Began: 2008/06/28

Finished: 2008/06/28

Author's note: okay, so I played with Rorek, sue me. And I have beef with historians. Sue me again. I might turn this into a whole ficcy, and if anyone else wants it, or to expand on any of these, be my guest. Just mention me in passing.

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Summary: in which things get dicey and Rorek's to blame- sorta.

Of a Wizard(ess), a Sorceress, and an Elf

Unbeknownst to her friends, Raven had an unwanted spirit hanging about her ever since the whole Malchior ordeal. His name was Rorek, and he was a nuisance. Legends have a tendency to distort the truth.

You see, history is remembered by those who live to tell of it. Rorek didn't live to tell of his own, he was inadvertently trapped by his scaly foe. And in all honesty, when it came down to raw magical reserves between the two of them, Malchior came up on top. Rorek was clever, but he wasn't very special otherwise, which made it remarkably easy for other people to gaff him off as a joke- came with the territory and everything.

Thus it was that Rorek's name was switched into villainy and Malchior was paraded the hero with a little touch of magic on the wyrm's side of the equation. However, Malchior didn't write the book himself. Other wizards did. But why sing Rorek's praises when he was already dead to the world; simply put- pride.

In Rorek's time, the beings being labeled mythical today were already hunted down to nigh on nonexistence. No one really studied them anymore, no one save Rorek. They had been dismissed as irrelevant but Rorek pursued the study of these 'lesser' beings with a passion, fascinated by them. As a matter of fact, he was considered a bit of a geek. Everyone had dismissed him like the 'fanciful lore' that he studied. That is, until Malchior decided to come a-knocking.

To be honest, Rorek sympathized with Malchior. The lizard was just about the last of his kind. Being compassionate towards man had led to their demise; surely destroying the pests must be the solution. And so, Malchior struck out and delivered the first blow instigating war.

After trying and failing to talk Mal out of it (he had a tendency to give nick names, and he loved the sound of Rae), the wizard sealed the drake in a tome- only to have the tables turned on him as he was dragged into confinement as well.

However, when Raven was sealing Malchior away, both Rae and Mal failed to detect Rorek. Malchior because he'd been actively ignoring the mage for years (oh god, the years), and Raven because she had a bigger fish/lizard/thing to fry. And thus, he escaped confinement.

The fact that his body was largely incorporeal since it didn't survive the whole being sealed into a tome thing helped.

When the eccentric mage finally caught the notice of the Tower's empath, she quickly got over her surprise and quickly became annoyed. The mage oohed and ahhed over the advances of modern technology and quickly developed firm interests in the internet, the gamestation, and the Tower's resident changeling.

Rae quickly learned that those two would get along swimmingly and that irked her to no end.

So it was that Raven had an even shorter temper than usual as she took out much of her frustration with Rorek on the hapless changeling. Rorek didn't take too well to this and admonished the dark sorceress to no end.

Historians are very misleading. History is told by the victor in war and in the victor's absence, his allies. Unfortunately, Rorek didn't have very staunch allies; in fact, they were all rather selfish braggarts. Pride and vanity allowed them to edit certain facts, such as the fact that Rorek was a girl. There were many other gross inaccuracies, but that was the most glaring one.

Over time it appears Rorek had developed a crush on the green boy. Should have seen it coming, but there it goes.

For reasons that remain unknown, this fanned the flames of the dark bird's ire. As a matter of course, Beast Boy received the blunt end of the stick. Things quickly went downhill then, their relationship deteriorating so quickly that it dissolved to nigh on nonexistence.

Rorek was not pleased. Her ire was terrible to behold and with deft words, the mage had Raven examining and evaluating her own mental state. Which quickly led to a startling conclusion- Raven liked pointy-eared, annoying changelings with more depth to their person that wasn't readily apparent at first glance.

This led to a rather awkward period of time between the houses of Logan and Roth.

At last, Starfire began pestering, gold hearted as she was, she couldn't stand watching the drifting apart between her good friends. With a bit of poking, prodding, and (of course) pestering, she finally fished the answer out of Raven. With a combined assault between Starfire and her invisible accomplice in Rorek, Raven was quick to cave between them, even if it was just so she could have a bit of peace.

Unbeknownst to the girls, Beast Boy had been talking to Cyborg, unable to understand the situation. He'd been cutting back on his whole annoy the hell out of Raven shtick. As a matter of fact, he'd been positively on his best behavior, only ever asking her once in a while to join him in video gaming, and after the heartfelt rejection, not even pursuing the matter with all that much heat. As a matter of fact, she blew up at him for even talking to her. Now with this awkward lull in things, the changeling was appreciably confuzzled. He had continued to pester her for group activities and he did on occasion try to engage her personally. But he'd been trying to be considerate for once in his life and she kept blowing up at him for even saying her name.

Cy, being Cy, decided that Raven just needed to be left alone. He loved his little sister to pieces but the girl, to be honest, was complicated and required much patience. And though his little buddy had patience (you should see him when he went through the whole trial and error deal when he tried to provoke a certain response from a violet haired half demoness), he applied it rather incorrectly in his eyes. Cy had decided it'd probably be best if BB let Rae come to him instead of pursuing relentlessly as was the norm.

Incidentally, Beast Boy decided that this whole endeavor with Raven was rather hopeless and decided to abandon all hope for the girl forthwith. Even if she were to come around, he would rebuff her advances. It just wasn't worth it anymore.

And just like that, it'd become an uphill battle for Raven.

The roles were suddenly reversed as Beast Boy all but ignored her. Dragging his attention to her was all but impossible unless it was life threatening. On the plus side of things, he didn't attack her verbally.

Another discussion of things went down between Robin and Beast Boy, mostly on the promptings of Starfire on Raven's behalf to help settle things to the Boy Wonder. This led to a rather in depth discussion between the two males about Beast Boy's, er, relationship with Raven. Oddly enough, things just weren't adding up well for a romance. At the earlier stages of things, it was almost acceptable, but, unbeknownst to them, after the heckling addition of Rorek, things kinda went downhill. It had been rocky before, but then it took a sharp turn towards the verge of abusive- and he had been cutting back on the whole annoyance thing! And then, wonders of wonders, the one and only wonderbread declared that that indeed might have been the problem.

Beast Boy had gaped, open mouthed at the very idea. For a good, uncomfortable two minutes, silence filled the kitchen area. Robin even twitched. Robin didn't twitch, it was uncouth and Alfred wouldn't have approved.

After a while of contemplation, Beast Boy finally decided, maybe, just maybe, there was something between Raven and him. Maybe.

And so, a strange and quirky courtship began- resumed, whatever. Of course, with characters this willful, contrary, and in constant flux, it was simply impossible for them to have a 'smooth' relationship. Besides, Beast Boy decided, rocky road ice cream was way better than just plain ol' vanilla. Now if he could only convince Rae of that…

End Chappy



Author's end note: so it's more of a summary than anything, it was rotting my plot work with Old Magicks, so I got it off the noggin'.