Well couldn't have a Speedy/Rae fic without the obligatory Speedy and Robin conversation lol. A very frustrated Speedy gets some good news, at least for him...maybe not so good for Raven.

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"Later?" He mumbled to himself as he stood once again at the range, firing off shots at random. "What the hell does that mean?" As confused and irritated as he was, his shooting didn't falter once; every target was destroyed, every bull's-eye hit.

The sun beat down on him and he felt the beads of sweat begin to form on his brow; purposefully he shoved Raven from his mind and set it back to his practice. Firing another arrow as the machine to his left shot another target into the air, he watched it explode into dust.

"Well your aim doesn't seem to have suffered." A smug voice replied behind him, "I wonder how your hand to hand is."

"I can still beat you." He turned to greet his team leader with a smirk of his own. "But that doesn't take all that much, you've gotten soft in your old age." A direct reference to the fact that Robin was a good three months older than he was.

"I don't seem to remember you ever beating me." Robin paused to consider this, a gleam in his eye.

"Well I have heard that the mind is one of the first things to go," Speedy responded, cocking his hip against the bow he had balanced on the ground. "It's a pity too, you had so much promise."

"Hey, I'm not the one talking to myself alone on the archery range." Robin defended himself with an arch look.

"Yeah, well everyone already thinks I'm crazy so it shouldn't hurt my image too much." Speedy responded quickly a smile on his face.

"You are doing okay here right?" Robin asked no pity or accusation on his face only friendly concern.

"I'm doing good," He sighed and his gaze slipped to the tower for a quick second. "I have had some rough nights and days." He gave a quick laugh, "But lately they have nothing to do with addiction."

"Anything I can help with?" Robin questioned, wondering what could be causing the shadows that crossed the archer's face.

"Not unless you have learned more about women while I was gone." Speedy tilted his head at his friend with a grin.

"Afraid not," Robin grinned himself. "I can handle the dining, dinners and bed, but if you want anything deeper you're on your own." It was well known that Robin avoided any form of commitment and had ruined any number of relationships by dining, bedding and leaving, apparently women didn't like to wake up alone. "What woman is causing your trouble? You've never had a problem with them before."

"I always knew which way was up before," He sighed and ran a hand through his hair, "With this one I don't know what she wants…hell I don't know what I want." He gave a mirthless laugh.

"Ahh," Robin felt a grin creep across his face, "The great lover has fallen, I always hoped I would be around to see the bed you couldn't extradite yourself so easily from."

"I haven't even managed a date; I don't think getting out of the bed is going to be as much of a problem as getting into it." Speedy muttered his gaze glancing over the tower once again.

"So, tell me who it is." Robin insisted wondering if he knew the femme fatal who had roped Speedy in so well. "Do I know her?"

"Oh, you know her." Speedy responded curious about what Robin would think when he knew he the girl was and braced himself subtly. "It's Raven."

"Excuse me?" Both of Robin's eyebrows disappeared into his gelled hairline, "Did you just say Raven?"

"Losing your hearing as well?" Speedy quipped with a smirk.

Robin's eyes narrowed behind his mask and he took a step forward, "What do you mean to do to her?" His voice was dangerously low.

"Come now Robin, you know I am not a kiss and tell type." Speedy replied, braced for an attack. "It's up to her anyway." For the third time he looked towards the tower and this time Robin followed his gaze.

Robin went back over the conversation they had just had, grimacing a little at some of the remarks made. "You're in trouble my friend." He said a grin spreading across his face as he realized that Raven wasn't going to fall easily to his friend, if at all.

"Don't I know it." Speedy agreed fervently. "She kissed me back, what am I supposed to think when she doesn't talk to me for nearly a week?"

"You kissed her?" Robin managed to choke out, the image simply not correlating in his mind.

"It was an accident," Speedy replied dismissively. "The important part is that she kissed me back."

"An accident," The eyebrows disappeared again, but Speedy was too busy with his own internal dealings to notice. "How do you 'accidentally' kiss someone," He paused, "Especially Raven, without getting reamed?"

"She moved."

"Moved?" A laugh, "What, she tripped onto your lips?"

"I don't think I want to talk about this with you anymore." Speedy narrowed his eyes at his laughing friend.

Gasping for breath and holding his side, Robin held up a hand. "No, seriously…I'm done." Valiantly he tried for a straight and serious face only to get the image of Raven tripping into a kiss and begin to sputter again. "Really, I'm done." He sucked in huge gulps of air.

"If you must know, I went to kiss her cheek…"

"And ended up on her lips, man your geography was off." Robin replied with a snicker.

"That isn't important," Speedy insisted. "The fact is she hasn't talked to me about it at all." He paused and added as an afterthought "She's been avoiding me as well; I am not sure if she wants me to go away or if it means something significant."

"Raven rarely avoids things," Robin replied thoughtfully able to finally swallow his chuckles. "She only avoids things that she fears."

"So she is scared of me?" Speedy frowned; using an arm to wipe the sweat from his brow he didn't think he liked the thought that he scared her.

"No, I don't think she is scared of you really." Robin disagreed. "She is probably more scared of what she feels around you. Of what you made her feel."

"So she is scared of me." This time it wasn't a question, it was a statement and it was accompanied by a smirking grin.

"Be careful," Robin warned watching the look come across Speedy's face. "She's nearly a sister to me. I don't know that I like you thinking about her this way."

"I don't know that you have much of a choice," Speedy winked at him, "It is her fault after all, she moved."

"Good lord," Robin sighed, "At the very least this is going to be interesting to watch. You don't mind if I put my money on Raven do you?"

"Not at all," The smirk remained as he stared at the tower. "Not as long as you don't mind losing it." Already a battle plan forming in his mind.