Twenty fives 'till fifty

These prompts are not based on any particular reasoning (age, years, etc) but just on the number themselves

Five (a)

It had been five years since he met her that he decided he knew her well enough to ask. They were both sitting in the living room, watching over the tower as the others were off visiting Batman so he'd have some human contact other than fist-to-face. The movie was crappy and he knew Jinx was bored out of her mind but still watching. Taking a deep breath he slid off the couch and onto one knee "Jinx…would you marry me?" the ring glimmering in the light was something she would never forget. It matched the gleam the sunlight gave his metal body. She couldn't have said no.

Five (b)

Cyborg, Jinx, Robin and Starfire waited for the surgeon quietly, they chatted softly to try to keep things light. It failed. Raven was sitting stone still as she replayed the scene over and over in her head. Beast Boy knocked her out of the way of one of Cinderblock's massive fists only to take the blow, his body sailed through the air before his leg got caught in a machine of some sort in an auto shop. His screams still rang in her ears. The man in scrubs snapped her out of her daydreams "Well, he's okay…" the group let out a sigh of relief "but we had to amputate two toes."

Cyborg looked up "You mean he'll only have three toes?"

Jinx rolled her eyes "That generally happens when a person with five toes looses two"

But the doctor was giving them an odd look "You mean you didn't know?"

Robin stepped forward "Know what?"

The doc couldn't help but smile "He has five now he had seven" nobody saw that one coming.

Ten(a)

Nightwing couldn't believe it. Ten years ago if anybody had asked him about children he would have laughed in their face. But watching his newborn daughter crawl around he couldn't think of anything more perfect, her orange skin shown brightly as she played with her mom with a small toy shaped like…well, he wasn't sure, it was something from his wife's home planet that he didn't know about. Considering that if you squeezed the toy hard enough jelly came out he didn't want to know.

Ten(b)

Changeling couldn't help but curl into himself a little tighter. Ten years had passed since the others had left. He wasn't that great at defending the town but he did what he could and the townspeople appreciated him. But it was hard living like this, coming home to an empty tower. Very hard. It seemed like each second of his life took decades that he only wanted to end. For a moment he thought about the couples of the Titans organization, Nightwing and Starfire, Cyborg and Jinx, Bumble Bee and Speedy…Raven and Aqualad.

He curled into a ball and cried that night.

Like every other.

Fifteen (a) continuation of Ten(b)

Raven packed her bags "You're a cheating sack of shit Garth! I don't know why I even came here!" she screamed at her ex. Bee, Speedy, Mas Y Menos watched on silently. They didn't like it but it was true. Several times Garth had been caught with other women, but Raven forgave time and time again. Somehow she was more forgiving then they were. But even she had her limits.

Bee quickly stepped out of the half-demon's way as she left the godforsaken warehouse that Titan's East lived in and teleported herself back to Jump city. It was a long jump but one she needed to make. The Tower opened up silently in front of her and she quickly became unnerved. The Tower, her home was never this quiet. Then she found the only hero in the city sleeping on the couch, crying quietly Changeling sobbed in his sleep "Raven don't go…I love you" it was a pathetic heart wrenching sound. Never should the happiest man she knew ever make that sound.

Then Raven realized he did love her, every action he had ever done was for her. He didn't even let her see him cry when she left because he didn't want to dampen her spirits. She sat down beside him and brushed his hair out of his eyes, putting a careful kiss on his forehead she whispered "I'm here Gar and I'm never leaving again"

Fifteen (b)

Changeling watched the door with an oddly pensive look on his face, his wife walked up beside him and kissed his cheek "Gar?"

He gestured out the white curtained windows to their fifteen year old daughter smiling at Vic and Jenny's kid, a boy that if their daughter's face told him anything, was the object of her affections "I know Mark…hell, we're all family and it's practically incest for them to be dating but…" he trailed off.

Raven smiled and rubbed his shoulders lightly "You can't help but worry. It's natural…but I think of all the Titan's kids the one who kicked her grandfather's ass would be the one you need to worry about the least"

He nodded forlornly and reached up to pat her hand "Well, at least her brothers and sisters aren't looking for dates"

Twenty (a)

Raven continued to twirl around the pole before coming to a dead stop with a seductive smile on her face, the twenty in the band of her bikini bottom was certainly something nice. Her husband, and only audience member was dead set on watching her.

It had started with Raven telling Gar she didn't feel sexy after all these years, he firmly told her she was the most beautiful he had ever seen. She had wanted to prove him right…and with the way he was staring she knew he thought so. Well, the show must go on…

Twenty (b)

Beast Boy stared at Robin "Can I wake up and pretend that I didn't just see you stuff twenty tampons down the sink at," he looked at the clock "Three past two in the morning?"

The boy wonder shook his head "As long as you don't tell Star, you didn't see anything"

Gar wrinkled his brow for a minute "Okay. I give. What's up?"

Batman's apprentice looked around "Star thinks they're some sort of UFO toy" Gar had no answer and quickly walked back to bed.

In the morning when Victor groaned about a clog and grabbed his crescent wrench Gar only grabbed Raven's hand and told her they were going out for breakfast.

Twenty-five (a)

Garfield Logan sat down slowly, as quickly as his aged joints would allow. His senses, still keen after all these years, caught the sound of the little girl sitting next to him on his left. Her parents sat next to her and the mother's father sat next to her. He looked around the tables in the hall as everyone watched him "My family" he croaked before he cleared it "Again I thank all of you from the depths of my heart" he placed one aged hand over his chest "For coming here to eat this meal with me. I know it means too much for these people sitting to my right" the people sitting there nodded and smiled at the group "So for tonight eat as much as you want! This is a celebration!"

The group let out a cheer and the festivities commenced. Several hours later the little girl tugged on his pants and he smiled at her "Yes Agatha?"

Agatha Logan wrapped her arms around his leg before burying her face in his thigh "Granpy Gar how long has it been since Granma Raven went away?"

One wrinkled hand rested on top of her light green hair "Twenty-five generations Agatha. Twenty-five…"

Twenty-five (b)

Thunder and Lightning watched as the group around them mingled about, this was the Titan's Annual Christmas party and the duo didn't really know what to expect. They had thought there would be only twenty-five or so people, all they knew had communicators. Apparently they decided to bring everybody, everybody's dog, everybody's grandma, and everybody's grandma's dog.

There were a lot of people.

Lightning glanced at his brother "Perhaps we should not have come…" he wasn't confident, something Thunder had never seen or heard before.

"Agreed brother-"

"Lightning! Thunder! Get over here! These lovely ladies would like to meet you!" came Cyborg's cry and the rushed over.

A few seconds later Thunder whispered to his panicking sibling "Mayhaps later…"

After the drunken girl that had been throwing herself at the yellow sibling left Lightning turned to the blue and nodded. Maybe this wasn't so bad.

Thirty (a)

Cyborg couldn't believe it, his robotic eye flashed picture after picture as evidence but his mind just couldn't keep up. Thirty. Thirty oranges.

Beast Boy had lodged thirty entire oranges in his mouth before doing a small jig in victory. The rest of the titans stared on in a mix of awe and disgust. They had taken bets to see how many he could fit in his big mouth…of course they meant figuratively.

Starfire had bet 3, Robin 4, Cyborg went with 8 and Jinx went with 2. Raven declined to participate but watched instead. Gar had scoffed "I bet you I can do more than ten!" so now each betting member owed Beast Boy $100...

Thirty (b)

Raven watched Changeling sitting on the roof watching the sun rise. He hadn't moved all night. Quietly she sat next to him and let her feet dangle off the edge to match his "Did Haley break up with you?"

The boy nodded "Apparently being green is the most horrific thing ever" he deadpanned.

Raven leaned back "Well, don't worry, at least we can be lonely together"

"Why's that?"

"I doubt anyone would want to marry me…"

Gar looked at her "Why not? You're gorgeous and if they don't see it they don't deserve you!" he growled.

Raven looked at her friend before thinking about his record, as miserable as it was, after Terra there was Susan, then Vickie and Hanna in short order. Taylor and Mary followed as did Ashley and now Haley. Giving a dark laugh Raven looked at him "Why don't we agree that if we both hit thirty and don't have anyone we'll just marry each other?"

Giving a beaten scoff Gar nodded "Though you'll find somebody long before that"

Raven rolled her eyes before sitting up and pressing a kiss on his lips "I think I already have" and she leaned in for another.

Thirty-five (a)

"…thirty-five bottles of beer on the wall, thirty-five bottles of beer, take one down pass it around-"

"I swear to Azar Gar if I hear you sing one more verse of that song I will beat you within an inch of your life!"

Then what am I supposed to do?" came the voice from the other cockpit, currently the five were in the T-jet winging their way across the US to deal with something in Western Europe that demanded their attention.

Raven looked up from her book "Well you could sleep, or listen to your music, play your stupid game or SLEEP."

Beast Boy didn't answer for a moment "Actually I have a better idea" and he disappeared from her view. Normally this wouldn't mean much but the instant she looked down to her book she found herself out of her harness and in the changeling's lap. "Is this better?"

His girlfriend stared at him blankly for a moment. He began to sweat thinking he had overstepped some invisible boundary before she attack him.

None of the others looked back and they all cut the audio feeds.

Thirty-five (b)

Plasmus had waited thirty-five years. Day in day out, asleep but still waiting. He hoped and prayed for one of two needles. Either one would have sat well with him.

Thirty-five years ago he had been working on a self sealing bio-foam meant to be used on human bodies as a form of first aid. Nobody knew what it would do to him until it did.

Now every waking moment was a nightmare. And all he could do was hope. For either a cure or potassium chloride. Either one.

Forty (a)

Robin walked into the common room to see Cyborg holding what looked like a miniature missile as Starfire explained "With this nosecone the device is more aerodynamic and the efficacy is raised by forty percent!" she giggled at the end and very carefully he turned around and tried to slink away.

One would think being trained by Batman he would be better. Starfire hauled her boyfriend to the couch bodily before the bomb was thrust into his hands unceremoniously "Um…guys? Why do you have a bomb?"

Cyborg smirked before looking out the window to see a girl in blue flying with a green crane "Oh, just a love bomb, nothing else"

Robin tried to ignore the sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.

Forty (b)

Raven looked at the forty children trapped with their caretakers underground. It had been Mumbo's idea to destroy the building, Raven had been trapped underneath trying to keep the rubble from crushing the people. Now that the rocks had settled and she released her powers there was nothing to do but wait. She was too exhausted to warp out, even by herself and she needed to be there for the children who looked at her like she was some sort of god.

An older lady, probably late thirties, early forties stepped forward "Miss Raven are you okay?"

The sorceress nodded "Yeah, just need to rest once this is all over"

The lady frowned "Rest now, who knows how long we're going to be down here…"

Raven smiled "Not long"

"Why's that?" the lady was genuinely puzzled.

"Because Cyborg, Nightwing and Starfire are desperate to get us out" glancing down at her belly Raven continued "And my husband will tear the city apart brick by brick until we get back"

Rubbing the whitened skin of a finger where a band used to sit the lady shook her head "Husbands don't always do right…"

Raven let out a tired laugh "Changeling's also the worlds best digger" and as if to punctuate the statement a triceratops burst through the wall on their left and let sunlight spill through before a green man raced over to his wife and held her close.

Forty-five (a)

The forty-five dollars weighed heavily in his hand as he walked up to the young worker. The normal price for one of these was almost two hundred dollars. But this one was a little beaten and a little battered. He hoped they would let him have it.

The worker looked at him before calling the manager. Gar stared at the imposing man before clearing his throat "Sir, how much is that dog?"

The man looked back "Son, you don't want that one, he's a mean thing, ain't had nobody that would take him."

Beast Boy stared at him until the manager started to get fidgety "Really. Seriously. Think about my powers for two seconds."

"Fine, if you get that dog to lick you I'll give you him, and everything you need for thirty bucks!"

"Deal"

The young worker opened the cage and stepped out of the way. The three legged German shepherd growled before limping out to see the world. He was young but his previous owners had been cruel beyond compare. The green boy slowly stuck out a hand and a faint scent touched his nose that he only hoped he could smell again, the faint whiff of his mother, the same smell of protection and trust.

Gar left with a backpack full of supplies and a three-legged dog wagging his tail behind him.

Forty-five (b)

Cyborg stared at the GPS before he looked to his copilot. Raven looked at in shock before looking to the back seat of the T-car and almost wishing she hadn't. Starfire and Robin were heatedly kissing and Beast Boy was trying as hard as he could to fit into the door before he changed into a butterfly and fluttered to Raven's lap and morphed into a cat with a pitiful mew.

Even as a cat his jaw dropped when he stared at the small screen that was stuck on the windshield.

Forty-five possible routs from Jump City to the neighboring town of less than 20,000 people. Yeah right.

Raven looked at her friend driving and said what was on her mind, Beast Boy's and his own "Some road trip"

Fifty (a)

Time was something that each of the Titan's knew.

Within fifty seconds of meeting Robin knew he was in love with Starfire.

Within fifty minutes Beast Boy could tell that Cyborg was just as insecure as he was.

Within fifty hours Starfire could tell that she was just as addicted to mustard as Raven was to tea.

But the implications were beyond them.

Robin and Starfire were the beginning of the ultimate 'love thy neighbor' thing. Roommates were neighbors in a light.

Beast Boy and Cyborg were inseparable, after all it is not our light that binds us but our darkness.

Starfire and Raven never pretended to understand one another but they were as much sisters and Beast Boy and Cyborg were brothers.

Fifty (b)

Raven watched her husband stare at the laptop in front of him with a puzzled look on his. Not really all that surprising since he was having to put all his money and history into their new joint bank account. One year of being married and they were getting around to it.

His puzzled look soon became hers "Do you really keep so little money in your account?"

Raven glanced over his shoulder to see her usual sum "Gar, that's a normal amount for a person in a high risk job like our-wait, you said so little?"

He nodded before pulling up his own account. Nearly fifty billion dollars. Raven's jaw dropped as he explained "Rae, think about it, we're on the clock 24/7 and all our expenses are paid for, I limit myself to one purchase a week and I do everything I can to lower those costs, and one fifth the left over money goes into an investment firm."

Raven looked over her husband's shoulder again "And we always said you were the irresponsible one…" he snorted with a smile before Raven pulled up a page that had him blushing "Well, considering how much money you have can we splurge on one of these?"

Pinching his nose to stop the blood Gar nodded quickly.