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Drawing Each Other…

Art was Damian's forte, it was not hers'. Raven blamed Kori for the ridiculousness of this project, and Damian hadn't helped the matter. No, Damian had actually said it would be fun! Damian Wayne! Spawn of the Devil! Had actually said something would be fun!

Raven had merely relented because Kori, and her boyfriend Roy, were so damn annoying when they wanted something. Kori and Roy could out annoy even the most stubborn of people when they set their mind to it. And they had annoyed Raven all summer, and Damian hadn't helped.

Now it was Thanksgiving, she was halfway through the art class, and she was mortified at the midterm assignment. Draw nude! Of the opposite sex!

Oh Azar!

Raven was embarrassed beyond belief, so much so her powers were a bit haywire. See, at twenty-two she was a virgin (and in all honesty she was probably going to die a virgin), hadn't even seen a naked guy (and given the fact most her teammates were guys and she had lived with them since she was thirteen, that was quite the feat), and she was too embarrassed to ask a guy she knew, or sit in the class for the study. And with how her embarrassment was running rampant, and her powers were reacting to her emotions, it was safer for everyone that she didn't sit in the study.

Which brought her to where she was as she nervously walked the street of Gotham to the one guy she knew who wasn't going to be off put by her rampant emotions, and might be comfortable enough to endure a nude study. Raven was going to ask Jason Todd for this favor, and in exchange, she was never taking an art class again. Ever! Kori and Roy would never wear her down again, she would never do this.

Now, why would she ask Jason Todd, a virtual stranger to her, to do this for her? Well, it was simple really. Dick was dating Barbara Gordon and Raven wasn't asking him because he'd say yes and Barbara would say no. She couldn't ask Tim, it was just to weird; especially since Damian would demand to see the drawing. She would not ask Garfield for the same reasons she wasn't asking Dick, he was dating Terra; also, unlike Barbara, Terra hated her guts and it simply wasn't worth the fight. She wouldn't ask Roy, because Roy would rope Kori into doing it as well, and Raven really didn't need to see her best girl friend naked and draped over her naked boyfriend. And she couldn't ask Victor because Victor was 'naked all the time' (she'd gone to Victor first for help and until he said that she'd never thought about him as walking around naked).

Which brought her to Jason, who was age appropriate, comfortable enough and familiar with her powers, and able to keep his mouth shut about her embarrassment and the project in general. Damian would never know, and Raven could escape the mortification of having to face a naked stranger.

Hesitantly she reached Jason's building to his main safe house. She hoped he was here, her empathy was ascue because of her turbulent emotions. There was a loud pop on a streetlap as a bulb shattered and Raven cursed her powers and her luck. Perhaps her father could chose now as the convient time to show up and devour her.

She pressed the buzzer for Jason's apartment (she'd only found his safe house because she snooped through Damian's room at the Tower knowing he'd have the information).

"What?" a gruff voice growled through the speaker.

"It's Raven, can we talk?" she asked flatly, and as calmly as she could manage. The door buzzed and unlocked, she walked in and slowly made her way up to his apartment. She stood outside his door willing herself to knock, and for five minutes she tried to take the step forward, the sound of something shattering in an apartment had her jumping and knocking on the door.

"What is it?" Jason opened the door and yawned.

"Can I come in?" she asked. Something shattered in his apartment and she winced. "Sorry."

"Yeah, get in," he sighed and then he locked the door behind her as he set his trap again.

"I… I need to ask a favor of you," she said hesitantly. He nodded as he stretched and walked past her to his kitchen. "Please don't… laugh? Or tease me about it," she pleaded.

"Speak little bird," he ordered.

"I need to ask you to let me use you as a nude model for my art midterm!" she blurted out and the glass he had pulled down shattered just as he set it down. He blinked.

"That's you, right?"

"Yes, sorry," she winced again as she rubbed her temples.

"Alright, why are you shattering stuff, you have better control than this, and what's this about an art project? I just woke up sunshine, go slow," he ordered as he rubbed his eyes.

"I'm embarrassed, and they've been out of control for a week, I need to draw a nude guy for my mid term," she explained.

"Don't they have a model for that?" he asked as he pulled out a kettle and started filling it.

She gestured to the broken glass.

"Right, and you're asking me why?" he asked.

"Because you're the only one I know who will either laugh in my face and say nor or say yes and never make a big deal out of it," Raven answered.

"Uh… sure," he shrugged as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Thank you!" she squeaked as a picture shattered behind her.

"When's this thing due?" he asked as he set the kettle to boil.

"Three days from now," she muttered in disgust. She hated this project, she hadn't even started it and she hated it.

"Kay," he yawned tiredly, it was now that she noticed the bruising on his face, and his arms. Now she felt bad about coming to him, however she was very at ease.

The next afternoon she came over Jason was very relaxed as he settled comfortably, and selected a book to read, she noticed that all his glass things were gone and she was a bit relieved as she settled in to draw him.

She knew her face was on fire the entire time, and Jason acted indifferent to his nudity when he talked to her. He'd talk sports, books, guns, books, movies, food, books, and ask her a few questions. She felt too embarrassed to talk, so she'd nod, hum, and the few times she did manage to talk it was in fast sentences answering his questions. By the evening though she'd relaxed and the light was dying so she was done, Jason grabbed pants, and she stared at his back; which she hadn't noticed all day, and looked over the scars slashing across his skin.

"Thank you Jason," she finally said.

"You owe me," he warned.

"Whatever you want within reason," she promised.

"Dinner and a movie," he stated and she blinked.

"Huh?"

"In exchange for a drawing, which I fully expect to either be destroyed or hidden away so the Bats will never see it after your midterm is completed, I want dinner and a movie," he said.

"Alright?" she said uncertainly.

"Good," he smiled like a cat who had just swallowed the canary and Raven was pretty sure he was up to something as she left to go home. Tomorrow she'd put the finishing touches on the drawing and be done with it never to see it again! Not that Jason was a bad specimen, quite the opposite really, but Raven didn't want to keep the drawing. She felt weird enough drawing it, keeping it was just… too weird. She'd probably toss it in the Nevermore to be never seen again, the Nevermore was a safe place to hide things.

Jason didn't draw, he doodled, he doodled a lot this evening as he smirked over the images of little bird's red face running through his head.

See, one of his favorite people to doodle, when he was bored out of his mind, was Raven. And it wasn't because she was a boring person that he selected her for his doodles, it was because she was so contained. Raven's face was the ultimate poker face. And he loved drawing her micro expressions, they were challenging enough to notice but to capture them was damn near impossible.

Today had been some of the most fun he'd had in a year. Raven sitting there all twitchy and nervous, yet composed as she drew. It was fun just watching her. Asking for dinner and a movie was improv, one hundred percent because the moment the mere suggestion had left his mouth he'd been shocked.

Her face thought… completely worth it. The skeptical, elusive, poker faced Raven. She intrigued him, not many ever had. Also he liked her company, found her to be very beautiful, and she was interesting. All the more reason to chase her, not that he knew exactly what he was chasing just yet. But he was going to chase Raven down.

He looked at the doodle of a blushing Raven and smirked.

This was going to be entertaining.

That's all for now folks!

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