-Authors Note
: 'ello my duckies! Just kidin'…kind of…anyway, I just want to say thanx to all my reviewers…that's it…
I think I forgot to put a disclaimer on my chaps so here's for all the douche's who have no lives also the douches's who want to sue people for partiallty using their stuff. I'm promoting the show and your characters you bitches, get over it already.
Disclaimer: I do not own Cartoon Network nor do I own DC comics and any of the characters accept OC ones. I do not own nor will I probably ever own them so please don't sue me, because if I did own them, there definitely would be more episodes.
Okay! Now that that's over I would like to apologize for the last chapter. I'm sorry if it was not to your liking, truthfully it wasn't to mine either but I didn't know how else to fix it so get over it and move on. Hopefully this chapter will be a lot better than the last. Hopefully. commence getting hopes up now! *pushes BIG RED BUTTON that says DO-NOT-TOUCH!
On with the story =P
As they drove through the heavy of traffic the adults still carried on their conversations of business, money and their children. Richard sat casually draped against his seat texting as fast as his fingers could type on the keyboard of his black chocolate phone. Rachel chatted away with Mandi and Kori about their school, clothes, magazines, books and who the other girls had crushes on.
"I don't know who I like…" said Mandi.
"Well, I do like someone," Kori said hesitantly.
"Well spill girl." Mandi said getting excited.
"…Roy," said Kori closing her eyes, already knowing what was coming next.
"ROY! You mean The Roy Harper! He's such a player Kor, how could you like him?" Mandi practically yelled through the car.
Nobody seemed to notice because everybody's conversations were just as loud and picking up volume.
"Shhh Mandi, must you let everyone know?" Kori peered around at the others.
"Well, he is cute…I guess," Mandi said, lightly tapping her finger on her chin.
"Wow, I wonder if I should text what you guys are saying to Roy, he'd probably have a good laugh." Richard spoke up suddenly, smirking down at his phone, texting rapidly.
"Dick, I will beat the crap out of you, I swear, put down the phone!" Mandi said as she jumped on him, wrestling around in their section.
"Mandi, if you don't get off me I will send it," he said half laughing, with a sly smirk on his face.
"If you don't give me the phone I'll hit you below the belt Dick, don't think I'm kidding." she said now laughing too.
Kori snatched the phone out of his hand and deleted the message. She decided to be nosy and scroll through his messages to see what he was saying to the people he was texting that whole time. Rachel tried to look at the screen too, while Mandi and Dick were still wrestling each other still for no reason. They didn't seem to care though. This must be the usual behavior with these two, Rachel thought, looking over at them.
Kori handed the phone off to Rachel. Kori started laughing as Rachel's face lit up with red. One message read "I'm ridin n the car w/ probably the 3 most hottest girls. Tell me your jealous =P. There were four responses, one from the Roy guy Rachel guessed they were talking about earlier, somebody named Vic, a person named Gar and somebody named Wwest. She stared at the phone wondering who these people were. She checked their responses. The Roy guy said "Dude send me a pic". The one named Vic said, "Nobody's hotter than Bee dude ;). Gar said "Dick, u kno I gotta gf! She gos thru my mess. U kno how she getz…. Wally replied "u kno Jinx's got me hooked". What the hell were these people talking about, she thought. She looked on the phone again, Dick had sent another message after Roy's last. The message just showed a small square with what looked like .jpg under it. Isn't that an image file, she asked herself.
Just then the phone vibrated in her hand and made a jingle sound. She press the OK button on the keyboard.
Dick and Mandi had looked up from their fight; they tumbled off each other and looked around for the phone .
"What did it say?" Mandi asked as she spotted Rachel with the phone.
"Wait! Were you reading my messages?" Dick got up off the floor of the limo and stared at Rachel like prey, for once losing his calm, collected expression.
Rachel looked back down at the phone. Roy messaged back saying "pretty hott but u kno the 1 i like-
Dick snatched his phone out of her hand before she could finish reading.
"Hey, I wanna see too," Mandi pouted.
"Come on Dick just let me read it. I won't tell them!" Mandi pleaded with puppy-dog eyes.
"Well, what'd it say Rachel, was it from Roy?" Kori asked her, excitement evident in her face.
"Well…" she said looking at Dick, she knew it wasn't her business to pry in the first place, she should just keep it to herself. "I didn't see all of it, it was from Roy but he grabbed it before I could finish" Rachel said to her.
"Please Dick, may we see it? Please?" Kori whined to him.
Just then the big black window rolled down. "Excuse me Master Dick, Miss Roth, Miss Anders and Miss Anders, but we are almost to Gotham High School." Alfred said in a monotone.
"Thanks Alfred." Dick said to the older man.
"Your welcome Master Dick." Alfred said. Then he rolled the window back up.
Mandi hopped on top of Dick, reaching for the phone. Kori hopped onto a seat and patted it.
"They'll stop soon I suppose" Kori said smiling at her sister and Dick. Rachel sat next to Kori and grabbed her back pack she had stuffed under the seat. Kori grabbed hers as well.
"Guys, stop. Mandi your outfit and hair are both going to be messed up when we get out and everyone will see." Kori said to them.
"Oh like I care what those idiots think…" Mandi grumbled under her breath as she crossed her arms. She suddenly became aware that she was straddling Dick's waist. Her face turned slight crimson as did his as they untangled themselves from each other. Dick coughed and focused his attention back on his phone. He started deleting all his messages knowing they couldn't be safe from the girls in the car.
"Nosy girls…" dick said under his breath.
They came to a slow stop in front of the school. Rachel was gazed out of one of the side windows. This cannot be a school, she thought. There were kids and teachers standing outside, a circle of people sat in grass talking and a group right next to them played hackie sac. Some kids stood off to the side inconspicuously smoking away from the teachers' view and some of the smokers were playing cards. Muscular guys stood around tossing footballs, others were passing basketball, a group of girls sat together talking and texting on their phones, some multi-tasked by holding their phone with their shoulder and painted their nails. Rachel and the others forgot about their phone fight and scrambled to get their school bags. As Rachel was the first ready to go, she started down the isle of the limo and shook everybody's hand.
"Nice to meet all of you." she said to the cars passengers.
They all said their greetings and goodbyes. Rachel hugged Juliet, while Kori and Mandi hugged Galfore, and Richard hugged Selena and shook hands with Bruce. Then Rachel stepped out followed by Kori, then Mandi, and then dick.
"Hey Dick, catch!," somebody called.
Suddenly a ball was flying through the air and was falling directly towards Rachel. Mandi jumped in front her and caught the ball just in time.
"Thanks," said Rachel.
"Hey Vic., nice throw," Mandi teased.
"Sorry about that, are you okay?" the guy said coming over.
"Yeah, I'm okay" she said to him.
"Rachel, meet Victor Stone, the "star" quarterback of our team" said Mandi laughing.
"Oh shut up Mandi, so I was a little off, nobody got hurt right?" Victor said lightly punching her on the arm. "Nice to meet you little lady, please, call me Vic." Vic said smiling.
"Yeah, well Rachel could've ended up having ta have a nose job just like Kathryn," Mandi said.
The others started to laugh.
"Who's Kathryn?" Rachel asked confused.
"The devil!" Kori said.
"Her name is Kathryn Mothenson. She's the preppiest, most stuck up, outrageous, ugliest creature on this planet!" seethed Mandi.
"She used to be best friends with her, like last year," said Kori.
"Why aren't you friends with her now?" asked Rachel.
"Because she was planning on dumping a gallon of paint on Kori and getting some of her goons to throw her in a garbage can!" said Mandi.
"Yeah, but you beat me up all the time last year."
"That's cause you're my little sister, I'm allowed to pick on you, it's my job. Besides that's pretty harsh throwin paint on somebody and then throwin 'em in a dumpster."
"You're only a year older than me," Kori said to her.
"So- what happened?" Rachel asked, already planning to stay away from this Kathryn girl.
"Well-" Mandi started to say, in a matter of fact voice.
"Kitten walked up right behind me, I turn around and just as Kathryn was about to pour it on me, Mandi snatched it right out of her hands and dumped the whole thing on her!" Kori said laughing.
"We all three got suspended; Galfore wasn't upset at all once we told him the whole story" Mandi said.
"She had her dad call in, saying something like, we needed to be punished for what we did, and something about the justice system being all wrong." said Mandi laughing too.
"Kathryn still got suspended for three days and they gave us a week just to shut the guy up. I swear, she's such a loser, she always brings her dad into arguments, like he scares us" Kori said still laughing.
"Isn't getting suspended a bad thing though?" Rachel said uncertain, by the way Kori was laughing about it, it didn't seem like a bad thing at all. She was taught in the orphanage and did everything she was told to do. There were no punishments like suspensions.
"Not really, you get to do whatever you want all day and don't have to go to boring classes with hoe-bags like Kathryn. Besides, after that little incident me and Kori spent a lot of time together and now we're best friends again like when we were little. Mandi said smiling, her eyes wondering around crowds of students.
"Well that's good." Rachel said smiling.
"You guys are lucky; my mom goes ballistic every time. While you guys get to do whatever you want I have to do twice the work," Victor said rubbing his shaved head.
"Oh don't act like you don't act like you don't love the pranks we pull," Dick put in.
"It's not the pranks; it's the getting caught part. I'm captain of the football team and it's my senior year, I cant afford to get caught this year man," Victor said shaking his head.
"Don't worry buddy, we just won't get caught this year," Dick said slyly.
"Anything with Gar involved will get us caught" Victor replied.
"Probably," Dick said smiling as he shrugged it shoulders. He thought that too but didn't say so in front of all these people. Gar was one of his best friends and he came up with some pretty good pranks but somehow he always messed it up or wound up getting caught. The guy was sometimes more ditzy than his girlfriend.
"Well, I found out Bee has the same homeroom as me, so I'm gonna go hang out with her until the bell rings.
"See ya," Rachel and Kori said in unison, then started laughing.
"Wow, I know you for like, an hour and we're already reading each other's minds!" Kori said.
"Scary," Rachel said shaking her head equipped with a mock frown.
"Hey!" Kori pouted at her like a small.
Mandi and Rachel laughed.
"Well I gotta go find my class, I'll see ya guys later" Mandi yelled to them disappearing in the crowd.
"Seems dick walked off. Let's find him so you guys can go get your schedule before class starts." Kori said looking through the crowd of people. She was much taller than Rachel so she left the above-head searching to Kori. They turned in circles.
"Found him, he's over there with the football team," she said pointing through the crowd. Rachel still couldn't see so she followed right behind Kori. Kori shoved her way through the crowd of other teenagers while holding onto Rachel's hand so they wouldn't get separated. Rachel kind of felt like a little girl holding her moms hand, or what she thought it was like anyway. She couldn't remember anything about her mom accept that her name was Arella. Nobody had ever held her hand when she was little, the only person she could remember holding her hand was Juliet when she was stuck in the hospital. Kori eventually shoved her way through to Dick and the football players were. Dick greeted them as they walked into the circle.
"Guy's, you know Kori," Dick said as he nodded in her direction.
Some of them hooted while others wolf whistled. Kori blushed and looked around at them all.
"Quit it you dogs," she said smacking one guy lightly on the arm.
"And this is Rachel Roth." he said nodding in her direction.
There were cat calls and wolf whistle throughout the circle.
"Hi," she said in a small voice, raising her hand in a little wave as she blushed. She had never gotten attention like this before, but of course, she was famous now. How could she keep forgetting that? She mentally smacked herself.
"You and Rae still have to go to the office and pick up schedules, I'm going to go to class," she said to Dick.
Kori said by to everybody and waded through the crowd again. Just then the bell rang.
"I'll show you where the office is, follow me," said Dick. Rachel nodded her head as she looked around at all the students trudging along to separate entrances of the school. They pushed through the students and went through the big glass front doors. They passed by several classrooms and school notification boards and stopped at a tall, oak door with see-through glass in the middle of it. Dick turned the metal door knob and went in.
"Yes, I'll make sure of it, okay…okay," said a secretary at a desk. She held up her finger and mouthed "one minute" to them. They sat down on some iron benches and waited.
"…Alright…thank you…you too…okay…have a nice day." the secretary said as she ended the call.
"Alrighty then, how may I help you two?" she said as she straightened up some papers on her desk and put them onto another stack.
"We're here to pick up our schedules." dick said as he walked up to the desk.
"I know who you are Dick," she said, a friendly smile on her face," but who might you be young lady?" she asked as she looked from Dick to Rachel.
"Rachel, Rachel Roth," Rachel said looking around at the office.
"Alright, I'll just pull them up and print them off the computer," she said as her hands flew across the keyboard and clicked the mouse a few times. The printer made a gargled noise and started to shake. The secretary hit it a couple of times with her hand while Rachel stared at it in bewilderment. It made another weird sound, but it must have been the right one because she didn't hit it again. It suddenly ushered out two sheets of paper. The phone rang and the secretary of coarse picked it up and started rambling.
She handed them the papers and wordlessly ushered them out of the office with a flick of her hand.
"You guys seem pretty friendly with each other," Rachel said, looking at him as she walked.
Dick looked up from the paper and stared at her.
"Yeah I guess. I've had so many in-schools and detentions in there, she's gotten to know me really well." he said grinning.
She smiled and looked down at her schedule.
"Looks like I've got English," they said together. They looked at each other and Rachel gave a nervous little laugh.
"What teacher?"
"Heartler," she said looking down at her schedule again.
"Cool, me too." he said.
"Kori said she had English first too, I hope we're in her class." Rachel said as she stared at her surroundings.
He gave a nod of agreement. They went a floor up and passed several hallways until they reached their destination. Dick walked in and went towards the back. Rachel followed and sat in the seat next to him. She looked around the room, finally spotting Kori in a side row, with her English books already organized and talking to a blonde headed girl that sat behind her. She mentally smacked herself, she forgot to find her locker and get her books. Oh well, it is my first day. Hopefully they give me a break, she thought to herself. Kori saw Rachel and gave a little wave and went back to conversing with the other girl. Dick was talking to a kid next to him who had shaggy blonde hair. She looked at all the other students and watched what they were doing, most of them talking, some were getting out what they needed for English, which was a notebook, pencils/pens, and a highlighter. The person next to her however, was leaning casually back in seat against the wall. She thought he was probably sleeping but it was hard to tell because their face was hidden under a black hood. She thought for sure it was boy by his saggy dark blue jeans and his black and red skater shoes. Though it could've been a girl for all she knew, wasn't that back in fashion, wearing boy clothes when you're not a boy? She thought it was. The person must've been faking and obviously felt someone's eyes on him because he looked straight at her. She averted her gaze to a poster that was behind his head and acted like she was reading it intently. She knew she was caught anyhow even if she was looking at the poster now her flushing cheeks would give her away. She couldn't help not taking her eyes off the poster though. He took his feet off the desk and turned in her direction.
"What up." he said as a greeting.
"Hi," she said finally looking down at the place where half his face was visible.
He pulled back his hood and leaned on his elbow on the desk. He had piercing green eyes and milk chocolate brown hair. He had some piercings on his right ear and more on his left. Rachel saw he had a sly grin on his face, and his eyes had a mischievous look to them. She found them looking her up and down and decided to turn her heads towards Dick.
He had just turned around to say something to her when Jason put his feet down off his desk. He completely forgot about what he was going to say and just waited for Jason to start something. He wasn't prepared for when she suddenly turned her head toward him, they were in each other's face, so close that their lips almost touched. He backed up a bit.
"Sorry," they said together.
"What were you doing?" she asked half laughing.
"I was going to ask you a question but I completely forget what it is now," He said as he slouched back in his chair.
"Ah," was all she said and kept her head turned in his direction. She was pretty sure that the next to her was still staring but didn't want to turn around to check.
"Is he messing with you?" Dick nodded to the kid next.
"No I don't even know him" She said back. The kid with the shaggy blonde hair said something to Dick and they both laughed.
"You could get to know me," he whispered next to her ear. She jumped slightly and moved forward. She gave a small nervous laugh. She hated it when people snuck up on her like that. Dick saw her and gave a questioning look.
"Thought I saw a bug," she said to him.
"Now, now, it's not good to lie to your boyfriend," he said to her winking.
"He's not my boyfriend, we're just friends," she shot back at him, turning to face the front.
"So you don't have a boyfriend?" he asked her.
"No, I don't….never have" she said now thinking about it. She didn't even have any friends before she came here. Maybe George could've been her friend. He was the guy who owned the garage she worked at for a couple years, one of the few times she was allowed outside of the orphanage. She shook her head; it wouldn't do any good to bring that up. She looked back at him.
"Sad, I'd really like to steal you," he said gazing right into her eyes. She didn't know what to think at first. It kind of sounded silly, but then again it was the kind of thing the hero says to a princess. It kind of reminded her of Robin and Maid Marian.
"Quit it Jason." Dick said to him. "Just ignore him Rach, I didn't expect him to be in this class otherwise I would've made sure you weren't anywhere near him," he said to her.
"Why?" she asked, he wasn't being rude, well, except for the fact he was checking her out, but that's how normal guys acted right? Besides it was kind of nice to receive male attention after almost fifteen years of not having any kind of attention.
"Because he's a jerk, I think it's better not to talk to him. He's not the type you wanna hang out with." he said looking up at the front.
"Dick's the one you shouldn't hang around, unless you're into play dates and tea parties…" Jason said shrugging.
"Shut up Jason. I'm not the one with a different girl in my bed every night, who knows what kind of diseases you're carrying around" Dick shot back.
"Dick, we all know you've slept around too, don't act like you're a goody two shoes virgin," Jason said back.
"Never said I was, why don't you stop acting like you're a pimp or something," said Dick.
"I am recruiting," Jason said with a shake of his head to Rachel.
"Ah…" was all she could think to say. The whore marines, yeah, sign me up right away she thought sarcastically.
"Shut up, stop treating her like those other girls" Dick said in her defense.
"I know already, that makes this much more interesting." He said wagging his eyebrows.
"I'm serious Jason, leave her alone" Dick, venom lacing his words.
"Make me Dick. Oh wait, as I recall you could never land a hit on me…oh well, you did you're best after all" Jason said innocently.
Dick seethed at him. "What I wouldn't give to just punch you in that snarky mouth of yours" Dick said to him standing up. Jason stood up as well.
"Then let's go, Dick." He said back.
"Alright, just calm down" Rachel said, standing up between the two. They stepped even closer, both of them staring each other down, completely ignoring Rachel who was now smushed between the two. (Can somebody say yum, sandwiched between Robin and Red X… lol, sorry back to the story…). Both of them were a lot taller than her. She put a hand on each of their abdomens and shoved. It was a futile attempt, they both were rock hard in that department and a lot stronger than her tiny arms could handle. They finally looked down at what was nudging them. Rachel looked up to see both of their faces in hers. She blushed crimson and put her arms to her sides.
"We should sit down before we get in trouble." She said quietly and sat back down in her seat. Dick went back to his desk and glared toward the front. Jason slowly sat down in his seat and stared at her. She was so tiny, how could she think that she could break up a fight? This girl's a lot more interesting than I thought, he thought to himself. Hmph! You'd think I would be able to do something with this little bit of muscle I earned at the garage…stupid boys, she thought in her head.
Author Note:
I noticed while redoing this that it might seem to other people that Rachel (Raven) seems kind of needy and wants attention. I would like you to review her history (of my story). She was locked away in an old, rundown orphanage her whole life up until now. She was only allowed out a couple of times and that was strictly for work purposes, and other than talking to George, the owner of the Garage she worked at, she had no other interaction with anybody. So she does need attention and affection, but that's understandable given the conditions she was brought up in so I just wanted to clarify that.
I think the Raven in the cartoon would have been like this too, had it not been for her constantly worrying about blowing things up with her powers. Her dad was a giant ugo creep that was basically the Devil, didn't love her and only wanted her to live so he could kill her and get back and take over earth. Then there's her mother who was taken away from her, and she had no friendly interaction until she got with the titans, so since raven doesn't have to worry about blowing stuff up she's free to experience friendship, lust, romance, happiness, and maybe some sadness but only from her past, I think I made it messed up enough so she should be good with that level of sadness, for right now anyway, I might change my mind.
Raven: Devil.
Author: Shut up Raven, who asked you anyway?
Raven: Hey, it is my life we're talking about.
Author: And it's my story, so shove it!
Raven: Azarath Metrion Zinthos! *Throws giant boulders*
Author: *Runs away screaming*
Red X: Hey, I'm not a manwhore like everybody says…
Author: Muahahahahaha!
Raven: ROBIN!
Robin: It's Red X!
Raven & Red X: Yeah I know…
Robin: Titans GO!
Red X: *runs away*
Author: Stupid characters. *sighs and shakes head*
Titans & Others: We heard that!
Author: eep!