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Spoiling One Another…

Raven would admit she was spoiled in the boyfriend department.

Alright, so she didn't have a sappy guy like Dick was with Barbara, and she didn't have a devoted guy like Wally, and she didn't have a good guy like Connor. And she sure as hell didn't have a sweet guy like Garfield or even a nice guy like Kaldur or an adorable guy like Roy.

No, Raven had gotten Jason Todd for a boyfriend and she knew that despite what the world thought he was the best sort of guy a girl like her could have. Even if Victor disapproved, and everyone else did too, they didn't understand.

Jason Todd was not grade A boyfriend material; he'd even said it himself.

However, while he wasn't gushy with his emotions or open about them like Dick was, he was honest with her about them. He wasn't devoted to her, but he was committed, if she had a guy devoted to her she just might send them to another dimension, but a commitment from him was more than most. He was not a good guy in the traditional sense, Kori, Barbara and Kara had all told her he was a bad boy but Raven saw him more as a tough-on-the-outside kind of guy. He was not sweet, but he was considerate and he treated her like a lady and not like a demon or a friend. And despite what everyone insisted couldn't be true, under his gruff, surly exterior was a nice guy, but never in the traditional sense. And Jason Todd was about as adorable as a pissed off tiger, but she didn't need adorable, she just needed him.

Also, he spoiled her, truly spoiled her. He bought her books, he made her food, he walked her to and from work, and he didn't mind indulging her when she wanted to do something or visa versa. He also spoiled her rotten because he respected all her boundaries.

Particularly her boundaries on sex.

Garfield had called her a prude on several occasions when she had attempted to date him because she didn't want to go past kissing or making out. But the problem was, Raven wasn't comfortable enough with sex to want to move forward. Also, they'd been sixteen, she was not giving herself to the first guy who had 'struck her fancy' her mother and aunt had raised her better than that. Which was why she and Garfield had flamed out and ended up being nothing more than friends in the end.

And now at twenty-six, Raven not only had a steady committed relationship (which she had honestly attempted to shut down as much as Jason had because neither of them were comfortable with commitment or dating in general), and it'd been about two years.

Which was why she was trying to figure out a way to spoil Jason in return for him being a great friend to her and for being an even better boyfriend. And that brought her to the most hated place in the world aside from Disneyland and Wal Mart.

She was the Mall.

And she was here with Kori, Barbara, Stephanie, Karen, Artemis, Tula, Megan, Kara, and Terra. Raven decided she'd landed in a special brand of hell when she'd mentioned she didn't know what to get Jason for their anniversary and the girls had dragged her off shopping.

"Come on Raven, you said you didn't have anything for him!" Artemis argued as Raven was dragged in by Artemis and Kara.

"I didn't mean go to the mall! I'll just get him that engine he wants!" Raven protested.

"That's not special and you know, stop resisting!" Terra pushed her back and Raven dug in her heels even more.

"We're going shopping Raven, come on!" Barbara and Kori gave her the final shove and Raven cursed being the smallest of her group of friends. They'd met in college and bonded fast and never parted ways, now Raven was regretting that as she winced in horror at being at the mall.

"Barbara! Steph! You guys are dating his brothers, they ever mention anything he wanted?" Megan demanded.

"Nope," both the redhead and blonde shook their heads.

"That's fine, I'm sure we'll find something," Kori said.

"Why not just give him yourself?" Terra suggested.

"That's a good idea, Mal loves it when I just slip on something sexy!" Karen grinned. Raven paled.

"That's great! What does he like Raven?" Kara and everyone turned their gaze on her which had her fidgeting.

"We haven't…" Raven furiously shook her head because now she really was sounding like a prude.

Twenty-six and still a virgin, God did that sound pathetic!

Most of Raven's 'problems' with sex was the screams she remembered from her mom, or listening to her mom shout about men fucked you and left. Granted Raven had sorted most her issues out about the matter on her own, and she understood her mother being brutally raped and her father being her mother's rapist had ruined her mother's life. But since she was little she'd listened to her mother's rants until she was fourteen when her mother was savagely raped, again, and murdered by her father (who had escaped prison to come after her and her mother, Raven had testified against him too) and she was sent to live with her aunt and aunt's family, sex was terrifying and scary. Especially after having witnessed her father's brutality to her mother from the kitchen pantry; sex was truly horrifying to her.

Raven's mom was a loving woman, who despite being raped and impregnated had loved Raven dearly. But that didn't stop her mom's toxic views on sex or Raven's own memories of her mother's nightmares and bad days from influencing her and her opinions on sex. No, she had told Jason all of it, but he was also patient with her so there wasn't a need to explain it.

"Seriously!?" Terra and Kara miffed.

Kori placed a hand of support on her shoulder and Raven bit her lip.

"Look, it hasn't been important, and he's interested but we're not pushing it," Raven defended. Jason was good at pushing her to the brink but the moment she was uncomfortable was the moment he stopped. And trust her in the beginning that was a lot less of the physical things on both their parts.

Mostly they had started dating, awkwardly, after Raven had been invited to a Wayne family dinner, and to get Dick off his back about dating, and Raven to get Barbara off of hers'. They'd concocted a scheme to pretend date to get their friends and family to leave them alone. They never actually intended to end up dating, it just… happened, and they both panicked and bolted, and still somehow ended up together. Raven's best description of their relationship was magnets, they just came together and stuck, and trust her they'd both panicked enough and tried to run and end up exactly where they had started enough to not push.

Pushing was not happening in their relationship, they were both going slow; glacier slow, about it.

"How physical?" Barbara asked her softly.

"Almost," Raven said as she folded her arms defensively. "Look, we almost did one time a few weeks ago, before Bruce called and Jason had to go off on a job."

"So, you're willing to give it to him?" Kori asked.

"Uh…" Raven blinked. She hadn't thought about it, she and Jason were usually caught up in the moment until she was uncomfortable or they were interrupted. But she supposed these last months she'd been more willing… and Jason wasn't pushing but he was interested. "Yes."

"Then let's get you something so you can do the sexy virgin routine and not regret this!" Tula decided. Raven groaned, she was going to really hate this, but perhaps it wasn't a bad gift. Also she didn't think she'd regret Jason.

She might regret a lot of other things but Jason was proving to be one of the best people in her life even if no one believed her.

By the end of the day Raven walked out of Victoria's Secret with more lingerie than she owned clothing, which was a wee bit concerning.

"Do I really need all of this?" Raven asked as she walked with her friends.

"Yes, because trust us, you'll want it," Stephanie giggled. Raven looked at the ceiling and just hoped that today would end already.

"Besides, you're at least giving it to a guy who likes and respects you," Terra said.

"And I'm sure it'll be worth it," Barbara assured her. Raven just pursed her lips and didn't say anything on the matter. She was still undecided on the matter but so long as she got out of this mall she didn't care! She made it to her car, popped the trunk and tossed the bags into the trunk before she was hurrying out of the parking garage and heading home.

Raven made it to her apartment, there was a message on her old cell from the prison her father was at and hesitantly she listened to the voicemail. It was a notice about her father's coming parole hearing which had Raven trembling as she sunk to the ground and squeezed her eyes shut to keep from screaming. This would be the first hearing since her father had taken a plea after her testimony.

Fifteen to twenty-five, and he could get out early on good behavior. Raven had moved, changed her name, taking her aunt's name, and come to Gotham to start over when she was eighteen, but she had kept her old phone for the prison only so she could be alerted to her father's whereabouts. They were asking her to be at the hearing which had her trembling in fear.

Raven's greatest fear was facing her father, Lucifer Trigon, and she didn't know if she had the strength to come there and repeat all the horrible things he had done to her mother while she'd been too scared to move from the pantry.

There was a jangling of keys and her door opened, Raven looked up from where she was sitting against her cupboards and saw Jason walking in.

"Hey, I'm back," he called out as he shut the door, Raven trembled as she scooted out of sight in the corner as she gingerly ended the message and wished to disappear from the face of the earth.

"Uh, Raven?" she peeked up through wet lashes at Jason who was leaning on the arch of her kitchen. "Hey, what's the matter?" he asked and suddenly he was in front of her, she bit her lip.

"I'm sorry!" she finally sobbed. "I went shopping today, got all these ridiculous things for you and I was going to try to be a normal girlfriend, I really was, but my father's first parole hearing is coming up and… and…" she was in hysterics at this point as she cried.

Jason didn't say anything, she just found her in his chest, on his lap and they were both sitting on her kitchen floor as she sobbed. It wasn't fair! The one day she decides to try to be a normal girlfriend and then when she was finally comfortable to move forward she get's that fucking call!

"It's alright," he murmured as he kissed her head. "We're both fucked up, and we both suck at normal, but we'll get there."

"I bought stupid things," she muttered in his chest as she didn't want to peek up to see his face right now.

"I saw, and when we get there we might ruin a few of those nice things," he said softly.

"I'm sorry, I was going to try," she promised weakly and took solace in another person holding her, particularly one like Jason who didn't do anything he didn't mean.

"You'll just spoil me a different time," he said. And now she peeked at him. "Trust me, we're going to get there, but for tonight we'll just sit here, order take out, watch some shitty movie and then go from there."

"Sorry for the crappy anniversary," she muttered tearfully as she burrowed back in his chest.

"We're fine, I'm calling Jersey Mike's and you're going to change, I'm going to shower, get our food and then we'll watch Die Hard or something," he said and she nodded as she listened to him pull out his cell and call the sub shop.

"You spoil me," she muttered as his fingers tangled in her hair.

"Trust me on this, sunshine, we're even," he said softly and then placed their orders when there was an answer.

That's all for now folks!

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