A/N: I feeling extra crappy right now, so don't be surprised if this chapter sucks even more than the others. I've deleted the previous chapter and the lemon chapter because I didn't really like how they had a lot of ups and downs in such a short time. I just added some of the important parts, so sorry if this sucks.
The want, the need for each other grew stronger as they continued to exchange kisses fiercely. Kori pushed his shirt up and finally threw it to the corner of the room when a soft ring from Richard's cellphone interrupted the room's romantic silence.
The two stopped abruptly, with Kori almost begging for him not to break away. But as he glanced quizzically at the phone's screen, he immediately clicked the phone on, leaving Kori to drift off to sleep slowly as he walked out to the balcony outside.
"Bruce?"
"Richard, this is urgent."
Richard looked at Bruce skeptically through his phone. "Uh, sure, what's going on?"
"We may have a lead on the case you and Kori have been working on. We-"
"Bruce, we have this under control. We can do this ourselves."
The gray-haired man stared back at him sternly. "Yes, Dick, I am aware of that, but at the rate you two are going at, the outlook on this mission seems like it won't be solved on time."
Richard clenched his fists in anger and gritted his teeth until they screeched loudly. "I'm not your sidekick anymore, Bruce. And what makes you think that we won't solve this on our own?"
"Well, the fact that you're in her apartment with your shirt off is a proven fact. Now can we get on with your mission?"
"Yes," Richard muttered in defeat.
"I have a special assignment for you. And Kori cannot be notified of this; this is your personal mission that can only be completed by you, and you only."
The young twenty-year old hooked the cell phone up to the plasma-screen television, making Bruce's image larger than before. It was almost…intimidating.
"Okay, whatever. Just get it over with."
An image of a prominent and confident sapphire-eyed blonde came to view. She seemed attractive with her fair-skinned glow, yet seemingly familiar. "This is your assignment, Kara Slater. I want you to get as close to her as you can; you will NOT leave her side at the City Ball on Friday night at the City Ball, you understand? We believe that she has a connection to Slade and Red-X's killing motives and plans. You will be seated at her table, and you will have to accompany her wherever she goes. Make her trust you; the Justice League is putting their trust in you to go out on a limb for this, even if that means going steady with her for a while."
Richard stared at the man in disbelief. "Date her? But Kori-"
Bruce held up his hand, taking no excuses from the poor flustered young man. "Ever since I've started training with you I always warned you about getting yourself into intimate and serious relationships. Kori doesn't matter right now; she will have her own assignment of luring another suspect."
"Bruce, I can't do this to her!"
"I don't care; the Justice League's trust in you is more important than some girl you've worked with for a couple of years. Now you better think twice before you let a young woman get into the way of your heroic career. Now, I need to know if you're interested in taking this assignment. Now."
His fists were still clenched tightly, and his jaw stiffened even more. Should he risk his already rekindled friendship with her? Lose her trust if ever she found out? She probably never felt anything strong for him, at least that was what he thought, but did HE love-
No. He didn't. He couldn't, and he wouldn't, as much as he wanted to.
"I accept it."
Bruce stared at him proudly as he clasped his hands together on the table. "That's what I thought you would do. I'll be sending you the invitation to the city Ball and Kara Slater's files tomorrow."
The screen clicked off and Kori soon burst out of the locked bedroom joyfully, swinging the doors wide open as she revealed her long, luscious legs in short denim shorts and a form-fitting t-shirt, along with a simple yet suave pair of flip-flops.
"Hey! Wonder Woman, the Wonder Woman actually spoke to me just a couple of minutes ago while you were with Bruce! She informed me about the City Ball tomorrow night, so I have to pick up a few things at the mall, okay?"
Richard smiled sadly at the thought of having to cling to that stuck-up looking blonde instead of with Kori as she skipped out the door.
But before he could turn around and walk towards the T.V., Kori burst into the room and quickly gave him a peck on the lips, smiled her infamous sweet smile bashfully, then turned and ran out the apartment once more.
He sighed. What was going to happen between them? What had he gotten himself into?
"Rae? Rae please, I wanna talk…"
Bumblebee smirked lightly as she watched Beastboy continue to pound on the Goth girl's door relentlessly.
"She ain't gonna answer that door! After what you've said to her, I wouldn't answer the door either!"
On the other side of the wall lay a distressed Titan, her head in her hands as she tried to cry, but she soon found out that there were no more tears left in her.
She hated herself. He loved her. He still loved her. Terra. God, she wanted to kick that blonde's ass right now. How could she not have noticed Beastboy's lingering feelings for her? He was never intimate around Raven; after a couple months of acting cheesy with one another, it all stopped when he found the remains of the former blonde Titan. She hated Terra with all her might, and all the mock and deception she had done to the team was unbearable for her to remember.
Letting her eyes roam around the dark room, Raven realized how long she had been cooped up in her room since their discussion on Terra. More of what he still felt for Terra…
FLASHBACK"I-…I know how to bring Terra back."
The Titans stood before her, looking aghast at what she had just had the guts to utter out. Tears ran down her cheeks but luckily for her she had pulled her hood above her head just in time for the tiny drops of water to be hidden.
"I know, okay? I've known all along, it's just that…I didn't want to know what would happen between us, Beastboy."
But the changeling wasn't the least bit comforted by this statement, and his fury towards the poor girl grew more and more as the seconds ticked by.
"What? Raven, nothing will be the same, nothing! You've seen me working my ass off trying to find a cure, and there you were, telling me to give it a rest when you've had the cure all along?"
Cyborg and Bumblebee had already left the dramatized scene between the two by now, leaving only them in the large recreation room.
"Beastboy, why is this so important to you? She betrayed us! She almost killed us and now you want to bring her back to life so she could do it again? Beastboy-"
"-I loved her Raven! I loved her and I still do! Why can't you just face the-"
He cut himself short when he realized that he was yelling rants to himself, knowing that she must've gone to her room as soon as he blinked his eyes.
END FLASHBACKJust as he was about to raise his tired arm once more, Raven opened the door to find a raised fist belonging to Beastboy. Her face was streaked with dried tears, and her eyes were puffy and red from pouring her eyes out, making Beastboy feel as guilty as ever. He had done this to her; he made her cry for days until he finally gathered enough courage to try to talk her out of her misery. Maybe he shouldn't have told her about bringing back Terra in the first place-
She looked at him solemnly, trying to force a smile on her face, but soon finding it impossible after all her attempts automatically turned upside down into frowns.
"Let's just do this."
It was only the two of them as they walked through the empty cave, with water pitter-pattering on the gravel from the cavern's top. Cyborg and Bumblebee had gone out to an early lunch date, but Raven found it quite obvious that the two were merely trying to steer away from the Terra conflict.
And so now there they were, just her and Beastboy walking in the worst awkward silence through an empty cave. She had always asked for silence and peace in the tower, but this was pretty much unraveling her last nerve. And it was within a few minutes when she decided that she could no longer take any more of it.
"Beastboy, did you ever love me? I mean, I just can't handle all this in one week. I want to know…"
"I love you Rae, with all my heart. Honest."
She could feel the tears emerging from the corners of her eyes, but she had the unlit cave to thank for the dark that hid them from Beastboy.
"Then…then why-"
"Do you know how hard it is to get rid of your first love? God…I had forgotten her for sometime…but as soon as I found all those old memories I-"
He cut himself short when he looked at the sight that lay before them, far from belief. It was the same place, the same exact place he had visited her in many times, day after day. But the statue wasn't there.
Raven stared at the empty podium in aghast as she walked over to it slowly, not even registering what was in front of her.
"B-Beast…Beastboy…are you sure none of your cures worked?"
"I'm positive!" he yelled frantically, searching in the depths of the cavern in case it was accidentally knocked down. But it was the tone in his voice that scared Raven as she watched his panic over his loss.
And she knew things were bad, because even she was beginning to get worried.
A/N: Yes, I know, the Beastboy and Raven part was the same as the other chapter.Anyways, I hope it was okay with you guys that I just put the important partstogether from other chaptersand deleted the lemon chapter. Ugh, that was my worst work ever! That whole lemon thing never happened.I'm afraid I've made Kori out to be an oversensitive person, considering all the crying she did in the previous chapters.