Well this finished a lot faster than I thought, I hope you like it so far, don't worry this is very much not finished in its entirety yet.

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Disclaimer: So very not mine, which is probably a good thing, considering I can't decide between Robin, Speedy and Red-x for Raven...then again I could get her leftovers, and those left overs wouldn't be so bad (wink wink)

"This is pointless," She fell back on her old fail-safe when the conversation took a turn she wasn't terrible comfortable with.

"Pointless?" It was his turn to arch a brow in her direction as he took a turn off the main highway.

"There is no choice in this matter, so speculation on it is pointless." She replied, careful to watch behind them and make sure that no one had followed them on the turn. So far this mission seemed as simple as Robin had originally claimed, but she knew the danger of relying on his confidence in the past.

"Well it's something to talk about while we drive," He smirk mischievously, "Or I could just start speculating on your sex life." He emphasized the word speculating.

She would have choked on her tongue if she if she had not been taught the control she had. "You wouldn't want to do that." She said with a carefully impassive tone, a tone that held vast warning all the same.

Speedy had always been one to flirt with danger, so her warning didn't bother him in the least. "Why not, I'm not going to spend the next two hours driving in silence or talking about the weather."

"You could spend the next two hours locked in the trunk." She responded.

"Naw, I'm too tall and you don't want me to get a cramp in case you actually do need my help later on."

"Don't be so sure." She muttered darkly.

"So," He began again, ignore the dark aura coming off the woman at his side. "Your choice?"

"Why would I want any other problems than the ones I know how to deal with?" Raven answered cryptically.

"You'll have to explain that a little better," He threw her a quick glance. "You forget I am not quite as quick as the rest of your gang."

"Ha," She snorted, "Trust me, that is not a worry."

"A compliment, I'm flattered doll, but that isn't going to dissuade me," He winked at her from behind his mask and felt a spear of amazement and desire at the sight of a flush moving across her face.

"Fine," She ignored the heat that swamp her and turned her mind back to the conversation at hand. "I would choose to be myself, I know how to deal with the problems I have and I am comfortable with me. I traded bodies with Star once, quite some time ago and that was a distinctly dizzying feeling. I could express all my emotions in anyway I wanted, but she had her set of problems to deal with. Some related to her powers, some to family and many involving honor. So even if the problems between people seem to be different, they are really all based upon the same things when you scrape past the surface." She paused and looked at him, "So I repeat, why would I want some one else's problems when I already know how to deal with my own?"

"Wow," He smiled at her, "Deep answer." He replied flippantly, wondering how a question meant to put her off guard had mad him so distinctly uncomfortable.

"Deep question," She moved her gaze from his face to his hands and wondered why she had never noticed how long his fingers were before. "You were never alone in what you felt, that is the lie that loneliness sells us and that we buy far too often." She read through his reply by once again noticing the white knuckles on the steering wheel and the tightness of his jaw.

"So it's my own fault I fell?" He asked angrily, his teeth snapping audibly shut after the question spilled out.

Now they were at the point Raven had wanted to get to for the last few weeks since his return, but couldn't figure out how to broach the subject without him taking off. Who knew an enclosed car would be the perfect place to trap him? Silently she sent Robin a thank you for his paranoid mission assignment.

"Who else would be responsible?" She asked distantly, careful to keep her voice in its passive rhythm, he had to go through this painful process fully if he was to recover completely. She couldn't help him if she caved to his pain and anger. "Green Arrow? For what, abandoning you? Wake up Roy, you aren't the first of us to be abandoned, nor are you the last. Was it our fault for not reaching out hard enough to you? That is idiotic; we can only reach so far if you don't reach back."

Silence hung heavy in the car as he clenched and unclenched his jaw multiple times, Raven was surprised that the steering wheel was still in one piece and briefly wondered at the genius of having this conversation while his foot was on the gas pedal.

"I didn't know you felt that way." He finally responded quietly, a sound of defeat in his voice.

"What way?" She asked.

"I'm responsible, for it all." He wasn't answering her question, he was awakening to the truth that lay behind what he had done and why he had done it. Sure he had a million excuses for it, but the reason that had pushed him over the edge was that he alone had made the wrong choice.

He pulled the car over to the side of the road and took the startled witch's hands in his. "Thank you."

"I did nothing." She replied, whispering 'control' over and over in her mind as her body screamed as his touch.

"You did everything," He smiled at her, "You are far more intelligent than even you let on."

"Gee, what a compliment." She said dryly.

He smiled and before she could put up any resistance leaned over the center of the car to give her a quick kiss on the cheek. Raven, startled once again moved to avoid the contact, causing his lips to meet hers instead of her cheek.

Both froze…

Raven gasped as she felt the warmth of his breath mingle with hers.

Speedy felt a rush of joy, a high he hadn't felt since the last time he had used the drug, only this rush didn't bring the guilt and shame the other had. He pressed forward, wrapping his arms around her and bringing her closer, softly nipping at her lips and waiting for the response he knew to be there by the set of her body.

She surrendered to his silent question, closed her eyes and reveled in the touch of his hands on her body, his lips on hers.

They finally pulled apart.

"Well," Speedy began.

"We need to deliver the package." Raven responded quickly, wanting her thoughts in order before they began to discuss exactly what happened.

"Oh…yeah," Slightly disappointed that she didn't want a repeat performance he moved to his side of the car and began the to drive again.