Crossing the Line
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Chapter 8
Robin sat in his room surrounded by yellowing paper clippings of the notorious Slade. Slade. Oh how he hated that man, but the hate for himself was on a far higher scale, the incident in the medical lab made him want to die right there on the bed after seeing Raven's pained face. He just wanted to grab her and kiss her senseless, but he couldn't go near her for the fear of Slade hurting her.
Robin sighed in frustration he hated avoiding her, he just wanted to be with her, she was like a drug. A drug that he needed badly, Robin's train of thoughts was disrupted by heavy thuds on his door that belonged to Cyborg. Robin opened the door to meet a very angry Cyborg,
"Cy…oof!" Robin started but was pushed up against the wall by his seething metal friend.
"What the hell are you doing?" he spat at the suspended, spiky haired teen.
"What… do you mean?" Robin countered, knowing what Cyborg was so angry about.
"Don't give me that crap; you know what I mean about Raven!" Cyborg whispered deadly into Robin's face.
"I…I can't tell you!" Robin cried as Cyborg pushed him harder into the wall.
"WHY!" he roared, red flashing lights appeared in the room.
Saved by the bell thought Robin as he broke free from Cyborg's grasp, running to the computer to see what was causing the problem. Cyborg sighed and followed slowly and met Raven walking out of room, unsteadily.
"Raven!" called Cyborg jogging up to met her and placed a chrome hand on her small shoulder.
Raven winced at the gesture; Cyborg noticed this and offered,
"Raven you don't seem well why don't you sit this one out?"
Raven nodded not sure of her own voice and disappeared into her room, that was utterly destroyed but luckily Cyborg hadn't noticed as he continued down the hall.
Slade licked his lips from behind his mask for the tenth time; the taste of Raven was still lingering on his lips. Slade licked his lips again, she was so addictive and he was hooked. Watching on his monitors from the safety of his lair, Slade observed that only four Titans came to battle his army of robots. Slade had no interest of battling the Titans he was sure his warning to Robin would be tearing him up emotionally.
Foolish boy thought Slade as he saw Robin being struck by a orange and black masked robot, Slade started laughing manically at Robin the boy didn't know a bluff when he saw one, the button Slade had threatened would hurt Raven simply switched off the massive amount of machinery in the building. With Robin out of the picture Slade could have Raven all to himself.
Deciding to mess with the Boy Wonder's mind, Slade sent out an identical robot of himself and sat back waiting for the fun to begin.
Robin grabbed a near by robot by the arm and threw into several others, they landed in a heap and a green triceratops ploughed them into the ground. Robin searched the battlefield looking for his target... there! In the alley!
Robin sprinted after Slade, leaving his friends to clean up the rest of the robots.
The alley was narrow with a dead end, it stank of sewage and trash littered the ground, but Robin took no notice and only focused of the orange and black masked villain in front of him.
"Robin so nice to see you," Slade said in his cool voice, slightly amused.
"Slade I'm going to stop you from hurting Raven," Robin stated, his gloved hand slowly moving to reach for his Bo staff.
"Hurt her? But that isn't your job?" Slade countered, watching as the boy froze.
"Stop it! I'm not the one hurting her it's you all you!" he yelled, his body slightly shaking.
"What? Me? I would never do anything like that!" said Slade his entire sentence oozing with sarcasm.
With a flick of his wrist Robin pulled out his Bo staff and slammed it as hard as he could at Slade's abdomen, Slade's whole upper body tore off in a series of sparking wires, landing on the ground the Slade robot's voice box started repeating,
"Hurt her? But isn't that your job? … Hurt her? But isn't that your job?"
Robin stomped on the robot's head silencing the hurtful truth.
Slade started laughing at the reaction the Boy Wonder gave, it was always fun tormenting Robin, the great detective.
Slade switched screens and started watching the purple haired vixen, currently curled up in a small ball in her bed, the only thing that wasn't destroyed since his last visit.
Slade watch her toss and turn obviously having a nightmare, sweat beads running down her ashen skin staining her sheets, her face was scrunched up as if in pain.
Slade saw her mouth moving and pressed a button for audio feed,
"No…Robin …no! Please don't go!"
Slade felt angry to say the least, she was still thinking about Robin!
I need to stop this before I loose control Slade thought rising from his chair and left to see a certain sorceress.
Raven shot up gasping for air, cold sweat dripping off of her face, dampening her bed and clothes. She needed something to drink, a cup of herbal sounded really good at the moment. Raven grabbed her cloak and quickly walked to the kitchen, but the kitchen was occupied, dealing with someone in the middle of the night after a horrible nightmare was not Raven's way of relaxing.
The steel doors whooshed open and she saw Robin sitting at the table with several cups of coffee. Raven's emotionless mask fell into place as she made her way to make her tea.
Robin was startled at the sudden noise but instead of relaxing after seeing who it was, he tensed up and the fight with the mechanical Slade still played through his mind. Robin tried not to make eye contact but found his eyes wondering back to her mesmerised by how her body moved, so graceful and effortless.
Raven felt eyes on her and turned to look at her masked leader, hurt shining through her violet orbs, they continued to hold each others gaze but Raven went back to her tea, anger blossoming from the pit of her stomach towards the boy and towards herself.
Robin flinched as one of the computers exploded, glass flying everywhere but not close enough to touch anybody, Robin stared at the glass scattered across the floor and back at Raven, Slade was right he was hurting her but he was only doing it for her safety, so he was doing the right thing wasn't he?
Robin was interrupted by the kettle whistling, steam rapidly rising from the nozzle signifying that the water was boiling hot, Raven commenced making he tea plainly ignoring Robin, who was placing the many mugs of drunken coffee in the sink.
Robin gazed at Raven's back willing her to speak to him,
"Robin stop staring at me," she growled still focussing on her tea.
Robin couldn't help himself he had to speak to her,
"Raven!" he called meekly, his voice hoarse, Raven painstakingly turned around, a scowl had settled on her face waiting for whatever pathetic excuse he had.
Swallowing Robin tried again, praying that Slade wasn't able to hear them,
"I…I," Robin stuttered pathetically, it only infuriated Raven even more.
"Robin save it I don't want to hear anything you have to say," Raven spat, stalking off to her room tea in hand.
The words cut through him like a hundred needles, she hated him and he was powerless to do anything about it.
Raven walked along the dark corridors passing each of her team-mates room's, who had the pleasure to lead simple lives, Raven envied them for that reason they had free spirits, not a tainted one weighed down by magical powers that controlled your every move. Raven sighed when she passed Robin's room, the only reason she didn't want to listen to Robin was that she would break down, she had some knowledge as to why Robin was doing this but it still hurt. The pain was a fresh wound and every time she saw him it reopened.
Raven entered her dark bedroom and sat at her desk drinking her now cooled tea. On the desk was the Evanescence ticket, Raven held it in her hand and slightly studied it, the time, the date. It was the happiest she had ever felt in a long time, sighing again Raven finished her tea and moved back to her bed.
Raven lay on her side ready to fall asleep, until two muscular arms encircled her waist and pulled her close to a board chest. Raven flipped over so that she was face to face with the thing in her bed…
"Hello Raven," the orange and black masked breathed.
Raven about to scream but Slade held a cloth that was drowned in chloroform up to her nose, Raven tried hard not to inhale the fumes but it was futile as the world around her was nothing more than a black abyss.
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– Dark Shadows 01