since I wanted to get you out so we could have a little talk about them. But thanks for asking." He smirked.
Raven blushed a little out of embarrassment, but that quickly faded. " Well what did you want to talk about?"
" Well I first want to know if Love and Lust are for real about me?" he asked.
Not looking at him she just nodded and he continued.
" Okay, why are you having such a hard time controlling them? I've never seen you this badly out of control so what's going on?"
" Well the more I feel the more power I give to those feelings to use my powers. Well," she said sheepishly, " the more I feel the stronger the emotion and…" but Robin cut her off.
" So if you love someone beyond reason the emotion gains more power in your mind and can take over" he finished. She just nodded, " Okay one last question. How long have you had this bottled up inside of you?"
Her blush returning in full force she whispered, " Since I met you."
For a second Robin was stunned, " You've felt this way for three years and you never said anything? Why?"
" Cause we can never work. You're my leader, and there was Starfire, I'm just not sure Robin but you were unapproachable." Raven started to whisper and a small tear streaked down her cheek.
" Rae no matter what it was you know I'll always be there for you, you know that right," he asked when she just nodded, " Well if you were having a problem you should have come to me even if I was the problem we would have work things out, If you needed to stay away from me in order to do it I would have respected it." The boy wonder paused to let things sink in.
" I just couldn't ok you know how my emotions can take over, you've seen it first hand I might remind you so how could I tell you that I've had a huge crush on you without one of them taking over?" her voice strained to get the words out as she studied the floor.
Robin reached over to her and lifted her chin with his cupped index finger so she was looking at him and he let go, " Raven I care about everyone of you, whether it's personal with me or another teammate it's my job to make everyone as conferrable as they can be. And even with your feelings for me we could have worked something out." He gave her one of his reassuring smiles and went to walk away when Raven stopped him.
" Listen I know you would have but I guess that before we beat my father it was to hard to come to grips with it and now since Love and Lust are awakened and loose we should come to grips with it now what do you say?" she looked hopeful.
" Sure why not." Robin said and the two of them went to his room to get things straitened out.
(A/N: no they didn't have sex they just talked about what they were going to do in the future.)
The next morning Robin and Raven were the first up and after they had their tea and meditated, Cyborg and Starfire were the next to get up, next was Sara who the four Titans saw off to school for the day and last was Beast Boy who slept in until 10 a.m. For most of the day Robin was training and spending time with Cy and BB on the game station, it's about 12:30 when Starfire came in the rec room and slapped Raven crossed the face.
" What the hell Star?" Robin said as he saw what she did.
" Raven of Azarath I challenge you to a battle of marguff!" the young alien yelled.
BB looked at the scene confused, " Ummm… translation please"
" The gauntlet has be thrown" Cyborg said not knowing exactly what marguff was but he could guess.
" I said I challenge you to marguff! Now we shall do battle. For friend Robin's love!" she yelled once more.
" What!" Raven and Robin said together.
" That's right I challenge you for Robin's hand and heart. Now how should we proceed?"
Raven stepped forward and Robin knew a different emotion was in control. ' Please don't let it come to this.' Robin thought. " Star what is the meaning of this?" he yelled.
Starfire looked at Robin with a worried look on her face, " But friend Robin she has changed you and the only way to put things right is to do combat for your heart. There is no other way."
"Stop this at once Starfire! She didn't do anything to me, and I already told you that you got the wrong idea about our relationship from the start. Now stop this foolishness right NOW!" he yelled and everyone in the tower stepped back away in fear.
Starfire was the most visibly shaken, falling to her knees, " Ro…Robin I…I didn't mean anything by it I just thought that you changed so much." She could barley get the words out. Robin looked down at her and lifted her up to her feet.
" Star I know you were doing what you thought was right but you need to remember that when you jump to conclusions you can hurt everyone involved. Now I think you need some rest and we can discuses this in the morning. Ok?"
She just nodded her head and she let her friends carry her to her room for some rest. When he got back to the main room Cyborg and Best Boy were glairing at him while Raven was trying to keep her emotions in check and not have them take her over and thank Robin in an inappropriate way given the current audience.
" Robin I think we need to have a little chat man!" Cy said walking up to his leader towering over him like a metal giant.
" And what do we need to discuss Cyborg?" he answered back.
" You know what I'm talking about! The way you're acting is hurting Star don't you see that! And worse you're getting Raven involved in this. How could you?"
" Yeah I mean you don't even play the game station with us anymore," Beast Boy said joining in the conversation, " All you do is spend time in your room ore with Sara or Raven and even when you are around us You never talk. I don't think we even know you anymore. You are like a different person than we use to know you when you started this team!"
Everyone looked at BB as if it was the most shocking thing they've heard him say.
" Wow BB that was profound" Raven said deadpanned, " Now Cy I don't need your production from this so don't try. Now Robin I'd like to talk to you in privet so if you'd join me in your room we can have our little chat." And as she walked past him she gave him a mischievous smile and winked at him.
After she left Cy and BB stated the interrogation all over again, " Now tell me Robin why did you do it?" Cy asked.
" I didn't do anything to either of them. Starfire came to the conclusion that I like her more than I do because I always saved her and she ended up reading the signs wrong. And I love Raven and she loves me even though she won't always admit it all the time. And one more thing Cyborg, Raven doesn't need your protection so don't push it on her okay!" Robin was almost screaming. Giving Cyborg and Beast Boy a dirty look and walked off to his room where Raven awaited him.
As Robin stepped into his room he noted that all his lights off. Not really needing them on he walked over to his bed started to get ready for bed when he remembered that Raven was going to meet him in his room.
As soon as he took off his shirt a pair of smooth and pale hands wrapped around his chest and Raven whispered in his ear, " Now about that thank you Richard."
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A/N: Well sorry I took so long in updating and I hope you like this one. If you have any questions or comments you know how to reach me. And tell anyone you know about it please the more people who review the better in makes me happy and I get a warm feeling inside