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"Stupid Slade lead! Stupid Robin! Stupid ship! Stupid storm!" Raven ranted on and on about how everything was stupid while she paced along the shoreline screaming at everything on the island that got in her way.
It had been three weeks since she and Robin had fought and yesterday he had called them on their communicators and informed them about a Slade leads that was happening all of Titans, East and West, had to partake in this mission. So earlier they had split up all in opposite directions. Beast Boy and Bumble Bee headed north toward Artic circle. Mas y Menos had headed south toward Argentina. Robin and Starfire had headed west toward Japan. Speedy and Raven had headed east toward Libya while Cyborg stayed at Titans Tower West to monitor things while Aqualad had done the same for Titans East. Unfortunately Raven and Speedy had gotten caught in a storm and their ship crashed somewhere on an island in the Atlantic Ocean.
"Stupid Ocean!" Raven screamed before collapsing. Speedy just watched her from the tree line of the small island that was about the size of a football field. The sorceress was still for a few moments and Speedy cautiously approached her and kneeled beside the motionless witch,
"Raven?" Her head snapped up at the sound of his voice but she just groaned and rolled on her stomach and buried her face in the sand. He watched her half amused and half concerned for her health, "Come on Rae." He urged grabbing her shoulder and turned her over but she kept her eyes shut. Chuckling quietly he gently wiped the sand grains off her face and picked her up bridal style when she still didn't respond. With ease he carried her over to where he was sitting on a somewhat bed of leaves he had thrown together while she was ranting at the ocean.
When her head hit the leaves she suddenly jolted and seemed to awaken from a trance, "Speedy? Have you contacted Cyborg?" he shook his head at the girl,
"No, my communicator is shot and so is yours, water logged." A simple explanation. She just groaned again and propped herself up and squeezed her eyes shut trying to remember what Robin had taught her about survival. Suddenly her eyes shot open,
"Water, food, shelter." She listed off and stood up muttering the three words as if when she stopped she would forget the valuable words. She heard footsteps behind her, Speedy was following her, 'water, food, shelter' she thought to herself over and over again. Her foot suddenly kicked something circular, looking down Raven saw a weird, hairy brown ball. Bending down she picked it up, 'coconut' she thought lousily to herself. Unless it had a working communicator inside of it, it had no use to her. Discarding it she threw it down a hill, suddenly her eyes widened 'coconut?' Did she seriously just throw away food, "No!" she shouted and dove after it,
"Raven!" she heard and exasperated and amused voice call after her. Skidding to a stop Speedy knelt beside her, she was curled in a fetal position and he placed a worried hand on her shoulder. She looked up at him a smiled uncharacteristically,
"Coconut." She whispered and uncurled herself and Speedy saw the coconut cradled in her arms. Speedy stared at her shocked and confused,
"Raven, there are a lot of coconuts in the trees, there is no need to kill yourself over one coconut." She just continued to smile at him and tucked the coconut under her arm,
"Shoot Speedy. Shoot the coconuts down." She demanded and her sighed and he knocked and arrow in his bow, aimed and released watching in mild satisfaction as three coconuts where knocked from the trees. Then he frowned, his arrow was still up there. When the ship had crashed in the ocean he had managed to grab his bow, three arrows and a cloak less Raven. At this rate he would run out of arrows in two minutes. Raven stared up at the arrow and encased it in black magic, and pulled it down and set it gently in Speedy's hands.
Speedy stared at her shocked, she just shrugged and turned away with her coconut, but not before he saw her smirking. Soon, keeping up this pattern, the two teens had a bountiful supply of coconuts which Raven had stacked, thought she still had that one tucked underneath her arm. Speedy wanted to ask her why she was attached two that one specific coconut but the way she was acting lately he figured he should just leave it alone.
"I'm hot." Raven suddenly announced after adding the last coconut to the pile,
"Yes. Yes you are." He smirked at her appalled face and laughed when she blushed slightly,
"Speedy! Shut up! I'm serious!" he chuckled lightly tossing a rock in the air before catching it again and repeating the process,
"So am I." he shrugged nonchalantly. Raven put turned away and began to walk away,
"Your helpless." She stated calmly, suddenly he was behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist,
"No I'm not. I can help you." She had tensed at the touch but was slowly melting, seriously it was hot, into him,
"Mh-hmm." She murmured incoherently, distracted by his touch, "How?" she choked out and pulled away, "That isn't helping it's just making me hotte-," she paused remembering his last comment and just shrugged and started walking away from him again. Speedy suddenly scooped her up and tossed her over his shoulder and began to start jogging, "Speedy?" she asked with a hint of warning in her tone, he laughed in response.
Suddenly she heard the splash of the ocean waved and realized what he was doing, "Speedy No!" she shouted at him, and he laughed again and continued to jog toward the waiting ocean, "No Speedy! Don't! You! Dare!" she screamed. She noticed the sand had turned to water as he waded deeper, "No! No! No!" she continued to scream and kick as he finally was deep enough, and though Raven was ranting she couldn't help admire how clear the ocean water was. Speedy pulled her down so he was holding her bridal style,
"I told you I would help with the heat." He whispered in her ear, making goose bumps run up and down her arm, before she could comprehend what his intent was he tossed her into the ocean.
Her body broke the cold water and though she would never admit it to him, she relished the cool water against her hot skin. Carefully opening her eyes she peered under water and saw a couple of fish swim by and she smiled, forgetting she was under water and water entered her mouth. She quickly surface sputtering.
Her violet hair clung to her face and neck and she had water running down her face and arms, and the water was at her waist. Speedy found this sight funny and was laughing so hard that tears streamed down his face. A glint entered Raven's eyes as she eyes the archer. Suddenly a dark trendel snaked out and grabbed him around the waist and drug him under water, still laughing. Raven withdrew her powers and waited for him to surface. Suddenly the bubbles stopped and she began to panic when he still didn't surface,
"Speedy?" she called out fighting the water to get to the spot where the archer had last been seen. What if she was drown him? Oh no… she thought as she frantically searched the waters, "Speedy, this isn't funny! Stop it!" she yelled as she frantically searched. Suddenly familiar arms wrapped around her waist and she turned and saw Speedy's smirking face, "Don't do that! I thought you had drown!" she said angrily, and tears streamed down her face mixing with the salt water. Speedy's face softened,
"I'm sorry Rae." He said wiping a tear away, she turned away embarrassed but he pulled her against him tighter, Raven responded by wrapping her arms around his neck and resting her head on his shoulder, "Besides, I didn't know you care." He said, the smirk was back and Raven's tears were gone. She groaned, just like Speedy to interrupt a sweet moment. She pulled back and began to wade back to shore, "Raaaeeee! Come baaack!" he whined and playfully splashed her. She turned back to see what he wanted and was met with salt water to the face.
Amused she wiped it off and used her powers to encircle a huge bubble of sand and hung it above his head. He glanced up surprised and decided to test his luck, she wouldn't actually drop sand on his wet head would she? He splashed her again and watched her reaction carefully. She didn't even twitch a figure and suddenly he found sand spilling over him and he gasped from the sudden wait and collapsed under water,
"You- you g-got sand in my hair!" He stated befuddled when he resurfaced, she was on the beach, legs stretched out, and leaning back on her palms behind her, watching him stutter in amusement. She smirked and he frowned back at her and dove back under water to try to wash it out. She watched admiring the way his uniform clung to his muscles. He finally got tired of it and pulled of his shirt tossing it on shore and resuming washing the sand out of his hair. He turned his head away from her and smirked when he caught her staring at him. He finally couldn't take it, he had to tease her, "Like what you see?" he asked nonchalantly, eyes sparkling behind the mask. Raven blushed and dropped her eyes, but as soon as he wasn't watching she just looked back up and continued to watch him.
The sun had moved a fox-length when the red head finally got all the sun out of his hair and joined her on shore, with the coconut beside her of course. Both teens looked out at the ocean and watched the sun setting on the ocean. A wind blew through and stirred Raven's hair. Finally Speedy broke the silence, "Why can't you fly or teleport us home?" Raven glanced at him, unsurprised by the question,
"I don't know where we are or how far we are from the Towers, if I fly and I get tired, if it's too long, I might collapse and drown us both. I can't teleport us because I have no idea where we are at. I have to know both locations in order to teleport somewhere." She answered looking back out toward the setting sun,
"How long until they know we are missing, will they ever find us?" Raven sighed at the questions and thought for a moment,
"Once we moved over the ocean Cyborg lost connection with our ship and can't get into contact with it again until it reached Libya, but now it never will since it's at the bottom of the ocean. We are supposed to have a group call in two days, if we aren't there they'll know something's come up and come this way looking for us. Don't worry they'll find us." She assured the archer. He sighed in response and turned to Raven who turned to meet his masked gaze,
"I know they'll find us, that's not what I'm worried about." Raven stared at him,
"Then what are you worried about?" she asked, her voice being carried by the wind. He glanced down before looking back up at her,
"I'm worried that by the time they find us, it'll be too late." Raven just continued to look at him, knowing what he was going to say. Raven just sighed and reached up tracing a figure along the edge of his mask. She fiddled with the edge and gently tapped it, asking permission. He nodded slightly and she pulled it off him and met vibrant green eyes. She stared at them and suddenly she realized she was leaning forward and he was leaning toward her, they stopped centimeters apart,
"Did you mean it?" she whispered softly, referring to when he told Robin that he loved her when they were fighting. In answer to her question Speedy closed the distance between them and Raven let her eyes close and enjoyed the warm press of his lips against hers. They drew apart and Raven sighed, it wasn't like the other kisses other boys had forced upon her. This kiss wasn't forced and demanding, his kiss was gentle, warm and sweet.
The two Titans laid down beside each other and looked up where the first stars where starting to glitter in the stars and they sat there in a comfortable silence, their fingers intertwined. Speedy sighed and she turned her head to look at him, "Roy." He suddenly said and Raven stared at him confused,
"What?"
"Roy." He repeated, "Roy Harper, that's my name." Raven smiled at him,
"Raven Roth." She murmured to him and he smiled at her. He turned on his side and pulled her close to him so she was pressed against his still bare chest. She curled into him,
"I love you Raven." He said sleepily. Soon the deep even breathing told her he was asleep, she turned to look up at him,
"I love you to, Roy." Her last thought was that they were going to make it off this island. I can't lose what I just created. What if I do? What if I lose him when I just got him? She sighed quietly. It was just a chance she had to take, a chance they had to take. Then let her eyes drift shut and let sleep claim her.
Hey guys! So I usually don't post two chapters in one day but I loved this chapter and I had fun writing it. Sorry if Raven seemed way out of character in the earlier part of the chapter, but it was supposed to be like that. Don't forget to review!