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Chapter Three
Raven was more nervous than she could ever remember being. They were returning to the tower this morning as soon as Robin was finished repacking his suitcase. She had finished before he got up and was currently pacing the living room of the cabin because of her nerves. Robin watched her from the doorway for a few moments when he was ready before commenting, "You have nothing to worry about, Raven. They're our friends. They'll accept us."
"I know, I know. It's just that…I don't know. I can't help but worry. I can't lose them Robin. Not yet anyway and I'm so afraid that going behind their backs like we did will make us lose them." When she saw the look he was giving her, she added, "I know it irrational; that they're our friends and only want for us to be happy. I just worry, I can't help it."
Robin walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. "Don't worry. Everything will be fine, I promise. Well, you may have to worry about whatever it is that Starfire tried to shove down our throats in her celebrating our union, but other than that, you have nothing to fear." Raven just smiled at the reference to her friend's infamous cooking and turned to face her husband. "Well, are you ready to leave this place? I told Cyborg that we should be back by noon and it is currently eleven fifty-nine."
"Yeah, let's get going," Raven replied, gathering shadows to transport them back to the tower before Robin told her to wait. "Why?"
"I want to say goodbye to the cabin first. It's a nice little cabin and we've made many memories here. Like on the counter, against the doors, on the rug, on the couch, in the office, in the bathroom, especially in the bedroom, in…" Raven cut him off with a hit to the shoulder while she laughed. He just kissed her in response. When they separated, Robin smile, "Okay, now we can go."
Next thing he knew, they were both outside of the main room. They looked at each, he took her hand, and together they entered the room….and nearly went deaf from all the screams of congratulations and surprise. The two birds blinked at the scene before them.
A huge banner was strung across the television with Congrats on your marriage written on it. There were balloons, ribbons, and confetti all over the place. The table was weighed down with tons of presents, while the kitchen counter was overloaded with foods of all types. In front of them stood all of the Titans and Titans East along with a few honorary Titans, the original member of the Justice League, Bat girl, and Alfred.
Starfire flew up to them giving both of them a bone crushing hug, "Friends! You haver returned from your moon of honey. We hope you do not mind us throwing a party to celebrate your return and your joyous reunion."
Robin was the one to speak since Raven was currently unable to (Star was hugging her too tight), "Mind? We don't mind? But, how did you know…?"
He was cut off by Batman holding up a newspaper with the headline "Robin and Raven Married!" Batman then began to read, "Today is truly a day to go down in history. In the early hours this morning, the two Jump City super heroes, Raven and Robin, were wed by Judge Miller. While the judge refused to comment on the union of the two love birds, their witnesses were eager to answer any questions that we had. The two were called in to act as the witnesses by the judge for a "special" couple who were coming in. Neither knew it was the birds until they showed and they helped them to prepare for the ceremony. Both witnesses mentioned that while separated, the two seemed nervous, excited, and sad that their friends were not there to witness the occasion. Robin's witness went so far as to say that Robin nearly had a heart attack waiting for his bride in the courtroom, afraid she might change her mind. But once they were in the same room, saying their vows, it was obvious to the two witnesses that the couple was very much in love, lost in their own world and unable to take their eyes off each other. After the ceremony, the two changed back into their outfits and disappeared into the night, no doubt rushing off for their wedding night. It is certain that most citizens of Jump City are very happy for the newlyweds and wishing them luck, while the rest are cursing that they're off the market. The questions on everyone's mind however are most likely, How will the rest of the Teen Titans react to this marriage and what will happen to the superhero team?"
Robin and Raven looked at everyone. "How did you react? Just out of curiosity," Raven asked.
"Well," Cyborg started, "It was a shock, you know, waking up to reporters on the doorstep claiming you two had gotten married in the middle of the night. They wanted to know why we hadn't been present. None of us believed it until we saw the proof. We were all shocked. We were hurt and upset that you hadn't included us. Especially since Robin had left that note and didn't even tell us in it what was up."
"But then we realized that you must have had a reason for doing what you did. As our friends you deserved to have much happiness from us, not resentment. So we decided to forgive for not including us in your most wondrous of occasions." Starfire continued.
"Plus, it was like, Dude, now they really are the married couple of the group. So after we got over the shock we called Titan's East and invited them over to have a wedding party for you. Bee didn't believe us at first and when she did, she fainted."
"Hey! I didn't faint."
"Yeah, you did," Aqualad countered.
She glared at him before saying, "Well, at least I'm not the one who was raised underwater and nearly drowned when I heard the news."
Flash chuckled before saying, "That's not as bad as old Bats here. He choked on his coffee when he read this. Then we were all so sure he was going to start having seizures or something like that. Then, we had to stop him from going off to find you and knock some sense into you as he said. We managed to keep him in space until he had come to accept that his old partner had gotten married. After all, we didn't want to ruin your honeymoon, now did we?" he added, winking, and causing Raven to blush. Robin even turned a slight pink.
"Now, we answered you question, you answer ours? Why'd you get married all of a sudden? No one was even aware you two were together," Batman came into the conversation, voice completely neutral.
"Well, um…you see…It was sort of a spur of the moment sort of thing. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Raven. I love her more than life itself. It's just something that I wanted to do. I didn't want to wait another second to make her a part of my life forever."
"Wait? So you're telling us that you asked Raven to elope with you on a spur of the moment, live in now sort of thing, and she agreed?" Beast Boy asked, incredulously.
Robin laughed, "Actually, it took a while to convince her. She kept coming up with reasons why we shouldn't. But in the end, she just couldn't resist my charm."
Raven gave him a look, "Charm? There was charm? Here I thought I was just taking pity on you."
Every teen boy in the room, and Flash, busted out with variations of, "ohh, burn" while the rest smiled, snickered or laughed. Robin gave her wounded look. "That hurt, honey, that hurt right here," he said, pointing at his heart. He got a devilish look on his face, "Now, I guess your just going to have to kiss it and make it better."
"hmm," Raven looked as if she were thinking about it, "No, I don't think I will. Your ego's too big anyway." She smiled at him, winked, and then turned toward their laughing audience, "Now, what about this party?"
They spent the rest of the day talking, laughing, and eating with their friends. Everyone had come up to offer their individual congratulations to the couple. Most ended up threatening Robin about hurting Raven which they found extremely funny given that she could take care of herself just fine. Although, Robin would have to admit, while none of the others scared him, Wonder Woman scared the hell out of him when she described what was done to men who hurt women in some ancient societies and her variations of those actions that seemed even more painful. Alfred had even threatened him, which he didn't find fair since Raven was more likely to cause him pain than the other way around if he was ever stupid enough to make her mad. Batman overheard him say this and told him that was why he stayed a bachelor because the man was always in the wrong. Superman added that men were definitely always in the wrong and then went into a story of him getting into trouble with Louis for something that didn't have anything to do with him that had everyone nearly on the floor laughing.
Robin had been right about being scared of what Starfire would try to put down their throats. At about three she brought out some dish from her planet that was just for that type of an occasion. It took all the two had not to get sick just looking at…whatever it was. It was an odd combination of sickly yellow and red. It bulged above the serving plate that Starfire had put it on and Raven swore that it was alive. She was proven right when it attacked and nearly ate Beast Boy when he poked it with a stick. The couple politely refused to eat it, stating that they were full.
At six, a video game competition was started that everyone participated in, even Raven and the adult. Everyone paired off and competed against each other in rounds. In the end, it was Cyborg and Beast Boy versus the birds. And surprisingly, the newlyweds won. It wasn't Robin that won it for them either, it was Raven. Beast Boy swore she used her magic to cheat.
It wasn't until eight that everyone remembered the presents taking up the entire table. Raven and Robin sat at the table and opened presents for nearly two hours. They got a wide range of things, from practical, such as gift cards, books, and a car (Batman) to the oh-my-god embarrassing type, like lingerie and sex toys. A particularly bad one came from Flash. It was, Raven assumed, lingerie, but she didn't even know how to put it on let alone what, if at all, it would cover. She blushed a deep shade of red which got even deeper when she heard Robin's Thank-you while knowing what he was thinking of doing with it (Although, it did let her know how to put it on). She ended up hitting him with many pillows using her powers. He yelped, "What was that for?"
"What you were thinking."
"There was nothing wrong with what I was thinking." She gave him a look. "I wouldn't be a living, breathing heterosexual male if I hadn't had those thoughts. Plus, it was your fault for reading my mind when you knew it would all be smut."
"Hey! I don't want to know what you were thinking. Please don't continue." Beast Boy interrupted.
Robin gave him a look. "I wasn't going continue. My thoughts are only for me to know…And Raven." Raven gave him a smile before continuing with the gifts. When there were no more wrapped presents left the two began to get up, stating that they were tired from such a long day and started to pick up some of the gifts to take with them, but were stopped by the three other members of their team. Cyborg gave the birds a look, "You didn't think that we forgot about you, did you?"
"Guys, really, the party…" Raven started.
"Is not your gift. Come, follow us, friends." With that, the two birds, and everyone else that was there, followed Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire to another part of the Tower. It was on the side of the tower that was never used on a floor that was never use. The tower really had a lot of space, but with only five people living there, there wasn't much need to use most of it.
"Uhh, guys, what are we doing over here?" Robin asked, when they stopped in front of a door at the end of the hall. Beast Boy looked up at Cyborg, who nodded, and entered the code and said, "Tada," as the door opened, motioning for them to go in.
The room was large. However, there wasn't much in it. Actually, there was only a bed in the room. There was a door in the right wall and one in the left, and there were two in the back wall. "We wanted to get you something special, so we basically redesigned this part of the tower for your new master bedroom. We made this center room much larger. We put two smaller rooms on the side of the room." Cyborg said coming up behind them.
"One for Robin's study and the other for Raven's whatever," Beast Boy interrupted.
"The two doors in the back wall lead to your bathroom and your walk-in closet."
"We thought you would like to decorate the rooms yourself, friends, so we have left them as they are, except we put sheets on the bed so that you could sleep in here tonight. But we have gotten you gift cards should you need anything for them. And we shall help you tomorrow with decorating and moving your stuff in here." Starfire added. "Do you like it?"
Raven had tears in her eyes as she hugged her friends. "Like it? I love it. It is the most thoughtful thing anyone's ever done…You guys are so…You are the best friends anyone could ever ask for."
Robin went and shook hands with the guys, it wasn't manly to hug, and allowed Starfire to pull him into a hug. "Guys, this is great. Thank-you. Just one question, though, why so far away from the main part of the tower?"
"Dude, we don't want to know, or hear, what you two do as a married couple," Beast boy exclaimed.
Cyborg hit his green friend in the head. "We just wanted you to have you privacy, but there is a com in every room if you need to get in contact with the rest of us."
"Now, it is late," Starfire said, ushering the others out when she saw Raven yawn, "We shall leave so that you may get use to you new room. Good night, my friends."
"Good night, everyone and thank-you for everything," Raven called out as the doors were closing. She turned toward Robin. "We are so lucky to have them."
"I told you there was nothing to worry about," He told her before getting a look on his face.
"What?" she asked him, warily.
He smiled at her, "oh, nothing, I was just thinking that we should christen this room. You know, really make it ours."
"Oh really?" she moved closer to him. "How do you think we should go about doing that?"
"I'm sure we can think of something," he replied, before leaning down and capturing her lips with his. He easily directed them to the bed while she shed them of their clothes. His last coherent thought was thanking god that they had thought to put their room where no one could hear their activities.
A/N: Well, what did you think? Should I leave it or change it? Thanks to everyone who reviewed. As I said before, you really know who to make a girl feel loved.
