So you guys like this story eh? Good, I hope so. It has a bit more action that 'Smell of Victory' or 'The Mall of Shopping', so I hope you like this next chapter. Less action, more character development.
Raven sighed to herself as she lay in bed later that night. Beast Boy was out cold next to her, snoring away in his own little dream world. She smiled softly as she watched him sleep, stroking her hands through his hair, placing a gentle kiss on his forehead. The events from earlier in the day kept running through her mind..."How did Punk Rocket, of all people, suddenly get elevated to Slade-like status?" Too many thoughts were being recycled in the pale empath's brain and sighing deeply to herself, she fetched her robe from across the room with her powers. She needed time to think.
The moon illuminated the roof of Titans Tower in a beautiful blue after glow. Raven was on her way to the roof to meditate when saw a large silhouette standing in the moonlight. "Cyborg..." she said quietly to herself.
Cyborg looked out into Jump City Bay, watching the moonlight dance and reflect off the water's glass like surface. Feeling a presence next to him, he glanced over to see Raven standing adjacent to him in her bathrobe, sipping a cup of tea. "Can't sleep?" she asked, looking out into the water. "Yeah..." he said softly. There was a moment of silence between the two, till Cyborg finally spoke up.
"What happened today?" he asked, still not making eye contact with her.
"We lost, Cyborg. Plain and simple." Raven was always renowned for her bluntness. "It happens." Cyborg smirked slightly. "Somehow I get the feeling that you're not as cool with it as you let on" he said. Raven smirked herself...he could always call her bluffs. "My concerns are the same as yours. How did Punk Rocket get so powerful? None of us could stop him."
Cyborg merely shrugged. "I dunno. But I don't like the look of it, even with Slade we could get some hits in, but Punk Rocket completely schooled us. Plain and simple." he said, sighing to himself.
"Nobody is invincible. We beat Trigon, we beat the The Brain, we can beat him. He has a weakness, Cyborg. We just need to figure it out." the Azarathian said.
"Always the logical one, huh?"
"Somebody has to be in this Tower." she said monotone, sipping her still very hot tea. Cyborg smiled at a typical Raven statement. "So where's BB?" he inquired, curious where her green beau had run off to. "He's sleeping...and snoring" she said, taking another sip of tea. Cyborg chuckled to himself picturing an annoyed Raven trying to sleep next to a loudly snoring Beast Boy. "Man, I don't know if I should congratulate you or give you a medal of bravery for dating him."
Raven felt a smile creep on the corners of her mouth. "Shakespeare put it best when he wrote 'The true course of love never did run smooth' and I tend to agree. There are times when he can be annoying, but..." she paused searching for the right words "...but Gar...completes me. He pushes me to do things and feel things I normally wouldn't do or feel. We're two halves of the same whole."
Cyborg stretched his arms and yawned, checking the power read out on his arm. "Well little lady, looks like I'm down to just 9 juice here for the night...think I'm gonna plug myself in and retire for the night. Besides, you probably wanna get back there and get yourself some green luvin'" he said with a sly grin.
Raven merely rolled her eyes. "I'll tell you exactly what I told Gar...consider my body a map of the world. His hands stay on the equator. No going south of the border and no going north of the border to the polar ice caps." Cyborg burst out laughing, slapping his metallic knee causing a loud CLANG to echo throughout the empty halls of Titans Tower as they made their way back in. "Oh man..." he said wiping a tear from his eye "BB has to be luvin' that."
The brother and sister Titans stood outside of her room, both of them saying their goodbyes for the night.
"Night Rae-Rae"
"Goodnight Cyborg" she said and made her way into her room, closing the door behind her. She slid off her robe, revealing her black tank top and a pair of boxer shorts of Beast Boy's (which she double checked to make sure were clean) and slid herself in bed next to him, which woke the jade skinned prankster up. Beast Boy sat up in bed, rubbing his eyes seeing that Raven was just now attempting to go to sleep.
"Where...(yawn)..have you been?" he asked sleepily.
"Talking with Cyborg."
"Oh yeah? 'Bout what?" he asked.
"My polar ice caps." came her emotionless reply.
"Your...what?"
"Go to sleep, Gar." she said trying to hide the smile that wanted to spread on her face. Beast Boy just shrugged and curled up next to Raven, wrapping his arms around her slender waist as they both fell asleep together.
Morning came in Titans Tower, the smell of Cyborg's waffles floating through the air. Since Beast Boy moved in with Raven, he was never up early enough to get the jump start on breakfast, something Cyborg was eagerly going to exploit. Raven yawned as the sunlight kissed her delicate face, waking her up from her slumber. She could feel Beast Boy's breath on the back of her neck, a comforting, reassuring feeling.
She rolled out of bed and stretched her petite limbs, yawning again to herself. Beast Boy looked peaceful in his sleep, so she had no intention of waking him up. She fastened her robe on and grabbed a clean cloak and leotard, preparing herself for a well deserved hot shower. As she made her way down the hallway to the bathroom, her thoughts were cut through like a razor sharp knife in butter...
The lights flashed red, the siren beeped, meaning only one thing...trouble.
She sighed to herself making her way back to her room to change noticing Beast Boy was surprisingly awake and alert, just finishing zipping up his uniform. "Morning beautiful." he said before giving her a peck on the cheek. "See ya in Ops!" and with that was out the door.
Raven made it to Ops shortly on the heels of Beast Boy, the whole team dressed and wide awake as they could possibly be. "Titans, we've got trouble." Robin said authoritatively. Cyborg's face was grim with determination. "Is it Punk Rocket again?" the metal warrior asked.
"It is...but there's a catch." Robin added. "He's not alone. Red X is there with him."
"Red X?" said Raven in disbelief. "Since when is Red X in league with anybody?"
"That's the catch...they're not fighting together, they're fighting each other!" Robin said. "And we're going to go play riot control and break it up!"