I'm terribly sorry this took, fuck like a year? I have no explanation except my apologies. I forgot this was even a thing for awhile. Ummmmm, enjoy?
*knockknock*
"Raven?"
*knockknockknock*
"If you don't answer I'm just going to come in."
*knockknock*
"Ok I'm coming in." Damian opened the door and entered Ravens room. It was very dark, Raven had closed the drapes and shut off all the lights. And in the middle of the room, she lay sleeping in her bed.
Damian sighed. "Time to get up Raven, we gotta go to movie night." He said as he nudged Ravens shoulder. The purple witch groaned in annoyance and pushed Damian away.
"Don't be like that, you don't think I'm tired too?" He continued nudging her. "At least you got to nap. You saw Kori's face while she told us about movie night, we can't abandon her."
Raven finally started to slowly sit up. "Ok, let's go get this over with." Raven conceded, she stood up, rubbed her eyes, and left her room together with Damian.
It had been 3 hours since training had ended, and now everyone was heading to the living room, getting ready for the first ever Teen Titans movie night. Attendance mandatory, much to Damian and Ravens chagrin. They both wanted nothing more than to go to bed, since they were still working on less than 5 hours of sleep. But if the two went to bed now, God only knows what people would say.
The last few hours between training and the movie had been pretty uneventful. The pizza that Dick had ordered vanished within minutes. Garfield and Jamie quickly challenged Dick to a Mortal Kombat tournament. Damian went back to training, working out his lingering anger. Kori went on her laptop, browsing things from clothes to news reports about crime in the area. And of course, Raven napped.
Damian and Raven took their normal spots beside each other at the end of the L-shaped couch while everyone else settled on the rest of the couch or on the floor. Dick stood in front of the big flatscreen TV and began the debate on which movie to watch.
"Any suggestions Damian?" He started.
"I don't watch movies Grayson."
"Great, soooo good to have you here. Garfield?" Dick asked.
"Something funny, like a comedy."
"Ok ok, any other suggestions?" Dick looked around the room as he asked and caught Raven half-raising her arm. "Raven! Yes what's your suggestion?" Dick asked, excited that Raven was participating.
"You don't have to be so surprised.." Raven muttered before continuing. "How about a scary movie?" The room, for the most part, erupted into agreeance. Save for Damien, who didn't really understand the concept of a 'horror movie'. And Garfield.
"Damnit," Garfield protested. "I thought we were settled on comedy?" He'd never admit it, but Garfield hates horror, suspense, jump scares and all that crap. It terrified him. It was time to resort to his last defense, rambling. "Like, are we sure we're 100% committed to a horror film, there's so many other genres to choose from! Like comedy, action-comedy, stand-up. Hell, I'd even settled for a Rom-Com. What do you guys think of that eh?" He asked, looking towards Raven and Damian, who glared back at him. Damian began to say something back but was cut off.
"Cmon Gar, either shut up or turn into a chicken before you keep whining. You've been outvoted." Jamie mocked, committed to a horror film like everyone else.
"Horror it is ladies and gentlemen!" Declared Dick as he navigated to the horror films category on the TV and took his spot on the couch. Kori handed out popcorn to the Team before also sitting down beside Dick, and everyone got ready to watch "The Night of the Bloody Bride".
The moving was about half-way through and, to no one's surprise, Damian was not enjoying the movie. He was very much enjoying watching Garfield jump at every small noise. But overall, the whole movie night was still just a big waste of time to him. And the movie wasn't even that good! He thought it was pathetic how many people were dying to this 'Bloody Bride'. If it had been Damian instead of useless victim 12, the movie would be over in an instant.
"So stupid" he thought to himself. Damian and Raven had spent the first half of the movie quietly criticizing every scene together, but that had stopped about 10 minutes ago. Damian was just about to mention to Raven how a stab from that angle wouldn't actually kill a man, but before he could say anything he felt a nudge on his shoulder. He looked over and immediately felt his face flush up with blood. Raven had fallen asleep it seemed, and she fell over to rest her head on his shoulder. Which, to be fair, was kind of normal these days, but they hadn't had any physical contact with each other in front of the other Titans before.
Damian shot a quick look around the room, "Good, no one's noticed". He could just brush Raven off and make her lean the other way, but she looked so tired. And he didn't want to disturb her sleep. She looked peaceful, lucky too. She didn't have to keep watching the movie. "I'll just move her when it looks like it's close to the end, no one will take their eyes off the TV till then anyway." Damian reasoned with himself. He subconsciously rested his head on Raven, which was a terrible mistake. He too slowly fell to sleep. Resting his eyes one minute, but out like a light the next.
The pair of Titans on the couch were calmly sleeping when suddenly, they were both awoken. Awoken by a flash pointed directly at their faces. While Raven was slower to react, Damian was up in an instant. For all he knew he was in danger, the flash a disorientation device preceding an attack. In reality, it was much worse.
"I got it! I got the pic!" Garfield yelled triumphantly as he transformed into a hawk and flew away, snickering as he went.
Jamie yelled "Nice!" in agreement as he fled the living room, following Hawk-Garfield down the hall.
"Garfield! Jamie!" Kori too joined in the sudden commotion, and chased the two trouble-Titans before Garfield could post the pictures on Twitter or something. Leaving only Raven, Damian and Dick in the living room, watching the credits playing on the TV.
"Heh heh, you two love birds are adorable you know?" Dick half-mocked, half-pointed out. "Get it? Raven, Robin? God I'm funny." This caused Raven to blush and throw her hood up in order to hide as much of her face as she could. Damian, on the other hand, grunted in anger. His hands darted to an empty popcorn bowl, and he threw it as hard as he could right at Dick, wanting nothing more than to knock that stupid grin of his face. Dick effortlessly caught the bowl and put in down beside him.
"You really think I didn't see that coming?" Dick asked the fuming Damian sitting across from him.
"Whatever, just be happy it wasn't a throwing knife Grayson." Damian countered as he stood up off the couch. He didn't even think twice about how he held his hand out to help Raven up as well. Just like how she didn't even think twice about accepting the help and grabbing his hand. Dick caught it though, and smiled to himself again.
"Thanks for the pizza, Dick." Raven said from the cover of her hood, she could feel her face relaxed from her blush, no point in taking it off now though.
"Anytime Raven."
"We're off to bed." Damian said as they turned and began to walk out.
"Ohoho, I'm sure you two are, have fun." Dick slyly replied, trying not to laugh before he finished talking. Raven pulled her hood more across her face and hurried out of the room. Damian stopped in his tracks, and Dick could swear he saw smoke coming out of his ears. But Damian just took a deep breath and walked away, he was too tired to kick Dick's ass at the moment.
"Never thought I'd see the day that brat would fall in loveā¦" Dick muttered to himself as he began cleaning up the remnants of the first ever Teen Titans movie night.
Raven and Damian walked together down the hall to their bedrooms, as they did every night. When they reached their rooms they turned and faced each other.
"Well, goodnight I guess." Raven said as she took her hood off.
"Yes, goodnight Raven." The two stood in an awkward silence for a few seconds, neither one able to meet the others gaze, looking around or at the floor or at their feet, but not at one another.
"Oh for the love of Azarath FINE, I'll make the first move, little coward".
Raven took a deep breath before she spoke, "Can I come sleep with you Damian? I wasn't asleep long enough to dream on the couch, but I could feel Trigon's influence probing around when I woke up."
Damian tried, in vain, to hide his blush as he responded, "Of course Raven, anything you need.." he trailed off as he turned around and opened his door.
Raven smiled to herself at that last part, "I'm just going to go get changed into my pajamas and brush my teeth." She turned around to open her own door.
"Of course, I'll see you in a bit."
The pair once again awkwardly got in bed together, but quickly got comfortable side by side. Damian's arm around Raven while she snuggled up next to him. Damian could feel that weird feeling in his stomach as she snuggled up to him. And Raven, being an empath, could sense his feeling too. She also felt her own very similar feeling in herself.
"I really need to talk to Damian about this, he can't really just consider this part of his Titan duties right? I know he feels something weird when we do this, but what is it? Dammit I shouldn't have taught him those techniques for resisting empathic reading. I wish I knew what he was thinking right now." Raven thought as she drifted to sleep.
"If I'm quick enough in the morning, I can probably poison Grayson's coffee, that'll show him." Was Damian's final thought before he too fell into a deep sleep.
Again, no firm date on next chapter. Might be a while, I need to remember my writing style I was using for this story, lest it be really janky with a style switch. Since it's been, you know, a damn year.
