A/N: Greeting fellow writers to my LAST part of my three part trilogy…Stuck at Home 3: Happily Ever After. MUST READ PART'S ONE AND TWO BEFORE READING THIS ONE-Summary: No that all the stress and problems, of a teen are gone it's time to settle down and relax. Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans they belong to DC Comics and Cartoon Network
"Well come y'all, let's go in!" Victor stated opening the door of the TTHQ (teen titans head quarters) the original teen titans soon found themselves in their old house, nothing had changed. Well okay except for the fact there were display cases everywhere of all their old stuff, pictures on the walls of all their greatest battles and an intercom system as they all entered.
"Welcome one and all, to the Jump City Teen Titans Head Quarters! .Please feel free to our newest addition the Teen Titans Gift Shop! You can now saw what Robin saw!" When they finally stopped walking and observing everything, they we're in old common room.
"This brings back old times." Beast Man stated looking down at the display case with his and Cyborg's game station in it, with a small description card:
This system of entertainment was often used by "Beast Boy" and "Cyborg" on days of boredom. They would often play for hours, sometimes forgetting to eat.
"May I help you?" The group turned around and saw a tall robot bulter man. It had a british type accent and had a tiny mushce over his lips, his long nose was high in the air; but his eyes looked helpful.
"Alfred?!" Beast Man was the first to hope in the arms of the famous man, Batman's right hand man! When he landed he hugged the man's neck tightly; not paying attention to his own strength, he broke Alfred's neck. When everyone heard that snapped they gasped loudly, Beast Man slowly let go his he head and climbed out of his arms.
"Dude, what have I done?" They watched in horror as Alfred's head slumped down towards his chest in a way a human's neck shouldn't.
"Calm down, he's not the read Alfred!" One more look around and they reached the faces of the hosts of this special occasion; Nightwing and Nightingale, Gotham's super heroes. Raven was wearing her classic leotard that fit her like a winter bathing suite, her Azarath gloves and her cloak. It was a much different outfit to the one she was currently wearing to fight crime; it was a navy blue tank top with her arms cover with sleeves. With her matching leather pants; she did have to obtain a new pair of boots. Richard was still getting adjusted to his old spandex custom, his bulge was sticking more then he was liking it to. His new spandex body suite was much more comfortable and free forming.
"Dude, what is going on?" Beast Man asked walking around
"It looks as if our house has been turned into a 'museum' or something." Kori added.
"Welcome Teen Titans! " They both shouted as a sign appeared out of nowhere.
"Raven and Robin, as I live and breath..." Cyborg asked in disbelief.
"That's Nightwing and Nightingale, to you." Raven stated
No one knew what to do; for the longest time it seemed they just stared at one another, mouth agape and unmoving. Until a brave half man, half mental man stepped forth towards the birds. Slowly closer he came, until he stopped just arm length of Raven. She looked up at him and smiled, a warm confronting smile that brought a tear to his eye, it told him that after all this time, and all they have been through she was truly happy. He move with quickness no one had ever seen and embraced her in a big hug, raising her off of the ground.
"Where have you been? I've missed you so much!"
"I've missed you too Vic." She quietly whispered in his ear.
When Victor released Raven it seemed to be everyone else's time to move and breath again, the girls went for Raven while the guys did the same for Dick. "How have you been?" "What's up?" "What do you do now?" Were all going around the titan common room, according to what was going on.
_-Hours Later-_
All the old titans had arrived at the tower, including Garth "Aqualad" Hyde in his early 30's and Pedro and Raul Rodriguez "Mas Y Menos" in their mid 20's. Garth was currently playing ladies' man, not really being tied down to one relationship all at once, "Thus the curse of a marine biologist" he would tell everybody. The twins were the fastest delivery men in all of jump city, as they got older they weren't so codependent on each other; worked at "Amigos Delivery" where they can get you anything you anything you want in 10 minutes or less.
It was late much later then anyone had expected to stay and the party was slowly whining down with the setting sun. Everyone was scattered everywhere, from the couch to the seats on the side of the eating table to the stools in the kitchen. There was no place in that common room where a titan wasn't sitting at. When the museum lights were all on and the automatic window closed the blind, the party had all got quiet.
"Man this is great!" Garfield chimed in, "Why don't we do this more often?"
That was the only time that entire day that the room was that quite. Everyone just looked around grimly. Terra elbowed her hubby and head pointed to Raven who was talking with Garth, then pointed to Starfire who was having mustard cake with Robin in the kitchen. "Oh right," he said sadly dropping his ears to the sides of his head.
The room suddenly had a large big eared, long nosed mammal in the room and the air was getting thin. Starfire glanced at Raven; who glanced to Speedy who was looking at Robin, watching Raven. Beast Man checked his watch that he didn't have on his hand, "Whoa it's late, Terra and I better be going. Yknow people to do, things to see..." He had grabbed Terra and tried to make it to the door
"Stop!" Raven proclaimed as she magically closed and locked the door. "Sit down." She stated again, with her eyes glowing bright white. They did. They looked like two dogs with their tail between their legs, like had done something wrong, and they knew it.
Once sat, Raven started,
"Now we all are adults here; even more so then when it happened. We are going to talk about this, got it?" Everyone got real quite.
"Does anyone even remember what happened?" Victor asked the room. Everyone shook their heads, except one Raven who raised her arm in the air,
"I do." All eyes, ears and attention was on Robin; they were all anxious to know the event in questions, "Well it was around the time that Raven and I had stated to become more 'involved with each other'…"
_-Flashback
No one had seen them all day. Where were they? They weren't there for breakfast, the afternoon movie, Lunch or dinner. Where were Raven and Robin?, the remaining titans were really worried. During the day they had all went on an in house search for the two birds. Cyborg checked Robin's room, nothing, Starfire went to knock on Raven's room, nothing. Beast Boy flew like an eagle around corners and surveillance outside the tower, nothing.
According to the communicators they were still in the tower, but the exactly place could not be detected, after hours and most of the afternoon wasted they all decided to stop looking and assumed that neither Raven nor Robin wanted to be found. Currently after dinner, now was time to sit down for dessert.
"Star, what the hell is this." Beast Boy asked poking of this weird dessert.
"Pudding of confusion. It's what the people of my planet eat when we're in the state of confusion."
"So what are you confused about?" Cy asked. Beast Boy jumped ten feet in the air when the purple glop started moving.
"Well," She started after swatting the glop monster back on its plate, "Have you not noticed, Friend Raven and Robin have not been at our normal rituals today?"
"Yeah she's right. Rob wasn't here to help me wash the T-car." Cyborg remembered
"Yeah! And Raven wasn't here to laugh at my jokes!" BB chimed in as he slumped down poking his 'pudding'.
"Um, B, she's never laughed at your jokes."
"That's what I mean! Something funny is going on with them. Maybe their-EW!"
"What? Why did you say 'ew'?"
"What if the birds of feather are flocking together?" he said raising an eyebrow.
"I do not understand. What does our missing friends have to do with birds?" Star asked in her own way
"He thinks Robin and Raven are doing something together." Cyborg finally pushing the bowl of whatever away from and dumped in back in the bowl it came out of. "Like they may be involved with one another. Ya know, 'the dating'" he explain
Starfire had to giggle a this, when she stopped she hit the 'food' again, "That is most hysterical Cyborg. Friend Robin and Raven cannot being doing 'the dating' Robin has clearly stated that he is interested in me."
"He's said this?" Cyborg asked
"Verbally?" Beast Boy added
"Well he's action has supported his feelings," she explained non too sure herself
"Really?" Cyborg raised a brow and lowered his head to Starfire.
"Well, yes. He has proven to me several times that he has an interest me in. When we took that trip to Toykyo he and I shared a kiss." Starfire hit the pudding monster once again before she crossed her legs and hovered in the air. "When I first came to this planet Robin was the first person to greet me, that was the first time that he and I kiss, that time we were all stranded on that planet..." Starfire dipped her spoon in the bowl and took a huge bite.
"So why hasn't he asked you out yet?" Beast Boy asked, now wrestling with his food again.
"Yeah Star, I think he might like you as a close friend, but not as a girlfriend. He has a bond with Raven. They like the same books, the same kind of movies sometimes and whatnot. Maybe its you that likes Robin, Star." Cyborg stood up and pat Starfire's shoulder and walked into the kitchen.
"Forgive me friends, but I think I know Robin and he does like me."
"Oh really?" Cyborg walked back over the the table with a real dessert.
As if it was timed perfectly Robin came in the common room, and stretched at the door, "Evening guys." He popped his neck and yawned; He stated before walking to the kitchen.
"Now we will see who likes who…" Starfire whispered to the boys
She walked over to Robin over to the island and sat in a stool, turned around to give BB and Cyborg a thumbs up before turning back to Robin's back.
"Robin?" she asked in the sweetest voice she could muster, bating her giant puppy dog eyes.
"Yeah Star?"
"What is it that you are doing?'
"Getting Raven some tea, we were hanging out and she wanted some. I was being nice and getting it her for her." Robin finished putting water in a tea kettle and look through cabinets
"How sweet of you. Do you not think that she could get it herself however?" with a hint of jealous in her voice. "You and Raven have been away from your friends all day, do you not think you are 'pigging' her?"
"'Pigging, Star? Oh you mean 'hogging' her, no I don't think so Starfire. Like I said I was being nice."
Starfire turned around to see the boy giving her a "see?" kinda look. When she turned back around Robin was heading for the door, with…two cups?
"Robin!" she said getting in front and stopping him. "Where are you going, and why do you have two cups of Raven's tea?"
"One's for her and the others for me. What's with the '20 Questions' Starfire? What's going on with you today?"
She glanced back at the boys then back at Robin. She took the cups from his hand and placed them on the island.
"Robin, your friends and I have not seen or heard from you all day! What have you been doing with Raven?!"
"Starfire, please calm down! You are acting insane, now let me take Raven's tea to her and you and I can sit down and talk about this." Robin started to slowly walk past Starfire to reach for the cups when Starfire blocked his way, bangs covering her eyes,
"Robin, do you like Friend Raven?"
"Yes, Starfire wh-"
"Do you like me?"
"Yes of course I do."
"Do you like Raven more then me?"
"No I like you both as equal teammates"
"Do you like her as a lover?"
Robin was taken back by the boldness of the question, whee was all this coming from; it was so random. He assisted the situation and from what he gathered Starfire was not going to move anytime soon; whatever was going on with her she wanted answers now, right now.
"In what way"
"In," she started "a friend girl kind of way?" she finished blushing feeling hopeful
He knew this was coming, he took a deep breath and grabbed Starfire's hand and walked over to the couch and gestured her to sit down.
"What is this about, Kori?' He asked
She was surprised that he had used her real name, even more surprised with the tone of his voice, "I only wish to know who you like more. Who you want as a friend girl." She was hurt and about to be even more hurt, he knew what was going on now. A whole day of not seeing him and she was being to put their relationship into question.
It was time to tell her the truth, that he no longer had those feelings for her. Over the year with the trips to outer space and the world coming in an end he began to think about his future, and who he wanted to be in it. Starfire was prefect and any guy would be lucky enough to have her, and that was her problem; she didn't anyone. Starfire was fueled on love or her friends and people close to her, she was like a beautiful butterfly coming out of the cocoon, free to come and go as she pleased, whenever.
Raven was different
Raven was a strong headed stubborn mule that was a hurt little girl that was needed someone by her side to help her make a future for herself. Robin wanted to be the stone she needed to move forward, he wanted to help her through what she had no control of; that's how it all started. After spending time with her; meditating and getting involved with yoga with, new feelings were developing.
The morning watching the sun raise while Robin taught Raven how to cook, afternoons spend going to the book store with Raven, updating her collection, that one night they spent together in Raven's room talking about pasts and family. They never talked about how the had fallen asleep and ended up sleeping together, waking up satisfied and relaxed.
"Raven."
"What?" Starfire stood up in shock
"I want Raven as my girlfriend. That's why I've been spending so much time with her lately, to get to know her better." Robin soon joined her; he reached his hand to her, "I'm sorry; Starfire, don't get me wrong I-"
She smacked his hand away
Robin retched his hand back, she clearly hit him with her alien force. She just stood there, she said nothing; did nothing, just stood there. What was there to say? If she asked why he didn't love her he'd say why, if she yell and scream he would let her, and if she said he hated him he would accept that. There was nothing she could do or say to hurt him anymore at this point.
"See, if you had let me come get the tea myself, it wouldn't have taken so long." Said a voice from behind the couple, it was Raven. All eyes were on her, she ignored it and went into the kitchen for the cups. "What" she asked as the room whole got quite; by this time Cyborg and Beast Boy had slipped out the room. Starfire walked over to Raven, she looked up at her friend with glowing green teary eyes before she slapped her in the face, and walked out.
"The next morning Starfire was gone…"
"That's what happened?" Everyone asked
"Yes. Because Starfire ran away she took Speedy with her which broke up the Titans East and Cyborg had to go over there and help. We just started to drift apart because Beast Boy was alone while Raven and I were together…"
"I guess with all the extra quite time and help that I getting from Robin,"
"Giggity..." Beast Boy interrupted
"I was able to find a spell to restore Terra's lost memories back to normal"
Again everyone just went "Damn"
Dick pleased his hands on Kori's shoulders and turned her to look at him, "Starfire, Koriand'r nothing I say can take back what happened that night, I can apologize a thousand times but nothing will make up for my fuck up. I give you this as how ever much it means to you, I'm so sorry."
Raven hovered herself quickly to where the two were standing and touch Starfire's arm, "So am I Starfire, for what it's worth. If we had all talked about it them, then maybe things would have been different..."
Koriand'r released his hands from her body and also grabbed Raven and placed her hand into Robin's "Richard, Raven you do not need to apologize, I have forgiving you a long time ago. I can not be upset with you for how you feel in your heart. Besides,"
She let his hands go and walked over to where her husband was, he was standing on the edge of the couch and laid her body on his body and grabbed his arms, "When you found your one true love, so did I."
The two birds looked into each other eyes and smiled, Robin held Raven close to him and looked around to all the happy faces in the room; old loves, new romances, special friends and new beginnings.
No things turned out just perfectly
_-Later That Night
"It was fun seeing everyone again. I did miss them all." Robin said flopping down next to Raven in their bed
"Yeah it was, nice." Raven had just finished putting the last picture in her new scrape book and was flipping the pages.
"Nice? Just nice?"
"Okay it was great. Seeing them and how their lives changed so much, it was wonderful." Raven closed her book and hugged it tightly to her torso. Dick got on his knees and pinned his wife down on the bed, "So You know what else would be fun?" he asked seductively
"What's that?' she asked back
"Getting started on our new beginning..." he answered pressing himself into her.
"Well too bad for you, we won't need to..."
"You mean?!"
"Spoiler alert! We're pregnant!"
Dick jumped off Raven without question, he back flipped off the bed; "You mean, I'm gonna be a daddy?" Raven just nodded; he carefully sat back down on the bed and rubbed her stomach, "I guess all you needed was your best friend back huh?"
"Yeah I guess, but it wasn't just having Koriand'r back; it was seeing all of my loved ones happy, healthy and alive. I truly did miss them, even Beast Boy..."
"Beast Man." Raven giggled as she put her hand on top of Richard's, "You know now that I'm pregnant, I'm kinda in the mood for something..." She said seductively.
"Oh yeah baby, I know..."
"Chocolate Chip Oreo Ice Cream!" with that he ran out the room.
"That's my wife…"