Bob the Muse: You do realize that you just finished writing the last chapter and you still haven't gone to bed… right?
Tenshi: Shut up Bob. I couldn't sleep. I have writers block, I'm tired and I can't sleep… this chapter should be interesting…
Bob: snickers. Yeah, let's add to the fact that you have had like 5 chocolate chip cookies and just downed a can of Dr. P.; I can see the flames now.
Tenshi: Have I told you lately that I hate you?
Bob: Isn't that a song?
Tenshi: Shut up Bob, this story is a pain in the butt as it is; I don't need you added on top of it.
Bob: Yeah, yeah, Whatever, I'm still not doing the disclaimer… its in chapter 1.
Tenshi: rolls eyes. Go choke on something Bob.
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Breaking Point
By TenshiJaki
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"Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain." – Unknown
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Raven sat down at the tabled and watched in silent amusement as the others practically tip-toed around her. Even Star, who could be the most tactless person around, usually caused by a lack of understanding not actual rudeness, was being careful. Raven meanwhile was acting perfectly normal. She watched them all while nursing a cup of tea and munching on an Oreo that had been left on the table. After a few tense moments of waiting for Raven to do, well something, the other Titans let out a collective breath and sat down to enjoy lunch. Everything was as it should be.

For about five minutes.

Beastboy had just started on his second tofu sandwich when he noticed Raven eating more Oreos. In fact, she had the entire container of them sitting in front of her. Last time he had checked she only had one… As he watched he saw her twist open the chocolate cookie and slowly lick out the cream center.(1) This normally wouldn't have been a very 'odd' thing to do, seeing as how Beastboy himself liked the center the best, but Raven wasn't stopping there. After she had finished eating the center she then proceeded to put the two chocolate pieces back together and stick them back into the tray. Beastboy watched, open mouthed, sandwich forgotten, as Raven went through the cookies, one by one, licking out the centers and then putting back the now empty cookies into the tray. This continued, in fact, until all of the cookies were similarly violated. Sighing happily Raven then proceeded to pick up the still 'full' cookie tray and put it back into the cabinet where it belonged.

Just when Beastboy had gathered enough courage to actually say something to her the 'Villain Alarm'™ went off. Robin rushed over to his computer but try as he might he couldn't get the monitor to work. Finally giving up he turn to Cyborg and asked him to plug in to see what was going on.

"Ok, lets see, location: bank, criminal: oh man, its Killer Moth again."

The Titans all did a collective moan, with the exception of Starfire. She was actually looking pretty happy about going up against the buggy loser.

"Oh, this is wonderful news! Do you think that he will have any more fuzzy creatures?"
Robin looked at his alien friend strangely. "Fuzzy creatures?"
"Oh yes, you see, I was hoping we would be able to find another Silkie!"
Cyborg, remembering several 'incidents' with Silkie, shuddered, "Oh man Star, isn't one enough?"
"Oh no friend, you see, I believe that Silkie is lonely. I believe that he could use the friend that is a girl."
The other Titans just looked at Star with a mix of emotions ranging from disbelief to nausea. Finally Robin broke the silence.
"You think Silkie needs a girlfriend?"
"Oh yes. Would that not be glorious?"

Before anyone could try and dissuade the young alien the alarm sounded again reminding them why they were having this conversation in the first place. Striking a pose, which to him was rather hero like and manly (cough), Robin barked out his trademark phrase:

"Titans GO!"

They filed out quickly, heading for their various modes of transportation. Robin grabbed his R-cycle, Cyborg and Beastboy got into the T-car and Raven and Star took to the sky. No one noticed the little happy smile that was playing on Raven's face.

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When the Titans arrived at the bank they were happy to notice their query was still there. Most of the Titans were also happy to note that he didn't have very many moths with him, Star being the only exception.

Robin, naturally, decided to start off taunting the villain. "Killer Moth, your reign of… What the… RAVEN!"

Raven ignored the walking stop light and continued heading towards the furry bug man, a big smile on her face.

"Hello Mothy, it's so nice to see you again. Oh, and look at all your pretty puppies!"
"Puppies!"

Needless to say Killer Moth was in shock. The other Titans were as well. They all watched in shocked silence as Raven began to rummage through her cape looking for something. With a small 'Ah hah!' Raven produced several small white rectangles and a magic marker. She then proceeded to scribble on them and then walk over to each 'puppy' and place a name tag on it.

"Oh, you look like a Fluffy…"

This proceeded for several minutes until Raven had 'labeled' all of the moths and then proceeded to give everyone else badges as well. Killer Moth just stood there as Raven placed a tag that said 'Mr. Mothy' on his chest. Even the other Titans weren't spared. None of them could do anything but allow the pale girl to stick them all with name tags. Beastboys read 'Grass Boy', Starfires read 'Princess Airhead', Cyborgs read 'Grease Monkey' and finally Robins read 'Stop Light Boy'. Raven even put one on herself, though it was upside down, which simply read 'Raven'.

Finally satisfied that she had gotten everyone Raven dusted her hands together. "Whew, next time you should all bring yours! I might not have enough for everyone again. Now, let's start the meeting."

Killer Moth was the first to break the strained silence, "The meeting?"

Raven simply nodded happily, "Oh yes, the meeting of Lobster Card Addicts Anonymous… though I suppose it's not very anonymous if we all have name tags… Oh well. Who wants to go first?"

"Uh, young lady, this isn't a meeting… this is a bank robbery!"

Raven looked shocked at the villain, "A robbery? Well, what are you standing there for! Call the POLICE!"

The others just stood there looking at her. Raven rolled her eyes and went over to 'Mr. Mothy'. "Are you going to call the police?"
Said 'Mr. Mothy' almost wet himself, "Uh, yes?"
"Good, then you better get to it. You wouldn't want to have people thinking badly about you, not reporting a crime like this to the proper authorities, now would you?"
"Uh, no?"
"That's right – go on now, there's a payphone right over there… and I will be watching."

With that threat hanging in the air Killer Moth ran over to the payphone to make the call. He didn't know what was going on but he knew he would rather spend a wee bit of time in jail then be anywhere near the obviously unstable girl who was currently dancing with his 'puppies'.

Within ten minutes the police had shown up and taken Killer Moth into custody. The money had been returned to the banks vaults and all the 'puppies' had been taken to the local animal shelter, which Star made sure she had the number for.

Robin rounded everyone up though he was keeping a very close eye on Raven.

"Uh, right, well… uh, well done team. Killer Moth is now in jail and the money is where it should be… lets, uh, go home."

Everyone nodded and looked relieved, well everyone but Raven. In fact, the others noticed she looked very sad. Robin finally had to ask, he was the team leader after all and had to be concerned for the well being of the others.

"Uh, Rae, you ok?"
"No. We didn't get to have our meeting! Stupid bank robberies!"
"Raven, there was no meeting." Robin was looking at his friend very strangely.
"I know there was no meeting! What is going to happen when Lobster Card games start taking over our lives!"
Cyborg decided to humor her, "I don't think that's going to be a problem Rae, we're all very mature and know when to say no."
Raven just looked at him suspiciously, "It always starts with denial, Mr. Grease Monkey, always."
With that she levitated off the ground and headed off, presumably to the tower.
Beastboy decided to finally put in his two cents, "Well, that was… odd."

The others just nodded and decided to head back too. Who knows what their delusional friend would do while they weren't there.

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Meanwhile Raven headed for the local grocery store, laughing the entire way. It had gone off perfectly. Not only had she got the other Titans but she had managed to still do her job in the process. Nothing was worth letting criminals go, not even her revenge plan, but luckily it had all worked out according to plan. Now she could start Operation: Lobster Card. It was very simple, and yet it was just another rivet in the main armor of her master plan. Being as quick as she could she proceeded to purchase a large, lively lobster from the store and then phased back to the tower before the others arrived.

Using a little of her powers she set the lobster up at the table and got it in the position to hold some cards while she sat across from it with some cards of her own. She rigged the table to make it appear as though they had been playing for a while. Sitting back and waiting she smiled to herself when she heard the others return.

"I don't know what is going on with her but we have got to…"

What ever Robin thought they had to do stopped when he saw the scene in front of him. There was Raven, looking perfectly normal and at ease, sitting across the table from a lobster. It looked like they were playing cards, but that couldn't be right… lobsters didn't play cards… they just don't have the gambling sense for it.

"Uh, Raven… what are you doing."
"Duh, I thought it was obvious Stop Light Boy. I'm playing poker with Bob here."
"Bob?" This came from Beastboy who was eyeing the whole scene as though he couldn't decided if he should be laughing or crying.
"Yes, obviously. Oh, I forgot to introduce you. Guys, this is Bob the Lobster, Bob, this is the guys, and Star." Raven quickly used her powers to make it appear as though 'Bob' waved at the staring Titans.
"You're playing poker… with a lobster?" Robin just couldn't wrap his mind around what was going on.
Raven just laughed, "Well yeah, how else do you play Lobster Poker… you have to play with a lobster… though I have to tell you, Bob here likes to make up his own rules."

The others just continued to look at her, well, with the exception of Star who was more than happy to greet the new 'friend'.

Raven ignored them all, staring intently at Bob, just then she stood up yelling, "I was not calling you a cheater! But you know what? I should! You are cheating! You can't play more than four Aces! There is only four in the game! What do you mean 'not in Lobster Poker!' Why you little…"

As the others watched Raven stood up and wrapped the poor sea creature in a black aura bubble. Unknown to the others she 'ported' the little guy into the ocean outside saving him from what was about to happen. Setting herself up so that her body blocked the view from the other Titans she secretly phased the ketchup bottle, two tomatoes and a small block of tofu to her, which she proceeded to put into the blender, though to the others it only looked like she was putting Bob in. Laughing lightly, though the others could still hear it, she then turned on the blender and sat there humming 'It's a small world' to herself for a minute. She then turned off the blender, still humming and took the container and sat it on the table for the others to see. All that could be seen inside was a gory mess. It was a sea of red, with a few white and red chunks floating around. Smiling at the container Raven proudly proclaimed, "I win."

With out looking at the others she simply laughed to herself and took her 'trophy' with her as she walked out of the room. The others could only stare at the door she had walked out through, very much disturbed.

TBC…

1 – This sentence just wanted to be dirty – but I beat it with a stick and it finally gave up – though it promised to return later… 'slowly lick out the cream' – gah! BOB! What have I told you about watching SOAPS!

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Bob: For your information it wasn't soaps that provided that bit of information.
Tenshi: O.o
Bob: It was romance novels
Tenshi: thud
Tenshi: Romance novels? Please tell me you're joking… I so don't need a muse who watches soaps and reads that crap.
Bob: What can I say – I'm a romantic at heart.
Tenshi: looks through Bob's books. Bob, this isn't romance – this is porn on paper.
Bob: grins.
Tenshi: Why me?
Bob: Karma?
Tenshi: That was rhetorical Bob, rhetorical…
Tenshi: Anyways, if anyone is wondering why I haven't replied to reviews its simple… I have done chapters 1-3 without posting them, so they are already done… I will acknowledge reviews in chapter 4 – which I do not have done… so yeah – I'm not ignoring you… just though I would let you know.
Bob: Gods Tenshi, you are such a whiner.
Tenshi: I AM NOT!
Bob: ARE TO! 'Oh, I'm so sorry', 'Oh, please review!', 'Oh, don't flame I have a weak bladder!' Whiner.
Tenshi: Shut it now Bob – or so help me I will eat your very soul!
Bob: yawn. So not scared.