"Cyborg?" Raven called out her head spinning. The said half-robot turned his head at the sound of her hoarse voice,
"Raven? How are you feeling?" She swung her legs around and off the bed,
"Fine. How long have I been out?" Cyborg briefly looked down at the clipboard in his hands before grabbing her wrist gently and taking her pulse,
"About a day, you used a lot of power in one day, so you didn't have much to heal yourself," he paused gesturing to the fading cuts on her abdomen. Raven slowly nodded and looked around the room,
"Why are you here? Aren't I supposed to be at Titan's East tower?" Raven inquired after a moment of inspection. Cyborg nodded,
"Yeah, but after you passed out Speedy ran you here and called us all over. He didn't know that you were trying to heal yourself when you were floating. He thought you were going into a comma and panicked, started yelling things about losing a fire or something like that." Cyborg chuckled at the memory of Speedy's face on the screen on the brink of panic. His normally perfect hair had been a natural disaster. Raven's face fell,
"Speedy? Where is he?" she asked quietly, "I have to apologize for something I did to him." Raven glanced up and saw Cyborg smiling softly,
"Rae, Speedy told me what you did to all the phone numbers." Raven looked away embarrassed, but before she could say anything Cyborg continued, "Don't worry I won't tell Robin." Oh no…Robin. She had forgotten about him, he had a strict policy against team mates 'dating'. Which is ironic since the Boy Blunder was dating the Tameranian princess.
"What will Robin say?" Cyborg looked down and kneeled on the floor so they were eye level,
"Don't worry about Robin, as long as you're happy we will all be happy."
"But Speedy doesn't like me like that, so it doesn't really matter." Cyborg looked at his sister in pure and utter shock. Couldn't she see how much the archer cared for her? He let his hair get messed up for her! He never lets his hair get messed up! Cyborg lifted a hand and placed in softly on Raven's cheek,
"If you think that then your blind." Startled by the abruptness she jerked away from him, he just smiled at her again, "I should tell the team that you're awake." Raven nodded and he began to walk away when she called out to him,
"Cyborg?" he turned to her and was surprised when she wrapped her arms around his neck in a hug, "Thank you." She whispered quietly. He returned the embrace,
"Anything for you sis." She let go and went to sit on the bed again to wait for her team to come back. Raven heard the door open and close, signaling Cyborg leaving. Raven stared down at her hands blankly. She sighed quietly, why was this happening to her? A sudden rush of emotions hit her as the door flung open revealing the people giving off the strong emotions. Robin felt concern, Starfire felt joy that she was awake, Bumble Bee felt guilt that she had asked her to move, Aqualad was feeling confusion, Beast Boy was feeling happy and concerned, Speedy was feeling- Raven shook her head, he was feeling an emotion that was foreign to her, an emotion she believed that no one could ever feel toward her. So she choose to think she imagined the emotion.
"Raven!" Starfire squealed when the door opened. The princess rushed forward and wrapped the empathy in one of her signature hugs. Raven gasped for breath,
"St..ar…fir…e!" The girl quickly released her best friend,
"Oh! Friend Raven! I am truly sorry I am just happy that you are the O and K!" Raven smiled softly Starfire,
"I'm fine Star," she frowned when Star turned away and walked back to Robin and completed her thought, "-now that I can breathe." She muttered the last part quietly and jumped when bubbling laughter erupted from beside her. Raven looked up quickly and saw Aqualad laughing down at her, "Oh, hey. How was your date?" the laughing subsided and Aqualad frowned,
"I don't know, you ask her. I didn't go." Raven looked down guiltily,
"Sorry."
"It's not your fault Raven, we rescheduled for tonight actually." He glanced down at his watch and his eyes widened, "And I should probably go get ready!" Raven nodded and shooed him off and he ran quickly out of the room, grabbing Bee's arm in the process and dragging her along and called over his shoulder, "Come on Robin you to! I need your help!" Robin just shook his head smiling and followed the prince of seas out of the room with Starfire following behind him. This left Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Speedy in the room. Speedy cleared his throat awkwardly in the silence and Cyborg suddenly grabbed Beast Boy's arm,
"Come on, isn't that video game waiting on us? I'm going to kick your butt!" Cyborg shouted dragging BB out of the room,
"No way dude!" came BB's fading retort as they raced out of the room, the door closing behind them. Speedy walked toward the empath and sat down on her bed beside her. Raven was the first to break to tight silence,
"I'm sorry." She muttered. Speedy looked up at her confused,
"For what?" he asked his confusion radiating off him. Raven thought about her words, choosing the carefully before speaking, trying to see how she could tactfully play this,
"For burning the phone numbers of the fan girls who were throwing themselves at you." She stated bluntly and then cringed, so much for tactful. She was startled when Speedy chuckled and felt his hand on her cheek. She looked up at him through her eye lashes and he smirked down at her,
"It's all right Rae, besides I wasn't really planning on calling them, they weren't my type." She looked up at him,
"What is you type?" she whispered and then mentally slapped herself for asking the stupid question. Then she tensed waiting for him to say bright, bubbly blonde girls, huh triple B. He didn't laugh at her just leaned forward until their faces where inches apart,
"My preference," he whispered, his breath tickling her cheek. She couldn't help but lean forward slightly letting his cologne waft over her, "My preference is y-," suddenly a blaring alarm echoed through the tower and Beast Boy busted in,
"Quick! Robin wants us in the co-," then he noticed how closed the two teens were sitting, "Oh…am I interrupting something?" he asked awkwardly scratched the back of his neck and Raven sneered at him,
"What Beast Boy?" she demanded icily,
"Mad Mod, he's robbing the bank down town, Robin needs us ASAP." Raven just continued to stare at him waiting for him to continue,
"I thought Mad Mod stuck to Jump City." Beast Boy glanced down,
"Yeah that's the thing, Robin wants you to teleport us to Jump City so we can kick his butt." Raven opened her mouth but Speedy cut her off,
"She can't do that! She's still recovering!" he practically shouted in his frustration. Beast Boy shrugged it off,
"Tell our fearless leader that." Speedy stiffened,
"He's your leader, not mine." He growled and stormed out of the room with Raven following slowly behind him. Speedy disappeared down the hall way and Raven continued her slow pace. Finally she got to the Common room. She opened the door and saw the titans hiding behind the couch as both masked boys facing off in the center of the room, both oblivious of her presence, both bristling, "I told you, she needs more time to recover!" Speedy shouted and the spikey haired boy. Robin growled in response,
"And I told you, I know my own team mate! She'll be fine! We need her to teleport us to Jump so we can take care of Mad Mod!"
"Oh and I suppose you expect her to fight as well once you get there!
"Yes I do! She can handle herself!"
"Let the police take care of it! They're closer!"
"It's not the police's job! It's our job to deal with criminals!"
"Do you hear yourself Robin?! It is the police's job to deal with criminals! You just want Raven for her powers!" Speedy shout curling his fists in an attempt to control the rage pulsing through him,
"And all you want is her body! That's the only reason you like her! You never cared for anyone you just wanted someone for their body, why should I believe you want Raven for any other reason?!" After Robin yelled this his eyes widened as he realized how much he insulted his child hood friend then they narrowed as if to challenge the red head to do anything about it,
"That's not true! I do care about Raven okay?!" he shouted punching Robin across the face for insulting him and Raven in such a way,
"Why should I believe you?!" Robin shouted after wiping the blood off his mouth with his fist before swiping his foot under Speedy. The archer feel with a thud and Robin pounced on him pounding his face with his face. Speedy suddenly gained the upper hand and grabbed Robin's fist and hooking his leg around Robin and flipping them so he was pining Robin with his hands to his side and a knee across his stomach. Speedy glared down at Robin,
"Because I love her." He whispered, in the silence of the room it sounded loud. Now the only sound in the room was the sound of the two boys panting. Robin suddenly laughed coldly,
"Like I'm supposed to believe that crap!" he hissed and threw Speedy off him. The archer rolled smoothly to his feet and Robin was on his feet in an instant. Robin took action quickly and threw two birdaranges at the archer and Speedy was suddenly pinned to the wall with two birdaranges pinning him by the shirt. Speedy growled and tugged at them but they were stuck and he glared at Robin,
"Yes you are! Because it's true!" Robin pulled out another weapon and threw it at him, Raven recognized it in a heartbeat, it was on of Red-X's weapons that would shock the person on contact and shut down their brain for a day or two.
"NO!" Raven whispered and a black sphere suddenly appeared around the weapon and she brought it toward her and grabber it in her hand carefully and looked back up at the two boys who were staring at her in shock,
"Oh, Raven, Hi. How long have you been standing there?" Robin asked in embarrassment. Raven folded her arms in response,
"Robin." She held up the X shaped weapon, "Long enough. Unpin Speedy, you and me, we need to talk." She hissed the last part. Wearily Robin walked forward and did something to the birdaranges and they contracted, freeing Speedy. Speedy glared at him and a black trendel snaked out and grabbed Robin around the stomach and dragged him out of the common room, following Raven. Speedy just stood there in shock, 'how long was she standing there?' he asked himself.
The door to the guest bedroom slammed shut and Robin was tossed against the wall, "Well?" she hissed. Raven was furious, and Robin acknowledged it with a nervous gulp, all thoughts of facing Mad Mod where gone from his mind. He could face giant, talking serpents and men ten times bigger than him without a trace of fear in him, but facing an angry woman terrified him, especially if that woman was Raven,
"Raven," he began nervously, "I can explain." He said as calmly as possible. Raven's purple eyes flashed red for a moment,
"I certainly hope you can Robin. What is your excuse trying to throw one of Red-X's weapons at Speedy? I mean, I thought you were Robin not Red-X." she stated in mock patience. Robin was fidgeting, "Quit moving!" she suddenly hissed at him and pinned him so her couldn't move with her powers,
"I didn't know that it was in my belt." He lied easily and Raven saw through it though. She growled and stalked up to him until she was inches apart,
"Leave Robin. Go back to your own tower and take care of Mad Mod and all those other wonderful villains, maybe after my visit with Titan's East is over and Bumble Bee wants to come back, maybe then I will be able to look at you without disgust." She growled at him and pushed him out of her door, at it slammed closed behind him and Raven collapsed on her bed.
'I wonder if the world is ending.' She thought to herself as she lay on her bed, 'yup. That's probably it. The world is ending' it was the only logical explanation of her sudden show of emotions. 'Cool'. She thought to herself nonchalantly, 'the world is ending, and this time, it isn't my fault.' She smiled to herself and closed her eyes.