The Gift

By Misty Fortner

A Robin/Raven story

I don't own Teen Titans, just borrowing the characters.

I know this should have been part of chapter 4, but I thought that it had been long enough. So here is the ending to their date. Winter's identity will be revealed in either chapter 6 or 7, so stay tuned. Also, enjoy the mushiness here. This will be the last of it for a while. After this chapter the angst will begin full force.

To my reviewers:

ActChick13 Delirium24, alena-chan, tecna : Thanks guys, glad you like it. Hope you enjoy this subject as well.

Sailorgirl16, yeah Santa was supposed to be a bit creepy but thought provoking for Raven. Glad your enjoying it, hope this chapter was worth the wait.

Guybrush007: Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried to be better with them, but grammar has never been a strong point for me. Keep enjoying.

Pureangel86: Thanks, I will go rent them.

Dennisud: Dick Grayson, pretty sure he's the Robin in the show from most things I've read.

Emkaiame Katina: Thanks. I hope you still think its one of the best, because they give into there horomones very soon. Also thanks, Im glad you think that Im keeping them in character. I was worried about that.

Chapter 5: All I Want For Christmas is You

"I just want you for my own, more than you could ever know.

Make my wish come true, all I want for Christmas is you"

Robin opened the door, and let Raven into the T-car. They had decided to go a little ways away to the ice skating pond about 45 minutes away. After Raven, climbed in Robin went to the driver side, and off they went. They began to talk about the different toys they would buy for the children.

"I think you want to buy this little girl the whole toy store," laughed Robin.

"Do you think it would be spoiling her too much if we did," Raven responded in her usual monotone voice. Robin unable to tell if she was joking looked at her out of the corner of his eye. She had a lovely smile on her face, that let Robin know she was only jesting.

"Remember anything we buy her, she has to be able to keep at the orphanage. We can't go too overboard.

Raven's smile dropped some, "I know. I just really want this child to have an incredible holiday."

"She will, Rae. Don't worry."

The couple finally arrived at the ice skating pond. Robin has wanted to give Raven a real experience, not a fabricated rink of fake ice. They got out of the car and went to the skate rental shack. After renting and putting on their skates, Robin lead her onto the pond.

"Go slowly, now. Keep hold of my hands," he told her

She listened and they slowly began to skate around the pond when Raven fell on her bottom. Robin surprised a smile as he helped Raven up. After repeating this process about five more times, Raven appeared to be getting the hang of it. That was until Robin noticed that her feet were slightly above the ice.

"Nice try, but you're not supposed to be using your powers."

Raven sent him a dirty look, lowered herself down to the ice, and landing in the splits position. Her face turned bright red; why couldn't she skate and why did she have to keep falling in front of Robin? Robin helped her back up and began to try and help her once again. They continued this for another hour, till Raven actually was doing fairly well by herself.

Robin was in the middle of the rink, showing off for Raven with some figure 8's and other fancy moves. After a few moves he motioned for her to come to him. As she came to him she had accumulated too much speed. Robin braced to stop her from knocking both of them onto the ice. He succeeded in slowing her down enough to stop them from landing bottom down, but couldn't stop her from running herself into his body.

Intertwined in an awkward embrace the two stared into each others eyes for a moment. Feeling her body up against his was causing Robin to become hard. Logic told him he needed to back away, but she just felt so good, so right up against him. Looking at the beautiful woman in his arms, Robin realized he needed to end things with Starfire. Robin began to mumble, "I'm sorry… Shouldn't do this…Need to be fair to Star…"

Raven had briefly forgotten about her best friend, "Yeah… Starfire." As they stood there longer, Raven felt what was happening to Robin's body. He wanted her, he really did. She could literally feel his desire for her growing, and it overwhelmed her. They looked into each others eyes a few moments longer, still in each others steadying arms.

Finally, Robin could stand it no longer. Somewhere some warped logic came over him. He had already kissed Raven, so kissing her again wasn't betraying Star anymore than he already had. He knew this wasn't true, but it gave him the excuse he needed to kiss the woman in his arms. He bent his head down to kiss Raven, before his conscious took over again. As he kissed her, Raven lost control. Her emotions overwhelmed her and the ice began to crack below them.

The screams and cracking ice pulled them back into reality. There were close to a hundred people on the ice that was now in pieces. Titan instinct kicked in, and both of them went to work trying to rescue people. Trusting Raven to levitate, Robin quickly began leaping people off the ice. People were frantic, their fear causing them to fall into the cold water. The situation was total chaos.

It took over 10 minutes to get everyone out everyone out of the water, another 5 minutes to get checked out by the emergency medical personal that had arrived on site. Robin had tried to avoid getting checked out, because he was more interested in finding Raven. He wanted to make sure she was all right. He hadn't seen here since the massive confusion had begun. A medic forced him to be checked out, after he carried a woman up from the ice.

When he finally was done being poked and prodded, he began to search for Raven. He couldn't find her, and began to get scared. After frantically searching for 10 minutes, he tried to relax. He remembered the battle with Raven's father, Trigon. Before that battle Raven had gifted each of the titans some of her power. He hoped some of her empathy still remained, and Robin called out to Raven in his mind. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos", he chanted to himself. After a few moments something worked, and Robin made a terrifying realization. Raven was unconscious in the ice water.

Robin looked around. The medic's had brought cold water suits, to help with the rescue. He managed to grab one of the suits and quickly put it on. Finally he dove into the ice water in search of Raven. He found her and quickly swam to the surface. When rising out of the water Robin looked around. He quickly found the path out of the lake, with the least chance of being spotted by the medics. He cared about Raven, and didn't want her to be experimented on because of her demon blood.

Robin quickly got her back to the T-car, laid her in the back seat, and stripped off the cold water suit. Robin left the suit on the ground and tried to wake Raven up. She came too for a moment, but quickly lost consciousness again. Robin jumped into the front seat and took off. He called Cyborg on the intercom from the car, and explained the situation.

"Robin, you have to get her body back to a normal temperature. To do that, you have to get her out of the wet clothes. Plus, you need to do whatever possible to get her conscious and to stay that way."

Robin let out a sigh. "It's a good hour back to the tower, and with Raven unconscious we can't use her powers."

Cyborg thought about sending Star and Beast Boy out to get them, but even that would too long. "Find a hotel; put her in a tub with warm water. Not to hot, or it will make it worse. Keep us posted Robin."

Robin spotted a hotel and pulled in the driveway. He quickly hurried in and got keys to the room. He had to pay the clerk an extra $100 to rent to a teenager, but it was worth it. He grabbed the key and ran to retrieve Raven. He took her out of the car and carried her to their room.

"Raven, wake up. Please." She opened her eyes for a moment. "I have to get you out of these clothes" he continued. Robin laid her on the bed, and began to unfasten her top. As he was doing this, a heat wave shot through him. Touching her, removing her clothes, damn it was nearly impossible to not do more. Robin finally got down to her bra and panties, but they were also soaking wet and cold. He closed his eyes as he removed them, too. He covered her up with a blanket, and ran some warm water into the tub. As the water was running he placed her clothes in front of the heater in order to warm them up.

Checking on the water, it wasn't very warm. He couldn't seem to get it any cooler. Damn the kid at the desk, he had given them a room that had a broken water heater. He looked at Raven on the bed. He had to get her warm, and this water wasn't going to do it. He thought for a moment. Finally he began stripping down to his briefs. He was going to have to use body heat to warm her up. Once he got her warmed up he would take a shower; a nice cold one.

"Robin," she softly murmured as he climbed in next to her.

"Yeah, it's me. You feel into the water when we were skating. You must of hit your head on something. You have a nasty bump up there."

"Do I" she whispered closing her eyes again.

"No you don't. Cyborg said I have to keep you awake. You can't go back to sleep, darling. I'm not going to lose you now."

"You called me darling."

"I guess I did." Robin thought. Why had he done that? He was still with Starfire. He had also not talked to Raven, about her feelings for him. He didn't need to be calling Raven darling yet. It was too early, but it had just felt so write to say.

"I'm sorry, Robin"

Still holding her close, he looked at her. "What do you have to be sorry about?"

"It's my fault the ice broke. I could have killed you by losing control of my emotions."

"Don't worry about it Raven. I'm ok, you're going to be ok, and no one else got hurt. Robin thought about when the ice had begun to break. That kiss had been so nice, so sweet, and so tender. He wondered how she would respond if he kissed her again right now. In an effort to regain control of his senses he closed his eyes. When he did, an image of her naked body on top of his, with her nibbling his neck appeared. He quickly opened them. If he didn't get his mind off these thoughts, he was going to go crazy.

Raven was starting to become a little more with it. She shifted the lower part of her body in order to become more comfortable. Robin let out a soft moan as she accidentally rubbed her body against his erect member. Realizing what she had done, Raven blushed yet unable to look away from his handsome face. The pair continued to lie in the bed holding each other. Raven's body temperature was returning to normal. She let out a soft sigh, when this happened Robin would get up and get dressed again. Raven dreaded that moment, she was enjoying being in his arms, even knowing it was pure torture on both of them. Putting everything else out of her mind, she snuggled closer to him, this time purposely rubbing against him. She was going to enjoy this while she could. Soon they would be going home and he would be going back to her best friend's bed.

Robin bit his lip, and stared at the seductress. He began to wonder if she was deliberately trying to stir his arousal. She wasn't naive like Star. He decided to test his theory. He gently brushed back the hair that had fallen on her face, allowing his finger to gently caress her lips.

She closed her eyes, thinking to herself. "That feels so nice Robin, I love the feel of your fingers in my hair." He slid his fingers down her short silken tresses. "Mmm, now if I could just feel your breath on and have you closer where I could touch your hair" Robin looked in her eyes and then lowered his lips to her neck and began to kiss and nibble it, while she stroked his hair. "Your mouth feels so warm; I'd love to feel it on my mouth once again." Robin began to kiss her, and after minute or so they separated staring into each others eyes questioningly. How had he heard her, she hadn't said anything out loud.

"Dear god," Robin thought to himself. "What is happening with Raven and I? After all this can I actually get up from the bed without making love to her?"

"Please don't. I want to feel you inside me. I want to make love to you tonight, even if it's just for tonight. I think I will go crazy if we stop now"

Robin finally spoke out loud, "Raven am I really hearing you inside my mind?"

"Yes," she replied using her vocal tones

"How?"

"I don't know how, maybe a combination of things. But you can hear me inside your head." She said.

"So you really want continue this. If we go any further Raven, there's no turning back"

"I know," she thought to him. She reached her arm out and pulled him closer. She began to kiss him, while gently stroking his back. Raven slowly moved from his lips to his nipples. He lay back in the bed, enjoying her touch and playing with her breasts. Slowly she slid her lips down further. She licked and nibbled at his inner thigh, as she started to remove the last bit of clothing he had on. As she was getting ready to go down on him, Robin stopped her.

"Not there, not now." he said out loud. Unwilling to actually admit it vocally, his thoughts admitted that he feared cumming too soon if her lips him touched there. Finally he rolled her onto her back, and positioned himself on top of her. Looking into her eyes, he asked, "Is this your first time?" He needed to know how slow to take things right now.

She smiled at him and nodded her head yes. Robin began to kiss Raven again, as he slowly entered her. He remained still for a few moments allowing her body to adjust to him being in there. Then he slowly began to move inside her, thrusting back and forth. He moved his mouth from her neck to her ears and breasts. He wanted Raven to cum, before he did. As his thrusting became quicker and deeper, Raven let loose with a moan of pleasure. Robin knew she had reached her peak, and he continued to pick up speed and joined her in ecstasy. He held her close after they were done. That had been amazing. He had never been that fulfilled before. He thought to himself, "I wish we could just stay here in bed together, forever"

She replied to his head, "I do too, but we have to return home. The titans need us. Plus we have to figure out what to do about this mental connection we've developed. You also have a decision to make."

What decision? Robin was confused, and then it came to him. He had to decide what to do about Starfire. That scared him to death, but he knew that he couldn't go on pretending like his and Star's relationship was perfect. They decided to stay in the hotel for the night, and go home tomorrow morning. After Robin, updated the tower about Raven's health, he returned to their room. They made love two more times that night, each better than the last.

They left the hotel in a blissful state. They stopped by the crowed toy store and picked up the toys for the orphans. As they got closer and closer to the tower, Robin got frightened. What and when was he going to tell Starfire?

"Don't break her heart before Christmas, Robin. Give her till afterwards."

"I agree with you Raven, and thanks for being so understanding. One more question, do I tell her about us when I talk to her, or do I let her think that happens afterward."

"She doesn't need to know about tonight, no one does. We don't need to hurt Star more than we have too.