Keefe
Chapter 15: Invitations
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Ding dong. Beast Boy paused his game and got up answer the door. It was a FedEx man, so he signed for the package and carried it inside.

It was addressed to Robin & Co. in a curiously familiar handwriting. There was no return address. A little red flag went up in the green boy's mind, and he called the team to the living room.

Beast Boy handed over tha package gingerly to Robin.

"I think it might be a bomb."

Robin raised his eyebrows, and placed his ear on the box. He didn't hear anything except his own heartbeat. Upon the silence, he placed the package onto the kitchen table and proceeded to open it with his pocketknife.

There were five envelopes inside, each addressed to the original Titans. One for Robin, one for Starfire, another for Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Terra. Also in the box was a framed picture.

It was a snapshot of Raven and Keefe, with his arms wrapped around her waist. She was smiling and looking at the camera, while her fianceé was looking down at her with adoration expressed on his face.

The photo was taken at sunset and the subjects were outside, surrounded by lush greenery, and the palace was visible in the backgroung. Birds were flying over head, and one could almost hear them chirp.

The six Titans studied the picture quietly until Terra broke the silence by saying:

"She looks so beautiful, doesn't she? She just looks so content with Keefe."

Starfire murmered in assent, while Bumblebee just snorted.

Then Robin passed out the letters to their respective recipients. "Wait. We're missing one. Where's Bumblebee's?"

Terra said quietly "It's not missing." She said nothing else to explain the enigmatic statement, and she began to open her note.

It contained a card. Words were printed on thick, creamy white paper in a delicate, flowing black script.

You are officially invited to the wedding of Keefe Fergeson and Raven Dunavant on the 26th of April, year of our Lord two-thousand and six. Scheduled to take place at the Chesmer Palace on Chesmer.

A green and purple ribbon was laced through two holes punched at the top, and tied into a lavish bow. On the back was a hadwritten request from Raven asking the to come visit her upon the arrival of her package.

"Well, I'm gonna go get packed," said Terra, heading towards the door.

"We're not going."

She turned violently to oppose the speaker of those three little hateful words. Robin.

"And give me one good reason why not!"

"She didn't invite Bumblebee," he said simply.

The girl in question just crossed her arms and sneered.

"Who cares!" Terra exclaimed. "Just leave her here! Or bring her with us anyways."

"But Terra," he tried to reason, "she wasn't invited. There's a reason for that." He was glad it was Terra instead of Raven that he was arguing with. Terra didn't know the reason he didn't want to go, but Raven would see right through him. He just knew that he wouldn't be able to sit there and watch Raven get married.

"Who said she's going to the wedding? She can stay in her room! Either way, I'm going." She looked down at each person. "Are you with me?"

They each nodded and Robin finally gave in and said, "Alright. Let's pack. Bring something nice to wear. I'll go to the store and find a suitable gift."

With a sweep of his cape he was gone. Terra and Starfire went up the stairs talking excitedly about the upcoming events.

It left just Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Bumblebee in the room.

Cyborg's eyes were glazed over. "My little baby's all grown up now... gettin' married..." he said to himself aloud.

"Excuse me? Your what?" said Bee heatedly.

Beast Boy could feel the tension in the room. He excused himself too, on the pretense of needing to clean his room. Which wasn't really a pretense after all if one thought about it.

"Your what?" she repeated.

"My baby girl," Cyborg obviously didn't know why she was wigging out.

"But she's white!"

"What? What does that have to do with anything?" He thought for a second. Then it clicked. "Wait. You think I have feelings for her? No way! When I say she's my baby girl, I mean it like she's my little sister! Since that thing in Nevermore dealin' with her Pops."

Bumblebee wasn't buying it.

"Ask BB! He was there with me! He knows what happened!"

She took the bait this time and relaxed. She said quietly "I wonder why she didn't invite me."

Cyborg became very uncomfortable. "I guess she just doesn't like you."

"I know that! But why doesn't she like me? I never did anything to her."

"I think she's just jealous that you took her place on the team. Wait. Let me see if I can get her to invite you."

Bee watched curiously as he logged onto the intergalactic directory and sent a signal to Chesmer Palace. The signal was accepted and a live video feed opened. A young Irishman's face appeared.

"I'd like to speak to Raven. Tell her it's Cy."

The man raised his eyebrows but acquiesced. A few minutes later, Raven's beautiful face appeared on the monitor.

"Cy!" she squealed.

"Hey baby girl! How's it hangin'?" He winked.

"Great. You?"

"Fine. Hey, there's something I need to talk to you about."

"What is it?" she asked with alarm, thinking that one of the Titans had been hurt, or even worse, killed.

"It's about Bumblebee."

All the blitheness disappeared from Raven's face, replaced with a stony expression.

"Well? What about her?"

"Can she come?" Cyborg asked timidly.

"NO!" Raven exploded.

"Why not?"

"I don't like her! You know that! I don't want her to ruin my wedding!"

"She never did anything to you! All she did was replace you, and that was all Robin's fault!" He tried to make her see reason.

And for once, she did. Must be something in the water, Cyborg thought, because he knew that before he never would have stood a fighting chance.

"All right. Fine. When are you guys going to come visit me?"

"It's 2 weeks before the wedding!" he joked.

She gave him a reproachful look.

"Okay. In about an hour. We're just waiting for Robin to her back. Can we stay until the big day?"

"I was hoping you would."

"Okay then. We'll be there in about 12 hours I guess. Bye bye baby girl."

"Bye Cy."

The signal was cut, and Cyborg turned to face an admiring Bumblebee.

"Well?" he said, cracking his knuckles and reclining.

"Wow. You're good. Thanks."

Cyborg got up and they both headed up to pack.

Robin arrived a few minutes later with their gift. He placed it in the cargo hold of the space cruiser, then headed to his quarters to pack.

When everyone was ready, they piled into the cruiser and prepared for a twelve hour flight across the galaxy.

This chapter is soooo boring! LoL... and it looked alot longer on notebook paper.