"I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID WRONG!" The robot screams as he and his green companion sprint faster.
"So much for her not threatening you, huh?" Beast Boy jokes as he picks up the pace to try and outrun the metal man.
Cyborg looks back at the black specter closing in on them and screams an apology as he extends his leg in front of Beast Boy.
"DUDE!" The shapeshifter yelps as he hits the ground with a strong thud.
"You." Raven growls out as she surrounds Beast Boy's neck in black and lifts him out of the dirt.
"Please at least tell us what we did please," He sobs as he starts to panic and squirm, clawing at the black energy.
"What did you two do to Starfire?" She snaps out as she tightens her grip around Beast Boy's throat.
"We didn't do anything! Cyboooorrrrggg!" He wails.
The metal man runs up, guilt filling him. "Rae put him down! What did we do to whofire? She been with you all day!"
Raven shoots a glare at the metal man, "you two are playing some kind of prank on her. Why?"
"Huh? What are you talking about mama? We've been playing frisbee all day?" The shapeshifter asks.
"I can vouch for them," Robin remarks as he catches up to the rest of them.
"What did you give her then, huh? She said in what you two gave her she was reading all this stuff!" She sets the terrified shapeshifter on the floor.
Cyborg lets out a laugh, but quickly stops when he sees Raven isn't amused. "I built her a laptop! We weren't pranking her, we gave her the internet!"
Raven blinks a few times then physically face palms.
"Why? What's up? She start speaking in memes or something?" Beast Boy asks, rubbing his now red neck.
"Or something," Raven grumbles.
"What? Is something wrong with Starfire?" The leader asks while raising an eyebrow.
Raven sighs as she disappears in a blur of black, leaving three very confused boys.
"Star we need to talk," Raven remarks, materializing in the alien's room.
"Friend Raven! Is the door not in operation?" She asks, tilting her head to the side in confusion.
Raven sighs, "Sorry. Shouldn't have barged in like that. However I," Her train of thought leaves her as she glances towards the bed, "what are you up to in here, Star?"
"I am wrapping our enemy's birthday gift!" She sings as she motions to the papery mess on her bed.
"In the newspaper?" The empathic girl asks as she flies over to sit beside her friend on the bed. "Why is that?"
"I believe The Garfield will make her laugh and brighten her day just as he does mine!" The alien exclaims as she extends the wrapped gift towards Raven.
Raven smiles as she reads through the comic strip wrapping on the box. "That's so thoughtful. You really are putting in a lot of effort for her birthday. She'll be very pleased."
"And your gift to her is wrapped in the other section of the paper! It has little hers on it!" She motions towards the bigger box beside the bed.
Raven almost laughs, "Wrapping a birthday gift in her mugshot? Not as thoughtful."
"How cute it is that I could find little hers in the paper! She was quite prominent on that page," the older alien starts to question why that is until Raven interupts her.
"She'll love it. She'll think it's flattering. Not many villains make it to the front page," she almost jokes. Starfire beams with pride as Raven sets the comically wrapped gift to the side with the other one. "Maybe she'll get a kick out of Star's naivety to Earth." She smiles to herself as she stares at the other worldly girl. "Wait… when did her naivety stop being annoying?"
"Friend Raven? You have been staring off into the wall for a few more than seconds. Are you alright?"
Raven quickly blinks a few times at Starfire. "I'm sorry, what?"
"I was simply inquiring what you wished to speak to me about? I can assume it was not about Girlfriends or little kinks?"
Raven gets wide eyes as she blurts out, "what did you just say?"
Starfire jumps as the light bulb above her shatters. "I simply said I can assume it was not about Garfield or the little Jinx?"
Raven shakes her head profusely. "Get it together, Raven! You're here to talk about the laptop!"
"Cyborg said he made you a gift?" Raven states, returning to her usual composure.
"Oh yes indeed! Friend Cyborg gifted me the electric box of spider homes!" Star flies over the the bedside table, then flies back, putting the laptop in Raven's lap. "You may look at the spiders while I clean up! They are quite interesting!"
Raven sighs as Starfire flies off to grab the trash can.
"Password huh?" She thinks to herself as she opens up the laptop. "It can't be anything too trying."
"Watch out my little Glorblak there is broken glass," she warns to the little silkworm as she starts to scoop up the shards carefully.
"Of course it's the vermin." Raven quickly types in the worm's name then the screen lights up. "Recent website is Lovers from Gotham. God. It's exhausting being right all the time." Raven sighs to herself as she starts to read through the website. "How to deepen your relationship with your woman partner. Please save me."
"My little bumgorf that is not food!" The tamaranian remarks as she tries to wrestle the newspaper from her pet.
"Activities include hand holding, check, cuddling, gift giving, going out, kissing, and-" Raven turns a tinge of red as she finishes off the list. "Yes I need to put an end to this right now."
"Are the spiders not glorious?" The princess asks as she flies over, sitting beside Raven. "I think they are most adorable!"
"Hey about that, that's actually what I wanted to talk about…" the smaller girl trails off, trying to tread lightly.
"You wish to speak of the spiders? What have they done you wish to discuss?" The alien tilts her head to the side.
Raven softly smiles at the confused alien. "Wait… When did her naivety… start getting cute?"
Raven opens her mouth to respond, but quickly shuts it when she hears loud noises echo down the halls.
"I think Jinx is here," she simply replies instead. "Dammit Raven just hurt her feelings! I can't those puppy dog eyes… but that list! She needs to know! Yes... no... yes!"
"Oh most joyous of occasions! Come friend Raven! Let us welcome her!" Starfire grabs her friends hand and pulls her down the hallway, snapping the empath out of her inner battle.
"Most joyous of celebrations hello friend!" The tamaranian sings as she enters the living room.
Jinx arches an eyebrow at the odd girl. "Hey?" The bad luck charm plops down on the couch, throwing her feet into the coffee table. "You coming to join us in a movie?"
Starfire beams happily, "that sounds most enjoyable! However, first we have you the gifts of birth!" The alien princess disappears then reappears in a blink with packages in her arms. "For you!" She flies over to the couch, setting down the newspaper covered boxes on the cushions.
"Why did you get her gifts Star?" Cyborg asks in confusion.
"Gifts of birth? Like a baby?" Beast Boy asks, the gears working very hard in his brain.
"It is her birthday is it not?" The redheaded girl asks, hoping she had not got the date wrong.
"No you're right, Starfire. Impressive. I must say I'm surprised you got me a gift though," the purple haired girl remarks as she takes the bow off the smaller package.
"That one is from me! The larger one is from Raven!" Raven floats over beside Star to see if Jinx actually enjoyed the gifts they got her.
"Even the witch got me one? How sweet." She starts to open the Garfield wrapping then stops, "Hey, where's yours, babe?"
The robot man freezes as he lets out a nervous laugh. "Really Robocop? You forget my birthday?"
"Of course I didn't forget! I'm uh taking you to a real nice dinner, tomorrow?" He states, very uncertain.
Jinx rolls her eyes with a sigh, "it better be expensive to make me forget about your forgetting." She tears open the newspaper box then peers at its contents. "Couples coffee cups for me and Cyborg? That's kinda cheesy, but cute. I think they fit."
"If you thought those were cheesy you should've seen the ones we didn't decide on," Raven remarks, remembering the mermaid and captain cups.
"Do I even want to know? Probably not. I do enjoy these though. Thanks Starfire." Jinx reaches for the second package, then pauses. She grabs her sides laughing as the room stares confused. "You you did not wrap this in my mugshot, Raven," she chokes out between laughs. "That's the best thing I've ever seen. It's like a "I know you well enough to buy you a gift but not well enough to trust you." Like I just want to keep it wrapped up cause this is the greatest."
Raven sighs in relief as Starfire beams. "I think the gift itself will beat the wrapping," Raven replies with a smile.
"Cocky with how well you know me already? Alright bet." The Cheshire girl tears away the paper quickly. She runs her nails up the side of the box, tearing away the tape as she opens the lid. She lets out a small gasp as she scans over the box's contents.
"What is it, babe?" Cyborg asks, extremely curious.
She quickly pulls it out of the box and pulls it over her head. "I'm bad luck!" She exclaims with a big smile. "It's perfect, Raven."
"I knew you'd like it," the empath replies with an almost non-existent smile.
"Alright enough mushy gunk it's movie time!" Beast Boy remarks, ruffling through the choices of tapes.
"Let's watch a horror movie," Jinx suggests, curling up beside Cyborg starting to get cozy.
The whole room shy of Jinx looks at Raven. "No," they all state in unison.
"One time," she grumbles under her breath.
"How about a comedy?" Beast Boy remarks with a big grin.
"A romantic comedy," Jinx offers back.
"Barrrrfffff. Fine. Just cause it's your birthday lady," The shapeshifter settles on something by some guy called Nicholas Sparks that Jinx and Starfire went crazy for then plops onto the couch throwing his paws onto the coffee table. Raven settles into the corner of the couch, Robin leans back against the edge of the couch, and Jinx and Cyborg curl up in the center contently.
"Friends! I return with the non-cotton candies and buttery treats!" She extends the junk food to all of friends with a big grin. They all take their respective treats and snacks as Star's arms soon empty.
"It's starting dude!" Beast Boy remarks to the alien, motioning for her to move out of his line of sight.
"For someone who didn't want to watch a romantic comedy, you sure are interested in the opening scene," Jinx remarks playfully, earning a grumble from the shapeshifter about how he just thinks the girl is hot.
"Apologies friend Beast Boy!" The princess flies over to the couch and takes a seat in Raven's lap.
Jinx arches an eyebrow as she shoots a look over to the two. "Odd seating choice."
Raven grumbles to the alien now occupying her lap, "what are you doing?" She whispers to the larger girl, not wanting to disturb the other movie goers.
Starfire shoots her a big smile then rests her head in the crook of Raven's neck so she could still watch the movie. "I am cuddling you," she simply replies.
Raven grumbles, getting a serious sense of déjà vu. "I meant why are you cuddling me?"
"Oh! Because I am getting cozy," The alien simply replies again, wrapping her arms around Raven's midsection.
Raven sighs to herself, "knock yourself out I guess." "Just push her in the floor. It'd be so easy. God then she'd cry, and everyone in here will look at me like I shot the president." Raven grumbles trying to shift to get more comfortable, "having a six foot alien in your lap isn't my definition of comfortable either. Like I'm laying on my own arms here!"
Starfire looks down at her friend as she shifts uncomfortably. "Friend? Are you alright?" The alien grabs Raven's arms and gently drapes them over her own hips. "There! You can now be very comfortable," she whispers happily as she curls closer now that a red Raven's arms were out of the way.
"What are they whispering about? And Starfire is just casually wrapping Raven's arms around her? Something is definitely up with those two," Jinx thinks to herself. "Hey babe?" She whispers to the metal man beside her, "what's up with Raven and Starfire?"
Cyborg glances over to see what she could be talking about then gets wide eyes. "Raven usually hates Star within fifty feet of her, so I don't have a clue. Cuddling during a Rom Com doesn't seem like a Raven type deal."
"I'm about to find out. I mean what can they do? Hate me? I literally run their enemy's headquarters," the purple haired girl sits up and remarks to the room, "I'm sure Robin and Beast Boy are starting to feel a little left out."
Raven shoots a glare over to the birthday girl, "I think Beast Boy is too invested in The Last Song to feel left out." She motions towards the green shapeshifter who is sobbing as the piano music plays on the screen.
"And friend Robin is asleep over there," the redhead replies. "Why would they be feeling left out? Are we not all watching the movie?"
Jinx shakes her head at the cluelessness of the girl, "I meant cuddling wise, lady. Why are you two so snuggly?"
"What answer do we owe you?" Raven retorts with a soft glare.
"I am simply expressing my love for Raven through the cuddles!" The naive alien exclaims, nuzzling the smaller girl for added effect.
Raven gets a tinge of red as she mentally facepalms.
"You didn't tell me they were dating," Jinx says looking at her lover.
"I didn't know!" Cyborg remarks in complete shock.
"We're not," Raven scoffs. "She just worded that wrong."
"I did wrong?" Star asks sadly as she starts to get up.
Raven tightens her grip on Star so she can't leave as guilt fills her again. "Teasing I can fend off. A sad Starfire I cannot."
Starfire looks up at Raven who just offers a small smile. "Let's just go to bed. It's getting late." Raven looks around the room. "You'll get the boys to bed, right Cy?"
Cyborg just laughs. "Rob can handle a stiff neck and Beast Boy has slept on worse things than the floor. They staying right there."
"Well alright. Night you two. Don't do anything disgusting," Raven remarks as she and Star stand up. She waves a goodbye as they start to walk to the stairs.
"Should I be saying the same to you two?" Jinx remarks with a laugh.
"Say whatever you please," Raven states, turning around to face the girl as Star continues down the hall. "Just leave Starfire out of it."
"What is going on Raven? You said something was wrong with Star earlier and now you're acting weird. What's going on with Star? She isn't dying or anything is she? Cause you've never been this nice to her?" Cyborg asks, trying to wrap his head around the situation.
"She is healthy," Raven replies. The empath walks out of the room, sighing to herself. "Why do I miss her warmth?"