Boom! Look at that, I said I wanted to have part 3 out by the 5th, and here's part 4 on none other than July 5th. Not to pat myself on the back or anything but I'm making good time. Happy July 4th all you Americans, this little Canadian boy wishes you a happy B-Day. Please stop forgetting Canada's B-Day on July 1st :(. But enough about that.

Big thanks to Wolfeternity of DeviantArt, you know why hopefully

Enjoy Part 4 :)

"Is that, Damian's sword?"

"Um, ya, that must be his." Raven replied, trying not to stutter over her words.

"But, what's it doing in here? Why would it be in here unless… unless…" Kori was also trying not to stutter, her shock at the situation making it very difficult, "Raven, is what Garfield told everyone true?"

"Oh well, um, actually—"but before Raven could finish, she was interrupted by a knock on her door.

"Oh thank Azarath, wait who is that?"

Kori had the same question, as she walked toward the door she asked, "Now who could that be?" She opened the door to find Damian, standing in his Robin uniform save for one essential piece, his sword.

"Hello Kori." He said.

"Damian, lose something have we?" Kori asked Damian, who responded with a gruff 'hmpf'.

"Why don't you come in and have a seat?" Kori continued, moving out of the doorframe to make space for Damian to enter the room. Damian slowly entered, and took a seat in a chair to the right of the still floating, but probably not meditating, Raven.

"So," Kori began, closing the door and walking toward the duo as she talked, "who wants to tell me what happened last night, exactly what happened." Damian and Raven looked at each other, Raven tried to start talking, but she was interrupted by Damian.

"I'm sorry Kori—"

"What happened was Raven was having a nightmare last night, induced by Trigon. I heard her screaming so I came to check up on her." Damian explained to Kori, "She said that she couldn't sleep because of her nightmares, so I stayed the night to watch over her." There was a silence that came after this explanation, as Kori observed the faces of Damian and Raven. Damian looked back with his stoic, almost uncaring face, while Raven was more wide-eyed, waiting to see Kori's reaction.

"I see, and what exactly did this 'staying the night' entail?" Kori asked, obviously implying what everyone was thinking, or at least what the two boys at breakfast were thinking.

"It wasn't what you're thinking Kori, he just slept with me. Not in that way!" Raven shouted when she saw Kori's eyes widen, causing both Raven and Damian to blush. "Nothing inappropriate happened, he just helped me get back to sleep."

"I was just looking out for a teammate and a friend, you remember what it took to lock Trigon away in the first place." Damian added into the explanation. He looked over to Raven, who was smiling at him. He smiled back.

"Very well, I know it isn't like you guys to lie to me, keep secrets is one thing," Kori said, looking over to Damian, who smirked back, "but definitely not lie." The pink Titan took a deep breath and sighed.

"I can't get mad at you for looking out for each other, but I also can't let you forget that you are both 14. And it isn't exactly normal to be, as you put it, 'sleeping together'." Which got another blush out of both Titans. "And I trust you guys to act like Titans and not overstep any… physical boundaries."

"I'm really not the one to have this talk with them" Kori thought to herself, who, at this point of the conversation, was herself feeling very awkward. She could only imagine how the two teenagers felt.

"I don't want to say this conversation is over, but I think we can put a pin in it for now." She finished, "I'll try and calm down the two boys outside, but you know how they are. Try not to let them get to you. Good day Titans." And with that, Kori left the room. Leaving Damian and Raven alone once again. Raven finally stood up, prompting Damian to do the same, they approached each other until they were side by side.

"Thank you for helping me explain that Damian, I wouldn't have been able to word it quite the same way you did if it was just me." Raven said.

"No problem Raven, it's all about telling the truth the way they want to hear it." Damian smirked as he responded. Raven smiled back, and again that weird feeling came over her. Without thinking, she hugged him. Damian's eyes widened. He was, to say the least, stunned. It took him a second, but he hugged her back. Once again, the empath was able to feel that unknown feeling inside both her and Damian. But before she had time to think about it, Damian broke off the hug. For Damian, that feeling had become bittersweet since his rejection. But he wasn't rejected, he had helped Raven, she just didn't need help anymore. And why did he care about how that feeling felt, if he didn't even know what it was? Everything was becoming too overwhelming for him.

"I'm gonna go train for a bit." Damian said.

"Oh, very well, I'll stay here and meditate for a bit, see you at lunch?" Raven asked.

"Sounds good." Damian replied as he left the room, being sure to grab his sword this time. Raven returned to her meditation, but this time her thoughts weren't on peace and tranquility, or calming inner demons. She meditated on a certain boy, and a certain… feeling. She looked back on the conversation they had just had.

"'Teammate and a friend' that can't be all he thinks of me, right?"

Damian walked down to the training room, but was interrupted by one of his most loathed sounds. Garfield's voice.

"Boy Wonder, wait up!" Garfield yelled as he ran to catch up to Damian, Jamie following close behind.

"Yo, dude, we just talked to Kori, and we wanted to say that we're—" Jamie tried to apologize, but was interrupted by Garfield.

"Is it true, did you really sleep… with Raven!?"

"Oh Dios mío." Jamie whispered under his breath.

"Niiiiiiiiiice, high-five! Good job dude! Come on… hit me!" Garfield continued.

"As you wish." Damian replied, before punching Garfield in the gut. Playfully, but with a little weight behind it, just so that Garfield got the point. Jamie just laughed as Damian walked away and Garfield rolled on the floor in pain.

"Bet you feel like an ass," Jamie said to Garfield, "and you don't even have to transform into a burro." He added before laughing again.

"Oh wow, the big blue bug can laugh at his own jokes, good job." Garfield retorted as he transformed into a hawk and flew away. Leaving Jamie to his laughter.

Damian sparred with the training holograms, kicking, blocking, countering and slashing. But there was something off in his form. It would take him four moves to finish an enemy that should've take two. His stance was unbalanced, and he was slow to react to incoming threats. Put simply, his mind wasn't focused. He tried to think about what was causing this distraction, but was met with an electric shock for it. One of the holograms had landed a blow, and the program shut down, leaving Damian panting on the ground. He knew exactly what was distracting him, it was the odd feelings he got when he was around Raven, talking to Raven, hugging Raven… no, thinking of that was a distraction. A distraction from his attempt at distracting himself by training. He didn't want to think about those feelings. He wasn't scared of the feelings, obviously, he was scared of nothing. But their unfamiliarity made him uneasy.

"What the hell is going on with me?" He wondered, before restarting the simulation and sparring again.

Kori knew that she wasn't the one to have that kind of talk with the Titans. Well, not Damian at least. It was probably her responsibility to talk to Raven the more she thought about it. But again, Damian was a different story.

"What's on your mind babe? To what do I owe the pleasure of your call?" Came out of the laptops Skype call.

"I wanted to tell you about an interesting talk I had with Damian today, Dick."

Voila.

Am I using the word 'feelings' too much? Cuz I kinda feel like I am. At this point I should just re-title the fucking story "Unknown Feelings" or something. Switching the rating to "T" for the new bits of swearing and the "sexual innuendos". Not like anyone pays attention to a rating other than 'M'. 'M' means sex, any other letter means none amirite?

Good news (I hope), I think I'll continue making stories over the summer, I'm enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would. Already got the next story on the drawing board. It'll be Titans again, but a little bit darker I'm thinking. But that's all in the future, gotta finish this story first.

Part 5 will be in... fuck it gimme like 2 days