Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans nor Monty Python, but I do own a dvd of Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail (exteneded version)
Uhh, here is my longest chapter to date and I hope this makes up for the shorter chapters, sorry it took so long and thanks everyone for reviwing and I apologize to anyone who hasn't seen Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail because this chapter has direct quotes and a summarizing of scenes, I'm really sorry if you can't follow along I just had to pick a movie and this is one of my favorites.
Self-Made
A giant pile of clothes lied on Raven's bed and she was still throwing things from her closet. She couldn't figure out what to wear, it was too cold for skirts but she could wear jeans or tights or something underneath it. Then there was the matter of a shirt and Raven was just at a loss for what she was going to wear.
It was times like these that she wished that there was someone in the tower that understood style. Starfire was the first choice but the Tamaranian knew barely anything related to earth, she drinks mustard! Then there was Beast Boy who usually didn't wear anything other than his costume or giant baggy pants that didn't match his shirt. Raven could ask Cyborg but she had only seen him in clothes a few times and then she had to admit he had some style…
Raven shook her head, she wasn't about to tell any of the Titans she was going out on a date anyway so the whole debate on who to ask was useless. Raven glared at the dark pile of clothes and then jumped in it in frustration. She grabbed a pair of black skinning jeans before she fell off and onto the floor. "I'll just wear this." She decided out loud and she blindly grabbed a long-sleeve shirt with some dumb logo on it.
The empathy changed and added a pair of black etnies and a hoodie, zipping the jacket up in preparation for the cold. Raven thought about just leaving but she knew she'd have to call Robin and tell him she was going out. It wouldn't be good if some villain decided to break the law again and Raven wasn't there when Robin called the team together.
Raven walked over to the video phone near her door and clicked a button, "Hey Robin…"
"Yeah, Rae." He answered and Raven guessed he was talking through his communicator since his picture didn't appear.
"I'm uh, gana go out for the night. I just figured I should let you guys know…" Raven said trying to make herself as nonchalant as possible.
"You going out with someone?" Robin's surprised voice asked.
"Yes, I have friends other than you." Raven answered back and she heard someone snickering in the background. "Is that Star?"
"Hi Friend Raven!"
"Star!" Robin said and Raven had to hold back a laugh.
"What are you guys doing? You know what, don't tell me, I don't want to know." Raven said and she heard Robin sigh in relief into the communicator and Raven held it a little further away form her face not wanting to know.
"Just take your communicator in case we need to find you." Robin said and she heard the click of the Boy Wonder turning his own communicator off.
Raven took a moment to try to shake off bad mental pictures of whatever Robin and Starfire were doing, yesh, it's only a quarter 'til seven. Sjhit! It's six forty-five already! Raven mentally kicked herself for letting time get away and then she let her magic wrap around her and willed herself out of the tower and to a particular street.
There was a flash of darkness and then Raven was standing on a city street just a few feet from the door of an electronics store. She wrapped her arms around herself and shivered against the cold. The movie theater was only a block away and Raven looked at the older theater that blended in with the rest of the city buildings, no wonder I never knew about this place.
Raven started looking around the crowd and then realized just what the crowd looked like. There were people in what appeared to be monks' costume with boards, and some guy with a stuffed rabbit running around with a bunch of people carrying coconuts of all things. Raven blinked to make sure she was seeing correctly and that was when she felt arms wrap around her waist.
"Hey stranger," she heard from the person behind her and Raven smiled contently.
"I was wondering how I was going to find you, what's with the monks and the coconuts?" Raven asked while Jinx released her, Jinx was being pretty forward.
"Oh, these fine patrons of the great English art of comedic theater?" Jinx asked while walking towards the entrance. "We should probably hurry, we're going to get the sucky seats if we don't."
Jinx led Raven through a red carpeted entry way and handed the ticket guy two tickets, she turned down the hallways and opened the door to let Raven through; "Do you want popcorn?"
Raven shook her head, "I kind of want candy though…"
Jinx smiled, "Got it covered already, do you prefer twizzlers, milk duds, or M&M's?" She walked down a few rows and picked out a good middle seat.
"Where do you have room for that?" Raven whispered to Jinx as she sat down. The empathy glanced at what Jinx was wearing and found her answer, a pair of baggy, black cargo pants along with her trade-mark leather jacket and some black shirt underneath. Raven could see what looked like a soda can bulging out of the side of both of Jinx's knees and Raven's lips tweaked into a smirk.
"What? Don't make any thief comments or I'm not sharing my milk duds with you." Jinx said teased and Raven glared at her.
"Can I at least ask what we're seeing?"
Jinx looked at her in disbelief, "You mean the guy with the rabbit, the people with the coconuts, and the monks didn't tip you off?" Raven shook her head and Jinx moved her jacket so Raven could read her shirt which said something about a killer rabbit and featured a knight getting attacked by a white fluffy bunny.
"Seriously, what movie is this?" Raven asked completely ignorant.
"It's Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail, the sign outside the theater must've told you…" Jinx answered while pulling out various snack foods from her many pockets, the theater was darkening and Jinx sneakily put Raven's soda in the cup holder.
"You know you're not supposed to sneak stuff into theaters." Raven said when Jinx offered twizzlers while the local commercials started running.
"I'm not supposed to do a lot of things; if I don't mind bank robberies do you really think I have trouble with cheating a theater out of money for their over priced candy?" Jinx whispered to Raven, "Oh, here's the credits, you gata read the subtitles."
Raven raised an eyebrow but returned her attention back to the screen and by the time the lamas found their way into the credits she was giggling and Jinx was watching Raven more than the movie.
Eventually the movie got to the Trojan Rabbit and Raven had gone from out right laughing—during the witch scene—to giggles, Jinx was glad she found something Raven could laugh at, but she had seen the movie so many times she could recite word for word all of the jokes.
Jinx watched Raven, studying her features and wondering how the hell she managed to make out like a bandit in the looks department, Raven's head turned and Jinx looked down to the box of milk duds in her hands. She held up the box to offer it to Raven and the empathy shook her head but held eye contact with Jinx.
Was she just staring at me, do I have something on my face? Raven thought while she returned her gaze to the movie screen.
Oh goddess, I was just staring at her. Now she's going to be all self conscious, better do something to make her not feel insecure. Jinx thought and she leaned over towards Raven unsure if she was going to get hit for her next maneuver but leaping in anyway.
Jinx moved to Raven's neck remembering what Desire had said, "Raven loves it when you bite her neck." Jinx cautious kissed lightly feeling Raven stiffen but not move away. She trailed her lips up to Raven's ear and took the lobe between her teeth smiling to herself when she heard the empath's haggard breath.
Jinx let Raven's ear go and kissed down the girl's jaw-line, she could feel Raven move her head to kiss her but Jinx moved away and held Raven's gaze for a moment, "You're gana miss the movie," she whispered and Raven sighed slightly opening her mouth.
Jinx smiled faintly and then looked back at the screen to watch Brave Sir Robin flee from his three headed foe, minstrels in tow. And the movie went on without further interrupt though Jinx had the sneaky suspicion that Raven hadn't been searching for twizzlers when she had reached in the feline's lap.
When the movie was finally over the lights flickered on to reveal Jinx's arm wrapped around Raven's waist and Raven's head lying relaxed against Jinx's shoulder. They pulled apart and Jinx caught the color that flushed on Raven's cheek.
"Alright, so it wasn't exactly the greatest date movie." Jinx said while they walked out of the screen room.
"I thought it was really good." Raven replied as they moved through the entry way and began to navigate through the crowd of people now trying to exit, "The Killer Rabbit part was awesome." Raven raised her hands dramatically and narrated, "When, suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack. The cartoon peril was no more."
Jinx laughed and held the door open for Raven, "That's one of my favorite parts too, though the Castle Anthrax does have its appeal. However horrible its name might be." Raven laughed and Jinx smiled, "You feel like goin' home or you think you can stay out a little while longer?"
Raven glanced at an imaginary watch on her wrist, "I don't know, my curfew's nine so I don't know…Mom and Dad get really mad when I'm not home in time, I might get grounded."
"Don't worry, I can sneak you in the back window," Jinx said and Raven smiled.
"I don't know, Jinx, it's kind of high up…"
"Don't worry, I'm dating this chick who can fly, it'll be easy."
Raven stopped walking, "Wait, you're cheating on me?"
Jinx wrapped her arms around Raven's waist making the girl blush slightly at the public show of affection, "Yeah, she's got these beautiful violet eyes and she's a freakin' genius so she might be catching on too."
Raven kissed Jinx lightly, "You're being very corny."
"I'm sorry, I'll try to stop." Jinx asked before kissing Raven on the lips. She felt the empathy begin to kiss back and pulled away. "You know I'd love to, but first date rules 'n all." Jinx said letting go of Raven's waist.
"What you were doing at the movie wasn't exactly within first date rules, then." Raven said while walking next to Jinx and grabbing Jinx's hand with her own.
"That doesn't count, we were in the dark." Jinx replied rolling her eyes in a dramatic display to brush off the whole thing. She watched as the lights around them burst, "Don't make me hail you a cab." Jinx warned and Raven smirked. "Come on, there's a great icee place near the beach."
Raven shivered and raised an eyebrow at the feline, "It's the winter and you want icees?"
"Well they serve hot chocolate too, that's how they stay open for the winter." Jinx explained and then she hiked her fist into the air, "forget this, it's too far away, come on." She said glancing at Raven as the cab pulled to the curb.
"How come there's always a cab when you want to hail it?" Raven asked while climbing into the back seat of the yellow car.
Jinx shrugged and nudged Raven, "Scoot over!" Raven smirked and moved a little bit while Jinx sat down and told the Cabbie where to go. She leaned back and looked at Raven, "Just my luck I guess."
Raven shook her head, "Speaking of luck, guess who made it out of jail?"
Jinx looked at Raven innocently, "Who?"
Raven glared, "You know who."
Jinx sighed, "Are we going to talk about work now? There are so many other things to talk about, like music. What's you favorite band?"
"You're changing the subject."
"It's called a diversion tactic." Jinx said while glancing out the window, she leaned up to the screen between herself and the Cabbie, "Here's good." The cab pulled over and Jinx handed him a ten and got out letting Raven get out through the door closest to the street. "You're gana love the hot chocolate here, I swear, it must be laced with LSD or something."
Raven raised an eyebrow, "It's not, you really think I'd get you high? I've already met you drunk, I really don't think I need a high Raven on my hands." Jinx opened the door to the shop, "I think it'd be like Happiness the whole time."
"Ugh, Happy's been getting on my nerves lately." Raven said while looking up at the chalkboards on the walls to decide what she wanted.
"Why? What'd she say?" Jinx asked curiously, the feline told the woman at the counter what she wanted and got a weird look, "I know it's cold outside. You guys'll still make 'em, right?" The woman nodded and Jinx looked back at Raven, "You know what you want, yet?"
"Are you going to let me pay?" Raven asked and Jinx rolled her eyes, "Fine then, I want the most expensive thing on the menu."
The woman looked at Jinx and the feline shook her head, "She wants hot cocoa, she's just being stupid." Jinx handed the woman a credit card.
"I'm being stupid?"
"Yes, yes you are." Jinx said smirking, she tilted her head at Raven so her bangs fell in her eyes, "It's your fault my hair's blonde."
"I think it looks good," the woman at the counter said while handing Jinx her card back, Jinx smiled.
"Thanks."
"Where'd you get it done?" She asked and Jinx looked over at Raven whose face was expressionless.
"She did it," Jinx sighed dramatically and ran a hand through her hair, "It was supposed to be pink. My hair is always pink."
"It wouldn't work with your eyes anyway." Raven said snobbishly, "I think I did a good job."
"Well as long as you like it I guess I'll have to live with it." Jinx answered while grabbing the styrofoam cup filled with red ice.
"You're going to freeze," Raven predicted while grabbing her hot cocoa and thanking the woman.
"Then I'll just steal your hot chocolate." Jinx answered while opening the door, "come on, we still have a ways to go."
"Where are we going?" Raven asked while walking back out into the November cold. Hot vapors drifted off her cup and she sipped cautiously while following Jinx.
"The best place in town, it's better at sun set but you didn't get to the theater early enough for me to take you there." Jinx said just before licking a bit of shaved ice away.
Raven watched entranced and then realized she's just been sort-of insulted, "You said six-fifty!"
"Technically I said seven," Jinx corrected after swallowing the ice. "And Abby says you're always like unbelievable early so I had to say seven so you wouldn't show up at like six." Jinx nudged her head towards the water and started walking out.
The scenery was beautiful; they were too far north to see the tower without turning completely around and even then the large building seemed insignificantly small from where they were. Jinx guided Raven to the shoreline and Raven was surprised to find a short, maybe fifteen foot cliff-side drop off. Jinx sat down on the rocky cliff and Raven raised an eyebrow. "You've been talking to Abby about me?"
"Took you long enough to say something. I thought I had said something wrong." Jinx said while patting on the rock next to her, "Come sit, it's really peaceful."
"I thought you said you hated water." Raven recounted while sitting down cross-legged.
"There's at least a good teen feet between us and that despicable body of water at any given time." She ate a spoonful of ice and continued, "And it's not even high tide so I think I have nothing to fear." She looked around then asked, "Is it dark out here?"
"What was it you were saying about the dark before?" Raven asked while sipping on her drink. Even in the silhouette Raven could see of Jinx she could still make out a blush on the girl's cheeks.
Jinx reached into her pockets and pulled out a glass jar that looked like an old jar of jam, she opened the lid and a bit of glowing orange seemed almost to drip into the jar from Jinx's hand. She quickly sealed it and orange neon light lit up the area, not brightly, but enough so Raven could really see Jinx's face.
"What is that?" Raven asked looking at the jar.
"Concentrated bad luck, don't ask me why it glows, I have no idea." Jinx explained and she picked up her icee again.
"I thought your magic was pink." Raven asked now curious.
"And my hair was once pink, my eyes were pink too. You think it's connected?" The feline asked sarcastically and Raven tilted her head. "It's your fault anyway."
"You know you never really explained that, it seems like everything's my fault. I'm sure I'm causing global warming and poverty around the world."
Jinx shrugged, "Well I don't know about poverty but I think you have a problem with polar bears and are trying to get rid of them by melting their natural habitat."
"Really?" Raven said slightly entertained by Jinx's theories.
"Yeah, I'm sure you've got a working plan on destroying the rest of the species now in captivity in America's great zoos, but I know you're evil scheme and I will save the polar bears from fearful extinction." Jinx raised her free hand into the air dramatically and Raven laughed.
"You're crazy," Raven said and Jinx smiled and looked at Raven's drink.
"Are you done?" She asked and Raven looked down.
"Yeah…" Then the light went out and Raven was suddenly knocked on the ground. "Jinx!
She felt breath on her neck and shivered but not from the cold, "Aww, so cute when you're trying to be shocked." Jinx let out a squeak when Raven rolled on top of her, "Be careful!"
"What? Afraid I'll break you?" Raven said before kissing Jinx and feeling the other girl press up into her mouth. Raven could feel Jinx's arms wrap around her waist and she snaked her own arms around the feline's neck. She pulled Jinx even closer and felt Jinx's tongue touch her own. She sighed into the feline's mouth and tried to struggle for dominance against the other girl but eventually gave up letting Jinx roll on top of her.
Jinx pulled away and finally started to breath again, "You pulse is like freaking out." Raven breathed while looking up at the feline.
"I know," Jinx acknowledged feeling her breathing get back down to normal. "It's your fault."
Raven ran her hand through Jinx's hair and the snaked her hand around the feline's neck, "Well so far everything that's been my fault has been good. Other than my whole global warming, kill all the polar bears thing…"
"You really like it?" Jinx asked her voice hinting to some self-conscious complex.
"Yeah, your hair is really sexy, although I feel like someone should be playing marbles with your eyes." Raven said as her hand trailed down to cup Jinx's face. "Although I don't know all of my options, what other choices in hair do I have?"
Jinx glared playfully at Raven, "I'm not a doll."
"Yeah," Raven sighed, "I forgot about that whole free will thing…" Jinx smiled and bit Raven slightly on the nose causing the empath to tilt her head up and claim Jinx's mouth again.
Jinx returned with as much vigor as she could muster but she felt Raven pull away, "What?"
"It's really bothering me why your hair changes color."
"Really?" Jinx asked she looked at the scrap of hair that fell into her vision, "I'm working on a theory…"
"I'm sure."
"See, I think—and I'm pretty sure about this—all your uncontrolled emotion power somehow gets diverted to me."
"Is that possible?" Raven asked the empathy was slightly astonished at how comfortable she was with such little space between herself and someone else, she wasn't much of a touchy-feely person and yet it felt so…normal.
"I'm beginning to think so, my hair only changes color when there's really strong emotions messing with it, usually it stays pink. Even then," Jinx ran her hands over Raven's stomach causing the other girl to shiver, "it takes weeks."
"So you think my powers are feeding it so your hair changes colors…" Raven tried to piece together keeping her voice even so not to show how Jinx's hands were affecting her.
"Yeah, pretty much." Jinx summed up smirking at the way Raven shivered beneath her.
"So…what emotion is blonde?"
Jinx was quiet and her hands stopped moving much to Raven's relief, and minor displeasure. "It's uhhh, hard to describe."
"Try me."
Jinx sighed obviously not really wanting to tell Raven, "It's like a Tiger on the prowl, you know? It's like…when you want something you don't have yet…like hunting for something."
Raven smiled an undeniably sexy and over confident smile, "So what are you hunting for?"
"You know what I want," Jinx purred while lowering her head to Raven's right ear, she kissing lightly and then whispered, "and I know what you want." She planted kisses down Raven's jaw-line and met up at the empath's mouth.
It seemed like everything was going well until Raven's communicator went off making Raven suddenly roll to grab the stupid thing and Jinx's weight was gone. Raven blinked still in a slight haze and then she heard the splash followed by a string of very hardcore cursing.
Raven clicked the talk button, "Robin, I'll call you back in a second." She flicked it off and summoned her powers to pull Jinx, soaking wet, out of the water.
"I'm so gana kill you," Jinx said, her teeth chattering.
"You're freezing," Raven said grabbing Jinx's now ruined leather jacket and taking it off to replace it with her own hoodie.
"What gave you that idea?" Jinx snapped and she shrugged away Raven's jacket, "No need to make both of us freeze." She took her jacket back from Raven and attempted to wring it out on the cliffside. "Don't you have to call someone back?"
"Yeah, are you okay?" Raven asked looking at the feline as apologetically as possible. "I'm really sorry," Jinx could see the smiled and she knew Raven was holding in a laugh.
"I'm definitely going to kill you for this." Jinx said glaring and Raven had to bite her lip to keep from laughing. "Alright, now I'm sorry I have to cut this short, but I kind of want to go home and change." Jinx said while zipping up her jacket, it might be wet and cold too, but there was no ways she was standing out in the cold, soaking wet in a cotton shirt in front of Raven.
"I'm really sorry," Raven attempted to apologize while following the dripping girl, "Seriously, I'm really, really sorry." Raven said while lacing her fingers into Jinx's.
Jinx stopped and she tilted her head down at the shorter girl, attempting to tower over her, "I'm not angry."
"Really?" Raven asked curiously.
"Well I am mad, but I don't think you meant to do it, so I think I can forgive you." Jinx said grinning to show Raven it was okay.
"So about that second date…" Raven said and Jinx smirked.
"I'll call you," she saw Raven's disappointed face, "I promise. If I don't you can beat the crap out of me next time I commit a crime." Raven's face lit up some at that, "not that you wouldn't anyway." Jinx leaned in and kissed Raven lightly. "I can call you tonight if you want, it'll just be a while 'cause I have to get to my apartment, shower, change and lit a fire in the fire place." Raven's brow narrowed in confusion, "I didn't know it worked until this week and it works wonders for heating my apartment."
Jinx kissed Raven again and smiled at her while the communicator beeped again, "You better get back to the guys…"
Raven sighed and stepped back, "Some times I really hate them," she said and Jinx grinned and then suddenly Raven disappeared in a flash of darkness. Jinx wondered why the empathy hadn't used that for getting her back and forth from the tower and then figured she could probably only teleport herself.
The feline walked out to the sidewalk shivering and found that she was half-way across town and without a cab insight. She searched in her pockets to find a cell phone and then sighed when it flicked open to have water come out of it. "Fucking water," Jinx cursed and she started on her way home.
Raven appeared at the Tower to find music blaring into her ears.
Come on
I've always been a shadow
Content with my disease
You'll never see it coming
'Cause you never notice me
Unload
Words are the remedy
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?" She yelled now angry at the Titans for calling her when obviously nothing was wrong.
"Hey Raven!" Beast Boy called as he ran over, "We called the Titan's together to hang out, it is a Friday night after all!"
Raven looked at the group of Titans sitting on the couch, she glanced over at the kitchen to find more crowded around with what she hoped were sodas in their cups. She even looked up at the ceiling to find Titan's flying around and chasing each other.
"THIS, THIS IS WHY YOU CALLED ME HERE?" Raven yelled at Beast Boy now dangerously angry, the other Titans turned to look at the cabinets in the kitchen that shot open.
"Hey, hey. Ravy calm down, it's okay." Beast Boy said keeping his voice low and tranquil, "We just figured you'd want to hang out…"
Raven sighed and blinked letting her anger go, "Sorry, I just was out with—it doesn't matter. I just, it was important and I came home thinking something was wrong…"
"Wait, who were you out with?" Beat Boy's face was turning into a smirk and Raven wasn't liking it.
"None of your business," she snapped.
"Friend Raven was out on the date," Starfire said and Raven glared at the alien.
"Where you mauled at the zoo afterwards or something, you smell like a tiger," Beast Boy said arching a brow at the empathy who suddenly turned a deep shade of red. "Who were you going out with Ravy?"
"None of your business, and stop smelling me!" Raven twitched slightly trying not to laugh at the ridiculous request and Beast Boy couldn't help but giggle. "You're a jerk," Raven said and he began to laugh out loud.
"I'm sorry Raven, I'll try not to," he paused to hold back the laugh, "smell you ever again." At which point he broke out in laughter and Raven shoved him for retribution.
"So you smell like a tiger, huh?" Kid Flash asked and he growled. Raven looked at the masked teenager and remembered that Jinx had gone out with him was it last year? Maybe it was before that…Raven thought trying to remember when Brother Blood had attacked. "So what does he look like?"
Raven rolled her eyes, "Blond hair gorgeous eyes, the whole shebang."
"Well you know, guys with black hair are pretty cute to. Goes great with girls with dark hair…" He said raising an eyebrow at her.
"Yeah…" Raven said sighing, "As much as I hate to burst your over-sized ego bubble—don't make jokes, it's not funny—I'm going to have to decline seeing as I'm seeing someone." She walked towards the kitchen and made a mental note to ask Jinx about Kid Flash and why she ever dated the loser.
When she grabbed a soda can out of the ice-chest she looked up to see Bumble Bee, "Hey."
The semi-Titan looked at Raven cautiously, "How's it goin'?"
"Oh great, just got back from a date…"
"Anyone I know?" Bee asked curiously, her lips twisted into a smile.
"It's possible, it's possible," Raven said slyly grateful that she had met someone who she could actually talk to this about.
"So then, you're the reason Pink's in such a good mood." Bee assumed while grabbing a bar stool and taking a seat.
Raven tilted her head at the nickname, "Have you seen Pink lately, I'd say the hairs more of a Blonde."
"No way!" Bee said her eyes wide, "Oh my god, okay, we're totally using Blondie as the code name."
Raven looked around and then leaned towards Bee, "She's going to kill you for that."
Bee laughed and Raven grinned, without Jinx nearby the empathy had to keep her emotions in check and after a night like that it seemed really easy to slip up. "Aww, Blondie's okay, I'm really not that scared. I've only seen Blonde Blondie a few times and then, Blondie," Bee stressed the name feeling slightly frustrated with the lack of pronouns she could use. "seemed to be a rather good mood."
"Really?" Raven asked now curious, "It didn't happen to be around New Year's was it?"
Bee thought for a moment, "Yeah, I think it was just after New Years, but it must've been two years ago. How'd you know?"
Raven blushed then pulled herself onto the counter letting her legs hang absently from the counter-top, "Well…Blondie has this thing around New Years that we go to…"
"We?"
"We," Raven nodded and Bee laughed.
"I so knew she was getting some—" Raven's magic clamped down around the older Titan's mouth.
"You weren't supposed to know about that." The empathy said quietly turning red and letting her power's drop.
"Man, I'm h—can I just say her?" Raven hesitated and then shrugged it didn't bother her that much if the Titan's knew she was going out with a girl, just which girl was a more sensitive matter. "Anyway, I'm like her best friend and she never told me about this! I feel so left out."
"Yeah, well we aren't really into talking about what happens then…" Raven said a little embarrassed. She opened her soda can and drank form it to give herself something to do.
"Now, this is such good dirt, I definitely have to taunt her about this."
"No!" Raven squeaked, "You can't tell her, for all intents and purposes I didn't tell you!"
Bee sighed, "Fine, but you can't just tell me something big like that and expect me to keep my mouth shut every time. I'm glad you to are, uh…" Raven raised an eyebrow at her, "well I don't really know 'cause she's not telling me anything, but she's in a much better mood and she's not all ticked off at the world anymore." Bee looked at Raven trying to judge the girl, "I swear though, she's my best friend, don't break her heart."
Raven nodded understanding, "I'll try my hardest not to. I'm such a deviant on the whole dating thing though, it'll be pretty hard." Bee apparently was getting the joke so Raven turned her voice back to serious, "I was joking, I know."
Bee nodded her face moved back to her normal expression, "Now come on, spill the beans here."
"Well I'm not really sure what to say…"
Jinx poked the firewood with the poker, what a very original name and then pulled the screen closed to ward off curious cats. The teenager walked over to the kitchen and opened a drawer and picked out a cell phone identical to her own. She scrolled down and sighed when she realized she hadn't updated this one with Raven's number.
After a few minutes of struggling with her infrared chip and her USB port she had the number and a few others and dialed. It rang once, then twice, then a few more times and she got Raven's answering machine. Must be the new number, Jinx thought and then she wondered how to get around it and dialed another number.
"Hey, what'cha need?" Karen's voice asked and Jinx listened as the older teen whispered, "It's Blondie," to someone in the background.
"Blondie? How do you know my hair is blonde?" Jinx demanded and then she shrugged it off, "Look, I need you to call Raven and tell her to answer me when I call her, my old phone got broken so she probably doesn't rec—"
"Hey," Raven's voice answered and Jinx sighed in relief followed by a wave of confusion.
"What are you doing with Karen?"
"Oh, Bee? Yeah, the Titans decided to through a Titan's only party."
"You're joking, that's why you had to leave early?" Jinx asked slightly angry at the Titans.
"Yeah, sorry I pushed you into the ocean." Raven said and Jinx could hear Karen's laughter in the background.
"Could you hit Karen for me?"
"Owww!" Shouted the injured girl.
"Sorry, Blondie said to."
"Oh no, you're not calling me Blondie too are you? You know I'm not some singer form the eighties right?" Jinx asked desperately trying to get Raven to come up with a new nick-name before it was too late.
"You really don't like Blondie do you?" Raven asked and Jinx could swear the girl was smiling.
"No."
"Fine, I'll come up with something else." Raven said and Jinx sighed in relief.
"Hey, how about you sneak away and call me on this number with your own phone. I kind of want to talk to you and hear you say my name. It's rather nice, you know?"
"Such a romantic," Raven said sarcastically and Jinx rolled her eyes, "I'll call you back in a sec."
"Bye."
"Bye." Jinx closed the phone when she heard Raven's click off. She looked around the apartment and wondered what she was going to do, she was kind of hungry so she sat up from her couch and went back into the kitchen checking the fridge.
"Hmmmm," Jinx began to move food encased in plastic ware around. She gave up and closed the fridge, "Why do I have so much food in there?" The feline grabbed a box of veggie burgers and pulled out the last patty but left the empty box.
She personally thought of herself as the kind of person who finds the milk to be sour and puts it back into the fridge to later curse herself for putting sour milk in the fridge and duping herself into taking another swig of the foul liquid.
Jinx cut the patty out of its packaging with a kitchen knife and plopped it on a plate in the microwave. She grabbed a hamburger bun out of the fridge and ditched the plastic wrapper in the trash can that appeared when she opened the cabinet under the sink.
Irritated that she could get her late night snack ready and Raven still hadn't called she glanced at her cell phone willing the piece of plastic to ring.
The feline sighed, look how pathetic she was, she was practically sitting by the phone waiting for it to ring, when did I become the love-sick puppy? Jinx shook herself trying to shake off the nervousness at the cell; she had already planned out what she was going to do on the next date and she hope she wasn't being to forward in telling Raven she had something planned out.
What if she wants to do something? What if she had something planned? Jinx let herself drown in self-doubt for a moment and then her phone rang.
"Hey Raven." Jinx answered letting her usual guise of nonchalant fade over her formally nervous deposition.
"Hey Jinx, sorry it took so long you'll never believe how hard it is to get to my room when everyone's here."
"Yeah, it's cool. I needed to fix myself some food anyway."
"Really, what'cha eating?"
"What are you wearing?"
Raven laughed a little bit and Jinx hoped nothing was flying around. "A thong and a demi-bra."
"I'll be over in five minutes," Jinx breathed into the phone and Raven laughed again.
"I had a really good time."
"I did to, I would ask you out for Saturday night but seeing as that's tomorrow I don't want to see overly eager."
"I completely understand," Raven replied patronizingly.
"Hoped you would, so I then would like to go with Sunday."
"Uhh I can't, we always do movie night and I get to pick the movie this week."
"Lucky, what are you making them watch?" Jinx asked half intrigued by what Raven would pick.
"I was thinking Descent."
"Ah six beautiful blonde girls stuck in a cave being attacked by monsters, nice pick. Nice pick."
"I thought so. What about Monday?"
Jinx sighed, "No, Monday's not going to be good."
"Oh busy?"
Jinx laughed thinking about what was planned for Monday, "Well you will be…"
"Huh?" Raven asked most confused now.
"Just believe me when I say that by the time you finally get off work you'll be too tired to go out."
Raven sighed, "Ugh, really? Can't you move that around?"
"Nope sorry, we've been planning this for weeks now."
"Will I see you?" Raven asked her voice surprisingly hopeful.
"I hope not, if you do that means things aren't going to well…or I'm just bored." Jinx said adding the last bit because she was beginning to reconsider sitting back to supervise on Monday.
"It's nice having a girlfriend who can tell me these things…"
Jinx smiled at the empath's words, I guess she is my girlfriend…cool. "Yeah, well don't expect this often, I'm not really supposed to be leaking information…"
"I see, I'll try to keep that in mind, so what about Tuesday?" Raven said trying to steer away from such talk. The empathy didn't want to think about work, she just wanted to be happy in the fact that she had a girlfriend.
"Tuesday should be good, do you like Chinese?" Jinx asked trying to ease into her plan.
"Yeah, we usually get take out, but it's okay."
"Great," Yes! "How about I pick you up from the dock, I realize it's not the whole doorbell routine, but I don't really think your parents want to meet me."
"You're right, I think they're mad that you had me out so late."
"Yeah, you did say curfew was at nine, I guess I should've listened. Well, I let you get back to your grounding and I'll try to oust you from it on Tuesday."
She could hear Raven's soft laugh into the phone, "Kay, sounds good. I'll see you then."
"Bye."
"Bye."
Author's Side-note:
Okay, sorry this took so long I got a new video game and it's very good, it's called The Bard's Tale and while the graphics are very okay, the story-line is hilarious so I'd recomend it if you are the RPG gamer type.
Anyway there are quotes and refrence's to Monty Python's the Search for the Holy Grail which is an amazing movie which I'd also like to recomend. The songs by OTEP titles Self-Made and personally I'm not to fond of screaming death metal but I'm beginning to run out of artist here, and recomendations anyone?