Okay here is chapter 5...and 'The Talk' lol, it still isn't over yet though, because neither one of these characters is going to fall to love so easily and most especially not Raven. :)
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"Talking usually involves speaking aloud." Robin said after they had stood awhile in silence, his nerves on edge, but a small smile fixed on his face.
"Not always," She looked at him out of the corner of her eye, "Not with us."
He gave a sharp laugh, "True, but despite the bond; despite our friendship I still don't know how to read your mind. Especially when you are as closed off as you are now."
"Yet you still think that love is what you feel?" Curiosity caused the question to slip past her lips, revealing a vulnerability she had hoped to keep hidden.
"I already told you, I don't think I love you Raven." Now he turned to look at her, face and posture serious. "I know I love you, even if you decide to run from this that fact won't change."
"Love is a volatile emotion Robin, it changes simply by being." Raven replied, still not looking fully at him but over the ocean that their tower stood above. "Love destroys; love hurts; with love there is loss."
"Without love there is destruction; without love there is loss," He searched his mind desperately for the correct words, he knew that should he make one misstep she would be gone. "Can you honestly say that rejecting love will cause you any less pain?"
"I don't know," She frowned trying to keep her rising desperation from showing, "I just don't know."
"I can't tell you what to feel or what to think Raven," He reached out and gently turned her until their gazes met. "But I think that fear is winning in whatever emotional battle you are having."
"What else am I supposed to feel?" Raven asked, her voice rising slightly as her vulnerability increased under his watchful gaze. "I don't know love, I know fear and anger and hate."
"Love isn't so hard to find, you are surrounded by it here." He smiled and softly squeezed her shoulders. "All the Titans love you Raven and I know that you love them as well."
"This is different, this is change." She sighed and shook her head as if to clear it of the confusion. "Everything changes. I hate change."
"I thought fighting change was pointless?" He asked softly, realizing that whatever her decision she needed a guide on this trip through her emotional jungle.
"Just because I don't fight it doesn't mean I can't hate it." She replied reasonably.
"So is it the change or love that scares you the most?"
"I don't understand how you can," She looked at him with beseeching eyes, neither noticed the sun setting beside them; both were so intent on their conversation. "How can you love me after all I have done, all that I might do?"
"How can I not love you after all that you have endured, after all that you have done for me; for your friends?" Robin replied simply wondering if she could ever see what he saw in her.
"I destroyed the world."
"Your father did that and you restored it."
"Only to save you," She paused as the impact of that statement took the breath from her. "Only to save you." She whispered it again, her large purple eyes meeting his masked ones.
"You saved us all." He said quietly, trying to stamp down on the hope that sprang up at her words and her tone.
"I saved everyone to save you." The stunning realization had momentarily knocked her off balance. "If you hadn't been there, if you hadn't gone through what you did to save me…" Her voice trailed off.
"Destiny can be a funny thing." He smiled at her, "You once told me that destiny can't be changed, you were destined to be the portal and you were. I must have been destined to rescue you so you could save the world Raven."
"Destiny," She sighed as puzzle pieces began to click into place in her mind. "Love, destiny, hope…you believe in these words, you live these words and I don't know that I can."
"You already do," He moved a hand from her shoulder to her chin so he could hold her eyes to his. "You are the epitome of hope Raven, I told you this once before. The called you evil, told you your destiny was to destroy and you strived to be good and to create; there is more hope and love in you than any other person I have ever met."
"You don't meet the right kind of people then." She replied dryly to cover the emotion that he managed to reveal with only a few words. "I can't say I love you, I don't know that I ever will be able to."
"Sometimes the words aren't so important." He smiled softly, knowing that the heart had won today.
"Someday the words will be everything." The wisdom in her eyes set him aback. "You can't settle for what little I might be able to give you."
"I'm not settling for anything Raven," He insisted wondering what he could say to break through to her heart directly. "I love you." He enunciated every word carefully. "You still have three days left of the seven you asked for." He reminded her.
"I know," She moved from his touch and looked out at the quickly darkening sky. "I need to think more on this." She glanced over her shoulder at him. "I need to know that this isn't a mistake."
"I know," He repeated her words and moved to stand beside her again. "But did you ever think that you might over think this? Maybe it is time to listen to your heart, to your emotions instead of trying to deal with this in logic."
"Maybe," She conceded turning back to the sky and her thoughts. "Maybe I just don't know how to turn logic off; maybe I don't have a heart."
He laughed loudly at her last statement startling her, "A heart Raven?" He reached out once again and tilted her head until she was looking him in the eye. "That isn't one of your worries at all, you have plenty of heart, and you just need to learn how to hear it." Unable to help himself he leaned down and brushed a soft kiss across her lips before stepping back and leaving the roof.
She lifted her fingers to her humming lips, even with such a gentle kiss she could taste him and her body flooded with warmth. Maybe listening to her heart wasn't such a bad idea.
"Hello heart," She whispered into the gentle night breeze, "Tell me, what am I supposed to do?"