Arriving at the warehouse party, Titans were in their uniforms. Jake, Cray, and Etana were in club wear. They proceed to party their asses off. Jinx and Cyborg spent a lot of time on the dance floor, while Starfire and Nightwing were in a couple of make shift booths, watching the others, dancing a couple of times during the night. Cray and Etana got rather close, as in major making out, and they disappeared halfway through the night.
Beast Boy and Terra for the majority of the night played arcade like games until they ran out of quarters and moved towards the dance floor. As for Jake and Raven, nether being very much of dancers just sat in a dark corner together with his arm wrapped around her shoulders. Staring at the DJ, Jake wondered if he should or not.
Catching this, "What are you thinking about?"
Grinning sheepishly, "Well, if I asked you to dance with me once, would you kill me?"
Thinking for a moment, "I suppose one dance wouldn't kill me."
Smiling, "Be right back, Angel."
Quickly getting up, he went over to the DJ, asking for something that Raven couldn't make out. The DJ nodded. After a moment, the fast beats of the hip hop music got replaced by a slower, more romantic tune began. Couples began to take each other's hands, while the dance floor changed from swingers to lovers.
Approaching Raven, Jake reached the booth getting cocked blocked by some jerk with black hair.
"Hey babe, care to dance?"
His breath reeked of alcohol. Yep, he was stone drunk properly a future competitor for Jake when it comes to drinking. Instantly pissed, Jake grabbed the guy by the hair and pulled his head backwards. The drunk had no balance allowing him to collapse on the ground. You didn't need to bend over to see that the guy had passed out.
Looking apologetically to Raven, "Sorry, that kind of ruined the mood I was trying to set."
Smiling, "Just ignore him."
Slightly laughing, he picked up where he wasn't able to get to when he took Raven's hand kissing it lightly like most gentlemen do.
Lifting his head in the bowed position, "May you honor me with this dance, milady."
Flushed, Raven tried not to laugh at his approach. The gentleman thing wasn't his thing and she didn't like seeing that side much. He was trying, and she wasn't going to refuse.
"I would be honored to dance with you," she said with a smile.
He gently lifted her up. They walked towards the dance floor. Reaching the middle of the floor, he turned and slowly placed his hand on her hip. She smiled at how gentle he was being for her as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Raven loved the man in her arms, more then anything she dreamed she could.
A life without emotions was told to her everyday of her life. She tried to connect with others when she was younger, only to hurt them with her father's curse. Why talk about selective memory. Even as a Titan, she couldn't form any really connection with them in fear that she would hurt others.
She was openly crying without even knowing it.
Seeing her tears, "Raven, what's wrong."
Raven just buried her head in his chest, crying openly. She knew that he was afraid he done something wrong.
"Raven-"
"Just shut up," she said quietly through the tears, "let me cry. It's the only way that I express just how happy I am with you." pulling back with a teary smile, "I love you, promise me you'll never leave."
Smiling, he guided her head to his shoulder.
Whispering in her ear, "I promise that I will never leave you on free will. And if anyone or anything ever takes you from me, they won't get the chance, I won't let them," kissing her on the top of her head, "I love you Raven, and nothing will ever change that." What to bet?
Pressing her lips near his ear, "Jake, let's slip away to your room," she whispered.
"Let's angel," he said slipping away with her.
The music blared and crowd was dancing to the beat from the deejay's collection. Then the music stopped and the lights went out. The crowd grumbled.
"Step inside, walk this way,
You and me babe, Hey, Hey!"
The lights came on showing a redhead with a batch of white hair over her left eye in middle of the dance floor whipping her head to the drum beat.
"Love is like a bomb, baby, come get it on," thrusting her hips to the drum beat.
"Livin' like a lover with a radar phone
Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp
Demolition woman, can I be your man?
Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light
Television lover, baby, go all night
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss ah innocent sugar me, yeah"
"Hey!
C'mon, "dancing towards a crowd of six teenagers, she grabbed the hands of a green furring teen boy and dragged him onto the dance floor. He looked over his shoulder and gave a "Don't know what's going on," to his blonde girlfriend who was gritting her teeth.
"Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up," resting her arms on his shoulders, her body reacted to the drumbeat. Her reluctant dance partner's eyes followed her as she descended towards the floor like a snake. Finally his body responded and dance along with her.
"Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet yeah"
Motioning to her dance partner to wait a moment, she danced backwards and grabbed the hands of a dark hair teenage boy and a half machine and black male. She led them to the dance floor joining the green furred teenage. Now she was dancing with three males on the dance floor.
"Listen! Red light, yellow light, green-a-light go!
Crazy little woman in a one man show
Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love
Sweet dream, saccharine, loosen up
You gotta squeeze a little, squeeze a little
Tease a little more
Easy operator come a knockin' on my door
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little miss innocent sugar me, yeah
Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up
Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet yeah
During the guitar solo, she turned moving her arms in a wavelike motion. Her fingers started beckoning. Slowly the rest of guys joined her on the dance floor with their girlfriends seething.
"You got the peaches, I got the cream
Sweet to taste, saccharine
'Cos I'm hot, say what, sticky sweet
From my head, my head, to my feet
Do you take sugar? One lump or two?
Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up"
Watching this crazy little video vamp dancing with her Dick Grayson, "I'm post to hate her right?" asked the orange skinned teenage girl.
"Actually, Kory," replied her purple haired girl friend, "We all hate her."
