Who was behind Blackfire? Does Terra wake up now?

Chapter 2
"You Will See"

Red X:

Alright maybe it was a little creepy I was watching her, but in my defense, I had been in the library first. I'd actually been reading the sequel to the very book she was holding, watching her from behind a shelf. But once she'd made fun of it, he'd darted to lean right behind her, watching her. When she'd made the remark about his book, he surprised her with his cleverly thought out words.

"And what might you have against love?"

She dropped the book and I smirked from under my mask. Truthfully, my words were stolen from the book I was reading now. They were old books, but I enjoyed reading them nonetheless. Blackfire turned in surprise, not bothering pick up the book, and turned to face me. For the first time I finally saw her actual appearance.

I had my arm against the shelving, and I gave her a once over. True, Starfire was attractive, but something about this girl made her all the more appealing to me then Starfire ever could have been to me. Something sneaky and hidden was still within her, while Starfire was open and naive to me.

Then she swallowed, pushing her hair out of her face. A small frown graced her lips and her hand shot to her hip. She looked me over with her eyes. "You must be Red X."

"How could you tell?" I was being arrogant, because the qualities I deemed of hers that were attractive were also untrustworthy. I wasn't going to be friendly with her right now, but we'd see how things in the future would go.

She pointed, smirking. "Giant red X emblem on your chest? Kind of hard to miss."

I shrugged, "Well, aren't you the quick one?"

"Not anymore, but sure." Blackfire bent over to snag the book, but by the time she'd bent over it was gone. "What?"

I waved the book in her face, "Drop something?"

Blackfire snatched it back, placing it in the proper place on the shelf. "You seem awfully arrogant to be on a team of humble superhuman teenagers."

"There's nothing wrong with being prideful," I said, in my defense. "Besides, its not like I care."

With that, I turned and began to walk away, baiting her. Soon, after a moment, I heard her following after me.

"Hey, wait!"

I did, turning to look at her inquiringly. "Yes?"

"Where are you going?"

"Why do you care?"

Blackfire rubbed her neck. "I'm just curious."

I watcher her carefully, hand on her hip and the other hanging at her side. Eventually I held a hand out to her, "Do you wanna come with me?"

Blackfire looked down, biting her lip before grasping my hand.

I smirked again and hit the button on my belt, disappearing with her. She seemed alarmed before we appeared in the place I had often visited, without anyone really asking where I had gone. It wasn't like anyone would object to it either. It was perfectly harmless.

"Where are we?" Blackfire asked me, her feet crunching on the floor. "This definitely doesn't look like the castle."

"That's cause its not," I said, heading towards the place I didn't miss but was comfortable with. I grabbed some leaves and shoved them aside, "We're at my old home."

Blackfire froze, staring ahead, towards the waterfall before her. It was the just the time of day it shone brightest. The reflection of the scenery was glazed on her eyes, her entire attention diverted to that one spot in my old home.

I laughed, after a minute of this. "Impressed?"

Immediately she snapped out of it, glaring at me. "Why are you showing this to me?"

I shrugged, "Its not like the whole place doesn't know what went on last year. Or did nobody tell you?"

"Starfire didn't mention it, why?" Her tone was suspicious. She didn't trust me but that was alright.

I wouldn't trust me either.

"What happened?" She pressed, hands on her hips with her back to me as she wondered over to the lake, dipping her fingers in the water. She removed them, flicking her hands to get the water off. I laughed again and she scowled at me over her shoulder. "Wat're you laughing at?"

"Same thing I would've done," I leaned against a tree, "Check for poison in the water, right?" Blackfire looked away. "I didn't take you here to kill you. I just figure, since you'd be staying here, you'd wanna know everything about everyone."

"Starfire-."

"Won't tell you that," I interrupted. "She's too nice to show you the skeletons in our closet. You won't get anything out of anybody but me. I'm harsh, but fair. You wanna know something suspicious going on, ask me. Robin's just an ass."

Blackfire crossed her arms, smirking. "And I just took you for the mysterious guy who people stayed away from."

"That would be Gizmo," I said sarcastically, and she giggled. It wasn't a Starfire giggle, it was more like a you-think-you're-funny-but-you-have-potential laugh. It was pretty much the replica of the laugh I'd been using, so I guess we were even. "Well, actually, pretty much all of us if we don't like you, I'm just special I guess."

"So, what does a place like this have to do with Dark History? You got a body buried under here?" She stamped her foot on the floor, for emphasis.

I walked towards her, leaving the tree behind. "Nah. That's back at the castle." Her eyes widened. "Kidding!" She relaxed. "That's back in castle. Although you'll find no trace that the thing even existed."

"Red X, are you going to tell me what happened or not?" She snapped, sitting down on the rock ledge that had been Kole's favorite spot, when we'd first arrived.

"Impatient little thing aren't you?"

"If I had my powers, I'd break your hand right now." She grumbled, her knees against her chest and her hands on her toes.

I sat down next to her. "Tell you what; you tell me why Starfire hated you, since you were on the run at the time of your attack, and I'll tell you our whole history and the dynamics of our Teen Titans. Deal?"

Blackfire thought a moment, her hands going into a relaxed form. "Very well."

I was surprised. I hadn't actually expected a deal, but I guess she was just that curious. "Alright, you go first?"

She closed her eyes the whole time, deep in thought. "You might've heard. I don't know if you were there for my interrogation, but compared to the people on Tamaran, I've discolored pigments and an unshapely figure-."

"Not on this planet," I said, leaning back. She gave me a wry look. "What?"

"I was about to say unshapely eyes." Blackfire informed me, "Normally we have wide eyes, mine are . . . different. On your planet you'd say cat-like." She sighed, "Starfire is my younger sister. Do you have any idea what its like when your younger sibling is favored more then you, just because you look different? Here its called discrimination, and is frowned upon. On my planet, it was justified. Anyways, no matter how much I did, Starfire was like more. I was a better fighter, smarter in planning an attack, all around better, just deformed. But then Starfire was considered perfect because we both were powerful, but she was kind, caring, whatever. And then-." Blackfire stopped abruptly, turning away from me. Her voice, formerly filled with rage, lowered to a soft tone. Regretful and sad. "Some things happened. Starfire and I . . . went through a few things separately, but in the same place. I blamed her for it, but she saved me, and we both found we could fly, our super strength had increased, and we could use 'starbolts'. After that, things got more competitive. It was just us, and our brother was hardly important to the throne-line anymore. I felt better because now that I had powers, I was second in line for the throne and my brother was last. I tried to kill Starfire, that's why she hates me and ran away. Its not the only reason she ran away though, I tried to sell her to the 'bad guys' in exchange for a treaty with them. I convinced our parents it was best, or at least, I tried to. Starfire got to them soon after I did, before they could tell her about the truce, begging to be given to that woman, Arella. I didn't find out until she was long gone but once again it didn't matter. Now I could be Empress in Training, I guess you could say."

"And then that thing attacked you?"

Blackfire nodded, hugging her knees now. "I can't remember much of that, just the pain and a few flashes of red. I assumed it was my blood, but Tamarainian blood is difficult to get out of a normal person of my species, let alone one who is as strong as I became. You can imagine just how much that must've hurt. After that, I wasn't accepted anymore. No one gave a damn anymore, only my family. Starfire's caretaker, Galfore, never really liked me, because he hated his brother who raised me in 'unrighteous conditions, but it was him who talked to me about Starfire, while I recovered. He said not to let her suffer, for she'd probably be gone after too. I hardly gave a thought to it before I stood, and he told me he was proud of me, and I made amends with my brother, who I never really got along with but I didn't hate him like I hated Starfire. I found then that it was easier to like the liked then to despise the liked. And, I just barely managed to use the scraps of my powers to get here. You know the rest."

I was quiet a minute.

"Your turn."

I nodded. "A few years ago, I met Jinx and Kole. Long story short, I took them in, and we met Cyborg, Gizmo, Mammoth, See-More, Argent, Aqualad, and Beast Boy. Beast Boy was looking for Raven at the time, but no one knew it. Besides Cyborg, no one ever saw or talked to him much. Jinx tried to drag him out of the house every once in a while, get him to interact with people and taught him how to dance, but he was very . . . serious and disconnected. After a few of meeting these guys, that became our family quick enough, Jinx met Kid Flash, out on one of her trips to the town. A quick steal. We were all criminals because we had to be, not because we wanted to be. Kid Flash caught her, but after a bit of drama there, she ended up pretending to leave her 'lone' criminal life to keep us safe. She told him she had a home, so she'd leave every once in a while, but he never knew about us. She was a double agent, keeping Beast Boy safe, because he, in his mad search for some girl he'd met when he was nine, almost got caught a few times. She herself went to interview the victims of his search, and told Robin that they could barely make out two sentences, which was true, but a few unnoticed hexes to a less sensitive part of her brain wouldn't wear off for a few months, by which Beast Boy would already be leading them to another victim."

Blackfire seemed surprised. "And I took him as the happy-go-lucky type."

"You haven't seem him when something wrong with Raven. They're very serious about their relationship with one another. Anyways, Beast Boy had this thing, hounding him down, trying to take Raven from him. It was an animal-thing, really hard to describe. There was this huge fight, last year, and I'm not exactly sure how, but when the doors opened, Adonis was gone and Beast Boy was carrying Raven. Both of them looked pretty beat up. Robin, though, because we saved them from Adonis and because of Raven's feelings, decided to let us join the team and then a month ago, Raven and Jinx were kidnapped."

"And I just missed that?"

"You crashed the party we threw to have them back. Melvin was there, the little girl staying with us, you haven't met her or her younger brothers yet, I think. She was held by the same people who held Kole. They thought she was dead, thanks to me, but Jinx got back and an old friend of hers luckily found her. She called Kid Flash and Raven used her telepathy to get him to help find her. Terra was a prisoner with her, who helped them escape. She said she was a drifter before the Sisterhood of Evil brought her. We don't really care about pasts here, just the present, so that's why you were excepted so quickly."

"And if I'd been lying?" She inquired. "Isn't it a little risky to be so trusting?"

"Raven wouldn't gotten that vibe from you. That's why she always looks at you, its because she's an empath, reading your emotions constantly. She can sense what you're feeling from here, if she really wanted to, but she's probably smooching Beast Boy right now, so she's not looking for either of us. She'll probably subconsciously keep an eye on you forever."

"Well that's great to know." Blackfire said sarcastically. "So, who was the second killing?"

"Raven helped me kill Madame Rouge, the head of the Sisterhood. She held her down while I slit her back open, killing her quickly. I'm not into torture, I'm a to-the-point kind of person because it has no reason to it."

"So Raven was involved in both of the murders on the Titans hands?"

"You could say that."

"Interesting. And she's not affected by it?"

"Not as far as anyone can tell. And if she was, she'd let us know, or at least Beast Boy."

We were quiet for a while.

"And you . . . it seems that everyone here is pretty much paired up except you."

"Argent? You got that vibe from her?"

"She seems to have a thing for the Harold."

"See-More?"

"He, Gizmo, and Mammoth seem to have formed a 'no-female-interaction' group. I didn't take you for that kind of person."

"Why not?"

"I just didn't." She hissed. It was clear she got irritated easily and I laughed in my head. "Anyways, why aren't you paired off with anyone yet?"

"I'm waiting for my type."

"What's your type?"

"Good-looking. Sense of sarcastic humor-."

"You pretty much described most of the girls here-."

"They're all missing a key factor: Human." I interrupted.

"Well then why not pick up on any human girl at one of your little parties?"

"I also want someone who isn't going to date me just to say she is. I want a girl who doesn't give a damn that I'm on a team."

Blackfire took a moment to ponder this, "Why human?"

"Hm?"

"Why do you want a girl whose without powers?"

This wasn't a question often asked. I hesitated. "Its . . . because I've seen what a power-relationship has done to my teammates. It means they're in danger to be killed, at any time, and just because its their job. I would rather protect her from that. Sure, if she could defend herself a little, I wouldn't mind, but I'd rather her keep herself safe. I don't actually have powers, its just the suit."

"Honestly, I never really thought if you had powers or not." She said, picking at her nails. "So, you'd also be more comfortable if the relationship was equal?"

I shrugged, not really liking where the conversation had turned. I knew what she was listing off in her head:

Red X's Preferences In A Girl:

1) Human and/or Powerless
2) Sarcastic
3) Attractive
4) Not Going To Throw Herself At Him

Blackfire's Attributes:

1) Recently Turned Powerless
2) Easily Rude and/or Sarcastic Sense of Humor
3) Attractive
4) Definitely Not Going to Throw Herself At Him

Those were four definite checks.

"I know what you're thinking," I told her.

She looked at me, brow raised, "I thought you said you had no powers."

I ignored that statement, "I doubt it would work between us."

Blackfire didn't say anything, and I was about to say something else witty about my looks causing her to be speechless when she was suddenly straddling me, comfortable. My arms were behind me, as I was in a relaxed position, but no longer did I feel relaxed. She had her knees on the floor rather then her legs actually wrapped around me. She was just squatting, almost, perfectly comfortable. My back was against a tree, and so I had no room to escape.

Although I wasn't quite sure I wanted to.

Blackfire's hands ran up my chest, and I stared, shocked. She smirked. "I was only thinking about it, but if you're so sure to decline a relationship, why not just friends with benefits?"

"I . . ." I cleared my throat, trying again. "I would rather have a relationship with someone, not just hit it and quit it."

"Well let's just see then."

Before I could protest further, Blackfire pulled the color of my suit down, kissing my neck. I was beyond stunned, I was frozen. Jinx and Kole were the only people who knew what I looked like, and they never talked about it. Besides them, no one had ever even seen my skin color. And now Blackfire had.

She was also seriously turning me on, unfortunately. Her hands continued to move wherever she saw fit, when her attention turned to the mask, blocking my mouth. She slowly reached towards it, grasping it firmly between her hands.

Thank my lucky stars, both of our communicators (hers given to her yesterday, I assumed, when she was with Starfire) began flashing. I gripped her hands in only one of mine, pulling both of us to our feet and glared down at her. Blackfire took her turn in being stunned, her chest rising and falling in her erratic breathing. We phased into the castle, courtesy of myself, before I released her. I felt her eyes on me as I hurried down the corridor, where I could already hear whatever chaos had alerted our communicators. A few seconds after I arrived, she appeared next to me.

Both of us could not believe the sight before our eyes

Beast Boy:

I had a couch put in my room, as well as a small TV. At the moment Raven lay curled against me, her arms around me and my hands entwined around her waist. Every once in a while my hands drifted up to her spine, making her shiver slightly at the touch. Every time she shivered I gave a laugh but eventually, my laugh became muttered against her neck, the TV show becoming unimportant. My lips began to tenderly suck at her pale skin and she immediately felt herself thrown into a whole other mood. She pressed her fingers into my back, pulling me closer. My mouth move to hers then, aggressive and needy. Raven smirked against my mouth. Her legs in between my legs, I pulled away, looking down at her with my hands on either side of her head.

"You know," I began. "You really drive the Beast crazy every once in a while."

Raven pushed herself up on her elbows, slightly. "I thought you had him under control."

"I do, but that doesn't mean I don't sense him practically begging me to just throw you in bed." Raven gave me a look. "What? I'm being completely serious. If I even said some of the things he thinks, you'd smack me."

"That's somewhat creepy and flattering at the same time." Raven commented, pushing herself up farther so we were barely centimeters apart. "Just how far does he want to go?"

"All the way and back again," I informed her, kissing her jaw line. "Does it matter?"

"I don't want to torture you, I'll feel bad."

"The only way you could truly torture me was if you didn't allow me to kiss you anymore. That would be the worst punishment ever." I moaned out, whining pitifully. "You aren't going to do that to me, are you?"

Raven pushed against my chest, keeping me away from her while I stared in horror. Then she smirked, "Nah."

I smiled in turn when suddenly, Raven gasped. Normally, this would have been a huge turn on for me when I saw Raven, staring at something over my shoulder. I turned, but saw nothing behind me, but as I turned back, her hand caught my eyes. Immediately I was off her, lifting her into an upright position. She was still awake, just completely surprised.

Red marks covered her hands and at first I thought she was bleeding, but that didn't seem to be the case. Raven touched the suddenly appearing marks with her fingers, and no blood came off. No coloring of any sort, her skin had just decided to turn blood red, like a deep, internal sunburn. Confused as I was, she tried to heal herself, her hand glowing blue as she placed it over her arm. A small crack of white light appeared, which she winced at, but soon all the 'burns' began to fade away, a few cracks of what appeared to be midget-lightning gave their protests before they were gone.

Complete silence filled the room for a while.

"R-Rae?" I stuttered. "Are you alright?"

We'd both been staring at her this whole time, wondering if the marks were going to come back and if they were, would Raven just be able to heal them away again, without any real effort besides a little lightning shock-. Wait!

Before she could answer I snatched the hand she'd used to heal from her, flipped it over to look. My eyes practically bulged out of my head at the sight of it. A large gash rested upon her hand, from the lightning, and smaller scratches surrounded it. It was strange.

It almost looked like an awkward 'S'.

"Raven . . . your hand!" I squeaked, unable to control my fury and fear.

She retracted it from my grasp. "Its nothing." With a wave of her hand over her other hand, the mark was nothing but a thin, pink line, barely seen on her skin. In a matter of days it would be gone. Raven sounded breathless as she said, "Beast Boy . . . I'm scared."

I hugged her, pulling Raven onto my lap as she cradled herself against me in silence. And then seemingly ancient words echoed in my head.

"Raven is in danger. If anything appears wrong with her, like she's keeping secrets from you, tell me immediately. You're to keep a closer eye on her then you already do from now on, do you understand?"

Beast Boy kissed her forehead, thinking this over and over in his head. He had a feeling Arella was keeping secrets from everybody, and now that he saw just how much it was scaring Raven and himself, not to mention the other more physical ways it affected her, he felt they both deserved to know. Now.

Raven was clearly not expecting him to stand, picking her up along with him.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm taking you to Arella. She has some explaining to do."

"At least let me down."

I set her down on her feet and we began walking, hand in hand.

Kole:

"Nothing feels right here anymore. It's like . . . everyone is starting to look as restless as I feel."

Jericho nodded beside me, signing his own thoughts. 'Like, there's still some adventure waiting around the bend, even though we've only got Raven back a a week or so ago?'

"Exactly."

'I know what you mean, I feel the same way.'

Kole sighed, "Things just . . . don't seem right anymore. It's like something is pulling everyone apart."

Jericho touched her shoulder, and she placed her hand of it. Together they stay on the balcony until they heard the chaos going on in the hall.

"Whoa, guys, what are you shouting about?"

Our communicators were going off and we ran outside.

"Beast Boy, Raven, Arella, what in the hell is going on here?" Robin was demanding. He was in between them, Raven and Beast Boy on one side while Arella was on the other. The relatives seemed disheveled, Raven and Beast Boy seemed pissed while Arella seemed nervous at he sight of everyone slowly filing into the hall.

Beast Boy stepped back, and Robin dropped his hand, feeling he was no more danger. "Well, Arella? Are you going to tell them what you've done to this team to compromise our trust, or am I?" He hugged Raven to him, and she continued to gawk at her mother a moment before burying her face into his chest.

"I . . . there's nothing to say-." She tried to insist, but Beast Boy attempted to interrupt her, looking beyond furious.

"Tell the truth!" Raven suddenly shouted, in an outburst of rage. The room was still, for Raven had never screamed like this before, at anyone. Tears began to well up in her eyes as she looked at her mother with hurt and betrayal. She swallowed before screaming again, "Tell everyone what you've been hiding from me!"

Arella masked Raven's sadness, wiping away her own tears. Even the elders were gathering now.

"It appears I have some explaining to do."

OH SNAP!

Some serious romance between Red X and Blackfire, and to be honest, I might have to actually change the rating from T to M because of how heated Blackfire and Red X might get in the future. I didn't intend to do it, but their character dynamics just seemed to escalate off each other and turn into that.

There was some confusion as to why this couple should be a couple. Its because both of them are the antis of Robin and Starfire. Blackfire, in the TV show, is constantly trying to ruin Starfire while Red X is doing the same to Robin. Both of them make the main couple of the show (which unfortunately, they were, instead of Beast Boy and Raven) question their morals at some time and remind them of something they regret: Red X constantly reminding Robin of his mistake in creating the suit and enjoying evil while Starfire regrets her relationship with Blackfire and how they actually got their powers. If you really wanna know how they got their powers, read another story, cause that shit is too sick to put in here.

AND OH MY DAMN!

Arella, Beast Boy, and Raven? What the hell is going on? The conversation will be in the next chapter, and so will the after part. The Kole/Jericho thing was just for fun, to show how innocent of a couple they really are. They're just . . . cute. Nothing you can say besides that.

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