Disclaimer – Not remotely mine.

A/N – Written for the Drabble Challenge on LiveJournal (though only one of these ficlets meets the criteria to be a drabble). Original requests included for reference.


Double-Sided Coins

© Scribbler, April 2006.


Fic One

For: LeDiz

Request: One room, at least five Titans, and the different things they do in there.


"I don't know. I think it makes my butt look big." Bumblebee looked this way and that, craning to see over her shoulder and past her wings. They fluttered in irritation when this proved fruitless. "Raven, girl, you gotta be straight with me. Shorts or pants?"

Raven turned a page in her book. Her only concession to this 'girly night in' was the removal of her cape. She'd refused a facemask (which Starfire had subsequently eaten), blankly stared at Bumblebee's offer to paint her nails, and was now using Bee's bedroom as a library. "They're at the door again."

"Who, friend Raven?" asked Starfire, a blob of cold cream smeared culpably on her top lip.

"Speedy and Aqualad."

Bumblebee's face contorted into a gurn of prize-winning ugliness. "I'll macramé their faces!"

A scuffling noise broke out on the other side of the bedroom door, but in two quick strides she was across the room and wrenching it open. Being the only girl in Titans East and a bit of a workaholic, Bumblebee valued those times other females came over – even more so if they were other female superheroes. These 'bonding weekends' were the highlight of her severe calendar.

Raven and Starfire listened to the sounds of a team leader with a short fuse having her free time interrupted. It sounded an awful lot like Christians being thrown to lions, but more surprising was when she reappeared, dragging the two boys behind her. Speedy held his jaw like he'd been slugged, and Aqualad was mouthing something that looked remarkably like, "I should stop listening to your bright ideas."

"A'ight. They wanna know what we're up to so bad, we'll show 'em. Star, any of that cold cream left? Raven, can you pin these two bozos down while I go look for my most revealin' civvies. I'm sure I got sumthin' in their size."

Starfire blinked. Raven looked up, and then closed her book with a tiny smile. While she had nothing against Aqualad, Speedy had more than once made a pass at her. "And I thought this was going to be boring."


Fic Two

For: Ms. Kinnikufan

Request: Fixit and Raven talk about ... the afterlife, or something of that nature ...


"You do not find the sunrise wonderful?" Fixit sounded surprised.

Raven didn't even glance up from her book. "Not really, no."

"Incredible."

"Mm." The noise was noncommittal, signalling that though they were the only two in the room until Cyborg returned, conversation didn't interest her.

"I once believed the rising and setting of the sun a mere demarcation of time – days, weeks, months, years – before I installed my chronometer. Now I find myself marvelling at this daily renewal of life. To watch is … humanising."

"Everything is easier with the sun out. The trick is coping when it's gone."


FINIS