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Chapter 5

Kisses and Cuddles

April 5th, 2012: 3:02 AM

Egon just sat in silence, stroking Raven's hair. The kimono really did suit her. The main colour was the same as her hair and the violet cherry-blossoms matched her eyes. Raven then began to stir and Egon stopped stroking her hair. Her eyes slowly flickered open and stared up at him.

I wonder how this looks to her. She may not remember last night or . . . that. Egon thought as he stared back at the girl whose head was still resting on his chest. Raven then sat up a bit and rubbed her eyes.

"Morning." She mumbled. Egon nearly smiled at how cute she was tired. Raven, much to Egon's displeasure, removed herself from his lap and stretched, "You should get some sleep. Before Doctor Venkman wakes up and sees you're gone." She then turned and went to leave.

"Wait!" Egon stood and grabbed Raven's arm. When she turned to him he couldn't keep it in. He simply just leant down and kissed her yet again. After a moment, Egon heard Raven moan slightly and wrap her arms around his neck. Spengler allowed his arms to roam around her waist. After what felt like an eternity the pulled away, but didn't moved their arms.

"Well. That was certainly better than the Sleeping Beauty you pulled last night." Raven said with a tiny smirk, causing Egon to blush.

"How did you know I kissed you last night?" He could feel the heat on his cheeks. He wasn't used to it and wanted it to go away. Raven went wide eyed.

"I was joking just then. You actually kissed me last night?!" She said in a hushed tone. Egon felt his cheeks go hotter as he nodded. The dark bird smiled as she started to blush too and rested her head on his chest again. Egon felt his trademark sly smirk creep onto his face as he put his chin on her head.

"We should go inside before someone wakes up." Raven mumbled into his chest. Egon nodded slightly but didn't let go immediately. After another minute of silence they let go of each other and went downstairs to the Common Room. Raven went to the kitchen to get herself some tea; with Egon right behind her. She turned to him.

"You should really get some sleep." She said as she wrapped her arms around his neck again. Egon returned the favour with his limbs enwrapping her midriff. The older man nuzzled into her neck a bit. Raven moaned slightly again.

"I'll be fine. I can just say that I was doing research." He murmured into her neck. Raven felt a small smile creeping up on her.

"And if they ask what you were researching? I doubt you would say you were researching my lips." She felt Egon smirk into her neck.

"And why wouldn't I?" He removed his face from her neck and rested his forehead against hers; sly smirk still intact.

"Because I'm under 18 and you would be seen as a paedophile." Now it was Raven's turn to smirk as Egon started frowning.

"Then what am I going to say?" Egon just kept gazing into her amethyst orbs. Raven lips became straight.

"We could do some quick research on Freckles." She said. She grabbed the collar of Egon's shirt and pulled him into a full on kiss. They kept it going until the kettle boiled. Raven removed herself from Egon's embrace and went back to making herself tea. The scientist then went to the main computer and typed into the search bar 'Freckles the Clown'. There was over a 2000 hits. Egon sighed.

"Raven, could you get me some coffee?" He called to who he hoped was now his lover. Then he got an idea, "Raven . . . what can you tell me about Freckles." He turned to her. She was just finished making the tea and onto making the coffee.

"I can only tell you what my grandfather told me so you may want to sit on the couch. It's a long story. Emphasis on 'long'." She said back to him. Spengler stood and sat on the horse-shoe sofa. After another minute Raven came over with both drinks and started explaining.

"Remember I was told this when I was a toddler so I don't remember much. Freckles had two jobs; the first we already know is as a clown. The second was as a hooker, stripper and pole-dancer for a local gang at the time. My grandfather knew Freckles personally so he wasn't surprised when she came to his door step crying. She kept saying something about the gang mistreating her and how she wanted so badly to leave. Grandpa told her to just leave then and she listened." Raven stopped for a moment.

"Why was she both a clown and a plaything for a gang?" Egon asked, sipping his coffee.

"I'm not sure. Anyway, Freckles had told the gang leader that she was leaving the business and he got mad. He wasn't the one who killed her though. He was just mad. She continued being a clown and for the next few months things were peachy; but then she started to get stalked by some of her ex-clients. There were three of them. From what my grandfather told me, they kidnapped her while she was heading to his place for dinner after a long day's work; please don't ask. When she didn't show up he called her phone. When she didn't answer he called the police and she was officially pronounced missing. It took . . . 4 or 5 weeks to find her corpse. When the police told how she died the Press had a field day and didn't leave anyone who knew Freckles un-talked-to. It took a while to for the police to figure out who killed her but they found them none-the-less." Raven continued.

"Did your grandfather tell you their names?" Egon inquired.

"No. They were under 18 at the time so their names weren't released to the public." Raven told him. She had finished her tea and was waiting for Egon to finish his coffee, "I'd better go get changed before Robin or someone else comes in." Raven then collected her empty mug, put it in the sink and went to her room. Egon just sat there, thinking about what Raven just told him.

Hmm. Maybe we should wait until the next attack to see what the pattern is. Just as he thought that the doors behind him opened. He turned to see who it was.

"Good morning, Doctor Spengler." Robin said, "I didn't expect you to be up so early." Egon just looked at him.

"I decided to do some research on Freckles." He said in a fabulous monotone, "There were too many hits to look into so Raven told me what she knew about the clown."

"So Rae's in a good mood this morning?" An eyebrow peaked from the topped of the Boy Wonder's mask.

"So it would seem." Egon had wanted to say, 'more than you know' but decided against it. Robin nodded and started getting himself breakfast. Spengler went back to the computer and began looking through the websites the search engine had come up with.

And that's that. Although I'm having a little trouble with ideas and so forth.