Marina's (aka Raven)'s POV
Raven climbed into the blue mini van in Marina's body. The first thing she noticed was that there were three other kids in the car; two boys and a little girl. One boy was tapping loudly on the chair and the other boy was fighting with the girl.
Nice choice Cyborg. Put me in a house with little kids.
I
could just yell for them to shut up, like I do with the Titans. Is
that out of character?
"Could
you be quiet?" Raven whispered.
My
voice is the same. I'm going to kill Cyborg next time I see him.
The
boy gave a smile and tapped louder, the other two continued to
fight.
Raven waited until the car stopped in front of a large house. Then went up stairs. Great, which one is my room. Is it even upstairs?
Opening the door, Raven found (to her delight) a large book case from floor to ceiling built into the wall. Right next to that, along the back wall was a white bed. The walls where all an off-white, but the trim, bookcase, window and door frame were an elegant purple. The sheets of the bed were the same purple color, but the covers were a beige-tan color with a purple lining and little sewn on flowers, but in a non-childish way. A small rabbit sat in the corner of the room. The only thing next to the rabbit cage was a small built in dresser facing the left wall. Another closet the same size was on the other side of the same wall, also facing left, leaving a small 3 foot gap in between them that was filled by a dresser. In front of the second closet was a small tan desk with a bunch of papers and tools (like a hair brush, pencils, nail clippers) and a laptop on it. Directly next to the desk was a small purple garbage and then a white vanity, that was a mess with unorganized nail polish, perfumes, bottles, and cups on it. On every wall there was at least one shelf.
Raven pulled out her comunicator and called Robin. She could tell from the back ground he was still in the car. "Robin? Do you think this is really going to work. I don't know any of there names and they all annoy me more then Beast Boy, and I have only known them for 5 minutes. I don't even know the siblings names."
'Siblings? What siblings' Robin said back.
ROBINS
POV-
"Cyborg, there are siblings in the house?" Robin
said, and Cyborg nodded. "What ages?"
"4, 8 and 12 I think." Cyborg said.
From the back seat Beast Boy and Terra were talking to Marina about random things. Every so often Starfire would as a question that made remotely no sense.
Marina
laughed a lot more then Raven did. It was weird to see Raven always
smiling, but although Beast Boy usually loved Ravens smile, he hated
the fact that it was not Raven smiling, it was still Marina.
Marina
got along with everyone, but she was defiantly closest with Terra.
Beast Boy assumed because Terra and Marina were the same age, and
were the newest two.
"Raven,
Cyborg picked that family because you can hide safely, and spy on the
school at the same time. Once you find evidence of anything, you can
come back to the Tower." Robin said, although he deeply
regretted telling her that.
"MARINA! GET DOWN HERE" A
voice called from behind Raven.
"Bye." Raven said quickly closing the communicator.
"Cyborg, what were you thinking putting her with siblings! Raven hates kids." Robin complained.
RAVENS POV-
"Yes, mother." Raven said without thinking. Oops… most people here say mom or mommy… mother is more of an Azarath thing…
"We are going skiing tomorrow. You have your ski pants?" Raven nodded, not knowing any other response. "Socks?" another nod. "Boots?" Another nod, but this one was just a 'okay, I want to go' nod.
"Uh.. mom? I have everything… can I go?" Raven asked.
"No, because you say that now, then tomorrow then it is time to go, you can't find anything." Marina's mother said, marching up the stairs.
Raven sat in silence as Marina's mother went through the closet.
"Alright, I laid all of your stuff down on your chair. Don't lose it." Marina's mother said, leaving the room.
"Robin?" Raven spoke aloud.
"Yeah Rae, we're right here."
"I don't like this. At all." Raven answered.
The Ski Trip-
Raven is fully trained in skiing. It is a requirement of the titans to be fully trained in as many things as possible.
The second Raven got off the chair lift, she skied down the double black diamond (The hardest slope) to the bottom again in seconds.
This is so pointless, 10 minute chairlift up, 2 second ski down…
Raven stood in line for the next chair lift ride to the top of the mountain. Interesting… that green bird is staring at me. Wonder who that could be? Raven thought sarcastically. Glancing around quickly to make sure no one was paying attention to her, Raven whispered into a small microphone pinned on her jacket, "Robin, why is Beast Boy following me around?"
Instead of Robin, Cyborg answered, "Rae, the kid's worried about you. He's harmless." Raven choose not to answer.
After the first ride, her 'brother' ditched her, so Raven got stuck riding up the chairlift with two strangers.
"My daughter was invited to a 'pill party', they do drugs there, but decided against going. Such good judgment my little Clara has. She is always making the right choices." A woman was saying to the lady next to her.
"Yes, Stacy was telling me about how her friends all drink, but my Stacy would never do that." The second woman said.
"Why even do drugs? You know what I hear, is that Tylenol is bad for you now. I mean, we should have seen this coming. Tylenol stops pain in five seconds, we should have known it was too druggy to take. Nothing stops pain that fast." The first woman said.
"Actually, it doesn't stop the pain. What it does is it stops the nerves from transmitting the message to the brain to tell the brain you are in pain. So you are still in pain, you just don't know you are." Raven said, having extensive knowledge of drugs from arresting so many drug dealers.
"And how would you know that?" The woman said to her, then whispered in the other women's ear, "She must be a druggy herself. I mean just look at her, eavesdropping on our conversation. Very rude."
Raven felt angry building up in her. Azarath Metrion Zinthos. Azarath Metrion Zinthos. Don't kill innocent people on a chair lift, for insulting someone you are disguised as. Azarath Metrion Zinthos.
Raven stayed quiet for a while after that. Then Robin's voice came in her ear. "Raven, we have a bomb threat on the ski resort. Stay off the chair lifts until further notice. Slade knows your there, he just doesn't know who you are. We think his plan is to bomb the whole area."
Raven whispered in the lowest voice she could manage, "I am on the chair lift now."
"Get off. Raven I want you off that chair lift." Robin said in a strict tone.
"Where Beast Boy then? He got out okay?" Raven said worriedly. "I don't see him. Slade didn't get him right?"
"We… we don't know. Leave us to worry about him. Get yourself out." Robin said.
Raven raised the bar on the chairlift. "Young lady, what do you think you are doing. We still ride the lift for another 4-5 minutes." The women said.
"Well, this is my stop." Raven said, lowering herself down by her arms and waiting until she was directly above soft snow.
Once she let go of the chair lift, she filed an anonymous call from a near by pay phone to warn the ski resort of the bomb threat. The entire resort began evacuation immediately.
"Marina! Over here!" Marina's mother called.
"Oh, uh.. hi." Raven said as Marina's mother hugged her.
"Thank goodness we found everyone. Okay, quickly to the car." Marina's mother said, pushing everyone into the minivan.
After a two hour drive home, Raven ran right up to Marina's room. Raven pinned her eyes shut, wishing she was back at the tower, in her home. Back in her room, with her books, with Beast Boy safely in his room down the hall, and Starfire following around Robin. Raven walked with her eyes closed to her bed, where she lay, eyes still tightly shut, staring at the ceiling, wish she was home.
Out of no where, a hand covered her mouth and eyes. Raven swung her arm back and elbowed the person holding her in the rib. "Ouch! Raven that hurt!" Beast Boys voice called.
"Why would you sneak up on me!" Raven whisper/yelled.
"I thought it'd be funny. But you had to go and punch me." Beast Boy whispered back.
"Slade is on the loose, and is after me, and you thought it would be FUNNY to sneak up on me!" Raven said whisper/yelling again.
"Shut up Rae, you're going to attract attention to me being here." Beast Boy said.
"Yeah because you shouldn't be here… why are you here anyway?" Raven asked.
"Cause I kinda sorta missed you a little…" Beast Boy said shyly.
"Oh… um… okay…" Raven answered back.
"Well, whatcha up too?" Beast Boy said.
"Doing Marina's homework… fun…" Raven said back.
"Want help?" Beast boy asked smiling, then took one look at the page and his whole face fell. "Oh… um… I don't actually know this stuff.. better leave it to you…" Beast Boy said. Raven took a seat next to him and began writing out math equations'.
Beast Boy watched her write out questions and solve them, until he fell asleep on her shoulder. Raven looked over to the sleeping green boy, about to push him off of her.
'Poor kid probably hasn't slept in a while, he looks so tired… maybe I'll just let him sleep for a little while…' Raven thought, turning back to the work she was doing.
And they said that way for three hours or four more hours, until Raven fell asleep too. Her head slipped off Beast Boy's shoulder and landed on his lap. Beast Boy woke up from the sudden movement.
'Aw… she's sleeping on my lap. I knew she liked me!' Beast Boy smiled to himself and let himself drift back into sleep.
Around one in the morning, the window next to them smashed open. "Oh Raven, I've finally found you." Slade's voice called in.
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A/N
Ha ha, cliffhanger. I'm updating soon though, I have a whole week off of school with very little homework, so I have TONS of free time.
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