Questions to be answered, and more to be created. Enjoy.

WARNING: This chapter contains a lemon. It may not be very good, but it's definitely a lemon. Not sure if I should up the rating, but some feedback on that would be good.

Disclaimer: I own nothing not previously owned by muah.

Oh yeah, sorry for the cliffhanger on the last chapter, but it had to be done. There isn't one on here, but the next has a huge one. Just trying to prepare you.

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A Time Again

Chapter Six: While You Were Sleeping

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Raven reappeared in a dark apartment, where the only source of light was the television. In front of the bright screen stood Richard, his attention focused intently on the news of the explosion. He occasionally changed to another news station to see if there were any new updates, but was sadly disappointed. No one knew who or what caused the explosion, save for the two of them.

His change in position escaped her vision, but he must have sensed her there somehow. His defense reflexes were extraordinary, and faster than she had ever seen anyone move, Richard and whirled around and flung the remote at her at an intense speed.

A black aura surrounded the hurtling object and stopped it about a foot from Raven's face. She shook her head slightly, wondering what a remote would have done to an intruder, or him.

Raven flicked on the lights and grabbed the remote from its current bindings. Richard relaxed at the sight that it was only her.

"This is yours." She said, tossing him the remote, which he caught perfectly.

"What are you-?"

"Doing here?" Raven finished for him, walking over. "Stopping you from doing something stupid." She looked into his eyes, but they were perfectly masked with a hard façade that had been mastered over the years. Richard stepped past her.

"You don't need to be." He said, walking into the other room. Raven followed him.

"Uh, yeah, Robin, I obviously do." She stopped in the doorway of his bedroom. "So what was your plan? Go out to the building and just happen to randomly find Slade roaming about like a stupid sitting duck?" He said nothing, just stood at his window, his warm breath creating a foggy cloud on the cool glass. Raven could feel the annoyance creeping on, and couldn't help but feel like these were the old days where Robin's crazed obsession just kept deepening.

"You know damn well what blowing that building up was for, and going out there will do nothing. He's not there; he probably never was in the first place. There's nothing to see but ashes and what's left of the warehouse." She stopped, wanting to go on, to rant about how stupid and obsessed he was being, but she didn't want to push so far she wouldn't be able to bounce back. She walked over to him and placed her hand on his arm.

"Hey, we both know this is only a warning. Whatever happens next is up to Slade. All we can do is sit back and wait for him to come." Richard said nothing and continued to stare out the window. Raven turned him towards her.

"I don't want this to be like before. Please don't shut me out. I know you could probably take down Slade on your own, but…I need you to know you don't have to." She leaned up and kissed him lightly on the cheek. "I'm always here." She whispered, turning to go.

Richard caught her by the arm and turned her around towards him. Before Raven could say anything his lips met hers with a wild passion that had finally burst forth after years of containment.

Fire coursed hot through her veins. This seemed wrong; she had found him not two days before and felt like she barely knew him. No, that wasn't true; she had known him then. But this was different. It was all too soon, all too – Ah, screw it.

She kissed him back, all the rage and fervor of a lost love rushing back as the dam bottling up old emotions broke.

Their tongues danced enthusiastically in each other's mouths, each savoring the moment.

Time stood still.

Nothing moved.

The noise of the city faded into nothingness as their kiss engulfed them into a vast expansion of only them.

They had both known, unconsciously, on some level that this was going to happen, that it was meant to happen eventually from the moment they met. Raven had come to realize it sooner, but then both of their dreams crashed and burned the day she left. But they both knew that somehow, some way, they would find each other again.

This was that day.

They broke apart for a brief moment and stared into each other's eyes, unconsciously submitting to the urging that grew within each by the passing minute.

Somehow, amidst the wild passion and crazed kissing they managed to discard their clothes and move to the bed; time remaining at its standstill.

Both silently consented to their will and let the passion overrun them. Richard met Raven's lips again, his weight pressing warmly against her.

He slowly entered her, pushing past her walls, breaking her. Raven gasped slightly and arched her back to meet him.

He was going where no one had gone before.

Raven's head reeled with a myriad of emotions she never dreamed to feel all at once. At first, there was pain, then that settled down to intense comfort and pleasure. Richard thrust into her harder and faster, and his lips met hers, ardently and wildly stealing her breath away.

Their two bodies rocked as one as their fervor erupted into silver fireworks that danced in their minds. When at last he couldn't be contained, Richard climaxed and spilled out into Raven, and she onto him.

Then they fell still, their bodies and spirits spent. Richard rolled next to Raven and gently stroked her cheek. Her amaranthine eyes sparkled brightly in the moonlight streaming in from outside. She leaned forward and kissed him deeply, lingering near his warm body and dwelling in his scent a moment longer. Raven broke off and rolled over, extremely content and practically exploding from happiness inside. Richard moved closer and wrapped and arm around her waist, his fingers unconsciously interlacing with hers, as exhaustion finally claimed them.

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SQUEE! I'm extremely excited right now. Why, you ask? Well…I've thought up a plot for the sequel, and I must say, it. Is. Good. Not meaning to brag, but the very thought of what's going to happen makes me squeal and jump around like after I read Insanity 101's stories…But it won't be out for a verdy long time, owing to the fact that I'm only on chapter six with this… But I'm sure you'll love it. Very, very much. I'm not sure what genre it's going to be, but not like I'd tell you to give away anything, eh?

But anyhoo…I have to say, this chapter made me really nervous. I dunno, I've read lemons before, but writing them is wayy different. This sort of feels like initiation into the world of writing, if that makes any sense. If you can write a lemon, you can publish a book. >> Sorry, I'll shut up now. Hopefully it didn't suck, since it was my first.

Well, hope you enjoyed it and please drop a review my way. Until later.