Crossing the Line
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Here's chapter 2 as promised!
Chapter 2
Raven was in the confines of her room, getting ready for some well deserved sleep, slipping into cotton pants and t-shirt; Raven thought she could do some reading, as it was quiet. Raven grabbed one of her favourite books and started reading; it was a new horror novel that she had recently purchased.
After a few moments she felt a presence near by, Raven extended her aura checking on her friends because all had different night habits, but all of them were in their respective rooms, sleeping. Odd she thought, deciding to investigate, Raven picked up her blue cloak and clasped it around her neck and silently followed where her aura picked up the presence.
Raven detected the presence from the roof, heading up in the elevator, she wondered what or who it was, but the aura the presence gave out was, very clouded with conflicting emotions, it gave Raven a headache just from sensing it.
The soft humming of the elevator stop with a "ping" at the roof, when the doors parted, Raven was hit with the chill of the night, pulling her cloak tighter around herself, she ventured out onto the roof to trace any possible ideas what was projecting the aura.
Checking behind all the vents and behind the staircase, that lead down onto the other floors, Raven still had no idea, sighing Raven decided just to enjoy the view, seeing as she was up now. Walking up the edge on the roof, Raven looked out over the city observing how all the lights made the city look beautiful, the waves crashed softly, against the island and the salty smell overwhelmed her nostrils, but Raven didn't mind, she loved it out here. Where no one could bother you and you could just enjoy the tranquillity of the scene before you.
Raven looked over the edge of the Tower, it was a good fifty foot fall, but Raven wasn't afraid because she was not stupid enough to fall and that she could fly. Raven was too caught up in her thoughts to her a slight "clink" land beside her.
Slade walked carefully up the bank of the island, so not to trip any of the security lines, now where was an entrance to the Tower that wasn't that well guarded? Slade pondered then, he thought the roof!
From his belt he revealed a black grappling hook, the rope was as long as one hundred feet, more than enough to scale the Tower. Slade pointed the hook upwards towards the heavens, and pulled the trigger, the grappling hook shot up silently with great speed. Slade soon heard a "clink" meaning it had latched onto something, he gently tugged it to see it was secure, the hook didn't move. Slade clipped himself onto the end and reeled himself up slowly.
Raven sighed again, she wasn't going to find out anything so, she turned on her heels and walked towards the staircase, her footsteps padding lightly, barely making a sound, and if they were they would be drowned out by the roaring of the waves which seemed to have picked up.
Raven reached the staircase, and halted the presence was much stronger, and was coming from something behind her. Raven, though reluctant turned around to meet face to face with a black and orange mask, with one grey eye staring at her, surprised?
It took all of Raven's will power not to scream, but she inhaled deeply, crouching into a fighting stance and hissed, "Slade why are you here?"
"Raven, what a surprise, I wanted to chat with you," Slade replied calmly, but noted that she was ready to attack.
"What? What about?" Raven asked confused, but remained poised.
"About you," he answered, still staring intently at her.
"Me?"
"You," Slade confirmed, this time he walked towards her, and Raven instinctively took a step back.
"Are you scared Raven?" Slade questioned, now behind her, but Raven stood her ground.
"Me? Scared? Never!" she said looking up defiantly, turning around wanting to keep Slade in full view.
"Come now Raven, you're a bad lire," Slade continued circling her, "Why is it your heart is beating faster than normal?"
"I…uh…," Raven stuttered, still keeping eye contact, "Because there is a maniac in front of me."
Slade smirked behind his mask at the girl before him; the moon was glowing down on her illuminating her ashen grey skin, added a shine to her purple locks, she looked stunning. So beautiful, just an arm width apart, but yet so unattainable.
"Slade what purpose is there in this conversation," Raven retorted, well aware Slade was looking at her in the most delirious way and pulled her cloak tighter.
"Every will be revealed in time," and with that Slade cupped her face and whispered, "I hope we can meet again." Slade let go and ran and jumped off the side of the Tower!
Raven ran over to the side, but Slade had already gone. Raven shivered she hated to admit it but the way Slade's breath had felt against her skin was gentle, not forceful and she had liked it.
Raven's heart was still pounding as she looked out to the horizon, the first signs of sunrise were gradually creeping through, well she definitely knew that sleep won't be possible, and decided to meditate. Sitting crossed legged, Raven started chanting and rose a couple of feet off the ground, feeling completely at ease, Raven enjoyed that last moments before the rest of the Tower's residents awaken and create mayhem as usual.
After what had seemed minutes to Raven, but was actually hours, Raven felt the presence of another and found it to be Robin making his way up to the roof.
Robin walked onto the roof, not expecting to see Raven meditating, he turned to leave not wanting to disturb his friend.
"It's okay Robin you can stay," Raven's voice monotone, as she landed gracefully on her feet to see her leader, in full uniform.
"Thanks," he said walking towards the end of the roof watching the sunrise; the sky was now painted in rays of gold and slight tinges of pink and orange.
Raven looked at the sunrise and marvelled at the beauty it contained, and then she reverted her gaze to the boy beside her.
Robin felt her stare and looked into her eyes and asked, "What is it Raven?"
"Why are you out of the medical lab?" she replied sternly, crossing her arms over her chest, just like a mum would do when giving a child a row.
"Ah, good question, well I wanted to see the sunrise," Robin replied, grinning sheepishly.
"Cyborg's going to kill you for not staying in bed," Raven stated, turning to go back to her room.
Robin looked back at the sun and smiled, maybe this day might be more interesting than he thought, as he also turned to go, but he went to the kitchen for the breakfast his stomach was desperately grumbling about.
Raven made her way back into her bedroom, her bed already made seeing as she didn't sleep in it, changing into her own uniform, and went down to breakfast.
"MEAT!" Bellowed Cyborg, at the green changeling.
"TOFU!" yelled Beast Boy, the two stared daggers into each other.
Raven walked in and shook her head; it was the same all the time. The two would argue then, make both, then duke it out on the game station, and Beast Boy would loose.
Standing next to the kettle waiting for it to boil, she looked around to see the Boy Wonder reading the paper with a cup of black coffee, and a slice of toast. Beast Boy and Cyborg had finally made their breakfast and were eating like there was no tomorrow, in record time the boys jumped from the breakfast table onto the couch and started gaming, wait for it…
"Ahh man you so cheated!" whined the green teen.
Raven felt a smile tug on the end of her lips, she couldn't help but feel sorry for the green teen, as he tried so hard to beat Cyborg day in and out.
The doors whooshed open to reveal Starfire in all of her cheery glory.
"Good morning dearest friends!" Starfire called as she gave Raven and Robin a bone crushing hug.
"Star…need…breathe!" gasped Raven, holding her pained sides.
"Uh sorry friend Raven, I forget my own strength," Starfire said apologetically.
Raven nodded in response and return to the screaming kettle behind her, deciding on having green tea today. Starfire zoomed to the fridge and took out a bottle of mustard and wedged herself in between the two boys on the sofa.
Since Raven had already meditated; she joined Robin at the breakfast table and enjoyed her tea. Robin put the paper down so he could have his coffee, he noticed Raven sighing contentedly, must be the tea he thought., but it was nice Raven was being a little more involved with the team in and outside of battle.
RING! Screeched the alarm, notifying the team of trouble.
Robin sprang from his seat and ran to the computer, typing something the computer told him who and where the trouble was, Robin growled as he read who it was.
"Titans! Slade downtown, move!" roared Robin running to the garage, with the others following.
Cyborg and Beast Boy loaded up in the T car, Robin on his R cycle and Raven and Starfire taking off into the air.
It was a clear day with blue skies and sun shinning down, but no time to enjoy the weather, when they had a psycho on the loose, thought Raven as she followed the sound of blaring engines tearing up the traffic bellow.
Slade bots where trudging in and out of the bank carrying bags worth of cash, with Slade watching for "the saviours" of the city to arrive.
He watched as Starfire and Raven touched down to the ground and immediately started destroying his robots.
Starfire took off again so she could better aim at the robots, leaving Raven to fight the ones she missed or didn't see.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Cried Raven, black energy leaking from her hands, demolishing the helpless scraps of metal Slade called robots.
"Friend Raven watch out!" called Starfire, finishing the rest of the robots.
Raven looked up just in time to dodge the punch aimed at her face; Raven used her energy to create shields to block Slade's punches and kicks. Slade smirked behind his mask and whispered into Raven's ear as he grabbed her in a head lock, she was struggling against him and it only made him hold tighter,
"Hey miss me, beautiful?"
"What?" said Raven confused as she still struggled against him.
Robin and the others arrived, they got caught in traffic!
Robin saw Slade holding Raven and threw a smoke disk at them, giving Raven the chance to teleport away, but as the smoke cleared Slade was gone!
Raven and Starfire came over to the guys to ask the same question,
"Where were you!"
"Traffic," replied Robin meekly, "Are you two okay?" he asked looking especially at Raven.
Both girls nodded and took off back to the Tower; sighing Robin got back on his R cycle and rode home with T car not far off.
Back at the Tower, Raven went to bed early, as she had no sleep the night before, though she had not told the team that.
Robin also went to bed early, or that's what he said to the rest of the team, he secretly wanted to ask Raven something.
Raven was in her room in her pyjamas ready to sleep, just as she got into her bed, someone knocked on her door.
Groaning Raven went to see who it was and God help them if they didn't have a good excuse for knocking!
Raven opened the door to reveal Robin standing there looking, nervous?
"Hey Raven," greeted Robin.
"Robin," she acknowledged.
"Uh…I was wondering if you wanted to come to the Evanescence concert with me tomorrow?" he said hopefully.
Raven looked surprised; she hadn't expected Robin to like Evanescence, she thought he was more into heavy metal.
"I'd love to go with you Robin," Raven replied, and she saw Robin's trademark grin firmly in place.
"Awesome! It's at 10pm so be ready for 9 okay?" he answered.
"Sure," with that Raven slipped back into her room.
Robin couldn't believe Raven had said yes! Maybe he could get to know her a bit better, Robin returned to his room with high hopes for tomorrow.
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