Two chapters in a row!
I AM SUPPOSED TO BE SLEEPING
...Maybe that's why this turned out so weird...meh...
Chaos
"Robin."
The Boy Wonder flinched, just knowing that the emotionless voice on the other end was anything but happy. "Yeah?"
"Care to explain why there's a picture of you running from my building in the newspaper?"
"Right, I was going to tell you but..." He was cut off as a loud crash and a girly scream could be heard from the room next to him and he lowered his voice to a whisper. "Bruce, you called at a bad time."
"What do you mean?"
"Remember Starfire?"
"The alien?"
"Yeah, we just told her Santa didn't exist."
"I get it, she isn't taking it well?"
"Nope."
"...We'll talk later."
The line went dead and Robin groaned, what was he thinking? Of course he couldn't keep the whole Slade incident hidden from his father, he was the goddamn Batman!
He flinched as another crash could be heard and walked into the living room; ducking just in time as a bowl flew over his head.
Starfire was making a 'pudding of sadness' but since the alien expressed her emotions a bit dramatically, she probably didn't notice that she was being very...violent with making the Tameranian food. Bowls and spoons were flying everywhere and she didn't even seem to notice.
Robin raised an eyebrow and walked up to Raven, the half-demon was calmly sitting on the couch and reading; a black bubble surrounding her to protect her from Starfire's incoming missiles.
"I heard a girl scream, it definitely wasn't Star and I'm guessing it wasn't you either." He spoke.
The corner of her lips twitched a bit and she pointed to the ceiling without looking away from her book. "He's the one who screamed."
When Robin looked up, he could see a green spider clutching to the ceiling for dear life. The Boy Wonder shook his head, deciding to not even comment on the sight and just ignore it. "Where's Cy?"
"Bolted as soon as he could."
Robin sidestepped an incoming spoon and nodded. "Probably the smartest thing to do right now."
She nodded and continued reading the last line of the page before snapping her book shut and looking up at her boyfriend. "You should probably go and talk to Starfire."
"Why me?"
"Cyborg's gone, Beast Boy's way too terrified to go near her and I calmed her down when she learned that makeup was tested on animals."
All the Titans remembered that disaster clearly; Beast Boy and Starfire set up a whole protest against animal-testing, nearly started a civil war while they were at it. It only stopped when Raven told Starfire that the animals rarely got seriously hurt and that there were enough protests against it.
They could do nothing to stop Beast Boy; the changeling had been protesting against animal-testing for years now.
Said shapeshifter dropped from the ceiling and landed beside Raven on the couch, shifting back into his human form. "Please, dude? She's going to destroy the whole tower if she keeps going!" He pleaded, morphing into a dog to give his leader puppy dog eyes.
Raven glanced at Beast Boy and rolled her eyes, wondering just why the boy happened to be one of her closest friends. Hell, sometimes she wondered how she kept her sanity surrounded by these people that could as well be mentally insane.
Her amethyst eyes snapped to Robin and she raised an eyebrow, his eyes went from her and to Beast Boy before a growl of annoyance escaped his lips and he turned to talk to Starfire.
Beast Boy morphed back into his human form when the Boy Wonder walked away; tugging Raven's hood over her head to get her attention. "He's not going to make it out alive." He stated.
He was answered by a blast of black energy.
"Personal space, Beast Boy, personal space," she muttered, pulling her hood back down. Her eyes stayed locked on her boyfriend and the alien; even she had to admit that the odds of him managing to calm Starfire were laughable. But he wasn't the Boy Wonder for nothing, she'd watch before either agreeing with or rejecting Beast Boy's statement.
"Star? Are you okay?" Robin asked.
The alien princess stopped violently stirring the green/purple substance that was in the bowl and looked up at her leader with wide green eyes. "Yes, Friend Robin. I am the finely perfect."
"Perfectly fine," he corrected gently.
She nodded and continued focusing on the pudding that Robin was sure was moving on its own.
He leaned against the counter; keeping enough distance so that his alien friend could keep 'working' without him getting in the way. "You know that Christmas isn't all about Santa, right?" He started slowly, continuing when she stopped stirring, her hands on the counter but her eyes not focused on him.
"The 'magic' of Christmas isn't because of some man in a red costume bringing presents; we make the event magical ourselves." He explained further, smiling when he saw a flicker of light in the alien's eyes as he thought about his words.
"Santa does not bring the magic?" She questioned, her voice soft as she looked up at him.
He shook his head.
Raven glanced at Beast Boy sitting beside her and smirked. "He's still alive."
The green changeling looked away from his two friends and glared at the half-demon. "I can see that, Rae." He muttered, not really happy with the fact that he was wrong.
"Look at it this way; if I was Cyborg, you'd probably have to do something stupid because you lost a bet." She stated, her voice monotone but a slight hint of amusement hiding somewhere as both of them watched how Robin talked and Starfire relaxed and her signature smile came back.
Finally, the excited alien flew away to go 'spread Christmas joy' despite it not even being the season for it. None of the Titans cared though; they could humor her for a bit longer.
Beast Boy shrugged and followed his friend, he didn't have anything to do, might as well help.
"And that's why you don't doubt me." Robin said, sitting down beside the half-demon.
"I never said I doubted you, you were the one who didn't want to go talk to her." She deadpanned.
"You're right, you never said you doubted me, but the way you acted clearly implied it."
She rolled her eyes.
Raven picked up her book and continued reading quietly, surprised when he turned her face towards him gently and placed a loving kiss on her lips.
She raised an eyebrow in question when he pulled away.
He shot her a cheeky grin. "Bruce called, apparently the news of me destroying the Wayne Enterprises sign on one of the buildings reached Gotham. I just wanted a kiss from you before he kills me."
"You still haven't told him about your 'apprenticeship' with Slade?"
"Raven, it's Batman we're talking about. He'd give me a whole speech about not being careful enough and that this wasn't how he trained me. Believe me, it's as if he has all these different speeches ready to go." He shuddered. "The 'girls are distracting' speech was the worst."
She sighed and flipped a page. "He might be Batman; but don't forget that he's also your father."
That shut him up.
