Oh, and on that subject, since this story has 2 endings, let's just say I cried whilst writing one of them...
Oh yeah, before I forget, Raven's grown her hair out kinda to the length to what it was in Birthmark... Actually, strange story... About a week or two before birthmark was aired, I drew Raven with long hair like she did in birthmark, and kinda in a ragged state like she was in the episode... Weird huh?
Anyway... enough with that... ON WITH THE CHAPTER! (Warning: Long rambling chapter ahead... I ain't too good on the romance side...)
Chapter 5: Bonding the Birds
"You... Mind if I sit here?"
Robin had walked over to couch and was standing infront of Raven, who continued to read her book. Raven shrugged, which Robin took as a yes. He planted his backside next to Raven and began to devour his muesli, as Raven continued to read her book. Neither said anything at all for a couple of minutes, but both had thoughts flying around their head.
"Oh god..." Raven thought. "I hope he didn't know what I did last night... That would be really embarrassing. His cheek was really soft thou- Whoah! Stop right there Raven."
"Come on..." Robin thought to himself. "It was just a small, friendly kiss... Right? Why am I thinking about it? Should I ask her about it?"
Finally, the silence was broken.
"Don't you hate that?"
Raven had asked Robin something quite unexpected, though still reading her book. Robin looked over at Raven, confused, but still eating his muesli.
"Erm... What?" he asked.
"Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to talk about bullshit in order to be comfortable?"
Robin finished off the last of his muesli, placed the bowl on the table infront of him, and leant back on the couch, stretching his arms out behind it, and podndering Raven's question. Raven moved her eyes slowly and saw that his forearms were actually behind her back, but trusted him and returned to reading her book.
"I don't know..." Robin finally replied. "That's a very good question..."
"That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence."
Robin turned and looked at Raven. He had never seen this side of her before, and was intrigued. She never seemed like the type of person who'd bring up a subject like this - she seemed more of someone who'd talk about more depressive things.
For the next hour they managed to talk about everything... Everythingbut their past that is. They argued over what was the best music genre, they argued over what was the best film out so far, even whether Sushi was better than noodles. However, since they didn't talk about their pasts, it was as though they both had something terrible to hide from the other. By 9:40, both had managed to get onto the subject of waffles.
"You're telling me you ACTUALLY love waffles"
"Yes Robin... I love waffles"
"Would you do anything for waffles"
"Hypotheically, yes. If you're trying to bribe me... Then probably yes too..."
Robin laughed out loud an threw his head back at that statement. He liked Raven's sense of humour, but also found that it was more entertaining by the fact that she talked in a monotone sort of way mostly. Raven on the other hand, was only giggling at Robin's boyish laughter. However, their laughter did not last for long, as the alarms went off in the tower. Both Robin and Raven instantly stopped laughing. Robin raced over to the monitor's control panel and started typing things in.
"Raven!" He ordered. "Go get the others. I'll find out who it is."
Raven nodded, and floated off to grab the other titans. It didn't take long to round them up, since they wre already on their way up. However, when they returned they found that Robin had abandoned the console.
"Where'd he go?" Cyborg wondered out loud.
As the rest of titans stood in the doorway, Raven walked up to panel and began to type a few things in, finally coming up with the last camera feed.
"Oh hell no!" Cyborg groaned.
"Well then friends, we must go to him quickly!" Starfire advised.
As the four remaining titans ran out of the tower, they left the flickering image on the Monitor to play. The reason that Robin left without the others, was because the alarm causer, was Slade...
"AAAAARGGGHH!"
Robin hit the ground hard. He had just fallen from a high beam on the construction site onto his back. He rolled over onto his front and pushed himself up slowly, to face the shadowy figure walking towards him.
"Robin... You HAVE improved, but you're still far from my level of combat skill."
"WE'LL SEE SLADE!"
Once again, the almost common battle between Slade and Robin had commenced. Slade merely blocked all of Robin's advances, as he attmpted to find an sort of weak point against Slade. However, Robin's skill no match for Slade's, and he found himself on the floor underneath Slade's foot.
"Robin..."Slade said coldy. "I can see you're not going to give in to me... I think I've had enough of you..."
Slade lifted his right foot up slowly over the unconscious body of Robin.
"Goodbye, my apprentice..."
"Leave him alone!"
A green starbolt zapped Slade off his feet and onto the floor. The other four titans had arrived just in time. Surveying the surroundings, they noticed Robin once again lying limp on the ground. Raven looked to the rest of the titans..
"You guystake on Slade." She told them."I'll drag Robin out of the way, and try to heal him up."
"Ok, Rae." Cyborg replied. He looked up towards Slade and screamed, "TITANS, GO!"
Each of the titans raced to their do their parts; Beast Boy attempted to wrestle Slade as a Gorrila, whilst Starfire and Cyborg hit him from long range, and Raven ran over to Robin's body.
"Come on Robin, don't go out on me." She whispered to herself. She placed her hands over Robin's cheast, and it began to glow black as she attempted to mend any damage he had incurred. As she tried haeling, she noticed a green glove rise up and slowly caress her cheek. Raven stopped in shock, and looked down into Robin's mask.
"R-Robin?" She exclaimed?
"Raven..."
Both looked into each other's eyes. Robin was barely conscious, but he felt something inside him. It was the same feeling he felt when he thought about Raven a few days ago. However, his strength didn't last and Robin fainted with exhaustion. Raven felt his body slump, and tried to drag him behind a pillar. However, Slade had watched the entire scene. He had found the battle with Cyborg, Beat Boy and Starfire, much too boring and had looked over to where Robin and Raven were. He paid special attention to Robin's act, and smile to himself. Slade backflipped away from the titans and stood tall.
"Until we meet again..."
As if by magic, he melted into the shadows, leaving the titans bewildered and confused.
"Uh... What was that about?" Cyborg asked.
"Who knows dude..."
"Umm... Should we not get Robin back to the tower for repairing?" Starfire suggested.
With that, they all re-grouped to Raven's position. She explained that Robin might have some fractured ribs and would need to be taken to the tower immediately.
"Ok then, Titans back to the tower!" Cyborg ordered.
Come on everyone... Have a guessed which film I made a reference to? It's like... One of my most favourite films of all time!
The chapters might be released slowly too for several reasons:
- I actually want to watch the rest of the series now and base my FF around them.
- I'm very busy with A-Level coursework (especially media studies, where I'm filming a trailer)
- Have another project called "The Chronicles of Bubbles". It's an action/comedy machinima.
- Working on another Fan Fic. It's a Metal Gear one (because it's my most favourite game series EVER!)