Chapter 13
okay this one is going to be kind of weird I'm kind of losing my touch unfortunately. Well, enjoy it!
Top of tower in Jump City
Raven stood there, the moon was starting to raise, not moving, cape blowing in the wind, slightly, her eyes were closed. She was thinking on how to break the news to both Richard and Robin... this was hard... she heard a slight whoosh of air.
'That must be him.' she thought. She kept her eyes closed, though. Once she heard him walking towards her, is when she opened her eyes and spoke.
"I'm sorry." was all she could say at the moment. Robin froze in his tracks.
"What?" he asked. "What are you sorry for?" Raven turned toward him and started walking to him.
"I... I..." she stopped and looked into his masked eyes. "I'm not going to be able to see you again."
Robin was shocked, "What are you talking about?"
Raven turned around and hugged her self. "I can't stay here any longer." she whispered.
Robin replied, "What? Why!"
"Robin..." she sighed, "I'm a nomad... other cities need me.." Robin raised an eyebrow. "You and your friends can protect this city... while other cities need my help... I go around and pop up here and there.. Going where the wind takes me.." Raven dropped her arms to her sides.
"Where do you think your going to end up?" Robin asked.
"I don't know..." Raven walked over to the edge of the tower, that over looked the city's town square. "Any where but here. Some where far, far away." she whispered the last sentence.
This mad Robin upset.. Both of his beloved friends were moving away. Then an idea dawned on him. He turned and dug into his pockets. "Here." Raven turned her head. Robin pulled out a small clasps with an engraving of a black bird on it. "We can keep in touch." he said softly. "If you ever are in trouble press the pendent." he tapped the pendent, it started to glow. And so did something in his pocket... and it started to ring too. "This 'll link you directly to me." he took Raven's hand and placed the pendent in to it, then pushed it closed. Raven took her other hand and placed it on top of Robin's hand. He glanced up at her face. She had a small smile on her face. She then wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly. Robin wrapped his arms around her back.
"I'll miss you so much." she whispered into his ear.
"I'll miss you too." Robin whispered back. He hugged her tighter, and so did Raven. "You also need to take a communicator, so we can keep in touch." Robin let go of Raven and dug into his pocket one more time and pulled out a yellow and black thing with a white T on it. Raven snatched it out of his hand and then pulled him back into an embrace. This was going to be the second to last time they'd ever see each other.
Rachel's house
Rachel just got home and quickly changed her uniform into her pj's. just then the door bell rang. She forgot to put all of her uniform away. So a little of it was out. She flew down the stairs and opened the door. It was Richard.
"Hey." she said out of breath.
"Hey to you too!" he said as he stepped in. Once she closed the door, he hugged her tightly, "This is so damn hard."
"I know." she returned the hug. They stayed there like that of about 3 minutes. "Come on let's go upstairs." they walked up the stairs and walked into Rachel's room. Richard saw a book and pen on her bed and picked up the book and flipped through it.
"Captain Nightwing huh?"Richard asked as he placed the book and pen on a stack of boxes.
"Yeah. It's a story about space pirates." Rachel was busy moving around the room.
"Nightwing." he liked the sound of it. How it rolled off of his tongue.
"I see you like it." she said. "It was actually based off of you and your friends."
"Oh!" Richard said in shock. It was a long silence, Richard felt uncomfortable."So.." Richard stuck his hands into his pockets, he looked around, boxes, boxes and more boxes, a bleeping icon, a blue rag, a bare bed except for sheets and a pillow, a... wait a minute...
"Uh..." his mind drew a blank.
"You okay there buddy?" Rachel stepped in front of him.
"Oh, um.. Do you have any idea as to where you're going to go?" he watched her go about the room putting other items in to boxes, but his eyes kept going to the blue rag and the bleeping thing.
"No.. I'm sorry." Rachel said as she pushed clothes together and she turned and expected his eyes on her but she found out that they were on something else. She silently followed his gaze. 'Shit.' she cursed to her self, she cringed slightly. 'Why didn't I put those away?'
"What are those?" Richard pointed to her pendent and clothe.
"There nothing." she grabbed her cloak and pendent, she accidently pushed it, she cringed again. Then something in the room started the ring. She turned to see Richard looking at his pocket. "Well..." she drawled. "Looks like we both have something to hide, Robin." she glared at him. Richard's mouth went slightly slack and stared at Rachel.
"You're kidding I hope."
"Oh! Stop putting on an act! Now we both know who we really are!" Rachel threw her stuff into a box.
"I wasn't planing on ending our relationship this early or like this." Richard glared at her. Rachel sat on her bed, looking down at the floor.
"Neither did I." she sighed.
"I'm sorry that I wasn't trust worthy enough to keep that kind of secret."
"I should say the same thing." Rachel glanced up at Richard. "I'm really sorry... this is probably the best way to end it." she started to play with her hands.
"No it's not." Richard sighed as he sat down next to her. "So why don't we start over?" Rachel looked up at him, he smiled. All she did was wrap her arms around his neck and kiss him roughly. Richard was shocked and lost his balance and ended up under Rachel. 'Who cares?' he asked him self and wrapped his arms around her back and flipped there positions. He then felt Rachel start to shake. Richard broke the kiss and looked down at the weeping girl. "Rae? Rae, what's wrong?" he wiped the tears off her face with his thumbs.
"I'm never going to be able to see you again." she sobbed.
"Oh.. Shh... shh..." Richard shushed her as he took her into his arms and cradled her. He gently rocked her back and forth. "We will be able to see each other. Don't worry. You'll see." and with that they stayed with each other for the rest of the night, cradled in each others arms, sleeping peacefully, how Arella found them. But they didn't know, they'd be like that sooner then they thought.
