And So it Begins
Raven took a quick shower and got ready. For the first time in her life she found herself with particular problem…what to wear. Raven ended up just getting her cloak and leotard. "Keep it casual." She thought
Shortly after brushing her hair another problem arose: She, Raven, little miss sarcasm, was going out. She didn't want Robin following her out of a misplaced sense of protectiveness. Everyone knows what happened last time she almost had a relationship, he turned out to be a dragon…if she couldn't bring Beast Boy's own personal hell to his doorstep, Raven is sure he would still be talking about it. Raven tried to push the bad thoughts from her mind; she had to be calm about this.
"It's just coffee, isnt it" She debated.
"Tell them that I am getting some coffee and they shouldn't think too much about it…happy thoughts." Raven repeated under her breath.
As Raven walked in to the main room of the tower she saw that most of Titans were already up and moving. "Where you going, Raven?" Robin asked.
Raven simply said, "Out", hoping that would end the questioning.
"Where would you be going, Raven? Care for me to go 'out' as well?" Starfire asked.
"No, Star, it's fine…I will be back later." Raven said.
"so are you going to have this 'girl time' with another?" Starfire asked physically saddened by the no she revived.
" Star fire this is…personal" Raven said unable to find the right word.
"why is it personal my good friend?" Star fire asked the sadness now concern.
"I have it handled Star I am simply talking to a possible source" Raven said with mild irritation at the naivety that was and always will be, Starfare.
"Keep your com on. When will you be back?" Robin asked concerned about the case and itching to prove that he was in fact better than police.
"When I get back. I have this handled, you know" Raven warned.
"Bullshit." Terra coughed which got her a few laughs from Beast Boy.
Soon Raven's soul self wrapped around the laughing boy's head; it was either strangling him or silencing him…probably both.
"As I was saying, I am going out and will be back when I get back, if you have any questions please hesitate to ask." Raven said, her voice heavy with malice and irritation.
"Statement, me and Bee are going out for breakfast so…yea, I will be heading out, I'll be back here around ten-ish and leave around noon again…so yeado you want me to keep the com on in case you need me for back up?" Cyborg said trying not to invoke the wrath of an already angry Raven or the same treatment of an already blue Best Boy.
"no its fine, I do not expect any trouble but, I repeat but, if she thinks anything is odd she will go and probly not tell me anything…so no tails or trackers OR ELSE" Raven said with enough malice they knew she wasn't playing.
"keep your com on, tell Bee I said hi." Said Robin as he walked away.
Raven looked at the time and decided just to use her soul self to get there faster since walking would make her late. As Raven was clearing her head to do so she heard more questions.
"Who are you seeing for this date?" asked Terra
"It's not a date! Can I leave now or do you need to say something that is both pointless and meaningless just to waste my time? " With that Raven's concentration broke and Beast Boy head was released from the combines of her soul self.
"Calm down, McBitch, just leave if you're going to bite my head off." Terra said this with hate in every word.
"Terra, you're border lining bitch right now so stop. Me and Raven will go, bye." Cyborg said, trying to defuse the situation.
"You're not being a bitch, Terra, you were just asking a question and if SOMEONE wouldn't fly off the handle like that we wouldn't be having this conversation." Beast Boy said putting a arm around Terra in a last ditched effort to calm her down, or cuddle, Raven could never really tell the difference.
""you train him well, oh so well" Said Raven with so much spite and irritation that you could almost see it.
Raven teleported in the middle of an alleyway next to the café, since most people panic when she 'comes from the shadows' in a crowded room. As she walked in she instinctively pulled her hood down farther than it already was. Seeing the bright pink horns that were Jinx, she sat down across from her and just let the awkward pause grow, until Jinx broke it.
"Who pissed in you corn flakes this morning?" asked Jinx with a grin on her face and a coffee in her hands.
"Terra was being a royal bitch this morning and Beast Boy wasn't helping; it amazes me how he remembers to breathe." Said Raven, her bad mood going away and a slight grin creeping on her face.
"Terra always struck me as a whorish bitch, guess I was right on the money. What is with you and Beast Boy? Last I heard you and him were an item," said Jinx witch got her a few giggles at Terra's expanse.
Raven looked shocked, then grinned. "No, we never were. There were some feelings but it was mostly one sided, then it was reversed so now it is just an unspoken thing" Raven said, trying to get of the subject .
"Kid Flash ,what's going on with you two there Jinx?" Raven asked
"Flash is a dick and if I never see him again it would be to soon for me." Said Jinx with great distaste.
"Sorry for bringing it up," said Raven, trying to get back to a not so touchy subject.
"Did you know Flash was a cheating whore of a man? I didn't but now I do." As Jinx said it Raven could feel that it was either immense rage or hurt that she had.
"you kept your little devil horns…I like em." Raven said trying to change the now possibly explosive subject.
"Yes, they help me get the hot demon chicks." Jinx said with a wink or was she batting a tear away?
"How many do you know?" Raven said, pretending not to have noticed what she hopes was a wink
"I know just one but she's hot enough; kept 'em just for her" Jinx said back to what Raven thought was her eternal good mood.
Then Raven herd Jinx mumble something about gingers and how they are a bunch of faithless womanizers.
"So… if you don't mind saying what did he do that pissed you off so much?" Asked Raven, hoping to help her get it out of her system.
"You know, whorish things mostly. The fact that he was a selfish ass and the need to get in my pants, but it was the mostly him kissing another chick and her calling me to tell me to 'lay off her man' and the oh so funny 'you don't know me girl I will mess you up' threats…yeah, so I dumped his ass." As Jinx said this Raven realized it was rage she felt.
"Do you want me to go all 'demon' on him? Terra already got me wanting to rip out someone's intestines and choke them with it." Raven asked, meaning every word that she said.
"No, I am fine, he has been stalking me a little bit though….hum, now that I think about it…" Jinx joked.
Raven found herself laughing, honestly laughing.
"I knew you could laugh, I knew it." Said Jinx, laughing herself
"Is that so?" Raven joked, trying to give Jinx her meanest look with out grinning.
"Yup." Jinx replied giving Raven a seductive pose and a slight wink.
"What was that?" Raven asked, giggling.
"My sexy face; jealous, are we?" Jinx said still striking her 'sexy face'.
"oh yes, so jealous, that has to be the funniest face I have ever seen" Raven said stifling a giggle.
Jinx was taken back by that last remark. A waitress walked by and took their orders: another decaf coffee for Jinx and a green tea for Raven.
"So, what were you saying?" Jinx asked, still baffled from Raven's statement.
"You were trying to flirt with me and I was succumbing to your advances?" Raven joked with a hint of seriousness.
"Back on task: what did you need my help with?" Jinx asked.
"Well, the chief of police is making us find some guy—" said Raven until she was interrupted by Jinx saying, "I don't like the chief of police, we got along too well."
That put up a few red flags in Raven's head.
"What do you mean, you got along 'too well'?" Raven asked.
"I mean he is in deep with H.I.V.E. That man has let me, Gizmo and Mammoth get away with so much stuff back in the day it was crazy. Don't you wonder how someone like Cinder Block breaks out of jail? He is borderline retarded, strong as hell but dumb as a sack of potatoes." Explained Jinx.
"So you're saying he had security low so you could break out? Or was it that you were 'just so good' at being bad?" Asked Raven, wanting to know as much as Jinx would let her.
"Low security? Hell, he left the damn door open a few times. This was the scam, OK? Me, Gizmo and Mammoth would be a distraction, you know rob a bank and play around with you guys as another team robbed another place of half their stuff." Said Jinx as if this was usual small talk.
"Why half, why not take it all?" Asked Raven.
"Insurance; if we take half of there product, be it jewelry or what have you, they tell the insurance company we took it all so they are reimbursed for all of it, so every one wins…if we didn't they would try to stop us." Said Jinx with a sly smile on her face
"So you didn't do all that just to see me?" Raven joked, pretending to pout.
"Psh, if it wasn't for H.I.V.E. regulation I would have just got a boat and knocked on the front door and hit on you then." Said Jinx as if did this all the time.
"Is that so? I'm touched. I really am." Raven said, leaning across the table.
"You would have been touched, I assure you that." Purred Jinx inching toward Raven.
As the two leaned across the table Raven saw Jinx's eyes dart around to the side of the Café.
"ADD moment, is that Stone and Bee?" Jinx asked nudging her head so her hair is pointing to the said table.
Raven looks and see them, they didn't seem to have noticed them as of yet. In hindsight, going to the café in a blue cloak with Jinx; the only person in the world who between her bright pink hair and her massive heels, gains about a foot in height
"Should we leave?" Asked Jinx, for once totally serious.
"What about the check?" Raven worriedly asked, not taking her eyes off the couple across the room.
"I'll just put down a twenty, don't worry about it." Suggested Jinx.
"You don't have to…" Said Raven uncertainly.
"I want to?" Jinx said with a smile on her face looking unsure on what to do or say for that matter.
Raven got up and began to walk towards the doors followed by Jinx who put down the money on the table. Outside the café they stood there looking at one another.
"Shall we continue this at my house?" Jinx asked suggestively.
"I'm sorry Jinx, I need to go back to the tower." Raven said apologetically.
"Can we do this again sometime?" Jinx asked, sadness creeping in to her voice.
"I'd love to, see you then." said Raven with a sad smile on her face.
Just then Jinx walked up to the Titan and kissed her lightly on the cheek before running away waving. All Raven could do was hold the left cheek that Jinx kissed and just watch her run away.
A/N suspense…sorry tried to make the flirting a little more low key but whatever…I think it works, tell me if this is up to your standards, I am learning so even hate mail is excepted, yup I have lowered myself to wanting hate mail EDIT, sorry you guys have top wait a teed bit for good flirtation hur hur hur but chapter 4 is it, is almost complete so yea…patience grasshopper