Seventeenth Chapter: Time's Up

I spun my head so fast that I think I heard my neck crack. I leaped up off of the bed and away from Innocence, who didn't seem fazed at all.

Raven had a hand clapped over her mouth in shock. Her eyes were as wide as dinner plates! She stepped back and ran into the door's frame with a loud bang.

Regularly, it would have been funny, but when you're caught kissing a friend only assumed to be your friend by another friend who seems to be surprised by the fact that a friend is kissing a different 'friend' and would kiss that friend even when another friend came in and-

Nevermind.

"Uh," I tripped over my words. "This… isn't… Raven, I-"

Her eyes seemed to glaze over and they started to smolder and glow beneath her raised hood. She just stood there. The world seemed to stand still as stone.

That is, until a white shelf on the other side of the room became encased by a black shadow and cracked almost exactly in half, spilling all of the white pottery and white roses onto the floor in a messy puddle.

"Raven," I said croakily. Why were her powers breaking things now? She couldn't have been mad about the kiss…could she?

Raven gasped and stumbled backwards. I looked at her eyes; they were normal again, and for some reason it looked as if she just realized that she had broken the shelf.

"I-" She gulped and looked around. For the second time in less than three hours, she smiled for a reason unknown to me. "Sorry!"

I gave her a strange look, and then strode back over to Innocence's side. "Raven, this is-"

"Innocence, I know."

I gave her another strange look, and she laughed. Laughed!

"I've been in here before, but never seen…" she paused and closed her eyes. I was about to speak when she exhaled slowly and opened them again.

She was hiding something, I knew.

"I'm glad to see you both alright. Now, we have to go."

"But Raven!" Innocence whined, talking for the first time since her awakening. "You just got here!"

Irry nodded. "You really should stay. You haven't been here in a while."

Raven rolled her eyes and quickly looked around the whole room, turning her gaze from one Starfire to another, one by one. "Chaos," she said, and I realized that she was addressing the new Starfire, the one in black, torn clothes. "What're you doing here?"

"Her shadows disappeared," Lust said coolly.

"Lust…" Raven laughed quietly. She cast a quick glance at me. "I hope you didn't cause any trouble…?"

Lust returned her sly smile and began to walk out the door.

"Now," Raven continued. "Robin, we have to go. The time is up. Has been for about ten minutes, actually, so I'm surprised that you even managed to wake Innocence up, even how… strange… your method was."

I felt a blush spread across my face and grinned stupidly. I shrugged. "Maybe we should go."

"You should." Compassion said loudly, standing forgotten with Harmony, Lust and Chaos. "Go, that is."

I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned to see Innocence's white glove resting there. "They are both right. You shall leave now…?"

I nodded.

She put something in my hand, and I realized that it was my glove. I had evidently forgotten to put it back on, with all of the… uh… happenings.

I put it on hastily and turned to Raven. "Let's go."

However, to my surprise she stood firm in the doorway with a smug smile stretched across her face. She tilted her head to the side and blinked with fake innocence. What was going on now?